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They never learn. Caught with their hands in the expenses cookie jar, any MP with a modicum of logic would know it would be a good idea to withdraw those hands and start spending some of their own money; their own wages, on items such as sweets, bars of chocolate, or any day to day household item.

Having swerved their way around the fact their expense accounts had to be shown; a requirement brought in by laws of their own making, the almost blanked out versions that appeared on the web site did nothing other than enrage the public even more than the actual thievery taking place

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The British Armed Forces

June 19th 2009 22:06

As at early 2009 the British Armed Forces consisted of the following:

Royal Navy: 38,160 (including 7,500 Royal Marines

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Brown planning Massive Cost Cuts

June 12th 2009 21:49

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has declared he will slash spending across the whole of the Government next year.

The cuts are expected to be

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New Blogger

June 12th 2009 17:57

This is to inform anyone who has been reading the blogs posted on this domain, Political World, that it now has a new owner.

My posts will be mainly centred on politics in the United Kingdom. All of my posts will be mainly my own thoughts

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UK Electoral Reforms.

June 11th 2009 18:12

After being given one of the biggest political scares of his life, Prime Minister Brown has decided he does, after all, wish to listen to the people. I take his statement with more than just a grain of salt.

He states that he wants to 'clean up' parliament. The measures he has in mind to help carry out this enormous task are

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PM Brown Still In Denial

June 8th 2009 18:12

The UKs unelected Prime Minister, with his cabinet of mostly unelected members seems to be in a world of his own. His party has just been hammered off the county council political map and the results of the European elections have been another rout, and yet he still insists he and his party are the only people who can drag the UK out of its financial and unemployment crisis.

In some areas of the country his party came last in the polls. The results show Labour dropping down to third place in the British contingent of the EU parliament, behind the relatively newly formed UKIP. They even lost a seat to the far right BNP and this is their worst showing in the polls for over 100 years

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The People Have Spoken?

June 7th 2009 17:20

So, as predicted by experts and non-experts alike, the UK government took a good kicking at the county council elections earlier in the week. Such a kicking that they lost control of every council in their charge where voting took place.

If you noticed, the title of this post has a question mark. The reason this is so is because I'm wondering if the people have actually spoken. Only 30% of those entitled to vote actually bothered. This means that the council seats, and the hiring and firing of councillors has been done by less than a third of the people. I wonder how many of the 70% who didn't bother will now be moaning about the result

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Payback time?

June 3rd 2009 17:44

The great expenses debate rages on. Members of the "Mother of Parliaments" at Westminster, London have been having a right good laugh at the expense of the hard-working taxpayers.

Claims for allowances, which, or so I believe, are to help with the running of their office and constitutional work, have been made for such things as bath-plugs, cleaning of moats, payment of council tax. The list is endless

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Calls For More Funding For Our Athletes (LINK)

August 24th 2008 09:06

It is absolutely appalling the discussions taking place to consider increasing the amount of funding for our Australian athletes after a disappointing haul of gold medals at Beijing. We have so many Australians struggling to make ends meet and yet while people are homeless, struggling to feed themselves and their families, we are talking about increasing the funding to pay for athletes who want to compete in a sport. And not all athletes, for example, our netballers are obviously not considered elite sportswomen because netball is not included in the Olympics. Yet BMX riding is included and so is table tennis etc. Australia we need to get our priorities right. I would love to represent my country in the Olympics but I don't have the funds to do so and I don't expect hard-working Australians to pay for my way. Are our Olympians going to pay for my hobbies and for me to have less time at work so I can develop my sporting skills? It is absolutely absurd that millions of dollars are spent on the Olympics.

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Pauline Hanson in the News Again! (LINK)

August 17th 2008 10:04

There's a lot I can say about Pauline Hanson but I guess at least she's determined. For someone that has a political career that is an absolute joke, she always seems to pop up. Her racist and unintelligent comments flooded the media years ago. For someone that's not really liked or attractive, it is interesting that she has been approached by Channel 7 to do her own dating reality show. What a joke? Why the hell would you try to get someone like Pauline Hanson to do this show unless of course the show demonstrates what not to say or do when dating? Her suggestion for a date would be to go to a fish and chip shop where Asians are not allowed. C'mon Channel 7 if you want a show that has good ratings do NOT get this racist woman. She is a disgrace to Australia.

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