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This will NOT stop terrorism or criminality any more than ID Cards would have done. These individuals will always find other ways around the system.
No doubt another EU directive and a waste of public monies.
Frosty Welcome For UK Electronic Borders Plan
8:39am UK, Thursday March 11, 2010
Mark White, Sky News home affairs correspondent
Government claims [...]
This from Ian Kirby, the News of the World’s Political Editor (my emphasis):
“A highly confidential operation being run by Britain’s biggest trade union, Unite, is far bigger than the Tories’ own £3m marginal seats campaign. The union is using it’s own massive datatbase of members in a bid to persuade dithering former Labour voters [...]
It was standing room only at the Boston Brighton Tea Party organised by the Freedom Association early this evening at which Dan Hannan was guest speaker. He said that it was time to “bring sanity and order back to the public finances” an that had to be done by reducing expenditure rather than increasing taxes.
He [...]
The Conservatives are delighted to announce the defection of a leading Labour councillor in Tower Hamlets to the party.
Dr Anwara Ali, a Labour councillor in the borough since 2006, said her growing disillusionment with Labour and their failure to reform the NHS convinced her to join the Conservatives.
Commenting, Dr Anwara Ali said:
“I have been a [...]
PM’s podcast on harnessing the power of technology
A transcript of the Prime Minister’s podcast on the Pre-Budget Report, recorded on 5 December 2009.
All our lives are being transformed by the digital revolution.
For many the internet and mobile phones are now seen as indispensible as electricity, gas and water.
And the wealth of information instantly available – [...]
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The EU job may suit the former PM, but it would do nothing for Britain, argues Jeff Randall
By Jeff Randall
Telegraph.co.uk
Tony Blair meets soldiers in Basra, Iraq Photo: PA
Of all the bogus arguments for supporting Tony Blair’s not-so-subtle campaign to become the European Union’s president, none is more nauseating than that [...]
Germany’s president Horst Koehler on Wednesday (23 September) signed newly-drafted national laws enabling the country to adopt the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, making final ratification of the document at the end of the week a formality.
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The laws will be published in Germany’s official law register on Thursday and Mr Koehler is expected to sign [...]
Dominic Grieve has attacked the Government over its “shocking and deeply concerning” admission that almost a thousand prisoners who should have been sent back to prison are missing.
935 offenders are on the run after being recalled from release on licence between January 1999 and March 2009.
612 offenders, including 19 murderers and 26 sex offenders, have been missing for over a year.
Dominic, [...]