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Listed below are comments made by Fredalo between Monday, 6th July 2009 and Thursday, 15th October 2009.

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Was 2,000 a myth? 5:26pm on 15 Oct 2009 And there was me thinking that Blackadder Goes Forth was a satirical comedy but you report that Stirrup and Dannat are swinging handbags at each other in the security of HQ while the poor saps on the front line are being blown up by IEDs.

I'm sure your report of the Westminster gossip factory is of great comfort to the troops Nick.
Has he got a Legg to stand on? 10:42am on 13 Oct 2009 Dear Mr Balance - I'm looking for Mr Cameron's name on the 'most expenses claimed list' but cannot seem to find it. Could you help me out by directing me to the source of your oft repeated post?

http://parliament.telegraph.co.uk/mpsexpenses/home
Has he got a Legg to stand on? 10:27am on 13 Oct 2009 One rule for them, and one for us

http://www.accountancyage.com/accountancyage/news/2203776/pwc-consultant-jailed-stealing
The Obama and Gordon card 4:58pm on 24 Sep 2009 I once stood next to Jimmy White in the Gents urinals.

I also sat next to this boring Yank at a dinner function who insisted on telling the whole table, very loudly, that he once played golf with Spiro Agnew.

Guess I'm almost as famous as our PM.
The ramifications of the Singapore race fixing verdict 4:02pm on 21 Sep 2009 But governing body the FIA has obviously concluded that it would have been wrong to punish Renault for something that it seems it knew nothing about, even if one has to question the culture of a team in which this sort of shocking event could be considered.

Nah!

They were scared witless that if they fined Renault £100m they would walk. Difficult to make a detached decision with one hand on the Bible and the other held out for the cash.
Never off-duty 12:38pm on 13 Aug 2009 Given Duncan is Shadow Leader and also serves as Tory representative on the pay and rations committee which, by the way, recently voted through an increase of £100, making the new monthly allowance not requiring receipts, £500; I just don't see how Cameron can do anything but sack him.

I'm actually surprised he has lasted this long given his cringingly embarrassing performance on HIGNFY.

Shadow leader of the House? 3rd rate music hall act more like.
Substantial commitment 12:13pm on 10 Aug 2009 But at the very least this is an intriguing glimpse of the behind-the-scenes preparations for the Iraq war.

More likely it is an intriguing glimpse into the way we are governed where spin replaces fact and data/statistics employed selectively to bolster the political message.

Fortunately the scales are being lifted from the electorate's eyes as the NuLab mythology crumbles and more and more people realise that the Emperor really is naked.
Politicians, the press and the police 10:18am on 10 Jul 2009 Politicians, the press and the police

Nick, wrong headline.

Should be Police tell Politicians and the press that they are too busy to indulge in playground scraps
'A bonfire of the quangos'...? 11:04am on 06 Jul 2009 16. At 10:48am on 06 Jul 2009, Gurubear wrote:
OH, I GET IT!!!

Cameron is not actually going to get rid of quangos at all. He is simply going to call them something else and PRETEND he has got rid of them!!

Silly me.

Gurubear, thought I'd better correct your typo so that your posting makes sense. Should have read Brown and not Cameron in your penultimate para.
'A bonfire of the quangos'...? 10:25am on 06 Jul 2009 Nick, did you see Cameron on Breakfast TV?

He specifically stated that he was not going to make the mistakes of the past and promise a Bonfire of the Quangos and when elected do precisely nothing. He did promise to analyse and advise which quangos were going to go or be cut before the election to make the commitment specific.

So, I don't get the point of your article I'm afraid.

I hestitate to say that it apes the Brownite strategy of inventing a 'strawman' to knock down.

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