It can only be described as farcical. Like something out of the SitCom ‘Yes Prime Minister’ it has been mooted that the UK and France are on the verge of declaring that they will share their aircraft carriers.
Politics
Taxes to stay high for five years
The Treasury chief LibDem MP Danny Alexander, has made it abundantly clear that the tax burden is here to stay for the foreseeable future. Speaking to the Observer, he said that in order to balance the nation’s books tax must remain at its current level for at least the length of this parliament.
Councils snoop using DVLA database
It’s not Big Brother himself you’ve got to be wary of, it’s all his snotty nosed junior siblings that you need to keep your beady eye on.
Councils have been given access to the records of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) specifically for the purpose
For Tom and Misha the Turkish torture continues
And that is exactly what this is. The cold, calculated and sadistic torture of two helpless animals, by people in pursuit of profit.
Tom and Misha are two bottlenose dolphins that were cruelly snatched
Budget targets the wrong people
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has completely rejected the coalition government’s claim that the budget was fair and protected the more vulnerable in society.
Calling George Osborne’s budget “clearly regressive” the IFS
The motorist hit in the pocket again
Every day brings more bad news for that most vilified of person, the motorist. It seems now that councils have resurrected the scheme to charge workers for their work car parking spaces.
Insurance fraudsters beware!
There you are, driving along a busy road when the driver in front seems to be a bit slow. You may be in a bit of a hurry but there’s no chance of overtaking. You get to that roundabout and the driver in front seems to be dithering
End of tether reached
An ex-soldier who had served his country with the Royal Highland Fusiliers was spared jail but given a sentence to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work, while his 14 year old tormentor was ‘punished’ by a meeting with his football heroes.
Some good news for the beleaguered motorist
Speaking on the BBC’s The One Show on Monday, the Equalities and Criminal Information Minister Lynne Featherstone said that wheel clamping on private land would be outlawed.
This will, with the stroke of a pen, revoke
The war on the motorist intensifies
In more motoring news it seems that councils are after gaining access to the wallet of the driver too.
Not only do we have the threat of private companies operating speed cameras, we now have councils putting up the cost of parking
Threat of privately operated speed cameras
Recent stories had us believing that government cuts were forcing the widespread shutting down of traffic police fixed speed camera operations.
These cameras had always been touted by motoring organisations as
Remember Greece
Do you recall the ‘G’ in the PIIGS countries abbreviation of Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain? Well Greece is finding its way back into the news with bad economic data.
GDP for the second quarter of this year has dropped by 3.5% and there has also been a record rise