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Britain’s biggest supermarket chain has lied yet again, publishing misleading figures to give the impression that it had met an industry target to halve the use of plastic bags. The Tesco Empire of Evil claims to be one of the greenest retailers but they missed the target and actively tried to conceal the fact.
Most plastic bags end up in landfill sites where can take up to 1,000 years to decompose. Supermarkets issue more than 4,700 tonnes of plastic bags every single month and most are used only once.
Seven supermarket chains - Empire of Evil, Asda, Sainsbury, Co-op, Marks & Spencer, Somerfield and Waitrose - signed an agreement committing them to cut the number of bags by 50 per cent over the three years to May 2009. This month they reported, via the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), the independent waste watchdog, that they had not met the target. But collectively, they achieved a 48 per cent reduction from 870 million bags in May 2006 to 450 million in May 2009, which is not a bad effort.
However, the six excluding Tesco had more than accomplished their goal because it turns out that the Empire's reduction had been significantly less than 50 per cent despite the fact that they issued a statement on their website on the same day saying “Our customers are now using more than 50 per cent fewer carrier bags than they did before.” A blatant lie that Tesco had to admit when questioned, revealing that its figure had been adjusted to account for growth in sales and did not reflect the chain’s actual performance.
A senior source at Tesco said that "the company was concerned about negative publicity if it were to reveal the real number" so it would not be publishing the actual number of bags used and would not be revealing by how much that number had declined.
Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!
When appointed, the new Commons' Speaker John Bercow, aptly pronouced Berk-oh, promised to help restore public trust in Parliament in the wake of the MPs’ expenses scandal, and said he would lead by example and stop claiming the controversial second home allowance.
But within just a few weeks of being elected to his new position, he has ordered a series of alterations, redecoration and new furnishings for his grace-in-favour, rent-free home in the Palace of Westminster costing more than £20,000. The work will, of course, be paid for by the taxpayer.
The refurbishment plans for the Speaker’s House (published by The Daily Telegraph) show that £7,524.30 has been spent on just a new sofa and window seat cushions for his drawing room in the grandiose apartment which overlooks the Thames.
Michael Martin, Berk-oh's predecessor as Speaker, already spent more than a staggering £1.7m refurbishing the very same residence between 2001 and early 2008.
Berk-oh, the Conservative MP for Buckingham, vowed to be a modernising influence on Parliament and during his campaign he said “It is high time the House was run by professionals on a transparent basis, ensuring that we are accountable to the people who put us here.” After his installation he declared he would stop claiming the second home allowance, which is worth up to £24,006 to MPs this year.
Frankly, that's a pretty shallow statement when you are provided with a free, central London, Charles Barry-designed apartment that contains a state dining room and is in the shadow of Big Ben, for which you have a bottomless pit of taxpayers cash from which you immediately pillage over twenty grand for alterations and designer furniture!
Incredibly, a further £20,000 has been allocated to cover 'general maintenance'. Berk-oh has told Commons staff that he will personally pay for other items such as a children’s Wendy house that will go on the terrace, a climbing frame for the Speaker’s Green adjacent to the apartment and that he has spent far less than his predecessor. Oh, well that's OK then!
Incidentally, Berk-oh still owns a flat in a block nearby which he bought six years ago and on which he was expensing £1,050 per month in mortgage interest payments until his appointment as Speaker. He is also one of the MPs who abused the system to avoid Capital Gains Tax on the sale of two properties and claimed for an accountant to help fill in his tax return.
Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!
The Vile Master Criminal and ex-Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair spent this summer on the world's second largest yacht in Sardinia. He and his family joined Larry Ellison aboard his $150m superyacht.
After enjoying the luxurious surroundings the Vile Master Criminal then jetted off in an equally impressive speed boat with his minders (paid by the British taxpayer) for some time ashore.
Yesterday the boat was seen cruising off the Emerald Coast in Sardinia.
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