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Columnists - Featured News 20 January 2009
Read more from Westminster's award-winning writer MP at www.paulflynnmp.co.uk 08 December 2008
UNNOTICED, the power of Parliament to hold the Government to account has been weakened. An egregious example of ministerial evasion and obstruction of parliamentary accountability has occurred. It also approved a novel concept that two MPs can usurp the will of Parliament. 21 November 2008
NOT true. I have never said it, whispered it, hinted it, thought it or dreamt it. Not now, not ever. But a trusted close friend rang up to ask me whether it was true. This time the rumour was being spread in Newport East. A few years ago the same story was circulated in the Rogerstone area. Read Paul Flynn MP every day at www.paulflynnmp.co.uk 03 November 2008
AT LAST, the television cameras have discovered the prolonged torment of the Congo. 21 October 2008
THIS is the most important turning point in politics for at least a generation. It will be equivalent in world terms to the 1945 new world. In British terms, it will more than match the Thatcher changes of 1979. 21 August 2008
LEO Abse had a long wonderful life. Until his final days he delighted in fierce argument with views that were original, startling and cerebral. 06 May 2008
EXHAUSTION may have played a part; but I am strangely elated at the Newport election results. 18 April 2008 I'LL EAT MY WORDS ABOUT JOHN PRESCOTT
07 April 2008
28 March 2008
THE DAILY Mail verdict on MPs as 'Shameless' must be flung back in their faces. Will the editor publish the home addresses of himself and his staff so the public can call in on them and express their views? 01/02/2008
The second top Karsai man in Helmand was killed today. The best hopes for peace, the help offered by Paddy Ashdown and two Pashtun speaking diplomats, have been spurned by the Karzai Government. Worst of all was President Karsai’s insult to the memory of our soldiers when he said that Helmand has “suffered because of the British soldiers.” Already 87 of our soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan. The seven years mission has cost British taxpayers £1billion a year. Prominent members of the Karsai Government are making fortunes from drug trafficking. Now the regime that we have spilled blood for is about to execute a man for reading literature about female equality. This afternoon I tried to raise these issues at Business Questions in the Commons. Irritatingly I was not called so I put down an Early Day Motion that asked: That this House notes the ingratitude of President Karzai's statement that Helmand Province suffered after the arrival of British troops; recalls that 87 British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan; and calls for a debate on whether the Government should continue to order British soldiers to risk their lives in the service of the corrupt barbaric Karzai regime. .
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