From the monthly archives:

May 2009

The Telegraph has made us wise.

May 31, 2009

The Telegraph has made us wise
To claims which made us stretch our eyes!
Our MPs have a clever way
To supplement their basic pay
And anything their lifestyle lacks,
They’ll simply buy it with our tax!
They’ll dress their mansions and their moats
And still expect to get our votes.
We buy their nice big second houses,
We pay their siblings, kids and [...]

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Catch a pair of errant MPs

May 31, 2009

Catch a pair of errant MPs
Vast expenses hidden from all
In a mercenary coup –
Do not heed their mild surprise –
Having passed the Rubicon
They’re a pair of brazen clips;
Take a figure cunningly planned,
To deceive the electorate
(be particular in this);
With their tender little hands
Fringed with dainty thieving tips
They have been ripping us off for
many years and years
Ah! [...]

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You’re a bad MP baby…

May 31, 2009

Told you once before
And I won’t tell you no more
Get down, get down, get down
You’re a bad MP baby
I don’t want you ’round
You give me the creeps
When you jump on your feet
So get down, get down, get down
Keep your hands to yourself
I’m strictly out of bounds
Once upon a time I drank a little wine
Was as [...]

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Fraud is fraud, is fraud, is fraud……

May 30, 2009

Bill Wiggin filled in 23 consecutive monthly forms nominating his constituency house as his second home for the purposes of his parliamentary expenses even though he and his wife owned it outright.
After The Daily Telegraph disclosed his claims , he took to the airwaves to insist [...]

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Cold Turkey on Big Brother.

May 29, 2009

Is there any point in blogging?
Is it worth worrying about the state of the nation?
You know something important is happening when a Sunday Newspaper updates on a Thursday – and garners 150 outraged comments in as many minutes.
It is – North Korea hasn’t nuked us yet, the Queen hasn’t abdicated…….
Nope, ‘Big Brother’ is cutting its [...]

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Homoeopathic economics.

May 29, 2009

I’m grateful to Mr Eugenides for pointing me in the direction of this, I’d given up reading ‘ethical blogs’ since the dog days of Derek Draper……….(Mr Eumenides shurly? Far more appropriate. Ed)
I have to declare an interest before I dive head first into this particular philosophical bourn – not only was my great aunt the [...]

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The Righteous do have a sense of humour……

May 28, 2009

…after all. This is the Police Station in Righteous Central, otherwise known as Sheffield.
More precisely, Letsby Avenue, Sheffield.
Courtesy of Google.
Ask Gloria if you can’t figure it out.

Wikio

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