Cameron has said that he feels it is good the the courts are sending a tough message out to everyone. He explained that it is teh decision of the courts as to what sentences they decide on but he felt that it is was good that they felt they were able to send out a tough message.

It is felt that over sentencing may result in many people appealing against their sentences. However, these may not be so widely publicised as the original sentencing, which sends out a string message to anyone who is tempted to get involved in rioting or theft.

There has been a suggestion by the BBC legal correspondent that the courts themselves have got involved in an act of collective hysteria by giving out tough sentences together in the same way that the rioters and looters did. The public mood is that they should be made an example of and with this pressure they may get carried away. However, because they have guidelines as to what the sentence should be, then they are just sticking to those and there is no reason why they should not be tough when this country needs to do everything that it can to prevent something like this happening again.

The government are cutting back on public services, but this is because the country is in a huge amount of debt. If we do not get out of debt then things will just get worse and worse for future generations and we are all suffering as a result. many of us are thinking that we are prepared to do this so that our children have a better future, but there seem to be a selection of the community who feel that they should never have to suffer. They feel they deserve to be given everything on a plate and they should not have to work for it and this is why they are walking in to shops and stealing things.

What should the government do about this? It is very difficult to know. We could do with giving all children a sense that they can achieve whatever they want. We should fill them with positive affirmations and a sense of ambition so they work hard to get themselves in to a better situation. Perhaps change needs to start in schools or maybe even earlier – should parents be educated in how to bring up their children so that the country can have a more positive nation?

He said that he would not name them and said that there should be no publicity about those who were cleared of suspicion. He said that some cases were due to data entry mistakes by the MP in question or by his department. His letter of resignation stated that he did not feel that the job was the right role for him and that that it was with regret that he wanted to resign the post. His response from Sir Ian Kennedy, the chairman said that he knew the decision has been thought about thoroughly and that it was with regret that he accepted his resignation. Martyn Taylor will take over as acting compliance office moving from hi role as the head of governance and will be the third person to step in to the role in just over a year.

The role has obviously been a difficult one, with so many MP’s being found guilty of not declaring tehir expenses properly or claiming for things which they should not have done. It is obviously a stressful role and one that hopefully, the new post holder will find it to suit them better.

Some MP’s were paying up to ten times the commercial rate for IT equipment such as £3,500 for a desktop PC. The committee said that this was a huge waste of public money.

The government have said that they are making improvements to the way that it bought computer equipment and the current government has stopped overly expensive IT projects.

The committee have recommended that the MP’s use small and medium IT companies for buying tehir equipment so that they can bring down the costs. They went on to say that because many MP’s have very little IT knowledge they use contractors to do a lot of IT which is expensive and it has often meant that systems are ordered which are very over budget and late.

The government has warned that MP’s need to be more vigilant with IT suppliers to make sure that they are getting good value for money. They have also said that they have already put some cost cutting projects in place to help solve this problem. It seems like they need to go to a few price comparison websites before ordering hardware and software and then they would know what sort of prices they could pay for equipment. Obviously some of their items will be specialist and have to come via particular channels, but they would still have an idea of whether things were grossly overpriced or not.

There is pressure to increase interest rates in order to keep down the rate of inflation, which is at quite a high level of 4.5%. However, it is feared that increasing interest rates will slow the growth of the economy even more, because a majority of people will not be able to afford to buy so many things. With the threat of prices rising more, especially energy prices with the rising cost of fuel, it could be a big relief to many people, that their costs will not go up even more.

David Kern, the chief economist of the bank of England explained that if rates were to go up, it would reduce spending which could damage job prospects for many and therefore reduce economic growth. It was felt that the decision to keep interest rates was not at all surprising and with growth looking to be improving, but inflation not changing too much, it is seen that this is a signal that the right thing is being down at the moment by keeping interest rates at tehir present rate.

It is a good time for those with debt to think about how to pay it off. While the cost of borrowing is low, it is tempting to not worry about paying it back. However, once rates start to rise, things could get more difficult and so having a plan now, not necessarily in place yet but in the back of your mind, could be very useful when rates do start to rise.

David Cameron has said that MP’s should face the same pension changes that all other public sector workers are facing. Their scheme is different. However, as part of the coalition agreement, they agreed that they would try to move away from the final salary pension scheme and consult with the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority on this matter.

This should help make the government be seen as fairer in the eyes of the public sector workers, but it is unlikely to make them agree with the decision about the changes being proposed. Whether this will be a time where there will be a lot of strikes will remain to be seen. Once the government do finish tehir negotiations, then it may be that even more public sector unions agree to strike and it could cause even more problems in the country.

With many people striking tomorrow, including teachers, there will be a low productivity in the country tomorrow. This may get even worse if strikes continue and especially if others join in the strikes as well. It seems to be a time of protests and strikes worldwide but with the world slowly limping out of recession, strikes will only make things worse.

Christopher Graham, the information officer requested that the salaries be disclosed after the BBC requested the information under the Freedoms of Information laws. He said that the tax payer should know how much they are paying in the way of salaries, everything should be kept transparent. He went on to say that people in these positions, earning very high salaries should expect that some information about them should be made public and this should include the amount that they earn. He said that people needed to know how salaries are split between different levels within the workforce and how they compare to other workers.

The cabinet office now has just thirty five days to either publish the details or appeal against the decision. It is felt that ministers are happy to publish the information because it will improve transparency, which is something that they are keen to do. How the individuals concerned will feel, will only come out once tehir details are discussed in the media, it is likely that they are dreading this outcome. In a sense it is not tehir fault that they are paid at that level and no one in tehir position woudl ask to be paid less, so it should not be the individuals that are being blamed, but sadly, it is likely that they will be.

Ed Miliband, Labour Leader said that the strikes were a sign of failure. The strikers plan to work an overtime ban for a month after the strike action. It is felt that everyone will feel some sort of effect of this. With job centres and schools closed, no issuing of driving licences and airports and ports having delays, they will be a lot of chaos on the day as well as subsequent days as they catch up with tehir missed work.

Civil servants are being asked to work eight years longer before they can retire and to contribute three times more to tehir pensions which will pay out half. Figures calculated by the government showed that pensions would be about £15,000 a year but the union made calculation based on much lower wage earners and came up with just £4,200 a year, which they considered to be a poverty pension.

Unison has said it is likely to have industrial action and the Prison Officers Association sad its branches would hold protest meetings on the 30th June. As negotiations are still going ahead the TUC said they would wait to see how things progressed before deciding on strike action.

It seems that there may be some sentence cutting in the cases of minor crimes but serious things, such as rape, will still have to keep to the full sentence given.

The thoughts behind this are that this will reduce the cost of housing prisoners. The Ministry of Justice is having to cut £2 bn from its £8.7bn budget and the amount of prisoners also needs to be reduced.

The cuts to this budget are part of the general budget cuts that the government is making. Many people are concerned that it is a dangerous way to cut money. But it depends on how things are done. If inefficiencies in the system are cut, then this woudl certainly help. The best way woudl be to make prisoners earn their keep or have to pay back the money spent on keeping them in prison in the same way that students will have to pay for tehir education fees. Why should criminals live for free when honest hard-working citizens have to pay to keep them. It makes no sense at all.

There have been a few cases this week were Twitter account holders were named. One was a case where Twitter handed over details of a particular person who criticised Council officials in South Tyneside and was accused of slander. This case is very different to the above though, because it was brought about it in a US court. It could pave the way for others to do the same thing though, as it seems that raising the case in a US court will be enough to get the person names.

However, it could be more to do with the circumstances around the case and the simplicity. There was only one Tweeter involved and the council had his name, so it was easy for Twitter to find tehir details. However, the case of the footballer has many people involved and it would take time to search all the sites entries to find out who broke the law.

There have been reports that another social media user has published a selection of names with regards to celebrity gagging orders. It was done by a poster with a brand new Twitter account and this may be because they did not want to be traced.