Yoda
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captainmorganrum said:
That would be nice. Retired at 26/7 by the time they do it.
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Blunkett resigns
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That would be nice. Retired at 26/7 by the time they do it.
West Hoathly Seagull
Honorary Ruffian
We're stuck with a Home Secretary who can't make his mind up whether he wants the Bill I have been working on with my team for the past 9 months. He is just padding out until he can get the Bills he wants are ready for introduction to Parliament. If we don't get our Bill, we are effectively redundant. Getting an EO post on promotion is particularly difficult at the moment (I am an AO - Yoda, Stinky Kat, etc will know what that means) and frankly it isn't worth going for another AO post in London when the season ticket costs over £2000. Okay, I know you get that all the time in the private sector, but it does go to show that we Civil Servants do not have it all right as many people like to think. I don't expect special treatment, but it would be nice to know so one can plan for the future. As for the Government, I have no sympathy with them. They pushed the Tories for all they were worth on sleaze (not that the Tories didn't deserve it all), and now that the boot is on the other foot they don't like it.
Screaming J
He'll put a spell on you
ditchy said:best thing he has done
The moral of his decline and fall is never try to get inside the pants of a Tory!
withdeanwombat
Well-known member
Resigns for who?
Pavilionaire
Well-known member
- Jul 7, 2003
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The whole sorry incident typifies why the electorate are so disheartened with politicians in general.
Greed, arrogance, disregard for basic procedure - I could go on but what's the point, they're all as bad as each other.
Greed, arrogance, disregard for basic procedure - I could go on but what's the point, they're all as bad as each other.
Pavillionaire said:
Yorkie said:
I'm going to take issue with this line. I think politicians have an unfairly bad reputation in this country, and the galling thing is, that it is usually spun by journalists - many of whom will lie, spin & deceive their way to some sort of story and then print half-truths and outright lies themselves. So many political journalists are utter hypocrits.
As for politicians - in general, I'd say it was the career politicians who are deceitful and arrogant with a propensity to be adulterous. On the other hand, back benchers seem to be honest, hard working and quite sincere. Indeed, sometimes the reason they are backbenchers is because in many cases they will put their electorate ahead of personal gain or party policy.
Look at Norman Baker - Falmer aside, he seems to be doing a great job for Lewes. And the way that he replied to that embarrassingly rude email from "the full harris" yesterday says a lot more about him than some of the anti-politician rhetoric on here.
