Background On December the 20th in 2007 the Dutch MoD and Schelde Marinebouw (now: Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding) signed a contract for the construction of 4 patrol vessels. These vessels were the result of the Marinestudie 2005 which proposed to sell 4 M-class (Karel Doorman class) frigates. With that money 4 patrol vessels should be bought, the Marine Corps should be strengthened, getting mor...
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InformationDissemination on 12th Mar 2010 (via informationdissemination.net)
You could raise a lot of money if you sold the future rights to tax North Sea oil for example. But no the Scots lead government of the anti-English Labour party instead plans to: 1) Sell the right to Tax the English for a crossing they have already more than paid for at Dartford. 2) Sell the English student loan book ( maybe some Welsh and Irish in there somewhere ). 3) Sell the Channel Tunnel rai...
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ManInAShed on 11th Oct 2009 (via atoryblog.blogspot.com)
Holland’s first game in the 1974 World Cup, when they first revealed their brand of “Total Football”
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SocialistUnity on 6th Jul 2010 (via socialistunity.com)
Eni is ready to sell its Transitgas and TENP pipelines on the market and sell its TAG pipeline to a public entity, Eni Chief Executive Paolo Scaroni said on Thursday (4 February), adding however it will hang on to transport rights in all three assets. Eni, the world's seventh-biggest listed oil company, has been the object of an EU antitrust probe since 2007 over allegations it restricted riva...
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EurActiv on 5th Feb 2010 (via euractiv.com)
The South Yorkshire Times reports that “the Labour Party has chosen Coun Sandra Holland as its candidate for the mayoral elections in Doncaster next year. Coun Holland has represented Conisbrough and Denaby on Doncaster Council since 2006. She also worked for Don Valley MP Caroline Flint for five years. Coun Holland was selected from a
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LabourMatters on 27th Oct 2008 (via labourmatters.com)
Pay Update No 11 - MoD pay petition PCS pay update No 10, asked all members to write to John Hutton, the MoD secretary of state regarding the potential imposition of the MoD pay offer from 1 May...
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Tigmoo on 16th Apr 2009 (via pcsshropshire.selfip.org)
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is "throwing away millions" of tax payers money on poorly designed private finance initiative (PFI) projects, according to national audit office (NAO) statistics released today.
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PoliticsCoUk on 30th Oct 2008 (via politics.co.uk)
When Channel 4's Dispatches ran a programme about how the Government squandered millions, nay billions, on lots of seemingly frivilous things it included a revelation about how the MoD spent serious amounts of money on some of the most expensive chairs you could possibly buy for an office. I don't recall the exact figure but it was stupidly large given it was only spending on chairs. Clearly, this...
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DizzyThinks on 23rd Mar 2009 (via dizzythinks.net)
Labour's Westminster Councillors have welcomed the news that health food chain Holland and Barrett has become the first high street chain to ban plastic bags from all 12 of its Westminster stores. Customers at all Holland and Barrett's 539 shops across the UK will no longer be offered disposable bags to carry home their purchases, as part of a drive to cut down on waste. Other retailers ...
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LabourMatters on 5th Jan 2010 (via labourmatters.com)
The Ministry of Defence is planning to sell large numbers of its new Eurofighters to countries including Japan because it can no longer afford the orders it has been claimed.
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Telegraph on 20th Aug 2008 (via telegraph.co.uk)