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Let us thank these MPs for supporting their colleagues

There are two very recent Early Day Motions that I have recently written about, the first one endorses England women’s national football team which I wrote about here and it was written by the Conservative MP Tracey Crouch from Kent. Her EDM can be obtained from here. When I wrote about it a few days ago there were only 11 signatures and we can be delighted that one more MP has signed it today.…

The Conduct of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson

Yesterday the Government reopened the opportunity for MPs to raise their calls as part of the Early Day Motion documents. These arose late in the day and there were a total of 25 EDMs. The last time that they arose was on the 8th September. With only two exceptions they were all produced by the author with no extra signatures on the day. So today we can expect that there will be more MPs that…

Exclusive: The great DWP rip off – Not one person out of a potential 11 million has won compensation for losing thousands of pounds of extra pension

Peter Schofield, DWP permanent secretary Pic credit: gov.uk Those who follow my blog may remember I have been highlighting a horrendously complicated story of the plight of people who contracted out of SERPS but were told they would receive an index linked guaranteed minimum pension. This arrangement was scrapped when the new state pension was introduced in 2016 for anyone in the private sector…

MPs vote to stop pensioners to get a big rise next April

Commons vote to throw out Lords case for a revised triple lock rise Guy Opperman, pensions minister,” reckless to pay pensioners more” The House of Commons last night voted down the Lords case for a higher pension rise next April with Guy Opperman, the pension minister, describing such a move as ” reckless” as there could be no robust figure to work out a compromise figure suggested by former…

Too expensive to tell you – the DWP cover up on whether they are really compensating millions who lost out on a Guaranteed Minimum Pension

The Department for Works and Pensions has compounded the big scandal over millions of people who are entitled to compensation for the ministry’s hidden decision to scrap an annual increase worth anything up to £27,000 over the lifetime of a pension for those, particularly women, who were contracted out of Serps by private companies. Previous blogs highlighted this scandal after the Parliamentary…

The dilemma of Leadership styles - Perhaps our Political Parties need to review their website endorsements?

The way in which people see those in leadership can be at odds with the way in which they wish to be seen. The following words are from the Conservative Party website in which it profiles its leader. The text in bold is my own emphasis:

“David Cameron became Prime Minister in May 2010 after a General Election in which the Conservative Party won almost 100 additional seats. He leads a Conservative…

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