Category Politics
INTERLUDE – A MILITARY MATTER
Before I put up my proposed next post entitled ‘What Are We Supposed To Do About It?’, I felt moved to say something about a BBC News item I saw this evening. I know we can’t wind the clock back. However, when I was minded to join the armed forces (in the 1970s) and then […]
UKIP ON IMMIGRATION
Up here on the Moray Firth the local ‘rag’ is a high quality, award winning weekly newspaper called The Northern Scot; I’ve been reading the fine organ since 1984. In 2012 The Northern Scot won the ‘UK Society of Editors’ Weekly Newspaper of the Year (circulation under 20,000)’ award and it was also voted the […]
WHO IS ‘NUMBER ONE’ IN THE MODERN-DAY PANTHEON OF IDIOTS?
To discover who is Number One in the modern-day pantheon of idiots running countries around the world, watch this …
AUSTERITY FOR SOME AND NOT OTHERS
I was taken by The Taxpayers’ Alliance’s (TPA) observation about the latest growth figures for the UK economy. I’ll let the TPA’s Chief Executive (Matthew Elliott) speak for himself: “Yesterday the Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced that they think the economy is growing again – by 0.3% in the first quarter of this year. […]
WHITHER INDEPENDENCE FOR SCOTLAND
In many vexed situations there comes a time when you’ve got to lay your cards on the table, so to speak. Observing today’s flurry of interest in the question of Scotland’s independence I felt moved to pen a few lines during tea break. I’m all for localisation and for power being devolved as far down […]
LIFE IN ATHENS
Just wanted to re-blog a piece by John Ward who runs ‘The Slog’ website; it speaks for itself: CRISIS ATHENS: How austerity is destroying those who would compete with multinational power.
TAX EVASION
“I’m expecting to receive this much dosh from taxpayers for doing bugger all for 3 years after I lose my job. So don’t you dare try to evade paying your taxes, serfs …”. Interesting to note that the British Government is leading a charge against tax evasion by signing the UK up to an “information […]
CHAOS AT HER MAJESTY’S REVENUE & CUSTOMS
Front page news in the Daily Telegraph today (link below) and billed online as ‘Chaos over biggest employment tax shake-up in 70 years‘. The Daily Telegraph informs us that “under the new ‘Real Time Information’ (RTI) system, more than a million businesses – as well as charities, churches and families who employ nannies or cleaners […]
THE EURO GOES FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH
Over at the Daily Telegraph, Jeremy Warner has been making observations about certain countries’ appetite to join that success-story-of-all-success-stories, the euro currency (link below). Apparently, Poland’s Prime Minister is now itching to sign up his own star-struck citizens. How is it that the euro currency can be so popular, so desirable? Well, it’s important to […]
LIFE UNDER RULE OF THE TROIKA
This is how it is when you wake up one day to find that your country is being ruled by some mob operating from a foreign land where, in this case, the mob is a cohort of bureaucrats and bankers, being the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, aka ‘The […]
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