Parliamentary privilege should not mean criminal immunity
Yazan: Sara | 05 February 2010 | No Comments
Categories: crime, expenses, MPs
The news that the Messrs Chaytor, Devine, Morley and Lord Hanningfield make seek to utilise parliamentary privilege to escape prosecution under the Theft Act 1968 has dealt another blow against the reputation of Parliament. The thought that parliamentarians may try to use Article 9 of the Bill of Rights Act 1689 as a shield against [...]
That Guido-Campbell spat in full
Yazan: sarabedford | 31 March 2009 | No Comments
Categories: blogs, expenses, radio
Finally you can ‘Listen Again‘ to the breakfast bust-up between BBC 5 Live’s Nicky Campbell and blogger Guido Fawkes, aka Paul Staines (starts at 01:07:50). This morning’s show failed to appear as expected on the web site and has only recently been uploaded. The interview starts with Campbell introducing Guido/Paul as ‘the right-wing political blogger’, Guido: [...]
I don't really live in Watford because it's a long way from London, says town's MP
Yazan: sarabedford | 31 March 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: expenses, MPs, Watford
Even I was surprised at the speed at which Claire Ward went to the local paper in an attempt to justify her second home allowance.You can see that her constituents don’t agree with her from the long list of comments (I’m the one using my real name, BTW). The paper reports Ms Ward as saying: [...]
Government climbdown over MPs expenses?
Yazan: sarabedford | 21 January 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: MPs
Andrew Neil seems to have announced that the Statutory Instrument due to be laid before the House tomorrow, limiting the amount of information on their MPs need to make public, has been shelved! No further information and the BBC web site still gives the information that there will be a 3 line whip on Labour MPs [...]
