There’s no benefit in being white and working class That is why its immigration policy, with its insistence that every immigrant has exactly the same rights as long-standing members of British society, has come into such sharp collision with the views of the white working class.

Labour’s obsession with an open-door immigration policy has hit its core vote hardest, writes Alasdair Palmer

The Labour leadership seems finally to be waking up to the fact that the party’s immigration policy has not been popular with what has traditionally been seen as its core vote: Britain’s white working class. The development appears to have taken Hazel Blears, the Communities Secretary, by surprise. She reacted to a report commissioned by her department that found that many working class whites feel “betrayed” by saying that “the report shows there are real complexities around perceptions [of Government] held by the white working class.”

Report: UK database could be privately managed

Report: UK database could be privately managed  31/12/08

(I can’t believe it ! look where the report has come from)

By DAVID STRINGER
Associated Press   (eTaiwan News – 38 minutes ago)

A proposed British database intended to store details of every phone call, e-mail and Web site visit made in the U.K. could be managed by a private sector contractor under government plans, the Guardian newspaper reported Wednesday.

Rebel MPs up pressure on Lord Mandelson over Royal Mail sellout

From The Sunday Times December 28, 2008
by Jonathan Oliver, Political Editor

Lord Mandelson is preparing to make concessions over the part-privatisation of Royal Mail after warnings that up to 100 Labour backbenchers will rebel against the government over its plans.

The business secretary is expected to offer a statutory guarantee that no more than about a third of the postal service will be sold to the private sector.

Labour rebels have been concerned that Mandelson’s plan, rushed out just before parliament’s Christmas break, is a “slippery slope” towards full-scale privatisation.

However, last night a senior government source said Mandelson was ready to give ground to the rebels: “The potential for rebellion is huge. There need to be clear reassurances that we have no intention of pushing further.”

Under Mandelson’s scheme, between 25% and 33% ( *For Now just watch this change when things are quieter) of the postal service will go to a foreign buyer. The government would take on responsibility for Royal Mail’s £7 billion pension deficit, making the business more attractive to a potential private investor.

BRITAIN SWAMPED BY BENEFITS BABY BOOM

THE number of girls getting pregnant and leaving school at 16 has soared since a rise in benefits to teen mums, it emerged yesterday.
A shock study has estimated an extra 45,000 babies were born to poor teenage mums in the year after Government rules were changed.

My Comment  (Well, Well who would have expected that then – certainly not the VERY WELL PAID AND SUPPOSEDLY EDUCATED MINISTERS AND MP’s WE ELECTED. (WELL YOU ELECTED – I CERTAINLEY DIDN’T) – Its was pretty obvious to us simpleton’s …………….. along with dozens of other hair brained schemes like rewarding villains with all expenses paid holidays to name just one.

Anger as Mandelson threatens to sue HBOS merger challengers

23 December 2008

By Tom Gordon, Scottish Political Editor

SOURCES CLOSE to Alex Salmond last night accused Lord Mandelson of trying to “stack the deck” against those challenging the merger of HBOS with Lloyds TSB after they were threatened with huge legal bills unless they dropped their case.

THE BIG SELL OFF OF THE UN-UNITED KINGDOM

Well after todays secret SALE of our nuclear production plant to the US we don’t seem to have much left.