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Veritas, Mrs Pritchard & The Purple Alliance

Did anyone remembering Veritas and watching the first episode of 'The Amazing Mrs Pritchard' feel a strange sense of deja vue as I did last evening?

Veritas proved that the British political set-up precludes entry of a new party, so it will be interesting to see how this far-fatched storyline develops over the next five weekly episodes!

What though is this link all about - The Purple Alliance??????????

Charles Kennedy Resigns

British politics could be about to become interesting again.... with one last chance for DEMOCRACY to survive. Times Online has this summary of potential leaders for the now well placed third party - I quote this titbit from the entry for David Laws:

Mr Laws also called for limits on European Union powers and an end to the Common Agricultural Policy.

Other potential candidates also appear to have credentials that should make Blair, Brown and Cameron quake, if only the Lib/Dem membership base that will select the winner could be rapidly broadened!!!

Gas Price Gouging

Daily Telegraph (linked here) and ITV News headline shock report of 30th December 2005 was that gas prices are again set to rise - yet the truth was ready to be revealed by the Veritas energy spokesman ahead of the General Election campaign - but to this day remains obscured. Why?

Perhaps for the same reasons Britain's present only likely leaders are now seemingly to be drawn from this woesome foursome - Brown, Blair, Cameron or Kennedy!

Sir Denis Rourke must be turning in his grave!

Gas Price Gouging

This item might be of interest to those few privy to early Veritas policy making, read it from the BBC by clicking here.

Kilkroy-Silk MEP exposed by Sunday Times Insight team

The investigation into the former UKIP MEP and leader of Veritas may be read by clicking here.

Some Veritas founding principles are re-born!

Rather than blaming the lack of an economic slump on the Tory misfortunes as Michael Howard is quoted as doing in today's Daily Telegraph, a small group of Conservative MPs (with a contribution from the straight thinking MEP Roger Helmer) have instead prepared a series of policy options which seek to remedy some of the major problems confronting Britain. These may be read in PDF format by clicking on the title of the pamphlet: Being Conservative: A cornerstone of policies to revive Britain

Further details of the Cornerstone Group may be found from this link to their homepage.

A summary of some of the policy suggestions taken from that blog is as follows:

Specific policy ideas in the pamphlet include:

> Flat tax based on a single rate of 22 per cent, a personal allowance of £10,000 and an overall tax cut of £40 billion, which would take millions of low-paid workers and pensioners out of tax altogether.
> Reducing the size and reach of the state.
> Proclaiming the supremacy of Parliament and renegotiating British membership of the EU.
> Repeal of the Human Rights Act and withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights
> Returning agriculture, fishing and the environment to national control.
> Education vouchers to give parents and pupils a real choice of schools and to lever up standards through competition.
> Restructuring the NHS so that hospitals are no longer owned and run by the state.
> Tax breaks for marriage to strengthen the traditional two-parent family and to remove perverse financial incentives for family breakdown.
> Directly elected sheriffs with the power to appoint and dismiss chief constables
> Measures to curb the growing tendency of senior judges to seek to make the law rather than just apply it.
> A new Tory emphasis on green issues.