Showing posts with label Parliament. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Parliament. Show all posts
Monday, 14 January 2019

No leadership, childishness and deception - how MPs are destroying the trust that's central to democracy

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Trust. That's it, the central, essential requirement for democracy to work. People have to trust that their friends and neighbours will ...
Thursday, 3 December 2015

In whose name? A comment on democratic will and other such stuff.

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" Not in my name is the cry". Petitions are posted, letters are written, placards are badly spelled, frantic facebook rants ar...
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Sunday, 22 February 2015

George Galloway isn't doing his job and doesn't like being reminded...

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**** The voting records of Bradford's MPs are now public and they reveal that four out the the District's five MPs vote in most d...
Sunday, 23 November 2014

Time to move parliament out of London

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Bradford's Goitside - where better for a relocated Parliament Building! I've said before that one way to rebalance the nation is...
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Friday, 19 September 2014

We need an English Parliament (in Bradford)

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I remember, prior to the 2010 General Election, speaking with Eric Pickles at Party Conference about the 'West Lothian Question'....
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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, 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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Tuesday, 7 January 2014

In which I agree with George Monbiot

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**** I promise this won't become a common occurrence but George is absolutely right about the Antisocial Behaviour, Crime and Policin...
Thursday, 24 October 2013

Prince of Bureaucrats calls for guided democracy...

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**** I'm told that Gus O'Donnell is a terribly clever man. I'm sure this is the case but he clearly has lost all grip on the ...
Wednesday, 11 September 2013

A frightening comment on the ghastly waste that is HS2 - who runs the country?

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**** Here's Jackie Sadek from UK Regeneration: The government seems to be going out on the offensive to promote HS2 today. About t...
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Saturday, 31 August 2013

Apparently the Syria vote was lost because Cameron isn't a violent bully

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**** I think John McTernan was some sort of spin doctor for Tony Blair. And, in an article he has written, he reminds me how much Blair an...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013

A point about the equal marriage debate...

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**** It's just that I'm a stickler for these things. The debate - and the decision of parliament isn't about marriage it's...
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Representation...

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**** You hear the cries about politicians: "We elect them to do what we say!" And a host of variations on this theme. The...
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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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Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Why the Houses of Parliament should be in Bradford...

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When I worked for the Children's Society back in the 1980s, the charity relocated its headquarters. From Kennington to Clerkenwell -  ...
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Thursday, 3 November 2011

What is regeneration for then? A comment on the Select Committee report...

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I mean seriously how can we begin to know whether a given regeneration strategy, policy or programme is right or wrong, effective or ineff...
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Tuesday, 18 October 2011

Is your MP backing an in/out referendum? They should be...

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**** In the Spring of 2000, I stood and addressed the assembled members of Keighley & Ilkley Conservative Association - seeking to be ...
Sunday, 13 February 2011

Just a thought...

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**** What follows isn't to take sides in the debate (such as it is) about Sarah Wollaston's alleged criticisms of Tory Whips. Alth...
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Monday, 17 January 2011

When you think about it, the Speaker's an irrelevance.

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**** Any given group of people will – in their debates and discussions – tend to focus on the things that are of direct personal concer...
Wednesday, 29 December 2010

We want referendums not patronising debates in parliament

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I watched the Winslow Boy on TV the other day and was reminded of parliament’s arrogance and tendency to nonsense. I fear that nothing muc...
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