Daniel Elton
The British Empire – subsidising Republican presidential candidates since 2007
U.S. presidential hopeful Mitt Romney an awful lot of his wealth and income away from the yes of the American Treasury and in the Cayman Islands - international tax haven and overseas british territory, or in old-fashioned language, colony of the British Empire.
Employment minister Chris Grayling does not appear to understand his own disability reforms
Employment minister Chris Grayling says goverenment is not going to means test benefits for those never able to work - but that’s exactly waht they intend to do.
We need to save manufacturing, but manufacturing won’t save us
Westminster fashionable talk dictates that we need to rebalance the economy towards manufacturing. But manufacturing is declining as a proportion of the world economy.
It’s the Big Society that’s being hit by the government’s economics
The Coalition wanted to end the Big State, and bring in the Big Society. We are ending up with neither, as charities shed more jobs than the public sector.
Boris has slammed Coalition welfare reforms – from the left
The most prominent politician to oppose the government welfare reform is - amazingly - Boris Johnson, taking on benefit scrounger myths and arguing against over-testing
“Sorry if you were offended” does not cut it, Diane
When Diane Abbott apologised for “any offence caused” over her racist comments, it was not a real apology - which is worse than none at all.