tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636667195540919897.post561201965101104200..comments2023-06-06T12:28:36.360+01:00Comments on GREEN ON THE OUTSIDE RED TO THE CORE: THE ART OF POLITICAL EXPEDIENCYAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051530490965644662noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636667195540919897.post-41087987932646579842010-06-03T17:52:29.272+01:002010-06-03T17:52:29.272+01:00I will not attempt to better what Martin Thomas as...I will not attempt to better what Martin Thomas as written on the David Laws fraud<br /><br />Author: Martin Thomas<br />Prime Minister David Cameron has told Lib Dem minister David Laws, forced to resign on Saturday 30 May because of a £40,000 fraud: "You are a good and honourable man".<br />When fraud is in the tens of thousands of pounds, and into the pockets of a multi-millionaire, it seems "good" and "honourable" to the Lib Dems and the Tories. To them, a bit of rule-bending at the edges by desperate and wretched benefit claimants is hideous crime, but self-enrichment by the already ultra-wealthy is "good and honourable".<br />Like the "good" and "honourable" cuts in the incomes of the poor, many of them crafted by Laws himself before he resigned, that the Government will introduce on 22 June to cover the money poured into bankers' pockets?<br />Like the "good" and "honourable" plans which Laws outlined in the Lib-Dem "Orange Book", a few years back, to scrap the National Health Service altogether, and replace it by a "pay the doctor, then claim the money back" system of "social insurance".<br />The courts should be cleared of all the cases against hard-pressed benefit claimants - thousands are jailed each year - in order to put Laws on trial.<br />Norman AdamsNorthamptonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10891093298354814215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636667195540919897.post-61913328080522066442010-06-03T09:33:32.355+01:002010-06-03T09:33:32.355+01:00That the 'Earl of Upney' can talk of "...That the 'Earl of Upney' can talk of "fantasy" to or indeed about anyone!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636667195540919897.post-9296398584613323542010-06-02T17:23:57.319+01:002010-06-02T17:23:57.319+01:00Nice one Tony. As ever, it seems that so many MPs,...Nice one Tony. As ever, it seems that so many MPs, after they have been in the Palace of Westminster for a while, seem to forget the real world and start to live in fantasy land.<br />Laws was guilty of common theft, in my opinion.<br />He should repay the money, and then face the sentence of Parliament or the Criminal Court, whichever is appropriate in law.<br />I think there are one or two lawyers in the 57 Lib Dem MPs, they should sort it, and quick.<br />"If 'twere done when 'tis done then 'twere well it were done quickly."<br />What has happened to the new cleaned up politics?<br />I think we are witnessing the beginning of the end of the Lib Dems, for at least a generation.Malcolm Mildrennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636667195540919897.post-19258976784268576712010-06-01T15:26:29.748+01:002010-06-01T15:26:29.748+01:00ART? Never been a strong point of mine – BUT sayin...ART? Never been a strong point of mine – BUT saying that a few years ago my bed could have been a fair copy of Tracey Emin’s original.Northamptonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10891093298354814215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6636667195540919897.post-24047868936434842202010-06-01T15:00:19.279+01:002010-06-01T15:00:19.279+01:00Oi Picasso!
What can we expect? A few sunlit Andal...Oi Picasso!<br />What can we expect? A few sunlit Andalusian hillsides with pastel houses and pastel goats?<br />A fierce matador in an unlikely pose? A little white bull? Or a load of gushing fountains that look like fountains and not broken pipes?<br />Or maybe a still life-plums d'casa? (oddly enough the spell check thought I meant O'Casey)John Dickienoreply@blogger.com