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Labour

Was it a disappointment?

8th September 2025 well_chuffed 0

In answer to that I can only say it was on the disappointing side. What you ask. The ministerial reshuffle of course. Bit of musical chairs at the top and alarge clear out at the [more…]

Labour

What a disappointment

4th September 2025 well_chuffed 0

In a par for the course move our beloved Prime Minister disappointed just about everyone in the country bar Fatty whose site is still obsessed with SpAds. There we were licking our lips in anticipation [more…]

Communism

Command Economies

21st August 2025 well_chuffed 0

After a once in a lifetime budget that was designed to promote growth, fill a fictitious £22 billion black hole and encourage new jobs, what are we left with, little to no growth, a £50 [more…]

Communism

Tax, Tax, Tax

9th July 2025 Godfrey Bloom 0

I was born in 1949, now in 2025 Great Britain has the highest tax burden in my lifetime & I would argue the most degraded public services. Post war the UK has suffered from unrelenting [more…]

Elections

Surrey Unitary Authority

16th January 2025 well_chuffed 0

Plans are afoot to change Surrey County Council into a Unitary Authority. What this means is merging the 11 District Councils into the County Council . This should result in efficiencies and savings. Oh my [more…]

Politics

Local Gummint

9th September 2024 well_chuffed 0

Local government in England is a mess. I have recollections of films from the 1940s where there was an insignificant looking little man called the Town Clerk who used to run the show. These days [more…]

21st Century

The Stockwell Shooting – A Failure of C3I?*

16th February 2022 Blown Periphery 0

Operation Kratos In 2001 international terrorist events directed security services to conclude that terrorist events involving suicide bombers, were not only likely but sadly inevitable in any country. Among many other agencies, the Metropolitan Police [more…]

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Economics

The Risk Factor: Time for an Honest Assessment

29th June 2020 Emile Woolf 0

As the spread of Covid begins to wane we should consider afresh whether, for example, a shopkeeper who travels to work to open his business is in fact acting irresponsibly. This comes, as ever, down [more…]

Godfrey Bloom, Going Postal
Arts

Some sad truths about the modern police

8th June 2020 Godfrey Bloom 0

Followers of my blogs will know I have long been critical of the modern police ‘service’. It is slightly unfair to divorce police from CPS, political & Home Office failure but a start has to [more…]

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