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Wonder how many MPs could moonlight as cartoonists....
http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/Cheltenham-MP-Martin-Horwood-pens-cartoon-Echo/story-25838165-detail/story.html
That's him that is.
My MP, Jim McGovern, has no entries in the Register of Members interests. Why am I not surprised?
Also has Boris thought this through? If Ed actually brought this nonsense into force he could face a horrendous fall in his income.
Force India reveal first image of their new car:
http://www1.skysports.com/f1/news/12477/9731509/force-india-belatedly-reveal-vjm08-car-ahead-of-debut-at-final-barcelona-test
Livery's nice, but hard to tell what the front wing's like, or the width of the sidepods (Sauber's are a bit chunky, most others are slimmed down).
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Dair said:
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You do not know 300 people's inclination to be an MP or 300 people's salary levels.
Seriously, who do you think you will kid with this nonsense?
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It is amazing what you emerges over a period of time in normal society if you:
A) care about people and are able to talk to them and maintain friendships
Diligent MPs who do regular surgeries and get out into their constituencies surely see a lot more of the real world than most of us on here.
"McGovern lost his appeal against the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority's rejection of a £23.90 single rail ticket from Dundee to Glasgow in April 2013.[3] The Sunday Herald reported that Parliamentary authorities determined that the detour was unconnected to McGovern's official work as an MP. He had been attending a Labour Party event in Glasgow. IPSA revealed that its bill for defending against McGovern's appeal was £27,000, to be met by the taxpayers."
Cream of the crop.
However we were all young once, so I assume you learned cynicism after leaving Uni.
Be interesting to see how Manor and Force India get on.
Edited extra bit: for those wanting a refresher, check my post-season review of 2014, including a lovely graph:
http://enormo-haddock.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/2014-f1-season-review.html
And who the f*ck authorised that expenditure by IPSA's lawyers?
You could become an MP.
Yes, you.
It is one of the few professions where no formal qualifications are required. Just the intent.
So if you (or anyone, Guardian blogger, Daily Mail commentator, Sun editorial writer) have a problem - then go for it. Get involved.
Complaining about MPs is like that old joke about the guy who travels by train to see a friend. When he gets there the friend asks how the journey was and the guy says - dreadful I had to sit facing backwards the whole way and that always makes me feel sick. The friend asks why he didn't ask the person sitting opposite him facing forwards if they would mind swapping and the guy says - that was the worst bit...there was no one sitting opposite me...
In any event i doubt the HOC has ever represented the best we have .
There are plenty of studies which show the average peer group is less than 12 people. The idea anyone on earth has a peer group of 300 is completely ridiculous.
Had a row, left after a year
Went in a Labour voter, left a UKIP member.. the bias was so extreme as to be sickening
I've worked on projects where I would daily talk, eat, have coffees, meet with at least 50 people of my age group, socio economic background and similar skill set.
I studied at a college where I would on a daily basis work, eat, chat, have a beer with 100 or more people within 3 years of me.
Facebook started in the UK about 6 months before I went to Oxford, and I'm therefore still decently in touch with just about anyone I ever had a meaningful conversation with whilst there. Add in linkedin and I have a decent idea of what they're earning...
This issue is just another opportunity for another mindless anti politics rant from a bunch of people sadly in need of a life.
Popcorn.
I'm sure you felt it sounded quite impressive when you decided to invent the claim for your appeal to numbers. But it's still demonstrably false. You can meet thousands of people but your peer group at any one time will still never grow much higher than 20, and as stated, the average is below 12.
Regardless of its merits, it doesn't seem like smart politics to me.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-31615218
"Greater Manchester is to become the first English region to get full control of its health spending, as part of an extension of devolved powers.
Chancellor George Osborne said the £6bn health and social care budget would be taken over by the region's councils and health groups."
Councillor Mike Connolly, Labour leader of Bury Council, said: "Those decisions need to be made in Greater Manchester and not Westminster, and I welcome any form of devolution to the city region.
"We are all agreed, certainly in the Labour Party, that health and social care must be integrated because it's about providing that primary care - and it can only be good for healthcare across Greater Manchester."
Forget your EVEL stuff though, Manc MPs are now similar to Welsh and Scottish ones.
You can just picture the local grandees of Manchester Labour salivating at all the committee and oversight jobs they can award to their members and family members on six figure sums.
Meanwhile the Tories will get another Labour NHS to whack Andy Burnham over the head with "just LOOK at those appalling A&E times in Labour run Manchester NHS".
It's a fantastic film, by the way, if you get the chance to see it. I just watched it, and will see it again tonight.
http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=312cf720117fac1051bd1afe6&id=3636363411&e=3a59b60940
Jennifer Williams @JenWilliamsMEN 8m8 minutes ago
@davidottewell @DPJHodges but it seems to be Andy Burnham and Ed Balls who are upset. GM MPs perfectly happy
The best they can do is neutralise it as an election issue.
This is the inevitable consequence of AGMA which dates back to 1986.
Interestingly, another of the consistent results of peer group studies is that people massively over-estimate the size of their own peer group.
can't find the ladbrokes one..
Noone will care about or notice the details. The best thing the Tories can do is keep the NHS entirely out of the news and steer debate onto the economy. This is stupid.
Unless of course Osborne has concluded he won't win anyway and is just trying to make as many reforms he can in the little time he has left before the election. Which is in itself interesting.
You both probably need to provide your definition of "peer group".
I'm basing it on how Labour treat their permanent fiefdoms as a local trough for party apparatchiks and family members. If I'm wrong feel free to correct me but I don't see any reason to see why Labour in Manchester would operate any differently to Labour in Glasgow.
Plus Labour will have to come out and moan against regional devolution - their fix for EVEL lies in tatters.
25/02/2015 12:37
@matthancockmp Look at yourself during PMQ's, ugliness personified
"Of my group of 300 or so friends and acquaintances under 35 (mostly from state grammar school or Oxbridge colleges), 5 or 6 would entertain the idea of being an MP."
I find that entirely credible. I'd say 150 myself, but I don't get out much. I certainly wouldn't call the poster "a liar" if I thought it looked on the high side, nor make the ludicrous equation that peer group=people concerning whom one can estimate their likely wish to become an MP.
I assume that you are a passionate warmist on the basis of Ther Science, and have fewer than 12 friends.
Labour don't want anyone to have local control over health budgets.
Wonder what the party split is?
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/health/andy-burnhams-warning-over-swiss-cheese-8721228
Note he doesn't say he would scrap, rather he would not have offered it.
Far from the same thing.
So thats £25k on average.
Tessa Munt giving a good speech about being an MP is a F/T job full stop.
Seems LDs appear to be in favour.
Mr. X, well, quite. It's horrendously backward, if accurate.
1) The decision should be left to their electorate. If they don't like their MP having a second job, they have the option of booting that MP out.
2) A House of Commons that had no one with any current experience of life outside the House would be even fuller of out-of-touch weirdos.
Oh wait - boxers are "working class" - so no issue - move on..