Posts by Raymond A Francis

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  • Speaker: Remembering the Chartists,

    I always find it amusing that when justifying their pay MPs say but of course we would earn more if we were out in the workplace

    OK you don't often hear this from the left but it does get said

    What I would like to see as well as Tom's list of the top top 2% incomes, is a list of ex MPs incomes, excluding of course the super super they (we) pay themselve

    45' South • Since Nov 2006 • 578 posts Report

  • Guilty 2: Taito Philip Field,

    TomS
    You are doing a great job of diversion Tom, keep it up
    Quick look over here........

    Meanwhile any person who thought Labour was for the small man can...

    45' South • Since Nov 2006 • 578 posts Report

  • Hard News: Deja Vu,

    On the hand if Tapu Misu thinks class can make a difference to a 17 year old unmarried mother, then I am inclined to drop her into the Paul Holmes class of fools
    There might have ben a time when wealth could sweep thses things away, it probably still can but I doubt if it is ever easy on the girl involved

    45' South • Since Nov 2006 • 578 posts Report

  • Hard News: Deja Vu,

    Paul Holmes, since when have we taken anything he says seriously

    45' South • Since Nov 2006 • 578 posts Report

  • Island Life: Good on ya, Paula,

    Regarding Jonathan Hunt while having a quite awful record of entitlementitis his work on opening the closed book on adoption gives him the really big tick and a tap on the shoulder in my book and quite a few oother people too...especially the ones who were involved

    45' South • Since Nov 2006 • 578 posts Report

  • Hard News: Food and drink,

    Have to say I have always thought the split age for buying/drinking a good idea
    But Craig has it right when he calls for the present laws to be upheld anything else is a waste of time

    I too wondered about "fresh" whitebait, Islander and I take these lttle fish seriously

    Must go and check how much I have left, frozen smartly after catching and it last for quite sometime

    45' South • Since Nov 2006 • 578 posts Report

  • Island Life: Good on ya, Paula,

    I can't not reply to Danielle
    1. National have said endlessly that they will not sell assets this election cycle
    2. Who siad we will be a carbon nuetral, hint she runs the UN now
    3 & 7. Been done before....NOT THAT MAKES IT RIGHT
    4.Times are tough where is money best spent, I know it is hard and I know it is tough but that what happens when the money tree ceases to work
    And so it goes, SORRY but that is how it is

    45' South • Since Nov 2006 • 578 posts Report

  • Island Life: Good on ya, Paula,

    I think the Minister should apologise

    Just because Labour used to do this sort of thing using either the udisclosed leak or in Trevor Mallard case Parlimentary privlage to expose peoples lives doesn.t make it right
    I am sure Russell was horrified by that and said so at the time
    I see a report today that Labour had already exposed one of these women's income while they were in power, that still does not make it right

    Unfortuntly this will all be forgotten in the uproar about MPs travell which is going to be disclosed today

    But lets not allow Ministers of the crown the power to silence people by disclosing things that are not in the public domain

    45' South • Since Nov 2006 • 578 posts Report

  • Island Life: Good on ya, Paula,

    Just in case my position was not obvious
    I don't think it is right that a minister should release personal details or leak them even
    To stifle debate

    45' South • Since Nov 2006 • 578 posts Report

  • Island Life: Good on ya, Paula,

    A couple of questions
    Did the Labour MPs use these two womens cases as a way to score political points rather than just two women criticising the system then being outed by a Minister
    Could have anyone with an undertstanding of the present system and a calculator work out the afore mentioned womens income

    Just asking?

    45' South • Since Nov 2006 • 578 posts Report

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