Jun 17
Could this be the end for Dick Dastardly, otherwise known as UKIP leader Nigel Farage? An opinion poll published this week shows the surge his party experienced after the recent local elections had spluttered out like a cheap firework. The poll conducted by ICM for the Guardian puts UKIP on 12%, down from 18% a …
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Jun 11
This morning I was woken by the ring my telephone. When I answered it it was a councillor. “Eh up” I thought “What’s this ringing me so early – another PotteriesEYE exclusive.” He said: “Have you seen the front page of the Sentinel. You are not going to like this. They’ve pinched your story about …
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Jun 09
Winter fuel payments should be taken away from ‘wealthy’ pensioners, this isn’t the latest edict from the bunker inhabited by Iain Duncan Smith, it’s the latest plan from Ed Balls to rebuild Labour’s reputation for managing the economy. In terms of utility it is right up there with the chocolate fireguard. In a speech made …
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Jun 02
It didn’t take long, a little less than a week in fact, for the Woolwich murders to become a bandwagon to be jumped on by politicians with a policy to sell. Step forward Prime Minster David Cameron and Home Secretary Theresa May, both of whom are mad keen to use public outrage to revive the …
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May 18
OPINION Just three weeks after Labour lost a Cabinet member – discredited and loathed in equal measure – Pervez, leader of the council, gives the man everyone in the City, except of course, the Labour Party, say should resigned from the council completely – a vice chairmanship of a committee. I am, of course, talking …
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May 18
Remember the name Stephanie Bottrill; in life she was obscure; in death she earned a bitter sort of fame. When she threw herself in front of a lorry on the M6 Mrs Bottril became the first casualty of the austerity policies pushed by the coalition government since 2010. Her suicide was, it has emerged, motivated …
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Apr 28
This week the Royal Air Force began flying unmanned drone missions from its base in Waddington Lincolnshire. Previously the ten Reaper drones were flown by RAF personnel from a USAF base in Creech Nevada, the aircraft are used for surveillance missions but have the capability to attack targets on the ground if required. Speaking on …
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