Posts Tagged ‘trafficking’
Job Descriptions for MPs?
By far the biggest story of the parliament-which-is-soon-to-end is the expenses of Members of Parliament. Expenses, perks, salary, general behaviour. To a certain extent, we ought to celebrate the final ending of the age of deference, when we, the people, now feel able to challenge the political class to explain how they spend our money. But [...]
The politics of hate
Do you hate the Tories? Or perhaps Labour? Or (heaven forfend) maybe even the Liberal Democrats? Or -- deep down -- did you breathe a secret sigh of relief at the rise of the BNP, as, now at last, there was someone you could legitimately hate without being diminished as a person by that hate? When I was sixteen, I once told my (then) girlfriend [...]
What would you do?
Here's a game you can play at home. Imagine that you are Britain's next prime minister. You've decided that you're going to stay in power for five years. To begin with you have high hopes of changing everything for the better, but you quickly discover that there is so much work to be done to change even one single thing, and so many obstacles and [...]
Nonetheless, tomorrow we must vote on the issues
Tonight is pre-election night. Tomorrow, county and Euro elections. Which means not one person who has been implicated in MP expenses is standing. To be sure, MEPs have been questioned about their expenses in the past, most notably UKIP, whose value to the taxpayer in terms of cost for work done is lamentable. Westminster must be reformed, [...]
