While Gordon Brown spends his summer vacation in Scotland, possibly looking for a new job, and his ‘stand-ins’ try to make the headlines in the national press, it is time to start wondering how Labour is going to survive the next few years. Given the public’s disappointment over recent political events and our perception of […]
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Time For ‘Dinosaur’ MPs To Be Extinct!
Just when we thought the public scandal over the expenses claimed by our parliamentary representatives was dying down, one of their number seems to have woken up from a coma and announced that he thinks the salaries of his buddies should be doubled, in exchange for not claiming some of the living expenses of the […]
NHS – In Sickness Or In Health?
Right wing politicians in the USA have been knocking our NHS system and predictably, our own political leaders have been very vocal in, rather hastily, jumping to it’s defence. While it is admirable for them to do so, a cynic might focus on the fact that almost 1.4 million people are employed by the NHS […]
You’re All Just Jealous!
If you’re looking for an example of just how contemptuous some MPs still are after being caught milking the expenses system, you do not have to look further than Conservative MP, Anthony Steen. He was revealed in the recent Telegraph revelations for letting his daughter live rent free in the London flat used to claim […]
Minister Suspended For ‘Sloppy Accounting’
When was the last time you made the ‘mistake’ of forgetting you had paid off your mortgage? To most sane people it would sound ridiculous. Not so, apparently, to ex-Labour minister Elliot Morley, who has been exposed by the Telegraph as yet another greedy MP fleecing the public purse with his expenses. He has claimed […]
BBC On-Air Battle with a Labour Lord
Another day of revelations about MPs and their shameful and excessive expense claims. Opposition Leader, David Cameron, is claiming to be “appalled” at the stories and is insisting that members of his party, who have been named and shamed, must pay the money back or risk being expelled from his party. One of the most […]
Expenses Of A ‘Sorry’ Pog Of MPs
Instead of hanging their heads in shame, as most of us would do, Members of Parliament – from all parties – have defended their over excessive use of the parliamentary expenses system, by saying they have done nothing wrong and have only claimed what is allowable under the rules. Some have said a half hearted […]
Parliamentary P***Heads!
Foreign Office Minister, Gilliam Merron, has been forced to reveal that the government holds a staggering 39,500 bottles of wine, spirits and liqueurs worth around £792,000 in the parliamentary cellars. Maybe, it was because they needed the additional storage space, that they sold all of our gold reserve at bottom of market prices and why […]
The Value Of Wealth!
Today, sees the publication of the annual Sunday Times Rich List. As its name suggests, it is a league table of the richest people in the UK. According to news reports, it seems those listed this year, have seen their fortunes decline over the past 12 months. Those fortunes have suffered heavily through falling property […]