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12 March 2008: Alistair Darling - the man who will kill the British pub

I’m not one for political posts normally, but sometimes you just have to ask what the hell our politicians are playing at? I’m talking about you, Alistair “Pub Killer” Darling and your insane 4p rise in excise duty on beer. That is, ladies and gentlemen, a rise of 13% in tax. At a time when the cost of a pint is increasing anyway due to higher prices in materials.

10 July 2007: New Tories, Same As The Old Tories

Ooh, getting a bit political here…

2 June 2006: Tories Advocate ‘Banning Tax Enforcement’

There’s a wonderful story in the Telegraph today about how Council Tax inspectors turned up at the Big Brother set to asses whether the inmates should be paying Council Tax.

3 May 2005: Election Leaflets 2: the horror returns

Some more election leaflets have come in since the last batch was reviewed. And it’s new entries from Labour, the Tories, and a re-entry in the letter box, from the Greens.

29 April 2005: Election Leaflets

With less than a week to go before the election, you have to ponder who to vote for. Well I haven’t met any of the candidates and I haven’t even seen them anywhere, although apparantly the Greens did a hustings session last week. So what about literature - the stuff shoved through the door.

20 April 2005: Bye Bye Billboards

Just under a month ago, I mentioned the errection of two large, metal billboards on a small patch of grass right outside Colliers Wood tube station, next to the Brown and Root Tower. And now I write again.

21 March 2005: Billboards, Colliers Wood and writetothem.com

So here I was, wondering whether to fax my MP about the fact that not only is Colliers Wood blighted with a huge number of billboards (I walk past at least thirteen in a ten minute walk to the tube station) but some muppet has given the goahead by the looks of it, for another two.

10 February 2005: Vive La Revolution

Out of the entire BBC News at One, there was only five minutes of actual news - the rest of the programme taken up with hoardes of journalists talking about a bloody royal wedding.

31 January 2005: Political Meanderings

You’re bored, you’re fed up. So what to do? Well take a trawl round TheyWorkForYou.com and see what you can find out about your MP.

13 June 2004: Right Wing Conundrum

Having just been looking at the vote breakdown on the London Elects website, I don’t know whether to be depressed that 3.04% of Londoners voted BNP in the Mayoral election or glad that the vote for the far right is not nearer 10% like in some parts of Europe…

1 June 2004: Londoners! Have Your Say!

A rather good booklet dropped through my door today - explaining all about the forthcoming elections in London and for the European Parliament.

20 May 2004: Robert Kilroy-Silk. Idiot?

Here’s a gem from Robert Kilroy-Silk on Question Time this evening. Apparantly according to him, the existance of the European Union has not kept peace in Europe. Nope. Oh no. No. It’s America that have kept the peace…

30 January 2004: Greg.

Many people will have seen the staff response to the resignation of Greg Dyke as Director General of the BBC. I like many people were completely gutted by his decision, but he made it and I respect that and his reasons for doing so

26 August 2003: Clueless Quote of the Day

The Conservative Party are wonderful at sprouting utterly stupid comments…

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