So our elected masters have decided to retain the DNA records of innocent citizens for six years.
Eye fervently hopes that Mr Plod will hasten round to the Palace of Westminster to swab all those crim's who cheated on their expenses?
Fat chance!
Just because you really are innocent doesn't mean you're not guilty in the eyes of the state.
Good news from the mother of Parliaments...
Former transport minister Tony McNulty has apologised to the House of Commons 'without reservation' and agreed to repay £13,837 of expenses he claimed towards his second home.
Well that makes it all better then.
UPDATE: In his statement to the House McNulty says its time to move on.
Indeed it is.
Directly to gaol without passing go.
With a bowler tip to Tom Harris MP...
This early day motion has been laid down...
That this House is concerned at reports that growing numbers of Returning Officers are considering postponing the counting of votes cast on the day of the General Election until the day after polling; believes that in the 21st century it would be a regressive move not to announce constituency results as early as possible; further believes that public confidence in the results could be undermined by delays in the counting of ballot papers and that fewer voters would be able to watch the results being announced if this were done on a Friday afternoon; and calls on local authorities throughout the United Kingdom to ensure that all ballot papers are counted immediately after the close of polls on General Election night, as has been the practice in previous General Elections.
Vote early, vote often!
Cameron's speech at the Tory Party conference appears not to have played well with the brothers.
Unite joint general secretary, Derek Simpson said, "At the height of the worst recession in decades Cameron said nothing about job creation, nothing about supporting our industries and nothing about reigning in his friends in the city who caused economic meltdown. "
But what's this.
Is this the same Unite who donated almost £4m to the Labour Party last year?
Or indeed the same Unite whose Deputy General Secretary is one Jack Dromey, husband of Cabinet Minister Harriet Harperson, and who is being lined up for the safe Labour parliamentary seat of Leyton and Wanstead.
Indeed it is.
Harry Patch, the last British survivor of the Kaiser's War on the Western Front, has died.
What a generation!
We will not forget.
Requiescat in pace et in amore.
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Enjoy.
This for Railway Eye's enthusiast friends, who appear to be bearing the brunt of our headlong rush into tyranny.
Wishing all Railway Eye readers a happy commemoration of the 5th of November!
There are dangers in believing that old canard about the 'earth moving' during passion.
As this South African couple quickly discovered.
Was it the Jubilee line extension that claimed it went faster, deeper, longer?
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