Within the rules?

The scandal of of MPs expenses is being covered remarkably well all over the place and you now it’s bad when even Alistair Campbell is expressing dismay (hat tip http://plato-says.blogspot.com/2009/05/is-tomorrow-sucide-sunday.html”>Plato). Having spent the day in the garden I’m not going to let that stop me giving my tuppence worth (possibly now twenty pence worth after seasonal adjustment and inflation of two pounds if being claimed on an MP’s expenses). First off a huge tip of the tifter to Heather Brooke who as Anna Raccoon relates so well is the person that dragged the whole seconds homes thing out into the … Continue reading

Post of the day

I’ve been resisting doing the whole list of must read post things for a while now but The Salted Slug is talking far too much sense to not bring it to everyone’s attention. So for my inaugral “must read” post list: The Salted Slug reveals the real power behind the governments. +10

Passing bandwagons

Just back from holiday were interactions with local police and PCSO’s gives me some hope that bastions of sanity still exist. However meantime two campaigns that really need advertising, even though they’re a bit old and I’m sure most people have seen them. Firstly sign up to the petition for Gordon Brown to go and go now at Number 10 Secondly if you have an old shirt to hand save the government the effort of stealing it from your back and send it direct to Gordon. Then do let the libertarian party now, they’re not organising it but are keeping … Continue reading