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Monthly Archives: May 2009

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You’re a bad MP baby…

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by Anna Raccoon on May 31, 2009

Told you once before
And I won’t tell you no more
Get down, get down, get down
You’re a bad MP baby
I don’t want you ’round You give me the creeps
When you jump

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The Telegraph has made us wise.

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by Gloria Smudd on May 31, 2009

The Telegraph has made us wise
To claims which made us stretch our eyes!
Our MPs have a clever way
To supplement their basic pay
And anything their lifestyle lacks,
They’ll simply buy it with our

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Catch a pair of errant MPs

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by Anna Raccoon on May 31, 2009

Catch a pair of errant MPs
Vast expenses hidden from all
In a mercenary coup –
Do not heed their mild surprise –
Having passed the Rubicon
They’re a pair of brazen clips;
Take

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Fraud is fraud, is fraud, is fraud……

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by Anna Raccoon on May 30, 2009

Bill Wiggin filled in 23 consecutive monthly forms nominating his constituency house as his second home for the purposes of his parliamentary expenses even though he and his wife owned it

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Homoeopathic economics.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 29, 2009

I’m grateful to Mr Eugenides for pointing me in the direction of this, I’d given up reading ‘ethical blogs’ since the dog days of Derek Draper……….(Mr Eumenides shurly? Far more appropriate.

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Cold Turkey on Big Brother.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 29, 2009

Is there any point in blogging? Is it worth worrying about the state of the nation? You know something important is happening when a Sunday Newspaper updates on a Thursday – and garners

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The Righteous do have a sense of humour……

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by Anna Raccoon on May 28, 2009

…after all. This is the Police Station in Righteous Central, otherwise known as Sheffield. More precisely, Letsby Avenue, Sheffield. Courtesy of Google. Ask Gloria if you can’t figure it out.

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A Tale of Two Shanty Cities……

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by Anna Raccoon on May 28, 2009

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. . . .”

Charles Dickens – A Tale of Two

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Sublimely Absurd – Police Force apply for Warrant for their Chief Constable!

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by AnnaRaccoon on May 27, 2009

The Colin Port saga gets better and better.

Matters hotted up last week as, according to one legal source close to these matters: “Last Friday the police applied for

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Spawned by Damian McBride no doubt…….

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by AnnaRaccoon on May 26, 2009

Wikipedia have just admitted that a Labour apparatchik named David Boothroyd, councillor for Westminster’s Westbourne ward, has resigned after being revealed as the person behind the alias ‘Sam Blacketer’

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Midsummer Maddieness.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 26, 2009

Parliamentarians, Paedophiles and Doctors, at first sight seem to have little in common, in fact would be horrified to find themselves thrown in the same pot, but this week all have been hoist by the buzzing

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The Dissolution of Modern Britain.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 25, 2009

Polish photographer Maciej Dakowicz’s holiday snaps of sunny Cardiff-by-Sea may have embarrassed us, but came as no surprise to those who have walked Britain’s streets after dark.

We may all

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Why France? – part two.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 25, 2009

I am always leery of writing of life in France, it sets off an utterly predictable rash of knee jerk comments from fellow bloggers who seem to think that because one lives in Europe one has no

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Why France?

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by Anna Raccoon on May 24, 2009

Leg-iron penned an interesting report from his local hostelry yesterday. One paragraph in particular caught my eye.

One of the other drinkers had been in for an operation on his hand. General

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Lego Cops in Wonderland…….

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by AnnaRaccoon on May 22, 2009

Any lingering vestige of faith that you had in the Great British Press should have been dispelled overnight. There are no journalists in the accepted sense of the word – as

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There be ‘Ore’ in them thar Irish Hills.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 21, 2009

They say if you stand still in Piccadilly Circus for long enough, eventually everyone in the world will pass by. Rummaging in the murky depths of ‘Operation Ore’ is beginning

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Old Holborn caught Nappying by Shropshire Lass…….

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by Anna Raccoon on May 20, 2009

Old Holborn is mustering a demonstration outside Parliament this Saturday. I wish I could be there to support him. However, whilst we were all digesting the inane words of one Gordon Brown inside Parliament,

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The United Kingdom – a Failed State.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 20, 2009

It is difficult to take seriously the criteria set for ‘being a failed state’ by the Non-profit Think Tank ‘Fund for Peace’ when it manages to place Iceland as one of the countries least likely

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How fitting, how perfectly in tune…..

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by Anna Raccoon on May 19, 2009

With the total disrespect this man has for the institution of Parliament, than that he should announce his resignation first to one of his political cronies rather than to Parliament and the MPs he has so utterly let down.

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First the Speaker, now the Chief Constable…….

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by AnnaRaccoon on May 19, 2009

It is said of the Law that it is the glue which holds the fabric of society together – if that is so, we are in danger of unravelling fast.

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Collusion and the Fees Office.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 18, 2009

Following on from Iain Dale’s piece this morning, it would seem that Parliamentary Staff were well aware of the collusion between the Fees Office and MPs on the matter of expenses.

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A Garbled Statement from Gorbals Mick

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by Anna Raccoon on May 18, 2009

‘Gorbals Mick’ has spoken – if his garbled speech can be graced by such a term. He has not offered to resign. Douglas Carswell’s motion is not a ’substantive motion’ . He has refused a debate.

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A Petition to Dissolve Parliament

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by Anna Raccoon on May 18, 2009

David Cameron has this afternoon launched a petition to dissolve parliament and call a general election. This may be the first and only time you venture onto the Conservative Party Web site – but whatever your politics,

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Foot and ‘Mouth’ disease.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 17, 2009

The present outbreak of the disease which threatens to cull all the livestock in the House of Commons can be traced back to 1976 and Michael Foot’s cowardice in the face of a pincer movement –

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How to make a viral video…….

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by Anna Raccoon on May 17, 2009

An object lesson in how not to make the mistakes Gordon Brown has made on YouTube. The French are downloading this

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The Hierarchy of Discrimination.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 16, 2009

The Guardian published this photograph under the title ‘”Gay porn’movie raises ripples on far right” – hmmn, may well have raised a few ‘nipples’, left and right, never mind ‘ripples’.

That was not the only

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Re-definitions – Nu-Labour speak; Issue 3.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 15, 2009

‘I support the ‘office’ of the Speaker’ – I’m too frightened of the whips to say so openly, but I wish someone braver than me would boot Michael Martin out – he got us into this mess.

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‘Right you lot, fall in, how do we vote? We vote Labour!’

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by Anna Raccoon on May 15, 2009

The Armed Forces will be drafted in to run state schools under plans to drive up discipline and respect in classrooms.

Ministers are in talks with defence chiefs about

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Watching us, watching them…….

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by Anna Raccoon on May 15, 2009

The less than transparent Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has published its SOCA Annual Report 2008/09 (.pdf) (72 pages)

Telephone intercept intelligence

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This ’swine’ fever pandemic must be brought under control.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 14, 2009

The rashers of piggery served up every morning are reducing the image of Great Britain to that of a banana republic. We already know that we have a toxic Prime Minister who is incapable of accepting that

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