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The proud independence of the Isle Of Man (Paul Walter)
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Mathew on Monday: Carl Cashman is a Liberal Hero – and his critics would love his media reach (Mathew Hulbert)
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Welcome to my day: 6 July 2026 – a nation dares to dream? (Mark Valladares)
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The Jenkinsite Policy Network present a new vision for British liberalism (Rosemary Runswick)
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Observations of an Expat: I am an Immigrant (Tom Arms)
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"Ahaarrrr!" A voiceover session from hell
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Navigating for Change calls for more investment in Fenland rivers
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The major parties should boycott Farage's dodgy by-election
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Day 9319: Mr Froggy's Vanity Election
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Government should block Nigel Farage's resignation - Ed Davey
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The Joy of Six 1544
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Let's be honest. Regeneration of some areas will take decades
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Why Plaid should not repeat their badger cull policy
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Roland
@Peter & @Paul - Remember the IoM (and Jersey and Guernsey) is also a tax haven hence why it is a favoured "residence" of the wealthy, such as Baroness Mon...
Jana
Personally, I think the Liberal Democrats have missed a great opportunity here. Imagine the boost to our support if we were to stand, unite the anti-Farage supp...
paul barker
It looks like its going to be Reform Vs The Greens with the latter representing The "Establishment" Unless The Government take Ed's advice & stop it....
Peter Martin
@ Paul, £3 million is of course better than nothing from a population of 84,500 This works out, according to my arithmetic, as 3/0.0845 as £35.5 millio...
Paul Walter
Peter From the "Isle Of Man Today" 5/11/24: "The Isle of Man pays the UK more than £3m a year as a contribution towards services which include our defenc...
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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”