Friday, September 28, 2007

Reoffending

If 65% of offenders who left prison in 2004 reoffended within two years, why not merely increase the initial sentence by another two years!?!

How many of the remaining 35% reoffended but were not caught!?!

Will Ministers be apologising to taxpayers for wasting £2.6bn of our taxes on the National Offenders Management Service?

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Expensive expenses?

How many travel expenses can be "over-claimed" before police officers are held accountable for "mistakes"!?!

Train fares fair?

Why should rail staff be expected to tell passengers the "best deals" on rail fares?

Do Tescos staff tell customers what are the best deals on baked beans each day or are customers expected to find out for themselves!?!

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

NHS rationing

When will rationing of NHS treatments be extended to foreign nationals treated on the NHS?

It is not right that foreign nationals should receive free treatments if they are not entitled to it.

Brown's appeal to Middle England?

Why does Gordon Brown expect 'middle England' to find him appealing when they will be the only group paying for their children to attend University when it's free in Scotland and a lot cheaper in Wales!?!

"And so for 16 year olds from low-income families, who are staying on at school, we'll make a new five year offer. We will finance you through college or university right through to the age of 21." - Gordon Brown.

Monday, September 24, 2007

Smarter about Commuting

A survey has found that 100% of people use the most appropriate form of transport to get to work based upon cost and time taken.

'We cannot ignore this and hope that everyone will take the train.' - Edmund King.

PS If "Men commute on average 20% longer than women", do men sacrifice a shorter commute for higher pay!?!

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Good news for the race industry?

Britain remains a place of "inequality, exclusion and isolation".

If the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) has failed to reduce inequalities in Britain, does this mean there are no solutions and the CRE's successor, the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR), should be disbanded or that it's funding should be increased!?!

Perhaps the level of immigration should be reduced!

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Trust the Chancellor, but keep your money under the mattress?

"People can use their accounts in the usual way, they can carry on making their mortgage payments in the usual way. Northern Rock will be able to carry on its business." - Chancellor Alistair Darling

Who'd have thought that people wouldn't trust politicians as far as they can queue!?!

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Green mould?

How important are 'green' issues to the UK electorate?

A report by nine leading environmental groups ["The Green Standard"] - looks at each party's commitments and actions. The Lib Dems were rated highest, getting three "green lights" indicating approval of their policies. Labour got one and the Tories none.

The Liberal Democrats trail in third place on approximately 15%. So why are the BBC still enthralled by Green issues!?!

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Teaching apartheid?

How will community cohesion improve by teaching thousands of Muslim children in new state funded schools separated from the kaffir!?!

Cost in Translation (2)

Will Ruth Kelly be pleased to hear that Southall's bilingual railway station nameplate will be removed following complaints from ethnic minorities - they had wanted the sign to appear in other languages too!?!

Monday, September 10, 2007

Fat white bastard

How can Sir Trevor McDonald be cleared of making a racist remark having described Bernard Manning as a "Fat white Bastard"!?!

Brown's benefits?

If Gordon Brown wants to incentivise lone parents and the long term unemployed back into work, unemployment benefits should be reduced after six months!

Will he also reduce incapacity benefit to the level of unemployment benefit to discourage "trading up" benefits!?!

Sunday, September 09, 2007

Child poverty

Would child poverty (and crime!) be reduced by discouraging feckless teenagers from becoming pregnant rather than rewarding them with more dollops of taxpayers' cash!?!

Baby cash

Is cash a "key determinant" when it comes to good health and healthy eating in expectant mothers or does it merely signify the difference between mothers who are responsible, work hard and plan for the future and those who live for today and don't care about tomorrow!?!

PS If it's such a good idea to give pregnant mums-to-be £200, why not make it £300 instead!?!

Friday, September 07, 2007

Schooling

If poor children are to succeed at good schools, do they need to study !?! Mere 'attendance' will never provide a good quality education! It should not require exhaustive research to come to this conclusion!

"Children from disadvantaged backgrounds need to do more than just attend a good school to boost their educational achievement" - Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Thursday, September 06, 2007

Reporting the news?

Muslim converts target Germany - The Times, 6th September 2007.
White Muslim converts have brought the Islamic holy war into the heart of Europe with a narrowly thwarted plot to blow up hundreds of people in German airports, discotheques and restaurants.

German shock at bomb plot arrests - BBC News online, 5th September 2007.
For months, the German authorities have said that the country faces a heightened threat of terrorist attack, and now it appears those warnings were based on fact.

Hat tip: Pimpmydaughter!

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

When All Sedley And Done

Does Lord Justice Sedley believe 500,000 false, misspelt or incorrect names on the existing DNA database of just 4m entries should be corrected before the entire UK population are added to it!?!

"It can be said with confidence that the law recognises and will appropriately protect a right of personal privacy." - Lord Justice Sedley.

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Two heads are worse than one!

What will prevent good schools from being dragged down when they merge with failing schools!?!

How many poor quality teachers were sacked across England & Wales last year!?!

Unrelated behaviour?

Grooming of white girls for sex is exposed as two Asian men jailed - The Times, August 11th 2007.
Police and groups campaigning to protect women insisted that the grooming of youngsters is not segregated along race lines, though there is concern at the attitudes of some young Asian men towards white girls.

Six years for rapist who invited friends to prey on lost 12-year-old girl - The Times, September 4th 2007.
A 12-year-old girl was raped up to 15 times by four men after she was abducted as she asked for directions to her home, a court was told. The child was lured into a car by Shakil Chowdhury, 39, who drove her to his house. There she was plied with alcohol and attacked by Chowdhury and three others.

British Executive?

When will HM Government rebrand itself HM Executive as it's powers are increasingly usurped by the European Union!?!

Monday, September 03, 2007

School economics

If schools are enjoying a "golden age" where the quality and quantity of candidates applying for vacant posts means schools can select from a talented field, do teachers need more pay rises!?!

The new golden era of teacher recruitment may be good news for schools, who can pick and choose the cream of the crop, but in some cases newly qualified teachers, especially from the north, are having to compete with more than 100 others for the same post.

Red Conservatives?

"No question now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." - George Orwell, Animal Farm.

Tories 'to match Labour spending'
So why vote Conservative when you can look forward to Labour levels of spending and taxes for three out of a probable four year Government following the next election!?!