Town halls should dip into their "Fort Knox"-style bank accounts containing billions of pounds to soften the blow of spending cuts, Eric Pickles has said.

Town halls should dip into their "Fort Knox"-style bank accounts containing billions of pounds to soften the blow of spending cuts, Eric Pickles has said.

Squeal like a stuck piggy for Timmy here! Global Geo-Politics Net is carrying an important article by David Cronin highlighting the desperate need for a civil society campaign to counter the might of financial lobbying by banks and hedge funds. Besieged by legions of well-funded financial lobbyists (reinforced by columns of financial

As an update on my betting post, I am a loser. My bets largely centred on the Lib Dem vote having some weight and at the very least not dropping. That's not what happened. I lost all the money I made on the leaders debates and the credit in my Ladbrokes piggy bank is 50p. Let that be a lesson to all!

Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard To get her poor doggie a bone, When she got there the cupboard was bare because she had spent 13 years creating public sector non-jobs for people with worthless degrees. So the poor little doggie shat in her bed. ------------------------ This little piggy went to market, This little piggy stayed at home, This little piggy had roast beef, And this little pigg...

Telegraph View: Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, is to introduce compulsory lessons on financial management for children from the age of five.

Jude Robinson has called on government and MPs of all parties to involve people in constitutional reform of Parliament and MPs' expenses. Jude said: "On expenses, people just want MPs to be honest and not treat the public purse as their private piggy bank. But this has become part of the bigger issue about the outdated 'gentleman's club' traditions of parliament and democracy. ...

Some problems with blogger main pages - including my own and Guido's - crashing all my various species of browsers at the moment. Not sure if it the computer I'm on. That's to get the best piggy back on the neighbour's wifi broadband. Mine is out. Virgin are verging on the useless with a 3-5 day turn round for a replacement cable modem. Guido is having a go at the hapless Rt Ho...

There’s no peace for a blogger this morning. Earlier today I gave Andrew George, whose flat is sometimes used by his daughter, a stern 4/5 for piggy-wiggyness. My basis for this was that, whatever the precise ratio of usage between Andrew and his daughter, I didn’t want to pay for something that was for her

Some of the things that these MP’s are claiming for. Sheesh. Phil Woolas, the Home Office Minister, claimed for items of women’s clothing, tampons and nappies. Just think through that. The allowances system is to cover the extra costs. The extra costs of needing to maintain two homes. Babies don’t shit any more, women don’t