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tugster: a waterblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Non-random fotos plus word associations and any additional required info. So, here, left to right move Margaret Moran, Admiral’s Launch, and Big Toot (the bright red one). Big Toot? Big anything? Over-compensation. Unconvincingly so. Penn No. 4 foreground and USS New Jersey background. If I’d snapped the foto a second earlier, there might be the illusion [...]
The Appalling Strangeness (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Good news! Some railway stations are going to be improved. But take a look at this list and see whether you can clock the link: Manchester Victoria – Tony Lloyd LAB Clapham Junction – Martin Linton LAB Barking – Margaret Hodge LAB Warrington Bank Quay – Helen Southworth LAB Preston – Mark Hendrick LAB Wigan North Western – Neil Turner LAB Luton - Margaret Moran LAB...
Boulton (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
It’s sure proof of the depths to which our elected representatives have fallen that I’ve just been sent a stocking-filler book entitled “Cr*p MPs – The 40 Worst Members of Parliament in History”. So, in the view of HarperCollins, Britain’s MPs have now joined Scrooge, the Grinch, and Captain Hook in the pantheon of pantomime villains. The Ladybird-style book’s...
Railway Eye (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Telegrammed by Lobby Fodder So Guido's not convinced about yesterday's Pilgrimage of Grice, detecting the sulpherous whiff of Porkbarrel politics. This interesting list from Guido's blog : Manchester Victoria – Tony Lloyd LAB Clapham Junction – Martin Linton LAB Barking – Margaret Hodge LAB Warrington Bank Quay – Helen Southworth LAB Preston – Mark Hendrick LAB Wigan North...
Enemies of the People (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
(2009) New labour M.P. Margaret Moran -PARASITE We are fed up with people in Luton South being represented by an MP who thinks it is OK to spend thousands of pounds worth of taxpayers’ money on decorating and furnishings. We are fed up with an MP who cares more about dry rot than Luton. We are fed [...]
Dick Puddlecote (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Luton prepares to discard its rubbish ( link )
Freedom To Choose (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
You may remember Margaret Moran, Labour MP for Luton South? She has featured a couple of times previously on this blog. As well being one of the most egregious abusers of the MP expenses system - arguably the worst, in fact - she is also a dictatorial, anti-smoking moron, with no time for democratic input from her constituents. As Luton working mens' club owner, Sean Spillane, found out last year when...
Jon Slattery (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Blogger Guido Fawkes reckons "the nature of the expenses scandal means that local newspaper journalists will find it easy to attack their sitting MPs." He says: "None will find it easier than the Luton & Dunstable Express which has started a Get Moran Out Now campaign" in Margaret Moran's Luton South constituency. Guido adds: "Expect to see more of this across the land....
Boulton (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Disgraced Luton South MP Margaret Moran has yet to return to work after it was revealed in May that she claimed £22,500 for dry rot treatment at a home in Southampton - 100 miles from Luton. In a statement released today, Ms Moran said: "I am sorry that, due to ill health, I have not been able to carry out my parliamentary and constituency duties to the extent I would wish, and accordingly...
Mark Wadsworth (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Yesterday's Evening Standard accompanied this article with an inset headed "Revealed: Losers under new 60-minute travel rule" . I can't find the inset online, so I've scanned it in for you below. It continues: Under new rules, MPs living within an hour's commute by train from London will be barred from having a second home... there are likely to be just 12 MPs affected. The Standard has estimated...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Would-be MP says she wants town to change from being place 'people describe rather rudely' Esther Rantzen launched her campaign to become MP for Luton South today. The former That's Life presenter cut the ribbon at her new office in Luton's Arndale Centre under a sign bearing her slogan: "Together we can make a difference." She originally announced her intention to stand against Labour MP...
Mark Reckons (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Channel 4 News' fact-checking department did a piece yesterday which analyses my safe seats and expenses scandal correlation work from back in May. It has been prompted by an article that Nick Clegg wrote in The Daily Telegraph on Wednesday about expenses where in the final paragraph he says: And of course, if we’re to sort out politics fully, we need to think about the future, not just the past....
Political Scrapbook (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
David Wilshire, who introduced Section 28 as an amendment to the Local Government Bill 1988, is royally screwed. In the pantheon of expenses scandals, paying more than £100,000 to a firm owned – to the extent that it is possible to own a quasi-legal, unincorporated, unaudited company – with your girlfriend is up there with Margaret Moran, [...]
ffranc sais (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
The Indian Army got away (until now ) with hiding in the terrorist defence budget their acquisition of golf buggies for generals under the heading "silent reconnaissance vehicles". Now if Sir Peter Viggers had described his duck house as "secure reception area for foreign guests flying in", or Douglas Hogg had put his moat maintenance down to additional security measures, perhaps...
Voice of the Resistance (Free subscription) | 25/08/2009
The Tories are warning that Britain's streets are turning into scenes from the US TV show "The Wire". This is hardly news or a surprise to those of us who have lived in these sorts of areas. I was speaking to a friend from Luton over messenger last night and she has finally decided to move to the outskirts of town, as someone was shot directly outside her flat a few weeks ago and she is terrifed...
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