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Britain’s gas gamble: Why Jackdaw is a bad bet for our energy future (Mark Hofman)
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Roland
Or Nick Clegg defending the inexcusable behaviour of Facebook prioritising profit over user protection and safety....
Rose Runswick
Mark is absolutely right, I hear a lot of talk about this being a necessary transition for energy security or cheap prices, but to quote George Monibot "If I wa...
Suzanne Fletcher
Yes, John Shipley made us proud of Lib Dems in the NE as leader of Newcastle City Council, he was a great example of Liberalism and leadership in action. He al...
PM
"The bond vigilantes are signalling their nervousness about the UK in the form of 10 year bond yields of 5.4%" Vince didn't mention that the bigge...
Christopher Burden
I agree with Mark. How utterly depressing to read numpties parroting fossil fuel industry FFI claims, on a site allegedly supported by Liberal Democrats. It is...
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I truly hope not
They don’t need a Speaker. They need a liquidator just to wind up all business before we abolish them by boycotting the next election.
QT clip seems a bit unfair: MP accused of being on the take. Defends claims. Answer ignored and accusation repeated with increasing vehemence.
The Telegraph also today reports Beckett claimed £11k for gardening over 7 years. Again apparently within the rules at the time, but that doesn’t seem to matter.
Of course if Beckett did nothing to help those who (like the LibDems) have been trying to reform these rules then she deserves to be criticised for that. But the rest of this has a witch-hunting whiff to it that doesn’t seem to be entirely fair-play.
Said it bloody weeks ago,
http://oldrightie.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-speaker-at-her-first-pmqs.html
I think a lot of these MPs are an utter joke, i.e. the ones who totally milked the system, but she went out there like a lamb to the slaughter and stood up for herself and did not blink, and I think that compared to some other MPs that kind of strength is to be admired. Like Lonely Wonderer, if she has actually been on the fiddle then I have no sympathy, but that clip by itself isn’t fair, I’m pretty sure the people on that clip booing her in their righteous indignation would boo anyone who didn’t go on tv saying “please don’t hurt me”