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The (Post-) Cameron Regime
 Britain leaps forward with a purely Tory government: or does it? (May 2015 on)
Dave has been ditched, who will be his successor? (June 2016)
Dave has been ditched, the May regime begins . . . (July 2016)
Corbynology
A "new dawn" manifesto from
Woolfie Smith's successor? (Sept. 2015)
Twit & (what's a cute opposite of wisdom?) from the great man (Oct 2015 on)
The Brown Regime
Britain reaps what Gordon Brown has sown (Sept 2007 on)
A diary of Brown catastrophes #1 (June-Dec 2007)
A diary of Brown catastrophes #2 (Jan-June 2008)
What 'Him With the Eyebrows' wants us to believe is his work (March 2008)
The government's lies about migration EXPOSED! (April 2008)
Labour's new bureaucratic targets for local councils (Jul 2008)
A diary of Brown catastrophes #3 (July-Dec 2008)
Norman Brown explained to an American audience (Oct 2008)
What our readers think of the Brown Recession (Nov 2008)
A diary of Brown catastrophes #4 (Jan-June 2009)
What Brown is doing with OUR money on is Just Plain Criminal (Apr 2009)
What, if anything, is the govt. doing to ease the Brown Slump? (Apr 2009)
The PM's message to the nation on MP expenses swindles (Apr 2009)
The Fantasy Budget from Brown's Zombie Government (April 2009)
What sort of a police state has New Labour created? (Oct 2009)
A diary of Brown catastrophes #5 (July-Dec 2009)
Even more blatant theft by this rotten government (March 2010)
A final diary of Brown catastrophes #6 (Jan-May 2010)
The Brown regime's trillion-pound, final spending spree (June 2010)
Committees junketing as the Brown regime collapsed (July 2010)
Some Labour non-jobs worth trimming from local councils (Dec 2010)
Climate Change
What's so bad about a spot of global warming, anyway? (June 2005)
What's the shock-horror Stern Report REALLY all about? (Nov 2006)
Carbon Con-men; stealing the planet in the name of saving it! (Feb 2007)
Carbon Con-men II; the wheels start coming off their scams (Mar 2007)
The United Nations is lying about climate change. Why? (Mar 2007)
The EU is banning incandescent light bulbs. But Why? (Mar 2007)
Genuine, and surprising, facts on greenhouse gases (Mar 2007)
Macclesfield Council's illegal use of C-Taxpayer's cash (Mar 2007)
The UN issues another dodgy dossier on climate change (Apr 2007)
Climate Change confusion (Jul/Oct 2007)
GreenWash: a counterblast to mindless global warming propaganda (Aug 2008)
What can you believe about power from windmills? (Nov 2008)
If Global Warming is real, why so many lies about the 'evidence'? (Apr 2009)
Warning – another New Labour Stealth Tax rip-off on the way (Nov 2009)
Ups & Downs of Global Warming Swindling in 2009, Part 1 (Jan 2010)
Ups & Downs of Global Warming Swindling in 2009, Part 2 (Jan 2010)
Facts On CO2 (Jan 2010)
The great wind farm scam – a lousy deal for the taxpayer (Aug 2010)
A counterblast to Global Warming Swindlers (June 2011)
Some Global Warming Questions & Answers (Sep 2010)
Green taxes: World-Saving or just More Bloody Taxes? (July 2011)
Ignorant MPs are marching
the economy over a cliff (June 2012)
The first guess [on climate change] isn't always the right one (July 2012)
The Liberals have fantasies, everyone suffers
(July 2012)
Coalition Capers
What The Coalition got up to in Year 1 (May 2010 on)
The Coalition promises much but isn't delivering that many CUTS (Oct 2010)
Why does the civil service feel so entitled to waste public money? (Oct 2010)
What The Coalition got up to in Year 2 (May 2011 on)
What's the difference between
a Cameron promise and fog? (Oct 2011)
What The Coalition got up to in Year 3 (May - December 2012)
Part 2 of the Coalition's Year 3 (January - May 2013)
Anatomy of a politically motivated Stitch-Up (Jan 2013)
What's in – and what out of – the Queen's Speech (May 2013)
The Coalition's Year 4 (June 2013 to August 2014)
Dave the Leader's promised Magnificent Seven for Europe (April 2014)
The Coalition's Last Year (Hooray!) (September 2014 to May 2015)
Election Stuff including Election Scams
Conspiracy Theories – What's really going on in France? (May 2002)
Electoral Commission Capers: Just what is it up to? (May 2002)
Winning Way$: 57 tips for stealing an election from the USA (Nov 2004)
Postal Votes: Building on Birmingham 2004, on to May 5th 2005 (Apr 2005)
Results of the 2005 general election (May 2005)
May Day 2008 local elections – the aftermath (May 2008)
What can America expect come November? An observation. (Oct 2008)
A selection of posters you might have missed (May 2010)
The not-so-great Electoral Commission extortion racket (Sept 2010)
European Union
Who pays the piper in the EU and who's just a loud scrounger (June 2005)
Why does the EU have such a down on landfill for refuse? (Aug 2008)
What did Dave get out of the EU? (Feb 2016)
Propaganda from the first ever referendum: EU 1975 (May 2016)
Global Items
Riot Zone: A Florida schoolkid in handcuffs? Could it happen here? (Apr 2005)
A spot of American history to sprain your brain! (Jan 2008)
Jobsworths are everywhere. Here's one in America (Jul 2008)
Kartoon Korner : Items in circulation on the Web (updated Feb. 2012)
The new, post-Credit Crunch vocabulary of stockbroking (Oct 2008)
A tale of political correctness stomped upon in Arizona (Oct 2008)
How America will be saved by the mon(k)ey-merchants (Feb 2009)
Some prize specimens are running America!!! (Aug 2009)
Politicians waving their arms about – Art or Science? (Sep 2009)
A ready reference to Party Symbols in the Afghan Elections (Sep 2009)
Exciting, it ain't! What the WikiLeaks say (some of them) (Dec 2010)
Gas Strike! – A spot of consumer outrage from Canada (Apr 2011)
Who are all these guys with the Queen? (Jun 2012)
It's Black Envelope Day with the US govt. running out of cash (Oct 2013)
Government In Action
You Wan' It? We Got It! New Labour's Sale!!! (May 2002)
Sleaze Unlimited: A licence to sleaze to spare the P.M.'s blushes? (Aug 2004)
Business As Usual: New Labour is feeling fireproof again (Jan-Apr 2005)
Guidance on use of force by householders against intruders (Feb 2005)
Vanished! : How £280 million of 'new money' just went up in smoke (Apr 2005)
Free speech? Don't try that lark at the Labour conference! (Sep 2005)
Peerages for sale – but the price needs some work (Nov 2005)
Sponsor a city academy and get a knighthood – or even more! (Jan 2006)
What are the Blair regime & the Eurocrats up to now? (Jan-Jun 2006)
The government's real ID card plans – a warning! (Mar 2006 on)
Who got something decent for bunging New Labour? (Mar 2006 on)
What are the Blair regime & the Eurocrats up to now? (Jul 2006 on)
New Labour's latest scam for ripping off the taxpayer (Nov 2006)
What are the Blair regime & the Eurocrats up to now? (Jan 2007 on)
Westminster's Democracy Deniers (May 2007)
Some telling 'company' statistics! (May 2007)
This useless government wants sensitive data from travellers (Nov 2007)
This useless government is letting PFI spivs get away with murder (Jan 2008)
Why is the government going even softer on crime? (Jan 2008)
We've had Blunkett Bobbies, now, it's Smith's Stasi (Sep 2008)
What is Quantitative Easing really about? (Jan 2011)
A spot of political satire from a correspondent (Mar 2011)
New Labour made it worse,
but this has always been crap (May 2011)
Making stuff up seems to be a vital talent for tax inspectors (June 2011)
Some facts and fancies about the worth of foreign aid (July 2011)
Quango Bonfire or Bun Fight for the usual suspects? (Aug 2011)
The mess that is local government (Aug 2012)
The Poll Tax : a spot of 20th century history remembered (Dec 2012)
Pollutants, or what they called the latest additions to the HoLs (Aug 2013)
So where does overseas aid money actually go? (Aug 2013)
Who's to blame for the disasters in Somerset and elsewhere? (Feb 2014)
Just how many bloody genders are there, anyway?? (Jan 2016)
Government Inquiries
Anderson – Obfuscation Rules! or How to avoid blame (Jul 2002)
Butler : a report by the man who made the 2003 Iraq war possible (Jul 2004)
Hutton Report Comment: What is it really trying to tell us? (Jan 2004)
Government Tax & Spend & Waste
Stealth Taxes: How the Chancellor picked the taxpayer's pocket (on-going)
At what has New Labour been throwing taxpayers' money? (2005)
What's this rotten govt. wasting OUR money on now? (July 2007)
Local Government
A Brief History of the Loony Left (on-going)
What the PC pillocks got up to in October 2006 (Oct 2006)
Labour party wants to raise C-Tax to give more cash to councillors (Dec 2007)
Exactly what happens to stuff that ends up in a recycling bin (Sep 2008)
More abuses of bins, both for refuse and for recycling (Oct 2008)
Justice
The NatWest 3 should be tried in the US for Enron-related fraud! (Jul 2006)
The Shirley McKie Case – fingerprint experts can and do lie (Jul 2006)
Under New Labour, judges pass sentences based on politics (Aug 2006)
Does the punishment really fit the crime for MPs? (Jan 2008)
Sheriff Joe Arpaio : how to run prisons in a civilized country! (Jun 2008)
Sheriff Joe Arpaio : more revolutionary law enforcement ideas (Aug 2009)
Sometimes, public sector cuts aren't a bad thing (July 2011)
In response to Dead Wood, (above) we got this . . . (Aug 2011)
The Scottish Tories are not the only Toxic Brand around (Sept 2011)
Unintended Consequences of Over-reaction (May 2012)
Ipswich / Water Companies
Jobsworths: NCP car parks & Water Cos. will damage your wallet (Nov 2003)
Macclesfield
Emokagate: African Crooks are after Macclesfield Councillors! (May 2002)
Eze-Money: 419 scammers still after Macclesfield councillor (Jul 2002)
Macclesfield Council Punishes The Old (Jul 2002)
Macclesfield Council Continues To Persecute Poor Old George (Aug 2002)
Follow The Leader – It's That Man Again! What's he up to now? (May 2002)
Macclesfield Council's VISION: pure stodge & garbage!!! (May 2002)
BackDoor Man: Sahaf Denial by Macclesfield Councillor (Jun 2003)
The Macclesfield Scrutineers are still watching the council spivs! (Apr 2008)
Marple
The Marple Exocet: A Nice Little Earner Exposed! (May 2002)
Misc. Items
Garbagegate: A Sort Of Statement of Philosophy (Sep 2002)
Violence in Politics – An investigation (Jul 2003)
The Master: Northern Ireland is a probate lawyers' paradise (Aug 2003)
Responses to items (on-going)
The Rules of Politics (Jan 2005)
Murphy's Lore: A political expert sounds off on immediate issues (Feb 2005)
Petrol nearing a pound a litre? What can the consumer do? (Aug 2005)
Warning of a seasonal scam from 'A Friend' (Jan 2006)
Links to the cartoons causing all the fuss – and more (Feb 2006)
Entries for the award for the Political Cartoon of 2006 (Oct 2006)
A correspondent gets some things off his chest (May 2008)
A Mystery Item from another correspondent (May 2008)
The reason why teaching maths isn't getting the job done (Nov 2008)
New logos for major companies in the Brown Slump era (Dec 2008)
The reason why teaching maths isn't getting the job done, Take 2 (Jan 2011)
MPs' Expenses
Spivs' Charter: MPs expenses for 2003/4 (Oct 2004)
Some lowlights of MPs' expenses claims for 2005-06 (Oct 2006)
MPs' travel expenses for 2005/06 now revealed! (Feb 2007)
What top politicians are spending YOUR MONEY on (Apr 2008)
MPs – hard working & value for money or just lying scroungers? (Apr 2009)
What MPs got away with
in their expenses claims (May 2009)
New Labour Political Legacies
What sort of a legacy will Tony Blair really leave behind? (Oct 2005 on)
What sort of a legacy is Gordon Brown creating? (Dec 2005 on)
Non-Government Inquiries
What Lord Butler really thinks of the Blair regime (and additions) (Jan 2005)
Northampton Borough Council
Road Markings: Give a council a pot of paint ... and it goes mad! (Mar 2004)
Parking & Speeding
Fixed-Penalty Fines – are they Unconstitutional & Illegal? (Feb 2005)
Fixed-Penalty Fines are being challenged everywhere (Oct 2005)
How much profit are speed cameras making in your area? (Dec 2005)
Council-run parking rackets – MPs' plans for a clean-up (Jun 2006)
Stationary vehicles : just unlimited chances for piracy (Aug 2006)
Poynton
Sinister plot develops over Poynton woodland (Jul 2002)
The Prime Minister says Sorry (on not!)
An Apology – The Daily Mail says "Sorry!" (Jun 2002)
Apologies II : Garbageproof Gear On, Tone, for more apologies (Sep 2002)
Sorry 3: More apologies from our Fearless Leader (Jun 2003)
The prime minister's grovelling apologies are really piling up! (Jul 2003)
The PM's grovelling apologies Part V (Sep 2003)
The Prime Minister would like to apologize – for the sixth time! (Mar 2004)
Fresh from a freebie holiday, the PM has given up apologies (Sep 2004)
Refuse / Recycling
Garbage Tax: Tony's next Big Idea (Jul 2002)
MegaGarbage: Macclesfield goes the whole hog on recycling (Jul 2003)
Macclesfield Council's Green Adventure (Aug 2002)
Recycle Or Else! Barnet Council's new scheme has hidden teeth (Mar 2004)
People fined for putting rubbish out early – who's the criminal? (Jul 2003)
Croydon Council leads the way in garbage weighing (Feb 2005)
Weighing bins at the kerb : yet another Stealth Tax coming (Sep 2006)
New Labour wants councils to bring in refuse AWC by Stealth (Oct 2006)
Pay-as-you-throw for refuse trial – disaster in South Norfolk (Jun 2008)
Stockport Council
Stockport Council is messing about with Romiley's schools (Mar 2005)
Stockport Council Stole My Mother's Christmas (Dec 2010)
 The Standards Board for England
The SBfE – local councillors' police force or lynch mob? (Apr 2004)
The Kangaroo Court again – Cllr. M. + political crime comparisons (Jun 2004)
Independent councillors fight back against official intimidation (Sep 2004)
Kangaroo 3: The Standards Board is at it again – being arrogant (Oct 2004)
Undisgraced: Standards Board meets its match in High Court (Nov 2004)
Roadshow 05 : The SBfE goes on the road to meet customers (Feb-Jun 2005)
Kangaroo 4: The Standards Board : stifling local democracy with a will (Aug 2005)
The Standards Board : a stab in the back for local democracy (Sep 2006)
The Standards Board : the demise of Nick Marcar (Sep 2006)
The Standards Board speaks on abuse of local democracy (Sep 2008)
Lots of evil deeds are plotted and dirty tricks pulled behind the scenes in local government. Here is an example of some that went on backstage at Macclesfield Borough Council over the Danegate development plan in 2001/2002.
The gist of it is that Councillor Murphy stopped supporting the plan when he realized that it was not of benefit to the Macclesfield taxpayer and his party leader, Councillor Burns, had him chucked out of the party summarily for daring to raise a dissenting voice.
District Auditor Letter re: Danegate
Danegate Statement to the District Auditor
Conciliation emails
Copies of the Notice and Reply given re the Meeting to Expel Cllr Murphy
Expulsion of Cllr Murphy from the Conservative Group: Document Summary
Rebuttal Summary
Sections of Minutes of Meetings:
Disley Conservatives & Macclesfield Council Conservative Group
E-Mail Exchange re: Central Office
Letters: Cllr Freear and Cllr Burns
re: supposed Management Committee resolution
A complaint made to the Local Government Ombudsman as a result of Councillor Burns' vendetta had the following result:
The Ombudsman's verdict on Danegate (Jul 2002)
The political vendetta then headed for the Standards Board for England for a couple of years (see that section above)
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