+++ HMRC Official : MPs Will Be Investigated +++
Benefits in kind going undeclared by MPs and flipping primary residences to evade capital gains taxes will now be investigated according to a statement released by HM Revenue Commissioners.
Listening to the politicians who lecture us on redistribution and tell us “it is right that those who have more, pay more” explain why they evaded capital gains taxes is going to be fun. Fun for Guido at least. In fact it is like all Guido’s Christmases have come at once. Smeargate followed by the total exposure of the reality of politician’s troughing venality and lack of integrity is everything Guido has ever wanted.
Finally, after four hundred and four years, the torture of the original Guido Fawkes is being repaid without resort to the rack. When they start jailing politicians, old Guy will have been completely avenged.
Agree.
Steady! A smile of satisfaction would be in order, as indeed would a celebratory tipple, but gloats must be avoided …
merry christmas Mr. Fawkes.
Let’s tag them, then we’ll know where they’re really living.
There’s nothing wrong with a good gloat.
Gloats? It is time for a total commitment to lawful rebellion against these criminal bastards.
Create your affidavits and send them off today with your notice of intentions and claim of rights. Declare your lawful freedom from and your refusal to consent to contract to their corrupt system.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO CONSENT TO THEIR STATUTES! YOU CAN LAWFULLY REFUSE CONSENT!
http://www.tpuc.org
Bollox, I’m, having a beer on it!
MPs have voted themselves an extra £25K of expenses this year. No. REALLY
The role of The Speaker in all this should be worthy of comment.
The first speaker of Parliament was Thomas de Hungerford who presided over the ‘Bad Parliament’ which sat between Jan – Mar 1377, this undid the work of the ‘Good Parliament’ which had reduced much of the corruption in the Royal Council of that time.
I wonder if ‘Gorbals Mick’ knows the history of his office, and fully understands his responsibilities and duties, and I also wonder how history will judge this shameful man.
Kate Hoey is the only one to come out of the expenses troughing with honour
http://plato-says.blogspot.com/2009/05/guess-which-mp-this-is.html
400 years, you paddy’s certainly know how to hold a grudge.
Is paddy classed as racist??
I ask Harriet, she’ll know.
W..W.
Did Dave pay for his windmill or was this paid by the little people?
Wait and see!
or alternatively
Off fuck!
James Parnell another hoon
Second Home allowance for the commons allowance
Primary Residence for Capital Gains Tax
Come the revolution
Domestic windmills take a week to boil a kettle. If he has any sense he will have taken it back to B&Q by now. But did he refund us?
If he did we should ask him to get a refund because they are a total useless piece of over-hyped rubbish – you’d get more electricity connecting a 3 AA batteries to your electric socket !
Aren’t the Scrotal-Coopers in the same position with regard to the declaration of “primary” residence?
I Sir Michael White would like to offer a contrarian view that MP’s are well worth the money and the system is working and that this media storm in a teacup will be over very shortly.
My evidence is below:
When less than 50% of the electorate turn out to vote at the next general election, Parliament itself will no longer have a mandate to govern, and all the Hoons will ask “WTF?”
if more than 50% do not want to vote for the mainstream, then it is about time that they realised that they are the MAJORITY and that they are the BIGGEST POWER BLOCK in the UK. That 50%+ should turn out to vote and USE THEIR VOTE AGAINST THE BASTARDS!
Face it, labour got a 66 seat majority with only 22% of the vote. 50%+ could eradicate labour and the tories and the libdems ALTOGETHER!
PEACEFUL REVOLUTION. SACK THE MPs!
listen guys; get all your friends; relatives; work mates & neigbours to go to the polls; they don’t have to vote for these corrupt hoons.
they need to SPOIL THEIR BALLOTS if they won’t vote for someone.
Staying at home is seen as apathy – the hoons think apathy is a vote for the status quo.
If you really think the system is broke; or corrupt; or pointless you really need to tell the hoons – & the only way to do that is to take the trouble to go to the polling station & put a diagonall line through the whole ballot paper
This has got to be done this election – Mr Fawkes; you & your fellow bloggers need to seriously get behind this as the ONLY alternative to voting for a candidate; a spoiled ballot is the only way we have of saying NOT ONE OF YOU is good enough to represent me !
i disagree – even if only 10 per cent of the electorate bothered to vote, those Hoons will still carry on regardless, enriching themselves at the taxpayer trough.
Short of asking the army to take over in a military coup, our only option is to use the ballot box – DO NOT VOTE FOR ANY LIB/LAB/CON candidate.
If theres an independent listed – vote for him. Commie Anarchist? Vote for him. Monster Raving GumDrop Loony La La Land Candidate? Vote for him. Lord Kilfuddle of the Whiskey Drinkers Fox Hunting Tally Ho Party? Vote for him.
In short – ANYONE except Lib/Lab/Con. its in our hands – we could wipe out this entire lot of corrupt bastards at the next election.
pete_dtm has it right. You must vote: YOU MUST SPOIL YOUR BALLOT. The reason is that the returning officer, by law, has to announce the NUMBER OF SPOILED BALLOTS. Imagine – JUST dream – of the Dumbleboys trying to explain that in the constituency of some scumbag trougher the number of spoiled papers was greater than the votes cast for the winner! Oh joy!
Although pete_dtm makes an interesting point, I can’t help thinking that gunpowder would make a better one!
The trouble with spoiled papers en-masse is that they accuse the elctorate of not understanding the ballot paper. This is what they did in the last Euro elections. Admittedly, overly complicated, but there were still too many for it to be confusion.
The proper way to spoil a ballot paper is to use a large Z
Link to statement, please, Guido, I want to enjoy it?
Or are you awash with Guinness already, you Fenian get?
Who would have thought it would be in the Grauniad’s little sister?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/may/10/mps-expenses-jacqui-smith
Jacqui Smith is to blame for everything. Had the Hoon Secretary not clamped down on pirating internet porn, her “partner” would not have needed to watch pay per view, which would have prevented or delayed this scandal coming out.
Hey Jacqui, arrest yourself for terrorism.
Better still arrange for the arrest to take place in the Palace of Westminster so that Harriet Harman can prove that the police are institutionally sexist and I get to arrange for my pals to be forced on them through the Equality Bill!
prezza:
Will HMRC also check Brown’s tax returns for declaring rental income from his consituency office (which was against the rules in the first place)?
How about the tax returns from McNulty’s parents and Smith’s sister. Was the rent from the family member declared in tax returns. Was the rent actually paid. If paid, was none of the money returned at a later stage via perhaps another bank account? Hearings under oath are necessary to really get to the bottom of this.
They got Al Capone for tax evasion. Not perfect, but good enough.
When are we going to get more about Darling and Hoon flipping first and second homes in order to maximise expenses and avoid CGT?
It’s all very well going on about the chipmunk, but she’s small fry. The other two seem to be getting an easy ride from everybody.
The Chancellor must also stand down if HMRC will be investigating him?? Flipping and CGT non payment must be a resigning matter for him….surely?
fucking hope so..
Sun readers don’t like Labour and their PC policies very much…
Honestly, this has gotten so bad that I do not believe that there is ANY action now that these bastards would resign over. Eating babies and buggering the still warm corpse wouldn’t be a resigning matter for these fuckers. And 15% of the country would STILL vote for the k.u.n.t.s!!!
They would vote for dog shit if it had a red rosette on it, the bastards!
It may be even more serious, as most MPs probably use accountants to prepare their tax returns.
In the Chancery Division (published July 1st, 2005), McEwan v Martin (Inspector of Taxes), if an accountant has made an error in the calculation of GCT, the taxman was entitled to the assumption that the tax return was correct. If it is later found to be wrong, the normal six-year period does not apply. In this particular case, the taxman went back to as far as 1986-87. See section 36 of the Taxes Management Act 1970.
Oops!
Fuck off.
This is just the start. For me it’s all about sending our troops off to fight and die on foreign shores to satisfy the US oil dependency, whilst not offering up any of their own lambs for sacrifice. Sorry that should read piglets.
If they were all to die of syphilis a la Capone it wouldn’t be “good enough”.
How come all these 2nd homes end up as the property of the troughing MPs???
Surely, when they are sold, the money should go back to the tax payer!!!
In future there should be a simple rent allowance, related to the going rate for say a 2 bed flat in somewhere like Battersea. And it should be claimable only by those MPs whose constituencies are beyond reasonable commuter distance (bearing in mind late nights have been abolished). If PMs then wish to spend above that on a mortgage or a to rent a better flat, that is their choice.
The sight of Moran this morning trying to justify her troughing for a place on the South Coast was sickening. she seemed to have no sense of morality whatever – only of entitlement. And the BBC gave her an easy ride too.
Absolutely – the MP’s are avoiding tax as well – and putting £400 a month food expenses through – show me an unemployed person who gets to spend that much – while the overpaid are!
James Purnell wanted to shake up the benefits system – he should’ve started in parliament – with himself!
Of course she got an easy ride she deserved it.
Now that Selina Hinchcliff was really unprofessional saying that Hamilton and Inverness Caledonian Thistle’s draw helped towrds them staying up when there are five teams in danger of going down. Truly unprofessional.
Oooh, bet HMRC’s Duty Press Officer is having a busy day…
It will all be covered up. It should be the police investigating and I don’t mean the shit 80′s band either.
If you want the police to get involved, you have to report a crime.
I’ve reported the thieving Hunts to the Serious Fraud Office. Their criteria are:
1) Fraud exceeding £1,000,000
2) Public Interest
3) International Dimension
Portillo stated on This Week that all new MPs were taken to one side and told to claim the maximum ‘allowed’ so as ‘not to let the side down’.
That sounds like a conspiracy to defraud the taxpayer.
If other people also lodge complaints, it might just get investigated.
http://www.sfo.gov.uk/cases/guidance.asp
Done it
Should we just go for a job-lot or name an MP individually when complaining?
I reported ‘a conspiracy to defraud’.
As it is Sunday, you get the answer phone. I told them that it was “in excess of £1million, in the public interest, highly complex and involving very high profile people”.
If they don’t get back to me by Monday lunchtime, I’ll try again.
HMRC have much more power to get in amongst this issue and cause mayhem than the Police would have-always remember the lessons of history-in this case al Capone.
Don’t see many HMRC cases resulting in prison time though……. fines yes but that seems to be it in most cases.
Lester Piggott was a tax evader and he did time, although I believe that was VAT.
The warning is pretty clear on your tax return where you sign at the bottom. It may only result in a fine, at minimum, but it will also be a criminal record.
It is not just fines but they face swingeing penalties and penal interest for undeclared tax.Paying the amounts back will be far cheaper.
Blears is a solicitor.The SRA are entitled to strike her off for tax evasion in these circumstances.
Only a fine, perhaps, but why do I get this warm feeling when I see them in my mind’s eye getting their DNA taken and put on the data base?
Our Common Purpose colleagues in HMRC will make sure there is a whitewash.
That news has really made my day!Although they will probably all get away with it.
fucking hope so…
Without resort to the rack ?
Why not ?
Screw the rack, I want the lot in Scavengers Daughters for two weeks solid then hung by the wrists in sharpened manicles for a month. And finish them off with an axe and large wooden block. If it was good enough for traitors in the 1500′s then why not now?
Waterboarding is pretty vicious.
I misread that and lost myself in a medieval phantasy for a minute..
Any of the scavengers want to give me 2 weeks of their daughters, before they are sent soiled with manacle marks about their person.. that is fine by me..
Oh joyous day
In the longer term I’ll believe it when I see:
*widespread repayment of ‘expenses’
*MPs and Lords in jail, appropriate sentences, served in full
*clearout and life bans from public life of the guilty
*revocation of Lord/Lady ships etc for those bringing disgrace on politics
*Following immediate full disclosure of evidence, I want a general election
If enough of us report the scumbags to the police for investigation, we might be able to trigger elections in the troughers’ seats. Should there be sufficient elections triggered, we might be able to overthrow the government in a HoC motion of no confidence.
There are easily 50 Labour seats that can be culled by a determined public and opposition MPs.
Its not just Labour though its all off them
I’ll grunt you that.
I want to see the guilty – ALL of them, of whatever stripe, living in rusting shipping containers under flyovers. Let them forage the hard shoulders at night for Carrion to gnaw with suppurating gums and a remaining handfull of enamelless peggy teeth like Crystal Meth monsters. Maximum speed on flyovers to be reduced to 5 Mph to allow for accurate projection of fecal “grenades” and other unpleasant “aides memoire” by the victims of their excess.
That would be justice under natural law.
And the repeal of any European treaties these corrupt twat’s have signed in our name!
Hear Hear! No doubt the worst offenders – the Minsiters – will shortly be off to join the EU gravy train, which is even more corrupt: p://tinyurl.com/p6rewo
They tried to shut up the EU accountant too… very viciously, and led by Neil Kinnick who was in charge of the ‘fight against EU corruption’. Hypocrite hoon.
I have to live on a pension which gives me just over £100pw for EVERYTHING, and as I live in a rural area I need a car. Meanwhile these hoons – wo refuse to raise the pension – could and did claim £100pw just for food! Meanwhile pensioners – most of whom give up their youth to the war effort – are forced to choose between food and heating.
I agree – being a carer – I’m on £44 a week!
Got a PhD – could do better, but the other half needs constant attention. If I spend more than 2 consecutive days apart (ie 20 working hours) she goes nuts – erm, psychiatrically speaking.
Would love to have £100 a week for anything, especially as I’m a substitute psychologist/psychiatrist/psychiatric nurse, and work ~120 hours a week!
eighth!
Not to good at figures yourself. 1 followed by 0 means ten
too
Eye-Eye appears to be correct, after much consutation on these figures with our esteemed chancellor and the MP’s allowances office i can indeed safely report that a 1 followed by a 0 is indeed 10, therefore your statement of “eight” is incorrect and may be fraudulant and may be open to investigation by the SFO
thank you
unless it’s within the rules.
There are 10 types of people in the world…
Those that understand binary, and those that don’t.
1 followed by 0 …
Just a thought, not in octal!
Not just lecturing us on redistribution of wealth but everything, including how we bring up our children and what we think, say and look at. How dare they take any position of moral superiority after these disgraceful revelations of their grasping greed, vanity and lack of integrity. They have no right to lecture us on anything and can take their stupid PC laws and shove them where the sun don’t shine.
Mass civil disobedience is the only appropriate response to this.
Oh I do so agree, Oh joy, my legs have gone wobbly anticipation.
Agree, English Lib. Civil disobedience – put some fear into those arrogant, hypocritical bastards.
as these c’unts are so keen on occupation I suggest we storm parliament, throw these thieves out and occupy the commons.
then we should throw the fraudsters into the thames. the ones that drown can be presumed to be innocent and be given a posthumous pardon, but the ones who float would be classified as black magic witches and should be burned at the stake.
who is for?
Sounds like a plan to me.
If only we could do that. Unfortunately to get that near the commons you probably have to get permission from Wankboot Jacqui.
jacqui,
I figure the police would only be able to machine gun down the first couple of rows of us before we overwhelmed them.
I am willing to go on the front line.
my only regret is that I would not be available to help with the hangings of these traitors.
I will ofcourse bequeath my stockpiles of rope, stakes and piano wire to the cause.
I’m sorry, I must be thick. Shove the PC laws where the sun don’t shine? That’s your arse ain’t it? But I always thought PC stood for Pure Crap. So I thought crap belonged up your arse. I’m confused. If PC doesn’t stand for Pure Crap what could it stand for? Parliamentary Crime? Parliamentary Credibility?
@134 – It stands for ‘Political Correctness’! Mind you, ‘Pure Crap’ is just as apt
Definition of Politically Correct:
Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
Heres’s one…
Definition of Politically Correct:
Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
There were thousands of pensioners this winter having to make a choice between feeding themselves and keeping warm… perhaps someone could explain why they were paying their taxes so MPs could claim £400 a week expenses for food?
Parliament MUST be dissolved.
An excellent point and too boot Labour were constantly inferring eveyrone did not care except them
Hoons the lot of them
I’d like to know why as a carer – a replacement for a psychiatrist/psychologist and mental Health nurses – I’m on £44 a week, while Purnell the R-Sole decides to crucify the significantly ill – with ~£90 a week for all expenses feels he’s eligible for £400 a week food bills to be paid.
Why was he given a salary if everything was paid on expenses?
Of course parliament should be dissolved – I believe sulphuric acid works quite well
And just to cap it all I see that those money grabbing MP’s have managed to vote themselves a 17.5% increase in their expenses allowance this year. That will mean an additional £16million syphoned off the tax payer to spend on whatever takes an MP’s fancy.
Troughing Twats!
Yes, they’re solving the “problems with the system” by giving themselves an increase. Obviously they still think we’re mugs.
Gordon Brown claimed twice for plumbing – presumably it was “the cistern that needed changing”
funny!
I thought I told you to stop doing the smiley face nonce stuff.
you fucking idiot.
Plato must be spinning in his grave to be misrepresented by a cretin like you.
use a different name.
‘spastic’ would be a far more appropriate moniker for you.
Didn’t you get any cock last night TaT? No mandingo to suck on? No penis up your bottom? No semen dribbling down your throat?
What wrong ‘thick as shit’, still can’t get the smileys to work?
Please stop using “spastic” as an insult, it’s not very nice you fucking gimp.
chimp boy,
I am a juvenile and your comments are completely inappropriate.
you fucking nonce.
robespierre,
fuck off you french spastic.
show more respect when talking to an Englishman you dog.
Hear Hear!
fucking gimp! Excellent observation
This problem started in America.
Don’t you mean paedophile? you racist hoon.
Agreed, BUT WE WANT OUR TAX MONEY BACK!
(it was collected for the good of the people of the UK)
not for freeloading scum MP’s
NO MONEY BACK = NO CREDIBILITY = NO VOTES!
Yes, order them to pay it back – then order them to GET OUT
I’m really looking forward to my Labour MP’s canvassers coming around at the GE.
Where can I find the dirt on his expenses?
Boo hoo, we never get labout canvassers in this neck of the woods, I feel deprived. We only get conservatives and SNP. Mind you, looking at my (SNP) MP’s expenses i might have a few choice words for them an’ all.
We’re entitled to a complete review on taxes. Minus the troughing = we should all end up paying a pittance.
Let’s not forget the troughing Councillors,Quangoettes,Top Cops,NHS hoons.
NHS Hoons…………. yes…….. have a look at the NHS FOUNDATION Trusts and how they have hiked up their own payments whilst denying those working for them zilch!!!
News flash just said they have recently spent £350 MILLION smackers on NHS ‘management consultants’ – who predictably failed to improve patient care
Waterboard Blears – wouldn’t need a particularly big waterboard.
An old-style scrubbing board would be most appropriate!
Put her on the rack. Think about it it’s straighten her up, stretch out that stupid smug grin and gain her a few inches. On second thoughts it’s too good for her.
Obviously her shrink wroked.
Put the bitch on the rack and then charge her for Spinal Realignment Therapy
What spine?
Go on. If you stretch really hard she could end up about 3 feet tall.
If Hazel goes then so must the rest.
Particularly Hoon and Darling.
‘please sir, i didn’t want to do it but a big boy made me do it and then he ran away’
Shame you should justify your campaign by reference to a profoundly anti-democratic bigot and mass murderer, Guido.
And just who was a ‘murderer’ then, Knyvett?
oh do fuck off you fucking wanker.
thankyou.
ps no receipt, no refund.
not you Mr Grimes, I am obviously referring to the spastic knyvett.
what sort of a fucking stupid name is that anyway?
clearly not an English one, sounds like some sort of bastardised name to me.
I am profoundly grateful for your gentlemanly clarification, mr thick as thieves. Please carry on with the good work!
thank you sir. will do.
In the light of current events you might consider changing your name to
“thick as MPs.”
Guido didn’t even mention Tony Blair, did he?
don’t worry killemall, I can confirm that the warmongering c’unt tony ‘child killer’ blair is definitely on the list.
gonna take that motherfucker down for sure.
Guido ought to know the name Knyvett very well.
As should his sock-puppet, thick as thieves.
Say it’s not so!
Been in any good movies recently James Stuart?
you twat, fawkes was not a mas murderer as he got caught before the act. and how the fuck was he a bigot?
Don’t feed the fuckin’ trolls! Sense and facts enrage them!
Thomas Knyvett (Sir) was the one who apprehended Guy Fawkes. According to Wikipedia he was the first resident on the site of 10 Downing Street !! Spelling is 17th century which is why it looks odd.
According to a recent BBC series on Scotland’s history, Guy Fawkes was only after King James with the gunpowder plot because of his Scottish bias. He also had a hitlist of Scottish hangers-on.
Nothing changes does it?
He was doing God’s work.
Amen.
‘Twas I who recruited Mr Fawkes for his derring do and special knowledge of explosives
shirts of if you love guido
He woz stitched up. Apprarently, the gunpowder was corn but he never had time to make it go ‘Pop’.
Didn’t see no reference to Blair and Bush, I’ll have another read.
Heads on spikes on the London bridge, please
Are there enough spikes??
I’ll get down to B&Q and get some – can I put them on expenses?
Questions have to be asked like those put forward by Plato.Its not those who have been shamed its those who have not.It is clear to me that whistle blowers should look to Blogs to release information so unbiased publication is effected.
You reckon bloggers are unbiased? Guido’s axe has been grinding away fro over 400 years!
eg. Why as the DT got no Balls?
No Yvette’s got them.
Yeah. Its now just a lolly stick.
Guido can die a happy man now – not that I’m wishing such a fate upon him of course. I will be a tad pissed off if the execrable Balls and his missus escape the deserved public opprobrium they are due. The Telegraph have a duty to publish if they have possession of the dirt I’m sure exists.
I’ve heard they’re publishing Balls and Coopers’ expenses tomorrow. Should be interesting but not surprising any more.
Oh please!!
Edwin and I are especially well connected with the powers-that-be at the LieBoreGraph.
Bit like Princess Polytwaddle and the Speccy.
All us toffs must stick togevva,
Innit?
If the Telegraph have any sense then they’ll keep the Balls expenses until he gets made chancellor at the reshuffle.
Ooh that would be hilarious.
1. Whilst Gordon’s stuck in his Immodium period, who’s running the country?
2. Given her ministerial responsibilities, how can HMRC investigate Ms Cooper?
She’ll have to stand down if there’s a conflict of interest – or nobble the evidence to stay there
immodium Period??
Is that a bit like the cretaceous period? – all rocks and hard places – or was that the period of shit and mud when critters were moving in the slime?
Being lowly tax fodder, I just ask.
It’s like Raas Claat but from the back bottom of the c.unt Brroonn!
This period in history will be known as the Cretinous Period
anon,
good point. cooper will have to step down.
oh, and do make an effort to come up with a name.
posting as an anonospastic gives one the impression that you may either have something to hide yourself or that you are retarded.
you just got pwned above mr thick as (see – Sir Tomas Knyvett) – i suggest you calm down and leave the industrial language to northern hoons like me.
oh dear!
you obviously don’t know the lineage of the man and have therefore entirely missed the irony of my comment. y’know, how foreigners keep having undue influence on our Parliament.
like I’ve always said about you mr prescott, you are just a lard-arsed ignorant working class sell out Hunt.
oh, and in such a rush you were, you mistyped and therefore lost all impact.
pwned? is that some kind of oop north word. we don’t use it down here john.
we use the Queen’s English, not your northern variation of the language.
you dopey fat Hunt.
shame really.
and what’s it like to have a cock like an acorn john. didn’t it keep slipping out of tracey’s fanny?
how on earth did you achieve orgasm?
…er hold on, we really don’t want to know.
YUCK!
T(w)aT I think you’d best look up pwned – it is a word, it was used appropriately
nothing to hide, just to annoy you
anon
oh yeah! I’ve just found it!
pwned – a person who is such a spastic they can only just manage to hit the anonymous button when commenting on blogs.
you learn something new every day, eh anonospaz.
ha! double pwned!
Nobody “runs the country”. We run it ourselves, we live our lives. Cretins like McSnot are parasites who tax 43% of our national income to piss up against a wall. If 80% of “government” disappeared tomorrow we would not miss it, and we would have a lot more of our own money to spend on ourselves, rather than buying more bog seats for that fat arsed lard bucket John Two Inch Prescock.
spot on!
Put Prince Philip in charge for a bit. He’ll have the hoons in Parliament horsewhipped for starters.
The question that need asking (and answering)
Have you stopped fiddling your expenses yet?
Me? No chance I just put in a bill for two grand for an holiday in Rome and a night in Richmond upon Thames. If the stupid F!ӣ$%S accept it then all the better for me!
Keep going, Guido, until they are sacked/deselected/fined/jailed – every single one of them who’s milking the system.
You mustn’t give up Guido, even when the media do.
So, for once we have a crisis that is neither global nor of American origin. No doubt Britain is uniquely best placed to deal with it though.
’tis right gradley, that ‘un
Hat’s off Guido. The Moran woman was on the Politics show this morning puting up the most feeble of excuses which seemed to revolve around her “partner” and the claims for the Southampton house were to keep them satisfied because that’s where he worked. She should not an MP & is clearly going to be booted out. God give me strength
…except as Dale shows – The True Home of Mr Margaret Moran – they both reside at Luton, Makes the Moron a double twatted liar but then as she is Nu Kleptoliebour no surprises there.
http://www.iaindale.blogspot.com/
Her claims are blatantly fraudulent.
She should be prosecuted.
Her case is a credibility test for the continuation of Parliamentary Government.
There’s only one way to go now, independent MP’s, referendums for the people, and politics with principles. Jury Team have got my vote. http://www.juryteam.org
My tip for the gamblers: there will be more independents standing at the next election, than has ever been seen before. I’m offering 999 – 1 on.
Hmmm.. Investigation.
I’m trying to imagine an investigation that would have the balls to proffer actual charges and bring in Plod but I’m afraid my imagination just can’t conjour it up.
Kicked into the long grass in the hope no-one will remember it in a few months time is the only thing I hear when such “investigations” are announced.
And the number of people actually brought to book for evading capital gains or the other myriad other Tax Evasions is laughable anyway.
Platitudes and hollow empty words will not butter any parsnips as Major might say.
Baroness Uddin has, over a period of years, claimed tens of thousands of pounds of the British Taxpayers money for a ‘primary residence’ that, according to neighbours, has never been inhabited. There is obviously a Prima Facie case of obtaining money by deception, the injured party being the British Taxpayer.
The Taxpayers Alliance should make a formal crime complaint to New Scotland Yard and Baroness Uddin should be subject to the same scrutiny and investigation as any other citizen. Utility and Council Tax Bills, together with witness statements from neighbours should easily resolve the issue.
I’m all for it Anon. Bring it, as they say, on.
Especially as an Official Investigation would consider a few finger wagging disapproving words of “Don’t get caught again!” to be the “Nuclear” option of last resort and utmost harshness.
Absolutely no chance of these Pigs being shamed out of office though.
We can strike that one from the list of impossible things to do before breakfast.
Could the taxpayers alliance not be brought in to oversee m.ps expenses, as we the taxpayer are footing the bill.
Sadly,I feel your comment is probably all too accurate. Street corner water boarding parties for the likes of moran et al , would work though.
Its actually the nausiating hypocracy of the faux socialists that really rankles !
Agreed,
as much as i would like to see these thieves brought to justice, nothing will be done apart from Brown reforming the “rules” to make it all perfectly legal and above board.
Doesnt matter what he does – people are too angry and wont allow it. They’ve really done it this time.
Guido, do you have a link to the statement??? I need to see this with my own eyes!!!
They must be shitting themselves, not long to go now and they’ll be out of office and out of power. A campaign for a truth and reconciliation tribunal, admittance of guilt and repayment of monies being the first step in avoiding a prison sentence for these crooks.
If Aitken and Archer can do time then so can these thieving bastards.
The Daily Politics
Reconciliation? With these quims? You gotta be jokin’!
No reconciliation without representation.
Investigation……. I suspect that it will only be the Tories arrested, fingerprinted, DNA’d, photographed and detained for 10 hours to be questioned under caution……
The ZaNuLab swine, with snouts in the trough of excess, will just have to provide a written answer via lawyers (paid for on legal aid)……
Roll on next year…… and the demise of the Scottish mafia and Gorbals the C*nt!
Latest:- Police swab Jaqui for DNA but couldn’t find any. Have decided to try front bottom.
They have just ‘phoned us to provide a large appliance
Let me know when you find one.
A sample of her DNA confirms she is made of kebab meat and chili sauce.
Haven’t NOID got Jack’s DNA?
Happy Christmases, Guido.
Keep at ‘em. The Lords, then the Town Halls, fuck ‘em all!
I trust that the HMRC will also be charging the “official interest rate” of 10% on any unpaid tax too
Penalties as well, go back six years and if there is evidence of deliberate evasion even further.
Don’t forget the penalties announced in the PBR:
30% of the unpaid tax for a simple mistake
100% if deliberate
Even worse if attempted to conceal
If HMRC plays straight with this, those surplus homes will have to be sold
I’ve got HMRC in next week inspecting my books and am a tiddler who has paid 11k in Corp Tax.
What incentive is there for me to work hard and employ two staff if MPs can claim more than I invoice in tax free perks??
re : Stuart Bell claiming on Sky there will be a new system with a separate audit function.
The MPs like Bell and Martin had a perfectly functioning system under Elizabeth Firkin and nobbled her because she was doing the job – what will be different this time.
Bell should be removed from his position as he hasn’t the credibilty to oversee a new system
Stuart Bell
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/stuart_bell/middlesbrough#expenses
Clearly he has LOTS of claims in there……any questionable?
So, HMRC is to be set on Blears. McBride really is still there in the background pulling the revenge strings isn’t he?
The absence of Balls from all this is becoming curiouser and curiouser.
Would not surprise me if sources close to Gordon leaked the expenses to the Telegraph.
Don’t worry comrades they have the EU trough to run their little trotters over to. Fuck Nu Labour and the rest, vote them out as we can, but the real socialist superstate remains. June is the time to tell them all to fuck off and vote UKIP.
Guido,
David Cameron MUST create an “In-House Tory Rules Book” asap, otherwise, for me at least, I’ll not be voting for them.
These MPs must employ twats full-time to scour the rules book in order to achieve the ultimate benefit for their bosses.
I’m just waiting for Frank’s (Field) expenses to be put under the microscope, and if it proves he’s been `at it` too.
Thank you Guido for showing me the light.
Eric.
F. Field’s expenses (at first glance) appear to be on the reasonable side: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/frank_field/birkenhead
but then so do Mrs. Ballox, so i dunno.
A way of shunting the whole thing into the long grass.
HMRC is just as compromised as any other government department. You only have to look at the previous head of HMRC who resigned and, two weeks later, turned up working in Downing Street.
This is a political ruse to ensure that any questions now being asked can be shunted into the sidings. ‘No comment’ will now be the mantra. ‘The case is bening investigated by the tax authorities and I am therefore unable to make a comment until such time as the matter is settled. But I am, of course, innocent of any charges’.
The WHOLE establishment is signed up to the ZaNu Labour mantra. Period.
Saw this
Welcome to “HMRC Is Shite” (www.hmrcisshite.com) which is dedicated to the taxpayers of Britain, and the employees of the HMRC, who have to endure the monumental shambles that is Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
This site is a living monument to the incompetence and arrogance of Gordon Brown, who set HMRC up.
Please send in your horror stories (whether you are a taxpayer or employee) about your experiences of the HMRC to me Ken Frost.
So we now know Ken Frost is the Anonymous……. Ken start using your name!!
Smith and the claim for porno films, Mandelson, who at best is an incompetent who cannot provide information on a mortgage application form, at worst obtained money by deception and had to resign on two occasions (rewarded with a title and the position of Business Minister). These people and the rest of the pigs at the Westminster Trough are dogshit on the shoes of society. The sooner they are scraped off the better
poetry
are gray and mundell top be the first Tory toast
yes they claimed for wreaths but just about every wreath comes out of some sort expenses pot
should “wreaths on expenses” for anybody be banned so those mouthing platitudes are actually putting their gobs where their mouths are
my bet then is that the November military jamboree will come to a crashing halt
wonder what per centage of wreaths are bought by the layer of the wreath??
Wonder what Gordon is having for lunch……it will run straight thru him
Like a rapier or dagger would, do you mean?
I thought you said like a drapper …
All of which begs the question as to why HMRC haven’t investigated these troughing bastards before?
well, you see, we may share the same offices but we don’t always see what’s going on. Besides, we spend most of our time ducking from the fling mobiles. I mean doing research and checking on the population.
This and other blogs are great to sound off and make you feel better.
But do you really think anything is going to change?
The media is culpable too, suckin up to their masters, they allowed these Hunts a free ride, BUT THEY KNEW WHAT WAS GOING ON ALL THE TIME!
No MP is gonna go to jail or experience anything remotely like that. They wield the POWER. Sorry, but as much as I share all the sentiments so eloquently articulated on this blog, I thought I’d better bring you all back down to earth and the true reality of it all.
Hope springs eternal
It’s that attitude that has kept the people down as we’ve all been pessimistic together… We’ve all known what goes on but assumed nothing can be done.
It only takes a little spark and someone to stand up for everyone to stand behind them.
This might be the time and the place.
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED.. it’ll be on order-order.com!
Guy Fawkes tried a little spark and look where that got him. I suggest hanging, drawing and quartering.
On the face of it perhaps websites like this don’t achieve much but they are a great outlet and could quite easily encourage some of the quieter ones (like me) to indulge in some civil disobedience if the opportunity arises.
I suspect they also encourage the dead tree lot to be a little braver than they would otherwise be. Thus Guido and friends are providing a great service.
This blog has brought me back to politcs. From being an addict these last 40 I’d given up even watching the news in the last year as it was all too depressing – and getting worse rather than better. I remember spending two days in bed after Labour got in, in 1997 – I was that upset… I could see then they were total hoons who would destroy the country.
Now thanks to the web I see a glimmer of hope and I’ve started taking an interest again
I see Jackboot is “seeking legal advice”
Will the MPs be paying for their own legal expenses, or will we be funding both their crimes and defense of their crimes.
5 bellies should fuck off, the fat ugly bitch. And she has helmet hair.
she is one ugly bint
139- Get to the point, what are you trying to say about her!
That is why she is Home Secretary and not on the excellent Television X.
Surely the Chip Van must bring in enough dosh to cover ‘other expenses’ ? That and the tips.
Speaking as the next Prime Minister, I am to reassure voters that all this trouble is caused by ‘The System’.
It follows therefore, that I will institute and rigidly apply, a system whereby all expenses remain under wraps and are never ever revealed.
A system of straight on-demand payments, without paper records should prevent anyone wondering.
As to the continuing lesbianisation, male-effeminisation, and other works-in-progress of what remains of Britain, I will call on the future Ker-Moony-Tees Minsta, Ginger Nutkin, and her loyal team of jobsworths.
Ooooer, get her, she’s a right divvy
Can i suggest the DT should provide copies of the CD free with next sundays paper, that should ensure sales.
Scans could be stored in subdirectories under MP’s names or constituencies enabling the electorate to get a clear view.
Free?
I’d even pay a couple quid to get a copy, I think they ought to get it out into the public domain before Plod comes a knocking and confiscates everything.
The absence of Blinky & Mrs. Balls is being to make me wonder if McBride is not sleeping with the fishes. Especially as we hear rumours of Blinky moving to No. 11 soon.
Up load to Wikileaks?
Accountancy has never been my strong point.
Guido
Was the John Lewis advert under this article a pure coincidence, so just your little joke?
welcome Charles. It’s been there for over a month now. Best advert JL have ever had
I love the delicious irony in Brown’s obsession with closing tax avoidance loopholes versus the current predicament that the troughers are mired in.
How many Treasury Ministers are playing silly buggers over second residences, liabilities for stamp duties, CGT, income tax and IHT. Brown, Darling, Usher. Balls and Cooper not yet fingered, but it would be a surprise if they are entirely free from suspicion.
Too many of these grasping sods have a “Do As I Say, not As I Do” appproach to taxes, but on the other hand these leftists have modelled their lifestyles on the lines of the elites in the USSR – special shops, special arrangements for travel, special arrangements for taxes.
Iain Dale says no 10 is briefing against blears to keep the hounds off those other repugnant Hunts darling and that Hunt hoon.
http://iaindale.blogspot.com/
there’s nowt like teamspirit eh? all pull together in times of difficulty. grand.
Well that’s really stupid. If the chipmunk takes a bullet everyone’s going to ask how come Darling and Hoon are still around.
I just hope this won’t be another whitewash like the ‘Cash for Questions’ business.
I’m supporting Alex Salmond’s food claims during Westminster recesses. Just I know I’m the only one!
About time a few of them came to the garden gate with thier Partners Kids Dogs and hamsters
How else am I gonna get a good shag but in Sarf’ampton?
Shag a woman with dry rot…………..UGH
In chelsea shirts?
Oi !! Watch it!!!
I got rid of it for her.
shirley shum mishtake
D R Specialist
Spores dear boy……. you have to get rid of all the spores
Bugger!!!
Forgot the bleeding spores.
Can I have another shot at it?
Well done, Guido, and well done everybody who followed the instructions on How to report the cheats to the authorities. It’s not too late – if you haven’t done it yet, grass ‘em up now
Done.
Perhaps we’re being most unfair to our MPs. Possibly these revelations on expenses has been caused by a world credit crunch that could not have been predicted (except by that nice guy Vince Cable).
Sorry, I’ve just learned that it was Swine Flu that has caused it.
Bloody American at that
One word Guido…
WIN
Surely the best thing to do is to campaign for these people to PAY THE MONEY BACK! Lots of MPs (e.g. Hazel Blears) are saying that they were only doing what the system allows, but that the system is wrong.
Surely then, if Ms Blears has any integrity at all (and she agrees that she has been in receipt of money that she should not have been able to claim), she ought to offer to pay it back. She could start with the capital gains tax on the property that she sold.
Guido, why not start a website (how about http://www.pay-it-back.co.uk) campaigning for MPs to pay back the money they feel the system shouldn’t have allowed them to claim? That way, they could be clean from now on, and they could also atone for the past wrongs that they feel this terrible system has led them to commit.
Alan,
This would make a very good petition on the No10 website … why don’t you set it up. Can’t see how it could be rejected provided you keep it neutral and non slanderous while referring to the terrible system that our poor MP’s were victim too! Play them at their own game!
… What a bunch of cun ts though!
Get rid of the fucking lot of them!
That’s an excellent idea! Please also see my later post showing the letter I am sending to lots of newspapers. After all, all I am saying is that if they feel they have done wrong (and they are saying that this terrible system is what has led them astray), then they should be allowed an opportunity to right it. I will see how to go about starting a petition – thanks for the idea!
Totally and utterly corrupt. This Labour Administration is full of liars, cheats, thieves and vagabonds. Fraud, fraud, fraud!! Evil, and desperate fraud.
The Tories are not quite as bad, but still contemptuous.
Hope that they all get really bad cancer and die really painful, horrible deaths in
a stinking underfunded NHS hospital. They deserve to die in penury!
In the mean time use the terrorism laws and money laundering laws to get ALL our money back from the filthy PIGS!
After this, time to look at the local Councils – again full of friends and relatives, paying themselves £40,000 a year – most of them would be lucky to get minimum wage stacking shelves in Tesco.
Mrs Trellis
I agree entirely. The number of jobsworth positions has increased proportionately in line with New Labour hypocracy. By any measure those in local government should be shitting themselves – COS THEY’RE NEXT – and you know who you are….Housing Directors, Housing Maintenance Mangers, Housing Officers. Don’t forget other public bodies like the Health Service – PCT Managers, Consultants who are ‘never available’, emergency services that let you bleed to death….
*Claps with great approval*
There will be no justice until the Hunts are in prison.
I suppose you know the Ghurka immigration issue is directly and solely because
the EU controls British immigration policy!!! As the late great George Carlin said “Fuck the politicans up the ass with a big rubber dick!” The problem is half of them would like that. Bastards.
Or perhaps a super plus tampon?
What only half of them, come on, out with the true figure.
and don’t forget the salaries for friends, family, mother-in-law,acolytes, budgie, golfdish. That is a much bigger scam.
If, as appears to be the case, what is being uncovered is a case of widespread corruption then surely the Metropolitan Police ought to be investigating offences such as fraud, false accounting and malfeasance in public office, to name a few?
Our Parrot keeps repeating ” It’s all within the rules”
Can’t stop him
HELP
Mine kept on “I’ve done nothing wrong”. Just smacked him one. Seemed to work.
At least it’s stopped him saying, “It started in America,” for a while.
Nailed mine to the perch, superglued his beak didn’t make a blind bit of difference, bugger farted it out faultlessly
Commissioner has appointed an investigator into the leak….. but that could take weeks to get up and running……he is waiting for Political leadership.
Email the Serious Fraud Office……. they are allegedly independent…..whereas the Commissioner is a Political appointee now.
and the SFO is a laughing stock see Private Eye’s the Supinely Flatulent Office
Someone put up the relevant section of the Fraud Act 2006 here yesterday.
Looks like it fits the bill perfectly.
Fucking Stephen Pound on the BBC defending the scum again. No doubt big nose Maguire will be wheeled out next.
Pound should go back to the fucking care home and have his nappy changed.
Stephen Pound
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/stephen_pound/ealing_north#expenses
I can’t stand that smug b@st@rd. He’s doing them more harm than good, though, so let him carry on a while longer.
Don’t moan about it.
Stop paying the licence fee.
Everybody else is.
The freeloading lefties make me fucking angry. I am trying to set up a business
in this god awful climate living on practically nothing and when I finally get my pay day they want to snaffle it as Im instantly deemed a parasitic high earner (despite debts up to my balls, working longer hours than any MP I can think of, risking my only residence etc etc etc).
Ever thought of becoming an Outreach Coordinator?
Or an MP? There should be quite a few vacancies coming up soon.
And why should they be able to claim up to £400 a month for food? We all have to eat and have to pay for food it out of our salaries.
Something I don’t want back from their fraudulent claims is the food they ate at our expense. According to Pressdick, that causes extra claims for bog seats.
When Fred Goodwin waltzed off with enough trough to make even this cabinet choke on their champagne, Harriet Harman defended her inaction claiming that whilst what he did was within the rules, “the court of public opinion” says otherwise.
Tell us more about this court, love. Does it have any power?
Well, you’ve got me there.
Schukkkkssss.
The Court of Public Opinion is something the government is pledging to set up following our wonderfull success at the next election. It will mirror the entire diversity of our beloved country. And let me tell you, that Gordon feels all our pain, including that of naughty MPs, who are currently under fire over a few misplaced pounds, which will be returned to the public upon taking office.
You have nothing to worry about, we are working hard for hardworking families and that includes gay/lesbian and trangendered individuals. The government recognises its responsibilities and will act accordingly in the nation’s best interests.
I’ve always liked the idea that the final legal appeal should be not to a Court of Law but to a Court of Justice.
A court which is not bound by law but which looks only at the facts and comes to a decision on the basis of “What a reasonable member of the public would decide”.
Legal precedents would be set by the Court’s decisions.
Hopefully there is some arcane Euro-law that says MPs can’t exempt themselves from any taxation they levy on the rest of us; just in case they think they can hide behind some Westminster corrupt legislation on their ill-gotten gains.
Given how corrupt the EU parliament is I suspect that is wishful thinking.
There’s a complete absence of Balls. Why?
I believe Number10 want the spotlight on the chipmunk as a re-shuffle of the “Honourable” ZaNu-Labour ministers` is on the cards.
http://iaindale.blogspot.com/
Jack Straw!!!!
If his nose grew an inch everytime he told a fib it would now be like a broom handle.
I’d love to see that fucker jailed!!!
The answer at last!!
This must be the broom handle that The Glorious Leader has up his arse – you know – the one that makes him do that weird fing wiv his jaw.
I’ve often wondered where he got it.
Could have used it to clean his flat
Jack Straw
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/jack_straw/blackburn#expenses
About 30 times bigger than his dick then, Oona!
Why is it called ‘swine flu’ ?
Surely it should be called ‘House of Commons’ flu ?
Because they are all feeding from the same trough, it will all be smoothed over. Lessons will be learned, etc etc, but the porkers will go on feasting. They’ll just alter the kind of swill they gorge on. Tax free, of course.
Well they may also find that swill laced with arsenic
10 YEARS OF BOOM
Gordon Brown: “It was all down to my prudence”
CREDIT CRISIS
Gordon Brown: “It started in America”
MP EXPENSES FIASCO
Gordon Brown: “It’s the fault of the system”
I blame the Tories and particularly Mrs. Thatch!
It was the Mysterons` it has been seen the 1960`s
Well done Guido, i am very happy for you. As an aside i have cut out the photograph of Gorgon from yesterdays Daily Hate and put it up in the kitchen to cheer me up.
He looks to be at his wits end and ready for the men in white coats.It will stay there until he is gone.
He looks more like Michael Foot every day.
Sloth from the Goonies? or is that more a resemblance of the Speaker ( Sleaze befall those that dare speak his name ! ) ;D
My petition for Abraham’s £600,000 to be repaid immediately was rejected…….I wonder why?
If anyone genuinely believes that their MP has committed a criminal offence, then they should contact their relevant police force and make a formal complaint to that effect.
Horse, stable door…. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8042571.stm
Just sent this to various newspapers:
Dear Sir or Madam
I would like to start a campaign to allow MPs to return any expenses that they have been paid but that feel they should not have been able to claim.
Lots of MPs (e.g. Hazel Blears) are saying that they were only doing what the system allows, but that the system is wrong.
Surely then, if Ms Blears and the others have a shred of integrity (and Ms Blears seems to agree that she has received money that she should not have been able to claim), they ought to offer to pay the money back? She could start with the capital gains tax on the property that she sold.
To make it easier for Ms Blears and her parliamentary colleagues, I suggest starting a website where MPs could pledge to pay back the money they feel the system shouldn’t have allowed them to claim.
They could specify the amount they were paying back and the circumstances under which they feel it was wrongly paid.
That way, they could be ‘clean’, and be seen to be ‘clean’ from now on, and they could also atone for the past wrongs that they feel this terrible system has led them to commit.
If anyone else would like to support my campaign, please could they contact me via the newspaper? I am no expert in matters like this, and any expertise on how to conduct the campaign would be welcome.
I am VERY, VERY, angry, and I expect there are a lot of other angry people who would support my idea.
Yours faithfully
Alan
love it hehe!
But Andy Burnham’s wife will divorce him!
Yeah, seven inches is nuffink these days.
Good work Alan, get that petition going! Keep it non partisan, don’t mention any specific MP’s. Simply say that a mechanism is immediately required to enable MP’s who have all been victims of a terrible system which has forced them to submit what they now acknowledge to be inappropriate claims. The system was wrong and clearly MP’s as victims would obviously welcome the opportunity to pay back all of the monies claimed and in so doing exonerate their good names. Of course in accordance with the PM’s desire for transparency, it would be necessary to publish a list of declarations.
Rich
If we don’t also turn our attention now to EU corruption (think Kinnock) and local authority corruption then this many-headed hydra will turn round and bite us on the ass.
We got some serious balls to juggle now to expand the scope of this to effect serious lasting change as opposed to just weasel words and a short period of grace.
Remember, the kaleidoscope has been shaken ….. time to shove it up someone’s ass.
I agree.
The EU is corrupt from top to bottom. The accounts, aka European Taxpayers Money,have never been signed off.
Go out and buy a book written by the accountant brought in to sort out the mess. Her name is Marta Andreasen and her book is called “Brussels Laid Bare”. Matthew Elliot of the Taxpayers Alliance also has a book on this subject.
When Marta dug a little too deep for the European Snouters, Kinnock included, she was sacked. It’s an f’ing disgrace. Now is the time to highlight the fraud perpetrated on EU citizens by the arrogant, greedy, snouts in the trough elite.
If you want to catch up on the trials and tribulations of life at McBroons drop over to http://www.pienomics.blogspot.com where you’ll find tales of Flipping, Hiring Cleaners and other nonsense.
This is big, bigger than anything other than going to war, it’s not going to go away. This isn’t an issue of whose fault it was and this is not an issue argued on party lines, this is an issue where the credibility on anyone justifying it is tainted by the fact that they are immersed in it.
They knew this would go down badly, but as always they are so immersed in their own belief they are owed, that by being your MP, they are doing you a favour, they have completely underestimated how angry people are. They have fought tooth and nail to stop this getting out, never once realsing that in doing so they have made it worse. As always, the cover up..
So many times now, so many times they have got away with covering something up, blaming someone else. The Irag war, the fault of the French. The dodgy dossier, the fault of Dr Kelly, god bless him. The credit crunch, the Americans.
Every minister has blamed the civil service officials for anything that goes wrong. Does it take a genius to realise that someday, someone would be in a position to pay them back. That something so hot would into the hands of a dissaffected or oppurtune official, that would bring their whole fucking house down.
Guess what, whose fault is it now, it’s the system. It’s not our fault it’s the system.
This one really will cause some change. They havn’t offended some party donor, some liberal minded idiot who has managed to get a disproporionate influence on the British politik. The gravitas of the stupid minded liberal press. They have offended the people who make Britain, who for years have made Britain what it is today, in spite of the abject stupidy of everything Harman and people like have thrown at them.
People see it for what it has all been. It isn’t a better Britain, the high handed holier than thou attitude is a screen. The politically correct are just a bunch of cheap skate scammers.
There isn’t a single career minded official who is going to risk helping out a single person implicated and immersed in this. Already the official in charge of the expenses has disowned responibility that this has been his fault, and he’s right. It’s not his problem.
This one is our problem. As always the final responsibilty lies with us. People like you and I, in the street, of the street and from the street.
You are seeing the end of the “liberal” guardianista influence in British society, I have no doubt it will try and regain the initiative, and who knows someday it may suceed, but not in my lifetime.
It’s shown itself for what it is, a scam. From here the rest will start to unwind. The gravy train qangoes, the bbc expenses, everything parliament touched is dis-credited.
I’m pleased, I’m pleased they did it. Because now everyone can see it for what it is. Brown and labour are finished. For Cameron & Clegg to have a future, they have to change it.
They all think the British are stupid. Tolerant, tolerant to a fault maybe and perhaps a shade easy to the offer of a free lunch, but never stupid. This will cause change.
You may think retribution never comes. You would be wrong. If retribution is due, it comes. Maybe not in the form you want it to, or the time, but it comes. The retribution for Labour to promise so much, and deliver so little, and to cream us out, is the electorate may wipe them out altogether
We’ll cancel the election then……na na, na na na.
nice post i hope you’re right
Well said!
I agree
dont know why we are all so surprised at this level of, what can only be described as corruption, that parliament at one time had access to half the worlds wealth. the british empire, and they still fucked up, at the hieght of that empire, the majority of the people of these islands were living in abject poverty. after two world wars were the people given a heros welcome, nah no fu’kin chance, get back to your factories and work for a pittance and live in your shit housing, christ even during the ww 2 the toffs were fying in all the fancy food they were used to while everone else was on rations. !!!! for christ sake what does it take to have some honesty in this country, we have had 4 decades of north sea oil and they still fuck things up with debts on an astronomical scale
If westminster had all the money in the world they would still fuck up and need to borrow from thew bloody martians. !!!!!!!
anyway if it is a global problem affecting everyone as herr bruin tells us who the hell is he borrowing money from.
It is without doubt the end of the UK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a load of drivel. At the end of WW2 Britain was broke. Try reading a history book and bugger off back to labourlist with your bolshy bullshit. Are you the product of Labour’s debased education system?
Not ONE
I repeat
NOT ONE
So called journalist has questioned why the Telegraph called off the dogs last night and ran with an old story about the IRAs expenses.
Something STINKS and it is NOT MPs expenses
It is interesting how long these MPs have been claiming AND HOW LONG OTHER MPS HAVE NOT HAD A PROBLEM WITH IT.
We can only trust ELIZABETH FILKIN to choose and lead a team to investigate this cess pit. She is the only one who has proven to us to be reliably able and honest.
Ho, you are credulous dear, their all at it, for Filkin read filching.
Some people have asked, in Marxist terms, where has the lumpen prolateriat gone?
Easy.
They’re all in Westminster.
No time now for debate and meetings and coming up with more tawdry solutions. I call for a dissolution of Parliament. Let the people’s voice be heard.
A searing piece of insight there mate, You’re right, Marxists should never be let anywhere near the levers of power, and we allowed Blair to smuggle them in under cover of darkness.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hLIcW5pyfU-cjv2UqZdOP74EG7WQ – Googles own news service
Labour popularity is at an all time low. Not surprisingly. I hope it goes much lower, so low they aren’t re-elected for decades, come election time.
The wheels of justice grind slowly, but here is to wishing the fat of the land doesn’t clog such cogs up in the MP’s cases. I hope they get lined up against the wall, and an example is made for future MP’s to take note about power abuses over flippings and fleecing their tax payers, living like mafia bosses and getting a mafia boss reward from Her Majesty’s constabulary. Fingers crossed Guido. The original Guido looks tame in his pursuits and even justified now compared to the crimes of the trough feeders.
Bet Ed Miliband can’t change this climate.
I love the way they criticise Tory cuts while pocketing the cash for themselves.
Two faced sleazy backstabbers.
The Rt Hon Mr ED MIliband is doing all he can in a dreadful wind blowing in from America
Who would want him to, the banana brothers – both equally rotting political teenagers.
One day Resistance you may come to understand the wheels of justice are just another arm of the state, put in place to oppress the little people, click the switch labeled brain into gear, and think Judge Jeffreys.
HMRC might investigate but we will just hear that they made genuine mistakes and have repaid the tax. They will be treated much more leniently than anyone else.
what they all did was WITHIN THE RULES
but heres who should re-sign and jailed
2nd home allowance–inland revenue-switch home for doing up property allowances then selling or renting out
wreaths–reclaiming on war veterens who died or wounded(SO SICK–AND IN-HUMAN)
if wreath MPs arent immeditely sacked it shows a MASSIVE INSULT TOO BRITISH ARMED FORCES
and don’t the interest!
HMRC is committed to targeting tax evasion. We know some people don’t pay their fair share of tax, which is unfair for the rest of us. Now you can help us do something about it.
The Tax Evasion hotline deals with income tax, corporation tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, VAT and National Insurance.
The Hotline can take your call on 0800 788 887 (Lines are open Monday to Friday 8am to 8pm, Saturday and Sunday 8am to 4pm), or you can submit a report here.
No information – however trivial it may seem -is too small. It could be the key to stopping fraudulent or criminal activity.
http://www.taxevasionhotline.co.uk/
Ha ha. someone should tell HMRC that their https certificate is out of date.
I forgot to add. See you Hazel, it was nice knowing you
Talking about Tampons, I wonder if HRH Charles still wishes he was one???
*reaches for mind bleach again*
Blears looks like a used tampon and should be disposed of in the appropriate manner.
ie, shoved up my arse.
Disolve Parliament
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090510/tuk-bid-to-dissolve-parliament-amid-row-6323e80.html
sulphuric, hydrochloric, come on which one.
Perhaps the first names on HMRC’s Name and Shame list are going to be these troughers.
How dare the one-eyed Scotch idiot criticise the Tories for cuts to essential services when the lumpen oaf presides over this “investment”:-
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090510/tuk-nhs-spent-350m-on-management-consult-dba1618.html
And note the reference to Darling’s necessary budget savings. If those aren’t cuts what are they? Hypocritical, manipulative swine.
Come on have pity, as previous posters have stated on this thread, the Cyclops has a broomstick up his ass plus sir vitas dance of the head, and a propensity for inserting his cranium into his rectum, whilst at the same time (with dexterity) singing flower of Scotland accompanied by the full Westminster choir of the gay Gordon’s friends of the pervert charity, dedicated to little boys, ha bless him or perhaps her.
the main reason that most of these of expenses are tax free is that they are supposed to come under a specific exception which only applies for mps. This includes the term “necessary” that has a well established and very narrow meaning for mere mortals tax affairs. given the interpretation in the green book it could well be argued that this is so unreasonable (a lot of the expenses are not by any streach of the imagination “necessary”) that the green book rules don’t work for tax and the mps should be simply taxed on the normal rules that apply to everyone else. judicial review of the resolution behind the green book?
Guido I share your hopes re HMRC but no way would I count too many chickens yet. I have grave doubts about the enthusiasm within HMRC to attack their political masters. Knighthoods are at stake. As an ex-employee I know that since Varney was moved in (by Brown) there have been political decisions made about investigations. I am also told by a Senior member of HR there that the rumour is that Varney had undeclared income in offshore accounts – FFS the Chairman of HR a tax cheat? I mean look at the chief investigator Dave Hartnett – he’s had more free lunches than most MPs and per Private eye has closed investigations for no apparent reason. And do not forget Taxpayer confidentiality – we will never know what action they take anyway. As for Prosecution they don’t Prosecute the wealthy – fiddle your child benefit and you are named and shamed in court – fiddle millions in tax evasion and you get away with it. I hope I am wrong.
On another point I watched Jowell – obtuse lying cow who apparently could not see fraud when it’ was in bed with her. May – less obtuse but still avoiding any criticism of anyone. Can’t even remember the LIB DEM bloke but he got my vote for admitting the line had been crossed. I wish Cameron was in a position to act decisively but I am afraid that is increasingly unlikely.
Is it Catholic in me that actually finds the lies worse than the original offences? Because I tell you what I have never been so fucked off with anything in my whole life as I am watching these thieving wankers tell me they have broken no rules. They have – even by the standards set in their own shitty little green book.
Guido can you put pressure on Andrew Walker – I said on another blog he is the weak link. He does not need to become vilified, and seemingly has been bullied into many decisions by that Hunt Martin. He either turns queens evidence or faces the consequences.
Shit I’m off to confession now
Believe me, its like that all over government these days. Labour lackey’s and lickspittles litter the laughingly called ‘public services’, from the so called ‘independent’ Audit Commission to the HMRC. When the Tories get in they will have to conduct a thorough purge or resign themselves to being hamstrung by overpaid Labour placemen for years.
Yes in the Police…….NHS everywhere.
Root and branch cull is needed……… night of the long knives.
264- Well there’s your savings then 75% of the gravy train civil servants and quango bods fired – bingo
Isn’t Purnell in charge of HMRC now?
I wouldn’t put him in charge of cleaning his own fucking flat, the grubby bastard.
Jowell’s closing comment was that only government can make people’s lives better.
Well this government could make everyone’s life better by re-enacting the Jonestown mass suicide.
Geithner is a tax cheat and he’s in charge of the Treasury.
Makes you wonder what else is discussed, ‘unofficially’, at G20 meetings.
An F O I request made in 4 weeks time, on the number of investigations and the results of those investigations, puts the raw data back in the public domain.
Yep, Walker is very interesting. Staunchly defending ‘the system’ in front of the Information Commission last year and now complaining that he’s been stitched up as the fall guy.
I’ve watched Walker for some time. He’s way out of his depth, but has been a remarkably useful idiot for, amongst others, Speaker Martin. Personally I don’t think he’s going to last much longer but we can be sure he’ll be very well looked after – he knows far too much.
It’s the collusion between the Fees Office and those making claims which is so disgusting. The Fees Office has always seen its position as ‘helping’ MPs, rather than regulating the bastards. Hence the deep manure.
Catholic, eh? Well as one ‘educated’ by Jesuits a long time ago I can confidently say that you’ll grow out of it eventually.
I have secure copies of all receipts – including Blairs. I’m not as stupid as I look.
bustop, I joined this thread with the intention of helping Guido and all the other well meaning contributors, who for reasons of their own delude themselves that HMRC or any other arm of the state will prosecute their masters, it wont happen.
Don’t forget the interest!
HM Revenue & Customs Tax Evasion Hotline
HMRC is committed to targeting tax evasion. We know some people don’t pay their fair share of tax, which is unfair for the rest of us. Now you can help us do something about it.
The Tax Evasion hotline deals with income tax, corporation tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, VAT and National Insurance.
The Hotline can take your call on 0800 788 887 (Lines are open Monday to Friday 8am to 8pm, Saturday and Sunday 8am to 4pm), or you can submit a report here.
No information – however trivial it may seem -is too small. It could be the key to stopping fraudulent or criminal activity.
http://www.taxevasionhotline.co.uk/
Jail the thieving bastards. No jury trials though, there’s no need. Labour don’t believe in juries so that’ll be OK. Oh, and don’t forget to take their DNA.
In the court of public opinion we are the jury, soon to deliver our verdict.
Bludgeon them with knobkerry’s.
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and electric cattle prodders wielded by unemployed SarfAfrican Railways Police
Guido – are you going to look at the EDF/Brown connection any time soon? The DTP appear not to be interested in this?
I wonder what EdF’s policy is for London based ex-pats?
OT – Who’s up for starting a new political party?
The Abolition Party. Manifesto commitment, the complete abolition of the current systems of government and the creation of a new Democracy that works for the People and not for the self serving troughists.
Target voter, the roughly 40% that can’t be arsed to vote because none of the current lot are worth the ink on a ballot paper.
theres already a party that wants to target that 40per cent.
its the libertarian party.
http://lpuk.org
tbh they just come across as a bunch of anarchists who want no government at all.
doesn’t work. You must have some form of taxation to support welfare, road building, etc. Without it you just have all out anarchy. Who would pay for the police? If you have no direct taxation then you have to tax goods which means you take proportionally more tax from those that can least afford it.
I propose we actually do wholesale reform of the whole system. Come up with real solutions that can work and then let the country have a referendum on it.
I can’t believe the last referendum in this country was 1975…
Save our democracy – if this isn’t as good a reason to demonstrate in Parliament Square since the Iraq war then lets ask Mugabe of we can become a province of Zimbabwe.
Mugabe would na hav us
If the Labourgraph don’t release details of Tory troughing soon, the Tories should fess up voluntarily well before the Euro elections.
Sack Blears.
Blears is being smeared by the McTwat inner circle for her comments on his You Tube debacle. Balls, Watson etc.,
By pushing Blears into the gunfire, the more serious and objectionable troughers and flippers are being shielded. Eyebrows, watch out!
A not so good week-end for burying bad news, it’s all bad news!
Spot on.
If only they devoted the same energy to running the country as they do to trashing one another the UK might be a better place.
Why go after the monkey, when the real target is the organ grinder?
OK, we’ll eviscerate the organ grinder first, then machine gun the monkey’s.
Nuke from orbit, it’s the only way
And where are the Testicles couple in all this? ZanuLab’s golden oinks. Is the Labourgraph playing a blinder and releasing details tomorrow?
Or have they bottled it?
We should know
If not, I’m sure Guido will oblige for twenty grand.
Three ministers have so far threatened legal action – Jacquboot, Moran and Woolas.
Or are these going to turn out to idle threats? I’m emailing their constituency offices to be asked to be kept updated on the progress of litigation.
” Things can only get better” Blair was right on this one albeit belatedly
As ever, he was only talking about himself.
Woolas has already been proven to be shall we say mistaken in what he stated so that leaves 2 troughers
It’s not me yer honour. It’s the system.
OT, but does BBC Radio 4 do comedy these days? I listen to it all the time and I haven’t heard any for quite a while.
Sarah Gobshite on Toady is the closest they get.
Parliament has been occupied by trailer trash since 1997. The whole of Parliament and the Government headed by Brown is now so mired by MPs corruption that our democracy is completely undermined. Lord Naseby is right. The answer is an immediate dissolution of Parliament.
Many MPs keep stating that the expenses system is wrong, so, if they feel that way why have they been so eager to exploit it and why are they not offering to repay their fraudulent claims? May the HMRC hammer them.
When all this dies down I’ll put a FOI request on expenses of top management of HRMC.
Trailer trash on dodgy US sliced and diced mortgages bought by RBS so we have been royally double-f*ck*ed
We’d have been better off with Scooter.
(A great Dukes of Hazzard post for all you fans of qulity TV)
Top of the pile for continuous sleaze and fraud. Vaz?
He must have something on McDoom, otherwise he would have slithered away long ago surely.
I always wondered what the French Revolution was all about – how could a nation do what it did? How angry do you have to be?
I thought it was just because they were French – foreigners!!
But the British now feel the same way
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS
So where do we put the piano wire?
Explain please.
WE MARCH ON PARLIAMENT
GUIDO – get the MARCH organised NOW please
Actioneer says:
May 10, 2009 at 2:53 pm
GUIDO – get the MARCH organised NOW please
That’s funny. “Actioneer”
GUIDO – get the MARCH organised NOW please”
DO IT YOUR EFFIN SELF! FFS!!
So, Tony Blair’s little ray of sunshine hb has been fiddling her expenses. Well that does surprise me! And we’re all working our sox off trying to pay for our
taxes just so she can ‘blooter’ them on her property portfolio. She really fancies herself, so why doesn’t she put on her crash helmet, get on her bike, and ride
into the sunset?
page 2 of the sunday times today
Speaker: “I want what is owed to me” : by Jonathan Oliver, political editor
Martin allegedly told a senior MP :
“I have been a trade unionist all my life. I did not come into politics not to take what is owed to me”
Scots shop stewards have taken over the House – bring back Thatcher
New Musical Express
Andrew Lloyd-Webber has started casting for the Musical
Susan Boyle already sercured the part of Gordon Grown
Which part would that be?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6260028.ece
This article in the Times appears under the heading “In quotes: MPs come forward to condemn claims” but with the exceptiion of Kate Hoey all that is condemned is the system. The headline is patently misleading and the Times is taking a very gentle stance in all of this generally – can someone tell me why?
Kate Hoey
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/kate_hoey/vauxhall#expenses
Sainthood looming.
See what you mean.
If there’s a single Labour MP that deserves to keep their seat it’s her.
With that record I’m surprised she even joined Labour in the first place.
While I want Labour out, I think Kate Hoey is the kind of MP that the HoC needs; a conviction politician. She might be the face of Labour Party once all the rotten eggs have been ousted. I hope so.
she’s great, I’d struggle not to vote for her if I was in her constituency. Luckily, I’m not, so the moral dilemma will never arise…(Actually, I’m not sure i could vote Labour if Mother Theresa stood).
Fantastic stuff, Guido; I’ve been away for 3 days and its all kicked off. Keep at ‘em.
140. My parrot kept saying, “I’m getting on with the job,” so I shot the fucker.
If one of these scum get to serve a fortnight in low security holiday camp for killing someone with a car, don’t expect ANYONE to go to jail or even be given a slap on the wrist. The corruption goes right to the top and they have a State Broadcaster to reassure the gullible that “everything is okay. Stay placid and calm. There are no problems here.”
Civil unrest is the only solution.
And a plethora of independent journalists and movie-makers covering the true event (rather than the other planet event the BBC would cover).
We need to organise this properly – orderly civil unrest, covered by independent media, broadcast via blogs to force the MSM to publish the same.
We can win, if we work together.
Yes, the system IS to blame; for it depended on the notion that politicians would be honourable about what they were doing.
Well; they’ve failed. They have spectacularly and utterly failed and, to quote someone recently ‘there should be no reward for failure’. If it’s true of the banking sector, it’s true of parliament.
And there should be real and substantial consequences for that failure, both for the individuals who have plundered and for the party system which has not operated for the benefit of the voters or for the reputation of parliament. Individuals should be prosecuted; systems and those complicit in their operation have to be abolished and replaced.
Never again should we tolerate politicians regulating their own affairs.
It’s time we took the control of politics totally out of the hands of the political parties. We should limit their ability to control the running of political life. We should bring an end to the whip system in the House of Commons, close off ‘the usual channels’ and prevent the politicians obscuring what they’re up to.
We should make the House of Lords a proper oversight chamber for the work of the Commons and populate it with people who have not been members of political parties. Government and opposition would have to appoint non-politicians to ministerial posts in the Lords. Politicians sent there there could speak but not vote so that they’d have to win by argument not by force.
But they’ll never let change of that kind happen; until sufficient pressure can be brought to bear on them they’ll slip and slide their way out of it. There is just now a small window of opportunity for real, significant, sacrifical and lasting change.
Step up someone to lead beyond the boundaries of the party interests … David …? Boris …? Hilary Benn…? A Martin Bell figure…? Guido …? anyone …
They designed the system and voted for it. Therefore, to blame the system is to blame themselves. It’s an open and shut case.
An independent Commission to make recommendations on the future of parliamentary Government.?
But who would be on it and who would decide who should be on it?
Should referendums play more of a role in our politics and should there be a right to petition for a referendum?
Any thoughts.?
Yes. The Tories claim this as their own. They should be questioned as to just how this would manifest. Never again should we allow our politicians wiggle room, to ‘justify’ reneging on a manifesto commitment. Ask searching questions and put them about. The manifesto should be a ‘contract’ with the public. If they can renege, we have no democracy worth speaking of.
So where is your promised “Complete Hoon” blog Guido? I hope you haven’t done a Telegraph and bottled.
Talking about bottles. You should have finished your lunch by now Guido. Come on respond, if only as Anon
Don’t be daft!
Have faith. Guido’s delivery rate is exemplary. And he’s a one-man band.
Have faith. Guido’s delivery rate is exemplary.
B*gger! apols for the double post
MPs vote for a £16 million increase in expense
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/100092/EXCLUSIVE-MPs-vote-for-16million-more-expenses
Not only are they laughing at you, they are throwing even more shit in your face.
Site back up, What happened?
MI5
Espionage.
Server down.
QHCG under instruction from the one eyed one
Damian McBride working from Gordon’s basement
wasnt us
GCHQ -instruction from gordon
Guido’s wife wanted him to peel the veg for the Sunday roast……. I ask you…….conspiracy theory mad you lot are!
Wonder if the in ad revenue Guido loses during these 4 hours of “too many database connections” outages would cover a trougher for a week?
At least he earns his money not claims it from the taxpayer.
Welcome back Guido – did your server get a bit overloaded this afternoon??
Made my day…
Wahay… it’s back.
Why it take so long to reboot your DB server eh…. dodgy american host that you had to wait for them to wake up?
…or shall we take the conspiracy angle and say that it was sabotage? – that’ll be more fun (although pretty bad that they couldn’t get it back up in several hours even so!)
Guido – you old bugger you!!
Where you bin??
We’ve all been worried you naughty boy!!
You ‘aven’t bin nosing around them cellars agin ‘av ya??
DON’T DO IT AGAIN!!!
It was down hours; I guessed they must have caught up with Guido and imagined tomorrows headlines, “Guido Fawkes found dead in woods with slashed wrists, suicide suspected”.
The server problem started in America
It’s a problem with the system and completly within the [firewall] rules.
I wonder if the changes on rules for expenses should first be put before the court of public opinion?
Regarding the comment about putting Blears on the rack, Sir, you will only need a toast rack.
I’ve been waiting for hours to post this but worth waiting For
SHOCK HORROR BBC GIVE FREE BISCUITS WHILST THE POPULACE ARE BEING SCREWED BY MPs
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090510/tuk-bbc-should-reveal-expenses-too-dba1618.html
This must be preserved
Hmmm, that guy has history. I seem to remember something, years ago, about a terraced house in St Helens where he lived and claimed for – except he didn’t live there. Will try and find the story.
Amazing post – are you totally pissed or totally stupid??
Go find a wall.
Go find a wall to fall off.
Who, Humpty/
Oh, Guido’s back then.
Parliament must be dissolved and a general election called. The current parliament has lost any semblance of authority to govern and can’t go on.
Give us our f**king vote and we’ll decide which ones of these bastards should stay and which ones should be defenistrated. The cops can then do their bloody jobs (for once) and jail the thieving liars.
Actually McMoron is right about one thing – the system is wrong.
However it goes way beyond expense claims.
The system allows MP’s to pretty much do anything they want regardless of what the voters want or voted for.
We need some sort of checks in the system to prevent this . Ideally a system of referendums .
Absolutely, more direct democracy. Including elected senior judiciary and chief constables.
BREAKING NEWS *** BREAKING NEWS
A Westminster MP was today reported to have answered a question honestly. Sources also suggest that the renegade MP actually answered the question asked.
Colleagues were asked to comment on this news ….
A Downing St. spokesman said ‘the PM does not condone this kind of thing and has vowed to handle the matter personally. It is the PM’s view that actions such as this must be dealt with quickly and decisively and he has already ordered a review which will report in the Spring of 2012.’
Geoff Hoon MP ‘ I do not accept that’.
Phil Woolas MP ‘I will issue a statement once it has been approved by Ms Lumley’ .
Michael Martin MP ‘The wife says it wisnae me’.
Hazel Blears MP ‘ I can’t comment right now, I’m in the in the middle of moving house’.
Jack Straw ‘I find this difficult to believe. It just doesn’t add up. Was it a question about Council tax?’.
Caroline Flint MP ‘Does my arse look big in this?’.
Jacqui Smith MP ‘This is an act of terrorism from which the publc must be protected’.
Jim Murphy MP ‘Honest? What’s that?’.
Yvette Cooper MP ‘I can’t believe it. What a balls-up. Where’s Ed?’.
Ed Balls MP ‘Duh!’.
Harriet Harman MP ‘This was under the old system. We have already taken steps to ensure this kind of thing will not happen again in the future. I bet it was a man’.
James Purnell MP ‘ this is messy and needs to be cleaned up. Cleanliness is not my field of expertise’.
Tony McNulty MP ‘Oh no, not more truth. I’m in enough shit already’.
Douglas Alexander MP ‘As my sister Wendy will confirm, honesty is not in the family DNA’.
Ed Miliband ‘ Sorry, I have not yet been told what my response should be’.
Lord Mandelson ‘ This is simply not possible, it must be that the honourable member has been misrepresented by the press’.
Margaret Beckett MP ‘The truth can be quite ugly’.
Tessa Jowell MP ‘Honesty does not pay the mortgage’.
Shaun Woodward MP ‘An honest MP, you say? Quite preposterous! That really does take the biscuit’.
Andy Burnham MP ‘Not good. That kind of thing can lead to divorce’.
Baroness Scotland ‘ It had to be a Commoner, the Lords simply does not tolerate that kind of indiscretion’.
Alastair Darling MP also commented but the reporter interviewing Mr Darling was taken ill and rushed to hospital. Doctors are concerned that she may be suffering from sleeping sickness.
Splendid!
Yes!! What’s so good is that each reply does reflect the personality of the mp. Very entertaining.
Nicked but slightly changed, but yep good one.
Brilliant.
Stupid spam filter. Anyway, I borrowed it for my blog (with some changes). Well done.
Where’s the dirt on the Testicle Twins? Why no expose on Balls and Cooper? They’re two of the biggest troughers in the pig sty.
WE WANT THEM SNIPPED!,
Any news of injuctions or writs at The Telegraph?
Coming tomorrow? I sure hope so.
It is the Tory’s tomorrow, Telegraph has a taster but seem to be chalenging Cameron to do the right thing and nout use the ‘It is within the rules’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5304821/MPs-expenses-Telegraph-investigation-shifts-to-Conservatives.html
LOST FOR WORDS OR JUST PLAIN LOST ?
Bloggers will have noticed the curious absence of Charles Hardwidge and Master Baiter over recent days . This could be that as paid leftie hacks ( probably at taxpayers expense ) they work to rule and don’t do weekends or it may be something they’ve read in the press.
Nonetheless with Cameron on show tomorrow we can perhaps expect them to have found their way back to Guido. So stand by your keyboards and prepare for the fun.
Who knows maybe even Kevin Maguire might resurface that would be a laugh.
The Court of Public Opinion deems that said two parasites be shot if they appear tomorrow.
Hardwidge was on Labour Lostit saying he’s never been over to Guido’s garden in his entire life and that the Hardwidge on here was an imposter!
Masturbator was taken to A&E with repetitive strain injury, they’re trying to fit him up with Hospital Acquired Disease Syndrome.
A politician taking the biscuit? No news there then….
I bet this rat wishes he could re-rat now NuLab has had its day.
Smeargate followed by the total exposure of the reality of politician’s troughing venality and lack of integrity is everything Guido has ever wanted.
Bollox Guido, either you have no balls, or with such a lack of ambition or sex drive, it is possibly best you slit your own wrists now, and get it all over and done with.
ALL REAL men really think about is, how on earth they are going to get to fuck as many different pussies as possible, with out the wife/girl friend finding out, or bankrupting themselves.
Still if nailing crooked MP’s rocks your particular boat to such an extent Guido, then good for you. Personally only other peoples Pussy, my own kids, and my OWN cash gets my full attention, and in that order.
Maybe it is time you re-evaluated your own priorities in life.
A tad lame. Your point is, Labour Troll?
You couldn’t be further from Atlas Shrugged if you tried.
It is the Tory’s turn tomorrow, interesting that the Telegraph is chalenging Cameroon to deal with the public anger and not do a Gordon Brown
Its such a shame that my current enjoyment of the embarrassment of Blears et al is going to be marred by similar revelations about my party of choice. However, Cameron can still make a distinction by the way he deals with it. Utterly vital that he sets an example if he can, even if it means sackings. Obviously they were all at it, they regarded their expense package as an integral part of their salaries, not really expenses at all. It makes me wonder though, if I’d been elected as an MP and taken to one side and told it was fine, everyone was doing it, it was practically expected, how I’d have behaved. I hope I’d have been one of the honourable ones, I’ve never stolen so much as a penny sweet as a kid, but who knows? Specially if you are a few years in the job, and everyone around you is taking the piss, and no one says a word against it..
Guido- may I suggest that you produce a list (updated periodically) of all MPs who, in the light of their record should not be re-elected at the next general election.This could be used by activists to focus on their particular corrupt MP and help to drive them out of parliament.The list and its updates would become a main focus of attention in the run-up to the election.You have got the the bastards on the run Guido-now get the cross-hairs on some more specific targets.Just an idea- I’m sure you can improve on it.
Thanks for everything.
Try the Political Betting website they are doing it in real time.
looks like tomorrow is the Tories turn.
Tessa Jowell says she doesn’t support trial by the media – so just you stop it. What happened to David Mills after she signed documents she didn’t read ?
“Whipped to death in public” and then hung, drawn and quartered, just to make sure the slimey gits don’t avoid the issue.
Actually the hung drawn and quartered preceeded death.. Thats how to do it
The hung and drawn bits preceded death – quartering is quite a different kettle of fish.
You’ve been missing all the fun and while you’ve been away we’ve been talking about you: CYBERSTREET OF SHAME, GUIDO BLOGGING A DEAD HORSE.
How much is the ‘Irish Businessman’ landlord kicking back to the SF IRA terrorists?
£3,600 pcm for a two bed flat in N. London – yeah right.
If these two were your tenants you wouldn’t ask such a question
If it’s within a grenade lob of Biddy Mulligans then a grand a month would be more than enough but I think he’s kicking back £4k pcm and thanking them for the privilege.
I wonder if the first name of the ‘businessman’ is ‘Slab’ by any chance, a perfectly legitimate farmer and trader in agricultural diesel, rolling tobacco etc. etc.
It would only be fair if each house that has been owned by any MP that has been nominated, as a second home should be subjected to capital gains tax.
Hard-Cheese if an MP has been greedy enough to nominate his constituency home.
It’s the cynical cyclic renominating of the two properties that is the scam.
The old family home – the constituency house – needs a makeover says the wife. OK so nominate that as the second home and charge the lot on expenses. Your Westminster pad you bought when you becoma an MP is now your “main residence”.
Next year you decide to sell the Westminster flat but you’d like to do it up a bit before it hits the market; make some real dough. OK easy, nominate the Westminster pad as the second home and the constituency family home becomes the main residence again. Do up the Westminster flat, financed by the taxpayer because its your second home and that’s “within the rules”. Very nice job, should sell for double what was paid for it. Hang on a minute, sale of second homes are subject to CGT.
No sweat, Westminster pad nominated as main home again and can be sold at a nice profit and not a penny goes to the taxman.
It wouldn’t be so bad if they had wheels on them like mobile homes do. – So long as the second home was always nearest the Houses of Parliament.
The reality is that this Labour Government has pissed away billions of pounds of taxpayers hard earned money which that taxpayers could have quite easily kept.
MPs expenses have only added pennies to the average persons tax bill.
It is only the highly personal nature of the expenses which let voters directly see an individual beneficiary that grinds people so much.
Objectively speaking people should be far more concerned by the billions squandered on other government spending.
Having said that Cameron should still sack some greedy sh1ts on Monday.
GORDON…………… all you need to know
1 Depart on Downing Street <0.1 miles
Entering congestion charge zone. Applies Monday to Friday – 7am to 6.00pm 2 Turn right onto Whitehall Gardens A3212 <0.1 miles 3 Continue onto A3212 0.1 miles 4 Continue onto Saint Margaret Street A302 <0.1 miles 5 Continue onto A302 <0.1 miles 6 Turn right onto Parliament Square A302 0.1 miles 7 Turn left onto Great George Street 0.1 miles 8 Continue onto Birdcage Walk 0.5 miles 9 Turn right 0.2 miles 10 Bear left <0.1 miles 11 Turn right 0.1 miles 12 Arrive at your destination <0.1 miles Buckingham Palace
Is this the scenic route?
go on gordon even i could manage this
Go Gordon
Go Gordon
Go Gordon Go
Outrageous expenses claims you
I would like some reassurance that Gordon’s Sky package that I am paying for is the same as the one he pays for.
A simple question, simple answer. I would not like to pay more than he does to replicate a service at home number two or whatever.
so why nothing on balls / cooper. Is there an injunction in place from our m’learned friends carter-fuck
‘to protect the children????’
please let us know….
Posted Benedict Brogan earlier today asking him to comment on golden couple – post for some reason never made the blog.
Paradoxically got straight through on Iain Martin’s lastest blog of 15 mins ago
Right Teles has outed Duncan and his garden and says its shifting to the Conservatives.
Round Two
Take your seats.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5304821/MPs-expenses-Telegraph-investigation-shifts-to-Conservatives.html
GUIDO,
I know your server is relatively safe in Culver City, California but I hope many other co-conspirators will join me in expressing relief in welcoming your blog back and show our genuine concern for its dissappearance
AND OUR CONCERN FOR YOU!
Keep yourself safe, we can always replace your blog, but we can’t so easily replace you.
here here
oh I dunno, so long as the blog survives…..!
Don’t know if this has been covered but here’s Woolas explaining that he never claimed for the non legit items on the grocery bill, he simply used the bill as evidence he bought the legit items, as for example one might submit a receipt for fuel and chocolate, whilst claiming only for the fuel. Sounds fair enough, doesn’t it. Good fellow. Click on the video.
Load of Bollocks
Here’s the telegraphs take on it.
….However, analysis of the receipts does not support his version of events. In August 2004, Mr Woolas…claimed £210.31 for what was described on his expenses form as “food”. He was reimbursed in full from the public purse.
The claim was backed by receipts from Tesco, for £69.30; Marks and Spencer, for £16.69; Sainsbury’s, for £27.33; and two from Somerfield for a total of £96.99. The five receipts come to £210.31…… The Tesco bill, dated Aug 12, included a pair of women’s shoes for £23, two packets of disposable bibs priced £2.98 each, a bottle of nail polish at £5.75, three comics for £5.14, two packs of babies wipes at £1.44 each and a ladies’ jumper at £5. The cost of these impermissible items comes to £47.73, which makes the food part of the total claim only £162.58.
Mr Woolas insisted that his receipts exceeded the sums he claimed; but in this case they matched exactly….. Asked last night whether his claim for precisely £210.31 indicated that he had put the shoes and nail varnish on expenses, Mr Woolas replied: “I take your point and I understand the extrapolation.” However, he insisted he had done nothing wrong and added: “The original accusation is untrue. I am being hung out to dry for being honest. The key points to remember is that I don’t need to submit receipts to back the claims and I could have actually claimed £400 for the food.
“The claim is one document and the receipts are another. The fact that they both add up to the same amount doesn’t prove anything. It doesn’t mean that the fees office paid for the non-food items on the receipt.”
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extrapolate the bastard, now!
Woolas in Wonderland!
Total coincidence.
Great forensic accounting! Get the hoon!!
Priceless! So if it isn’t the same £210.31, he admits he made up the claim. Got’im either way.
No..NO..NO!!!!! it is in the RULES to MAKE up the numbers……. you lot are so thick..when are you going to catch on.
A kukri to his neck.
Has anyone asked Phil’s wife to comment?
He’s been gibbering like that ever since Joanna Smacked his little bot.
Crikey Guido was worried ’bout you!!
are you going to use gunpowder or TNT with some plastics…faster and a bigger bang………
was v worried ’bout you Guido!!
both my personalities were worried…..
Me too, Newgirl – been going through cold turkey – even had to speak to the wife!!
shocking isn’t it? I even ventured onto Iain Dale in desperation – not knocking him but I’m a one blog girl normally!!
Hope you’ve repented, NewGirl. Support all bloggers who support Guido!
Lies from the very beginning! We’ve had 12 years of talking. Mostly bullshit as well.
LOL
More LOLs
I guess Hitler sounded reasonable when he was elected as well.
aaaaaannnnnd…. He’s back! Good to see the return, unharmed, of Guido Fawkes
Have you seen how they’re Putting our money down our toilets? A fucking disgrace.
I can’t wait to see some of them go down. But this is probably much much easier said than done. Many have been caught bang to rights though…
the truth about gordon
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=74880763835&ref=ts
Hear, hear!! Is this not a constitutional crisis? Surely Parliament should be dissolved, MPs fired by their constituency offices and the whole feckin’ system turned inside out, upside down, shaken until bleeds and a whole new set of arrangements put in place? I like the Sunday Times’ idea in its leader today; let’s go for that.
Guido- glad you are back – it has been like going cold turkey and I’ve had to speak to the wife!!
SO IT IS OFFICIAL!!!
PHIL WOOLAS DID BUY WOMENS CLOTHING AND COSMETICS ON HIS MP’s EXPENSES!!!!
Better Retract your Statement to the BBC then Phil.
analysis of the receipts submitted by Mr Woolas in support of his expenses claims appeared to undermine his assertion.
Trannies of Manchester…please return and give us a bit more
. . . WOMEN’S CLOTHING for his self
This bloddy numbering system is making it difficult to respond
Think servers still playing up….
Gorbals Mick said to a Senior MP “I have been a trade unionist all my life. I came into parliament to take what is owed to me”
MP’s have been pressuring this odious man, who is responsible for the Fees Office to retire. He told the boss of the Fees Office – when he complained, years ago, that MP’s were abusing the system , to stay quiet if he wanted to keep his job.
MP’s say “his leadership of the house has been catastrophic – he isn’t up to the job” (Sounds like Gordon and Jacqui Smith then)
One MP said ” we handed him a bottle of whisky and a revolver – he threw the gun away and drank the whisky”
This man is a crook. Bring back Betty Boothroyd.
He’s that thick I think you meant he threw the whisky away and drank the revolver
One MP said ” we handed him a bottle of whisky and a revolver ..”
He pointed the gun at them and said, “bring me more feckin whisky!”
Classic example of parliament’s inadequacy. With due respect to Dan the man,
Martin is a dishonourable, lying, thieving piece of shit. MPs know this, he knows they know this and they know he knows they know this. Yet those MPs have neither the courage nor the will to get rid of him.
The essence of our parliament is trust of ‘honourable members’. lmao. Is there anyone out there who would honestly trust any single – or married
– member of parliament to carry their shopping?
Jacob and The Island have decided he is to be the speaker
Change of topic Guido, but how are things progressing with that other nasty piece of work Kevin Maguire?
He looked decidedly uncomfortable on GMTV the other day.
His latest Mirror blog indicates he sees the writing on the wall…
Sorry to piss on the parade people, but the only quote that I can find from HMRC regarding MPs expenses is this.
“Our legal obligation to maintain customer confidentiality means we are unable to offer comment on the tax affairs of named individuals or organisations under any circumstances.
We use a wide variety of information sources to ensure the tax system operates as it should. We can’t discuss in detail the tax affairs of MPs or how we go about making sure the tax rules are properly applied but one of our key roles is policing the tax rules and we do this very effectively right across the board.”
To me that reads like “Nothing to see here, move along.”
Has anyone seen a more definite quote from HMRC? Whats needed is something along the lines of, “We’ll be turning these thieving parasites over, asap!”
Even the quotes about McNulty only say’s he “COULD” be facing a police investigation, not that he “WILL” be being investigated. It seems to me talk of investigations is one big red herring. I hope that I’m wrong, but history says the long grass beckons.
I HATE the word ‘customer’ used by twats about people who have no fucking choice but to use their ‘SERVICES’ (sic)
I HATE the patronising bastards who write this fucking twaddle – more, much more piano wire and more lamp posts – please!
The Pope is right…644 condom failures find their way to Parliament
FLIPPING PIES
Willy: ” McB a bloke has just dropped by with a solution for the water damaged pies….”
McBroon: ” Oh aye, what’s his name?
Willy: ” Hood I think……says the boys doon the Chipper mentioned you had water damaged stock because of the dodgy roof…”
McBroon:” Cut the crap aboot the roof…..now what’s the plan?
Willy:” It’s all to do with changing the sell-by date……..says it’s like a house make-over…”
McBroon: ” Aye, tell me more…”
Willy: ” What you do is dry out the pies in front of the fire, change the sell-by sticker and pop them in a new wrapper…”
McBroon:” And then we can offer them as clearance stock at a discount price because they’ll be close the use-by date…”
Willy:” You got it in one big man…it’s a win, win situation…..the punters will love you for reducing prices in a recession and McBroons makes a profit…ker ching…”
McBroon:” What’s this plan called?
Willy:” He calls it ‘flipping’…..you can do it with houses…”
Mcbroon: ” But what aboot Trading Standards and the Wee Green Book on Hygiene?
Willy: ” Easy peasy McB……I’ve had a chat with the Clerk at the Traders Association …….he says if you judge the pies to be bona fide and essential for the business then there is nae problem…….rules are rules McB…”
McBroon: ” Aye Willy…rules are rules…and we wouldn’t want to break the rules…..McBroons is a Pie Shop so no problem with the ‘essential’ bit and after a night roasting in front of the wee fire they’ll be as good as new……by the way, what does this guy Hood look like?
Willy:” A bit dodgy if you ask me McB…..think he knows Pierre…”
McBroon:” Careful son…never judge a book by its cover…”
Willy:” That’s what Dave doon the Chipper says about your shiny pie wrappers…”
McBroon:” Shut it Willy……as Pierre knows about this ‘flipping’ get him over to help with the pies…”
This second homes business is easy to resolve.
A second home is only required to enable an MP to be close to his/her place of work, so on leaving Parliament let’s just oblige MPs to hand over the keys and walk away. After all, it will have been paid for and furnished through public funds and an incoming MP can take it on. Easy peasy.
Agreed. Or of course Westminster Council could house them
Is Wormwood Scrubs too far away?
I hope they retain History of Great British Prime Ministers in the curriculum.
I will be able to help them with thier homework
I hope that minister of immigration phil woolas gets his come-uppance. He is quite the most unpleasant, arrogant, pompous, third rate cheap-skate you could imagine. And he holds one of the most important appointments in the government – minister of immigration! God help the poor immigrants with him around. He can’t even count, well neither can jack straw, and he’s minister of
justice. You couldn’t make it up.
Akan Duncan – the one who waved the bath plug on “Have I Got News For You” for a cheap laugh. What a bloody hypocrite.
This is really abysmal. This lot have been outed but what about MEPs and local councillors and the so called Lords -this is a cultural thing.so they are all at it..with our fucking money.
If we vote them out,MPs get a severance payment and it’s not peanuts. Un-fucking believable.
Arrest them all, hold them down and take their DNA to be held until the end of time. (Special Protection from infection needed if dealing with Jackie Smith, Blears, Vaz and Woolas)
[...] Commissioners of HM Revenue & Customs may have announced that they will investigate the aforementioned thieving bastard politicians for evasion of capital [...]
‘HMRC’ stands for ‘Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs’.
well now we have the tories troughers, according to BBC David Cameron is to make a statement at some time this evening, i really hope he dosent go along the same lines as labour, it’s the system stupid.grrr
We’re about to find out if DC’s got balls of steel or is just a clone of Brown with weak little baubles like Ed and Yvette.
Is blog down again???
you are Ed Balls and I claim my £5
what a stupid question, derrr
If Government is to be dissolved then I suggest strong sulphuric acid will fit the bill. A favourite of mine. Jacquie Smith has the necessary bath plug. They’ll not find McBride. Hee hee.
Gordon Brown nitrate ? … about double salary with expenses.
Honesty is not my strongest suit.
Let’s face it Jack, you don’t have a strong suit. (not like what I have anyway!)
When will Richard Murphy and the Tax Justice Network weigh in on these examples of real tax fraud?
They are working on the issue right?
Right???
The Revenue need also to look at those MPs with private businesses double claiming expenses, also claiming back VAT.
Still no news of this on the BBC (at least on their website there’s nothing at all about it)
Doesn’t it make you feel proud that the broadcaster that we all pay for doesn’t consider the fact that half the cabinet are being investigated for tax fraud is relevant to the electorate?
(Sky’s not reporting on it either.)
It was personal/small-scale sleaze that ended up ejecting the tories in 1997, and was nothing to do with anything they’d done (or not done) to the economy/country as a whole.
So, although it’s right to say that labour should be kicked out for destroying the economy, sadly most of the electorate are too stupid to understand the true nature of the economic problems and just accept what they’re told by the BBC instead.
The electorate are fantastically stupid, and often only kick out governments when they start to personally hate the individuals who are in power because of their shitty personal practices.
Most of the electorate don’t give a shit about 2 trillion pounds of public debt and an unsustainable public sector, but they do get pissed off when the PM steals 6grand of their money to clean a flat which he never stays in that’s a stone’s throw away from his grace-and-favour home.
This money, as lots of people have already mentioned here, is fucking peanuts compared to the money the government has wasted, but despite that, it’s still going to be the thing that damages them most at the election.
So, sad but true; the electorate are mostly very stupid. The expenses couldn’t have been published at a better time; just weeks before the euro elections. The story’s going to run until the general election, and then labour will come 4th (possibly 5th)
The reason for labour’s demise will be the wrong one, but the result will be the right one.
Good point. Justified jealousy is what drives the electorate in the end. Voters are too busy working to pay their taxes, and then a corrupt government can blooter the money at their pleasure. People are prepared to pay a fair sum to others to run the country in a professional pragmatic and just manner, but this is not what has been
happening. We, the people are deluding ourselves if we think we live in a democracy. We will have to employ superhuman energy if we are ever going to change our
government for the better. We have too many creature comforts to make the supreme effort , and have a revolution! Malheureursement.
Yes
When someone does a proper job investigating PFI and “RONNY” (to the boys) COHEN they will find f’cking billions “wasted”…
Why do you think Cohen “raises” millions for NULABZANU ?
Do you think he is the charity business //?! Tell me another I say, rolling on the floor with laughter…
Under the Capital Gains Tax rules it is possible to elect for your second home to be treated as your first home, so that it is exempt from Capital Gains Tax. This is not just ‘within the rules’ but entirely within the purpose of the rules. It doesn’t mean that it’s OK to fiddle expenses for it.
Listen – All our claims were broadly within the spirit of the Regulations as I bloody well interpret them. No fucking tax official is going to get a brass farthing out of me, so all of you ungrateful poor people can fuck off and die while I eat all the pies, shag all the “essential research assistants”, “diary secretaries” etc and call for another glass of champagne to be brought by Mandy’s butler, before my chauffeur brings the Jag to take me to John Lewis to get another bog seat!
Way teh go John, Way teh go!
Did I say that I don’t want to be Prime Minister?
Not convincingly Harriet!
And did I say that I did not have sex with that woman?
Yeah Bill – a million times and if you were referring to me it might actually be true!
Yes, but did I say that I do not want to be Prime Minister?
Have I made it really clear?