Monday 14th May 2012 Topic: Terrorism - Crime - Olympics "London 2012: 'No specific' terror threat, says Minister Philip Hammond" Source: BBC News Extract: He said an elaborate military exercise carried out in London last week was to prepare for any threats that might arise in a dangerous world. The exercise included tests of air defence missile systems at six sites across London, using dummy...
Sunday 22nd April 2012 Topic: George Osborne "George Osborne is to spend 12 months talking to charities about the impact of his tax on donations!" Source: The People Extract It is the first sign the Chancellor is prepared to back down over the controversial move to cap tax relief on giving. "I want to sit down with the charities, get it right, and make sure they are protected," he said whil...
London - "I'm damned if I let some Met rookie swab the insides of my, er, gob," Nick Clegg snarled today as the announcement was posted on Speaker Bercow's blogsite. The Deputy PM's protests come amid reports that police armed with new drug testin...
Monty Bedwetter, Conservative MP for North Suffolk & Central Ipswich has hit the headlines again after a long absence, for controversial comments he has made concerning the impending motor fuel supply crisis. In an interview on Around Anglia t...
This Weeks Selected Political News Monday 19th March 2012: Topic: Immigration - Benefits "Foreign-born jobless and sick can claim benefits in 165 languages." Source: The Sun They include Nigerian Pidgin, a variant of English used by just two per cent of Nigeria's population. The array of lingos emerged as benefits bosses were last night blasted for spending millions hirin...
Perhaps it's me, but today I woke up wondering if I was living in a parallel universe somehow different from the universe inhabited by the fruitloops that frequent Number 10 and the Houses of Parliament. After tripping over the cat and regaining my composure I turned the TV news on and lo, I discovered I was here on planet earth after all even if all these non-elected nutters are not. Yes, u...
Amarulence: How politicians think of the voters - Bitterness, spite. Aphnology: What Politicians are preoccupied with - The study of wealth. Back-hander: Only the very new, or the two honest MP's in Parliament would not know what this means - A bribe or illegal inducement. Bank: Where politicians prefer not to store their ill-gotten back-handers and bribes, preferring to use Overseas...
Have you ever watched Prime Minister's Questions and thought "I'd love to do that"? Well now you can, with the official Prime Minister's Questions board game. It is a game for three players. One player takes the part of the Leader of the Opposition, one plays the Prime Minister and the third player is the Speaker of the House. The game is simple. The Leader of the Opposition thinks up a...
A new test on the credibility of MPs has resulted in the dismissal of several of the worst offenders. Warnings are being sent to several others. Chief among those 'lacking all credibility' are a number of Cabinet Ministers who 'continually fail to...
The Guardian: The Royal Bank of Scotland proposes to give a £5million bonus to its investment banking chief, with another £7million for its chief executive More than three years after bankers brought the country to the brink of collapse, their cavalier destruction of British businesses goes on and on. Look at Peacocks, the retailer which employs more than 10,000 across the UK. At the heig...
Members of the House of Commons have been asked to vote regarding assisted suicide. The Prime Minister has asked the 650 odd (some very) MPs whether, at the end of this parliamentary term, they should seek re-election or just simply kill themselv...
Plans are advanced in the proposed legislation to sack failing MPs who do not meet the expectations of constituents. 'Waiting for an election is not good enough' declared education secretary Michael Glove 'it is time we sorted out the useless MPs...
A new report on the state of history teaching has been blasted by a leading historian. Figures produced by Conservative MP Chris Skidmore, a member of the Commons all-party group on history, suggest that pupils in fewer than a third of state schoo...
Tory MP Gerald McFisty of Chipping Sodbury resigned today following his public humiliation after being caught in an intimate pose at the weekend. A hotel worker opened the door to his room to find him naked except for women's underwear, a gimp ma...
An unemployed Nottingham man has started a Recycling Plant business - aimed at clearing and easing the congestion, in the Houses Of Parliament. Nick Roffilia's company is now able to accept the following redundant assets from MPs, for recycling, at a minimum charge; Compassion: Aimed primarily at the leading Ministers, and the the more nepotistic Conservatives/Coalition members. With so much...
Ice-cream manufacturer Godfrey Sice's company, are producing new flavours and names of ice-cream concoctions, in honour of individual MP's and Political Parties performances in the Government, and opposition. Here is the full list to be available soon: Flavour/Name: Credit Crunch In Honour of: George Osborne Flavour/Name: Nut'n Accomplished In Honour of: Nick Clegg Flavour/Name: Sile...
London - Details of an eminent UK Parliamentartian's George Cross medal have been mothballed from the public domain ever since Mrs Thatcher's first term of office in the 1980s. According to reliable Whitehall sources the gong was awarded for 'incr...
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