In parliament today, Spain’s incoming Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, has promised deep public spending cuts while offering tax breaks for companies, telling parliament he aims to cut the budget deficit by 16.5bn euros next year. How he actually intends to do this was not forthcoming.
He’s obviously confused
Tory MP Matthew Offord is threatening to invoke human rights laws to overturn a ban on taking his dog to work at Westminster after he was given a one-week ultimatum to leave the six-month-old Jack Russell at home. He says: ‘If they try to push this, I will invoke the Human Rights Act because they’re breaching my right to a …
Absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder
No wonder MP’s don’t want a verifiable attendance system, only 14 ‘honourable (??) members’ turned up to debate the swine flu issue.