White van man bomb?

Rather than carrying out spot checks for suicide vehicle bombs, wouldn't it have been easier for the Police simply to have arrested everyone protesting outside the Regents Park Mosque on the basis of incitement to racial hatred?

Hat tip: PubPhilosopher.

PS: Did the BBC report this protest!?!

Persona non grata

At least John Reid, Margaret Beckett and Patricia Hewitt can each console themselves with an £18,000 tax free bonus for resigning Cabinet Ministers as Gordon Brown doesn't want them in his first cabinet!

Rubbish joke!

Will Salford dustmen be on strike every other week!?!

Quentin Davies

Under your leadership the Conservative Party appears to me to have ceased collectively to believe in anything, or to stand for anything. It has no bedrock. It exists on shifting sands. A sense of mission has been replaced by a PR agenda. - Former Conservative MP Quentin Davies.

Whilst Quentin's analysis of the Conservative Party is on the money, it beggars belief that he should then join the Labour benches famed for spin, double dealing and contempt for the British public!

BBC Impartiality?

The BBC is "a publicly-funded urban organisation with an abnormally large proportion of younger people, of people in ethnic minorities and almost certainly of gay people, compared with the population at large" - Former BBC political editor Andrew Marr.

Gay bullying in schools 'common' - Top BBC news online education headline at 9am, 26th June 2007.

Ha, Ha, It's Harriet!

How come Labour Party members overlooked Harriet Harman's support of grammar schools when they voted her deputy leader of the Labour Party?

Her son attends a grammar school in Kent, no doubt an unwilling victim who would far rather attend an inner city comprehensive!

Harriet Harman - sent her son to a grammar school outside the borough where they lived.

Bigger Government?

If bigger Government is the preferred solution for nearly everything these days, why doesn't it work for children in care?

Driving tests

If Shazad Akhtar could have earned up to £11,000* for passing driving tests on behalf of other people, is 200 hours community service and a £500 fine sufficient punishment given the risk to other road users?

*22 tests at £500 a go!

Poor white boys

If poor quality schooling explains just 14% of the low achievement of "poor white boys", how will sending them to better schools change anything!?!

Stay at home on an egg?

Why haven't reruns of a TV commercial from the 1950s urging viewers to "go to work on an egg" been banned because it discriminates against the 8m economically inactive people in the UK who don't work!?!

If the slogan went against the principle of eating a varied diet, should adverts for Frosties, Shredded Wheat and Weetabix also be banned?

It's good to help?

If everyone worked more than 48 hours a week, it would help the UK economy but would people want that!?!

Embassy talk

Have the Iranian and Pakistani ambassadors in Britain been summoned to advise how they will ensure Sir Salman Rushdie's safety?

Great British Institutions?

Will ID cards become a "Great British institution" on a par with the railways in the 19th century as Home Office minister Liam Byrne claims or on a par with that other great Victorian institution, the workhouse?

Working hard?

"Migrant workers are making a substantial contribution to Britain's economy. They haven't caused mass unemployment or held down wages as some would have us believe." - Brendan Barber, TUC's general secretary.

Consumers save less as household disposable income falls - Financial Times, 29th March 2007.
Karen Ward at HSBC said last quarter's decline in household real disposable income partly reflected workers' inability to secure higher wage rises.

Number of 'economically inactive' hits record high - Thisismoney, 13th June 2007.
Unemployment has fallen and there are fewer jobseekers claiming benefit, but the number of people classed as economically inactive has reached a record high, new figures showed today.

BBC impartiality?

How can any organsiation become "more impartial"?

You are either impartial or you are not impartial!

Improving Britain

If 92% of Labour MPs believe that "the diverse mix of races, cultures and religions now found in our society has improved Britain", how can 94% of Labour MPs also believe that "one of the things that would most improve life in Britain today is people being more tolerant of different ethnic groups and cultures"!?!

Clean record?

Are private hospitals also "struggling to meet key hygiene standards"?

By recognising in an open and honest way that they need to do more, trusts are taking the important steps towards delivering excellence for patients. - Gill Morgan, chief executive of the NHS Confederation.

If a Boeing 747 crashed every month, it would not be good enough for any airline just to admit there was a problem!

Cameron knows!

David Cameron will accuse the chancellor of having a "he knows best" approach.

"I lead. I don't follow my party; I lead them." - David Cameron "knows best" about Grammar schools, 22nd May 2007!

Baaps!

If an unemployed woman can afford to spend £4,250 on breast augmentation rather than raising her two young children, is the welfare state too generous?

A website where women can raise cash for breast implants using personal photos is unsafe and degrading - BBC News website - Friday, 15 June 2007.

Pole-axed

If the European Union are troubled by Poland's intransigence over voting rights, imagine the chaos when Turkey joins!