Tory MP raises the expenses bar to stratospheric proportions

Just when we thought it was all over – the duck islands, the moat-cleaning, the gardening, the £400 for fixing a briefcase and second homes, the expenses issue rears itself again. David Wilshire, otherwise known as that nasty piece of work who first tabled Section 28 into the Local Government Act of 1988 has been [...]

NHS: A response to Hannan’s polemicism

I have a suspicion that Mr. Cameron will be having to backpedal so quickly, he may crash into the Lexus carrying his briefcase! In case anyone has been under a rather large rock, a brief bit of background. For a good while now, Dan Hannan MEP has been making highly critical remarks about the NHS [...]

I would like to congratulate twelve Tory headbangers on their timing.

It can be said that only a particular type of Tory could do the following: 1) Attempt to undermine a piece of legislation that transformed the lives of the working class.2) Justify this by suggesting that not being able to work for less than a set minimum is a violation of employees Human Rights!3) Make [...]

UPDATE: Save the minimum wage

Wage Concern reports that at 9:30am, as I was typing out an anti-Thatcherite rant, the Employment Oppertunities Bill was withdrawn and postponed by it’s original founder, Christopher Chope MP. This is obviously a fantastic victory for the left. We worked 100 years to get Minimum Wage on the statute book, and thus we are not [...]