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2009-05-13 … I came across. From the Telegraph, via Devil’s Kitchen, the top ten ways in which MPs can maximise their expenses claims. From PoliticsHome, the MP SleazeMeter. Enjoy! Webcameron: Nick Clegg on Lib Dem expenses (courtesy of BBC): more about “BBC NEWS | Politics | Nick Clegg on e…“, posted with …
2009-04-28 Oh dear. It seems like Gordon Brown hasn’t been given an easy ride by the watchers of his YouTube video on MP’s expenses. You know, the one in which he randomly grins as though someone off-camera keeps holding up a weak joke on a piece of card every 30 …
2007-12-13 … underlying cause of the Atrocity lay in the CCAA’s disregard for upholding troop discipline and morality. It had no specialized military police (MP) units, and the few individual MPs who were on hand could not possibly maintain order. As one attached to the Tenth Army bewailed, “With less than …
2009-06-17 … hatchet jobs has rather neatly combined with the Telegraph's political reporting being sub-contracted to the Witchfinder General, and Jim Devine, MP for Livingston, has been ditched by the Labour Party's NEC. Devine's deviation was two-fold: firstly, he claimed two grand in expenses for re-wiring …
2009-06-28 … and multi-member constituencies, so there is a tradition there, and simply bring that back but use a different method this time for electing the MPs), e.g. a two-member Reading constituency using STV, next door to a one-member Newbury constituency using AV, which is itself next door to a …
2009-06-20 … to say "Thank you- have some dosh" to nor enough potential Labour supporters for the Government to say "If we help these sick children we could get an MP elected here […] There is another issue I want to address. Sometimes, it is sneered that these charities are being "greedy" and are …
2009-05-25 … has knowledge of dealing with many issues- such as consumer affairs and child protection- during her career on TV, and would be well placed as an MP to get her teeth into things which affect ordinary people. Although it won't go down well if in her maiden speech to Parliament she describes fellow …
2009-05-16 … to rise above party politics for the good of the nation and form a coalition government. One aspect of this was the "by-election truce" whereby if an MP died (or, more likely was killed) or resigned, then the other two main parties would allow that party to run a candidate unopposed, e.g. if a Labour …
2009-05-16 … constituency, and hence if he is at his main home and he wants to write to his MP about something, he has to write to a fellow Conservative MP, Julie Kirkbride. He wouldn't even need to put a stamp on it and walk to a post office. He could leave the letter on the kitchen table. Meanwhile, …
2007-10-15 … with whom he had a long relationship. In 1983 he was adopted for Dunfermline East, a safe seat which he duly won at the 1983 election. He was now an MP. Westminster Politically Brown was never wild and woolly left, CND and so forth but tended to see Attlee’s achievements-nationalisation, welfare …
2008-12-02 … Well, in Edmonton, the "anti" folks are said to be rallying at "Duncan Office," which I have to imagine is shorthand for "Edmonton-Strathcona MP Linda Duncan's constituency office." But there's a funny thing about that--I was just talking to the divine Ms. Duncan, and she told me that her …
2008-11-29 … of a party leader. This is because you're not actually voting for a party leader. No, seriously, you're not. Your power is limited to voting for your MP. Really and truly. Among other things, this means that Stephen Harper, in and of himself, did NOT win the 40th general election. Oh, he did win an …
2008-10-15 … literally dozens of other people who have every right to be just as proud. It was a hell of a team, and Linda Duncan is going to make one hell of an MP. # The internet campaigner/webmaster (Idealistic Pragmatist), the campaign manager (Erica Bullwinkle), and the NEW MP FOR EDMONTON-STRATHCONA (Linda …
2009-06-22 … Unionists, just in time to be elected High Sheriff. Then, disillusioned at David Trimble’s unwillingness to shunt aside elderly North Belfast MP Cecil Walker to make way for Nelson, he jumped ship again to the DUP. And now he’s a minister. Hats off to that man. Overall, though (and let’s not …
2009-06-12 … that will satisfy the public. 4. Ensure the party is united. Labour cannot enter an election with any slight chance of success when the majority of MP candidates do not back their leader. Furthermore, Cameron is not untouchable. The Conservatives only polled less than 28% at the European elections, …
2008-03-22 … nominated MP Musikari Kombo is likely to occupy it to satisfy Ford Kenya. However, ODM is also after the seat and is seeking to have Eldoret North MP William Ruto given the ministry because of its high profile. The ministry has over 22 parastatals. Matters are more complicated in ODM where it is …
2008-03-22 … nominated MP Musikari Kombo is likely to occupy it to satisfy Ford Kenya. However, ODM is also after the seat and is seeking to have Eldoret North MP William Ruto given the ministry because of its high profile. The ministry has over 22 parastatals. Matters are more complicated in ODM where it is …
2008-03-22 … Murungi, blamed the elders for mishandling the Referendum campaigns by holding the purse strings too tightly. Late last year, immediate former MP, for Kikuyu and Safina leader, Mr Paul Muite, caused a stir in Central Kenya when he castigated the elders. He blamed them for the hostility the …
2009-06-28 … Affairs and in 2008 when it was announced I won the Martha Gellhorn Prize, several European countries requested Israel grant me a visa but it was MP Hans Van Baalen of the Netherlands who, with great efforts, secured and guaranteed my passage out of Gaza and Israel, as well as the return for both …
2004-08-12 … them have bonuses to their corruption checks (makes them very good for toting that trinket to the Cracks of Doom). All of them are worth at least 1 MP. But wait, there's more (couldn't resist)! They have the ability to burgle a site. They can avoid a site's automatic attacks by rolling a 5 or more …
2008-05-07 … against it, that she wants a referendum on Scottish independence. This is likely to happen in 2010 that is to say at the next General Election. The MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath may find himself unable to stand for the leadership of this Country, since it would simply cease to exist. Now, not …
2009-06-06 The resignation of Dr Ian Gibson MP isn't the biggest headline of the past few days, but it merits some attention. Last week the Labour Party barred Dr Gibson from standing again in …
2009-05-31 … is beyond reproach and his list of candidates standing next week are independent figures (his team includes Esther Rantzen and former anti-sleaze MP Martin Bell) who are determined to clean up politics. Meanwhile, Libertas was founded by charismatic Irish businessman Declan Ganley who, in a …
2009-06-29 … For all David Cameron’s talk of wanting to cut the number of MPs in Westminster, Cranmer would prefer a focus on quality rather than quantity. Being an MP is manifestly part-time: if it were not, they would have no time to be ministers of state. Yet Labour is ordaining that we now need full-time MPs: …
2009-05-08 … Punjabi SS “good governance”. Irony is that most of these clowns hold degrees from United States and UK. More conscientious has been Ayiaz A Mir , the MP from Shaif’s party who has written consistently against Shahbaz Sharif’s mode of governance. The lawyer’s movement and Civil society’s delusions …
2007-09-15 … come in for criticism (mainly by Republicans) as having been set up outside the terms of the Good Friday Agreement as a sop to Unionism. Sinn Féin MP Conor Murphy summed up the typical republican feeling towards the IMC in February 2006. He said, "The IMC was established outside and in breach of …
2009-04-05 … or not does not come speedily, it will soon be too late. On the ground, local ACT-linked people have been busy. Last week I wrote about former ACT MP and now Otago Regional Councillor Gerry Eckhoff's fury at the proposal and decision-making processes. Following the public meeting, enduring local …
2009-03-30 Former ACT MP Gerry Eckhoff delivers a speech at the Dunedin Town Hall, 29 March 2009. (Photo by the author). Local body politics constitutes something of a …
2009-03-17 It's safe to say that Deborah Coddington hasn't been ACT's greatest cheerleader in recent years. Even when she was an MP, she wasn't one to mince words, calling Richard Prebble's stunt-like suggestion in 2004 that ACT merge with National in the wake of Don Brash's …
2009-03-06 … These are just a couple of examples of small but achievable gains ACT could squeeze out of National early on. What is the conference programme? Each MP is naturally allocated a time-slot, but they've clearly been asked to keep it short! In accordance with their list placings, John Boscawen gets 4 …
2009-02-10 … and National is free to ignore him. Instead, the Tories work with Hide and his more workable proposals. And perhaps this sums up Douglas's role as an MP - some noise now and then to generate media coverage, some idealistic proposals - but little real impact on the legislative process.
2009-02-09 … MPs - de facto independents. But this was not more accidental than intentional - obviously they hoped for more votes on the day to gain another MP each. Then we have the Maori Party which trades off the reserved Maori seats. I'm not criticising these parties for doing this - why wouldn't you go …
2008-11-07 … is I've presented myself as a warm guy, never attacks people, positive, Dancing with the Stars-type guy, I've never said a critical thing about an MP since, for over 12 months." "So it was pretty cool actually, just being yourself, and not sort of trying to be Richard Prebble, or trying to be …
2008-09-15 … Hubertus Heil, Secretary General of the German SPD; Eero Heinäluoma former Leader of SDP Finland; Josef Kalina, from SPÖ Austria, Ed Miliband MP from the UK Labour Party; Juan Fernando López Aguilar from Spanish Socialists PSOE, Nicolai Wammen from SD Denmark; and many others as well as …
2006-09-30 … as possible. Reid's current prospects of victory are, of course, not great. The electoral college system the Labour Party now has ensures that each MP's vote is weighted nearly a thousand times more heavily than each ordinary members' - to say nothing of the trade unionists' votes. And with Reid, …
2009-02-23 … into tiny pieces and will most surely become protectorates of the greater Indian Union […] Sri Lanka should now call for Karunanadhi and his 50 of so MP’s to honour their deadline and their promise of resignation without now changing their usual face saving acts of deceit. Sri Lanka should also …
2008-10-28 … into tiny pieces and will most surely become protectorates of the greater Indian Union […] Sri Lanka should now call for Karunanadhi and his 50 of so MP’s to honour their deadline and their promise of resignation without now changing their usual face saving acts of deceit. Sri Lanka should also …
2009-02-10 … - an extremely rare step that the plaintiffs say indicates that the court is taking the case very seriously. The complaint has been lodged by MP Peter Gauweiler, who argues that the proposed Treaty calls into question the principle of democracy, a cornerstone of Germany's constitution, as it …
2008-05-17 … deputy leader is falling as that of the former Ontario premier is rising. "It comes down to basic political judgment and understanding," said one MP. "With Rae you're dealing with someone who does know politics. There is a depth to him that allows him to interact more naturally with caucus [than …
2008-04-05 … when he was Premier had not changed, even though he was 47 when he was finally voted out as Premier? I don't think so. What about NDP's former MP Svend Robinson who was 53 when he stepped down after admitting to stealing a ring for his lover? Did the NDP think that his views regarding stealing …
2009-05-30 … to join that government with his bunch of ministers’ support to become a cabinet minister. This time he lost the elections and could not even become a MP also. The same is the state of our ex Railway Minister, Lalu Prasad Yadav. He decided to go to the elections all of his own and did not accept the …
2009-03-23 … that the ALP will gain 53 of the 89 seats, the LNP 31 with 5 seats going to other candidates. The analysts are predicting that Queensland Greens MP Ronan Lee will lose his seat of Indooroopilly. Polls published in The Australian predicted a hung parliament. The ABC’s predictions contradict these …
2009-04-19 … once again whether it would be a good idea to have them join a coalition. We should quickly sever our ties with them.” While a former socialist MP in the DPJ told them: “I thought it would be a good idea to merge with them eventually, but now I’ll have to rethink that.” Let’s hope he does. Why …
2009-06-24 … Respect Renewal is the Trotskyist, International Socialist Group, which has a long record of Left populist adaptations. Despite having Galloway as an MP, though, Respect Renewal did not have the courage to stand any candidates in the 2009 Euro-election (in say, London). After an internal debate (with …
2009-06-18 … with politics as a whole. For instance, in the United Kingdom the panic initiated by the election of two British National Party MEPs and the MP expenses scandal have exposed a deep crisis in public trust for the political institutions and a sense of legitimation crisis on the side of the …
2009-06-08 … Party and the small Parti de Gauche) picked up a couple of seats. There was similar success for the Socialist Party in Ireland, whose recent ex-TD (MP) Joe Higgins was elected in Dublin. The English left actually won quite a lot more votes than Respect had in 2004, but in stark contrast to the BNP …
2009-05-26 … them, better scrutiny of European laws — will require the full attention of political reformers. There is they say a need to improve the quality of MP’s, some of whom “struggle to string together the words necessary to ask an entire question to the Prime Minister”. But the main thrust of The …
2009-05-21 … and pressure. It is not the constituents who are represented but the state political machine itself. Furthermore there is a direct link between the MP’s and capitalism not only in terms of the ideas held by the majority of them but in direct material benefits through their second incomes from …
2006-07-30 … to *all* attacks on civilians, whether Lebonese, Palestinian or Israeli. I had no hesitation in applauding this man’s speech. Then Richard Burden MP (Labour: Birmingham Northfield) spoke, making many of the same points as the Palestinian guy who’d preceded him, but adding ” We all want a two …
2009-06-23 … repatriation committee of the notorious Monday Club became a Tory Speaker elected on almost entirely Labour support is testament to years of work by the MP from Buckinghamshire and the deep cynicism of his backers. Few dispute the fervour with which John Bercow wanted to succeed Michael Martin, a …
2008-12-29 … Men that I can trust to push on with the reconstruction effort, in other words. You are one of those men, Harold. You’ve been loyal and effective as an MP, now I need you to serve not just Tavistock, but the whole county.” He stared directly into Sanderson’s eyes. “I want to appoint you Sheriff of …
2008-11-29 … second was the popular enthusiasm and English nationalism generated by the Anglo-Saxon revival movement. The third factor was an aristocratic young MP named Cedric St John […] 1] The Palace of Westminster is very different ITTL, having been burnt down in the late 1820s rather than in 1834. …
2008-05-26 … via Livingstone it fits in nicely with your original Labourite perspective. No wonder you’re obsessed with New Labours line on a free vote for MP’s and viability rather than a woman’s right to choose. Us pesky Trotskyites just get in the way of all that.
2007-09-19 … returned around 20 mpg. Today I drive a bigger and faster car (admittedly diesel) and get 35 to 40 mpg. My former MEP colleague Robert Goodwill (now MP for Scarborough) insists that in central London the exhaust coming out of a modern car is actually cleaner than the air that went in, though I don’t …
2008-11-28 … in the course of my life, and on a couple of occasions to other elected politicians. The only one who never wrote back was my current MP Ed Davey, the MP for Kingston and Surbiton, to whom I wrote to ask to support the campaign to provide asylum in the UK to Iraqi employees of the British armed …
2009-07-05 … to hear. Male voter: Yes, but I am worried about Mr Cameron cosying up to homosexuals. I might as well admit it, you see I am a bit homopathic... The MP just about managed to retain a straight (if that's the appropriate word) face.
2008-11-06 Email from: Michael John Smith To: Mr James Duddridge MP Dear Mr Duddridge, I am not sure if you received my message yesterday, which I asked Police at Southend-on-Sea Police Station to deliver on my …
2009-07-01 … It might have the useful side-effect of discouraging those who are 'only in it for the money' and also stop those who treat being a councillor or MP as a part-time distraction. And don't give me this nonsense about 'losing the best people because they are high earners'. CEOs of banks were paid …
2009-06-19 … to get a preference from a majority of voters rather than just one more vote than any of the other candidates as at present - which can result in an MP most people voted against. The downside is the Tories will play this as gerrymandering and will get a receptive audience. It would smell of …
2009-06-16 … “People have been talking about multi-member seats and Single Transferable Vote (STV) for years. They can be fiddled by changing the number of MP's inside the boundaries. In 1983 the SDP and Liberal Alliance had proposals for change which would have reduced Labour's representation below the …
2009-05-24 … we would still have the memories - and the photos. Mock if you wish, but I don't think I'm alone here. I am, you say? Oh well... Nadine Dorries MP: Grrrrrrrrr!
2009-05-19 … but to imagine this was enough to see him ejected from his role as Speaker is pure fantasy. Had it not been for the Telegraph's revelations about MP's expenses, he would have remained in his role. Despite having little respect for the manner in which he has conducted his office, I'm left feeling …
2009-05-13 … by Chris Dillow here. I have no strong opinion about what MPs should be paid but I have to say I'm surprised that an economist would suggest that an MP should be paid on a scale similar to that of social workers. This completely omits risk: the MPs' job is very insecure - that of a social worker is …
2008-12-31 … your local media by phoning into a talk show or writing a letter to the editor. To find contact info for your local media, click here. Contact your MP to protest Israel's war on Gaza and demand an immediate cease-fire. Forward this info to everyone you know and ask them to take action.
2008-12-30 … seized Mrs Thulambo's Zimbabwean passport during their arrest at dawn on Friday. The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, the family's former MP, said it was wrong to assess them as Malawian for immigration purposes. He added: "It is time this Government gets tough on Mugabe, not his victims. …
2009-07-06 … (to my knowledge at least) haven't ruled out running again. In Regina Qu'Appelle, Janice Bernier held onto the 32% share of the vote won by former MP Lorne Nystrom in the previous two elections, and won nothing but accolades as a committed and adept campaigner. And in my home riding of Wascana, …
2009-07-05 … each controversial bill already put forward, the simple answer would be to focus attention on the Cons' sponsor as supporting any the bill and let that MP explain to his or her constituents how the connection is only the result of the Cons gaming the system. And for an added bonus, the next step would …
2009-06-19 … Lord Avebury, John Austin MP, Lord Rea, Lord Dholakia, Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP, John Bowis MEP, Jean Lambert MEP, Alyn Smith MEP, Hywel Williams MP, Elfyn Llwyd MP, Julie Christie, Noam Chomsky, Edward Albee, Mark Thomas. Serkeftin!
2009-06-24 … results of this work. We have time to wait, at least, till September when the Bureau of the Council of Europe will take the final decision,” said the MP. According to the source, the PACE decision is a positive one. “I am convinced it is a very important step in relations between Belarus and the …
2009-05-20 … can accede to the 2005 Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings. “Unfortunately, so far we cannot get the message through,” said the MP. In addition, Belarus had contacted the Council of Europe with an initiative to accede to several international treaties on fight against crime. It …
2009-05-17 … former district prosecutor in Katowice, said that two handwritten letters from him ordering an investigation into the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) MP on possible corruption charges had been forged. Blida shot herself dead in April 2007 while officers from the Internal Security Agency (ABW) …
2009-04-22 … economical crimes unintentionally, who are not socially dangerous, must not be kept in jail at the expense of tax payers’, said Viktar Huminski. The MP thinks that instead they should compensate the economical harm by paying fines. V.Huminski also said that 47% prisoners are kept in jail for …
2009-04-15 … warrant for him but he failed to show up and returned to Poland only in April 2008 after he had received a writ of immunity. Misztal was the richest MP in the previous parliament, famous for his extravagance. After a few months in parliament, he left Self-Defence party. Dyngus Day fraud reported …
2009-07-03 … sent to the Spanish Parliament requesting that Spanish MEPs receive the salary of an MEP but the social security benefits and other perks of being an MP. Jáuregui said he understands why people disapprove but that the conditions of the new Members' Statute were unclear. He added that "once we have …
2009-06-17 … Irish Times Irish Times 2 EurActiv Irish Times 3 Irish Times 4 Irish Times: Leader Reuters Irish Times: State of the Union blog Ian Davidson MP: We need to "re-visit the question of a referendum on the EU constitution" In a debate on European Affairs in the House of Commons yesterday, Shadow …
2007-06-27 … allow municipalities to cut benefits if the recipients are unable to find a job because they wear a burqa. A motion to this effect from Liberal VVD MP Atzo Nicolaï and Labour PvdA MP Hans Spekman was passed on Tuesday. Coalition party PvdA and opposition party VVD are concerned about a verdict from …
2008-08-06 … qualified male candidate where women are under-represented in the workforce; an end to age discrimination; measures to increase the number of black MPs in Westminster; and an equality duty on the public sector. This is not new news. However, at every turn we see resurrected the harbingers of doom …
2007-10-21 … years of solidarity between Cuba and Wales (Cymru Cuba). “We’re proud that the Welsh Assembly has official government links with Cuba,” emphasised MP Elfyn Llwyd, highlighting the memorandum of understanding for cooperation in higher education, which has been developed by Welsh Minister for …
2009-06-08 … and rumours […] Egypt - In May 2006, Egyptian lawmakers accused the US ambassador Francis Ricciardone of interfering in Egypt's domestic affairs. MP Kemal Ahmed quoted Ricciardone as saying, "The US has interests and pays money to the Egyptian government, which must work to achieve those …
2009-06-19 … two councillors in Barking’s Thames ward at a coffee morning on 13 March – the same day one of them, Cllr Barnes, received the letter informing him. The MP is also blamed for alleged misconduct at Barking CLP’s annual general meeting of 2007, branded a “shambles” by two separate sources. They say that …
2005-06-21 … So they come to MPs` surgeries. This is a Home Office plot. MP advice isn`t as good as tricky lawyers, so asylum seekers get thrown out quicker and MPs are so overworked by it they`ve no time to argue about ID Cards. After surgery I`m taken on a tour of burnt out houses which the police won`t …
2005-05-04 … up at 5-45, wrote it and dropped it off at Cartergate for typing when I collected Joy to go to the Fish dock for the ritual opportunity to shout at the MP. Very good landing, 8000 kit, and friendly discussions, though ignored by the roaring scrum of bidders which moves from box to box while I take …
2005-04-29 … Don`t know why because it`s very clean and each floor has a little garden at the end. Where they`re stuck out we remove Liberal leaflets accusing the MP of doing nothing in 28 years. Liberals are an odd lot. Idealistic rank and file, naïve to the point of wasting their votes but leaders with the …
2005-04-26 … the river which doesn’t interest them. Good game and a big gate - 7,900. I get my name flashed up as ball sponsor and announced as Austin Mitchell MP. Which is illegal. Back home the neighbours have lived up to their threat and erected a large De Freitas banner on their balcony so we have to …
2005-04-20 … Ratzinga. 78. There`s hope for septuagenarians yet. But not all that much for the Church with another crusty conservative. Habemus Pappam. But not yet MP.
2005-04-17 … Linda isn`t here but driving up from London. No newspapers, polls or anything else to depress me. Over for non-surgery surgery. I`m no longer an MP and not supposed to have them, but lots more people than usual flood in all with impossible problems involving law and order (or rather the lack of …
2005-04-14 … including the new twins B&B, are wrong. Arrive back in Doncaster at midday. Fare £58 (standard) I couldn’t afford to travel by train if I weren`t an MP. If I’m beaten it`s back to hitch-hiking. Do people do that any more? Must win or I’ll be expelled from the cocoon and forced to find out about real …
2005-04-13 … Road, Grimsby on behalf of Austin Mitchell, 15 New Cartergate Grimsby Tuesday 12th April Mood: tired for no reason. Booze: zero. Days as ex MP: l. Days to possible re-instatement: 23. Underpants: Blue. A nothing much morning with no energy and even fewer ideas for my non-adoption speech …
2005-04-12 … is so boring. We`ve been together now for forty years and I love them all, but still don`t know whether they reciprocate. Sensible parties keep the MP at a distance and the relationship well short of idyllic. I suppose those who don`t like me have left or died. So we grow old together, a little …
2005-04-06 … this week end. “Why don’t we go in my van?” Jonathan asks. The High Commissioner shudders. Tuesday 5 April E Day 30 days to go. Six more days as MP. Candidate 15st 11lb (loss of 5 lbs since session started) but after haircut, and before colonic irrigation. Booze intake 2 units yesterday, 4 …
2005-04-05 Due to the election 05/05/05, Austin as other MPs will no longer be an MP during the campaign but a parliamentary candidate. The site is hosted by Google, promoted by Megan Warne, 112 Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby, DN31 3HW on …
2009-07-05 … Liberal Democrat MPs. Electing another MP from these big-three establishment parties won't make any difference. But electing Rupert Read as a Green MP for Norwich North will make history. He would be the first ever Green MP. It would put Norwich on the map. Vote for change, vote Green." On an …
2009-06-26 … local college or university. Green candidate Rupert Read, who teaches at the University of East Anglia, said he would do everything in his power as an MP to help bring this about. Rupert Read said today: "This poll is very encouraging for the Green Party. "In the Norwich North by-election, the big …
2009-04-21 … cuts being likely, sleaze on the internet emanating from spin doctors and fixers. This week, respected long term Labour member and former Halifax MP Alice Mahon decided to leave as reported by the Left Luggage blog. What might happen to Labour in the wake of what seems like inevitable crushing …
2009-06-06 … who have both stolen more and are public figures who should be more accountable. Obviously, within the Socialist Party we have a policy of workers MPs on workers wages and expenses open to inspection which I think would be a damned good way of stopping this. But this isn't what I wanted to blog …
2008-10-30 … PCS general secretary Janice Godrich, PCS president Mark Steel, stand up & activist Cllr Dave Nellist, Socialist Party councilor and ex-Labour MP Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary Hannah Sell, Socialist Party Deputy General Secretary Kevin Ovenden, RESPECT Robbie Segal, candidate …
2008-05-08 … to these violations […] Hizbullah fighters advanced in Beirut in fierce clashes with Mustaqbal Movement partisans and occupied the apartment of MP Ammar Houry, setting it ablaze. Houry's apartment in Shahadeh district of the plush Tallet al-Khayat neighborhood was overran by Hizbullah fighters, …
2009-06-24 Lecture by Prof. Irwin Cotler (former Justice Minister and Attorney General of Canada) Introductory remarks:MP Dr. Hannes Jarolim (Social-Democrat Party Speaker for Justice) MP Mag. Albert Steinhauser (Green Party Speaker for Justice) Chair:Simone Dinah …
2009-06-22 … debates; they oversee the rules of conduct and behaviour both in the public eye and, at least previously, behind closed doors. Effectively they are an MP who controls the behaviour of other MPs, they are from one of the parties but the role is independent and above party politics, but there seem to be …
2009-05-18 … of MP's excess porn on every available news channel. Far better the debate on the merit of the Belgian Eurovision entry. So returning you find the MPs turning on the Speaker for not taking the expenses matter seriously enough; does no-one else see this as a somewhat invidious position given they …
2009-05-11 Full marks to my former MP Annette Brooke, she has published her expenses on her website for all to see: a total of £1765.85, interesting that so few are able to do the same …
2009-05-11 … public confidence in Westminster; all reference to it should now be buried and it needs a proper wake. It also needs to be replaced and that means MPs need to do something. it is something of a travesty that parties and MPs have been saying that the publishing of expenses is going to be …
2009-07-03 … of the refinery and construction industry. These seeds of victory fall on a shifting ground of consciousness. The political crisis stemming from MP's expenses have established an inchoate but widespread anti-establishment feeling - sentiments that have been deepened because of the recession. …
2009-05-13 … integrated ticketing in the last parliament, while Act supported it. Good point John. Labour candidate David Shearer spoke about how Mt Albert needs an MP that will stand up for communities. He also said this community was about to be destroyed. He still backed the completion of the motorway, but only …
2009-07-08 … individual" regarded the Nazi regime "evil and abhorrent". "I trust that he will never make the same mistake again", said the former Labour MP Lord Janner, ominously. Since the Hoddle affair, it has become increasingly common for people to have their livelihoods threatened for expressing …
2009-06-21 … by Edmund Matyjaszek. Last night, when he was initially contacted, Mr MacShane said: ‘It is no secret that I do more work for Europe than any other MP, and people connected with the institute help me with that. That is all I can really help you with.’ The line then went dead. A couple of hours …
2009-06-25 … Member I would have tabled an 'Urgent Question' immediately the Report was published, and several Written Questions of the Minister. If I was an MP, I would have written immediately to the appropriate Minister and Chair of the Environment Agency, as well as asking written questions. Perhaps …
2009-04-01 … visited one of those neighbourhoods, which looks more like Pakistan than a Vancouver suburb. For some Canadian politicians, that's not a problem. The MP for New Westminister-Coquitlam, Dawn Black of the New Democratic Party, has worked hard to help Muslims try to integrate over the past decade and a …
2008-05-23 … A junction on the London-Liverpool main line, most of the citizens either worked for British Rail or Rolls Royce. Gwyneth Dunwoody was the famous MP there before she died earlier this year. Dunwoody was very Old Labour, rebelling against the Labour front bench by voting against the Maastricht …
2009-06-24 … a small town in Kirovohrad oblast. Before defecting to BYuT a few years ago, he had been a member of the Party of Regions. On June 16, 2009, MP Lozynsky joined forces with rayon (county) prosecutor Yevhen Hrebenko and rayon police chief Mykhailo Kovalsky. The three went on safari that …
2009-06-15 Roman was a 17 year-old on his way from Odesa when his BMW-335 collided with a Mercedes truck. He died. He was the younger son of MP Hanna Herman (PRU). Accounts of the accident, which took place in Kirovohrad oblast, at 2:40 a.m. local time, vary. According to …
2009-06-03 … do, I do! [giggles] Lytvyn: And so, by the power vested in me by the MPs, I pronounce you husband and wife, er, that is, the Grand Coalition. Former MP Oleksandr Volkov: Well…speaking in purely human terms, it’s about who’s on top. You know, uhhh… being on top is not always the best option, OK? …
2009-05-28 … ML 63 AMG ($100,000) Crime: Raced around town like crazy all night; hit other vehicles; made threats using a knife Political affiliation: stepson of MP Ihor Lysov (PRU) Another rich lawless mazhor rocks Kyiv. Luckily, no casualties this time. Police caught him in the nick of time. Actually, they say …
2009-05-27 … even elaborates on Lenin’s famous quote “You’re on the right path, comrades!” Who is he? A former communist. A former banker. A former PM. A former MP. Ukraine’s current president. A man who vowed to separate business from government, put the corrupt ones in jail and lead Ukraine up the economic …
2008-07-23 … on what kind of reader the newbie is. All of Austen’s major novels are of a certain quality that renders that issue irrelevant. NA may not have MP’s complex architecture but it has a persuasive, enchanting element coupled with Austen’s judicious eye that wins readers over, for example. It’s …
2008-07-21 … that sweet Nick thought that no one would understand his oh so literary topic but I call BS.) He did get a whole (ugly) building out of it! Nick and the MP’s musical arguments are symbolic of the British government’s oppression of homosexuals. Strauss controversially supported the Nazi regime who were …
2009-06-27 … they felt so lost, and some of them ‘hopped’ to the other side, seeing that tables have been turned and that they have better chance to become MP again on the other side. Few of them hopped because of ideology or the welfare of the rakyat. Most hopped because of self interest, and that is …
2009-07-07 … below).The speakers are Tony Benn, John Christensen (Tax Justice Network), Mark Serowtka (Public and Commercial Services Union) and John McDonnell, MP. We also anticipate having a speaker from the Institute for Public Policy Research’s ‘Human Security Commission’ where Lord Ashdown and former …
2009-06-23 I can't help thinking that the election of John Bercow as Speaker is a dreadful mistake. I rather admire him as an MP - his speech on why he had changed his mind and was supporting the right for gay people to adopt was one of the best I can recall in the last ten …
2008-01-22 … Chamiso and awarded the party’s name, ‘CUDP’ to his group, Birtukan’s group, which is forming a union with parliamentarians led by Temesgen Zewdie (MP), is considering forming a new party and obtaining a new name, Birtukan Mediksa told Capital. “We are discussing the option of forming a new …
2009-01-29 … a district town of the southeastern province of Şırnak, took to the streets to demand a thorough investigation. DTP district chair Halil İrmez and MP Hasip Kaplan requested searches be made of the state-owned wells of the Turkish Pipeline Corporation (BOTAŞ), a request which DTP MPs have taken to …
2009-07-04 … support to the Somali government to fight against what he called "jihad seekers." "Foreign fighters who are jihad seekers are pouring into Somalia," MP Gedi said, warning: "If they succeed [in overthrowing the government], then Somalia and the greater Horn of Africa region is in danger." 'Lost …
2009-06-18 … a peace agreement.The premier, however, rejected in his speech a key US demand to freeze settlement construction in the occupied West Bank.Likud MP Ayoob Kara said that Netanyahu's concessions were a pain killer to stop international pressure, but at this stage there will be no movement on the …
2009-06-05 … Other reaction was mixed. The Islamic world does not need moral or political sermons. It needs a fundamental change in American policy,said MP Hassan Fadlallah of Lebanon's Hezbollah. Mohamed Habib, deputy leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, said: It's a public relations address more than …
2009-05-30 … oath, in a move aimed mainly at the large Arab minority.A parliamentary committee is expected to debate the bill on Sunday, said David Rotem, an MP with Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu party who wrote the proposal.If the committee approves the bill, it will then go before the full Knesset, where it …
2009-05-24 The face of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy? Or a true Comrade? Ben Gummer is the son of MP John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal). Famous for his Agriculture Minister Father forcing mad-cow burgers down his throat at a tender age. Now, prospective …
2009-04-24 … Westminster, a spokesman said.Meshaal has met with British MPs in the past, most recently last week when he held talks with a delegation headed by an MP from the ruling Labour party, which followed a similar meeting with another group of British and Irish parliamentarians in Damascus earlier this …
2009-06-22 … was expected to keep his post, is surprisingly stepping-down as the North's Finance Minister and will in the future concentrate on his position as an MP. His colleague Gregory Campbell is - as expected - losing his job as Minister for Culture, Arts & Leisure as well. Former UUP star MP Jeffrey …
2009-02-25 … question of who ultimately should determine employment policy in Britain, and on what terms foreign nationals should be allowed to work here, the MP for Rotherham hurled abuse at anybody who has had the audacity to take a position contrary to his own. Instead of there being 'reds under the bed' …
2009-01-25 … Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Mid Dorset and North Poole, Nick King (who is also a Bournemouth Councillor). The Rt. Hon. Ann Widdecombe MP was spending two days in Bournemouth and had supported a number of constituency events. I must say, she really is an inspiration to me - a 'tell it …
2009-01-13 … by approximately 60. These measures will entail huge public savings (quite sound in the current economic climate and given people's concerns about MP expenses and the like). He believed “the House of Commons could do the job that it does with 10 per cent fewer MPs without any trouble at all.” The …
2008-02-26 … MP who became a Social Democrat in 2006 and is best known for having to give up his bishopric due to an affair, entered the race: Ilkka Kantola, an MP since last year's general election and a former bishop, announced Tuesday he would stand as a party leader candidate at the Finnish Social …
2008-02-14 … previously of the Green League, switched over to the National Coalition Party. Now the Centre Party and the Coalition will have an equal number of MPs, 51. One more flip to the Coalition and things might get interesting. Forsius, who is from Vihti, said that local Greens don't want to cooperate …
2007-06-04 … on three under-advertised but already-articulated Liberal priorities: broad-based personal income tax cuts for the middle class, proclamation of MP Pablo Rodriguez's Kyoto bill and an unequivocal declaration that our troops will be rotated out of Kandahar in February 2009. Harper will find it …
2009-01-30 Finally! We launched Bloggingportal.eu! The new place to read EU blogs and keep yourself updated on the EU blogosphere. We have been working on it for almost one year in our free time. At the moment we are aggregating almost 300 blogs and we are publishing a daily editors choice selection! Check it …
2009-06-23 Zoom in to your metropolitan statistical area to get the latest quarterly median home price for your market, and its percentage change from the previous quarter. Map Source : NAR / National Association of REALTORS® © Flavia Westerwelle TransDomo,LLC Klaus Westerwelle 33 Market Point Drive …
2009-04-03 All you Torontonians, i hope to see you at the Toronto Anarchist Gathering this coming Saturday, April 4th - i will have a table with my latest titles, all at discounted prices. Drop by and say hello - and don't feel shy to send me an email now if you'd like me to bring something special for you! …
2009-05-18 … They still get paid their 'basic' £65,000 per year. The fact is, the system isn't set up to deal with issues as grave as this, and if the errant MPs decide to hang around like a bad smell until the next election there's nothing we the elctorate, the political parties or Parliament can do about …
2009-06-03 … four days cost me a very reasonable £65 per day, so assuming Parliament sat for 100 days each year, the taxpayer would only have to reimburse each MP £6,500 for their trouble. If a handsome Georgian mansion within spitting distance of Westminster was good enough for Lady Astor, the first woman to …
2009-05-16 … their heads at the actions of Sir Reg on this one, as it appears extremely counter-intuitive. Why go to such lengths to alienate your only MP? Your only remaining successful brand of the UUP? Lady Sylvia is viewed as a progressive and untainted Ulster Unionist, kind of the direction the …
2009-05-14 … that it will do any electoral good in the EU poll and even less in the general election. The idea that the UUP will now sacrifice it’s one and only MP for the limited benefit of the link up seems to me to be daft. It would have been good if Sylvia would have been able to live with it and it could …
2009-06-20 … Mullin thought the opposition to his amendment was meant to approve the original motion on the nod, avoiding any debate and implicating all the MPs. Unsurprisingly he lost his amendment, the MPs awarded themselves the rise and an increase in the accrual rate of their pension from 50ths to 40ths …
2008-10-03 … Instrument (a regulation having the force of law) but of the sort that automatically comes into force without even a discussion unless some MP proposes a notion to annul it. The last time this happened was in 1962, though it was then treated as something of a joke. The fiduciary issue had …
2009-07-01 … other places. For instance, Britain's "Respect" party is basically an alliance of radical Muslims and old hard-line Marxists such as former Labour MP George Galloway. Galloway was pro-Saddam Hussein before the 2003 Iraq war. Today, he works for the Iranian government mouthpiece television station, …
2007-10-25 … have made little to no headway in all the years they have been here: the communist revolution is further away than ever, and they cannot get one MP elected to state or federal parliament... The answer, or the beginning of an answer, came to me when I was leafing through old issues of the …
2007-06-18 … certain politically-correct lobby groups in the community place enormous pressure on the Chancellor to get the group banned. A politically-correct MP starts making noises in parliament... And, of course, the local news media will make a ruckus as well, with tabloid headlines like 'Shock horror: …
2007-06-05 … action today. The TUC has sent a message of support to the striking oil workers. There is the EDM 1180 that needs supporting so please contact your MP and also raise the matter of the striking oil workers' in your union. They need your solidarity at a time when the Iraqi oil is to be ripped off, if …
2009-07-01 … hardly think of a better definition of a Parliament of Eunuchs. Cameron -as a political hack himself- seems to want to finally close the door on any MP who has not come to the job without being a paid-up member of the political class. If his front bench politely decline his diktat that second jobs …
2009-06-04 … junior minister. The entire topic of his speech was nothing to do with the issue at hand, and certainly nothing to do with Lithuania. All this MP could discuss was the ramifications of the leadership contest that John Major had just provoked in order to face down his critics. The unrelenting …
2009-05-29 … retention of national identity. Estonians can still hunt for their- extremely numerous- bears, despite a ban elsewhere. One of my close friends is an MP here who was the leader of the "No" campaign in the referendum on whether or not Estonia should join the European Union. Five years later he says, …
2009-05-16 … or corrupt. Waiving your expenses is a superogatory act, not a moral duty. However claiming for a mortgage you have already paid off is fraud. An MP couple claiming 2nd home allowance on both their homes is fraud. "Flipping" to maximise allowance spend is fraud. Telling the tax office something …
2009-04-13 … this process. Trade unions should also be lobbying for a change in government policy via groups like Labour Friends of Palestine, which has about 70 MP’s. They should press for the suspension of the EU trade agreement with Israel in the run up to the EU elections. Discussion from the floor once …
2009-06-22 … it the old way’? And there’s the fact that gongs are usually handed out for long service; where a reformer should ideally be someone who’s been an MP for no more than two or three Parliaments, Sir Anything is likely to have gone hopelessly native. No knights, please. What could be worse? Only a …
2009-05-31 … are beaten by UKIP, they can say, well, they’re no threat at the General Election, because they’ve never yet won a seat at Westminster (though one MP has left the Tories to join them). But the Liberal Democrats have 63 MPs, winning quite a few seats from Labour at the last General Election, and …
2009-05-29 … which of course I mean we’ve all been paying on his behalf, for a flat in London owned by his own daughter. Now, I’ve said before that a member of an MP’s family working for them isn’t necessarily crooked, and that a lot of the time it even gets a better deal for the taxpayer – but that isn’t the …
2009-05-28 … one hundred day programme on Liberal Democrat Voice. You can sign the petition on the Liberal Democrats’ new Take Power Back website, and harangue your MP – I’ll bet they’re keener to listen right now, when they’re much more frightened of your power than usual – to get serious about changing things. …
2009-05-18 … Cameron, who seized the initiative paradoxically because moats and mansions and tennis courts were far more corrupt than anything of any Lib Dem MP, and so he could be seen to take harsh action. Calling for the Speaker to go, though, was exactly the right thing to do, and brave – after all, the …
2009-05-09 … who can begrudge her £25,000 in public money for private security? Apparently, she was mugged, you see, and no-one would know better than a Labour MP that you can’t trust the police in London, can you? I imagine she’s standing on a platform of rolling out £25,000 private security for every one of …
2005-12-06 … the candidacy of the former Harvard academic and (continuing) apologist for war crimes, somewhat diminishing his prime ministerial and possibly even MP prospects. Rick Salutin has a piquant little biography of the man at Rabble.ca. Michael Neumann's 2003 piece on Iggy in Counterpunch is also worth a …
2009-07-04 … and it’s completely out of date. Changing the system is the only way to make sure this abuse can’t continue. Did you know that not one MP was elected by a majority of their constituents? How can we have a politics that truly represents the views and interests of the people if the views …
2009-06-30 … to Brussels. A number of German lawmakers – mostly from the left-wing Linke party – have gone to court to try to stop the treaty. There is also an MP from a party allied to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives. It is considered unlikely that the court would declare the treaty unconstitutional. …
2009-06-26 … of a trouble-maker at the same time. Therefore, on Friday, 5th June I announced my resignation from the Party when Ian announced his resignation as MP. I have made many excuses for the Party in the past, but I just could not make any more. If Ian stands I suspect there will be dozens or more of …
2009-07-07 … system has learned anything from the Lockerbie trial." Http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/display.var.1506988.0.0.php Tam Dalyell, former MP, said: "SO WHERE does the report of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission leave the reputation of Scottish justice? "As the son-in-law of …
2009-05-11 … ALMO, which has brought no gains to the council’s tenants and led to a massive rent increase (one of the largest in the country) which Labour’s own MP for Vauxhall has denounced and tried to gain more funding from the government to offset it. The Labour Party’s mismanagement of the Council’s …
2009-07-04 … bargaining in workplaces. This is a very difficult time. Hard to overstate the crisis. Booming markets one minute then no housing boom. Then MP expenses. The anger of low paid UNISON members who are also paid out of public purse. Anger most of all from Labour Party activists since we expect …
2009-06-27 … and positivity towards the future. It was suggested by the Chair that we will have these wide ranging debates on a more regular basis. Our MP, Lyn Brown came hot foot from the House of Commons to give her report. We congratulated her on the promotion to the Whips office! Afterward we …
2009-05-21 … on the career path of student politics->parliamentary researcher->think tank/NGO/equivalent and who is planning the next step of trying to become an MP on their way to the top is sort of Maoist. They'll do a much better job for the Labour Party and be much more effective if they spend the next few …
2009-05-25 … the Catholic aid charity Cafod and a friend since university. They have lived together for the past 11 years. For the past three years, Mr Goggins, the MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East, has designated the property as his “second home” and claimed almost £45,000 in expenses for it. He did not tell the …
2009-06-10 … 2”. Mr Zaman also let Mr Malik his main constituency office for which he has received at least £6,000. Mr Malik said last night: “When I was elected MP for Dewsbury I rented additional office space in my constituency because the office which I took over from my predecessor did not have enough room …
2009-07-09 … for MP's consideration - as soon as possible, which is likely to be the autumn. Everyone tells me he is a fair and meticulous man. Ben Brogan wants MPs to take instuctions from the Telegraph, and while many of these suggestions may be sensible, it should be left to Sir Christopher. The National …
2007-10-11 … international community aimed at bringing the junta to task, with the United States — Myanmar’s harshest critic — also threatening new sanctions. An MP-elect from Myanmar’s self-proclaimed government-in-exile said Thursday that world pressure coupled with the threat of sanctions could force the military …
2008-12-05 … Unite national secretary Julia Long, GMB regional secretary for Yorkshire Tim Roache, GMB national Remploy convenor Less Woodward and Hugh Bayley MP. “The closure of Remploy York on the 6th March 2008 effectively blocked opportunity for disabled people in the York and surrounding areas to find …
2008-10-25 … Singh, MP for Bradford West, Shadow Treasury spokesperson David Gauke MP, Shadow Treasury spokesman, Philip Davies, MP for Shipley, Ann Cryer, MP for Keighley, and Huddersfield MP Barry Sheerman. PCS, which represents 1,200 people in the Bradford area, highlighted its opposition to the planned …
2008-10-17 … Israeli settlements, Palestinian self-determination and the EU-Israel trade agreement. This lobby is taking place at a critical time. Ensure that your MP hears your views – contact them straight away and ask to meet them on the afternoon of 19th November. Campaign website or contact PSC – telephone …
2008-09-27 … sacked psychiatric nurse, with 25 years’ work experience, gave an impassioned speech against NHS cuts and against private medicine. John McDonnell MP, who chairs the LRC, spoke in favour of a radical anti-capitalist Labour manifesto and he announced that New Labour was on its last legs. He noted …
2009-07-06 … paid […] When will Mr Darling tell these fat cats to “get real” about their fee structure? NEIL KING BEVERLEY, EAST YORKSHIRE The business of being an MP Sally Muggeridge complains that only one in seven MPs has 10 or more years’ experience in private-sector management or financial services (letter, 3 …
2009-07-02 … able to leave your own country or drive a vehicle unless you submit your personal details to the authorities to be included on the ID card register. MPs are going to be voting in the next few weeks on the detailed regulations underlying the ID card legislation, and the “designated documents” in …
2009-05-08 … are just a few of the lines he read this morning about the allegations in what I call the Ruby and the Slumdogs story. From today’s Globe and Mail: The MP for Brampton-Springdale is glamorous, energetic and career-oriented. She’s also viewed by fellow caucus members as a “high maintenance” …
2009-07-08 … As would befit a good organ of political origin, the article is heavily awash with input from local politicians; from Mayor Mussallem, to MLA Coons, MP Nathan Cullen and Federal International Trade Minister Stockwell Day, all who offer up their impressions of the development and hopes for the port's …
2009-07-08 … director," said Baird. "His proven leadership in both the private and public sectors will be a real asset to RTI and its objectives." Jay Hill, MP for Prince George-Peace River, who had spoken out against the idea of privatization, said he was not going to discuss the details of Veniez's …
2009-07-06 … Lord Church on Atlantic Ave. in Brooklyn hosted a high spirited send-off for the 200 members of the Viva Palestina humanitarian aid convoy led by MP George Galloway and Ron Kovic, VietNam veteran and peace activist. They will be bringing about 100 truckloads of medical equipment and medicine, …
2009-05-12 … Douglas Jung, a member of Parliament from Vancouver, as "this Chinaman." As president of the Chinatown chapter of the Lions Club, Mr. Lowe defended the MP, noting the senator's words were "a great insult" and "objectionable because of its association with race prejudice." Mr. Lowe continued to perform …
2009-07-09 … De Guerra WESPAC Foundation Women Against Military Madness Women's Peace Speakers Series, Honolulu, Hawaii Workers Party of New Zealand Leila Khaled MP George Galloway, UK Parliament Member and coordinator of Viva Palestina USA medical aid caravan to Gaza Ulla Sandbaek, former Member of European …
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