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• Did MP in love nest inquiry break rules with lucrative second job?

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  The Tory forced to stand down from the Commons standards committee refused to provide official assurances that he was not using his position as an MP to secure lucrative private work The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
  1 week ago

• The little black book is empty

  
  Lightwater — Authority: 140
  Foolishly, as it now appears, I’d always imagined that political party’s Chief Whips kept a little black book of MP’s indiscretions and worse. The contents of the book I’d assumed were used to exert control. Here’s was me thinking that Michael Dobbs’s wonderful  Francis Urquhart  character, in his ...
  1 week ago

• More on MP’s expenses omission from Queen’s Speech

  
  Lightwater — Authority: 140
  Maybe it was an ‘elephant in the room’ moment. So obvious that no-one in Gordon’s war room wanted to discuss the topic of MP’s expenses, when they compiled the bills for inclusion in the Queen’s Speech. Or maybe it was because there was no potential ’dividing line’ between Labour and the Tories that ...
  1 week ago

• The poisoned well of public trust

  
  Lightwater — Authority: 140
  The well of public trust in government and politics is already polluted, from the McBride smear campaign, MP’s expenses, and prevarication over helicopter support for troops in Afghanistan. Now, the well has been poisoned.  Certainly for Labour, although unfortunately the rest of politics too.  The ...
  1 week ago

• Corrupt Britain: is it really true?

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Britain has fallen to an 11year low in ranking of the worlds most corrupt countries.
  2 weeks ago

• Transparency Internationals 2009 corruption index: the full ranking of 180 countries

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Britain has slipped to a 11year low in an annual ranking of the worlds most corrupt countries in the wake of the MPs expenses scandal from Transparency International. Below is the full list of all 180 countries.
  2 weeks ago

• Britain slips to new low in ranking of most corrupt countries after MPs expenses scandal

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  UK at 11year low in annual ranking of worlds most corrupt countries in wake of the MPs expenses scandal.
  2 weeks ago

• Numerology: Money Spent on Additional Cost Allowance 2005-2008 vs Repayments following Legg Report

  
  The Wardman Wire — Authority: 582
  There has been a lot of trumpetting goung on about how the repayments due from MPs after the Legg Report Audit are now going to top one million pounds : I thought it would be useful to put this in context. It amounts to slightly over 2% of the Additional Cost Allowance expenditure over the period covered by the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Numerology: How to make MP pay rises look very small

  
  The Wardman Wire — Authority: 582
  In March 2008, before the MP Expenses scandal had been broken into the wider knowledge of the public, even though some of us were writing about it ( Hem-Hem! ), a research paper ( 08/31 ) was published by the House of Commons to give background context to the debate around members pay. As you can see, the scale ...
  2 weeks ago

• Eats, shoots & leaves

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 565
  Can you spot the problem here? "Report: MP’s phone calls cost $3.7M." Read the report and youll see. Interesting little mistake. Slow. News. Day.
  3 weeks ago

• Kelly Report into MP Expenses – Summary of Changes

  
  The Wardman Wire — Authority: 582
  The Kelly Report has been published this week, and like the Legg Report from a few weeks ago, the Kelly Report is a further step in the right direction. To my mind the basic principle that must underlie any new system, and which must be pursued relentlessly, is the one for which I argued back in February 2008 : ...
  3 weeks ago

• MPs in Northern Ireland get special attention

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Northern Irish MPs are targeted by Sir Christopher Kelly for special attention.
  3 weeks ago

• MPs expenses: no more claims for gardening cleaning and furniture

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  MPs claims for gardening and cleaning must be stopped "immediately" Sir Christopher Kelly has said.
  3 weeks ago

• One Less Bit of Junk Mail

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 176
  Christopher Kelly, I could kiss you. Hes recommended the end of the Communications Allowance - a £10k a year grant allowing MPs to have glossy leaflets delivered to their constituents explaining just how completely awesome they are. Needless to say, I was not amused. Ending this travesty - MPs helping themselves to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Prime Minister’s Questions

  
  Number10.gov.uk Latest News — Authority: 519
  Afghanistan, c ancer patients and the Kelly Report were on the agenda at today’s PMQs. The Prime Minister also took questions on c oncessionary travel , tax credits and the youth parliament. Follow the links below to read the PMQs transcript or listen to the broadcast again. Watch PMQs on Number 10 ...
  3 weeks ago

• The expenses reforms: rebranding members of parliament

  
  Jonathan Gabay's brand communications blog — Authority: 104
  MP expenses - can the public ever trust their branded champions again? Today, sweeping reforms are being announced concerning MP expenses. The restructure follows Sir Christopher Kelly’s heavily leaked report which set out the suggested proposals. The House of Commons speaker will urge members of parliament to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Wilshire, Hitler and MPs expenses

  
  Comment Central - Times Online - WBLG — Authority: 651
  David Blackburn points to this silly missive from David Wilshire to his constituents. Wilshire, you’ll remember, is the MP who was forced to stand down after paying  £105,000 to his own company. The witch hunt against MPs in general will undermine democracy. It will weaken parliament - handing yet more power ...
  4 weeks ago

• Positive psychology and an adult response to the financial crisis

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 141
  The day I crossed the Rubicon to adulthood It was a hot, in October. The rainy season was approaching but had not yet arrived. A fan was going full tilt in my office. Behind me, my windows were shut. Below my window, our lorries belched diesel fumes as they queued to exit the factory gate and take flour and maize ...
  4 weeks ago

• RIPPED OFF BY RODNEY

  
  AGAINST THE CURRENT — Authority: 418
  Yes, more tales of outrageous expense claims by our parliamentary representatives. Getting most of the attention has been old Mr Perkbuster himself. Rodney Hide used his travel privileges to take his girlfriend on a ten day overseas jaunt, staying in expensive hotels cost that cost anywhere between $300 -$500 a ...
  4 weeks ago

• BROWN THINKS BLAIR IS “EXCELLENT” – PROOF HE IS CRAZY

  
  CALEDONIAN COMMENT — Authority: 122
  Tony Blair is “an excellent candidate” to become Europe’s first President, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said yesterday, ahead of an EU summit that is likely to be the first to consider the issue. Speaking at a press conference in Brussels, Mr Brown stressed that his predecessor (pair pictured above) had yet ...
  4 weeks ago

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