: Sun May 10, 2009 10:12 pm  

waterfield's finest wrote:

These guttersnipes spend countless hours thinking up brand new ways about how we should live our own lives and are constantly seeking further powers over us. To do that and get away with it they need to be far, far far above reproach.

I agree... hence... pay them well, give them what they need to do job, set minimun performance standards to evaluate them (as they've done witht teachers), get rid of the obfuscation and the structures with intrinsic loopholes. Make it simple. The system is rubbish, which itself begets rubbish... so change it.

Re: Leigh MP in Expenses Shocker... : Sun May 10, 2009 10:33 pm  

Demon's Eye wrote:

Pity it wasn't a load of stuff from the club shop....

haha i like it

: Mon May 11, 2009 8:41 am  

rugbyballs wrote:

He is from Culcheth!

Reckons to be some kind of Scouser, so could be related to you!

Culchet, then he's a plastic wannabe manc like all Warrington folk as Widnes are plastic wannabe scouser

: Mon May 11, 2009 12:42 pm  

trainee_lobbygobbler wrote:

Culchet, then he's a plastic wannabe manc like all Warrington folk as Widnes are plastic wannabe scouser

Bit of a moronic post there is n`t ......If culcheth are wannabe mancs like all warrington, what are we as Leythers............
Think you`ll also find that culcheth is either Utd or Liverpool fans from my experiences.

: Mon May 11, 2009 12:53 pm  

Bartholemew Smythe wrote:

Bit of a moronic post there is n`t ......If culcheth are wannabe mancs like all warrington, what are we as Leythers............
Think you`ll also find that culcheth is either Utd or Liverpool fans from my experiences.

Spent 7 years working in Warrington and they all think they are Manchester but with a different name. Seems alot of Manchester folk emergrated to Warrington like Liverpool lot did to Widnes and Runcorn...

: Mon May 11, 2009 1:16 pm  

Bunch of crooks the lot of em,if somebody wants to be an MP then they shouldn't be allowed any where near the House.
Also if under 30% of the electorate turn out then that constituency should not get a representative.

: Mon May 11, 2009 1:51 pm  

The Watcher wrote:

Bunch of crooks the lot of em,if somebody wants to be an MP then they shouldn't be allowed any where near House.
Also if under 30% of the electorate turn out the that constituency should not get a representative.

Make voting compulsory as it is in Australia

: Mon May 11, 2009 2:26 pm  

Wembley71 wrote:

I agree... hence... pay them well, give them what they need to do job, set minimun performance standards to evaluate them (as they've done witht teachers), get rid of the obfuscation and the structures with intrinsic loopholes. Make it simple. The system is rubbish, which itself begets rubbish... so change it.

Don't disagree with point about fixing the system.

But, the blind public now knows what many of us have figured out long ago. That so, oh so many politicians are in it for what they can get out of it rather than what they can put in. A labour party conference is now a place of pin strip suits and full length raincoats - spivs and city boys, a career politician convention with no place for ideologues.

This is clearly not the case where teachers are concerned where performance is measured, measured and measured again, but their pay is cr@p.

: Mon May 11, 2009 2:39 pm  

Anyway, Andy doesn't stand in the same league as others in this case. He acquits himself quite well here... http://blogs.news.sky.com/boultonandco/ ... 128c623da8

Anyway, Andy doesn't stand in the same league as others in this case. He acquits himself quite well here... http://blogs.news.sky.com/boultonandco/ ... 128c623da8

: Mon May 11, 2009 2:45 pm  

If there wasnt a recession on do you think all this about MP expenses would come to light????