With UK airspace being closed due to Icelandic volcanic ash and reported economic decimation of over £1bn already, is this a preview of what will happen when the Government’s mammoth Air Passenger Duty hike comes into force on the 1st of November?
It is now well known that Fylde Borough Council have purchased and are deploying the Waste Collector computer system which in conjunction with microchips stored under the lip of your wheelie bins seeks to maintain a database of how much rubbish your household is producing, how much of it is recyclable and how much of it isn’t.
The public sector now accounts for a fifth of all British workers, and in the last decade almost a million new public sector jobs have been created by Labour. These jobs historically have always come with gold plated final salary pension schemes, creating a huge burden to the taxpayer.
Read more on CBI chief slams £1trillion public sector pensions deficit…
You can’t have failed to notice the prices of fuel creeping up at the pumps for no apparent reason. The cheapest price in Blackpool that I have found is 111.9p per litre of basic unleaded (Shell on Talbot Road and Morrisons at Squires Gate); not quite the 120p of the previous fuel price surge but that could soon change.
Read more on Labour’s fuel duty escalator less than a fortnight away…
Feb 252010
Just a quick follow up to my last post about Fylde and Wyre councils implementing the Waste Collector data mining system. I’ve had a look at my wheelie bins in and two of them have RFID chips already implanted. These are the non-recyclable waste (grey) bin and the garden/cardboard waste (green) bin.
Read more on Chip and bin part 2: if you tolerate this, then Blackpool will be next…
Feb 252010
Disgruntled council tax payers have often muttered about the lengths their council will go to in order to extract cash from them. This is no more apparent than in Fylde: residents are quite rightly enraged about the underhand, number-fiddling methods employed by John Coombes’ apparat in order to raise their council tax.
Here’s a contentious one for you: when Maggie Thatcher introduced the poll tax in 1989 there was uproar and riots, but was the underlying principle actually more logical and fair than the current council tax system of today?
Read more on Much hated, but was the poll tax actually fair?…
Continuing on from the ‘Socialism article’ I thought I would comment on this running joke Peter Mandelson and Brown the Clown are peddling of Labour as ‘the party of aspiration’, Labour and aspiration, an oxymoron if I ever saw one.
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