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06 May 2008
COMMONS KNOWLEDGE WITH PAUL FLYNN

THANK YOU, VOTERS

EXHAUSTION may have played a part; but I am strangely elated at the Newport election results.

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18 April 2008
COMMONS KNOWLEDGE WITH PAUL FLYNN

I'LL EAT MY WORDS ABOUT JOHN PRESCOTT

I was very hostile to John Prescott becoming leader of the British Council of Europe (COE) delegation. My main objection was that he would not do the exacting long hours of tedious work essential to do the job properly.

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07 April 2008
A NATION AWAITS THE FA CUP FINAL

EVEN though I have now lived longer in Newport than the 27 years I lived in Cardiff, the FA Cup result is still glorious.

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28 March 2008
COMMONS KNOWLEDGE WITH PAUL FLYNN

WHY DON'T EDITORS PUBLISH THEIR OWN ADDRESSES?

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?

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01/02/2008
COMMONS KNOWLEDGE WITH PAUL FLYNN

HOW much longer can the self-delusion continue?  The Afghanistan mission is a hopeless failure and getting worse.Three international reports today confirm that.

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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