Abigail Brady

The front page of today's Independent seems to have a sense of proportion, at least.

This years Appropiation Act is actually itemised!

See the contents. You get to see exactly how much each mission statement costs.

From this we learn that the Home Office spent £12,341,608,000 on 'building a safe, just and tolerant society', the Department of Transport spent £11,031,616,000 on 'promoting modern, integrated and safe transport and providing customer-focused regulation'. Meanwhile, the Department of Health spent £50,965,112,000 on 'securing health care for those who need it'.

So, apparently they want to create a crime of 'inciting religious hatred' in order to protect Muslims. Of course.

I work in Leicester South and have been observing stuff randomly. Judging by the number of posters going up it is going to be a shoe-in for the Lib Dems, with RESPECT coming second, Labour third and the Tories nowhere. However, posters don't vote, so who knows?