There has been quite a bit of comment recently about Whacky-Jacqui and her expenses. There have been quite a lot of requests for her resignation too. I don’t think it’s necessarily appropriate to call for the resignation of an MP over a relatively small misdemeanour, such as submitting a claim for pay-to-view films and pay-to-view [...]
I have to say I was quite surprised a few weeks back when Gordon Brown came out and said “British Jobs for British Workers”. For a government who was so keen to rule out discrimination of any kind, their leader was advocating discrimination!! Would be nice if there was some consistency in their approach. I [...]
I don’t really have time to stop and write a post now but kinda wanted to get this message out there as soon as possible. On the 16th of May 2008 the High Court ruled that MPs’ expenses must be published under the Freedom of Information Act. This Thursday, 22nd Jan 2009, MPs are voting [...]
This is a post I’ve been thinking about for a long while. I have had several drafts and in my frustration to try to articulate myself I’ve delete them and started over (several times). Now I start with a clean sheet yet again but I am determined to get the words out. I have never [...]
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It has been revealed that the government has been thinking of having a Central Database holding the details of everyone’s phone calls and emails supposedly to protect us from “terrorist activity”. When will this government see sense! Apart from the Government’s appalling track record with data so far, keeping a track of everyone’s phone calls [...]