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Front bench acknowledgment!

Nice to see the front benches acknowledge how Daniel Hannan and I were the chief architects behind the idea of elected Police Commissioners.

Even if it was Ed Balls and the Labour front bench.

"An organisation behind the proposal is ..... "called Direct Democracy, which included in its book "Direct Democracy: An Agenda for a New Model Party" a chapter on the case for independent police commissioners. Yes, that is the Direct Democracy that was founded by the hon. Member for Clacton (Mr Carswell) and by the Tory MEP Mr Daniel Hannan". - Ed Balls, Hansard, December 13th

As Ronald Reagan once said, you can do a lot in politics if you don't mind who takes the credit ....

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