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'Are you unhappy with life in Britain today?

Are you concerned with the lack of respect, compassion, and freedom in our society?

Would you like to be part of a fairer, more caring Britain?


The politicians, they've had their turn. And now it's ours.'

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David Dimbleby: 'Margaret Beckett, you had a grace and favour house paid by the taxpayer, and you rented out a London flat claiming a second home allowance of £72,000 over four years. Is that the same as being a benefit cheat?'

Margaret Beckett: 'Well, no.'

Question Time, 14th May 2009


'Just to be clear, this does absolutely not mean that Northern Rock is bust. There is no reason for depositors at Northern Rock to panic.'

BBC Business Editor Robert Peston, BBC News at Ten, 13th September 2007


Ex-RBS boss drawing £650,000 pension
The Independent, 26th February 2009
Ministers have vowed to 'claw back' some of the pension of the failed Royal Bank of Scotland boss Sir Fred Goodwin, 50, after it emerged he was already drawing £650,000 a year.


Britain has worst quality of life in Europe, study says
The Telegraph, 12th October 2009
Though British households enjoy the highest income, at £35,730 a year, £10,325 higher than the European average, British families have to contend with a high cost of living, with fuel, food and alcohol all costing more than the European average.


Alistair Darling: We will cut deeper than Margaret Thatcher
The Guardian, 25th March 2010
Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling admitted tonight that Labour's planned cuts in public spending will be 'deeper and tougher' than Margaret Thatcher's in the 1980s, as the country's leading experts on tax and spending warned that Britain faces 'two parliaments of pain' to repair the black hole in the state's finances.


Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail was hacked by News of the World
The Guardian, 4th July 2011
The News of the World illegally targeted the missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler and her family in March 2002, interfering with police inquiries into her disappearance and giving her family false hope that she was still alive, an investigation by the Guardian has established.


Tony Blair 'regrets' Iraq dead in Chilcot grilling
BBC, 21st January 2011
Tony Blair has said he 'regrets deeply and profoundly the loss of life' during and after the 2003 Iraq war. The ex-PM said his refusal to express regret for the decisions that led to war at his first appearance before the committee had been misinterpreted. But his words were met with cries of 'too late' from the public gallery.


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From Bonkers Britain, published 2018

At the end of the Naughties, it became clear that the foundations of Britain's political, economic, and media elite were crumbling. From the 1980s, this elite had celebrated the transformation of Britain from the sick man of Europe laid low by trade union strife, to an open, enterprising nation at the centre of a new global economy, driven by numbers and products that few people really understood. Between the last recession of 1992 and 2008, there was unbroken growth, an end to 'boom and bust' if only for a time. A middle class grew larger and richer as their homes rose and rose higher in value, with more of their children going on to university. Deep social cleavages - the towns and ageing coastal resorts left behind by de-industrialisation and EasyJet, the anxiety towards the arrival of many East European immigrants - could be easily dismissed when times were good, but soon erupted to the surface...

...As a succession of crises revealed a seething anger and division, is not surprising that Britain experienced its own political revolution. And it was a revolution, albeit of a peaceful kind. But who could have predicted the extraordinary series of events that led a reality TV star, and let's be frank: a fantasist, a narcissist, a national punchline (or at least to those us, myself included, whose could only laugh in the beginning) - to uproot our political system forever? This is that story.

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Fringe parties gain ground in scandal-hit Britain

LONDON, May 18 2009 (Reuters) - An expenses scandal is eroding support for Britain’s three main political parties, a poll showed on Monday, and has brought calls for parliament’s most senior figure to step down.

The top-selling Sun tabloid said a general election due by the middle of next year should be held immediately after days of disclosures about lawmakers’ questionable and sometimes lavish expenses brought British politics into disrepute.

'Voters have had enough of this Government, enough of greedy MPs, enough of a Commons Speaker who has turned the Mother of Parliaments into the mother of all shyster politicians'.

A poll from Populus has revealed that up to 19% of the British public are prepared to vote for a minor party or independent candidate over the three major parties.



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