peter macdonald
05-Jul-08, 13:05
I laugh when I see our government saying how we should be paying our "green taxes" on fuel to help control the environment
maybe the guy who imposed them should look in the mirror
Tomorrow Mr Brown will climb aboard a private charter aircraft to take him the 5,500 miles to Hokkaido, in northern Japan, for his first G8 summit. He will be there until Thursday.
He will miss his weekly duel with Mr Cameron on Wednesday. Harriet Harman will fill the breach as Mr Brown.
The Prime Minister will then be popping over to Paris for an informal get-together - grandly entitled the Mediterranean summit - with EU leaders and others.
Mr Brown will be back in time for his last Prime Minister’s questions of the summer before heading off again the following weekend, July 20 and 21, to the Middle East for a 6,000-mile, 20-hour round trip during which he will hold talks with leaders from across the region.
Then he will face the chill reality of British politics again. Glasgow East votes the following Thursday.
After all that Mr Brown will go on holiday - somewhere in Britain, according to friends - before travelling to Beijing (another 10,000 miles there and back) for the last few days of competition and the closing ceremony, as the Chinese capital hands over to London for the 2012 Games.
Only two weekends ago he made a 6,000-mile round trip to Jedda, Saudi Arabia, to spend only a few hours on the ground discussing oil prices.
The Times July 5, 2008 - http://tinyurl.com/6rowoh
Never heard of video conferencing ???
Here is the list of the MPs from Scotland who voted to keep all the 2nd home allowances (or snouts in the trough)
Gordon Banks (Ochil & Perthshire South),
Tom Clarke (Coatbridge),
Michael Connarty (Linlithgow & Falkirk East),
Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West),
Brian Donohoe (Ayrshire Central),
David Hamilton (Midlothian),
Jimmy Hood (Lanark & Hamilton East),
Adam Ingram (East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow),
Eric Joyce (Falkirk),
Tommy McAvoy (Rutherglen & Hamilton West),
James McGovern (Dundee West),
Anne McGuire (Stirling),
Rosemary McKenna (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth & Kirkintilloch East),
John Robertson (Glasgow North West),
Jimmy Sheridan (Paisley & Renfrewshire North),
Gavin Strang (Edinburgh East),
Notice they all come from one party ..the same one who has told public sector workers to expect a lower than inflation pay rise
PM
maybe the guy who imposed them should look in the mirror
Tomorrow Mr Brown will climb aboard a private charter aircraft to take him the 5,500 miles to Hokkaido, in northern Japan, for his first G8 summit. He will be there until Thursday.
He will miss his weekly duel with Mr Cameron on Wednesday. Harriet Harman will fill the breach as Mr Brown.
The Prime Minister will then be popping over to Paris for an informal get-together - grandly entitled the Mediterranean summit - with EU leaders and others.
Mr Brown will be back in time for his last Prime Minister’s questions of the summer before heading off again the following weekend, July 20 and 21, to the Middle East for a 6,000-mile, 20-hour round trip during which he will hold talks with leaders from across the region.
Then he will face the chill reality of British politics again. Glasgow East votes the following Thursday.
After all that Mr Brown will go on holiday - somewhere in Britain, according to friends - before travelling to Beijing (another 10,000 miles there and back) for the last few days of competition and the closing ceremony, as the Chinese capital hands over to London for the 2012 Games.
Only two weekends ago he made a 6,000-mile round trip to Jedda, Saudi Arabia, to spend only a few hours on the ground discussing oil prices.
The Times July 5, 2008 - http://tinyurl.com/6rowoh
Never heard of video conferencing ???
Here is the list of the MPs from Scotland who voted to keep all the 2nd home allowances (or snouts in the trough)
Gordon Banks (Ochil & Perthshire South),
Tom Clarke (Coatbridge),
Michael Connarty (Linlithgow & Falkirk East),
Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West),
Brian Donohoe (Ayrshire Central),
David Hamilton (Midlothian),
Jimmy Hood (Lanark & Hamilton East),
Adam Ingram (East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow),
Eric Joyce (Falkirk),
Tommy McAvoy (Rutherglen & Hamilton West),
James McGovern (Dundee West),
Anne McGuire (Stirling),
Rosemary McKenna (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth & Kirkintilloch East),
John Robertson (Glasgow North West),
Jimmy Sheridan (Paisley & Renfrewshire North),
Gavin Strang (Edinburgh East),
Notice they all come from one party ..the same one who has told public sector workers to expect a lower than inflation pay rise
PM