Category Archives: National politics

Interesting piece on Coffee House blog yesterday. It points out that the UK has the second fastest rate of growth of government expenditure in the EU. The left’s Plan B and too far, too fast rhetoric are simply nonsense. The … Continue reading →

We are hearing a lot about youth unemployment today after the latest ONS statistical release. The headline is 21.9% youth unemployment or 1.02 million people. These numbers are just statistical nonsense. They are also part of a decade long trend. … Continue reading →

Tonight I am off to see the Borough Commander and his boss as a member of the Ealing Riots Scrutiny Review Panel. I am keen to hear at first hand the details of the police response to the Ealing riots … Continue reading →

During yesterday’s Lords debate on the NHS Elaine Murphy, Baroness Muphy, a crossbench peer talked emminently good sense: Seldom have so many health policy folk fought so many pre-Bill skirmishes over what in the end has proved to be rather … Continue reading →

I am not impressed with the 60 or so “medics” who have signed a letter in today’s Independent titled: “No one voted for the NHS to be privatised”. They are a motley crew of Labour activists, ridiculous luvvies and retired … Continue reading →

It seems that Ealing council leader, Labour’s Julian Bell, is in favour of our 19th century system of household voter registration. The UK is the only Western democracy that does not have individual electoral registration (IER). He is not alone. … Continue reading →

This clip from Newsnight last night shows columnist Peter Oborne casually calling an EU spokesman an idiot, causing him to walk out, before he goes on crucify ex FT editor Richard Lambert. He flings his pamphlet “Guilty Men” at Lambert. … Continue reading →

Ed Miliband has made the worst mistake of his career so far. He has set a cap on university tuition fees at exactly the same level that the Coalition was aiming for until the greedy, inefficient universities decided to grab … Continue reading →

This Guardian headline quoted by council leader Julian Bell is a lie two times over. The lying Guardian headline writers have changed nuanced IMF statements such as: … a slower pace of deficit reduction would be necessary were the economy … Continue reading →

Andrew Neil is probably a genius. He totally eviscerated LibDem president Tim Farron this afternoon on the Daily Politics. With one line he also destroyed Vince Cable’s spiteful rhetoric. Yesterday Cable said: What I will not do is provide cover … Continue reading →