Labour’s Ben Bradshaw has been having a smelly few days…
Parliamentary Authorities responded, saying:
“The engineers of the Parliamentary Estates Directorate have now identified the problem – a broken urinal waste pipe. There has been no damage to possessions/IT equipment and there will be a clean-up.”
Move over Sarah Teather – another Lib Dem MP has attempted a “comedy routine” at their Spring Conference. Here’s Lorely Burt pretending to be Nigel Farage… Who on earth can ever have thought this would work?
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It is probably time to worry when they start laughing at you. The developing world of social media is a pretty raw place. But when David Cameron’s Twitter feed posted a picture of him apparently talking ever so earnestly on the phone to President Obama last week the response was rapid, and brutal. The image was ridiculous, most people seemed to say. Pretentious. Self-serving. If you believe in “the wisdom of crowds” then its conclusions were damning for the Tory […]
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Many people had been wondering why Gordon Brown hasn’t been more involved in the debate around the Scottish Independence referendum. Today he’s getting involved in a big way – by outlining a 6 point plan to change the constitutional settlement of the UK and give more powers to Scotland. The six points are: A new UK constitutional law – backed by an historic document equivalent to a bill of rights – to set out the purpose of the UK as […]
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For generations in Britain, when the economy grew, most people got better off with it. But that isn’t true anymore. Especially for young people. The number of young people left on unemployment benefits for over a year has doubled since 2010 under David Cameron’s government. The latest figures show over 50,000 young people have been on the dole for over 12 months. Its increasingly clear that the government has failed miserably to give young people opportunities to learn, train and […]
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Impending Armageddon comes as blessed relief for prospective homeowners The prediction that the average price for a small flat in central London will rise to £36million by 2050 was not met with any particular surprise, given the unstoppable force that is the UK’s absurd housing market. Predictability does not, however, negate any feelings of glum impotence towards the hope of one day owning a place to live, and the depressing forecast was only lightened by the increasing likelihood of the […]
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