Thursday March 13 (cont.)

Blogs

3.30pm, Campaign
Tim Aker:
Sutton Council to increase tax and hike executive officer pay by 11%

…unless we can stop them! - Read More

2.30pm, Burning Our Money
Mike Denham:
Pie in the Sky Budget Forecasts

Responsibility for public finance forecasts should be taken away from the Treasury. We need an independent Office of the Budget, modelled on the National Audit Office, and charged with producing non-partisan forecasts and analyses of public sector revenues, expenditure, borrowing, and debt. Other countries have that, and it's long overdue here... - Read More

Comments

[Acorn]

Please please, read this article and take steps to protect your family from the Brown / Darling madness. The UK is in no position to defend itself from the coming armageddon.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/03/13/ccambrose113.xml

[William Alcock]

Thank you for bringing to public attention council tax hikes and the fat cats in local government. What I'm angry about is the precepts set by town/parish councils. Kidsgrove in Staffordshire have over the last two years increased their precept by almost 80%.I have asked my MP to ask parliament to cap these parasite town halls but no answer yet.What do others think?

[Angus Deaton]

Tory Scum

[Angus Deaton]

Tory Scum