Irish Politicians Take 10% Expenses Cut, Pensions Abolished
The Irish budget yesterday was a tough budget. The type of budget that in reality Britain needs to implement to get the economy back on track. Welfare cuts and tax hikes are never popular moves. Brian Lenihan, the finance minister, said right at the beginning of his speech
… before we ask anyone else to give, we in this House and in this Government must examine our own costs. Those of us in politics have been entrusted with a great privilege by the people. We must lead by example.
Irish politicians rightly feel they need to share the pain – pensions for serving politicians are to be discontinued and allowable expenses cut by 10% across the board. The Irish President Mary McAleese has already announced that she will be taking a 10% pay cut in light of the current budgetary troubles. The finance Minister Brian Lenihan and his ministerial colleagues took a 10% wage cut last year. The opposition leader has instructed his party’s parliamentarians to take a 5% cut. The governor of the Irish Central Bank and Financial Services Authority has volunteered to also surrender 10% of pay. The state broadcaster RTÉ’s top six executives are taking a “significant reduction” in pay.
In contrast last week British MPs accepted a 2.33% pay rise…
NEIN
They shit in our faces time and time again.
The only solution is bloody revolution
Looks like the Mail bought the expenses lists — two exposes today
Woodward Scam and Sinn Fein MP scumbags.
Get on with Mr Fawkes, Westminister is blowing itself up.
No wonder they signed the Peace Accord they can make more money through Westminster than they ever could through their criminal activities.
Sounds like wonderful country.
Let’s all go and live there
God I’m sick of all this – why can’t we just kill them all and be done with it?
Yes, I’m getting pretty sick of all this too. I think your solution is the one we will finally settle upon. Democracy – the God that failed.
Great!
You find a way past security and I’ll bring the bomb.
Hang on a moment – that was the door bell going “who the hell could calling at this time of nig…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….click
Because we’re British, ie passive-aggressive, obedient sheep who pay their taxes now and ask questions later. Striking to think how far as a nation we have degenerated. I doubt our ancestors in the 17th century would have put up with this shit show taking the piss out of them for this long.
Being British, hummm what exactly is that?
I was born bred and educated in Britain but its not my country.
I don’t feel ownership, I clearly make the connection that i’m in service, a skivvy to use abuse and discard in old age or ill health.
Not a citizen but a subject of the crown, owned in other words.
Not a patriot only ever encouraged to be a citizen in name when it suits the argument of Westminster.
My friend all you have is your vote, at least that.
Force a constitutional crisis by sitting at home on election night.
That’s a positive good step if you want to own your country!
Those Tamils outside Westminster could teach us a thing or two!
Yeah the Police didn’t wanna mess with the Tamil protestors.
They might have been able to put up a fight, they were even facing the police!
I think what you say is true.
The answer is for more ordinary people to get involved in politics, either directly, or through the media, or through protest.
But what have any of us (people making critical comments here) done to that effect? I know I’ve done fuck all.
Agree this will only end when the 742 Lords and 646 MPs are swinging from lamp posts.
says it all really, that we have a talent in this country for selecting the worst leaders
It started in America.
I recall that the Editor of the Nassau Tribune had a heading “a nation dserves the Government it gets” How true here!
“British MPs accepted a 2.33% pay rise…”
It was within the rules
I think you’re being too cynical you old fart.
I hear they’re gonna take a 2.33% pay cut next week
> In contrast last week British MPs accepted a 2.33% pay rise…
Yes, but they know how much inflation our Prime Moron has deliberately created, so it might end up like a 40% pay cut by the end of the pound.
Thats a bit unfair to be frank!
The majority of MPs provide employment for many; indeed most MPs have armies of employees- and thats were the vast majority of expenses goes towards for most MPs I’d imagine.
If the increase can provide one with better representation then I’d say give it to ‘em!
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Besides; Ireland are in dire economic straits; we’re not that bad (soon will be though
Bollocks, we’re talking about pay rises now, not expenses. And besides, your argument is ridiculous on several levels, not least because most of these so-called employees are related to the MP they “work” for.
I think Dean may have been having a go at sarcasm
Do keep up; do keep up.
Christ almighty. Where to begin.
“The majority of MPs provide employment for many” – in the same way the majority of criminals provide employment for the police. You might have heard of Bastiat. I would try reading something by him. Start with the parable of the broken window.
“Indeed most MPs have armies of employees” – no shit Sherlock
“thats were (sic.) the vast majority of expenses goes towards for most MPs I’d imagine” – I’d imagine the vast majority of MP’s expenses gets pissed down the drain on the John Lewis list actually. In case you didn’t know, quite a few of these parliamentary hangers-on aren’t paid at all, and those that are paid are likely to be related to the MP.
“If the increase can provide one with better representation” – Oh, the naivety of youth. Are you really suggesting that if MPs were to get paid more, then honourable, principled people who don’t care about money will be more attracted to the job??
“I’d say give it to ‘em!” – I’d say you should pay for it then if it’s such a good idea.
How do you know – do you have the secret PFI figures?
The majority of MP’s employ NO ONE. The taxpayer does! MP’s aren’t capable of doing their OWN expenses, let alone emply some one else.
And more people mean better democracy? Have you learnt nothing?
Dean MacKinnon-Thomson proves that Guido’s readers are humourless fuckwits that can barely read:
Victoria Glancey proves that Labour trolls are moronic fuckwits who can’t read the writing on the wall.
Clue, it’s next to the big wet patch where Brown has pissed away all our money.
Hi deanthetory, I see you have come on here for a good kicking now that Nick Robinson is on holiday. Good luck!
Come on Guido follow your ancestor, but this time blow the bloody place up, and the more in it the better.
Just turned 65 and worse off by £80 per week.
I read also that a number of Ministers were told to resign thus saving costs. (Costs being the operative word in our case).
And what do you intend to do with all that gunpowder?
To blow you Scotch beggars back to your own native mountains!
I’ll have to check – this may be racist.
I’ve checked. you’re OK – even the Scots disown Broon.
Can’t stand him. Partly because he refuses to admit he’s a Scot (he’s “North-British”), partly because he’s an inept cock who has pissed all our money against a wall. He’s not welcome up here. Him and Blair can fuck off to the middle east together.
Oi
enough of that
McBust of Bustit and Ruin
not one of ours
Note Guido’s lack of following the UK police state killing a civilian in cold blood. Well done. Enjoy your portfolio – traitor.
Guido’s tag line is:
“Guy Fawkes’blog of parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy”.
I would have thought that the UK Police State backed forceful suppression of protesters with laws made by the same MPs stealing from UK Tax Payers and killing of innocent by passers was worthy of some comment by Guido.
Kind of comes under many aspects of your Tag line and is tryely Parliamentary related as they make the evil laws.
You greatly disappoint me Guido.
Step up, though your lack of comment is probably too late now and many will think of you as a huge Hoon (no automatic word replacement here as I did mean Hoon rather than c__u n t).
Get over yourself – given that Guido has no information to add and this is a Westminster gossip blog, not a newswire… notice there are no sports reports either.
“No sports reports”
gimme me money back
I want table tennis results.
I want elbow tennis results. So far:Timney 1 – Taxpayers Nil
Or tits, a gross lack of Bristols Guido.
Find us some titty besides some of the ones that comment this blog that is!
In the ‘seen elsewhere’– Aussie put prozzie on expenses – whadda mistaka to make! – Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
Hiring the Australian prostitute; that sort of thing’s usually for ‘research’purposes, isn’t it? Therefore expenses will be legit.
Send that copper a pizza!
Fookin terrorists
My God! What a terrible example to set their neighbours on the other side of the Irish Sea! You’d almost think that the Irish government cares about its electorate and citizens! It’ll never catch on here, though! Far too radical a concept.
The Oirish also gave their electorate a vote on the Nice Treaty…
We were promised one – and never got it…..
It appears the Irish Government do give a shit about their electorate unlike the troughing members we have here…
And they are getting another vote too because they voted the wrong result the last time. Democracy?
If they vote yes this time, it goes to a decider.
The next vote is the tricky away leg at Strasbourg.
Yes, pigs might fly…..
I can’t help feeling envious of the Irish, even if they are in worse an economic state than we are (hard as it is to believe).
At least they had the chance to vote on the EU.
And they said No.
If their politicians have turned down a pay-rise, I hope that our British ones feel shamed.
“If their politicians have turned down a pay-rise, I hope that our British ones feel shamed.”
Ours wouldn’t know what shame was if it ripped out their tonge throught their arseholes! until we have an election and we get rid of the ZanuLiebour troffers!
And the Tory troughers. And the Lib-dem troughers. Hang on a minute…. just get rid of the trough.
If getting caught shagging and photographing your tart in your government office, during the working week and then billing the taxpayers for the cost of developing the film at Boots doesn’t cause a flicker of shame, then I doubt the response will be anything other than disdain for the Irish.
I think you and Norman have it right.
Not just during the week, but on the evening of Remembrance for our fallen, how fucking low can you go….answer…pretty much all the way.
At least they got to vote on Lisbon what????
They voted the wrong way so they get the ‘opportunity’to vote again. Brown because he is so shit scared we will vote against goes back on his word and manifesto and does it through the back door (pardon the pun) even sneaking in after th event to sign the document. CNUT!!
For that action and that alone he should be strung up along with the rest of the Governement and scumbg labour MP’s who allow democracy to be run into the ground and our country to be tramples underfoot.
Revolution now!!!!!
There is never the remotest possibility that ours will ever ‘feel shamed’. If they did then they wouldn’t claim 88p for a bath plug….
I see now that the Westminster troughers have capped their restaurant price rises to 5%, the balance being picked up by the taxpayer. I see also that MPs spent (sorry, wasted) £1.4m on foreign jollies – always to the warm, sunny parts of the world, never the wet, cold, shitty bits. And the latest scam is a visit to New Zealand, to (allegedly) study binge-drinking. Obviously we don’t have any of that over here….
Ireland has got to pay for its sliding-into-the-shit economy somehow.
“sliding-into-the-shit ”
at least they admit their mistakes, grovel, cut and slash spending, and get on with fixing it ….
unlike Bustit & RuinAll,
who, as we know, insists we are best placed…, no more boom and bust…. lalala …
Like we will when someone abit more fiscally responsible has to sort out Gordons mess
The Irish must be really pissed-off with the Americans – it all started there, you know.
Dig for victory and plant more potatoes.
Don’t you mean dig for victory and plant a Broonite? Eight feet ought to do it…
well they will be all right anyway there mates in the EUSSR have given them so much in bungs they are rich enough to take a pay cut on the chin. its the greedy troffing jock cúnts ruining this country that can’t help themselves but milk it till the last!
I saw the Irish Trade Union bloke on Snoozenight. He was quite sensible really, as was Johnnie ‘The Vulcan’Redwood.
In UK we’re stuck with a leftist government full of idiotic sHOONhorpes.
Fuck
We’re worse off than Ireland for God’s sake. What is GreedyGordo the serial shitter going to do? Put on makeup and prance around like a ..hoon
Don’t underestimate Gordon. He can do a lot more than just put on makeup and dance around like a hoon. He can also pick his nose while cleverly masking it from onlookers. You try doing it. Ain’t as easy as it looks is it.
The Australian PM prefers ear wax: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aQ8YiIV1AI
and both are marxo-socialist scum
‘Tony Blair has challenged the “entrenched” attitudes of the Pope on homosexuality, and argued that it is time for him to “rethink” his views.
Speaking to the gay magazine Attitude, the former Prime Minister, himself now a Roman Catholic, said that he wanted to urge religious figures everywhere to reinterpret their religious texts to see them as metaphorical, not literal, and suggested that in time this would make all religious groups accept gay people as equals.
Asked about the Pope’s stance, Mr Blair blamed generational differences and said: “We need an attitude of mind where rethinking and the concept of evolving attitudes becomes part of the discipline with which you approach your religious faith.”
we he would say that, wouldn’t he sweetie…
Trust ole jug ears to try and find a third way for “Tho shalt not take dickie up the chuffter!
It was within the rules, which I interpreted metaphorically, not literally.
Jacqui I saw you on ITV news. At the start you set your jaw so squarely against the interviewer’s questions it looked like you’d swallowed a box.
Try and imagine you are in one of Mr Jacqui’s films and your mouth may form a more natural shape.
I beleive this comes under the term cultural Marxism or Critical theory, IE in order to destroy the established order ( prior to creating the New World Order ),
you find ways of Criticising the established order.
The best way to deal with these Subversives your holiness is to just say
‘Fuck off you Commie Bastard’
Does the brass-neck arrogance of that slimy weasel know no limits?
I wonder if il Papa got to give little Antonio a finger-wagging about illegal wars and mass murder?
Still, It’s almost amusing to contemplate Blair giving the Pope a theology lesson…….
Maybe Tone’s parable means that Lord Mandelsailor is looking to put his Italian stallion to pasture and now has his eye on a Blair sprog.
Blair intends to combine the roles of Pontifex Maximus and Roman Emperor just like Augustus, which is a shame as I had associated him more with Caligula, particularly the latter period of his life.
“We need an attitude of mind where rethinking and the concept of evolving attitudes becomes part of the discipline with which you approach your religious faith.”
Wholeheartedly agree with Blair on this – ditching religion for science can be the only ultimate outcome of such an approach. Must be hanging out with Dawkins, these days.
No prude like a reformed whore. Any way, must dash, sociocide doesn’t commit itself you know?
Oh yeah, because that’s what religion is all about. Appeasing the PC brigade.
You’re all a bunch of evil little bastards who want to be able to do the horrible little grubby things that you enjoy doing without any talk of judgement.
I do mean all of you. I don’t just mean those of you who are going to go to hell specifically because you’re gay.
135 – Not a Catholic then lad. Hate the sin, not the sinner etc etc – twat.
That’s what I’ve been saying for years, Dick.
There goes the sainthood!
The Irish politician you refer to cut his own pay by 10% and cut unemployment benefit by 50% moments later.
They should cut the fines for being an employee or an employer.
Oh well, less beer/fag tokens for the unwashed then. Never mind.
Yeah, but the dole in Ireland is about 200 euro a week.
Sarah – is it? Fuck, that’d be great fun – where’s the incentive to get off yer arse there then? I’d be a right fat, pissed, stoned, well read, repaired & tidy house and gardened utter bum. Always fancied fishing too, the life – literally, of Reilly.
Look Guido, this sort of vicious nihilism towards politicians, particularly the best generation of politicians this country has ever had, just isn’t on. I think if you look at the real help for the hard-working families that we have put in place to help people out of this recession, that began in America, you will find that we MPs deserve our 2.33% pay rise. I would actually say that was very modest.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go and read the latest considered Tory views of Iain Dale. Although there’s no way I’m going over to that viper Draper’s place. Even a ginger chipmunk like me has taste.
How do UK MPs get away with it???? Shocking.
If they Didn’t nick our Money in the first place through taxes, we wouldn’t need welfare, and even if we did, our Friends, relatives or collegues would be better placed to help out.
We have to get rid of the Expensive Govt Middleman.
monkeys cocks
G____ui____do’s tag line is:
“Gu____y Fa wk____es’ blog of parli amen tary p lots, ru mours and co ns pi ___**** racy”.
I would have thought that the UK Police State backed forceful suppression of protesters with laws made by the same MPs stealing from UK Tax Payers and killing of innocent by passers was worthy of some comment by Gui_____ d o.
Kind of comes under many aspects of your Tag line and is truely Pa ___rliamentary related as they make the evil laws.
You greatly disappoint me P ____a u l.
Step up, though your lack of comment is probably too late now and many will think of you as a huge ho—–on
Oh yeah! so I suppose Nick Robinson will save us from the evil state eh?
WTF?
I didn’t mention or imply that Nick Robinson would save us.
Norman say something useful and of interest or just fuck off.
Scum dog child in India says, “London. Oh I know London. That’s where their police kill people on the streets isn’t it?”
I doubt people in india even give a shit where london is. but if you have a gripe with news coverage in this country start with the spineless tax subsidized cnuts at the beeb or the yellow wankers of the dead tree press.
Why don’t you get your own blog then if you don’t like the content of this one?
Oh please, I’m asleep and can do a better retort that yours.
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If yer dunt like thus threed wha dunt yer make yer oon wan?
I’m awake and I can’t do a worse retort than 54.
startling comment from john redwood on newsnight , said that if the uk had the euro in the recession , the EU would be done for and the euro for a long period .
i dont think we have quite understood yet how these toxic assetts are going to affect the balance sheet , i assume they are still losing money , which makes me wonder just how ponzi were they ??? in banking terms , again goverment will not allow us to enquire wonder why ??
when you think about it , sweet FA has happened since the rock went under except for banal platitudes and tax payer bankers pay off , i mean from a govement point of view this is really bad , they are doing nothing except get found out on troughing scams .
its all wrong , i mean clegg is asking for g20 to make good its promises , given that mrs merkel and president sarkozy managed to stop brown/mandelson save political ass idea , what on earth are we applauding at .
the labour goverment have achieved as near a national goverment total failiure as you could imagine and thrown in a toxic legacy for good measure.
i mean was the labour party manifesto
1) we will endevour to ruin the uks finances
2) aim for 3 million unemployed by 2010
3) chuck loads of cash and the borrow as the finace sector was so over leveraged on wonk ponzi schemes
4) tell the public they can shut up and take the socialist suppository and join the new world order without consultation , honesty or a vote .
you cannot make it up its sort of tradgey/horror/scifi movie “the sex change bully vampire deficeit creators”
daily mash has jaquies new porn star name policy , all level 5 pay grade women and above to be called “vixens”
Austerity starts here – the dream of recovery is over Comrades – time to clear your desks and face the fact that Labour has failed – again !!!!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1168409/Darling-plans-austerity-Budget-hopes-early-recovery-vanish.html
What a mistake to bail out the banks, all OUR money pissed up the wall in the name of socialism and nationalisation. No institution was too big to fail, survival of the fittest should have been the mantra. Now we are sadled with financial black holes swallowing our childrens money. If only we had let capitalism sort it’s own mess out. Too late now!
No it’s not.
No parliament can be bound by its predecessor (if you ignore the constitution as they do) so we could at least renege on the unlimited guarantees we’ve given.
If you are right that will mitigate some of the damage but I fear not all.
100% correct. I opposed the scandalous bank bail outs from the start, which were designed more to save NuLabs northern heartlands, rather than fix Brown’s failed finance system.
The underwriting or purchase of toxic debts suggestion – a massive ponzi riddled black hole -is the biggest act of financial lunacy imaginable, bordering on the criminal. Yet we have conflicted ‘experts’in the media, including the overrated Vinny Cable, signing up to this nonsense.
Charcoal says:
April 8, 2009 at 7:56 am
No it’s not.
No parliament can be bound by its predecessor (if you ignore the constitution as they do) so we could at least renege on the unlimited guarantees we’ve given.
Quite right but I can’t see anyone letting us back out of the UK financial debts somehow. You can of course but the average person has to declare bankruptcy and start again.
IMF on the horizon now so how long have we got? not much I would have thought. The budget will be most interesting or more to the point THE SMALL PRINT on this one will be.
100% coreect. But that Tory in waiting Dale called me ‘deranged’for even suggesting such a thing!
And he’s meant to the acceptable face of the Tories? God fucking help us!!
Tourists and foreign workers stay away it’s too dangerous here.
This only cos Brer Bog trotter isnt shy about slotting a politician now and again
Like that is a bad thing?
Only if it is not carefully targeted and more importantly, any survive.
Hunter S Thompson for PM. He has to be better than the Labour fuckwit we have at present. (though his expenses are in the same league)
Oh yeah, he’s dead. So he will be better than Gordon ‘Fuckwit’Brown
Didn’t he blow his own brains out a few years back? any politician who does that gets my vote espesialy McTwat! hell I’ll pay for the ammo!
NSF, Dead right.
Pay for it, if it was G’F'B I’d pull the fucking trigger for him!!
I’ve never felt more ashamed to be a British Citizen than when I saw the Scottish Fuckwit fawning over POTUS
Yes, we’d all pay for the ammo. You just know the fucker would put it on expenses
You know as well as I do that the Gurning Loon would miss if he tried to shoot himself!
No, Dan Hannon for PM!
Hannan
Fear and Loathing in Westminster. Has a nice ring to it.
Do we have Laws in this Fucking country or Not, Do the Words Foreign OR domestic not mean anything Generals, it’s plain to see we are being Looted by Offshore Crooks ( helped by our own Politicians ), It’s plain to see we are being brought to our Knees, we cannot even sustain our selves with food, manufacturing is being destroyed.
Just what sort of a Country and world do our Senior Police and Generals want their children and grand children living in..
Ron Paulonomics
I think you’ve wandered into the wrong country mate. The US is that way->
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Actually it has been moving steadily left for a good few weeks now, so now its
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From where I am sitting, it is this way
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Ian Tomlinson wasn’t killed by the police, he was killed by his own naive belief that British police do not attack innocent bystanders. He should have known better. As for the hypothetical Indian child, it’s well known in the Third World that there are only two groups of people at a disturbance, police and civilians. People there understand there are no bystanders. Welcome to the Third World.
Goddamn troughing Huhnes!!
Is that an automated signature tune?
Seems to appear here several times a day, do try something original – stop blog-pushing.
your blog is shit
What happens in Athens when the police kill an innocent?
There will be riots on the streets and GB and his cronies will have to GO!!!!!!
Or is that only when the innocent is an ethnic minority?
Our people need to stand up and be counted!!
I wonder what odds I could get at “Paddy Power”, that our politicians will take a paycut, pensions freeze and lower allowances. I assume they are the same odds as seeing flying pigs.
Squadrons of the buggers!
You must be joking!!! Cut our pay and expenses? We’ll go to the European Court if that happens.
Guido – Are you asking for what the National Government did in the 30s? Cutting all public sector wages, benefits etc by 10% to encourage the private sector to make similar cuts? I’m no Keynesian but isn’t there something a bit self-destructive there?
The only people taking cuts in the UK is the people!
Does that make sense?
Anyway, it won’t be the MPs unless I get hold of ‘em!!
Don’t worry – the Governent will fix everything with its “Green” budget – as reported by Pravda/BBC
ZaNuLabour BS for hiking up Road Tax, Petrol, Gas and diesel again. How original.
“These extra taxes will stop us damaging the environment and raise money to spend on Blah Blah”
If you jack up prices to stop usage of fuel, less fuel is used and you raise less revenue thru Fuel tax and screw up even more businesses.
The Dutch are scrapping their Air Passenger Duty because it is not raising revenue as planned – but losing revenue and driving business out of Holland. The Belgians and Germans have canned the whole idea because they are the recipients of the Dutch mistake. Meanwhile in the UK ZaNuLabour plans more energy tax rises – a Government of all the Hoons.
And the proposed car scrapping scheme? Take out a loan for a new car to save a couple of hundred quid on Road Tax – If I cannot afford a couple of hundred quid Road Tax, I cannot afford a car loan.
The time has come for a General Strike.
And the proposed car scrapping scheme? Take out a loan for a new car to save a couple of hundred quid on Road Tax – If I cannot afford a couple of hundred quid Road Tax, I cannot afford a car loan.
This car scrapping scheme really winds me up. Last I heard there would be a 2000 pound subsidy for people buying new cars. Guess what? That’s my entire budget for buying a second hand car that is safe for me to drive my pregnant wife around in. Labours idea of helping the less well off appears to be tax us into oblivion and then give all our taxes to rich fuckers who can actually afford to buy a new car. I hate them so much. They’ve ruined the working poor in this country.
I think that should be they’ve ruined anyone who works …
that’s the whole point though isnt it. The socialist model is to assume that they take your money and decide how it is spent. The conservative (proper ones – not Cameron) believe that the best person to decide how to spend YOUR money is YOU.
As Thatcher reminded us (and we need reminding again) there is no such thing as “government money” it is OUR FUCKING MONEY!
Re:Ian Tomlinson. Al Ja Beeba spinning furiously showing RBS windows being smashed, thus claiming the police were under pressure and implying their brutality was justified?
Erm, was Ian Tomlinson one of the people smashing RBS’windows? No!
Was Ian Tomlinson threatening police with his hands in his pockets? No!
Was Ian Tomlinson an innocent man walking home from work assaulted by the police? Yes!!
Meanwhile, copper’s boss is claiming for Pay Per View porn, contributions to the expenses paid by Mr. Tomlinson’s taxes!
Welcome to the police state………….
They’re carrying on the same way on ‘Today’– bending over backwards to make sure we understand the Gestapo only push people over because they are keen to help them across the road ‘as efficiently and effectively’as possible.
Yep its that creepo Ewan-the-Welsher, lisping twot, bends to anything, get im orff and take out Sarah Bollocks also
Its going around the world….”Victim of UK Police Murder Squad”
Christ, what has happened in the UK? I watched that clip and was thoroughly appalled. I served with the Army in N Ireland and was in a couple of riots, now if we had have walked up behind a person who was walking away from us, hands in pockets and belted him over the head knocking him to the ground and he subsequently died a few minutes later, then I ask you all to consider what the response would have been….especially from the BBC! Even if he had have pushed in a coupe of windows or even thrown a petrol or nail bomb at us, there would have been hell to pay (and to an extent, rightly so). Even if ‘words had been exchanged” – in NI the verbals were extreme but it didn’t justify belting someone on national TV, sure it happened on occasion but the backlash was extreme and the disciplinary procedure against miscreants heavy.
What the hell kind of orders have the Police in London received in regard to policing the G20 event? What are their Rules of Engagement (RoE)? Who is in charge?
What sort of a country has the UK become when a police officer can random assault (and perhaps have murdered) a man walking away from him with his hands in his pockets?
Sickening to hear the BBC spin this for the Government and the now SS (or more thug like SA)-like police force now in the UK.
The police are obliged to keep public order and if they see someone in the crowd not mis-behaving they have to do something otherwise eventually everyone will start to stand around with their hands in their pockets and there will be no public order to keep.
Fucking obvious init
Having said that, Guido, it’s not as if the Irish government is short of fat to cut.
They are massively inefficient and have huge numbers of unnecessary backoffice staff. They colluded with the developers to create the property bubble in the first place, and then assumed that windfall incomes from the bubble could be relied upon as ongoing revenues. The final insult is that they, while emplying anyone who wasn’t nailed down, then paid them 20% more than the private sector which inflated wage and asset prices further.
You only really need to ask why Biffo thinks he is worth twice the salary of Obama, for running the government of the country with half the population of a medium sized city.
Even so, I’d still rather be here than back in Blighty.
Why are Euro MPs getting such an easy ride? If we were allowed to dig deeply into the shady goings-on in Brussels and Strasbourg then we’d find far worse scams being operated there, like MEPs turning up with their suitcases on Friday morning, clocking in as present for the day then slouching off to their weekend homes.
Try this blog, too:
http://www.beppegrillo.it/eng/condannati_parlamento.php
to see how many Italian MEPs are convicted criminals – remember, they make laws governing our lives, not just for Italian citizens. The EU parliament has more influence on our lives than Westminster does, but MEPs seem to be immune from investigation. As you’ll see in the first video, their attitude is “It’s not your business”. Sheer arrogance.
Our councillors just voted themselves a payrise too.
Leading by example – well done cheps!
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Today’s Daily Mail : The Right Honourable Member for Redditch, one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State for the Home Department, is labelled “a liar and a thief”. Despite the fact that this is a pretty accurate description, my lawyer friend describes “liar” as a straight libel and “thief” as a criminal libel and wishes that the Daily Mail would describe him in those terms so that he could “take them to the cleaners”.
And yet, Jacki Spliff cannot even think of consulting her lawyers.
Should one laugh, cry or emigrate?
TSK! picking on Jackie jus’cos she’s a woman. C’mon Jack, take them to Court!.
Who would have thought that if Tony Blair had been rightly replaced by his deputy, the Right Honourable John Prescott (from Wales) instead of Gormless Brown Trousers (from Scotland), we might just be in less of a mess than we are now.
Where are our English leaders with English names. Are they all bastards?
John Prescott hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Arnold Schwarzenegger is rich, as are many of our MPs. He hands the money he earns as governor of California back to the state. It’s called integrity.
He’ll be back.
It’s a sorry state of affairs when our politicians are put to shame by Arnie.
Reminds me of that Downfall video spoof
“…but Labour will provide for me and my family”.
The turkeys have been growing fat and are hardly going to stop eating a month before Xmas are they
Spring 1945 – Hitler lies in his bunker contemplating his imminent demise whilst many of the senior politicos retreat to the almost impregnable Berlin Flak Tower and in an unparalleled orgy of debauchery, prompted by a complete and almost universal breakdown in personal morality templates, fuck the living daylights out of each other in the almost certain knowledge that will be the first to suffer the Ruskies Revenge.
Spring 2009 – and not a lot has changed, der Fuhrer is in his pit of a bunker, picking his nose and biting his nails and his MP’s are roaming the flak tower that is UK 2009 – the only difference that 64 years has made is that they’re fucking us this time!
A visibly Tired and Emotional Spokes PorkPerson at 10 Drowning (in Debt) Street has issued the following statement :
Look! (© T. Bliar) – (who, incidentally, really is Saving the World, – and giving directions to sundry high profile leaders, – and this is causing The Beloved One, who as you know is incredibly jealous, – great anguish and pain).
1. I repeat, Regarding the Prime Mentalist’s rocket and satellite – which may, or may not, be orbiting overhead, – He (or She) believes it, and that’s all that matters!
He (or She) continues to believe that the satellite broadcasts to all gullible Comrades of goodwill that He (or She) has saved the World, and that it marks a triumph against all who say the UK is bankrupt, and led by bent politicians and that He (or She), Herr Comrade ChairPerson McStalinBrownStainovich is bonkers.
In any case, nothing is His (or Her) fault!
2. And again, regarding the Former Cook’s expenses claim, burger bar, and TakeAway stall, – I repeat, – she got the films solely to see whether customers preferred to squirt their sauce INTO or ONTO their muffin, – purely for research purposes you understand.
Now just leave us alone. We’ve had a bad night.
The Northern Irish Politicians don’t seem inclined to get their snouts out of the trough. Mr & Mrs Robinson trousering £572,000, for example. Or the Sinn Fein flats in London that cost an astounding £52,500 a year and are hardly ever in use….
The Penguin
someone look at the Paisley office in Ballymena, go on, please…..
Yes, it’s mighty rich that Sinn Fein/IRA MPs are trousering shedloads of taxpayer’s hard-earned when the bastards refused to take the oath and also refuse to attend the HofC. FFS, what are we doing financing bloody flats in London for?? Certainly isn’t in pursuit of their parliamentary duties, that’s for sure!!
I saw some were asking guido for more titty or totty. Here’s something about a man who doesn’t want totty.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23673603-details/Blair:+Pope's+views+on+gays+are+out+of+step/article.do
New one from Bliar: “for being gay, and yet, at the same time, I don’t believe that has altered people’s opinion of him”.
Did he put condoms on expenses?
How could our opinion of him be affected by his sexual orientation?
If Mandelson were heterosexual, he’d still be a Hoon
Hang on. Are you saying Mandelson is a homosexualist? Well, bugger me!
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It’s not within the rules for us to take a pay cut
And, of course, it would not be the right thing to do.
It didn’t start in America
guido this posting way u have is rubbish cant see what u write half the time
anyway is this not the irish doing what we have done deflating their currency its already happened in the Uk except no one has noticed the decline in purchasing ppower as it is not as stark as the overnight act of ireland
Firefox.
Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, called for the IPCC to be completed “as quickly as possible”.
“If it identifies the need for a criminal investigation then that also needs to be pursued,” she said.
It’s time to pack up and leave when the Irish have material that will allow them to start jokes with “heard the one about the British MP’s who…..”
Passing around The Cat…
How quintessentially Irish!
So stupidly simple, only we could have been capable of doing it.