GuidoFawkes reports that there were cheers in dealing rooms throughout the City today at the rumour that Brown had resigned… the rumours were false and Downing Street had to put out a statement that the Prime Minister was ‘getting on with the job’. Cabinet shuffle coming… will anyone want to be in it?.. and how long can Brown last? Friday? Sunday night / Monday morning?
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Dealing room cheers at Brown going… but false rumour!…
On Monday 1st June I am hosting Blawg Review… it will be #214 in an unbroken record of Blawg Reviews going back over four years. I enjoy reading Blawg Reviews – my blawg review is an anaconda of a review… it is now just over 22ft long….. I write most of it when I am pissed…. there is a lot of coverage… and much talk about marketing, twitter and Geeklawyer’s woodwork skills… It’s not just a blog carnival; it’s the law! ~ a fool in the forest The Carnival of Law Bloggers Blawg Review is the blog carnival for everyone interested in law.
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Coming soon.. 1st June…Blawg Review #214
News, law reports and comment up on Insite Law. I am particularly interested in hearing from practitioners, academics and students on the issues raised in Two Tribes go to War below. Please add your thoughts if you have time / inclination.
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The hills are alive…
OK… OK… I’ll stop all these expenses based Charon after a glass pics soon… but I just could not resist this… or the appalling pun in the title. My friend @Sobk13 on twitter with whom I play Scrabble online will groan and threaten excommunication with this latest one. It has been a day for bizarre interviews. First we had Stephen Fry telling us that the expenses fiddling didn’t matter ( below ), then we had Lord Foulkes, the Eversheds consultant, asking the BBC news presenter how much she earned and revealing that he couldn’t count when he discovered that she earned £92,000 and gasped that ” she was being paid nearly twice as much an MP – to come on and talk nonsense”. MPs earn a basic £62k. I was rather surprised that Lord Foulkes could not count because he was certainly able to do so when the Times reported in January that he was being paid to “effect introductions” for one of the largest law firms in the world ( Eversheds ) And finally, my favourite expense claim interview: About Douglas Hogg apparently claiming expenses to dredge his moat. Douglas Hogg stridently denied this as he strode down the street followed by a BBC reporter who was almost running to keep up. Wonderfully surreal. The film interview is cut with footage of Douglas Hogg’s moat; the camera operator lovingly panning in from the helicopter above Hogg’s estate, lingering on the moat, as Hogg explained his position – agreed, of course, by The Commons Fees Office.
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It’s a moat point…
Polly Toynbee has delivered her judgment: I have no idea whether it will be her final pronouncement on the matter because she does have a tendency to reflect on matters over the course of a parliament, or even a day, and… maybe it is me… but I do enjoy her changes of mind on matters political. I fear, however, that the Affaire politique de Brown is over… and this is her final pronouncement. I have, it has to be said, been drinking English white wine – sharp, astringent, fruity, 11.5 % (did not do the business for me) – and this may have clouded my otherwise peccable political nose. Peccable is, of course a word. Sir Walter Scott told me – and he knew a thing or two. Adj. 1. peccable – liable to sin; “a frail and peccable mortal”- Sir Walter Scott 11.30 pm: You have to laugh… Guido Fawkes latest post tonight… +++ Hogg Claimed for Moat Dredging +++
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Peccable political palaver puts PM under pressure….
I was looking at my Insite Law Netvibe page for political blogs and decided to visit Boris’s blog. I just could not resist taking a ‘Snip’ - foie gras delivered to your door said the advert… love it! Happy Birthday Mayor Boris … indeed. Curiously… the advert seems to have disappeared when I looked next… perhaps it is on a javascript cycle?
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Happy Birthday Boris…
News up on Insite Law - also major update to Law reports, Profession, Blogs Gordon Brown warned over meltdown of trust after expenses U-turn Loyalist Blunkett joins critics of prime minister over ’self-inflicted wounds’ Guardian: Gordon Brown was warned last night by a loyalist former cabinet minister to fill the void in government policy, avoid self-inflicted wounds and recognise there had been a “catastrophic meltdown of trust” in politics. Police ‘terror searches’ treble BBC: Police stopped and searched three times as many people under anti-terrorism powers in 2007/8 compared to the year before, Home Office figures reveal. Some 124,687 stops and searches were conducted in England and Wales under anti-terror laws, but only 73 - 0.058% - ended in arrests for terror offences. More law news….1st May… US education provider floats £300m BPP acquisition Legal Week reports: ” The parent company of top UK law school BPP looks set to be taken over after a US education provider made a preliminary approach for the company worth £303.5m.” I give a rather sardonic view and plan to write about this in more detail over the next two days….
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