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  1. 03-16-2006, 11:27 #1
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    Default Labour treasurer ignorant of loans.

    I watched him on newsnight last night. He seems an honourable and upright man. One thing that struck me was his sense of propreity and honesty.

    Labour loans to be investigated

    Jack Dromey is investigating the issue

    Labour's treasurer has revealed that he and other elected officials did not know the party had secretly borrowed millions of pounds last year
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    He only found out when details of the money emerged in the newspapers and wants to find out who obtained them for the Labour Party.
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    Is this Labours' sleaze?
    There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.

    “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”

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    According to a report I saw on Channel Four News, there were about three people in the Labour Party who knew about the loan. This really is appalling. If Labour aren't going to make the House of Lords elected, then it could at least make the appointment of Life Peers the responsibility of an independent body.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marcellus
    it could at least make the appointment of Life Peers the responsibility of an independent body.
    Technically it is -- The House of Lords Appointments Commission. However it currently recommends those nominations from the party leaders over others...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Duke Malcolm
    Technically it is -- The House of Lords Appointments Commission. However it currently recommends those nominations from the party leaders over others...
    Exactly. If we are going to keep life peers, then we need a truly independent body to appoint them - parties should not be able to nominate people.
    "Look I’ve got my old pledge card a bit battered and crumpled we said we’d provide more turches churches teachers and we have I can remember when people used to say the Japanese are better than us the Germans are better than us the French are better than us well it’s great to be able to say we’re better than them I think Mr Kennedy well we all congratulate on his baby and the Tories are you remembering what I’m remembering boom and bust negative equity remember Mr Howard I mean are you thinking what I’m thinking I’m remembering it’s all a bit wonky isn’t it?"

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    The loans amount to £14, 000, 000

    No doubt the other parties do this sort of thing, but £14 million! ...AND no one outside of Downing St. appears to know about it!

    Baldrick was just on the BBC calling for Blair to go. He stated the obvious when he said that there must be 2 sets of books. Bloody hell if I did that I'd go to gaol.

    Remember kiddies this is the government that promised transparency and no sleaze when elected in '97.

    Mr. Bliar it's time to get your coat.

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    There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.

    “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”

    To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.

    "The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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    English lesson time!

    'Gaol'.

    So, is it pronounced as 'jail'? Is it slang? Is it an offical spelling? Common? Local? Does it bear different emotional connotations from prison or jail? Are the Americans and Australians as puzzled by it as I was?

    That'll be all.
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