“I stick my big nose in when I go out/Sealed off car park, what’s it all about…?”
- ‘Petty Sessions’, Half Man Half Biscuit ( 2008 )
Almost as inevitable as Prince Philip’s ‘foot in mouth’ outbursts on our fellow brothers and sisters abroad is a loony suggestion from the odd Tory. This time it is the turn of David Cameron’s favoured think-tank Power Exchange. Read the rest of this entry »
Bus and rail fare squabblefest
Can’t you tell that the New Year has started already? Two days into the year, our blessed transport companies let New Year in by issuing a 5 - 15% fares increase on its passengers. Read the rest of this entry »
600 more face court for feet on seats
Is dirtying a train seat as heinous a crime as murder, rape, assault or robbery? In the eyes of one rail franchise, this seems to be the case. Read the rest of this entry »
Reports of a Labour meltdown seem to have fallen on deaf ears in the Tameside area. With Hull losing to the Liberal Democrats and the Tories taking control of Plymouth, it has been business as usual for the Greater Manchester area. Rochdale switched from being in no overall control to being a Lib Dem council. Manchester, Wigan, Salford and Tameside metropolitan borough councils remained solid Labour territory. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Awful Legacy of Thatcher’s Orphans’.
Today (16/02/2007) Paul Routledge was on form and remains one of my reasons as to why I still buy the Daily Mirror. This article has hit the nail on the head as to why the UK has the worst child poverty and deprivation record out of twenty developed countries.
For further evidence of this, I recommend visiting at least one of the mining villages abandoned, since the Tories decimated the mining industry and their right to work.
