Idly wondering whether communism had died in the UK, I discovered The Communist Party of Great Britain and their paper, “The Weekly Worker”. This edition has a fascinating sidebar — “What we fight for” — which states first and foremost: Our central aim is the organisation of communists, revolutionary socialists […]
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FT.com: Brown reshuffles cabinet to tackle crisis
Mandelson’s return is unlikely to be popular. DEFRA becomes MAFF again with a new energy and climate change department. Caroline Flint moves to Europe Minister. Tony McNulty will face off Boris, but why is there a London Minister at all? If in doubt, reorganise? William Hague’s reaction is here. read […]
Read More“A victim of the State”
A young homeless woman asked me to buy a Big Issue just outside the conference area and then asked me, “If you get in, what are you going to do about poverty in this county? The Government seems very keen to get in with everyone else, but what are you […]
Read MoreFT.com: Building societies angry at B&B liabilities
But just one moment: …the government hammered out a deal with the Spanish bank Santander, which will buy the embattled UK mortgage lender’s £20bn deposit book and 197-branch network for £612m. Santander, which already owns Abbey and is taking over Alliance & Leicester, will have 1,286 branches in the UK. […]
Read MoreThousands of personal files stolen from RAF base
The Telegraph reports: The details of up to 50,000 serving and ex-service personnel are at risk after three USB portable hard disc drives were stolen from an RAF station, the Ministry of Defence has admitted. Also in The Times. So that’s personal details of me, my wife and many of […]
Read MoreMises: A Crisis of Global Statism
Mises.org reports on false confidence in the state to guarantee stability, and… Moreover, as many commentators have remarked, guaranteeing large financial firms from failure will bring calls for regulating them still more tightly. This is an old story: past political interventions create the reasons for new ones. The present financial […]
Read MoreTelegraph: “Russian Foreign Minister’s ‘F-word’ Tirade at Miliband”
The unhappy state of diplomacy in the hands of New Labour: David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, was subjected to a tirade of four-letter abuse when he spoke to his Russian counterpart over the country’s invasion of Georgia. One unconfirmed report suggested that Mr Lavrov said: “Who are you to f—— […]
Read MorePoverty: how well is DWP helping people?
Poverty in Britain remains horrifying. For example, about 7% of households cannot afford a single hobby or leisure activity and a quarter cannot manage to save £10 a month for rainy days or retirement. Bleak. But the DWP plans to spend just over £130 billion in 2008. Surely some mistake, […]
Read MoreOops! Bank customer data sold on eBay
A computer containing a million bank customers’ personal data has reportedly been sold on an internet auction site. RBS says an archiving firm told it the PC had apparently been “inappropriately sold on via a third party”. It said historical information relating to credit card applications for their bank and […]
Read MoreAn unfair Britain: Labour is failing on fairness
Under Labour, 900,000 more people are in deep poverty compared to 1997 and the gap in life expectancy is now the highest since the Victorian age. A person on £100 a week takes home just 6p for every additional pound earned. Government borrowing will burden generations. read more | digg […]
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![😡 A wise building site carpenter once said to me,
🗣️”A Labour government is the worst kind of government for the working man [and woman].”
🇬🇧 True then. True today. We battle on.](https://www.stevebaker.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/442413775_18432903037051538_3387178564604183858_n-320x320.jpg)
![😡 A wise building site carpenter once said to me,
🗣️”A Labour government is the worst kind of government for the working man [and woman].”
🇬🇧 True then. True today. We battle on.](https://www.stevebaker.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/442413775_18432903037051538_3387178564604183858_n.jpg)
