General Election – Will You Vote For Gordon Brown?

Labour’s latest wheeze to waste your cash is a “hub” on the internet computer game “Second Life”. This piece of spectacular wastage of your money cost £20,000 to set up and a further £12,000 a year to run. The Department of Work [sic] and Pensions is behind this particular wastage.

The clowns at the DWP forgot to promote this online however (probably too embarrassed). They created a 3D “innovation centre” but it is not advertised on the DWP website. Junior minister Jonathan Shaw fessed up to Parliament it cost £20k to build and a further £12k a year to maintain. Whats the betting all that cash went to some web designer that is an MP’s cohort? Maybe it was farmed out to some politically correct group teaching knife wielding Albanians web design as they are pored over by a dozen or so Social Workers.

o The Bank of England, which has managed Britain’s gold reserves for more than 300 years, was never asked for its advice on whether Britain should sell the gold. A senior Bank of England executive said the timing of the sale was “not debated”.

o At a secret meeting with senior gold traders, Bank of England officials were warned that the proposed auctions would achieve the worst price for taxpayers. The officials are understood to have agreed with the analysis but said they were powerless to influence the Treasury.

o Several Asian countries including China are named by an insider as having bought the gold “on the cheap” from the Treasury. The Chinese may have made more than £1 billion from Brown’s botched sell-off.

It is the world’s largest political party and has held absolute power for 60 years through state control and media censorship. So when the Chinese Communist party decided to overhaul its propaganda machine, there was only one place to look: the spin tactics of New Labour.

The building’s address is, some might say sinisterly, called Status Park 4.

But the intrusiveness of the system at the heart of Government’s so-called ‘e-Borders’ scheme has provoked such fury among civil liberties campaigners that some consider it akin to a modern-day Stasi headquarters.

All the information passengers give to travel agents, including home addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, passport details and the names of family members, is shared with an unknown number of Government agencies for ‘analysis’ and stored for up to ten years.

Another Labour Minister has been caught out in an expenses scandal after effectively admitting he had been wrong to claim £60,000 of taxpayers’ money for a property which is his parents’ main home – not his.

Employment Minister Tony McNulty performed a dramatic U-turn and announced he had stopped claiming the controversial MPs’ second-home allowance after being challenged by The Mail on Sunday.

Even more astonishingly, he said that 133 MPs who, like him, live within 60 miles of Westminster should be banned from getting the £24,000-a-year handout.

Mr McNulty and his wife, chief schools inspector Christine Gilbert, have a combined annual income of a third of a million pounds and between them own two London homes worth £1.2million.

They live together in a house she owns just three miles from Westminster.

Sir John also warned of bleak economic times ahead, adding: “It’s beginning to unravel in quite a serious way. The economy is running into serious difficulty.”

Pointing out that Mr Brown as Chancellor introduced the financial regulatory regime that allowed the near-collapse of Northern Rock, Sir John predicted that the bank’s failure would cost taxpayers more than the £3.4 billion his Government spent trying to keep the pound in the Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992.

“We don’t yet know what the cost of Northern Rock to the economy will be, but it is quite likely that it will exceed the cost to the taxpayer of Black Wednesday,” he said.

The best way, I think, of understanding how the special relationship works is to answer this question. When a visiting American actor comes here and makes nice noises about Britain, do you feel all warm, gooey and proud? I bet you do. Now think how it works the other way round. When a British actor goes over there and makes nice noises about America, do you think they even notice?

Honestly? I believe it’s time we stopped deluding ourselves about our relationship with America, which since the late 1940s has produced virtually nothing. And tried to make friends with the French. Because the last time we did that, the world got Concorde.

Knock, knock: it’s the council bin snoops! Householders are facing “re-education” home visits for producing too much rubbish after figures released under freedom of information laws revealed that councils have quietly microchipped 2m bins.

The chips can be used to record the amount of rubbish families are throwing away. Those recycling too little will be sent warning leaflets, then visited by council officials…..

Your taxes are paying for this; your taxes are paying Labour to monitor every facet of your life. 1984 anyone?

Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migrationwatch UK said, “Yet again the government have tried to bury the true picture in the middle of a 17 page statistical release but they cannot conceal the fact that immigration will have a massive impact on housing demand and therefore on our whole quality of life and our environment. It is time that the government faced up to the facts and brought immigration under control instead of seeking to camouflage the true position”.

The European Parliament has prohibited the use of the terms ”Miss” and ”Mrs” in case they upset female MEPs. According to a new ”Gender-Neutral Language” guidance, the politicians are required to address female members by their full name only.

It has also revealed that ‘’sportsmen” should be called ”athletes”, statesmen should be referred to as ”political leaders”, and terms like ‘’synthetic” or ”artificial” should be used in place of ”man-made”.

The guidance lists has also banned terms for describing professions, including fireman, airhostess, headmaster, policeman, salesman, manageress, cinema usherette and male nurse.