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• AN ALIEN THAT DOESN’T WANT US TO LIVE LONG AND PROSPER

  
  CALEDONIAN COMMENT — Authority: 116
  Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (pictured above), a 23-year-old Nigerian, has been charged with attempting to blow up a transatlantic airliner carrying 278 passengers on Christmas Day. The alleged bomber has been charged in hospital with attempting to destroy the aircraft during its final approach to Detroit airport, the ...
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• Only one war…the class war…

  
  Harpymarx — Authority: 434
  Dedicated to Tessa Jowell, Jack Straw and Gordon “Conservative policy had been dreamed up on the playing fields of Eton” Brown….
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• The BNP and the Creative Economy

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 577
  A recent report by the New Economics Foundation called ‘A Bit Rich’ offers the BNP a valuable template for the social model we wish to create once we get into government, says British National Party legal officer Lee Barnes. The report rated the value produced by different jobs based on how much they help or ...
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• The night before Xmas….

  
  Harpymarx — Authority: 434
  I posted this last Xmas Eve but posting it again with a couple of changes……Minor changes as NL are still singing from the same neoliberal reactionary Dickensian hymn sheet when it comes to welfare reform. Twas the eve before Xmas when Tony McNulty and James Purnell were supping finest Cristal Champagne. Both were ...
  4 days ago

• New Labour; New Redistribution

  
  Gaian Economics — Authority: 112
  In an era when investigative journalism is a nostalgic memory and even the best political parties worry more about how they can present a policy than whether it is right, how reassuring it is to find a report that is full of good hard numbers. Such is the recent report on assets and wealth from the Office for ...
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• Tories are a party for the rich, say voters.

  
  The Osterley Times — Authority: 137
  As David Cameron, surprisingly, agrees to take part in a series of TV debates , a new poll has found that many voters believe that the Tories are a party which will look after the rich and that they do not represent a good alternative to New Labour. In a remarkable snapshot of national opinion just months ahead of ...
  6 days ago

• Enough is Enough!

  
  Moreton and Saughall Massie Matters — Authority: 132
  Tonight at full Council,  Steve Foulkes and his cronies voted through new Governance arrangements for the Council, to come into effect in May next year.      I asked the Head of Law to explain to Council the Public Notice that appeared in the Wirral Globe last Wednesday     When the Head of Law finished, ...
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• End of the road for mondeo man?

  
  Next Left — Authority: 569
  Perhaps the sin New Labour has been most regularly accused of is being overly in thrall to the politics of the focus group, in which policies were trimmed and triangulated towards a few voters of a Daily Mail persuasion in swing seats. The middle Britain strategy. The jury will remain out for a long time as to the ...
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• CLIMATE FARCE WON’T STOP BROWN RAISING GREEN TAXES

  
  CALEDONIAN COMMENT — Authority: 116
  The picture above sums the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit perfectly. An exhausted delegate sent to sleep listening to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown droning on, making promises he can’t keep, pledging money he doesn’t have, all in reality with the single aim of raising taxation in Britain. Yet another example of ...
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• The Copenhagen Disaster: How easy to blame China

  
  EcoLogics — Authority: 91
  the current effort on the part of British and U.S. spinmeisters to blame China for the abject failure of the Copenhagen talks is the equivalent of trying to say that New Labours Ed Miliband played a key role in saving some kind of agreement. Both versions are not only disingenuous, but extraordinarily convenient to ...
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• Truth Truck – An arresting sound?

  
  Cllr. Martyn Findley (BNP) — Authority: 126
  As some of you will know from reading Simon Darby’s blog there was an incident with the Truth Truck in Coventry this week.  Taking his turn driving at the time was Coventry and South Warwickshire British National Party organiser Tom Gower with Regional Organiser Alwyn Deacon in the passenger seat. The ...
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• An unholy alliance: The Media, the State and Big Business By William Bowles

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 145
  Readers might not be very familar with Private Eye, the UK’s one and only satirical magazine that’s been going for decades and long a thorn in the side of the Establishment in spite of the fact that its editors are very much a part of the Establishment. But then this why they get the ‘inside dope’ on the ...
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• Boys from Bullingdon are bad for Britain By George Anthony

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 145
  The boys from Bullingdon had a bit of a shock when they opened the Sunday papers of November 29th for the Ipso MORI survey put the Tories on 37% and Labour on 31%, with the Lib-Dems on 17%. This means-on the present parliamentary line up with a Labour bias in the distribution of voters per constituency-the Tories need ...
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• Labours agonising strategic choice

  
  Dave's Part — Authority: 512
  THE OLD socialist slogan that the worst imaginable Labour government is still preferable to the best imaginable Conservative government has been sorely tested over the last 12 years.Not only did we not get the New Jerusalem, what we have lived through barely qualifies as a Barratt estate hastily flung up on the ...
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• Reg Keys on why Tony Blair is a war criminal

  
  LENIN'S TOMB — Authority: 558
  Via Stop the War . See also Copyleft of Lenins Tomb
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• Just Who Is Running Wirral Council?

  
  Moreton and Saughall Massie Matters — Authority: 132
  Elected Members, Senior Officers or Wirral Press Office?   That is a question posed many times, and my views on the subject are well known.    Whatever the answer, the person ultimately responsible is the Leader of the Council.   Today Wirral’s Press Office issued a statement which basically pre-determined ...
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• The New Labour case for a bank bonus tax

  
  Next Left — Authority: 569
  Don Paskino has challenged the claim made by John Rentoul that "the tax on bankers’ bonuses was the final act of self-destruction for New Labour", noting the scale of public support for the governments tax plans. John Rentoul replies that a popular policy may do longer-term damage if it implies that Labour ...
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• I’m Right, Even When I’m Wrong!

  
  Moreton and Saughall Massie Matters — Authority: 132
  Last night at full Council, The Great Leader, as dubbed by my colleague, Cllr Ian Lewis made it clear that he totally disagreed with the damning findings of the Sue Charteris report in the Wirral’s Library fiasco.   Is this the same Cllr Foulkes who welcomed the Public Inquiry into Wirral’s Library closure ...
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• Criminals See NHS As ‘easy target’

  
  Ten Percent — Authority: 482
  The NHS has launched an investigation into thefts, amid reports criminals see the service as an “easy target” . So far the police have yet to question this man- The British Medical Association has called for continued investment in the National Health Service and has warned against the dangers of a ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Labour, Another Own Goal!

  
  Moreton and Saughall Massie Matters — Authority: 132
  At full Council tonight, me and my colleague, Cllr Steve Williams will be moving a Notice of Motion (NOM) calling on the Council to work with Wirral Partnership Homes (WPH) to identify funding and come up with a scheme that will deal with the long overdue redevelopment of the shops and maisonettes on Town Meadow ...
  2 weeks ago

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