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Poor Whites Had a Raw Deal

And it’s not just the poor! Even the middle class is going get upset when, after the credit bubble unwinds – when they figure out how much worse off they are 12 years after that pontificator Brown abolished Boom and Bust. Of course he could have told us he’s abolished the Boom part of that [...]

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Proof Nicotine is Good For Us

Why is it, despite the massed ranks of health police, brain washers, interfering busybodies and thought fascists, 12 million people in the UK are smokers? Over the last thirty years successive governments have ratcheted up swingeing taxes, mostly making the poorest in society worse off. The poor who smoke, now subsidise the rich who don’t. [...]

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A Different Perspective of Chicago

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We’re all used to seeing pictures of Chicago showing tall buildings and those small streets under the railway line – classic car chase country. The view of Chicago from the river is an entirely different matter. This one shows what its like under the bridges. In this seemingly subterranean world those bridges feel like a [...]

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Gordon Brown was Wrong on recession

This article in the Times made me smile. Of course Brown was wrong on the recession. He’s wrong on everything Brown’s social re-engineering agenda has resulted in a bigger than ever gap between rich and poor. But this time it’s different. There’s a new elite class comprising politicians, hedge funds and public sector professionals. There’s [...]

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Family is paid £189,000 in housing benefit – Times Online

No wonder the UK is broke. What with bankers bonuses, politicians expenses, and social security gold diggers the only people who’ve suffered under Brown’s stewardship are the hard working, private sector, tax paying middle classes. In the time Darling made upwards of £250k switching houses, with us funding him the Road Fund licence on my [...]

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Proof Booze is Good For Us – Gotta Love it

At least it seems alcohol might good for us if we’re going to hit our heads Alcohol Might Lower Death Rates in Brain Injury Patients HealthDay Friday, September 25, 2009   FRIDAY, Sept. 25 (HealthDay News) — People who suffer serious head injuries are more likely to survive if they have alcohol in their bloodstream, [...]

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RBS and NatWest Lead the Way To Lower Bank Fees

BBC News reports RBS/Natwest has announced it’s reducing those nasty charges they stick on people who quite obviously can’t afford to pay. Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.

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It’s Our NHS and We Don’t Want Americans Criticising It

Message to all our American friends. – Anybody wanting to know about our healthcare just needs to ask us. They shouldn’t listen to the garbage being spouted by the nutcases. Our healthcare is no more rationed than anybody else’s. Based on a number of measures it’s more effective than the American model, at less than half [...]

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Scotland Looks Into a Black Hole

Its’ been obvious to anybody with a basic understanding of economics that Scotland‘s dependence on English taxes would eventually collapse its house of cards. At the height of the credit crunch and collapse in house prices we watched a smug politician claim Scotland would be protected from the worst of the recession, because a larger [...]

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