Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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just shows theres an alternative to goves view
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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surely he checked?
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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The Nasty Party.........
Tory MP tells one-legged wheelchair beggar to 'get a job'
Daniel Kawczynski told amputee: 'I know it's hard but I've struggled too.'
A Conservative MP told a one-legged drug addict in a wheelchair begging outside Parliament to 'get a job'.
The Daily Mail reports that Daniel Kawczynski 'admonished' the man for begging and told him that help was available to people in his situation through a Government scheme.
Mr Kawczynski was heard saying to Mark McGuigan, "get a job, find some work. Yes, I know it is hard, I have struggled too."
Speaking about the incident, which reportedly occurred on 7 October outside Westminster underground station, Mr McGuigan said that the 6ft 8in ministerial aide made him feel small and humiliated, before adding that he had spoken out in order to 'name and shame' Mr Kawczynski.
Describing what happened, Mr McGuigan, from Bermondsey, South London, said, "He told me to stop begging and to get a job. He made me feel really small. He was so sanctimonious.
"I can't get a job. I can barely read and write. Look at me, I am missing a leg. I said that to him but he just started getting more and more aggressive. It was horrible.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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i do think the govt(live in another world)
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Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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You have to admit Daniel Kawczynski made a good point. Isn't it better for this bloke to get a job rather than wallow in poverty, looked after by the state until his untimely death due to his addiction?
His life chances would be vastly improved, would they not, by cleaning himself up and entering the job market?
Oh noes! This is not the labour way. They need the poor and dispossessed to remain in squalor in order that they provide the votes they need to be elected next time round and forever more hereafter.
Labour built the welfare culture which has impoverished millions. They have alot to answer for.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Everyone has agreed on here the welfare system is in need of reform(even gary c)
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Sir John Major hits out at 'unacceptable' hike in prices and calls for excess profit tax on Big Six energy firms
Former Prime Minister says energy companies should fund people struggling to pay winter bills
Sir John Major challenged ministers to levy a windfall tax this winter on energy companies' profits to protect the neediest in society as he warned Conservative chiefs of the electoral dangers of vacating the political centre ground.
The former Prime Minister urged his party to reconnect with voters in the North of England, where it had been relegated to the political fringe, and to help poor families struggling to make ends meet in tower blocks and council estates.
He predicted the Government would have to step in to prevent families from having to choose between heating and eating if there is a bitterly cold spell of weather.
Both Downing Street and Conservative sources distanced themselves from his comments, which follow Labour leader Ed Miliband's promise of a 19-month freeze on gas and electricity prices if he wins the next general election.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Its not all about the public living in the North of the Watford Gap it is all over we are all in the same boat,infact the public in the South of the Uk pay out more in food fuel rent it is a well know fact it costs alot more to live here than the North.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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John Major for the first time has spoken out against his own government, which would have known would cause a rift, but its more important im sure he feels to highlight reality
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Michael Gove criticised by Lord Baker for policies based on 'his own educational experience'
The former education secretary's comments cap week when Mr Gove's free school plans have triggered a rift at the heart of the coalition
Michael Gove's flagship policies are "entirely derived from his own educational experience", Margaret Thatcher's former education secretary has claimed.
The Conservative peer Lord Baker said that Mr Gove - who has championed a controversial agenda including the free schools programme, exam reforms and changes to teachers' pay and pensions - was pushing through plans that could fail children who did not have his natural advantages.
Speaking at the Sir John Cass Foundation Lecture at the Cass Business School this week, Lord Baker, who was Education Secretary from 1986 to 1989, said: "Michael Gove had a tough upbringing and he believes if he did it, anybody in the country could do what he did: whether they're orphans, whether they're poor, whether they're impoverished, they can all rise to the top. That is not actually true, and that is dominating the attitude of a key minister in government."
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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well another leading tory breaks ranks
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Could be one of the biggest `U` turns?
End of the line? £50bn HS2 rail link project in doubt
Lord Mandelson condemned the scheme, saying it would 'suck the very life blood' out of the rest of the rail network
The future of the High Speed 2 rail project is in growing doubt as Labour prepared to drop its backing for the £50bn scheme and the Tory rebellion against the proposed line gathered pace.
Despite David Cameron's outspoken support for HS2, fears are intensifying within Downing Street that the Government will be forced to abandon the largest rail building project for a generation, The Independent understands.
There are also concerns in Whitehall that ministers could struggle to obtain the private finance essential for the scheme to go ahead. In another sign that the project is in trouble, Mr Cameron changed his language and prepared the ground for blaming Labour if it collapses.
In a Commons debate next week, ministers will make a fresh attempt to set out the case for HS2, which would connect London and Birmingham by the year 2026 and the North of England by 2033. At least 30 Conservative MPs are ready to defy their party whip and vote against preparatory work on the project.
Courtesy Independent...
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Sorry Reg it was labour's idea in the first place for no good reason but to "trump the tories".
http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/news/local-news/lord-mandelson-labour-only-backed-6238782
As far as Major is concerned IDS couldn't have put it better by telling the London Evening Standard, "Well, as I say, I never really get too fussed about what people think about their own intellects. I'm always happy to be in awe of someone whose own intellect delivered us the cones hotline, I must say."
Guest 1033- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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I wouldn't believe anything said by mandelson. He typifies everything that is wrong with politics in the UK, and it puts tony bliar into proper perspective when you think that after being 'kicked out' of government he spent a couple of years living the high life as a euro commissioner, then got a peerage. It makes me wonder what secrets that reptile knows that led to his promotion.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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Bit political for you Barrie
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
all rather unfortunate that politicians rejected here get sent to the european cmmission to earn a lot more money, have no electorate to be held to account by and have more power than they have ever held before.
John Buckley
- Registered: 6 Oct 2013
- Posts: 615
So very true Howard, Kinnock being a classic example of milking the EU system for all it`s worth. All totally legal though of course!
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
wouldnt you
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