Fame is limited to 15 minutes. Infamy is timeless and love is eternal

I have just been looking at the published list of MP expenses and apart from the blacked out information it does tell you one thing. These MP's have a habit of signing their monthly receipt with out thinking about it. I looked at one MP's and what was striking is the the fact his food bill was the same total every month £400 with a small reduction when the house is in recess. Does he eat the same food month in month out and has not the cost of food gone up over 8% in the last 12 month.

Another area that needs to be questioned is council tax £70 a month now what's strange is this amount is the same going back to 2004 right up to the 2008 published figures has he not a council tax raise in 4 years, even the amount is questionable wherever the property  is located the council rates must be the cheapest in the country. Or as I see it the figure was plucked out of thin air as with the food.

My final and very prevalent is just what the hell do MP's spend their salary on, a box of chocolate for the wife maybe. Oops have to be careful what I say  they may even put that on expenses. The figures quoted are from John Battle MP for Leeds West published allowances

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do you think MP's claim the maximum allowed and divide the the sub section to reach this total?

England my England  

Goodbye to my England, So long my old friend
Your days are numbered, being brought to an end
To be Scottish, Irish or Welsh that's fine
But don't say you're English, that's way out of line.

The French and the Germans may call themselves such
So may Norwegians, the Swedes and the Dutch
You can say you are Russian or maybe a Dane
But don't say you're English ever again.

We're the English from England, let's all be proud
Stand up and be counted - Shout it out loud!
Let's tell our Government and Brussels too
We're proud of our heritage and the Red, White and Blue
Fly the flag of Saint George or the Union Jack
Let the world know -

WE WANT OUR ENGLAND BACK !!!!

The British National Party as no part to play in our politics. It is evil, and raciest. All you people who thought you were giving Brown a bloody nose has let in through the back door 2 BNP's MEP's who are responsible for thousands of constituents in Lancashire and Yorkshire. My MEP's now, that is very hurtful to me personally. I had relatives who fought in WW2 to rid us of Nazism and you people who voted for them have made their sacrifice worthless.

So all you people who did not vote at all because you could not be bothered or for any other pathetic excuse have now given the BNP a platform to promote their vile policy's. Think about it very carefully  had UKIP got another 900 votes I would not be writing this blog, not that I am a supporter of that party either at least it is not raciest. Why did you not turn out and vote green for god sake.

Did you know the BNP only allow white people to stand as a candidate, that alone is against the law under the discrimination law of our country, of course the BNP will tell you otherwise. They have in fact broken electoral law and the commission will be looking into this. Their victory may only short lived and could be expelled if found guilty.

One more point those who voted BNP have now given them £4 million to promote their policy's and probably made Griffin a millionaire I hope you are proud of your selves 

Labour has failed the working class and Tories have never helped the working class so I have an alternative to offer you tell me if you agree.

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We (Labour party) took one hell of a beating on Thursday night having lost the four shire councils we were defending. Many hard working councillors have lost their seats for one reason only. The parliamentarians had their hands in the pot, the fact it was all the party's who were at made not the slightest difference. Such is the electorates fickle understanding between national and local issues. These elections were local elections and should be fought on local issues yet the electorate never do that.

If the electorate wanted to give MP's  a bloody nose how come the Tories won 250 seats, after all in theory the expenses scandals was not the fault of just Labour yet they lost over 250 seats.Who said politics is easy?

Prime minister Brown had to reshuffle the cabinet early due mainly for being stabbed in the back by the very people who he appointed to the cabinet, one forgets it is the prerogative of the prime mister to hire and fire those he chooses to serve in the cabinet.

Sunday night will almost be as bad Thursday's local elections. The electorate seem to have no interest in European elections and there are many reasons for that, again the electorate can  give the government a real bashing by voting for other political party's without actually giving labour the boot in Westminster.  As the European Election is based on proportional representation, Labour will not lose all its seats but there is no question they will be significantly reduced at the expense of the minor parties.

I will be more interested in the turn out. 40% and above would appear to good, we British don't take a lot of interest in the European Union but I don't include myself in that. Over 2 million jobs and 70% of our trade is through the EU so we should take more interest than we do.

Come Monday  questions will be asked can Brown survive. I hope so, the last thing we need is a leadership election followed by a general election has the reforms that need to be introduced will be put on the back burner. Of course Cameron wants an election he thinks he can win, so far he has evaded the the big policy issues. He is all waffle and no substance.