New immigration stats out today show that 2010 set a new record for net migration into the UK. The figure hit 252,000 – a 27 per cent increase on 2009 and 7,000 higher than the previous record in 2004:   As this graph shows, the number of immigrants moving to the UK has actually been fairly constant – at around 580,000 – since 2004 (when the 'accession eight' count...

Yesterday saw the UK record the highest inflation rate in 16 years -- this was met with a bit of a ho-hum by the media which hails Gordon Brown as the saviour of the economic universe. Today sees the UK announce ever rising unemployment.  It is this measure which I believe we see grow MUCH worse in the next year. The government  has been cheating at declsring the actual number of unemplo...

The UK borrowed a record amount of money in September, to boost its public finances, official figures show.

So a few weeks on from the great bail out of the UK financial system by the government throwing billions of taxpayers cash at failing business, where are we? Well, I see that the UK FTSE has plunged again today, this time to another staggering low. Why? Well, the media is full of talk of the UK plunging into recession - and who can doubt this? Government prepares to help us all by throwing even mo...

A record increase in food prices has kept inflation above three per cent and led to warnings that the cost of living will keep rising.

I was pleased to see Labour Local Government minister John Healey, who I first met when we both were involved with Public Concern at Work in 1996, respond to my post on Labour List calling for more challenge on the right-wing Tory local government record. The idea has a real buzz to it - Labour also launched a strategy today Under Scrutiny, which puts the spotlight on the Tory track record across ...

The European Parliament yesterday voted to increase the EU budget by 5.9% to €130bn on the same day that Chancellor George Osborne announced huge spending cuts in the UK. The EP’s proposed budget increase for 2011 would increase the UK’s gross contribution to the EU budget by over £840m.

Labour MPs feast on the body politic, earlier I don't know when the doctor will pronounce, but the Labour government is, de facto, dead. The useless media have suddenly woken up to the corruption and incompetence that has been visible to anybody who wanted to look for the last decade, even "Toenails" Robinson has dared to speak ill of the Bollock Juggler. The formerly supine media is full of artic...

... while life imitates art: In the best Stalinist manner, DEFRA informs us that there has been 'A Record British wheat harvest' and further that "Results show a record wheat harvest of 17.5 million tonnes, an increase of 32 per cent on 2007, mainly caused by a record yield of 8.4 tonnes per hectare, combined with a 13 per cent increase in wheat area to 2.1 million hectares. Excellent planting con...

Gordon Brown may have resigned today but record numbers of people refused to resign themselves to the new Conservative/Lib Dem government without a fight, as record numbers joined the Labour Party. Over a thousand people had already joined Labour before Gordon resigned, but afterwards the already record number of new members INCREASED to 20 a minute