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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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Human Rights in Ireland
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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Britain?s Barristers Oppose Labour?s Attack on Jury Trials Mon Dec 29, 2025 19:00 | Toby Young
The bar councils of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and England and Wales have all condemned David Lammy's attack on the right to trial by jury.
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Bad news for eco-zealots trying to bully us into swapping our cars for electric vehicles. The prices of used EVs have plunged by ?14,000, according to Cazoo. Not such a good investment, then.
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offsite link Labour Refuses to Deport Egyptian ?Extremist? Mon Dec 29, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
Despite his history of antisemitism and calls for violence, Labour says it cannot deport Alaa Abd el-Fattah, an Egyptian activist granted UK citizenship through his British-born mother.
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Prof James Alexander pays tribute to Bridget Bardot, the embodiment of Goethe's eternal feminine who coped with her fame and fading beauty better than most 20th Century female icons.
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offsite link Kemi Badenoch: Alaa Abd El-Fattah Should be Stripped of His British Citizenship Mon Dec 29, 2025 11:00 | Toby Young
Kemi Badenoch has called for Alaa Abd El-Fattah to be stripped of his British citizenship -- and even Labour ministers are demanding the same thing as pressure mounts on Sir Keir Starmer.
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Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

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Tax Payers Money Wasted on IBEC

category national | worker & community struggles and protests | news report author Sunday June 07, 2009 00:16author by Whistleblower Report this post to the editors

Disgust at the revelation that public sector bodies are WASTING TAX-PAYERS MONEY on membership of IBEC - this has got to be a scandal!

I work for a relatively small public sector organisation and yesterday some of my colleagues and I found out that our management pays over €15,000 (annually) of TAX-PAYERS MONEY assigned to the running of the organisation to none other than IBEC! To say that we, the employees, were aghast at this revelation is an understatement! Why, we wondered, would a public-sector body have funds to waste on the dreaded enemy of public services?! And not just any funds, but tax-payers hard earned funds, in a time when we're seeing cuts to health services, disability benefits, the unemployed, public transport and across the education sector!!

Apparently this is not unusual - many public service bodies claim allegiance to IBEC and pay considerable amounts of tax-payers' money to do so. I understand the amount paid is commensurate with the size of the organisation, so in some cases it's well in excess of the figure I mentioned. It'd be interesting to know if anyone out there, working for the HSE perhaps, might have access to similar information - I'd hazzard a guess that HSE boss Mary Harney would be only too happy to throw a fgood few quid in the direction of her cronies in IBEC!?

The excuse that our senior management offered for signing up - networking. Call me cynical but I'd imagine access to the IBEC industrial relations machine might have something to do with it. Senior managers within the public service should be absolutely ashamed of themselves with this disgusting waste of tax-payers money at a time when children go without decent education and health services!!

author by old codger - pensionerpublication date Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:20author address author phone Report this post to the editors

If there is a change of government we have to fight to stop Enda Kenny avoiding a lot of hard facts on Fianna Fails corrupt
governance of this country.The whole system needs to be changed. The Corrib gas issue has been carefully avoided by Kenny, he just states ( as do Labour) that a deal has been made and can't be changed. The fact that the deal was made by two criminals must be forced down his throat.
WE CAN NO LONGER AFFORD CORRUPTION.
DONT LET A NEW GOVERNMENT COMMIT THE SAME CRIMES AS THE OLD ONE.

author by Felix V.publication date Thu Jun 11, 2009 09:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Whenever our financial institutions lower the credit limits, without the customer's consent or input, by the way, it isn't a happy thing for a lot of people. It leads to higher interest rates, and when those credit limits get lowered it isn't good for small businesses that depend on the corporate credit card to pay bills and get crucial supplies. Obama's stimulus and tax incentives haven't driven a lot of spending, banks won't lend, but the positive is that the personal saving rate is increasing, and some are taking the opportunity to get out of debt. Lowering credit limits leads a lot of people to look into a cash advance instead.

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