Fortnum and Mason Release ‘Privilege Spread’ | Staggers
Romney Leads Early Votes | Mail
ePetitions Ignored | Fleet Street Fox
Why a Brexit Makes Sense | The Commentator
1.1 Million Claim Sickness Benefit for Mental Illness | Neil O'Brien
Press Freedom Paramount | Norman Tebbit
How Does Prezza Do It? | Dominic Lawson
MPs Can Follow In Maggie’s Footsteps | Dan Hannan
Tories Don’t Need Lynton | Lord Ashcroft
Dave’s £100-a-Day White Tie and Tails | Telegraph
Hands Off Our Business | Jeremy Warner
Romney Leads Early Votes | Mail
ePetitions Ignored | Fleet Street Fox
Why a Brexit Makes Sense | The Commentator
1.1 Million Claim Sickness Benefit for Mental Illness | Neil O'Brien
Press Freedom Paramount | Norman Tebbit
How Does Prezza Do It? | Dominic Lawson
MPs Can Follow In Maggie’s Footsteps | Dan Hannan
Tories Don’t Need Lynton | Lord Ashcroft
Dave’s £100-a-Day White Tie and Tails | Telegraph
Hands Off Our Business | Jeremy Warner
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2012
Halloween House of Union Horrors
Unions Cost Taxpayer £113 Million-a-Year
Brace yourself for the most terrifying statistic you will read this Halloween: trade unions are being subsidised by the taxpayer to the tune of £113 million-a-year. New research by the Taxpayers’ Alliance shows that in 2011-12 £92 million of our money was spent on funding trade union Pilgrims alone.
Not only that, but the report claims that public bodies have even been deducting union subscription fees in the payroll process without charging the unions for the work that requires, in spite of unions themselves claiming the opposite. Where is Van Helsing, to plunge a stake straight through the hearts of these taxpayer-funded bloodsuckers once and for all…
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2012
Chris Davies Attacks UKIP’s Farage Over Transparency
He does appear to have a point.
The UKIP transparency reports stop in 2011…
The UKIP transparency reports stop in 2011…
Sofa, So Sad
Launching @AndySawford's by-election pledges at a meeting with local residents in Corby pic.twitter.com/6TtJQgtP
Why was a BBC boss under fire over Jimmy Savile in court yesterday?Poll: Hansard v iHansard
The printed Hansard costs us a million pounds-a-year, or £1,538 per MP. With MPs now offered digital tablets on expenses should the 200-year-old transcripts of parliamentary debates ditch the printed version and go digital? You decide…
Should parliament discontinue printing Hansard and switch to a digital tablet-only version saving £1 million-a-year?
Exclusive: Tory Whips “Misinformation and Spin”
Rebels Deny Deal With Labour
As we go to pixel 28 Tory MPs have now signed the rebel amendment calling for the EU budget to be reduced in real terms. One insurgent co-conspirator has passed on to Guido a document produced by the backbench rebels counter-whipping operation, accusing their own party whips of peddling “mis-information and spin” over the vote:
It’s all boiling down to a very difficult day for Dave tomorrow…
It’s all boiling down to a very difficult day for Dave tomorrow…
How Union Boss Creamed £30,000 Salary Top Up
£90,000-a-year Communication Workers’ Union fat cat Billy Hayes managed to boost his salary by another £29,580 this year by converting backdated unused annual leave into cash. Normally annual leave must be taken in the period it is due but Hayes has been able to accumulate unused leave over twelve years and write himself a five-figure cheque. Furious CWU members have written to union bosses accusing Hayes, who seems to earn so much he has lost count, of “deliberate abuses of the union’s money”.They also claim the CWU’s pension schemes are haemorrhaging money and have left the union “on the verge of a financial meltdown”. Not exactly what you call performance-related pay…
Via London Loves Business.
Unpublished Fred Michel Evidence Implicates Brown
In spite of his rough ride at Leveson it seems Gordon Brown got off lightly considering the evidence that wasn’t heard by the inquiry. Guido understands that Linklaters, the law firm contracted by News International to conduct interviews with employees over phone-hacking, possesses a wealth of evidence on the Prime Mentalist that Leveson decided was outside his remit.
Sources close to Linklaters whisper to Guido that while Leveson only asked for specific evidence from 2008 onwards, they collected testimony from Fred Michel dating back to the crucial election-that-never-was period in 2007 that was not heard at the inquiry. This includes embarrassing details of failed attempts by Brown’s aides to lobby Murdoch for support and more significantly evidence that sources at the law firm believe show Brown lied under oath when he denied the truth of the infamous ‘declare war’ phone call. If anyone at Linklaters feels like doing the public a service, they know what to do…
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