Sky News reports that “Lorry drivers are suffering an increase in violence from illegal immigrants striving to enter the UK.” I think this problem is only going to get worse as people who are desperate take more and more risks and become increasingly aggressive. Africa There have also been reports of thousands of African immigrants [...]
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Immigration
Posted in Devolved Issues, Discrimination, Immigration, Migrant Workers, Political Culture, Politics in Scotland, Politics in Westminster, Reserved Issues, Security Services, Terror Threat, tagged Africa, desperate, drivers, illegal, immigrants, irrational, lorry, Paris, risks, Sky, Villiers-le-Bel, violence on November 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Government Competence – Scotland
Posted in Competence, Corporate Responsibility, Devolved Issues, Discrimination, Independence for Scotland, Political Culture, Political Parties, Politics in Scotland, Politics in Westminster, Reserved Issues, tagged administration, Competence, difficult, First Minister, independence, problems, questions, Salmond, Scotland, settlement, Wendy Alexander on November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
First Minister’s Questions Alex Salmond has changed the nature of First Minister’s Questions and it seems that he is thoroughly enjoying his new role. I am concerned that he only appears to have two types of reply for opposition colleagues. Firstly, he states that lack of his government’s progress is because of poor management by [...]
Government Competence – Westminster
Posted in Competence, Corporate Responsibility, Devolved Issues, Discrimination, Political Culture, Political Parties, Politics in Scotland, Politics in Westminster, Reserved Issues, tagged accountability, Brown, Competence, compliant, confidence, Darling, data, defence, donations, economy, excellence, government, HMRC, insult, protection, responsibility, Smith, unity on November 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Events from the past week or so have been distressing and have truly tested the competence of the government at Westminster. Alistair Darling, Jackie Smith and Gordon Brown are all looking a bit worse for wear. The floods, foot and mouth disease and the terror attacks during the summer are obvious examples of events that [...]
Avoidable Tragedy
Posted in Competence, Corporate Responsibility, Discrimination, Political Culture, Politics in Westminster, Reserved Issues, Security Services, Terror Threat, tagged appreciate, blunders, commitment, courage, equipment, patriotic, servicemen, unselfish, welfare on November 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“More than one in three servicemen killed in Iraq and Afghanistan might still be alive if not for avoidable blunders and equipment problems, an investigation by The Independent on Sunday has revealed.” I feel so sorry every time I hear about the death of one of our soldiers but I truly despair when I hear [...]
Immigration Security
Posted in Competence, Corporate Responsibility, Immigration, Politics in Westminster, Reserved Issues, Terror Threat, tagged Home Office, illegal, immigrants on November 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“The Home Office has admitted illegal immigrants have been mistakenly cleared for jobs as security staff.” What kind of ridiculous games are they playing?
Methodically Targeting Children
Posted in Competence, Discrimination, Political Culture, Politics in Scotland, Politics in Westminster, Reserved Issues, Terror Threat, tagged activity, behaviour, childre, Jonathon Evans, manipulative, MI5, national, recruited, resources, security, terrorist, threat on November 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Jonathan Evans, the Head of MI5 says Children as young as 15 are being recruited for terrorist-related activity by al-Qaeda and There are at least 2,000 in the UK who pose a threat to national security. That is really shocking! Should we not equip our young people with the resources to defend themselves from manipulative [...]
Warickshire Fire
Posted in Competence, Corporate Responsibility, Devolved Issues, Discrimination, Immigration, Migrant Workers, Political Culture, Politics in Scotland, Politics in Westminster, Reserved Issues, tagged complex, Discrimination, emotive, employment, legislation, migration, Telegraph, tragedy on November 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was really sad to read about this tragedy and I will be horrified if there is evidence that migrant workers have also lost their lives as suggested in today’s Telegraph. I assume that it will be some time before all the facts are known. Migration is such a complicated issue and it seems even [...]
Hello World!
Posted in Competence, Corporate Responsibility, Devolved Issues, Independence for Scotland, Political Culture, Politics in Scotland, Politics in Westminster, Reserved Issues, Scottish Finance, tagged Competence, corporate, culture, devolved, finance, indepedence, Politics, reserved, responsibility, Scotland, Westminster on November 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I have decided to share my opinions on the world of politics both at Westminster and at the Scottish Parliament. This is my first post so I thought that I would begin by stating my general view that things could be better. I appreciate the hard job that Members of the Scottish Parliament, Scottish Members [...]
