Snouts in the Trough

Never thought I would ever have anything positive to say about the normally hoplessly verbose Independent newspaper. But this Sunday, it has had the courage and intelligence to say what most people in Britain, apart from our  self-serving political and bureaucratic elites, know “It is time to say that this war is ill conceived, unwinnable [...]

Repeatedly we hear from our thieving MPs that most of them are honest and hard-working. This is a lie. When Tory MP David MacLean introduced a bill to exempt MPs’ expenses from the Freedom of Information Act, only 25 of 646 MPs voted against it. The other 621 were only too happy to prevent us finding out [...]

On this Remembrance Sunday let us remember that Gordon Brown was a key member of the Blair government which lied to take us into the Iraq war. Then let us remember that Brown has continually lied about providing our troops proper equipment in Afghanistan, especially helicopters. Let us remember that Brown’s Ministry of Defence have [...]