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A minimum booze price would work
Having been in the brewing industry all of my working life, I have followed with interest the debate over the plan, now introduced in Scotland, to impose a minimum price per unit of alcohol.
Fostering made nice and easy
In these days of gloom and doom that a general recession brings to most of us I wanted to tell your readers a happy and incredibly worthwhile story.
Inflated ideas about what we pay to EU
FOR years, UKIP has made wild claims about how much it costs Britain to be a member of the EU.
We need to believe in the free market
We are back in recession, officially. The Treasury is briefing that it is because of the European Union, to which 40 % of our exports go because it is barely growing.
I’m no moaner, I can still pay my own way
AFTER living through lean and worrying times before and during the War, my husband and I both left school at 14.
We need to call on our own Robin Hood
THE UK government and other commentators are blithely rolling out the line that a financial transactions tax – a “Robin Hood tax” – would have to be implemented globally, or UK interests would be damaged.
We all need a say on Lords reform
I HAVE just heard Prime Minister David Cameron explaining why he opposed a referendum on Lords reform while supporting referendums on London and other places having a mayor – the mayoral referendums because lo- cally entrenched politicians were against them and holding them would mean finding out what the people wanted; whereas for Lords reform the entrenched powers in all three parties are in favour of some cosmetic reform.
Parties are all as bad as each other
WITH regard to the news that Britain is back in recession, if we put the official indicators to one side we’ve now been in this situation for nigh on three years.
He’s lending money we need ourselves
OUR Chancellor, George Osborne, has agreed to lend the International Monetary Fund a further £10 billion to prop up the failing member states of Europe, even though it is widely recognised that countries like Greece will never survive in the eurozone in the long term and will be forced to default in the end.
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Monday 21 May 2012
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