Category: Politics

Friday 29 August 2008 | Environment : Moans : Politics | Comments (0)

John Hutton is the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform for the UK, and just yesterday he said “The era of cheap energy is over”, and I couldn't believe he had the audacity to say that. After all, what has his government been doing? Sitting on their...

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Friday 11 July 2008 | Environment : Politics | Comments (0)

My MP was talking in the Commons yesterday about the Government's rise in the tax for owning a car and tries to explain it away by saying that this is to persuade the car manufacturers to make efficient cars. That's despite the fact that it's penalising the individual and not...

Tagged with: Alistair Darling : Environment : Government : Labour : Motoring | Continue reading My MP defends car owners' tax

Friday 11 July 2008 | Environment : Politics | Comments (0)

My local MP Alistair Darling looks like he'll be lobbying for a Nuclear Waste Dump in or around Edinburgh, or at least supporting it if he follows all of the Government's current policies for nuclear power. Here's what he's been saying about nuclear power, typically falling within the Labour policy....

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Thursday 10 July 2008 | Politics | Comments (1)

While jets fly back and forth from the UK, US and China for the G8 summit for Gordon Brown and the Labour party, some even empty, motorists here are facing what Labour call a "Green Tax" for their cars. This is about as much of a Green Tax as their...

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Tuesday 8 July 2008 | Politics | Comments (0)

I can't believe this Government and what they're doing right now with their policies, it seems as though one department doesn't know what the other one's doing, or saying, even up to the point of the defacto Prime Minister. The most poignant moment for me came with Channel 4's cutting...

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Thursday 12 June 2008 | Politics | Comments (6)

I've just heard the news that the Shadow Home Secretary David Davis has resigned his position in UK Parliment, and while that doesn't interest me that much because UK politics and politicians are like petulant teenagers and deserve little respect, Davis has just broadsided me. His speech struck a chord...

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Wednesday 21 March 2007 | Moans : Politics | Comments (0)

Sorry Mr Fat Controller, I just don't get it. The Chancellor has made some budget changes allegedly aimed at dropping carbon emissions from cars, not at raising money for the Government, oh no. Yet in my circumstance I'm going to be penalised for keeping my car in the garage, running...

Tagged with: Budget : Chancellor : Environment : Gordon Brown : Government : Labour : Tax | Continue reading Budget hits me for not driving - so called Green Taxes.

Tuesday 9 January 2007 | Politics | Comments (4)

Scotland is fighting to become a very green country. The Scottish Executive is investing £35 million over three years in renewable sources of energy, and there are schemes for rubbish recycling, reduction of emissions, increase of public transport, and so on. Solar panels are even appearing on roadsides to power...

Tagged with: Corruption : Environment : Government : Scotland : Scottish Executive | Continue reading Scottish Executive environment head commutes by jet!

Sunday 27 August 2006 | EIFF 2006 : Movies : Politics : The World | Comments (2)

During the Edinburgh International Film Festival this year I was lucky enough to see the documentary An Inconvenient Truth starring Al Gore, the rightful President of the United States of America. I was shocked and moved to tears, not at Gore being pushed out of the Presidential elections, but at...

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Monday 3 April 2006 | Moans : Politics | Comments (0)

Finally I decided to contact my MP and complain about the way cyclists are treated by other road users, the Government policy on greener transport with their corresponding lack of protection for cyclists, and the poor respose of the Police in my reported crime. I decided to use the excellent...

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Wednesday 8 June 2005 | Politics | Comments (0)

I don't give to charities much, I'm quite selective really on that front. Currently I give monthly to the WWF - that's the animals, not a pension fund for old wrestlers - and when Comic Relief pops round I always make sure I donate. Why these two?...

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Sunday 8 May 2005 | Politics | Comments (0)

According to the New Scientist there is growing evidence that Burma's military used chemical weapons against the rebels of the country....

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Friday 6 May 2005 | Politics | Comments (1)

Recently a story came out about the sort of election rigging you would think would only occur in some dictatorship, perhaps a story to come out of some third world country, but never a constituency in England and perpetrated by the ruling party themselves. Yet it never made much more...

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Friday 10 December 2004 | Politics | Comments (0)

Well if you didn't look at my old post on the Scottish Public Consultations then you'll probably have missed the all important paper from the Scottish Executive on Congestion Charging. At the moment the Consultation refers to the three sets of Regulations that the Scottish Executive are planning to adopt...

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Tuesday 16 November 2004 | Politics | Comments (2)

I don't know what to make of this. The Government, and Gordon Brown specifically, have pulled off the deal to give new Babies at least £250 in a baby bond. The Child Trust Fund is set to give every baby born on or after the 1st of September 2002 a...

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Monday 1 November 2004 | Politics | Comments (0)

It does exactly what it says in the title. National service politics is an idea I had some time ago, and as my ideas go it wasn't that bad. It follows the basic, and well quoted premise which goes something like: Only those who do not want to be a...

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Monday 11 October 2004 | Politics | Comments (0)

I can't remember how I found this site, and to be honest it hardly matters, what does matter is that it gives everyone the opportunity to have their say on what may well become Scottish law. You think that the Politicians are useless and that the Government aren't doing what...

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