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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Research we’d like to see
March 20th, 2010 · 3 Comments
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Put aside ideology for a moment
March 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments
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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I’m sure this is heightist or something
March 19th, 2010 · 3 Comments
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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Reform of the House of Lords
March 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments
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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Siriously?
March 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment
see more Epic Fails
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Tories think they’ll get 200 seats
March 7th, 2010 · 8 Comments
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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Bryan Gould
March 6th, 2010 · 8 Comments
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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Not important but mildly interesting
March 4th, 2010 · 4 Comments
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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This is disturbingly persuasive
February 25th, 2010 · 7 Comments
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Hang them
February 21st, 2010 · 6 Comments
No, don’t argue.
Just hang them all.
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Probably a good move
February 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments
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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On Labour’s new slogans
February 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
Power 2010
February 18th, 2010 · 6 Comments
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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Plot spoiler
February 13th, 2010 · No Comments
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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Wasn’t this a Man from Auntie line?
February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments
MPs call for jobs blow to be reversed.
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Snigger
February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments
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John Edwards should move to South Africa
February 1st, 2010 · No Comments
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.
Not true!
January 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment
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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The shorter Ezra Klein
January 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments
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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Populism, yes
January 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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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