Passport Tax Lies

My God,

just found it now cost s£72 to renew a passport. The massive increases over the last 5 years were originally, according to government, to open local centres where face to face issuing would take place for security reasons.
Absolute rubbish, no such system in place for renewals and yet still massive price increases. This is just a tax on leaving the country.

It does appear that anything that we have little or no choice over gets taxed as this wasteful Government sucks more and more of our money into its inept black hole.

Am I being nostalgic or were most of our previous governments more honest with us than the present.

Its not just the high tax, poor delivery and waste I object to, it the lies and deceit.

Keep on like this and Lord Allesley might need a passport to escape once and for all.

Lord Allesley

Brown invites hypocrisy call

Yes, Gordon Brown is quite right to call the Zimbabwean election a new low. However he stood unopposed in his leadership election because other MP's were intimidated into not standing against him. Sounds familiar. then there is the fact that he basically gets to run the country with no mandate whatsoever. I am sure that will not be lost on Mugabe, I sadly it isn't to me.

Can Britain have a free and fair election for its leadership please Mr Brown.

Lord Allesley

Harmans crusade of stupidity and division

We now have legislation presented to "positively " discriminate, if that is not a contradiction in terms. What has this Government got on its mind, fuel crisis, slowing economy, credit crunch, rising crime or ridiculous unnecessary and divisive regulation. Oh yes, it was the later. Just at a time when employing people is becoming more of a challenge, these dogmatic fools try to make it even less attractive to business people around the country.
Can you imagine the day some one says to a female work colleague "you only got the job because you are a woman", that will hang over them for good. This needs stopping now, its bad for equality, bad for women, bad for ethnic minorities and bloody awful for employer. Ultimately it is bad for everyone. Except for Harriet of course, shell be punching the air and flicking through 1960's headlines of Bra burnings. well get with it Harriet, we have grown up since then and any employer with sense only employs the best for the job these days, we cant afford not to. Of course, Gordon Brown doesn't seem to pick on merit just makes sure he meets unwritten quotas of lefties, blairites, grass rooters, oh and feminists. Harriet were you best for the job or did you just manage to tick a box on a quota?

Lord Allesley

Lord Allesley on the money

Well, Lord Allesley has a good nose for events, he predicted Mandela was preparing to speak out against the vermin that is Mugabe. He was right. The clock is ticking for the ZanuPF tyrants!!!

Lord Allesley

PMQ's

For those of us who watched PMQ's today it was another sad disappointment. An old, old pillar of our democracy is now a total sham. We have a Prime Minister who never answers a question and MP's who ask pathetic set up questions for the No 10 propaganda machine. If they did that in China we would call foul. Its always been pretty poor but Im sure its getting worse.
Perhaps it could be made more interesting, the PM could be wired to a lie detector whose results show on a big plasma screen. What about a random number generator that picks MP's and they instantly ask a question, no rehearsals or stage management. Why not play a joker, on that question the PM has to answer only Yes or no, that would cut out the spin and flim flam.

It is sad that we do not appear to hold our "rulers" to account, and OUR members of parliament put party politics above there constituents interests

Lord Allesley

AWM- Business Link £6m waste

So, as businesses in the West Midlands will know, Business Link was Centralised (how USSR) by AWM. Midlands Today reports a £6m waste on a new headquarters. If only that were the true cost of the waste. Shut down costs of the old system amount to millions, waste in retraining and now advertising, something they must do as local businesses have lost all confidence in the new system.
Its supposed to be business support, not empire building.

Who is AWM answerable to; its not the voters, its undemocratic wasteful and useless. Who ever asked for this ridiculous body in the first place, isn't it time to SCRAP AWM????

Lord Allesley

Zim Update

So it appears the ANC is finally facing up to reality .(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7471105.stm) I Wonder if the 90 year old Mr Mandela who is in London at the moment is about to say anything? Lord Allesley hopes so.

Lord Allesley

Come on South Africa

I hear Mr Gaunt on TalkSport has now noted the lovely Ms Robinsons comments. He appears to agree with me on this one.

He is also talking about Zimbabwe. The situation there is a disgrace. The key to it all is South Africa, however the ANC seems to be, by the day in little ways, moving towards a position of absolute power. An organisation that knows it has no electoral threat becomes arrogant and listens to no one. There is therefore a moral vacuum at the top of the ANC, and a genuine belief that to strike against the Fascist regime of Mugabe is a betrayal of "African Blacks" and their historic struggle. Had Mugabe been white the whole world would have acted long ago. As for Britain, we are so scared of our colonial past we are paralysed. (Why is it such a British thing, we don't call on the Italians to apologise for the Roman Empire, or the Scandinavians to say sorry for Viking raids?)

The only course of action is full economic and sporting sanctions against Zimbabwe, and furthermore, sanctions against any supporting nation, ie South Africa. SA will then have to come off the fence. If it was good enough when Whites oppressed Blacks it should be when Blacks oppress Blacks. It is time this tyrant was ousted.

Mind you the current British government does find it hard to do anything that involves dicussing elections or ballot boxes.

Lord Allesley

Welcome

Welcome to a new Blog. I view this as a space to get off my chest all my whinges and observations on the world. Feel free to chip in.

Ill start with Anne Robinson. In her ridiculous past its sell by date act as some quasi pensioner domanatrix she has now taken to criticising Coventry. A place it appears she hasn't been to for many a year. Why is this wisened excuse for an ex journalist given free rein to spout rubbish. Oh yeah, its "entertainment" well done the BBC great use of my licence fee.

Ah, first blog and I already feel better.

Lord Allelsey