I think I know how to do it as well.
Make the job of collecting the fines the responsibility of the local authority. Allow them to keep the money.

I predict a >95% registration rate after 5 years.

Is it the tie? Nope that is credibly Tom’s taste.
Is it the belt? Nope that is probably functional.
It’s the Labour rosette. The wearer has clearly been photo-shopped into the picture.

John77: What I do on my blog is beside the point. It’s not me who has contradicted himself on platforms and legitimacy.

Building A Fairer Prosperous Britain
In a future thats working for
Equality for all and
With really nice weather, innit.

Oh and did we mention
Proportional representation

Somebody once gave me a copy of Bill Clinton’s impeachment testimonies turned into poetry. It was better than it sounds.

I guess the spin doctors got there first. Be snappy, be hip, be horizontal, be smart.

No we don’t want it, we want some honesty, not soundbites, that is you pandering to the Media. What about the rest of the 60 odd million in the country?

VOTE LIB/LAB/CON. WE HAVE BEEN MESSING UP YOUR LIFE FOR DECADES AT NATIONAL & LOCAL LEVEL, SO KEEP RETURNING US. THANKS.

And you would still get 90% of the votes between you.

If you think it’s bad now, just wait to see what happens next year when it becomes necessary for all members of the household to sign the form individually.

I’d consider it a conspiracy if it weren’t for the fact that the Party that passed it were the one that’s likely to suffer most!

“Jewish refugees in the 1930s” / “Huguenots” / “Jews fleeing from earlier pogroms” / “Karl Marx”….

Let’s bring asylum up-to-date, let’s compare the above asylum and refugees with the claims of todays asylum and refugees ….

The Habamenshi family who didn’t want to be deported and pleaded, don’t send us back, my ten year old son wants to play for Rangers. The Alhiatly family who didn’t want to be deported and pleaded, don’t send us back, my son has a dream of swimming for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games. And the women from Pakistan who come all the way from Pakistan claiming asylum – reason – they’ve had a domestic fall-out with their husbands.

How do you know how many economic migrants there are in Glasgow? An estimated 1,000 – 3,000 Roma (Glasgow City Council don’t know how many Roma or others are in Glasgow and neither do you nor I – so how do you find your assessment of not many.

Some of our pensioners are on income benefit and don’t pay council tax and have their rent paid for them – difference is, most of them have spent a working lifetime paying into the system, asylum seekers have contributed zero. And these same pensioners together with millions of us will have to take their place in the NHS queues, either in front, beside or behind asylum seekers and refugees.

Rules for utility bills –
Asylum seekers and refugees are given £40 a week for their gas and electricity bills. In general, asylum seekers are allocated £20 per week for gas and £20 per week for electricity with a provision for additional funds if necessary.

Asylum seekers on half of income benefit –
My info: Asylum adults receive equivalent to 70% of basic income support. Asylum children (16 or younger) are 100% of childs basic income support. (Perhaps Mr Harris would oblige and supply us with the correct rates).

You may think the not allowed to work rule for asylum seekers is “extremely stupid” – I most certainly do not – I think it’s an absolute necessity. Work? Haven’t you heard? Britain is in a recession. Scots are looking for work. For those outside of Britain who wish to seek employment here, there is a procedure which they can use. Jumping the employment queues by claiming asylum is not part of that procedure. And Scots shouldn’t have to compete compete with asylum seekers for British jobs.

These are recent headlines from Scottish local newspapers concerning Scottish people ….

Jobless toll in Scotland rockets by 67% in year

Scottish unemployment soars by more than 20,000

Scottish firms shedding jobs at record pace

Up to 44 people for every job

Recession forecast to cost 100,000 Scots their jobs

Unemployment in Scotland jumps 75,000 in a year

Economists warn 50,000 people to lose jobs in Scotland

One in five Scots households jobless

1500 people call jobs hotline in fight for just 40 store posts

200,000 Scots are out of work

Scots job loss rate fastest in western Europe

The proven or not proven decision …. there has to be a decision made on whether any applicant is a genuine refugee from oppression or merely an economic migrant wishing to enter without the legal permission of our country and circumvent our laws by fraudulent means.

Once our courts make that legal decision they should either be made welcome as refugees or deported as illegal economic migrants. If they are judged to have made no case to stay in this country and they have gone through all the legal steps open to them, then they must be asked to leave. Should they refuse to leave then the state has a right and a duty to eject them forcibly.

The law must be enforced or it is no law at all, if you disagree with it then use the democratic process to change the law via the ballot box. Until then we must enforce the laws we make.

Emotive language such as “send innocent victims back to the Congo where they can expect to be murdered and their wives and small daughters raped” / “Kurds who fled because the Turkish army wiped out whole villages, terrorising the villagers” …. reference to the “Hugenots” / “BNP” / “ICI “/ “Karl Marx” / “Marks & Sparks” is silly and convinces very few.

@Nicky
I would have thought the LibDems’ new girl, saucy baggage Anna Ashworth, would have been quite good at thinking up a neat slogan. She’s got form in dreaming up titles for her films.

Apparently, she made one called; “Hug a Hoodie!”

Now, where did she get that idea from?

Ah, I see what they did there.

Or was that Old Labour?

(One of us ought to be really worried by that)

“Because our protest is about what he represents, not what he says to an interviewer. He will lie”

Then why not conduct the interview and point out the lies? Simples. We don’t like liars.

For example, he now publicly accepts the Holocaust happened. Point out he once compared believing in it to believing that the Earth was flat. And that’s a matter of record because he said it in court.

Nor, evidently, do the vast majoriy of us like Holocaust-Deniers either, otherwise why would Griffin be forced into implausibly denying he is one?

Like it or not Ng and his bunch were voted in by the electorate. If you don’t like his views, debate and defeat them with the better argument and alternative – no good sticking your fingers in your ears and going nah nah nah na na

It’s just extraordinary that these candidates have been trained by people who don’t believe in global warming,
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Oh. I didn’t realise you had to believe in AGW to be appointed to any jobs. When did that happen?

I heard that someone people don’t believe in God, either.

You have to expect a certain level of intelligence and foresight from people, though you don’t always get it.

I recall hearing the broadcaster John Humphries fulminating about not getting to vote in the last election. According to him it was all down to the incompetence of the authorities. However what actually happened was this.

He went into a polling station only to be informed that he could not vote there , as it did not cover the area he lives in – strike one against the authorities as he appeared to think you should be able to vote at any polling station you happen to come across.

The staff at that polling station told him where he should go and he duly went only to be told that he could not cast his vote in person as he was registered as a postal voter – strike two against the authorities as he couldn’t remember being a postal voter though he did remember sending back a form about something or other to do with voting.

He was then advised that he could hand his postal vote into the polling station. However he had lost it or thrown it away so he was effectively disenfranchised as at that time you could not be issued with a postal vote form on the day of the election. All the fault of the authorities of course.

In this election you will, if you are a complete idiot, apply for a postal vote without knowing what you are applying for and then throw your ballot paper away, be able to get a new postal vote form issued to you up until close of poll. I believe this is one of the reasons that returning officers are a bit wary about conducting overnight counts.

What of Iain Dale’s clearly stated (and quite notorious) policy of not linking to blogs/bloggers that are critical of him? He has stated quite clearly in the past that he refuses to do so because he does not want to legitimise them.

How is this in keeping with his current postion that granting Griffin this exposure doesn’t legitimise him?
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1. Why don’t you ask Dale?

2. It’s Dale’s blog – he can do what the hell he wants on it, and is certainly not answerable to the likes of you, Ireland.

I certainly will not be voting Labour or Tory.

The Speaker has confirmed in writing today that this is another Tall Story from Shropshire. MPs and former Mps have always been allowed to use Commons facilities launched book written by them. It is my fourth launch.

It is a bit hurtful after I had included Daniel in my gallery of parliamentary Icons and Knaves in my book ‘The Unusual Suspect’. The ingrate.

How is this in keeping with his current postion that granting Griffin this exposure doesn’t legitimise him?

Perhaps he will, many politicians lie.

It is revealing any lies that shows what the true character or the politician is.

If the true character of Griffin is anathema to the electorate then he and his party should find it harder to be re-elected.

You don’t paint the turd yellow and call it gold nor should you brush it under the carpet or into a dark corner, it will just fester and make a stink.

Find, reveal and disinfect, is the appropriate response to a turd.

Reveal the truth of politicians and their parties and then leave it upto the electorate.

Freedom of speech must include the freedom to speak collectively.

True, but that isn’t the same as claiming to speak on behalf of others.

A common failing amongst politicians and union leaders.

Small point about democracy: at the next election UKIP will get about 5 or 6 times the number of votes as the SNP but will have no say in the UK Parliament whereas the SNP will have at least 1% say (6 seats). The Libs will have almost as many votes as Labour, but about a fifth as many seats. And the BNP will probably have as many votes as Plaid Cwymru but no seats compared to 3 (hopefully).

If we want a true democracy do we not need to allow the views of those voting for the BNP and UKIP to be heard and addressed? Not that UKIP have similar views to the BNP, just that they’re similarly marginalised parties with a level of support that is unlikely to materialise into seats.

I would not think it is the right thing to do to launch a book for personal gain from a room in the Commons no matter what the rules say.

Are MPs unable to think for themselves.

The general attitude of most MPs falls far short of what should be expected.

” I will go and ask if I am allowed to do this” attitude reminds me of small naughty school children. Can we have some adult MPs.

They probably know the stats as well as you, but in this case I think you are talking apples while they’re talking oranges.

If we think of it as sampling a production line it makes sense.

Check every 100th product; does it pass or fail the test. The 77% seems to be saying that only 77%, of those tested, pass the test of being accurate.

A very low pass rate for most products.