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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Six places to be reserved for serving members of the armed forces during prime minister's questions or any other parliamentary debate Serving members of the armed forces will be given priority when the Commons allocates places in the public gallery for prime minister's questions, John Bercow said today. The Speaker told MPs that up to six places in the public gallery would be reserved for armed forces...
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Wanted truthful parliament in the UK (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Editor©Muhammad Haque 2130 GMT London Wednesday 04 November 2009 KHOODEELAAR! TOLD the utterer of gross CRASS Crossrail scam-peddling ‘Business’ lie ‘the’ ‘MP’ S POUND so. Now another ‘Business’ ‘leader’ IN EFFECT echoes what we said. Evidence mounts that Mr Pound spieled stupid! Again! [4] For those who are new here, the ‘MP”...
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The Devil's Kitchen (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Your humble Devil must admit to wondering how, precisely, the questions are chosen at PMQs—especially since so many seem not to be, in fact, questions but assorted back-benchers toadying to the government. Luckily, Kerry McCarthy has explained it all for us (she does, occasionally, write some quite interesting stuff about the processes of the House). Backbenchers (which includes all the Lib Dems...
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KERRY MCCARTHY (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
I promised someone on Twitter last week that I would explain how the ballot for PMQs works, and who else gets to speak, so here goes, using tomorrow's session as an example. Backbenchers (which includes all the Lib Dems except Clegg and all the Tories except the Shadow Cabinet) have to submit their question for PMQs by 12.30pm the Thursday before. They don't have to actually specify what question they...
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KHOODEELAAR! calling for a truthful parliament (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
2245 Hrs GMT London Sunday 01 November 2009: Richmond area [Lib Dems Party] MP Susan Kramer did a wise thing today. She deliberately failed to utter any CRASSrole idiocies with Stephen Pound. But Susan Kramer was wrong to not counter Pound's untruth about 'Business'. After all, we last had reason to take Ms Kramer to task in her own constituency because she had contradicted herself on CRASSrail. The...
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Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
From Hansard yesterday: Mr. Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry) (DUP): I understand the point made by the hon. Member for Ealing, North (Stephen Pound) on the need for a society to be able to call itself civilised in the way in which it treats those who are guilty of serious crimes. I believe that a society that calls itself civilised must take account of the infinitesimal number of people who, despite...
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BBC - Radio 4 - iPM (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Tired of hearing politicians avoid answering yes or no to interview questions - one listener wrote to us appealing for some straightforward answers . So we asked the three main UK parties if they could each provide us with an MP to answer yes or no to questions sent in by listeners. The Conservative shadow housing minister Grant Shapps agreed to take part. As did the Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker...
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SUBROSA (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Plane coming into land at Glasgow Fourteen MPs have signed a motion calling for domestic flights to be phased out by the end of next year if Britain is to avoid "a climate emergency". Members of all three main UK parties have called for the radical move as part of a raft of measures designed to reduce environmental damage. At least two hours of prime time television per week should be used...
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Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
To answer a question from my previous post about Stephen Pound , he is in a sort-of marginal ( Ealing North), in so far as it usually goes to the ruling party, but Pound has a notional majority of 7,059, and it is Conservative target seat no. 173 . However, he is an all-round bastard, I think it would be fair to say. Firstly, he was one of 98 MPs to vote to keep expenses secret. He did this for the...
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Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
I see in the New Statesman that Stephen Pound, a Labour MP has been off seeing various Trotsky-related locations: Revolutionary fervour burned in Labour's Stephen Pound as he set off for the first bolt-hole of exiled Leon Trotsky. The original Trot (Leon, not Pound) lived on the island of Buyukada off Istanbul for four years from 1929. A bearded Greek Orthodox priest asked to give political directions...
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Bad Conscience (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
On Wednesday evening, David Cameron gave one of the compulsory Tory leader talks to the nauseating Carlton Club. According to Stephen Pound MP at yesterday’s Royal Society of Arts debate, Cameron (or D-Cam, as some like to call him) went significantly off-message about anticipated Tory spending/cutting plans. Unfortunately, I’ve seen no further proof of this (just [...]
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Mandate Communications blog (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
Whilst the media whirlwind which accompanies the annual party conference season never fails to emphasise its importance to the speculators and commentators dominating the airwaves, many in the Public Affairs industry are reassessing exactly what they still offer to the industry. At a packed party conference ‘fringe’ style event at the Royal Society of Arts on Thursday lunchtime, Iain Dale,...
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Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
I’m speaking tomorrow, Thursday, at a lunchtime lecture at the RSA with the timely title, Party conferences – who needs them', alongside Stephen Pound MP, Iain Dale and Michael White. Here’s the blurb: The annual party conferences attract hordes of the party faithful and mark the start of the political calendar for the Whitehall establishment. The [...]
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Phil Taylor (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
I don’t think that Ealing North MP, Stephen Pound, was wishing a new 11th plague on Ealing (see previous ten plagues on Egypt here) when he wrote to the Ealing & Acton Gazette last week to promote the idea of raising a Blue Plaque to pop goddess Dusty Springfield. All very commendable but the [...]
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