government

Sacrificed Alternatives

October 18, 2011 7 comments
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Imagine, if you will, that from our point of view, the government is a business, just like any other business. And just like any other business that we deal with, we pay them a certain amount of money and we receive a certain number and level of services from them. Some of the services we [...]

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Hyper-injunctions | The Secret Misery.

March 19, 2011 80 comments
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On Thursday afternoon, in a back room of Parliament, history was made.  A few MPs found themselves a backbone; they found a way in which they could exercise their Freedom of Speech and perform their ancient duty, drawn from the Bill of Rights 1688, of redressing the grievances of the citizens who rely on them. [...]

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Killing The Sacred Cow

February 16, 2011 15 comments

And so it ends, the National Compact first dreamt up in the dying days of the Second World War called the Welfare State. The Welfare State was always a ponzi scheme of gigantic proportions, that relied on the next round of investors paying out to the first batch of ‘investors’. The only difference between the [...]

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Just BATS!

July 15, 2010 23 comments

The Government must be feeling the pinch with all these righteous folks giving up smoking. Revenues from tobacco are dropping. Justine Greening, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, has hit on a cunning plan. He has signed an agreement with British American Tobacco which requires them to make substantial annual payments to the British Government and [...]

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Willie Haughey – Glasgow belongs to Me….

March 21, 2010 10 comments

From today’s Sunday Times: Strathclyde police is to seek guidance from the Crown Office on whether to investigate Labour’s biggest donor in Scotland and the awarding of contracts worth £20m by Glasgow city council. Senior officers are requesting clearance for an inquiry after allegations of improper links between Willie Haughey, a leading businessman, and Steven [...]

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Pub is the Hub-ris.

March 19, 2010 18 comments

John Healey, the ‘Pubs Minister’, has today announced a paltry £4 million in aid for struggling pubs – and a 12 point action plan, which sound remarkably like Alcoholics Anonymous’ 12 step recovery plan. Complaining bitterly that ’40 pubs are closing each week’ loosing the economy ‘millions of pounds’, he is launching ‘Pub is the [...]

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The Murderous Death Rate in the NHS

February 28, 2010 11 comments

The recent uproar concerning the estimated 400, and possibly as high as 1200, patients who may have died needlessly as a result of ‘routine neglect’ by nursing staff after the management became preoccupied with cost-cutting and meeting government targets is by no means the first, nor the most serious, episode of ‘death by NHS’. Leaving [...]

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