Just skimming the Times of London political page, it’s obvious that the UK has some pretty big problems:
PM Brown’s bank boss had links to tax cheats: Glen Moreno was paid hundreds of thousands of pounds during a nine-year association with Liechtenstein Global Trust
‘Peer for hire’ grabs £70,000 housing perk: Lord Truscott receives £28,000-a-year tax free by telling House of Lords’ authorities that his main residence is a flat in Bath
Home Secretary in new Commons expenses row: Jacqui Smith is under fire for claiming thousands of pounds for her family house by listing it as her ‘second home’
Treasury watchdog a guest of financiers: John McFall stayed at the Hilton Molino Stucky hotel as Treasury officials worked to save some of UK’s biggest finance houses
Prosecute ‘peer for hire’ Lords, say voters : People were shocked by revelations that members of the Lords were willing to accept payments in return for amending legislation
That’s just the corruption. Then there is the Labour Party’s strained relationship with, uh, labor unions.
Labour faces clash with unions Royal Mail: Labour will reach ‘breaking point’ with unions if the Government presses ahead with plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail
And there’s this:
Labour’s job-finder plan ‘in crisis’ : Plans to pay private companies to find jobs for unemployed are in crisis too few available jobs to make current plans viable
I think the Tories will be making a comeback in the United Kingdom sooner than we might have thought possible.
