A grand total of £150,173.17. Foulkes is an old school multi-trougher…
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Lord Lamont told ITV News…
“I think the PM is just human and Ed Balls is a pretty irritating person”
miserable old git, obviously wants his troughing to continue, and look how much that bloody scottish parliament costs us all.
He comes across as an arrogant troughing pig. Respect MPs for the jobs they do in their constituencies with no national attention? Fuck that. Respect has to be earned. So does contempt.
If I ran a business there isn’t one of these hoons I’d employ to make the tea.
He is a prize twat.
I’ve been looking at the claims made by Purnell, Hain, Cooper and Balls and can’t see anything from the top line figures that jumps out.
I’ve posted them all here – http://plato-says.blogspot.com/2009/05/while-we-are-waiting-for-lib-dem.html
Feel free to see if you can spot something odd, Hain’s seem high but that’s about it.
Anyone seen my powder puff? Or my lippy?
Anyone seen my powder puff? Or my lippy?
I said anyone seen my powder puff, or my lippy?
There seems to be a lack of respect to his employers the taxpayers of the U.K.
I am amazed that anyone would come to speaker Martin’s defence.
£1.7 million to do up his state provided pad
£25,000 for his wife to travel with him to the worlds most exotic locations
She used £4,000 on taxis to go shopping!
He is Lord of the troughers.
Is he being paid in House of Commons pounds are BBC pounds which are worth 1.4375 more?
Of else if this mythical exchange rate does not exist he is a prize thick thieving twat.
Greedy fat piggie
As you say, an arrogant belligerent troughing pig…well, I added belligerent.
As for Martin….what about Lord of the Pigs?
I shan’t take lessons from this thief.
note to ‘fat boy foulkes’: you are a scottish mafia thief. you have come down to England rustling taxpayers money. and now you appear on television defending the theft of English taxpayers’ money during a recession.
your scottish mafia better be careful to stay in pairs so you don’t get strung up you thieving c’unt.
and I can’t believe that useless bitch is being paid 92K a year, she’s a fucking cretin! she couldn’t ask a decent question if you stuck it up her arse.
all goes to show what fifth columnists the bbc are, innit.
please could we check bbc expenses at some point in the future Guido?
to ‘thick as thieves’- she did a good job reducing that idiot scurry back beneath the rock he crawled out from- and she is top totty!
hmmm…. the bbc rebuttal unit has jumped into action. very suspicious.
methinks those bbc expenses should definitely be next on the list.
you wouldn’t believe how much money one could spend on a even single bottle. they must have like like they were holding the keys to a king’s cellar.
they just couldn’t help themselves and they have been quaffing their piggy faces, just like the politicians.
you could say the bbc and new labour are as thick as thieves!
those bbc alcohol expense claims would make most interesting reading though.
Is this the guy who is supposed to persuade us that it’s all a fuss about nothing? What a bad call if he is. Whose idea to wheel this comic on? Gordon? Alastair? Gorbals?
isaw the hoon on sky he needs a bullet up his arse
Issa alla fussa about nothina
From Wiki
“He has been accused by the Scottish Government of wasting public and government time money by asking a large number of parliamentary questions, including how much money the Scottish Government has spent on spacehoppers, and how many times Scottish ministers have met with Scottish musician Sandi Thom. These questions reportedly cost the Government nearly £100,000 to answer [9].”
“pled guilty to a charge of assault and of being drunk and disorderly after spending a night in police custody following a reception hosted by the Scotch Whisky Association, resulting in a fine of £1,050″
What a complete Hoon
Love his maths. 92,000 is now double 64,000! What a twat. He’s had lessons from Broon and Darling
She should have put him right so he’d look like the cnut he is to the public. Wanker. He’s really fucking annoyed me that miserable shit.
It’s all within the rules you pond life.
Fucking wanker. At least she had the decency to front up and answer the cnut straight instead of all that dodging and bluster about MP’s claims being ‘in the rules’. What a load of fucking tripe. Demonstrative, useless bastard – If the BBC want to pay Humphries six figures that’s up to them. We pay the license fee so we get what we pay for. Paxman doesn’t get his moat dredged, his chandeliers, his cleaners or his fucking porn paid for on top of his salary. Foulkes – what a miserable, sneering shit.
What a wanker he is. Complete twat, in league with the No-Shame Martin and his Top Drawer, all-out crookery. Can’t add up, can’t be taken seriously, trying to defend these thieving, defrauding hoons – utterly shameless. This might start happening more often with presenters getting stuck into these robbing bastards right in the glare of the public eye. At least she fronted up and gave her salary straight, unlike these twisted, greedy troughing k’nts. If Humphries gets a six figure sum at least he doesn’t claim for cleaners, chandeliers, gardeners, butlers, having his moat dredged and porn as an extra on top of his pay.
I bet he doesn’t even have a moat to keep clean.
Lord & Lady Foulkes came out to stay a few years back in a very posh & exclusive hotel near here. Lady Foulkes, apparently, didn’t like it. Not good enough. Too Turkish. So they left. Not by taxi. Nor bus. By helicopter.
If that’s not true, Lord & Lady Foulkes, sue me.
How very dare you!!!! I have know Lord Foulkes and his capacity to trough is without paragon, I would remind you all that memebers of both Upper and Lower Houses should be respected as my friend the Speaker has always maintained… Theres a good man waiter, fill the trough with more champagne times running out..
What a cantankerous old wanker! The media scrutinises MP’s and he says this is undermining democracy?! Does he understand what the fourth estate is? Does he get that its the medias democratic duties are to highlight sleaze and corruption, its called civic journalism and any man who thinks the UK media does it too much is clearly from another planet!
Where is this tosser MP for?
Another club within a club member like so many of our masonic friends in Westminster!
Mind you, Ms. Gracie bags £92k of licence-payers’ money to read from an autocue, so her nose is not a million miles away from the trough.
One wonders what the ‘A’ list BBC news-readers pull in.
I’m not too bothered by that – if they continue to include Ian Hislop in Have I Got News For You. He’s getting the mark.
It’s the best political show on TV.
Carry Gracie is great !! Usually BBC news is like the Moscow State News Service. Fantastic that they have a few presenters who still understand what journalism is about.
you really are fucking nuts aren’t you.
you know you said you worked in mental health?
I think you are definitely in mental health but as a patient.
come on, tell the truth, you’ve been fucking sectioned you c’unt, haven’t you?
the only thing I can’t work out is how, when are you are on a 15 minute watch, you are able to get access to a keyboard.
that’s a neat trick.
for a schizo.
I doubt Ms. Gracie gets to set her own salary and expense structure. If she’s ben legitimately offered that amount as a salary, then more power to her. I don’t begrudge anyone their wealth, so long as it is earned.
Exactly, and she did, at least. say that any calls she made were made on her own phone. However, lets see the focus now turned on Al Beeba and how much that lot individually get from the public purse. Just as legitimate an exercise as MP’s.
She’s not reading from an autocue though. And the question is – with the expenses accout that the MP’s and Lords are using – how much is the total? That’s their salary!
Remember they’re allowed to claim £400 a month in food bills!
As a carer, I’m on £44 a week, and then I have Purnell telling me for doing the thankless task – I’m a sponger.
I may have given the impression that I was in some way sticking up for that idiot tub’o'lard Foulkes. Nothing could be further from the truth. Kudos to Ms Gracie for putting the boot in.
And come to think of it, £92k for an anchor role on a national television station is comparatively modest.
fuck off shit bag. she’s a useless c’unt.
the licence payer is paying 92K for some dopey blond bitch to sit their reading a fucking script, unable to ask a question of any quality.
fuck off you imbecile.
Don’t worry, Dr. Nuts. The term ‘benefit scrounger’ now has a whole new meaning.
£92k for autocue reading services – that’s nothing! Just look what that Kate Garraway gets – £500K I suspect. I hope that she may be available soon – I want to be a kept man. If not I will slum it with la Gracie. I predict a downturn in my moat cleaning business, needs must!
PS – does anyone want to buy a diving suit, an economy bottle of household bleach and a stiff-bristled brush?
eh 92k for a newsreader isnt that bad? Why are people outraged? she has to live in London, commute all over the world, work irregular hours, be outstanding at ad libbing and public speaking, keep extremely up to date with virtually all new issues and be intelligent enough to explain said issues to Joe Public plus pull horrific shifts during national scandals etc.
Also whoever said she just reads from an autocue is a dick plain and simple. Its BBC News 24 you dont get to do rehearsals and autocues cant see into the future numbnuts breaking news is add lib with key info displayed. Have you ever given a presentation? Its bloody difficult I do them all the time with an autocue and notes its still fecking hard and rather intimidating.
I Remember reading a few years ago that Micheal Burke had set up his own company, and charged Beeb 250k to supply himself for news reading services.
The BBC is a monopoly. IThe ‘unique way it’s funded’ allows it to set ‘the market’ in autocuties. If it was privatised and subject to proper competition it would not pay such high wages to the likes Gracie and Humphries. Quite frankly they are as much the problem as MPs are. The BBC is as establishment as MPs.
The BBC doesnt pay as high wages as SKY, ITV, AL Jazeera becasue its public sector! Please dont make broad sweeping statements whenever you know fuck all about it!
Anyone working at the BBC does so for less than they would get for ITV or SKY (that may mean they still get a lot of money but they would get even more).
Anyone who bitches and moans about the BBC clearly has never lived abroad, come to think of it sums up people who bitch and moan about the vast majority of things in the UK. The UK aint perfect but its a damn sight better than the vast majority of the world so wind your neck in and enjoy life you miserable gimp!
#297, that was almost a really good comment.
However, one should not be too kind about the BBC. Yes, occasionally they produce some decent programming, but most of the time they are little more than a shitebag of propaganda for the current Labour government.
Perhaps if they had to deal with real economics, their fantasy world would end. I’ve tried raising this point on their poorly named “Have Your Say” section, but apparently my say is “off-topic”.
Newsreader fiona bruce has dismissed reports she is paid £400, 000 a year by …
page gives a 404.
I presume that she is on more than £92 000.
I’m on 800k and I can’t even wire a plug without electrocuting myself.
*Note to self* I’m a useless, rich ©unt.
You don’t even want to know…..
92k a night, and well worth it
They say when you are in a hole stop digging…..this should be a training video
This bloke is just a wankstain on the y fronts of humanity.
yeah, yeah…
and not to forget, he’s the f@%*ing fat brake markings on the bottom of these aforementioned y-fronts as well.
what a c’unt.
Another stable door being slammed shut:
13,500 fewer colleges for visas
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/8046341.stm
Grade ‘A’ shit of the first order.
It will be interesting to see if MPs force the BBC to open up executive expense claims.
Yep he’s overpaid and so is that newsreader by a factor of 10. What is it with the public sector?
I don’t mind that she’s overpaid to see her get the MP’s to look like pr*cks about soemthing they’re so far in the wrong – a whole new noun, adjective and verb needs to be constructed!
He’s deflecting the issue – keep the focus on the piggy – it’s not the one with blonde hair! She’s being open about the size of her salary – not so the piggy on the vid-link.
they are all hoons line em up and shoot em up the arse
I mind that the BBC staff are overpaid. It’s a completely artificial market and the salary structure has evolved over time with no reference to supply and demand. She’s on £92k. I suggest you could get someone to do that job for half that. Extrapolate that through the BBC and we could either have some decent programmes or a cheaper licence fee or maybe some cricket.
Freddie! Is there anybody who does’nt deserve a bullit up the arse!
the queen
Why is Her Majesty excluded?
(waits for killer punchline)
Who?!
The Dark Prince himself – Fondelbot?!!
She deserves it in her fandang.
LMAO @ your name !
coz she does no harm
No wonder McMental has wheeled him out to earn his corn, troughing H***!
The stupid smug cun/t simply didn’t expect Carrie Gracie [no autocutie she..] to trounce his argument and puncture his pomposity by calling his bluff and coughing up the figures live on air..
Serves the idiotic old cretin right…
What a poor attitude…the smugness of some Peers & MPs is breathtaking. Thanks for the figures Guido.
Nice work if you can get it, falling asleep on a leather bench 5 days a week.
Time for a revolution methinks
Not pretty for either side
Lord Foulkes definitely came out much worse, but maybe Brown will soon say it all started in America
ITV News reported LibDems expenses for Wednesday and worst of all coming after that!
Yup as thought, its been strangely silent on some mps.
Balls, cooper, wintertons, all coming up along with purnell, diane abbott.
Portaloo will be heart broken.
My very minor claim to fame is that I recruited her first PA back in 1988/89 [black female single mother no less]. She paid £1500 recruitment agency fee which I thought was very odd.
Wonder if this was on expenses too?
Worst of all coming next…
They’ll be the married Cabinet members who were shagging other MPs at the Labour Conference, and double claiming on the hotel rooms?
Before the Telegraph expose, there was talk of Labour MPs on suicide watch, unless they were refering hopefully about Gordon?
If I do the honourable thing, can I charge the tablets and whisky or, perhaps, the electricity supplied to the hair-dryer in the bath, to the tax-payer?
Thought so. I’m going to peruse the options and choose the most expensive. Snort.
Like most of your correspondents I am outraged by the spectacle of MP’s snouts in the trough.
But it goes further than this
Who the hell is this Carrie Gracie? £92000 a year for what?
What the hell does she do except, like all the BBC interviewers, acts like she is God almighty when she knows stuff all.
I’m a BBC licence payer (i.e forced to pay) but why should she get paid this sort of money?
Don’t be a spaz – she is a trained journalist who has ‘earned her spurs’ on Radio 4.
By all means criticise dippy, vapid airheads like Spangles Kaplinsky, but leave Carrie alone – “You’re talking about the woman I love !”
[flounces off in a huff...]
I think you’ll find that YOU’RE talking about the woman I love (one of ‘em anyway)….. the rural China documentaries were first class.
Don’t worry Mr Anonymous, at £92K she can afford to keep you as her toy boy.
I am also quite a good looker if Carrie is after a toyboy.
Strikes me as better value than that oik Jonafun Woss. Why don’t you moan about his deal? The barraboy’s on a damn sight more than the fragrant Carrie.
If the contest to be an MP gets the candidates £63k ish, then why would someone get £92k to be on the telly?
I think I can guess which is the more awkward job.
This is brilliant: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2009/05/12/sir_roger_de_coverley_bart_mp_talks_frankly_about_parliamentary_expenses?from_comment=true&message=WW91ciBjb21tZW50IGhhcyBub3cgYmVlbiBtYWRlIHB1YmxpYyE=
What is great about the Douglas Hogg video is that, yet again, it shows no self-awareness or media savviness at all – he just looks like one of those dodgy ‘time-share’ salesmen who have ripped off pensioners of their life savings when cornered by seventies era ‘Nationwide’ or eighties era ‘Watchdog’ and the cretin doesn’t even realise that if he stopped to talk properly he could terminate the conversation at exactly the same length, without looking like he is trying to leave the country on the next escape nightflight…
Douglas Hogg’s wife Sarah, sits in the House of Lords as Baroness Hogg, what are her expenses?
Sarah Hogg was a former C4 news reader.
What is the point of Douglas Hogg? A useless, greedy, arrogant waste of space IMO.
General election now. Let’s clear out these thieving bastards, the worst of whom still seem to be Labour.
She’s also a NED for 3i corporation.
So, a useful subtext to this troughing stuff is how it is revealing just how incestuous the ‘establishment’ is. BBC stffers end up marreid to politicos. Lords married to authors. etc etc. The people are beginning to realise just how deep all this shit runs. Time for a revolution methinks.
The only Hogg on televison worth watching is Jefferson Davis Hogg.
Cue Waylon Jennings
Previously she was Chairman of 3i
Oops! I’ve just wet em!
A perfect excercise in ManWatching. I, too, wet my knickers.
Exercise.
Wholesale Reform
Does anyone else here wonder if, now that the bubble of corruption has been pricked, that there should be wholesale reform of the system?
I read, or heard, somewhere that Speaker’s normally get an automatic entry into the Lords.
Bearing in mind that the troughing is in the Lords too, it is hardly surprising that the cost of Parliament is so enormous.
Just because one has become a Speaker, Prime Minister or any other position is NO reason to get into this exclusive ‘club’ for life. Would you really think GB deserves to go into the Lords……. FFS NOooooooooooooo!!!!!!!
I think the opportunity to get an elected upper house should now be taken. Nominations from all over the country’s best talent…..dare I say, a government of all the talents!!!
Get rid of all these ‘club’ members and make them earn their keep again.
I agree – Gorbals should buy his peerage like the others.
Your orifice is a laughing stock here in Deutschland.
The pig did have a point about the BBC salaries though.
The broadcaster whyo value money so highly should be
in the private sector.
>The broadcaster whyo value money so highly should be
in the private sector.
and will soon be.
The TV license is dead. The numbers of those boycotting the TV tax is growing, so it fails one way or the other. The have a chance to go subscription it would be foolish to waste (I expect them to be fools).
Detune your television. Have a video recorder that cannot be tuned into receiving channels so that it can only play back. Then you do not need a license fee.
Is there any example from history of a bullying tyrant being overthrown peacefully?
(1) State-funded rollout of broadband ‘for all’.
(2) Taxation of internet access at the ISP to fund Parasite Sector Broadcasting.
(3) Regulation.
Easy.
If it wasn”t for Mrs Lola and her nervousness I would not pay it either.
Foulkes was the man who went on Toady (which has now begun to report NuLab less than sympathetically, so perhaps soon we can return to calling it ‘Today’) this morning, to defend his great chum of many years…………..
…………….that beacon of probity………………..
*************MR SPEAKER MARTIN! (Ta-rah!)**************
They do look awfully like a couple of old-time Scots lefties who got lucky with the gravy-train and are milking it (mixed metaphor – see me, boy) for all it’s worth.
Let’s hope that we can look forward to welcoming Lord Mick of Gorbals some time soon and restore some honour and dignity to the office of Speaker.
You’re taking the Michael. Lord?
What possible use can this clown be to Eversheds, the legal firm? They wouldn’t pay £1,000 a day to this suck-up merchant. It must be Marston, Thompson & Evershed, the brewery.
Try looking up Cash for Amendments
To be fair, he had good point. However it is only since smeargate that presenters have gotten a bit of confidence and are now integrating rather than interviewing. 92 grand man, that’s a lot of lolly. She looked just as bad in my opinion. Especially as she started whining about her bloody phone bill. I bet she wishes she could have claimed the money. I think that the press also needs to have a clear out of lazy fucking journo’s that just do copy print. I am all in favour of the press reporting things that need to be in the public domain, but what I don’t want to see is that they are bashing politicians for the sake of it. I admit that I have had a great week watching them all squirm, however there must be a point (when the point is reached on this particular fiasco is up for debate) when they start to turn back to the things that are important. For example destroying the Labour party and all in it
No really the Economy, Europe and most importantly a total rethink of the way our democratic system works because we need that sorted ASAP. Bashing politicians is not going to restore faith in our parliament. This needs to be top of the agenda.
Agreed, whining about her phone calls didn’t endear her to me and it struck me as akin to the pot calling the kettle black. 92k for reading the news is a lot of wedge for a couple of hours a day and let us not forget it is public money as well.
She wasn’t whining about her phone calls as you put it,she was pointing out to the obnoxious w***er Foulkes she didn’t claim for extras as the MPs and Lords do
Foukes has also been accused by the Scottish Government of wasting public and government time money by asking a large number of parliamentary questions, including how much money the Scottish Government has spent on spacehoppers, and how many times Scottish ministers have met with Scottish musician Sandi Thom. These questions reportedly cost the Government nearly £100,000 to answer.
He appears to be yet another New Labour politician who has no scruples or morals and has lost touch with reality.
This drunken sack of shit has been pissing off the non-Labourites in Scotland for years. He’s the clown of the Scottish parliament, and an arrogant trough digger who thinks he’s better than everyone. Truth is he doesn’t realise what an ignorant git he is and it’s about time he’s been seen UK-wide for the embarrassment to himself that he is.
By the way, as well as being a peer he’s a *list* MSP. So £150,173.17 and nobody has even voted for him. Stinks like Brown.
I suppose the BBC will say she is paid the going rate. Which is a load of cobblers. At the end of the day she is just a glorified call center worker with a video phone. Well done that politician for making her look stupid. In the commercial world £10k would be too much.
fuck off drone
Now, now, Carrie.
Nay countryman he has my ear and i wholeheartly agree.
I love it when you talk dirty Carrie!
Roman Citizen I want Carrie’s arse. But not in the way that I want Margeret Moran’s in a sling.
If you thought Foulkes made her look stupid you must have been watching a different programme to me.
I thought she did quite well letting him show himself up to be the w***er he is
What is it about these NuLabor, Foulkes/Sion Simon/Draper et al
They all come across as pig ignorant bullies.
Foulkes is being a disingenuous Hunt.
I bet she pays tax and NI on her 92K, whereas MPs don’t pay a penny in tax on their salaries. A 64K MP’s salary is equivalent to £98K before tax and NI are deducted.
And I bet she has to account for all her expenses with receipts and will be taxed on benefits in kind, whereas an MP has a huge range of allowances they’re entitled to claim with (it seems) very little evidence and no tax to pay.
I you telling me that MP’s dont pay any tax on their MPs salary/ Are you sure?
Guido is this right?
They pay at different rates than anyone else. The lower tax band is higher for them as they have a greater Tax Free Alowance.
I think you will find they do pay tax and NI on their salaries – it’s the expenses they get tax free.
Some expenses; complex system made more generous in 2003 under ZNL (of course, though previously enhanced by the tories). They have their very own tax regime, tax office and Tax Returns (all online at HMRC). Worst excess is the flipping though (which everone can do BTW if you have more than one house) because they use the allowance system ie public money to add value to the house and then flip.
I stand corrected then. I thought it was salary and allowances.
Indeed Max – it all comes back to me now. the MPs’ Tax Office was called PD1 in my day as a tax inspector, and was located in a concrete bunker somewhere in the South Taffia. Apparently if you worked there you were never allowed to leave.
How can he be paid both a Lords allowance and a MSP salary when he obviously can’t be in two places at once? I am assuming they both sit at approximately the same time.
At least in theory he can do the consultancy work on a flexible basis.
Look across the water and see what happens in NI – all paid for by the tax payers.
Leading politicians and their families hold down severals jobs. Force them all to hold just one and you’d probably halve Ulster’s unemployment .
The Scots are amateurs.
The quietness of SF drawing allowances; could it be possibly be related to the fact that the secretary I want to whisk away for nefarious purposes is at 5′ 3″ just 1 inch, or 2.54 centimetres,BIGGER than a certain (or a cretin?) politician’s television?
That’s something that always gets my goat. All these MPs serving in one parliament. Am I wrong or wasn’t Ian Paisley a Westminster MP, a Northern Ireland MP and an EU MP all at the same time?
How many more of these politicos are dipping into more than one trough at the same time.
Pedants’ Corner here:
“…claimed £54,441 in allowances for 94 days attendance…”
Shouldn’t that be “…94 days’ attendance”?
“…for 36 days work…”
Shouldn’t that, likewise, be “…36 days’ work…”
I duly expect a whole raft of abuse from people in response to this — this is on the internet (or is that the “Internet”?) after all. Abuse away, my friends!
Pedant’s Corner. If they appear there one at a time.
Good point! Now what is the general consensus on “internet” vs “Internet”?
Come along TT – it’s pedants’ corner…
George Foulkes is a crony of Brown’s and one of the greediest, most dishonest thieving bastards in politics.
BTW Let’s not forget that at that three-way meeting with Clegg and Cameron a couple of weeks ago, Brown ranted that MPs expenses was only an issue because Cameron kept bringing it up at PMQs. Brown has been doing everything he can to keep all of this covered up.
So, some BBC bimbo nonentity autocue reader is on £92k pa. Plus free taxis to and from work every day and all the other perks that go with working for the BBC.
This is the only media organisation in the world that taxes us all over £140 pa, whether we use them or not, and gets us sent to prison if we don’t pay up.
I worked at the BBC once for many years. I left because I got fed up with the lack of standards in programme making and people working there because they wanted a show-off career in the meeja rather than believing in informing, entertaining and educating.
I’m afraid I had to get the tube to White City and pay for it myself just like everyone else. There expenses are not what they used to be.. for some at least. 20 years ago it was jollies out for lunch at Julies or Orsino and flowers for the wife. Codes were handed out which could be used to pay for black cabs and that system was abused horribly with people getting black cabs on the BBC on nights home from the West End.
But about 10 years ago they came down on that quite heavily. From what I remember the average Joe working there couldn’t claim for squat (quite right too). By painful experience, its the top execs who seemed to shaft everyone else though. There is an “in crowd” of Oxbridge common purpse types who you have to be “in with” to get on (another nail in the coffin for the place for me). Its like a hellish clique. But my guess is its from those ranks the skeletons reside.
Given no one else could claim for toffee, if it turns out they DO and HAVE claimed for trips abroad on “reccies” while really going on nice holidays to distant lands – that type of bullshit, the place would collapse with infighting. It was bad when I left. God knows what its like now.
I certainly know of one ex-exec who used to claim mileage for travel to work from outside the M25 but get a lift with a lower ranking colleague instead of driving themselves. And they didn’t pay them for the petrol. So they just pocketed the mileage money, used the company car for home use and shafted their own colleague who was to frightened to say anything and ask for payment for fear of being given the cold shoulder/out of a job.
I miss working for the BBC but I don’t miss some of the people who used to work there. That said there are some bloody good types working there. So don’t tar them all with the same brush! Its the middle management shysters who need to go.
The government plus the BBC came across as out of touch with reality on the streets; mainly because they are. Carrie’s ok (potted history Here) and fluent in Mandarin means she’d earn her £92K in industry if not journalism, but don’t tell me she paid her own way at the Olympics (and why should she) so expenses on top. No one uses the bleedin’ company phone anymore, all the speed dial numbers are on your mobile, innit? Anyway 90 grand, one hundred and ninety grand, whatever, the peasants are revolted. They have after all had 12 years of being told that everyone is equal and we are all owed; so there we go. Where’s mine by the way?
“Fluent in Mandarin”? Really. All the link says is that she “studied”. (Maybe that is as in “stud”)
Fluent, I believe. Married to a Chinese stud (is that what you meant?). Try the Wiki version, Here. Yes I know it’s only Wiki but I’m short on time and actually looked her up properly a long time ago so was working earlier from memory. Ok now?
I’m fluent in mandarian
the mandarian takeaway menu.
69 for me please!
You bet he is Guido but he’s an old hand at dealing with the media. Have a look at this:
http://subrosa-blonde.blogspot.com/2009/05/lord-foulkes-and-carrie-gracie.html
Stupid woman fell fot his tricks and she earns more than a brigadier! She’s not worth half that salary. Of course us taxpayers pay it so who’s worried? What a shameful democracy we have become in my lifetime.
The BBC won’t like some big-mouthed, drunken Labour turd slagging them off live on air. Perhaps some of them will reconsider their sycophancy and blatant bias towards Labour?
Serves the BBC right for sucking up to Labour scum like Foulkes for the past 12 years.
Agreed, For the first time in 12 years, a BBC anchor didn’t accept the bullshit from Nu Labour.
And just look at the response from Foulkes! What a twat. He made even me look level-headed – and that’s something, believe me.
I heard Foulkes slagged off Paxman and Humphries but did he have a go at Toenails Robinson, Andrew Marr, and Robert Peston aswell?
No?
Thought not!
If he’s on Newsnight he’ll be virtually comatose. He was blootered at breakfast time. Perhaps he’ll chuck his guts…..hope it’s not Emily.
So why are the BBC paying this bint £92 grand a year? There’s another 30 million women out there who would do her talking job at a fraction of that wage. Who has she been shagging?
Alan Yentob and Greg Dyke in a viagra fuelled threesome, with David Aaronovitch filming it while frantically jacking off.
I’ll buy a copy!
David Aaronovitch doesn’t believe in conspiracy theories you know.
What a smug, boring non-journalist he is.
As well as being a peer he’s also a *list* MSP, not an ordinary MSP. So £150,173.17 and nobody has even voted for him.
This is the guy who pissed as a fart after a Scottish Whisky event in London smashed an old lady to the ground as he ran in to the Commons to vote. As a result he spent a night in the cells. The bloke simply has no sham .
Plenty of sham, its shame he lacks.
We have some more ‘e’ back in stock now sir,
thank you
In these hard times i would advise all households to save £142.50 from their annual budget by whatever means possible!
Oh look my BBC license costs exacatly that
When the scottish Parliament decided to change its rules to exclude second home allowances, Foulkes submitted evidence where he basically just asked for the same again please.
He is an idiot of the top order, no idea why he is a big noise in Scottish Labour, probably from the same mold (or should that be mould) as Martin.
He’s got the dirt on Gordon
More like he’s got Gordons dirtbox
From what I’ve heard and read about Scottish Labour it is a very foul and dirty organisation, not to mention vicious. Seems to me he fits right in. Him and Gorbals Mick who is his personal pal. Sorry ( take my word Gordon it’s not a hard word to say) my ‘french’ (or even my spanish ) isn’t good enough to express the loathing I feel about these two men. No doubt someone will fill in for me.
It IS very foul and dirty!
You lot of morris dancers are ONLY NOW, seeing what we Scots have had to put up with for 50 years, since the Glasgow mafiosa now have the UK stage all to themselves!!
And it is why people outside Wedgieland and New Zealand city in the central belt are worried what independence might mean.
It is a very foul and dirty organization. Believe me, I’m Scottish and for many, many years there has been scandal after scandal from the very local party level to the top. NOTHING ever gets done about it other than sweep it all under the carpet. No-one has ever been prosecuted. That’s why I hate them so much, makes me sick to hear them declare they are the party of the ordinary person in the street. Aye right.
Great performance by DC today and now Broon trying to claim the credit. GET RID NOW.
Must be a common trait… used to work with a Glaswegian. Always losing things, borrowing yours and losing them as well then pretending they’d given them back… oh and always off sick with something or other.
He knows where the bodies are.
Where am i?
Haven’t I done you, Jimmy? Didn’t you like it?
I like G Foulkes….he’s funny….
All drunks are funny when they’re not slobbering and puking over you personally.
Like most drunks
he’s pissed
He’s only funny if you’re pissed.
If he were pissed shouldn’t he have been slurring you’re my besht friend ever. Tory bastards! We” hic take them all on togeher hic.
Good work from Cameron today. Brown’s gone into hiding though.
It was the right thing to do
How can this loathsome, uncivil creature be good for Eversheds? If I was a Director of this company I would be cringing today knowing that we were allied to this odious man. If I was one of Evershed employees I’d be livid that they were paying someone so useless £1000 per day, for doing what? Their Finance Executive needs to question whether he is worth their money, especially in these difficult times and especially since he brings them so much bad publicity – frankly I doubt it.
It’s not what you know, it’s who you know
and Foulkes has Brown over a barrel, so to speak.
This is the problem today. The whole system is incestuous. Once you’ve got your foot in the door yo’re made for life.
Does eversheds have a contract with westminister or the scots parliament, that would be probably why they giving him so much cause he got the deal for them.
Why? What has he got over the Prime Mentalist?
Follow the money!
But it always ends up in the middle east and we’re not allowed to talk about that or we get in trouble!
His nasty little diatribe and the fact that he showed absolutely no shame – proving like the speaker that he thinks he somehow deserves his totally undeserved troughing – shows that he exemplifies what is rotten in the system.
What a complete Hunt.
http://www.tvlicenceresistance.info/forum/
British Army Captain = £37,172
British Broadcasting Corporation Autocue reader = £92,000
and if we don’t pay the licence to fund her £92k pa we will be sent to jail.
Blown off limbs – say £ 20k
Repetitive Strain Injury from working the autocue – £ 500k
OT
Lost in all the expenses stuff today is another stark raving bonkers speech from Gordon.
Every persson in England and Wales can now phone the plod and ask for a bobby to walk the last mile home with them. Needless to say PC Plod did not agree that this was possible. How many Policemen does Gordon think there are in England and Wales? and will they carry the shopping for you?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8046274.stm
Did someone also propose that the police escort you home from ATMs?
So a thief watching someone go from an ATM being escorted by plod knows where a would be victim lives.
Does he live in Equalia with Lisa Simpson’s former best friend?
That hits a sensitive spot. Apologies to the British Army Captain.
I thought there was once was a troughing MP with a military rank, but it could be a major disaster for Labour.
Thats why we need a general election.
I wouldn’t mind a miltary coup from our boys, If we where a lesser country we would snapped and had one from the miltary long ago, the mugs at westminster take our stiff upper lip for granted, it’ll be the undoing of them one day soon, another cromwell will rise.
Me too! I want them in schools especially, show the kids what being a pro-active, self-disciplined adult personifies.
/rant
I agree she shouldn’t be able to set her wages (what do you mean she doesn’t) and the Army should just start paying more and more for soldiers. (what more tax? why?) get a grip you muppet, she doesn’t go in on Monday morning and say that this week you will pay me £92k p.a., she just accepted the offer made to her, as for the Army rates they are pathetic for what is expected of troops in the current world climate, and just being willing to die for the country doesn’t seem to be a good enough reason to live here (JL for PM).
Anyway /rant
That “twat that is fat” (copyright Dizzy Thinks) needs to see this: The Pay It Back Campaign.
Do you think he will? Somehow, I doubt it…
The Daily Politics on Tim Montgomery: BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME
Breaking news from the Telegraph: Bob Marshall Andrews has been coining it at the taxpayers expense, more Labour sleaze to be revealed soon.
Sorry Edina but BOUGHT and BROUGHT are not interchangeable. Different words, different meanings – ask any journalist…..oh, second thoughts don’t.
(Pet hate if you hadn’t guessed)
BBC north west had some bloke – Mr Wheeler from Salford Labour Party saying how many jobs Hazel had bought to Salford (Moving bbc jobs up North is hardly creating jobs!)
Hazel had bought Salford
Did Cameron know about the Tory expenses before they were published or not?
If he DIDN’T know then why didn’t he find out if there were any unexploded expense bombs lurking?
If he DID know about these unjustifiable expenses why didn’t he do something about it before?
Was he just hoping the issue would go away?
Is this just fake anger and sabre rattling from the PR man?
It’s not his responsibility it’s the fees office *cough* just ask the honourable speaker
Cameron is unliked by most in his own party they only put him with him cause they’re gonna win the GE anyway.
OT but you might have noticed that today was a good day for releasing some bad news and true to form the government “accidentally” released the new unemployment figures at 2pm in error (due out Wednesday 9.30am). Headline is that the 2 million figure was breached, worst data since 1981 etc.
The BBC have it all Here. Enquiry duly launched etc etc.
Obvious really I suppose, better released Tuesday when everone is still talking about the tories than on Wednesday when the LibDems won’t be quite as distracting. Or am I missing something here?
Unbelievably, the hoons had a caption that said unemployment was up to 7.1 million rather than 7.1%. Fuck, that is a schoolboy error. The rest of the world will have lapped that up as the ‘truth’. Givvus a job Auntie.
Democracy! I thought he was a life peer!? When was his election by the people?
There needs to be a revolution, we’ve got to kick the Scottish Raj out!
No would be a good day to bury bad news.
Au contraire, sweetie. I hear Georgie boy likes it up ‘im very much indeed.
The sad thing is that these fuckers don’t understand that the Public will not give in or forget all this.
Let’s see a reduction in the six hundred and tontine current members of the ‘troughing shop’ at the next election. We don’t need this number of oinkers
Feed ‘em to the schoolkids!
Ha ha thoroughly enjoyed that. He was an arrogant obnoxious typical Liebore prat and it was delectable watching him get so riled with the normally pet BBC…I thought he did well to ask her about her salary – he does have a point seeing as its all public money.
Yes but she doesn’t claim for a cleaner, chandeliers, security patrolling her house or having her fucking moat dredged as an extra on top of her 92K. That where the Grand Theft has begun and how that snivelling idiot can dare defend some of his colleagues about getting a hard time on camera is utterly laughable. ZaNuLiebor have completely lost the plot if this is the best they shove in front of the camera.
I know – its risible how badly they’re playing it – shoving these unreconstructed Scottish “socialists” in front of the cameras to bleat on about how hard done by they are, and what an unfair picture is being portrayed. At least DC hasn’t done that. The Labour elite must be insane to react this way, its suicidal! Soon, inevitably, the actual expenses scandal will dim, and as its cross party, hurts everyone, but the arrogance and deviance of the Labour lot will linger on far longer..
I find it quite encouraging really. If the best that labour strategists can come up with is to use this guy as someone who may allay public outrage, then they really are fucked.
yep. they’ve given up trying, clearly.
Too true.If that sweaty Jock Lunchtime O’Booze is their shock and awe offensive then they’re in even deeper shite than I thought.
I’m a hoon.
Fuck the troughers, Fuck the bbc!
Fuck harman pride!
I’m a Geoffrey.
Buff off you prole!
*Giggle*
I’m lovely, but a bit dim x
E x .
Ewanme don’t hide your light under a bushel. And you are about as dim as a 200w bulb – Oh I forgot they’ve been taken out of circulation haven’t they?
Oh , hiya Nell x .
200 Watters ? Fuck , that is sheer irresponsibilty , hun . Nah , I’ll come clean . I ain’t that dim but I am fairly politically ambivalent coz I think they are all complete tossers .
I’ll let the big boys snuffle out the stories an then pipe up wiv somethin unfunny .
I’ve been doin this for so long that I ain’t sure who I am anymore .
Hi to everyone an thanks for all the hate-mail .
E x .
I still love you Ewanme!
Love
OMFG !!!
Hiya Old Nick (real name, honest) honey !!
Is this where you live , petal ??? I thought you woz a DT mod or somethink .
So nice to see ya . Blimey , things are great if you are feeling in a subversive mood , hun .
How are things on the continent ?? Is the shit still eye-poppingly good ? Great .
I still see Nathaniel Sloth occasionally but he is more away wiv the fairies than I am . He’ll say boom shankar to ya when he comes down
Jeez – you hang out here ?? Yeah , Telly is doin a great job but they still ain’t user-friendly . They fucked up big time but then that’s for them to work out .
Guido is a great host an he let’s us do all the best quotes for the Friday Caption thingy . He purposely throws in a real duffer to flatter us . LOL . Love it .
See ya around Nick E xxxx .
Lib Dem outing preview at DT.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5314507/Telegraph-discloses-Liberal-Democrat-MPs-expenses.html
It’s a la ZaNuLab, bits of furniture and associated domestic hoonery plus Grand Theft Property Speculation, tax free if possible.
To be expected. Boring now. That’s why the unemployment figures were “accidentally released” a day early, as I mentioned previously at 102, ahem.
Breaking News
The Telegraph is about to expose Liberal Democrat sleaze:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5314507/Telegraph-discloses-Liberal-Democrat-MPs-expenses.html
I reckon Gracie’s just another meeja harlot like the rest of them, Humphries, Paxman et al. They only get so much wedge because the BBC is a state monopoly. It’s huge income, extracetd by coercion from the poor old private citizen alows it to dominate UK broadcasting. It is what it pays that sets the rate, and if you are producer you’ll be rated by what you pay your ‘star’ presenters. If they get more you get more. None of these gits would get half as much if the BBC was privatised or made into a subscription service. She, Gracie, is as much part of the problem as Fatty Foulkes. Who it goes without saying is a total troughing tosser and should fuck off. Now.
She may be over-paid but at least she wasn’t on message, reading questions sent directly from the Pravda Bunker.
She can speak fluent Mandarin.
We’re lucky if half the kids from our schools can even speak English. Some of our schools have NO children for whom English is a first language.
How quickly can we introduce retrospective impeachment of public officials?
Paxman gets my vote.
Anyone who can commandeer such a salary and sit there and be alternately lethargic and outraged is worth it….what a job!
I just want it extended to other star performers at the BBC
I started off thinking “what an overpaid cnut” but after a little research it turns out she is a (relatively) well repected journalist of 20 years’ standing with the BBC – and at least she had the guts to give a straight answer to a straight question!.
Auntie pays well below what Sky, Al Jazeera or any of the US stations do (shit, I’m sticking up for them!) but sure there’s a few overpaid Paxmans and Robinsons there.
Law of unintended consequences – I bet there’s a fair bit more scrutiny of others on the public sector payroll from the very same PMs who have just had their wings clipped…
Has anyone seen Gordon today?
And Mr Brown said he wanted every police force in England and Wales to consider walking people the last mile home if they felt unsafe.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8046274.stm
Feeble attempt to spin the news agenda. The wheels have finally fallen off the number ten spin machine – and I ain’t bloody mending it.
What an excellent service. I walk the dog every evening – should I make a permanent booking with my local plod? Do you think they might vary the time a little if I’m a bit ‘under the weather’ on any particular evening? Could we be given a choice of rozzer? If so it’s the brunette with the wonderful norks please.
Nothing important then. Like a cones hotline?
Is that a green mile in Gordon’s case?
I thought that wasting police time was a criminal offence?
Won’t you come see about me?
I’ll be alone, dancing you know it baby
Tell me your troubles and doubts
Giving me everything inside and out and
Love’s strange so real in the dark
Think of the tender things that we were working on
Slow change may pull us apart
When the light gets into your heart, baby
Don’t You Forget About Me
Don’t Don’t Don’t Don’t
Don’t You Forget About Me
Will you stand above me?
Look my way, never love me
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, down
Will you recognise me?
Call my name or walk on by
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, down, down
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Ohhhh…..
Don’t you try to pretend
It’s my feeling we’ll win in the end
I won’t harm you or touch your defenses
Vanity and security
Don’t you forget about me
I’ll be alone, dancing you know it baby
Going to take you apart
I’ll put us back together at heart, baby
Don’t You Forget About Me
Don’t Don’t Don’t Don’t
Don’t You Forget About Me
As you walk on by
Will you call my name?
As you walk on by
Will you call my name?
When you walk away
Or will you walk away?
Will you walk on by?
Come on – call my name
Will you all my name?
Well said Guido. The barsteward has been milking the public for years along with his Scottish labour pals. Nothing about the ‘ill’ David Marshall who retired with 2 doctors note.. He claimed for an constituency office which turned out to be his very own front room. The media have never managed to find anyone who ever had a meeting with their MP.
Scottish labour is a disgrace but the media won’t touch it.
SR-how can I comment on your site without signing in?
It’s getting like a nightly event now. BBc & Sky awaiting the latest Telegraph press release.
Funny as fuck.
When you say that he doesnt like it up him are you impying that he was a day boy rather than a boarder?
Perhaps this utter hoon is gordons last friend,the only one drunk enough to go on tv and try to help……pitiful really.
Nice work if you can get it!
The time has come when politicians should be made to account for their time and productivity, using the very time-and-motion business methods they have laboured to force upon the rest of us.
For now, Foulkes may laugh at us all as he enjoys our money and sips champagne, but many years from now his remains will be exhumed and hung high on a gibbet for all decent people to spit upon as they pass by.
I particularly like Simon Heffer (Telegraph) describing Michael Martin’s “EPIC unsuitability for the great office he holds.” I hope he is soon gone.
I think that is also true of Gordon Brown, loads of ministers, Lord Foulkes , Baroness Uddin etc etc.
Not Fit For Purpose. We need Dave to say what he is going to do about the Lords when he gets into power – Whatever it is. It needs to be drastic.
Prune out the last ten years-worth of placemen and reinstate the hereditaries. At least they knew what ‘duty’ meant.
Yeah I agree but we can’t go backwards – I think the only way forwards for the House of Lords now is to make it fully electable – how else are we to get rid of dross like Foulkes , Uddin and those other 3 Labour Lords that are troughing i? (Dave I hope you are listenting)
Sorry (see Gordon it’s not hard to say) I forget their names – No doubt someone will supply them for me.
Truscott was one, I think. Sadly, can’t recall t’others.
Hear what you say about elected Lords, but would there be a problem with very low turnouts? Any solution involving appointment is open to potential abuses, so can’t think of an easy answer.
Remember when the great Billy Bragg opposed the House of Lords because the people in it had done nothing to deserve to be there?
How things have improved.
Nell, madam. You hope I am gone soon? That’s my best joke ever. Yes, I’m proud of my latest bout of verbal diarrhoea and let us pray that some of it sticks this time.
Of course it will. To you!
LOL !
But why are there so many useless jocks in charge of things?
It’s called the Peter Principle. It’s especially true when applied to gordon ansd gorbals mick.
Cos you morris dancers are INCAPABLE of self rule!
Twat!
It’s hard to accept being called a morris dancer from people who still wear dresses.
PS How much is the debt from 1707 worth now you reckon? Oh, I forgot. History begins after that humiliating time of course. Money spent by England in Scotland’s favour is never appreciated , and never will be.
Bearing in mind many have never have had proper jobs, done a proper days’ work, or earned an honest wage, and are totally unqualified, unskilled, crap wind-bags, uses are of necessity limited. But as a start . . . . .
1. Door Stop
2. Moat Cleaner
3. Road Sweeper
4. Signpost
5. SandwichBoardPerson (1) – proclaiming THE END OF MY WORLD IS NIGH!
6. SandwichBoardPerson (2) – proclaiming MacBroon’s Boom busted my flush
7. Bin alert person, ie, chasing bin inspectors away.
8. Mine detector (unqualified)
9. Mine clearance person (unqualified)
10. Chewing Gum Removers
11 . . .
Hole digger.
Licking the skidmarks off my U-bend.
Take their trousers down and use their bum cracks for parking bicycles…
Isn’t it amusing when it is clear that they can no longer get away with patronising, PC, bullshit and deflection – when they realise that they are no longer believed that no one will defer to them,that they can no longer hide behind the title, that they are exposed for the frauds and confidence tricksters they are, that they just simply resort to threats, and confrontational sub-intellectual abuse.
Thug fuckturd Martin yesterday, Fuckpig Foulkes today. Shown in their true colours. Not fit to govern shit.
OMG !!!
**7 Watt lightbulb flickers in E’s tiny, but perfectly formed brain**
They used to talk about here today , gone tomorrow politicians , honey !!!
Now we seem to have here today , here tomorrow politicians an I wonder why that is . **Tick , tick , whirr , whirr ** .
Nah , still not sure .
E x .
Whilst David Cameron is capturing the headlines with his demands that unnecessary expenses be repaid, Gordon Brown was spouting that he wanted every police force in England and Wales to consider walking people the last mile home if they felt unsafe.
Gordon, you really are a twat!
That’s his slydog way of bringing in a curfew so’s we don’t revolt and shove a pitchfork up his lardy arse.
Quite amazing. Is he really saying that our streets are so unsafe that everyone needs a police escort from the bus stop?
Last time I was escorted home by a policeman I was beyond mastering the ‘walking’ thing.
He needs to be professionally assessed.
Another ‘eye catching’ initiative no doubt; and another example that he doesn’t have a clue how the real world works. Mind you he’s always lived in a publicly funded ivory tower for most of his working life.
Plod will be laughing their socks off, unless of course they’re required to enforce it.
Oh I don’t know about that; us plods quite enjoy helping people on their way. Mind how you go now… careful you don’t fall and bang your head…
I think we’d all like to help Gorballs Mickn on his way home; it would be such a shame for him to fall over, several times, and crack his useless fat fucking ugly head on the edge of the pavement.
Is this another money making initivitive by ACPO PLC?
http://thetaoofblog-pablothehat.blogspot.com/2009/02/cash-for-questions-cash-for-honours.html
Fair play to her for standing up to the miserable, obfuscating old trougher.
As for Martin, if ever a person was more unsuitable for the office of speaker, it is he. He can barely string a coherent sentence together. He’s an insult to democracy.
He should have stayed as a shop steward.
O/T Brown going after Post office pension pot.
Yesterdays Evening Standard reports that one of the key motives for getting shot of the Post Office would not be the couple of billion quid they could charge for it but to get their filthy hands on the 25bn Post Office pension fund. It appears unlike (say) the Civil Service the Post Office boys and girls do actually put away real actual cash every month and so there is a 25bn quid fund just sitting there.
It seems that the evil bastards that are this government plan to loot the whole lot and just put the posties on the same ‘non-contributary-hope to-God-we’re-not-around-when-it-has-to-be-paid-plan’ that most of the rest of our six million public servants are on.
Lets see how the unions deal with that one.
There’s mileage in this one. The posties aren’t paid a hell of a lot as it is and to loot their pension fund to help Brown out of a financial catastrophe of his own making just stinks.
You don’t want Mandelson laying his hands on your pension pot, no matter how big it is.
Blears to pay back profts from flogging second home. So will Darling do the same?
Seems to me that Blears is trying to prevent McTwat finding an excuse to sack her.
Great.
The precedent as been set. We are all equal before the law. We can now conceal any taxable income We might make and if discovered simply pay what I owe. I shall cite precedent.
They are both as bad as each other and both funded by the tax payer.
£92,000 to do a few hours a day in front of an auto-cue with a few interviews thrown in does not, in the licence-fee funded BBC, represent value for money.
I am sure she does use her own phone, but what’s the better her travel to and from work (taxi) is free.
Sky now reporting that Blears is to ‘pay back’ ‘the equivalent’ of about £13.5k CGT, and that the Commons committee overseeing expenses will appoint an ‘independent’ body to review expenses over the past four years. Just how ‘independent will it be. And that stupid Harman bint expresses her view earlier today that it’s expenses ‘outside the rules’ which will be examined.
These people are just not up to the job. None of them has the slightest idea of crisis management – of any sort. Setting aside the greed and avarice, where’s the slightest sign of any competence?
You will not see such a sign.
Wasn’t the fees office ‘independent’?? Time they had a clear-out there, they have failed – miserably – to say ‘no’ to some of these troughers.
Blears holding up a cheque. Not a rubber one I hope. Cameron really has got the one eyed snot eater on the hop.
Just how stupid is McTwat?
Very much more stupid than you can possibly imagine.
Fuck off Blears.
My kid will do the same job as you ie vote exactly in line with the government on every single occasion for the last 12 years for 5 quid a week. Plus expenses.
More stupid than you can possibly imagine.
I have just sent the worthless CaUNT an email telling him to FUCK OFF
But if Blears does Not owe HMRC any dosh, won’t they just return the cheque, no publicity, total confidentiality?
“Blears to send cheque to inland revenue”
“Clegg to payback £80 phone bill”
It’s like one of those fucking celebrity charity drives where z list soap stars furiously scribble out cheques to throw in the dish to wild applause from their audience all trying to outdo each other in the piety stakes. I smell a rat.
“Hazel Blears!………..Come on down.. (CLAPS)
Ok, tonight, the object of the game is………….(Audience )
Get Yer Boney Arse Through The Eye of That Needle!!!!
and you will win…..
(Curtains Part…)
An all expenses paid, though I am sure you are use to that! (Canned Audience Laughter), to Heaven (CLAPS), a pet BBC toady of your choice, (CLAPS), all your bills paid for a Life Peerage, (CLAPS)…
But before all that, we go over to another over paid BBC flunky and check up on that Tax on Hope for the poor, the National Lottery Draw Numbers……”
So today we have a leader of an organisation talking firmly and clearly about how his managers will be expected to behave in the future and how some of them will recompense the shareholders for their failings.
On the other hand,we have a Chairman of a COUNTRY suggesting that the police should run an escort agency to ensure it’s shareholders can get home safely.This when these same escorts will not even turn up if your house is burgled.
Today was the tipping point when the Conservative Party took over the leadership of this great Isle and the Chairman showed why he will very soon be voted out and dumped by his outraged shareholders.
Remember the day – 12th May 2009.
In a month’s time, Chairman Brown will be a fly on your windscreen.
I’d rather he was a smear on my tank tracks.
12 LDs in the frame http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3612936/telegraph-to-take-a-dozen-lib-dems-to-task.thtml
12 LDs in the frame
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3612936/telegraph-to-take-a-dozen-lib-dems-to-task.thtml
Apols from my alter ego
first time I’ve seen Foulkes sober. He probably talks less crap when he’s pissed, but there’s not much in it.
Never mind the CGT. Is Blears going to pay back the huge profits she made from doing-up and selling three London flats in a single year?
Don’t forget, she could only buy these by fiddling thousands out of expenses.
Keep count of how many politicians pay their capital gains back. 1 so far.
I heard Foulkes on R4 this morning.Now this.
Foulkes is needing a HARD KICK UP HIS ARSE.I’d love to be the one that does it!
Has anyone actually tried phoning the Plod to walk them home?
I suppose if they get stroppy about it you could always ask them to check with Gordon. What’s his number?
0790 6384 007 00000H
Foulkes turned his interview on Sky into a “this is class war” argument. Michael Martin is a poor boy from Glasgow therefore the press “have it in for him”. Have you ever heard such twaddle! Well Martin has certainly done well for himself and got all the “Hovis” he can handle. First class travel and 6 star hotels are only just good enough now. Foulkes represents everything I hate about Labour.
And Eversheds pay £1000 a day for that quality of thinking! They must really really think he is corrupt, as they clearly know he is terminally stupid.
What does it say about Evershed’s judgement? Hope potential clients think about that before shelling out shedloads an hour.
What Carrie Gracie didn’t say is how much she and other BBC folk earn in a private capacity on the back of their TV careers.
Incidentally I’ve nothing against her personally. Her China series on Newsnight was absolute top journalism and I doubt many other BBC presenters can speak Mandarin like she does.
Plenty of BBC Journalists speak Russian though.
I agree with some others – let’s start having investigations into what the BBC spends our money on. At least with MPs we can kick them out at elections if we find them to be corrupt and on the take.
No such luck with the BBC.
How unprofessional of her to get worked up like that! I thought the BBC were supposed to be ‘impartial’.
If I recall correctly Mr Fawkes has been “walked home” by old bill on more than one occassion, so it seems that this yet another old policy being spun as new
Yes, sir. I get the call-out most nights at around 2300 hours and I proceed, in a gingerly manner, to The Blarney Stoned where I proceed to quaff a quick couple with the accused and then we frogmarch each other back to his central London crash-pad. I usually produce the Jo-Bong from my special police-pouch and he furnishes it with some ‘sisel’ and, for five minutes, we have a laugh about the general state of everything before passing out. Come the morning, I’m almost fit for duty and I, generally, venture out and accost pensioners that are wheeling their shopping-trollies in a threatening manner, sort the paperwork and get ready for the call to go and scrape Mr. F off the bar again. Money for old rope. Over.
The vast majority of MPs – define ‘vast majority’?
600+ MPs , how many are getting ‘expenses’ ‘under the rules’?
Enjoyed watching this interview live on TV this morning.
Old Foulkes is a miserable old bastard, but he put delectable Ms.Gracie on the spot.
Not sure what others thought but my initial reaction was “Fucking hell – she gets £92,000 a year”.
Perhaps all the other money grabbers should deploy Foulke’s tactics when grilled by Paxman et al.
The way she had Foulkes by the balls I would give her a pay rise.
Carrie Gracie is worth every penny she earns. She can speak Chinese very well too….
Foulkes is a complete ah-so.
Well done to the girl from the BBC worth every penny – the politician worth nothing
If people who do not have the benefit of living in Scotland – please do not believe everything you hear about what is going on here. You only hear what the media want you to hear – not the reality.
Moving on to the lovely fragrant Foulkes – he has tabled question after question in the so-called Scottish parliament (a genuine parliament of fools) costing taxpayers thousands and thousands of pounds, and all for nothing except the cost. His support for that sad, nasty piece of **** says it all. Believe me, there are many, many people in Scotland who really really loathe Martin, Foulkes, Salmond and others like them. Unfortunately, getting away from it all is often financially impossible.
Martin should go. Foulkes should go. Brown should go.
Totally second that.
What are the chances of Dave repealing the smoking ban? Or do I really need to move to China where smoking’s compulsory?
Personally I would rather he repealed Foulkes-sake and Moron-Martin.
Can’t wait to see what Lembit Opik has put on expenses since becoming a Cheeky boy.
What do you expect from the Scottish Masterace they plantate their Hoons all over England and give themselves positions that only a corrupt political system would allow the sooner there is an English Parliament the sooner we can avoid the next Civil War Caused by operation darion 2 Ie Nu Lierbour
He’s a drunken lout who can barely take himself away from his Caribbean freebie Holidays to get Chauffeured from News Studio to News studio to act the embarrassing fool.
What an absoloute prick. Fuck…
If someone [working in the public sector] is being paid a salary then we can look at that and judge if it’s an appropriate amount. That’s the money they get and they can spend it on whatever they like.
If someone is being paid a salary – while also claiming expenses on lifestyle goods – they are blurring the lines [alternatively, stealing].
For doing a job, you get paid a salary. When paying for the costs of your job, you use expenses. It is not a Minister or a Peer’s job to pay themselves to do their job. Autofellatio is not a public service.
It’s the fucking stupidity that gets me. How far into the fucking trough do they have to bury their piggy shit heads before they’re totally oblivious to the world around? A retarded system, made by retards; abused by fuckwits who were either too stupid to know what they were doing was wrong, or were too stupid to realise it’d always become public.
Of course there is an alternative explanation; they knew it was wrong, knew it’d come out, knew they’d still get away with it anyway. If a single one of the cheating Hunts on any side makes it through the next election then consider democracy proven a failure.
Of course, the upstart cockends like this fat fuck who get put into the HOL for loyal behaviour [heh, Cumnock... it's got the word cum in it] aren’t going anywhere.
Fuck it, I’m sneaking some rude words into his wikipedia entry.
We’ll know that it was you, anonymous.
The man is a numpty – failed at everything he has done, MP, House of Lards, football club chairman ( Heart of Midlothian – sold out to a Latvian gold digger called Vlad the Impaler and surprise, surprise was impaled).
Numpty: a bumbling fool, one who is intellectually challenged. (also see Speaker Martin)
The stupid berk should remember that ”Hell hath no fury..”
Payback, or perhaps I should say ‘retribution’ will be swift and painful…
Just a couple of corrections :
The piss head known as the Baron Foulkes Sake, is actually English
he was born in Oswestry, Shropshire, educated at fee-paying Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School,(Hamstead), only when he started University did he move to Scotland. It is correct to say that he is widely hated in Scotland as he is seen as a complete waster and serves no purpose other than to be an annoying driunk.
It has been mentioned here that Alex Salmond is also unpopular, thats actually untrue.According to regular poll ratings, Salmond has proven to be the most popular First Minister and a capable politician and tends to wipe the floor with the likes of Iain Gray, the leader of the Labour group in Holyrood during FMQ’s
Thanks Cream Puff, spot on. I’ve never understood how Lardy Foulkes managed to acquire such a strong Scottish accent when he didn’t come here until he was in his late teens. Not a normal age to adopt an accent. True he’s ridiculed here, sad, but accurate. He brings it all upon himself.
The aggressive puffed-up sense of self-entitlement and the brutal unmannerliness of this man Foulkes need to be witnessed to be believed. Who TF IS this waste of space? I’ve never heard of him, but he obviously thinks the sun shines out of his ar*e.
I thought the BBC presenter dealt with him very well. She’s perfectly entitled to ask him hard questions. That’s her job, for God’s sake. And she does it a darn sight more rigorously than some of her colleagues, such as Andy “Easy Rider” Marr and Jim “What if we lose?” Naughtie.
It simple.
Lisann to mih.
Dey should all take de shower, dis will cure dem.
As for de Carrry Graycey BBC-pursann, you have her numbah, pliss ?
I agree with some others – let’s start having investigations into what the BBC spends our money on. At least with MPs we can kick them out at elections if we find them to be corrupt and on the take.
No such luck with the BBC.
What is astonishing about this imbecile’s performance yesterday is that he made a total arse of himself on the BBC and was then given free reign on Sky. Instead of someone from Labour HQ putting the blocks on him, they let him loose again to give what I think was an even more offensive display (have checked Youtube but can’t find it). I was open-mouthed watching it. Perhaps Cameron could use it as a General Election Broadcast. All they need to do is play it and put some credits up – job done. Where the hell are Labour’s press people? Either they thought he was doing a good job fighting Martin’s cause or they are beyond caring and left him to get on with it. A most odious specimen.
Foulkes/Gracie
I’ve gone digital from today. One finger in the air to all MPs.
Wonderful stuff really, wheeling out these babbling old cankers covered in cobwebs with their metaphorical flies wide open only serves to confirm all our worst suspicions about the endemic toughing at Westminster.
After watching the unfolding days of the last month one could easily run away with the idea that the angry taxpayer has at last found its true vocation.
How come this new labour place man can be an MP in Scotland and in the house of Lords: are they not mutually exclusive ???
Foulkes is quite porcine isn’t he?
If anyone ever asks about the definition of the word “twat”, you could do a lot worse than to show this video.
#231 hey thick as thieves, Foulkes was born in England, God only knows how we ended up with him up here, you can have him an Alistair Darling (another English import) back anytime, cause we certainly don’t want them.
The thieving little cretin!
Here’s my take on it:-
http://tinyurl.com/fatty-foulkes
MPs expenses should certainly be slashed and the BBC tax should be abolished altogether.
To all cheats: Be sure your sins will find you out.
To all hypocrites who claim to be “purer than pure”: Be sure your sins will find you out.
REPENT AND DO PENANCE (i.e. at the very least pay back your ill gotten gains plus punitive interest).
Otherwise, on the last day, the Lord will cast you into the fiery pit, where there is a great weeping, and wailing and knashing of teeth.
Amazing!
Only a 92k-earning allegedly Chinese-speaking (and no doubt commie-loving, for which she was hired) vacuous bimbo from the BBC could make someone like Foulkes look better.
Brown must be planning to be interviewed by Kate Silverton, as we speak.
Hopefully, now that our lawmakers are being raked over hot coals, maybe their attention will focus on other state-funded entities the BBC, Civil Service, unelected quangos and the like. They may turn towards each other and say ‘why aren’t these buggers getting in the neck too?’ Result: huge savings to the taxpayer all round.
He should be visited by the Beefeaters, taken to the Tower and off with his head. At least hereditary Lords know how to behave.
What a tw*t.
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