Coming Tomorrow Soon : How to Fiddle £2 Million On Expenses Tax Free! Within the Rules!
The Iranian Model is Hitler | Lawrence J. Haas
No.10′s Andrew Cooper Should Look at this Poll | Douglas Carswell
Livingstone Has Form on Homophobia | ConservativeHome
Investors HBack Over RBS Meddling | CityAM
Riddled With It | Pink News
I Went Mad in the Seventies | Ken
Guy Newsroom Splits | Indy
Polly’s Voodoo Polling | UK Polling Report
Labour SpAd Backs the Bill | Mark Wallace
Guido Goes for the Lobby | Press Gazette
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Max Clifford says…
“Most people want to read nasty things about people, not nice things.”
DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:
Maybe if they really wanted to “decontaminate the Labour brand” with business people, they shouldn’t have totally buggered up the economy?
Just a thought.
Labour scandals were always about money, Tory ones all about sex…
In other words the Tories have more fun, while Labour hoons walk around looking as if they have a prune up their backsides.
Not counting the friends of Mark Oaten!
Labour would have us believe that they are idealists which is why they are now held in such contempt – and it’s that point that none of them seem to get. The Tories may have been sleazy in the 90′s but Labour are purely corrupt.
The Tories at least keep the public finances in some order – while they make money the country does too – Labour has comprehensively trashed the economy. IMF in the autumn anyone?
No, we said that sex scandals are TORY. Sticking plums up your bottom, or satsumas in your mouth, while hanging upsidedown in the kitchen wearing suspenders and stocking is a Tory/BBC habit.
Now, i say…
In the US we call it Racketeering, there is an Act, and you go to jail! None of this complex messing about and different exemtions. Mail fraud is another nice charge they would be done under. The US Congress won’t allow this sort of horse-crap to be peddled by politicians about not being able to do their job and such like.
No wonder the quality of legislation is so poor in the UK, and the Judges spend all their time trying to sort out conflicts of opposing legislation!
Looting the Public Purse appears wholesale and licensed by Parliament. Filkin was seen off by Tony Blair because she stood up to them. I fully expect the more alert Tories to have used this system to their full advantage, at least they appear intelligent enough to exploit an opening (sex sleaze apart)
Conveniently, Martin’s & Blair’s records got shredded.
What is the process to make a complaint about Parliamentary Fraud. Its is VERY clear that irrespective of ministers claims they were acting within the rules, this is a load of bollox. The rules CEARLY state:
“The Additional Costs Allowance (cost of staying away from main home/ACA) is paid to reimburse Members for necessary costs incurred when staying overnight away from their main home for the purpose of performing parliamentary duties.”
“Parliamentary allowances are designed to ensure that Members are reimbursed for costs
properly incurred in the performance of their duties.”
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
In July 1995, the House agreed to adopt the Code of Conduct for Members of Parliament
[link] which includes a number of general principles of personal conduct. These are based
on concepts of selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and
leadership. The broad principles set out below are derived from the Code of Conduct and
underpin the allowance regime. When making claims against parliamentary allowances,
Members must adhere to these principles.
The principles are:
• Claims should be above reproach and must reflect actual usage of the resources being
claimed.
• Claims must only be made for expenditure that it was necessary for a Member to incur
to ensure that he or she could properly perform his or her parliamentary duties.
• Allowances are reimbursed only for the purpose of a Member carrying out his or her
parliamentary duties. Claims cannot relate to party political activity of any sort, nor
must any claim provide a benefit to a party political organisation.
• It is not permissible for a Member to claim under any parliamentary allowance for
anything that the Member is claiming from any other source.
• Members must ensure that claims do not give rise to, or give the appearance of giving
rise to, an improper personal financial benefit to themselves or anyone else.
• Members are committed to openness about what expenditure has been incurred and
for what purposes.
• Individual Members take personal responsibility for all expenses incurred, for making
claims and for keeping records, even if the administration of claims is delegated by
them to others.
• The requirement of ensuring value for money is central in claiming for
accommodation, goods or services—Members should avoid purchases which could be
seen as extravagant or luxurious.
• Claims must be supported by documentary evidence, except where the House has
agreed that such evidence is not necessary.
Based on the above, pretty much the majority of the claims reported in the Telegraph are in breach of more than one of the above stated principles, so there are cases of misappropriation of public funds.
How do we report this and to whom?
Bring own nappies and teats.
Sorry Romford, that should of course be Oldham East and Saddleworth.
MP begging letters – do these people have no shame at all? Clearly not.
The silly extension I have which randomly renames my Firefox browser has today come up with:
Gordon Brown’s Fatherbeaver
Is this an omen of something? If so, what?
There are a couple of very prominent Labour front benchers who haven’t been cited yet.
Are they going to be outed tomorrow? Find out how to make a noose for them. Is tomorrow Suicide Sunday?
Sex doesn’t hurt anybody, unless one dies of it. Except Mrs Brown, sex with Gloom, the thug, the bully must be hurting
Kitty has three-dimensional swirls and she isn’t talking about her fallopian tubes.
The ‘do nothing’ Tories have nothing of value to add.
On housing the Tories will impovrish the nation
On the economy the Tories will blame us for inaction and cut benefits
On law and order the Tories would remove PCSO’s that add value to all our lives.
On media relations advertising would be cut on helpful campaigns and essentials wine flu advise that has saved millions of lives.
On foreign policy the Tories would have restricted Trident and enjoined under treaty with US and French nations not to mention Nato for an assurity of national assistence. A crazy policy undermining British soverignty and capability to deter foreign or terrorist attack.
On drugs we have had consistent policies that are in accord with the public mood and calling for a more cohesive and productive society.
On employment we have proceeded to try and help people everywhere through opeing up public services to growth and competition with charity and pfi credit through the third sector.
On all front Britain has never functioned better and is set to weather the global storm better then any other Nation due to the courage and convictions of Gordon Brown.
You might not see what Gordon does for this country day in and day out, but I do, and it brings a tear to my eye. I love Gordon and I know those of sufficient social conscience and understanding do to. We are Labour. We are going to win the next general election on positive messages and policy that makes sense. You libertarian shit stirrers have no meaning whatsoever. You ain’t winning shit. Enjoy the same under the Do nothing Tories. Enjoy watching me in opposition creaming the real pigs of this world.
You people just don’t care about the working classes in this country. Just your selfish selves. Labour is changing that. Love us and we will love you.
1005
Utter crap. This country is a wreck and Blair, Brown..and Blears, have presided over it.
The sooner the stinking, rotting corpse of NuLiebour is buried the better.
1005…fucking hell, I read that waiting for the punchline, I really really thought there was a joke coming up, a bit of irony or sarcasm. If you believe all that you really are a sad little public sector worker, fuck off back under your rock and get a proper job.
1005…just a footnote, I am working class in that I work for a living and yet I am taxed to death to pay for Gordon’s layabout benefit army, are you..don’t lecture me about what Brown is doing for me cause it’s fuck all, oh and please don’t use Rt Hon in front of Blears name because she is anything but.
I stopped eating tangerines after that Milligan’s 5-a-day exercise.
But haven’t we been told that several ZaNuLieBor adulterers are at the end of their wits because of imminent exposure of their activities?
After Cash for Lords’ questions, ZaNuLieBor have even less moral high ground.
Ho(o)ns all of them!
Well, not so much Hoon for them then, especially once the wife finds out about their activities ….
Iain
If any of your readers know of a friendly pig farmer, I am planning something for next week
The NOTW are running the most hilarious competition this weekend – Live Free for a Year
Sounds like OH is planning to get himself arrested.
They can arrest me. They have no idea who I am. Take my DNA, take my fingerprints. See if I care.
For all of those who bleat “but what can we do?”, do something.
Plenty of Labour sex scandals too – Cook, Blunkett, Nigel Griffiths, Chris Bryant. I suspect we will see that Tories have had their snouts firmly in the trough as well.
Ah but tory sex scandals have so much more class about them.
You are probably right about snouts in the trough but it’s not the Tories that have been regulating, taxing and lecturing us for twelve years. Nor has it been the Tories who have managed to tax us blind while screwing the economy.
Two Arses?
Yup Who was got ‘mugged’ & robbed on Clapham Common
They were only sex ‘scandals’ with the Tories because people resigned. If John Prescott’s carrying on with Tracey Temple had been fifteen years ago, he would have been forced out of office. C+U+N+T.
We’ve been hectored, lectured and patronized by these lefty wankers for over a decade about paying our “fair” share of tax, and now we find these fuckers have been robbing us blind, using our fucking taxes.
They should have the word “fair” branded onto their foreheads.
Yep – i forgot about ron Davies and Chipolata Prescott
Remind me again – what grade do you have to reach in the Civil Service before getting a blow job off your secretary during office hours doesn’t constitute a sackable offence?
Huhnes the whole fucking lot of them
mel,
yes, and the reason for that is because the Conservatives are the bankers friends.
Only since zanulabia had a falling out with them.
I know all sides are going to take a pasting, but I bet zanulaba take the biscuit, cake, patio set, patio, third second home in a year
I WANT THE THIEVES OFF ALL FLAVOURS IN COURT AND THEN OFF TO PRISON
Thick – remind us again which well-known Tory sucked up to Lehmans by opening their London HQ a few years ago?
Hmmm. Bullshit alert.
Pretty sure Dave C or Georgie boy didn’t know Fred the Shred or that other Scottish twat, McKillop. I think they were strictly Gord’s circle. They scratched his back and he scratched the rules. A perfect stitch-up with us poor suckers paying in every direction and all the little (Scottish) piggies in the Cabinet and all Scottish fat cats minting it.
That’s the ‘Third Way’. Didn’t you know?
Hard to pin on the Tories, eh, try as you socialist tossers might.
No. Gordon Brown was the bankers’ friend – think Fred Goodwin and Andy Hornby for starters. In and out of Downing St; jobs and honours for the boys.
It was Gordoom who shredded our pension system which led people to say ‘my house is my pension’; who expanded the money supply which was sucked into the housing boom; who failed to set interest rates to the RPI, instructing the BoE to follow the too low CPI (the ‘Chinese’ prices index), compounding the housing boom; who devised his own regulation system which has comprehensively failed; who ran a government budget deficit even during the supposed ‘good’ times; who has squandered taxpayers money on 1 million extra state employees since 1997 to no evident purpose; who sold our gold at the bottom; who voted for wars he would not pay for; who helped set up the surveillance state, but won’t let MPs’ expenses be scrutinised (until forced); who has lied about the origins of the recession in the UK; who claimed he had eliminated boom and bust, so exposing his arrogance and hubris; and more.
Brown is simply the worst Chancellor and the worst PM I know of, by a long way.
This is very much how the former Soviet Union worked. The communist party elite led fabulous lifestyles: central apartments, dachas, second homes for their mistresses, chauffeurs, special shops with Western goods all free. This was kept low profile in case the masses found out, but they knew alright but couldn’t do much about it, living in a surveilance state with thuggish police at the disposal of the government.
It would never happen here of course.
brown is corrupt, there is no argument of that.
blair and brown stuck their tongues up the bankers backsides because they wanted to win and needed the city’s acquiescence to achieve that goal, which in itself reflects very poorly upon our democracy.
but for you torydaleks to attempt to argue that the bankers are the true friends of working people via new labour is beyond absurd.
it’s just fucking ridiculous.
that is your problem: if you rewrite history you will never learn from it.
and you tories have obviously learned fuck all from the disastrous new labour war and occupation party’s failures.
indeed you are ant-intellectuals in that you prostitute your intellects for party political gain.
DOH!
It really is a special kind of delusion that permits socialists like thicko-thief here to blame the abject, universal clusterfucks of a LABOUR government on the Tories. Boggling minds and all that.
Well, the total catastrophe of this latest labour experiment (indulgence) has not gone unnoticed this time, thicko.
The Labour Party in this country is fucking finished.
Be proud. And marginalised. For good.
er, denverhenpecked.
you have wilfully misunderstood my post.
as I said, people like you are anti-intellectuals.
I am a capitalist you moron.
oh and I think my independent nature is reflected rather pithily by my pseudonym, don’t you?
you fucking spastic.
DOH!
I am a moron you capitalist
Fraud Act 2006
section 4
Fraud by abuse of position
(1) A person is in breach of this section if he—
(a) occupies a position in which he is expected to safeguard, or not to act against, the financial interests of another person,
(MPs position is there to safeguard the financial interests of the electorate ie the taxpayer)
(b) dishonestly abuses that position, and
(Any dishonest action which breaks the rules of the position (ie the Green Book guidelines) Signing a form is dishonest if you havn’t checked it)
(c) intends, by means of the abuse of that position—
(i) to make a gain for himself or another, or
(directly benefits financially from this dishonest action)
(ii) to cause loss to another or to expose another to a risk of loss.
(Any false claim paid for by the taxpayer would fall under this category)
(2) A person may be regarded as having abused his position even though his conduct consisted of an omission rather than an act.
(Ommision rather than action still an abuse, so that would cover signing off an expenses claim without reading it)
So Ms Smith
1a. occupies position of authority (MP)
1b. dishonestly makes a false claim (Dishonesty through signing a claim form without checking it you know that little bit of writing beside your signature on every government form)
1ci Gains financially we pay for her porno
1cii Taxpayers incure a financial loss
2 Abuse as a result of an ommission not checking forms before signing off still an abuse
Am I missing something here anyone work for CPS want to correct me?
I do notwork for CPS..
But I think you are right..
And this applies to dozens of these NuLabZANU Ministers and MPs…
not so honest tim,
they are all as thick as thieves.
I never thought I would say this but ’tis a shame we do not live in saudi arabia: we would not be fucking about bleating on this blog, we would be chopping the thieving c’unts hands off.
Fuck me, am I actually seeing thick as thieves agreeing that the troughing pigs in Westminster *all* deserve to be arrested? No “but Labour were all within the rules, only the Tories actually should be sacked for bwing thieving scum”?
Wonders never cease, there’s actually hope for him yet!
BTW, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen the photo of that house before. Isn’t that Prescott’s place in Hull?
disingenuous alien8.
my views of the scum war and occupation new labour party are all on the record.
one merely has to type thick as thieves into Guido’s search engine to discover what a nonsense your post is.
that will be all.
What about Clapham Common…etc !!
Just Badger watching…
What about Clapham Common? Don’t tell me he’s claiming the ‘cottage’ on Clapham Common as a second home?
Wot abaht me hoon? You forgot me alreddy?
Bullshit, it was always about money, corruption, treachery, blackmail and sex
Check out the website
Liars buggers and thieves
Makes Guidos site look like a weak cup of tea compared to a strong mature scotch.
Excellent work Guido!
you are exposing the scum across all big parties and proving that the BNP is the only viable alternative for the future — a party with integrity that Britons can vote for.
I’ve been away, working in the background but soon will be launching my own blog which im sure the mjority of your readers will enjoy. You obviouly have to pander to media types and these polite circles etc, I am not that way limited, so again your readers can look forward to that.
As anyone who watches BBC News knows there is no such thing as “Labour Sleaze” only “Tory Sleaze.”
I’m sure if you check you will discover the BBC has taken a copyright over the term “Sleaze” a it can now only be used in a political context prefixed by the word “Tory.”
Probably because the Tories already have the money, and what else is there in life!
There are pipes that are not used. Can we get them removed using the ACA?
Kitty Litter
I don’t know anything about any Saudi arms deals. My wife paid the hotel bill.
He went to jail these c unts are getting away with it.
Only because Major was an honest PM and didn’t order the CPS to hush the whole thing up under “national security”.
The irony was BAE actually broke the law *before* Labour came to power. But we must keep the oil flowing eh?
Nothing to do with oil. We have little manufacturing left, apart from weapons. The Saudis buy our planes, we get tens of thousands of jobs – and keep the ability to make planes. Do we care if a foreigner takes bribes? Not at all. If thats how business is done abroad – and our German friends pay bribes which they are allowed to enter in their books – then I frankly don’t care. What concerns me is members of the commons taking the piss. Public authorities giving their relatives contracts. Domestic corruption of any sort. I couldn’t care less what they get up to anywhere else. I am British. We have a values system. At home we play by a rule book. Abroad? Its dog eat dog.
My country, right or wrong.
Mr Fayed never gave us any cash in brown envelopes.
They were fugging Basildon Bond from my fugging stationery counter!
I like to boogie, boogie.
I might have been in prison, but I certainly ain’t done nothing wrong.
You lied under oath in a court of law. You should have just admitted you paid a whore. Twat.
but you were not corrupt, unlike all these lefties in the government.
I’ve done my research, and I believe you!
And anyone who takes Fayed’s word for evidence – even a judge – needs their grey cells examined
I used to be Lord Privy Seal, then I became a Director of Enron. The company has since fallen on hard times.
I used to work for someone who worked for Enron. He was hired as the CFO.
Strangely enough his biography didn’t include the fact that he was employed by Enron as a special financial advisor.
3 months later the chairman of the company I worked at was arrested for fraud (look up Torex)…
Was it that Chris Moore. Is the case still ongoing?
Chris Moore was the chairman.
He was also in charge of Torex Healthcare when it was sold to iSoft. He was later sacked by iSoft when it became clear that Torex Healthcare wasn’t actually a going concern when it was sold. Ironically iSoft has been linked to a buyout from an Australian company, the CEO of which is, you guessed it, an ex Torex senior manager.
The CFO was Neil Mitchell, ex of Enron…
Is he a bad guy?
Well he wasn’t that popular, lol
I think that an important point needs to be made – the elephant in the room about all this – it was because so many MPs had their second homes and property portfolios that they failed to see the damaging impact of house price inflation which has been the main contributing factor to the economic mess we are all now in.
We are all now going to be paying for their greed for twenty years or more.
And bstard Fred Goodwins pension.
Hey, a mp a would be a greata guy to a hide a criminalsa ill gotten a gains.
And as others have pointed out, the whole property speculation bubble was a direct result of the theft of pensions – Gordy’s first declaration of intent and ongoing larceny. When nothing appeared safe form his grasp, people were tempted by bricks and mortar to keep their money safe.
Fucken zie mien!!
Efry time yoo zink dis bollocks cannot get any verse – it does!!!
We fart in blank verse – oh yes we do too.
Although the satire is predominant, show some British columnists meanwhile sympathy with the governor: “people who are so tired as Gordon Brown, are usually in the hospital,” wrote Simon Carr on Thursday in the “Independent”. His colleague Steve Richards presented day after that meanwhile the Premier, if he succeeded, the Middle East conflict and the global economic crisis to be solved alone, probably would be accused of, he tried, too many things at once to do.
I prefer the tory sex stuff. At least they’re not stealing from us.
I thought it was the lefty hippies who were obsessed with ‘making love not war’. What about the teen parent underclass living off the state? Few of them can be Tories, fewer still proper ones, and there can be no shortage of scandalous behaviour behind the conception of their incipient asbo hoodie brats .
What about all the hippie commietrash whose favourite slogan is “make love not war”. And what about the underclass of teen parents who reproduce at the taxpayer’s expense? Few of them can be tories, fewer still proper ones, and there can be no shortage of scandalous behaviour behind the conception of their embryonic, asbo, hoodie brats. Oh, and somehow I almost forgot to mention tackie Jaquie’s expenses.
Plenty tories in the elite can indeed be smutty, but they are obviously not conservative in every last respect. An all round conservative, admittedly a very rare species, would believe in fire and brimstone presbyterianism AS WELL AS the standard themes of law and order and low taxes. Do NOT make the mistake of associating GENUINE presbyterianism with THIS government. Think more of Ian Paisley.
WRONG. Low church or chapel is not a Tory vice. Thats left to dour nose-picking Scots and prolix welshpeople. WE are bells and smells within the Tory wing of the Anglican Church, where homosexuals are permitted to join us in Sunday worship – provided they don’t expect the kiss of peace or post-service sherry (every 4th sunday).
In the USA, evangelical protestantism which is similar to presbyterianism, is synonymous with conservatism. The typical protestant in the USA would likely have a fit if accused of being a socialist, of voting Democrat, or of being similar to nokiaGBh.
People who vote Labour or still worse communist in the UK, or Democrat in the USA, are probably bound straight for Hell. They covet their neighbour’s property, as well as, in many cases, believing only in a diluted version of Christianity, if not being downright atheists.
To escape eternal hellfire you probably need to believe in law and order and low taxation, to be honest in your dealings financial and otherwise, to be personally charitable with your OWN money, not because the state tells you to but because God does, and not presume to spend any of anyone else’s money on yourself or on others. You must also be a non swearer, non smoker, non-junkie, and consume little or no alcohol, and be what liberal, socialist and hippie free love types, not to mention many professed conservatives would condemn as a prude. This is the probable consequence of GENUINE belief in the son of God. You must at least repent when you err. On this basis, virtually everyone in the UK, even if they profess themselves to be Conservative, even if they profess themselves to be Christians, or even if they profess to be both, is bound straight for Hell, for being defiant sinners in some respect or other. US conservative fundamentalists have a better chance, though even most of them probably fail to make the grade in reality
Tory lead 22 in Mail (Blix) tonight. Labour down to 23% lower than when Michael Bins Foot was leader. YouGov shows 16% behind. Still someone thinks Labour is worth supporting eh? Field work largely completed before DT on expenses
Gordon Brown’s theme song is Road to Nowhere.
Quote of the day:
D’Ancona on the Green Book:
A daisy chain of loopholes.
If I every come across the thieving retarded dwarf Hazel Blears, I’ll kick her Huhne off and shove a bread knife up her arse.
Speaker Martin sets the tone — greenslime greedy tribal northern mafia toad
“the MP said Martin made his revealing outburst when he challenged him to take a more active role in reforming the lax allowances regime. “He saw his role simply as a shop steward defending MPs’ Spanish practices,” said the MP. ” http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6256703.ece
Rt Hon Hazel Blears wrote:
“You people just don’t care about the working classes in this country. Just your selfish selves. Labour is changing that. Love us and we will love you.”
I forgot to add – if you don’t we’re coming to get you.
First !!
Report them all to Crimestoppers, completely anonymously
You know you want to, so don’t just sit there. Grass the bastards up.
Will do,
No good. The form ask you to confirm that it’s not being used to report something that needs urgent police attention. Obviously MPs’ thieving requires urgent attention from Insp. Knacker.
From Wikipedia:
Obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception was a statutory crime created under English law by the Theft Act 1968. Section 16 of that Act (which related to the crime) were repealed by the Fraud Act 2006. However, the offence still subsists in certain other common law jurisdictions which have copied the English criminal model.
It would seem that this is now a no-no??? Anyone know for sure?
Have reported them via “Crimestoppers” I doubt if it will do any good but it made me feel very Public Spirited. In the words of our Dear Leader “It’s the right thing to do”
It’s been repealed by the Fraud Act 2006. Look up s16 Theft Act 1968 at statutelaw.gov.uk, and you’ll see it’s gone. The legal question is whether there’s fraud under the 2006 Act, or false accounting under s17 TA 1968. Probably not, since if the claims were within the rules that’s probably not “dishonest” in legal terms.
Of course some of these claims may pre-date the repeal. But anyway, s16 TA never covered this kind of thing. It covered getting a pecuniary advantage, i.e. getting the chance to gain money, not actually getting money itself, by deception. A good example was getting a job by lying on your CV. The lie puts you in a financially advantageous position, but doesn’t directly lead to you getting money – you’re paid for your work. Of course, if an MP got voted in on a lie, that might have been s16…
As for expense claims, if there were any lies they would directly result in payments. Pre-Fraud Act 2006 that would have been false accounting under s17 TA 1968, which still exists as an offence, or might have been I think obtaining a money transfer by deception (assuming payments went straight to bank accounts) under s15A TA 1968, now repealed. Again, that’s now just one of the three types of fraud under ss2, 3 and 4 FA 2006.
Carl,
The programme Heather Brooke did on Channel 4 a few weeks ago about the expenses talked to a legal bloke. His opinion was that the rules have been soundly, repeatedly and unashamedly broken.
Basically, it’s:
1. Claim only for things that are neccessary for your duties as an MP.
2. Don’t bring MPs into disrepute.
The authorities have relied on MPs only claiming for neccessary things, despite a cursory glance at the leaked details showing abuses.
The authorities also don’t seem to mind MPs making themselves look like shits.
Both the MPs and the Fees Office are at fault, the former for not abiding by the rules and the latter for not enforcing them through almost rigid deference.
i will win the ashes
How can you voter scumbag proletariat even dare question our integrity. WE are your leaders.
Where are your expenses you scotch mafia mick, conveniently “lost” aye.
Accountancy never was my strongest suit.
Right Mick, you are a good working class lad, not a tory snob, more a salt of the earth type so we know that you wouldn’t fiddle a penny out of us. Pity your records have been destroyed. Otherwise you could have proved these doubting, class obsessed tories wrong. Couldn’t you?
Signing off a form which you have not checked is a dishonest action especially if you are going to benefit from this action.
Look at any financial form that you have to sign it will have a small bit of legal print by the signature saying something like ‘I the above signatory having read the above confirm that the information given is to the best of my knowledge correct’.
If an MP signs this without checking first they have commited a dishonest act as the signature pledges that they have in fact checked it! Ignorance is no excuse in the eyes of the law, many a person has been nailed with that line in the courts! If an MP signed it thinking they were correct to do so they are bullet proof, but as like Ms Smith if they publically state oops I never read it then that is fraud!
And whata happensa to a people thata performa this act?
second
Copyright infringement……..
The News on 4 had a quick precis on the property scams last night.
toilet seat ? That’ll be three hundred quid, please.
Pay up?! I’d rather throw up!
The Speaker oversees this shambles. One quick resignation should do it….
Preferably his own first.
(Guido can you give childish c.unts (not)first & (not)second a lollipop each, please? Preferably stuck up their jaxxeys!
we’ve run out
Cosmo, could you please forward your email address and phone number to Mark Oaten. He thinks you may have something in common, and I don’t mean badgering!
Are you going to be a complete Twat all your sorry little life.
Are you related to Master Wanker, Tora Tora, perhaps his never-known father?
That’s him! First ZanULabApologist prat to come along will do.
Hoon is despicable. Deserves to dance the Tyburn Jig.
Although a hemp man myself, I would humbly suggest we use piano wire on a butcher’s hook
Albert, can you send me some hemp, I,ve always wanted to try it.
No, piano wire is just too quick. hemp please, and get the drop wrong. that will do nicely.
As we said above, sexual asphyxiation is a Tory thing. Labour MP’s should be made to eat John Prescott’s regurgitated pies to death.
Personally I would pay good money to see that fat fuck Prescott go the way of Robert Morley in the film “Theatre of blood” being force fed pork pies through a funnel. The fat surly oaf gets a good salary from the taxpayer but then has the temerity to claim even more tax free for food. WTF?
I’ll have an extra dollop of Hoon for the second house … In fact double Hoons all round . No one will know!
Please Sir, can i have some more hoonjuice?
Stop having a go at these MPs. Most of them have never had a job in the real world and don’t understand that they are supposed to live on their salaries and not just build up property empires.
Tough. Most Labour MPs are going to be unemployed next year anyway. Who really would want to employ Spliff?
Did i see a Terminator or a Deepticon in the BRAWN pit at Barcelona just now.. BBC1 F1 Qualif..???
Yes, Virgin sponsors Brawn and shows the Terminator: Sarah Conner Chronicles, series.
Just been listening the Harriet Harman interview from Channel 4 – totally denying any wrong-doing or anything wrong.
The more I hear the more angry I get.
I will never vote Labour again, and I await to hear from the conservatives and Lib Dems to see if I will ever vote for them again.
I am ashamed of this parliament.
She is clearly defending them through clenched teeth.
She is utterly jealous that as an inner city MP she cannot claim for second houses.
It’s a ploy for her pending leadership challenge, I think they ought to stick with Gordy – they’re all turds why change?
If they did nothing wrong why did they try so hard to prevent publication under FOI?
I was sicked by Harman’s remarks too. She claims that MPs have a sense of public duty, with the implication that being an MP is a higher-level job and more important than the jobs the rest of us have. Therefore, an MP must be treated differently when it comes to allowances. If the rest of us got an allowance then the Revenue treat as taxable income – not so MPs. They are beneath contempt – a bunch of scum who are not worthy of being spat upon.
I agree. Same old line as epected, “I/We have done nothing wrong”.
SAys the Green Book. What a joke.
Rottten to the core.
An idea. There are going to be a few of these theiving hoons who have large majorities and live in places that would never vote Labour out no matter what.
I propose that someone (maybe even Guido?) sets up an anti-corruption party and stands a non-politician against every one of these hoons that runs for re-election. I’m sure in some cases (Gorbals’ seat for sure and maybe a few others) the Tories and LibDems could be persuaded to drop out leaving a two horse race between the hoon and the anti-guy.
If we could have half a dozen of these upstanding citizens elected they could send enough of a message to the other 640 of them that they need to learn to live by the spirit of the rules, not by the letter of them.
Any volunteers for a 65 grand salary plus a few perks??
Take a look at jury team – http://www.juryteam.org/
JuryTeam, sounds like what we want but I’m not too sure about it’s founder..
Domain ID:D153966904-LROR
Domain Name:JURYTEAM.ORG
Created On:30-Aug-2008 18:44:48 UTC
Last Updated On:06-Mar-2009 13:01:45 UTC
Expiration Date:30-Aug-2010 18:44:48 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Domain Directors Pty Ltd (R1729-LROR)
Status:OK
Registrant ID:P-PTJ634-NMZB
Registrant Name:Paul Judge
Registrant Street1:152 Grosvenor Road, #88
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:London
Registrant State/Province:
Registrant Postal Code:SW1V 3JL
Registrant Country:GB
Registrant Phone:+44.2078349041
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email:
This is, I assume, the same ‘banker’ that was involved in helping Asil Nadir give money to the tories in the 1990s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Judge
I would much rather that the people running anti-corrunption independants were as clean as possible, they need to be above any possible accuastion of anything. Mr Judge is really not that man….
Llebnitram!
Mr Paul Judge (the face of JuryTeam) doesn’t seem like the world’s most honest man though, given that he was a ‘b’anker who helped the Tories bank dodgy money from Mr Nadir a few years back…
Any volunteers for a 65 grand salary plus a few perks??
Therein lies the problem. There would be no shortage of such candidates. Even if somebody was elected genuinely meaning to rectify the situation, they would probably succumb to one temptation after another themselves, and by degrees become as bad as those they replaced. If you are not an MP you naturally want parliamentary expenditure to be controlled strictly. If you are one, the opposite desire is what is natural.
It’s not fair to say Harriet denied any wrong doing – in fact she singled out Derek Conway, he did some wrong doing – all the Labour stuff is ‘within the rules’.
Harriet mentioned Conway twice in case you didn’t notice the first; rotten Tories.
Being oestrogen fuelled I am a Good Girl incapable of fraud unlike that Bold Boy Derek Conway!
And how many Liebour troughers have had the whip withdrawn?
I propose that during the general election campaign, that all Labour MPs are peleted with rotten fruit and veg at every public opportunity.
I heard a rumour that Hoon got a large brown envelope for nodding through the British army purchase of the ‘coffin on wheels’ Pinzgauer vector, the worst vehicle ever to carry soldiers into battle killing many who rode in them.
They have been withdrawn after killing about a dozen soldiers and wasting over a hundred million pounds, they were told at the time they were death traps but as usual the advice was ignored.
Its sounds about right for newlabour, buying forces kit on the basis of grubby backroom deals.
It was not a ‘brown’ envelope and I did not put it in my pocket.
Spell your surname properly
I simply don’t accept that I simply did accept that.
I heard on a couple of occasions it was a promise of paid employment when he is no longer a member of the Govt. Wait and see.
including the skid marks.
The correct terminilogy is “I have been advised that Hoon MAY have—”
Is it the study of the terminally ill?
Sadely every countrie gets the politisian that they deserv. One fact that on can not escape from is that the peoples actualy vote for there politisians. Now the british peoples has voted the labor party too rule them and that is what has hapened. I am sure that the conservativs wold creat a lot of problems to.
I think that politisians no mater if they are labor or conservativs first looks after there own interests an then looks after the countrie’s problems.
Sad but tru
Simples
Your keyboard would seem to be missing some keys.
F-
Just a guess, but I think Anatolie might be a bit foreign…
Vot is dis Foron rubbizh? Doo you vink ve are zpiez?
Ha, next you vill be zayin ve are doing viz to deztabilize ve britizh economy.
Heil Gordon. Mein Gott, I mein Av a Nice Dey, Tally Ho, vot and all vat.
Seems a bit too contrived to me. Like they don’t have spelling checkers in foreignland.
Yeah, they do. She used it.
you are a strange one dr michelle.
you are a lesbian and yet you are homophobic and racist.
what’s that all about eh?
You’re not fucking coming in here.
No we do not.
All we the British electorate do is rubber stamp one out of a limited list of electorates chosen for us by shadowy Quangos we have right to question, input or even observe. Democracy in this country is massively constrained.
Anon 180, Quite so. The majority in this country never voted for the hoons of NuLab. This government has no popular (indeed, any) mandate. All we can do at the moment is rage and wait for next year. I certainly don’t feel I deserve to suffer NuLab.
countrie’s problems is actually spelt Huhnery’s like in gentry’s…
I am the defender of all the bent politiens so I should know…
And Anatoli, are you by any chance a member of the Russian Mafia ?
If you are, I am the specialist you need…
hello everybody peeps
Bonza offers! No obligation!
To evrybody that has comented on my english yes english is not my first langueish. I only lernt english two years ago and i am doin my best. and before you critice me and others like me why don’t you look at your own langueish skils. I bet that you wold probably have big problems if you were to coment on for instanse a french blog in french.
To me is seem that english peoples only speak english even tough they have lernt french in school for many years. no how bad is that?
and if you are al so fed up with the political parties in brittain why don’t you get of your butt and start your own political parties.
I gues its easier just to do nothin but complaine about others (politisians)
No evry nation get the politisians that they deserv.
Looks as though it’s going to get juicy in Sunday Telegraph with the Cooper-Balls expenses. Revelations about Margaret Moran underline that personal gain was the motive. Blears also, so she is a dead, gone,finished, no more chipmunck.Phil Hope is another & Bradshaw, well, just pure nothingness.
That Parliamentary authorities have called in Inspector Knacker could backfire big time should they take the view that the disclosures are in the public interest and the real fraudsters are the MPs themselves. For once I’m hoping
Inspector Knacker does the right thing! Just off to the Post Office to send Gorgon a shirt.[the 2nd one]
I only took a smallish commission but IT WAS WITHIN THE RULES
“should they take the view that the disclosures are in the public interest”
Now there is the problem. They will not. They will be instructed how to handle it. They will accept the word of MPs that it was all within the rules and some junior clerical in the Fees Office will be kicked out for the dogs.
They have already picked their poor sap MP for corruption charges, the fact that sap has done nothing more than the others does not matter, he is there now for the consumption of the electorate. Who will be told all will be better.
Let it not be forgotten that Gob-on-Legs Hazel – (we can only shut her up by switching off the Tele) is MP for Salford.
Media City on Salford Quays is in her constituency BBC are moving part of their operation there. We can probably look forward to the BBC playing down her part in this expences fiasco.
Oi you the Saturday negotiator! Stop this blogging nonsense and get back to work, there’s a load of lettings need going on Right Move all of a sudden.
What fiasco?
Small commission, small beer…
Yes Big Bot & he’ll be told that as long as he doesn’t grass the rest of them up he’ll be given a seat in the HoL when the dust settles et al Mendelson
I get the feeling Inspector Knacker is going to spend several months “considering”
Let me tell you a thing or two about flipping – the rot starts in Luton, and I don’t mean two-loos Prezza.
are we related?
Think we have a year of this to go through, a year of a Government falling apart, Cabinet Ministers and MPs will wonder if they have a Seat after the next election. I predict that Brown will be out after the June Euro Elections. Have you seen pics of him of late, he looks old and tired, Health Secretary looks good as a replacement. To be honest might even vote Labour if he was PM.
Surely not even this mad (and I know what I’m talking about when it comes to mad let me tell you) bunch can even think of imposing a second unelected PM on us?!
Why on earth not ? What is to stop them ?
What we really need is a long avenue of tall lamp posts and a lot of rope.
Lets see… 646 MPs.. lets say 10% not on the take (conservative estimate) that leaves 646-64=582
most roads have lamposts seperated at 30m intervals, main highways/motorways 50m intervals, so 582MPs X 50m=2,760m (2.7KM)
i propose the M1 between junctions 4&5 should surfice to give us a nice long stretch to observe the bastards swinging
thank you
66
Can’t you make that the M62 over the pennines into Manchester.
It blows a bit over there and they will offer quite a spectacle as they twirl in the gales
don’t be so incendiary Bertha
167, The problem with the M62 is the lack of traffic lights on the bit over the pennines…
Since when have there been traffic lights on motorways?
M62 over Penines, just before the little house on the prarie would be excellent choice.. the weather does indeed get bit wild and windy up there.. excellent swinging views…
I can safely report this is no traffic lights on British motorways.. apart from the ones where there might be..
thank you
Pedant66,
Yes you are very much an ex-maths expert. 582 lamposts, each separated by 50m is 581 x 50m.
@Pedantic.
I like it. But could we not do a Spartacus remake instead, and crucify the bastards. That way we’d have much more fun as they … pass over the threshold.
I have a new idea for a reality TV show.
Each constituency gets to treat its MP according to a vote (ya know, democracy) of all the peeps.
A panel of experts (volunteers anyone?) will judge the novelty, entertainment value and ingenuity of each entry, sending the winner of each region through to the next round. Early rounds involve merely torture and torment. The Grand Final will be who can kill the thieving, sleazy git in the most imaginative way possible.
Prime Time BBC Saturday telly with or without Graham Norton.
I say, “Maths Expert”, your sums are crap, out by a factor of ten
A mere decimal point error
Do you work for the Treadury, perchance?
You’re all wrong, as you haven’t taken into account that we have two carriageways to so can do the hanging in half the length. And the M62 near the little prairie is unlit.
Forget the lamposts along the M62;
Use the bridges instead.
Sorted
Health secretary has stood by and allowed all this to happen, inclding the trashing of liberty and the economy. Why on earth would you still vote labour, no mater who replaces Broon ?
What’s not to like?
Pass the Sky Sports remote. Boro’s on t’elly. (Hic)
Anyone who voted Labour last time should be taken out and shot.
I can’t really think of a fate painful enough for anyone who would contemplatge voting Labour at the next election – a frontal lobotomy for starters. Jeez, these hoons have wrecked the country for at least a generation.
New unelected Labour Leader=Immediate election.
The press, other parties & the public will not let a second unelected PM stay in office for a year.
john,
er, it doesn’t work like that.
whoever is in power can stay in power for the allowed amount of time, regardless of who the leader is.
tough shit john.
….where the wailing and gnashing of teeth will be his constant companion.
Only if they survive the subsequent vote of no confidence in the Government immediately after they change leader…
they do have a majority so your argument is rather spurious.
there is ofcourse more chance of losing that majority if brown stays.
yet another argument for the c’unt to be deposed.
excellent!
Yes, he’s looking in a pretty bad state – no?
You sure that him, looks more like chief inspector dreyfuss.
Dead Man Walking.
Does Downing Street deliberately darken pictures when Brown is pictured beside brown or black people? Is it because he is racist or afraid of being seen as too pale skinned?
I think you have it BigotBasher, the McMental’s skin is actually a pale shade of green which becomes even more unattractive as the day wears on and the 5 O’clock shadow impacts.
Thus all the pictures are well photoshopped in a desperate attempt to make him seem more lifelike by changing the colours, saturation, contrast etc.
It’s a last resort because the previous route (of painting him orange before any photography) so spectacularly backfired as shown Here.
Max, when the Hillary Clinton campaign did it to Barack Obama, she got eaten alive by the US press. The important thing is that it was the Clinton campaign team and not US taxpayers. This is the Official Downing Street photographer, posting on the Downing Street FlickR account.
A number of issues arise; the photographer is rubbish and does not understand lighting requirements of Downing Street (doubt it).
Gordon Brown is actually ill from the pressures of office (another reason for him to resign).
Downing Street hates black people.
All three could apply.
More likely the Downing Street photographer is an idiot and hasn’t worked out the ISO settings on his camera so has to photoshop afterwards and keeps messing up the contrast.
Anyone contemplating voting Labour in the future can look forward to “more of the above”.
The only future for this country is for Labour/NewLabour/Socialism to disappear, without a totally new start what hope have future generations got.
Hopefully there are some honest MP’s in Parliament, but how many?
I don’t know how long the list of ‘honest’ MPs is, but I’m definitely in the top one.
What are they worried about ?
Prezza has shown you can buy two Huge Seats for the price of one…and charge it…ever heard of rotten boroughs my boy ?!
Agree, Brown does not look a well man. Maybe he will stand down on ‘health grounds’.
…for the health of the nation? No, he’s completely selfish.
Bastard!!!
Should be in court facing prison for this along with many others.
Kakistocracy: the government of a state by the worst citizens.
I can tell you are a classical scholar!
AWAD?
I think Harriet’s NoMenKleptura deserves consideration
It started in America…
Indeed – but he never ate any
So when Nick Robinson says “You don’t get rich by going into politics” he is talking out his arse?
Two million squid would also buy a few million small beers Nick.
If Robinson is the best the BBC has, little wonder it takes a brave Maverick like Brogan and someone prepared to blow the whistle, to bring this wholseale fraud to the attention of the public.
The person to thank is Heather Brooke.
http://www.yrtk.org/
She was the maverick who persisted for years with FoI requests to get the expenses collated and published.
Agree. Heather a lady of the decade. Joanna coming up fast on the rails.
She’s American. And another current heroine is the brave Marta Andraeson who has suffered greatly for exposing the wholesale fraud in the EU’s budget, in the face of all ‘Commissioner for Fraud’ Windbag Kinock’s best efforts to silence her.
Some of us will have the chance to vote for her shortly.
http://tinyurl.com/p6rewo
Poor old Nick is forced to talk out of his arse because obviously his head is not available.
“Say what we want you to say Nick, or fuck off to the dole queue.”
“Then we’ll get a woman in to replace you. It’s our overall aim anyway, for the whole of the BBC.”
Then we’ll get a woman in to replace you…
…and this is what we’ll end up with
Wouldn’t be so bad, if only on Sunday’s.
@332
you have to consider that it would be Harman, Smith etc. in the hot pants. Not such a good idea now is it?
Nick Robinson is quite right. You get rich when you leave.
Perhaps what he means is that he hasn’t yet received the promised payoffs?
Is it too late to give him a nice quango job paying a million or so?
So what is this post about ? Tomorrrow’s Telegraph, one assumes, but is this Geoff Hoon’s property portfolio ?
I want to see Balls’n'Balls nailed to the highest lamp post.
Nah. Hung by the balls
That lets at least one of them off the hook.
My money is on Prescott, I’m sure I saw that photo once before with regards to garden grabbing…
Prescott is a good ‘un. “Unaccountable wealth” is a way far eastern societies deal with corruption. It’s very difficult to catch prove that people have received large brown envelopes so they’ve switched the onus. If your apparent wealth grossly exceeds your income then you may be called to explain with facts and figures.
In fact they are having a go at Sinn Fein
Does my bum look big in this dress?
Ask Joanna
There are pipes that are not used. Can we get them removed using the ACA?
Take out the box of panty liners
You have to hope that the next time c.unt Woolas appears in public he finds his sorry carcase pelted with the feminine hygiene leftovers from Ghurka’s wives.
It would be fitting.
Just thought – it wasn’t Woolas who funded the Raas Claat website, was it Guido?
It is a veritable Hooonerama.
Big meet at Chipping Sodbury next Saturday – bring own nappies and teats.
Just to clear a point, I am a proud Torie, Churchill and Thatcher are my heros. But the Health Secretary seems like a normal bloke, and his hands are clear from the MP’s mess. If Labour have to stay in Power for another year, and none of us want that, lets have a decent bloke in charge, not Ms Harman, the Tories would win 600 seats if she was in power.
You may be a “proud Torie” (sic) but you’re also semi-literate.
Thank you for the fifty pounds, Mr Health Secretary.
Was that alright?
Scottishe Egge?
It’s Torie
It’s Tory
Johnson is a scheming trot. He is a union man through and through and no friend to those who wish to invest or earn their own money.
That he has very few qualifications and can only reflect the ideas others project on to him is his only saving grace. He is too thick to be dangerous.
Eh? He gives that impression but he is sly like the goblin (in Noddy). If he took over after a Brownout and you voted for him you would be a chump. The last thing this country needs is a 4th term of New Labour, whichever one of them is in charge.
If you really consider voting Labour after the last 12 years of crap you no proud Torie – or even Tory.
We need change.
No, Labour must go, not just go but be annihilated, the sooner the better.
Snot Brown goes = immediate election.
not according to the constitution george.
you’re not one of those fucking taliban trying to stir up trouble are you?
Snot Brown Goes = Brownest Goons
Also, Snot Brown Goes = Wrongest Boson which reminds me that Brown is just a quark without the charm but all the spin (from last week).
well I used to be a labour voter & there ain’t any decent politicians on the front bench -they’re all at it
Johnson’s preparing the ground. Nasty Tory cuts verses nice Labour spending. Stupid twats have pissed away all the country’s money and are looking for someone else to blame to appeal to their core moron vote.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/05/07/we-need-courage-we-need-ambition-115875-21338353/
Alan Johnson will today issue a rousing rallying cry to Labour as he calls for “courage and ambition” in taking the battle to the Tories.
The Health Secretary will say the Conservatives have hidden the “hideous reality” of how their cuts would cripple schools and hospitals.
And in a major speech he warns that the poor and vulnerable will suffer most if voters let David Cameron into No10.
Johnson has sat on his arse while tone and gord have tried to destroy everything this country stands for whilst filling their boots and emptying the treasury. If you think Postman Pat is a decent bloke you may be proud pal but you are certainly not a tory.
Johnson is clean on the expenses thing.
his leadership prospects are in excellent shape.
tough shit tories!
He has been doing the rounds but he is a First class prospect. With the stamp of approval he will lick the Tories. I am sure he can deliver as he is a man of letters.
Postman Pat for PM.
FFS
It’s a story.
If it’s within the rules it’s not a fiddle. MP have special tax status on ‘expenses’.
Keith Vaz is right near the fraud knuckle.
Ah, but who makes the rules?
Let’s get this straight, the MPs make the rules. I thought MPs make good rules – that’s their job. Don’t MPs make good rules? So, we need ‘independent’ people to make the rules. Who are these ‘independent’ people. Maybe the people who hire the MPs should make the rules – but the ordinary people are stupid.
That’s why they aren’t MPs. The ordinary people are stupid enough to fall for the ‘security’ arguments – every one needs an ID card! The MPs have been found out bluffing in the last chance saloon.
There does need to be an independent body of rule makers, I agree. The natural choice would be the courts, and Judges. I’m sure quite a few will be willing to take a shot, that is, to make the decisions towards what MPs can and cannot claim as expenses, and for what reasons.
No chance, the courts are ultimately controlled by the MPs as it’s the Government that hands out the top jobs. Do you really think any judge is going to kill their career by setting the rules the MPs have to live by?
Much better that the people who make the rules should be totally free from political influence. I’ll put my daughter up for the job, she’s 10 and knows more than these muppets
The judiciary has become very politicised in the last 15/20 years – it’s full of left wingers with a political agenda. That’s partly because the really clever barristers won’t take the drop in salary which would result from becoming a judge – so you get 2nd raters with an agenda. It’s increasingly evident in the way they now try to ‘make law’ rather than interpret the wishes of the Commons.
Same old same old – you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
Army Major raises aims to raise £1 million for Help for Heroes who has only just started walking again, and a MP (Government Minister/s?) use ‘the rules’ to get £2 million for themselves.
Shame on who ever it is!!
54John says:
May 9, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Army Major raises aims to raise £1 million for Help for Heroes who has only just started walking again, and a MP (Government Minister/s?) use ‘the rules’ to get £2 million for themselves.
Shame on who ever it is!!
===
It is Geoff “hoon” Hoon, ex Defence Secretary. Do you see the irony?
I’d love a military coup. Just what the country needs — seriously.
Woolas married in 1997 and has two sons. Anyone know how old children are?
no older than 12.. just a guess..
Woolas is a transvestite but is also not averse, on occasions, to wearing a nappy, like his boss Gordon.
Marvellous
Could be worth buying the Telegraph to reward them for providing all the information to destroy all incumbents chances at the next election
It’ll do for starting the bonfire at Westminster.
(You weren’t thinking of reading it, were you ???)
How does Keith Vaz live in Stanmore in a 1.15 million flat when his constituency is in Leicester, another home there and then claim for a 3rd flat as his second home in Westminister and get away with it. Which home is which.
This really could be a major fraud job untangling Vaz’s stuff because that at the least is extremely dodgy.
The problem is this. For Vaz to claim second home allowance he needs to be living in the leicester constituency, however if he technically was not living there and lived in Stanmore, London, then how can he claim Second home allowance for a westminister flat, get my drift, and if he lived primarily in the Stanmore property and not the constituency then this could lead to all sorts of a pandora’s box. Its devious.
Just like Humpty Dumpty, Slimy Vaz is heading for a big fall.
Vaz is devious. Look at his history on Wikipedia.
He lives in Stanmore. The rules allow him to pretend that his main home is in Leicester and his second home is the flat in London. It is only fraud if he is actually representing to anyone that he lives in Leicester – I’m not sure whether naming it as his main residence on the form counts as a representation. Carl Gardner can you help us here?
It’s all within the rules, dontcha know ?
I like rent boys.
Death rules finally.
Publicly, Gordon talks about values and his moral compass, but actually the way he conducts himself behind the scenes is anything but that – it’s brutal,” said Watt, who played a pivotal role in the handover of power from Tony Blair to Brown.
Cos if you say anything against Keith Vaz you are racist so there!
Someone else is not happy with Labour either.
I think ‘Never trust Labour as government or employer’ will be a mantra for years to come.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8038053.stm
I do hope that he has a map where the bodies are buried – what a star witness he would be.
er, you cannot be serious.
we have not had a labour government for the last twelve years, we have had a conservative government.
tony blair was a tory you dopey c’unt.
oh, and it was all you tory floating voters who got the Huhne in!!!!!
hahahahahahahahah! you could not make this shit up.
and now you are moaning about it.
Jesus wept, you tories are a bunch of fucking stupid c’unts!
The 2010 General Election – a potted history: About 250 Martin Bells and Joanna Lumleys stood for parliament in the next election, targetting all of the worst expenses junkies. Their only policy was to get rid of the porkers and troughers, and their only promises were to stop the gravy train, do away with the Lobby system and ban spin doctors. A minority government took over from Brown (who had lost his seat). The new intake was a very mixed bunch, but they looked after their constituents and made up their own minds in every parliamentary vote. They even read the bills they were voting on. The government had to build consensus ahead of every vote, because it could never be sure of support from the New Peasant Party. At the end of 5 years , and just before it announced its own dissolution, the party notched up one more victory when it succeeded in passing an act outlawing the whipping system.
This would be the Dream Team for me.
Way to go.
It makes no difference anyway – laws aren’t made in this country any more except for peripheral things like banning country sports. They are made in BRUSSELLS by unelected Commissioners.
Get real, inform yourselves. This is why MPs misbehave: they have little else to do and their powerlessness destroys any shreds of a sense of reponsibility
Bingo
Vote Jury Team
Absolutely! How I would love to see Lumley stand against top hoon Woolas in the election and spend the whole campaign following him around making a (nice looking for a pensioner) nuisance of herself.
If we can find a few good upstanding people who can speak well and have 500 quid and 3 weeks’ time spare for the election.
Anyone up for pursuading Guido to stand in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
NO
I want Guido standing in London…This is where the Revolution is starting already…
They knew this might happen ages ago – That’s way they increased the fee for candidates to a whopping great (for some) £1,000
hmmmm….
no, I don’t think we want a turkish albino running the show.
a big fat turkish albino in charge?
oh do fuck off!
If Guido stands in Kirkcady then he’ll claim a 2nd home allowance in London
Guido, do NOT live within hundreds of miles of the place. I spent four years in Easter Pitcorthie, Dunfermline, and have never been more miserable in my life (including years in desert places during army service).
IMHO you could probably stand almost anywhere you wanted. I’d vote for you.
Okay, if we can get him to stand in London, I wonder who’s the biggest hoon he could stand against.
Maybe the hoon who lives nearest Westmister and claims for a second home, I think Vaz at 12 miles away is the best bet so far.
Come on Guido, you can I’m sure afford 500 quid for the deposit, and there will be a large number of people willing to give their time to campaign for you. I volunteer a week of my time, ask others here to do the same….
“I have a dream!”
the same one as you, sounds like a great way to go
Reminds me of the storyline for the TV Drama Series – “The Amazing Mrs Pritchard” starring Jane Horrocks Well near enough although I seem to recall the “bastards” got her in the end or did they ?
I’m not so sure about Martin Bell, after all, there are pretty convincing allegations that he was extensively advised and assisted by Alastair Campbell. http://www.guardianlies.com/Section%205/page8.html
Maybe the doctor in Kidderminster would be a better model. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Kidderminster_Hospital_and_Health_Concern
People who are too important to do their own cleaning – like me – usually have to pay a cleaner out of their own net-of-tax income. Why don’t these people ?
I must say that the delightful Joanna Lumley makes me feel like a proper banker again.
Banker ? That’s rhyming slang, isn’t it ?
Banking started in America, you know
No it fucking didn’t it started here Caught in another lie Sir Fred
I should have said “in it’s present form”
10 little MPps hanging on the line,
one broke some loo seats,
then there were nine.
9 little MPs worried about smeargate,
One claimed for baby food,
then there were eight.
8 little MP’s, want to be like Bevan,
One claimed for anusol,
then there were seven.
7 little MPs, in a bit of a fix,
One claimed for heroin
then there were six.
6 little MPs, trying to stay alive,
One claimed for porn films
then there were five
5 little MPs, claiming more and more,
one claimed for salsa lessons,
then there four.
4 little MPs, hoping to let it be,
One claimed for bath plugs,
then there were three.
3 little MPs, wonder what to do,
one claimed for private guards,
then there were two.
2 little MPs, realise the time has come
One claimed for houses and houses and more houses
Then there was one.
One little MP
All on his own,
claimed for a cleaner…
It was n’ae me.
Excellent Mr Quango
so plato, you need the assistance of smiley faces to make your point.
what a fucking cretin.
you aint no plato motherfucker.
More Kierkegaard perhaps? The epistemological approach Plato adopts may explain his position along the phenomenological – positivistic paradigm but I wouldn’t expect someone like you to understand that you uneducated c*unt.
sub-spastic clause,
fucking hell what a pompous oaf you are.
well if you want to get all phenomenological about this, all I can say is that it appears to me that you are rimming plato and plato is rimming bill.
that’s a three way rim.
and your suggestion that plato is just pretending to be a spastic to appear clever is well, just a load of shit.
fuck off retard.
thankyou.
Splendid Quango.
Perhaps McBroon will have to start a new business,”McBrooms Cleaning and Decorating Agency” with Prezza in charge of Tudor and Toilet Accessories.
McBrooms cleaning agency.
I like it Pienomics.
” We sweep into power.”
” We clean up foreign countries mess.” {see Afghanistan for references}
” We sanitise the unpalatable. ” {see Iraq for references}
” We clean up sleaze. Whiter than white!” {some stubborn sleaze may prove difficult to remove}”
” We take civil liberties to the cleaners”
” We only use officially approved EU financial products and accounting methods”
Other tasks undertaken.
Burning money
Full whitewash of events.
Email deletion and hard disc clean up.
Hospital deep cleans and MRSA shuffling around a bit.
Plastic bag removal from society.
Shiny gloss applied to all policies.
Full washing dirty laundry in public, with powerful spin cycle.
{Note: Some obdurate Brown stains may prove difficult to remove and will require a special process. Like an election.}
£22.00 p/h or just £180 billion for a serious bust economy clean-up.
Congrats BQ MP
The smart money has already got out of property and is now going into the equity markets.
Incorrect. Anyone in property is stuck with it. It’s the £125bn of quantative easing money which is pouring into equities. It will cause inflation, which will then be dressed up as ‘growth’, and Darling will say that the recession is over.
And as anybody knows – inflation is good for equities.
Dammit, Mr Telegraph Editor, I want Balls’n'Balls strung from your highest yard arm. No messing about. Give it to us.
Dr Mr Telegraph editor.
Please let it be Harriet ‘Harm Men’ Harman tomorrow. And I would like a new vacuum cleaner for christmas. Damn, forgot I’m not an MP, I’ll just have to go and buy my own.
Yours faithfully,
Jeeves the Butler
From Tory Politico:
“Cooper and Balls in Telegraph’s sights.
“According to a tweet from ConservativeHome, the Sunday Telegraph is going to splash big with Coopers and Balls expense claims: “The Westminster chatter is that Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper are likely to feature BIG TIME in The Sunday Telegraph.” As a married couple, it will be interesting to see if they’re taking taxpayers like you and me for a ride by both claiming for the same items.”
http://tory-politico.com/2009/05/cooper-and-balls-in-telegraphs-sights/
I wish I could even begin to dream that any of these scum, these lying, thieving bastards will ever be brought to justice, but I can’t. Unlike most of us, they will soon fade from view, multi-millionaires, fabulous pensions, well-rewarded sinecures, etc., grateful to be forgotten by the taxpayer before too long.
When they became MPs they must have stopped buying lottery tickets.
One thing is certain : they have no shame, no honour, no pride, no self-respect, nothing. To quote Shakespeare “it is as if one of nature’s journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably”.
Jesus effing Christ, we have even paid for their Tampax. In fact, is there a scintilla of evidence (as Mandlebum would say) that any of these swine has ever spent a penny of their wages on any fucking thing : food, drink, clothes, household bills, insurance, transport, anything? I am told that the Prime Mentalist (and First Lord of the Treasury) even scrounged the cost of fucking light-bulbs.
And to think one of these pigs will soon enough knock on my door and ask for my vote.
I think cost savings ought to start with ex-MPs protection teams.
If they’ve done nothing wrong, they have nothing to fear
I think we should all send that nice Mr Woolas a box of Tampax. Just to tide him over for those certain times of the month.
Oh no, I don’t think many of these cnuts will be daring to go round knocking on doors – especially not round my gaff…
Small earthquake in Parliament. Not many casualities.
I dont mind a conservative MP (male or female) indulging in a bit of spanking action and a little light bondage here and there. But what I do mind greatly is Labour MPs taking the piss out of the tax payers at every opportunity.
I was brought up to believe the only sleazy politicians are the conservative kind and I can assure all you political veterans that view is still very much prevalent in the council estates around Britain.
That doesn’t mean I want the Cons to win the next election. Until that party becomes a proper opposition they wont get a vote from me. They should be utterly destroyed and then rebuilt with proper conservative values. If they had that now they would probably gain the biggest landslide in history. The way its going I think they may just manage to pull through by the skin of their teeth. People around my estate just don’t know who to vote for.
The least you can do is not vote for any con MEP in June. Send them a clear message.
Do I detect a hint of resigned desperation, troll?
He’s not a troll and neither am I.
CallMeDave’s plan to keep his mouth shut and get in on a “I’m not Gordon McMoralCompass” is not good enough.
I won’t vote for them until I know what they stand for either.
Currently trying to decide whether voting UKIP or BNP sends the stronger message – NONE OF THE ABOVE. The problem being the BNP send the stronger message, but I don’t want them in power.
Did that in 2005 and looked what crap we are in now,suggest you all go and vote for somebody, anybody but go and vote,the only thing non voting did was to get people calling non voters lazy bastard chavs who couldn’t get their arses away from the telly,I did go to the polling station then walked away,so vote for someone anyone but VOTE.
Well said.
The clearest message would be to elect all the UK MEPs from the B_N_P.
The European parliament would have an attack of the vapors and stop functioning.
The UK government (Labour) would be blamed by the Europeans for allowing such a thing to happen and would be disowned.
With the far right and far left focused on Europe, we could get the needed U.K. government of independent candidates elected.
Europe would not want us, we would not want Europe so getting back to EFTA status would be much easier.
EFTA status needs no MEPs so a neat and tidy ending all round and I commend it to the house.
oh not another smiley face nonce.
fuck off smiley face nonces.
thankyou.
Nah stuff it, vote Tory MEPs and we might just get a referendum (which we should have had anyway).
[...] Hat tip: Mrs Miggins [...]
I am waiting for the Tory Chairman second home claims and expenses to be examined. Will The Telegraph show no bias, I doubt it.
I’m a Tory and have never trusted this fellow.
New shop opens on Oldham High Street…next to Oxfam
Next branch to open next to Tesco Osterley Park
WOOLFAM
please donate whatever you can to keep our MP afloat.
Tampons (unused please) Nappies ( do.) Biscuits ( Half packets will do), insect spray, pringles, thick bleach, popcorn BUT particularly in date Crumbed Ham
I only found out this morning what MPs have been forced by the system to resort to.
I’m very angry and determined to do something about the system which is totally at fault.
Those responsible will immediately be sacked, of course.
I contracted the cleaning out:
Guys and Girls I knew I saw it somewhere as my ma and pa live in Hertfordshire:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/2017493/Barbara-Follett-1600-for-window-cleaning.html
Not a bad job if you can get it
I like this bit;
“In 2004, apparently stung by reports about her expenses claim, she and her husband released a public statement.
It said: “Barbara Follett makes no financial gain from being a Member of Parliament – in fact her work is heavily subsidised by her husband ”
Then she wont mind resigning then and being full subsidised by her hubby.
The BBC were using the line this morning that her first husband was murdered in SA and that’s why she is so anxious after being mugged FFS.
Since when has Soho been like Soweto?
Barbara Follet’s first husband was a politics lecturer, he was indeed murdered. HOWEVER, Barbara and Rick were already divorced, and Rick had remarried.
Barabara’s daughter is/has recently been, a journalist on the Times.
SOuthHOustonWESTtOwnship contracts to SOHO as any great property developer knows. And I did it all without ripping off the taxpayer through expenses!
Swift sums them up:”the most pernicious race of odious little vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.”
Nothing changes.
Following latest news about Greg Barker’s self enrichment at the tax payer’s expense, perhaps honourable members of Joe public on this forum would like to send him a personal message encouraging him to seek another job by emailing here: enquiries@gregorybarker.com
Cameron must sack him.
I second that
Thirded.
Cameron has got to take a stand and sack anyone from his own party who’s being a hoon, then he can ask the one eyed snot muncher why he’s not doing the same.
Even better, have them resign as MPs and let’s have a few by-elections in the summer
Sacked no if’s no but’s
These people have shown themselves to be unfit for public office. Mass sackings and prosecutions all round please!
Michael Martin spent more than £1,400 on a chauffeurs in his Glasgow constituency, including journeys to the local job centre and to Celtic Park, the home of Celtic football club.
The Speaker also charged new “Aristocrat” carpets to the taxpayer, costing £1,834, at his constituency home in Glasgow as well as another £1,490 on the cost of redecorating a room.
Mr Martin left the taxpayer with a Rentokil bill for nearly £3,000 and charged for a £285 rug, the claims show. He also claimed £200 for employing someone to tidy his garden and £205 for gutter cleaning.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5298316/Michael-Martin-Speaker-spent-1400-on-chauffeurs-to-his-local-job-centre-and-Celtic-Park.html
£200 for cleaning out a gutter? That`s taking the piss i can do a house in an hour and charge £80
If some other bugger is paying and you’re taking out a hundred quid “in commission” to spend on pies at Celtic Park, what’s the worry? The gutter cleaner gets an extra twenty quid and I get all the gravy. Ne’e bother.
Listen, they had to clean out the gutters because that’s where we spend so much of our time.
Lovely to see our former sheet metal worker comrade, and shop steward, has aquired a taste for high living. I wonder what happened to all those left wing principles?
Good to see that he’s already started going down to the JobCentre though, has anyone else claimed for the same expense?
“going down”
…being chaffeured down in a Jag with an onboard bar!, working class solidarity they call it.
Gutter cleaning? An enema, do you think he meant. I mean, the man is just about as full of shit as any human being could be…
Question from Training School.
Six hundred thieves have been caught with their fingers in the till, having stolen millions from the public. There is a public demonstration to protest about the lack of any police action against the thieves. The demonstration becomes disorderly.
Do you turn your water cannon on;
a) The public.
b) The thieves.
They didn’t tell us the answer.
I hope we don’t find out.
We could say piggy in the middle
but that’s what your supposed to be trained for defining who are the naughty ones,well you could walk away and go and tick some boxes or get you ANPR out and stop some motorists.
Oi, get your own monicker! I’m Dixon.
No, I’m Spartacus
Bring back Dixon of Dock Green I say…
Pigs didn’t fly in those days…
At least Margaret Moran the sleazebag thief Luton MP can be said to be making plans for her future…
http://www.margaretmoran.org.uk/index.php/2008/12/margaret-supports-moves-to-make-lenders-give-home-owners-a-six-month-mortgage-reprieve/
Is this perhaps for her to benefit from when she is kicked out at the next election, this could benefit a LOT of Labour MPs?
AS I noted, Ms Moran, cannot be accused of not having the foresight to plan for the future as the owner of 3 houses ( all of which have at one time or another been her secondary home) and now facing an uncertain career future.
If there was any justice she would also be facing six months in Petonville with Baroness Uddin but that’s unlikely as the Police are too busy seeking out Civil Service Whistleblowers/killing G20 passers by to investigate real crimes..
When she illegally blocked the path in front of her Spanish holiday home only she made it into the newspapers which just goes to show the inherent sexism that she and Jacqui Smith have to put up with but which I will get rid of through my Equality Bill.
Haven’t heard anything about Kerry McCarthy…MP for Bristol Mogadishu.
Anyone heard anything?
Come on Stevenage – here’s why you need to chuck Barbara out.
Call for a by-election now. Get rid of the ultimate Champagne Socialist
She is a walking advert for New Labour. Rich, arrogant and greedy. Disgusting.
Please, please let someone be charged for leaking the expenses data. Cos when it comes to trial, I am pretty sure I know what a jury will decide!! There is no way 12 right minded people would support MPs, so the leaker is safe
The chap or chapess needs a knighthood not a criminal record. Magnificent stuff that man!
AH (C)
It’ll never get to a trial. The ZanuLabour way is to have the leaker quietly “disappeared” in some remote bit of woodland.
Anita
Don’t worry..
I have sent a secret and confidential letter to the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police saying that I will sack him if his Plods arrest the “Leaker”,
like I sacked the last Commissioner…
Mayor Boris (“the King”) Johnson
It would be a Clive Ponting acquittal if it ever got that far.
A great moment for British justice.
I expect that ZaNu LieBore would find some way of stuffing the jury though – watch for the names brown, balls and millibland etc. on the roster that day…..
“I will never vote Labour again”
You bastard. You voted for them….
I’m afraid I voted for them too, OH. I even used to go from doorstep to doorstep, trying to persuade others to vote for them, too. For years of my adult life.
It’s not so much being a ‘bastard’ as being a completely stupid brainless numskull, who has brainwashed themselves with Marxism, despite all evidence to the contrary that Marxism is evil and causes nothing but poverty, death, and misery.
Even amongst its financially successful brethren, such as Geoff Hoon, there is self-loathing, guilt, and the inability to look at yourself in the mirror. In the less financially successful foot-soldiers, there is envy, hatred, and anger.
It really is a horrible mix. Don’t misunderstand me though, I feel absolutely no sympathy for these Hoons, and I’m not asking anyone to feel sorry for them, especially that devious slimy bastard Geoff Hoon. They deserve everything that’s coming to them, because they are adults and possess free will, and in the case of MPs, the ability to legislate on how others run their lives – to abuse this gift, as so many have, is straightforwardly criminal.
But there is hope for some of them, to see the light and to renounce socialism, or at least, like alcoholism, to give it up for one day at a time, hopefully for the rest of their lives. And if we can get them to do that, they will become the fiercest fighters for freedom because they are then driven by the need to make up for all those lost years supporting the barbaric idiocy of socialism.
Still, in the meantime, before these very few do come over to our side, having sloughed off the utter banality of their brain-shredding religion, perhaps your way might be better.
Which is just to call them all a bunch of bastards.
And hope that this pricks a tiny minority into wondering why we hate these moronic greedy righteous Marxist window lickers so much, and the way these tax eaters so selfishly inflict their odious stupid collectivist religion of war, death, famine, and poverty onto the rest of us.
Exactly.
Alex Salmond claiming whilst Parlament was in recess. He is a man who is earning three incomes, how does he find the time
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5299733/Alex-Salmond-claimed-800-for-food-on-MPs-expenses.html
Easy, he employs an accountant, like all the rich folk.
I was beginning to wonder if anybody except me was remotely interested in what Old Neep Head was getting up to. He’s nationlist-flavoured typical crappy Scottish student politics personified. As are most of the SNP. Scottish Labour/SNP? Same bloody difference. Patronising, politics-of-envy, you scratch my back WANKERS.
Can you tell I don’t like them very much?
Never fear… we are all interested in this Nationwide corruption
So how much does this thievery go on in the Sottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly?
Many MPs are claiming that they have acted within the rules, but I beg to differ.
One of the rules is that the expenses must be incurred wholly and exculsively in order to carry out the member’s duties as an MP. From what we have seen so far, a great many of the claims made seem to fall foul of this rule.
Some examples of claims from a list published in the Telegraph today:
Ladies blouse (purchased by Phil Woolas)
2 TVs
3 beds in nine months
Bedside shelves
coat hangers
chimneys swept
sachets of mulled wine
Packet of iced gem biscuits
A mousetrap
£20 a month for ‘cleaning products’ with no receipts produced
A lemon (cost: 23p)
24 silk cushions (Keith Vaz)
A wooden spoon (cost: 26p)
Sky Sports subscription
£230.17 claimed by a Tory backbencher for food, the exact amount – to the penny – left available in expenses for that year
Servicing of ride-on lawnmower
£1,750 bedroom furniture delivered to Yorkshire home of Labour backbencher who had claimed it was for his London flat
£8,000 bookshelves (!)
£14,000 for a bathroom refit
And many, many more.
This is rally making me angry now.
Ah yes, but you see, it’s such a hard life being an MP, having to travel the country with a free rail pass, live in two subsidised homes and then having to fill in all that tedious expenses paperwork. But, you know, we do it for the love of our country, and the wonderful people, not for the money or the Nelson Riddles.
You forgot to mention that it’s a free FIRST CLASS rail pass (we ruling class members have no need to travel ‘cattle’ with the hoi polloi, just because these scum are paying for our tickets) and that we don’t need to fill in expense claims forms – I pay my wife fifty grand a year to do that.
Has anyone else wondered why none of these moneygrubbing gobshites has neither any sense of decency nor any sense of right and wrong? Not a single one of them! They make me so angry and ashamed of being British. I wish I still had my dads’s old Lee Enfield .303
Yes, surely everyone has a little voice inside that cuts in at some point and says “hold on a minute, you know this is fundamentally wrong”
However, the inability to tell between right and wrong seems to be a basic requirement for anyone entering politics. You will at a later stage of your career probably be required to lie through your teeth about many important issues, so morals and honesty would just get in the way.
fairburne Sykes Cammando knife please, a slow death in well in order
After watching him being mauled on tv by Joanna Lumley, I thought that Phil woolas WAS a ladies blouse!
Guido, I’d like to know why you started using Mr Hoon’s name as a rude word. Had you learned long ago about his property portfolio and his fiddling, or was there some other reason?
In Australia a hoon actualy means a young person that is speading with his car doin donuts and 360′s in the streets and generaly beein a nuisans.
And in New Zealand they are hooners
The forces always appear to refer to him as TCH as in That Cu*t Hoon.
It’s been an Aussie term for ne’er do wells for a long time. I assumed it sort of crossed over from there although Geoffrey’s pathetic performances as a minister warrant it as a term of abuse quite independantly.
OT – do you notice how many of these troughers are on the comfortable side of ……erm…..fat ? (Not being fattist or anything). No surprise really given most of them have never done a real days work and don’t pay for their own food.
Can I suggest that the last sentence of Orwell’s 1984 is added as an inscription above the door of the main chamber at the H of C. If you haven’t read the book – you should. If you are an MP – you should. If you claim to be a socialist MP – you should – every day.
D’oh. I meant Animal Farm not 1984. I’ll get me coat.
Indeed. Animal Farm is a satire on the former Soviet Union. 1984 is a nightmare vision of totalitarianism.
My favourite George Orwell is Coming Up For Air (“inside every fat man is a thin man trying to get out”) in which the plight of the new English middle classes is laid bare.
He was even more prophetic than Mystic Meg.
Started with a commenter on this site calling himself hoon and using the word instead of c*nt and it took off from there.
Because the Rt. (dis)Hon. Geoff Cnut is so much of a cnut that we had to come up with a word which leaves a nastier taste in the mouth – although thoughtfully the Rt. (dis)Hon. Cnut helped us out there.
Interesting comments from Sir Paul Stephenson marking his first 100 days in office as Commissioner of the Met. He is saying that ‘politically inspired cases are a waste of police time and should be dealt wth by Parliamentary structures.” This Commissioner, in direct contrast to the last one (Ian Blair), has said he is determined to repel inteference from Whitehall. Mick Martin you may not get your way this time – I sure hope that’s the case.
Here I am suspended between a rock and a hard place ….!!!!
At least you aint suspended in bondage chains and leather from the roof.
Noooooooooooo
That’s what I love…
Come on everyone the MPs expense claim rules are easy to understand.
Here they are:
The Basic Rules of MPs Expenses
This game is played with different teams each comprising various numbers of players on each side (but currently no more than 646 players in total from all teams), with no umpires nor referees, only a monitoring parliamentary fees office, It is played in a rectangular shaped hall called the House of Commons. Each player is called either an Honourable Member, or an MP. The size of the hall does not vary and it is always the same hall. An expense claim is rectangular shaped and white in colour. A fully-blown expense claim can cost up to £24,000. An expense claim is made of dubious figures, questionable receipts and covered with padding, and is then sewn up. An expense claim weighs around 10 ounces.
In the middle of the hall is what is known as the pitch (at one end is the Bar of the House, while at the other is the Speaker’s Chair). The pitch is a hard, flat strip of dry ground around 18 metres long. Two batting MPs are at the pitch at a time, both at opposite ends, with one facing the delivery of the expense claim from the bowler. The bowler runs up to the pitch where he bowls the expense claim overarm with a straight face. Further details on the correct bowling action can be found here:
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/HofCpsap.pdf
Teams score by getting expense claims paid. An expense claim is paid when a batting MP (batsman) signs the claim and then runs to the other end of the pitch, getting past the Speaker’s Chair. The non signing MP has to run to the opposite end as well. The MPs can claim as many times as they like, but the MP can get out if their dispatch boxes are hit with the expense claim by an opposition MP before the MP reaches the Speaker’s Chair. The dispatch boxes are two boxes of equal size measuring around 45 centimetres tall with a sword’s length separating them. Briefing bails (small pieces paper containing information for recycling) are balanced on top of dispatch boxes.
Other ways expense claims can be paid are by hitting porkies. Porkies are paid when the expense claim is signed and touches or goes past the outer edge of moral acceptability. Four hundred pounds (£400) are scored when the MP signs the expense claim and the expense claim hits the ground before reaching the outer edge of the moral acceptability, and six hundred pounds (£600) are scored when the expense claim is signed and goes over the outer edge of morally acceptability without touching the ground. Expense claims can also be scored in the following ways: No check, when the bowler oversteps the crease, bowls in a dangerous manner or incorrectly, or when the parliamentary fees office is out at lunch or during the whole of March. A no check is worth one hundred pounds (£100). A wide is scored when the expense claim goes outside the line of the pitch before coming in line with the batsman. This is also worth one hundred pounds (£100). A leg bye is scored when the expense claim hits the batsman but does not contain his/her signature and then proceeds to run. A bye is scored when the batsman runs without the expense claim coming into contact with his signature or the parliamentary fees office.
The fielding team can get the batsman out in several ways, by 1) catching him out. This is done when the batting signs the expense claim and a fielder catches the expense claim on the full (without bouncing). By 2) bowling the batsman out. This happens when the bowler bowls the expense claim and the it strikes the batsman’s dispatch box or briefing bails. By 3) leg before dispatch box, or LBDB. This happens when the bowler bowls it and the dispatch box being hit by the expense claim are prevented when the batsman’s leg gets in the way. By 4) stumped, when the batsman comes forward to hit the hit but steps out of his crease, misses the expense claim and the fielder behind the dispatch box collects the expense claim hits the dispatch box before the batsman gets back behind his crease. By 5) run out, when the batsman attempts to score a run but has his dispatch box hit by the expense claim before he reaches the other crease. By 6) Hit wicket, when the batsman hits his own dispatch box while trying to sign the expense claim. By 7) retired, when the batsman voluntarily decides to finish his innings by resigning their House of Commons seat, and 8) timed out, when the next batsman doesn’t appear on the pitch within two minutes of the last batsman getting out.
Each team has one innings. This innings can last anything from 20 overs (a series of 6 bowls by a bowler) to an five year match. Most one day matches are played with each side having 50 overs (or 300 expense claims). If 10 of a team’s batsmans are out, the innings ends there regardless of how many expense claims are left to be bowled.
The team that gets the most expense claims paid in their innings is the team that wins.
So what if Phil Woolas wears women’s silk knickers and cocktail dresses? He should pay for them himself though.
Excellent summary
gentle applause around the ground
Bet you can’t explain the offside rule though.
Excellent summary
gentle applause around the ground
Bet you can’t explain the offside rule though.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ snoreZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ breath ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ snoreZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ fuck it woke the misses up MMMM bit of fun!! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ morning yet?
That’s the fucking funniest thing I’ve read all day. Hat off to you for spending at least half an hour writing that post.
Obviously you had nothing better to do today as the Test at Lords was called offf two days early, which probably cost the MCC about a million quid in lost revenues thanks to us being too good for the WIndies!!
And England have just, hah hah hah hah, beaten the rest of the world (oh stop it) by, hah hah hah hah, by 646 innings and 500,000 runs. mmm nice cake.
Have you got your womens’ clothing on and tampons up yo’ ass?
Yes
So I still have a chance then Mr Broon ?
Good to have your full throated support!
Your opinion has certainly been bang on the money lately hasn’t it ?
Let’s just forget about that ghastly business with the “YouTube and Claim Expenses if you want to” or whatever it was.
Now if you will excuse me I must consult GoogleEarth to see where I live today.
Oh yes I have
Fantasizing about Joanna Lumley ? – The Gurkhas issue is going to finish this Labour crew.
Perhaps Ms Lumley can undertake a modern day “Prides Purge” ably assisted by her loyal “Brigade of Gurkhas” ?
You got off at Hebden Bridge?
Hebden Bridge? Full of lesbians and spaced out hacks
Welcome to Cool Brittania!
What the press say, continued. Brown in trouble?
Well, it looks bad for Labour. Bad for some Conservatives, too, but the real sleaze problem seems to be afflicting Labour Mps. Any road up, as we Brummies say, here is what the press has to say about the continuing saga of Expensegate:-
Yet I don’t see call me Dave looking like a man who thinks he’s in the clear ?
Sunday’s Telegraph is mostly Sinn Feinn and Blears.
Blears is looking very precarious now and she can kiss goodbye to any slim hopes she ever had of being a future leader.
But Monday’s Telegraph is still being talked of as the one with the biggest remaining pile of dirt.
Just how much we do not yet know but I would be staggered if they didn’t have something rather huge still in their back pocket to splash big on.
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeasseeeee let it be testicles
Heyup me duck – I’d be surprised if there’s gonna be many Labour MPs left standing around here after the next election either starting with Ms “Bath Plug” herself !!!
Wasn’t there a general election in Canada when the ruling party finished up with just 2 seats? Here’s hoping!
We all know that the only reason anyone goes into politics these days is to line their own pockets. There is something fundamental I fail to understand about the home allowance though: fair enough they need somewhere to stay in London to do their “job”, but why do they end up owning the property at the end of the day? Surely when they finish their term of office the property, including fixtures and fittings and any profits, should be returned to the public purse?
Is there any problem with that?
Every MP’s taxpayer funded house and furnishings should be state owned and be occupied by another MP when they leave, or are forcefully ejected from politics. Also the food allowance should be scrapped. Food should be the first purpose of their basic salary, whatever building they are staying in.
They can borrow Prescott’s, and shit their way to a socialist utopia.
Strange you think we are all sheep here. We are all protesting in our own way and I’ll think you’ll find many of us are thinking more along your lines albeit with a different tack. I run a small business doing Airport Transfers and I kid you not work in excess of 100 hours a week (I am writing this from my office). I abhor the fact that suddenley these twats can magic up billions for the banks, borrow money at 0.5% while us plebs if we are given the privilage of finance are asked 8% and it’s our fucking future earnings that is going to pay for it. My decision wasn’t to play dead and quit work and milk the system but to arrange my affairs so that I can say Fuck you to my bank manager and all those credit card companies that were so anxious to raise my limits and encourage me to stay permanently in hock but at the first opportunity slashed my credit limits and cut my credit lines. So in that respect we and maybe many others on this site are exacting our own personal retribution in our own way. Never Assume.
The above was for benefit man
You’re still being fleeced!
I was going to put myself forward for MP in the next elections, until I read what a lowlife money grubbing bunch of scoundrels they all are, I doubt that there would be room at the trough for me. I have therefore decided to bung the powers that be a load of dosh and take my rightful place in the house of Lords.
Once there, I can happily snooze away on the benches in between members bar opening times, or leaf through my Argos catalogue. Content in the knowledge that I am amongst like minded peers, and secure in the thought that I cannot be voted out by some fickle voter every few years.
Pip Pip!
I am a 57 yr old and until July last year had never claimed anything or have been unemployed. I had a heart attack and was given a triple bypass. Since then I have had to live on £60.50 per week and out of that I have to pay a CLEANER once a week to help me, I do without heat and minimum amount of food but there is light at the end of the tunnel my house will be repossessed soon. PS I’m back at the hospital in a few weeks.
Out of curiosity – What do you pay your cleaner? Seems like we could make a comparison between your reasonable cleaning bill and what Broonie made a claim for.
I charge £5 per hour or £25 per property depending on size if it is a once week clean. Mostly with older folks most of time is spent nattering anyway and not dodging Nokias etc.
£12 for two hours; washes my bedding and towels for nothing.
A fiver an hour is less than the minimum wage is it not??
Self employed cleaners are normally between 6 and 7 pounds and hour, go through an agency and it’s 9 or 10.
Go through GB’s brother and it’s 35! Something else not quite adding up…
Why does he need a cleaner for a house he has not lived in since 1997?
It has been claimed Sarah sometimes lives there but is she incapable of getting a hoover out?
Doing the hoovering for Sarah is not “wholly and exclusively” a benefit for the McBroon – so if this is the claim – they are stitching themselves comme une kipper.
Steve’s right about cleaners’ rates. I’d be interested to know whether Broon Minor’s cleaner actually received the full amount claimed given that there is no need to put in receipts. I do hope the News of the World is frantically scouring the land to find this woman.
..and now the Telegraph have all but printed an apology to our Dear Leader…..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5301385/Gordon-Brown-No-suggestion-of-impropriety.html
What the fuck is going on here, they have obviously got the lawyers all over them (at our expense, no doubt).
To the Barclay brothers, you don’t have the best of reputations in the UK at the moment, thanks in no small part to you defending McPoison on the day he resigned..
If you wish to improve this situation, you MUST spend whatever you have to on M’Learned Friends in order to defend your paper, all the way up to the House of Lords if necessary. This story has massive public interest and you deserve to stand by it and mae no veiled apologies to keep these trough-swillers happy…
I feel for you, I’m in a similar position but luckily now just over 60 and female so get a bit more
Re the Broons’ cleaner – at one point she was cleaning the brother’s flat, Broon’s and Sarah’s own flat. It’s all a bit murky!
Want to share the bill and claim for the lot?
Sorry to hear about that mate. Get well soon.
Very unwise to read political stuff at the moment, if you have a heart condition.
You have my sympathies, but I would steer clear of this stuff!
I am a 58 year old with a severe mental disorder. I have a partly detached retina in one eye and the other is inactive due to a childhood incident. I do a massive job in that I have to run the world since there is nobody else with my experience around to do it. This I do for a pittance of £194,250 per annum plus some cleaning bills which I pay to my brother. There is a likely that my house in 10 Downing Street may soon be repossessed and handed over to some aristocrat who certainly does not need the property.
PS I’m closing down more hospitals soon, in order to divert badly needed funds back to the Bank of England in order to pay Sir Fred Goodwin’s pension.
Don’t forget me PM, the other Gordon. Thanks. Bwahahaha. Fuck you all, peasants.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8035539.stm
Bravo, encore, more!
Dont’ worry Gordo…
EDF tell me they will employ you like your briother…
They love those HUGE nuclear contracts….
302
My name’s Geoff Hoon and I just want you to know I am still a right c*unt, sorry that is now Hoon since Guido introduced his wordchangering algowhatsit
Anon 151, Sorry to hear about that. Good luck.
And the best of luck from me, sorry to hear of your troubles. Hope something good happens for you soon.
Here’s an idea. When the Telegraph has finished listing the expenses, we all go through the list and work out who are the most egregious troughers (flippers, people like Smith and McNulty who claim for relatives’ homes, etc), regardless of party. Then Guido readers who live in their constituencies join the local party and get them deselected. Party membership is so low now that in the average constituency this would take about 300 people.
On second thoughts, no doubt NuLab has set it up so that the local party cannot deselect its MP without permission from the Kremlin.
Here’s a better idea. Anyone living in those constituencies pays a visit to the MP’s surgery and throws a bicket full of pigshit over the MP. Since they appear to be as happy as that proverbial then they won’t object to the smell. After all the stench of corruption must be stronger, no?
You wouldn’t by any chance be a pigshit salesman on the make, would you?
Pitty Woolworts have closed. The DT could have sold millions of CD copies and recouped all their £300,000
A packet of Iced Gems FFS. Do we have 6 year old MPs
Would dogshit do? I’ve got a bucket of that (thanks dogs).
I can’t wait to see what my local trougher has to hide. He was one of the MPs who voted for exemption from FOI. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear Mr Levitt?
Petition watch – It’s been stuck all day at 55,197, and been going up at less than 1000 a day for the past 4 or 5 days.
I don’t believe that people have stopped signing it so there is definitely something not quite right about it. Or maybe I’m just a conspiracy theorist…
You should be. We’re watching you.
Could you watch our MP’s as well? They are stealing your wages, too.
Just as well I’m in a country with no extradition treaty to the UK then isn’t it? I’ll come back once we have a change of goverment…
55,503
55,619 now (20:30 BST), still not sure it’s going up at the same level that people are signing it though.
Was going orf to the country tomorrow. Might be more fun staying put and reading the papers. See what this shabby lot of pilfering pipsqueaks have been up to. Damned fiddling bastards. March ‘em all outside, against the wall. A bit of cold steel. Get the army in there and flush out the commies. It’s the only way. Do you know, I’ve put a glass of Glenlivet down somewhere, and I’m damned if I can find it.
It’s behind the sofa, next to the Gentleman’s Relish and the cucumber.
Say’s police and thieves in the city, but which are which.
Police and thieves in the street, now – oh yeah
Ripping off the nation with their misappropriation…
We are now living in an oikocracy – rule by common brainless useless pieces of greedy lying shit. The way you get an oikocracy is by giving the vote to oiks. They breed they mug they do everything but work. Darwin would predict they would die out as they are not fit for any purpose whatsoever – but they are overwhelming the country.
Kleptocracy is the best description I’ve read so far (posted yesterday here).
Klapped out Krappy Kleptocracy.
Bring on the Von Krapps and the Hills Have Eyes.
Dung beetles. They’ll move onto another pile of poo in Brussels, when they’ve finished
I would have thought idiocracy covers it
I have not spotted any mention of James Purnell yet, assume that means he will be making a prominent appearance in tomorrow’s continuing coverage ?
Rumour is that James claimed £2,307 for a failed collagen lip injection.
That is either very amusing or very stupid of him – after some of the other claims I could believe anything…
Eye-liner anyone?
Will it match me blouse?
MP’s have been claiming for two, three and four homes in one year. Then selling them once done up for big bucks and carry on doing it all over again.
And some of us haven’t even got one home. Bastards.
LIfe’s better under the Conservatives
You would say that you bitch.
I had many a good knee trembler with John Major
That’s Mandy’s line…. no, not him! Her!
(Rice-Davies)
How does it compare to under the communists?
It’s the same, cos that’s what they are
Very few of this shower of shite seem to have any moral code or judgement other than very close to criminal on the moral swingometer…..
Is it not too late to have a coalition for an English Democratic Party. To remove the Celtic Socialist Junta that have done so much damage and infected this country.
Hitler did immense damage in his last days in his bunker. This maniac and his Junta must not be allowed to inflict any more damage than they already have
There’s no doubt they are pursuing a scorched earth policy of fucking it up so bad for the conservatives that they will be voted out by a public with a short memory because they have to do some drastic things to get the economy back on track again.
It’s a case of, we know we’re going to lose the next election but if we fuck the country enough, the tories will only survive one term in office. Then we can come back and fuck things up some more.
Screwing the country, it what we do.
Well, before the election the Cons. should publish a Doomsday Book detailing exactly how much damage the Celtic loons have done measure by socialist measure, and how much direct pain each such piece of lunacy is going to cause.
Then every item of legislation or other instrument introduced or passed to undo the Celtic sabotage should be titled “The xxx (destruction by G Brown rectification measure) bill of xxx”
That way posterity would be well informed of what happens when vindictive, envious, tribalist student union marxists are allowed anywhere near the levers of power.
The cost of each act rolling back liebour’s scorched earth policy should also be set out in the online Doomsday Book as it is enacted, so a full account is provided that way no one who can read, will ever vote for them again.
Nuke Glasgow.
Some twat is driving a pink stretch limo around my town. No class at all.
Christ…McBride is too close to you for safety…or is it Dolly in drag ?!
I will have to send a winger to deal with it
Hurry, every second it’s here it lowers the tone as well as the house prices.
In case you are wondering I arranged for all my receipts to be shredded when I got wind of the FOI High Court action for receipts to be published.
My wife, Cherie, said “Tony do whatever it takes to shred the receipts. Trouble ahead”.
And so I did.
Phew!
I bet Gordon wishes he could emigrate to the United States right now as well.
I doubt Brown would voluntarily go to the US on his own. Wouldn’t the Hoon be facing the same charges as the Plebs under Cheney are likely to face?
We can dream, but doubtful. They love him over there. Shame he is hated over here. Well, ok it’s not a shame. It’s more like disgust rather than hate.
Brown is laughed at here in the States, especially after the ridiculous U-tube video.
After the banning of Savage, nobody wants Brown back for any sort of visit, even though most folk don’t agree with Savage.
However, though we don’t agree with what Savage says, we will always defend his right to say it.
Makes a mockery of the honour of addressing congress too
Apparently most of the Congressmen didn’t attend – just sent their staff to fill the seats!
How to make shedloads of money
1.convince gullible electorate that if elected you will save them money
2 when elected steal as much money off the people as you can,get family
members to help if required.
3 when this contradiction is pointed out lie like your life depends on it.
I WANT A RIOT!!
Me too…. would you be as so kind as to go and riot for me? I’m modern british and therefore just assume there’s nothing that can be done whilst a mentally ill PM scorches the place.
Here’s a thing I found for his car: http://eb.am/250419039975 (brown had put the blouse under woolas’ name to hide his secret)
At what point would Blears see “flipping” as unacceptable?
Why not get a gang of workers in an flip once a week, do it “house doctor” style, “move in”, screw the tax payer for the for moving fee, decoration and essentials and move out again, I guess it would be in the “rules”
Except it would not be justifiable as neccessary, and the abuses so far published shouldn’t be either. The Fees Office simply isn’t doing it’s job.
It is not neccessary for an MP to flip again and again and again. The only re-writing of the rules needs to be a) Any capital gain on the property is forfeited b) You can only flip once every 2 years and c) The second home for expenses purposes must be the same one you have designated for tax purposes.
That would put a spanner in the works for the likes of Blears and Darling.
Why not just limit it to a 1 bed flat a commutable distance from SW1? Your choice of Neasden, Brixton and other similar areas. Should be under £1,000 pcm. Replace the John Lewis list with IKEA flat packs.
369 – IKEA might do flat pack MPs – cheaper still
…and their performances wouldn’t be any more wooden.
…better to put the spanner through their skulls, reeatedly!
Sod that – find an empty council block (Southwark, Elephant, there must be dozens), give ‘em a room each and ring the Division Bell a bit louder. A bit like student halls but without the bar.
Would you mind just signing this contract… “MP SOS”
All current and previous MP’s should be barred from standing in any election. Even those who have not abused the system knew that the rest were, which makes them just as culpable. I tried to raise the matter of expenses with my MP a year ago, and although he is straight as far as expenses go, he did not wish to discuss the matter in any form.
I think they should be allowed to stand, provided what they have been up to is fully disclosed. Otherwise they will never know what the electorate think of them.
They should be standing on gallows wearing hempen collars.
These Hoons are not MP’s!
Property developers, using our money!
Bring back hanging!
Obey our laws. We have the moral authority.
We have the moral authority of Caligula
You have the moral authority of an old whores clapped out haunted Hoon.
Hoon never disappoints, does he?
Just when we are all outraged by the shocking abuses of the MP expenses system, old Geoff comes along and takes it to a whole new level.
He knows he is taking the piss. We know he is taking the piss and he knows that we know. But he just doesn’t care.
What a complete hoon.
Geoff does’nt do shame! During the “Iraq inquiry” i seem to remember his main defense seemed to comprise of “Nobody told me anything, i was’nt at the meetings” and he was the defense secretary.
Just like that Cow Harman’s man who didnt know anything about all those dodgy donations despite being the Party Treasurer. Just remembr this when Harman tries to pitch for leadership !
Woolas is a HuhneE. He’s more interested in his dodgy expenses than sorting out the Gurkhas (oh another one died in Afghanistan by the way)
Woolas, you are a fucking HuhneE.
I second that. The man is a nightmare. Bad at his job and a greedy shit to boot.
Where’s Lee Harvey Oswald when you need him?
Patsy
No. That’s Ms Lumley.
He’s a typical fucking lefty twat.
Woolas hasnt got the bottle to take anyone to court over this as a court case will expose all the sleaze in Government. Come ahead Woolas you prick if you think you are hard enough !
Why aren’t there riots in the streets ? Why is the population of the UK putting up with this ? Perhaps it’s because the Labour party are responsible for eroding any semblence of self respect and we are left with a blinding acceptance of the inevitable.
Where is our spirit ?
These are very sad times.
Let’s hope for a hot summer.
Why riot on the streets ? How about outside some of these hoons houses ? Bring the message ‘home’ to them. Locals must know where most of them live and if not The Telegraph has the addresses. I’ll just go and warm up the pitchfork.
The more I think about it the more I like the idea – one day, nationwide, every troughers home gets ‘attention’. Is this how revolutions start ?
Darken your face & have a shaggy beard, then the cops will leave you alone.
Don’t try MWW (Marching When White).
They’ve noticed. But you know the British character – phlegmatic, must’nt grumble, carry on regardless. They’ll wait and see how this thing pans out, how each party deals with it’s miscreants, how parliament ammends the rules. Then they’ll bear it in mind come polling day.
337 – Better still everyone wear a black burkha head to foot.
Coppers wouldn’t dare touch you, their vidoes would be worthless and even if they did Tub of Lord Ahmed and his brigade of a million angry M*ozzies would be round in a flash.
Don’t worry I have my piano wire on order. Apparently stocks are selling out fast.
I hope you’ve increased your advertising charges for those w@nkers at WageConcern.
I am just an average London plod….not very clever…trying to do my job…
I am worried and confused…I lost my Commissdioner recently and now the new one is ordering us to go on wild goose chases all over the Home Counties chasing Tories…I feel like a Keystone Cop now…
Don’t tell any one but I ( as my father and grandfather were) am always proud to vote Tory. If Mr breowsn goes on like this there is going to be a mutiny…And we are going to join our real Chief Boris…
Sorry, Officer – but you are like the poor saps in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”. All around you are ambitious little scuts paying lip service to diversity politics while advancing their careers. Put your head above the parapet and they’ll plant bnp leaflets in your locker and sell your DNA to the Russian Mafia. You would be safer doing traffic duty in a “Free Tibet” teeshirt, during a tank parade in Tianeman Square. Good luck though.
Nail the bastard. He deserves whatever he has coming and more besides, especially over his authorisation of the use of spent uranium tipped armour piercing shells.
The outcome of that hasn’t even begun to have its effect yet…
They should shoeve those shells up the arses of the mincing queens in the government.
Now we know why the opposition have been so bloody useless in stopping the march of this governments fascist policies It’s nowt to do with majorities – cos even minor parties can make life difficult it’s because they all know where each others bodies are buried ie who’s been milking the system which appears to be most of them
Yup! Elect a different party, get the same old shit. Time to vote other than Lab/Lib/Con. KnowwhatImean?
Gordon Brown’s wonderful performance at PMQ’s has been picked up far and wide, commented on in the New York Times, Cyberpresse in Canada where the video has been viewed thousands of times and now in Der Standard in Austria, nearly 10,000 views and still going strong.
Read the translation and laugh: Gordon Brown Flippt Aus
putting the verb at the end of the sentence rather puts a spanner in the works of google translate.
Mr Bob
That is brilliant – encore, bravo, more!
plato,
maybe if you stopped rimming other contributors and came up with some interesting posts yourself your comments might be worth reading.
presently they are not.
raise your fucking game moron, or change your pseudonym.
one thing I do know, plato was definitely not a spastic.
you are though.
Is that a rather bitter thieving Socrates below?
Above this side of the equator!
Hoon learned about the gravytrain from the heart of Europe – he was an MEP for 10 years from 1984 before he became an MP.
We should be greatful he was willing to take a cut in income to become an MP.
I’ve just come back from the hairdressers – cost me £40. Can I claim it on expenses please, as I need to look nice for work? And can I have a new suit on expenses please – I only wear a suit when I’m in the office, so it’s a necessary expense in the line of duty….and can I have a nice new flat near the office please? Takes a bit too long to commute by train 20 miles every day…and….and…and… Will HMRC cough up do you think?
Dont’ worry luv…
Just send the expenses to my office…I will figure out a way for the Revenue to give you a large rebate…You know we are printing money now…QE it’s called to the intellectuals you know…and we have to dish it out somehow…WE politicians take the first chunk then you luv can have some crumbs…
I dont understand why hMRC are not chasing this lot for unpaid tax. Any money received is taxable unless wholly incurred in doing duties connected with you job. Some of this lot is questionable, surely
I’m back..
Just had a porki pie…
But I don’t like you buggers making fun of me…
It was the Follett lady (can’t rememebr her first name) Minister of Creative Industries and Accounting who told me that Mock Tudor was all the rage…she saw it in that film about Elisabeth 1st I fink…and she’s very intellectual you see ………so I fought “Why not for ve front of my third house while we are a’ it”…
So any lack of Tayst is all her fault..
PS But I see she’s running for cover to her tenth house in Antigua now..lucky bitch (not sure of ve spelling ye know)…
Can I use you as a sunblock?
Tories may have been sleazy, but they left a 1.8 billion surplus.
Within a year Labour had turned it into a deficit, which, now, stands at 90 odd billion – and not a single year in surplus! Add to that the institutional corruption and I’d still rather have a John Major Govt than this set of hoons.
They were entertaining as well.
Are we quite sure there are no bombshells of the old “property game” sort to come on Monday when the Telegraph opens fire on the Shadow Cabinet ?
Just a word of caution that this sort of scam might be a “nice little earner” for all MP’s with their snouts in the trough. Even the Liberals. Labeling one particular type of Expenses scandal as Hoonite might not be so wise when call me Dave still looks as worried as he does.
Course Guido might have some contacts in the ‘Graph assuring him that all is well on this front Dave and the Shadow Cabinet have dodged the bullet. Most other bloggers are saying this story has quite a ways to go yet and that the Tories had best aquire a few stiff drinks this wekend before the other shoe drops.
About time a Truth and Prosecution Tribunal was set up to deal with the MP thieves.
http://tinyurl.com/qs8j78
Funny he only manages to make money for himself !!!!!!!
Wow, the DailyMail page on this is getting more comments than Guido (and that one is moderated!)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1178516/Dont-blame-As-expenses-scandal-rocks-Westminster-predictable-response-rulers.html
The anger is tangible.
Now remind me why doesn’t the Mirror allow comments?
And will the now “independent” People do so tomorrow?
I bet Gordon has spent about £6k on new mobiles this week.
Breaking News:
The Prezza has been signed up by House Doctors to advise on Tudor Accessorizing and Loo Seat Makeovers
Prezza of The House of Tudor.
The Tudor’s wouldn’t have wanted him.
Well he’s about the same shape as Henry VIII, has excess women and his lack of intellect might suggest tertiary syphilis…. Coincidence?
Hi Mave – I thing JP is a medieval joke, a Court Jester. And his wife ,who wouldn’t even walk 100 yards to a conference centre , the jesters’s moll who demanded that his jag had to take her to the door, in case the wind upset her hair!
Precious people!!!!!!!!!! What rubbish have the British people been voting for this last few years???
Maybe now people are starting to see the truth- I damn well hope so!!!!!
Oi !! Who’s calling me a tosser ??
You used to be able to get fake tudor beams made from brown expanded foam at DIY outlets. Same stuff as hammer Horror used on its film sets, no doubt. They are so light you can stick them on with glue, for that Ye Olde Coaching Inn effect.
Really classy.
What’d'ya mean!!!?? – FAKE is the key word!
SO NooLieBore. It’s what we do -
fake jobs
fake exam results
fake money
fake stats
fake predictions
fake promises
Oh I could go on!
Old(Noo)LyingBores : Bankrupting Britain, Bullshitting, ‘n Wasting YOUR money on something pointless near YOU!
And fake Boobs to get the average up
It pleases me no end to think he might well have caught his sac in the wreckage of one or both crapper lids. It’s probably too much to hope that they were those clear plastic resin ones with the barbed wire and razorblades inside.
The £22,000 claimed for dry rot at Moran’s house in Southampton should be put towards dealing with the rot in the House of Commons.
Moran told BBC who “doorstepped” her as she was leaving her Southampton house that she felt the Telegraph report was “grossly inaccurate” and “potentially actionable”. If that’s the case I suggest she start proceedings and then defend her claims in Court and also give an explanation “on oath” why she chose to live in a second home 100 mules away from her Luton South constituency and her Westminster Office and why according to the Telegraph a few days after she designated the Southampton property as her second home to had work done to fix dry rot at a cost to the tax-payer of £22,500. If a builder can give a quote and do the work that quick I want his name because he must be bloody good !
Of course much like Phil Woolas ,-Moran needs to make sure her case is completely solid before embarking on court action as many other politicians have found to their cost in the past that once in the witness box a whole can of worms is opened up often to their detriment – as Jonathan Aitken for one discovered AND equally I look forward to seeeing information regarding Tory MPs published by the Telegraph – some of who doubtless have similar “horror stories” hiding in their expense claims.
MPs need to realise that this is NOT going away and that trying to put up smokescreens of police investigations into who leaked to the Telegraph or stating “it’s within the rules” is no longer acceptable. The message is clear to all MPs of any party whether they be a humble backbencher or front bench spokesman or Cabinet Minister. If it’s proven that you’ve been found to be “playing the game” re expenses then you HAVE to go – no if’s or buts just go and you can be sure that the worst miscreants will face some very tough questions during any election campaign and rightly so and if they lose their seat because of their actions then that is to the gain of Parliament and the Country
Well said
Well said indeed and for the umpteenth time can I remind posters that the excuse ” Its within the rules” is clearly in many cases not true. Many of these claims are patiently OUTWITH the rules even as they stand. What are the Police doing about this ?
I’d love her to do a “sword of truth”
Were did everyone go?
465 your’e a jock aren’t you?
‘Outwith’ is also a legal affectation.
She probably hasn’t had the bit explained to her yet about how the damages to her ‘reputation’ are awarded by a jury. I wouldn’t give her as much as tuppence.
You would need 800 Kilos of KNO3 to get the dry rot out of the Commons!
In her case it would be a ‘sword of trough’… then I’d love her to do time.
No MP yet found to have claimed for their 2nd home in France? Oh Well it’s going to come. David Milliband had a go at getting a private jet. What about Margaret Beckett? has she upgraded her weekend caravan to something more luxurious on the basis that it’s her 2nd home?. I am going to be very interested to see Balls/Cooper financial ‘arrangements.’ I hope that’s going to be tomorrow.
They’ve moved the Eurostar terminal from Waterloo so it isn’t as convenient as it used to be – just a 5 minute walk over Westminster Bridge to get to Parliament.
Correction – they would of course get a taxi which would take 20 minutes ’cause the traffic out of the station along York road and onto Westminster Bridge is so slow.
Are the Tamils still on their demo then?
I do hope the Telegraph do one of those ‘free CD giveaways inside’ with the entire CD so its readers can get the full picture of our unelected fraudsters.
Oh yes please – Souvenir Special – I’d pay extra for that or maybay one of those EBooks – or a Special Supplement with offers etc
Luv it
They would be after you for Handling Stolen Goods!!!!!!!
Given Ministers,Officials and Politicians track record of leaving papers;lap-tops behind on trains,buses,taxis and planes I wouldn’t be surprised if someone in the Fees Office left the information in a train carriage and a third party found it and contacted the Telegraph. AND have they ever located those missing computer Disks yet by the way ?(rhetorical question – I think I probably know the answer already)
“You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately … Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”
Is there no one with any integrity and honour left who can voice the outrage in similar vein to the above to vent the anger felt by the electorate ? I fear the answer is probably – no
Will it be signed?
Just read this.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6255217.ece?Submitted=true
but they never put this paragraph in.
“I remember getting a call from a political editor saying ‘can you please stop saying in interviews you never go out for lunch with journalists?’ ‘Why?’ I asked. ‘Because you’re on my expenses every week.’ And I don’t doubt it has changed a lot since my days at the Mirror, but the expenses culture then was a wonder to behold.”
Looking at Blear’s salary and expenses earlier. Fuck me she costs over £300k!
She was complaining not so long ago that the blogosphere resulted in cynicism about politics. It’s like a burglar complaining about unfavourable press reports.
Worth every penny Big Boy – wanna see my facilities?
Be like having a wank wearing a glove puppet.
Of course Sooty was ginger, although his name suggests otherwise.
I don’t think the carpet matched the drapes.
Ramsbottom was always my favourite.
Running for Leader is expensive
just running would do
O/t Compare Major Phil Packer, the disabled ex soldier, who has just completed the London marathon, with the likes of Hoon, Vaz, Blears Et al.
How do we still breed men of character like him?
Who was it said “Lions led by donkeys”?
Sorry. I should’nt have described him as ex. He still is a warrior.
Thats why we have to live so near to Parliament……because we are legless most of the time as well
Why weren’t those gutless spineless limp fuckers from the cabinet out there in the streets clapping this hero as he crossed the finishing line? Too busy covering their arses over their scams, that’s why.
Well done Major Packer. That is real courage. Real leadership. Major Packer is a real man.
We need men like this in Parliament.
And being a Military Police Officer I suspect there would be less crime committed by the “honourable Members”.
Please don’t compare the likes of Major Packer with the sleazebags who sit in Parliament today; it is offensive to him the British Army, The Royal Navy and RAF and many millions of decent , law abiding, honest, tax payers and pensioners alike.
It would be nice if he considered running for office. Ideally against a scumbag like Milliband or Hoon.
Seconded, exactly what I was thinking.
Who are the REAL heroes in this country? His website is at http://www.philpacker.com/ but it seems to be down at the moment, no doubt due to the number of people logging on to it to make donations. He’s trying to raise a million pounds for the Help for Heroes campaign.
I’ve just lost my job and I’m giving him 20 quid, there are none more deserving of it. Hats off to you, Sir…
The Labour Dependency and Core Postal Vote would be decisively against him, or any honest person.
On another Subject GUido..
Kevin Maguire.. His blog on the mirror has gone…
…Oops…
Unfortunately, all the mirror blogs have gone so its a server issue probably.
Shame.
I was hoping he had fallen on his sword.
Should have guessed that is far to honorable for a socialist.
Has he gone for a walk in the woods? I wish!
I particularly liked the comment that Maguire gave one day this week to an interviewer on one of the many news channels he’s been inhabiting recently – it’s not word for word copy but an approximation from memory
Interviewer; “I read somewhere that you were a Spin Doctor for Gordon Brown at one point in his Premiership ”
Maguire :” No- I definitely wasn’t .No I MOST definitely wasn’t ! You’re completely mistaken in that comment ! I have nothing to do with Downing Street at all !”
…and in the background, the sound of a cock crowing thrice (I think it was Nick Robinson’s).
Kevin McGuire left a blob on the mirror ? Dirty bugger !
like your edit of labour video guido “were closing in on the benefit cheats” having a pint of liffy water outside westminster arms , nice touch .
but to the hoon in question , i didnt think it was possible to out do mcavoy and mrs moloys holiday home refurb sticks badly as greg barkers 320k profit and then continue to claim . update on woolas is that they may have been panty liners , wonder if they were “tenner lady” , bluffer macnulty been reported to crime stoppers as has vaz , although Old Holborns descripton omits wind bag its still rather good.
mr speaker £1500 on chuaffer to the job centre oh well practice makes perfect i suppose.
Hieffers corrolation of max food allownace then requiring further toilet repairs down the line is outlining wreckless behavoir surely .
but hoon the 3 million dollar man , a man barely alive !! obviously has a bionic hand all that cash must be so heavy to stuff into his wallet .
caesars wife favourite clip was briefly on sky news whne reporter went to visit gordons brother , from behind solid wood doors simialr voice to gordon “please go away and contact the no10 office” reporter “but you dont work for number 10″ . It all sounded like a man talking from within a toilet cubical . “it was nae me”
had some interesting conversations today , indeed some people all to pleased to see me , there is real anger out there , but the banks keep cropping up time and time again although secondary to expenses , most people dont like the flipping or the profit , but they are getting the fiddles ,doesnt look good for labour from where i sit and some are going to vote BNP out of sheer spite for what labour has done . i really dont know what planet harriet is on , its her party that is making people so angry and they want a change .
noticed car scrappage scheme in trouble although with a £1 a litre back on the forcourts it might have a liitle eefect , but it wont really help our manufacturers much as most small cars are imported .
RBs bad debts must be worse than what we thought , what are these debts ?? gordons cleaner has cleaned ukplc out , but swept alot under the carpet !!
“Read all about it…MP has garden shed erected in their garden and claims back cost with their second home allowance.” Yes I just made it up…but I bet you believed it for a moment.
Did’ya see my false beams on’t telly? Did’ya? Did’ya??
Essential for me performance they is, – essentials!
Bit’a hard wood here ‘n there – kno wot oi mean? Stiffens me as a member kno’ wot oi mean?
Got a pasty? Pie? Any food?
Gorrr!!!! look at them knockers!! Oi Missus! Wanna vote yer gonna give me??
I’ve got some cheese…..
But who claimed for the condoms. Tracey or Prezza?
Only the member’s member can claim
sexist
Femidoms?
Femidoms? They’ve got an aperture like a fuchin’ bin bag! Looking at the name of the product they’d probably do for protecting “Flint’s Treasure” though….
The American Constitution begins:
We the people …
I know we don’t have a constitution, but if we did it would begin:
We the MP’s ….
Simple really, the people need to regain control of their country, and waiting until 2010 is too long. We need a mass protest, soon.
If this was America the FBI would have arrested the whole lot of ‘em by now
Elliot would have riddled them full a holes….
That woulda left a fuckin ness…
It also says ‘if you’re happy and you know it clap your hands’.
Ok I have been thinking about all this Criminality, Fraud etc and was wondering if ANY retailer in the country would be guilty of Money Laudering when these Hoons try and purchase anything.
The flipping of one house to another is a classic example of where Solicitors, Estate Agents, Bankers etc would be well withing their rights to demand proof that the money to pay for the house has been obtained lawfully.
Money Laundering is a very curious affair. Statute of Limitations does not apply to criminal cases so evidence of the Hoons going back many years could and should be examined.
For example Tony Bliar is now a multi millionaire from the flipping that he undertook. His shredding of the evidence, as with Speaker Martin shredding of his receipts, would make it interesting for them to justify their assets. can’t prove your assets were legally obtained the court would need to make an assesment on the facts and could confiscate them.
In this time of economic austerity, a Commission into Parliamentry Corruption and an Asset Confiscation Unit would be very welcome. We need to recover these Public Assets and use of the law to do so seems a reasonable way to start it off.
I think the Police should be instructed to start the investigation immediately. Following the money and confiscate these assets AND prosecute the offenders.
Our Dave should take the lead here……. start your premiership NOW the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police needs Political backing here and that is necessary NOW.
I sorely need your assistance Sir in these troubling times…
I think we have an unlawful Government…the first time for hundred of years…
Very difficult for me to manage..
Thank you…
Commissioner I would LOVE to help you out.
Unfortunately, my opinion on these Hoons is fixed and if you asked me to impartially discharge the duty of Constable without fear or favour (do you remember that bit?????) I think I would not be able to.
On the other hand, I could sit and listen to the evidence in a Tribunal. So as it is a complicated Fraud I would gladly get trained up to be a Magistrate and assist in convicting and confiscating their assets. Would that do?
Of course…
In the meantime send as many complaints to me as possible…all of you….at the Met…one or two private criminal complaints would help get the bandwagon rolling
Show the anger of the public..
Write to Boris to tell him to support me…and to stop the investigation of the leaker which is of no importance now…
And to concentrate on all this p^rima facie fraud and laundering…
And we will get there…
Thank you…
great concept
The Beloved and Glorious Leader is right in saying it is Not His Fault.
It is clearly that of The System.
And in any case, it is a First Principle of So-Sher-Lie-Sum that the Top Dogs take all the Goodies. They’re worth it you kno.
We’re going to have New Zils next year for our Electioneering too.
Good Evening Charlie.
I wonder if any of the sunday tabloids have been hanging onto any juicy tit bits to act as a bit of a spoiler?
Good Night Charlie.
C U next Tuesday, or more likely Another Romantic Saturday Evening.
(Tries again) See you next Tuesday, or more accurately Another Romantic Saturday Evening
I have been stumped up till now as to what Gordon modelled the FSA (Finacial Services Authority) on, you know that totally useless Quango he set up to monitor the Banks.
Its all clear now he modelled it on the Audit group who rubber-stamped the MPs expenses. The blueprint is brilliant even if the Voters’ anger catches up with a lot of these thieving MPs they will all still be retiring on “Sir Fred Goodwin” sized pensions.
Screw the electorate, and then add insult to injury by feigning innocence – it was within the ‘rules.’
Pathetic.
Hoon’s Ashfield majority is substantial, but it’s just about within reach of the Tories if the polls stay the same, and damaging revelations about his expenses claims could help to unseat him at the next election.
It would be quite a scalp.
please god
Now that would be something. If he has a big majority he probably thinks he’s invincible.
SCANDALOUS
I’ve been sacked as Chief Spin Doctor…
Did you see Alastair Campbell is now “setting the message”..
He’s even saying we should “let it all hang out” and get all these expenses into the public domain…
OMG…I think my lovely NULABZANU is lost…washed up…finished…
Alastair is going LibDem wet Tory now…
We are lost and I am redundant..But I still have Corfu…tha
Sorry Mandy – it’s everyman and woman for themselves on this one !
Ally
I understand…and you have not got years of bookings like I have for my nude show with lovely feathers in my backside…aimed at the Russian and Brazilian markets…they love it…and my kiss and tell memoirs will sell for a bomb too…
You know how much how they love a good show…and muich more fun than conning the Great British public for years…and ruining them…
Good luck to you…You seem to have got out on the mainstream at the right time…Before the stack of cards crashed…well done..Shows you have goodjudgement…
Your old chum
Little Lord Eurocash
Mandy, mate, how is it you have been claiming for the cost of baby clothes?
I wish I could even begin to hope that any of these scum, these lying, thieving bastards will ever be brought to justice, but I can’t. Unlike most of us, they will soon be on their way, multi-millionaires, fabulous pensions, well-rewarded sinecures, etc., grateful to be forgotten by the taxpayers who were robbed for so long.
One thing is certain : they have no shame, no honour, no pride, no self-respect, nothing, but to quote Balls “so what”.
To quote Shakespeare “it is as if one of nature’s journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably”.
We have even paid for their Tampax. In fact, is there a scintilla of evidence (as Mandlebum would say) that any of these swine has ever spent a penny of their wages on anything : food, drink, clothes, household bills, insurance, transport ? I am told that none other than the Prime Mentalist (and First Lord of the Treasury) has even scrounged the cost of fucking light-bulbs.
And to think one of these pigs will soon knock on my door and ask for my vote.
Although I have no wish to see anyone in negative equity, and no wish to see anyone lose their home from being unable to pay their mortgage, the current fall in house prices will have a most interesting effect on those MP’s who have built up a property portfolio at the expense of the tax payer.
When the rotten MP’s are ejected by the electorate, they may just find that being unemployed means they will be unable to pay their mortgages! and the capital value of their portfolio falls.
Now, that is what I call justice.
I would prefer to see them being required to repay the wrongfully claimed expenses, be bankrupted of they do not and see what happens to their electoral prospects then.
*cough* Will Hutton *cough*
Brown/Balls/Hoon-what a team!
Dream team – for the Tories and Lib Dems
The presumption of honour among these Hoons needs to cease. They are encouraged by it.
Good idea so from now on instead of the “Honorable and so, they shoud address each other as “The Thieving cu nt so and so” and “The Right thieving c unt so and so “.
The fact that a number of people reading this blog are getting more upset of my use of the word c unt rather than what these c unts have been up to shows how far standards have dropped in our society and in public life.
Use ‘Front Bottom’ instead, we’ll understand.
Alistair Campbell’s blogging that all expenses should be published now:
http://www.alastaircampbell.org/blog.php
Read some of the comments, too
The cat’s out of the bag. It’s too late for the MP’s to come clean whatever their colour. F****D is F****D! It’s on the Disc.
Dead wood The Times today (9 May) is actually supporting the porkers.
Even the sensible Mr Parris is supportive.
Has Murdoch been promised a knightood?
The Dirty Digger never does owt for nowt. There’s probably a deal being done of some sort…expect the govt in its last dying days to pass some sort of legislation which will favour The Empire Of The Sun….but also expect the incoming tories to exact dire revenge. And rightly so.
Parris is an ex-trougher himself chum…
They are just jealous that the Telegraph outbid them.
Ironic that the Telegraph was taking the high and mighty stance about not publishing the McPoison emails just because the Times had got he scoop that time.
The Dead Tree Press are pretty pathetic really.
Or someone at No 10 has just pulled out Murdoch’s tax records for a shufti, and found something interesting
[...] Fawkes will tomorrow out another MP abusing the expense system. Good. Shame them all. Even the Conservative [...]
Agreed.
Will Fawkes “out” Woolas ?
Never heard of the guy…he looks odd…is he a duckling ?!
Sacrificial Lamb.
Poor little whining Philly Woolarse: “I needed those tampons to do my job as Minister for Chucking-out the Gurkhas.”
Makes sense.
So Alastair Campbell, in his Blog, is advising Brown to :
“Bite the bullet and release all expenses claims now rather than suffer death by a thousand splinters.”
Someone who works in westminster close to No.10 has said it won’t happen because Gordon is pathologically unable to make a decision – “he’ll always delay until it’s too late.’
Doesn’t say much for the bigger decisions that we need to take for the good of the country does it?
Nell
Of course not..
The guy is really mentally ill…but for Nulabour he is turning a disaster into a generational cataclysm from which they will take years to recover if ever…
There has been no case in modern British history (say 200 years) where a government has combined generalised corruption (in Government and parliament) with an economic catastrophe that was completely avoidable with a modicum of regulation/real control of the money supply (yes Guido !)
We are now watching a Bhorror movie of a man locked into a death wish and seriously mentally ill…surrounded by grossly incompetent and corrupt and frightened clowns…
I am still astonished by it all frankly…and it is getting worse…
Well Commissioner of the Met’ , I hope you will stick to your statement earlier today that:
‘Politically inspired cases are a waste of police time and my highly experienced detectives should be investigating serial and organised crime.
Parliament should be dealt with by parliamentary structures.”
Are you listtening Michael Martin?
And Gordon are you listening to Alastair? ( even though I think he’s responsible for Dr David Kelly’s death) – you still need to listen to what he’s saying to you. Take a decision to release expense claims now.
Maybe some of his friends will take Gordon for a walk in the woods.
Well I don’t wish to inspire violence ( though like every one else I do wonder what really happened to Dr David Kelly)
But for Gordon, I think a smack on the ear – much as my Mother would have administered when I was a child in need of some common sense, is needed .
Gordon you need to listen to Alastair tonight – release all expenses claims – now, unredacted, of course.
I say this, because I know Gordon can’t make his mind up so won’t make a decision on this.
So rock on the Daily Teleraph – I may even come back as a reader now.
The usual Liebour trolls have been silent today.Is it because they are on their own time or because even their morale is shot?It would be fun to speculate on the next set of revelations: Hoon, the 2 Balls and who else?
Council offices closed over the weekend remember.
Good point
Saw some local county and district councillors today – looking very sheepish. Wonder where they’ve been porking. One who I care not for who I have long suspected for having his snout in the trough received an OINK OINK. Not a word from him! Wonderful day.
If there are any Downing Street duty trolls, suspect they may have their hands full with damage limitation, suicide watch and Nokia dodging.
Post retracted, just seen entries below.
It’s the weekend we only get pissed up trolls,the weekday trolls are on a 5 day week,no doubt paid by our taxes.
Thick as thieves is just an annoying idiot who thinks he is a comedian and gets peed of when you don’t reply.
Thinks he’s comedian? That’s a larf. Even Chubby Brown would blush at his foul mouthed inanities. He’s out of his depth.
I don’t give a fuck if you don’t reply to my posts.
in fact as I understand it, tory trolls have been told not to engage with me.
doctor dick,
out of my depth. that’s a good one.
fuck off lesbian.
Future generations will look back at our sleaze ridden parliament and ask “Was it not obvious to the electorate what was going on ? “. To them I say yes it was , its just that at the moment our legal system has to many career orientated placemen in it to do anything about it. Dont worry though we know damn fine what has been going on.
Leaked Yougov daily telegraph poll
Consevatives 34%
LIb dems 32%
Labour 20%
The tories and labour losing badly in the expenses row
Oi, Charlie.
TROLL ALERT TROLL ALERT
but you are a troll as well.
what the fuck are you going on about you spastic?
thank God the great thick as thieves is here to bash trolls brains out.
Self praise is no recommendation.
Sunday Times & The Mail on Sunday both have Labour in the mid 20′s and Conservative’s on 45 & 46. Been announced on Sky News.
Thick as thieves; you are SOOO well named.Now fuck off back to the sewer
He’s not a full shilling.
dr dildo,
you are a zionist racist child killer apologist and yet here you offering your cod psychiatric analyses.
you are having a fucking larf.
questioning people’s mental health. how very new labour.
fuck off nonce.
grytpe thick,
could you give me the directions to the sewer, you have obviously just come from there.
Labour will lose far more heavily :-
a) because they have far more MP’s + therefore more troughers.
b) because they are in charge and have to take responsibility.
The Lib Dims will suffer less than the Tories again because they have less MP’s and not many of these are recognizable.
Simples really.
Hence the leaked telegraph poll showing great gains by the lib dems.
And most of them have to travel from some bloody aweful place to get to Westminster and thus are quite rightly in need of somewhere to kip for the night. And who would that nice Charles Kennedy a good stiff drink to steel himself for the journey home from civilisation.
Will the electrate go through the standard phases of grief?:
1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance
Boot out the politicians, let the Generals take charge.
Alas, all they are good for is troughing big houses and servants for themselves …much like the politicians really.
I see the fucking rent boy users at the BBC keep bleating on about why no Tory sleaze yet, whilst they continually play down the vile fucking Liebour scum like McNulty, Vaz, Blears, Woolas, Snot and so on.
The BBC don’t do ‘Red on Red’, Yet.
It could be that the worst offenders are Labour, second homes is one thing but flip flopping it for no reason apart from financial gain is so much worse.
The BBC are finished. They know it, we know it. Abolish the TV Licence NOW.
Cameron where the bloody hell are you? Get a grip man. Useless twat!
Quite agree….
Cameron has to take a lead and kick out any rotten Tories…
Then support the Commissioner of the Met (as said here) to stop the appalling Nulab abuse of the police/judicial system…
Other wise he will lose heavily in the polls and at the polls..
and we will have another 2 years of bloody mess and then ? Boris or someone will have to take a grip..while the economy nose dives….
.
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
First they came for the Socialist
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
First they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
First they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
But I was Ok, because I had a TV Licence
The silence is deafening
Yep, Cameron has to do something to come out of this smelling good, withdraw the whip from the worst offenders and have new candidates stand for the GE.
Vaz is a C unt
A Huhne is very useful. Vaz is not. Vaz is a dried up shit.
That has gone white due to being exposed to sunlight after not being cleared up?
Its all very well jailing the guilty parties but they invariably do “soft” time, that is if they do any time at all. A friend of mine served a short sentence at the same prison as the “Guinness” crooks, the other cons and the prison officers were falling over themselves to ingraciate themselves with them. My friend used to go over the wall for them, running errands to the pub/off licence in the nearest village, for bottles of spirits etc.. With the money and influence (past favours and knowing where the bodies are buried) they have on the outside, things can be made very cushy for them.
I’d love them to do some time at Wakefield, I’m sure Charles Bronson would make them very comfortable, he might even behave and get out of solitary just for the chance to meet them.
Arry……….. As you have experience (known someone that did bird) can you print up a rota of the volunteers on this site to do a shift or two. That should sort out some ‘hard time’ (didn’y want to use the word Labour).
I suggest you offer some Allowances and Expenses……. just so no-one is out of pocket.
Allowances and expenses?
All the “Guinness” people ever gave was “legal” advice and the odd drink and “snout”. I don’t know what the prison officers got, it was probably something “under the arch” or “on the square”. Though I doubt any lodge would touch the current bunch of crooks with a very long pole. It would smear Masonry for years.
Awaiting moderation?
I feel quite safe in here. Well at least for a minute or two
Why pick on me?
ZZZZ – I thought I heard a noise.
Oh well back to sleep YAWN
All the trolls are fleeing the country I see…
Oh No we’re not!
I’m still here, sir but I might have to blow into this bag. Over.
Overheard at the Westminster Arms today (to a member of the Lobby)
Time is up for you gents….
Great photo of the dear leader in the Mail – resembles a warthog’s arse under a fright wig.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/05/08/article-1178516-04DD51BF000005DC-906_306x445.jpg
What a grotesque embarrassment — for Scotland!
Does it know it’s dead?
Nice shade of lippy mind…..
What’s he got to cry about?
Nice blue tie and shirt, is this a sublinamal message to cameron.
What the hell is going on with that hair ? I thought this was some sort of photoshop job, but they seem to have it on the page as normal. Does he really look like that ?
He did’nt but does now. wonder why.
Hair today, gone tomorrow.
“I took Gotham’s White Knight and I brought him down to our level. Ya see, madness is like gravity. All it takes is a little push.”
I really think we must call the men in white overalls to cart him off…for his own protection (not to speak of the country) …. he is clearly out of it…
And here’s the Salford Star’s view on Hazel Blears’ expenses, direct from her own back yard…
http://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=172
“We were going to send Hazel a first class stamp to reply to our letter, in case she couldn’t afford it. But now she can fuck right off.”
Love the last sentence. Won’t getting the local press on her side then.
Trouble with the electorate is that in areas like mine it is tribal, Labour have never done anything for us, the votes in the surrounding areas ensure that we have a Tory council and a Tory MP, thank God. However the place where I live always votes Labour (I don’t never have done) so we have three Labour councillors in a Tory dominated Council.
I personally have never seen one of them. They don’t knock on doors and ask for votes, we only get a Labour newsletter once a year (none at all last year), none of the councillors live here and yet the people here vote Labour every time.
If you ask, why vote Labour? They all repeat the same mantra, I’ve always voted Labour, My Family have always voted Labour, I would never vote for anyone else. It’s stupid, I know, that’s why I call it tribal. I really think that some people are just too dumb have the vote.
These are the people that Labour are relying on, I didn’t believe they still existed but be assured they do and when the next opportunity to vote comes along they will recite the same old mantra and vote Labour again.
Turkeys and Xmas comes to mind.
PS. Why am I being moderated?
PPS. Please excuse Spelling errors if any, I spell badly when I am angry.
Same thing happens round here but they get in, and although we never see the councillors as they’re too busy being corrupt, we have the opposite of your leaflet.. we get a weekly newspaper costing us millions and lamppost banners telling us how great they are.
http://ge2009.co.uk/glorioustowerhamlets.jpg
It’s one thing screwing us over behind our backs and another to rub our faces in it…. whilst the tribe leaders grab all postal votes for their families to ensure they are filled in “correctly”
eugh
If you get moderated its probably because the truth is to painful for some!
Add to this the gerrymandering and postal voting scandals, and you can see how these Hoons stayed in power last time.
Excellent article; well worth reading
BREAKING NEWS ——–BREAKING NEWS
PHIL WOOLAS IN BIG GIRL’S BLOUSE CONTROVERSY
Immigration Minister Phil Woolas today appeared on national television to ensure that anyone who has not heard of the infamous Big Girl’s Blouse incident, now has.
Mr Woolas stated “ I don’t just want to be seen as a figure of ridicule in Britain”; he is currently in discussions with his lawyers to ensure his predicament will also reach an international audience . Speaking on the expenses controversy, a clearly enraged Mr Woolas added “ the allegations on tampons just make me seem like some bloody twat”.
Major Biffo “big-kukri” Ponsonby , was asked how this furore could impact on the Minister’s delicate relations with the Gurkhas . Ponsonby said “ he can wear what he likes but he won’t get a pin-up slot in our calendar ; the lads like Joanna Lumley and that’s that” .
Sources within the Immigration Department have leaked that the troubled minister will unveil a new move to regain the initiative. Seeking to ease voter fears on immigration he will make his department more inclusive and re-brand it the “Ministry Of Overseas Beneficiaries and Stakeholders”; or MOOBS for short. The source said “ Phil believes that if his MOOBS gets bigger he’ll be able to front off to Joanna Lumley or indeed Katie Price for that matter”. A spokesman for Marks and Spencer told your correspondent to “ piss off and leave me alone it’s been a tough week” ,
Nonetheless political commentators remained puzzled at the actions of Mr Woolas . One said;
“ In recent weeks Phil has become well-known in TV circles and he’s enjoyed it “.
However punters at the TV and Transgender Club in Soho said they did not recognise him. “ Ducky, when you’re up on stage in full make-up you could be anyone” said Jacky (sic) “Meat” Smith.
Jacky, who also runs Soho Security ( SS) claims “ we could well have many MPs in here but it’s in the rules you keep quiet ”. The discussion was interrupted when Jacky had a call reminding her to stroll round the corner where a rich resident who resides at the property she doesn’t actually reside at wanted to make sure the surveillance cameras were working. “ It’s work “ laughed Jacky “ but not as you know it; my friend bought a house in Soho and just wants to be sure there aren’t any weirdoes about, like Gurkhas or honest people. Still it pays the mortgages eh!”
Another commentator noted “ with a reshuffle coming Phil believes he needs to raise his profile , some see him as a small, humourless, nit-picking bureaucrat but that’s not right, he’s actually taller than you’d think”. Voters ,whose views are increasingly irrelevant, wait to see how events unfold next week
Nice one.
Hilarious….
Blame Nu-Labour – they provided the fetid conditions for twerps like Cheap-arse to flourish and fester.
I thought I was buying tapons now leave off me, you nasty people.
Cushions, tampons, nappies – it’s all the same to us.
Now where is my trusty butt-plug? John?
Ooooh behave, you’ve got me thinking of Harriet Harman now !
Woolas is the unholy offspring of a Vogon and a Dalek spit-roasting a Cane Toad.
Lovely stuff.
Shhhhhhhhhhhhh
You’re giving my game away….
Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5298365/MPs-expenses-Police-consider-whether-to-hunt-source-of-leaks.html
A senior detective is obliged to assess the complaint that has been made by the chief executive of the House of Commons.
Police will proceed in three stages, which could be drawn out over several weeks. Firstly, they will consider the complaint letter and whether any crime has been alleged. They may then decide to seek further information. Only then, with the authority of an Assistant Commissioner, will a decision be taken on whether a full inquiry can be launched.
Detectives will have to ascertain whether taking action would be proportionate, legal and necessary. The Crown Prosecution Service will consult with police and ask whether there is any public interest in seeking a criminal investigation.
The case has landed on the desk of Nigel Mawer, the Met’s head of specialist and economic crime. His department has carried out nearly all of the political inquiries of recent years.
The acting commander will decide whether it is worth an operation to gain more information. He could then appoint a team of detectives. The first port of call will be the House of Commons, where they would ask where the leak has come from.
They will want to know in what form the details were kept, who had access to them, and what mechanisms were in place to secure them. If they trace the origin of the leak, they will have to decide whether it was done in the public interest or as part of a criminal enterprise. If a full inquiry is launched, they would seek a court order to try to seize the leaked documents.
Senior detectives could have decided to launch an investigation without receiving a complaint, but did not.
Recent inquiries at Westminster have been controversial, time consuming, and have not led to charges.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said last night: “We have received a request from the House of Commons to investigate the alleged unauthorised disclosure of information relating to members’ allowances. We are considering their request.”
Separately, the Met confirmed last night that Tony McNulty, the employment minister, could face an investigation over his expense claims.
It was confirmed that detectives would consider whether he “obtained pecuniary advantage by deception”.
Three stages…… many weeks to assess…….. recent enquiries a waste of time…….
So it was all necessary to enable the Commissioner to say..not in the public interest to investigate.
perhaps we need to ELECT a Chief of Police…… WTF do we pay our Council Tax for????????
But surely they’ll have to examine the evidence of what was alleged to have been leaked as part of this process, and if that shows evidence of any crime being committed they will have to follow that also – could be a long job.
Seems to me the Commissioner has given instructions to delay any substantive investigation until something POLITICAL has happened.
By delaying for several weeks it will become clearer if these bunch of spivs in governemnt will have called a General Election…. then the new masters will call the shots……… Dave should be calling the shots NOW and showing the leadership he has sought.
Plod won’t upset the rotton apple cart until the cart owner says they can.
Apologies if this has been previously posted – I can’t be arsed to read 600 comments.
“Rarely has a British prime minister as unpopular as Gordon Brown. After twelve years in power, the Socialist Labor Party much of its credibility, since January 2008, it stood in any poll before the conservative Tories, and economic crises, police scandals and reports of taxpayers’ money paid for toilet seats in the private homes of Labor Members weaken the nerves of the Premiers.
According to a report the news agency Bloomberg is the successor to Tony Blair’s increasingly by temperament: he is with employees at each office paraphernalia, a newcomer in Brown’s press team has been “flying Nokias” warned once and have the Premier even in a fit of rage a laser to the ground thrown.”
He sold the silk cushions at a car boot sale 2 weeks ago, told me not to say anything.
You people make me laugh! You sit on your arses bleating with rightous indignation, tapping furiously on your keyboards, as if thats going to change things. Anybody with half a brain has known this has been going on for years. You did’nt take any notice while strictly come dancing was on, and the value of your house was rising steadily, but now that the chickens have come home to roost, the smug look has been wiped off of your faces. You label all benefit blaggers as lazy bastards, but has it ever occurred to you that a lot of them decided long ago that what was the sense in working hard, just to get fucked over by those arseholes. They were laughing at you whilst lining their pockets, and their still laughing at you.”It’s all in the rules”.
Unless you are successful in your career or business, the only reward you get from working is self pride. Well that’s fine. I enjoyed working, but when your fleeced senseless, there comes a point when some folks attitude is “Why play the game when the rules are set against you” Why not employ the old adage, If you can’t beat them ….
So the country goes down the pan, but it’s going to take a catastrophe to drag you away from “Britains got talent” Meanwhile you’ll continue to be taken for the mugs you are. Do you really think a change of government at the next election will fundamentally alter anything? You never know the Pope might start shitting in the woods!
Are you on drugs, boy?
Can I have some?
That’s why we are in the shit,the likes of you rolling over to get tickled and screw the rest who still have to pay as they have houses and families to support,you might have worked it out but the kids are only starting out .
Sorry Mate. The grade A stuff only comes Through in diplomatic bags. for the noses of cabinet ministers only.
I know a bear who’s a Catholic.
Well put!
Yup! With you there!
Why get screwed twice? – or at least, more often than really necessary?
If the Pope starts shitting in the woods I want to be there.
Just look out you don’t get run over by the bearmobile you intrinsically disordered copraphagic hoon.
Fuck off, hippy.
Ask Damien McBride if these blogs change things you muppet !
So Damien McBride got the boot! I did’nt see one MP, his paymasters, get the sack. Who’s a muppet?
Margaret Moran’s just been whinging on the News about how unfair the Telegraph’s been misleading us and all and she’s suing the DT…
Bring it on!
I’m sure the simple sword of Truth (or should that be Trough?) and the the trusty shield of whatever it was, will work as well for her as it did for Jonathon Aitken all those years ago.
Thieving, Labour big-mouth Moran only got elected in Luton South because of the muslim block vote.
No, they’ll give her the traditional block vote for licking their arses
Luton is full of disaffected muslims, maybe they’ll give her the traditional punishment for thievery.
745 should be here
Is she suing the DT in the Court of Public Opinion? That might be interesting….
Trouble with suing for libel is it only works if you are in the right.
Even then its tricky. But if day one the Judge says “Did you sort out your holiday from expenses claimed or your own, previously taxed income?” and you say “Well, you see Judge. Its within the rules ”
The judge will just tell you to explain how come what the Telegraph wrote is wrong and misleading.
Difficult.
And the tactic of calling in the plod is getting a bit thin. Blair and Quick didn’t get far kissing Labour politicians arses. Dumped by the party and left to sink.
Sir Paul Stephenson may be less keen to go barging into the Telegraph and start taking away boxes of files.
Yes and he quite rightly got the Jail so I hope the same fate awaits her. Sadly I fear it wont since the country is more corrupt now than it was then.
A rallying cry for DC to seize the high ground?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5301176/MPs-expenses-Its-easy-to-blame-the-system-without-taking-responsibility.html
If he can get Clegg on board, and mustering the public feeling can he put in rules that look less like snouts in troughs?
“The nappies and women’s toiletries for which Phil Woolas, the Immigration Minister, was reimbursed.”
Come on Phil produce the rebuttal evidence to regain your reputation.
leave my butt out of this
Yes. Opium of the masses. it works for you!
I’ve just heard Labour MP Margaret Moran shouting her mouth off on the radio about how she was supposedly entitled to claim thousands of pounds for doing up a house a on the south coast, a hundred miles away from her Luton constituency.
What sort of cretin could bring themselves to vote for such a shameless, greedy, arrogant, shameless bitch?
Obviously a lot of cretins. Thats how she got elected in the first place!
Luton’s Muslim block vote!
That and their tribal vote as in my area – see 566
Only because they think industrial-scale political corruption is normal… the Bhuttos were masters of the dark art.
You’re in England now, either shape up or bugger off.
Susie. Does what’s going on not qualify as “Industrial-scale political corruption”. They have judged the playing field just about right!
Oi you lot of whining toffs – the key word is
‘ESSENTIAL’
to my work
I heard it too. She came over all hurt and self rightious.
I really hope she does sue the DT. It will be really interesting to hear how £22.5 grand on a house being repaired for dry rot in Southampton is “essential” to her work as an MP? Bring it on Marge we cannot wait to hear your full explaination in court, you greedy thieving bitch.
What fucking planet do these fucking Nuliar MP’s live on.
Pay it back, if not then bankruptcy.
I will assist her to make her complaint should she choose, we are not holding you back Love !
Margaret Moran interviewed for BBC Poiltics Show tomorrow on Look East version 11am(snippets include I AM entitled to a private life” “My partner lives in Southampton !” “My claim is within the rules !”Yes love you ARE entitled to a private life but why the fuck should WE pay for it ! Disgraceful .Let us hope this women loses her seat at the next election which judging by the latest opinion polls released tonight she should do
YouGov gives Cons 43% Lab 27% LibDems 18%
BPIX for Mail on Sunday Cons 45% Lab 23% LibDem 17%
She was trying to do a Diana: “there were three houses in the marriage – it got a bit crowded”.
Good repost my man, this woman seems like a thick fucker !
You’re seriously telling me that, according to YouGov, over 1 in 4 of the population would STILL vote for these Hoons. I know there are some pretty stupid bastards in the UK but 1 in 4?
Never underestimate the stupidity of the public!
Thank you Anon. It’s so patently obvious that she and the husband saw a great opportunity to do up one of their properties courtesy of the taxpayer. The more she bleats about it the more people pay attention to her case – she should have kept her head down and tried to hide behind the next wave of revelations. Thick indeed.
Would she be a dick vicker in Deutschland?
Maybe I was a bit rash to vote for her
Well it’s Sarf’amoton or nuffin fer me if I want a good seein’-to innit?
Kno wot oi mean?
So shurrup!!! Leev orf will’ya.
It’s part of me essen-sherls – like ol’ Prezza’s bits o’ wood
Why is Phil Woolas getting his frilly knickers in such a twist?
It’s common knowledge up here in Chadderton that he is a transvestite.
I bet you didn’t know he wore nappies though, did you?
Pampers though? I thought “Baby Men” wore those old style nappies that you have to scrape and boil on the cooker.
It must be his pampered lifestyle.
Gordon does, particularly when he’s riding his rocking horse.
Ah – is that what’s meant by a ‘government’ (sic) of all the (sick) ‘talents’ then?
All explained see #549
Thanks for that resurgemus – good stuff
If he wants to flounce around in dresses that’s his business, but not at my expense, please.
Moran and Woolas are bluffing. They’re squealing blue murder but they’re just a couple of gobshites, shitting themselves because they’ve been caught bang to rights.
They’re terrified these exposures mean they might only have another 12 months left on the gravy train
Within that 12 months, they will have screwed enough to set themselves up for life!Ever get the feeling you’ve been had?
Nothing will happen to them. They will lie and brazen their way through it and eventually all the fuss will die down and they will carry on, unashamedly milking the system.
That’s the sort of institutionally corrupt banana republic we live in after twelve years of Labour government.
Has the £10,000 for communications been forgotten or is this an extra perk not counted as expenses?
£10,000 for a website??
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-413537/MPs-set-vote-handout–taxpayers-expense.html
For a website setup by a professional company, yes that’s acceptable.
We paid 7000 for a site just recently. Similar sites to ours are upto 30,000.
However, 10k for an MP’s blog IS excessive.
Well of course! What do you think they are there for? Value for money?
I think they went to the Tom Watson school of legal threats.
Scotland Yard are on the case, after the leak source.
But will they arrest politicians for corruption?
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/MPs-Expenses-Tourism-Minister-Barbara-Follett-Claimed-Over-25K-For-Security-Patrols—Report/Article/200905215278386?lpos=Politics_News_Your_Way_Region_3&lid=NewsYourWay_ARTICLE_15278386_MPs_Expenses:_Tourism_Minister_Barbara_Follett_Claimed_Over_%3F25K_For_Security_Patrols_-_Report
But will they arrest politicians for corruption?
Can’t recall the term to express it, but isn’t that a kind of self-negating statement?
I’m minded of the old Chinese advice
‘Beat your son every day.
If you don’t know why – he will’
So I guess that’s a No.
Evening All,
Rest assured the Met will investigate these allegations very thoroughly. The plan is:
1. Hold a press conference
2. Wait for some decent intelligence -obviously these MPs have gone to ground and we need to establish the location of this House of Commons place.
3. Hold another press conference
4. Make lots of high profile arrests,with nice pictures live on the Beeb (only thieving Tories though)
5. Prepare a file for the CPS (make sure any evidence with the word labour on it gets accidentally shredded)
6. Attend a Gender Orientation Awareness Course
7. Annual Leave
8. Send the file to the CPS,making sure it only mentions right wing fox hunting public school Tory bastards.
9. Hold another press conference
10. Decide steps 1,3 and 9 have prejudiced the case,so nothing happens.
11.Wait for retirement and appearance in honours list.
PS – Please do not complain to your local station about this. Home Office analysis has found that longer station opening hours have a direct correlation to reported crimes. So we closed them and crime statistics have fallen. Yes,we are a service but not for you lot.
Balls and Cooper in the Telegraph tomorrow LOL!!
Double claiming for the same bills, including £thousands in mortgage payments.
…………….ie theft.
Source?
HP
It’s not my fault. Ed told me it would be alright.
The Tories made me do it. They’re to blame for all of this.
Edwin!! – you forgot to add ‘HONEST GUV’
Now say it like a good boy – then go to bed.
I’ll come up and read you a story later.
I have it on good authority that the Telegraph won’t be exposing Balls and Cooper, despite them being amongst the biggest crooks in Parliament. Balls is too well in with the Telegraph’s editors and political journalists and has their assurance they will keep him and Cooper out of all this.
Well then #646 – just shows the DT is a crock of shit
We should know by about 10.45pm tonight when tomorrow’s first editions come out.
646 – Are not all expenses officially published in July? Might this be a temporary reprieve?
The DT want a return on there outlay and want people to buy the newspaper, they can’t afford to miss out those two,business is business and has no friends.
Harriet Harman says Gordon Brown’s expense fiddling “looks bad”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1179608/MPs-expenses-Brown-says-hes-cheat–deputy-admits-looks-bad.html
Not as bad looking as Harman or the ugliest woman in politics Udder
Where is that udder hoon fled to the people’s republic of bangla yet?
The situation is hopeless really, the Country is effectively locked down. No access to firearms, apart from a few old bird guns. No freedom of speech, I can be thrown out on the street if I say anything that is politically incorrect (all tenants had to sign a new contract to this effect when we were taken over by a NUlabour Housing association, that was rubberstamped by a Liberal/Labour alliance council (now thrown out but a little too late) on the basis of less than 200 votes, the rest (thousands of them) were too apathetic to vote). Freedom to demonstrate gone, vide “kettling.” The Civil Service politicized ditto the Police Force ditto the Higher Echelons of the Armed Forces. All means of communication spied on. Schools and Universities controlled by Marxists, state mandated curriculum and “NULabour history” ONLY, to be taught to children. Discipline effectively outlawed, smack a child and you go away and your children taken away.
I honestly believe that Blogs such as this one are only allowed to function to allow the “mob” to let off steam, and I have no doubt that posts here are monitored by GCHQ, IPaddresses stored in a nice new Nulabour computer – in a folder labelled “potential subversives”.
We have sleepwalked into a Nightmare.
Arry, nice to see somebody with the nous to know what day it is! Half of these other idiots seem to think that if they vote Tory, all their dreams will come true!
There used to be a slogan written on a wall just off Portobello Road (London) in the 70′s that stated:
“Don’t vote, it doesn’t matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in”.
When I hear about all the free loading going on I think the writer may have been correct.
Nighty Night!
Come back Arry! This blog needs a bit of reality.
What makes you think ‘arry ain’t a tory and everyone else here is?
Also, I would estimate that almost all who contribute here realise exactly what ‘arry has stated, we are fast approaching a police state under this mob.
One thing I do know is that a vote for NewLiars is a vote for our freedoms being crushed.
If you did make a conscious decision to sponge off the state I suppose you can empoly the same excuse as the troughers. It was all within the rules. Kinda makes you in your little way every bit a fucking crook as they are.
But the difference is i’m not standing in parliament purporting to represent the “people” You can only lead by example. Do you think that those arseholes are setting an example?
It’s not spongeing “off the state” but spongeing off the people who work for a living.
I worked for 35 years since i left school. I’m buggered if i’m going to work for another 35 just to pay off the debt those arseholes have run up. And keep them in the lifestyle they have become accustomed too. If you think thats a fair deal you’re welcome!
Good for you mate – enjoy it while it lasts.
I just hope one day we get a government that smashes the client state and that people who are physically able to look after themselves have to work (or starve).
I’d be very happy to go back to work. I really enjoyed my job. it gives you self worth, purpose and balance. But not when some arsehole is living his dream on the gravy train, and lecturing me on “Moral Compass”. If you think thats a fair deal….
Err, Brown doesn’t pay personally though does he? I pay out of my very heavily taxed income. Yes, I’m a twat, but at least not I’m not a parasite.
That’s why the whole benefits systems must be torn up.
Exactly. Brown does’nt pay personally. Thats the whole point. You pay personally. He lives very nicely on what you pay. We’re all parasites, but only MPs leech off everybody else whilst lecturing on “It’s within the rules” Set a fair playing field and i’m as straight as the next person. Who’s being dishonest?
Nothing is hopeless. The worst that can happen is that you die with honour.
Too true mate! If people got off their arses and did something about it instead of bleating like sheep, they may find some honour.
“It started in America”
“It’s within the Rules”.
Gordon Brown’s motto “Tell a lie often enough and people start to believe it’s the truth”.
‘and the bigger it is – the more likely the masses will believe it’
Hitler
“It is all within the rules”
Just sounds like the Nazi concentration guards saying “we were just following orders” nothing wrong then with them exterminating Jews/gypsies/Russians
(It was also within the Nazi partys rules too. )
The BBC are leading the fightback with a prominent ‘ministers hit back over claims’ headline.
Hits himself with a Nokia you mean?
Spin on, Aunty
I can’t wait to see how they spin the tax payer footing the bill for re-fitting a ‘delapated’ house for a Labour minister.
The bbc are not worth the licence fee, I would be surprised if anyone watched their shows tonight such pish are they. All you get is fucking John Barrowman, every fucking show is fucking Barrowman. Says it all really.
Watch Television X there is no fucking John Barrowman on that. And the best Home sEcretary ever pays for it for me!
The bbc are no longer taken seriously by anyone apart from a few poor hopeless chavs and the Shampain lefties. The bbc have exposed themselves as lefty nonces without any shame, honour or integrity.
And they charge you £145 for the privilage. Ever get the feeling you’ve been had?
They have 12 months in which to exact revenge for this. How dare we mere plebs presume to hold them accountable? They will now seek to control us and limit our freedoms even further. It’s going to get a lot worse before it gets any better, if indeed it ever gets better again.
Peter Oborne is right to say this is a crisis for our democracy but we’ve had so many others under this regime, not least the Damian Green affair. A staggering abuse of power which went entirely uncensured. But that was only one instance in a larger pattern of behaviour. We need a bill of rights to protect us from corrupt politicians. We can no longer trust them to legislate.
Very nicely put. I’m sure you live in hope!
No way they will last 12 months…
The roof has already fallen in on them….headless chickens now
And the Great leader is raving mad…quite obviously now…just look at his photo today…
Only a matter of time before Plod and the public demand revenge…
We cant’ going on with this sick farce much longer before a civil war erupts……
You’d be better off waiting for Godot than plod to do anything. Who do think gives them their orders?
We need a written constitution. And not one drawn up by anyone connected with these scoundrels.
This government no longer has any credability;integrity;authority or mandate to govern left- they can continue in government until June 2010 but they are finished and THEY know it deep in their souls.Labour lost the election in July 2007 when they suppinely allowed Brown to usurp the leadership of their party.They’ve been living on borrowed tiime since then – the credit crunch just speeded up the inevitable collapse.
The majority of Labour MPs will shuffle quietly back into obscurity from whence they came although the majority no doubt with nice new second homes equipped with brand new kitchens;plasma TV and jacuzzis courtesy of the tax-payers
You mean they may inflict a scorched earth policy on the following regime.
It’s tantamount to treason.
Even though John Major knew he was going to lose in ’97, he and his government at least tried to do their best for country and bestowed a healthy economy to Blair.
So whatever comes out about the Tories – DC fires the baddies – and starts again if necessary
GB follows suit? No fuckers left!
Good innit? Tactics m’boy tactics!!
Wots tictacs?
You’re arse crack is haunted and you’re loving it.
“Same shit. Different parliament.”
I’m looking forward to it.
DC has to be a real shit on his own. I would like to see him withdraw the whip from anyone who makes the Telegraph hoons list, and encourange them to resign as MPs, triggering by-elections over the summer.
Then DC (and Clegg if he does the same) can stand up and say that his party are clean, what about those on the benches opposite….?
Same shit. Different parliament.
better to lose whip, and be de-selected for 2010
If you provoke by-elecions Labour will be on the case to shovel shit and it will only turn into a LibDem Conservative fight thereby taking pressure of Brown
Furthermore how do you explain to electorate the cost of by-elections when you’re only going to repeat the whole exercise in 12 months.
Kick em out and tell them not to come back
But if half a dozen Tories resign and trigger by-elections, then Cameron and Clegg can quite rightly ask for more than a few Labour MPs to resign their seats as well.
By-elections in Tory constituencies are one thing, but by-elections in Labour constituencies are a compeltely different story….
And if DC is one of the baddies? Boy George has expensive tastes as well. Tricky one.
DC said yesterday that he can’t wait for his expenses to be published, suggesting that he and his front bench don’t have too many skeletons in the expenses closet.
How many by-elections would it take for Liebour to lose their majority..??
This Labour government has tried to blame just about everything on the Conservatives. However, in terms of sleaze, the Tories were almost amateur in comparison to their successors who were supposedly going to be ‘purer than pure’. With regard to the incomes alone of MPs, their basic salaries have practically doubled since the accession to power of Labour. Plus, this does not even address the issue of expenses.
guido dear boy stop wagging the dead dog and awaken the proliteriat to the fact that on the 4th june this country will have an oportunity to to have its referendum.
If you want out of the EU and save this country 40million a day then vote UKIP and put the shits up all of them. Just a thought!
Jo
One thing at a time please – tictacs m’boy tictacs is wot’s required
Thought about UKIP until the one and only UKIP MP ? voted with Liebour a few months back.
This Labour government has also tried to downplay the booming nature of the economy which in 1997 it inherited from a Conservative government that had reintroduced vigour to the stagnant economy inherited from the previous Labour government in 1979. Although it was indeed the Conservative government which deregulated the banking sector, the political class generally should have demanded tightening of the banking regulations at some point in the last decade, when the banks were acting so irresponsibly with their depositors’ property. More specifically, the person primarily responsible was the then chancellor, Gordon Brown. It was his duty which he guarded very jealously against interference from his Prime Minister. As chancellor, Brown made certain he enjoyed a significant degree of autonomy from the PM, making him all the more acccountable for his actions in that office. Rather than impose the much needed reality check on the banks, Brown was all too eager to foster the fictitious banking profits as a source of tax revenue. All the combined tax rises of the past twelve years, which are more the responsibility of Brown than Blair, have made their contributions to depressing the economy and rendering the nation well nigh bankrupt. And was it Prime Minister Blair or his unilaterally acting Chancellor who raided pension funds and sold a substantial proportion of Britain’s gold reserves, moreover at a poor rate? How much of this was done even before the start of the expensive wars in Iraq or even Afghanistan (which would certainly have been carried through by the USA alone)?
Oh dear!
Labour’s popularity slumps to lowest point since records began.
http://itn.co.uk/ca9af797fa8b54aa482cfaf1c12f6da0.html
That’s what you get for being seen as greedy piggy’s. Oink.
In for me !! In for mer !! you’ve all got it ….. IFM
Infamy? Big Gordy will go down in history rivalling the Black Death for it’s affect on British history!
Never mind records, that’s the lowest since wax cylinders began!
I fink we are going to break ve fermometer this time…Bloody hell …lower than with my old friend Michael Foot…and he was a real prune…
“It started with MichaelFoot”
Michael Foot told MPs to put it on expenses, instead of increasing their Salaries.
It’s all your fault Guido…
Wont be any of us left soon…
The Tories (awful bums really) should make you a hereditary Pe-er you know…
Shame.
To all troughing mp’s – time to come clean . Best thing is to put your hands up and say ‘I did it’ ( Alastair Campbell, the media master says, on his Blog today, that’s you best bet.)
Whatever it is, rather than wait for the media to print your transgressions, come on – confess.
Be grown up about this – you are supposed to be the elected members of the people – Prove it by your actions!! Be honest – just for once!!
Personally ….I don’t think you will.
off wiv their trousers you mean Nell….
right now…
Not just about homo’s baby – and personally I wouldn’t like seeing any of the overweight , unattractive, downing street queens, without their trousers.
What I really want is the men and women of this Parliamentary Labour Party to come clean – Time to Tell The Truth about your expenses. It’s going to be in the newspapers anyway. So let’s be honest.
Gordon, of course will be deliberating between now and Judgement Day about how much he’s going to tell….. even then he’ll prevaricate!
All in the best possible taste.
Guess the ceiling has fallen in poor lil kitty now.
Never liked her mate – too gobby by far and never let’s her opponents get a word in
They all need walling up.
Mandy can claim for a new one on his euro-expenses
No I can’t
I have been defenstrated by my old friend Ally Camblell…
He’s the Ha
Sorry
These f’ing machines too diffult for me…
I was saying…
Mandy can’t pay any more…
Ally Campbell is the Chief Honcho now…
Mandy’s OFF….!
Prezza your a Hoon – get back on the toilet.
Oie..
You talking about the tayst of my Mock Tudor lav again ?
I didn’t realise you bloody Tories were going to laugh all weekend about me
I ‘av you know I was Deputy PM for donkys years..
So watch yourself or oi’l give you my strong left…
You know Prezza…
If you didn’t exist we would have to invent you…
You are the most priceless idiot British politics has seen for a generation…
No he’s not I am
I’m just a Hoon
This oaf has cost the state a lot of money. Possibly running into millions all told and for what?
Well at least to demonstrate the bullshit of those who say they are socialists championing the cause of the working class and “hard working families”.. No sooner did he have a whiff of power did he start stuffing his pockets with goodies. Four properties? You make me puke and I ain’t bulimic.
Joanna has told Woolass not to be naughty and get his turtle head back in his shell.
Please go to court Woolass, every single expense would be crawled over, we would have a field day.
Seems like Minister’s aught to be docked 2 weeks pay at the moment because they certainly aren’t doing what we pay them to do. Too busy dodging the bullets being hurled their way.
MP’s keep quoting “it within the rules”. The issue that should be pushed is that it is blatantly not in the Green book to allow frivalous expenses to be claimed but what is in there are comments relating to value for the taxpayer and MP’s work are. If somebody can explain how in detail these are covered please.
- Cleaning the pool
- Mock tudor beams
- Private security
They have broken the Green Book so stop bringing it up. Can somebody push them harder on this topic.
I’m being shot at and pushed so hard that I have asked for my old place back in the Bunker (only safe place left for me nowadays)…
and dont” be rude about my Mock Gothics….
I sincerely hope that every MP decides to bring an action against the Telegraph starting with Moran and Woolas. I think they’ll get more than they bargained for by doing so. If they think the present publicity is bad they should be ready for a “firestorm” of attention on the day the case comes to court – and if I was the Editor of the Telegraph there is no way I would come to an out of court settlement – let them get the “shit storm” brewing full force.You would have thought that they would have learnt but they seem intent on keep digging that hole particularly Moran who I must admit I have never come across before but having seen her now and heard her I wonder how in Gods name she was ever elected although I suppose you could put a red rosette on a donkey in her constituency and get it elected(or you could in 2005 I’m not so sure you could now !)
She WAS the donkey wearing the red rosette.
Surprised you didn’t recognise her.
Woolas won’t be suing the Telegraph, they have provided proof tonight that he claimed for those items which he has denied claiming for ie womens clothing and nappies.
Woolas has been shown to be a liar.
She was last seen on BBC Look East pointedly not apologising for some of her more extremist constituents’ “Butchers of Basra” protest against the soldiers’ parade through Luton upon their return from Iraq.
It seems that almost 70% of MPs are “taking the mick” and probably charging us poor saps for that too !.My advice is stop trying to spin your way out of this by stating that “my claim is within the rules!” It may be that the claims are “within the guidelines”but a lot of the claims are also morally indefensible and are just showing what utter contempt that you show for the people that employ you.Your best bet is to apologise and throw yourselves on the electorates’ mercy although that still won’t stop a lot of you receiving your P60 come the General Election !
Your best bet would be to nip round and assassinate one of the arseholes!
But the point is they are not within the guidelines or rules. They need to be pushed on this. One of the BBC reporters today (missed his name) did quite a good job on this topic.
I hardly see Mock Tudor beams as ” a necessary repair”
The point on decoration is stretching it a bit (sort of like Prescott’s waistband.
Quote from Green Boon on Maintenance
Maintenance, service agreements, cleaning
and insurance
Necessary repairs to make good dilapidations
Decoration
Cleaning (services or equipment)
Service charge/ground rent
Insurance services and maintenance contracts
Basic security measures
This is another example of someone swallowing the line that the claims “are within the rules”, in many cases they fuckin aren’t. Stop believing this shit. I am begining to believe these posters are Labour Trolls.
Even the ones who were’nt fleecing the system knew that their pals were! That makes them just as culpable.
Taking the mick? Taking the lead from Mick (Martin) the greedy little Weegie gobshite.
Fit for nothing.
Except a nice fat pension!
Hero for today! Major Phil Packer. Whats the betting he gets himself hijacked by an MP? Which one will be first in line for the photo opportunity shaking his hand?
Didn’t Hoon send a lot of our boys to fight in Iraq.
Bet they’ll be livid to find out what he was doing while they put their lives on the line for our country.
Then again, maybe he was buying all this property to convert to a care home for our wounded soldiers as a nice surprise.
No! He’ll probably put up a rememberence plaque on the wall and he and his ilk will stand in front of it in smug self satisfaction. And Nigel Griffiths will be plugging some tart underneath it!
Sinn Fein claimed £500,000 for second homes
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5301510/MPs-expenses-Sinn-Fein-claimed-500000-for-second-homes.html
Scum…. just…. SCUM
I have just seen that – now I am really upset – five MPs who have never taken up their seats. The people who run this country really are complete and utter cretins – why is it that “anything goes” when the poor taxpayer is footing the bill.
I hope Blair and Brown end their lives in penury, friendless and despised. It could happen, if the electorate become angry enough.
I’m afraid your hopes will be shattered! They will live the rest of their lives with fat pensions, directorships, memoirs and fat fees on the lecture circuit. Get real!
Oh by the way. You’ll be paying for it. Ever get the feeling you’ve been had!
No sense anyone getting indignant about Sinn Fein MPs doing their damndest to rip off the British taxpayer. They’ll laugh their heads off at that, their supporters will gloat and they wont give a fiddlers fuck.
They are doing the same at Stormont too .. aided and abetted though by the DUP, who just love their expense fiddles. Look at the Paisley’s and their constituency office in Ballymena.
And then of course there is the sdlp’s Alistair McDonnell who happily voted to retain the John Lewis list. Greedy money grabbing pigs, the lot of them
What really pisses me off about this is the paltry compensation for victims of the IRA, and poor quility of life for killed/wounded soldiers and police and their families, then ‘people’ like Adams and McGuiness get feather-bedded.
Hateful b*stards.
It’s Danegeld, chaps.
Yes, an even less honourable form of danegeld.
There is now absolutely no doubt left – Labour are going to get bloody slaughtered in the polls on June 4 – that much is clear.The Tories will obviously have some MPs who are playing the same game with expenses but as the old adage goes “the first shit thrown is the stuff that sticks best!”
Common on – there is so much crap flying around – the MPs are drowning in it = they will be breathing shit for weeks and months to come.
Exactly, can’t see how what is revealed about the Tories can be any worse than what we have seen already.
As mentioned before, I think this is why Brown wanted to bring up the ‘second jobs’ issue to try and divert blame from Labour with some kind of specious argument about income parity across the floor.
Of course, as a numbskull socialist he can’t understand the difference between income earned in the private sector and money taken from the taxpayer.
How about claiming underage rent boys on parliamentary expenses as comfort toys ?
Oh no wait, that’ll probably be a Belgian if we ever get the Europarliament lists.
Penitenziagite!
Deft huj kik opd?
I know that I am a lesser being than that nice Mr Hoon or indeed the Millihoons whose parents were illegal immigrants that worked to destroy the country that gave them shelter and then spawned two complete Huhnes that have carried on the family business of destroying Great Britain.
All I have contributed to this country is 15 years of loyal service keeping you and your kin safe.
Who would you rather have as a neighbour
Me, the Millihoons or Hoon?
“Who would you rather have as a neighbour….?”
You, of course.
Sinn Fein not attending Westminster yet claim half a million.
We know they were criminals so no scandal there
File under care in the community.
Unfuckingbelievable…
But this whole thing is now totally surreal….
This is only the beginning. It’s going to get a lot more freaky deaky.
It was their pay-off for agreeing to peace.
Maybe a price worth paying… maybe not…
They’ll undoubtedly finish up doing the same in Afghanistan!
@833
Yes, like we used to do on the NW frontier up to 1947 – and has already been done in Iraq to buy off the Sunni militias.
Can’t say I like it, but probably the most expedient solution.
The MP’s know that, but their too shit scared to admit it to us. After all those mealy mouthed words in parliament about “sacrifice” How will they sell those servicemen’s lives for a bag of gold?
Let’s be serious for a moment..
Can you imagine PMQs from now on?
Example
Mr Cameron
Can the PM issue a statement about expenses ?
Interruption
What about the cleaner ?
Have you got your bathplug today?
Speaker
Order Order
Interruption
and as for you Speaker what about your wife’s expenses ?
Prime Minister
It’s all the fault of a little bugger called Guido Fawkes
Here here
Interuption from Tory banches
What about your Mock Gothics ?
and your tampaxes…
etc
I cannot see this lasting more than 5 minutes before all hell breaks loose
Can you ?
Cameron might well not say anything like that because of the massed ranks of greedy MPs who will all be looking at the floor sitting behind him.
Too true!
Look what this bitch Kitty Ussher wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5301423/MPs-expenses-minister-Kitty-Ussher-used-allowances-for-20000-house-make-over.html
Staggering.
Painting Roses Red……………£7587.00
Have 30 mushrooms.
“Oh and can I have Nicky Haslam do the interiors? I’ve seen some of his work for one of the Prime Minister’s homes and have to say I was highly impressed. Although I realise this may have to be deferred until all the wiring, plumbing and re-plastering has been done… he’s in such demand it would be good to reserve his services. Off to Chelsea next week to source some Gold Medal winning candidates for the back garden redesign. Sooooo busy!”
The Bishops on the warpath. Like to see MP’s stand up to religion, not even Blair could stomach it (not something worth bragging about though).
Time to send over some whiskey and revolvers to the Commons?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8042214.stm
Yes! They’ll drink the whiskey and use the revolvers on you!
I notice that we are being implicated in the plot to remove him as any sane individual would.
Baroness Thornton aka claims her mother’s home in Yorkshire is her main home & Baroness Uddin aka claims empty flat in Maidstone is her main home both received their peerages in 1998 and both are described as friends of Cherie Blair, the question: where they friends of Cherie before or after receiving their peerages!
True ?
According to wiki B’ness Thornton lives in Belsize Park London
WTF is she doing claiming for any residence in Yorkshire ?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6256710.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=5981745
Baroness Thornton claims £130 000 for her mother’s bungalow in Yorkshire.
Any friend of bigmouth Cherie is a friend of sleaze.
I won’t miss you!
Another YouTube moment: NOT ALL SCOTS ARE BAD
Guido, are you hearing rumours that Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper are next to be exposed? Lots of noise in that area, and it couldn’t happen to a nicer couple.
Blog 646 speculates DT has cut a deal to keep the dream couple out of the storm.
If so DT is making a mistake , it was starting to look like a newspaper again.
Maybe Guido can get a leak if DT clams up.
Telegraph has agreed to keep Balls/Coopers out of this even though they are two of the biggest fiddlers of the lot.
If so then every other newspaper is sitting on a scoop pre July
If the Tgraph have signed a deal then so will another organisation. The Tgraph will not be able to sue the original informant without compromising their own position.
The truth will out, and if the outing is delayed, the worse the impact.
55,679
Labour’s popularity has slumped to its lowest level since polling began amid a series of scandals and renewed speculation over Gordon Brown’s leadership, it has been claimed. Research for the Mail on Sunday found the party’s support had dropped three points over the past month to just 23 per cent – even lower than when Michael Foot was at the helm in the 1980s.
The fall gives the Tories a massive 22 per cent advantage, enough for a landslide victory if repeated at a general election.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090509/tuk-labour-s-popularity-slumps-dba1618.html
Phil is an oustanding parliamerisning member of the parliamentary Labaour party
SO YOU CAN ALL FOOK OFF
Sorry
Go fourth
Our Pauline is always telling me not to say FOOK OFF
What a joke the Telegraph is now
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5301385/Gordon-Brown-No-suggestion-of-impropriety.html
The Brown expenses story was always the thinnest and they now backtrack completely
Watching Sky you might think the whole thing is just us proles not understanding th e complex system.
Plenty else to chew on though.
Why did Brown claim any expenses for the flat which is his third home? He is enjoying a grace and favour place and had his constituency home.
The rules say an MP can claim for only what is neccessary in going about their duty. With Gordon already having accommodation in that there London there can be no reason for him to have claimed for the cleaning, let alone anything else. Surely the Fees Office should have refused it.
Wasn’t that what we got with Jacky Spliff? She refused the grace and favour Home Office pad to rent out her sister’s gaff so she could designate her family home in Redditch as her second home and rack up a load of expenses.
Ever get the feeling you’ve been had?
An you paid for both of em you thick twats
CON 43(-2) LAB 27(nc) LD 18 (+1)
http://politicalbetting.com/
ALSO
BPIX for the Mail on Sunday has:-
CON 45 (nc) LAB 23(-3) LD 17 (nc)
PB.COM
Note his tribute to Heather Brooke
Seems like the Mail has been doing some digging of its own:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1179937/Speakers-scapegoat-Official-signed-MPs-expenses-didnt-accountancy-qualification.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1179916/Flipper-Hazel-Blears-18k-tax-was.html
More about how deeply the sheet metal worker is involved in the mail online.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1179937/Speakers-scapegoat-Official-signed-MPs-expenses-didnt-accountancy-qualification.html
“The row over MPs’ expenses intensified last night as it was revealed that the parliamentary finance chief who signs off their claims had no formal accountancy skills – and that he feared he would be sacked when he warned the Commons Speaker the system was being abused.”
So…….. Bullying in the workplace by Speaker Martin, Incompetance in appointing qualified staff, A culture of nodding through inappropriate expenses and finally it is all attributable to a Labour Speaker.
Scandalous.
Wrong…competence at appointing incompetent staff, easily bullied into doing his bidding
Another angle:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1179937/Speakers-scapegoat-Official-signed-MPs-expenses-didnt-accountancy-qualification.html
Snap!
The Telegraph have said tonight that Phil Woolas is lying and that they have proof that he claimed for women’s clothing and nappies.
But maybe those items WERE for personal consumption, allegedly!
Far better the Woolas may think to risk eventually be caught lying about his expenses claim than to admit now to certain personal, er, foibles.
Everyone round here in North Manchester knows Pervy Phil is a tranny so why’s he trying to cover it up?
I bear no resemblance to a radio and that is the truth
Ps Joanne allowed me to say this
I think we are looking at this in the wrong way. We will never get rid of the political classes using the electoral system. It’s rigged to keep them in power.The best we could do is create a split vote which might let them back in again. The machine is loaded against us,so let’s think of other ways.
There are things we could do as a start
1. A vote boycott at the election – lots of people will not vote as they rightly see no choice,so we are part way there already. If the turnout were dismal, no-one would have a mandate to govern. They would then have to listen to us,like it or not. They might also panic if we threatened it in advance. It’s also easier to do than running candidates against the main parties.
2. We are concentrating on expenses.Let’s look at other aspects of their work. Who turns up for votes in the House? How often. It would be interesting to find out who the troughing and lazy bastards are.
3. Let’s go for them one at a time,rather than all at once. They hate a constant drip of shit and want to move on. Let’s keep them under pressure.
4. Parts of ther dead tree press are having financial trouble. Rather than just cancelling subscriptions,or not buying the paper,let’s do it en masse and tell them before we do and what they have to do to get our business back Anyone advertise with them ? Let’s pull the plug and do the same thing.
5. Let’s shaft the public sector recruitment machine. Knowing their rules I am sure we could submit 100′s of applications and drown the system. In some cases interviews have to be granted,so it should not be too difficult to create a paper tsunami -no need to actually attend but the process would be well and truly fucked. They would not know how to deal with applications once this started to happen.
We have one year until there is an election and we have to play smart. Playing by their rules would not be clever
Come on Guido,you have enough support on here to run a campaign like this which is quite legal.
I’m with the Accountant on this. We must organise ourselves and be more effective. Well done accountant. Lets play them at there own game.
You fail to take into account one important factor. There will always be a certain number of fuckwits who will vote for them. One fuckwit is a mandate as far as they’re concerned!
OK with 2 to 5,but 2005 I didn’t vote and all we got was ,you are lazy bastard chav who won’t get off your arse as your too busy watching telly to vote or lets make it like Australia where the law makes you vote,I think Liebour got in with a 23% ?vote in 2005 so that one is out,I say go out and use your vote,go and vote for anybody but use your vote,don’t trash it,at least use your vote. /rant off
Right on! you’ve got the right idea! But its no good voting for the status quo which most voters do. Take the time to study your local non partisan candidates. vote for somebody with an honest opinion, not some self serving party journeyman. I’d respect someone who gave me their honest opinion, even if i disagreed, rather than some career minded arsehole spinning the party line!
My main point is that rebellion does not mean necessarily marching on No 10. The system does not work without interference. Imagine how screwed it could be without too much effort.
2million eh? cool. That was absolutely bang-on my own estimate:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/2009/05/parliaments_rep.html#P79742803
If even I, an ordinary I.T. bloke with no journalistic experience/qualifications and just by spending a couple of minutes on google can found out this fact, then why’s it not been uncovered before by the professional journalists?
Woolas has been caught lying. The Telegraph has proof that he did claim for the womens clothes, nappies etc
It seems however, that the paper has been leaned on by the govt and is pathetically backing down somewhat on the allegations against the crook Brown.
I hear that Ed Balls has had a word with his cronies on the Telegraph and asked them to go easy on Gordon but feel free to put the boot into Blears, Bradshaw, Moran, etc.
The dirt on Jimmy Purnell will be out in a couple of days.
And still nothing on Balls and Cooper
The Telegraph are protecting Balls and Cooper. They have an agreement with him to keep them out of it.
What with? a Jock strap??
Yes, they repeat the allegation against Woolas in the S Telegraph leader tomorrow. He’s fucked.
Not been his best week has it?
Oh dear, how sad, never mind.
Sunday Telegraph???
Doo doo doo duh doo……
I’M LUVIN’ IT
Vaz – proof that you can make a pig out of silks here. Probably the most loathed amongst MPs, he’ll never get his much longed for knighthood or promotion to the Lords.
No, he’ll probably have to piss off back to his home planet of the oily reptiles instead, no doubt claiming for the rocket fuel to power his reptilian spaceship.
Blackburn would that be, where tribal overlords living 20 to a house in the ethnic communities deliver boxloads of postal votes for liebour well in advance of any election?
Keith Vaz claimed hundreds for 40 silk cushions for his “second home” in Stanmore, which is nowhere near his Leicester constituency.
Now come on, don’t be mean to Mr Vaz. When he gets home after a long oily week in parliament he likes to unwind, unzip the human suit and slither about on all those silk cushions in his natural habitat.
Do NOT be mean to Mr. Vaz as that is racist and there is no palce for racist people like Norman Tebbitt and Mrs. Thatch!
Completely OT
I would be laughing like a drain if Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesborough all got relegated.
GEORDIE Huhnes.
Ow pal, only Newcastle supporters are Geordies. Sunderland supporters are Mackems and Middlesbrough (note correct spelling) lads are Smoggies.
If you are a footie follower you would see that it is not possible for all three to go down (ta to WBA) but quite possibly two will.
You laugh mate, safely behind your keyboard as I bet you would never do so up north.
You southern, shandy drinking, soft shite you.
How Gordon Brown cashed in on his flat that the taxpayer funded:
Gordon Brown gave his £700,000 flat in central London to his wife Sarah weeks before he moved into 10 Downing Street
Then the Flat Brown gave to his wife had what is thought to be a lifetime mortgage taken out on it, the property was valued at £700,000. To explain what a lifetime mortgage is you usually take equity out – usually a maximum of about 50% and the rest of the property revert to the ownership of the organisation that gave the lifetime mortgage when the policy holder dies. So Sarah Brown could well have taken out in equity at the top of a housing boom £350,000 – which Gordon will have paid next to nothing on.
I should imagine when he bought it for £130,000 he charged any stamp duty to expenses or it was in a stamp duty holiday (Don’t know what taxation arrangements were in place in 1992). Of course Gordon claimed the flats mortgage interest throughout that period.
These Mortgages are not normally given to 43 Year olds but used to fund Pensioners Retirement. The Organisation involved was of course Lloyds TSB – Does this ring alarm bells to you as it does to me and the potential Tens of Thousands of Jobs to be shed at Lloyds TSB/HBOS is testament to Brown misjudgement and cosy deals with his Banker friends.
Here is a Daily Telegraph link to the Mortgage spin back in 2007 before MP’s expenses blew up. Does he think people are stupid in not realising that Brown bought the property in Opposition from one of Robert Maxwell’s failed companies? Brown Claimed the interest on it up until becoming PM – transferred it to his wife who is significantly younger than him and likely to outlive him, who will be able to use the flat up until her death whilst having extracted money from it in 2007 at the very top of a housing Boom Gordon Brown created? Looks very Dodgy to me!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1556730/Flat-deal-will-mean-tax-savings-for-Brown.html
Of course if Sarah Brown rents the flat out to a tenant then it is taxed as her income and not that of her husbands – it is an arrangement that the Brown’s cannot fail to win.
http://tinyurl.com/qs8j78
SUNDAY TIMES IT LOOKS BAD FOR LABOUR
GORDON BROWN, battered by revelations over ministerial expenses and a series of embarrassing climbdowns, is heading for a humiliating third place in next month’s local elections.
An analysis for The Sunday Times by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, the election experts, shows Labour is trailing the Liberal Democrats as well as the Tories as it heads into the June 4 elections in 34 English local authorities.
They predict Labour will lose all four of the councils it controls and half the 500 seats it is defending. A separate YouGov poll shows Labour will get barely more than a fifth of the vote in European parliament elections on the same day. This is worse than five years ago, when Tony Blair was at the height of his unpopularity over the Iraq war.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6256702.ece
The B NP are on course to take almost half Labour’s votes LOL
Hat tip wibbler on PB.Com
@285 (Ted)
Three days ago this extract would have made my blood boil. Now it makes me laugh.
Iain Wright, who succeeded Lord Mandelson as MP for Hartlepool following a by-election, bought furniture for his second home without actually having one. He justified this with the argument that he would acquire a second home if he kept his seat at the next general election – but feared that if he did not make his claim before it, he would miss out on the amount that he believed he was entitled to claim for the year.
by wibbler May 9th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
” If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think. “
Pervy Phil Woolas is a tranny. It’s not illegal but why should we pay for his flowery dresses and frilly silk knickers?
One thought:
The Fees Office is probably staffed by such a bunch of incompetents that there will be many clerical errors – receipts filed against the wrong MP, inability to perform arithmetic even with the aid of a spreadsheet etc. – we’ve already seen this with e.g. Hazel’s travel expenses for her husband, where she pointed out that nearly £3,000 for 6 trips from Salford was totally inaccurate (she didn’t have access to Milliband’s private plane) – it was just £2615 for 17 trips.
Such inaccuracies will be used by the weasels.
That’s probably why they employed them in the first place!
IMPEACH SPEAKER MARTIN WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY..
HAS HAS BROUGHT THE HOUSE INTO TOTAL DISRESPECT BY HIS OWN ACTIONS AND DELIBERATE OMMISSIONS…
‘ere ‘ere
Miss Blears sold the property in Kennington, south London, in August 2004 for £200,000, making a profit of £45,000. She admitted last night that she did not pay capital gains tax (CGT) on the profit from the sale because “no liability” had arisen.
The admission suggested that Miss Blears declared the flat as her primary residence for tax purposes while at the same time telling the Commons authorities that it was her second home, a designation that enabled her to claim hundreds of pounds in parliamentary expenses.
CGT is liable to be paid on the profit from the sale of any property that is not classified with HM Revenue & Customs as a “main residence”. At the time of the sale Miss Blears had informed the Commons authorities that the Kennington flat was her second home, enabling her to claim mortgage interest payments on it at £850 a month.
Oh Hazel, how could you?
What has the bloody Inland Revenue been doing? They’ve been on my ass like a spotty rash in renet years. The less they found the more they presumed I had something to hide.
What I would like to know is this. Has just one of the slimy alligators in the Westminster swamp paid any capital gains tax at all on any second home ever?
recent years (renet WTF!)
I don’t condone what she did but as far as the tax man is concerned she may be right. As I understand it you can have more than one property for a period of time, during this time you can nominate to the tax man which house is your main residence, this only has to be for a day/week, and then you can re nominate another property, with both properties gaining the primary residence exception on both properties for a further three years. We can all do it. Details may not be completely accurate, but such a scheme does/did exist.
PS Some comments (in other blogs) refer to MPs only doing what businesses do when it comes to claims; this is bollocks. Business men must provide receipts, and it is only against tax (business men must pay the difference), not fully funded through taxes like MP’s allowances/expenses.
PPS. They must make up their mind – are they employees or self-employed; at present they enjoy the best of both worlds!! Especially with their pensions, a “luxury” that Gordon the Prick robbed from the rest of us to the tune of over £5’000’000’000 a year.
PPPS. Well done Major Packer on completing the London Marathon, good man!
Oi , Leave Prezza alone.
He’s a real salt of the earth working class guy.
Er, I think you’ll find that I’m the SCUM of the earth, not the salt of the earth..
Any news of these suicides? I thought not.
AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaH!!!!! going to hit the sack!! Have a dream Just, just maybe I, we, might have MP’s that are honest, truthfull not on the Ho didle fiddle, trustworthy, listening to their paymasters, US!! Sod it I’ll wake up in the morning….. Fuck it, reallity, no chanch!!
Boy, are they taking the piss out of all the stupid Labour voters north of every where!! What have you done?… You might see the light.. MMM pigs do fly if they are kicked hard enough!! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
More from the Telegraph HAZEL BLEARS FIRMLY IN THE SIGHTS
MPs’ expenses: Hazel Blears, the Communities Secretary, facing fresh questions over flat sale:
Hazel Blears is facing fresh questions over the tax arrangements surrounding the sale of a flat in South London she had designated as a “second home’.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5301703/Hazel-Blears-facing-fresh-questions-over-flat-sale-MPs-expenses.html
The admission suggested that Miss Blears declared the flat as her primary residence for tax purposes while at the same time telling the Commons authorities that it was her second home, a designation that enabled her to claim hundreds of pounds in parliamentary expenses.
You can have one or the other, not both. That is deliberate, that is.
The “hahaha I’m not very good at accountancy” defence doesn’t wash.
It’s been a good day, Giovanni Drogo
It’s the Chipmunk’s turn – see here Why Hazel Blears Must Quit. Oh dear.
That Joey jones cretin on Sky is getting as good at Labour fellatio as Nick Robinson.
I’ll twat the bastard.
Just twat him when no-one’s looking. Works for me.
He look more like Nixon by the day.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00526/gordon_03_526417a.jpg
He makes Nixon look more honest by the day.
In an attic somewhere there’s a picture of him looking very handsome.
To be honest I’ve been rather disaspointed by the revelations so far. They’re hardly the earth-shattering expose we’d been led to belive. They’re really a clutch of petty/dubious claims, but not the jaw-dropping theivery we’d been led to beleive. All of these are considerably less juicy than the McNulty/Smith fiddles already in public knowledge.
It reminds me of the G20 coverage. We were whipped up for weeks before hand to believe a tidal wave of anarchists was going to deluge central London – in the end they were outnumbered by coppers. I have much the same feeling here. Mabye the next few days will bring better stuff.
Mabye the Tories will give us more joy
oh i suspect they will drag it out and drop the really big ones at the end. A lot of the ones i’d suspect aint even been mentioned yet.
You kind of hope so. Otherwise the Telegraph have wasted their money. I can’t help wondering if this is one of those here today, gone tommorrow issues. It dominates the press coverage for a week – is embarrising for those involved – but within a month has faded from memory. I sincerely hope not.
Is it not time to create the order of the bath plug and lavatory seat? This will go to the MP who has produced the most creative and contemptible expenses claim.
Telegraph seems to be leading on Sinn bloody Fein. What’s the point of that ? Everyone hates them already, and they don’t affect the government.
WE WANT BALLS !
Fook off t’ Hoon who posted this
above
I may be a tosser, but not so munching as you pipple that bought my bogs
Now Fook off
Sorry
I meant to say Go Fourth you Hoons
Oh fuck Ive done it again
The Digger is Fucked… well past his sell by date….the rot set in when he got rid of Littlejohn and replaced him with that fucking buffoon Blunket…he appears at times to support the overthrow of this heinious Government but in the end he is a placeman…The Times and The Sun are organs of Gordon Brown the corrupt Prime Minister of Great Britian and its islands.
Claiming for Rememberance day Wreaths then whining the “He got away with it before.”
James Gray really is a Colossal sh*t !! Iain Dale is absolutely right.
Telegraph have totally bottled it. Too late now, the genie is already out of the bottle. Too late to put a stopper or cork in it. See it through, you wimps.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8042261.stm
No thats a coded puff piece no doubt, they are just covering their ass, they print the information and let the readers make up their mind, its the “this product may contain nuts” disclaimer, nothing more.
Then grab a pitchfork and lets go. My mind’s made up. Bring some flaming torches too, for extra effect. Lots of yelling, if you please.
Like ‘Get out Gordon.’ and much more fouler expletives of your choice.
David Cameron asks us to treat the June 4 elections as a referendum on the Brown government. Well, if you like. But you might also treat them as a referendum on the feeblest, most gutless, most ineffectual, most sleazy and complacent Opposition in British history, an Opposition that deserves to be sacked and replaced.
Peter Hitchens
And so it begins… Guardian is pummeling Hoon. The genuine Hoon, who is not only but also a Hoon.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/may/10/houseofcommons-mps-expenses-gordon-brown
What the press say, continued. Brown in trouble?
Well, it looks bad for Labour. Bad for some Conservatives, too, but the real sleaze problem seems to be afflicting Labour Mps. Any road up, as we Brummies say, here is what the press has to say about the continuing saga of Expensegate:
Sorry! That’s been double-posted.
David Maclean, the Tory member of the Commons commission, was even more defiant: “MPs will reject it if Kelly doesn’t get it right. MPs have nothing to lose.”
Why should a wealthy Tory frontbench MP (as yet unnamed) be given £598.59, tax-free, to pay for the servicing of his ride-on lawnmower?
Perhaps “ride-on lawnmower” is a euphemism.
Thank God normality has returned. Despite all the shit from westminster, Eastenders has been voted best soap for the second year running!
And we wonder why the UK is disappearing round the u bend.
The biggest hypocrit HOON.
The Commons official who called in the police over the leak of MPs’ expenses splits his time between four homes in three countries worth an estimated £4.5million.
Yet despite this onerous duty, Dr Jack, a close ally of Speaker Michael Martin, finds time to fly around the globe visiting his properties and has a second job as an author. His publisher even describes him as ‘living in Portugal’.
When 62-year-old Dr Jack became Clerk in 2006 he moved into 3 Parliament Street, a plum grace-and-favour home opposite the Commons worth £2.8million. In the same year, the Westminster authorities spent £100,000 on a lavish redecoration of the property, adding sparkling new features which included a £39,000 kitchen, bespoke furniture, a butler’s tray, flat-screen television and two ionic columns costing £963.
He also benefited from furniture polishing in the ‘patio area’, a £1,500 black slate hearth and ‘knife-pleat empire lamp shades’ at £158 a time.
MPs were furious about the expenditure – ironically, given the current furore about their claims – because the spending had not been approved by them.
Parliamentary officials said the cost of the refurbishment was below the threshold necessary for approval by MPs.
Dr Jack also owns a £1million townhouse in a leafy road in Islington, North London – shared for more than a decade with his 55-year-old partner, Robert Borsje – as well as a £600,000 home in Camps Bay, South Africa. In addition, he has the use of an apartment in Cascais, Portugal, estimated to be worth at least £250,000.
What a total hoon.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1179951/Commons-boss-called-police-homes-countries-including-grace-favour-mansion.html
Troughing poofters . . .
What is it with all these poofs? Benedict is right!
As for Speaker Martin: http://tinyurl.com/pc5ye7
How to fiddle £2million on expenses? Please don’t give them any more ideas…
Grima Wormtongue over on the Gruaniad http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/10/gordon-brown-mps-expenses>
It’s almost funny.
Get some comments in before the Mods wake up.
mrs moran interveiw is truly awesome , quite a convincing dishonest if you ask me .
but again we find the hand of mr speaker , in operation , did he nudge the accounts department to be more lite touch regulation ??
labour on 23% , i cant believe that it must be in farhenhight
still like gordons brother interview from behind wooden doors “go to the no10 office” it was nae me
bit of rats nest , still chavez shows how to do it , gordon must be sooo jealous
cock a hoop made my first thousand on GF , do i recieve a daily politics mug??
Have a look at this and get a sense of perspective.
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/299354/Tory-MP-James-Gray-is-exposed-as-a-greedy-skinflint-after-claiming-for-Remembrance-Day-WREATHS-on-expenses-while-Marathon-hero-Phil-Packer-crossing-finishing-line.html
Well that took some doing.
Brown the most unpopular PM since polling began – and half want him to quit now
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1179918/Brown-unpopular-PM-polling-began–half-want-quit-now.html
Even less than Michael Foot, bwahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhahahaha
Speaker Martin in this up to his eyeballs – the scapegoat seems to be bleating:
See the MoS: http://tinyurl.com/pc5ye7
Lord Carey (CofE) is having a moan about MPs’ expenses. Hopefully he will give back all the land and taxes that the CofE have stolen from the public over the last 2000 years. The CofE doesn’t pay tax and doesn’t represent the majority in our country; no wonder it’s the second, if not first, largest landowner in the country. Burn down the churches and give back the money to the people. Make all religions pay taxes; it is a false life-style choice, nothing more.
I am on tenterhooks.
And so are my friends Ed and Yvette.
I am feeling left out.
Among a cavalcade of parliamentary freaks and grotesques Tony McNutter stands snout and shoulder above the rest. An obnoxious, braying, bombastic bully, an oaf, an ill-mannered, jumped-up yob, every inch the Security Minister, the Kommandant . . .
The news before you read it elsewhere STOP THIEF – BACKDATE
Never did figure out what happened to Stanislav, the true poet of contemporary anger de nos jours.
“McNutter is a nasty freak, the stuff of nonce nightmares, and – it merges – a greedy, thieving, cowardly lout; he and his equally unpleasant and incompetent baggage, both of them already massively overpaid, have been for years stuffing their piggy faces whilst lecturing the rest of us about propriety, the fucking horrible pair of bastards. Mrs Thieving McNutter inspects the schools, Wheezing Tony polices the unemployed; O, brave new world, that has such people in’t.”
Numbering of posts seems to have collapsed under the strain. Guido, can’t you bring down the government and do IT?
It’s going to take a lot of arrests to placate me now – like the whole sodding lot of them.
Don’t miss this Guido:
“The question of how Mr Blair was able to obtain a £3,467,500 mortgage on Connaught Square, which was more than 18 times his salary at the time, has always been surrounded in mystery. ”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5301764/MPs-expenses-Tony-Blair-facing-questions-over-the-296000-mortgage.html
It would be unendurable if, as looks likely, the Brown charabanc goes hurtling ridiculously over a cliff but the Great Noncing Hyena Himself somehow escapes with his pseudo-reputation pseudo-intact – and lands the top EU job. Anyone apart from Mandy want his hot breath on the back of their neck for the next ten years?
It’s all very quiet on the Jacqui Sniff/Timney front………keep sending in
those bath plugs to our beloved Home Improvement Secretary.
You know it makes sense!
well tis` sunday were`s the continuation of this sorry saga? or did the telegraph lead you astray
Where in God’s name are you Cameron?
Are there ANY opposition Tories who are going to say something, anything, on this subject?
You are all so utterly useless.
Give me my money back, I’ve oaid you to oppose the Government, you hopeless bunch of cretins!
If Cameron doesn’t go public soon he won’t be getting any votes.
He’s no leader. Useless twat.
Joanna Lumley for PM with the Gurkhas as the new police force.
Traitors gate for the current lot of thieves and fraudsters.
If this purchases ARE true and they were claimed for….is this not a way of buying articles for another two people without his wife finding out?
Of course she will now be completely aware. Would it not be interesting to find out what she is saying to Phil now?
Two scenarios……they were not for me or any baby in our house Phil, so just who were they for?
………………………..they are for you Phil, so have you something to tell me?
O/T but alarming
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/may/10/g20-policing-agent-provacateurs
Could Martin Bell stand against Gordon Brown with the other parties standing aside in his favour?I’m not in favour of tatical voting but would make an exception in this case. What about 2 bogs?Surely the crooked moron can’t be in line for a peerage.Perhaps he could appear with Gillian McKeith examining one of his turds?
It would be amazing if Labour ended up behind the lib dems at the next election – fingers crossed!
Let’s start the day with an image that truly recalls to mind the intensity of our anger: that of Keith Vaz’s grotesquely corpulent lard-arse splaying down sweatily on a brand new luxuriously refined silk cushion (one of seventeen)
THAT WE PAID FOR OUT OF OUR TAXED INCOME.
Is he reclined on a sofa that we also bought? Feet up on the coffee table that he stole from us? Is his suit also silk? And his tie, and his shirt? Are his expertly manicured fingers gripping a mobile phone that we pay for? What is he saying into it? He is saying “F U C K Y O U”!
Why does BBC News 24 always ask Toilets to comment? His political affiliation is well known, yet he is regularly wheeled out when they require a tame pundit. I wonder why that might be?
Is ‘Hoon’ a well accepted slang term, or was it coined right here on this blog?
[...] Coming Tomorrow : How to Fiddle £2 Million On Expenses Tax Free … [...]
I just might add that sex scandals are not the exclusive domain of the Tory party.
Just ask Ron Davies and Chris Bryant.
Last week I looked at the fragrant Nadine Dorries’s blog page. I was surprised to notice that everybody who left a comment was full of praise for her.
I left a mildly critical comment on there, only to find that it had not been published. I then changed my screen name and left a comment praising her. This was published almost immediately. I then left another message commenting on the fact that only non critical comments were published.
Since then, whenever I have tried to access her blog page, access has been denied to me! Is this a coincidence or am I being paranoid?