More things which may have been overlooked - - -
Christina
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OTHER TOP STORIES IN THE LATEST ISSUE:
100 years war ‘going well’ says spokesman for Edward III… Novelist Bases Novel on Own Experience Shock… Smartly dressed bankers steal £40billion in daylight robbery… Charity Appeal: please send rations to Alan Duncan… Obama on the Beach, as seen by Craig Brown (Private Eye 1243)
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Francis Maude criticises the Government for expanding its "Twittercrat" empire
"The government has been criticised for wasting taxpayers' money after launching a job advert for what has been dubbed a 'deputy Twittercrat'. The job, advertised by the Cabinet Office, the Deputy Director, Digital Communication, pays £75,000 a year, with potential bonuses and pension benefits. But the Conservatives have criticised the job, with Francis Maude, the Shadow Cabinet Office Minister, arguing it is a waste of taxpayers' money. "You would have thought one Twitter tsar was enough for Gordon Brown," he said." - (Telegraph 2/9/09)
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A double whammy of Sir Malcolm Rifkind
In The Guardian, Sir Malcolm Rifkind reflects on Megrahi's release: "Was it a cock-up or a conspiracy? The unfortunate truth is that it has been a cocked-up conspiracy." (Coinservative Home 3/9/09)
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“If I was in government I would do my public duty and do myself in”
[John Moulton, leading private equity entrepreneur and partner until September in Alchemy ) (Telegraph 5/9/09)
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Tories claim public cash is funding unions
"Labour was criticised yesterday for handing millions of pounds of public money to trade unions. Regional Development Agencies, or RDAs, have given some £7million of state funding to trade unions since 2003, ministers admitted." - (Daily Express 16/9/09)
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Nadine Dorries rubbishes union talk of high heel risks
"The appeal of stilettos appears to be lost on delegates at the Trades Union Congress, who demanded yesterday that employers take a stand against the risks of wearing high heels in the workplace... Nadine Dorries, the Conservative MP for for Mid-Bedfordshire, [who - incidentally - proved the Telegraph to have lied about her expenses! -cs] said the unions were discussing trivial matters. "I'm 5ft 3in and need every inch of my Louboutin heels to look my male colleagues in the eye," she added. "If high heels were banned in Westminster, no one would be able to find me." - (The Independent 16/9/09)
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Timothy Kirkhope MEP expelled from Conservative Party
The BBC reports that Timothy Kirkhope MEP has been expelled from the Conservative Party (Open Europe @1143)
BUT
Edward McMillian-Scott MEP expelled from Conservative Party
The BBC reports that Edward McMillan-Scott MEP has been expelled from the Conservative Party. (Open Europe @1204 16/9/09)
OUCH!
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