That graph says it all really. The level of spiralling and unsustainable spending doom isn’t really changing at all. Where were the real cuts today? It was all a bit wimpish in the end. One of these every year until 2014 might have made a difference but today’s CSR won’t. […]

The TaxPayers’ Alliance have released a new video today…okay a bit contrived but making a very valid point…in which they try (and fail) to pay the European Commission a cheque covering Britain’s daily EU membership fee. Somebody needs to tell “George Osborne” and “Danny Alexander” that the botox treatment didn’t […]

Today the Gibraltar Parliament is given the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for 2010/2011…which won’t be exciting and we won’t be live-blogging it here. However, preempting these announcements, Chief Minister Peter Caruana yesterday caught everybody on the hop with an immediate change in import duty. Petrol up 4p a litre […]

Dominating the news cycle at the moment are stories of how the socialists on both sides of the Atlantic are continuing their assault on the wealth-makers of our economies. This is Comrade Obama’s latest assault on the economy: President Obama called on Congress Thursday to expand the government’s ability to […]

…from across the Pond. Just as in the United Kingdom, public sector workers are getting pay raises when the private sector is freezing pay and losing jobs – 7 million in the case of the US. Michael Williams, the Texas Railroad Commissioner has refused to take a $45,000/year raise and […]

After press speculation that the Government was starting to backpedal on its policy of reducing training for the TA, Shadow Defence Secretary Liam Fox was granted an Urgent Question on the topic by the Speaker at 3.30pm this afternoon. Unfortunately although it was televised, most of the debate was obsdured […]

There is a Government makework slushfund blackhole initiative to throw £70 million of our cash at projects to cuddle domestic terrorists resident extremists. It didn’t do any good in Luton, obviously. The Shadow Minister for Communities and Local Government Paul Goodman made a point of order in the House of […]

There continues to be speculation in the British Press that HMS Endurance could be scrapped. Two articles and a paragraph or two quoted from The News (Portsmouth’s unoriginally named daily newspaper) “HMS Endurance May Be A Total Write-Off” “The navy is considering scrapping HMS Endurance because of the damage she […]

Well, its taken six years to construct but HMS Daring, first of the Type45 destroyers have left Scotstoun for Portsmouth for sea trials before entering service next year. The crew have been on board since 2006. Built in Labour voting constituencies the Clyde shipyards, the project has ploughed £6 billion […]

In its ongoing campaign to irritate St Crispin’s Day, the RAF is now reported to want to take over the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm and assume control of all Army helicopters. The justification is that it would shave £1 billion from the defence budget. Apparently the Royal Navy clashed […]