Comments on: Guide to Expense Lies

By: Scottish Support for Labour

Scottish Support for Labour — Sat, 09 May 2009 23:37:25 +0000

Scottish Support for Labour says:
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May 10, 2009 at 12:27 am
Asking the Questions on McBride.
Copy of Email (and response) to my local NuLabour MP:

Thank you for your response, xxxxx, and your agreement that this type of behaviour within government is entirely unacceptable. I understand the Prime Minister took immediate and effective action to ensure that Mr McBride was no longer associated with Government.
As you ask whether further assistance can be offered, may I ask that you formally confirm (or have confirmed on my behalf) that Mr Damian McBride is not, and will never wil be in future, employed by either of Downing Sreet or the Civil Service ?
Thank you.
xxxxxx

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Subject: RE: Choosing the right path.
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 17:45:29 +0100
From: xxx@parliament.uk
To: xxxxx@hotmail.com

Dear xxxxxx

I write to thank you for your email sent on 15th April 2009. I was appalled by the actions of Damian McBride and agree that the current political culture at the heart of Government needs to change. It is vital in a Parliamentary democracy that discussions within Government and also within political parties on policy issues are allowed to take place and I believe it is totally wrong for this to be stifled and for personal attacks to occur against people who may disagree with the Prime Minister.

I was pleased to see Mr. McBride resign and hope the Prime Minister now acts to ensure that decisions are taken in a much more open and transparent environment.

I agree with you that huge damage has been done by not just this episode but by various others.

If you feel I can be of any further assistance on this or any other issue please do not hesitate to get in touch.

With Best Wishes,

xxxxxxx

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:31:06 +0000

Are all MPs desperate now to keep their snouts out of the trough?

By: The Yorkshire Ripper

The Yorkshire Ripper — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:14:06 +0000

Simply the best tirade that’s left me in stitches twice in the space of 24 hours. I haven’t laughed so hard in years – my hat is off to you Sir.

By: thick as thieves

thick as thieves — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:32:14 +0000

er, no.
the tories represent the upper class and everyone knows the upper class are the most inbred people around. inbreeding is a policy of the upper class.
please try harder to get your facts straight before posting.
thankyou.

By: Mave

Mave — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:17:49 +0000

Some of us up here in Highland Cow country are actually quite normal, believe it or not, and we don’t want them back ta muchly. Couldn’t you send them to a rendering plant or something?

By: Mave

Mave — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:14:46 +0000

So unfair to lovely guinea piggies.
And speaking as a person of a vaguely Jockish persuasion PLEASE don’t send the mucus muncher back here.

By: electro-kevin

electro-kevin — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:10:13 +0000

Thanks for the link, OH and others for their responses.

I was required to resign and was so ashamed that it didn’t take much for me to do it. But the truth is that I was good at my job, this was a one off event totally out of character and what I’m trying to do is illustrate the difference in standards.

There weren’t really any public witnesses to my offence – a couple of company employees.

What we have here in Parliament is deliberate and consistent deception – much of it verging on fraud and theft.

Had the integrity of members been enforced early on through the requirement of resignation then standards would not have slipped like they have.

By: Susie

Susie — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:22:30 +0000

This morning on Toady Woolas squirmed like a worm on Joanna’s hookri.

What is worse he must have known about the Gurkha Rifleman killed in Afghanistan yesterday. Shop him to the Taliban and while he’s waiting to be flayed alive see how much he appreciates the Gurkhas then.

By: Susie

Susie — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:15:03 +0000

I noticed that — a blink every 3 seconds. Jeeez they can’t even lie convincingly now.

By: Susie

Susie — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:06:20 +0000

A bit rich (in every sense of the word) to say “we’re not as bad as the Continentals” — who, one wonders, does she mean?

Berlosconi, Tony’s holiday villa host of choice and Jowell’s husband’s partner in crime?

Or would it be those MEPs turning up with their wheelies at 7 am on a Friday to sign in for their day’s allowance, then making a rapid getaway for the w/e…. the very same system famously endorsed by her boss on his infamous YouTube video?

Or would it be the vermin in ermine himself… selflessly representing his constituents until the end — the end of his allowances, that is.

They make me puke and no, we won’t forget this — less than a month till the Euro/local elections.