The FTSE100, the Floor, and other things that are going to meet
2nd Mar 2009 19:35:29
Ah, pensions, pensions, pensions. I must confess, I've grown a bit bored. Now, I want Goodwin to get his pension taken away, I'll admit that. But Herr Harman wants to retroactively change legislation to remove the guy's pension. A disgrace, quite frankly. It smacks of a government pathetically trying to pander to public opinion, happy to break international and EU law in order to do so.
The FTSE100 closed at 3,625.83 today. How fun. Yes, the stocks crashed from 6,000 to 4,000 about 6 months ago, and then they stabilised, and now it's going down again. Cross fingers that it's going to recover. If it drops below about 3,280, then it'll be at its lowest for 10 years.
And good news: Freedom :D The Liberal Democrats, what with loving freedom and all that, have a Freedom Bill proposed at the moment. I can't sum it up better than it's been summed up already, so I'll just copy and paste the information in an obvious attempt to pad out the blog post. The bill aims to:
* Ensure that there are no restrictions in the right to trial by jury for serious offences including fraud.
* Restore the right to protest in Parliament Square, at the heart of our democracy.
* Abolish the flawed control orders regime.
* Renegotiate the unfair extradition treaty with the United States.
* Restore the right to public assembly for more than two people.
* Scrap the ContactPoint database of all children in Britain.
* Strengthen freedom of information by giving greater powers to the Information Commissioner and reducing exemptions.
* Stop criminalising trespass.
* Restore the public interest defence for whistleblowers.
* Prevent allegations of ‘bad character’ from being used in court.
* Restore the right to silence when accused in court.
* Prevent bailiffs from using force.
* Restrict the use of surveillance powers to the investigation of serious crimes and stop councils snooping.
* Restore the principle of double jeopardy in UK law.
* Remove innocent people from the DNA database.
* Reduce the maximum period of pre-charge detention to 14 days.
* Scrap the ministerial veto which allowed the Government to block the release of Cabinet minutes relating to the Iraq war.
* Require explicit parental consent for biometric information to be taken from children.
* Regulate CCTV following a Royal Commission on cameras.
Like Democracy, freedom, Habaes Corpus, hundreds of years of legislation designed to protect citizens from the current bunch of communists we have in power? Sign the petition.
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