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Your country's sex industry needs you
The idea that Harriet Harman might seize the commanding heights of 
the British bedroom is too awful to contemplate  [web headline - I 
didn't dare look -cs] (Times 20.1.09)
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Workers on long-term sick leave should still get paid holiday, 
European judges rule
Staff who are off work sick for long periods of time will get paid 
holiday after an important ruling by European judges.   (Telegraph 
20.1.09)
[Don't they know the world is in crisis?  More firms to go bust]
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"A friend, who is a member of the Labour Party, received an email the 
other day from Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, detailing his latest 
botched attempts to save the banking sector. Curiously, it came with 
a warning: "This email may be a scam." You can say that again."
     (Andrew Pierce Telegraph   23.1.09)
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Harriet Harman decided to attack Tory Alan Duncan's oil trader 
background, his sharp suits, even his cufflinks.
But he hit back with the wonderfully caustic description of the 
Commons Leader: "a gentle flower of the aristocracy who has so 
aggressively embraced the working class"
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Town hauls
In the cloud-cuckoo world of Town Halls, the recession operates in 
reverse.
MORE staff are hired on HIGHER wages.
The number of middle managers on over £50,000 is up 22 percent.
Many of these posts are absurd non-jobs created by empire-building 
buffoons.
No wonder council tax is rising by three times inflation.
(Sun 23.1.09)
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Brown is like an arsonist posing as a firefighter
The Prime Minister's latest wheeze to tackle the financial crisis has 
only made things worse, says Norman Lamont    (Sunday Telegraph 25/1/09)
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Own up if you're on the gravy train
"I do hope that the police will investigate very closely whether the 
four peers in this week's sleaze allegations have any case to answer 
in law, and that, if they do, prosecutions will follow. Things are 
bad enough now, without people going into politics in any capacity in 
order to make money. But one distinguished and honest peer reminds me 
that, as well as various of his brethren not declaring their 
financial interests when asking questions in the Upper House, there 
is actually no obligation on one group of peers to do even that.

They are the ones who have worked in Brussels for the EU, who sit on 
vast pensions paid by that corrupt organisation, and who get up and 
speak on the wonders of the European dream without ever acknowledging 
their close interest in keeping the whole charade going. In any 
reform that might now take place, forcing such people, in debates on 
European questions, to admit for the record their own ticket on the 
gravy train seems to me absolutely essential." (Simon Heffer 
Telegraph 31.1.09)
Let's just name a few.  I won't attempt to name them all - readers 
can supply some more !
There's Lords Kinnock and Patten and Brittan  for a start and most 
recently Mandelson, whose very presence in the House of Lords demeans 
that place.  Those three are just the ex-Commissioners -cs
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Thousands of people have taken part in a demonstration in 
Vladivostok, in the Russian Far East, as part of a day of protest 
over the nation's mounting economic crisis. The opposition Communist 
Party is holding a rally in Moscow and protests are also expected in 
St Petersburg and other towns and cities.  (BBC 31.1.09)