It’s a small point I know but I am sick to death of seeing politicians use every trick they can to gain the maximum personal benefit from the taxpayers money.

It’s about time they stopped extracting the urine!

“Up against the wall, Oedipals”

OK ?

Petty I know, but these aren’t typographic errors. And we have the gall to criticise today’s students.

Regardless of the above, had Harman, Woozy Alexander or Hain a shred of personal honour, they would have resigned. But they have worked so hard for their pensions.

Hold on – it’s US who are paying their pensions. Whilst losing ours.

Bring back the 60s

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With that said, I’m intrigued that the wording on the site has been changed already (someone’s clearly been paying attention) and that not only have they removed the reference to Labour but also the line “I have tried to make it possible for you to add your own views.” The latter is amusing because as an exercise in extolling the virtues of Web 2.0, this ain’t it. If this is Hain “trying” it does rather suggest a lack of a “can do” attitude!

I’d be most interested to discover how much of his Communications Allowance has been spent on it. For a website that preaches about “dialogue” it doesn’t seem to do very much. I have a horrible feeling that the relatively new Communications Allowance is making a few web designers very rich by rolling out unimaginative websites like this at the inflated expense of the taxpayer.

I’ve personally never really understood why MPs think this is a better way of communicating with their constituents compared to freely available software such as blogger and wordpress.

The other stuff, yes, agree, but this is something I reckon most MPs would do without worrying about.