Posts Tagged ‘Politics’
Politics…..
Posted by: Shaun Turner on: July 10, 2008
Whatever. The point is that in the UK we have a DUTY to those who have fallen in wars to protect our rights to freedom and democracy. We have an obligation to their memory and our children’s future to ensure that those rights are protected and nurtured, not trampled on and abused. You can’t complain [...]
MPs pay and expenses….openness???
Posted by: Shaun Turner on: June 25, 2008
- In: General| Politics| The State
- 2 Comments
I was listening to Radio 4 today and they were discussing something about MPs salaries and expenses being open to scrutiny and audit and I listened to an MP say how this was too much auditing, to much scrutiny and just because a few MPs had “played the system” did not mean that all of [...]
Coincidence…?
Posted by: Shaun Turner on: June 19, 2008
Call me cynical but……
Energy prices go up….and the media reports they could go up by another 40% this year (This is legalised extortion…the only winners are the Government and the Energy Companies)….Government says “Oh dear, well maybe we should re-introduce the whole Nuclear Power thing now then eh? Cheap power and all that!” (Knowing that [...]
Point of view
Posted by: Shaun Turner on: June 17, 2008
Although we can congratulate the Irish for doing what we would do given half a chance, we are going to see the Lsbon Treaty implemented everywhere except Ireland.
The EU needs this and will disengage with it’s own rules to make it happen, by allowing Ireland to step back from “the bits of the Treaty it [...]
Congratulations
Posted by: Shaun Turner on: June 13, 2008
- In: Europe| General| Politics| The Person| The State
- 2 Comments
to the Irish who have thrown out the Lisbon treaty with a resounding “Not on your nelly”.
Lets see what those Eurocrats do now…
Mr Brown who kindly decided to play weasel word politics and NOT give the British people a vote on whether we should be sold down the river to the European Experiment has once [...]
Bits & bobs
Power to the people
- Punch and Judy Politics
- MP’s utter contempt for the public is indisputable
- Gordon Brown destroys our faith in representative democracy
- Is Gordon Brown about to make another Balls up?
- Restoring confidence in Parliamentary Democracy
- Cameron’s offer of open primaries is pure tokenism
- Party leaders must beware of the wrath of the voter
- MPs: The 7 Nolan Principles of Public Life
- MPs’ fail to gauge the mood of the public
- MPs’ Expenses: Sorry doesn’t cut it!
What are people saying?