Swine Flu Priorities

Are politicians swine flu vaccine priorities!?!

Jackie does Dallas!

What's the big deal about Jackie Smith's husband watching porn films, the real scandal is that MPs are allowed to claim any films on expenses!

Of stable doors and bolted horses

Why didn't Gordon Brown "clean up" the financial system when he was Chancellor and the foundations of the credit crunch were being layed!?!

Would Lehmans, HBOS or Northern Rock have welcomed increased regulation five years ago when their business models were so profitable!?!

Three of a kind?

Isn't it a shame that Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur isn't a woman or he could have claimed for sexual discrimination as well as race, religion and age!

Only white, Christian males now face discrimination in the workplace as they are the only group who cannot seek compensation when overlooked for promotion!

Fight the good fight?

How is the Equality and Human Rights Commissioner Trevor Phillips fighting "the class divide" by educating his children privately!?!

It would "mean taking on the wealthy and educated middle class who are adept at playing the system to the advantage of their families" says the £160,000 per year Commissioner!

Giles Chichester

Had anyone ever heard of MEP Giles Chichester, leader of the Conservative MEPS, before stepping down after breaking expenses rules!?!

No wonder it's currently the top BBC Politics news story!

New MP Starter Pack!

Congratulations to Edward Timpson MP on finally arriving at the House of Commons, please finds enclosed a link to the John Lewis website.

Everything is on the house!

How to save the BBC £1m?

Would Jonathan Ross have worked less hard if he was only earning £17m over three years at the BBC!?!

How ironic that a left-wing organisation sees nothing wrong with wealth re-distribution from the poorest TV licence payers to millionaire entertainers!

Every little hurts!

How will MPs keep site of "the environment agenda" when they might award themselves an automatic tax free lump sum of £23,000 a year for second homes!?!

Lesser mortals will be expected to pay for increased fuel costs out of their existing taxed incomes!

Orwellian Doctrine?

What are the chances that MPs (and their families) would be exempt from a proposed new database that would contain details of every phone call and email sent in the UK!?!

"MPs are not supposed to be bugged, according to the so-called "Wilson doctrine"."

Credit crunching?

Will British banks be more careful lending £50bn of taxpayer's money than £50bn of shareholder's money!?!

John "the rake" Prescott?

How could John Prescott have eaten £4,000 of food and groceries in a year if he had not conquered Bulimia!?!

Shiredenfreude!

Shire Plc are fighting NHS rulings restricting access to expensive drug treatments whilst simultaneously moving their headquarters to Ireland to reduce the amount of UK tax they pay!

Just who do they think funds the NHS!?!

Expenses, expenses, expenses

What is Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) view of MPs being allowed to claim up to £10,000 for a new kitchen, £2,000 for furniture and £750 for a TV or stereo for their second homes?

Are they taxed as benefits in kind? Can contractors temporarily living away from home for employment reasons allowed to make similar claims against their own companies!?!

Cohabitation laws

Are lawyers condemning the Government's retreat from new rights for cohabiting couples because of the amount of revenue they will lose!?!

"I was furious frankly: there are huge amounts of injustice as things stand." - Jane Craig, the association of family lawyers.

49% of the population know there is no such thing as common law marriage!

Byrning ears!

Will Liam Byrne MP be able to claim the £100 fine and £35 costs for using a mobile phone whilst driving as expenses if he was taking "an important call on a deportation matter"!?!

GPs see the future?

Are 87% of GPs worried about the future as 57% of them know they are being overpaid and expect it to end!?!

Working for us?

MPs will have 91 days - 18 working weeks - holiday in 2008!

"MPs are reported to have written to the Senior Salaries Review Board saying the rise is needed to bring them into line with senior civil servants and GPs." - BBC News Online, December 2006.

How many senior civil servants or GPs have as much holiday!?!

Disposable Income

Tightest squeeze on wallets in a decade, unless you're an MP!

"The pair [Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper, the husband-and-wife team in Gordon Brown's Cabinet], who have three children, aged eight, six and three, have a joint income of nearly £240,000 a year."

Good news for the race industry?

Britain remains a place of "inequality, exclusion and isolation".

If the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) has failed to reduce inequalities in Britain, does this mean there are no solutions and the CRE's successor, the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR), should be disbanded or that it's funding should be increased!?!

Perhaps the level of immigration should be reduced!