In other news…

In other news there is in fact other news than the shocking revelations that journalists use dodgy methods, some police will sell journalists information for a wodge or cash or a few pints and politicians will suck up to anyone that might give them a gnats fart of a whiff of power and aren’t to be trusted. As others have observed very little of this is new or really surprising – and really how much would anyone care if it had just been confined to celebs and politicians? But yes other news, amazingly other stuff has still been happening. Mainly … Continue reading

A miscellany of tax and spend

Terribly sorry to bang on about matters economic, but well it does seem a rather important topic, so please do indulge me. Just a quick whistle round a few bits in the news today. First up, Guido rather nails the deliberate inflationary policy pursued by the Bank of England to protect the banks at our cost. That they invested in inflation proof securities whilst warning about deflation is a bit of a hint they may have been fibbing to us. The government mean while continues it’s relentless pursuit of cuts and austerity by shelling out to build a brand new … Continue reading

I see no cuts

I’m going to be banging on about our supposed cuts yet again and the rather troublesome financial mess we may be in, and I suspect I’m going to keep doing so at least until we stop digging. All those terribly terribly harsh cuts didn’t stop our net deficit growing to 10 billion last month, nor is it stopping the EU giving away another billion (just Euro’s this time) for people to build robot pets and nagware. Thankfully it’s not all gloom* one of our elected troughers has brought forward a motion that we shouldn’t illegally bail out the Eurozone , … Continue reading