I was really looking forward to blogging about the latest expenses farce this morning but Henry North London seems to have got up at the crack of dawn and has beaten me to it, mind you Henry’s analysis is much better than mine would have been so pop over there and have a peruse.
Which leaves me with: Questions that MPs dread by Nick Robinson, yet another well written piece.
Which leaves me with: Lumley in public clash on Gurkhas The actress and Phil Woolas came face-to-face in highly-charged scenes at the BBC's Westminster office and then held an impromptu press conference nearby.
It followed the rejection of appeals by five Gurkhas for residency; rulings which Ms Lumley said were "shocking".
Opposition parties said government policy had become a "shambles".
Mr Woolas said the cases of the five Gurkhas, one of whom was badly injured during the Falklands War, would be reviewed.
He indicated campaigners and opposition parties would have a say in the formation of new regulations on residency rights, forced by Labour's Commons defeat on the issue last week.
Ms Lumley said: "I have met Mr Woolas now and I am reassured again. Because I know we are going to assist Mr Woolas in making the strongest guidelines possible.
"We have to believe in this. This is all we've got to believe in. We wish this campaign was over now."
But she urged the government to act more quickly, saying the issue could be settled by next week.
The 1,500 Gurkhas whose applications for permanent residence were currently being considered should "be received with open arms", she said.
Go for it Joanna, these guys deserve to live here, they have served our country, paying with their lives in some cases, the Government really has to bow to public opinion on this one, no more time wasting, no more “we will look at the five cases again” all the Gurkhas who have served must be allowed to stay, and given a decent pension.
We want it so why is Gord sitting on his hands over this?
"Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.Let justice be done, though the world perish." Ferdinand 1
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Which leaves me with: Questions that MPs dread by Nick Robinson, yet another well written piece.
Which leaves me with: Lumley in public clash on Gurkhas The actress and Phil Woolas came face-to-face in highly-charged scenes at the BBC's Westminster office and then held an impromptu press conference nearby.
It followed the rejection of appeals by five Gurkhas for residency; rulings which Ms Lumley said were "shocking".
Opposition parties said government policy had become a "shambles".
Mr Woolas said the cases of the five Gurkhas, one of whom was badly injured during the Falklands War, would be reviewed.
He indicated campaigners and opposition parties would have a say in the formation of new regulations on residency rights, forced by Labour's Commons defeat on the issue last week.
Ms Lumley said: "I have met Mr Woolas now and I am reassured again. Because I know we are going to assist Mr Woolas in making the strongest guidelines possible.
"We have to believe in this. This is all we've got to believe in. We wish this campaign was over now."
But she urged the government to act more quickly, saying the issue could be settled by next week.
The 1,500 Gurkhas whose applications for permanent residence were currently being considered should "be received with open arms", she said.
Go for it Joanna, these guys deserve to live here, they have served our country, paying with their lives in some cases, the Government really has to bow to public opinion on this one, no more time wasting, no more “we will look at the five cases again” all the Gurkhas who have served must be allowed to stay, and given a decent pension.
We want it so why is Gord sitting on his hands over this?
"Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.Let justice be done, though the world perish." Ferdinand 1
Angus
Angus Dei on all and sundry
NHS Behind the headlines
NHS-THE OTHER SIDE
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