Now in its third edition, the TaxPayers' Alliance today publishes the Public Sector Rich List 2008, the definitive guide to all those in the public sector with remuneration packages over £150,000. Against a background of impending recession and at a time when the financial crisis is hitting ordinary families harder every day, this year's list is the biggest ever, exposing 387 public employees receiving City levels of remuneration from a record 140 public sector organisations.   more »

This week saw the leaking of the entire BNP membership list into the public domain. Although a perfectly legal political party, Labour MPs were cock-a-hoop at the addresses of BNP members being made public in defiance of court instructions.

Meanwhile, the details of MPs own expenses are still not public in defiance of court instructions. It's being reported that they are unlikely to be so until next year at the earliest, as the minions at the House of Commons are busy removing MPs addresses from the expense details: "Leader of the Commons Harriet Harman claimed MPs and their families could be at risk from stalkers or terrorists if their personal details, including addresses, became public knowledge". We can but hope, Harman, we can but hope.

Nothing to hide, nothing to fear, eh Harman. Putting yourself above the law.


The Libertarian Party policy on Snouts in the Trough can be viewed here.

Hattip LPUK

I suppose there will be much giggling and 'serves them right' type sentiments about. I suppose some folk will be lighting the burning brands and donning the ski masks. However..   more »

BALPA the airline pilots union has said that it will go on strike if ID cards are implemented for their members, and the Libertarian Party UK fully support them in this action. Libertarian Party leader Ian Parker-Joseph said in his letter to BALPA's Secretary General Mr Jim McAuslan   more »

The new chair of the NHS's data watchdog says that giving researchers access to health records without patient consent is 'ethically unacceptable' The prime minister and Department of Health want to give Britain's research institutes an advantage against overseas competitors by opening up more than 50m records   more »

If you've had trouble keeping up with all the 'stimuli' that the Fed and the US Government has been applying to the US economy -- that is, spraying around dollar bills they've either printed, taxed or borrowed -- then you're not the only one.   more »

Ministers have been accused of trying to introduce compulsory identity cards through the back door, despite promises that people will not have to carry them.   more »

I am obliged to Guthrum at Looking for a voice for reference to this (the constitution of the Falkland Islands); Guthrum wonders whether this might represent a draft written UK constitution. It starts off with a grandiose statement about everyone’s ‘rights’, then proceeds in subsequent paragraphs to whittle away those ‘rights’ until, in every case in which they might actually be needed, they will not apply.   more »

We now see another step forward in the attempt to break up England as a Nation. I say "attempt", but a stronger word is needed for those performing this have been moving forward inexorably like fungi on a rotting oak. We have seen the appointment of Regional Kommissars Ministers by Brown on the second day of his Premiership and the EU Constitution used to further the case without a peep from Cameron.   more »

Today's Featured Article

Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 13, 2008 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nazi Germany initiated a strong anti-tobacco movement and led the first public anti-smoking campaign in modern history. Anti-tobacco movements grew in many nations from the beginning of the 20th century, but these had little success except in Germany where the campaign was supported by the government after the Nazis came to power. It was the most powerful anti-smoking movement in the world during the 1930s and early 1940s. The Nazi leadership condemned smoking and several of them openly criticized tobacco consumption. Research on smoking and its effects on health thrived under Nazi rule and was the most important of its type at that time. Hitler's personal distaste for tobacco and the Nazi reproductive policies were among the motivating factors behind their campaign against smoking, and this campaign was associated with both antisemitism and racism.

The Nazi anti-tobacco campaign included banning smoking in trams, buses and city trains, promoting health education, limiting cigarette rations in the Wehrmacht, organizing medical lectures for soldiers and raising the tobacco tax. The Nazis also imposed restrictions on tobacco advertising, tobacco rationing for women, and smoking in public spaces, and they regulated restaurants and coffeehouses....

Thank goodness that that sort of Health Fascism was defeated even at the cost of millions of lives....

Hattip An Englishmans Castle

Are our righteous masters in Brussels now confident that the EU project is so near completion, having shackled you all in debt and surveillance, beyond the point that we can do anything about it, that they are willing to come into the open about its true meaning.   more »

Regular readers of this blog may recall that I have written several posts this year with regards to John Harris, Freeman of England. John is someone who has taken the time and trouble to research and find the legal loopholes that still remain within the Magna Carta to petition the Queen, serve upon Her Majesty several affidavits and to declare himself a Freeman of England within the Freedom of Common Law, and in Lawful Rebellion (note the word Lawful here). From a private exchange of messages with someone today, came some thoughts as to what the future holds, and by future I mean the next 2 years.   more »

I saw the following post on UK Liberty, in which it had a question at the end about Tesco, who are negotitating with the Government to collect biometric information for Jacqui Smith's EU Regional Ministry of the Interior Home Office. Well, here's the answer.   more »

Here we go again. Today, for the 14th year in a row, the European Union Court of Auditors will unveil their report, telling us that they refuse to clear the EU accounts.   more »

Plans for the security services and police to be given new legally-binding powers to ban the media from reporting matters of national security are being drawn up, it was claimed today. The Daily Telegraph tells us in a very sombre, almost resigned manner that the proposal is said to feature in a report due before the end of the year from the cross-party Intelligence and Security Committee, parliamentary watchdog of the intelligence and security agencies.   more »

Kerry McCarthy MP, has decided she does not like what the voters of Bristol are saying on her blog in response to her posting about receiving a copy of Orwell's 1984. She has stuck her fingers in her ears,   more »

IT suppliers that collaborate with the government on the increasing surveillance of law-abiding citizens face a public backlash, and may be at risk of acts of violence, Delegates were told, "Be careful how you market new products Make sure people do not understand the link between you and the government which is trying to crack down on their everyday lives.   more »

The Royal Sussex Regiment - Field of Remembrance - Westminster Abbey 2008   more »

The British government has told banks to tear up their contracts with debtors. (Dizzy reports.) If you have contract with a lender for a variable rate mortgage, the Labour Government orders your lender to forget that contract's terms and conditions. The bank now must reduce your interest. In Brown's Britain, Government whim now overrides the rule of law.   more »

The delightful Kerry McCarthy MP has received her copy of 1984, after flying back from ensuring the 'chosen one' was elected in the States. Now quite what a British MP was doing campaigning in the US to elect a president for a foreign government rather than the job she is paid to do at Westminster is beyond reason. British politicians should keep their noses out of other countries internal affairs, but then we are used to Labour MP's sticking their noses into everything. Whilst the rest of us worry about the imposition of ID cards, CCTV cameras on everycorner, being hassled by pretend Policemen, spycams in our wheelie bins, taking our fingerprints in Tesco's - Kerry believes that all of this can be justified as trying to stop five businessmen in a BMW paying £20 for a prostitute in Easton, Bristol- Huh   more »

Government officials are being encouraged to access social networking websites in order to ensure any discussions on public services among citizens are balanced by an authoritative view from inside Whitehall. Dean Carroll reports.   more »

Does anyone remember the 'stiff upper lip' of the British? The fighting spirit? The indomitable people who once ran a big chunk of the planet, and who could chase away armed guerillas with a walking stick and an angry voice? A people who, nevertheless, could laugh at themselves and had a great, if sometimes cruel, sense of humour? What happened to them?   more »

Drivers who challenge speeding fines should be made to pay their legal bills even if they win their case, ministers said yesterday. The proposal would see successful defendants lose their century-old right to claim back their costs.   more »

Matt Davies over at Woking Libertarians tells us about another taxpayer funded eco-quango poking its nose in and telling us how to do the most simple of things, something that we have all been doing for years. Making the bloody tea. In the latest initiative designed to make us more environmentally friendly, Government advisers are calling on businesses to appoint tea monitors.   more »

The 646 People Responsible For All Of Britain's Woes Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered why, if both the Conservative and Labour parties are against national debt, we have a national debt? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes? You and I don't propose a budget. The Chancellor does. You and I don't have the authority to vote on Government spending plans. Members of Parliament do.   more »

More smoke and mirrors, Labour promising things it cant deliver. Lindsay Roy is under the impression that he can actually do something for the people who he hopes will elect him to a nice comfy leather seat at Westminster...   more »

Coastguards have been banned from using flares in rescue missions after they were ruled to be a risk to health and safety. The Libertarian Party totally condemn this ridiculous bureaucratic act and would immediately reverse this most stupid of decisions by the Health & Safety executive.   more »

A COPY OF ORWELL'S 'NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR' SENT TO EVERY MP An Internet grass-roots campaign will this week deliver a copy of George Orwell's prophetic novel 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' to every Member of Parliament. The books will be inscribed with the words, 'This book was a warning, not a blueprint', and will arrive at Parliament on or before November 5th -- a date of well known historical significance for that building.   more »