If this report is to be believed, and it is very credible, our UK armed forces are steadily working their way towards being a Civil Defence Force armed with third rate weapons.
If this has resulted from the bonus culture within the MOD, the sooner the architects of this financial disaster are removed the better.
Certainly “open [...]
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More UK Ministry of Defence Blunders
Caroline Spelman MP: The Government was woefully ill-prepared for the severe weather this week – because it sat on a report on contingency plans for five whole months
Caroline Spelman is Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.
Has anyone got a sense of déjà-vu about the current grit shortages and widespread disruption to the road network? The reason for that, is that this is exactly where we were in February last year. So how can we have got to this [...]
President Barack Obama sends 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan
Excerpts of the President’s Address to the Nation
“The 30,000 additional troops that I am announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 – the fastest pace possible – so that they can target the insurgency and secure key population centers. They will increase our ability to train competent Afghan Security Forces, and to [...]
Eurostat – EU unemployment reached 9.3 percent in October, the highest for over a decade
Job figures fall as finance ministers prepare to meet
ANDREW WILLIS
01.12.2009 @ 17:26 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – New data released by the EU’s statistics office on Tuesday (1 December) shows a rise in the region’s unemployment, and comes one day before finance minister talks on measures to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis.
Eurostat said EU [...]
UK Parking fines: the £328 million council “cash cow” – Drivers Alliance
The latest research from the Driver’s Alliance partnership with the Taxpayers’ Alliance has been released.
They took a hard look at parking fines levied by local councils across the UK and came up with some surprising results.
Councils are making £328 Million a year from parking enforcement which is about three times the amount from speed cameras. [...]
Greenbelt Group Ltd – Status: Active – Proposal to Strike off – Companies House
Controversy continues to follow the Greenbelt Group Ltd., with Companies House public records now showing that there is a proposal to strike off the company presumed due to failure to file accounts.
Companies House records detailed below indicate that accounts should have been filed no later than 30th July 2009.
In a meeting attended by the editor [...]
Clean Energy Economy – Obama Administration Officials Travel America
WASHINGTON—Punctuated by President Obama’s Wednesday announcement of $2.4 billion in Recovery Act funding for 48 new advanced battery and electric drive projects, top Administration officials fanned out across the nation this week to highlight the enormous opportunities for Americans in the emerging clean energy economy.
“The United States led the world’s economies in the 20th century [...]
New research: the scandal of taxpayer-funded lobbying
A new TPA report, released on Monday, used the Freedom of Information Act to expose the full scale of the really scandalous way in which the Government and its agencies spent over £37 million in 2007-08 on lobbying and political campaigning. This is not just a waste of money, it is a perversion of the democratic [...]