Well, well, well, Mark Carney is in the news ‘again’ and stealing the headlines once more [this time by raising interest rates and then rubbishing BREXIT]– no surprise there then, as he is a ‘pig-headed’ self-publicist, and totally the wrong type of character for the man who is Governor of Bank of England [and Chairman […]
BEST EMPTY The British Government with due diligence is trying to extract the UK from the European Union with the maximum benefit and least harm, in accordance with ‘the will of the people’ as clearly expressed in a country wide EU Referendum two years ago. The current Conservative government are in the challenging process of negotiating […]
RESULTS LOCAL ELECTIONS 2017 [BBC : Taking account of boundary changes] Conservatives: GAINED 562 councillors GAINED 11 Councils Labour: LOST 382 councillors LOST 6 Councils LibDems: LOST 41 councillors LOST 0 Councils UKIP: LOST 145 councillors LOST 0 Councils Councils gone to NOC: DOWN 1 Councils Results from: all 88 COUNCILS [34 in England, 22 in Wales, 32 in Scotland] (Labour lost Glasgow […]
The last British Government (a coalition headed by the Conservatives) introduced in 2013 the nicknamed Bedroom Tax on the poor, which has been widely condemned for being unjust and a politically contentious policy by those on the moral high ground. The tax has reduced housing benefit for all individuals who rent a Council or […]
EU flag British prominent pro-Europeans won’t have it that there is a life outside of the European Union, will they? Some people however can still remember when we weren’t actually in even the Common Market, or to be more precise EEC (the baby form of the European Union), because we didn’t want to join in […]
POLITICAL LEADER Unexpectedly & suddenly some challenging leadership openings have arisen in the United Kingdom. Currently these opportunities are for the posts of Leader of the Labour Party, Leader of the Liberal Democrats Party, Leader of the United Kingdom Independent Party, and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. Further posts may become available in […]
The only thing that is evident from the build-up to this 2015 General Election is that our voting system is no longer fit for purpose, don’t you think? Not only is our ‘first-past-the-post’ system predicted to produce another ‘hung parliament’ (with seemingly only complex possibilities for producing a stable government), but it is […]
Most British people have no idea how we got into the European Union, or what it means, but know only that there is big support for us to cancel our membership and leave (and that the United Kingdom Independence Party are pressing for us to do just that). The United Kingdom is supposed to be […]
Well, well, well, some parties so called Manifestos are out this week. Should we have expected them to be jammed full of surprises? No, not really, the only real surprise is that they didn’t appear at the start of the campaign nor even earlier, don’t you think? [MANIFESTO:- Plaid Cymru (TWO WEEKS […]
Well, well, well, George Osborne presented his last Budget of this Parliament. like a magician in a black cloak, pulled comatose rabbit after rabbit out of a top hat to the tumultuous applause of his Conservative parliamentary honourable friends (MPs) – mind you they would have cheered if he had announced that they were […]
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