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Listed below are comments made by DataHog between Thursday, 19th June 2008 and Friday, 3rd October 2008.

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Top woman for commission job? 2:16pm on 03 Oct 2008 Why only one woman? Why not ship all the former Blair 'babes' to Brussels and be rid of the lot of them?
Credit to the PM 8:16pm on 08 Jul 2008 #65 Pot_kettle

I answered @ 17 and still want my five quid.

Alternative answer: They're all has beens?
Credit to the PM 1:35pm on 08 Jul 2008 Pot_Kettle @15

I've never voted for any of them. I claim my £5.
Credit to the PM 1:06pm on 08 Jul 2008 Nice photo Nick. Captioned 'G8 leaders' with nine people in the picture. I couldn't help thinking that they looked like most of a Subbuteo team. It's hard to tell who's who (apart from Merkel in goal I assume) so please let us know who's the substitute.
Hazy scenes 12:17pm on 08 Jul 2008 Nick

After last night's blowout, how many 'leaders' phoned in 'sick' this morning?
Household tips from the PM 6:37pm on 07 Jul 2008 From the G8 menu:

"G8 fantasy dessert"

At least the chef has a sense of humour.
Heroes to zeroes? 1:24pm on 04 Jul 2008 Nick

It's bad enough that Broon ducked the vote, but looking at Hansard, there were 316 votes and 4 tellers. So what happened to the other 330 or so MPs including Broon? Maybe we should just assume that they were all in favour of keeping snouts firmly in the trough. I'll certainly be dropping my (Tory) MP a line to ask him why he felt he should skip an important debate. Mind you, having met him, he probably couldn't find his way to the chamber because he's already demonstrated that he doesn't know the boundaries of his constituency.
The corridors of the House of Commons 10:24pm on 03 Jul 2008 #24 purpleDogzzz

"What do labour MPs know that they are not letting on about?"

They DO know. They are mostly out of a job at the next election and they know it, so they are now filling their boots as fast as they can. Watch out for some real eye-watering expense claims over the next 2 years.

As someone staying away from home 4 nights a week on a regular basis, I think I might try claiming by the same rules and see what our 'customer' friendly Inland Revenue has to say. Funnily enough, I think I already know the answer.

Four legs good. Two legs bad. B*******
One year on... 1:20pm on 30 Jun 2008 #112

Sometimes what you read on the web is correct. The NHS, with about 1.3 million employees, is the third largest employer in the world. See here: http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2004/08/10/25041/facing-nhs-problems-head-on.html

Just because you don't believe it doesn't make it untrue. I can make this claim because I recently finished working on the NHS ESR project and I can verify that we moved about 1.3 million employees onto the new system. (To the best of my knowledge we didn't leave any details on trains or lose them in any other way).
Contrasting speeches 12:18pm on 19 Jun 2008 Nick, I wouldn't brood on this but two things occur to me.

1. Why is the BoE now being given control of 'financial stability'. It sounds to me like the job of the government and the treasury - isn't that partly why they are there? Could it just be a belated ploy to try to shift the blame to the Bank when the economy goes completely belly up over the next few months?

2. There seems to be a general acknowledgement that a significant proportion of the inflation problem is imported (especially energy and food). If that is the case, how can raising UK interest rates force down prices abroad? Or are the powers that be simply assuming that a corresponding rise in the value of the pound makes imports cheaper and to hell with the fact that no-one can pay their mortgage?

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