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What every young McBride should know before marriage……

April 19, 2009

It won’t make a vas deferens now, but perhaps someone should have warned the young McBride that ‘cooking up’ stories with ‘tough as old boot leather’ Balls, he was liable to get his fingers burnt.
The Sunday Times today is printing ‘heavily denied’ allegations that Ed Balls was the mastermind behind the “dark arts” operation by [...]

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Taking the p*ss out of Taxpayers

April 1, 2009

More than 4,000 alcoholics are claiming full-time disability benefits in Greater Manchester – landing taxpayers with a £10m annual bill.
Just in Manchester alone!
They show a total of 4,220 people were claiming Incapacity Benefit (IB) or Severe Disablement Allowance (SDA), where alcoholism was listed as the main `disabling condition’.
The weekly bill to the [...]

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A Charitable assumption………

March 23, 2009

Idly watching the parliament channel after Andrew Neil had finished today, I found myself engrossed in a sub titled programme covering the difficulties faced by migrants in Europe.
Eventually the discussion moved to Scotland and the heartbreaking plight of migrants there who were ‘forced to rely on charity’ – to avoid starvation, [...]

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Fat is not a political issue.

March 23, 2009

The news this week that the state was handing over £3million a year to Weight Watchers, and Slimmers World, to persuade the ‘deserving poor’ to shed some of their lard, incensed me.
It came hard on the heels of a government report lambasting ministers for spending vast sums of money on “ineffective and [...]

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The Quiescent Cadavers……

March 12, 2009

Way back in the murky past, I did an inordinate amount of research for a paper entitled The Quiescent Cadaver.
Bless them, I was shocked to discover they have no legal rights at all.
Surprisingly, they live lives pretty much like the rest of us; they get married, they have sex, they have babies. [...]

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Skeletons in the cupboard.

March 11, 2009

On Monday 9 March 2009, the Channel 4 Dispatches programme broadcast How They Squander Our Billions, a documentary on government projects including the NHS’s National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The NPfIT had an initial announced cost of £2.3bn which rose to £6.2bn and later £12.7bn. A key objective of the NPfIT is the [...]

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Judge and Jury

March 9, 2009

Sir Paul Judge, a millionaire Conservative donor, is setting up his own political movement called ‘Jury Team’ that aims to get more independent MPs elected.
My initial response was ‘why’? Why would a Conservative donor become so disillusioned that he wishes to finance an entire new political system?
In an article in yesterday’s Telegraph, [...]

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