Via FT.com / UK – Hoon approves third Heathrow runway, further evidence that New Labour politicians are comfortable holding entirely incompatible ideas in their heads: Geoff Hoon gave an official stamp of approval on Thursday to £9bn plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport, despite a hard-fought campaign against the […]
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Labour’s Class Law
An end to equality before the law? Every public body will have to take class background into account when making decisions under radical new legislation unveiled by the Government today. The law means that all public authorities – from Whitehall to local councils – will be subject to an over-arching […]
Read MoreLabour’s Debt Crisis Campaign
The Conservatives have launched a campaign highlighting the human consequences of the current debt crisis. You can learn more here. Indebtedness is one of five main pathways to poverty. You can find analysis and proposals from the Centre for Social Justice here.
Read MoreOur debt
Gordon Brown has failed spectacularly to manage our finances and he should be held accountable for it at the next general election. In the meantime, I’ll let this fade into the archive:
Read MoreBailiffs get power to use force on debtors – Times Online
Further powers for privately-employed bailiffs to use force to enter and seize private property. It is claimed these powers are already abused. In one case, an 89-year-old grandmother returned home to find a bailiff sitting in her chair having drawn up a list of her possessions. He was pursuing a […]
Read MoreHarriet Harman criticised after suggesting pensioners should be grateful to Government – Telegraph
The Telegraph furthers its “Justice for Pensioners” campaign: As well as losing out on income in their retirement, pensioners are hit twice over because when calculating their benefits the Government assumes they are receiving interest rates of 10 per cent on any savings. Ten percent? It would be funny if […]
Read MoreBrown adviser: Labour’s rights record dismal
Lord Lester, a Liberal Democrat and distinguished human rights lawyer, quit as the prime minister’s adviser on constitutional reform a month ago. In a scathing attack yesterday, he revealed for the first time how he felt tethered by the government, describing its record on human rights as “dismal and deeply […]
Read MoreBureaucracy, Communism and New Labour
Joseph Stalin in 1934, quoted here: Bureaucracy and red tape in the administrative apparatus; idle chatter about “leadership in general” instead of real and concrete leadership; the functional structure of our organizations and lack of individual responsibility; lack of personal responsibility in work, and wage equalization; the absence of a […]
Read MoreWork more, earn more — invest-in-france.org
Inspired by an advert in the Economist, I found this from invest-in-france.org: New French labour regulations have been brought in and provide incentives to work more and earn more. Companies can raise the number of hours worked by management staff or independent salaried employees from 218 days to 235 days […]
Read MoreIndependence from the state
From 1968: To return to the personal theme, if we accept the need for increasing responsibility for self and family it means that we must stop approaching things in an atmosphere of restriction. There is nothing wrong in people wanting larger incomes. It would seem a worthy objective for men […]
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