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I thought we might qualify but if you don't sing the song properly you can't expect to get on.

I think the salary is quite adequate!

Lets not forget the many add-ons that are available for MP's who are on committees or who are junior minister's etc..

The salary should reflect the average wage of the people you represent therefore you will always be in touch with how the general public feel.

I would advocate an MP's salary should mirror the average working wage in the country.

That's ridiculous. The average wage in the UK is less than £30k. Your salary should reflect your role and responsibilities as an MP. If someone in the private sector worked the hours of an MP and did the type of work MPs do, they would be earning a lot more than £65k.

What exactly are they doing. Just because the commons is open from 11 in the morning until 11 at night does not mean they are there all the time. Even if they are there all they are doing is sitting there and falling asleep for the most part. The other thing about the job is it should not be the money that is attractive but the ability to make a difference and have powere and influence.

David Cameron accused the mps who have been exposed in recent days for claiming money that they were not entitled to were"abusing tax payers money". Maybe it is the way I was brought up but "abusing" is not the term that colmes to mind I think steaing tax payers money would have been more approtpriate. One MP apparently claimed for hanging a chandalier in his house.

Steaing isn't a term that colmes to mind either.

I think "stealing" is the one that is most appropriate for some of this carry on myself. What word would you use? If a tax collector had been walking around with a bag of money he had collected and a petty criminal had grabbed it off him  and run away with it, it would have been called strealing. Whit collar equivalents of stealing are just as bad if not worse in my opinion.

David Cameron accused the mps who have been exposed in recent days for claiming money that they were not entitled to were"abusing tax payers money". Maybe it is the way I was brought up but "abusing" is not the term that colmes to mind I think steaing tax payers money would have been more approtpriate. One MP apparently claimed for hanging a chandalier in his house.

UK cannot vote for Ireland on Thurs. The Irish are bucked.

Can Russia vote for Ukraine, Bosnia for Albania etc or is it just the Irish and the Brits that have that rule applied.

Heard The Dodgers had just named part of their stadium "Mannywood"   
So the question is now how long has he been taking it?  I am sure alot of Red Sox fans will be wondering too!

Apparently Barry Bonds, A Roid, Manny and a couple of other guys who have been implicated in steroid scandals all have the same a gent a guy called Scott Boras

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/30675305/

Iceland is very peaceful and safe and also bankrupt. I would stay in Moscow.

What a disappointing way of doing the results, no tension at all. Who was the best tonight?

How have United Kingdom already qualified?

There is a set of countires (about 8 or something) who always qualify because they provide so much finance for the competition.

It's 4 i think - UK, France, Germany and Spain.

That's quite sad really, have Germany, France or Spain ever actually won the thing?

France have won it 5 times, Spain twice and Germany once.

They haven't won it in a long long time I think, not since Norway won it in 1985, which was the first one I watched. Am I correct? Italy are the north Korea of the Eurovision song contest and have not taken part since ? because they are not allowed have advertising during the contest.

i see they're betting 4/9 that quinlan misses the lions - whilst he was wrong, i think it's very harsh on him - maybe good for the lions chances all the same, as Croft is expected to be called in.

Who the f**k is Tom Croft? You would swear he was tomb raiders(Lara Crofts) brother and kind of super human or something the way people are going on about him. You don't get a gig with the Lions that easily. He is not an automatic first choice on what is a below average England team. Why would he be going on a lions tour ahead of someone like Ryan Jones or why would some people be so desperate to replace Alan Quinlan with him? Answers on a post card please.

It is the same every time an English team is knocked out of a big tournament it has to be the refs fault. I heard that the ref had to be smuggled out of the country today by police after receivng death threats. That is just plain ridiculous. I was listening to BBC radio 5 today and they had some posh football pundit on saying that Chelsea should have had at least 2 penalties and quite possibly 3 or 4 penalties. I mean come down to earth a bit ffs.

They will hardly be worrying about the cost of fares all the rusiness lawyers and doctors that will be going.

Ok I am going to go against the grain here and say I quite like the Irish song compared to others and would be fairly confident of it getting past the semi finals and doing quite well in the final.  I just had a listen to the Swedish song there and it is one of the favourites, so what is what I think of it. The Irish tune is catchy and up tempo which it needs to be, it is not nessun dorma but it might make an impact in this eurovision thingy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzAWYRpbJ5E&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=videos&search_query=iniesta&search_sort=video_date_uploaded&page=1

Here are some nice highlights of the final goal from Spain and other places. Dig throught the links to find the best ones, lots of fun.

They spent the whole night diving and cheating trying to win penalties and got a barcelona player sent  off in the worng who will now miss the Champions League final as a result.

That one sentence is an example of why you can't be taken seriously.

Seriously, whats wrong with it? Anelka took a dive like himself and Drogba were doing all night. I am not a fool and was not born yesterday. I am not a football expert but have been watching football for years but that was a dive where he tripped himself up. A blatant case of simulation.