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By-Election Report 01.10.26 (Joe Nutt)
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Picking our allies, a perspective on Israel/Palestine (Gillian Mosely)
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Burnham is right to reform the triple lock; the Lib Dems should support it (James Hill)
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Why I won’t Wayve goodbye to Black Cabs (Christian de Vartavan)
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Keep the earnings link: don’t repeat the mistakes of the 80s (Chris Perry)
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Some of the churches of Gower
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Lib Dem MPs are talking to the media about their concern at the party's direction
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Latest voting intention and leadership ratings opinion polls
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Blackburn Reform councillor accused of farting at rival
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State of Play: a classic BBC political drama revisited
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Lib Dems make another by-election gain in Highlands
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The Joy of Six 1585
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Has Ed Davey got it wrong on the triple lock?
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Nigel Jones
@Vince, your nuanced approach makes some sense and as you say it is a complicated situation. If we get gas from the Jackdaw field and not importing it, does tha...- Nigel Jones
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Jana
Two seats where Restore standing has probably cost Reform gains. If this becomes an ongoing pattern, Farage may have to swallow his pride and do a deal with Res...
Chris Bowers
Thank you to everyone who commented on my post, even if, by the end, the responses had drifted into the realm of comments-about-comments-about-comments. I think...
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What the Prime Minister actually said was that if a prices link or 2.5% did not keep up with earnings over time the government would correct it. But that would ...
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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”