http://www.dailypropaganda.co.uk/blog Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:33:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am in the market for saving some money - a monthly saver. As usual, I shop around a bit, getting interest rates from a number of different places. I popped into Halifax on the off-chance they have a good rate (possibly trying to encourage savers, given their financial problems ... http://www.dailypropaganda.co.uk/blog/2009/01/03/halifax-a-bunch-of-charlatans Faced with unbelievable rises in train fares - from £102.90 to £252.00 - sometimes I do wonder if officials are delusional. According to Michael Roberts, chief executive of the Association of Train Operating Companies: commuting by rail was considerably less expensive than commuting by car – even allowing for falling petrol ... http://www.dailypropaganda.co.uk/blog/2009/01/03/delusional-officials It's policies like these that tell me the current Labour government do not want to win the next election or they are so out of touch they shouldn't. A sixty quid fine plus 3 points on your license, for taking a swig from a water bottle whilst driving? For listening ... http://www.dailypropaganda.co.uk/blog/2008/12/23/do-they-want-to-win Today I learned that the Lib Dem Colchester Borough Cllr. Paul Smith - the same Cllr. Paul Smith responsible for losing Colchester £4m - offered to take a pay-cut if he did not perform well. Hurrah! He volunteered to be the “guinea pig” for a scheme which could be extended to other ... http://www.dailypropaganda.co.uk/blog/2008/12/18/lib-dem-councillor-offers-to-take-a-pay-cut According to Cameron: “To pay for Labour’s spending would mean substantial tax rises over and above those that the Chancellor actually told us about... If we are to avoid substantial tax rises in the future — tax rises that will hamper the recovery — we must slow the growth of government ... http://www.dailypropaganda.co.uk/blog/2008/12/10/278 Apparently, In the early 1980s a council tenant’s average income was 73% of the national average. Today two in three tenants living in “social housing” are among the poorest 40%. These two numbers are NOT COMPARABLE. One is a measure of the average income, the other is a measure of the proportion ... http://www.dailypropaganda.co.uk/blog/2008/11/30/why-i-hate-journalists I thought that two of the key problems in a recession is rising unemployment, due to companies going bust. So how exactly does bribing companies to take new staff on who have been unemployed for longer than 3 months actually help?  If Cameron was serious about tax cuts, then he ... http://www.dailypropaganda.co.uk/blog/2008/11/11/advice_to_dave Ever since the banks were bailed out, I was worried that the government could not resist micromanaging their way through this mess. The difference between the Libor - the rate that banks lend to each other - and the BOE base rate - the rate that the BOE lends at ... http://www.dailypropaganda.co.uk/blog/2008/11/08/do-they-not-understand A couple of weeks ago, I sent a FOI request to Colchester Borough Council to try and find out some information about the £4m lost somewhere in Reykjavik. Below are the responses: 1. What financial advice was received by Colchester Borough Council on investments from 1st October 2007 until 10th October 2008? CBC ... http://www.dailypropaganda.co.uk/blog/2008/11/08/somewhere-in-reykjavik-i-suppose Yesterday evening, for the first time in my life, I went to a football ground. Not to watch or play football, but to listen to a speech by Dominic Grieve MP, the Shadow Home Secretary. And I was extremely impressed with him. Not only was his speech 1st class, the ... http://www.dailypropaganda.co.uk/blog/2008/11/08/a-first It seems that Boredo Gordo's underhand tactics worked. I wonder what the political fallout will be? http://www.dailypropaganda.co.uk/blog/2008/11/07/i-stand-corrected Why is the media so obsessed with Obama, when we have our very own election to worry about? Yes, the Glenrothes bi-election is today, which possibly will signal the end of the Brown premiership and bring about a general election, yet the Torygraph has a dozen "comment" articles about Obama ... http://www.dailypropaganda.co.uk/blog/2008/11/06/why-the-obsession-with-america Server keeps overheating. Grrrrr. Am in Switzerland so can do nothing about it. We can but hope it remains ok.... http://www.dailypropaganda.co.uk/blog/2008/10/29/technical-problems I worry about what the government has in mind when it says it wants compulsory sex and relationship education in schools for all children, as young as five. It has nothing to do with children learning about their bodies, or about reproduction, or contraception. These are all facts. I do ... http://www.dailypropaganda.co.uk/blog/2008/10/23/i-worry I wish I had not come back. I learned today that our incompetent Labour government, not happy with 100 or more separate tax increases, of plunging our economy into recession, of presiding over a massive banking crisis, of pissing billions of our money down the drain, of all the lies, ... http://www.dailypropaganda.co.uk/blog/2008/10/18/it-is-at-times-like-this A few million here, a few tens of million there. The bonuses earned by our bankers are a King's ransom for some, but chicken feed for the banks. Gordon Brown, as it is him that is behind this fiasco and its "rescue" (and not his Darling puppet), has insisted the ... http://www.dailypropaganda.co.uk/blog/2008/10/13/bonuses-are-not-the-problem When facing the prospect of being responsible for loosing £4m of tax payers money and asked where the money is now, what should the answer be? Should the local councillor, the Lib Dem Portfolio Holder for Finance Cllr Paul Smith, reply Somewhere in Reykjavik, I suppose? Is loosing £4m of tax payers ... http://www.dailypropaganda.co.uk/blog/2008/10/12/the-colchester-millions-again It transpires that Colchester Borough Council has lost £4m, because of the many problems at the many Iceland banks. What's more, according to Cllr Paul Smith, who is supposedly responsible for the finances, this money was only invested on the "1st or 2nd September". Not only does he not know when ... http://www.dailypropaganda.co.uk/blog/2008/10/10/colchesters-lost-millionsitis Using terrorist legislation for an economic crisis is wrong. What on earth were this government thinking when they decided to use this legislation to stop assets in Icelandic companies leaving the country? This decision will come back to haunt them - not only are they bullying a country with an ... http://www.dailypropaganda.co.uk/blog/2008/10/10/am-i-the-only-one According to the BBC, Kent CC has around £50m in the failed banks of Iceland. According to the 2007-8 budget statement of Kent CC: At 31 March 2008 the Council has earmarked and other capital reserves of £60.3m as shown on page 20.  This does not look good. Has Kent CC really ... http://www.dailypropaganda.co.uk/blog/2008/10/09/kent-county-council