Tim Worstall

Over this Michael Ashcroft, Lord Paul thing and non doms.
There’s much heat and light being expended upon whether someone who is a non dom (and thus not paying the same taxes on worldwide income as someone who is dom) can be a member of the legislature.
OK. And now the research we’d like to see.
What is [...]

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Leave alone the right versus left thing. The bankers’ friends and those fighting for the dignity and rights of the working man. Equality, justice and fairness.
Then look at what has actually happened to this country over the last few years:
Take the Licensing Act 2003. Apart from opening the way to 24-hour drinking, [...]

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But good advice all the same:

Tip for MPs; when you elect the next speaker, if they’re male, make sure they’re over 5′9″ tall.

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Hmm. Not that I approve of course.
But I’m off to make sure my UKIP membership is up to date…..for any form of PR is near certain to elect some UKIP “senators”.

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see more Epic Fails

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This is a bit of a shocker.
The Tories are indicating that they’re only going to get 200 seats at the next election.
Mr Herbert said: ‘A successful political party ought to look like the country it seeks to govern. If we were truly representative, we would have 99 women, 16 black or ethnic minority [...]

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All this fuss about Ashcroft and domicile.
Here’s a question for you. Was Bryan Gould even a UK citizen?
Come to think of it, is Lord Paul?
Running through my mind is the thought that there’s no requirement (at all) that a member of the House of Lords be a UK citizen. And I’m not entirely sure that [...]

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About Michael Foot. He was the son of an MP (one knighted for having been so) and his brothers all did well:
Foot’s father, Isaac Foot, was a solicitor and founder of the Plymouth law firm, Foot and Bowden (which merged with another firm to become Foot Anstey). Isaac Foot was an active member [...]

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No, don’t argue.
Just hang them all.

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After nearly 13 years in Government, Labour is telling its activists that they should not use the party’s achievements in power when seeking votes at the election.
What achievements?
Quite.

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Mr Brown will tomorrow (SAT) launch Labour’s election slogans for the general election, still pencilled in for May 6. They are: “Ensuring the recovery”; “Protecting frontline services”; “Standing up for the many”; and “Protecting future jobs and new industries.”
Protecting future jobs and industries?
What is the Prime [...]

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OK folks, get on with this democracy thing.
So, what would you like added to our democracy?
Me, I’m going for the currently number 6 one, English votes on English laws. Of course, I go further than they propose, insisting that Frogs, Wops, Dagoes, Portugee and Krauts should also be barred from voting on what laws should [...]

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Two years ago the film director Roman Polanski and the writer Robert Harris set out to make a film of Harris’s novel The Ghost, a gripping fiction of a British Prime Minister — reminiscent of Tony Blair — holed up in a foreign country to avoid prosecution for a war crime.
Just so [...]

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MPs call for jobs blow to be reversed.

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The South African president, Jacob Zuma, is reported to have has fathered a 20th child with the daughter of a friend.
They seem to treat the sex lives of politicians somewhat differently there.

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Downing Street has fiercely denied new claims that Gordon Brown physically attacked his staff in a series of outbursts.
And he’ll beat up anyone who repeats them….

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It’s great this is:
As you can see in the graph atop this post, a majority of people who voted for Martha Coakley and a plurality of non-voters support the bill. Brown voters, however, are brutally opposed.
Therefore we should do what those who couldn’t be bothered to vote say they want. Which happens to be very [...]

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I’m Scott Brown, I’m from Wrentham, I drive a truck, and I am nobody’s senator but yours.
Pretty effective too….

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