Police using bikes to fight cost of petrol

I said yesterday that some police forces had to cut front line jobs because of the rising cost of fuel. I said that I would make them ride a bike. Unfortunately in one police force it didn’t seem likely because the police would have to pass a cycling proficiency test. You can read that here.

Fortunately the Devon and Cornwall police are a bit more intelligent and have decided that its time to order 120 bikes to cut their fuel bill which is due to rise by £300,000.

I am glad that a police force has decided to take common sense route.

Best news ever

Senior officials in the Labour party, including Gordon Brown, could become personally liable for millions of pounds in debt unless new donors can be found within weeks, the Guardian has learned.

The party has five weeks to find £7.45m to pay off loans to banks and wealthy donors recruited by Lord Levy, Tony Blair's former chief fundraiser, or become insolvent. A further £6.2m will have to be repaid by Christmas - making £13.65m in all. The sum amounts to two-thirds of the party's annual income from donations.

The figures are a conservative estimate as they do not include interest that will also have to be paid. A Labour source said that although the total debt was listed as £17.8m on the Electoral Commission website, the true level, with interest, was nearer to £24m.

The possibility that party officials and members of its national executive committee could become liable is being taken seriously by union leaders, and has been underlined by the decision of equity fund chairman David Pitt-Watson not to accept the post as Labour's general secretary.

I thought the news about Labour going bust was great but this is fantastic news. I hope every single one of those scheming treacherous crooks gets bled dry of all their money. That punishment would be suitable for what they have done to the country. It’s just a pity that Blair won’t be punished even a little bit.

I can just see it now. Gordon Brown having to beg on the streets of Scotland just to feed himself. Then again if Scotland gets their independence he’ll get off without having to pay if he stays in Scotland because it will be a foreign country. Maybe he was planning it all along…

Labour on verge of bankruptcy

The Labour Party is on the verge of insolvency after a collapse in donations so acute that it is struggling to pay staff.

The funding crisis has raised fears that auditors will be unable to sign off party accounts next month because of Labour's £21 million debt.

A series of controversies over donations, involving police investigations, and Gordon Brown's slump in the opinion polls, has driven away potential financial backers and members. The number of paid-up Labour Party members has fallen from 400,000 in 1997 to fewer than 200,000

Only the trade unions, which have almost quadrupled their support in the past six months, are saving the party from being declared effectively bankrupt.

The only good thing about a possible recession is that the Labour party will go under. There will be fewer workers so less people paying into the unions which will mean less money for the unions to squander on Labour.

I hope there isn’t a recession but the sooner the Labour party go bankrupt the better for the country. They have been an utter disaster for the country and everyone knows that which is why they losing out on donations. People don’t want them to survive and it looks like they won’t.

MPs to spend less time at Westminster

MPS are to get an extra week off at the end of this month - just weeks after coming back from their bumper three-month summer recess - because the government has run out of business.

Harriet Harman, the Commons leader, broke the good news to MPs yesterday, also outlining even more time away from Westminster for them over the coming year. MPs will spend one in three weeks out of Westminster - taking their time away from the Commons from 15 weeks to 18 weeks.

Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the Taxpayers' Alliance, said: "If MPs spent longer in the House there'd be less badly drafted legislation."

This is a good thing. If MPs spend less time in the House of Commons it will mean that they are drafting less legislation and staying out of our lives more. That has to be a good thing. It’s not like they will actually be on holiday because they will be in their constituencies addressing the issues that concern their constituents. How is that a bad thing?

Blair to be sued

Tony Blair the traitor is to be sued by the families of 17 of the soldiers who died in iraq. The families of the 17 are trying to launch a campaign to secure an independent into the legality of the iraq war.

Prime Minister Tony Blair , former Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon and Attorney General Lord Goldsmith are being "sued" and named as first, second and third defendants.

Mr Blair could be forced to give evidence on oath. Relatives accuse the three of lying about the justification for war. Reg Keys, whose military policeman son Ton, 20, was one of six Red Caps killed near Basra in June 2003, said: "Mr Blair misled Parliament and we want to make him accountable for his misdemeanours.

Personally I hope that the families get their inquiry and that blair himself has to pay compensation and then step down. The stepping down would be a small victory as he is going to step down in 2 or 3 years anyway.

I wonder if the families of the 17 have started an online petition which we can sign? I would gladly sign it and list it on this website if there was one as something has to be done with the traitors we have in government.