Category Archives: Current Affairs

Meanwhile, in Crewe….

Meanwhile, the government is trying to stoop even lower in their bid to see Labour win a crucial forthcoming by-election in the Cheshire seat of Crewe and Nantwich. The by-election was called after the death of long-serving MP Gwyneth Dunwoody, who was well respected in Parliament.
Labour’s candidate is her daughter Tasmin, but her campaign has […]

People won’t be fooled by the government’s tax ‘bribe’

Well, well, well… it seems that the government has resorted to very desperate measures in its bid to end the 10p tax debacle. They intend to buy off the worse off with arguably a very crude compensation package.
The Chancellor Alistair Darling told MPs  in Parliament that £700million will go into compensating around five million housholds who lost out at […]

Do we need to close Post Offices?

The Post Office will shut around 2,500 branches across the country, despite strong opposition from the general public. Management carried out a nationwide ‘consultation’ programme, aimed at trying to convince the doubters. However, the list of branches that were to be axed were announced this week.
The government, despite repeatedly losing the arguments on this […]

Even Labour voters have called on the PM to quit

What is the point in reviving a rotting, political corpse which has long since died (since 1983)? Even those in what’s left of the Labour party say that Prime Minister Gordon Brown should quit and let it die a proper death. Yet there are others who stupidly cling to the hope that the government can […]

Thousands dead after deadly cyclone

Is this another freak weather storm? Or is it another sign of global warming? You decide!

What Gordon Brown should be saying

Prime Minister Gordon Brown finally emerged from his Downing Street bunker after a night of dreadful election results to go on television to make this short announcement:
“Dear fellow Britons,
“As Prime Minister, I have made too many mistakes. I am very sorry for the very problems that the country is suffering from at the moment. We […]