Conservative MPs Rush to Quit Second Jobs 'Members of David Cameron’s frontbench team are rushing to give up lucrative second jobs before a July 1 deadline, when they will have to declare the millions of pounds they earn from “moonlighting”. Six senior Tories told The Sunday Times they had either quit or were planning to quit consultancies and directorships. Grant Shapps, the shadow housing minister, David Gauke, the Treasury spokesman, and David Evennett, the junior universities spokesman, are likely to meet the July 1 deadline and thus avoid the need to declare their earnings from second jobs. Francis Maude, shadow Cabinet Office minister, David Willetts, the universities spokesman, and Gregory Barker, shadow environment minister, also indicated they would give up their second jobs. But they will not achieve this by July 1 and will have to make at least one set of declarations of their earnings and specify the number of hours they spend on second jobs.' UN = One (World Government) 'The number may change, but the meaning of the saying stays basically the same: A million people can’t be wrong! Oh, if only that were true. What a different world we would all be living in. The million will never admit (until they wake up to realise they are living in a dreamworld) that they have got it wrong because they SIMPLY CAN’T STRETCH THE MIND TO BELIEVE that this world is anything but logical and rational. And it’s a world so explainable, they think, with its logical and rational scientific propaganda.' Are Cowan and Brown Trying to Spin a Yes out of Ireland? 'It’s a rare sight indeed: Brian Cowen offering a smile at an EU summit. Biffo, as he is affectionately known back in Ireland, has had an annus horribilis since becoming Taoiseach. At his first EU summit last June he had to explain to his EU counterparts why the public had rejected the Lisbon treaty. He has been put in the bad boys corner ever since. But at last week’s summit he emerged victorious after doing battle with Gordon Brown, clutching seven pages of legal guarentees and that all so important promise of a protocol.'
Sunday, 21 June 2009
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