The Senior Citizens Party (www.seniorcitizensparty.org.uk) expressed itself decidedly disappointed with the Chancellor's Pre-Budget Report. |  |
The Senior Citizens Party (www.seniorcitizensparty.org.uk) is appalled at the pathetic lack of storage of our energy companies which puts them - and more important all their customers - at the mercy of sudden rises in the price of oil and gas. | |
The Senior Citizens Party ( www.seniorcitizensparty.org.uk )congratulates the House of Lords who voted by 309 -118 against plans to extend the time terror suspects can be held without charge to 42 days. | |
The theme of this year’s International Day of Older Persons, “Rights of Older Persons”, is especially apt in this year in which we mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. | |
"Gordon Brown's pledge to provide free insulation to all pensioners has turned out to be a complete scam," says Grahame Leon-Smith, Party Leader of the Senior Citizens Party (www.seniorcitizensparty.org.uk)." | |
The Senior Citizens Party ( www.seniorcitizensparty.org.uk ) warmly congratulates Alex Salmond and the SNP for fulfilling their election promise to abolish the manifestly unfair Council Tax and replace it with an infinitely fairer Local Income Tax. | |
Some of our Seniors can still remember the start of the 2nd World War, its causes and its terrible consequences, with millions of people killed, the majority of them Russians, but Vladimir (power behind the throne) Putin is too young to remember any of this. | |
We call upon the Government to make all sports facilities available to Seniors at a nominal charge during the hours of 9.00am to 5.00pm when people who are in fulltime employment cannot use them. | |
The Senior Citizens Party (www.seniorcitizensparty.org.uk) calls upon the European Commission and the European Council of Ministers to abandon the Treaty of Lisbon in accordance with European Law | |
Senior Citizens Party warmly congratulates the Irish people and Libertas on successfully defending democracy in the EU. | |
The Senior Citizens Party (www.seniorcitizensparty.org.uk) condemns the Government's obsession with extending the power to imprison suspected terrorists without charging them from 28 to 42 days and its refusal to consider other simpler and more common sense solutions. | |
"The ludicrously high fuel prices in the UK are crippling the motorist and deliberately increasing the cost of living," says the Senior Citizens Party | |
The Senior Citizens Party is appalled at the way in which Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, has betrayed the police force, on whom the whole country depends for the fight against increasing crime | |
The Senior Citizens Party (www.seniorcitizensparty.org.uk) congratulates Chief Executive of British Airways, Willie Walsh, on refusing his £700,000 bonus because of the Terminal 5 fiasco. | |
The Senior Citizens Party (www.seniorcitizensparty.org.uk) believes that every child has a right to two parents, a father and a mother, and everything possible should be done to ensure this. | |
The Senior Citizens Party (www.seniorcitizensparty.org.uk), which represents the 20.6 million Seniors, age 50 or over, who make up 43% of the voting population, welcomes the Chancellor's announcement | |
The Senior Citizens Party (www.seniorcitizensparty.org.uk) congratulates Prime Minister Gordon Brown on his decision to reclassify cannabis as a Class B drug, overruling his own Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.
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"The Labour Party fully deserves this defeat because for years now they have refused to listen to the voters", says the Senior Citizens Party (www.seniorcitizensparty.org.uk) which represents over 20 million Seniors age 50 or over who make up 43% of the voting population. | |
The Senior Citizens Party (www.seniorcitizensparty.org.uk) wishes to thank all the Labour MPs with heart who fought so bravely and successfully on behalf of the 5.3 million poor and pensioners who had their tax increased from 1 April when everyone else had their tax reduced. | |
The Senior Citizens Party (www.seniorcitizensparty.org.uk) is calling on the Prime Minister to restore the 10% tax band which has penalised the very people the Government needs to help most, the poor and the pensioners. | |
There was a time when MPs, like doctors and teachers, were considered to be models of honesty and integrity, but not any more. After the "Cash for Honours" scandal and the failure of MPs to register donations in accordance with the system that they themselves laid down, we now have the disgraceful spectacle of MPs misappropriating their allowances in order to line their own pockets or those of their immediate families. | |
The proposed closure of 169 post offices throughout London will disadvantage thousands and possibly hundreds of thousands of London residents who currently have a local post office within easy walking distance. | |
Environment Minister Phil Woolas has only just realised that older people who use less water are actually subsidising those who use more, but water meters have been available since 1987 and ensure that people only pay for the water they use, as with other utilities. | |
The Chancellor's well-trumpeted winter fuel increase for people over 60 is a complete confidence trick says the Senior Citizens Party (www.seniorcitizensparty.org.uk). Far from being a generous increase, it is a swingeing cut! | |
The main problem with the UK tax system is that it is far too complicated, allegedly the most complicated tax system in the world. This inevitably leads to hundreds of thousands of accountants whose main task is to find ways of avoiding tax, and almost as many employed by the Government to prevent them doing so.
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The Senior Citizens Party (www.seniorcitizensparty.org.uk) warmly congratulates the Welsh Assembly on its decision to ban hospital parking charges wef 1 April 2008. | |
Seniors agree that the £14 million fine on Network Rail for the New Year chaos was well deserved, but who is going to pay it ? | |
John McCain is campaigning to become President of the United States at the age of 71 but, not to be outdone, John Flunder, who is a very young 78, has decided to stand as the Senior Candidate for Mayor of London.
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In December the Senior Citizens Party (www.seniorcitizensparty.org.uk) called upon Speaker, Michael Martin, to resign after the discovery that the House of Commons Commission, which he chairs, had spent two years and more than £17,000 of taxpayers' money trying to conceal MPs' travelling expenses and overturn the ruling by the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas. | |
The Senior Citizens Party, aka the Anti-Sleaze, Anti-Hypocrisy, Anti-Spin Party, http://www.seniorcitizensparty.org.uk warmly congratulates Ben Wallace, Conservative MP for Lancaster and Wyre, for publishing all the details of his expense claims on his website (www.benwallacemp). | |
The Senior Citizens Party (www.seniorcitizensparty.org.uk) has roundly condemned the so-called "Sleaze Committee" (also known as the Members' Estimates Committee) as "asking poachers to investigate gamekeepers". | |
"MPs are not above the law", says the Senior Citizens Party (www.seniorcitizensparty.org.uk), "and if they visit criminals or suspected criminals in prison they should expect to be searched and possibly bugged in the same way as any ordinary member of the public." | |
The Senior Citizens Party congratulates Conservative Leader David Cameron on his forthright campaign to strengthen the "Stop and Search" law and to reduce the paper chase that is preventing the police from doing their job properly, both of which are long overdue. | |
The Senior Citizens Party condemns the Government's obsession with extending the power to imprison suspected terrorists without charging them from 28 to 42 days, and its persistent refusal to consider other simpler and more common sense solutions. | |
New Liberal Democrat Leader, Nick Clegg, has appointed Greg Holland, MP for Leeds North West, as the official LibDem spokesman for Seniors, the first of the three main parties to realise the importance of the 20.6 million over-50s who make up 43% of the voting population. | |
The Senior Citizens Party (www.seniorcitizensparty.org.uk) warmly welcomes Liam Byrne's announcement that the UK's border controls are to be tightened, and the 10-point action plan, most of which is based on the US border controls which were introduced at all airports and ports within a few months of 9/11. | |
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The Senior Citizens Party welcomes the Government's proposal to postpone the issue of full driving licences until the age of 18. | |
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