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The MPs expenses scandal is all about economic inequality. It would never have happened if MPs hadn't been trying to 'earn' as much as others such as headmasters, managers, etc. For narrowly political reasons, MPs were reluctant to award themselves salary increases...
Reacting to former UK Independence Party Eastern Region MEP Tom Wise's guilty plea today at his trial for false accounting and money laundering, Dr Rupert Read, Councillor for Norwich and former European election lead candidate, said: "If only Tom Wise had had the basic decency to adm...
Rupert Read Which was the only political Party to oppose going INTO the Afghanistan quagmire in the first place? The Greens, of course!
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/83441
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
Tom Wise, 61, from Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire, had previously denied charges of false accounting and money laundering.
Rupert Read Place your bets! How long before Hannan and Helmer defect to UKIP?
There is a real threat of Britain taking a hugely regressive step next year, and electing a Tory government at a time when our country and world desperately need something better, more suited to the times...
Important news from the Soil Association, that I blog here because of how unprecedented it is. The only thing somewhat unsatisfactory is of course the use of the term 'belief' in this context...
Industrial-growth-economics has hit the buffers. The new economics is green; its official title within the discipline is 'ecological economics'.Obviously, don't just take my word for it. See e.g...
EU green sector spend is poor relative to that of Asia. A shameful record: http://www.euractiv.com/en/enterprise-jobs/eu-outflanked-asian-rivals-green-economy/article-186846
Rupert Read If you follow me on twitter or facebook, why not follow @RupertRead too? That's my personal twitter account, with all separate stuff on it
Rupert Read We live in a completely-madly unequal world. ANY progress towards equality has to be good, by reference to and contrast with where we are right now. So: Let's deliberately make progress toward equality. The point about most policies that supposedly help the poor today - e.g. New Labour policies - is that they continue to ACCENTUATE poverty. That's just crazy.
See my latest EDP newspaper column, published yesterday, on inequality: http://bit.ly/22waSi
Rupert Read http://bit.ly/3wXyCM The rumour is that the 'nationalised' banks will be sold off to the likes of Tesco and Virgin. Pass the sick bag...
Source: bit.ly
Three new banks are to appear on Britain's high streets as part of a major break-up of the sector to be announced by the Government this week, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.
Check this piece out, along similar lines to those I myself have penned and pointed out previously, on this blog:http://www.leftfootforward.org/2009/10/tory-mep-confuses-science-with-faith/
