Recent content by Markbin

That's hilarious.

John, no offence but if the avatar is you, you do look frighteningly like Bill Cash in a very unconvincing disguise. Please say you are Bill Cash.

Fantastic coverage of the scandal in the Newsletter today. Let's hope Stone constituents get the public meeting with Mr Cash that they deserve.

Just to prove I don't have a thing just for David Kidney, I've set up a Facebook group titled Oust Bill "stash the" Cash MP. Basically it's calling for Mr Cash to step down following revelations about him claiming expenses to pay rent to his daughter. If you'd like to add your voice to the...

Lunar, if the first four inquiries hadn't been rigged in favour of the government, there wouldn't be calls for another one. The government is wasting money, not those who expect the democratic process to be clean.

I've got an update on Mr Kidney's stance on Iraq. Here's his response in full to an email I sent him, asking what he would be doing to ensure the Iraq inquiry would cover every aspect of the war. He said: "You are right to focus on the terms of reference for the inquiry. After all, there have...

Hi GK Thanks for the weblinks. Yes, I would be interested to know what Mr Kidney makes of the government's U-turn on expenses being exempted from FOI Act. Have you read Peter Oborne's The Triumph of the Political Class? Mr Kidney is the epitomy of this section of British society. Holding the...

Well, if we're both against ID cards, there's not much to debate. But I will indulge you anyway. The idea of the driving licence is to prove that you're qualified to operate a lethal machine and it incorporates a system whereby if you demonstrate dangerous behaviour society has a way to stop...

Well no. If I don't drive I'm not forced to possess a driving licence. All the 911 hijackers and London Tube bombers were operating on their own, genuine ID. So who exactly is the scheme aimed at?

Besides, do you really trust this government to use ID cards for what it says they are going to be used for? It all goes back to Iraq. The reasons given for the war were lies. And there's more. The reasons Gordon Brown gave for backing out of an autumn 2007 election were lies. And Mr Kidney...

tek-monkey "Do you drive? Cos thats an ID card right there." Yes I do, but I choose to do that. I still have an old style driving licence and I aint about to change it. The government is saying that I don't have a choice on ID cards. I'm saying that is unacceptable. If you're happy to go...

Fine, then if David Kidney succeeds in forcing me to possess an ID card (which by the way I will take to one of his surgeries and set on fire or cut up in front of invited media) then the only details I will permit the state to keep on said card will be first name and gender. One rule for them...

GK Thanks for that. Could this develop into a longterm holding-David Kidney-(or any local MP)-to-account thread? I hope so. No one in the local media really pushes him. It's nothing personal, David. It's just that you're a politician and you're accountable to us, like it or not. What I'd like...

Thank you, Markerat. We and our politicians need to have this debate: is projecting military power overseas to secure and protect mineral resources a sensible foreign policy? Is it inflaming extremism? Who exactly is benefiting from it - oil companies or motorists or both? Do the problems...

tek-monkey, GK You both say that we are incapable of knowing what really went on in Iraq. To me that is a very good case for a full inquiry into the war. A lot of lives have been lost in (and outside of) Iraq as a result of the invasion. That is a statement of fact. Please tell me how...