Motorists should not to expect "freebies" on fuel duty from the Government, Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, has warned

The Business Secretary warns the Government does not have the budget to be giving away freebies.

In so far as Certified Liberal Deep Thinker Vince Cables' latest line of attack is to accusse the right of wanting to send kids up chimineys, it does ram home an important point: there are no good arguments left for liberalism. People on the right are arguing that a recession is no time to be treating our last surviving private businesses as pinata donkeys full of employee freebies, meanwhile the ...

Many MPs have recieved free tickets to sporting events, according to the latest Register of Members' Interests.

I've been rained on; I've hugged confidantes, candidates and Cabinet ministers; and, like everyone else, I've kept a wide berth of the glum Labour hack staffing the TUC stall despite all the freebies they're offering. Yes, it can only be Liberal Democrat Conference time again. For the first time ever, the thing the media say we're all talking about really is the thing we&#...

A new front opened up in the Westminster expenses scandal last night after it emerged that MPs are travelling around the world on hundreds of trips a year paid for by the taxpayer and foreign governments.

"Don't worry, Mick, this is all just a smokescreen! We've got the votes, and we've got the power, so you just get up on the Speaker's chair and do exactly as you've been doing since you came into Parliament, which is what the Labour Party says, needs and wants! Just think of the things you'll be able to swing; the freebies for your wife with the taxis and the extra ca...

Free personal care, free university and free prescriptions on the way. Ten years ago yesterday the first MSPs were sworn in, and a decade on the most obvious effect on the welfare state is a festival of freebies. If it were one of the stale old jokes, the Englishman would be left scratching his head, trying to figure out how exactly his canny neighbour had managed to arrange affairs so he never ha...

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A cabbie asked me yesterday how much the return train fare was from my end of the world to the big smoke. When I told him, he said: "That's not bad." No, it's not bad, especially when you consider all the freebies, like listening to the banal dribblings of fuckwits and cockwafts who want to share their pathetic, miserable lives with everyone at the top of their voices, or the corpse-like smell of ...