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Collecting houses and jobs

April 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politics

The latest revelations about Francis Maude’s financial arrangements helped to remind me just why it is that I am standing against him – not so that I can pick up several directorships and some extra property instead, but because it is just plain wrong.

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Oh the irony

February 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politics

In this week’s West Sussex County Times we have Francis Maude start his column by saying: For the last few months not a week has gone by when I haven’t received a letter or e-mail from someone who is struggling because they now find themselves without a job. It does not help that Maude himself […]

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MPs’ earnings revisited

January 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politics

I do not make a habit of responding to comments in one post by creating a new one, but in this case I thought I would following the sudden outbreak of discussion in an old post from 2007.  The post was about the earnings of MPs and I think it is worth re-visiting because of […]

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Tax Freedom Day

January 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off on Tax Freedom Day · Politics

Thanks to Will Parbury for giving me my first good laugh of 2009 with his piece about billionaires’ tax freedom day. Very topical of course, coming right after my union’s call for tax havens and other tax loopholes to be closed.

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Questions

December 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life

I’m a little confused about this business with David Ross quitting the Carphone Warehouse – and subsequently quitting as Boris Johnson’s special advisor.   Lots of fun to be had with the fact Boris gave him a job and that the photo of Ross with Mr & Mrs Cameron is all over all the papers, but […]

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Poor L’il Rich

November 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Politics

Well who would have thought it?  Apparently ‘Dave’ Cameron’s plan to make his frontbenchers give up all their extra jobs is not proving to be popular with his frontbenchers.

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The Big Money

November 4th, 2008 · Comments Off on The Big Money · Politics

How strange to not only find myself in agreement (sort of) with David Cameron, but to find myself in agreement with him twice in the same day.

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Found A Job

October 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Politics

I was a little gobsmacked while watching the BBC local news (for London – because that is what Virgin Media think is local to us here in West Sussex)  about Kit Malthouse.  I wasn’t really paying attention at first, so I may be a bit sketchy on some of the details, but as a member […]

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How election paid off for postwar Tory MPs

March 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Politics

A couple of Harvard PhD students have been studying MPs’ earnings, and seem to have come up with no great surprises.  They seem to have been using information from wills to see how much ex-MPs were worth when they died, and comparing them to will from parliamentary candidates who didn’t get elected but were in […]

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A happy Christmas for West Sussex councillors

December 23rd, 2007 · 4 Comments · Politics

Well, its going to be happy for some of them anyway, specifically the 18 of them who are getting way-above-inflation pay increases – backdated to April so they get a nice lump sum in their next pay. They will be spending Christmas with their snouts in the trough.

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