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Most recent annotations on things by Douglas Carswell

  • J H Hall: Although it is true that Israeli citizens are hard-working and entrepreneurial, what Douglas Carswell failed to mention is that that their efforts have been underpinned by aid from the USA to the... (21 May 2008)
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  • J H Hall: This is the kind of sloppy thinking we are not used to from Douglas Carswell. Perhaps he is allowing his prejudices to over-ride his normal analytical capabilities. The International Court of... (28 February 2008)
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  • J H Hall: I do not understand Douglas Carswell's reference to his party introducing anti-poverty measures in 1911. The Conservative P{arty did not form the government in 1911. Then it was a Liberal... (12 July 2007)
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  • J H Hall: The whole point of having judges is that they apply an impartial judgement. If Parliament does not like the way the interpretation of the law is moving, it has within its power the opportunity... (12 June 2007)
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  • J H Hall: This is the Achilles heel of the proposal. By making central government responsible for the redistribution of monies from certain jurisdictions, the link to locale is undermined. This weakness... (8 June 2007)
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  • J H Hall: As Tom Harris, the Parliamentary Under Secretary for Transport said subsequently in the debate, his answer will not be considered satisfactory by non-governmental members of parliament. The key... (12 January 2007)
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  • Mark Bestford: Why stop there, why not have ordinary people have an input to the legislative program? How many good ideas are wasted just because the person who has them happens to not be an MP. For example I... (17 November 2006)
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  • J H Hall: What an innovative idea - that ordinary MPs have an input into the legislative programme! During the 1906 Government, an ordinary MP so demolished the ideas behind a Government (Liberal) Bill... (17 November 2006)
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  • J H Hall: I think most of the electorate are concerned about the erosion of democracy by the ever-increasing power of bureaucrats and Ministers. We are a very long way from true democracy. It is easy to... (10 February 2006)
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