“From the forthcoming film, THEY CALL IT ACID. The story of Acid House – the birth of Rave. The culture the Government failed to crush! Featuring over 60 interviews including the world’s top DJs and rare archive film from the first illegal Acid House parties. …”

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This makes █████████ harder ██ ████ have ████████ on.

They have been released in PDF format with huge sections missing, the information needs to be in XML so that people can use the data in a meaningful way.

So if they wont do it, look like we will have to do it ourselves http://www.whattheyclaimed.com/index.php/about/getinvolved

Not only do the expenses need to be open but for everything in parliament for example http://www.theyworkforyou.com/freeourbills/

lets redesign and remix democracy

During my campaigning quite a few people have stated that a vote for the juryteam is only a protest vote. So my answer is “so what if it is?”

Protest has shaped this democracy in so many ways it is hard to imagine what the UK and the world would look like without protests. Would women have got the vote without protests from the suffragettes ? How about slavery? Trade Unions? The Diggers? Tiananmen Square ? New road anyone ? Martin Luther King ? miners strikes ?

OK, some protests are more successful than others but they have shaped the country and the world. Protest vote? maybe, but protest is good !

This poem arrived from the juryteam candidates mail list. it says so much, so well

The party’s over its time to call it day
Oh can I claim for balloons or maybe the tunes my cleaner might play
My moat is clear now, I’ve flipped my house
The porns not mine dear it was my spouse
The party’s over cos two brains light bulbs went dim
It will be horribly missed the John Lewis list
And the puppy must slim
Oh what a caper, some rotten hack,
We’re in the paper and getting flack
Maybe its time now to pay some back

The party’s over yes time to call it a day
A solider loses a limb, a pittance for him is all they will pay
Pensioners’ rise is 25p
Home repossessions Child poverty
The party’s over two million plus on the dole
But lets not worry ’bout them those women and men but lets find the mole
Why did we do it? We had no need
The people see it as simply greed
Oh yes its over indeed

The party’s over and our poor country is broke
And none of them will confess that they all made this mess
More pay – what a joke
As for the children why can’t they see
A massive debt is their legacy
The party’s over no votes for red or for blues
The commons now is so hushed
And sorrows are drowned in subsidised booze
Keep your contrition surely the end
No rules were broken you made them bend
So its over, really over my friend.

CM The Queen of Doggerel

wriiten by Celia McClure, Juryteam Candidate

With these MPs and their expensive expenses claims, they all seen to be saying that they “were within the rules” but these are the people that made the rules, so why are people acting surprised that they have gold plated their lives? These claims have been deemed “not unusual” or “out of order” by Labour MP Sir Stuart Bell, well of course they are not to him, but they are bang out of order and very unusual to everyday people. I have worked in many places but never had a job where I could claim for getting my house cleaned, feeding the cat or indeed worked in a place with a 24 hour unlicensed bar.
These people have been using taxpayers money for decades to live a unsustainable lifestyle based on over consumption, image and a Victorian sense of superiority.

So I ask the older generation of voters and normal people, why have you let this happen ? it has been happening for years and yes we are about to stop it, it is all about to change, but why the wait ?

The other day when I came second in the “one mobile, one vote” I thought that was it, the first past the post system is so ingrained into my (and the publics) consciousness, I had forgot that the primary selection was not a first past the post or a list selection process but a way to select the first 6 candidates to run has independents. I didn’t remember this until Alan Wallace (another juryteam backed independent candidate) commented on this blog. I am glad I forgot because I spent the whole day away from the computer in my garden, digging, planting and feeding the chickens (still no eggs).

Well no one said politics was easy or straight forward.

oh well, that was fun !

I think I lost the vote to become a MEP for scotland. (it was really close, I know of a room FULL of geeks at a LAN game texting at 11.52, cheers guys!!) I am quite gutted to be honest, I really felt like shaking the whole political tree and seeing what popped out.

The process has not been without merit, I have been in contact with a few other people standing in other areas and they seem to be sound people. I will still be in contact with the juryteam and watch the European election with interest.

oh, well. good luck to everyone that has won. I hope you can all handle the media circus that is about to start.

well it turns out that when the juryteam page said “one day left” what they meant was “one day and another 24 hours after that”.

It turns out voting stops at midnight friday 24th april, so please phone a friend that you have not spoken to in a while, have a nice chat and ask them to vote, that way you get to link up with a old pal and get a chance of having a radical MEP!

Well a busy few hours, thanks to a friends mobile phone and a huge mail list I managed to get to the top position over night, but this morning have been knocked down to second place. There is less than 24 hours left to go so here is hoping.

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