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Changing the rules

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So finally we have the usual pathetic shadows of apologies that we’ve come to expect from Gordon and Dave. Neither seems particularly sorry about what their MPs have been doing over the years so much as that they’ve been caught. Of course still they carry on with the “within the rules” nonsense, the rules it would seem state: “Claims must only be made for expenditure that it was necessary for a Member to incur to ensure that he or she could properly perform his or her parliamentary duties” As Anna Raccoon observes in the case of Phil Woolas shoes, comics … Continue reading →

Somewhat puzzled

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Hopefully this is my last post on the McBride/Guido business, as the world and their dog have by now analysed and commented on every aspect of it and then some. Derek Draper has now “apologised” and asked that the “whole blogosphere, right and left” start being nicer, a sentiment echoed by Liberal Conspiracy. Which quite frankly is where I start to get puzzled, I mean I didn’t realise that I had to be either right of left wing to be part of the “blogosphere” (I hate that “word“), but from reading many of the responses from writers seemingly sympathetic to … Continue reading →

As an aside…

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Is it just me or does the proposed Labour smear web site The Red Rag seem a name more appropriate for a site talking about menstruation or possibly even menstruation porn rather than politics? Update Mope seems it’s not just me. +10