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Less leg work for the police.
Let me explain.
If it were possible to pass a law to the effect that serious criminals would face an extra year in prison for every day they failed to give themselves in, would this a) put them under more mental pressure to come clean and b) lessen the
workload of our over stretched police force?
Posted by Pete Jones on November 27, 2009 at 3:04pm — 1 Comment
Resilience doesn't re-build lives?
JUST been reading a post on the Left-wing Think Tank blog Demos, by Beatrice Karol Burks about resilience in the face of crisis. To summarise, she seems to believe that communities in the face of crisis need to deal with it themselves, rather than expect 'big' government and insurance agencies to come… Continue
Posted by Chris Gaynor on November 26, 2009 at 11:23am
Smoking
However the blossoming generations would never encounter the stuff in the main. There will always be a subversive element for sure but for the majority I am sure this would be a good step toward helping the world to kick smoking. How many acres of food production could be grown on Tobacco plantati… Continue
Posted by James CB Lay on November 24, 2009 at 10:30am — 11 Comments
The Esher & Walton Open Primary - 5 thoughts on successful selection speeches
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Posted by timforchange on November 21, 2009 at 10:00pm — 14 Comments
European Empereur
You see, for the Conservatives this undemocratic, almost dictator like unelected job of EU President; or as Napoleon w… Continue
Posted by ToryBanter on November 20, 2009 at 5:08pm
The future
Posted by James CB Lay on November 6, 2009 at 10:55pm — 6 Comments
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the state of our world
In the last few years our world seems to have gone from bad to worse wars people dieing of hunger drug use all over the world getting worse children using drugs children selling their bodies for th...
Started by peter moore Oct 23.
Is Individual Responsibility a key part of Individualism? 1 Reply
Arguably the problem of the 80s was that Individualism was allowed to reign unchecked, without any sense of Individual Responsibility. Surely, the only sort of Individualism that should be promoted...
Tagged: rights, responsibility, society, Individualism
Started by timforchange. Last reply by Gavin McLaughlin Oct 3.
Inheritance tax on farmhouses.
HM Revenue & customs now start @ 30% minimum due to the Antrobus rulling this should not be the norm shurely?
Started by Burt Gripton Sep 19.
Labour is defeating itself but when is our big push going to come?
Labour have now finally admitted they will make cuts, making it obvious how cynical, hypocritical and duplicitous they have been over the last few months when they have criticised the Conservatives...
Tagged: public, sector, borrowing, economy, conservative
Started by timforchange Sep 18.
Are there any citizens left who care enough to tackle anti social behaviour? 2 Replies
I can't help wonder whether it is just me, or at least just people who are like me, who feel saddened by the lack of responsibility that people seem to have towards each other here in London. This ...
Tagged: break, grandparents, atomisation, censureship, tax
Started by timforchange. Last reply by timforchange Sep 15.
Should those who can afford it pay for private healthcare? 2 Replies
I was accosted by a friend who is a city worker at the weekend who wanted to tell me that he personally thought it was wrong that he should be able to receive NHS services. He believes that because...
Tagged: rich, tax, insurance, Health
Started by timforchange. Last reply by Burt Gripton Sep 17.
Labour and their debt - no way back? 2 Replies
How on earth is Labour going to fund a GE campaign when it is - £20 million in debt and unions are tabling motions to deaffiliate? It's not looking like a good horse to back at the moment. I wonder...
Started by wolveryeti. Last reply by George Cameron McGregor Aug 28.
Is the RSPB exceeding its charter by questioning and in some cases campaigning against shooting?
The RSPB should never get involved in the ethics of shooting as their charter explicitly declares what has gone wrong????
Started by Burt Gripton Jul 24.
Are the BBC biased against rural issues?? 2 Replies
Do you think the BBC is biased against rural issues and is this an orchestrated effort on their part or part of a wider conspiritary?
Started by Burt Gripton. Last reply by Bob Walpole Jul 29.
Time to work harder 1 Reply
A big congratulations to Chloe Smith in Norwich! But the Conservatives can not afford to be complacent. Now the work truly begins! The General Election has just become a little closer.
Tagged: General, Election, Norwich, Conservatives, Smith
Started by Bob Walpole. Last reply by timforchange Aug 18.
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The Labour Economic Plan: Unemployment soars again to almost 3m
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Gordon Brown is urged to call an election. Brown calls the idea of calling a general election "Chaotic".
Brown has had some serious media training. Clearly they have told him not to do that thing with his chin and to smile more. Either that or someone is tickling him. Eitherway his smiles seem to come at all the most inappropriate movements, like some sort of involuntary reflex. Credit where credit is due, Gordon apologises, but why did it take so long? ">Tell us the truth Gordon you know you have brought us into Depression. "A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, which is the sign of a weak government" Gordon Brown, 1992 ---------- ">This week it has got to be Gordon's soon to be infamous Freudian slip. Will this be the clip that students watch in decades to come, when they research "Brown the incompetent" the PM who far from saving the world, broke Britain? ">The original footage from 1985 with the legendary Frank Boff interviewing a very smug Brown boasting about his mole who provided him with leaks.
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BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Tory MP claims DNA record victory
A Tory MP has claimed a "small but significant victory for freedom" after police agreed to delete his DNA record. But Damian Green says he wants the same right extended to all innocent people on the police database - rather than "special treatment" for public figures. The shadow immigration minister was arrested last year as part of a Home Office leak inquiry but never charged. The Home Office ...Is Labour introducing Socpa-lite? | Mark Thomas | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
The summer holidays provide the government with plenty of good days to bury bad news. Folks head off on holiday and journos head into the silly season <http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2009/aug/04/newspapers-silly-season-stories> , making it a perfect time to quietly lift the sluice gates of the pools of political sewage. This year is no exception. The government announced its ...BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Tories warn firms off ID scheme
The Tories have written to five firms bidding to supply ID cards warning them not to sign any long-term contracts. In the letter, shadow home secretary Chris Grayling says one of his party's first acts, if it wins the next general election, would be to scrap the scheme. He said he was urging the firms against large investments that may be wasted. The government says ID cards, being trialled in ...BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | ID scheme is an 'embarrassment'
The government's handling of the ID cards scheme has been a "national embarrassment", the former shadow home secretary David Davis has said. Mr Davis said the project was "dying a death of a thousand cuts" after plans to make cards compulsory for some airport workers were dropped. But he complained the National Identity Register - for which he said there was "no need" - was still going ahead. ...Passport details to be kept on ID register despite card U-turn | Politics | The Guardian
British citizens who apply for or renew their passport will be automatically registered on the national identity card database under regulations to be approved by MPs in the next few weeks. The decision to press ahead with the main elements of the national identity card scheme follows a review by the home secretary, Alan Johnson <http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/alanjohnson> , of the £4.9bn ...The Economy
Alistair Darling 'to miss' UK borrowing target after record July deficit as tax take tumbles - Telegraph
By Angela Monaghan Published: 12:24PM BST 20 Aug 2009 The public purse is usually in surplus in July, when a large amount of tax payments are received, but the crippling effect of the recession was startling last month as tax receipts plunged. Corporation tax receipts were down by 38pc, compared with a year earlier, while social and benefit spending rose by 9.5pc, figures from the Office of ...UK unemployment set to top three million - Telegraph
By Josephine Moulds, City Reporter Published: 6:00AM BST 13 Aug 2009 Unemployment will soon surpass the 3¼m mark, taking it to levels which rival the worst years of the 1980s, economists said as the jobless rate scaled new heights. Government data show 2.4m Britons were out of work in June – the latest evidence that economic and social pain is still intensifying, despite hopes that the ...BBC NEWS | Business | East Coast rail to be state-run
The government says it intends to take the East Coast rail service, run by National Express, into state ownership. The troubled rail franchise, which is expected to have lost £20m in the first half of the year, is suffering from falling passenger numbers. Ministers have refused National Express's requests for its contract with the government to be renegotiated. The Department for Transport ...BBC NEWS | Politics | Economy is 'at risk' from Labour
A Labour victory at the next election would endanger economic recovery, George Osborne has said. Foreign investors' confidence in the economy will only be restored by a Conservative government, the shadow chancellor told business leaders. The Tories say it is the only party committed to reducing debt levels which have become unsustainable under Labour, hitting confidence in the pound. Labour ...BBC NEWS | Business | Rating agency warning on UK debt
A leading credit rating agency has revised down its outlook for the UK economy due to concerns about its significant debt burden. Standard and Poor's downgraded its view of the UK to "negative" from "stable" for the first time since it started analysing its public finances in 1978. Credit ratings are crucial as they help determine the cost of borrowing. It came as data confirmed that new ...© 2009 Created by Al Craig on Ning. Create Your Own Social Network
