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Cash for peerages analysis. Attempts to nail down the details of a consensus have proved tricky.

Cash for peerages analysis

But the outlines of the new order are emerging, including much stricter limits on how much parties spend during election campaigns and greater state funding. Yet when the first hints of the story emerged towards the end of 2005, no-one could have predicted its dramatic course. Rumours started to circulate that Number 10's plans to nominate a number of businessmen for peerages had been blocked by the independent watchdog.

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Basic Income. Benefits. Brexit. Economics. Foreign. Gender Politics. Revealed: the hidden global network behind Tommy Robinson. The British far-right activist Tommy Robinson is receiving financial, political and moral support from a broad array of non-British groups and individuals, including US thinktanks, rightwing Australians and Russian trolls, a Guardian investigation has discovered.

Revealed: the hidden global network behind Tommy Robinson

The Churchill you didn't know. I will not pretend that, if I had to choose between communism and nazism, I would choose communism.

The Churchill you didn't know

Speaking in the House of Commons, autumn 1937 I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes.Writing as president of the Air Council, 1919 It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the east, striding half naked up the steps of the viceregal palace, while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience, to parlay on equal terms with the representative of the Emperor-King.Commenting on Gandhi's meeting with the Viceroy of India, 1931 (India is) a godless land of snobs and bores.In a letter to his mother, 1896 "The choice was clearly open: crush them with vain and unstinted force, or try to give them what they want.

One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. WikiLeaks Reveals How the US Aggressively Pursued Regime Change in Syria, Igniting a Bloodbath. Syrian soldiers and children at a checkpoint in the besieged and devastated city of Homs, Syria, March 23, 2014.

WikiLeaks Reveals How the US Aggressively Pursued Regime Change in Syria, Igniting a Bloodbath

For both sides of Syria's civil war, Homs, a central Syrian crossroads with a diverse prewar population of 1 million, is crucial to the future. (Sergey Ponomarev / The New York Times)

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The abolition of taxes. By using this site, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of use.

The abolition of taxes

Copyright This website and its content are the copyright of the re-set trust. Individuals and communities are granted a general license for unaltered distribution of the copyright material to promote the re-set, as long as this is without commercial gain. You may not: as an individual or community, use the content to promote projects that are not part of the re-set campaign distribute or commercially exploit the content transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system. Privacy notice Our privacy notice explains how we look after your personal data. Visitors to the website your personal data Visitors to our website When you visit our website a cookie identifies and tracks your visit whilst collecting statistical information. Bilderberg Group.

The Bilderberg Group, Bilderberg conference, Bilderberg meetings or Bilderberg Club is an annual private conference of approximately 120–150 political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia and the media.[1][2] About two thirds of the participants come from Europe and the rest from North America; one third from politics and government and the rest from other fields.[1][3] §Origin[edit]

Bilderberg Group

Left Unity. People's Parliament. OpenPolitics. News, Data & Statistics on Income, Health, Social Inequality. The Power of Nightmares - Part 1 - Baby it's Cold Outside - Transcription in progress.

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New Policy Institute. Office for National Statistics (ONS) Output in the Construction Industry, November 2015 In November 2015, output in the construction industry was estimated to have decreased by 0.5% compared with October 2015.

Office for National Statistics (ONS)

All new work was the largest contributor to the fall, decreasing by 0.7%, with repair and maintenance (R&M) falling 0.2%. Index of Production, November 2015 Production output increased by 0.9% in November 2015 compared with November 2014. Manufacturing output decreased by 1.2% in November 2015 compared with November 2014. ONS Beta website available The ONS have been developing a new website to replace the current version. UK Trade, November 2015. Campaign for Fair Society. Tom Hickman: Turning out the lights? The Justice and Security Act 2013. The Justice and Security Act 2013 (“JSA”) received royal assent on 25 April 2013 and Part 2 of the Act is expected to come into effect in July 2013.

Tom Hickman: Turning out the lights? The Justice and Security Act 2013

Part 2 makes fundamental changes to UK law in any civil case involving national security issues by creating an extraordinary and seductive alternative to public interest immunity (“PII”) procedure. OECD. Treasury sees £25billion shortfall from income tax receipts amid low wage growth. Britain’s deficit for 2013-2014 was £48billion larger than was forecast in 2010'Tax gap' grew to £34billion in 2012-2013HMRC is to close 14 offices by the end of the year By Camilla Canocchi for Thisismoney.co.uk Published: 16:29 GMT, 16 October 2014 | Updated: 16:29 GMT, 16 October 2014.

Treasury sees £25billion shortfall from income tax receipts amid low wage growth