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Third time lucky for the Germans? Beware the new ‘auditors’.

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So now Germany is telling the spineless Cameron what to do on a referendum.  (Telegraph, 18 Nov). Cameron looks increasingly like a modern Neville Chamberlain.  Appeasement of the Germans for fear of causing trouble didn’t work the first time and it won’t work this time. His lack of leadership, and the Tories’ refusal to let

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Another pay rise for the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-von Battenbergs

The Royal Family is to be exempt from any cuts in public spending next year when its civil list funding is settled for the next 10 years, says The Guardian. MPs will be powerless to reduce the £7.9m a year paid under the civil list because of an obscure deal struck between Buckingham Palace and

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Number of foreigners given housing rises by 50%

Why do we tolerate the number of foreigners who arrive on our shores – often illegally – and then claim housing that should be reserved for British-born citizens? In just ten years, the number of UK born tenants in social housing in the UK has fallen by about 1.2 million while non UK-born tenants have

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Politicians want reform? Sure they do, like turkeys want Christmas.

So Cameron, Clegg, Brown and their band of corrupt brothers and sisters across the political parties suddenly want ‘change and reform’, …er… just because they’ve been found out?    Yes, right… We believe them, of course. Like we believed the thousands of promises down the years which have been broken. Like we believed every party slogan

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