Blog Suspension

I've not yet fully decided what to do with this blog. My main interest currently is posting on my "A View From Middle England" blog on things that happen daily around us. This Westminster Whispers blog I'm suspending. I may get up the enthusiasm to do it again, but I haven't posted for over six months. As most bloggers know, this is something of an adrenalin rush. You get the blogging bug and go with it or you don't. So, it's on hold for now. Not stopped or ceased. Just gives me time to think. But it may be a piece of string thing rather than a declared length of ti...

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Howard Flight put to flight for "breeding" remarks

Howard Flight is what some would see as an unreconstructed Tory. He has made some remarks in his time that have not found favour with the leadership. However, that didn't stop David Cameron making him a peer last week. The former MP for Arundel and South Downs, who is yet to take his seat in the House of Lords, has been commenting on the government's plans to cut child benefit for top-rate taxpayers. He told the London Evening Standard  "We're going to have a system where the middle classes are discouraged from breeding because it's jolly expensive. But for those on benefits, there is every incentive. Well, that's not very sensible." He...

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Lord Young fails to fend off Eagle's attacks

When eagles swoop on their prey they more often than not get their victim. Angela Eagle lives up to her name, if only in part. She's good on the attack but has failed to soar high with glory. Her favoured method is the monotone attack laced with half truths and innuendo. This morning she has been doing the rounds giving the impression of being a palsied victim in sackcloth and ashes. This lunchtime Lord Young has resigned as enterprise advisor to the government. His "political crime" was stating the bleeding obvious. That was that despite the economic times "the vast majority are better off". That is true. Most are in employment. Most have...

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