Racial stereotyping?

"The migrants that come to Slough are hard working and bring great benefit to the local economy but the council remains severely under-funded because of these poor statistics." - Cllr Richard Stokes, leader of Slough Borough Council.

Is such blatant racial stereotyping allowed!?!

Tragically, not all migrants are hard working and bring great benefit to Slough!

Read my lips, no new taxes!?!

Does Gordon Brown only want to create a "home-owning, asset-owning, wealth-owning democracy" so it can be taxed to the hilt!?!

Summer learning

If summer schools will help gifted and talented pupils in England to "meet their potential", why do most of them have to pay fees for the courses!?!

Grammar schools would help "gifted and talented pupils" "meet their potential" throughout the rest of the year regardless of where they live, their background or their parental income!

Legacies

UK 'worst' on cancer drug access

ID card cost rises above £5bn

NHS 'failing on mixed-sex wards'

UK trade deficit widens to £4.5bn

UK interest rates raised to 5.5%

"Tony Blair's achievements are unique, unprecedented and enduring." - Gordon Brown.

Qualified majority voting!

If voters are unable to complete a ballot paper correctly, how can they be expected to assess the pros and cons of different political parties!?!

Safer than Iraq?

One of the prime minister's sons, Nicky Blair, is to try his hand at teaching after graduating from Oxford this year. He will be joining the Teach First programme which puts "high calibre" graduates into challenging English secondary schools for two years.

Ministry of Injustice

If the new Ministry of Justice is serious about reducing prison over-crowding, it should work hard to make prisons more like prisons and less like hotels.

Hat tip: Laban Tall.

Tax credit not where it's due

How would the Conservative Party reform Gordon Brown's disastrous tax credits scheme?

The government has introduced a new rule from the start of this tax year. This means that the threshold for notifying HMRC of any increase during the financial year has risen to £25,000.
"Once these measures are fully implemented they are expected to reduce overpayments by a further third," the HMRC said.

It should never be acceptable for HM Revenue & Customs to reduce overpayments merely by moving the goalposts further away. Tragically, it seems to be a typical public sector response to failure on a grand scale.

Honeymoon

Traditionally, incoming Prime Ministers have a honeymoon period as they settle into their new role and mistakes are generously forgiven by the media.

How long will Gordon Brown's honeymoon period last!?!

Strangers into citizens

How many illegal immigrants were protesting at Trafalgar Square for an amnesty on their status today?

Did Police check everyone's right to be in the UK as they left the protest!?!

Vive la difference!

When will the UK electorate be offered a right wing leader promising to cut taxes, crime, immigration and welfare whilst shouting "work more to earn more"!?!

By contrast, Britons are offered an inert choice, no wonder turnout never reaches the French 85%!

Home sour home!

What has John Reid done or failed to do that means he intends to resign at the end of June as Home Secretary!?!

Free money!

When will people in authority realise that as soon as money is 'given away' by any organisation without thorough checks, fraudsters will soon discover and exploit it!?!

One fraudster enrolled himself on five different degree courses at the same university and had 17 fake identities. He collected student loans worth £65,595.

Any bets on whether Adeleke Adebayo is an illegal immigrant too!?!

Not alone!

Pride in Britain has fallen sharply over a generation, researchers said yesterday.

The percentage of people declaring themselves "very proud" of the nation fell from 55 per cent in 1981 to 45 per cent now.

The shift is attributed to younger people being less likely to have the "strong attachment" of older generations, the study by the National Centre for Social Research found. - The Daily Telegraph.

Police Priorities

1) A shopkeeper has been warned by police to remove gollywogs from her window display or risk breaching race hate laws following a single complaint.

2) Avon and Somerset Police were criticised earlier this week for failing to arrest a group of vandals who spray-painted a huge 30ft mural at the site. Using ladders and 15ft rollers, the gang spent two days daubing a giant deformed child's head and lizard across a rooftop wall.

None of the above!

All my postal votes in today's local elections will be for "None of the above"!

Exam factories

If schools have been reduced to "exam factories", why are so few teenagers achieving five or more GCSEs at grade C or above including English and Maths!?!

The proportion whose results included English and maths - ministers' new benchmark - was 44.3%, up from 42.6%

Importing trouble?

Could the Metropolitan Police be any more racist!?!

There is an indication from both police intelligence and the voluntary sector addressing gang criminality, that there is an increase in young people with significant post-traumatic stress resulting from witnessing and being involved in significant violent situations prior to arrival in the UK.

The document states that half of gangs identified by police intelligence are based in the African-Caribbean community.

How do Politicians propose to deal with the problems highlighted? More social workers or stricter immigration controls!?!

Postal votes

Will Labour Politicians be more concerned that voter turnout will be down 20,000 across a number of Birmingham wards rather than having more confidence in in the final result!?!

Will there now be fraud probes in Middlesbrough, Fife and Lanarkshire, Flintshire, Luton and Somerset?

Caught in the headlights!

Is the Labour leadership "united" in knowing that Gordon Brown will cost Labour the next General Election yet are too scared to do anything else!?!