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• Joe Hockey visits John Howard at his home on Saturday to get advice

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  JOE Hockey sought out John Howard at his Sydney home for advice on whether to run for leader of the party to end the crisis enveloping the Opposition. During a two-hour lunchtime meeting, Mr Hockey asked his old boss about whether he should succumb to mounting pressure to unite the hopelessly divided Liberal Party at ...
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• Sonia Gandhi to name CLP leader for AP

  
  movies, news, photos, gossip, videos - Searchandhra.com — Authority: 159
  The Congress Legislature Party (CLP) met in the Assembly Hall in Hyderabad on Friday at
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• Adam’s Trougher of the Week

  
  The Inquiring Mind — Authority: 484
  Senior National back bencher Lindsay Tisch for having the gall to use the MPs expense rules in a creative manner, especially as he is a Deputy Speaker.
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• Alagiri missing again - eludes speaker on pet peeve Tamil

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 27 (IANS) Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister M.K. Alagiri has played truant again. He is believed to have written to Speaker Meira Kumar requesting he be allowed to answer questions in Tamil. But when she wanted to meet him over the issue, he did not show up, say sources in his DMK [...]
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• British MPs allege war crimes in Burma

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 157
  British MPs allege war crimes in Burma Nov 27, 2009 (DVB)–A group of high profile MPs in Britain have submitted a parliamentary petition calling for the United Nations to investigate possible crimes against humanity and war crimes in Burma. The All Party Parliamentary Group for Democracy in Burma (APPG Burma) said ...
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• Campaigning for second phase of elections gains momentum in Jharkhand

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Ranchi, Nov 27 (ANI): The campaigning in Jharkhand is gaining momentum for the second phase of elections.In the second phase, the polling will be held in second of the next month in 14 of the remaining 55 constituencies.The leaders of various political parties are attending to the election meetings in different parts ...
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• Review recommends pay rise for peers

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Senior Salaries Review Board proposes single daily allowance for Lords, which amounts to £38.50 increase A review into the system of Lords allowances initiated after the expenses scandal has recommended that peers should receive what amounts to a pay rise. In June 2009 the government asked the Senior Salaries ...
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• Collective action needed to tackle price rise: Pawar

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar Thursday called for a collective effort to tackle the issue of price rise, but there were fewer than 35 MPs present in the Lok Sabha to listen to the matter.“We have to improve agricultural production. We have to work together,” said Pawar in his reply in ...
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• Chhattisgarh urges Pawar to raise paddy support price

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Raipur/New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh met union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar in New Delhi Thursday and urged him to raise the minimum support price (MSP) for paddy to Rs.1,400 per quintal.Raman Singh met Pawar along with six MPs from his state. He told the union minister that the ...
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• Bundelkhand ruckus forces Rajya Sabha adjournment (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) The use of the word “satyanas (ruined)” prompted an adjournment of the Rajya Sabha Thursday morning when a question on what the government was doing for the development of the four “BIMARU” states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh escalated into a full fledged row ...
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• Rajya Sabha adjourned over Bundelkhand ruckus

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha was adjourned Thursday morning when a question on what the government was doing in the four ‘bimaru’ states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh escalated into a full fledged row.The opposition seemed to get riled when Satyavrata Chaturvedi of the Congress ...
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• Diana coroner to join expense watchdog

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Lord Justice Scott Baker is to join the board of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority The judge who sat as coroner in the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, is to join the new independent body overseeing MPs expenses. Lord Justice Scott Baker and three other candidates for the board of ...
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• Not going on their summer holidays?

  
  Barnacle Bill — Authority: 127
  So it is reported over on the Guardian that the Conservatives are planning on making MPs sit thru what is normally their summer hols to pass any legislation needed to implement a proposed June emergency budget. This is supposed to con the Public into believing that the Tories are serious about sorting out the ...
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• Do the Wright thing

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Gordon Brown is in danger of losing the plot about the need to fix our politics. Never the most decisive protagonist in the expenses crisis, last week he left both expenses and electoral reform out of the Queens speech. He then said nothing at all about mending the political system when he spoke to MPs at the start of ...
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• A unique opportunity to rebuild Parliament

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 970
  Telegraph View: in the aftermath of the MPs expenses crisis, there is a chance to reinvigorate Parliament - lets not waste it.
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• This wont rebuild the Commons | Natascha Engel

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  I cant support my committees response to the MPs expenses scandal, as it fails to address the democratic deficit Today parliament publishes its response to the MPs expenses scandal. A special select committee on parliamentary reform was set up by Gordon Brown and it has published a report called Rebuilding the ...
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• Scotland Yard forwards four MPs’ expenses files to prosecutors

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  London, Nov. 24 (ANI): Scotland Yard has forward four cases of MPs and peers facing criminal charges of fraud over their expenses claims to prosecutors. According to The Telegraph, those facing prosecution are Labour MPs Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine, and peers Baroness Uddin, Lord Hanningfield and Lord ...
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  The Appalling Strangeness — Authority: 138
  Only four ? Jesus, thats not a lot. And this is still very early in the process. We still arent even at the point of charges being brought, let alone getting to a trial. Still, better than nothing. And I look forward to learning which four cases have been transferred to prosecutors...
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• A little Christmas lagniappe from the Met?

  
  Barnacle Bill — Authority: 127
  I must admit when I first heard that the Met had only forwarded four cases for possible prosecution to the CPS in the MPs expenses scandal I was disappointed, but I am assured that there are more in the pipeline. I have two worries over this, the first is that both the Police and CPS have suffered from too much ...
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• Rajya Sabha adjourned over Misra panel report on reservations

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha was adjourned for a while Tuesday over demands that the Ranganath Misra Commission report on reservation for Dalits and Muslims be tabled in parliament.Ali Anwar Ansari of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) raised the issue just as the house assembled. He flashed a Hindi newspaper in ...
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