Freedom Politics

As the Canada plus FTA is on offer from the EU I wonder why the government is pursuing the damaged Checkers proposal? My understanding is that the Canada plus FTA is almost a proforma for agreements we would need to conclude with any other country, with whom we wished to have free trade arrangements. If anyone know why we should not use the Canadian version of an FTA please let me have details for this blog site.

Indian identity system – Aadhaar In the biggest democracy in the world Indians are being forced register with the new biometric identification system the Aadhaar and to link their Aadhaar number to; government-issued account numbers, bank accounts, credit cards, insurance policies, mutual funds, pension plans, social welfare benefits such as cooking gas subsidies, LPG connection card, PAN Card, voter ID card, ration card and mobile phone numbers. Many utility providers are now insisting that the consumer must have an Aadhaar number or they will not start/continue to supply, due to actual or implied pressure from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). A private consortium developed the Aadhaar and in 2016 was converted into a statutory body attached to the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and called the (UIDAI). Similar to the American Social Security Number (SSN), the Aadhaar is a 12-digit unique identification number, the difference...

He said: "The Government’s evasive answer to my question about its knowledge of Novichok production in Russia suggests it neglected to inform the Organisation for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. If it had the information it claims, why did the Government not share it with the responsible authority? What’s the point of the Chemical Weapons Convention if vital intelligence is withheld by its signatories?" https://www.parliament.uk/…/writte…/Lords/2018-03-26/HL6659/

“Why mass immigration explains the housing crisis” : if UKIP had written this there would be an explosion of rage amongst the ostriches!  “By Lionel Shriver - Spectator It’s the one reason for this worsening problem that blinkered liberals choose to ignore Ever since Theresa May’s clarion address of the UK’s housing shortage (and how many successive PMs have embarked on the same brave heave-ho?) countless comment pieces have addressed the real problem that drives the disjunction between supply and demand. Nimbyism. Complex, protracted planning permission. Developer land banking. Rich Chinese and Russians investing in unoccupied properties as three-dimensional bank accounts. Excessive protection of green belts. Second homeowners. Empty properties the state should confiscate. The catastrophic sell-off of social housing. A wilful confusion about what the word ‘affordable’ means. Yet when two statistics are out of whack, it behoves us to look at them both. All the abo...

The independent Labour Peer, Lord Stoddart of Swindon has criticised the Electoral Commission for what he believes is their ‘cravenly caving in’ to pressure from Remainer MPs and activists over the re-investigation of Vote Leave’s funding of ‘BeLeave’ during the referendum campaign. Lord Stoddart said: “It is my understanding that the Electoral Commission, not only approved the donation to BeLeave, at the time, but it has already subsequently looked into this issue and found nothing wrong.  I find it very disappointing that they appear to have cravenly caved-in to pressure from the Remain lobby and decided to investigate again. The Electoral Commission is supposed to be an independent body and should not be seen to be influenced by political pressure. “It is very dangerous for our democracy for the Commission to give the impression that it takes action based on who shouts loudest in the political arena.  They should not allow themselves to become part of the ...