MoD allies undermine Douglas Carswell
The Sunday Times reports today that Tory MP, Douglas Carswell, has has his membership of the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme (AFPS) cancelled, for speaking out against the MoD's wasteful use of the defence budget. After talking to military personnel and looking at the defence procurement decisions made by the MoD, Carswell...
Posted on The Waendel Journal.Saturday, 30 August 2008
Journalists noticing our EU government?
It is not very often you find a newspaper article decrying some regulation or other that actually goes on to mention the origin of the regulations. But one Daily Mail journalist, Martin Delgado, seems to have recognised the real source of health and safety rules that are applied in the UK - although you have to get nearly all the way to the end of...
Posted on The Waendel Journal.BBC continues attempt to undermine Palin
There is one consistent theme in the BBC's coverage of the selection of Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska as John McCain's running mate in the Presidential race. That surrounds a pending investigation into her decision to sack the commissioner of public safety, for failing to sack her brother-in-law (who is going through a divorce from Palin's sister)...
Posted on The Waendel Journal.Russian Admiral Talks Of Sinking NATO Ships
The military games being acted out.. around the Black Sea are getting dangerous. Putin's next objective is undoubtedly Sebastopol ..., which he was expecting .. to secure as Russian territory, as he has done with Abkhazia and South Ossetia. But with NATO already using muscle to nudge Russian ships away from the Georgian sea-port of Poti ...
Posted on The Tap BlogWe do not need environmental volunteers
The Telegraph reports today that Councils are recruiting residents to become environmental volunteers and report anyone who drops litter, fails to recycle their rubbish properly, or who allows their dog to foul the streets. Why do people need to be recruited to report dog fouling or littering? There is nothing stopping concerned residents…
Posted on The Waendel Journal.Oh What A Lovely Recession
One topic that seems to be in everyone's minds, understandably given Britain's overall financial astuteness, is the effects of the current recession. Prices are soaring, with inflation approaching 5%. Unemployment is set to rise by 300,000, while companies and individuals who can, are abandoning ship to low tax regimes. The government, as Oborne points out in the Mail, is in total denial...
Posted on The Tap Blog
Sunday, 31 August 2008
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