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Solving George Osborne’s Child Benefit Problems.
If you want to know why the changes to Child Benefit are generating more publicity than the wider cuts to other Social Security Benefits, look at who is doing the complaining. Very well paid people who...
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Oh, no. Not students again.
Every government since at least the Thatcher government has at one stage or other tried to tackle the hoary old subject of student finance. Each and every government has given as their aim the widening...
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UK Democracy Sucks
I watched the debate on Housing Benefit cuts and I do have to say I was saddened and embarrassed by the lack of knowledge displayed in the debate. I’ll develop a further on this but in the meantime,...
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So why did the UK vote Labour out again?
While we are waiting for the big axe man to cometh as a result of Osborne’s baby eating agenda to slash his way through public services and burn public sector workers at the stake, some may question...
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NUS – say goodbye to public support.
As the day started, the most amazing thing about the demonstration was that the NUS managed to get upwards of 24,000 students up in the morning to demonstrate against the increase in University fees....
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Meet Nick Clegg – the man who makes bad things “progressive”.
Cameron and Clegg – an abusive partnership? I was a semi-supporter of the coalition, although I voted for no-one in the General Election. I looked forward to the end of the database state and the...
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The Ministry of Defence tries to D-Notice Wikileaks. Err what’s the point?
Wikileaks has tweeted to say that The Ministry of Defence has issued Defence Advisory Notices to UK news outlets in an attempt to try and silence Wikileaks latest bombshell of information. Their next...
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The Coalition trolls the internet. Smash my Nimrod.
Smash Our Stuff was an internet phenomenon that featured a group of Canadian men purchasing a popular product (normally at launch) and destroying it in front of other people who waited for ages to buy...
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Election 2011. Britain doesn’t go to the polls.
There are elections and a referendum taking place across the UK today, as I type 3/4 of an hour remain before polls shut. The referendum is on whether the UK should switch from first past the post to...
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This is what “austerity measures” do.
Nations choose to adopt policies that force their public into austerity. The number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 38,000 to 2.49 million in the three months to June. This took the jobless rate...
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