Funny how an MP can come out slagging off BAe Systems for being caught out on dodgy financial practices. Today Fylde Tory Michael Jack MP spunked a salvo into the face of BAe after they reportedly paid off the US Department of Transport to the tune of £250m for misleading them about payments made in [...more]
Feb 082010
Feb 052010
It just gets worse and worse reading for UKIP members these days. After selling its soul to a group of city traders due to bankruptcy worries, the party that started out with a different fresh outlook from the LibLabCon axis has been plunged deeper into crisis as several of its MEPs are being probed for [...more]
You know what’s wrong with this parliamentary expenses system? It’s that once the offending MP gets caught, nothing happens. Their parties don’t disown them, and once they have spewed forth a lame duck apology and perhaps paid back a fraction of the money they have robbed, all is forgotten. Case in point, junior creative industries [...more]
Feb 012010
I met Paul Maynard yesterday up in Bispham. For those that don’t know (and who doesn’t?), he is the Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Blackpool North. You might have seen him on the Politics Show on the BBC at lunchtime yesterday. It was extremely refreshing to see a prospective politician who could talk candidly and [...more]
It appears David Cameron may not actually want to become the next Prime Minister after all – if any of his pre-election promises are to be believed. After promising to persecute people for drinking alcohol and promising to turn the public perception of bankers into something similar to that of the Jews by Hitler, amidst [...more]
Jan 152010
I talked about the Starr Gate tram depot the other day and the opposition to it from local residents who don’t want this 4 storey dirty depot plonked on their seafront doorstep. Yesterday a similar story emerged about travellers’ occupation of land over Wyre. In both cases, the local residents have an unwelcome entity on [...more]
Jan 072010
I know, it’s a shocker. I hope this weather improves soon, I’m getting just as bored of writing about gritters (or lack of) as you are of reading about them. I mentioned yesterday that the Council had run out of grit and this was today confirmed by the Gasjet, with a full smattering of short-term, [...more]