Bloody hell it's another year already ( Read more... )

A bunch of my friends were on strike the other day; a bunch of other friends were gnashing teeth at them ( Read more... )

As the two people that read my LJ will know, I have some 'issues' with the former minister, Phil Woolas:

(see  vampyrefate.livejournal.com/117921.html and vampyrefate.livejournal.com/118588.html).

But apparently, the chap has now been booted out of parliament.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/8112536/Phil-Woolas-barred-from-Commons-for- ( Read more... )

The awarding authority is looking to appoint a company to provide the Engineering and Testing Development of the Olympic Torch and its associated relay artefacts ... to create a truly memorable, positive and seamless Torch Relay experience.

Go and see Inception. It's fab.

Thanks all for a great 4th of July celebration. As a patriotic Brit it was great to remember the day when we finally got shut of the country that would give us George W Bush.

I include the speech from the celebration for the benefit of those not able to be there.

Matthew Robertson (for it was he):
Are they the lucky ones? That's what you're thinking ( Read more... )

I heard on Radio 4 today that the Coalition (still sounding like a heel wrestling stable), was considering taking the cap of undergraduate tuition fees. Further, the spokesman said that "Students should think of this as higher income tax, not as a big debt ( Read more... )

What is the point of this hung parliament / coalition do-hickey if it means we can only have Liberal-Labour coalitions?

That's that done. No more power until the next election. In the next QT credits the panelists will mostly have "MP" after their name.

In the end, my local election conundrum was solved. One of the councillors that didn't write back to me on the permit scheme was standing for re-election; I didn't vote for them.

Apparently, this is the last day before the elections. I've got my bets placed for the General Election, and I know who I am voting for (which puts me in the 6 out of 10 faction). Apparently the two headline issues are "the economy" - on which the politicos are telling us nothing - and "immigration" - on which the politicos are trying to say ( Read more... )