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Most recent annotations on things by Douglas Alexander
- Fenton Robb: No substance - did not answer the question - just waffled! Careless, contemptuous or inept - who can say? (17 July 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - kay manasseh: Obviously not as repeatedly as to the Israeli government given that a: There are hundreds more Palestinian casualties than Israeli and b: Israeli casualties are also caused by Islamic Jihad and... (14 March 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - William Joicey: The Secretary of State says they have repeatedly deplored civilian casualties to the Israeli Govenrment. How many times have they passed on their deplorations to Hamas? (13 March 2008)
Read annotation | All by this user - Judy Peet: Travel from Durham to Dorset seems highly unlikely given the fact that the elderly are, in effect, under curfew. Not being allowed to travel before 9.30 prevents long distance journeys being... (8 November 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - kazi sazol: What UN can do?Without machanism as lord. (25 July 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - Rod Aries: I would welcome the commonwealth games to Glasgow in 2014. But only if the local council address a decades old problem of various smells that waft through parts of the town on a regular basis,... (23 June 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - ash johnson: Whilst it is clearly the case that faster = more energy consumption it seems to be generally accepted amongst the scientific community that planes are at least 3 times more polluting than trains... (20 June 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - moira bori: I am delighted to hear the government feels that more rail links would be helpful - please don't forget a rail link between Dumfries and Stranraer Perhaps some jobs would be created allowing... (16 June 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - stinky will: I would not and am not saying that Concessionary Bus Travel would not help anybody because that would be ridiculous, almost as ridiculous as what I have just read from the "Secretary of State,... (15 May 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - Patrick Harris: No wonder the Welsh can afford to scrap NHS prescription charges, the 20p rise in English NHS prescritions will pay for the Welsh largesse. Have you no idea what this sort of thing is doing to... (15 March 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - neil scott: wouldnt it be easier to pay bus drivers more money to operate,than anything else, a good job is worth keeping (12 February 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - Maureen Winn: The length of the platform must be adequate, giving that Virgin trains CAN drop off passengers. (4 February 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - Peter Ballantyne: The minister is mis-informed. There is no problem with the length of platform. After 10am Virgin trains stop and take on passengers. The real reason is that trains to and from London during... (31 January 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - Brenda Southwell: What about rural areas where there are no buses? (3 January 2007)
Read annotation | All by this user - Martin : Now, Sir, instead of waffling about the unlikely death of the UK, why not have a try at answering the question? (14 December 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Mark Bestford: lol, yes, as I stated above, the chances are it's more like Microsoft will license the IP if UK Gov buys more MS software. It's similar to what they did with schools, they gave the schools... (28 November 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Vaci : I wouldn't bet that too much of Microsoft's revenues will end up in the Treasury coffers considering that the UK Government is Microsoft's third largest customer... (28 November 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Mark Bestford: At the end of the day Microsoft will be paying money into the Treasury. Their revenue stream is not isolated to the UK so that money will in effect be coming from abroad resulting in a net... (28 November 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Vaci : Microsoft could indeed buy their IP from another 3rd party provider, or create their own. But the presence of a government-owned product in the market place, which was created with taxpayers... (28 November 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Mark Bestford: Agreed, but it still isn't a tax. A tax is something you really have no control over. You could argue that drilling rights are a tax, but not the use of government IP. Microsoft does not have to... (27 November 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Vaci : Government may indeed raise income from business by selling royalty or other "intellectual property" rights. But the money doesn't appear out of thin air! Businesses make money by selling... (27 November 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Mark Bestford: No, there is more than one form of income where governments are concerned. Firstly you have your standard taxes. Income tax, import duty etc. Secondly you have royalty rights. This is like... (24 November 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Vaci : The Government is not a business. When applied to government services, "Income streams" and "extracting value" have a more common name - they are taxes. (24 November 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Julian Todd: "An example of that is the Government gateway, where we own the intellectual property rights; we have licensed it to Microsoft, and potentially stand to get significant income streams from... (24 November 2006)
Read annotation | All by this user - Stephen Gash: Either way we would all get our independence. 51% want Scottish independence in Scotland according to a poll this year 26% of English and 26% of Scots wanted Scottish independence in 2005... (8 November 2006)
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