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Max Clifford says…
“Most people want to read nasty things about people, not nice things.”
DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:
Maybe if they really wanted to “decontaminate the Labour brand” with business people, they shouldn’t have totally buggered up the economy?
Just a thought.
Report Jacqui Smith for FRAUD
Jacqui is still working out how many wank porno films it would buy for me
“Richard’s a long time coming”, said Jackie, stirring her tea with the other hand.
“Don’t speak with your mouth full,” he replied.
the firm he used to run MF Financial (formerly called MAN Financial) is under a court order to pay 20 million to the client they ripped off over several years.
How many others did they rip off. Perhaps some of you?
Fortunately Stanley Fink departed before the thing went through court. It all happened on his watch though.
Now he’s a Conservative Party Treasurer.
What does that tell you about the Conservative Party
i thought the Labour Party had funding sussed…. i.e. governemnt grants to trade unions whose indivigual members ‘dodnate’ back to the Party.
For example :
http://www.usdaw.org.uk/usdaw/news/1137592689_4047.html
Stanley Fink (not), you Labour stooge, do you have a source for your smear? And even if it’s true, who gives a fcuk if MF Global lose a court case over $20m? It’s an everyday part of doing business in the real world, not that you’d have the remotest idea about that since you probably live on the dole and have your housing costs paid by people like the real Stanley Fink.
The USDAW link was interesting, Agent Grapefruit, but have you not heard of the “Union Modernisation Fund” supplied by BERR (ie. the taxpayer):
http://www.berr.gov.uk/whatwedo/employment/trade-union-rights/modernisation/page16097.html
“The UMF is a Government grant scheme which provides financial assistance to independent trade unions and their federations in support of innovative modernisation projects which contribute to a transformational change in the organisational effectiveness of a union.”
The latest round is “focusing on the delivery of new ideas for improving the support that unions and others can provide to vulnerable workers.”
I get my wank pornos tax free!
Because I’m a fucking tax evader!
Tax avoider, perhaps. Suggesting evasion (which is criminal) is libellous.
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C’unt barrister,
Well then, we had better take this to a court of law where we will be able to test the proposition.
You fucking sap!
I’m a fucking tax evading liar.
That is the truth m’lud.
I hope HM Revenue and Customs are watching closely and when Ms Smith goes to sell her Redditch 2nd home next year after she and her husband are made redundant charge her Capital Gains Tax on it. Same goes for a certain BaronessU and her Maidenhead flat which is very clearly not her main home but a speculative investment bought with taxpayers money.
Can’t wait to see how the four of them fit into Ms Smith’s first home.
That’s why we dropped the CGT rate to 18%
The capital gains tax angle re non-primary residences is an interesting one – I hope the HMRC have always been paying attention
And how about Ms Smith’s sister? Has she declared the rental pennies from the home secretary in her tax returns? Same applies to Mr McNulty’s parents.
Has Mr Brown himself declared in his tax returns the rental pennies over the period he was subletting his constituency office against the rules?
Are all those family members employed by politicians declaring their income?
A few avenues for Guido to explore
Jackboot can move in with Uddin
Are not the odious Ballses also in the same situation? I.E. using their family home as the main one for the tax people and the second one for their expenses.
Agreed!
Thank you for highlighting this issue, I will see to it personally that Jacqui, or Hermann as we like to call her around the office, will be putting in for a rebate of all the council tax she has paid unnecessarily for her husbands home…
See you all in Nuremberg next year!
I thought it was Maidstone, not Maidenhead.
No Nurenburg for you, mate. we’re testing out Hatchet Harman’s idea of a court of Public Opinion. Prime tenet is the Guilty are guilty until proven guilty. The carbon-free tumbrils are ordered, and Tyburn Gate is being rebuilt just for you.
The site of the Tyburn Tree is in a very busy place would bring the west end to a halt very quickly
The Hung Drawn and Quartered near the Tower would do. We couild all enjoy a pint while watching.
Yes 127 quite right – I made a mistake-sorry (see Gordon apologising doesn’t hurt)
She should turn herself in immediately at the nearest branch of Boots for fingerprinting
And to have her DNA taken – but you can probably get a ‘good’ smear from every seat she ever perched her wobbly arse on!
Just have her resign:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/smithshame/
come on england 128-9 finish of da west indies
Kaching
Fuckin’ brilliant, OH. I’ve written this up myself, here : fill in the DWP’s online form to report Benefit Cheats.
Do two – one for Jacqui, one for Baroness Troffin. Let’s get 50,000 forms to go with the signatures on that petition.
Hey like that name for the Baroness-very apt
Bloody hell – get these forms filled in quickly!. Mrs Dale says the Telegraph has got the whole disk of all MP’s expenses.
We’re going to have to fill in hundreds of forms over the next few weeks – unless of course they all do the honourable thing.
cut her and the labour party some slack.
their broke
its like ringing blood from a stone
its not there fault the pounds dropped in value and the economy is generaly in bad shape
owh wait a sec….. :S
Surely if we were to call the Fraud Squad and ask them to investigate Baronness Uddin AND Jacqui Smith et al, it would be hard for them not to do something …
Oh, roll-your-own, you are better than this!
HMRC have already declared that an MP’s choice of primary residence for House of Commons purposes has no relevance to their election of principal primary residence for CGT purposes. Same goes for Council Tax.
I totally agree this is a criminal scam, but the Commons expenses rules positively endorse this fraud. Will any of the party leaders have the cojones to say that MPs expenses must fall within the law of the land for us mere epsilons?
Those porky things are flying past the window again – must be flu.
Just filled in form. Warned them they might be subject to arrest if they proceed.
As pointless as expecting labour to repay their ill gotten gains.
The Labour Party is well placed to refund the money.
NuiLiebour hasn’t got a pot to piss in… No doubt the good o’l tax payer will stump up AGAIN!!!
Or the unions. For which they will no doubt demand more socialism.
“Or the unions. For which they will no doubt demand more socialism.”
Let’s hope so – it’ll only make them even more unelectable.
This money started in America, and we are the best placed of all the parties to pay it back…
Did the Co Op Bank ever get their i.e MY dosh back??
The party is waiting for inflation to wipe out the debt.
Won’t come soon enough. They are going to end up giving hand jobs behind a skip to pay this one off.
If it’s true that nu-Labour hasn’t got a pot to piss in I’d be happy to contribute one, as long as its got a picture of Brown on the inside. Come to think of it I’d even be prepared to make a contribution to it too.
Thank God we’ve got Lord Ashcroft on board. He may be a tax evader but at least he is our tax evader. Without the contributions he makes to the Conservative Party we would be in big trouble.
God bless you Lord Ashcroft, I don’t care what those oiky Labour people say about you being a tax evading c’unt who lied in order to gain a peerage.
Without your tax free cash we would suffer badly in the marginals.
They are not going to prosecute Abrahams either. The CPS Can’t Prosecute Socialists certainly living up to their standards.
I’ve said it before and like Master Wanker I will bore you anew by saying it again.
The liar Purnell appeared on the Brillo show the week after the Abrahams illegal funding issue broke and lied when he said it HAD been repaid.
The perfect replacement candidate for ZaNuLieBor (temporary) PM!
Anyone else remember Jack Straw being interviewed on Channel 4 when the excrement interacted with the rotors? “I do not know Dave Abrahams,” said he, under pressure.
Interesting choice of cognomen there, Jack, when Abrahams had until that point in the programme (and widely in the media) been referred to only as “David”.
This is the sort of thing a decent barrister (not some conceited, useless, lefty twat like J. Snow) would pounce on — thereupon tearing the witness into alphabetti spaghetti and cooking him way beyond al dente.
Dimwit Grimes you are a caricature of yourself.
You’re like the poor dead souls at the beach who went out to see why the tide had receded just before the Tsunami hit Thailand. You simply haven’t the brains or imagination to figure out what’s happening.
@97 Master Baiter
Hundreds of thousands of innocent fishermen and peasants died in the tsunami across SE Asia and the Indian Ocean (not just Thailand).
I suppose because they were foreign and of a different ethnicity, that doesn’t matter to you and your mates in the BN P, does it?
99 Master Change Hands Wanker
I am sure that you are the only persion capable of working out what is going on.
Now wank off!
Bagpuss “Anyone else remember Jack Straw being interviewed on Channel 4 when the excrement interacted with the rotors? “I do not know Dave Abrahams,” said he, under pressure.” Mind he did not know Mugabe when he was foriegn secretary and not under pressure, he had stopped using his glasses.
Baiter, you are bang out of order. Funny is funny but this is just sick. Hope you reflect on what you said, one day.
Purnell does seem to be a man of straw (boom boom). Apart from the partly-trashed flat that he and his ex-bird left, you may also remember the incident when Purnell failed to show up to some ceremony or other at a hospital but somehow his face managed to appear in the photo of the occasion. Osmosis, bilocation or what? Trust as far as one would throw. Has all the attributes to be a Blairite rallying point when the Titanic Brown finally sinks
For Purnell to say the money had been paid back when it hadn’t, and get away with it without censure from Parliament, demonstrates how hollow the institution has become. Been allowed to become too.
Lazy MPs unable or unwilling to do their duty and use the authority they have been granted by a majority of their constituents to hold the Government and it’s acolytes to proper account.
All 646 share some of the blame.
“The Labour Party said it was still making arrangements for the repayment of the Abrahams donations”
Obviously trying to hold on to it and waiting for the fuss to die down.
Why not just arrange a loan from Northern Rock? Daft taxpayers will pick up the bill (again).
Not only that, but they are taking advice on how to pay it back. Yes, that would stump me too; still struggling with the Gas Bill after being told they prefer money to an old stamp album and half an hour with the wife.
What will they do with the interest this money has earned?
They can’t remember where they left the cheque book.
Maybe McBride has it in his pocket.
What interest? Thanks to our glorious leader there isn’t any.
With all the tax payers money being given to unions for modernisation and for teaching union members about pensions, then the money passing to the Labour party in the form of union dues and web site support, it is not surprising there is not enough left for good causes. Like hospitals that don’t kill patients, proper hardware for the army, mortgage arrears support, replacement laser printers, things like that.
Perhaps they put it in an Icelandic bank
Given that the Labour Party is in such deep financial shit, it’s no surprise that they haven’t repaid it.
Shoorly they can just use some public funds to repay it? After all, we pay enough Labour stuff out of the public purse already.
YOUR money is OUR money, so maybe you should repay it… huh??
Taxes up next year – you can blame Abrahams for that!
I knew there was something about him that I didn’t like…………
can’t pay, won’t pay!
Is there a Youtube anywhere of Brown saying it will be paid?
Youtube if you want to.
This all started in Tyneside. Just twat the bastard.
You are not going to take the piss out of this football club and you are not going to take the piss out of this city.
Fire brigade phones Shearer in the early hours of Sunday morning…
“Alan, St James Park is on fire!”
“The cups man! Save the cups!” replies Alan.
“Well…the fire hasn’t spread to the canteen yet, sir.”
Q: Why do Geordies have moustaches?
A: So they can look like their mothers.
Q: What’s the ideal weight for a Newcastle supporter?
A: 3 pounds…that’s including the urn.
David Blaine is apparently gutted at the minute. He has discovered his 44 day record of doing fuck all in a box has been smashed by Michael Owen.
Try saying ‘halal meat’ without sounding like a Geordie greeting someone.
or Beer can and not sound like a rasta ordering breakfast
How long until Nationalised Banks are forced to lend to hard working political parties
**APPLAUSE**
I thought they were already, being forced to buy government paper which is why there’s fuck all available for ordinary borrowers?
The Penguin.
Double Applause!
Probably about ten minutes after all pension funds are forced to put 50% or more of their assets into UK government bonds, for ‘security’ reasons you understand.
Didn’t Lord Mynahs(sic) make recommendations to this effect just about 4 years ago? The master plan (down Master Wanker!) had started even then!
How long until nationalised banks are owned by the people who paid for them?
now that’s a proper question.
your question was just a spastic one.
asked by a spastic and answered by spastics.
spastic claps all round (this may take some time……….
From the BBC article:
But “inconsistencies” in the evidence against the men meant it would not have been possible to prove they knew where the money came from.
Surely that is the whole point? They needed to prove where the money came from before accepting it. If they didn’t they were breaking the law. The corruption in this country, specifically in the higher levels of the police force and parliament, is deeply concerning.
Try not to apply logic. It only ends in disappointment and frustration.
This country gets more like Zimbabwe everyday.
That’s bad news for Mrs Cameron, among others
I resemble that remark
However, given a new Government in a year’s time, presumably the CPS can be asked to re-open its files on this, Cash for Honours, cash for laws and any number of other clear cases on NuLab criminality. Since most of those implicated will no longer be “Hon Members”, there should be no problem banging them up for several years.
Or is there a Statute of Limitations on political sleaze?
Wont happen. It’ll all be forgotten, otherwise when the Tories eventually get kicked out a couple of elections down the road they will get done for whatever they steal. It’s all a very nice friendly gentlemans agreement between thieves.
No, just an old boys and girls agreement. The victimised taxpayer doesn’t matter.
What files ?
The ones we recycled according to policy XYT345 pt2 ?
Labour couldn’t piss in a pot if it was held beneath them.
Mark Oaten can do that!
That would be beneath my dignity.
Oaten could try but he’d fuck it up.
Steven Milligan did it with an orange in his mouth.
Mark, given your past performances, NOTHING is beneath your dignity!
We’ll dignify his beneath
Don’t tell Kevin Maguire
As no one is going to be prosecuted why would they bother paying it back?
Good point after all the money was given to them, on the other hand the cicumstances were not quite right.
As far as I can gather, the Police were only looking at whether the Labour Party people had broken the law by accepting Abrahams’ donations in other people’s names, not whether Abrahams himself had broken the law.
The donations were certainly not legitimate under the Electoral Commission’s rules but either not actually illegal on Abrahams’ part or that issue was not under investigation. I guess it must be paid back regardless. IIRC the Electoral Commission can also insist the same amount be forfeitted into Electoral Comm. coffers.
Rent a wife for hustings? That alone should have got him locked up.
As the Labour party is now supposedly listening to voters: PAY THIS MONEY BACK IMMEDIATELY!!
Listening to voters?! Don’t be silly…
Off to the gulag with you.
You’ve turned the UK into a gulag, Hoon
Good question for next PMQ. Gordo likes something relevant to the poor to avoid answering.
has anyone tried tapping Tony B. for a sub, I wonder?
Anyone got any suggestions for what I might do with my life now Labour List have sacked me?
Love the referral website
Everyone should know already the jobs on LabourList were three month contracts. The one that had done Obama work in the US has had his contract renewed, the other hasn’t.
Big deal.
Guidoaf Orcs will soon be back to cooking orange breadcrumbed food and ogling women at the school gate, again.
Big deal.
Doubtful.
He writes an insightful, truthful, witty and incisive blog.
LabourList is a propaganda site for a failed party.
Work out for yourself which will last….
Which parts of the employment law do 3 month contracts allow the labour Party to weasel out of? anyone know?
That’s a new one on me but it tells you that they clearly had long term plans for this venture ;P
You bugger! Walked into that…………. :O
Anyone want my red card?
You’ll never play for Newcastle again, son.
Lucky bastard.
Abraham’s money? Sounds pretty biblical.
Ah, I geddit now: a government of all the ‘talents’ (as in Brown’s nicked all poor old Abe’s – and ours too).
Biblical, indeed.
Seems that Jacqui told a truth once
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1178191/Revealed-Jacqui-Smith-tells-council-main-residence-house-claimed-SECOND-home.html
The piece at the end of this article may indicate that it might not be Christmas in July after all.
I suppose she needed – and claimed for – TWO washing machines to wash all that dirty linen
Breaking news. Lumley has been shafted. Sky reports 5 out of 5 test cases of the Gurkas right here have been ruled out by the home office. BBC still reporting it as the government who ruled 4 out of 5!
Complete and utter Hoons!
The two on the desk can’t even hide the lies. Watch them suffer!!
To make matters worse for themselves there is now breaking news about the swine flu! Westminster running a live press conference to obfuscate the whole affair.
LMAO!
It may not look like it, but we know what we’re doing…
I’ve waited far too long to give it all up now!
Communications balls-up obviously. They need to get a grip in No 10 – where is McBridey?
I have sacked the Gurkhas responsible.
I still hold that rose for you Purdey.
She should have just karate-chopped him when she got in there, a la Purdey.
What a wasted opportunity.
She should use her considerable pull on this issue to tell everyone to get rid of this idiot as no-one can trust him and his party.
Watched the whole thing and car crash would be a generous description.
Number 10 reckon they knew nothing about the fuck-off letters before Ms Lumley told them.
FFS – it’s not like it hasn’t been a massive media news story for the last week.
More toast Gordon?
I think you’ll find that it’s GOV.UK that is in the process of being F’d in the A with a kukri by an aging blond lady and a handful of diminutive gentlemen.
I was expecting the government Hoons to be positively identified as such by the excellent lady at some point in the near future (weeks?). I wasn’t expecting action the next day, but I’m sure it is all part of the plan.
Absolute masterpiece.
Long may it continue. As long as necessary anyway (which hopefully won’t be too long).
They don’t like it up ‘em.
(at least not like this)
I sympathise with Labour – if I had some of that chiselling little crook’s money, I’d be tempted to hang on to it, just to annoy the ugly bastard…
Has Derek Conway repaid his takings?
Think so – it wasn’t that much compared to how much he claimed.
Probably not, but he did have the whip removed pretty sharpish. Remind me, how many labour MPs caught with sticky fingers has Broon done the same to?
Zero?
What do you expect when our Home Affairs Select Committee is chaired by that figure of integrity Keith Vaz.
…the biggest crook in Westminster. You mean that Keith Vaz?
I always liked “Chopsticks” but the cheesy smile always pissed me off.
Come on Guido, under new management the Labourites have stolen a march on you and have signed the ethical blogging statement, thus setting themselves at odds with the PLP by undertaking something called … ‘honesty’…
Try and keep up, there’s a good fellow
LOL
Do you realise that the clueless hoons would have hed meetings about that? They would have discussed it as if it made any fucking difference. Maybe someone in the room actually said that people would care that they had signed up to this statement. That it lent weight to their site and its contents.
Jesus wept.
Gordon Brown..
“I know, to make myself more popular I will piss off the Jews and annoy the Gurkhas..”
Great combination there, dude…
It’s what I was sent here to do…
It all started in Bethlehem.
one lump or two?
Yeah, Brown better not fuck with us.
We’re fucking heavy, we murder Palestinian children for fun. You won’t get any fucking mercy from racist murderers like us, so don’t ask already.
We’ll assassinate that c’unt if he tries to stop us committing more war crimes.
Can anyone confirm that the Labour Party forces MPs to “donate” 10% of their expenses to the Party?
If this is so, then does it not show that the expenses were not legitimate in the first place?
If they were genuine expenses incurred in their duties & they were out of pocket, why would they “donate” 10% to the party?
I could be wrong on the 10% bit – anyone know the salient facts?
Have a look at the Electoral Commission’s register of donations to political parties. Search for Labour MPs names. Some do donate, some don’t. Around the Deputy Leader campaign there was a ‘fee’ levied on the candidates’ fundraising to ‘pay’ for Party assistance. It was one of the things that caught out Hain I vaguely recall, as his contribution was the wrong amount for his expenses.
Thanks Johnny
There will soon be a simpler scheme.
It’s to be a flat rate tax (on everyone) which will feed directly into NooBoringLiars.
They being the ‘natural-party-of-the-hard-working-family-sheeple’ it’s only ‘natural’.
Innit?
Ah! Now I see! That’s why they’re paid so much to start with?
So the faux expenses’ claims contribute or compensate?
Sounds quite sensible to me. Hoonatics
Maybe Jaqui could get her husband to “accidentaly” claim £600k for DIY programmes on subscription channels and make up the loss to the party?
Do-It-Yourself WHAT though?
Master Wanker can tell you. He and Little Dick Timney are half a monks’ circle on their own!
They often do it together in public but no one has complained because of the small equipment and speed of execution!
Wankers!!
Beastie baby, good to see you back.
The best Home secretary ever only has to say the word and it will be done. By myself.
December 2007 Telegraph
Gordon Brown has said donations to the Labour Party by a property developer through middlemen were “completely unacceptable” and would be repaid.
He told reporters he had had “no knowledge” of more than £600,000 of donations from David Abrahams, which could “not be justified”.
“The money was not lawfully declared so it will be returned,” he said.
Perhaps not whiter than white but still browner than Brown.
Petition time anyone?
I have put in a petition and awaiting its moderation
astounding how much shit in his own party that Gordon ‘doesn’t know about’
If he weren’t such a micro-managing control freak, it might be almost believable!
He has a depth perception problem.
Well that’s only 16 months ago. Perhaps the cheque’s in the post somewhere?
Well they could always take them to court for non-payment and threaten bankruptcy
So much for the rule of law.Labour accepted (I think)that the money had to be repaid irrespective of any prosecution and simply has kept it.
The CPS is,of course,an instrument of government and we now expect it to do its bidding.However the Electoral Commission is independent and has seen its attempt to discharge its duties thwarted by a government agency.If they had backbone,the commissioners should resign en masse in protest.
*cough* Lord Ashcroft *cough*
Spit it out boy!
There’s no place in my party for swine-fluey bastards like you!!!
Is there a CPS investigation going on.I must have missed it.
I bet you left a smear!
99-4
152 – all out, follow-on enforced
Thank God Jonah’s not been to Lords today – England doing well. Mind you he’s a Scot and cricket is far too complicated for him to understand
Dear Gordon
Don’t want you fretting about how you will manage to pay back that dodgy donation. We’re busy making lots of brand new notes at the moment.
Why not pop around to discuss it this afternoon? I’m not in the office, I’m at the printers again. I seem to spend an awful lot of time here lately.
Sincerely
Mervyn
PS I’ve got another speech to make to the City this week, could you ask Peter to pop around to help me write it?
I’ll bend over backwards to help
That’s the wrong way honey!
Surely you haven’t forgotten already?
Is that Lord Aluminium of Montenegro?
PoopTube if you want to.
That money was just resting in my account…
Indeed it was, Father. But the Sisters of Perpetual Self-Indulgence got the password some time ago, and I think you will find that all that is left in the strongbox is 2 years of junk mail for the Folkestone Pizza Hut, and a used bathplug.
O/T Joanna Lumley press conference at 4.00, looks like GBs gone from hero to zero in 24hrs.
Jesus Christ on a bike will this woman ever go away? Every f*cking day. Change the f*cking record.
That you Gordon??!!
No chance of that, she is a very determined lady is our jo(god bless her golden heart)!
Brown lied to her to her face, she is going to extract her revenge and it wont be pleasant for the prime mentalist either! McBust still thinks he can lie and cheat people, those days are gone.
@84 – indeed, how dare she try to highlight the plight of people who have actually done something for this country. Doesn’t she understand that any places they take have already been earmarked for bone idle wastes of organs who will more than likely vote Labour when they become eligable?
The cheek of some of these celebs takes the biscuit!
Cry me a river
” she is going to extract her revenge ”
Oohh – makes me go all goose pimply! – ‘specially if it’s revenge Gurkha style
Don’t think I’d want to willingly upset Jo L.
“bone idle wastes of organs who will more than likely vote Labour when they become eligable?”
Since when did anyone living (or dead) in a marginal have to wait to become eligible, in order to vote Labour?
Saw the news and thought Oh they’re fucked – again.
They can’t even rearrange Titanic deck-chairs.
Thought Joanna played a very clever line yesterday – all that bit about ‘trusting Gordon, he completely agrees, right at the top of Government etc etc’. She gave him zero wriggle room dressed up as a thank-you.
HAHAHAH
it sets hard, then rub it down.
Is that right?
Phil Woollass – “It’s all a misunderstanding”. But we do understand, you say one thing and do another.
http://therantingkingpenguin.blogspot.com/2009/05/when-is-definite-promise-not-worth.html
Mmmmmmn, Absolutely Fabulous!
The Penguin.
She screwed little Phil Woolarse live on TV. Quite a sight.
Ms Flint won’t be amused
I had no idea Flint’s a Woolarse squeeze. Well well. The thot plickens.
330 In truth they are probably just good friends.
Link
I’m a celebrity Get me outta here.
Nick Robinson must be ‘got at’, more and more overtly working for the other side. Praising that Parteh Hoon Woollas is disgusting.
Sky News just reported that there have been ‘shocking and devestating developments’ according to Gurkha Justice campaign.
Looking forward to the news conference, tee hee.
Gurkha lawyer’s just come out, Lumley’s still giving Woollass a going over, not the sort most of us would want from her. He didn’t look a happy bunny when he spoke to Sky a while ago.
Lumley and Woolas are meeting in BBC office in Westminster now.
Most entertaining coverage on BBC News (for a change) – hilarious.
It’s like ‘The Thick of It – the documentary’.
Toenails smearing the Gurkha Justice campaign…
Woolas got policy dictated to him by Lumley. Did not look happy. Hilarious.
Toenails smearing the campaign as being led by ‘professional opponents of the government’. Filthy Labourite propagandist.
This is simply not good enough. Nick Robinson may have his own agenda – many journalists do – but he has overstepped the mark this time.
Very unprofessional by NR. I wonder, has someone offered him a job in the Labour party after the election?
Sorting out the redundancy payments in the P45 department?
Has anyone seen my husband?
He’s a fat rosy-cheeked bastard who seems to have disappeared
Can you email him?
I’ve got one spare, if you’re interested. His mother tells me she was married when she had him, but don’t let that put you off. He is cheap to feed (mainly lager and pork scratchings), and he’s good with computers.
Derek Draper has resigned his editorship at Labourlist.org. There is an article on the BBC site.
Old news.
Still nice to read though
The interview is an hour old.
It was BBC breakfast this morning. Who gives a shit about draper anyway?
But good news.
Drpaershit.com cares
Address not found. Try again you unfunny fuck.
That would be the one delivered by semaphore.
Nothing really.
Just trying to draw the heat off Gordon.
Oh you can suck me anytime
Have you been arrested yet you great lard of Liebour shite.
Beamer Uddin, bathplugs Smith two sides of the same corrupt coin.
Old Holborn’s got a link to report Shambles Smith what about ditto for Udder Uddin
Time to sneak out of my ‘homeland’, and back to Bangladesh methinks. Don’t watch the ports, I’ll be flying first class, in the style to which I have grown accustomed.
Maybe just one last suck at the taxpayers’ teat before I go.
Don’t talk tripe Udder!
When you get back , honey , be a sweetheart an post me some decent bhang to ewanme@live.co.uk x .
I’m getting fucked off with EuroSkunk .
Ta E x .
Labour were facing bankruptcy in May 2008 until the unions stepped in to bail them out with an undisclosed amount of money and an undisclosed amount of favours.
So far nothing else has been said about their finances recently but I would imagine things aren’t going to get better, to paraphrase a catchy liebour saying in 1997.
Still, to keep it fair, they’ve bankrupted the country to make everyone feel their pain.
Still, they were hoping that this would all die down and nobody would notice after a while.
It is up to Guido to push this so that they, and the electorate will never forget!
Hey Guido – what kind of dialect does your moderation algorithm use? My statement above was perfectly reasonable – no naughty language, no nutters/fringe stuff.
Just curious – keep up the blindingly great work though!
Looks like there is a trouble on Gurkha front again. 5 out of 5 Gurkhas have been refused permision to stay and Joanna Lumley is reported to be in urgent talks with Phil Woolas. She could do a Martin Bell and stand against him in the next GE. When will they read the public mood?
Err, they are reading the public accounts.
If the Gurkha’s, as worthy as they are, get in to Britain, then it will set the precedent.
I have no figures for how many Africans (for instance) have served in the British Army over the years are, or how many dependents they have, but I am guesstimating it is not just a handful.
After the Gurkhas win their case, many others will follow. That is for sure.
Quite simply: We cannot afford to house them, feed them, provide pensions & healthcare & schools & English lessons for them – let alone deal with yet another open goal for our resident national socialist fuckwits to score yet again.
Christ on a bike – we won’t be able to keep our own in the near future.
The Gurkhas had a contract. Nowhere in the terms & conditions of service did it ever say that British residency or British citizenship was part of the package.
So why are we here?
When they were based in Hong Kong Gurkhas were allowed to settle there. When the Gurkhas became based in the UK, those who retired before 1997 do not have the automatic right to settle here. I think those who retired after 1997 do.
It is niggardly to make such a distinction.
Before 1997 Gurkhas were allowed to live in Hong Kong and they seemed quite happy with that. After Hong Kong ceased being a British dependency they not unreasonably expected to be treated the same as any other Commonwealth soldier – 4 years service in the British armed forces allows you the right to settle in the UK.
When the Gurkhas were based in Hong Kong, they were allowed to sttle on british territory at the end of their service. There is a thriving gurkha community in Honkers even now.
After we handed HK back to the Chinese the Gurkhas became based in UK, thus Gurkhas became able to be settled in UK.
All other foreign nationals who serve in HM Forces become eligible to settle in UK after 4 years. Its longer for the Gurkhas.
In case you hadn’t noticed, the Nepalese govt is now composed of Maoist Communists. This is OK for right-on socialists, but hopefully anathema for the rest of us.
Maoists are even worse at Democracy than Labour. Sooner than later, ex gurkhas in Nepal will receive petrol bombs in the night. Understandably, the majority of Gurkhas don’t want to go back there.
I live close to a gurkha barracks and gurkhas have settled in the area in Ashford and Folkstone. Unlike other ethnic minorities, they work hard, speak English, interact with the community and are generally seen in a positive light.
they are not a drain on our society, they pay into it.
the Gurkhas ARE our own, and we owe them.
There’s a big contingent of retired Gurkhas where I live now. They were invited over in the 60s, 70s and 80s and given jobs driving the buses. Great Nepalese eateries here now, too. Happened all over the place until ’97.
But Liebour prefer you not to know that the piece of stinking injustice which happened after Hong Kong was their handiwork. Bastards.
Ooo, another wicket…
I can’t even be arsed with the legal niceties of it all. The floodgates are well and truly ope. If you can pitch up at Soham in the back of a truck, be driven by the police to Ely Station, given a ticket to Croydon and told to report there in the obvious knowledge that you will either get totally lost or abscond and thus remain in the country then I think someone who has put his life on the line deserves just a little more hospitality.
Well said, Sir Reggie. Have another brandy on me.
My understanding is that soldiers from Commonwealth countries that had significant service (over 4 years, IIRC) with the British Army already have a right of settlement in the UK. There is no suggestion that these terms will be improved (indeed I could imagine that they will be toughened as part of a justification for keeping more Gurkhas out), and therefore there will not be an unanticipated flow of fresh immigrants from those countries. Joanna Lumley is merely seeking equivalent terms for Gurkhas.
It’s also worth pointing out that the BBC constantly refer to “36,000 Gurkhas who have been denied permission” – which is almost certainly untrue, in the sense that many fewer have actually applied. 36,000 is just the maximum number who could apply if they were all given the right to.
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woo hoo!
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Perhaps I should pay the England team a visit – wish them luck for the Ashes, that kind of thing….
It’s Onions doing the damage.
Don’t go near them Gord and remember the ditty I taught you.
When Jesus was alive a million years years ago he voted Conservative and Jesus ought to know
Take no notice of Tony, Gord. Jesus voted for the People’s Judean Liberation Front. If I were you, I would be checking out a nice hilltop fortress right now that the rent on Walworth Road is getting pricey. There’s a great up-and-coming property in Masada
People’s Liberation Front of Judea, surely?
All out, Onions 5 for
22-2 following on
Well, that explains the decision to go ahead with the ID cards, now Capita or whoever is awarded the contracts, will stump up those contingent donations
Just googled derek draper is a hoon and got this
http://www.wikio.co.uk/video/1100414
Has anybody established if Ecclestone cashed the cheque that Labour said they had returned to him? After all they did the A43 dualling for him sharpish and he’s is still trying to steal the British GP or sell the slot its demise would create to the higest bidder.
Wot cheque?
The Labour junior minister who got that A43 duelling throughthe dead hands of the dept of transport is responsible for the only good thing this govt achieved.
Amazing what you can do given a big enough incentive…
The Penguin.
Real world….rumour has it the Labour party are in deep debt, unlikely anyone can have their money back anytime soon, the country is also bankrupt, and guess whose fault that is as well.
Betrayal of Gurkhas just 24 hours after giving highly publicised assurances that he wouldn’t; incomprehensible decision by CPS not to charge over proxy donations…
The Brown government balls ups just go on and on. Just when you thing this cretin surely can’t fuck anything else up – he does.
Its a gift.
Woolas getting a good kicking on Sky……….
Lumley for PM,hells bells the goverment is getting a kicking on tv
The ruling political party in financial meltdown and the country in financial meltdown.
Coincidence?
These bankers and hedge fund managers that support New Labour are not naturally socialists, perhaps their support was contingent on Brown setting them free from the regulatory constraints of the Bank of England?
There’s a seven foot high stack of financial regulations you div.
The credit bubble was regulated into existence because increasing debt covered over the damage caused by far too high taxation.
HAZEL BLEARS WAS TOTALLY 100% CORRECT.
“Lamentable Communication” brought to you courtesy of New Labour.
+ + + Mining the archives + + +
There are at least *two* pictures in the archives of the Prime Minister with his trouser leg tucked into his sock.
By taglines, caption competition 10.03.09, and Where’s Gordon? 24.04.07.
Paraphrasing Lady Bracknell, once may be regarded as careless; twice is gun-smoke evidence of serious mental illness.
Next thing we know he will be telling people to go and kick a blind man in the Charing Cross Road and insisting on holding all conversations in the downstairs khazi. He has booked his one way ticket to a soft-walled room. No question of it.
O/T
Is anyone else watching the Phil Woolas vs Ghurkhas live Q&A car-crash on Sky News?
Nah, but the Conservalibs are jostling to make there point on BBC Lies 24.
Fuck me this government is pissing awful. The entire massed ranks of government and whitehall are being KICKED in the balls repeatedly by Joanna Lumley.
How stupid must they be? How fucking, blinding, awfully dumb are they?
I think I might love her.
Does anyone else love her? I’ll fight you.
I’ll fight you Frank.
She great , ain’t she ?? I love her an I’m a healthy hetero blond bimbo .
Didn’t she used to be in The New Avengers wiv Jeremy Clarkson ???
E x .
No, it was with Kevin Keegan
Isn’t she just using the twin old-fashioned weapons of charm and politeness, whilst insisting that people giving commitments (eg G Brown) are forced to stick to them without going in for the usual politicians’ mealy-mouthed clarifications and spin?
Funny way of going about things – who knows, it might catch on.
I have always loved her, at least since I was allowed to stay up late to watch the Avengers.
Though I think I loved the blonde one in Abba even more.
Damn! Forgot to make cunning humourous remark about ‘avenging’. Bugger!
LOL Jack !!
Ain’t that annoying when you hit the ‘submit’ button before ya put the killer , screen-spray comment in ???
I do it every time x .
St. Joanna for president of a New British Order where things are nicer .
See ya E x .
Looks like McMoron has met his Waterloo
Agreed – it was always a toss up(no pun intended)between Joanna and Agnetha when I was youger. I probably wouldn’t refuse even now although I should beso lucky !
Ayo Ghurkali!
Absolutely Fabulous!!!
Nick Robinson asking a very pro Nulabour question – unbelievable
Lickspittle Robinson is a complete disgrace. He asked ‘Are you being used, miss lumley, by other political parties on this issue.’
This should be a question he asks himself every morning when he looks in the mirror.
Seconded.
Frank Fisher, She’s not looking bad for 63…
Ah it’s just that voice….
She has surplanted Jenny Agutter as the owner of the sexiest vowels around…
Did you say Jenny Agutter’s bowels? Hmmmm.
Aaaaaah stop it – Jenny Agutter in The Railway Children !!!!!!!!!!!!!!.Although Francesca Annis was pretty hot in her prime too !
But what about Jenny Agutter in “Logans Run” or “Walkabout”?
As an expert in the female form let me recommend “Walkabout”
Woolas did fine and the barmy army nutjob made an idiot of himself live on telly, beautiful.
Mr Angry wah wah wah what a twerp.
If it hadn’t been for Lumley coming to his rescue he would have fallen in to a chasm, loved it.
He’s a classic frother, tee hee hee.
You need to get those rose tinted glasses off your mug sometime,it was a goverment car crash and worse of all it was on tv.
It was delicious watching the barmy army nutter froth and rage.
It’s clear that the inability to maintain emotional equilibium made him rant about the rejection letters, without having read them properly.
The letters themselves, in the final paragraph explain that the decisions will be reviewed under forthcoming new guidelines.
If he had been able to maintain any composure his brain would have been engaged enough to understand what was written.
Mr Angry wah wah wah, Lumley must be incredibly embarassed to be associated with such a nut job.
Aren’t you blind yet, masturbater?
I never even touched my penis.
You deluded little twat, why don’t you just crawl away and die all alone and uncared for? Soon.
The Penguin.
Ponging one, oh fishy breath, you blubbery bird brain
….wait for it….
How about NO?
You’ve got to be fucking joking.
That was the biggest disaster since the Little Big Horn, and on 5Live Pienaar and Anand were joking openly about more Nokia chucking being likely. Woolas came across like Dolly’s slightly slower little brother, the one who got dropped on his head as a baby.
That’s how big a joke Brown has become- even lickspittle Labour toadies like the 5Live lot are laughing at him.
He’s fucked
Where was Chris Grayling (face like a snail simmered in garlic) Shadow Home Secretary? David Davis isn’t even on the Opposition Front Bench any more. Strange, very strange.
Carry on Cameron can’t even get hold of one of his own players.
Maybe they were worried David (I coulda been a contenda) Davis would knock ‘em to the ground?
ah well…..
The ultimate wanker.
Who?
Carry on Cameron
David Davis
Chris Grayling
or you?
All of the above, but especially you.
Leave your dick alone.
Read a book.
You must have watched a different press conference to everyone else.
However, not surprised you are against the Gurkhas – no matter what anyone does for the country, if they’re the wrong race… disgraceful, but no surprise.
From my uni days I remember a nonentity called Phil “coal note dole ” Woolas – maybe he’ll get environment in the reshuffle and perform yet more mental gymnastics to keep us all amused.
Still interesting to see how playing anti-asian card will go down in Oldham.
According to Joanna Lumley GB told her he didn’t know what was going on – WE all know that, now he’s admitted it.
Yes Master Wazzock I’ve come back to haunt your ass.
My bum hole is haunted.
I think you’ll find that’s a problem with your vocal cords
It’s dark up here.
The money has been spent. It was the right thing to do! The charges were always going to be droped. Just because some one says they knew all about it does’nt mean its a conspiracy and anyway you can’t prosecute Labour for taking money. That would be like blaming pigs for having a snout, which of course I havn’t. So there.
2001: Labour: Statistics show immigration beneficial to economy
e…Blair government has quietly been trying to ease the passage of “economic migrant”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2001/jan/29/asylum
Unless of course they’re Gurkhas
Pravda already spinning as to what Joanne Lumley,Sky tell a different tale,Sky is the one I believe.
What a fuckin’ shambles. Their handling of the Gurkha issue is matched only by their handling of the economy,, and expenses … and immigration … and crime … ooh er …
Apart from managing immigration, the economy, the currency, education, defence, health, employment, pensions, the police, the judiciary, foreign policy, political corruption and benefits appallingly badly I think we can all agree that this government does a good job.
and disappearing our civil liberties, killing Kelly, having an unelected leader and not having a ref on Lisbon, fucking amazingly well!
And killing a couple of hundred seviceman by pitching us into a war on two fronts and not buying the kit required because of Labour political infighting.
Ok, you tax paying Wallies, we have spent all of Abraham’s dosh.
In the public interest, we can reveal how Team GB blew his money
95 % was pissed against the wall
and the rest we wasted.
Britain never had it, so good.
Careful with your comm,arse
Apart from all that, prudence has guided my hand.
Mrs Palm and her five lovely daughters.
Oddly enough, that actually sounds believable.
Joanna Lumley has lovely sibilant esses as well…
Plus, she don’t half talk posh.
You don’t have to be posh to be privileged.
and such beautiful aspirates
She’s bloody hot too for an OAP!!!!!
Well here is the Beeb’s summary of the economy, spin spin spin. I think this is were Gordon McFuck got his lessons.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8037500.stm
Will Fred keep on earning though, and is he happy with the government takeing more and more of his money.
What the donkey’s cock forgets to mention is that because McFuckery has borrowed £10 of loads of people the GBP currency has devalued by about 30%, so everything we import cost 30% more – £6000 on a £20,000 car – NOT SO FUNNY NOW YOU WANKER IS IT?
Everything we import food, cars, oil, steel………you really are a bunch of tossers
What they omitted was that by the time this lot have finished us off a £billion will only be worth a tenner!
Get out and buy a wheelbarrow while you can still afford it. you’ll need it to bring a week’s wages home.
Hiya! It’s Debbie, P A To Mr Screwtape.
Mr Screwtape has rushed off to Pakistan and has asked me to update you. He wasn’t very happy before he left.
“What the angel is this?” he hissed, flapping a paper at me.
“An FoI, Mr Screwtape, Sir. A Freedom of Information Request”.
“The consultants are behind this, I’ll warrant”.
“Yes, Sir. They said it showed – ”
“I bet it involved ‘transparency’ and ‘accountability’ and words such as ‘proactive implementation of goal-oriented modal engagement’.”
“You know already?”
“Of course I know already. I wrote the original. Consultants – from clay tablets to silicon chips, nothing changes. Borrow your pocket watch and charge you fifty guineas to tell you the time. Some of us have insurrection to forment. You’re a bureaucrat. Make up some plausible figures and get rid of it.”
Mr screwtape, you are a scamp!
A sign of this government’s utterly, uddinly, lamentable performance is that they are unable to shut down this Gurhka story — it goes on and on and on and on
Why don’t they do the decent thing and resign en masse?
exacyly because it’s the decent thing to do
And of course the right thing to do.
because its what we do….
Because we don’t have an instruction manual on how to resign.
I like uddinly. this could be the 1,000,001th word in the OED. Have you copyrighted it, and can I use it?
Since Tom McKillop effectively called Paul Myners a liar a couple of weeks ago, we dont seem to have heard anything more from the Treasury Committee.
Anybody heard anything?
Gurkha issue, I would like to draw attention to the BBC. Nick Robinson was trying to put the message out there that this campaign is not entirely about the Gurkhas. He asked Lumely if she felt she was being used by people in the team (some of the Lawyers), who are not supporters of this Labour Government and have an ulterior motive. He then when talking to Jon Sopel said one of the Lawyer was a known ‘Eurosceptic’. As if this is a bad thing. This is quite disgraceful and yet another example of Robinson not being impartial.
Toenails is quite the McBride
Absolutely, he stated this in studio piece before the press conference, and raised it as a question there. Clearly, under orders to attack the campaign motives with ad hominem/smear by association innuendo.
The story would be knockabout comedy except that real people’s lives are being adversely affected and our country’s reputation shredded
‘We trusted the Prime Minister to take charge of the situation. This is an outrage and a disgrace’ – Welcome to Brown’s Britain – Joanna !!!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1178337/Minister-forced-pacify-Joanna-Lumley-Home-Office-wrongly-tells-Gurkhas-You-come-Britain.html
Robinson got the order to smear the campaign and Joanna, he was told to try and muddy the waters and smear the noble campaign, hmmm! now who do we know who has the morals to order a toady bitch like Robinson to put the planted smear question in? Hmmmm, there are not many media bitches out there taking orders from the nulabour smear unit now apart from toenails, who gave the nod to him and who gave him the question to ask?
My money is on Brown himself, only he could sink so low as to try and smear such a noble and clean campaign!
Cassandra – I think it is the old clucking hen Dame Mandelbum. She’s cropping up everywhere at the moment, getting her knickers in a real twist – he/she/it is pure evil.
ello ello ello , whats all this then , proxy donations found out , yet not handed back , come on labour cough up , youve been caught (again)
been having a think ! whilst the tories still have to campaign and court the vote on the contrast with labour , i still think labours strategy is flawed , they are clearly spraying money into labour areas , but they are not giving any coherent answers to anything , making points about past spends is not what people want to know , they want to know how the huge debts are going to be repaid , darling hasnt defended his figures , people senses its an open ended fairy tale, a sort of russian roulette with a turn every financial quarter .
the rather sad fact is that if even if labours optomistic figures are true the tax implications are still dramatic let alone the strength of the economy , its not acceptable for lord mandelson to cry the economy being talked down , for he is not mentioning how ill the patient really is and will be in the next 3 years .
he would de the public far more service if he said how much tax revenue will be needed to put the economy back into health , he could throw in that labour have mismanged the economy to such a dire situation , but as we see he doesnt want to mention that they have created this situation , a situation of more jepordy than all but three other sovereign states , considering we are G7 country why is mandelson comparing it to a G30 , the personal debt as well as the government debt (our debt serviced by taxation) doesnt need anyone to talk it down , it is so fibrile it is in intensive care , unfortuantely under the care of the very same people that have broken it .
the questions that labour do not answer for the public is what is finishing them off , the waste , the wasted investment, the tax payer money paying failed labour policies , mr pell has just left RBS with a pension of 500k a year covered by the tax payer for running a bank that gave the biggest loss in british corporate financial history .
now that Uk plc has made its biggest loss in history , there is no spinning that this happened under both labours chancellorship and premiership , there is on “oh my god i didnt see that” ignorance is no excuse at the ballot box , labour are sussed
Pressing the “shift” key while simultaneously pressing a character will produce a capital letter.
Educashun etc etc.
either your a proof reader with a liitle time on your hands on the train journey home , or a socialist that yearns to teach
I agree with pedant. It was hard to read.
Yes 317 sir; punctuation was developed for a purpose, not because educated people had nothing else to do.
ah but as with many these days the illumination within the content is lost , to all but a few !!
A few apostrophes wouldn’t go amiss either, Caesar’s.
Who are ya, e e cummings with a Blackberry?
Their problem is they cannot talk up the economy without lieing.
Leaked new poll out shows Tory surge:
Conservative 48%
Labour 24%
Liberal Democrat 17%
Poll troll alert, poll troll alert.
Conservalibs on 65% then? Cool.
What odds are you getting ?
Why do you bother? None of the “poll leaks” here are worth the flow of electrons to publish them. Unless you have some details – pollster/paper/release details perhaps?
The real poll figures according to the Met Office are:
Laybore: -5.1% (frozen)
DemLibs: 21.9% (muggy)
S-Tories: 101.8 degrees C. (Teatime. One sugar please)
Government backtracking and spinning on Ghurkas.
See Purdey’s face as the whining weasel Woolas uncomfortably spins for his career:
http://inotify.blogspot.com/
Joanna Lumley’s face is a picture when Phil Woolas tries to spin for his career as Gordon starts to backtrack on another promise about the Ghurkas:
click here for details
I loved every minute of it! And that solicitor the Gurkhas have is one guy not afraid to tell it has it is. He only just managed to stop short of calling the government a pack of liars (which they are).
“Joanna Lumley’s face is a picture”
Pure undisguised contempt. Woolas was shit representing shit and he knew he was.
Yep, very nice to see that incompetent mendacious bastard Woolas being severely discomforted. ‘Course it won’t last for long, but maybe she’ll be able to find an opportunity to do the same to Brown. Mind you, Bottler Brown will be hiding in the bunker every time Her Lumliness appears on the horizon from now on.
Her face at 1’09 is superb…you can tell she is thinking ‘WTF is this prick going on about’
Is it just me but she’s looking better and better as this issue drags on.
@ Alan Shearer said:
“You are not going to take the piss out of this football club and you are not going to take the piss out of this city.”
No need to mate…Kev did it already.
@ Alan Shearer said:
“You are not going to take the piss out of this football club and you are not going to take the piss out of this city.”
No need to mate…Kev did it already.
Sorry… forgot to say great post – can’t wait to read your next one!
Should’t that be “pfi”?
AJC
pft…
it hasn’t repaid the money because it is insolvent and unable to do so. In the normal commercial world, which Labour in general and Brown in particular, know nothing about, you have to cease trading and immediately stop incurring further liabilities. However, Labour’s biggest liability is its leader, G Brown, but even without him, the party is financially insolvent and morally bankrupt. Will one of their creditors sue for return of their money and when they cannot pay, put them into liquidation?
Has anyone done a post yet about Gordon waking up in the morning and crapping himself after finding a Ghurka slipped in during he night and cut his bootlaces as a warning?
No, but someone should.
Trimmed his damned pubes into the shape of the Gurkha cap badge, more like.
Cut him another hole – ones not enough to get rid of all the shit
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It’s a shame Question Time is from Scotland tonight, no government minister to humiliate – is it short straws or Russian roulette to see who’ll be in the hot seat next week?
It’s slowed down a bit. I’m worryied its losing momentum.
Once it gets to a certain size leading celebs & the Sun will back it and we’ll be into exponential growth territory.
Still slow cooking nicely,it tastes better and hits harder if done at the right speed.
Channel 4 News has reported that the Government has complained that Joanna Lumley has ‘played dirty’ over this campaign.
Words cannot describe my disdain for Gordon Brown and his cronies.
Pots and Kettles from the Govt then.
What a bunch of incompetent wasters this lot are.
Next thing will be for Smith to add 36,000 Gurkhas to her Least-Wanted list. Don’t put it past her!
McPoison must be employed privately by Brown, smear is the only thing that this government know.
Come on Davie, try a bit harder. C*nts is just a beginning. I’m sure you can think of one or two more words.
They’re the experts on playing dirty so they should know.
Dammit! I was watching the excellent Television X on the wrong night then. It is easy to see why Jacqui is the home secretary in our households!
Busy day for Brown tomorrow. Needs to remember to sack Uddin before lunchtime, and then Smith before teatime. Johnson looks like he needs bringing down a peg as well, so why not sack him and Blears for good luck. To Do List should also include trying to remember what he promised Lumley yesterday – I get the feeling that she will run rings round him if he wobbles.
Just think, the Gurkha debacle might bring down Brown, Smith and Woolas in one go – a sweet result if it can be brought home.
Assume Uddin will be in Maidstone tomorrow making it look like her main home before plod gets the nod it’s safe to go and check it out.
Has the John Lewis lorry been seen outside yet.
She’ll use Argos Direct. The furniture can be cheap because she doesn’t actually live there. That’s assuming she pays for this lot herself of course (it being her “Main” Home…….) – the only problem with that being she probably doesn’t know how to pay for something with her own money.
If she buys it on access she can return it in two weeks’ time when the MSM lose interest.when
I can’t believe Labour is still cocking up the Ghurkas issue. Woolas rambling statement in reply to Lumley just seemed to be digging himself into a deeper hole.
Let’s hope Dave has signed her up?
Almost as if they don’t know what they are doing, innit?
Ms Smith ordered to delay police enquiry until Gordon can arrange for BaronessU to take a hard earned, fully paid (all expenses included) indefinite leave in some far flung paradise.
Bangladesh paradise? That’s why they are all over here isn’t it?
Racist Crap.
If this turns out to be true it really could be the end of Gordon. I just don’t get them anymore – this Ghurka thing should have been done and dusted, opposition, media, public opinion are all on one side of an issue so Smith, Woolas and Brown decide to take the other. Its like banging your head against a wall.
The fragrant Ms Lumley is doing more than banging heads. Gordon’s standard response to someone who has bettered him is to smear – advice gordon – public opinion is solidly against you ( even though your inner voice/your megalomania is telling you differently) the hole you are in is already too big to get out of, stop digging. As for the Very Commendable Jo -keep kicking, their attempted smears show you are hitting the spot. You are a credit to we women, head and shoulders above anything the labour crew can put together (harriet, yvette, jackie and the carrot topped one (ugh shudder))
If labour think they have a party funding problem now, just wait until after the next election. A cap of £30.000 on all donations and an opt-in arrangement for union members! Bye, bye, bruvvers!!
I pray this will happen and the BBC get’s slapped down with the license fee being scrapped.
Anybody know the current size of the Liebour Party’s overdraft? Just thought we could do with some good news….
Apparently, it is well over £20 million at the last count ‘Engineer’ – and they have 3 elections in quick succession! I wonder who’s going to fund all that?
Would they dare to push through some quick, quiet, sneaky legislation about taxpayer funding for political parties, or would that be a step too far even for this lot?
Good point ‘Engineer’, but they have less than 12 months to do something. Once Cameron is there, I don’t think state funding will happen because the Tories don’t need it.
So if the unions can’t or won’t cough up, Liebour down the pan then. It’s the only debt in Britain that gives me any satisfaction.
Thats a laugh! What the Govt mean is our-manoevered them. What bastards!
Jeff Radall F**** Myners. He’s telling lies like he has all the way down the line.
Fred Goodwin did the same, good on him.
Well done Joanna. What a truly fragrant contrast with the slimey shits Woolas and Brown (was there ever a more approriate name?). He cant admit he’s wrong and as per normal the more he tries to wriggle the worse it gets. Good to see her with an armed guard wherever she goes.
The armed guard is a great innovation and helps intimidate the flimsies like Wolas. All medalled up for long and distinguished service and dressed smartly all the time, and never saying anything, just being there, in the background, staring at the lightweight and superficial politicians that rule our lives.
Lumley has done very well and deserves some recognition – even if she doesn’t get it she’ll never have to pay for a burglar alarm for the rest of her life.
In days to come, we’ll be able to look back on the Labour years and laugh.
Political historians will write volume after volume, explaining how not to do things.
Personally I can’t wait for the DVD box set.
Dino, you won’t be laughing. You’ll be paying for the rest of your life, as will your kids and grand-kids.
According to the bbc it will only be 20p.
According to the BBC Brown’s doing alright. what do they know?
I think you’ll find they need to clear out the British Library to fit all the lessons in!
NuLab hasn’t got any money, has it?
They have printed some.
They have taken a load of mine.
How shocking of Nu Layba.
bet gordy is chucking a few things around at the moment
Hope that feisty female no10 Downing Street telephone operator who brought gordon to boot the other day for his abuse of staff is on hand to do it again. David Cameron, if you are reading this, that lady and Joanna Lumley should be the first to get honours from the Queen as soon as you come into office.
Maybe after he’s had a good sob, first comes self pity then the anger.
Hope someone chucks something back at him. What an Industrial Tribunal that would make.
heads will roll. “Who sent those fucking letters out?”. ..Oh, to be a fly on the wall!
Nell. It would have to be the Royal Victorian Order. It’s in Her Majesty’s gift and is non-political
Oh dear. The sight of Lumley browbeating Woolas like a naughty schoolboy being caught scrumping apples is surely the nadir of this shambolic excuse for a government.
Woolas, like the rest of his mob, are utterly hopeless.
Taxi for NuLabour…
The look on her face as she watched Woolas speak was amazing, as though she was looking at a decaying rat found in her pantry.
Thats class for ya.
It was amazing. When she’s sorted the Ghurkhas out, lets see if we can send her back on a few other campaigns… She can just march into Westminster every day, collar ministers, and force them on national TV to capitulate.
Dame Joanna Lumley. Just sounds right, somehow, doesn’t it?
Decapitate would be better, I am certain she knows a few gentlemen that are experts in that field.
the best thing about it would be to see democracy at work, live on the 6 o clock news every night. Oops, there goes another minister, sprinting into the cafeteria in the vain hope of eluding Dame Lumley, who has recruited Paula Radcliffe as her runner….
400 Newgirl- Paula Radcliffe as Joanna’s runner- I like that!! Two honorable women pursuing this pile of labour trash. Well this nulabor, champagne socialist rubbish don’t care about the voters , these troffing (love that word) peers/ministers/pm , are too overweight (mentally as well as physically,) (mcbride watson, brown, woolas, balls, smith uddin etc ) Not Exactly slim..are they? In fact if you look at photo’s of people like uddin, watson and jacqie at the time they came into office and now a few years later , they have become positively bloated!! Says everything.
Purdy canes Nerdy !! Must get on with my times-tables, mister.
Toenails has been a disgrace even by his own lamentable standards today.After this lot have gone,he really will need to piss off home to the Guardian.
Or perhaps join Opik in the Daily Sport.
mykonos wouls suit him better- then he could arse lick all he wants!
Brown’s premiership is turning just as I predicted in my book “Boom and Bust” written before he became PM. Contact me on nigel_bowker_917@hotmail.com for a free electronic copy.
Can you send me twelve signed copies?
I’ll take a baker’s dozen. Christmas will be here bfore we know and I want one for each of my four friends.
In a surprise announcement today Gordon Brown said “All the world’s population will now be allowed into England and given free housing, free health, free education, generous pensions and benefits including a lavish expense account at John Lewis.”
Gordon Brown added “This is all possible thanks to our hard working comrades in the private sector who pay huge amounts of tax, live from hand to mouth and have crap pensions.”
A UN spokesperson said “It’s a generous offer but we only expect a few hundred million people to take him up on the offer.”
all the world’s population, but NOT the Ghurkhas.
The Ghurkhas can, it’s the Gurkhas that can’t.
oops soz
was thinking of gherkins…
You thick tart x .
E x .
I told you, Ewanme are finished babe. It’s not you, it’s me.
Have a nice life you foxy cow.
OMG !!
Don’t leave me nonce , honey . We were just gettin beyond the awkward fumblin stage an movin , inexorably towards a higher plain of conscientiousness . Or somethink .
E x .
BurlONDES!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, I made a bit of a typo. It should have said, “Have a nice life you poxy sow.”
Nothing personal like.
According to the latest BBC broadcast the letters sent out to the Ghurkas informing them that they could not settle in the UK didn’t mean that they couldn’t settle in the country. What a fucking shower! New Liars disappearing up there own sleaze filled arseholes.
No wonder the immigration policy of these Hoons is such a shambles.
I wonder if my next tax demand asking for a remittance really means that I need to submit a remittance?
Joanna Lumley MWAH!!!
Why hasn’t the Queen called time on the whole charade the senile old bat, I used to have 100% respect for her but the way she’s let Nu Labour fuck up this country over the years time and time again has eaten it away.
Because we’re not an absolute monarchy. See the Glorious Revolution 1688 for more details.
Does brown still have a weekly meeting with the queen?
He sees Mandy daily, surely?
No, I’ve cancelled it.
If she does she has my sympathy – I certainly wouldn’t let him sit down . Stand- take five minutes to tell me about your weekly disasters and leave, walking backwards, as quickly as possible and please don’t expect that I am going to Knight you after you have been ignominiously ejected from office by an angry overwhelming public vote.
But, But, But what about John Major?
Ah, John ‘I shagged Edwina but only in the front-bottom’ Major is appearing, exclusively, for a small fortune (£8,500, well-spent), in our floundering rag tomorrow. Read what the best Prime Minister post-Thatcher, pre-Brown has to say on swine-flu, mushy peas, Norma, Norwegian referees and the demise of Woolworths. All in your super, soar-away Storygraph tomorrow. www. telegraph.co.uk PLEASE.
Queenie will come up trumps soon I reckon, dissolve parliament and call an election.
It’s well within her powers and she knows the public are behind her. She also knows Cameron will win which means no more Mr Smelly round for tea once a week.
The money printing debacle (QE) ends in July after which there is absolutely no money in the pot and we will be well and truly f**cked.
I think HM has seen her country suffer enough and she will be the one to call it a day. It’s all that is left.
Just let Broon through something electronic at Her Majesty! Ha, it would be down to the Tower for a good ol’ hanging, drawing and quartering before you could say, “Mel Gibson”.
What was Woolas saying exactly? I’ve watched it three times now and I still don’t understand. It was a collection of generalisations that could have meant anything. No wonder Lumley was staring at him as though he wer a mad dog.
Woolas is like the rest of them, never answer a question or commit to anything, it all has to be run past the great leader first.
He could at least have have said something vaguely normal and intelligent. He didn’t he rambled total tubbish for a minute looking like a rabbit caught in the headlines. And to think when I was a kid I used to look up to politicians and think they were amongst the smartest in the land. Shows what I knew.
But I know nothing!
Nothing I know but
I’m so far up McBooby’s arse, I can see Nick Brown squeezing one out on a trussock.
I couldn’t work it out either. We now have a government that can’t even waffle competently.
Let’s face it even Woolas didn’t know what he was trying to say. The only image in Woolas’ panicked mind, apart from the enraged Lumley who had hit him where it hurt, was the mad McGordon throwing office equipment at him because he hadn’t smeared or destroyed the fragrant Joanna, as he had been instructed to do. As NewGirl said ‘Oh to be a fly on the wall’
and he was thinking, fuck, fuck, fuck, the cameras are here….! Can ypu imagine her getting close to him if they weren’t?
A stale pork pie hit him in the eye and woolas bit the dust.
Pork pie thrown from the crowd by a hidden gordon – just as a reminder
Been watching video since I got home from work – Woolas was just hopeless, flailing, but isn’t this superb? This is what happens when informed, passionate, committed campaigners, ordinary people get hold of these “supermen” in government; they turn out to be fucking useless.
We will GRIND you motherfuckers into dust, Labour; Gordon Broon? Your boy tooook a hell ov a beating!
This decline – this downfall – is so glorious, so apt in the way it is unfolding. These people are worms. Talentless, unprincipled, thick, malicious worms.
This is what happens when you take officious little local authority nonentities and thrust greatness upon them. They can’t stand the burden. Not one man jack of them portrays anything resembling integrity. Everyone knows they couldn’t give a fuck for the country and their only priorities are their miserable careers and expenses claims. The only thing they have to offer us is lies. And that they are no longer any good at.
Don’t throw that Nokia at me…
Actually he was saying… he was saying….
F*CK . What WAS he saying ?????????
I know… he was saying,
“I’m F*cked”.
The BBC’s Political Editor Nick Robinson said he had rarely seen scenes of such a kind, with Ms Lumley appearing to be leading the government a merry dance on the issue.
Well Mrs Robinson WHY DON”T YOU JUST FUCK OFF YOU Huhne.
WF: burper
I’d rather the pretentious little fucker was sent to the Bangkok Hilton for 20 years. All Expenses paid of course. Huhne.
When we come to write the history of New Labour, it will be seen that the only effective opposition came from the likes of Bremner,Bird and Fortune, HIGNFY, Mr Fawkes and Ms Lumley. The parliamentry opposition was sadly pisspoor. Watch Cameron and Clegg now claim the credit for finally bringing down the curtain on another failed experiment on the UK by ego driven,self serving,career politicos who will now fade into the background to spend more time with their pensions
I think Cameron can claim an incy-wincy bit of the credit.
BBC Reporting that Murdoch may be about to charge for on-line newspapers.
Does that mean more people wil fall under the influence of the BBC.
However, good news for Guido & other bloggers me thinks.
Indeed. Note the stark contrast between Sky and the BBC tonight. Lumley footage on Sky only?
And the mainstream media charging for thier websites online!?
hahaha. Best of luck!
‘Twas on C4.
What a super idea. I’ll get our numbers-wallah on to it and see how much we should charge our 43 loyal readers to make it worthwhile. http://www.telegraph.co.uk for the other 6 billion of you out there. Ta.
murdock can’t control tinternet
Comments on Toenails’ blog starting to ask why he took the line of questioning he did with Lumley. That bloke is so far up Brown’s arse all you can see is…. ah…
Ah, I get it…
Great idea Rupert, the FT charges and it’s proved not to be a good business model.
He should know he owns that as well.
Oh the irony.
Let’s face it, he doesn’t really need the money.
Ooh, forgot to change me name back.
Blondes!!
having more fun, again, Doc .
Aye lass, but there’s no trolls about except myself. And I’m a good troll.
You are my fav troll!
Dat’s nice. Except what’s the competion? Pizza faced, Master Wazzock; drug crazed, Thick as Tourettes and some old poof called Hardwedge.
What about old Harman Prick?
I may be pissed. Celebratory, you understand. For the Gurkhas…
Or the gherkins!
bugger! thought you might have missed that post Misog…!:-)
What’s your address luv?
newgirl@eddiestobart.com
Go canny on the cyber6
Pissed an celebate , petal ???
I’ve found my soul mate !
E x .
Not a Blonde on Blonde situation I hope!
A Susan Boyle lookalike methinks.
ooh I wish you could see how wrong you are!
Margaret Beckett?
still very cold…
John Prescott.
ha ha ha you got me!
Harman saying if your against dna daterbase you are against justice, ffs
Against the justice in The Court of Pubic Opinion no less.
In Scotaland dna records are deleted if there’s no convitions. WHy are the English treated differently? Because there’s more justice down here?
These people are losing it. Rapidly.
If you are against Harman, you are against hysterical insanity.
It’s just Harriet being Harriet.
Yes, insanity is at top notch.
Of all of them she is actually the one I despise the most (and let’s face it there is plenty of competition).
I bet she’s just itching to call us all ‘enemies of the people’, or ‘the reactionary kulak class’.
If only her surname didn’t sound like Harm Man. I mean, come on, bit of a give away there, love.
Threat or Pomise?
Sorry. @ MTB
I’m abit slow what where the slurs against Nadine Dorris what where they gonna say about her to smear her?? I missed it all i’m a johnny come lately.
Too late it’s all sub judice now, but you could try emailing Derek Draper.
DO keep up at the back
Iain Dale has just posted that the Telgraph has bought the disc of the complete MPs expenses….
Grabs popcorn, here we goooooooooooooooooooooo
Is that the unabridged edition.
I hope so!
Here’s what he said:
“Stay tuned tonight. The Telegraph has apparently bought the complete disk of MPs’ expenses, which might explain Mr Brogan’s light blogging today. They are splashing on it tomorrow, but I imagine Messers Robinson and Bradby may cover it at 10pm. All other lobby hacks are meanwhile looking green and thinking up spoilers…”
If it is, how do we analyise it?
Hopefully not exclusive rights – I don’t want an edited version, I want the truth out.
As we all do, do,nt foreget rubber up right.
The Mentalist knows about this, will he block it?
Can we trust the Telegraph to do the right thing? Or are they going to spin it for Labour?
They will have to because its bragging right, this will sell newspapers and Browns downfall sells newspapers and anyway they can’t lie because it will be published anyway and we’d find out they were.
If true, this is a HUGE story.The Telegraph have to spill the beans or lose readership in hundreds of thousands; unless of course the government apply to a judge tonight for an injunction
doesnt matter if they do get an injunction becauuse they will have read the files and everyone will just spread the word, the govt wouldnt dare it would collapse them.
The Telegraph has seen the writing on the wall here, downfalls sell and theres no loyalty in journalism, you’re as as useful as they need you.
Rember the Speaker’s rearguard action (at our expense) to try to hold back publication?Also, despite a European Court ruling, innocent peoples’ DNA is to be held for up to 12 years?
So how many cabinet members will be ‘outed’ and just who are the three Labour MPs who are having an affair at my expence?
Hey, let’s release this just before the Euro Elections!
Bound to be a token injunction – makes no sense because a public interest defense will prevail – but everything the Govt does makes no sense and its panic now.
hurray!!! here comes Summer!
I am sure MP’s expenses will all be revealed in THE BEST POSSIBLE TASTE!
do newspapers have a watershed?
Only the ones at Canary Wharf.
cant wait to find out who is the “sauna” mp, and the “suicide watch” mps , the “shagger” mps, the “piggy” mp’s, the “foreign trip” mps, who else?
So How many do we reckon will have to resign and is this it, the straw that breaks the camels back and Brown goes meltdown.
Now if Cameron is smart, anyone abusing on his side should be fired immediately by him or told they are deselected. He needs to get the high ground fast on this.
Gordon was hoping the Tory second jobs would be the headlines in July, looks like The Telegrah is making sure that the expences is the headline.
Are they trying to force an election now, and not in 12 months time? Perhaps Gordon himself has been claiming for ‘patio heaters’ as well?
Just watched Johanna Lumley humiliate and outmaneuver Woolas.
Absolutely Fabulous
You watching Hattie ?
Now if just ONE of your fellow lady cabinet ministers or yourself had 5% of the honesty and ability that Johanna has, then perhaps you would have an arguement as to whether we need positive discrimination to support more females in government.
Woolas now out of a job at cabinet reshuffle … NEXT ?
“Just watched Johanna Lumley humiliate and outmaneuver Woolas.”
Being a Labour Minister, I would suggest even Timmy Mallet would have pulled it off (no extra lewd suggestions please).
PLEASE get the spelling and syntax right or Guido will give you detention
And if Broon has a reshuffle, where is he going to find enough competent people to fill the jobs? The few remaining backbenchers with any credibility are going to tell him to shove it, in the hope of personal damage limitation come the election.
Sion Simon for Home Secretary!
We’ve had the government of talent, the government of all the talents so to reflect the full spectrum Brown will have to have the government of no talents.
The only issue will be how will be able to tell which was which?
exactly, who the fuck would want to take over a dept for a few months, its stupid, this late in the game, either leave them there or call a GE.
Woollyas epitomises all that is repulsive about this government = knobcheese.
As Hattie would say, “Ms Lumley has done nothing for wimmin.”
Ab Fab!
Be careful Joanna. The next smear from No 10 will be that you are shacked up with McBride & Draper. Guido seeks them here and seeks them in Ireland. But we know they are under your bed.
How dare “Courage” McMental shiit on the Ghurkhas
O
Think you’ve got gherkins on your mind.
ok thats enough!
Sorry Again.
utterly forgiven. again.
He who dares spins.
When the going gets tough the tough go shopping
How many gurkhas does it take to change a government?
Probably just one and Ms Lumley
I would even put money on Ms Lumley crushinng McMMMMMMental with a smile and a cutting word or two all by herself.
I so want McMMMMMental to die in a very undignified way, , maybe tripping on his own pants around his ankles having just taken a shit and drowning in the bog.
He’s enough of a Hoon to do that kind of thing so fingers crossed
Had a bit of a snooze old chap that was ages ago.
Its one fine English Lady backed up by some quiet and dignified men that are going to finish that pathetic , stuttering Hoon, not his own party nor Cameron.
Another reason to welcome the Gurkhas with welcome arms
I would SO love that to be true
Iandale says the labourgraph will be publishing the expenses tomorrow.
Does anyone know when their online version for “tomorrow” gets online or do I need to go up to CharingX to get one.
normally midnight, it changes usually however, they may hold back and wait until tomorrow to get ight in there. You’ll need real investigators in there but i know where they will start.
If they’ve any sense it will be in the hard copy. Might just buy it anyway as you can’t write obscentities in the margin of an online website.
It’s up at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/5293147/MPs-expenses-Telegraph-investigation-exposes-allowances.html
Looks like its going to be a drip drip affair
oh happy day! Brown too?!!!!! HURRAY!!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxzxxxx
I sense a damage limitation coming on. How did they get the disk, why did they get it?
Found it on a train in a lost briefcase?
yesh its very shuspicious, I say
I suspect someone leaked it to speed up Browns downfall, it has to be, its the timing, unless they have had it a while and been going through it on the quiet, thats what i would do to find out every dirty detail.
mcbride, it could be his last decent act.
remind me what his first was..
This could be, when I said last I ment last in its terminal form.
Where is Charlie Hardwidge when we need him, HERE?
probably topped himself I should imagine
wishful thinking
ever the optimist, me
Claims will be of PM and cabinet – not all MPs. Defintely targetted. Ooh dear £150 plumbing bill – why, did joanna rip him a new asshole. Straw overclaimed £1500 on council tax. PRISON>>>>>>>>>> NOW
But, but, but…
I gave it back when I erm, discovered the error.
gave it back when he knew expenses were to be investigated.
When will the whispering campaign against Ms Lumley start?
And what will it be made up of?
its already started
I have reliable info concerning Ms Lumley and 5 in a bed sex and drugs binges with gurkhas. She is also a front for Islamic Jehad and a good friend of Bernie Madoff.
Will this do Derek?
I can’t even begin to tell you how much I’d pay for video of that…
Totally fucking brilliant
absolutely fucking brilliant
I’ll try to throw in a lesbian angle with New Girl! That’ll fuck that Guido site once and for all! Get back to me Del.
Brilliant fucking totally was my review of the prono that the best Home secretary ever bought me.
Browns brother works for EDF – well, quelle surprise!!!! £over £6000 of expenses. Bastard.
Oh God, please can I be a fly on the wall in the bunker tonight. Pretty please.
I woudn’t. Gordon’s a dab hand with a swat.
And a Nokia.
Oh, go on then.
Would I be right in thinking that Brown has never wished the England cricket team well?
Here come the Ashes . . . . .
Fucking A, the whole cabinet….
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/5293147/MPs-expenses-Telegraph-investigation-exposes-allowances.html
MPs’ expenses: Telegraph investigation exposes allowances
Gordon Brown and senior members of the Cabinet are facing questions over their use of parliamentary expenses after details of their claims were leaked to the Daily Telegraph.
Mr Brown has also had to explain apparent discrepancies in his expenses claims, which will be revealed by the Telegraph tomorrow.
• Hazel Blears, the Communities Secretary, claimed money for three different properties in the course of a year, and spent almost £5,000 on furniture in just four months after buying the third property.
• Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, claimed back twice as much for his council tax as he had actually paid. He later repaid the money and apologised for the error.
• Paul Murphy, the Welsh Secretary, splashed out more than £3,000 on a new hot water system for his second home, explaining in a letter to the parliamentary fees office that his water was too hot.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/5293147/MPs-expenses-Telegraph-investigation-exposes-allowances.html
MPs’ expenses: Telegraph investigation exposes allowances
Gordon Brown and senior members of the Cabinet are facing questions over their use of parliamentary expenses after details of their claims were leaked to the Daily Telegraph.
Mr Brown has also had to explain apparent discrepancies in his expenses claims, which will be revealed by the Telegraph tomorrow.
• Hazel Blears, the Communities Secretary, claimed money for three different properties in the course of a year, and spent almost £5,000 on furniture in just four months after buying the third property.
• Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, claimed back twice as much for his council tax as he had actually paid. He later repaid the money and apologised for the error.
• Paul Murphy, the Welsh Secretary, splashed out more than £3,000 on a new hot water system for his second home, explaining in a letter to the parliamentary fees office that his water was too hot.
Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, Hazel Blears, the Communities Secretary and Paul Murphy, the Welsh Secretary, are among 13 members of the Government who have been dragged into a growing row over taxpayer-funded allowances.
Mr Brown has also had to explain apparent discrepancies in his expenses claims, which will be revealed by the Telegraph tomorrow.
Details of MPs’ expenses claims are due to be published in July, when 1.5 million receipts will be published by Parliament under the Freedom of Information Act, covering five years’ worth of claims.
But crucial information such as the identity of people to whom money was paid and the location of homes which MPs claimed on will be blacked out on the receipts when they are published, meaning many of the worst apparent abuses of the system may never have been uncovered.
The Daily Telegraph has seen uncensored copies of the receipts, which lay bare the extent to which MPs exploit the system to maximise the amount they can claim from the taxpayer.
• Hazel Blears, the Communities Secretary, claimed money for three different properties in the course of a year, and spent almost £5,000 on furniture in just four months after buying the third property.
• Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, claimed back twice as much for his council tax as he had actually paid. He later repaid the money and apologised for the error.
• Paul Murphy, the Welsh Secretary, splashed out more than £3,000 on a new hot water system for his second home, explaining in a letter to the parliamentary fees office that his water was too hot.
The Telegraph investigation underlines the need for urgent reform of the expenses system, which is currently being reviewed by the Committee for Standards in Public Life.
In many cases, the parliamentary fees office, which administers the expenses system, uncovered evidence of apparent abuses but the MPs concerned were not independently investigated.
sorry, the compute went spas and did it thrice.
Harriets is getting hammered on Sky.
If only she were getting hammered on Television X as approved by the best home secretary evers husband.
Brown gave his brother £6,000 to pay half a cost of a cleaner. wtf.
I understand that some irate and irrational fans issued death threats against the referee of the Chelsea Barcelona match last night, a Mr G Brown. He has to make split second decisions without the benefit of TV replays and we have to accept the fact that his calamatous judgements were the result of an honest but obscured view of the play. We as fans must respect his impartiality, and understand that he fully in line with EUFA guidelines on shafting english dreams.
Joanna for Dame in the next Queen’s Honours List !!!!!
She would make a great acquisition to the House of Lords. Honesty, Integrity Wow how does that compare to baronesss?U? Let’s find a way to remove Uddin from the Lord’s. Come on Cameron be inventive.
Meanwhile Brown is doing nothing for the Gurkha’s.
oh well now football season is nearly over (sorry i don’t follow cricket) at least there is a new sport to follow during the summer..MP’s Snout Trough Premier League(s).
I guess the top four get an entry to the European Champions League Snout Trough too.
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