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Reading the article and the responses below, I remain to be persuaded.Originally Posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo
Were this May 1968 it would be another matter. Kick out the right wing slanted b.o.d., elect a new DG accountable to regular recall on double average national pay rate, first and thenceforth allowing for campaign platforms and support groups, tendencies and factions. But in today's cultural climate it's a question of Popular Fronts around maintaining and improving quality and objectivity, letters to the press and Mininstry of, ahem, Culture.
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How wonderful for "the people" to have a champion like Shadow Culture Secretary Helen Goodman: Goodman sketched out her proposals [based on someone else's ideas]....."The argument of this book would be that the public should commission all the programmes and of course that idea is over the top", Goodman said. "But there is something in the idea of the public having a say in what is aired – people coming together and having two hours a week on Radio 4". Whoop, whoop, whoop!
On the surface, one might think she was miserly by inclination. Then there's this to make any thinking more robust:
On 19th May 2009 the Daily Telegraph revealed that Goodman had claimed £519.31 for use of a cottage on her expenses, and had submitted hotel bills dated two months prior to her becoming an MP. Goodman argued that she was carrying out Parliamentary business when using the cottage and thus her claim was accepted. The claim for the hotel stay was rejected due to the fact she wasn't an MP at the time thus not entitled to claim expenses for that period. She was subsequently given a clean bill of health by the independent Legg Inquiry into MPs expenses and was not required to pay any money back.
Goodman was critical of attempts to reform MPs' expenses stating if second homes were lost and travel allowances cut then "stress, mental ill-health, divorce, etc would explode". "Mental ill-health" indeed. What quaint phraseology. What cleverness in argument and the language of escalation where things matter to her. Looks like another unreal, Oxford educated, emotional skinflint/money grabber, albeit a GMB member and a Christian Socialist, natch. Sadly, it hardly matters what any of us thinks.
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