School vacancies

If parental choice is highlighting poorly performing schools in urban areas due to the large number of surplus places available, when will those schools be shut or staff sacked!?!

With 792,000 surplus school places in England (and Wales?), is it still appropriate to rebuild or refurbish every secondary school as Gordon Brown has threatened promised!?!

Excuses excuses?

How often do benefit claimants use "unacceptable" excuses when missing their appointments to sign-on!?!

Blood money?

Should compensation for rape be determined by the rapist's individual wealth or the seriousness of the crime!?!

What would have happened if Iorworth Hoare had opted for anonymity after becoming a lotto millionaire!?!

The wealth of welfare?

Why is the NHS looking to "build-in" the extra capacity needed at maternity units to cope with increasing numbers of foreign mothers giving birth rather than calling for cuts in immigration to reduce their supply!?!

Does giving birth offer foreign mothers a wealth of welfare benefits and a British passport!?!

Cheese eating bankrupt monkeys?

Is the French Government allowed to threaten action against a hostile take over of Societe Generale under European Union law!?!

Some cynics might suggest the French would ignore any EU legislation conflicting with their national interest!

Careless England

Why are the disabled and elderly struggling to receive social care in England when it's free in Scotland!?!

What are the Conservative Party doing to highlight and challenge this gross injustice!?!

Unhealthy Service?

Why would senior civil servants want the UK to provide medical treatment for an 81-year-old Islamic cleric who defends suicide bombings and the execution of homosexuals!?!

Benefit cheats

What's the point in tracking down benefit cheats if they are not imprisoned or made to pay the benefits back!?!

"The 29-year-old conned benefits staff into paying him nearly £25,000 before his lies began to unravel. "

Despite all that 'tracking' technology, "An immigration officer spotted him at the wheel of a Mercedes wearing expensive clothes with his wife in the passenger seat dressed in a fur coat."

Would the fraud have been prevented if benefit claimants were forced to have biometric ID cards?

Hat tip: The Dumb one

Gordon's jobs

Will anyone want to employ Gordon Brown when he eventually leaves office!?!

"[Tony Blair's] appointment comes less than three weeks after [taking] a similar role with investment bank JP Morgan worth a reported £500,000 a year."

Raltegravir

Will the new HIV treatment Raltegravir be restricted to NHS patients living low risk lifestyles just as certain treatments are withheld from smokers or the obese!?!

Career pregnancies

Are condoms the solution to cutting teenage pregnancies when it's a career move!?!

"Mr Bryant said he had also been told by a teacher that a girl told her she was not trying hard because she planned to get pregnant the next year and would not be returning to school."

Dreaming Arches of Oxford?

Cookery classes to be compulsory
"The move is part of the strategy to tackle obesity, as experts believe 1m children will be obese in a decade."

McDonald's 'A-level' is launched
"Fast-food giant McDonald's has become one of the first firms to offer its own nationally recognised qualifications."

Giving, giving, gone!

Why would any member of the public want to give £3,000 to a candidate in Labour's deputy leadership contest last year!?!

"Bad Apples" at HMRC

What is Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) doing to identify and remove staff that cannot be trusted to maintain the confidentiality of taxpayers' records?

"The system is secure. We do trust our own people but as with all things there are bad apples" - HMRC spokesman.

If online filing is not good enough for MPs or VIPs, why is it good enough for the rest of us!?!

Banking on trouble ahead?

Just as old Generals tend to "fight the last war", banking regulations will never be good enough to prevent the next banking crisis, just the last one!

Afterall, civil servants are bureaucrats, not futurologists!

Striking amount of holidays!

Will teachers be striking for better pay during their six week summer holiday, one of three week long half-term holidays or during the two weeks holiday both at Christmas and Easter!?!

Resignation

Peter Hain has resigned to spend more time with his solarium...

Was he really that worried about an incompetent Police investigation!?!

All for free and free for all!

What prevents NHS hospitals from charging private patients in advance of treatment to ensure they have no bad debts to write off?

Not all overseas patients are charged!

Spendemic

"Five million people, or one in 10 adults, [and one Government] spend more than they earn on a monthly basis".

New IDeas!

Good news for IT contractors working on national identity cards, your contracts have just been extended for another two years!

Would the roll out of ID cards exclusively amongst benefit claimants reduce benefit fraud by more than current Department for Work and Pensions schemes!?!