Outraged drivers accused South Sefton Police of employing ‘child labor’ in a controversial PR stunt aimed at improving road safety. The police enlisted the help of local 10-year-old children for a ‘speeding operation’ where they pointed speed guns at motorists on ‘dangerous’ roads. While the police claimed it was an effort to educate drivers, many criticized the... 

Poland is planning on opening its borders to 100 000 Filipino workers, claiming a ‘labour shortage’ due to its ageing population. In a very civic nationalist approach, Poland’s Deputy Labor Minister Stanislaw Szwed has said that “[The Philippines] have good solutions because they are co-ordinated by a government employment agency. Poland was chosen because our country is close to them culturally,... 

Thousands of protesters have marched on the Conservatives’ campaign HQ, parliament, Downing Street and are now marching through central London. According to Press TV’s correspondent in London, Narges Moballeghi, the protesters are angry that a party with only about 37% of the vote has a majority in government. They say the Tory’s will destroy the country even further in the next... 

Nearly a third of Conservative voters would prefer their party to enter into coalition with Ukip if it fails to win next year’s general election outright, a new survey reveals. The 30 percent figure is only a fraction below the 31 percent of potential voters who would favour continuing the current Liberal Democrats partnership should there be another hung parliament in 2015. Ukip voters, however,... 

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) declares itself the official opposition after making big gains in local elections. UKIP is averaging 25% of the vote in the wards where it is standing with more than 140 seats so far, the state-run BBC reported. Labour stands in the lead and the Conservatives in second place with 29% and 25% respectively. UKIP is also in third place with 23% of votes while the Liberal... 

Romanian Workers Spain has been given the green light by the EU executive to tighten restrictions on Romanian workers as it struggles with the highest unemployment in the 27-nation block. Spain will now require Romanians to have a work contract before settling in Spain and reverses a two and a half year moratorium that gave Romanian workers unrestricted access as fellow members of the European Union. The... 

Misjudged? Vince Cable has said he thought the cap was too tough. The public, including a sizeable majority of Lib Dem supporters, want far stricter controls on immigration to the UK, according to a poll released last night. The YouGov survey found 81 per cent support for the government’s cap on economic migration – which will slash the number of non-EU workers given visas by a fifth. It... 

Funded by the taxpayer: Mashal Almansour, 38, at Cale Green Nursing Home, Stockport, fears that if he's deported back to Jordan he'll die within weeks An illegal immigrant and convicted fraudster is fighting deportation to the Middle East because he claims it infringes his human rights as he needs regular dialysis for kidney failure. And in a move that critics said underlined the chaos of Britain’s... 

A leading economic think tank has predicted that income tax will increase in stage to 6 pence in the pound to fund “recovery” — while the Lib-Lab-Con axis of deceit continue to conceal their real plans for massive tax hikes. It has been revealed in a report by the prestigious National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR) that plans by the establishment parties to make cuts in spending... 

Labour's early release scheme for inmates is being scrapped (posed by model) Labour was last night accused of a cynical election ploy after scrapping its controversial early release scheme for prisoners only weeks before polling day. Jack Straw announced the ending of the scheme, which has resulted in nearly 80,000 offenders walking free 18 days before their sentence reaches its halfway point. The... 

A scheme to relax immigration laws to allow tens of thousands of unskilled workers to enter the country to build Olympic sites is being drawn up for ministers. Migrant workers may be needed to complete the stadiums for the 2012 Games and also to work on separate engineering projects, Government advisers believe. But the prospect of a new wave of immigration for construction schemes – at a time... 

British Muslims A police officer in Newport, Gwent, attempted to halt the filming of an Islamic martyr march led by the Tory Welsh Assembly member Mohammad Asghar. Mr Asghar led the annual event — as he did last year as a Plaid Assembly member – proving that there is no difference at all between the Tory and Plaid parties (and the Labour Party, of which Mr Asghar was also previously a member).... 

The schools secretary, Ed Balls, today ordered a review to crack down on racism and British National party activity in schools as he called on the Labour party to embark on the general election “fight of our lives”. Speaking to the Labour party conference in Brighton, Balls revealed three new policies including the plan for a review by the former chief inspector of schools, Maurice... 

Promises by Tories and Labour that they will implement immigration controls are a pack of lies, because control of Britain’s borders is about to be passed to the European Union which both those parties support. The shocking development will be the consequence of next week’s imminent re-election of European Commission (EC) president Jose Manuel Barroso. This EC president and his fellow Euro bureaucrats... 

Thirty years ago, the Labour Prime Minister Jim Callaghan found himself in almost exactly the same predicament Gordon Brown does today. In 1979, the British public finances were in disarray. However, a general election against Margaret Thatcher’s resurgent Tory Party was just round the corner. Callaghan faced a hideous choice: he could come clean about the scale of the problem and make deep and...