Showing posts with label MPs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MPs. Show all posts
Wednesday, 29 July 2020

We have too many MPs and they represent us poorly

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I think we have too many Members of Parliament of both sorts but I'd like to focus attention on the elected ones - members of the Hous...
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Thursday, 31 January 2019

Finishing with Fiona - thoughts on how to sack your MP

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Three things about Fiona Onasanya's imprisonment and whether she should be sacked as an MP. 1. We might need a better mechanism for t...
Thursday, 12 April 2018

Postcode lotteries (or why England is the most centralised large country in the world)

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I don't know about you, but the term 'postcode lottery' makes my blood boil. We hear it all the time with its implication that ...
Monday, 8 June 2015

Journalists and maths - things that don't really mix. The case of the boozy MPs.

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It's from the Sun so all the gory details (doubtless given the source more of the former than the latter) are behind Rupert'...
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Sunday, 24 August 2014

Leave the MPs on holiday...

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**** "Recall Parliament" goes the cry without really any consideration as to what Parliament is going to do when it arrives back...
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Monday, 11 August 2014

Is the Alcohol Abuse APPG just a front for 'Big Pharma'?

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**** When the debate over cigarette packaging started the tobacco control lobby was very quick to finger some MPs - like Oliver Colville,...
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Friday, 4 April 2014

MPs outside earnings - more unworkable populist nonsense from Labour

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**** I guess that this works well with the focus group and appeals to the hair shirt tendency in politics: "There will be some b...
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Sunday, 30 March 2014

Politicians and booze - how drunk or sober are MPs?

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**** The Mirror has revealed (or so it says) just how sloshed our MPs are: Politicians and workers in the House of Commons guzzled £1...
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Monday, 10 February 2014

In which I angrily disassociate myself from most Tory MPs

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"It's for the children" they cry and reel out carefully pre-packaged statistics showing how millions of kids are killed, mai...
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Sunday, 1 December 2013

Those boozy MPs - Some maths for the Daily Mail

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**** Terrible! Taxpayer-subsidised bars for MPs sold more than 65,000 alcoholic drinks in the last year - despite a promised crackdown ...
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Sunday, 21 July 2013

Is anyone paying attention....

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**** Over the years I've remarked often that most people, most of the time, simply aren't remotely interested in politics. More to...
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Monday, 13 May 2013

Guilt by association...the Telegraph tries to skewer an MP on his predecessor's sins

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**** The Daily Telegraph reports on the success of Conservative MP, Stephen Phillips: Stephen Phillips, the member for Sleaford and No...
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Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Bradford spring becomes a murky autumn

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**** I nicked the headline (from the Techie Fairy) because it sums up George Galloway's problems in Bradford and the doubtful legacy i...
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Tuesday, 11 December 2012

Stewart Jackson: nannying fussbucket masquerading as a Tory MP

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**** Stewart Jackson has been all over the airwaves saying what a terrible thing it would be if gay people could get married. You shouldn...
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Saturday, 8 December 2012

Perhaps we should try some of this democracy stuff?

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When I pitched successfully to be the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Keighley back in 1999, I made some observations about '...
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Monday, 3 December 2012

Nannying Fussbucket of the day - another illiberal Liberal Democrat: Jenny Willott MP

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**** I do sometimes wonder whether there remains anyone in the Liberal Democrat Party who actually possesses a shred of belief in liberali...
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Tuesday, 27 November 2012

"MP calls for ban..." Here we go again!

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MPs like a good call for a ban - guaranteed to get them a headline! And here's Charlie Elphicke a member of the Public Administration ...
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Saturday, 17 November 2012

Apathy, elitism and bureaucracy - an ancient problem

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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy . So it’s that apathy thing again. You know...
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Tuesday, 13 November 2012

"Reining in Twitter..."

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**** ....seems to be the big challenge for Leveson today - and what a challenge! Senior MPs have said that Lord Justice Leveson must f...
Thursday, 18 October 2012

Some MPs - including the speaker - just don't get it do they?

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**** This expenses thing - you know the one where they rent houses to one another. The public want to know about it - here's a poll in...