Ed Balls has the rare political right to say: I told you so

On the deficit and on the euro, the shadow chancellor has called it correctly on the two most important judgments of recent times. Only in politics could the phrase "muttering idiot" be considered a compliment....

freakout over russian threat of nuclear armageddon

If the London {Financial Times}' hysteria is any indication, top figures in the British oligarchy are frantic over the Russian government's persistent warnings about the threat of thermonuclear war. ...

Yes campaign for Scottish independence launches today

A campaign aiming for the people of Scottland to support Scottish independence with a 'yes' vote is to begin today. Being launched in Edinburgh the campaign will be lead by the Scottish National Party. The vote on Scotland's future in the United Kingdom may not happen...

UK Recession deniers shown the way

David Cameron in a speech on the economy on the 17 May 2012 said: ""Despite headwinds from the Eurozone, we are on track...We are moving in the right direction". " This is total balderdash. The economy is tanking...

UK public sector lost £38 billion to fraud last year

23 May 2012 The public sector lost £38 billion to fraud, error and debt last year because of a "wilful ignorance" within government, it has been claimed. Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude hit out at the...

London property prices: The cracks are starting to show

22 May 2012 House prices in London have fallen for the first time in 30 months, figures reveal today. The drop comes after Britain slid into a double dip recession and wipes hundreds of pounds off the average...

IMF tells UK to consider VAT rate cut to boost growth

High youth unemployment and lack of any sort of spending demand sees the IMF saying that the UK should support the economy more with UK interest rate cuts, currently at a record low of 0.5%, a level the IMF said...

Electric fence to surround gays and other dumb things said

I haven't written about gay rights for a number of articles. Well, my file on dumb things said by anti-gay zealots is building up. There is the North Carolina preacher, Charles Worley, who said in a sermon on May 13th: "I figured a way to get rid of all the lesbians and...

Bermuda Election 2012:Suicide or Sanity?

“We had to deceive you” plp govt. you can put lipstick on a Cog but it's still a lying Pig!Derrick Burgess  is #2 to Premier ,a dumber fool the plp could not find,like his BIU successor Christ...

KWASI KWARTENG reveals his vision for Britain after Eurogeddon

The Tory's new rising star Dr Kwasi Kwarteng MP for Spelthorne Surrey explains how Britain will emerge after Eurogeddon.It's difficult to see how we could avoid the economic storm.Our Government would have to...

Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is dead

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person who has been convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has died at his home in the Libyan capital Tripoli. Megrahi, 60 was serving time in a Scottish prison before he was released on compassionate grounds in 2009 for killing 270 people...

Today's Top Ten UK Must-Reads May 19th 2012

Today's Top Ten Must-Reads 1 Time to end ‘Camerkozy’ economics Ed Miliband, The Financial Times (£) "Mr Cameron cannot help solve this crisis because he is such a central...

Turn off your iPad, Cameron, & start dealing with Britain's debt

The Prime Minister David Cameron talks about fiscal sanity but is borrowing like a drunken Keynesian. Inactive: for all David Cameron's talk about cutting debt, state spending has barely changed since Gordon...

UK Civil servants to work from home during Olympics

Working from home all the time, would save £billions in office space and travel time...... The government has defended plans to let civil servants work from home during the London Olympics, insisting staff will...

Why is Britain trying to save the euro?

European leaders were driven by three motives when they embarked upon that ill-fated monetary experiment, the euro. The first was financial: they were set upon the creation of a global currency that was...

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