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Britain
Hundreds of UK lawmakers could face ouster or quit
2009-05-25
A major purge of veteran lawmakers is likely at Britain's next national election due to mounting public anger over the expenses scandal, opposition leader David Cameron said Sunday as a new study estimated that over 300 lawmakers could be forced out.
Since the old lot clearly weren't doing the job they were hired for...
Cameron, who has ordered some of his Conservative Party lawmakers to quit over their excessive claims, said fresh faces are necessary to help rebuild confidence in Britain's political system.

The Conservatives are far ahead of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party in opinion polls and widely expected to win power at the next election, which Brown must call by June 2010.
Another country swings to the right!
Cameron said he will reopen lists of candidates that his party has drawn up ahead of the next election, to allow people who have not previously been involved in politics to put themselves forward. "They may not have had anything to do with the party before. But I'm saying, if you believe in public service, if you share our values, if you want to help us clean up politics, come and be a Conservative candidate," Cameron told the British Broadcasting Corp.

Colin Rallings, director of the University of Plymouth's elections data center, told The Sunday Times newspaper that a new analysis suggested as many as 325 of Britain's 646 House of Commons lawmakers could quit or be ousted by voters as a direct result of the scandal.

Several public figures, including well-known British television presenter Esther Rantzen, already have suggested they will try to run in the next election as independent candidates to protest the scandal.
The country's involuntary investment in politician's roof repairs and drainage ditches may turn out to have been well worth while.
Posted by:Fred

#9  Iff you thought the USG was done with BAILOUTS, WE TAINT!
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2009-05-25 22:02  

#8  ION NOT the UK, GUAMPDN FORUMS > HALF A US$QUADRILLION BAILOUT [approxi US$592.0TRILYUHN]??? BLOOMBERG-linked Arrtic on the US DERIVATIVES MARKET.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2009-05-25 22:02  

#7  Agreed, Sea. Just how that CD got to the Telegraph is unclear, but it's quite likely the paper is being used to advance a power grab. Does Soros have a 'reform UK' front org in place already?

Whoever's behind it, watch for the Islamicists to use this to promote the 'purity' of Islam vs. the empty corruption of democracy, not that the UK is all that democratic even in theory.
Posted by: lotp   2009-05-25 11:00  

#6  We've already seen mob action there in which y00ts of Asian persuasion chased the police and taunted them for being cowards. The implosion of the West is accelerating.

But this is more sophisticated than Asian y00ts throwing bottles-n-rox.

Somebody else is stirring the pot here, but I agree they may find themselves surprised to find themselves *not* holding the reins when the smoke clears.
Posted by: Seafarious   2009-05-25 09:11  

#5  They need to do more than reform by introducing newly minted parliamentarians. They need to reduce the total number to something more realistic. They have 646 members of parliament for 60 million people. We have 435 for 300 million people. Think of all the money they would save just doing that.
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2009-05-25 08:04  

#4  I wish a similar housecleaning of both parties would happen here.

I suspect you don't really want a similar housecleaning to occur here. Britain's is happening at the point where the MPs don't matter anyway since they are now totally subjugated to the EU. If we had a similar housecleaning, it would be a superficial change that was impotent to undo, say, the appointment of a SCOTUS justice who tilts the court to subjugate the Constitution to "international law".
Posted by: lotp   2009-05-25 06:04  

#3  Who is waiting to step into the power vacuum if they manage to take out most of Her Majesty's Government?

We've already seen mob action there in which y00ts of Asian persuasion chased the police and taunted them for being cowards. The implosion of the West is accelerating.
Posted by: lotp   2009-05-25 05:48  

#2  I wish a similar housecleaning of both parties would happen here.
Posted by: OldSpook   2009-05-25 01:50  

#1  Don't like the MPs grubby hands in the national cookie jar, certainly, but I like the "howling mob baying at the treed fox" treatment even less.

Who is waiting to step into the power vacuum if they manage to take out most of Her Majesty's Government?

And how are they planning to use that power once they have it?
Posted by: Seafarious   2009-05-25 00:19  

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