The further criminalisation of parents

There is something very wrong when a government – one that used to stand up for the poor – are so willing to send those poor to prison. They sent a few to prison because parents couldn’t get their children to stay in school. Now they propose to do the same again, after...

THIS is why I detest local councils!

I was having a chat with a friend of mine – she always takes the proverbial because of my political stance – and she has never understood why I detest local councils so much. I her view I should love them, stroke them, and play ball once a day to keep them fit. But this...

Blah, blah, blah – scuffle, waffle – cry, Sanford is a Republican

I really don’t know what Republicans expect, but – Sanford is a Republican – remember those family values? Some vague thoughts come to me about how he sid something in the past about those…now what was it? "(CNN) — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford told the woman...

Then shall we be brave…

[...] and elect a Liberal Democratic government? "Labour may deserve to lose – but the country doesn’t deserve the Tories " It seems to me that most commentators still believe that there is only two party’s that can govern – the Conservatives or New labour. This is,...