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Not Waving But Drowning 21 Apr 2013 | 08:41 pm
Apologies for lack of posts. Denham Senior has been hospitalised with a serious heart condition and blogging has therefore moved to the back seat. But today's report from the Royal College of Nursing ...
More Jobs As Welfare 10 Apr 2013 | 03:42 pm
Watch the vid (if you can) and then check out the bile in the YT comments For those of us who believe Margaret Thatcher rescued Britain from a 50 year spiral of economic decline, the bile still direc...
Bring Me My Pot Of Gold 8 Apr 2013 | 03:40 pm
We've got stacks of these The fundamental reason we have to cut the welfare bill is because we can't afford it. At 16% of GDP and growing, we simply have to get a grip. And of course, the decisions a...
Incompetent And Reckless Bankers 6 Apr 2013 | 03:31 pm
"An apology is due for the incompetent and reckless Board strategy; merely apologising for having failed to plan for an unforeseeable event is not much of an apology." The Parliamentary Commission on ...
I'm Entitled 3 Apr 2013 | 09:45 pm
Mick should have been picking litter outside Mr Mundair's shop Yes, we know: we can't judge our entire welfare system on the basis of Mick Philpott. But what we can say is that if it hadn't been for ...
Recent Bonfires - April Fools Edition 1 Apr 2013 | 02:03 pm
April 1st wind-ups £4,800 for boob job - "WANNABE glamour model Josie Cunningham shows off her new 36DD boobs - served up on the NHS. Josie, 22, had a £4,800 breast op funded by the taxpayer after te...
Facing Down The Unions 30 Mar 2013 | 10:32 pm
Impartial BBC journos off-duty It's just like old times. The teachers are going on strike, the Post Office workers are going on strike, and even those most essential of essential workers, the BBC jou...
Problems With The Roller 28 Mar 2013 | 08:26 pm
This may never turn into a Rolls Royce Now don't laugh, but there used to be a theory that the Civil Service was a finely tuned Rolls Royce. Ministers had only to point it in their chosen direction, ...
Plan B Kicks Off 25 Mar 2013 | 12:39 pm
Get used to this So here we are with a government spending far more than it can raise in revenue, building up a catastrophic pile of debt, and facing an election in just two years time. Spending cuts...
Another Slice Of Salami Sir? 23 Mar 2013 | 07:15 pm
Glad someone's enjoying this Long-time readers will know that the 2012 Olympics smashed the world record for salami slicing (see all 2012 posts gathered here). The first slice - served up when we or...