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Three Score Years And Ten (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
Austin Mitchell the Chair of the Housing Group of MPs had this fine letter in "The Times" on Tuesday. Here is an extract - ".....your lead story (“Council homes for life ‘to be scrapped’ ”, Nov 10) isn’t a forecast of the Green Paper on social housing, but a last-ditch attempt by a tiny group of ideologically motivated barm-pots, some of them in Communities & Local Government, to achieve their longstanding...
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ModernityBlog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
I don’t blog much on the domestic political scene and the latest proposal from New Labour is one of the reasons, my blood pressure wouldn’t take it, so I’ll let Austin Mitchell make my point: “Sir, It makes me sad to say it but your lead story (“Council homes for life ‘to be scrapped’ ”, Nov [...]
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Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
The Lib Dem leader of NELC, Cllr Andrew De Freitas has told a Government minister that the new rating assessments of port businesses could cripple many firms and cost Britain more in the long term. The leader of North East Lincolnshire Council joined Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell at Westminster to make the case for a review of the [...]
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Steve Beasant Liberal Democrat (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
The Leader of North East Lincolnshire Council, Councillor Andrew De Freitas and Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell will meet with a Government minister on Monday – seeking assurances that port operators won’t face a £20-million business rate bill. John Healey, Minister for Communities and Local Government in Westminster, will hear representations as the authority vows not [...]
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Chicken Yoghurt (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
There’s a real 1997 vibe in the air what with disgraced ex-ministers and war criminals welcomed back into the club with open arms. And here’s the venerable Austin Mitchell MP on Gordon Brown’s new economic offensive: Gordon Brown’s speech at the Parliamentary Labour Party last night was powerful, effective and well received. He knows that’s right. [...]
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The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Austin Mitchell asking all the right questions... "Ruth Kelly's departure is a bit mysterious. I believe her but the Punditiers don't. Will she fight Bolton at the next election? Will she take a well paid outside job? Bit difficult to spend more time with the kids if she does." Ruth Kelly on the way her resignation was announced ... "I have some doubts about the way it was handled. But it is better...
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Serially Speaking (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Lords and Leg Cos: Two Second Chamber Sagas - Austin Mitchell Reconsidering the Party Distances and Dimensionality of the Danish Folketing - Martin Ejnar Hansen Dynamics in Legislative Budgeting in Italy: 1982–2001 - Carolyn Forestiere; Riccardo Pelizzo A New Ethical World of British MPs? - Nicholas Allen Polls as Public–Politic Linkage: A Comparative Analysis of Poll Use and Roles of MPs in Parliamentary...
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The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
"...we'll keep the red flag flying here." That's Austin Mitchell's recipe for saving the Labour Party and winning the next election with Brown as leader: "...a massive Keynesian boost by borrowing and spending big time, getting interest rates down to a stimulatory two per cent and pumping out the liquidity to end the credit squeeze." Mirror columnist, Tony Parsons, is less optimistic about
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Austin Mitchell, the political scientist, once said of the New Zealand electorate: those who live in the hills vote National, and those in the valleys or on the flat vote Labour. In the United States, those who live near the sea,...
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Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
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The Cedar Lounge Revolution (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
According to ‘veteran backbencher’, old Labourite (of sorts) and strong eurosceptic (he represented Great Grimsby, it might have been something about fish) Austin Mitchell who writes in Tribune: …we [British Labour] already display too many of the symptoms of a government at the end of its tether: the bickering, the declining enthusiasm, the shuffling positioning and [...]
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
AUSTIN Mitchell, the Labour MP for Grimsby, was taking pictures of the Leeds-Liverpool canal last year when he was challenged by a lock-keeper who demanded to know what he wa
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This is Jersey (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
AN MP has called for the UK government to launch an urgent inquiry into child abuse allegations in Jersey. Austin Mitchell MP said that the inquiry was needed because of the ‘prevailing desire on the part of Jersey elites to sweep scandal and abuse under the carpet to preserve their reputations’. In a strongly worded Commons motion, [...]
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Labour MP Austin Mitchell calls on the government to hold an independent inquiry into child abuse allegations in Jersey.
