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Excl: Sandwell council leader tells MP ‘we don’t use confidentiality agreements’. Here’s one..

06/06/2018by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 8 Comments

Earlier this year, Tory MP James Morris launched an extraordinary attack in the Commons on Sandwell Council and its leader Steve Eling, accusing the ‘moderate’-dominated council of becoming, synonymous with […]

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Vid: Butler challenges May’s lie to MPs, country. Bercow confirms May personally responsible

19/04/2018by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 7 Comments

During yesterday’s ‘Prime Minister’s Questions’, Theresa May told MPs and the nation that the decision to destroy landing cards that could have proven the citizenship of thousands of ‘Windrush generation’ […]

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The 205 Lab MPs who supported Corbyn call for parliament to approve military action

17/04/2018by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 21 Comments

Today in the House of Commons, after a debate in which a number of centrist back-benchers again disgraced themselves, two hundred and five of Labour’s two hundred and fifty nine […]

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Good thing for our KIDS that Labour IS #effectiveopposition

04/03/2017by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 8 Comments

In spite of huge evidence to the contrary in the form of a string of u-turns forced on the Tory government since Jeremy Corbyn became leader, you will still hear […]

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‘Named and shamed’ by C Leslie MP. Oh, the disgrace..

17/07/2013by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 48 Comments

It’s not up on Hansard just yet, as it wasn’t quite 3 hours ago yet, but I’m told that I was ‘named and shamed’ by Tory MP Charlotte Leslie today […]

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Unbelievable govt comment on Foodbanks

18/05/2013by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 50 Comments

I often pick up on interesting exchanges from the Commons for this blog. However, this week I came across one which went way beyond ‘interesting’ and well into the territory […]

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A Tory peer with a heart for the disabled?!

08/11/2012by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 4 Comments

Credit where it’s due, so just a brief post to say kudos to Tory peer, Baroness (Angela) Browning. I was very pleasantly surprised, on the podcast of a Lords’ question […]

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Has the government altered the official record of the NHS regional pay debate to hide a confession of involvement?!

07/11/2012by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 5 Comments

I watched with great interest today the Opposition Day debate on regional pay within the NHS. I had the privilege of some small involvement in the debate, as Andy Burnham’s […]

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More govt bollocks, weaseling & outright lies: youth unemployment

06/11/2012by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 2 Comments

I dipped into Treasury Questions on BBC Parliament today, expecting to be outraged by the usual nonsense from George Osborne. It turns out he was absent from the proceedings today […]

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Dear Jeremy, thanks for your promise on NHS regional pay

01/11/2012by SKWAWKBOX (SW) Leave a comment

Dear Jeremy Hunt, I hope you’ll excuse me writing you this rather public letter. It’s just that I’ve expected the worst of you as Health Secretary, and you’ve surprised me, […]

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