Leak About Leak Shows Panic
Real fear stalks the Parliament of Whores:
To all Members
I refer to the publication today of articles in The Daily Telegraph about Members’ expenses apparently based on information held in confidence by the House service.
The advice which I have received is that there are reasonable grounds to believe a criminal offence may have been committed in relation to the way this information has been handled. Having informed Mr Speaker I have today made a report to the Metropolitan Police, asking them to consider the matter.
Recognising individual Members’ concerns, an inquiry line (020 7219 XXXX) has been set up which will be open during working hours and between 10 am and 2 pm on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th May. A senior member of staff will be on hand to assist Members.
If it would be more convenient, you can e-mail xxxxxxx@parliament.uk supplying contact details and a member of staff will get back to you as soon as possible.
Please note if you or your delegate call the inquiry line you will be required to provide proof of identity through the MP Verify identification system used by the Department of Resources.
Malcolm Jack
Clerk of the House and Chief Executive
Confirmation that the Speaker authorised the police investigation…
What about aiding and abetting fraud
It’s not THEIR fault that they committed fraud. It’s the system that done it.
Obviously, the ‘system’ that forces students and others to buy weed off gangs rather than a cornershop, that’s different. The ‘system’ that forces single-mothers on welfare less than Brown’s cleaning bill to do a bit of hairdressing for cash-in-hand, that’s different too. And the ‘system’ that drives people to commit suicide to escape continual harrasment and threats, that’s just ye olde cut and thrust of politics, don’t be so naive to think it could be otherwise.
That it’s these people who week-in, week-out tell us that we shouldn’t be doing this, that we should be doing that, makes a total mockery of us all. Politics isn’t theatre anymore, it’s satire.
They are a bunch of expensephiles.
Has anyone actually tried to report a crime? It is not an easy thing to do, and you certainly don’t get a response within days. These darlings obviously have a special hotline to the stormtroopers
Can someone now leak their income tax returns. Now that would make very interesting reading.
Re: Clerk of the house, Malcolm Jack – Where do his loyalties lie?
Very hard to find much on this chap, some digging shows:
- Attended Liverpool University and the LSE in the late sixties, studying politics. Did any of the LSE’s marxism rub off on him?
(See: http://www.liv.ac.uk/insight/Insight_Autumn_08.pdf)
- I recall the Mail on Sunday gossip column implying he is a more than impartial toady of Gorbals Mick
- He was implcated in the Damian Green arrest
- Has a fascination with a homosexual wastrel and writer of lurid gothic fantasy (William Beckford).
- Has a fondness for encouraging poor youths in South Africa.
Is this the same Malcolm Jack?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3308659.ece
Seems to have similar form to the MP’s. Should be able to answer all their questions.
Re: Clerk of the house, Malcolm Jack – Where do his loyalties lie? – Part 2
Malcolm Jack seems to enjoy pig troughing as well:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3308659.ece?pgnum=1
MP’s are not allowed to submit tax returns on-line, like senior officers in the armed forces and senior police and members of the security services because the on=-line system is apparently insufficiently secure although it is good enough for the rest of us.
Likes a bit of black ham, does he?
I’m wondering if Dave is sitting comfortably tonight – he and his chums are awfully quiet…
The tennis court refurbishments will no doubt be lurid photo features on pages 1-9 tomorrow – and serve them right.
Guess who submitted these expense claims whilst we’re waiting for Expense Meltdown II
I bet his piles are itching!
What about Misconduct in Public Office?
Sorry Joanna – that law ONLY applies to Tories
I am ready to investigate – oh bugger where’s my warrant card gone ?
“Please note if you or your delegate call the inquiry line you will be required to provide proof of identity through the MP Verify identification system used by the Department of Resources.”
Now if they had ID cards at 60 quid a time…
It will be good when they’ve all been arrested and their DNA is on the database!
‘Fraid we don’t have a Miss Conduct. You might have to settle for a Miss Blears instead.
Boom Boom!
DT’s Andrew Porter has confirmed [on R5] that tomorrow they out more junior HMG members and that their revelations will be more ‘mouth-watering’ as time goes by…
Isn’t there someway to start a class action against the mps and sue them for the second (third, fourth!!!!!!) homes, so they can be placed under public control? They should not be able to profit in such a shameful way.
How can we get justice?,the scum make the Law!. Whose side are the Police on?. Whose side are the Legal Eagles on?.
Police are going to deploy water cannons at protest meetings. This is a Dictatorship!.
lt is a fetid boil but at last it’s ready to burst,and l hope to God that we can prevent necromosis.
The Martin dynasty are as deeply involved in this as any of them. Sons, wives, local, national and European elections – they’ve ran their private fiefdom in Glasgow for years and made sure they’ve kept it in the family. As well as making an awful lot of money.
The Speaker has a lot to hide…………..
This sort of Nepotism, corruption and downright Gangsterism in Labours Scottish Heartlands has been all to common over the years.
His great fat gut, too!
312. Exactly. All this poison has seeped down the through the shires of Britain from the venom-heart of corrupt Scottish politics. Corruption in Scotland, or McMordor as should now be known, has destroyed the economy through its bad banks and the country through its shit-awful criminal political class. Fife from now on should Mount McDoom.
It’s gonna take a long time to sort all this out. Perhaps we might ask the Scots if would care to part of the solution this time, instead of the cause of the problem. If the answer is ‘no’ then they can fuck off back over the wall and stay there.
You only need to drive through Lanarkshire to understand Scottish Labour’s action plan! Almost fifty years of unbroken power – and the place is an absolute bankrupt sh1t-hole of boarded up shops, burned out buildings, garbage strewn streets with gangs of Buckfast fuelled feral yobs running everywhere! Everyone is either on the dole or works for the council (alongside half their family) – and pretty much all of them vote Labour! Corruption is rife, and those who rebel against it are targeted by the Police for “special attention”. I’m guessing Labour’s plan is to role out the “Lanarkshire Model” across the whole of the UK! Oh – and before any Scots here get upset – I’m Scottish!!
Angry Aberdonian is right .
Lanarkshire Labour has created a stinking corrupt hell-hole where they have monopolised power and influence for not 50 , but 90 years ! What have they done for the people in that time , I ask myself ? Is this a land flowing with socialist milk and honey ? Dream on .
What really amazes me about their hold on power in Scotland in general , and Lanarkshire in particular , is that they have done this despite never having had a majority of the vote ! Machine politics at its worst .
Thankfully , due to PR in local government , we now have a few Conservative councillors for the first time in decades .
The looks on the faces of the socialist party hacks at my work when they lost control of South Lanarkshire Council would bring a tear to a glass eye !
How we laughed !
Is there a counselling hotline being set up for MP’s who may have suffered extreme trauma from having their fraudulent transactions revealed? It is of course a complete shame that MP’s should be subjected to such an inquisition especially given how hard they work, how dedicated they are to the British taxpayer and how little they take in renumeration.
(please Mr Draper, can you let my arm go now?)
I don’t have anything to say and if I did it might be the right way round yes that’s it round like my toilet seat where was I?
There is a counseling service, it’s being manned by Anita Anand and Nick Robinson, they sure know how to sooth New Labour’s troubles.
The Bastards thought they had put this into the Elephant grass and we would all forget about it during the summer recess.
Keep it coming Telegraph
I detect the rancid touch of Damian McBride in all this. Funny how the Labourgraph has suddenly grown a pair of balls at last, or is it that they no longer have to suck up to Downing Street any more?
That makes us all guilty for voting for these people.
*We’re* guilty??
WTF?
Talk about blaming the victim!
22% of th country voted labour in 2005. At least half of those are regretting it, the rest are either delusionally insane or dead.
The vast majority of the people in this country did not and will not vote labour, so FUCK OFF with any suggestion that the “we the people” are in any way shape or form responsible for the outcome of a deeply flawed and undemocratic electoral system that allowed a small minority of insane, or stupid, fuckwits for imposing this retarded, bunch of criminal bastards on the rest of us.
Here is a real suggestion for anyone considering voting labour…. do this country a big favour and KILL YOURSELF!!!
OK, so 22% of us are. Not me actually, but I haven’t seen what the Tories have been up to yet.
So who exactly voted for Brown to be PM?
Count me out too – I have never voted Labour – necer voted for anyone for that matter.
Count me out too – I have never voted Labour – never voted for anyone for that matter.
Count me out too – I have never voted Labour – never voted for anyone for that matter. I am reminded on the pro-voting TV ad years ago about people who don’t do politics have no right to complain. Can’t see it being rerun.
Count me out too – I have never voted Labour – never voted for anyone for that matter. I am reminded of the pro-voting TV ad years ago about people who don’t do politics have no right to complain. Can’t see it being rerun.
@315
That makes us all guilty for voting for these people.
Does it, fuck. We’re guilty of nothing. What are you? A Catholic, or summat?
What about a member of the public making a complaint to the police. There are any number of potential offences that have been committed. Plod will be obliged to investigate.
I wonder. Old Holborn has dobbed Jacquie Smith in and possible others. It will be interesting to see what the response will be.
I’ve lost the bookmark somehow but I seem to remember reading in a blog that several hundred complaints were made to the police around the country regarding treason in connection with the Lisbon “Treaty”.
With the police now working for the party I suppose all such things now go straight into the round file.
what about let’s string the bent speaker up from a lamppost.
the speaker is a corrupt c’unt and is living on borrowed time.
note to martin: you are a fucking fraudster. think you are helping the working class by picking their pockets do you?
you fucking c’unt.
you’re a fucking disgrace to all decent working people in this country.
If it were up to me, you’d be swinging by now.
Order,er,er,er,Orrrduurrre
Odour, Odour. oh, it’s me.
Wjhy am I not surprised in the least that the first name at the top of the list just happens to be … Keith Vaz? Should not be amazed that shit always floats on the top I guess.
We need a Vazectomey at the next election!
The idea that this man represents or is working class is laughable,he has had no association or connection for decades,the same could be said of many of these labour louts,union bully boys in the main.
as he comes from the working class and uses that fact as a justification for his theft of public funds I think it would be appropriate for him to by hanged by a member of the working class.
I stand ready to serve my country and am willing to supply the rope from my own stockpile.
no charge.
That’ll cut into your S&M activities.
I don’t care for George Galloway’s politics, but on TalkSport right now he is tearing the government a new arsehole.
And very funny he’s being too. God I hate him.
and I believe you will find that George Galloway is one of the few MPs who has not made false expense claims from the public purse.
I suppose that explains why he has been attacked so often by the corrupt MPs.
it makes those tory and new labour trolls who have come here attacking him look rather stupid, doesn’t it?
Mr Galloway is a fine parliamentarian and one of the few worthy of office.
A friend of mine who lives in Bow and witnessed first hand how he grabbed power in the constituency from the [Jewish, black, female] perfectly satisfoactory sitting MP would not agree with you. She was utterly appalled by his campaign, and thinks he is a truly evil and very manipulative man
grabbed power?
he was voted in by his constsituents you smearing spastic.
fucking ‘ell you sound like a new labour troll you fucking c’unt.
and charlie, we really don’t want to hear about you and your paedophile ring friends.
now fuck off.
Times up GB old boy. You screwed up big time. I think we have seen enough of this, I certainly have. It’s about time the whole lot went.
For starters lets have a criminal investigation of Malcolm Jack for attempting to conceal information in the public interest.
Any MP’s who have abused expenses should be expelled from their political party, barred from public life followed by criminal investigations. Political parties should be barred from fielding candidates to replace their corrupt MP’s.
And while we’re at it, the political parties should pay in full the cost of any investigations.
In this case guilty until proved innocent seems appropriate.
The high court has sanctioned it, Parliament has sanctioned it, but the ‘mole’ and possibly the Telegraph is threatened with a police investigation for publishing it.
They are only furious because the inclusion of the addresses makes it perfectly clear how their grotty scam worked. They wanted them blanked out and released in July, so therefore we’d just have the figures which on the face of it would look like they’d claimed the limit and broken no rules, with none of this 1st/2nd home switching to best advantage and a new set of furniture a year.
Barbara Follett,the ‘Tourism Minister’,(herself a millionaire) claimed £25,000 for personal security because ‘she does not feel safe in London.’
What a great advertisement for London as a tourist destination. Stupid, neurotic, greedy cow.
I am just staggered that these people will say, with a straight face, that it’s ok what they’ve claimed because it’s in the rules. They made the frikkin rules!! Don’t they get the fact that taking taxpayers money that they don’t actually need shows a grotesque contempt for the people they’re supposed to be representing? Keith Vaz should have his silk cushions shoved right up his fat…
I would love the opportunity to meet one of these pieces of shit socially – I don’t think they’d enjoy it but I would. A good public tongue lashing & humiliation might put a bit of a crimp in their evening.
He’s the Chief Jack Officer of course so he’d want Plod involved naturally….
Apparently the Labourgraph says that the tampons and panty liners were purchased by Woolas. The expenses office allowed them because Woolas IS a prize c.unt, even though personal toiletries are not reimbursable.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5298364/Immigration-Minister-claimed-for-womens-clothing-and-panty-liners.html
Being a tad hungover…. at first read I thought the article said the police were being called in to investigate the claimants, not the whistle blower. Imagine my disappointment when the hard truth finally filtered through to my addled brain. We, the people, are funding an investigation into who revealed the fact that the vast majority of our MPs view the expenses system as their very own version of quantitative easing. We are not investigating the thieving practices of our elected officials. Just how f*****d up is that? True life, always stranger than fiction……….
Prezza at his best
Nice to see that we are funding a ‘helpline’ I wonder what advice these MPs get when they call it??
Will they never learn?
No, they never will learn. They will continue to provide non-jobs for Nacker of the Yard, an income for the legal profession and entertainment for and paid for by the public for as long as they are voted into power. I personally am longing for the Two Homes Secretary to misuse the Terrorist Act once again.
Sociopaths do not.
What a shame Bob Quick’s not about to handle it.
No but I hear Lord Hutton with his roller and trough of whitewash is available
No, he’s doing the Cerne Abbas giant at the moment, whitewashing the Ed Balls today I think.
Our thoughts go out to Edwin and Yvette at this difficult time.
Who is Edwin?
Balls
BALLS!!
Certainly not Balls, he’s a loser.
Thought it was Edward
Same as
Who cares? He’s still a tosser.
You mean BOLLOCKS, surely?
NUTS in May
Yes, I do hope they’re both completely fucked over during the next couple of days. Stutter, blink, blink & whiney Essex accent – what a pair of beauts. Wonder if we paid for Yvette’s sex change op?
The crooks close ranks. What a complete shower of equivocating criminals!
Excellent summary sir!
I am sure everyone is aware of the saying, “honour among thieves”….
they’re rank crooks in the close
And what are they going to do if it turns out it was someone they weren’t expecting?
Lying, equivocating, dissembling, fornicating, adulterating, thieving, paltering, misprising, gorging, sodomising, back-stabbing, betraying, peculating, speculating, expectorating, projectile-vomiting, infecting, unfeeling, too-much-feeling, hard-drinking, whoring, money-grubbing, conscience-mislaying, self-exculpating, trust-betraying, band-wagon-leaping, misquoting, mistaking, p***-taking, conveniently forgetting, overlooking, surmising, maximising, de-minimis-non-curat-legising, suborning, auctioning, threatening, ‘pretty-pleasing’, extorting, blackmailing, me-first-ing, self-serving, taxpayers-milking, prospecting, networking, brown-nosing, canting, sophisticating, conjuring, poor-box-robbing, faces-of-the-poor-grinding, downtreading, backsliding…
Where is Jonathan Swift, when you need him? Where are Rowlandson and Gillray?
Sir Robert Mark would never have stood for this. Rooted out corruption.
Sky News reporting McNulty may be investigated over his expenses claims
And not before time. He’s an odious scumbag!
McNulty is the twat whom when a home office minister, claimed that we are NOT becoming a totalitarian police state by saying, and I quote directly,
“We are not knocking down doors at four in the morning with people booted and suited in riot gear. Most of the removals occur around half-five, half-six, seven in the morning.”
Phew, I am so fucking relieved!!! . I am so glad he cleared that one up, We live in free democracy because our detainees are carted off to be detained without trial, later in the morning than detainees in genuine fascist states. I feel safer already.
Mr Ned that is becuse we cannot afford the overtime for our jackbooted Nazis to go out at 4AM.
… or the Hoonfinder General.
It just gets better.
I keep thinking “you couldn’t make it up” but
THEY DID!!!!!
Truth is so often stranger than fiction. The memoirs of this rabble will be stranger than either!
They can of course claim the expense of the call.
How can these thieves get away with this. Shoot the messenger and take the piss out of us.
Bastards
and charge us for it
Probably twice
What I cannot understand from all the verbiage today about MPs’ expenses is why the taxpayer is routinely expected to pay for food for MPs and for their houses to be cleaned. What do they think their salaries are for? And how do they think other, ordinary mortals feed themselves and keep their houses clean?
Honourable Members have their needs. The need to be accommodated, fed, watered, clothed, pampered and listened to. They are our rulers, the new Princes and Princesses for us to aspire to imitate. They provide entertainment for the masses. Without their unstinting pursuit of sleaze and corruption we would have nothing to blog about. They are an endangered species that need to be preserved regardless of expense.
A bit like pandas, but with more shagging.
Pandas are cute and lovable, I’ve never thought that Pandas would look good dangling from a lamp post cf MPs
I work away and I can’t claim for lunches or food from the supermarket. the only thing I can claim for is meals as I don’t have cooking facilities.
It makes my blood and my p*ss boil!!!!
Don’t they have fucking wives? Get those bitches to clean.
That is sexist!
OK, then live in squalour, in a shit heap. Oh, that’s right, at least one of them did. Claimed for cleaning anyway.
Don’t give them your money. Stem the flow of blood to the leech. It isn’t rocket science. Problem solved.
Yes, the “we need a second house to live in” I could just about stomach, if I believed in democracy, but does a human being need to eat in two places at the same time and get through twice as much food, if they’re an MP?
I wonder when was the last time McMental actually paid, with salaried money, for ANYTHING that went in his mouth?
Ask mandy
BBC has just reported one of them claimed for tampons! I think he should be named and shamed!
Coo-eee!!
Things can get stretched too often…don’t jump to any sexist conclusions!
What a fanny !
The knowledgeable, totally unbiast tory basher and Labour sympathiser John Snow on Radio 4 has also mentioned a claim for Tampax which he has added is a food item.
Could this be a new revolutionary, British, cutting edge, green shoot, out of the box, eco friendly, carbon neutral solution to world food shortages finding new markets for seemingly unconnected products.
Conversely, should Snowman consult a doctor urgently, to regain the use of his taste buds?
Sure that wasn’t His Royal Looniness, Princes Chas? ? Ask Camilla – she’d know – bloody woman!
That would be Dave Davis then. It’s lonely out in the cold, away from shadowing Jackboots.
Must be Broon, he is a Huhne
I’m a cnut, tampons are vital to me.
Malcolm Jack’s memo fails to point out that ‘Honourable’ members can reclaim the cost of the call to the 0207 number.
Oh no – we have now given them justification to claim the costs of the call twice. The public has demanded it.
It’s the right thing to do
Note how swiftly that telephone line must have been set up in comparison to the Swine ‘Flu hotline.
An enquiry in to the “leak of expenses information” that was gong to be reported anyway, within the same day of publication. No enquiry into whether Ministers lied to Parliament about the Iraq invasion, or whether they lied to Court about the complicity of Ministers in torture. Great priorities.
Stupid ZanNuLab will not even publish my petition.
It’s the Samaratans number.
187 Or whether they lied about the part they played in the tragic death of Dr David Kelly.
chief sneak is safe….. lines are open during ‘WORKING HOURS’ only.
I suppose if you want to get hold of your MP you will be on a Premium Rate number and held on waiting for 2 hours.
This information was supposed to be in the public domain over a year ago.
The government itself has been breaking the law over the last year by not publishing it.
What can the accuse the guy/gal of? “giving out public information to the public?”
bastards.
I hope the police tell the speaker that if he wants to call them in on this then he should also be carted away for breaking EU law for over a year.
The Speaker’s expenses will be a treat then
He’s pretty dafe, same as Blair, theirs got shredded, by mistake of course.
Blair is ahead of the pack – on most things.
They always were
they could always ask them to look into the leaks about the budget, you know, while they are at it…
“If you have got nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear”?
Yup, they did nowt wrong so why worry?
Pet lambs.
Huhnes Huhnes Huhnes Huhnes Huhnes Huhnes Huhnes Huhnes. The lot of them
That is the sort of libellous comment that needs to be encouraged.
libellous. A statement of fact me thinks.
Nothing libellous about vulgar abuse. You can call them shitfucking-motherfucking-sons-of-whores as much as you want, you’re just not allowed to call them thieves.
gordon brown is a thief.
If in doubt arrest a Tory MP or ban a yank shock jock.
They haven’t started blaming the CIA yet, so you know this one has a long way to run.
It was NOT us.
Why not? What are allies for?
It makes perfect sense now that the PM was so slated by foreign Heads of Government on his last whistle stop tour. Their Ambassadors probably had inside knowledge to this debacle.
Hey, at least Gordon Brown’s claim for a Noah’s Animals blind was for personal use. If it was for his kids that would really take the biscuit.
The padded ‘Gordon The Big Engine’ wallpaper needs to be looked into though.
To call in the police only proves they have every intention to continue with their lifestyles. Squandering taxpayer pounds is too good a thing to lose.
They should be having a meeting to discuss fixing the problem – not calling the police on the snitch and blaming the system! Bloody disgraceful, shameless pigs they are!
Not fit to function on behalf of the country
Dont worry any Jury will tell them to go and fuck themselves and aquit !
Don’t be so sure.
I remember sitting watching the Ponting trial at the Old Bailey. The judge tried to refuse to let the jury decide if he was guilty or not – it took both Prosecution and the defence about an hour to pursuade him that Ponting was still entitled to a ‘perverse verdict’ from the jury – which turned out to be not guilty, much to the judge’s obvious disgust.
I hope the Telegraph have something to publish that will take down the odious Speaker of the House of Commons!
Why do you think he’s called in the police?
I trust every MPs will be required to show that EVERY item they have ever claimed was wholly, exclusively, AND necessarily required for them to do their work as an MP.
And have all outer London MPs yet repaid ALL the second homes allowances the House had now agreed it is wrong to claim?
The BBC had a tax expert explaining on Saturday morning that MPs’ expenses are in a special class – ‘exempt expenses’, if I heard him correctly.
Unlike the rest of us* they do NOT have to show that the expenses they claim are necessary to do their job.
How very convenient.
I wonder who legislated for that exemption.
—
*Apart from ministers of religion, he said. An odd combination.
Eric (1151), I am interested (literally, being a semi-retired ‘Minister of Religion’). I can claim 40p/mile for travel expenses (paid by my Parish, not the Taxpayer), a sum fixed years ago by HMRC, and which they have consistently refused to review/increase. If I were to take out a Church Commissioners Car-loan, that would be taxed as a ‘Benefit in kind’; if I were to go for a Church Commissioners ‘CHARM’ retirement-housing scheme, I would have to pay a commercial rate of interest, and/or share, not only any equity, but any loss, with them. When I was paid a full Stipend, I had to fill in an annual form stating my tax-allowable expenses (Heating, Lighting, Cleaning, and Garden Upkeep), and keep careful records of any other ‘allowable expenses’ (renewal/cleaning of Vestments, purchases of Bibles/Prayer Books); now I am on ‘part-stipend’ (i.e. 1/10th.), I can claim no such expenses, only the ones that fall on the Parish.
Funny old world, isn’t it?
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“A criminal offence? – seems more like “freedom of information” to me!
“The advice which I have received is that there are reasonable grounds to believe a criminal offence may have been committed ”
At least that bit is right.
Any legal eagles here? Could MP’s be prosecuted for fraud?
Yes ….. but it would have to go through the CPS, governed by the Attorney General…..ie it would wither in the wind.
In the old days the Police had their own Solicitors department and would prosecute independently.
Some hope now.
Could some McWhiter inspired libertarian take out a private prosecution? Not me, of course, no cash.
need a good barrister Bro Bono!!!!!!
Anyone wanting to make a name for themselves?
What’s US got to do with it?
Don’t you mean U2?
U2 ??? Dont even start me on Bono that self rightous hypocritical tax avoiding fucker
Where did my comment go? :S
So in less than 24 hours from the expenses leak we have a hotline for anxious MPs – manned by a ‘senior member of staff’ but the national flu hotline that we were promised arrives months late and only provides ‘recorded information’.
Excuse the statement of the obvious but these clowns need to get their priorities straight.
Nice one……
Oooooooo!
They have got their priorities in the correct order ,it’s called we look after us first after all we are mp’s.
Following on from the ‘flu hotline’ thought.
Has anyone received the promised Swine Flu leaflet yet?
Or has my postie fallen victim to Swine Flu?
Got ours…..put it staight in the bin……. more public money wasted.
I’m still waiting for mine – I have always wanted to know how to correctly blow my nose and should I be standing upwind or downwind and blowing one nostril at a time or two?
Damned complicated business teaching a nation of grandmothers how to suck eggs and taking the pixx by charging them for stating the obvious!
Got mine – it’s really not to be sneezed at.
By the way, did you know that every Register Office in the UK has laid in an extra stock of death certificates?
have a nice weekend.
Yes and I’m allowed to order 5 more, all in various languages!
Priceless…..
I tried phoning the flu hotline, but all I got was crackling
That’s because it’s pig flu!
This is MORE serious people could lose their place at the trough- who cares if half the population die from Swine Flu(not) – we’re talking about really IMPORTANT people
Firstly, I hope Swine Flu doesn’t become a pandemic or whatever – but if it does – I hope all those trough snuffling pigs in Westminster catch it – and die from it.
It is the swine flew hotline… Glasgow shuttle a speciality
I hope the police have the line bugged….
I still haven’t got my swine flu leaflet. I could be at risk and these troughing bastards don’t give a damn!!
They did! look after little me first
Has Gordon resigned yet?
Not that I know of: I just wonder how many times Her Majesty has said, ‘Are you sure?’ to him at Audiences, and he has answered,’Yes, I am convinced that this is the right, the only, thing to do…’ not realising that ‘Are you sure?’ is The Queen’s way of saying, ‘Are you barking? No, must be the Corgis!’
If they actually catch some one for selling this information no doubt they will be prosecuted.
Why is it after lengthy investigations that no one was charged for the third party donations and in the cash for honours scandal.
Some poor bugger has risked his career to provide information which is without doubt in the public interest. If he is caught he/she should be given a peerage at the very least. It should be paid for by the Telegraph fee for the disc. Perhaps Dave could oblige (providing he’s in the clear).
Or cash for peerages, nor has there been an investigation into war-crimes. Of all the dodgy decisions taken by the police, not one MP had their DNA taken for cash for peerages – despite it being obvious that they would be committing criminal offences as soon as they got out of the interview room.
Anyone can propose someone for the honours list. If and when this person does become known there would be nothing to stop any or all of us proposing he or she be recognised in some way, if only with a MBE:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Diol1/DoItOnline/DG_4017619
A proposal may be rejected of course, but an online campaign with enough support might be hard to resist.
He/She’ll have my vote too.
All this will do is give the story extra legs in the news, these wankers never fucking learn, do they?
It’s our fecking money you thieving bastards. Get it through your thick fecking troughing skulls that simply hiding it from us does not make it right. What happened to “nothing to hide nothing to fear” now you jackbooted democracy hating fascist scum? Why the feck should we all be CCTVd, ID carded, DNA profiled and followed on the net and they can’t even admit how they spent my cash?
Where are all the supposed terrorists when we fecking need them?
Sod bonfires, we should celebrate the 5th Nov properly after sealing the doors on the 4th.
The terrorists are in on it with the government. They only target innocent people not the government cause dole money would end and they’d end up sleeping with
the fishes.
I like your style!
The only way Parliament would get back in my good books is if they all had to carry 300 ID cards and have their homes filled with CCTV connected to the Internet. It would help if they forced to hold “SWAG” sacks during TV interviews as well.
none of this has changed my opinion of Gordon Brown
Nor ours
He’s still a lying tosser!
always has been, always will be – obviously didn’t get beaten enough for lying when he was a kid.
Sky News says Plod is considering action against McNulty…is this the start?
http://dizzythinks.net/2009/05/mcnulty-police-probe.html
I wonder what Elvis would have made of all this
I wonder what Elvis IS making of all this.
Elvis ? hear he’s been hiding out in London all these Years. Got himself a nice little discreet cleaning job apparently.
Yes – cash in hand. It’s ‘cleaning up’ after the MPs do something outrageous in public. Y’know, pay off the witnessess, threaten the ones that can’t be bought etc.
Put it in a loaf of bread and deepe fried it?
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Piss off you IP stealing twat – you are no different to the Pigs in SW1
Strange that there’s no polls about in a stonker of a bad week for Labour.
Funny that isn`t it
I got asked to complete a yougov poll yesterday
I hear Liebour are proposing some quantitative easing on their opinion polls at the moment, in the same way they will introduce it for postal votes during an election.
Why is the army fighting the Taliban, when this government poses a greater threat to our way of life?
Thats’ why the Army is fighting the Taliban.. without enough manpower and denied theright hardware.
Yes, and four of them died yesterday. And they are paid crap money, and made to live in crap conditions.
Don’t you just love this country?
One of them was a Gurkha Rifleman — as Woolas well knew when he was weasel wording and nit picking this morning at Joanna Lumley.
I used to laugh when George Bush used the word ‘axis of evil’ and here we are — they are called our government folks.
I await with interest and the comments at PMQs next week when Brown announces the death of the ghurka killed in Afghanistan this week.
As will Joanna
They would not won’t them back here as in ulster
http://www.arrse.co.uk/cpgn2/Forums.html
I dislike the government’s line on the Gurkhas, but have to say (reluctantly) that Woolas is a conviction politition. I don’t agree with his politics, but he at least is prepared to voice his opinion.
He redeemed himself somewhat on the Daily Politics show.
If only there were more politicians like Woolas. Don’t get me wrong – I intensely dislike the politics of his Labour government. But at least he is prepared to admit frailty. That should be applauded.
And I expect to get dissed for this point of view!
Very well said indeed. NuLabour is the real enemy of Britain.
i deispise what you say but will fight for your right to say it
I’m sure they’re ALL conviction politicians – and I hope that once the roof has been ripped off these expense claims they’re all politicians with a conviction – of the criminal kind. With their DNA/fingerprints all neatly fileds on Aunty Jacjy’s database, along with hers of course.
This is a genuine inquiry. Do means exist in the UK to “recall” a sitting MP as has happened here in the US where, given a specific number of electors’ signatures, a special election…a by-election in UK speak…. is held and generally the incumbent is turfed out?
Witness Gray Davis being replaced by Schwartzeneger.
I’m totally perplexed why Brits have such a supine attitude to the criminal misdeeds of their elected representatives.
Supine? We’re way more annoyed than Murtha’s constituents appear to be.
Yeah, but Murtha stands a farther better chance of being busted than the current crop of MP’s
My question still remains. How do you remove/recall a sitting MP?
There is no way for the public to re-call a sitting MP. It is very difficult even for Parliament itself to eject one. I can’t actually recall one being dismissed since John Stonehouse, a Minister who staged his own disappearance and surfaced in Sweden eventually (25? years ago). Coincidentally he was a Labour member at the time, but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence…
I think (I’m sure someone will correct me) that in effect it requires some sort of full Act of Parliament to push one of these people out.
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If you’re lucky, by getting them arrested. If there’s a blue moon, shame will make them apply for the Chiltern Hundreds (for those few who understand the concept of shame).
But mostly you do it by burying the bastards in a landslide in the next election — if you’re really really lucky the replacement might be slightly better.
There’s no way of forcing a vote through a referendum. Your best bet is to panic the constituency party into throwing the MP out of the party.
Go back the odd decade or two and it wasn’t like this. MPs did resign, and didn’t hang on like a superglue-encrusted dingleberry.
Hoonbusters. We need a process to allow us to oust MPs who have reneged on their election manifesto promises because essentially that is tantamount to fraud. The US recall system should be adopted. The Conservatives will win votes should they promise this.
We simply cannot permit the current system to continue, where an MP can spend five years f*cking the country before being ousted.
The current system is ant-democratic.
Nevertheless we certainly don’t want a situation where MPs can be ousted for reneaguing on PARTY manifesto promises. There is far too little independence of thought and too much party control already. That is the problem,, esp as it ensures we get the wrong sort of person in parliament.
What we need is a system of Primaries so that we the voters have far more control over who who STANDS for the parties at the election: then they can be held to the promises they make in their personal manifestos. The system as it stands leaves us too often with the lesser of two weevils
Above all, we need an indepedent commission to set the level of MPs salaries, pensions and expenses. The system wherby they set their own has got to be dismantled totally – as they have amply demonstrated, they can no longer be trusted to behave as ‘Honourable Members’
Cameron (and Clegg) need to be REALLY harsh on their own – if they withdraw the whip from anyone who ends up on the Telegraph’s list of hoons then they will have shown that they are with 99% of the public on this issue.
If they want to really ram the point home, get their hoons to resign their seats and trigger by-elections over the summer.
If the leaders of the Opposition can do this, they have every right to stand up at midday every Wednesday and scream at the one-eyed snot-eater that he has failed to control his own party when the Oppositon have carried out the sackings of those with their snouts in the trough…
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Gorbals Mick is as bent as they come. No bastard gets to the top in Glasgow politics without being a greedy backstabbing fuck, and he proves it. I bet Lady Gorbals has been giving him grief that she can’t take a taxi with her mates to Harrod’s with her House of Commons credit card any more. Tough shit.
The filth are having the piss taken out of them. They should tell Sir Alan Fitztightly or whatever the fuck he’s called that they really cannot be arsed to investigate this piece of shit so-called crime. When some fuck nicked my car I got a phone call from the filth to give me a crime number. That was it, they did not give a fuck about me because I was one of the little people. If they agree to take part in this blatently political investigation then we know that they are as bent as the fucking politicians, and as worthy of contempt. Fuck em all. Revolution now!
“Gorbals Mick is as bent as they come.”
Ooh Peter – you might have to sue yourself over that one.
Didn’t Mts Gorbals go shopping in the taxi with her cleaner?
I don’t suppose she was also Brown’s cleaner as well?
I, for one, salute our new bringing cleaners to Harrods overlords.
The police should be investigating the criminal expense claims by MP’s. Brown should be trying to run his government from jail.
Given that, by tradition, no-one from the Lib Dems, Tories or SNP will stand against Gorbals in the GE, can we find an itelliigent, articulate sleaze-hating person to stand against him on a “fuck-off-Mick” card?
I thought about this for a few minutes and thought that foul-mouthed but locally popular comedian Frankie Boyle might be a good bet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Boyle
I find this leak outrageous and a threat to MP security. MPs represent the proles they loot, so really this leak is a threat to national security. They’re national treasures our MPs are.
I would like to ring this number to lend moral support to these MPs
Guido, please publish the helpline phone number. All of us can do our bit to ensure these national treasures are secured.
We would like details of addresses too – whether it’s first home, second home, third home, stately home or expensed brothel. Every MP who has nobly claimed their home allowance deserves to know that we will support them through this difficult time. With piano wire swinging from London’s finest lamp-posts
Absolutely, this is encitement to murder…
Any right thinking person who reads this will want to string up a troughing MP
All together now . . .
“Oh, if you’re a thief and you know it make that call.
If you’re a thief and you know it make that call.
If you’re a thief and you know it, and you really want to show it,
If you’re a thief and you know it make that call.”
Burglar robs house because someone left the door open. Police called to arrest householder for negligence.
Signs of the times.
yay , it stopped raining and i managed to walk to the pub
well …what are we all going to do about it ????, sit infront of laptops..calling them Huhnes)
then back to everyday life, whilst the shower of shit that presides over “ruling” us
your all fucing hypocrites (me included) where has the fire from the 1980′s gone…….people took to the streets for less then, now we just sit in front of laptops , lambasting the political elite……..yet nothing fucking changes.
stop fucking working, unplug your self from the fucking system, stop paying tax, grow your own food…brew your own beer. do fucking something other than call them c unts.
the more things change , the more they stay the same…’cos its all within the fuckin rules !!!!..im pissed and pissed off
I agree, but if I went to Westminster with a megaphone and started remonstrating on the street, how long do you think before I end up in Bow Street Nick with truncheon injuries. If there is an organised march where millions turn up I would be on the train like a shot, but as the G20 proved not worth it. If I am going to get a criminal record and possibly loose my job (which I get CRB checked for) I want to make damn sure that we win. As the saying goes, “if you take a shot at the King you had better not miss”. If I was 10 years younger and renting and did give a fuck It would be on like Kong. The question you have to ask is where are the students who traditionally carry the British flag????
Being brainwashed by left wing lecturers in piss pot colleges round the country.
Why do you think this government want as many kids to go to uni/college.
Those that don’t can join Sharon Matthews and her ilk troughing off the state sireing crowds of kids who have little chance of a decent upbringing
They don’t dumb down the syallbus for nothing, most students don’t have a clue or basic grasp of maths to even understand it all.
I agree too so it’s off to work in construction in China, at least they don’t pretend they are a democracy there.
Most students now either still live at home with their parents or otherwise are stll financially dependent on them. And most Unis are full of forigners anyway…
Bow Street!!! Something else that bit the dust under this “government’s” watch.
I do brew my own beer. All of it. And wine, too. Got fed up with paying taxes on alcohol, so to hell with them all. It’s my little way of sticking two fingers up at the government.
I can heartily recommend brewing your own. I’ve saved many thousands of pounds doing it.
Now, let me see; I wonder just how much revenue we could get if…?
I take it that they will have also asked the police to investigate the Uddin affair?
O/T but from Sky, Jacqui Smith has finally found a use for the P.O……
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/ID-Cards-Home-Secretary-Jacqui-Smith-Says-Post-Offices-And-Chemists-Could-Be-Used-To-Sign-Up/Article/200905115275801?lpos=Politics_Second_Politics_Article_Teaser_Region_6&lid=ARTICLE_15275801_ID_Cards%3A_Home_Secretary_Jacqui_Smith_Says_Post_Offices_And_Chemists_Could_Be_Used_To_Sign_Up
Serious question for any legal eagles…
Cannot a UK citizen file a private criminal against these frauds ? Individually or collectively ??!
Yes but the Crown can take it over and then offer “no evidence!.On the other hand a civil action for damages….
OK…thanks…
But if the Crown “offers no evidence” in the middle of this avalanche of evidence they will be open to attack also…and I have fogotten them but there are remedies to force the “Crown” to apply the law…
There are writs but you cannot force the Crown to carry on with a prosecution
should read
“private criminal complaint”…
Can’t seem to find info on “private criminal complaint” in British law – only American.
Can anyone elaborate?
Almost buried amongst the self-serving, can we mention a few heroes – I offer Hilary Benn (annual expenses claim: £140).
Although it appears Benn hasn’t been troughing, he could do with loosening up a bit. He ought to go and blow £500 on a few lines and a hooker.
Didn’t he also turn down a donation from David Abrahams?
I’ll correct meself. Had a look at the Electoral Commission and No he didn’t. Donation from Abrahams, £5k 22/06/07.
Not such a hero then.He is also a crap Minister.Bottled ordering a cull of badgers, who carry bovine TB because of fear of the badger huggers.The Welsh are not so sentimental however, they are carrying out a cull
Yes, but he thought it was from Lord Charles
But economic crap!
You know when the Government make that outrageous claim and say “‘Not everybody in the Commons is ‘at it’” – Well, he’s the one these charlatans can always wheel out and prove, tecnhically, they’re not lying. The other 645, however….
He may, however, have shored up his future at the taxpayers expense, as claimed here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-515178/Why-Hilary-Benns-family-home-saved-sea-nearby-harbour-abandoned.html.
Hilary Benn might not be a trougher but he is a shit MP in a safe Labour seat, populated by scroungers.
Put in by dynastic, hereditary principles. About the only principles NuLab have…
GORDON BROW
SQUIRREL NUTKINS
JACQUI SPLIFF
STRAW
HOON
McNULTY
HARMAN
YOUR ALL FUCKING BASTARDS,
some one from the public going to do something very very stupid, or very very brave, either way, those bastards need to be in the dock !
Yeah in the dock with concrete fucking boots!!!!! Did you see that ugly Ginger bitch refusing to answer the questions from the press. Guilty Guilty Guilty. Afraid, the should fucking be.
If you’re talking about carrot head Blears, I couldn’t believe how very small she is – that explains a lot – her stunted growth clearly affected her brain.
God, she’s so awful! How the hell did somebody like her become an MP?
Still give her one though and put it on UTube
She’s from Salford…
Shes about 4 foot fuck all i think…
Only little people pay taxes. I do not know how Blears thought she could get away with it!
She’s not really from Salford. She’s from the Flores Islands.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3948165.stm
Hmm. Four feet tall, round mouth, flat head for your beer, worth thinking about… Maybe your perfect woman!
The inquiry line is a blinder !!!!
Try calling it and you will be greeted by
“All calls may be monitored and used for security and training purposes”
I think I’ll go and get legless tonight
I can see the Safestyle Windows shouty man doing this:
Want two houses for the price of one?
You buy, one you get one free.
I say, you buy one, you get free.
Call 020 7219 XXXX NOW!
——–
LOL RFLOL
quality
What I cannot comperhend if true(although apparently even the Fees Office felt that this was just “taking the piss!” and rejected it for once !)Why did Davild Miliband even contemplate claiming for a pram and other baby items(no jokes please I’m just so bloody angry if its true)What the fuck has whether or not him and his wife choose to adopt a child got to do with the tax payer and why the fuck should we be expected to pay for it.It’s a wonder he didn’t try to claim IVF treatment from us mugs too ! Utter Twat.And to think they actually thought this man could ever be considered Prime Ministerial material(the joke of course is that he IS unfortunately Foreign Secretary)Bloody fucking disgraceful! And I don’t care if the claim WAS rejected or whether he WAS within the rules(although apparently not in this instance!) .It tells me all I need to know about these third rate charlatans that occupy Parliament and what was once considered one of the three “Great Offices of State” of this country ! !
Attempted Fraud????????
The Millibands and the Browns share the turkey baister.
Attempted fraud is correct. They give Nobel Prizes for Physics not attempted Physics!
Never mind the 1997 Tory “decapitation” strategy, Millibrat has lied to the Commons and the Courts and yet nothing is done. The only Number 10 he should get near is cell 10 in a prison.
Because, as Brown found out, being perceived as ‘normal’ makes you more electable. Hence Brown’s late marriage and kids. because that is what is required to make you appear normal.
So it will be for Milliband. The kids are simply window dressing to be wheeled out for photoshoots or mentioned in election material or when he wants to make some point about ‘I’m a parent too, I understand your concerns blah blah….”
So kids, prams, wife’s food etc are all perfectly allowable and necessary expenses because without a wife and kids he would appear much more like the thick, incompetent fucker he is.
Horrifically, this may be only too true!
- but how could anyone vote for a man with a face like that – smarmy bastid!
Yes – but who provides its contents – they’re ALL such wankers.
I know – it was Mandelperson.
Milibanana showed his true bent when he posed with that bit of fruit in his ear – a total teenaged twat.
The advice which I have received is that there are reasonable grounds to believe a criminal offence may have been committed in relation to the way this information has been handled
handled?
There was an investigation into leaking recently, Damian Green, no-one was charged
No charges were brought because the CPS deemed the information leaked was in the public interest. So what’s the difference here?
These tossers will never learn.
Who gave the advice and in what context, I wonder.
It’s got the air of a solicitor about it, but then, there are a lot of them in the Government who would be quick to suggest this while not actually having a remit to do so.
I have been advised that— is an old one. Without a source it means there is no source, and there was no advice.
Reasonable grounds— Like what?
An offence may have been committed. Utterly meaningless.
Every single MP who submitted an expense claim MAY have committed fraud.
There is however clear documentary evidence of multiple probable offences regarding expense claims. The evidence is so strong that investigation of these should have priority.
If they have already been told that they must publish and after refusing the order for a year or more, whoever it was that leaked the data can surely claim that they were following a legal order to publish, it’s the twats who refused to publish that need to be doing some ‘splainin’.
Gordon Brown
Blocked lavatory
£88.13
tried to get rid of returned claim forms
hahaha
Entertaining Mr Prescott?
Cherie and Tony’s flushings down the loo?
Prescott’s bulimic regurgitation.
Still no suicides. Do they need advice on how to do it
Guido. Any chance you could email this to all MPs.
http://www.exitinternational.net/
And no the Huhnes can’t top themsleves on expenses either.
Doesn’t matter , they wouldn’t know if bthey had been sucessful
Can I help?
Over the weekend there may be a Grape Flavor Aid event staged by the Hardworking People’s Temple in Browntown SW1. If it stays nice…
They know how to do it, what they can’t work out is how to get reimbursed for the funeral.
I love it! ROFL
Interesting that Sky News were doing an interview and the guy pointed out that the MPs wanted to block the addresses of their homes so we wouldn’t know the fiddle of switching thier first and second homes around to be able to claim double bubble on refurbishment etc.
Cheating fucking hoons.
Also knowing the addresses you would be able to find out from Land Registry the sold / bought price, thereby knowing the investment had made a profit.
Spot on. They are just bastards.
No. They’re thieving bastards!
An MP’s address must be known locally or very easy to find out. I should have thought you’d just need to ask around the constituency, or head straight for the largest house, whichever is easiest. 2nd home in London might be less well known, I suppose.
That’s the point isn’t it…… no knowledge of the second home..therefore no evidence available to the public.
Try the Voter’s Register of the local council
Wouldn;t work. They would be registered as a voter in their constituency.
Well, seeing they can’t seem to decide from one moment to the next which home is their second home…
I wonder how many of them vote twice as well…. they prob vote in London then go ‘home’
The Inland Revenue should have been monitoring these shenanigans very closely. There is no capital gains tax on proceeds from the sale of your main home only. Maybe MPs can switch main and second homes as far as expense submittals are concerned but surely the IR can form a much stricter (and truer) interpretation? Not just in terms of capital gains tax but in what is actually a real “expense” and what is in reality a hidden income.
But they will have done fuck all.
I was under the impression that MPs second homes are not subject to Capital Gains Tax and that their expenses are not subject to Benefit in Kind.
For example, an employer paid for an employees heart operation and it was subject to benefit in kind Jacqui Smith’s 82 bath plug is not.
Well I read in the Telegraph that second homes were subject to Capital Gains Tax so it must be true. Why would they not be? The second home allowance is supposed to be so that they are not out of pocket, not to make profit.
Blears did not pay anything on the £45 000 she made selling her second home.
Either they are exempt from Capital Gains Tax or she could not be bothered to pay it.
Either way it is a disgrce.
Brown/Balls/flat cleaner-what a team!
As we all know this will eventually become a Tory story. Labour MPs can do what they like but just wait until the BBC discovers a Tory claimed for an extra paper clip. Conway pilfers about GBP 40k and all hell breaks loose (rightly) and he’s thrown out of the Tory Party. Yet nothing has happened to the numerous Labour MPs caught fiddling much larger amounts.
The full force of the British Establishment will do everything in its power to ensure Labour lose as little ground as humanly possible at the next election. The BBC will be used, the police will be used, postal votes will be used.
Spot on. Michael Prick will go after a Tory like Spelman but ignore Huhnes like Hain.
Of the hundreds of comments I have now read on this subject this one comment is by far in my opinion the most acurate and likely to occur. When the dust settles the only person(s) anywhere near a court will be Tory.
None of them should take our money like this but as stated the BBC along with others will turn this totally against the Tories and it won’t matter what Labour members do.
For the example see the Yachtgate incident kept going for weeks by the BBC who never thought to ask why Mandleson was there?
Spot on.
Who’d have thought it? Our MPs calling the police to investigate the investigators! Clear the lot out and let’s start over again.
It has been alleged that the Prime Minister has a penchant for throwing things around, and a printer, a mug, a stapler and a mobile phone have all been mentioned. May we be told whether he will pay for replacements for these out of his own pocket – or will these too be charged to the long-suffering taxpayers?
I wonder if “Herbert” Pound claimed for cleaning whe he deliberately and clumsilly slung a perfectly servicable jacket (looked like Tweed) into a puddle so that Gracie Blears could walk on it? Silly Hoon.
Can’t wait for Toenails Robinson to stick up for McSnot. I notice it was Sky News that went to see McSnots brother not the BBC.
If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.
The trouble is that you’ve hit the crux of the problem there for quite a few MPs
A criminal offence has been committed.
By all and every MP who has failed to observe the spirit of the Green Book.
These people expect us to trust their judgement in war, economics, education etc but reveal a staggering lack of judgement when it comes to their personal financial affairs.
Calling in the police is a classic diversionary tactic to change the headlines in tomorrow’s press.
The anger of the public is such that there is no news management tactic which will work.
They have been caught with their noses in the trough and don’t like it.
If Mr Brown is such a man of probity why doesn’t he You Tube us to explain why we should pay to clean his flat if he was living in Downing Street?
reveal a staggering lack of judgement when it comes to their personal financial affairs.”
Its NOT a lack of judgement-they KNEW it was illegal but they thought they would CONTINUE to GET AWAY WITH IT!!
Why is Snot not forced to comment on HIS fucking expenses? If he refuses then the press pack should tell him to piss off. But of course they are all up his arse.
Not surprised.
Regarding crooks call cops, etc:
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
Fucking Toenails So why didn’t he confront McTwat about HIS epxenses. I would have.
The koont McNulty is being investigated by the police …. Nice one
Maybe it was he who cashed in £300,000 from the Telegraph. I wouldnt put it past the greedy phocker !
Guido – Please run a WHERE IS McNULTY campaign. He’s gone AWOL – dont see him on TV anymore. He was always up there spouting government chite as if we were all phooking stupid.
I hope he has a stroke as well as the bong-eyed-koont.
Is he keeping McBride and Brown’s Cleaner” company in the woods ?
Guido’s guys feel strongly about this, so how about contributing to a defence fund for the poor mug that they fit up for this? I’ll put up £100 from the Waad estates to start with.
We should have a campaign to vote out EVERY sitting MP instead.
Get him to stand for election, we can all go and help canvass.
He can’t manage an election. That’s what he’s taking the little blue pills for, and they’re not working.
Fucking BBC. Mandy and Toenails spinning that the Telegraph is only going after Liebour scum.
roof falls in on mandelfruit
This is total bollocks, 4 British soldiers killed in Afghanistan today and it only makes 3rd place on the news headlines, while MP’s in expenses-been-said-a-thousand-times-non-shocka fills the headlines because the media and sad numpties here obsess about it
Sadly, this has been true throughout the ages
And one of them killed is a gurkha I believe.
This is not bollocks. On the contrary, the ones that sent the soldiers to die in a phony war are the very ones too busy troughing to give a damn.
“As Prime Minister I take full responsibility for this and that is why I have sacked …..the cleaner!”
Tony McNulty is in deep shit, according to BBC News.
It’s typical of the Labour government to use the police as its own personal army to stifle anything it perceives as a threat to its authority.
I hope really embarrassing financial details are released in the Telegraph soon, just to show them people arent’ afraid of them, and it’s really the other way around.
The police are not the labour governments or the commons personal mafia. I hope the police do the decent thing, and tell the corrupt, fascist powers that be to royally go and fuck right off.
Funny but tonight was the first time the BBC mentioned McNulty. Bet if it had been a Tory it would have been also the BBC for days.
And Jacqui Smith saying how the Tories are behind it all. IF it was a labour mp then it’s obviously someone who’s gotten annoyed with his or her own government and has bravelly (or foolishly) decided to do something about it and bollocks to the conseuences.
If it is McNulty I suggest a defection to another party like the Lib Dems sharpish and a pat on the back from the country. If he stays with Labour then his days are numbered, and probably in a David Kelly fashion. Get the to Klegg, McNulty. And well done if you were the leaker.
Thick as…
Wedgie Benn closed more pits than Maggie Thatcher when he was Secretary of State for Industry.
Coal is a finite resource and as it runs out it becomes increasingly more expensive to extract. Both Benn and Thatcher did the right thing. This is not the 19th century and coal is not king anymore.
What we need is more nuclear power stations.
what we need are less big fat butch manhating lesbians like you soiling the thread.
you have missed the point, yet again.
I was talking about the politicisation of the police.
what the fuck are you talking about?
you couldn’t make it up,
as I have already said to the lesbian, I am talking about the politicisation of the police.
don’t rant at me you fucking spastic or I will bash your brains out.
I hope we understand each other.
oh and mick, we are standing on 300 years worth of coal supplies.
you’re just full of shit!
thick: – could you please attempt to engage in discourse in a more civilised manner? This is not the PM’s Policy Unit and we don’t all hang out with Alastair Campbell and Hoon McBride.
I for one can’t have any respect for views expressed in such hoonish terms.
Your language betrays an inability to think
dear samantha,
I am a juvenile delinquent with mild tourettes.
please be more understanding.
perhaps you are too sensitive a soul for this place.
perhaps conservativefoam would be more to your liking. if so please produce a valid receipt at reception and you will be able to claim a full refund.
and regarding alistair campbell: I would string the war criminal up with my own hands and cut the c’unt in quarters afterwards.
never mind being offended by my language samantha, think of the bigger picture, eh?
and don’t talk to me about intelligence, I am probably the most intelligent and thoughtful person to appear here.
I use obnoxious language on purpose to repulse and offend the enemy.
do try to keep up.
Perhaps you’re just a foul mouthed oik who is out of his depth?
oh dear, even though you are a lesbian you seem to be obsessed with me. are you having second thoughts about your lesbianism?
I don’t blame you though michelle, I am a handsome and intelligent fellow.
I suppose I am quite a catch really and your luck might have been in if you weren’t such a butch old dyke.
oh well.
Is there not one solicitor or barrister prepared to file a private complaint against these frauds to express the people’s anger..
And open a public subscription to pay costs etc….
It is time for action…
Count me in for a tenner if they do
Do you think Cherie would take on the job?
0nce the police are called in they are in charge.
If I was an MP I really would have advised against voluntarily calling them in.
The Police should have our full support in investigating any criminal activities which may have occurred.
I know this is a government of all the talents, but I didn’t know this included creative accounting.
But you forget that Mendelson, Levy and Mandelson are specialists in “fix it” accounting..and everything else…for NULabour and have been for years..look at the wealth of T Blair and the others…!!.
It really does highlight the decaying nature of parliamentary politics when these deceiptful scum stand to face no more than public ridicule, but the whistle blower will have the full might of the Met arsewipes after him.
They wont find him of course, they never do, why is the messenger the one hounded?
These Labour scum are a fucking joke.
They come to London from their northern/Scotch shyteholes, professing their working class/socialist roots, and immediately commence with the trousering of cash routine forthwith.
Which jury is ever going to convict anybody for leaking expenses?
Seriously, no jury in this country is ever going to find somebody guilty for exposing this bunch of liars, thieves and scum bags.
They might organise a trial without jury
Or a nasty accident on a walk in the woods
Well the first jury might not convict them. But thanks to this evil government repealing double jeopardy then they might get better look with the second jury. especially if the defendent eventually runs out of money defending themselves and has to use a useless government appointed solicitor.
That’s why double jeopardy being done away with is such a big deal. As Jack Fucking Straw and Tony Fucking Blair well know. Lawyers that they are.
Evil bastards.
I seem to recall that Michael Howard went along with David Blunkett’s proposal to abolish double jeopardy. So, shamefully, the Tories were implicated as much as Labour.
Fuck off Toenails. You’re fucking days as Browns arse cleaner are numbered
One thing Nick Robinson is almost certainly correct about on his blog (which, bizarrely, is now closed for comments) is that the latest revelations are “unlilkely [sic] to force anyone from office”. That, of course, is more a comment on the way ministers have mastered the art of getting away with things and hanging onto their jobs than the seriousness of what’s been revealed.
But here’s a question. Just what would it take these days for a minister to have to resign? Perhaps to be caught shagging Osama Bin Laden inside the chamber of the House of Commons? I’m struggling to think of anything else.
No. Shagging Bin liner would get you a top job at the BBC. The vermin in charge just won’t resign, they like coining it in.
Hoons the lot of them.
Nah -it’d be bin laden shagging him. Oooh those whiskers and rag headgear are sooo sexy!
> .. here’s a question. Just what would it take these days for a minister to have to resign?
As former Governor of Louisiana Edwin Edwards put it:
“The only way I can lose this election is if I’m caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy”
But I’m not convinced even that would be enough.
When the fuck are you London boys going to kick off & cause a riot? I’m not travelling halfway accross the country until I know there’s a reasonable number of people willing to sort these tossers out. I did the ‘poll tax’ thingy but I lived in London at the time. Come on pussies!
Got any piano wire?
No-would barbed be of any use?
Salvatore could be a your a slavation!
Barbed wire, only if it’s rusty.
Meathooks?
Whoo..hoo..hooo…I’m just a little piggy-wiggy-woo, who’s never had a proper job or actually studied politics. I only know how to get past selection comittees and fiddle my expense account. It’s not my fault I rely on a spongeing Nottingham hippy doing some endless phd for my big ideas. Woo…hoo…hoo…
How many Nokias has snotty claimed for? or are they free to the prime mentalist.
was listening to music on way home from work(news infuriates me and my driving suffers) anyway Queen were on from the 80s and Freddy knew about MPs and expenses cos he was singing “Princes of the Hooniverse” I swear thats what I heard.
Here we are, Born to be kings,
We’re the princes of the hooniverse,
Here we belong, Fighting to survive,
In a world with the darkest powers,
And here we are, We’re the princes of the hooniverse,
Here we belong, Fighting for survival,
We’ve come to be the rulers of your world,
I am immoral, I have inside me blood of kings, (Yeah!)
I have no rival, No man can be my equal,
Take me to the future of your world,
Born to be kings, Princes of the hooniverse,
Fighting and free, Got your world in my hand,
I’m here for your love and I’ll make my stand,
We were born to be princes of the hooniverse,
No man could understand. My power is in my own hand,
Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, People talk about you,
People say you’ve had your day,
I’m a man that will go far,
Fly the moon and reach for the stars,
With my sword and head held high,
Got to pass the test first time – yeah,
I know that people talk about me I hear it every day,
But I can prove you worng cos I’m right first time,
Yeah. Yeah. Alright, Watch this mans phone fly,
Inviting the old bill in is a risky business.
They are obligated to investigate any alleged crime ‘without fear or favour.’
Expenses funded by us the humble tax payer are surely no different to state benefits again paid for by us.
Give Inspector Corner of the Yard a copy of this:
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/campaigns/benefit-thieves/
or remind them how the Fraud Act 1997 is releveant to these greeedy devious f-ckers.
Exactly right
McBride & Cleaner found dead in woods
Police are only considering investigating McNulty – sounds like a crumb being thrown to the noisy peasants outside Whitehall.
Nothing will happen – except to the poor sod that leaked this in the public interest.
Yup, could it be that McNulty is the pawn being offered for sacrifice?
2,000 manufacturing jobs on Teeside heading for oblivion and Stuart Bell worries more about protecting the pork barrel.
Teessiders vote him out at the next election then
And the Boro are going down as well! It’s going to be bleedin fun up there tonight. A mate of mine works for Corus there and he’s on his hols at the mo. Wonder if he’ll still be a Labour voter when he gets back?
You seem unnaturally excited by the prospect, Thick as… To give you the benefit of the doubt I’ll blame it on the weird drugs your’re on.
so, you are still a big fat sweaty lesbian then.
thought so.
The only way to cure this mess is to have a government that is based upon the principles of better governance, sticking absolutely to the Nolan principles and allowing the electorate to vote for their MPs not from outdated party politics, but from open primaries.
No MP should be able to serve more than 2 terms. End of.
Couldn’t agree more
I agree with both propositions – the current system is far too much in the control of the main parties – and is clearly throwing up absolutely the wrong candidates
Guido
Why don’t you file a criminal complaint against these shysters…with some legal eagles ………in Westminster Magistrate’s Court….and call on all your co-conspirators and the MSM TaxPayers Association etc for support….you would have a field day with the reputation you have already made for yourself in “shooting” McBride !!
Is Archie Cameron, the head of the Fees office, by any chance another Scot? Not that there is any connection between that fact and complaisance over Ministers expenses you understand.
Can’t help with Archie Cameron, but this blog gives some background on Malcolm Jack. Apparently he earns £165,000 per year
http://burningourmoney.blogspot.com/2008/02/trough-costs.html
In 3006 a makeover of his official residence included £40k for a new kitchen!
Sorry, 2006!
Where’s the full list of MPs’ expenses, please – I want to see if my choleric, Blairite MP is a benefit cheat, I mean of course claiming “within the rules”. Thanks.
I may be missing the point here but if they find someone, couldn’t that person then introduce the un-doctored expenses as evidence in court, claiming public interest. They would then be in the public domain.
If they did try to withhold them stating security issues they would then be unable to say they were the same expenses leaked. They seem to be in a bit of a catch 22 situation here.
They’d just fast forward the legislation they planned to have “diplock” courts, cite national security and bob’s your uncle. They’ve spent a long time (since 1997) setting up the mechanisms of control it’s just a matter of implementing them now.
Why does Gordon Brown need to have all this cleaning done on his London flat, if he is not living there?
Massive compacted carpets of crispy bogeys from previous visits.
Does Jack have relatives in high places.
Just watched that sack of sh*t who claims to be our PM on the BBC News. In his pereverted view it is ‘the expenses system that is at fault’!
At the end of his short piece to camera he did that awful facial transition from knackered undertaker to Mickey Mouse on speed. I feel like taking an eye bath every time I see Brown.
What a truly superb description! Brown’s facial transition “from knackered undertaker to Mickey Mouse on speed”. Brilliant!
I’m really getting cheesed of with this “it’s the systen that is at fault” excuse.
Nobody forces these greedy bastards to max out on expenses. I just don’t see why normal inland revenue rules don’t apply. Have they got immunity?
Yes – because they decide on their own salaries, pensions and expenses! And then set up their own committee to ‘police’ their own rules! That’s why it stinks. The whole system of ‘Parliamentary privilege’ worked when MPs had some sense of homour and public service, as opposed to blind party loyalty coupled with shamless greed.
Even under the last Tory Govts any MP, if caught out in the kind of thing which has been typical under Labour, from Vaz and Mandelson onwards, would have understood it to be an instant resigning matter. Not any more. How did we sink so low? It’s a matter of national shame
“I’m broke!”
They had it in they’re manifesto, “……….We’re going to shaft you all,” so it’s no good complaining now you tossers.
Dirty B*astards.
So McMental paid £6000 plus to his brother for “cleaning services” over 26 minths, the bulk of which was carried out for the PM.
Now, lets say is brother paid nothing, and its been recorded that he made no profit on this payment.
If, the cleaner was paid £10/hour (reasonable for a cleaner I suspect) then all I can say, they are either McLiars or..
Dirty B*stards
that’s a lot of snot hoovering
Around 5.5 hours a week in an un occupied flat!
According to the article in the times it was 7 hours a week. Still seems a lot for an unoccupied flat.
It’s all that turd polishing – takes hours I can tell you.
Myopic Pete has discovered a little more on the cleaning saga.
Indeed, and it reveals that the taxpayer was paying for the cleaning of Sarah Macaulay’s flat before she married Brown, as well as Gordon’s unoccupied flat. Shades of Blunkett…
couldn’t make it up,
you are posting far too often and you have far too little worth saying.
ditto dr ‘the butch lesbian’ mick.
@ 1146: and you are a troll, with the usual troll manners
ah samantha, you must be dr michelle’s girlfriend.
tell us, what is it like rimming dr.michelle’s filthy arsehole.
not very nice I bet.
you must like it though, you dirty bitch!
oh, and I bash trolls, I am not one.
everyone knows that you spastic!
Petition is about to hit 55000.
Hopefully outrage over the expenses scandal will encourage many others to sign up.
Fuck that stupid petition – no sensible person wants that Huhne to resign, he should go to the country. We don’t need another misfit forced upon us by the Labour machine.
I love a bit of pork.
when will the police or army or a judge arrest every single fucking parasite???????
is there anyone with any balls left in this shgitstain Huhnery?
or do they all suck at the teet…….ALL PAID FOR BY US!
so much for equality……the poor working for min wage all subsidizing the troughing hoons!!!!!
the next time gordon mc cottage has a go at the tory millionaires will someone smash him in the mouth with the mace?
These MPs are the people who have made up the law of the land, eh?
Why should anybody respect those laws when they have been made by such a bunch of crooks?
The law only holds when people respect the moral authority that made them.
The people of the country have rejected the moral authority of these MPs.
It is just a matter of time before people reject the laws of the land.
Despite all your protestations, I tell you nothing will change. This is all MPs of all parties. Most people are far too busy getting on with their own lives to DO anything about it, and in any case they are powerless.
If there is any one out there rich enough to take out a private prosecution against any MP, please feel free to do so. Taking on that fat, arrogant, biased, fuckin speaker, who has done his utmost to devalue our Parliament, would be a really good start.
I do not believe that people are powerless. Far from it. It is just about finding the right way to take action. We have to force a General Election – it is the only way to get the frauds and cheats out. I am no campaign leader but leaving out civil unrest the best option seems to be witholding payment of taxes. Obviously Council Tax seems the best place to start. If enough people do it they will have to listen. WE rule this country not them. Alternatively we could petition Buckingham Palace. Of course the queen would not intervene but it would make life very uncomfortable for Brown and Co
I wish I shared your optimism. At 56 years of age, I’ve seen it all before. Give it 2 years and every one will be wondering what all the fuss was about. In any case people have very short memories. People are too wrapped up in their own lives to do any thing.
As Guido knows all too well a public interest defence is unlikely to work if you are handling stolen information for personal gain. The case would be even weaker when it had already been announced that nearly all the information was to be made availbale publicly in the near future.
You could probably argue that it was 2 years overdue……
There’s a good one about this on PoliticalBetting comment 82 by mirthios worth a quick read.
The info would have been made available to the public in the near future but it would have been edited by those in whose interest it would be to ‘edit’. These expenses as revealed are unadulterated, unfiltered, unedited, and damning for it.
I want to do Jury service.
Any chance of a picture of Prescott gurning through a toilet seat?
Any chance of seeing Prescott with his head down a toilet as proof of his so called bulimia?
First one to throw this up using photoshop wins : )
An execution parade with a bullet straight between the eyes seems an ideal retribution for each of these 650 theives.
Alternatively, anyone know anyone with some spar gunpowder?
No, you shoot them in each limb first, have a smoking break then come back and use a few blanks to get them upset before getting down to real business
Wasn’t it the Romans that put corupt public officials in a bag with a wild animal?
Bring on the half starved ferrets!
” I WAS ONLY FOLLOWING ORDERS”
THIS WAS THE EXCUSE GIVEN BY NAZIS FOR THE CATASTROPHIC EVENTS OF WW2.
THE NEW EXCUSE IS … “IT IS WITHIN THE RULES”
WELL LISTEN TO THIS YOU DISHONEST 5HITES
THANKS TO YOUR DELIBERATE ACTIONS AND INNACTIONS IN RUINING THIS COUNTRY IN THE QUEST FOR A SOCIALIST EUROPIA, I AM THE ONLY ONE IN MY HOUSE BRINGING HOME A WAGE. MY BILLS CONTINUE TO RISE UNCHECKED WHILST MY WAGE HAS BEEN FROZEN.;
HAVE I COMPLAINED? NO ,I BL@@DY WELL HAVE NOT BECAUSE I REGARD MYSELF AS LUCKY TO BE IN WORK.
ALL THIS WHILST YOU B@STARDS LIVE THE HIGH LIFE AT OUR EXPENSE.
MAYBE FREDERICK FORSYTHE SHOULD WRITE A BOOK ABOUT THE SECOND ENGLISH CIVIL WAR BETWEEN THE SOCIALIST AND RELIGION OF PEACE MILITIAS AGAINST THE ENGLISH CHRISTIANS TAXPAYER…….BEFORE IT HAPPENS
I note with great interest that the government thinks that they have a case under the Data Protection Act to take action against those that leaked this data. However it doesn’t seem to apply when HMRC decide to procure through bribery, data on citizens that may or may not have bank accounts in Lichtenstein.
When are we going to get rid of these fuckers and their corrupted civil service.
I’m beginning to admire the Telegraph (and it’s been a long long time since I could say that!). Setting loose rumours that the stories on the Shadow Cabinet are delayed until Monday as a rebuttal to the Speaker’s police gambit … that’s *evil*.
They lost many of their readers through their disgraceful behaviour over Smeargate – look how they treated Guido? This is their penance and apparantly, quite rightly it has cost them lots of money. They are to be commended on the stance they have taken this time but I am not yet ready to forgive them – lets wait and see what they do over the next few days
Interesting times ahead and I hope, really hope that useless Speaker and Mr & Mrs ‘claiming doube for everything’ Balls are going to be next. We should not forget the illustrious BaronessU. Revolution anyone?
I’ll man the barricades with you Nell x
Hi NewGirl I wondered where you had got to- feeling a bit outnumbered on here with all these men!
Yes!Yes! Sarah but I am only prepared to knit if I am watching the guillotine. Have chair and needles ready. The peasants are revolting.
no I want an Uzi 9mm so I can destroy the bstards!!
Can I have a Gaitlinn Gun – my grandad would have used one in WW1 before he got killed . We have to stop being cannon fodder.
The Bangla Baroness of Udderly is under investigation by her housing assocaition I read somewhere, but as said HA is run by her kinsmen don’t expect much of an outcome.
http://eastlondonpress.blogspot.com/2009/05/eastender-comment-about-spitalfields.html
She’s got a bit of a dilemma here!!!!!!
Question here is – is she a benefit fraudster living in subsidised housing when she has a home of her own?. (Yes!!!!! and so say the 25000 people in her area waiting for a house. ) Oh dear me they are saying the Spitalfieds HA house is in her husband’s name so it doesn’t matter. Should we report her?? Should she be ashamed ? You ask me …. this Labour Party that said they were for the underdog ……Is that the way it’s looking????
-piss off Nell.
@ ‘kinell
Watch your mouth, asshole.
What would be eviller would be to publish a brief paragraph saying ‘after in-depth research of our data, we have no record of any untoward expense claims by either Conservative or LibDem MPs’ heh heh heh.
fucking hell! a lesbianfest!
can I hold the camera ladies?
oh when you have finished nattering could one of you ladies put the kettle on?
two sugars for me please.
Why hasn’t the Queen done anything, why doesn’t anyone shoot Gordon Brown?
Breeding stock in the UK has obviously been diluted to far….
Well, last night on this blog, the attitude of the mcmafia was blamed on Scottish inbreeding. Now you are saying that the opposite problem applies to the English. Where does this leave the Welsh and Northern Irish?
At this rate, Nigel Farage and I could be competing for Prime Minister, by next year
I’d vote UKIP next month but Daniel Hannan is my euro MP and he deserves another go for humiliating that fat one eyed jock Huhne the other week.
For christ sake dont vote tory.
We need Hannan in parliment,not pissing around in Europe.He needs to be leading the charge from this end
I absolutely agree with Jury Team on this one. This system is too set in its ways. I really do not think Sir Chris Kelly and co will be able to clean up or ‘fix’ this system. It is rather more going to be a tinker it at the edges approach and hope for the best.
And one more point, the revelations today rather mock the MPs’ pathetic castigating of Fred the shred Goodwin and his troughing ways. I think their troughing is much more disgraceful. Their pensions is the real issue. It was convenient for them to castigate him. They should be ashamed of themselves.
http://www.plenty2say.com
Didn’t someone say that there shoud be no reward for failure? I seem to recall hearing that recently ….
Very interesting how Cameron is saying his MPs will have to explain themselves the public detailing the reason that the expenses were required, and all Gordon can say is the system is to blame.
Perhaps the Telegraph has retuned to is roots, the Conservatives and is giving Cameron the time to do the right thing & take action to show he is not like Flash?
If true, this is good stuff.Cameron would become immensely popular;I just wish he would get rid of the Wintertons!
See your two Wintertons and raise you a Pickles!
Your Pickles and raise the 2 Balls
I suggest that whatever new rules are brought in David Cameron employs his own Internal Auditor who has to authorise all Conservative MP’s expense claims even though they may be signed off by the Fees Office.
Although this would have no legal standing any dodgy expenses could be flagged up before payment and pressure be brought on the miscreant.
Offer me £60k pa and I will do it!!
( I am happy to offer my services to Jack Straw as well as accountancy is not his strong point)
I’ll do it for 40k.
I would have thought that there would be 500 plus MPs who are horrified to hear that the police have been called in. At this stage of the game the gentlemen in blue may have decided that they can safely declare independence from their former masters.
I think that you will find that it will be decided that the investigation of illegal activity regarding expenses is a matter for the House.
Oh dear I wonder what if Frank Field will be the mp for Birkenhead after the next GE ,the LabLib coalition are going to sell Birkenhead Town Hall it’s a museum at the moment but inside is beutiful.
Yes I know I can’t spelll beautiful.
I smell suicide watch in action, the fan-hit shit is reeking.
We’re gonna need a bigger fan
(sorry Roy Scheider)
This all started in the house of Commons. It’s nothing to do with me. The system needs a complete change. This all started in er, the early middle ages and I wasn’t even born then. So I’m not to blame, alreeet Jimmee?
Totaly off subject I know but a friend of mine is a social worker, yesterday her group had a meeting with the ever lovely Mr Ed Balls, apparently he had a 3 hour spanking (sure he loved it) during which he was told in no uncertain terms he was a total cretin and his fellow cabinet ministers were complete shite. Apparently he didnt deal with it well….
quit the smiley faces new girl.
they make you look like you are not a new girl but an old man trying to groom children on the net.
ALLEGED INTERCEPTED TELEPHONE CALL.
“Gordon its Derek”
“YOU HAVE TEN SECONDS”
“just claim you used the same accountant as Lester Piggott and Ken Dodd”
“I REALLY HAVE 8″
“Just say it is within the rules”
“EVERYONE HAS ALREADY SAID THAT 6!”
“Tell the truth?”
“4″
“Wait Gordon, WAIT… Give the Police and Army massive pay rises and put them on MP’s Expenses….err seeing as how we are going to need them……..
‘THERES SOME JOB VACANCIES COMING UP ON MONDAY BRING YER HAMMER LETS JUST SAY I HAVE NEED OF A CABINET MAKER!
“Tell the tru
This is *not* a breach of the Official Secrets Act – Stuart Bell tried to claim this last month when the news of the leak first broke.
It may be a breach of the Data Protection Act. If so, the leaker may be fined.
Section 60
(2) A person guilty of an offence under any provision of this Act other than paragraph 12 of Schedule 9 is liable—
(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or
(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine.
(3) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph 12 of Schedule 9 is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
Hope they’ve done the smart thinge – either accepting no money to claim a public interest defence, or trousering enough to cover all eventualities!
The verb ‘loadshitting’ comes to mind…
Does anyone know where the PM was actually living when he claimed for cleaning his flat?
Was it in Downing Street or his flat? We need to know.
If it was Downing Street then we need to know why we are paying for cleaning his gaff
And why was he even allowed to claim for a flat in London when he gets a free one at No 10?
Come on Gordon admit it the cleaner doesnt exist does she, come on you can tell us.
It is a figment of his deluded nibd!
Appalling. They shouldn’t be wasting their time on this nonsense, they should be using that time to get on with putting the receipts package together and publishing the complete list as soon as possible in order to pre-empt their continued external publication. The House of Commons authorities are a complete shambles.
There are no “authorities” left in the commons they are all lickspittles
55,004
Cnuts. Total cnuts. How about calling in the Police to investigate the theft of public money?
NO, I THOUGHT NOT
Did Ted heath make the claim for Tampax ? He always was a bleeding twat.
I really, really, really want to see if Salmond and the others who sit both in Westminster and Edinburgh have double dipped……
Seth that’s a really good comment! Can Gordon also claim expenses from the Scottish Parliament because of his Scottish constituency? – Is he double timing? Come on investigative journalists we need you to pick up on this one.
Is there any truth in the rumour that Broon claimed the expenses for half a guide dog?
is there any truth in the rumour that you are a butch man hating lesbian, mick?
YES!
They are just jelous sumone copped a large wedg of dough and they did’nt get a share.
The solutions are:
a) Shoot the messenger
b) Make out that all parties are as bad as each other
c) Draw a line under it all and move on
Britain is fucked. If you have the talent get out.
I’m Buggered!
Is your real name Mandelson?
Oooh Harriet’s getting ratty with Jon Snow.
He’ll get sent to the naughty corner if he’s not careful
But still i have’nt seen any news pundit really give it to them straight!
He is only dealing with her like that because she is a woman. End sexism now!
PoliticsHome understands that the Saturday Telegraph will continue with Labour party expenses stories, not Conservative revelations as has been suggested… The front page and lead story will be on PoliticsHome as soon as it breaks
http://page.politicshome.com/uk/politicshome_sources_more_labour_in_telegraph_tomorrow_not_tories.html
It’s on now, politicshome, tomorrow’s front pages.
I saw my old chum Prezza has claimed for a Mock Tudor front to one of his houses…TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION…
Unbelievable…I knew he was stupid…and perhaps needed a Mock Tudor face-lift (to go with his died hair – I taught him that one…)
But to his HOUSE…I think they went NUTS (whole hazelnuts) while I was away organising my tax free income in Brussels…
I will now go and live on Cirfu with Nattie R and all those lovely Russians and assorted wogs…at least they know how to make money and not get caught…!!
Bip bip…
Any one just see john snow tear harriet” all men should be neutered at birth” harperson. Typically arrogant as usual. What colour is the sky in her world. They just don’t get it do they? , and they never will. They are hooked on their thieving like a drug addict on heroine.
It’s a shame Harriet didn’t get done for anything juicy. I guess we’ll just have to put up more with her man hate mantra’s until the nice people in white coats come along to take her for a rest in a padded room.
just seen that Huhne stuart bell arguing with the feedom of information campaigner who started this on ch4 news with jon snow. They fuckin do live in their own fuckin world. What a Huhne he is. He was one of the fuckin arses who tried to get it all stopped along with their fuckin Huhne union leader called gorbals mick.
Theyv’e had him trawling the studios spinning all day, the poor lamb must be tired,it’s Friday and he’s still working.
Hope Bell hasn’t put in any claims for dentistry or even toothbrushes – if he has then they are clearly fraudulent.
Could she be sectioned?
If she introduced legislation to stop people being kidnapped by Martians there would be an outcry yet she introduces an equality bill to close a pay gap that does not exist.
A nice feminie pink you insensitive clod!
Where’s Kilroy and his Veritas mob. Suddenly, they seem a bit saner!
I thought it was called Vanitas?
Sanitas even more likely.
Things have come to a pretty pass when even Kilroy-Silk seems saner than anyone else!
Some of the Sinn Fein expenses will make interesting reading an’ all.
All that fertiliser should make for a bumper crop of rhubarb
And the gallons of cooking oil and nails should make some great kitchens.
publish the fucking list Guido.
I am sick of this pissing about – let’s get it over and done with.
Revenge is a dish best served cold! Who said that?
you?
Khan in Star Trek 2
Sigh…I wish I had a classical education like anonymous.
I was too fucking stupid, I could only study politix
I, too, was fucking stupid whereas if I played my cards right I could ahve had Caroline Flint. No she could get a job at Television X when she loses her seat!
Obviously someone else, who like me, didn’t get up in time to get a telegraph
Ka`pla
Politicians, by their very nature, are dishonest.
I can’t believe that. It takes years keeping their hands in.
I wonder what the insurance premiums are on an MPs second home?
Don’t suppose they care. They can just claim them on expenses.
Fred Goodwin must be having a quiet laugh and maybe emailing a few addresses out.
Makes Fred the Shred look positively whiter than white – well not quite – what happened to Gordon Brown’s assertion that he was going to claim all of Fred’s pay off / pension back?
I think PM Broon’s priorities are shifting by the hour. He ceased to have any kind of control months ago. He is now in a situation of desperate fire fighting for which he has had absolutely no ability nor preparation having recently vacated the quietly surreal world of No 11.
He can’t have long left, but will he go quietly or will someone have to remove him?
they don’t care obviosly; the bastards claim for that as well.
At least you f’ckers are only talking about my loo seats…
I ‘ope you din’t get a photo of my Mock Tudor front !!
It’s sow lovely and cost a bomb…
Giz’ a mansion, Prezza.
A fake one…
You mean this guy?
http://juzzzy.blog.co.uk/2009/05/08/john-prescott-s-extraordinary-expenses-claim-for-two-faces-6081731/#c9852976
Are those real beams – they look like they were drawn on with felt pen?
the’re made from tracy’s knickers so i’m told, so they wont stay up very long
Why does he do everything in two’s? Two jags, two toilet seats,two women ? well maybe there were more than two women…though being a woman I can’t imagine why anyone would want him. Why are the labour men so exceptionally ugly? Gordon, Watson, Prescott, Balls, Whelan (yes I know he’s Union), Hoon, and of course the gone but not forgotten McBride (now hiding in an old cave on the west coast of Ireland).
Yu see…when I was young…my mu’ver said “look son when you make it in life make you have two of everything…like vat if one breaks down you always have a second one…loo seat…wife….houses…you understand ??”
Claiming for 2 broken loo seats?
I guess that’s the result of having a fat lardy arse?
Give us a Mock Tudor gin and tonic steward…
I used to enjoy having a wank now and then.
Now I just watch PMQ’s.
Seeing Gordon getting his tits ripped off does something, eh?
I’m just in love with my laptop just now….
I’m Guido addicted.
good here innit!
And then…?
“I’m a little M.P., rich and stout;
Kiss my backside, stroke my snout.
When the trough is empty, hear me shout!
It’s fixed! You cannot vote me out!”
LOL!
Good one.
Douglas Alexander claimed he was underinsured when his house burnt down and so the taxpayer had to make up the difference. In the unlikely event that that is true why should the taxpayer pay the price for his stupidity?
‘cos we are a bunch of spineless bastards, and they know it…
I trust his insurers will, given his comment and the publicity. now be re-examining that claim.
I bet even Adolf did’nt fiddle his expenses!
Nah he just nicked everyone elses and then shot ‘em……
What a load of syphilitic, pox-ridden, scrofulous no-good weigh-anchors & self serving greedy, incompetent tossers these sodomites are!
don’t hold back Himself, tell it like you see it…
Yeah, I felt like that in the beginning too, then I got angry
string ‘em up
Did you know, at the bottom of the Marianas Trench in the Pacific Ocean, which is nearly 7 miles deep, and where the temperature around the volcanic spouts are at boiling point, there are actually small shrimplike thingies living and thriving?
Just goes to show, you can’t keep a good hoon down.
Are they claiming them as second homes?
wouldn’t be any good for a shrimp bbq eh ? lil fekkers would be moaning about the griddle being too cold.
Malcom Jack=Clerk of Institutional Corruption.
H Harman=Defender of Institutional Corruption
Darling/Hoon/Blears/Straw/Beckett/Smith/Milliband/Balls-Cooper=First Class Practioners of Institutional Corruption
Prescott=Tudor Style Institutional Corruption
Junior Minsiters tomorrow.
Now we know why the Minister of “Justice” at the House of Common Criminals decided to cancel the contracts for the “titan” prison ships.
From now on Prescott is to be named the
PANCRACKER
or RimSlider
RimRider please….
Or The Amorous Prawn?
Like everyone else on here, I’m also looking forward to more juicy revelations in the Telegraph about the expense claims made by our superiors. I may have noticed a subtle change in the politics of this organ over the last week or so. Has anyone else seen an almost imperceptable move back towards being a conservative newspaper again?
This may be purely out of a sense of self preservation, of course. As virtually nobody believes that this shower can win the next general election (or two) it makes even less sense to hitch up to Gordons wagon just as it rolls inexorably over the precipice.
I didn’t think watching self-destruction could be so entertaining. The Telegraph with it’s wagon hitched to this putrid labour crew nearly went over the precipice with it. It has finally realised, probably just in time, that self-preservation is the best option, and now it is trying to redeem itself. I do hope so.
Well that’s a laugh isn’t it? – since it’s been the Labourgraph for a while now. As for Mandy well!!!
” These expenses are not to do with tarting up my house” he said ” so I could subsequently sell it” which he subsequently did – making a profit of £136,000.
Listen; what are we, the ordinary fuckers, going to do about this mass thievery of our taxes, of which there are many and varied?
Add to this our money has largely been given to the b(w)anks, and I am being sent pre-approved loan letters saying that I can borrow my (our) own money at whatever APR…..
What the fuck is going on?
As someone else said here – PUBLISH THE FUCKING LIST – let’s get rid of these animals!
can’t. don’t have it.
£24,000 was supposed to be a limit. Most MPs see it as a target.
Its the culture
Not for much longer!!!
We musn’t forget Testosterone – Brown-Balls-Whelan-Hoon-Campbell(he is still there!!!) Mandy,McBride, Draper, Watson etc etc. Of course it may be oestrogen overload? Only an Endocrinoligist could say for sure.
And Thickko on here. Misogyny is definitely part of the culture
I think Gordon Brown should sell a few of the Big Issue mags on the street. See life from the other side of the Gravy train, and just how corrupt the expenses system is, and how little it should be used.
The folks living on the hill are laughing at the little people. The gravy in the troughs is endless and they know it. I hope they suffer bad wind from their belches.
I think he should just fuck off
You are fired
So are you!
[...] could be fun. Guido (of course, who else?) has a thing about the panic about the leak about a leak. How could you not laugh, I mean it’s just got silly [...]
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/pommanual/PAYE72010.htm
PAYE72010 – PAYE operation: payments for PAYE purposes: agencies which introduce domestic cleaners to householders
There are firms that act as introduction agencies where domestic householders wish to engage cleaners to work for a few hours each week.
The agencies only receive
* An introduction fee from the householder for example
* One single payment
Or
* Payment at a regular intervals during the period a cleaner is supplied to the householder
Or
* Commission from the cleaner
The cleaner is paid directly by the householder.
The agency has no PAYE responsibilities in these circumstances and you should not pursue the question of PAYE with the householders.
I.E. Brown’s brother is acting as the agent and therefore has no PAYE responsibility, it is Gordon Brown who holds the responsibility foe making PAYE deductions – has this been done?
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/ir35/leg-applies.htm
Intermediaries Legislation (IR35) – Working through an intermediary, such as a Personal Service Company
Some earners are treated as employed earners for NICs purposes although for tax they may be self-employed. This means that certain engagements may be within the NICs intermediaries legislation but not the tax intermediaries legislation. Occupations that may be affected include lecturers, teachers, instructors or those engaged in a similar capacity in an educational establishment; office cleaners and cleaners in any similar capacity; and entertainers. The same is true of those holding non-executive directorships via a service company.
55052 signatures! : )
keep us updated on this petition. I myself couldn’t be arsed, he (labour) is (are) completely fucked any which way you look at it…
As I understand it, in order to be qualified as Expenses for tax purposes, the money has to be paid for actual money spent in the execution of your duties as an employee on behalf of your employer.
Does not much of this money not fall into the category of benefit and therefore subject to income tax?
Any institution can allow their representatives to claim money for whatever they decide is within the rules. However, that doesn’t make any difference as regards the tax treatment.
Have they also changed the tax regulations to their advantage? If so, surely it is evidence of pre-meditation?
“Honest members of the public are clearly concerned about people who avoid paying their taxes, and now that we have a dedicated hotline number it’s easy for people to call us and we’ll do something about it,” said HMRC chairman Sir David Varney.
The HMRC hotline is open seven days a week from 8am to 8pm on 0800 788 887.
As i’ve just said on BBC News, “I was incredibly busy at the time. That’s not an excuse, it’s an explanation”
Quote from Straw “Accounts are not my strong suit”. Question what is ?
west central jockland labour MEP MSP and MP expenses please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Harman was on Channel 4 News lying away; followed by Stuart Bell lying away. Snow got quite stroppy. Where will it all end? Nuremberg?
Wasn’t this ‘reasonable grounds to believe a criminal offence has been committed’ bollox the excuse used to nick Damian Green?
Bunch of thieving hoons!
Seriously does any one know if it’s true that us peasants could petition the Queen to dissolve parliament? What would the procedure be? Do you know when it was last used and would it really work?
Grab your pitchfork and follow me!
The queen does not have the power to dissolve parliment unless asked to do so by the prime minister.
THE PIE SHOP REVISITED
McBroon sits hunched at a bare table in the back shop. Unsold pies spill out into the back yard.
Willy: ” Hey Broon your looking right glum the night…”
McBroon: ” Och Willy it’s nae right….that Pierre guy from Brussels I hired tae do some PR for the pies has well stitched me up..”
Willy: ” How’s that Broon?…”
McBroon: ” You know that flat we rented for him…well, he’s just handed me an expenses claim for roof repairs..”
Willy: ” Roof repairs?…..”
McBroon: “aye Willy……cheeky bastard says I should have fixed the roof when the sun was shining…..”
Willy: “Calm doon big man you’ll be able to set it against expenses…..fancy a wee ‘bru?…”
Mcbroon: ” Naw Willy, I’ve got the cleaner round the hoose…”
completely not humorous. But fucking good anyway!
Possibly and that would explain Mandys ( woman scorned )dig at the Telegraph as being a tory paper today
ive got a rake will that do?
It is the Hembra culture of Jowell, Blears, Smith, and Harman et al and their Oestrogen fuelled brains!
The Alexanders- Douglas and Wendy are two of the most self opinionated self serving massive sense of entitlement fuckers ever to be bred by the Labour party in Scotland.
but could we not still petition the queen, achieving the moral high ground?
Jack Straw…..sounds like a species of avian (low or nil intelligence).
fuck off
Now we’ll see just how independent* the BBC really are. And if any BBC journo’s have a score or two to settle, it’s best done now while TPTB are in the dog house. As for Sky News journo’s, chocks away!
* = i.e. fuck all
If you think Toenails Robinson, Michael Prick or Andy Marr is going to go after Nu Liebour, think again.
They are waiting for some real tory sleaze.
How about my wardrobe of Armani’s? In my job they’re like overalls. Claimable of course
398 RobC
Got to say that fair made me chuckle, excellent !
No problem there, anyone can write to her.
Anything known about the expenses claims of one Sydney Sussex graduate former Minister for London? Just curious …
Never heard of him. Give us a clue.
probably a thief like the rest.
They ae ALL DOING IT. NONE OF THEM CAN RESIST IT!
Politics & Morals are not compatible.
Firstly, as a politician, you have to mostly tell lies to get elected, and if you are, the only option you have is to continue the lie.
There you go, political philosophy in one sentence.
Pathetic, isn’t it.
Nah, Queen’s role is ceremonial. It’s GB (er, Gordon) that has that power in his hands. Basically the Queen is his bitch and has to bend over the throne when he says.
Let me say a word to you co-conspirators…
I have been out of the country for years…
Only zapped into Guido’s blog recently…
But when i read what is going on i really have difficulty distinguishing between truth and fiction
These Labour ZANU types seem to be totally out of control, totally incompetent and quite SURREAL…
Prezza and his Mock Tudor thing..You really have to scrape to find such absurdity and fraud…
welcome back!
it is all true unless it’s a lie
Indeed. They were counting on being out of the Country in an agreeable climate out of camerashot when the Press and the Public blew their stack.
Though I have to say this still reeks of spinning the story to change it as I said this morning, to reiterate.
“I detect the hand of Mandy or Campbell.
Expect Government underlings, apologists and spinners to try and frantically “steer” the story to the Telegraphs publishing of the details rather than the details themselves.
Can’t see it working though. There’s just far too much for the Press to feed on now. And they do love a good sleaze up.”
Were I the Telegraph I would indeed be watching for a hurried and trumped up publicity stunt “investigation” knocking on a few doors, forced onto Plod by the Guilty Swine to try and deflect the story even more.
I actually got this posted on Nick Robinsons blog on the beeb, is this right? I’ve always been censored!
“Well Nick, looks like you have misjudged the publics reaction to this. Could it be that you are so close to the politbureau that if you said anything they didn’t like, they wouldn’t let you on Gordons plane again?
You were much more independent when you were on ITV, before you got neutered as part of the deal when you transferred to the independent beeb! Don’t expect to see this one make the blog!”
Bizarrely, the 8pm News 24 bit had Robinson making a reasonable fist of the whole thing. Still only a summary of what my (mainly illiterate, for some odd reason) 11-year old son could manage, mind. Madamemoiselle Dale on just before the hour too…had to remind them that he didn’t write for the Telegraph any more. Ah well.
In his blog entry of 27 February 2009, Nick R referred to Prescott as “my fellow blogger” who “chastised the media this morning for obsessing about ministers’ responsibility for the doubling of Sir Fred’s pension”. I thought that very self-revealing of how his professional detachment has disappeared. Now we are perhaps beginning to see that ministers didn’t mind about the bankers’ vast pensions because these validated their own parasitical culture and made the next greedy claim even easier.
Youre getting confused with mandy.
new labour learned everything they know about the politicisation of the police from Margaret Thatcher. once you politicise the police anything is possible.
things like ID cards and electricians on their way to work getting shot in the head by special operatives on the streets of London happen when you make that mistake.
Thatcher started all this police state shit when she used them to take away industres from communities. if she hadn’t shut down coal we would have operational clean coal power plants generating enough energy to make us self sufficient. that was probably Thatcher’s biggest mistake.
the tories lack of an intellectual policy programme as a direct result of their refusal to identify the failures of Thatchers policy.
Thatcher got it more wrong than right.
until the tories face up to that and adjust their policies accordingly dave will remain the nowhere man
living in his nowhere land
making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
Jackboots police just shot and killed another man (pensioner?) in his suffolk home – trigger happy Menezes slayers at it again
What a load of bollocks. The reason this country is in such shite is because so many numpties still think like this. If the Unions and esp Scargill had not betrayed their members by picking a fight with the elected Govts of the day, it might have been possible to run the mines economically for so long as the seams lasted. The miners were sacrificed by politically motivated men playign stupid power games, not by Thatcher.
Scargill btw was later found to have solicited and then misappropriated funds donated by miners in Soviet Russia, who could barley afford to feed themselves – that’s the kind of man he was. Grow up ffs.
PS I should in fairness add that Seumas Milne in his partisan but highly detailed book “The Enemy Within” which details the aftermath of the stirke and the subsequent 20++ legal actions in whcih the NUM was embroiled goes to some length to discredit the assertion of financial wrongdoing
The man shot and killed was in Fernhurst, West Sussex and I used to live just up the hill from there (spooky you said Suffolk as that is where I live now).
All the usual police dis-information: “he was holding a gun to his wife’s head”. He was alone when he was shot by them. “He was brandishing a gun in the lane”. Or was it his hedge trimmer(???)
Expect he was wearing a rucksack and a heavy jacket although it was a warm day… very ironic he was a resident in sheltered accommodation… well that didn’t work, did it?
Perhaps they thought he looked like a Brazilian electrician
I hate to tell you this, but coal plants chuck out more radiation than nukes.
what?
I believe a petition to the Queen in Council is the thing, in the following terms:
“To The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
The Humble Petition of divers Mongs and Hoons of this Kingdom Sheweth as follows:-
That Mental McBroon has really fecked up this time, and we can’t wait until next May.
YOUR PETITIONERS therefore most humbly pray that Your Majesty may be graciously pleased in the exercise of Your Royal Prerogative to dissolve Parliament in the terms of the draft herewith submitted or in such other terms as may to Your Majesty seem proper.
And Your Petitioners will ever pray, etc”
It needs to be written on parchment in ink. With a quill. Then bike it round to the Clerk of the Privy Council.
Yes, it really is fixed: E.U. Reg. 666/131313, to force an M.P. to do actual work, would count as ‘cruel and unusual punishment’.
Who put the torch to it ?
We have!!!!! Wait for the rest………… this revolution is just beginning – the gravy train is a car crash – end of the line!!!
The Labour leadership tell us they are creating a “Political Class”, that means; “Proffessional Politicians”. Are we to belive that amateurs would have made a bigger mess of things?
From the bunker, the latest secret recording has been smuggled out to the awaiting press, the BBC decided to ignore this report and wheel our Nick Robinson to spin another story about the Tory’s
Excellent, so true.
That is weirdly creepy.
But professional politicians will simply toe the party line, always! Are they trying to say that having professional politicians will be a good thing? Obviously it wouldn’t be. You end up with just a large number of costly apparatchics who now just implement policies dictated by the eu.
We already have professional politicians, that’s exactly why we are in such a mess!
Jack Straw was leader of the Nat Union of Students when I was at University
Dennis McShane was chairman of the NUJ when I first started in publishing.
People like Harman were in charge of leftish quangoes or North London socialist-led councils
All were motivated by a kind of demagogic left-wingery and none has ever done a proper day’s work
Like Georgia Gould the 22 year in Labour?
I didn’t vote for them. Count me out.
Me too, we can do girl things like clean our rifles and knit little cosies for our hand grenades.
“If you suspect anyone of benefit fraud please
call our National Fraud Benefit Hotline – free
and in confidence – on 0800 854 440.”
We should ALL call this number
It would be tax fraud – not benefit fraud. Claiming second home disHuhne and then claiming the full amount from the commons falls in to one or more of three frauds Mr Justice Secretary Shaw;
Fraud against the Local Authority
Fraud against the Commons
Fraud against HMRC as the expense of Council Tax is not tax deductible.
So Mr Straw when will you resign?
I reported Jacky Spliff for Benefit Fraud yesterday (online) & will be reporting James Gordon Brown to Crimestoppers later this evening for fraud & misappropriation of public money (where we were paying for the cleaning of Sarah’s flat in addition to his). Nothing will be done in either case but at least they’ll know we know & also whats that thing about ‘death by a thousand cuts’.
Old Holborn fans have been reporting various turds from the HoC to the Benefit Cheating Bastards Hotline. Great fun, as you get to describe the person e’g, Jackie Spliff @heavy and overweight’. Such infantile good fun.
“If you suspect anyone of benefit fraud please
call our National Fraud Benefit Hotline – free
and in confidence – on 0800 854 440.”
WE SHOULD ALL CALL THIS NUMBER
what?
you still a lesbian mick?
note to the reader: you guys do know that mick is actually a big fat sweaty lesbian pretending to be a dude?
seriously. read her posts and you will see what I mean.
fucking weird a woman pretending to be a man, innit?
you’re a fucking weirdo mick.
fuck off you creepy c’unt.
Does any body else think balls and cooper are conspicuous by thier absence? Or are they saving us money. They obviously share the same hairdresser.
“If you suspect anyone of benefit fraud please
call our National Fraud Benefit Hotline – free
and in confidence – on 0800 854 440.”
EVERYONE CALL THIS NUMBER
Perhaps he’s a member of the SAS. They use them apparently when out in the field. They make an excellent wick etc.
Open letter to Gordon Brown:
http://pkpolitics.com/2009/05/08/imran-khans-letter-to-gordon-brown/
According to the Guardian, lawyers advised the Commons weeks ago that the leaking of these documents “Did not constitute a Criminal Offence”
They also advised “This was not Theft because it did not deny the owner possession of it”. (MP’s expenses which rob us of our taxes are indeed a Theft))
How much did the Damian Green investigation cost the Metropolitan Police ( and us the Taxpayers? and why have the Police allowed themselves to become the tools of this corrupt government? -they are supposed to be independent upholders of the law) it will come out eventually (FOI) – Are the Police really going to get involved in another costly non-investigation because the Speaker of the House wants to divert public attention away from the real issue ?(pigs in troughs especially the Speaker’s) expenses- won’t that be entertaining?
A prediction – this attempted diversion will fail.
The French Revolution, it is said, began with Marie Antoinette’s comment, when told that the peasants had no bread to eat said “Let them eat cake” demonstrating her complete detachment from reality. Does it remind us of anyone?
re-learn history
“If you suspect anyone of benefit fraud
please call our National Fraud Benefit
Hotline – free and in confidence – on
0800 854 440.”
call this number NOW
Get real. Investigate an Asian/muslim/woman/Labour supporter? There’ll be a laserprinter/mobile phone heading in your direction soon.
But what’s the reality? A few of the more shameless one’s will have to retire to spend more time with their pension pots and property portfolios. The rest will carry on, albeit with reduced allowances, but what the heck? they’ve had a good run, and made a pile, no body in the MSM has suggested for one minite that they should pay it all back. I’d put up with the shame for that sort of dosh!
Dear Malcolm Jack,
You are a traitor. You are conspiring to aid and abet fraud. You too, should be in jail.
But he doesn’t want to go the Filkin way
I tried to employ MATRIX when CRE Trevor Phillps spoke of ‘passive apartheid’ on the countryside – a go at the indigenous country folk prior to Hunting Bill vote – no response all all – even bloody rude!!
484- She’s more accessible than the Prime Minister – I bet she wants him and his rotting government gone as well. How she must hate Tuesdays!!!
Yeah, and a stick painted white half-way down.
He had a claim in for half a brain as well but that was rejected.
“If you suspect anyone of benefit fraud please
call our National Fraud Benefit Hotline – free
and in confidence – on 0800 854 440.”
Give them a call today
I’m waiting for tonight’s news about the next terrorist cell in Birmingham, Manchester, Blackburn or Stoke Poges — “Thirteen British citizens wearing peculiar hats were arrested today on suspicion of planning acts of extreme diversion and have been taken to various police stations for questioning.”
Then, next Tuesday: “Two of the men arrested on 8th May have been released without charge.”
Then, next Thursday: “The remainder of the men arrested on 8th May have been released without charge and although they are completely innocent students they are being deported because then they can’t talk to the press.”
The “terrorist threat” is like that old joke. Man walking down Watford High Street is asked, “Why are you wearing those antlers?”
“They keep the gorillas away.”
“But there are no gorillas in Watford High Street.”
“Exactly.”
Nonsense, there were plenty of urban gorillas in Watford in the glorious ’70s.
Les liasons dangereuses, 18th century
Amazing! Check out the
Sorry- my hand slipped I was laughing so much. The Hobbit skull in the photo looks like Blears’ mother. Honest, the resemblance is uncanny -it’s even got fucking ginger hair and an open gob.
Eh Oop
I needed two bog seats due to my unfortunate medical condition
A huge fat arse caused by my tragic desire to eat Burgers at you clots expensesieses.
FUCK OFF
Sorry I meant to say
Go fourth
Prescott lying low over the expenses scandal. Perhaps lying low in the shithouse. Local BBC report in Hull really nails it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zACFVUYYoE
Bloody hell one of his constituents referred to Prezza as a man of intellect……Can this be true? I think we should be told. He’s allowed people to believe he has a functioning IQ of 70 for long enough.
Prezza – a man of intellect!! – the ‘ Angel of the North’ talks!! Bless!! Love his tudor beams and 2 toilet seats!! How does his wife put up with him??
I have no idea, but it probably helps that she can’t understand a word he says..
To be fair, they didn’t say what kind of intellect…
Sorry Newgirl but as well as being deaf I’d need to be blind!
I think he’s hiding in the Very Dark Caves with Father Noel and the St. Luke’s youth group.
BTW, that blond in the advert who can two wagon wheels in her mouth certainly get’s my vote.
Prescott lying low over the expenses scandal. Perhaps lying low in the loo. Local BBC report in Hull really nails it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zACFVUYYoE
even that fuckin Huhne stuart bell got in on look north defending that other fuckin Huhne prescott
Nice home for a ‘not very intelligent’ ne’er do well – merchant sailor!!!!!. The rest of us have had to work for what we have and for our families, and even retired we are still having to do it – and then some! Gravy train’s great if you can get it – stick to it while you can ’2 toilet seats prezzie’
Prescott…from two Jags, to two shags, to two bogs..
and FOUR houses (watch that son of his also)
he’s such a socialist isn’t he? a real man of the people…
Actually he makes me seethe so much I come out in hives. I loathe him and everything he stands for. Revolting hypocritical, pig ignorant, greedy, fat oaf. He’s a disgrace and an embarassment and its unbelievable that he achieved high office. The fact he did says it all.
And he knows a thing or two about gravy. In pies usually.
Another G&T steward, if you please…
The Labour party’s elevation of a vicious oaf like Prescott to high office is unforgiveable.
As is Prescott’s [alleged!] vandalism of the Admiralty building under his occupation of it
Lest we forget, there was the matter of his furious attempts to cling on to a UNION flat in London which he no longer needed, nor was entitled to, inc challenging their repossession in court – what a way to treat the Brothers! Pleaty on it here:
http://tinyurl.com/qqdrhj
prescott is nothing compared to all the rest, just a fat arsed Huhne.
keep an eye on the fuckers in th headlines…
Are you the Squire of Fuckem Hall?
Quite so, if a fat dumbass like Prescott can compile a neat portfolio of four nice properties, a mistress and a couple of Jags , just think what the brighter ones might have done.
sheer greed, it appears, makes up for a lot in intellectual deficiencies when it comes to nest feathering
bit rich coming from a fat dumb ass like you eh, mick?
Prescott lying low over the expenses scandal. Perhaps lying low in the bog. Local BBC report in Hull really nails it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zACFVUYYoE
Perhaps he is lying in the garden admiring the mock Tudor beams that we taxpayers kindly bought for his house. Very classy they may be (or not) but I’m still at a bit of a loss to understand how they are essential to his work as an MP.
Presumably he claimed for those “accidentally” and will reimburse the public purse first thing in the morning.
It all went to his head a bit, that week at the helm in Chequers.
Pathetic really… he thought he’d make Prescott Hall in Hull a bit more like the official residence so he could go on pretending he was still Deputy PM. Shame Dolly isn’t around anymore to explain the psychology. Actually they are all in need of urgent counseling and a hefty dose of Kirsty’s interior design advice. I wouldn’t mind quite so much if they’d spent it on decent stuff.
Did you see that hotel the Squirrel stayed in? It looked like a ’70s themed auction room and I do wish she’d ditch that truly hideous coat with the blanket check collar.
Just to remind us all, this was pub in the Mail in 2006:
” Mr Prescott rented the flat from 1970, when he became MP for Hull East, until 2003. The Deputy Prime Minister was eventually evicted following court action by the RMT, who wanted to knock it down to make way for affordable housing. Mr Prescott had also fallen out with union militants who had withdrawn his funding after her refused to pledge his support for rail renationalisation.
At the time, union officials were astonished that Mr Prescott had desperately attempted to cling on to the flat – although he was also enjoying the use of two grace-and-favour properties. The Deputy Prime Minister had not even lived in Maritime House since 1995, but he had given the use of it to his journalist son David.
Mr Prescott told a parliamentary inquiry into his failure to register the discounted tenancy that he had an agreement with the late Jimmy Knapp, then leader of the RMT, to retain the flat “so that I still had a home to return to when I finished my term in government”.
It is the latest in a long line of controversies to hit Mr Prescott over his ‘perks’. The DPM was recently forced to give up his 214-acre official country residence at Dorneywood following a public outcry that he was allowed to continue using it despite being stripped of his ministerial responsibilities. Last year, it emerged that Mr Prescott had not paid council tax on his 18th century Admiralty House flat for the past eight years, forcing his Whitehall department to meet the costs. “
John Prescott on the subject of ‘fair pay for the amount of work an MP does’ – so how many £1K does that mean FatBoy owes the taxpayer then?
Footman: The Prime Minister Your Majesty
Liz: For Fucks sake! Don’t let that one eyed Jock Gobshite in here! I’ve just cleared up after the Corgi’s!
We, the voters, can get rid of them, by a general strike.
Set a date for it, by some means (there are LOTS of organisations that wiil do it, and by the way this is not violent or derisive to anyone in any way), and we can do it!
Two or three days of nothing will destroy them; it is a difficult decision to make, but the way they are pissing us off with the stuff they are doing, then let us give some of it back, with the best “NO CONFIDENCE” retort we can possibly show them.
If we refuse to work, they will not survive.
When it comes to the final showdown, it will be the establishment against the scum.
The establishment will have the police and the army on their side, but the scum will win because the’ve got all the pitbulls!
so if we strike, can we claim for loss of earnings via the expenses system in parliament, charged to our MPs account?
no, but it’s worth a couple of days pay, don’t you think?
rab c nesbit, I think you will find that the Army are just as pissed off as we are, I served for 12 years and the vast majority of the Forces are right wing and after this Governments constant crap against the Army I doubt very much if any soldier would raise arms against any civvy.
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There was a story recently that they were asked just that by their commanders.
oh yeah, the last nine comments that have been posted are total fucking bollocks.
why don’t you c’unts fuck off to conservativefoam. there are lots of other spastics like you there.
you could have al ovely spastic party!
plastic cups only mind.
All you whingers are pathetic, Thatcher saved us from being third world status and you idiots moan moan moan, If you’s didn’t like it then why did you’s keep voting Conservatives again and again until 1997. I bet you’s will be voting the boys in blue though next year to fix your mess.
Back under our rule the pound was worth a pound now under Labour a fiver in your pocket is only worth a pound in real money once you’ve made the adjustments.
I aint saying we the tories are perfect but for fucks sake all we do is make you richer, fix your problems and then get bloody voted out by you thick Hoons again and again till you bankrupt yourselves and expect us to change your diapers and clean up your shit again and again.
Sooner or later it’s gonna be bloody impossible to balance the books of the UK, Labour will sink you’s once and for all, Do the right thing and let us and the Lib Dems become your two parties of choice permantely!!
Let’s end Labours reign of terror once and for all.
So lets get this right: The Pigs have called the Pigs ?
And they are flying…
Price of bacon is going up.
Guido,
Everyone should complain to the police about systematic fraud in the House of Commons. We cannot allow it to be onesided.
…and about waste of police time by the Speaker and his cronies.
Why has no sharp eyed researcher noticed that the real fraud about changing second homes regularly has nothing to do with fiddling several £800 TVs? MPs do not pay Capital Gains Tax on second homes. They are able to act as fronts for property traders doing a quick like of paint and flowers job. This valuable concession doubled the profit made on a three year trading cycle in the days of taper relief. So MP’s astonishingly abolished taper relief to the detriment of working business owners. Now the position of MP will instantly double the profit from a property trade.
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I know we all want to rant and kick
these bastards up the arse but what’s the point?
No-One listens and this blog is fast becomming a joke.
We must direct our energies and anger in a more productive
and useful direction. There must be a way in which our collective
voices can be heard where it will do some good and make a real
change.
Ideas anyone please? Things are getting desperate.
Jointly file a private complaint in the Magistrate’s/High Court for fraud against them…
Masturbation?
Personally I’m very glad there is somewhere I can laugh my socks off about this lot. Taking recent Parliamentary events seriously would compromise my sanity. We need a safety valve – until polling day. Then it’s serious.
Move from Edmonton to a more credible area.
what do YOU suggest?
Come up with an idea, and we can talk….
Chingford.
Engineer is right, this blog is a very necessary safety valve – although the frequent descent into puerile lavatory humour and childish name-calling does us no favours
But it’s also performing a very real service in providing a sort of clearing house for all the various strands of information, and given its wide current readership it is without doubt not only changing but leading the shift in tone of political discourse very noticeable over the last three weeks in the mainstream media.
Not so long ago all these formerly isolated incidents provoked a mere shrug of despair or of cynicism. It was hard therefore to build up an overall picture of Labour’s malfeasance in office.
Now there is a real head of anger building up which even the BBC can’t ignore (or not for much longer). Guido’s blog has imo been instrumental in focussing this
All together now . . .
“Oh, if you’re a thief born in Jamaica, shout ‘I am’.
“If you’re a thief born in Jamaica, shout ‘I am’.
If you’re a thief born in Jamaica, married to a best selling author,
If you’re a thief, born in Jamaica, shout ‘I am’.
LA is increasingly angered by the response to the expenses disgrace.
As they start to claim the evidence was “stolen” it takes on the feel of one of those bizzare American murder cases where an entire town sees the murder yet the murderer gets off because the arresting officers badge was upside down.
Say its wrong, say sorry, call an election and let the voters decide.
LA
“HARROW East MP Tony McNulty may be investigated for fraud by Scotland Yard after the expenses row involving a house in Wealdstone”.
In todays observer …
what joy
..nothing to see here. Move along. The police are politicised and the judicial system is corrupt. There’s virtually no chance that he, or any of them, will be punished.
If some Tory were caught claiming for a new seat (s) for T ‘Shitter
You Tory clowns would be saying nothingness.
Remember, we are all middle class now
I even lift the seat before taking a piss
Now fuck off
Buy a Big Issue, Guv?
You have a lid on your sink?
Lift the seat?
I get out of the vehicle before I piss.
Sorry
I meant to say Go Fourth you Huhnes
Sorry again
Just Go fourth
And then fuck off you Tory wankers
I preferred the Hoon reference, personally.
Does that haiku run to a second verse?
Are you perchance a Gemini?
Where is my Mock Tudor gin and tonic steward ?
He could be anywhere in of four smart locations.
mick, shut the fuck up.
no-one is interested in your bitchy little snipes, you’re not even funny.
SHUT UP YOU BORING ARSEHOLE!
BBC News:
Breaking News: Tourism minister Barbara Follett claimed £25,411 in expenses for security, report says.
Who? What a freeloading Hoon.
Phil Woolas claiming for womens clothes, what is he hiding?
His weekend secret when he’s known as Philippa.
And me.
What is he hiding?
Perhaps a ‘C’ Cup or nicely defined thighs.
Custard pie is denying it now and threatening to sue. I seem to recall a former MP for Thanet South who came unstuck in the past by taking action in court and perjuring himself. Bring it on Woolas.
Who does she really need protection from? Herself.
Carte blanche for anyone who has been mugged to hire private security at the taxpayers expense naturally.
Listen when you have FIVE HOMES like I do you need lots of security you understand…and it costs a bundle to maintain FIVE HOMES so I claim the maximum…and what about my lmvely iconic husband…?
mmmmmmmm and I was once married to a genuine socialist.
Disgusting troughing cow. How does she think ordinary people cope with crime in this country?
By cowering and bleeding.
The house is in Meard Street in Soho, ffs. I’m a woman and I’ve walked around that area all my grown life since 1970, late at night or in the small hours after being in some drinking club for hours, often a bit the worse for wear – and I’ve never once felt unsafe. I’ve been pickpocketed, sure – everyone who drinks in Soho has. But there’s no violence, and there are always people around.
If she felt unsafe there, why didn’t they sell up? The area’s a gay ghetto these days anyway! – what could be safer? And they are worth £15 million between them. Jesus wept
All together now . . .
“Oh, if you’re a thief with a kink for buying female clothes, shout ‘that’s me!’
If you’re a thief with a kink for buying female clothes, shout ‘that’s me!’
If you’re a thief with a bent, who won’t give it up for lent,
Oh if you’re a thief with a kink for buying females clothes, try a double D”.
Millionairess MP bags £25,000/annum for security patrols after she was mugged, according to this evening’s latest release from the Daily Telegraph. She said this was OK, according to “the rules”. It is not OK, you greedy, greedy, irresponsible, greedy, contemptible woman. I want to slap her face.
Bring back Madame Guillotine, I have cast on my knitting.
Her husband earns £13million a year and she makes US pay £25k for her security because she’s feeling nervous!
What a low life greedy hoon.
They all need group therapy.
And she’s MP for Stevenage – very commutable from London – can’t be more than 40 mins, yet she still claims for a 2nd home in Soho. It’s no wonder these leaches are so effing wealthy.
…sharing the same gallows.
Follett majority is just over 3,000 in Stevenage. Good chance then she will get booted out at the next election.
Remember 1997 when her and that twat of a husband of hers couldn’t even successfully open a bloody bottle of champagne on air after her election?
Plenty of champagne corks will be popping if she gets her come-uppance…
In a way it serves the taxpayer right, for voting in these troughing hoons in the first place.
It always beggars beleif, for me, that ordinary ‘Labour’ supporters will vote for these mega-rich champagne socialists who have no idea how they live (and no interest either) to represent their cause in parliament
Re 977. Labour voters don’t expect to pay much tax themselves. They are very happy for others to do so.
Did anybody hear Mandelbum on the 6 p.m news? He said that his building expenditure (claimed after he had announced his resignation from Parliament) was for “dilapidations” and not “renovations” and the Telegraph were being DISHONEST for saying it was the latter.
So after his “mortgagegate”, Hindujagate”, and yacht trips, Mandy has the chutzpah to call the Telegraph dishonest! And to think Tom Lehrer claimed “Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize”.
He sold that house for big bucks after the resignation and renovation, too. Choo choo, gravy train troughage express. Trust Mandy to be laughing all the way to the bank (and at every tax payer). Oh how he must have laughed and laughed.
His spinning is now getting out of control and backfiring! He should take a back seat and stop meddling. I thought he looked very pissed off on the news!
Good!
He called them “dilapidations” because that is only what the rules allow.
Half the cost was for gardening work, most of the rest was for a interior redecoration.
Give me three garand to spend on my property about to go on the market and I could enhance its value by ten, easily. And its three grand of someone elses money then so much the better.
He bought that property for £69,000 and sold it for £205,000 presumably not having spent a penny of his own money on doing it up and presumably claiming it as as “main home” (though he was hardly ever there) for tax purposes so that he avoided capital gains tax and trousered the £136,000 profit entirely. Kerr ching! Not a bad little earner.
Gardening uphill if past form is anything to go by.
Tony McNulty
Scotland Yard confirmed it was considering a complaint that McNulty may have “obtained pecuniary advantage by deception”.
Haven’t they all done this?
Some of them have been pretty blatant
Of course we have;DUMB BUM;;;
CPS says in a statement today:-
We have decided that there is not sufficient evidence to take the case to Court.
Would it be any other way?
…exactly as predicted.
Malcolm Jack is obviously a complete crook. Rope and lamp-post please.
His previous job was helping the homeless, so he is uniquely placed to appreciate the problems involved in flipping.
Fair play to the Telegraph now….their “Comment” bar makes for entertaining titles:
Telegraph View – A scandal at the heart of our democracy
Janet Daley – Harriet Harman tries to defend the indefensible
Iain Martin – Police should investigate MPs
Daniel Hannan – Lumley assumed ministers are in charge
The Barclay Brothers can see now which way the crow flies.
OH GOD NOT YOU AGAIN MICK!
FUCK OFF YOU C’UNT, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD FUCK OFF TO CONSERVATIVEFOAM.
YOU OFFER NO VALUE TO THIS PLACE AT ALL YOU BORING FUCKING WANKER!
GET A FUCKING LIFE AND FUCK OFF FOR THE LOVE OF THE SWEET BABY JESUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All together now . . .
“Oh, if you wear a nappy and you’re happy shout, Ayo Gorkhali!
“If you wear a nappy and you’re happy shout, Ayo Gorkhali!
If you’re happy in a nappy
And Joanna thinks you’re a sappy
If you’re a nappy wearing sappy shout, Ayo Gorkhali!”
For once, the Chinese have the correct strategy…………..
http://www.groundreport.com/Politics/Corrupt-politicians-on-the-gallows
prescott i hope you are reading this you fat corrupt troughing bastard
what was blair claiming
hilarious
Harman’s Court of Public Opinon, does it only apply to bankers? Or did I misplace another consonent?
These buggers make the rules up for our taxes, then find ways to evade them. HMRC should investigate Brown, Darling, Hoon, Smith, Cooper and Balls. FOI requests for their income tax receipts ought to be made.
These bastards have been itemising every expense and milking the taxpayer.
You should be pleased you have a FOI act. Here in Jersey we are told nothing by our Goverment and our parisan media help keep it that way.
Our MPs wanted their expenses to be FOI exempt, and it was only in February and after a “lengthy Freedom of Information battle” (BBC report) that the Information Tribunal ordered the House of Commons to provide a break-down of MPs’ second homes expenses claims.
Timeline here
and what about the “FIRST” home expenses ? Christ this is only the beginning…
Hi voice for Jersey children – yes I have watched this and wept – corrupt officials – how we wish they could all be identified and strung up – feel for you!!
Guido
YOU SEE WHAT YOU HAVE STARTED….
IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT….
THE F’ING ROOF IS COLLAPSING ON MY HEAD….
SORRY…
MEANT TO SAY THE ROOF IS LEAKING….
Call in Inspector Knacker, and get it prosecuted .
PLOD IS TOO BUSY WITH MCNULTY ALREADY ….
Send me the bill for the repairs, why don’t you?
Margaret Beckett’s excuse is :
“sometimes things are done in a rush, at the last minute, when you’re busy”.
hence she submitted questionable claims. Fair enough, but why are public servants approving these claims ?
If Beckett’s excuse is accepted then the civil servants are at fault and ought to be dismissed from their posts. Ensuring expenses are legitimate is what they are paid for.
Perhaps one of the journalists could ask Jack Malcolm to clarify his position.
So let me get thew latest revelations on Sky News straight.
Phil Woolas has been claiming on expenses for womens clothes?
Now either he admits to cross dressing whilst at the HoC as a legitimate expense or faces fraud claims ect. for claiming for clothes for his wife and gets the sack as this is blatently against the rules
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Laugi, I nearly shat, especially as less than 24 hours ago being humiliated on a almost unprescedented scale in front of the Gurkas and Jonna Lumley
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Please God let it be true. Let it be true & I will be a good cat from now on. I will even use the litter tray.
30 years ago I thought he was spending my NUS sub on the usual trot projects of smashing capitalism and raising the consciousness of lesbian whales on the Grunwick picket line. Now, I find he was spraying himself with Charlie, and mincing round his squat kitted out in Gloria Vanderbilt Jeans and a pie-frill Laura Ashley blouse, listening to Duran Duran. Another illusion shattered.
need to compare whats on the receipt with whats actually claimed for. not making excuses for the trough guzzling hoon, but *I’ve* put expenses claims in with clothing on the receipt. the claim however related to biscuits for a meeting.
a meeting note I wasn’t invited to.
need to be somewhat careful, but to a degree if they hadn’t spent god alone knows how much trying to hide all this (how much does introducing a whatsit to parliament cost?) this wouldn’t be half the story it is. plus they could have “managed” the infomation release. maybe blown something up or nicked a number of people with tinted skin etc to distract.
gun foot aim fire.
Margaret Beckett’s excuse is :
“sometimes things are done in a rush, at the last minute, when you’re busy”.
Fuck me – I hadn’t thought of using that one with the Revenue and Customs…
I was thinking it may prove a useful defence to a number of crimes…
The difference is that Beckett might possibly get away with it. You and I, being ordinary members of the public, would have the book thrown at us.
No doubt Beckett was busy sitting reading in the Admirality Library, which she sequestered (against all previopus use and custom) for her own personal and private use, when occupying one of the ‘grace and favour flats’ in the building.
Brown ” the system doesn’t work” or maybe it’s the fault of America. ‘And I needed a cleaner because my tenants refused to do any housework’. I was living in Downing Street at the time on an all expenses paid budget.
Straw ” Accountancy was never my strong suit” Its easier to claim twice than to check my returns – and I know I won’t be sacked for negligence.
Mandelson “this is not to do with Tarting up my house” – Even though I sold it ‘immediately after the repairs’, for a profit of £136,000.
Smith ” I claimed for an 88p bathplug and porno videos” by designating my real home as a 2nd home- Aren’t you taxpayers so easily fooled??!!!
Blears ” I had three different houses in one year to maintain. Just imagine how expensive that was for me as I tried to seek justice for the least able in our society. ”
Prescott ” I needed that tudor cladding on the front of my house – it made me look important!!”
Hoon ” How are you.!! Do you know how much I am worth! After claiming everything I can from my expenses – I am a £1.7 millionaire.!
What successful people! What idiotic taxpayers we are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Squeaky Bum Time!
Its a global problem . . .
Maybe that woman in Laos could try “The Beckett Defence”
I ‘m sure that where she comes from there are lots of people who rush down to the dole office to make false claims in the middle of their busy days.
Beckett was only ‘doing it in a hurry’ because she realised she had to meet the 30th March deadline (One of her claims was dated 30/3/2007 and another 20/3/2007) and beginning of next expenses financial year — use it or lose it — the Bitch!
If we don’t have a election now, within the next 6 weeks, I am going to shag the nearest sheep I can see, and it’ll be the best thing since 1997.
That’s why Little Lord Mandy is fleeing to the Continent…on my adivce…
Well Mandy jolly well better go to the Continent – because we don’t want him or his ‘associates’ here ie Brown, Watson, Balls, the ‘fragrant Whelan’ and his Unite chums , and let’s not forget McBride- he who has already fled to a remote cave in Ireland – sorry Ireland that you have to put up with him.
by the way, this isn’t racist. I’m Scottish, but it is safe to say that I hate all these Scots hoons that are in positions of power.
Strange, but I am Scots, but don’t like the too many varied accents we have (they are all beginning to sound like Rab C Nesbitt…)
Scotty, that’s because the darkness in the labour party has its epicentre in west central scotland.
To be more precise, Monklands, supported by the ZaNuLab city central, Glasgow.
The NuLab Scots are cringing self loathers. Beneath contempt whatever they claim to be. Indeed they are an embarrassment to everyone. Especially to real Scots that vote SNP and for independence.
“the darkness in the labour party has its epicentre in west central scotland.”
“There’s been a morrrrdorr here, Chief Inspector Gandalf”.
Agreed, McMental especially has a very very very deep chip on his shoulder as he feels (and is) inferior to the likes of Cameron and Osborne.
Watch PMQ and you witness McMental going incandescent with rage.
He is incapable of taking direction or critism from “those types” as his entire career has been based on inferiority and class loathing. He is not alone.
Watch in facination as Osborne closely monitors him mini-selfdistruct as Cameron lectures McMental at PMQ.
He is, indeed, pathologically ill-equiped to hold any position of power.
There’s a difference between xenophobia and racism.
Am also Scots, and I too HATE the t..rds also!
#666 (nice number)
It’s Muuurrduurrr. (get the accent right !)
And we thought these scunners were as thick as mince. Nice scams if ye can get it.
We need to stop this divisiveness between the peoples of the Union. Probably too late though – a tragedy for us all. Hard to believe that people take Braveheart seriously.
The true enemy of all decent people are the petty nationalists (more or less racist) and socialism.
Can I politely request (as a mostly English person) that people here stop ragging the Scots. It’s playing into the hands of the enemy – divide and rule, and all that.
Can I point out that the Scots made themselves the enemy, by highjacking first the Labour Party, then Parliament and the country? And then mis-using their power and in the process destroying our ancient democracy. Thier troughing at our expense has only served to widen the rift irrevocably
There was great affection here in England for the Scots (even if it wasn’t reciprocated) before this lot grabbed power. New Labour has been Scots Labour right from the start
Calm down, calm down – Maybe Phil Woolas wanted to butter up Joanna Lumley by buying her some underwear ??
What girl doesn’t like to be spoiled occasionally ??
Knowing him it would be polyester Y fronts
I think we wanted to butter up her arse, a la Marlon Brando style. (me too would like to do that…)
He was’nt by any chance buying satsumas as well?
oooooo fuck Pauline, get on the phone to the plumbers, I’ve only gone and cracked the shitter again
I’d love to believe it was Prescott who claimed for the bog seats – but on the other hand I know that the nightmarish vision of his massive flabby porcine arse straining to pass a nobbly turd, with the seat creaking, and finally busting under the pressure is one that will have me waking up at night in a cold sweat.
What are the foreign press making of this – Miliband invoicing the taxpayer for nappies, Woolas claiming women’s clothes, a packet of Maltesers here, a jellied eels there, Tampax, a potato peeler – is the mother of parliaments the laughing stock of Europe? What do MPs actually spend their salaries on?
Knit one, purl one …
Let’s be honest, in Europe they are used to it. The EU gravy train is awash with swill and frankly makes our MP’s “fiddles” look like the office clerk pilfering pennies from the petty cash box.
Hmmm – that “we are not so bad, compared to everyone else” is a cowardly excuse. The Iraqi blog comments sections used to be awash with extreme American right-wingers saying that their soldiers’ war crimes were OK really because Saddam was worse.
And our MPs are not pilfering pennies, they are making themselves millionaires on the back of taxpayers, taking money that could have been much better spent on army equipment, hospital equipment; and day-centres for the homeless and elderly around the country might have been kept open.
I posted on an earlier topic……… ‘we’ ie collectively ~British~ are a laughing stock.
Especially since the bastards have bankrupted the country at the same time…
Sad times…
Having a jolly good time of it in France reporting the corrupt pantomime in the UK but secretly covetous of us for the likes of Guido for exposing the corrupt bastards who are our political representatives. They wish they could do the same but Sarko et all will have learned the lessons of FOI about important things like financial Parliamentary scams
“a packet of Maltesers here, a jellied eels there, Tampax, a potato peeler ”
Perhaps they were appearing on Ready Steady Cook”
The mother of parliaments has become the whoremaister of parliaments
Westminster is the mother of all parliaments
Westminster is the mother fucker of all parliaments
Rangers v Celtic tomorrow.
Just want everyone to know that John Reid, Jim Murphy, Des Browne, Brian Wilson. Alastair Darling, Speaker Martin, Ruth Kelly, John McFall, Anne McGuire, to name but a few of the avowed, together with their famlies and the bulk of the ZaNuLabour Party in Scotland will all be supporting … Celtic.
Bear that in mind please.
Rangers play in Red, White and Blue.
go get a fucking life. stick to the subject.
Mmmmmm. Touchy.
I believe you may protest too much.
And Rangers better win…
They did, and it was class.
So tell us who the good guy Labour Gers are…..
Murray hitched his wagon with labour against his instincts and now he is paying the price.
So who do Rangers supporters support? The Tartan Tories – the SNP? That’s hardly Red, White and Blue.
Not sure about MP, but there is at least one ‘Hun’ Labour MSP:-
Karen ‘Fatty’ (are there any other sort of woman in NuLab?) Gillon, MSP for Clydesdale, is a Bluenose
Dr Mick,
Bizzarely legend has it that Celtic (pro-Irish Nationalists) fans tended to support Labour (party of the Union), whereas Rangers (pro-Unionist) fans tended to support SNP(party of Independence).
In days gone by Labour were the ‘Catholic’ party and SNP were the ‘Orange’ party. Certainly was the case in the infamous 1994 Monklands East bye-election won by Stalin’s Granny herself (Helen ‘Maxwell bag-carrier’ Liddell)
Scottish politics is a lot more obtuse than it looks
#781
Well, Rangers supporters, by definition, do not support Celtic.. and you now know WHO – ie which party in Scotland – supports Celtic.
So.. whenever posters upon this site compare Scots with the Labour Hoons, just remember that Labour Hoons are almost exclusively Celtic supporters.
Figure out.
Giovanni.
WOW – we have ONE (“perhaps” but only alleged) Labour Rangers supporter !!
And who is she anyway – I’m listing present and past UK cabinet ministers unless you missed that !!??
I am no SNP supporter but your comments on SNP are deluded.
SNP have a wide support, left and right, independent, pro and anti unionist, pro and anti labour. Mainly left wing party like Labour.
So.. you agree that NuLabour Scottish MPs are essentially Celtic supporting, yes ?
If no, please list those ones that have declared support as I have
Giovanni.
“Labour (party of the Union)”
How long hve you lived in this country may I ask ?
Before you cast your next vote I suggest you educate yourself.
Party of the Union – The party who delivered and led Scottish Parliament ? Yes ?
I’m sure Labour party supporters would laugh at being called Unionist.
Are you in the the correct Blog, my friend ?
Court of public opinion:
Not sure what Murray’s (Chairman and owner of Glasgow Rangers for readers) political suuport is, but I’d have thought it may have been Unionist/Conservative as at least two of his Chief Execs have been.
But I may be wrong.
None were ZaNuLabour supporters as far as I know.
Adam Ingram MP (former Armed Forces Minister)
Brian Donohoe MP
Both are Rangers fans.
There is no doubting there’s a sizeable Celtic support amongst Labour politicians but there are Rangers fans in there as well. As you’d expect considering the Labour heartlands are effectively restricted to the Central Belt area.
Regarding the SNP comments, the key words in my post are ‘In days gone by…’ – a cursory glance at the SNP’s history will tell you that was the case. They were thought of as ‘Orange’ but that is indeed changing (RC bigwigs are very pissed off at a lot of Labour MPs stance on abortion for a start).
Anyway you’ve just listed basically the reasons for SNP’s recent good showing…the anti-Labour vote. Not that much different to the reason for NuLabour’s election in ’97 – the anti-Tory vote. And look where we are now with these NuLab bastards…
Helen Liddell was certainly a “bag carrier” for those who may remember her.
Again, a Celtic supporting ZaNuLabour supporter from Monklands (no less).
She was, however, the bag carrier for Dr John Reid, ex Cabinet MP and now Chief Exec of Celtic Football Club, yes ?
All roads lead to Rome, no ?? !!!
ps. some of us take exception to terms such as “Hun” and “Bluenose” but then if you are still learning our language and culture then I’m happy to accept your apologies in this case.
SSL
Since birth. You obviously then weren’t around during the 1999 Holyrood elections when Labour were running the ‘Don’t divorce the UK’ posters?
Of course they are Unionist FFS! They wouldn’t want to break up the UK since it will shut off their chances of troughing at Westminster
Offended about ‘Hun’ and ‘Bluenose’? I’ve heard it all now.
Don’t need any lectures on Scottish culture from Rangers or Celtic fans thank you very much.
I’m not sure Brian would agree with you. He’s my local MP but maybe I’m wrong ?
In any case I’m not sure he’s in the Cabinet. In fact I am sure he never will be.
So… again…Name a Cabinet member – present or past ?
“There is no doubting there’s a sizeable Celtic support amongst Labour politicians ”
Understatement of the century !
The last time that I heard SNP being described as “Orange” was when William Woolfe was leading.
Either History/Politics is not your thing or you are well into your 80s.
discuss.
I’ve lived in Scotland (briefly) and I thought that the “Celtic” supporters numbered only about 300,000 out of a pop. of about 5 mill and were mainly centered in Glasgow. They can’t all be catholics and Broon cetainly ain’t one so what has been their support base?
I say “has been” because it seems that is what it is now.
Consider yourself lectured, Sir.
Doctor Mick. Info
Scotland = 5 Million.
Glasgow = 1 Million of which Irish-Catholic approx 500,000
Religion = 1 Million Roman Catholic, 4 Million NonDenominational/Non RC
Labour Heartland West Central Scotland and Irish Decent
Gordon Brown is Presbyterian East Coast
Celtic Support 90%+ Roman Catholic
Rangers Support 90%+ Non Denominational
Giovanni, like a good ZanuLabour MP, you refuse to answer my direct questions.,
Name them please – Cabinet Ministers.
I’ll be listening tomorrow. I trust that Celtic supporter charts will not only be glorifying the murder of British Citizens but also asking for Union support in the UK ?
Mr Des Browne, Ex Defence Secretary, takes his wife and children to listen to this each and every second week.
Is the irony lost on you, Mr Giovanni ? Is the Labour hypocrisy lost on you either, Mr Giovanni ?
Was ‘Follow Follow’ down last night or something?
Jesus, talk about shifting goalposts.
“I don’t know of any Glasgow Rangers supporting Labour MPs.”
Well I’ve given you some.
Now it’s Rangers fans in the Cabinet you are claiming you are after.
Willie Woolfe was 60s-70s, Monklands bye was 1994. If you are saying that wasn’t a sectarian contest you are nuts.
Stop bullshitting us that Labour gets it support only from the Celtic quarter. Labour predominantly gets it support from the Central Belt, ie both Celtic and Rangers fans. You are both as bad as each other.
Sooner the Old Firm bugger off down south with their sectarian baggage and leave the rest of us in peace the better.
Oh, and I’ve never voted Labour and never will so that pissed on your chips
RANGERS 1 NuLabour Celtic 0
Justice Served.
Who is paying for the tickets?
Guess
This is getting So very tedious.
I wiil ask one more (time yawn). Please name ONE, past or present Labour Cabinet Minister or senior MP who actively supports Glasgow Rangers.
I have listed many active Celtic supporting NuLabour Cabinet ministers and senior MPs.
I could list another 20-30 backbench NuLabour suppoters and I’m sure you can too, but that isn’t the point .
NAME THEM or retire in denial.
That little shit Vaz has been cought flip floping the location of his ‘second home’. It could not happen to a nicer person.
Knit one, slip one, pass the slipped stitch over …
Blears: k1, sl1, pass sl st over, inc 3 sts into next stitch and turn.
Like to know what his property portfolio comprises.
Wonder if he needs an estate manager?
his sticky fingers in so many pies in Leicester we wouldn’t believe the half of it. He’s one of the worst of the lot.
He has had a reputation for some years. maybe just now the evidence will filter out.
Mind you, they’ll still vote for him.
you two are lesbian trolls from tory HQ.
You fucking rimmers!
LOOK…
THIS IS OF CALIGULA PROPORTIONS NOW…
TIME FOR ALL OF US TO LEAVE…WITH OUR CASH…
Caligula no………. this is more like Rome under Elagabalus, look him up, there are great similarities between his behaviour and some of the antics now being uncovered.
WE need Cincinnatus to save us
How long will it be before some deranged nutter publishes the home addresses of MPs so that the “court of public opinion” can pop round for a cup of tea and a nice chat?
I can imagine that every piano wire and ladder supplier would welcome the business, get it out there and lets help them out
Yes, but we’ll have to guess which house they are in. It’ll be a bit like find the lady (I use ‘lady’ in the broadest sense)
Yes we used to call it “Hunt the Cnut” at school (grammar school, not Eton or Fettes, before you ask). The only clue is that wherever they are, it won’t be at what they call their home address.
I’m sure that amongst the conspirators upon this site, we have almost every constituency MP covered. Doesn’t take much to investigate where your local MP lives.
Hint: For ZaNuLabour MP Constituencies, the MP or another member of their family are almost certainly represented upon their local housing association.
Join the association shareholders for nominal £1 and all details revealed.
I believe the Police being called in is a sly move by the government not specifically to find the mole but so they can say when asked embarrasing questions on anything to do with this.
“we cannot comment as this is now the subject of a police investigation”.
If you see this start to occur in interviews tomorrow then this is probably the ploy. Of course the investigation will continue until such time as they all think everyone has forgotten about it and then announce no grounds to proceed or similar.
The move now craftily stops any further discussion on this subject as such and when it resurfaces its by then old news and past the Locals Elections. By the way if this is subject to a police investigation will the Telegraph be able to print anything else without being in contempt?
This may be a conspiracy theory to far I suppose but we will see?
If the Telegraph have any trouble they can just pass the info to Guido to publish it in Saint Kitts and Nevis…It would never be in comtempt of Court there !!!
Fined £25 Contempt of court! Next case!
The question is what are Labour scared of, which Labour MPs will be revealed on Sunday who have really taken the piss? The ones paying for an extra marital affair on us?
They may be scared that there is no blackmail out in the open. Once this stuff is common knowledge, the whips will have no control left over the lobby fodder, who will have nothing to lose any more.
It’s the extramatiral affairs between MPs that is going to increase popcorn sales….all on expenses of course….like that hoon who was filed fucking in his Commons office…and firnd of McLoonybin…
You are on to something here.
If the police are called in and go through the items that were leaked as thoroughly as they did with Damian Green that could be interesting – big if of course.
The Saturday Telegraph must be out by now. If the government play the sub judice card now, they will miss out on seeing the tory peccadilloes in print on Monday. Of course, they would spin this as tory press bias, as Mandy is already doing.
Am I being thick boys, being the new girl here? Just that, the way that letter reads, to me, is they are calling in the cops re a possible offence on behalf of the Telegraphs handling of such sensitive, private haha Members business. Non?
Yeh, except the tiny detail that you ( I am presuming you are not a parasitical scrounger taking cash out of my wallet to fund your lifestyle ) are entitled to see what your “representatives” are using of the cash pilfered from your pocket on.
I presume that you would have no problem with a stranger from the street walking into your house and taking your TV and saying “It’s all with in the rules” and flouncing off with it?
Because that is effectively what is happening here !
Or is that not the case ?
Exactly! Criminals should not be allowed to make their own rules, and then say – “It’s all within the rules!”
What were the rules in Nazi Germany?
Pretty strict actually.
They are investgigating a breach of the Official Secrets Act. Every Civil Servant has to sign it, so they have a come-back if you reveal anything at all you have learned in the course of your work. it takes real guts to be a whistle-blower: the legal consequences can be terrible, esp in financial terms. if you are sued you have to employ a defence.
“Am I being thick boys, being the new girl here?”
Quite possibly.
Yeah you’re being fick.
bit rich coming from a dullard like you, eh michelle?
Fuck me that Huhne Brown has been at another school today!
Add to the list of villains here
Play MP Bullshit Bingo here
Doesn’t he look more sinister than Saddam whilst he’s creeping around children? I thought there were new laws to keep that sort away from children, so why is he allowed to spend so much time crawling around schools? You never see him photographed talking to management or staff; he’s always talking to the kids!
From DT, Follett:
“Mrs Follett, the Minister for Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism, is married to Ken Follett, a best-selling thriller author whose income has been put at £13 million a year ($20m) by Forbes magazine. They own a holiday home in Antigua, a house in Cape Town, a former rectory in Mrs Follett’s constituency of Hertfordshire – their main residence – and a buy-to-let flat in south London.”
No wonder she can afford to be a socialist
As Minister for Creative Industries, I wish you to know that I am merely following my own policies….
I create as many homes as possible and charge as much as I can to the UK taxpayer…
Creative no ?
earlier comments gave me the impression that you all think the cops inquiry is looking into expenses fraud, no?
Best leave the Gin alone now.
The “suppposed” inquiry is indeed Malcolm Jack doing his masters bidding and trying to shut the well appointed stable doors after the Horse has bolted and been written off as an Expense.
Not entirely sure The Met will be quite so eager stick their neck out for H.M. Government on this one after their recent bungling idiocy over Damian green. But who knows ?
Maybe some token noises or “investigations” will be made by plod to placate the piggish hordes in Westminster and to try and shift the story from their sickening greed to shooting the messenger.
Which is no doubt what Brown, Mandy and the spinners are devoutly wishing will happen.
But the public will be far more inclined to think the Met should be going after the MPs for fraud and the like which is why many here are making comments to that effect.
Gin supplies may also be very low right now as MPs consume vast amounts waiting to see what new horrors will come to light in the coming days.
Where is my gin and tonic, Prescott ?
Ta Much Boris for the comprehensive explanation, am now au fait with your workings. Now get your hair combed x
Is dat you Ewanme?
Joana Lumley botherer Phil Woolas is huffing and puffing about suing the Telegraph because his penchant for Nappies and Womens clothing (and claiming the expenses on them) is hitting the front page of the Telegraph tomorrow.
You’ve been a very naughty boy Mr Woolas.
Hang on, he clearly gets off on that sort of thing so lets not bother. Uuuuugh!
Surley given the lack of credibility the man has, Woolas should first of all prove the clothes WERE for his wife and not for other purposes – whatever they might be ?
Womens knickers are I think included in his spending spree and even if Mr Woolas did not use them for himself (who can say ?) if they were not even intended for his wife and mayhap some other woman (perish the thought) it might well explain his impotent “fury” ?
Woolas is a fucking Huhne. Grubby little camp left wing twat. He’d go down well in the mens toilets at the BBC.
The bloke he was talking to sounded like McSnot. I’m sure I heard
“The cleaner started in America”
“I’ve saved the world you bastards from cleaning”
“This is no time for a novice cleaner”
“I’m getting on with the cleaning”
“You’re the do no cleaning party”
“No more boom and dust”
“No more boom and dust”
Hahahahahahaha
You mean broom and dust?
wonderful!
Here’s another: ” You have to clean your way out of a recession”
Keith Vaz, i had a feeling that odious little toad would crop up.
It was a 100% certainty. The greasiest of the lot.
I’d happily watch this dreadful little fuck go down i flames.
Guido
Could we have a caption contest on the Standard reporter talking to Gordon’s brother through his front door?
Hopefully some genius will give us a link to youtube.
Has Guido heard anything about the rumour going around of a senior Labour Party figure who is named in a corruption enquiry as having made substantial loans to a disgraced senior politician in another country?
Or was it Mandy repaying Alain Minc ???!!!€
That a lovely little magic circle also…
Robert Mugabe?
One of the Castros?
Mandelson to a Russian?
Thaksin Shinawatra?
How dirty was Gordon Browns flat? 7K for a cleaner???
I see Macbeth scrubbing and scrubbing in an attempt to was the imagined blood of Duncan from his hands, only the bogey eater calls on a domestic rather than Macbeths call for All Neptunes oceans.. What blood was spilt in that Westminster flat?
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The sad thing in all this sound and fury is the silence from most of the MPs.
No admission their claims were in-appropriate, no sense of shame that they were stealing tax payer money for TVs, food and pornography while soldiers and airmen die for lack of funds for the right equipment.
No twinge of regret that pensioners are choosing between heating or eating while MPs are switching first and second homes to make a killing on the ACA.
A pay rise last month shows no empathy with an electorate where a steadily increasing proportion are becoming jobless then homeless then having their children classed as being in need of protection and taken away.
No member of any party, let alone leader has said this is wrong and that they will stop it now.
If there is another general election, and that event is not guaranteed, none of the existing compliment of MPs should be electable. They will be unable to look the electorate in the eye and say I will not steal tax payer’s money again.
How can they? They are so corrupted, that even after this much public anger, they still believe they have done no wrong. They have not broken any of their self enacted rules.
Beyond redemption, all of them.
We are in a ‘post-democratic’ situation. The politicians have only contempt for the electorate. They maintain their grip by postal vote fraud. They think this fuss will all blow over. They will end the revelation of detailed information, choose another way to pay themselves even more, and carry on ever more outrageously. Africa is their exemplar.
When I saw the Tampon box on Channel 4 News tonight I thought, “Oh God, they have even gone that far”.
Now I hear that it was Phil Woolas, the Home Office Minister, who claimed for them and for nappies. Just exactly what do they get up to in Westminster?
Phil Woolas denys claiming got nappies & ladies clothes, and has accused the paper of ‘smearing’ him.
well he should have got better quality nappies then.
You’d think, being in his 40s, he would have at least progressed to Pull-ups by now.
Isn’t this odious little twat toilet-trained yet?
It is so damned leaky around here that I need a large supply of nappies…be reasonable…
Also known as the House of Commons.
has he got kids, even….?
Yes, he now says its not true. So what did he claim for?
COME BACK CALIGULA
ALL IS FORGIVEN….
Even Caligula didn’t do stuff with tampons.
Shows how far shot we all are…
You may well ask….
But just wait until all the intra-MP extra marital affairs with double dipping come out…
You ain’t seen nothing yet……
And my husband will write a best seller about it all !
If you can identify any, please let us know….. I don’t know of any Glasgow Rangers supporting Labour MPs.
Anyone who declared that interest would immediately be deselected as a candidate.
Woolarse may sue the Telegraph
I can just see him in the witness box being cross-examined by some hot shot barrister! If Ms Lumley made him look like the teacher had caught him at the back of the class exploring his little soldier, imagine the squirming he would suffer under the gimlet eye of the high court!
no he wont he would have already done it. Muddy the waters and cause doubt the report iks wrong as good as burying bad news.
Just as I tell all my NULabZANU clients to do….
“may sue”? Why doesn’t he just go ahead and do it instead of announcing it to a nation that doesn’t give a fuck.
This wounded indignant posturing gains no sympathy from “hard working families”.
another pearl of wisdom from the butch lesbian.
thanks michelle!
I think it’s just noise and bluster as you rightly point out that Wooly would not fare at all well under any kind of sustained cross examination by M’Learned friends.
The Telegraph though might be absolutely delighted at the reams of copy they would get from such an amusing “show trial”.
In fact the Telegraph spokesman seemed pretty damn assured and certain of the veracity of the Woolas story. He didn’t look to me like a man on the back foot.
One wonders how many hacks will be digging feverishly around Woolas now.
Perhaps he should have kept his mouth shut and looked shamefaced like he did with Lumley ?
Quote of the Day:
‘The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of tyrants’
Just a thought
‘…and patriots’, as I think the original had it.
My MP says : Please understand that the money was there for the taking so I took it and if you don’t like it, go and piss up your kilt. OK?
Anything further that I can help you with?
Whilst these f*cking pigs are putting their snouts in the trough, 4 more British Soldiers have died in war the pigs sent them too.
String these pigs up from the nearest lamp post.
Good point, well made.
…but who will bell the cat? We don’t seem to have a Cromwell or Colonel Pride now that Parliament needs to be purged again.
Just saw Heather Brooke on Newsnight. She is quite foxy imho.
She sure is. And if ever she needed a shoulder to cry on, why I ‘d give her one.
course you would.
you’re a butch lesbian for fucks sake!
“We desperately need change” “We’ve got to radically reduce the number of things that MPs can claim for such as barbeques and patio heaters.”
No, Dave. MP’s just need to STOP claiming for everything they can think of! We realise it’s difficult for you to understand that, but please do try.
porter just said on Newsnight no one has done naything as bad as (emphasises the fact he was a conservative) Derek Conway so no resignations are likely or needed as Conway still an MP
FOR FUCKS SAKE!!!!!
As predicted the spin machine is now getting into full gear with Mandy trying desperately trying to shift the story to the Telegraph.
Stomach churning and oh so f*cking obvious.
He’s on a loser. In 6 months time, people will have forgotten whether it was the Mail or the Telegraph that broke the story. But they’ll remember the tampons.
Has anyone ever met anyone who thinks Mandelson is not a nasty, greasy little fuckwit?
MPs’ expenses: Two lavatory seats in two years for John Prescott
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5293199/MPs-expenses-Two-lavatory-seats-in-two-years-for-John-Prescott.html
Well he was one of Labour’s big shitters.
Careful.
Coprophiliacs-R-Us. The Labour Stool Party for the Public we treat like shite.
Phil Woolas, the Home Office Minister, claimed for items of women’s clothing, tampons and nappies. The parliamentary rules only allow expenses which are “exclusively” for MPs’ own use so it is not clear these items were justified.
“Nothing to see here, Gordon and Mandy asked me to bring a few things to the party.”
All together now:
I’m an M of P and I’m okay,
I sleep all night and I work all day.
I cut down trees, I eat my lunch,
I go to the lavatory.
On Wednesdays I go shopping
At John Lewis all for free.
He’s an M of P and he’s okay,
He sleeps all night and he works all day.
I cut down trees, I skip and jump,
I like to press wild flowers.
I put on women’s clothing,
And hang around in bars.
Chorus: He’s an M of P and he’s okay,
He sleeps all night and he works all day.
I cut down trees, I wear high heels,
Suspendies and a bra.
I wish I’d been a girlie,
Just like my dear Pappa.
He cuts down trees, he wears high heels?
Suspendies…and a bra?
Oh Phil, and we thought you were so rugged!
Sing alonga Python
Teach the Gurkhas to whistle the Lumberjack Song each time they see Phil Woolas.
Perfectomundo… could you translate it into Nepalese?
and another… they could whistle Colonel Bogey each time they see McSnot.
what a hoon that Stuart Bell is ‘we changed the rules yadi yadi yada
Very clever of the Conservatives to decline the invite on NewsNight, it was a bear trap set by the BBC and Labour. I can picture the Nokia’s flying round the Downing Street Bunker.
Its an argument about whose deckchair is whose while the Titanic goes down.
I dread what his fuckin expenses for today will be. His been on fuckin every news programme going. At his age he’d better watch out! He really is one of the biggest Huhnes going.
WHEN WILL YOU GET IT? YOU GOT CAUGHT OUT FIDDLING SO YOU CHANGED THE RULES THEN AND ONLY THEN AND NOW YOU WANT TO BLAME THE SYSTEM. WHY ARN’T HMRC INVESTIGATING THESE EXPENSES AND ANY CAPITAL GAINS MADE? WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU ANY DIFFERENT TO US FUCKIN IDIOTS OUT HERE WHO GENUINELY STUCK TO THE FUCKINS RULES? WHAT A FUCKIN MUG I AM.
“It was within the rules” is not sufficient; they made the rules.
“The rules will be changed” is not sufficient; we want our money back.
Strip them of their second-homes whose mortgages were paid for by us. Strip them of their goods, products and services, paid for us. Strip them of their jobs, paid for by us.
Strip them of their dignity, and then of their lives.
The referee of the contraversial Parliament versus the mugs match this week has issued death threats against the fans. “They must die now” said the northern official, a Mr G Brown, “I only give up my time for the good of the game” As to the after match incident involving the mugs top striker, Didier Fawkes, a full report on his lack of respect to honest officials, will result in a lengthy ban from his home turf, the snug at the Westminster Arms.
I wondered why woolarse looked such a twat, he was wearing a thong with a tampon up his arse, fucking pervert.
Please use my off duty monicker: Fill CottonWoolArse
It was clear he was shitting himself – needs those heavy duty pampers
Hazel Blears: ‘I’ve only ever had one small flat in London’
Having furnished three in one year on expenses, does it follow that she booked two non-taxable capital gains?
And why not? She knows she’s worth it.
And the irony is that the disgusting, smug, gurning, self-satisfied little midget didn’t need a flat; she could be kept in cupboard under the stairs and only brought at at Halloween to frighten the kids.
In tomorrow’s Daily Mail, Littlejohn fingers Gordon Brown as the biggest crook and expense fiddler of the lot:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1179501/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-He-earns-fortune-Hes-lifes-mission-hammer-elses-perks-But-guess-Mr-Hair-Shirt-Moral-Compass-fiddle-along.html
Good stuff
Wasn’t there a minor stink a few years ago about a company linked to Maxwell and Geoffrey Robinson, through which funds were channeled to Labour’s 1997 election campaign? I learned only today that Gordon Brown acquired his Westminster flat at a pretty good price from the defunct Maxwell empire.
Transtec was the name of the company, if my memory serves me correct
PS As well as having criminal tendencies, Robert Maxwell was a wealthy socialist who served briefly as a Labour MP, and was renowned for the rages he inflicted on his colleagues
It’s in the rules!!!
mr grodj, i hope you know you’ve entered ‘a walk in the woods’ territory here.
At least Maxwell defrauded far fewer pensioners of far less money.
I worked for them for about 3 months bunch of hoons.
Absolutely startling revelations from Littlejohn about how Gordon has dealt financially with his flat in London(passed it to his wife) and his main home in scotland is now his second home and so gets it done up free at our expense.
I thought he was keen on ensuring every one paid there way and did his best to close all those loopholes; but not for himself!
It’s still in the rules!! Don’t you understand??
Well there’s a surprise.
That’s why he was so keen to sweep the whole expenses mess under the carpet. (Now we know he also does well out of cleaners.)
Stephen Pound is out tonight, lying his head off from Radio 5 to Sky News.
The rest of the thieving Labour scum have scuttled back under their rocks like the verminous cockroaches they are.
At fifty quid a pop for appearance fees, it comes naturally to some.
Pound is a grubby little arse wipe.
Think Pound was in shock on R5l tonight after that bus driver had a couple of words with him.
Complete vermin.
Revolution NOW! English parliament NOW!
Oh yeah, good idea. English corruption for the English
May be within some rules!!!
Hey, you have a Groupie.
Been tracking you, Dr Mick, and all your posts seem, well, reasonable.
I’ll let you know as soon as you lose it, OK ?
Ta, but when the Jock Juice kicks in, then I lose it and I know it.
I AM a Jock, how did you know ?
It’s karma.
I didn’t, but I like your juice…. er whisky dat is.
It may still be corrupt – there’s seems to be something inherently corrupt about the political class. But it would be a hell of a lot smaller – therefore much less of a drain on the taxpayer.
Also it would mean that the likes of Brown and his Scottish raj could no longer influence English law when it doesn’t affect their own constituents.
The surprising thing is that anyone is surprised – this is really surprising.
Hoonsmacked.
Oh Jesus, the lying, cheating bastards…
I know it’s minor corruption in the scheme of things and given the ‘nudge wink’ circumstances most people probably would have done the same thing.
But… they are still lying, cheating bastards….
Lets keep the figures simple. Lets say the pork averages 20,000 pounds per MP for about 600 of them. That’s 12million pounds. A year.
Over a decade, thats 120million. Who knows what the real figures are. I remember some wild eyed idiot mumbling a billion at me once, but I thought they were nuts. Then..
I read the annual expenses bill was 65mil last year that average 100k a pop!!!
Parliament is said to cost about £100m per year. That’s mostly waste, even apart from the expenses fiddles.
It is far from minor; brown needs to sack the worst minister and take the whip from the worst mp to show he is going to practice what he preaches. All expenses must be halted until the commission reports. If any mp suffers hardship I am sure they could apply for a crisis loan.
So two ‘suffer’ and no money is recovered for the taxpayer. You on the [payroll or something?
These people, as many as possible need their assets audited with a toothcomb, need to be put in front of juries, every last penny recovered under the Proceeds of Crime Act, and THEN given the the full attentions of the tax man.
For Christ’s sake it’s IN THE RULES!!!
But these hoons are supposed to be above that. They claim to want to make a difference. The only difference they make is to the taxpayers bill for them.
Beam me up snotty.
WANTED – Phil Woolas – Constituency Office Telephone Number !
Im gonna ring the koont up and find out what the tampons are for. I will of course tape the call !
I JUST SENT THE KOONT A MESSAGE !
Phil
Why did you claim expenses for womens clothes and tampons ? This is a serious question. Do you cross-dress ?
Also you looked a total prick on national TV with your stance against the Gurkhas. Your are a total tool ! Johanne Lumley made you look the stupid ZanuLabour Brainwashed pillock you really are.
Get a proper job in life and some self respect.
I await your response.
Regards
Mr Davies
Here is the stupid koonts number : Bombard it on Monday !
0161 624 4248
Woolas in a dress.
Don’t have nightmares.
Funniest thing I’ve read tonight. Nice one!
The next MP, or whatever, claims or says “it’s in the rules” on TV I’ll punch his, her thick stupid face and sue the thieving bastards for the damage to my TV.
Seriously, How the fuck do these people sleep at night, I just hope that when the shit has settled, and they realise how much they are despised by jo public. Their name will be on ballot papers, do you gob on the one you vote for? stab the box?
For Christ sake what can we do. Something has to be done, wish I knew the answer. This country has now become the laughing stock of the world. GB used to be respected thruout the world, No longer.
Since TB (not the lung desease) got to power the UK has lost respect world wide. Because our polititions lie deceive, try to patronise far more inteligent world leaders.
I just hope call me Dave can reverse the rot when he “gets in” If not we’re all fucked for at least two generations. PS I’m out the UK as soon as possible
If I was Dave, when I got to be PM I would execute a process of creative destruction on the whole over-blown corrupt public sector and client state that would have them whimpering for the return of Maggie.
He’ll get 2 terms at least to turn the ship around and I hope he can expunge the filthy corruption of socialism from our islands forever.
I really, really hope he’s got the vision and guts to do it.
dave is bent as the rest of them.
Ok, arthur, appoint me Dictator and I’ll do it. Or do you have a better suggestion for the governance of the state?
Carry your cases guvnor?
Woolas needs nappies after being made to look like a 2 year old retard by Joanna Lumley.
Don’t take the piss out of 2year old retards He could not compete!
We’ve got a nice blue plaque on one of our homes…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/tax/5291206/Tax-which-expenses-are-you-allowed-to-deduct.html
Small typo on there; it says ‘Rt. Hon’ – that should, of course read, ‘Rt. Hoon’.
The blacker the lie, the worse the skulduggery, the more likely the New Labour princes are to employ some some seedy silk or paid-up peer to convene a snail’s pace ‘enquiry,’ only to ‘discover’ a “systemic error” at the end of it all.
You are a fool to still be going on about party politics, we need all the robbing scum out and honest ones in no matter what party.
You are right about the parties, they are the thread of corruption that runs right through parliament. Ban political parties, elect independents only.
Plato for PM – see Fraser Nelson (link top right).In the mean time have just listened to Radio 4 book at bedtime concluding with the demise of the Romanovs. Happy daydreams imagining this lot of shits being dragged off and shot.
In law, the “it’s in the internal rules of the company” argument is not a valid defence.
Fraud is fraud, no matter what “rules” you made up yourself to say otherwise.
Ignorance is also no defence in law.
As I mentioned on Robinson’s blog today; remember these aren’t tax-deductible amounts knocked off taxable income, they’re pure extra cash for what you would have normally paid for out of your own post-tax income, so a £10 claim is equivalent to £15 of extra gross income.
Gordon Brown even claimed for his fucking light bulbs.
Has anyone ever seen “The Chain” (Warren Mitchell film about moving house; very funny indeed) ? The guy who swept up the ash from the fireplace to take with him for his new garden and who unscrewed the light bulbs and the door knobs and took those with him to his new house; that character absolutely must have been an MP.
The LibDems will probably do very well out of this at the next election; people aren’t just angry, they’re a hair’s breadth away from a full scale riot.
Those white goods they bought I wonder if they got the VAT back as well
It’s still in the BLOODY rules, rules, invented by thieving arseholes. Sadly many fools voted for them. Many of us without knowledge of recent revelatons. Take note when you put that X in the BOX!!!!!
Doesn’t everyone take their light-bulbs with them? I know I did last time I moved house.
You’re probably entitled to take them, but the people moving in will think you’re a total bastard.
Always treat the people buying your house with care/respect, because remember that a lot of post that could be vital to you will end up on their doormat (even if you use RoyalMail forwarding), or old friends/flames from years ago who you’d love to see might go there not knowing your new address.
they’re a hair’s breadth away from a full scale riot.”
Bollocks! You morris dancing twats wouldnt recognise a riot if it set you on fire!!
Get back to your servants quarters, serf!!
The guy who swept up the ash from the fireplace to take with him for his new garden and who unscrewed the light bulbs and the door knobs and took those with him to his new house; that character absolutely must have been an MP.
Funny enough that character was played by Nigel Hawthorne who played Sir Humprey Appleton – a civil servant – in Yes Minister.
for fucks sake!
tory HQ must you paying you per post you fucking c’unt.
Forget the Downing Street petition – why not vote with our cash and all refuse to pay the Council tax until all these bums have put their hands in their pockets and repaid every penny they have stolen?
I have already claimed mine back – sorry!
Come to Wirral we already have a fire sale on the go,libraries,sport centres and now a town hall admitidly it’s a museum,all done by a LabLib coalition
TO-DO LIST : (Monday 11th May)
Call the Inland Revenue and get approval for:
(1) The fact that I have three jobs around the country and I need a second residence
(2) Two light bulbs costing £1.50 (a bargin in Tesco)
(3) Lesbo Babes All Action – Sky Movies On demand £5
(4) A young 18 year old Thai cleaner – £30 per hour + extras
(5) Food – KFC and Chipsticks
(6) Some Durex
(7) As a businessman it is essential that I look good and hence cliam I need a Rolex watch to do my job which should be tax deductable. (afterall if I was a window cleaner I would get me ladder paid for)
(8) 3 fridges, 6 washing machines, 1 Plasma TV per month
(9) 40p for my Daily Express
(10) The telephone calls to my local MP’s office – 40 minutes to berate the koont
Bings me total claim to about £50k …. Nice little earner. !
That could be in the rules, being self employed
Ha! Heard of IR35?
Being self-employed means having a receipt for every item and every item must be 100% necessary to the business. Not to mention IR35!
I think you are taking the piss to think you can claim for chipsticks
no, no, chipstick consumption is vital to the orderly runnning of his life. chipsticks are clearly tax deductible (along with toilet seats)
The first inklings of some of the Tory headlines are now beginning to appear though names are still not being bandied around yet.
Telegraph apparently is splashing on the Shadow cabinet on Monday.
In the meantime tomorrow’s Sun has a front page on an MP who claimed for a sack of manure (IT STINKS! you see) and that is thought to be a Conservative MP.
Sunday will be very interesting, especially if the ‘Double Dipper’ married cabinet ministers are outed with the alleged three Labour MPs who were/are having an extra marital affair on me.
I also suspect Cameron will do a story with another Tory friendly paper detailing the shadow cabinets claims with his disaplinary actions and how sorry they are. Remember he is a PR man so will know how to present this kind of thing.
Harriet Harman, over expenses, says ‘I Know this looks bad….”.
Ministers today have admitted that ‘they have abandoned promises to halve child poverty and failed to reach poor pensioners’. ( Can’t be difficult – these people are starving in a first world country – so easy to see , unless of course you are too busy trying to claim the max off your expenses).
They have also failed to properly kit out our brave boys in Afghanistan and Iraq, The uncaring Geoff Hoon and what’s the name of the present ding-dong defence minister claiming max expenses whilst he presides over a miliatary debacle that is costing lives ???( Easy done; our men are far away and they think if they don’t talk about them, then the public won’t either-) except MP’s are so wrong about that – we are so mad about how they are treating our brave fighting lads as well as our gurkhas
failed to get the flu line up and running on time ,
failed to claim back Fred the Shred’s pension despite Gordon’s empty promises.
And there’s more…………………………..
Oh well ..more scandal tomorrow …these idiots can’t help themselves…….Good night God Bless..
But, it’s been a unanimous success, this Government yes ?
in tractor stats manufacturing yes.
Robbers have their own reasoning, either we do something this summer or we leave a bleak future to our future generations who will spit on our memory for being to weak to stand up and be counted while they have to endure the grotesque horrors of this society warped even more. The military won’t side with them, The police can’t stop us if we rush them instead of standing their like fools, No one can stop us if we march en masse, It’s about time some MP’s got lynched and joined the real world.
you mean – got lynched and LEFT the real world
“The police can’t stop us if we rush them”
Dress up as Muslims and the plod will run away screaming like little girls.
Smell that fear!
The days are numbered for so many of these crooks in suits…
Throw it out – it’s grubby. If there’s a kid in there — you know what? I no longer care!
Suggestion.
To register the public’s revulsion at these troughers, why doesn’t everyone vote for the runner-up candidate at last GE.
That way EVERY MP is thrown out of office AND we get rid of the ZaNuLabour Government in proportion and in one move.
Simples.
Excellent
Far too complicated and indeed even cunning.
As trainee psychotherapist (LOL) I am fascinated by the various phoney reactions of the guilty parties here. Especially ‘smilers’ like Blears.
As the great psychologist Dr. Fritz Perls said to one of his patients, “Are you aware of the smile on your face? You don’t believe a word you are saying. You’re bluffing. You are a phony. You are putting on a performance for me.”
An effective therapist often needs to be confrontational in this way, avoiding the Draperesque touchy-feely cobblers that only keeps the patient from growing up.
As the scandal about various MPs come to light, one can have a lot of fun detecting various phoney roles used as coping mechanisms and avoiding any meaningful interaction:
The Smiler
The Placator
The Blamer
The Bully
The Serious Professor
The Corpse
The Obfuscator/Bullshitter
The Cry-Baby
The Flatterer
The Helpless Child
I’m sure we’ll come across many of these types as it all unfolds…
Brown is ALL of them and ALL of the time.
Did I meet you in Berkeley ?
Lets not forget The Flatulent
That was Gordon on Thursday evening.
The Telegraph are being a bit slow; the public will start back on newspapers again. Its supposed to print all of the news, its not a fucking magazine
That would be Playboy which I must remember to pick up and Jacqui says you can pick up the tab!
Help, Help! Said the MP who was drowning! More expenses sleaze news from home and abroad
(Incidentally, there’s over 940 comments on this post alone, on Order-Order. More than Labourlist gets in visits to their site…)
Yes, Guido is a yob and entertains us riff raff, whereas Chas and the other Labourlist poster have to watch what they say because of the ethical blogging charter that the luvvies have signed up to.
Total tits that they are eh Sir Reg?
whilst the flipping is clear pecuniary advantage and follets 25k of tax money to help her feel safe , its the prezza one that gets me for that it a whim , oh i think the gable would look nicer with 3 mock tudor beams dear dont you , yes yes dont worry ill put it on expenses .
i still dont think they get it yet , and i bet gordon had wished he had closed the deal with cameron and clegg now , the clocking on one would have been a joke.
what is so funny is reading pro labour press trying to spin it “bargain benn” except political dynasty have been denying other people the chance .
lying hoons creaming it off whilst they make more fear and micro law and fines to control you with , hope it dawns on everyone how wonk totalitarian socialism is
Knob head
FFS caesars wife you don’t need to see your literary agent every time you make a comment, one paragraph will do.
Political Dynasty…………… :
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/schoolgirl-politician-emily-benn-explains-why-shes-standing-for-parliament-840165.html
For most 17-year-olds, the summer holidays are a chance to relax, see your friends, go abroad without your parents, and enjoy the absence of work. Not Emily Benn. Instead, last July she drove three and a half hours from a residential music course in Dorset to Shoreham-by-Sea, the first time she had ever driven properly on the motorway.
Is there an age restriction before you allowed to properly drive on the motorway?
“You’d be absolutely stupid to vote for me”
Quite observant of her!
There’s a lot about Follett’s £25k security claim, but the one that sealed it for me was:
“She also claimed £528.75 for a Chinese needlepoint rug to be repaired and cleaned, but was only paid back £300 after it was deemed excessive”
It illustrated perfectly how fucked up it all is, because on the one hand she’s claiming for something that clearly she shouldn’t be paid for, and on the other hand the “authorities” say something like, “we can’t get away with 500quid, but we’ll probably get away with 300quid if you keep it quiet”.
The chief constable should act or be sacked.
How do you expect anyone to function without a fully repaired Chinese needlepoint rug?
Money well spent.
Hang on a minute; Gordon Brown’s “cleaning” claim relates to a london flat according to the BBC.
But at the time Brown was living in downing street and his constituency was in Scotland.
Why the fucketty-fuck-fuck is Brown allowed to claim for cleaning a home which is a stone’s throw away from his grace-and-favour house that he’s living in for free and which is over 400 miles from his constituency house?
Because he is a thieving fucking politician; its their job don’t you know.
That’s where he keeps the rocking horse.
And we know how much sh (er) Labour party election materials they produce.
Dieu et mon John Lewis List.
They have lost the right to anything…. bastards.
Just twat the bastards. End of.
Which way does the prime mentalist’s moral compass point, any one got an idea?
The last time it felt this shit to live in Britain was oooh let me think last time we had the last completely inept and incompetent labour administration led by Wislon and then Sunny Jim, “crisis what crisis,” Callaghan another out of touch arrogant self righteous git.
Give the country a break Brown, resign now and take that nest of robbers you call a government with you. Oh and by the way get that stupid bitch Follet to pay back the money that she wasted on personal security, I think that good ol champagne socialist Kenny boy can afford to pay for his useless wifes security and not the tax payer.
I’m only awake because of a magnificent full moon out to the west. It is almost fuly round, golden and low in the sky. It is majestic.
Compare and contrast this with the appallingly brazen attitudes and behaviour of our ministers. They are all crowing about ‘not having done anything wrong’. They show us contempt. yet we are their paymasters. They are our employees. Their behaviour is a disgrace. With more of their bbery to come it makes me wonder just who the hell they think they are. I haven’t been able to stand much more of their chicanery for some while now. I think it’s time WE took control. We should remove them from office and ban them from being anywhere near our governance again. The lot of them. NOW!
Yes, I too was struck how the full moon seemed to be aglow with a new-found lustre last night, replete with astonishing pagan significances. As the phases of the moon are traditionally associated with cycles of birth and rebirth it seemed to have perfect synchronicity with a day of political magic that has seen the end of a period of purely evil psychological repression emanating from the witches of Nu Labia.
The delightful smell of roasting New Labour arse fills my nostrils with a scent of heavenly come-uppance.
It won’t replace ” I love the smell of napalm in the morning”, but it comes close.
While they have been preoccupied with “flipping” and other expenses abuses they have absent mindedly nodded through an erosion of libery and privacy which I never thought any government could get away with. What I am trying to say is that if they had been looking after our interests these expenses abuses would leave a slightly less bitter taste in the mouth.
There will always be a problem with “career politcians” which apparently the labour party favour. They have no incentive not to just toe the party line and simply trot out the party message when confronted. We are really paying for people to just clock on and vote with the party.
Bonkers
sorry about typos -
fuly should be fully
bbery should be robbery
FOR SALE
1 x moral compass (previously used)
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Previously used??!!?
What is the evidence for that assertion? I see no sign of the use by a moral compass anywhere in government.
I’ll have you know I got my moral compass thrown in when I got my cheap London flat off Robert Maxwell’s estate. Previous owners include Al Capone and Josef Stalin.
drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip… drip…
Until we have the dirt on Blair’s expense claims while in office then the picture is incomplete. Hopefully something will turn up before his job as Grand Overlord and Multifaith High Priest of Eurabia is in the bag, but if not we will have to extrapolate from existing cabinet crime data. And on that basis it’s not looking pretty.
Blair’s and Gorbals’ stuff was shredded last year, “by mistake”.
Search Daily Mail site for the story (July 08 I think).
Tony Blair is a man without any sense of shame whatsoever.
Well, more a disgusting worm than a man, but you get the idea.
How colossally stupid would you have to be to believe a word of that ?
“by mistake”. Like F*ck it was.
He must make even this lot look like rank amateurs in the Expenses game.
Maybe Blair has always harboured a secret ambition to be forever know as the Biggest Liar ever seen in modern British politics ?
And he does this by always being ever more outrageous with every new piece of bullshit. He’s well on his way to achieving that goal then.
Poor Brown must be wishing Mandy had kept a hold of a copy of that.
maybe they were photocopied by the the DT’s unseen hero before they were shredded?
And he will end up President of the EU, and this is how the people with the real power over our parliament behave: http://tinyurl.com/p6rewo
The problem is endemic to the whole political system; I can’t help thinking we have imported all this graft and venality from Europe
One Scottish MP claimed for a 5p supermarket carrier bag ffs! Do they have no grasp of economics whatever? – how much does it cost the taxpayer to process a claim for 5p, never mind the sheer greed
He will be most welcome here, we are troughing professionals.
I already hear some rumblings that come Monday there may good reason call me Dave has been so very, very quiet and “circumspect”.
I’m afraid the justifiable outrage and utter contempt shown here and by the public at large is not going to be magicaly forgotten or stop dead in it’s tracks simply because the next large batch of Politicians named and shamed happen to be Conservatives.
Cameron has to decide whether “I have not broken the rules” is really sufficient and the exact same line of spin that he and his shadow Cabinet colleagues want to parrot as disasterously and as Brown and his Cabinet have.
Because that pathetic excuse is clearly infuriating almost everyone here and also the general public and Electorate across the land.
Amusing that no-one seems to care about the LibDems very much yet, but they will unquestionably have their day in the Telegraph spotlight too.
I agree that the rather glaring lack of Blair Expenses is most curious.
But it is guaranteed to be the one thing that will infuriate Brown like nothing else, were Blair somehow “squeaky clean”, while Brown’s stooges are still trying to weasel Gordies way out of his preposterous and greedy “cleaning bill”
Of course there have been few people in British Politics as predictably mercenary and tediously avaricious as Tony Blair and Cherie.
So I think those Expense details might well be one of the “bombshells” being held in reserve for later use.
See reply 992
Try Mr & Mrs Speaker Martin – whose receipts and claims have also coincidentally vanished!
What Parliamentary authorities seem to fail to grasp is the height of anger in the country.Instead of apologising and publishing immediately the “unredacted list” of MPS Expenses before July they have reacted by calling in police to investigate. THEY HAVE SERIOUSLY MIS-JUDGED THE PUBLIC MOOD !
In the event that the police ever discover who leaked the information to “The Telegraph” and the CPS actually feel that they have any chance of gaining a conviction its extremely unlikely that a jury would find any defendant guilty. Whereas of course any MP charged with fraud would find exactly the opposite. The authorities should cease their pointless exercise in attemted damage limitation and trying to switch the blame and issue an apology to the electorate,publish all the expenses and let each MP defend his or her record at the ballot box. The excuse of “it is within the rules” – “oversight” or whatever won’t wash any longer.
MPs have been found out and the public are angry.
By calling the thought police in on the Telegraph, Malcolm Jack makes sure he won’t be around long after the next election either. Let’s make sure he doesn’t get off with a fat pension
Go further.
They must pay back every penny of what they stole and the total should be increased by a punitive interest rate.
Their capital gains from house flipping should be confiscated down to the last brass farthing.
….and where is the lamentable Baroness Uddin of Udderly Disgusting Fiddles? Take her away for questioning.
…before execution.
It’s summed up by three little words.
OUT OF TOUCH
The public can scarcely believe how utterly divorced from reality these arrogant greedy sleazy untrustworthy MPs really are.
drip… drip… drip… drip…
Did you notice that Harperson was so keen to smear a single Tory (artfully stepping over the expense records of 20 Government Ministers) that she called Derek Conway “Derek Goodwin” yesterday in her interview with Snow?
Best laugh of the day.
The woman lives in a different reality to the rest of the country and of course Labour are entitled to all expenses because they don’t have inherited wealth like the Tories(which is of course a bit ripe coming from Hattie neice to the Countess of Longford and from an elitist background)
…and she blinks for England!
She started it in the morning on the Toady interview, six words into her first response she was on about “We all…., except for Derek Conway,…”
Then she was off on more lala stuff with: “We are better than the continentals”
She is an immoral political wh*ore, just hope there is lots of dirt about her hidden under her floorboards.
She is a fucking Cow !
Bull!
Leave Harriet alone!
She is a huperdaughter!
It is not her fault that men have completely forgetable names whereas Hazel Blears, Tessa Jowell, Mrs. Ken Follet, and Jacqui Smith par example do not.
LEAVE HARRIET ALONE YOU BASTARDS!
leave her twisting in the wind.
I confess I was rather slow to understand their mantra about the re-distribution of wealth and the method they would use to achieve this. It’s very clear now
yay!!!1000
Typical Guido, placing the John Lewis List jAd just under this thread. Nice to see a sense of humour, and a legitimate way of making money.
Perhaps its time we had the armed forces in charge for say 10 years?
Oh, what a brilliant idea. Corruption never happens under military dictatorships. Tw*t!
Have you seen the houses our generals are living in?
John Lewis sales down 3.1% last week -They are missing those MPs!
Hey diddle diddle they’re all on the fiddle
The PM is trumped by the Hoon.
Blears is in tears, Mandy says it’s all smears
And they can’t be got rid of too soon.
Crocodile tears while they stoke up our fears,
and they’ve already stolen the moon
Oh how we all laugh to see such fun
But you can’t live on dissing Geoff Hoon
“Phil Woolas, the Home Office Minister, claimed for items of women’s clothing, tampons and nappies. The parliamentary rules only allow expenses which are “exclusively” for MPs’ own use so it is not clear these items were justified. ”
They are he is gordons Huhne! I want a riot!!!!!
I salute Phil Woolas’s aprreciating equality and welcome him as a fellow tampon user.
Tampons for life’s messy problems.
Reports in the msm last year state that “some” of Blair’s expense claims were conveniently shredded.
OK, lets see those that weren’t.
It will be interesting to see how New Labour attempt to spin the Tory sins. Having put up the risible defences that Guido predicted, New Labour’s convaluted twisting to ensure that these don’t apply to the Tories too will be fascinating. If ever there were a group of people who could take hypocrisy and double standards to new heights of irony it is New Labour, refining an already established socialist modus operandi into propaganda lies worthy of Goebbels.
And so interesting that despite the fact Fuhrer Braun protests that he is so busy “getting on with the job” and has no time to deal with these trifling matters, his cabinet ministers manage to find the time to appear on TV in droves to defend the indefensible and spin, spin, spin the same carefully connived at script.
New Labour, the villainy at the heart of English politics.
New Labour obviously can’t spin the Tory sins but then neither can the Tories.
What we have at the moment is Mutually Assured Destruction.
Should Cameron launch a tirade against Brown or Straw or Blears or any of the other sleazebags personally then come Monday it would be tit for tat time and Mandy and chums would be all over the studios doing precisely the same thing to those Tories who have been as unwise and foolish with their Expenses as those already named in the Telegraph.
But we already know that Cameron has done no such thing.
He (and Clegg) have stuck to safe generalities and platitudes so far instead of going for Brown and the Cabinets throat because they either know what’s coming or, even worse, they have a vague idea that all is not well on their side in regard to expenses and are still waiting to hear the worst.
Of course it COULD all break down as all it would take would be one side (or even one rogue Politician) thinking they had spotted a more disgusting and opportunistic case to attack than the other and getting personal. Or even if one side deciding to launch a “pre-emptive” strike on the other in fear of what may yet be uncovered.
Then it will be Chaos.
MPs of all Parties and sides taking to the airwaves attacking each others sins and “measuring” themselves against one another as to who has the most “acceptable” greed and sleaze.
This may still probably occur at the Elections no matter what happens right now.
But for the moment the “peace” and “no personal attacks” agreement is holding.
That’s a very interesting point, and one which I hadn’t really thought of before.
(ie using their own defence first means that they automatically also clear the tories of any wrongdoing at the same time because they’re saying that the defence is valid)
But, you have to consider that these are labour MPs, and you have to consider what their spin is/was over levels of government debt.
To labour MPs, trying to reduce the government debt is a necessary long term aim that somehow isn’t going to cost anyone their job (private or public sector) or effect any public services anywhere or mean that taxes have to be raised, but when the tories want to reduce government debt it magically mutates into an evil tax raising job-killing exercise where the tories throw all the nurses off a cliff.
I’m 100% sure that in this situation it’ll be the same. Labour will just say “it was within the rules” for their own MPs, and when labour are asked about the tories they’ll say “he was clearly fleecing the system; it’s unforgivable.”
They use this tactic all the time; they’re allowed to do one thing and it’s wonderful, but if the tories do the same thing then it’s evil. They just repeat the same message over and over again.
The BBC, being complete wankers, just accept the total lack of logic and simply report on what labour are telling them. The general public obviously look on with complete despair at both the BBC and labour for trying to spin such utter bullshit and openly lying.
“The Persian Rug that I claimed for was essential for my job as a dedicated public servant.
The Persian Rug that you claimed for you were going to use to smother old grannies in the intensive care wards of the hospitals that you want to close down.”
The labour response really will be that childish/stupid/illogical/nasty, and the BBC will accept it as truth.
I’m afraid I really don’t think Labour has managed to clear themselves of ANY wrongdoing. Not in the eyes of the public who certainly don’t think the excuses are valid. But it’s entirely true that the Tories can also use them if they wish.
I think on this one issue though it’s pretty much unspinnable for either side.
Only because if New Labour tries to step beyond the boundries of criticising the system or saying it’s “within the rules” they attack themselves. Same for the Tories and Libs. Cameron and Brown have both had a go at “the System.”
But neither would be drawn into specific cases and so far that line has held.
It might not hold out for much longer but the public would be aghast if the snouts in the trough this week suddenly squealed and turned on the snouts in the trough next week.
Hypocrisy on top of disgusting greed and sleaze will not go down well.
Right now the House of Commons is a very large glass house neath a raintorrent of filth so neither side is keen to start hurling stones very hard.
Dave at 7.32am is right. It IS time to call in the military.
I would much rather have that, than the BNP, as this will. I hope not, give the BNP many more votes.
More importantly, I would much rather have the military in charge thus denying Brown and his rotten crew seats in the House of Lords!
Ten years of military rule during which everyone of these MP’s would have to pay back every single penny, and all the profit they made from their ‘second homes’.
All must then face a courts martial and the firing squad- if found guilty!
The purge must not stop there. In all area’s of ‘public life’ there must be a systematic audit and anyone found to have had their hands in the till.
If we have to have confidence in our public services local and National then we must be utterly ruthless in ensuring that fraud/theft is not to be tolerated.
We should also bring back National Service, in the armed services, for ALL young people with no exceptions, between the ages of 16 and 20. Then, perhaps, self discipline, respect for the country and others would ensure that this Nation could recover much of what it has most certainly lost.
Yes military dictatorship now with me John Prescott as lifelong leader.
Hear Hear.
Poetic justice for military-hating and equipment-skimping Liebour to face courts martial. Suggest 25% of all their confiscated ill-gotten gains to go to an Armed Forces Benevolent Fund to pay for the injuries their illegal wars have wreaked on armed forces personnel/families and all those against whom they have been sent to wage war.
Follow this by an Economic War Crimes Tribunal to try the Bliar and Snoteater cabinets and all their bankster mates.
Save money on targets. Use MP’s.
Guido,your blog is a bit of a sensation in these days of the Interweb.
May I suggest you go one step further. Amongst the readership, I should imagine you have enough decent people to form an Independent lobby to stand as MP’s in the next election on the “snout out of the trough” ticket.
Target the seats of the more fanciful expense claims MP’s, and let the public decide.
OK, maybe it might be hard to make a coherent manifesto of your readership, but a single issue, “Snout out of the trough” ticket might work.
In all likelihood, (revolution not withstanding) we have a year to get this sorted out.
Thoughts everyone?
It worked for Martin Bell !
He was set up by the Lib/Dems and Liebour
http://www.guardianlies.com/Section%205/page9.html
For the whole Bell saga see http://www.guardianlies.com/Section%205/page9.html
http://www.guardianlies.com/Section%205/index.html
How about this for a platform….NO NEW LAWS!!, WE WOULD ONLY VOTE TO REPEAL USELESS POLICE STATE LEGISLATION AND OTHER LEFTY CLAP TRAP.
If there is another general election, and that event is not guaranteed, none of the existing compliment of MPs should be electable. They will be unable to look the electorate in the eye and say I will not steal your ( the tax payer’s) money again.
How can they? They are so corrupted, that even after this much public anger, they still believe they have done no wrong. They have not broken any of their self enacted rules.
It seems there may be a few who are relatively clean. It would be quicker to list them than to list the guuilty ones.
There may be some unsullied politicians, few in number, who are “clean”.
Clean or not, they are all part of the organization that created the rules and then followed them.
We could get into a discussion about darker and lighter shades of grey, where the dividing line between acceptable and reprehensible lies, but in the dark, all cats are grey.
Kin good move by the telegraph taking on Ben Brogan. He’s turned their reputation and profits around in just a matter of days.
Is Phil Woolas a perv or was he out shopping for gordon?
Woolas is suing(I hope the “Telegraph” is robust in defending the action) apparently over the “women’s clothes” slur which I seems unwise as he’ll run the risk of having to “air all his dirty washing” in public and make his “ticking off” by Ms Lumley seem tame by comparison. The old adage – “If you’re in a hole stop digging!” springs to mind
He’ll be needing to send out for a trusty sword of truth on expenses then. I think Jonathan Aitken has an unsued one he could let him have for a few quid.
Is Nick Robinson getting the message?
I’ve just had this posted on his blog, the second criticism in 2 days.What’s happening to the man?
“Besides the issues about MP’s and their expenses, there is definitely a wider issue here coming out in this blog(Nick Robinsons blog). It’s about the cosy relationship that so called political journalists have with their political masters. A fact that I have alluded to in a previous comment.
This was patently obvious with the Damian McBride scandal too. You knew what was going on all the time but you failed to report it and once again you continue to give the scum politicians an easy ride.
I fully undrstand how Blair and Campbell cleared out any investigative journalists after the Iraq war saga from the BBC. You really do have a far too cosy relationship with your politicians. The fact is that you are also now part of the problem. And guess what me and millions of other idiots are forced to pay for it through the licence fee. I can’t wait for the next election. You’ve got about a year to prove you’re really independent for all the UK’s population and not just a mouth piece for the socialists! “
Still dogged by persisting projectile diarrhea, I am afraid to say, which is watery, foul-smelling and odious in the extreme. Attacks seem somehow prompted by appearance of Harman on TV. After this morning’s violent bout (unfortunately before rising) I pity the cleaning lady – though not too much as she’s English.
Brilliant! Thanks for the morning laugh hehehe.
It’s been educational watching the parade of shit-eating grins on TV news – Blears in particular had a fixed smile and gritted teeth as she answered questions outside one of her houses.
This is nothing to smile about folks. The public is sick and tired of being fleeced via stealth taxes, hit by a financial crisis largely of Gordon’s making, and facing redundancies and hardships while seeing the likes of TwoFatJags claiming for his fucking poxy bad taste mock tudor beams.
Let’s see some real humility. Let’s see Plod feeling a few collars. Let’s see a general election.
Is Nick Robinson getting the message?
Most of the comments on his blog re MP’s expenses were critical of his laissez-faire comments including this one,
“Besides the issues about MP’s and their expenses, there is definitely a wider issue here coming out in this blog(Nick Robinsons blog). It’s about the cosy relationship that so called political journalists have with their political masters. A fact that I have alluded to in a previous comment.
This was patently obvious with the Damian McBride scandal too. You knew what was going on all the time but you failed to report it and once again you continue to give the scum politicians an easy ride.
I fully undrstand how Blair and Campbell cleared out any investigative journalists after the Iraq war saga from the BBC. You really do have a far too cosy relationship with your politicians. The fact is that you are also now part of the problem. And guess what me and millions of other idiots are forced to pay for it through the licence fee. I can’t wait for the next election. You’ve got about a year to prove you’re really independent for all the UK’s population and not just a mouth piece for the socialists! “
Well said. Notice that last week when the fat one eyed phone throwing jock twat lost his rag over his climb down about expenses, it was a Channel 4 and ITV reporter he got angry about, not his ‘bum chum’ Prick toenails Robinson who had rather a nice cosy chat with him.
I’m disappointed that there are no Mr & Mrs Balls and Speaker Martin expenses yet – perhaps they are so spectacular they are being saved for the finale – I wonder.
I would have thought that their deafening silence is an indicator of things to come.
Or Balls and McBride are behind the DT pulling the strings
I think they are going to have the big stuff tomorrow, Sunday Telegraph, its all about sellng papers.
Speaker Martin thought he could rehabilitate himself and his piss poor reputation among most MP’s by stonewalling and actively trying to frustrate the whole Expenses and Second Homes issue and information release from the start.
Now, because his actions were so beyond the pale that the whistleblower fed the raw info to the Press, he carries a large share of the responsibility for this whole nightmare sleaze scenario coming to pass for every MP’s.
I doubt that even his pathetic attempts to bluster and try to force an “investigation” into the leak will win him that many friends now as the info is out there and it isn’t going back in.
It will only be righteous justice if his Expenses are some of the most piggish and we finally see the back of him.
Fact is he was never up to the job.
Sir Stuart Bell is very vocal on this issue, shall I remind you all of something he wouldn’t be so vocal about….http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1766321.stm
Nice catch!
I myself wondered what Mandy and the gang had on this poor chump as I was growing VERY weary of his f*ckwitted twaddle on all the News programmes trying to justify the unjustifiable.
If only just ONE interviewer had thrown that back at him.
That would have been solid Gold!
Still as far as I’m concerned he is now one of the most repugnant slimeballs in all this business and that has nothing to do with his son and everything to do with his pathetic weaseling.
Let’s hope he feels the wrath of the voter and that right soon.
Oh and I caught this other nugget from Wiki about him…
Controversially Bell is one of the few MP’s in the country not to hold a weekly surgery for his constituents. This has lead to the nickname “the invisible man” being given to him by the people he is paid to represent.
runs in the family
Here there be Leftist Loonies:-
http://pennyred.blogspot.com/
I read it, why is it relevant to this article (and hence in the comments for it)? Are left wing feminist bloggers claiming parliamentary expenses ilegally ?!?!?
I read it, why is it relevant to this article (and hence in the comments for it)? Are left wing feminist bloggers claiming parliamentary expenses illegally ?!?!?
I, too, blame the patriarchy (on the left hand side of the blog) if Mrs. Dromney, Mrs Smith, and Mrs Follett were abck in their kitchens none of this would have ha-ha-ha-happened
If the police can stop worrying about their equal opportunities policy and get back to normal ‘coppering’, there are a number of arrests to be made for,1) Obtaining property by deception, 2) False accounting 3) Conspiracy to defraud ( this between the fees office & MP’s).
They won’t – of course.
Can we object directly to the European Commission in advance of Blair’s successfully attempted side-step into self-enoblement as EU President, on the basis that he has illegally destroyed documents that might reasonably be expected to incriminate him in fraud and that he is not fit for high office?
Worth a try, I would have thought, because if he ties up the top job we will have this fucking hyena’s breath on the back of our necks for a long time. Don’t think I could live with that.
Have just watched BBC Breakfast, where a former Downing Street advisor of Tony Blair, Lance ? was interviewed re the expenses scandal. He asserted that the current problem of expenses has its roots in MP’S not being paid enough.
Apparently they knew it would be politically unacceptable at the time for a pay rise, so cobbled together the current expenses system to compensate.
He actually stated that the reason they are virtually all ‘at it’ is because they didn’t know their claims were going to be made public, and thought they’d get away with it.
With advisors like that no wonder the country is in the shit. Just remember the moral is
‘If you want to nick something and think you can get away with it, that’s OK’
A bit like, when your employer announces a pay freeze, you eBay the contents of the stationery cupboard instead.
What I find interesting is that Balls sacked social workers due to the Baby P case, and refused to allow that the system (designed by this regime) was at fault.
Now Gordon Brown is claiming that it’s the systems fault.
If this is the case, then they need to follow the same logic across public services and redesign systems, not just sack people which causes fear.
This is why the number of children being taken into care has risen by 38%
Thomas Jefferson: Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Cannot wait to bump into my local MP today. Be very interesting to see what he has to say. My money says he will be holed up in his home (main or second I know not).
The Tories are as equally thieving, amoral, disingenious as are the champagne socialists. Just you wait and see what comes out of the pig sty.
One day the Sheeple will awake and realise their shepherds have been fleecing them.
How on earth did we get to this state? Certainly in my lifetime I will find it hard to ever believe a word an MP says. And to think these arrogant sleazeballs strut around their constituancies like peacocks excpecting their flock to be in awe as they have been, is well and truly over.
I work for free. I claim no expenses and nor do my colleagues. If the locals don’t like us they throw us out after 4 years. MP’s take note.
You obviously entered politics to serve the people without actually aggrandising yourself in the process and I salute you for that sentiment sir whatever your political beliefs !
I will be candid – I wish shot of Brown and Labour and probably tend to support Cameron and the Conservatives as the best way to achieve that end but I have no mis-conceptions that this matter affects all parties(it’s just that the “Telegraph” chooses to highlight the Labour miscreants at present but I suspect there are some Tory MPs having sleepless nights too and probably LibDems also. Whovere these people are and whatever their party there is no longer any place for them in Parliamenet whether they be high or low.This matter transcends party.
Thank you anony60mous.
We get precious little thanks as it is. One thing that has come out today locally is a number of our local county and district councillors are looking pretty sheepish. I suspect there is real fear amongst some in that group who have taken backhanders for property development, land release etc etc. I noticed about 6 years ago how one chartered surveyor/architect.estate agency/land agent has never, I repeat never, had a planning application refused locally even if the Parish Council refused. We are routinely ignored – to be fair – sometimes correctly, more often incorrectly.
I did see our MP today, he looked pretty cocky and had a large smile on his face so I guess he is clean, or at least doesn’t feel taking £95k over 5 years for a second home is unreasonable. Either that or he is double bluffing, or is so thick he doesn’t realise that the Tories will shortly be exposed.
Either way he and his fellow MP’s have nothing, I repeat nothing to be proud of. They are a collective disgrace, whatever their political colou.
I hear on the street that MP’s have a different allocated HMRC office, fill out a different return. Is this true?
Not only have they been fleecing us all, they have forgotten to supply any sheep dip. We are today told locally that there is not a single dose of the wonder-drug Tamiflu which is supposed to be saving all our lives from their scary pandemic available in Waltham Forest.
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.
I want action from Cameron, he can make a big political play here if he gets it right as Brown is sitting on his hands.
Cameron in my mind should immediately make all Tory mp’s involved in serious cases, apologize, repay excess monies, whether they like to or not. To restore faith, serious hoons will have to explain themselves, step down and be deselected. If he has the bravery to cull serious troughers then I will be proud but if he doesnt, he will make the biggest opportunity handed to him to become a statesman.
if he made an apology to the nation as to the conduct of his mp’s it will put such a gulf between him and Brown’s Labour.
Bravery gives results but he has to take the risk now or he too will be severly damaged in the collateral.
Action would be nice but then he is an MP.
no word yet on Purnell, harman, the Balls et cetera, i suspect tomorrows Sun.Tel. is going to be interesting.
We’ll know what’s what tonight.
The biggest circulation to be got for the Telegraph group will be for the Sunday Telegraph tomorrow morning. They’ll want to dominate the field from this evening through to Monday morning.
If the Conservatives are quiet it’s likely to be because they will worry that their stories weren’t carried this morning; the biggest story is yet to come and they are likely to be facing it all tomorrow fromt he time the papers drop tonight.
Sit tight …
David Cameron, once he wins the next election, should appoint an independent Monitoring Officer through whom all claims are filtered and scrutinised before being submitted to the Fees Office and anyone attempting to make unjustified claims would then be penalised. The rules as they are seem OK – it isn’t the system that’s broke it’s the members that are crooked.
What are you trying to do?!
Bankrupt me??!!
His window of opportunity for the next election is shrinking by the minute.
Once publication of Conservative expenses starts, Cameron looses any chance of saying “vote for us, we will change the system.”
His silence now stops any party candidates looking the electorate in the eye and saying “trust me”.
The time to win trust is now, not after you have been found out. Change must be willing, otherwise it looks forced and is probably fake.
Good point, he has a window of oppertunity to seize the moral high ground.
I emailed the Tories yesterday suggesting that sitting Tory MPs make a sizeable collective charity donation
As soon as this story broke it became pretty clear that if Cameron didn’t get ahead of public opinion and the press on this it would eventually inexorably crush him too.
No sign of action yet and platitudes or cheap stunts just ain’t gonna do the trick. The Electorate is incensed by this stuff and won’t soon forget it.
Fact is we KNOW what won’t work as New Labour have shown Cameron exactly how NOT to do it and infuriate the public.
But as has been said, the window of opportunity is closing with every passing minute and he no doubt has Andy Coulson telling him repeatedly exactly how bad it could get. A strategy of keeping quiet and hoping for the best will be disasterous.
This delay till Monday of the publication of the Shadow Cabinet appears to be an agreement between Cameroon & The Telegraph, with The Telegraph carrying the exclusive of what action Cameron takes to show the gulf between Labour & Conservatives.
If that is the case then Dave won’t be blindsided and must know who is in the frame for the biggest pork “scoops” on his side O the aisle. Those Poor chumps must be already feeling the wrath.
I must say he’s very good at keeping it mum from the other Press Lizards too and he’s wasted no time in forming a good relationship with the Telegraph as is now.
Looking forward to seeing this scoop.
Sadly pigs don’t fly
Hey guys, I’ve found the famous ‘red rag’ but under a different name
http://quietzapples.blogspot.com/
(It’s all in the rules we made up to scam the Taxpayer to feed our greed, we did not think we would be found out).
What scrounging scum these MP’s are.
Fantastic expense claim by the Labour Tourism Minister in the Torygraph today…she needs a security patrol to live in London.
Implicitly she is saying London is NOT unsafe and tourists should not come here!
“Barbara Follett, the multi-millionaire Tourism Minister, claimed for private security patrols outside her London home costing more than £25,000. The parliamentary fees office, which is supposed to monitor claims, warned Mrs Follett that her claims may appear “excessive” if made public, but she was not deterred, saying she felt unsafe in Soho after being mugged.”
Its all in the database.
Ha Ha.
Come on Stevenage – here’s why you need to chuck Barbara out. Call for a by-election now.
What message does that send to the tourists coming to London?
Don’t come here with your families without a £25K security patrol.
John Prescott’s excuse for needing 2 toilet seats is that they were on a 2 for one offer hides the truth.
He was trying to save the taxpayer the cost of unblocking his loo so decided to just raise the levle.
Prezza – you couldn’t make it up
Bang on CF,
many more voters will be considering their options over the next few weeks especially after leafing through their MP’s exes.
I don’t know why they keep saying “it’s within the rules” they made the rules. If we could all do that, crime would be eliminated at a stroke.
Great Idea Anymong,
If we vote to make everything within the rules we won’t need lawmakers, and the country can drift along without purpose on a tide of scamming thievery and corruption, just like now, but without any cost.
They keep saying it’s within the rules because they think it will divert attention from the sort of grasping, greedy set of bastards that they are. That’s how stupid they are – they think we’ll not bother if they say that. Seeing as the words ‘snouts in trough’ are being used so much I think that ‘SNOUTS’ should be the collective term for a group of MP’s.
I suggest ‘a Gadarene herd’ as the collective noun of M.P.s…
(But, then, I always was an optimist!)
Does anyone know how much the police investigation into the Damian Green non-affair cost?
Likely that it will be a similar cost for the police investigation that the Speaker wants to find this whistleblower even though he has been told by his legal advisers that there is little chance of prosecution.
The speaker spent approx £100,000 in legal fees trying to stop the publication of these expenses even though he was told by Parliamentary lawyers that he didn’t have a hope in hell of winning. But then that’s OK it’s not his own money he is spending is it?
Remember the tune? Remember the words?
‘Things can only get better – for some of us!’
We could have bought another aircraft carrier with what the MPs have stolen from the public purse.
Pay it back, thieves. They should all be deselected pronto.
I want to see Tony Blair’s expense claims – I am confident that they will knock Keith Vaz’ 24 silk-covered cushions into a cocked hat. Remember the three flats in Bristol, the property in Islington: they will all have needed furnishing and provisioning. We already know TB and CB are freeloaders but I am certain now that we don’t the half of it.
If Cameron has been stealing from the public purse, too, well sadly he will have to go too. This greedy, arrogant and out of touch crowd all have to be cleared out, and we start again.
I would like to see which party is willing to prosecute all the gravy train travellers. Ha! Ha!
Shame it’s not possible for every MP currently in office to be voted out at the next election.
Thirded – absolute fucking rotters, the lot of them.
Yes it is possible – all everyone has to do is not vote for the current seated MP.
Time to launch local crusades on the seated MP. Mine’s Margeret Moran – probably the most useless MP in the HoC’s.
Perm any one from 600 odd!
Slight problem, Dr. Nuts: Ballot papers, even Postal Vote forms, do not have a ‘None of the above’ slot. By NOT voting, you might not only ensure the election of the person you least want, but also enable him/her/it to waffle about ‘voter apathy’, ”obvious need for central-funding of candidates”. In other words, they (the amoral, conscienceless, shameless, b******s), not only shaft us, but get us to pay for the privilege!
This entire system has to change.
No wonder out public services never improve.
It’s all – we know better than the rest of you – do as your told and be subservient little people.
Follow our targets, tremble in front of our inspection regime, bow to our superior knowledge, because you know nothing.
…and they can’t manage to fill-in expenses forms with integrity.
PLEASE, Oh Puh-lease, don’t say ‘It was the system…’
It WAS NOT THE SYSTEM; it was the immoral bar-stewards who ‘worked’ the system – for all it was worth!
So how about this, several hundred years old, still as fresh as paint:
A man so various, that he seemed to be
Not one, but all mankind’s epitome;
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong,
Was everything by starts, and nothing long;
But, in the course of one revolving moon,
Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon;
Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking,
Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Blest madman, who could every hour employ,
With something new to wish, or to enjoy!
Railing and praising were his usual themes;
And both, to show his judgment, in extremes;
So over violent, or over civil,
That every man with him was God or devil.
In squandering wealth was his peculiar art;
Nothing went unrewarded but desert.
‘Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose.’
I’d love to see an election defeat for Broon to the extent even Broon loses his seat – wouldn’t that be a first!
Seconded
…if he loses his seat, he can donate it to Two-Seats!
John Prescott aka Johnny Two – {Jags, Jabs, Shags, Shits} – what a brazen bastard.
Uncouth, hypocritical, incompetent, glutonous, belligerant, inarticulate, ill-educated, ill-mannered, two-timer of his wife, the laughing-stock of Parliament, an embarassment to Britain, scorned by overseas officials, and with the biggest chip on his shoulder in the UK about his background. You could almost feel sorry for the guy.
Without wishing to detract from your excellent post, may I politely remind you Prescott is a thug and a bully. Remember when he hit the egg thrower? Short tempered.
‘… it’s what I do.’
“… John is just… a John!”
Ooooh – wot about my big ‘air do if ‘e loses one of our jags? That Traycee, she don’t know nofink about my Johnno. He dun good an our ‘osue with them black beams dunhalf look the business.
Leave it out, Women: them beans, we didn’t ‘ave them when Tories were in, them bein’s are are Mocque-Tudor, not your run-of-the-pill old-tory Tudor. These, those beems, not like tory has-beens, those beings, beams – I said, beams! – are istoric beems, not that mat thatters, been here before, old Guy! Them beans were ‘ere before this ‘ouse was built! Look at the evidence, sunshine: or the nextdoor neighbour’s fence: now there’s a tory for you! Just because I poked ‘im one, won’t speak to me! For all that, I bet ‘ee ‘asn’t got more bog-seats than backsides, like what we ‘ave. D’y'know why? I don’t go in for party, or even party-zan politics, but he’s a snide, a blurting tory snide! No, we know our origins, we do: proud of them! My beams’ll be ‘ere long after I’m gone, same as they were before I put em up last year!
what i would like to know is how do we get to have a General Election?
Dissolve Parliament.
What the Palace’s stance on all this or don’t they have a say?
Malcolm Jack is a faggot. Why are there so many queers in the labour Government?
A Nu Labour Pm called Brown,
Took a statefunded junket to town,
When the voters found out,
With a scream and a shout,
In the Thames he was thrown, left to drown.
My dad an all his pple did nowt wrong it wuz the tory man wots did it. My mummy sez its the truth she sez it every nite before i sleep
Thats right Leo my little cherub, you tell them the truth.
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