The Tories have opened up a bit of “clear blue water” with a daft attack upon the miserably few rights individual workers have. The odious Alan Duncan has pleased the management stooges at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) with an attack on the employment tribunal...
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Tigmoo on 4th Nov 2008 (via jonrogers1963.blogspot.com)
Alan Duncan MP, Shadow Secretary of State for business, has described the EU Directive on the Equal Treatment of Agency Workers as “a pretty grotty little deal…It’s a totally unnecessary and unwelcome piece of legislation which I just think politicians should be ashamed of.”...
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Tigmoo on 10th Nov 2008 (via touchstoneblog.org.uk)
Peter Mandelson - the man who dripped pure poison into George Osborne's ear last summer - complains Alan Duncan says one thing and private and another in public. Even by political standards, this statement is breathtaking in its hypocrisy. Enough of that. Back to Alan Duncan. He shouldn't have said MPs live on rations. They are some of the best paid people in the UK. This is total nonsen...
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AndrewAllison on 12th Aug 2009 (via andrew-allison.blogspot.com)
Alan Duncan is a vain puffed up man promoted far beyond his ability who has connived in arranging for expenses to continue to be paid without receipts. His vanity is matched only by his conviction of his superiority to mere voters. Paul Waugh picks up on Duncan's latest gaffe. Duncan has just issued a statement making a full apology for his remarks that MPs were now being treated "like shit" ...
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PurpleScorpion on 12th Aug 2009 (via thepurplescorpion.blogspot.com)
As Conservative Home reported on Monday, Alan’s Duncan on BBC called Miss California a ‘bitch’ and joked that if she was found murdered he would be responsible because she disagreed with gay marriage… Dear Mr Duncan, Many people in our...
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CentreRight on 29th Apr 2009 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
I have no idea yet whether Alan Duncan is an asset or a liability to the cause of penal reform, but he certainly appears to be an ally, and is the author of two cracking soundbites...
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LiberalConspiracy on 24th Jan 2010 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
Since the mute button of legal letters quieted newspaper coverage of Alan Duncan and Vitol, I've occassionally wondered what Alan Duncan is so concerned about journalists investigating. As far as I could tell, he's been meticulous in carefully registering his hospitality and business interests. No, really he has. So what is he concerned about? Obviously Vitol is
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ABlogFromTheBackRoom on 15th Jul 2008 (via hopisen.wordpress.com)
How did such a delicate little flower such as Alan Duncan ever become an MP, and how does he survive the daily cut and thrust of parliamentary life? He must be permanently swooning with the vapours… Barbara Tucker used a loudhailer to accuse Duncan of being a “murderer, terrorist, child murderer, bomber, disgusting, horrible and totally
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ChickenYoghurt on 18th Aug 2008 (via feeds.feedburner.com)
The Tory grassroots have spoken, and they want Alan Duncan out. Here are the main results from a poll which has just been published over at ConservativeHome: "A ConservativeHome.com poll of 1,622 Tory members carried out today finds 65% want Alan Duncan to resign and 55% think he should be sacked. A massive 91% think he should be moved from his current job where he has a role in decidin...
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Spectator on 13th Aug 2009 (via spectator.co.uk)