Brown's Britain

An action plan to secure the UK's place at the forefront of innovation, investment and quality in the digital and communications industries will be developed by Stephen Carter, the first Minister for Communications, Technology and Broadcasting.

55 million pound overhaul of disabled parking toughest crackdown yet on Blue Badge abuse, A radical overhaul of the Blue Badge scheme was announced today.

Gordon Brown has decided to write a book about being British. He has called upon us to fly the British flag in every garden.

He had announced the news at the Edinburgh international book festival.

Only 1 in 10 say equity in the home should be for children to inherit

Research by Saga's Equity Release Service* has revealed that the new generation of retirees are bucking tradition and believe their children do not automatically have a right to inheritance. Only 1 in 10 (12%) say they disagree with equity release products because they believe the home should be for children to inherit.

A massive 72 per cent of MPs representing constituencies in the South of England support a cut in VAT from 17.5 per cent to 5 per cent for all building repair and maintenance work according to new research carried out by ComRes on behalf of the 'Cut the VAT' Coalition.

At Bedfordshire Police Authority's Annual General Meeting held today (Friday, 16th May) members unanimously elected Peter Conniff as Chair for the fourth successive year. Penny Fletcher was also re-elected for a fourth term as Vice Chair.

A special meeting to mobilise action by those living in parishes in the northern part of the Braintree District and Suffolk borders will take place on Wednesday 21 May in Sible Hedingham to highlight the pressures faced by the community from the planning application for a second runway at Stansted.

a²om : now providing the world's first BTEC driving qualification
launched to help the annual 30,000 'vocation-less' school leavers with BTEC qualification in Driving Science.

Shocking government figures show that every year 30,000 16-year-olds leave school with no qualifications. A further 10,000 scrape through with just one GCSE at Grade D - or even below. Global companies like McDonalds and Tesco have recently begun offering alternative qualifications to help address the issue. This broad scale qualification gap comes as worrying news for the government as Jim Knight, Minister of State for Schools and Learners, recently stated that,

Britain has 1% of the world’s population and 20% of its CCTV cameras - 4.2 million cameras in all.
Many feel safe because of this, but violent crime is rising and even the government insists that sex crimes are much higher than reported. So what is the use of them, unless it is something more sinister.

The Daily Mail is still proud of itself for ignoring rules of sub judice in its coverage of the Stephen Lawrence murder case. They printed pictures of the five white suspected of killing the black teenager, under the banner headline ‘Murderers’ Now that the rules of double jeopardy have been abolished, two of the five and one other may face a re trial. Having learned nothing from persecuting the innocent Colin Stagg and trying to get John Hogan pilloried on the word of his wife; they have run a story, which presents us with the suspect’s guilt before the re trial.

Many struggle to understand the convoluted language of House of Commons Glaswegian Speaker Michael Martin. He trades on his working class roots whilst hiring expensive limousines to take him from Glasgow Airport to the un mortgaged suburban pile that he has been claiming massive mortgage expensive for from the tax payer. These are not the only issues relating to he and his wife Mary Martin’s luxurious tax payer funded life style.

The media establishment is being very smug in their condemnation of veteran Channel 4 News reader Jon Snow’s comments about the news black out on Prince Harry going to war. Snow is cousin to famous Swingometer man Peter and part of the comfortable media elite, but thank goodness he has the guts to speak out.

Charles Clarke might be accused of Brown nosing now that he has voiced regret for making “negative” comments about the Prime Minister. He believes he may have damaged the government and the Labour Party. Nonsense, you are a proper Charlie if you believe that Mr Clarke. Brown has damaged himself. The only people who thought he was a good chancellor were those he helped to make rich. Cheap credit, porn and booze distracted the rest.

House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin has become notorious for bias, favouring his own parties MPs when it comes to who gets to speak in the House of Commons. If he weren’t typically New Labour he would have been sacked by now.

New Labour loves fat cats and wouldn’t be in power without them. Their friends in British Gas have announced a 570% rise in profits. This is great the foreign owned company’s investors. As a public utility they can’t lose because the state would prop them up if in difficulty- like the banks. Meanwhile customers face a 15% rise in prices. The company made £1,75 million a day in 2007.

New Labour would have much to lose if Scottish Nationalists or any other alternative party won power north of the border. This a UK where New Labour’s deputy leader got off Scot free after having an affair- which included sex with his stocking and suspender wearing diary secretary- in his state funded office and apartment. So in an equal society one would wonder why the News of the World was so concerned that Scottish Socialist leader Tommy Sheridan might be a serial adulterer.

Beer is good for making drinkers, brewers and government fat. According to brewers its about to hit £4 a pint. Beer doesn’t count in the government’s meaningless inflation calculations.

A large part of the price of beer is tax so they are not out to stop people drinking. It’s going up mainly because production costs are rising. These cost are rising because the economy is in serious mess.

Mohamed al Fayed said that:

"Princess Diana also told me personally before and during the holiday we shared in July 1997 of her fears.

"She told me that she knew Prince Philip and Prince Charles were trying to get rid of her. I’ve been fighting for ten years. This is the moment for me to say exactly what I feel happened to my son and Diana."

He said Diana and Dodi were preparing to announce their engagement when they died and is on record as believing the Princess was pregnant with Dodi’s child.

Hi, my name is Phaluss Starrky Raving Bonkers your new liberal minded parliamentary candidate. I was dreamt up by a think tank of progressive social engineers to replace your current female MP when Gordon Brown finally brings the country to its knees and the party has to find new ways of getting you to vote for it.

The New Labour Governement plan ‘Islamic bonds to help bail them out of their spending chaos. At a time when a senior military figure said that Brown is mortgaging the nation’s defence- acting like someone who cuts of your arms and tells you to stop complaining because you still have your legs- this is to be Brown’s life line.