Category: Tories
Social cleansing (1)
October 30th, 2010, No Comments
How the cap in housing benefits will work out, courtesy of Comment is Free commenter Texaspete82 (original here: There are four parts to the HB reforms which will all be implemented by October 2011. The key reform – which affects 750,000 people and raises half a billion pounds per year – is the first of [...]
As pilot schemes go, this one has kamikaze written all over it
October 27th, 2010, No Comments
So says one witty commenter about the news that Barnet council spent 1.5 million pounds getting 1.4 million in savings: The Conservative-controlled north London council has committed to spending £1.5m this financial year on a much-hyped reform programme to help close a yawning budget gap, but it is on course to recoup just £1.4m in [...]
Birmingham council wants to axe 26,000 jobs
October 18th, 2010, No Comments
Birmingham council wants people to take pay cuts or get fired: The council wants to abolish allowances—additional payments workers receive for working unsociable hours and difficult shifts, including weekend working. Allowances can make up a third of an employee’s take home pay. A worker who currently earns £15,233 a year could see their wages slashed [...]
Your Happening World (18)
October 12th, 2010, No Comments
Nadine Dorrie, vicious cow. Should a member of parliament really spent her time harassing a disabled woman for being active on Twitter? Andrew Marr, silly ass. “BBC presenter tells Cheltenham Literary Festival that citizen journalists will never replace real news” — perhaps not, but sycophantic power worshipers like yourself should worry. How much do we [...]
That buslane on the M4
October 11th, 2010, No Comments
If you’ve ever watched Top Gear yopu know that buslane on the M4 is one of their bugbears, prime evidence of Labour’s war on the motorist and like Boris did with the bendy buses, the new ConDem(ned) government listens Top Gear and now wants to remove the lane. Stable and Principled shows why this is [...]
Commuters surprised at strike
October 4th, 2010, No Comments
London, England. Commuters today were surprised that a strike in the London Underground actually made their daily trip to and from work more difficult. Worried local reporters, equally puzzled, demanded to know from union bosses why their strike was making their commute more difficult. The unions were put under more pressure when a local politician [...]
Anonymous cowards smear Tim Ireland’s children. Could Nadine Dorris get them to stop it?
September 7th, 2010, No Comments
For more than a year now Tim Ireland has been subjected to an ongoing if sporadic internet harassement campaign, after he had gotten into conflict with several online Tory bigwigs. The party of Churchill being the natural home of the coward and bullyboy, it’s no surprise that some of the internet hard men and women [...]
QotD: conservatism in bus form – the new fake Routemaster
May 31st, 2010, No Comments
Alex on Boris Johnson’s new buses: In conclusion, this is modern conservatism, implemented in hardware, with your taxes. The obsession with PR, spin, and guff in general? Check. The heel-grinding contempt for the poor? Check. The pride in technical and scientific ignorance? Doublecheck. The low, ugly, spiteful obsession with getting one over on political enemies? [...]
Efficiency savings always mean making political choices
May 31st, 2010, No Comments
Chris Dillion argues that it’s impossible to just “cut waste” from goverment spending: The idea that waste can be identified well by a top boss is deeply dubious. It ignores two central facts of economics: the importance of limited knowledge and of incentives. The true knowledge of where waste lies is fragmentary and dispersed across [...]
Why Labour? Why now?
May 17th, 2010, 1 Comment
Justin asks what has changed in Labour that you should rejoin it: Can New Labour remodel itself as ‘progressive’ (whatever that means these days) even if it wanted to? This is what puzzled me about the people who crashed the New Labour website the other night in their stampede to rejoin the party. Nothing has [...]
