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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 [...]
Alan Duncan is a member of the shadow Justice team as shadow minister for prisons and probation.
Prison reform by reducing reoffending is an area where a changed Conservative Party intends to make a massive difference.
Some progress has been made in the last thirteen years, but still our prisons are on the brink of crisis. The [...]
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 [...]
Damian Green has accused the Government of allowing immigration to run “out of control” following new evidence published by the Home Office.
The Shadow Immigration Minister was commenting on figures that lay bare the extent to which the Labour Government has failed to get a grip on the level of immigration in the UK.
The Home Office [...]
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 [...]
LONDON, ENGLAND, February, 2010 / — According to new figures from the Prudential Class of 2010 retirement survey* women planning to retire in 2010 expect to receive an average annual pension of GBP12,169, while their male counterparts expect to collect an average pension of GBP19,593 – a pension gender gap of GBP7,424. And the pension [...]
David Burbage, Leader of Windsor Council,
January, 2010.
How we cut Council Tax by 4%
Our intention to deliver a lower council tax was made in our 2007 manifesto, which said we would aim to set a council tax increase under inflation each year.
Linking to September RPI guaranteed that pensioners in particular would end up being better off, [...]
Today the Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg outlined the principles behind the party’s General Election Manifesto.
Last week’s phoney election campaign was a depressing experience.
The other parties managed to produce a greatest hits compilation of almost everything that has turned people off politics.
Airbrushed posters, meaningless slogans.
All set against the spectacle of the Government turning [...]
Eric Pickles
Conservative Party Chairman, Eric Pickles has reacted to revelations by former Labour Party General Secretary Peter Watt.
Watt has revealed a number of highly damaging stories about the conduct of the Prime Minister and key members of his Government.
“After a week in which six senior Cabinet Ministers failed to back the Prime Minister, this is [...]