Archive for March, 2009

Business rates to go up by 2% not 5%

The BBC are reporting that the Chancellor Alastair Darling is to u-turn and put business rates up by 2, not 5%. I’m glad he’s doing this but in these times we need a complete freeze on business rates to stimulate our economy and stop businesses, and hence jobs, from collapsing.
Mr Darling said the… Continue reading

Merkel to Brown: “We can’t afford more borrowing.”

Gordon Brown would like to think he’s leading the world to economic recovery. His current plan is to have another massive spending binge, this time co-ordinated by the G20, who meet later this week. He would like to waste more money, and create a bigger burden for future generations to pay off. We’re already in as much… Continue reading

Jamie Oliveoil cooks EU Agricultural Fudge

The EU common agricultural policy costs each British family £400 a year, a total £10.3 billion of waste. You can see the Taxpayers’ Alliance in depth report here.

Government want to track you on Facebook

The latest idea from the government is to not only track our e-mails, our phone calls, but now our activities on social networking sites. The government must think it’s Christmas after witnessing the soaring use of Facebook, they’re desperate to trample over our private affairs. The creation of this big brother database is allegedly going to… Continue reading

On Reflection; Suspend Wheeler

I think David T Breaker over at NewsJunction has the best solution. Cameron has to be tough on a member donating a large sum of money to an opposing political party, that actively campaign against the Conservatives. On the other hand expelling somebody is a rather harsh and strong decision, Wheeler needs to simply be shown that… Continue reading

Don’t Expel Stuart Wheeler

Yesterday evening the News of the World broke a story about a Conservative donor, lending his support to UKIP for the European elections, and is also donating £100,000 to them. His basic argument is that David Cameron’s Conservatives don’t say enough about Europe, and he feels they’re completely ignoring an important issue… Continue reading