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« on: June 11, 2008, 04:57:26 PM »
...£3000 a day for being held over 28 days and subsequently being found innocent.

...holding back moves to allow comparable access to abortion in Northern Ireland

...£200 million worth of concessions for the DUP.

...securing the unopposed selection of a sitting MP's son

More soon as it 'leaks'...this is Labour...everything eventually leaks.
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« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2008, 07:00:53 PM »
Did Labour's leadership read V For Vendetta and take it as an instructional manual and not as a warning against creeping totalitarianism?
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« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2008, 07:14:03 AM »
What price to defend freedom? Resigning your seat and fighting for it. Good on you David Davis.
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« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2008, 11:57:56 AM »
« Edited: June 12, 2008, 12:11:48 PM by Affable Labour Hack »
Good on David Davis? Definitely not. This is an ego trip, IMO. The public aren't with him, Cameron wasn't even consulted and now public money is going to be wasted on a pointless by-election.

Don't take everything Winston Churchill says as the truth either. He wasn't right on everything.
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« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2008, 12:18:23 PM »
« Edited: June 12, 2008, 12:24:51 PM by afleitch »
Quote from: Affable Labour Hack on June 12, 2008, 11:57:56 AM
Good on David Davis? Definitely not. This is an ego trip, IMO. The public aren't with him, Cameron wasn't even consulted and now public money is going to be wasted on a pointless by-election.

Don't take everything Winston Churchill says as the truth either. He wasn't right on everything.

Grumble, grumble, grumble, grumble

Smiley

I personally think the money spend incarcerating people without charge and then compensating them is a 'waste of taxpayers money'
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« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2008, 01:51:17 PM »
Logically, if 42 days makes you ashamed to be British then you should already be ashamed to be British due to the 28 days thing. It's not as though the principle is any different.

(don't take that seriously or anything. Well. Sort of. You know.)

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« Reply #6 on: June 16, 2008, 02:02:05 PM »
Davis voted against lowering the gay consent age, BTW.

Glad you're back, Al. It's been less enjoyable without you.
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« Reply #7 on: June 16, 2008, 02:05:58 PM »
Quote from: Affable Labour Hack on June 16, 2008, 02:02:05 PM
Davis voted against lowering the gay consent age, BTW.

Of course he did. A whiggish approach to issues of liberty and so on is in no way incompatable (probably wrong spelling) with more universalist (if that's the right word) concepts of human rights.

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« Reply #8 on: June 16, 2008, 02:17:13 PM »
Quote from: Sibboleth on June 16, 2008, 01:51:17 PM
Logically, if 42 days makes you ashamed to be British then you should already be ashamed to be British due to the 28 days thing. It's not as though the principle is any different.

(don't take that seriously or anything. Well. Sort of. You know.)

Smiley

Oh I am Smiley I believe in one working week at the very maximum.

Oh yes and welcome back etc Smiley
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