1435 Hrs GMT London Sunday 17 May 2009:
Surely the test is whether the media and the public will stick to the outrage and unite to create a democratic, ethical, accountable and genuinely dignified, legitimate parliament. If this is not done then it will take a few centuries more before people will be able to see the intruders for what they are. These MPs and ministers and peers are not parliamentarians. Not democrats. Not representatives of the people. The reason why they have been able to claim to be those for years is because the public and the media allowed them to get away. That did not happen by accident. Media was very much part of the career politicians agenda. Still is. One newspaper, whatever the motive, decided to - and was able to - tell most of the truth on the cash and related deception and fraud and look how refreshing the atmosphere of public debate of politics in Britain has become. If we are to see change as an overdue consequence of this then we need the media to stop being the whore of the pimping parliament. Let us pay due respects to all the campaigners over the past centuries for a truly democratic Parliament and let us put a permanent stop to the flipping opportunists and abusers of the name of democracy and the institutions of democracy.
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Sunday, May 17, 2009
KHOODEELAAR! No to “Crossrail Big Business - looters' agenda” CAMPAIGN to David Miliband, YOU TOO ARE in denial!
1125 [1110] [1100] Hrs GMT LOndon Sunday 17 May 2009: KHOODEELAAR! challenges David Miliband to produce one single example of an ordinary member of the public being allowed to say what he, Miliband has just told Jon Sopel, on the POLITICS SHAW that is being broadcast right now. He says he will pay the money back. it is NOT about MPs paying any money back. It is about their morality. Miliband is now another one who doe snot get it....Any member of the public who is not a paid politico, would be asked to answer some serious criminal charges [this stated in a contextual way here, not in reference to any particular case such as the conduct of Miliband himself] in a similar situation....[Earlier this morning we said]
KHOODEELAAR! The constitutional movement against Big Business Crossrail agenda is among the first to comment on UK Liberal Democratic Party leader Nick Clegg's comments about the state of the UK Parliament... Clegg may not want to acknowledge it but his statements, as made this morning to the BBC, only, merely partially recognised the unique and the comprehensive archive of constitutional law comment about the state of the DEAD parliament that KHOODEELAAR! had made up to yesterday and in the previous 5 years and 5 months...KHOODEELAAR! evidentially and for the records welcomes Clegg's 'conversion’. Belated but still a positive move. However, before Clegg can expect to be given or can be given any genuine and lasting credibility on this, he has a long way to go. Here is KHOODEELAAR! Organiser and constitutional law analyst and commentator Muhammad Haque's first comment, [as posted already on the Times online this morning] to Clegg's statements as broadcast on the BBC and as reported so far [at time of writing and publishing THIS] by the Times:
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Item taken below from today's Daily Telegraph web site:
MPs' expenses: the great gravy train quiz - the answers
The answers to the questions on the MPs' expenses scandal.
Last Updated: 12:49AM BST 17 May 2009
1. The moles. Mr Gummer claimed more than £100 a year for mole control. Mr Hogg submitted a claim for £31 for the bees.
2. Mr Reid’s. He claimed £685.84 for two visits from Rentokil. Mr Brown’s Rentokil claim was £352. Mr Heathcoat-Amory claimed £2 for mouse poison.
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3. The RAC club, in Pall Mall.
4. Mr Darling. He switched the location of his second home four times in four years. Miss Blears claimed for three different properties in a single
year.
5. The portico, which cost £5,700 to build. Mrs Beckett claimed £711 for painting a summer house, shed and pergola.
6, Former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell.
7. Culture Secretary Andy Burnham.
8. A bath robe.
9. Vera Baird, the solicitor general. The claims were rejected.
10. £115 plus VAT.
11. Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who has claimed up to £180 every three months on his garden in South Shields.
12. John Reid.
13. Katherine, by Anya Seton.
14. Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell.
15. Two.
16. A bargain £312.
17. Accountancy.
18. Phil Woolas.
19. Ten per cent.
20. Paul Murphy, the Welsh Secretary.
21. Don’t be silly - all of them. They were claimed by Sir Michael Spicer (a & b), Oliver Letwin (c.) and Douglas Hogg (d.)
22. All of them.
23. a, b and c - including £22,500 treating dry rot at her partner’s home on the south coast. She
has a fourth property in Spain.
24. Replacing an Artex plaster ceiling.
25. Chocolate Hobnobs.
26. Each bag cost 70p, meaning that more than 550 were used.
27. A £3.69 bag of Iams Senior Chicken dry meal and two 39p cans of Cesar chicken and turkey meat.
28. Phil Hope, the Health Minister, who is returning £41,709 after fitting out his small flat over-enthusiastically.
29. Seven.
30. He has claimed the money on a Westminster flat, even though his family home is just 12 miles away, in Stanmore, West London. He also changed his designated second home in a single year to a property in his Leicester constituency,
before claiming more
than £4,000 on furnishings.
KHOODEELAAR! The constitutional movement against Big Business Crossrail agenda is among the first to comment on UK Liberal Democratic Party leader Nick Clegg's comments about the state of the UK Parliament... Clegg may not want to acknowledge it but his statements, as made this morning to the BBC, only, merely partially recognised the unique and the comprehensive archive of constitutional law comment about the state of the DEAD parliament that KHOODEELAAR! had made up to yesterday and in the previous 5 years and 5 months...KHOODEELAAR! evidentially and for the records welcomes Clegg's 'conversion’. Belated but still a positive move. However, before Clegg can expect to be given or can be given any genuine and lasting credibility on this, he has a long way to go. Here is KHOODEELAAR! Organiser and constitutional law analyst and commentator Muhammad Haque's first comment, [as posted already on the Times online this morning] to Clegg's statements as broadcast on the BBC and as reported so far [at time of writing and publishing THIS] by the Times:
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Item taken below from today's Daily Telegraph web site:
MPs' expenses: the great gravy train quiz - the answers
The answers to the questions on the MPs' expenses scandal.
Last Updated: 12:49AM BST 17 May 2009
1. The moles. Mr Gummer claimed more than £100 a year for mole control. Mr Hogg submitted a claim for £31 for the bees.
2. Mr Reid’s. He claimed £685.84 for two visits from Rentokil. Mr Brown’s Rentokil claim was £352. Mr Heathcoat-Amory claimed £2 for mouse poison.
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3. The RAC club, in Pall Mall.
4. Mr Darling. He switched the location of his second home four times in four years. Miss Blears claimed for three different properties in a single
year.
5. The portico, which cost £5,700 to build. Mrs Beckett claimed £711 for painting a summer house, shed and pergola.
6, Former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell.
7. Culture Secretary Andy Burnham.
8. A bath robe.
9. Vera Baird, the solicitor general. The claims were rejected.
10. £115 plus VAT.
11. Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who has claimed up to £180 every three months on his garden in South Shields.
12. John Reid.
13. Katherine, by Anya Seton.
14. Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell.
15. Two.
16. A bargain £312.
17. Accountancy.
18. Phil Woolas.
19. Ten per cent.
20. Paul Murphy, the Welsh Secretary.
21. Don’t be silly - all of them. They were claimed by Sir Michael Spicer (a & b), Oliver Letwin (c.) and Douglas Hogg (d.)
22. All of them.
23. a, b and c - including £22,500 treating dry rot at her partner’s home on the south coast. She
has a fourth property in Spain.
24. Replacing an Artex plaster ceiling.
25. Chocolate Hobnobs.
26. Each bag cost 70p, meaning that more than 550 were used.
27. A £3.69 bag of Iams Senior Chicken dry meal and two 39p cans of Cesar chicken and turkey meat.
28. Phil Hope, the Health Minister, who is returning £41,709 after fitting out his small flat over-enthusiastically.
29. Seven.
30. He has claimed the money on a Westminster flat, even though his family home is just 12 miles away, in Stanmore, West London. He also changed his designated second home in a single year to a property in his Leicester constituency,
before claiming more
than £4,000 on furnishings.
KHOODEELAAR! No to “Crossrail Big Business - looters' agenda” CAMPAIGN first comments on Nick Clegg's statement about the UK Parliament
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6304632.ece?Submitted=true
Clegg now has the absolute duty to carry through his comprehensive programme. Can he maintain the momentum by updating his own programme as you report? Dealing with the Speaker of the UK House of Commons is only the beginning of what needs to be done. The remainder of what needs to be done is heavier and will require a truly courageous constitutional movement in a truly democratic setting. I am amazed that it has taken 400 years for the people who claim to care for parliament democracy to realise that parliament has been dead for centuries. It needs live people to bring it to true life and truly to life. And the evidence of life will be seen and tested on whether those like Clegg can tell the truth. Always. Clegg has a long way to go. As do we all as a country. But if Clegg, assuming the liberating leadership role, can and does show intellectual stamina and moral courage and timely delivery of so many initiatives that await him and the rest of us, then he can grab hold of the constitutional crown that is there waiting for the ethically sound leader, the liberator! Backed by a genuinely liberated country and people! Or will Cameron snatch it away from Clegg, with his, Cameron's, reference to this ‘moment’?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6304632.ece?Submitted=true
this url came up at 1139 Hrs UK 17 may 2009
Clegg now has the absolute duty to carry through his comprehensive programme. Can he maintain the momentum by updating his own programme as you report? Dealing with the Speaker of the UK House of Commons is only the beginning of what needs to be done. The remainder of what needs to be done is heavier and will require a truly courageous constitutional movement in a truly democratic setting. I am amazed that it has taken 400 years for the people who claim to care for parliament democracy to realise that parliament has been dead for centuries. It needs live people to bring it to true life and truly to life. And the evidence of life will be seen and tested on whether those like Clegg can tell the truth. Always. Clegg has a long way to go. As do we all as a country. But if Clegg, assuming the liberating leadership role, can and does show intellectual stamina and moral courage and timely delivery of so many initiatives that await him and the rest of us, then he can grab hold of the constitutional crown that is there waiting for the ethically sound leader, the liberator! Backed by a genuinely liberated country and people! Or will Cameron snatch it away from Clegg, with his, Cameron's, reference to this ‘moment’?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6304632.ece?Submitted=true
this url came up at 1139 Hrs UK 17 may 2009