Boris forms part of a cross-party delegation of backbench MPs visiting Iraq this week.
He will be having meetings in Basrah and Baghdad.
DT Comment – IRA and Labour
Boris Johnson puts the Government on a par with the IRA:
Foot and Mouth Disease Four Years On
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Press Release on pig swill-feeding
Boris Johnson MP backs calls for Swill-feeder compensation
Boris Johnson MP, co-hosting a Country Land and Business Association sponsored video screening and discussion with George Howarth MP, last week denounced the Government’s handling of the 2001 Foot and Mouth crisis and the subsequent ban on swill-feeding. Mr Johnson branded this ban a ‘knee-jerk’ reaction designed to divert and distract attention away from the Government.
“The whole of a British industry was destroyed at the stroke of a bureaucrat’s pen. These people had their livelihoods snatched from them by a Government which had, up until a few months before the outbreak, been actively encouraging them to invest in MAFF approved swill processing equipment.
“This ban was the result of one farmer’s illegal swill-feeding practices, practices which the Government well knew about. Had the Government acted as it was obliged to under existing legislation, as set out by the Animal By Products Order 1999, then this horrendous episode would never have happened. Instead, our landfill sites pile ever ominously higher, our sewers clog ever thicker and ex swill-feeders such as my constituent Mick Eadle, victimized by a Government desperate to tar anyone and everyone but itself, have lost everything. At the very least I strongly believe the Government has a moral duty to compensate these people”.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Morning bloggers
Ok all you planetbrains out there, help me with this one.
Start the Week with Macarnie
We won’t gyp you Macarnie!
Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese Opposition Leader in the DT Column
Jumblatt: jubilant with the spark of democratic revolt spreading in the Middle East:
“The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.”
Continue reading Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese Opposition Leader in the DT Column
Thoughts from Boris
Hello bloggers
Sorry not to have been in touch for so long!
Here’s my THOUGHT FOR TODAY
We are told the Tony Blair wants to suck up to working mothers by increasing paid maternity leave by a stonking 50 per cent — to nine months.
The Spectator Documentary
BBC News claims that the programme tonight reveals that:
The Spectator’s legendary capacity for mischief-making remains undimmed.
The final irony, after an extraordinary six months, is the magazine’s circulation has never been higher…
Prevention of Terrorism Bill
24 February 2005
Press Release
Boris Johnson MP denounces Government’s latest Anti-Terror plans
Speaking in the Chamber, Boris Johnson MP yesterday lambasted the Government’s proposed Prevention of Terrorism Bill as an attack on the fundamental principles of Habeas Corpus:
Monarchy and Habeas Corpus – DT comment
Sorry, Blair, but that is so much phooey
I have a terrible feeling that, if you lift your eyes a few inches to the north, you will have a shock. An intruder has crept into the chaste domain of the comment pages.
I can almost feel his Cheshire cat grin over my shoulder. I can already hear the torrent of drivel seeping down from my columnar next-door neighbour, and I am afraid I want to throw up my figurative window and say, “Oi, Blair, shut it, mate. Some of us down here are trying to talk.”