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Every teenager is likely to face a criminal record check under plans for all young people to take part in compulsory community service.

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From Information Clearing House

By John Pilger

The Brown government is to mount a "fire sale" of public assets and services worth £16bn. Unmatched since Margaret Thatcher's transfer of public wealth to a new gross elite, the sale, or theft, will include the Channel Tunnel rail link, bridges, the student loan bank, school playing fields, libraries and public housing estates. The plunder of the National Health Service and public education is already under way.

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By John Pilger

The theft of public money by members of parliament, including government ministers, has given Britons a rare glimpse inside the tent of power and privilege. It is rare because not one political reporter or commentator, those who fill tombstones of column inches and dominate broadcast journalism, revealed a shred of this scandal. It was left to a public relations man to sell the "leak". Why?

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Darling unveils 50% top tax rate

Alistair Darling has announced a new top tax rate of 50% for those earning more than £150,000 from next April.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8011321.stm


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Adam Smith Institute
by James Lawson

03/31/09

One of Brown’s plans to boost the economy and his poll ratings, sooner rather than later, regardless of the costs, is the ‘biggest financial stimulus the world has ever seen.’ Few think Britain is in the right shape for a stimulus. Mervyn King has warned against it, markets warned too, and voters will only support it in the hope that the economy will recover. It seems Brown will undertake any frantic measure available to boost the economy during his term, without regard for future burdens. He is playing a political and irresponsible game, inconsistent with his supposed focus on economic stability...

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