Another retailer, the much-loved Birthdays chain, has gone into administration – putting about 2,000 jobs at risk.While MPs claim for phantom mortgages and expensive TVs, some of our major high-street chains are collapsing and workers fear for...
Topics: Birthdays, Clinton Cards, economy, jobs, Labour, politics, retail, unemployment

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Brown said that Blears’ CGT avoidance was unacceptable.Now the Telegraph reports that Hoon and Purnell have done something similar.Is what they did unacceptable too and will they, rightly, be sacked? Even though the Spectator (in one of its less...
Topics: expenses, Hoon, Labour, politics, Purnell

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Today, understandably, workers are protesting at Killingholme, in the Labour heartland of Humberside, and elsewhere, about the disgraceful No British Need Apply policies of the Government/Industry, and the discrimination against British workers in...
Topics: British Jobs for British Workers, discrimination, employment, expenses, Gordon Brown, Hazel Blears, Humberside, Killingholme, Labour, MPs, politics, unemployment

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In his 17.30 press conference, Gordon Brown says that it is “unacceptable” for Margaret Moran to have claimed for dry rot treatment on her “partner”’s (how PC) Southampton home, despite being a Luton MP. Her position as a...
Topics: by election, Gordon Brown, Hazel Blears, Luton South, Margaret Moran, politics, resign, Salford, unacceptable, untenable

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Well, it goes without saying that Speaker Martin’s performance today was worse than last week’s attack on Kate Hoey. What a complete farce, and he should resign asap.Yet, Brown and Cameron have not yet disciplined their MPs. Why are Hoon and..
Topics: Brown, Cameron, Commons, Michael Martin, politics

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