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Tuesday, 31 March, 2009 
The minister for Europe... has not read the Lisbon Treaty on the future of Europe. We are supposed to be reassured that she has, however, read briefing notes on the Treaty . Not much of a reassurance is it? It's like taking exam questions on a novel, only having read the crib book. You'll be caught out in the end, and she has...
Wednesday, 25 March, 2009
The Labour government is ready to take our details from Facebook, with the BBC reporting that it is “part of a plan to store details of all phone calls, e-mails and websites visited on a central database” Of course, governments should be able to carry out covert surveillance on people who are suspected of serious crimes. Governments must not be allowed to consider every person a suspect... And we all know how useless the government is when it comes to protecting our privacy.
I am on Facebook… where Gordon is no friend of mine.
Richard Normington
Tuesday, 17 March, 2009
The BBC’s poll-tax on tellies should be frozen this year. For the first time ever, the BBC’s licence fee money this year could be £1 billion more than the advertising-funded TV stations put together. Like many deals, or the congestion charge bid, the licence fee rises were negotiated before Gordon Brown's boom turned to bust. Times have changed.
We should keep that £1 billion in the real economy, where it is needed. Unlike the 2.5% reduction in VAT, where the ‘savings’ can only be really made if you still have a lot of money to spend on VAT-able goods, freezing the licence fee is a measure that will have a greater, direct impact on the less well off.
The BBC has many virtues. It is time to add 'thrift' to them.
Richard Normington
Monday, 09 March, 2009
The decision to back the congestion charge by Cambridge Liberal Democrats was accompanied by a claim from their transport spokesman about Conservatives, who oppose the charge, telling ‘gross untruths’ (Cambridge News, 7th March). This follows the Lib Dem councillor who was condemned for blocking an ambulance on a 999 call, breaching the councillors' code of conduct, and dragged by the Standards Board to apologise, calling Conservatives the ‘nasty’ party.
These are not particularly liberal responses to criticism or debate. However, they are the signs that the city’s Lib Dems are rattled and losing the plot.
Sunday, 08 March, 2009
This exchange should be on the headed paper of every civil servant in the Ministry of Justice [itself an Orwellian sounding institution]. Roper: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law! Robert Bolt : "A Man for All Seasons"
Monday, 02 March, 2009
It might be enforceable in a court of law, this contract, but it's not enforceable in the court of public opinion and that's where the Government steps in." Harriet Harman. "It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones." Robert Mugabe. Britain Deserves Better. Read the full blog on http://broganblog.dailymail.co.uk/2009/03/has-harriet-been-in-zimbabwe.html
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