David Morton
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Thank You Jack.
A very powerful piece of writing by Bryan Forbes
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Pete McCluskey.
Lifetime Supporter
Sent one from me today.
Ian Anderson
Lifetime Supporter
Done
Ian
Ian
David Morton
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Pete and Ian - True gentelmen.
See - you are all softies really.......
See - you are all softies really.......
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Will be posting mine tomorrow. Sorry only just seen it.
They can't get Tony Blair for fiddling his expenses - all the documentation has been shredded. I wonder why that happened..........?
Chris
They can't get Tony Blair for fiddling his expenses - all the documentation has been shredded. I wonder why that happened..........?
Chris
David Morton
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Sid and Chris - true gentlemen. Thanks.
David Morton
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Subj: Fuel tax - UK Eyes Only
When VAT was temporarily reduced to 15%, the Chancellor added 2% duty to
fuel to offset the reduction in tax collected from motorists. Now that
VAT
has been increased to 17.5% again this hidden tax has not been removed -
hence recent rises in your fuel costs. Sign the petition at the link
below
to have this stealth tax removed!
Petition to: Fuel duty reduction, now VAT has increased to 17.5%, please deduct the duty which was levied when vat was reduced to 15%. | Number10.gov.uk
Please pass this on to your friends - the more the merrier. Happy
motoring!
When VAT was temporarily reduced to 15%, the Chancellor added 2% duty to
fuel to offset the reduction in tax collected from motorists. Now that
VAT
has been increased to 17.5% again this hidden tax has not been removed -
hence recent rises in your fuel costs. Sign the petition at the link
below
to have this stealth tax removed!
Petition to: Fuel duty reduction, now VAT has increased to 17.5%, please deduct the duty which was levied when vat was reduced to 15%. | Number10.gov.uk
Please pass this on to your friends - the more the merrier. Happy
motoring!
Pete McCluskey.
Lifetime Supporter
Four hundred Australian jobs gone in pursuit cost cutting. But the same bastards think nothing of spending a couple of $mill on an abortive climate change conference in Copenhagen.
Cost-cutting by the Australian Defence Force will see diggers sent into combat wearing camouflage material made in China.
The Herald Sun reports up to 400 Victorian textile workers could lose their jobs over the decision, and that concerns over national security have been raised.
The material used in the uniforms is currently made by Bruck Textiles based in Wangaratta, in Victoria's northeast, but a Chinese company will take over making the material for thousands of uniforms.
The move has angered the Australian Defence Association.
"Do we seriously expect our soldiers to fight a war dressed in a uniform made in China," ADA executive director Neil James told the Herald Sun.
"There's a simple dignity issue."
Mr James also said there were national security concerns over having the chemically-treated fabric supplied by a Chinese company.
Opposition industry spokeswoman Sophie Mirabella, whose seat includes Wangaratta, said the decision to make the material offshore was "dangerous" and "unpatriotic".
"Our soldiers risk their lives under the flag and in the uniform of this country," Mrs Mirabella said.
A Defence spokesman confirmed to the newspaper that the material would be made in China, saying a $13 million contract had been won by a Bendigo company who will sew the uniforms in Victoria.
Cost-cutting by the Australian Defence Force will see diggers sent into combat wearing camouflage material made in China.
The Herald Sun reports up to 400 Victorian textile workers could lose their jobs over the decision, and that concerns over national security have been raised.
The material used in the uniforms is currently made by Bruck Textiles based in Wangaratta, in Victoria's northeast, but a Chinese company will take over making the material for thousands of uniforms.
The move has angered the Australian Defence Association.
"Do we seriously expect our soldiers to fight a war dressed in a uniform made in China," ADA executive director Neil James told the Herald Sun.
"There's a simple dignity issue."
Mr James also said there were national security concerns over having the chemically-treated fabric supplied by a Chinese company.
Opposition industry spokeswoman Sophie Mirabella, whose seat includes Wangaratta, said the decision to make the material offshore was "dangerous" and "unpatriotic".
"Our soldiers risk their lives under the flag and in the uniform of this country," Mrs Mirabella said.
A Defence spokesman confirmed to the newspaper that the material would be made in China, saying a $13 million contract had been won by a Bendigo company who will sew the uniforms in Victoria.
David Morton
Lifetime Supporter
I don't give a fig about your political viewpoints and if you don't want to read things like this in the paddock forum then don't do it.
We are about to witness a massive increase in activity in Afghanistan and I regret we will also witness a massive increase in casualties. I have noticed that the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Headly Court (DMRC) has been applying a four weeks on / two weeks off policy for patients because of overcrowding and accomodation facilities. I know there are plenty of local hotels to Leatherhead and Epsom where DMRC Headly Court is located, but could the MOD (Government) pay for them ? No.
Can they (the government ) pay for mortgages for apartments for members of the upper house (House of Lords) who only have to stay in them once a month to qualify? You bet they can and are already doing it. If this riles you and makes you angry, Don't pick up a sword but pick up a pen and register your disapproval by writing to your MP.
Let's hope our guys in Afghanistan can come home soon and we can get out of this crazy situation.
This big push is going to be fearsome.
We are about to witness a massive increase in activity in Afghanistan and I regret we will also witness a massive increase in casualties. I have noticed that the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Headly Court (DMRC) has been applying a four weeks on / two weeks off policy for patients because of overcrowding and accomodation facilities. I know there are plenty of local hotels to Leatherhead and Epsom where DMRC Headly Court is located, but could the MOD (Government) pay for them ? No.
Can they (the government ) pay for mortgages for apartments for members of the upper house (House of Lords) who only have to stay in them once a month to qualify? You bet they can and are already doing it. If this riles you and makes you angry, Don't pick up a sword but pick up a pen and register your disapproval by writing to your MP.
Let's hope our guys in Afghanistan can come home soon and we can get out of this crazy situation.
This big push is going to be fearsome.
Evidence that this country is now completely mad
BBC News - Expenses body to cost six times more than MPs' payback
According to my calculations (with 646 MPs and 724 Lords), each one will cost us £4744 per annum to check they arent fiddling. Honesty is obviously an expensive commodity!
Apologies, the official figure is higher (surprise, surprise!) than yesterday's estimate, so it should be £4817 for each person!!
BBC News - Expenses body to cost six times more than MPs' payback
According to my calculations (with 646 MPs and 724 Lords), each one will cost us £4744 per annum to check they arent fiddling. Honesty is obviously an expensive commodity!
Apologies, the official figure is higher (surprise, surprise!) than yesterday's estimate, so it should be £4817 for each person!!
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The rules on expenses for members of the House of Lords have been drafted by a committee of peers with doubtful claims already and was chaired by someone who has also made suspect claims. The whole business appears to have been conducted in order to let those accused of fiddling their expenses of the hook. In my view this is corruption on a large scale and they have now given themselves carte blanche for it to continue...and it is our money at the end of the day. Why can't we have some democracy here and a fully elected upper house?
I will be writing to my MP David, although sometimes I feel like picking up a sword.
Chris
David Morton
Lifetime Supporter
Chris - don't we all feel like using the sword. I feel like running amok in the Palace of Westminster and feel as though I could personally scythe off many of their heads, and possibly bringing back some sort of sense of reality. I don't know where this is all leading but sooner or later someone will do something really drastic.
Please write Chris and make it very,very strongly worded and make sure it will be forwarded to the PM. Then keep on writing. We have nothing to lose.
Please write Chris and make it very,very strongly worded and make sure it will be forwarded to the PM. Then keep on writing. We have nothing to lose.
David Morton
Lifetime Supporter
The 'Big Push' in Afghanistan started this early this morning.
Called Operation Moshtarak, involving 15,000 soldiers, it had a 24 hr delay
and should have started at 0001 hrs on the 12th.
The delay was to allow possible surrenders but I doubt any happened.
Called Operation Moshtarak, involving 15,000 soldiers, it had a 24 hr delay
and should have started at 0001 hrs on the 12th.
The delay was to allow possible surrenders but I doubt any happened.
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David Morton
Lifetime Supporter
More info on Operation Mostarak (Afhan word for "Together")
First stage of operation Moshtarak declared a success - Telegraph
First stage of operation Moshtarak declared a success - Telegraph
Pete McCluskey.
Lifetime Supporter
This is possibly the red wine talking, but it seems the lads are still fighting a political war. A 24 hr delay for possible surrenders! For fu#ck sake just turn the area to glass and stop f**cking about.
David Morton
Lifetime Supporter
Back to the politics guys. If you are the one who objects to anything along these lines then you know who you are and just move on.
This is an article from the Daily Mail about a man called Woolas.
Name familiar? .............Yes indeedee.
He was the incumbant minister on the Gurkha debacle and was made to look an absolute tosspot over it and several other silly decisions. A long string of political gaffs accompany this turkey wherever he goes and in my correspondence with him on previous issues he proved he is totally beached and will be left high and dry by the electorate in the next election. Here is his latest utterance:
Immigration minister Phil Woolas admits his children have suffered because of migration
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By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 5:55 PM on 25th February 2010
Yet another blunder: Immigration minister Phil Woolas
The immigration minister has admitted that his own children have 'suffered' because of the number of foreigners who have flooded into Britain.
In an extraordinary declaration, gaffe-prone Phil Woolas accepted the influx of migrants under Labour has taken a toll on local communities and services.
Confronted by an unemployed man on a BBC2 Newsnight special, he said: 'We recognise that. My own family... children have suffered from that.'
Mr Woolas, who has two sons, has a house in Chiswick, south west London, and Oldham, Lancashire, which is his constituency.
It was not clear whether the minister was talking about class sizes or the pressure placed by migrants on school places or some other issue.
Shadow home secretary Chris Grayling said: 'The biggest impact from immigration in recent years has been on public services.
'It seems extraordinary to have the immigration minister now admitting that - and from his own experience - but yet still defending the policy that caused the problems in the first place.'
It is the latest in a string of blunders for Mr Woolas.
He was condemned as 'deeply insensitive' last December after claiming immigration officials were 'putting their lives on the line' for their country.
He said UK Border Agency staff were 'very brave' as he defended bonus payouts of more than £10,000 each for 29 senior officials.
More...
Just a month earlier, he was attacked for saying British troops were in Afghanistan partly to help control the number of immigrants heading to Britain - on the day five UK soldiers were killed there by a rogue policeman.
In May, he was humiliated when he was ambushed by Joanna Lumley over the plight of the Gurkhas. In hilarious scenes, the actress sought him out in Westminster and frogmarched him to a live press conference for a very public dressing down.
His bizarre declaration came as new official figures revealed the number of foreigners given UK passports has soared.
A total of 203,865 people were handed British citizenship in 2009 - an increase of 58 per cent on the previous year.
Tens of thousands more immigrants were also given the right to settle in the UK, with the total up 30 per cent to more than 190,000.
Quarterly immigration figures, published by the Office for National Statistics, also showed a 30 per cent increase in student visa numbers last year compared to 2008.
In the final three months of 2009, 61,715 student visas were issued - an astonishing rise of 92 per cent on the same period in 2008.
The figures prompted questions over the effectiveness of the new points-based system for student visas.
Separate figures showed applications by asylum seekers arriving in the UK had dropped off, 30 per cent down on the previous year at 4,765.
Whitehall documents revealed this week confirm Labour encouraged mass immigration despite voters being against it.
The Government said the public stance was down to 'racism' and ministers were told to try to alter the population's attitude.
The approach was unveiled after a document from 2000 prepared by the Cabinet Office and Home Office was finally disclosed in full under freedom of information rules.
It showed that ministers were advised that only the ill-educated and those who had never met a migrant were opposed to immigration.
They were also told that large-scale immigration would bring increases in crime, but they concealed these concerns from the public.
Sections of the paper, which underpinned Labour policies that admitted between two and three million immigrants to Britain in less than a decade, have already been made public.
These have showed that Labour aimed to use immigration not only for economic reasons but also to change the social make-up of the country.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1253770/Immigration-minister-Phil-Woolas-admits-children-suffered-migration.html#ixzz0gcppan8f
This is an article from the Daily Mail about a man called Woolas.
Name familiar? .............Yes indeedee.
He was the incumbant minister on the Gurkha debacle and was made to look an absolute tosspot over it and several other silly decisions. A long string of political gaffs accompany this turkey wherever he goes and in my correspondence with him on previous issues he proved he is totally beached and will be left high and dry by the electorate in the next election. Here is his latest utterance:
Immigration minister Phil Woolas admits his children have suffered because of migration
<SCRIPT src="http://scripts.dailymail.co.uk/js/diggthis.js" type=text/javascript></SCRIPT>
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 5:55 PM on 25th February 2010
The immigration minister has admitted that his own children have 'suffered' because of the number of foreigners who have flooded into Britain.
In an extraordinary declaration, gaffe-prone Phil Woolas accepted the influx of migrants under Labour has taken a toll on local communities and services.
Confronted by an unemployed man on a BBC2 Newsnight special, he said: 'We recognise that. My own family... children have suffered from that.'
Mr Woolas, who has two sons, has a house in Chiswick, south west London, and Oldham, Lancashire, which is his constituency.
It was not clear whether the minister was talking about class sizes or the pressure placed by migrants on school places or some other issue.
Shadow home secretary Chris Grayling said: 'The biggest impact from immigration in recent years has been on public services.
'It seems extraordinary to have the immigration minister now admitting that - and from his own experience - but yet still defending the policy that caused the problems in the first place.'
It is the latest in a string of blunders for Mr Woolas.
He was condemned as 'deeply insensitive' last December after claiming immigration officials were 'putting their lives on the line' for their country.
He said UK Border Agency staff were 'very brave' as he defended bonus payouts of more than £10,000 each for 29 senior officials.
More...
Just a month earlier, he was attacked for saying British troops were in Afghanistan partly to help control the number of immigrants heading to Britain - on the day five UK soldiers were killed there by a rogue policeman.
In May, he was humiliated when he was ambushed by Joanna Lumley over the plight of the Gurkhas. In hilarious scenes, the actress sought him out in Westminster and frogmarched him to a live press conference for a very public dressing down.
His bizarre declaration came as new official figures revealed the number of foreigners given UK passports has soared.
A total of 203,865 people were handed British citizenship in 2009 - an increase of 58 per cent on the previous year.
Tens of thousands more immigrants were also given the right to settle in the UK, with the total up 30 per cent to more than 190,000.
Quarterly immigration figures, published by the Office for National Statistics, also showed a 30 per cent increase in student visa numbers last year compared to 2008.
In the final three months of 2009, 61,715 student visas were issued - an astonishing rise of 92 per cent on the same period in 2008.
The figures prompted questions over the effectiveness of the new points-based system for student visas.
Separate figures showed applications by asylum seekers arriving in the UK had dropped off, 30 per cent down on the previous year at 4,765.
Whitehall documents revealed this week confirm Labour encouraged mass immigration despite voters being against it.
The Government said the public stance was down to 'racism' and ministers were told to try to alter the population's attitude.
The approach was unveiled after a document from 2000 prepared by the Cabinet Office and Home Office was finally disclosed in full under freedom of information rules.
It showed that ministers were advised that only the ill-educated and those who had never met a migrant were opposed to immigration.
They were also told that large-scale immigration would bring increases in crime, but they concealed these concerns from the public.
Sections of the paper, which underpinned Labour policies that admitted between two and three million immigrants to Britain in less than a decade, have already been made public.
These have showed that Labour aimed to use immigration not only for economic reasons but also to change the social make-up of the country.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1253770/Immigration-minister-Phil-Woolas-admits-children-suffered-migration.html#ixzz0gcppan8f
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Pete McCluskey.
Lifetime Supporter
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The decision was made by the chief whip Nick Brown and came in the wake of an undercover investigation by the Sunday Times and Channel 4, in which former ministers and other MPs were approached by a fictional US firm looking to hire them for lobbying work.
This is a huge humiliation for three of the party’s most prominent figures and comes a day after they all insisted they had done no wrong.
A labour source said “We have suspended them from the PLP pending further investigation. We wanted to see the programme for ourselves before deciding.”
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David Morton
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And breaking news as I was coming out of London this evening,
The BBC have revelaed that MPs have been taking undeclared benefits ie bribes - having breaks at the expense of foreign governments in order to have holidays in places such the Maldives and Seychelles. Wonderful scandal just ahead of a general election. This will run and run......
The BBC have revelaed that MPs have been taking undeclared benefits ie bribes - having breaks at the expense of foreign governments in order to have holidays in places such the Maldives and Seychelles. Wonderful scandal just ahead of a general election. This will run and run......
Ian Anderson
Lifetime Supporter
Now Dave
As an accountant if the travel was not wholely, solely and purely for business purposes then non of it s acceptable as a business expense.
Taking this to the a55h0le5 in government it's time the taxman looked at declared benefits and payments recorded on their tax returns. If they took their wives/ mistresses etc then the trip is not solely business - wife is not an MP.
Now at 40% tax some of those "jollies" could bankrups the barstewards!
Ian
