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Name: [marabray]

Registered: 03/12/07

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COMMENTS: 12

DEBATE:
Will new vetting scheme work?
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16-Jul-2009 15:30
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Why are people complaining about the suitability checks that have to be made to work in a school? ....and YES....visiting a school for the purpose of talking to the children is 'work'.The solution is easy.....don't visit the schools if you don't like the rules !
And we all know who would be the very first to complain if their child was molested in school..don't we !
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Do celebrities have too much power?
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04-Jun-2009 15:34
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Celebrities have jobs like the rest of us.They act or they play a sport or they sing etc. ....that's all !.
We watch these 'celebrities' and we read about them ....and stunningly people start to 'revere' them.
Why are we not reading about the surgeons ,doctors and nurses in our hospitals ; why are we not reading about all the other worthwhile people who are making this world a better place to live in?
Celebrities don't have any 'power' at all......but the media does ! ! !
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Should the MMR jab be compulsory?
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03-Jun-2009 15:13
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Yes,of course it should be made compulsory for the sake of the children but I'm not sure that enforcement will put to rest worries over the vaccination’s side effects; but these side effects have never really been proven have they.
When my children were babies I too, was very anxious about the MMR jab but I did take them to be vaccinated because it was the sensible thing to do to protect them.
By not allowing the MMR jab parents are actually putting their kids 'lives' in danger .
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DEBATE:
What matters most to you in the European elections?
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02-Jun-2009 05:35
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Great Britain must get out of the EU before all of the EU countries become a ‘new country’ called 'Europe',
Already there is unlimited travel between the EU countries….and we have all been decimalised.
Are we just lucky that Great Britain has resisted changing its currency to the 'Euro'?
Our national apple the ‘Cox’s Orange Pippin’ has all but disappeared from our supermarket shelves in favour of the ‘Gala’ and ‘French Golden Delicious’…..and the EU doesn’t like our chocolate.
…Say no more!
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DEBATE:
Should TV shows do more to protect stars?
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31-May-2009 22:34
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'Diversity' are wonderfully entertaining ...but they are a 'novelity act' .They have certainly worked hard to perfect their performance ...but 'Diversity' will perhaps only be a 5 minute wonder.We greatly enjoyed them.

Susan Boyle on the other hand is truly 'talented' .She is a joy to listen to. She too, has worked hard to perfect her talent... her voice will be with us forever ....we now look forward to seeing performing in a prestigeous London musical. She will surely be a Broadway hit
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Will the expenses clampdown work?
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22-May-2009 16:04
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Second homes which are being 100% funded my the person concerned are OK.......Second homes which are being funded by any public money should be banned!
If the upright MP's for Cambridge and for Windsor are commuting.....why can't lots of the others.? I'll tell you why.....because the system is there to be abused......and the sleazy MP's are bleeding the public fund dry. Shame on them!
...And who will be changing the rules........The 'Sleazy' that we call Government.....and so it will go on!
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Will the expenses clampdown work?
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21-May-2009 15:29
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These shameful claims must stop!. No MP should be able to claim for any second home let them claim for hotel bills for a few nights if they need to be in London and we are not talking of 'The Savoy ', we're talking about stays in clean,modest
2* hotels. No food should be claimable;everyone has to eat. All claims other than hotel bills should be refused.These hotel bills must be scrutinised to make sure that they are for one person only and not for their whole family to take a holiday in London
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DEBATE:
Will the expenses clampdown work?
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20-May-2009 17:19
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What a wonderful idea it would be to dissolve parliment ! !.
And now that we have found out what 'sleaze-bags' some of the existing MP's are.......let the people of Great Britain decide again which MP's are suitable to be in such a position of trust !
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Can politicians recover from the expenses row?
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17-May-2009 15:51
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We must applaud the upright M.P's like Martin Salter, Celia Barlow and Geoffrey Robinson Adam Afriyie, David Howarth and Phillip Dunne ...to name just a few.
Sadly they work with colleagues who are systematically and blatantly stealing public funds for their own personal gain.
The evidence is all there! These MP's should be charged and jailed where necessary.
We members of the general public would be emprisoned for these offences! ....or are our sleazy, money grabbing MP's above the law?
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Has Pope Benedict’s visit to the Middle East had a positive effect?
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10-May-2009 18:29
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The Vatican says what it wants regardless of offence so why are we now being asked what we think about the pope's visit to the Middle East?.
How come the Vatican didn't speak up during the W.W.2 genocide.
Is it true that war criminals were helped to escape with the Vatican's help?
Has there really been a cover up over its priests who have been abusing young children?
These are the questions to ask!...Not what we think about a papal visit to the Middle East.
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What should MPs be allowed to claim?
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09-May-2009 16:52
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By not voting we are allowing the amoral members of our government to 'legally' spend public money on their own personal things.
Not only must we vote but we must vote for upright citizens who have got an inbred sense of 'right and wrong' .
We all know what is 'right and wrong'..but at the moment it seems that that this quality is sadly lacking in many of our government ministers but the question is
'Were they always like this or is it our corrupt government system which has changed them'
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What should MPs be allowed to claim?
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09-May-2009 16:38
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If I was living in Manchester and I got a job in London then I would have to move within commuting distance to London.
If my work then took me back to Manchester,my 'company' i.e 'The Government' would pay my hotel expenses and as everyone has to eat regardless of where they are, NO expenses should be paid for food.
No company in its right mind would suggest not only buying a second home for its employees,but furnishing it too! We Brits are easy-going people but we're being taken for fools.
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