Well done to anti-road user charging campaigners for getting a million petition signatures on their Downing Street petition. As someone who has railed against this proposal, not from a motorist perspective but from an environmental and civil libertarian one, it is gratifying to see such a disastrous policy being given such a rough ride. It… Continue reading Downing Street Petitions: Initiative without Resolution
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The State of British Politics, part 94
It says a lot that when I read the Times headline “Bringing down our own Capone” I naturally assumed it was about the Prime Minister.
Independence from everything
If UKIP are now in favour of “Independence” in the broadest sense is it safe to assume they want independence FROM the UK, along with everything else? After all, this is going to be a pretty big theme in the 2007 elections, at least if you are in Scotland or Wales (and Northern Ireland for… Continue reading Independence from everything