SHADOW chancellor George Osborne today offered to meet the First Minister to discuss future spending in Scotland.
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Labour Councillors have unveiled their Safer Streets pledge which includes the following five key promises: * We will crack down on anti-social behaviour, knife crime and dangerous dogs by closer working with the Police Safer Neighbourhood Teams. * We will use Westminster’s 100 wi-fi CCTV cameras to catch criminals, rather than fine motorists. * We will improve street-lighting and repair dan...
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LabourMatters 25 minutes ago (via labourmatters.com)
I'm returning to my theme of yesterdays post, but via Jeff Randall's opinion article in today's Telegraph where he accuses Labour of infantilising the electorate. The long and short of Jeff's argument is that Labour lead people to think they could have their cake and eat it in 97. Ever since then they have pretended ( with all the dark arts they discovered to get themselves ele...
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ManInAShed 26 minutes ago (via atoryblog.blogspot.com)
But good advice all the same: Tip for MPs; when you elect the next speaker, if they’re male, make sure they’re over 5′9″ tall.
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TimWorstall 28 minutes ago (via timworstall.com)
Telegraph View: It would be unjust not to tell the public which MPs are still under investigation in the expenses scandal
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Telegraph 29 minutes ago (via telegraph.co.uk)
Feargal Sharkey, the chief executive of UK Music, the music industry trade body, says that he is confident that the Digital Economy Bill will be passed before the general election.
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Lord Mandelson denies Labour plans further tax rises after the election while saying all options must be open to cut the deficit.
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Itchen MP In bid to find uses for empty shops. John Denham will be meeting with local organisations tomorrow in a bid to find new uses for Woolston's neglected shops. Mr Denham has been campaigning to revitalise Woolston's shops and keep them open and trading as we come out of recession. The campaign so far has involved meeting local traders to draw up an action plan, winning a major cou...
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LabourMatters 46 minutes ago (via labourmatters.com)
...Labour government pumps millions of taxpayers money into a union, union then donates shitloads of money for Labour's campaign funds... Surely that's money laundering? To think, Labour muppets everywhere were banging on about how terribe a non-dom giving money to the Tories was bad? What an absolute shower of bastards.
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