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Listed below are comments made by edgarbug between Monday, 16th February 2009 and Monday, 23rd November 2009.

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Reasons to be careful 1:58pm on 23 Nov 2009 Might I suggest that, if anyone out there is interested in the latest hardening of NewLab's poll, they visit:

http://www2.politicalbetting.com/

A website which, to my mind, offers an unbiased view of polls and the like.

And Smithson is asked to speak on Radio 4 regularly, so he must be ok ...
Surreal politics 6:01pm on 20 Jul 2009 Or, um, possibly lots of people in Norwich thought/ think of Mr Gibson as an excellent constituency MP?

Not, therefore, that surreal.

Bit dull, though.
Honesty: The new battleground 11:27am on 01 Jul 2009 Go on, Nick, let us have the Government's angle on all this.
Starting gun fired on leadership contest 12:22pm on 03 Jun 2009 Nick,

I am genuinely concerned about this blog.

Without confirmation of the source of the story (prevented, I know, by journalistic "ethics"), we are entitled to assume, given its content, that this blog simply represents dictation given by the Government.

What evidence is there either for or against an organised plot?

A simple confirmation that Brown's leadership wasn't discussed at their meeting isn't enough to prove that one way or another.

So why make the point?

Is it really the role of the BBC's political editor simply to re-produce Brown-grams (or indeed any Government-grams)?
Expenses controversy 4:23pm on 28 Apr 2009 Um, to return to the main point for a moment - isn't the answer very simple.

Buy a block of flats.

Permit each MP the use of a flat during his or her tenure.

Provide television/ IT infrastructure/ laundering services.

Kind of like an hotel.

Now, wouldn't that be cheaper and easier for all?

Or is it too simple?
Nothing should be taken for granted 3:37pm on 16 Mar 2009 And, what, pray is the Government's response to this statement?
A brief escape 12:40pm on 18 Feb 2009 I understand that Newcastle is very appealing at this time of year, too.

I marvel at your self discipline, but am confident that you will be able to persuade yourself that you behaved responsibly.
Language of the downturn 12:21pm on 17 Feb 2009 #213

I think its a general, world wide, statement of fundamental truths, written by ... British people.
Language of the downturn 12:04pm on 17 Feb 2009 "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security"
Language of the downturn 11:54am on 16 Feb 2009 At last, a truly clear example of irony – the BBC critiquing somebody else’s use of scare words to describe the recession.

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