Children might also ‘react negatively to a culinary tradition other than their own by saying “yuk”.’
Nursery staff are told: ‘No racist incident should be ignored. When there is a clear racist intent, it is necessary to be specific in condemning the action.’
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.
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.
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?
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.
The move aims to close a loophole in plans being drawn up by GCHQ, the government’s eavesdropping centre in Cheltenham, to create a huge database to monitor and store the internet browsing habits, e-mail and telephone records of everyone in Britain.
The “Big Brother” database would have limited value to police and MI5 if it did not store details of the ownership of more than half the mobile phones in the country.
Sir Victor Blank and Gordon Brown have made a bad banking crisis worse by fatally contaminating one of Britain’s few good banks. Mr Brown was the foster parent. People should remember this the next time either of them claims to have acted competently during this crisis. Sir Victor should go now; the electorate can decide on Mr Brown’s fate when he deigns to call an election.
