Labour Perks and Privileges

Big Brother goes undercover……

March 3, 2009

Late last night, after the House of Commons had virtually emptied, a vote was taken on on a new clause of the Political Parties and Elections Bill right at the end of the Report Stage, sneaked in just before the Bill was rubber stamped by the Commons for the Third Reading. Just one MP queried [...]

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Text not thy Lord Ahmed in vain…….

February 25, 2009

  Our Lord in Belmarsh, Hallowed be thy name, Thy hubris come, Our will is done.   Compare Lord Ahmed’s 12 weeks in prison for killing a man whist texting and driving with the 21 months Philippa Curtis got for a near identical offence? A motorist who sent and received more than 20 text messages before she crashed [...]

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Coarse fishing for Grayling……

February 22, 2009

The Sunday Mirror  is standing in the icy water of voter disillusionment with Nulabour governance this morning, fiddling with its flies and trying to hook a Grayling. A knee jerk reaction of partisan politics at its worst; ‘they’ve got our ‘Second Home Secrecy’ Jacquie Smith, on the hook, we’ll have a go at theirs’. Back in [...]

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“The Lying Scotsman” has a leaky undercarriage…..

February 16, 2009

The stampede of heavyweight Scots, puffing and bellowing their way down the Carlisle line to create havoc in London is creating a back lash on the Internet and the main stream  media. Alistair Darling has now been accused of ‘doing a Jacquie’ – a phrase which is fast becoming common currency to describe the act [...]

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There were never such devoted sisters…….

February 9, 2009

“Lord help the mister  Who comes between me and my sister”. Irvine Berlin Last July Home Secretary Jacquie Smith voted in favour of  MPs keeping their £24,000 second home allowances.  Allowances are a grey area; unlike an ‘expense’, such as postage, which it is claimed back in order that you should not be ‘out of [...]

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The Serial Farce Office…….

February 1, 2009

Jessica de Grazia’s official report last summer on the Serious Fraud Office was mortifying, painting a picture of gross incompetence in an organisation designed to pierce the most sophisticated corporate frauds. 300 lawyers, accountants and investigators, presumed to be the finest available, and funded to the tune of £42 million last year, were revealed to [...]

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Dear Lord above! Are The Lords Above the Law?

January 25, 2009

Are the Lords going to be interrogated with the same tin of vim and vigour that they used to scour the Commons out? Will the investigators wipe the floor with them? Will we see a bit of the old naming and shaming? Will the Lords come out of all this with squeaky clean grins on [...]

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