This Weeks Selected Political News Monday 19th March 2012: Topic: Immigration - Benefits "Foreign-born jobless and sick can claim benefits in 165 languages." Source: The Sun They include Nigerian Pidgin, a variant of English used by just two per cent of Nigeria's population. The array of lingos emerged as benefits bosses were last night blasted for spending millions hirin...
Monday 19th March 2012: Topic: CRIME "Students capture burglar who attacked them with a cleaver" Source: Nottingham Post A group of students captured and held a burglar in their home after he attacked them with a meat cleaver. They disarmed Jason Fisher, sat him down in a corner and hemmed him in with chairs until police arrived. Jason Fisher 27, had injured two of them with the...
This Weeks Nottingham News Monday 12th March 2012: Topic: Crime - Arson - Witchcraft "Bilborough victims of 'witchcraft' arsonist speaks of impact" Source: Nottingham Post Four houses and a car were damaged when Clive Howsin threw homemade petrol bombs at homes in Strelley Road, Bilborough, and Beechdale Road, Beechdale. Howsin, a paranoid schizophrenic who believed people in the area were...
Monday 5th March 2012 Topic: Crime - Terrorism - Government Quango Give terror suspects More human rights - Says £53m Govt quango funded by You Source: The Sun More human rights for terrorists will be called for today by a quango which costs taxpayers £53million a year. The Equality and Human Rights Commission also wants softer treatment for prisoners, illegal immigrants and gypsy sites. It w...
Monday 27th February 2012 Topic: Judges in Italy throw out Silvio Berlusconi bribery case! Source: The Metro Judges in Milan have thrown out bribery charges against former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, claiming the statute of limitations has run out! I see the legal system in Italy is just as bent as our here in Britain then! Tuesday 28th February 2012 Topic: Crime Licenc...
PALO ALTO-In what was intended as a neat way for friends and family to say their peace on the peace that another person said on an original post that may or may not be a mutual friend, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg claims he had absolutely...
Sunday 19th Feb 2012 Topic: Political nepotism - Expenses The Commons spends £25,000 on shrubs - so the public can't see MPs smoking! Source: The People A garden to prevent passers-by seeing MPs smoking is setting taxpayers back £25,000. Commons staff estimated that was the bill for landscaping to hide a £33,000 shelter at Portcullis House for puffing politicians. The greenery stops peop...
We asked the Nottingham firm of Tymoshchuck, Kuzmanovic, & Mulumbu, Real-Time-Poll-Assessors, if they would do a poll in Nottingham, to find out just what the people think of David Cameron. The branch manager, Branislav Pavlyuchenko, agreed, as long as his polster's could carry out the canvassing in disguise. we agreed. We said we would like the question asked: 'What do you think of Cam...
JACKSONVILLE, Florida - Well it appears that Billy Graham, the Pope, and Gloria Allred together could not do the damage control to undo the tremendous mess that the owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars has just created for himself and his team. Jacks...
20 Nov 2011: Ministers deny claims of cutting clinical jobs in NHS The Guardian The main nursing union was embroiled in a furious row with ministers last night after claiming that 58,000 doctors, nurses, midwives and other NHS staff have lost or are due to lose their jobs, despite David Cameron's pledge to protect front line health workers from the brunt of the cuts. Analysis by the Royal...
14 Nov 2011: Care may suffer - admits private company taking over NHS hospital! The Observer Uproar as Circle Health confirms in document that critics' unease about patients is justified. The first private company to take over an NHS hospital has admitted in a document seen by the 'Observer' that patient care could suffer under its plans to expand its empire and seek profit from the health s...
1 Nov 2011: Jack Straw took undeclared cash from car insurance industry The former Labour cabinet minister Jack Straw was paid £5,000 by the motor insurance industry for a speech and question-and-answer session - a payment he did not declare when amendments affecting such firms were tabled last week. Well, I am surprised! 1 Nov 2011: Cuts to education, benefits and pensions Likely to lea...
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