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The next Government scandal..

When we read about yet another case of Pakistani Muslim abusing and humiliating young Britsh girls for sexual pleasure we cannot help but become angry that so little seems to have been done to prevent such crimes taking place. Children have been ignored, or even sent back to their abusers. A moving programme on Radio 4 this week included a description by a young victim and her mother of the years of abuse she had suffered, and the death of her younger brother in a house fire the day after she had first been raped by such a gang. What was most terrible was that none of the agencies charged with the protection of our children had done a thing to help, or had responded in any useful manner to her situation.

‘Sack some judges’, says MP

The press recently reported the case of Garry Johnson, a father of two, who has been forbidden from mentioning his sons in public for the rest of his life. His son has just turned 21, and after wishing him a Happy Birthday on Facebook he was duly summoned to the secret family courts, where he found himself charged, convicted and sentenced to 28 days in prison. While waiting in a cell to be taken to prison he had a heart attack, and was rushed to hospital where he was shackled to a bed even while nurses were treating him. You would have thought that he was a convicted terrorist rather than a proud and devoted father.

Ed Balls – living it large at the taxpayers expense

When Tom Watson, the Labour Party's deputy chairman, put in a Freedom of Information Request, asking for the details of the credit card expenses run up by Michael Gove as Education Secretary, he probably didn't expect, and wouldn't have wanted, the spending racked up by Ed Balls when he was Education Secretary to be included. But they were included, and perhaps they provide some insight into why there was no money left when the Coalition took over Government.

Ed Balls has responsibility for the expenses signed off on his Education Department Office credit card, and anyone who has worked in the cash-strapped private sector knows that spending on unnecessary treats at a time of recession is likely to lead to a difficult meeting with the Finance Director. Remember, this is not spending for the whole of the Education Department, which has a budget of about £57 billion, but represents expenses run up by his own office.

Reporting hate-crime – what about us?

Much has been made in the press of the purported epidemic of anti-Muslim hate-crime which has apparently swept the nation since the brutal murder of Drummer Lee Rigby by two Muslim men a few weeks ago. Websites have been reporting the statistics issued by the government funded group, Tell MAMA, which records incidents of potential hate-crimes against Muslims. According to this organisation, attacks of various kinds against Muslims had increased so much that Project director Fiyaz Mughal described the figure as representing a ‘substantial spike’ in hate crimes and warned of ‘a sustained wave of attacks and intimidation’ against Muslim communities across Britain. He said that he saw no end to the unprecedented cycle of violence.

Cameron thinks we are all ‘Little Englanders’

David Cameron has given a speech in Essex today in which he intended to quieten the fears of those concerned about immigration, but seems rather to have unwittingly expressed his own contempt for us all. It's bad enough that he is sharing a platform with Ken Clarke, that pretty much gives away the stance he wants to adopt. But a careful reading of his text shows that, just like Ken Clarke, he really doesn't think much of any of us if we opposes the vision of the future he has planned out for us.

Conservative MPs ready to replace Cameron

There comes a time in almost every Prime Minister's career when the thoughts of his colleagues turn to his, or her, successor. In the case of Tony Blair there was the problem that he was chained to his self-elected successor from the moment that he took office. But with Mrs Thatcher the end came very quickly at the end of her premiership, and was especially precipated by Geoffrey Howe's resignation speech in which he spoke of cricket bats being broken by the team captain, and criticised the nightmare image of Europe which he said that Thatcher had painted (entirely accurately as it turned out). John Major faced opposition from the beginning, much as Cameron has done. In an unguarded moment he allowed himself to be recorded sharing his opinion of his ministerial team...

Just think it through from my perspective. You are the prime minister, with a majority of 18... where do you think most of the poison is coming from? From the dispossessed and the never-possessed. Do we want three more of the bastards out there?