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Civil Service Conjuring

Public Accounts Committee enquiry into Massacre of government bodies brings out the new reduced role of the civil service. Tories come in promising a bonfire of quangos most of which are inexpensive advisory bodies.
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Uk Exit and UK jobs

I co-signed and sent a letter to the Guardian yesterday which supports leaving the EU in order to create more jobs for Britain.
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Bugger Integrity Keep The Cash

Straight after taking (and failing) the integrity test: would you keep a tenner I found in the street? Yes.
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REGIONAL CAPS REPLACE FLAT 'ATS

Can’t get to PLP meeting tonight (30 Jan) to denounce Liam Byrnes idea of regional benefit caps instead of the £26, 000 benefit cap proposed by Duncan-Smith. But I can’t support it.
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The Good, The Bad and The Lib Dems

The Lib-Dem “rebellion” on the benefit cap is just a con to protect their image as a caring party when the only thing they really care about is that their coitus with the Eons should not be interrupted.
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Home Rule for Scotland?

Home Rule for Scotland won’t happen but it will obsess English politics for two years. So we should seize the opportunity to get Devo Max for the North which has more in common with Scotland than it has with the class ridden, snoot nosed, public educated, snob ridden, slob governed, South.
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The Budget and the Wunderkinder: Peter Shaw used to say today’s Wonder Budget is tomorrow’s dross and next week’s forgotten failure. Thus, Wunderkinder’s budget too. It’s ...Read More