Sky reporting that Andrew MacKay has resigned as Cameron’s senior adviser over “unacceptable” expense claims. Andrew MacKay was last seen having a run-in with the police over Damian Green.
UPDATE : MacKay is of course married to Julie Kirkbride MP. So this could be double interesting…
UPDATE II : MacKay has just described the situation with his expense as an “anomaly” to Andrew Neil on the Daily Politics. They are shameless.
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Lord Lamont told ITV News…
“I think the PM is just human and Ed Balls is a pretty irritating person”
one down
How many more to go? All of them?
This is a sideshow.
So what what you get a few scalps, meanwhile the UK is TOTALLY fucked and getting fuckeder and that won’t change for 55 years. All Guido achieves is putting Nick Griffen or wose into power.
What thick Hunts your posters are.
Better Nick Griffen an co, than the stinking pig swill that is sitting in the House of Thieves & Lords, couldn’t be any worse.”time for change”
Nick Griffen and the boys will get my vote,and hopefully they will clean out the councils/public sector/Banksters/Lords/MPs/royalty..etc..etc.. and lastly the undesirables that fly over neighbouring country’s to claim asylum in freebie Britain,personal i don’t mind home-grown different coloured people that speak the lingo
ENGLAND IS A COUNTRY FOR PEOPLE WITH LIGHT SKINS
But still, dont you have just a little spring on your step at the news.
Im going jogging with dad tonight.
Actually, it’s all a con. If the buttered new potato was serious, he would have sacked both of them.
He is a pathetic little weed anyway, as evidenced by the above photo. Call me Dave needs BNP type heavies around him not little runts like this. The only thing he has in his favour is that his wife is half shaggable.
Kirkbride his wife next.
As long as Investment Bankers (I am proudly one) have been given £250 a head budgets for client lunches, the bill has quite miarculously been £249.99 a head, I really dont see what all this fuss over MPs expenses is about. Acting within the rules not merely within “the spirit” of the rules is more than fair play. Let’s cease this witch hunt against genteel bankers and MPs and put the Great back in Britain
..and that remark ‘ABOVE’ was from the JOKER!
..AND ALSO ON BEHALF OF THE RID, SORRY FIDDLER!
..why can’t people keep expletives out?…an update is that we have now got our MP to leave next election and further pressure to get her to stand down immediately!
..from this we will get better representation and expenses finalised before the next gov’t starts, but with Cameron now in the frame who knows-we certainly won’t be seeing any more by old style MP’s and Wa’..sorry so-called Bankers, you can’t be that intellectual when you have to use expletives and lose so much money when ordinary business owners like myself can survive and still surviving and it’s us that will return your ‘v’empires, your comments are a bit Arthur Daly if you ask me?
It wasn’t from the Joker – I was serious! I am a now ex-pat Banker living in Asia because then nothing worse than hearing a bunch of whining jealous tossers moaning over what in total amounts to £2mm odd quid. WAKE THE F*CK UP! there’s more important things to worry about than expenses for god’s sake. Like the state of the UK!!!!!!!!!
I think you miss the point entirely, it isn’t the amount (no-one could argue that £2m is a large sum) It’s the lack of morality and the fact that this is theft. Not theft from gullible borrowers and savers as is the case with Bankers but theft from the public purse. The fact you don’t understand that says more about your values than those of us unprepared to let this go!
WELL DONE ANON!
648 to go….
Looks like Cam’s cleaner was better thann Gordon’s (shared) cleaner.
So he hasn’t resigned as an MP? Gosh, what a punishment…..
its a start
No it’s a fob off!
No it’s a fob off!
Maybe his bint wife will be next. Oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink
Yep, he’s part of a couple: Julie Kirkbride is the other half (Con, Bromsgrove)
I await the disclosure of the married couples expense troughing with bated breath and a sense of despair.
Julie claims the full amount on the ACA. He claims £22000 so the couple are claiming £45,000. Does this sound excessive?
and the Robinsons?
Craig Murray is claiming that Hogg is refusing to pay back the money. So he has declared snorters manor a National Trust property and is encouraging the commoners to go round and picnic and swim in the moat. Great Idea
I should imagine that several deposits have been made at the Bank of Moat in the last few days. I’m not sure that he doesn’t need to fit straining bars at 50M intervals under H&S legislation.
Whilst Hogg was very misguided in what he has said, his claims seem quite reasonable in light of the others.
It appears he’s resigned as an adviser to Cameron, not as an MP.
http://www.getbracknell.co.uk/news/s/2050691_mp_andrew_mackay_nothing_to_fear_over_expenses
how odd!
It is remarkable how brazen MPs are.Mackay denying wrongdoing until confronted.He had to go, as for his future as an MP, thast must now be in doubt, as must that of his wife.I have never liked husband and wife MPs; the Keens,Wintertons,Balls and now Mackays.Not much of an advert is it?
If he walks the plank so that Yvette Cooper’s troughing husband goes it is worth it.
Oink, sqeeeeealllll !!!!
Ive been rumbled! Oh, bugger.
Latest petition at http://petitions.number10.gov.uk is ‘Have all MPs arrested’. Now there is something worth signing!
I especially liked the ‘including yourself’ bit.
Seems that he might have been doing a housing double bubble with the shagtastic Julie.
Went off to juliekirkbride dot com to check out her shagtasticness and found that Bromsgrove and Redditch green belt were under threat. What is the useless Jacqui Smith going to do about that?
It’s the first of the married couples expenses to come out. Still awaiting the grim Balls-Cooper duo with anticipation. Am expecting great things!
maybe Balls / Cooper going to be pinged next ??
Nothing to see here move along
ot england win the tose and choose to bat
Speaking from the wilds of Chester le Street, they will be lucky to get one day of unitnerrupted play here, so they’d better not hang about! It’s bloomin’ freezing.
The Windies will hate that;normal for England though
I live in Chester le Street. Thanks for all that sodding traffic this morning.
They said if Gayle win the toss – he would elect to go home!
i predict a win for england with kp bowling gayle in the 2nd innings
or pick Ian Bell again cos he scored a couple of runs while his mate Collingbore skippers the kippers
Brown could be doomed:
http://www.williamhillmedia.com/index_template.asp?file=12435
We’re all doomed if that fucking one eyed jock Hunt stays in charge
I see they’re giving 5/1 for the Speaker to go before the next election, but they don’t reckon he will, look at their reasoning for the odds.
“SPEAKER 5/1 TO GO BEFORE ELECTION
WILLIAM HILL offer 5/1 that Speaker Michael Martin will step down before the General Election, 1/9 that he will not. ‘Despite criticism of the Speaker it is politically almost impossible to make him stand down other than voluntarily, and he shows no signs of doing that’ said Hill’s spokesman Graham Sharpe.”
Ave Guido, morituri te salutant
Rock and roll !!!!
i imagine this is the same situation that blinky will find himself in. will be interesting if he steps down as a minister. is this sly politics by cameron to undermine balls/cooper when their mess comes out?
Call me naive if you like but I genuinely believe that Dave is seriously pissed and couldn’t give a fuck what Brown does or doesn’t do.
Dave knows he needs to be seen to be whiter than white or the Brown Broadcasting Corporation will be parading Hamilton and Aitken on every news bulletin.
Just look at the way the beeb are treating today’s disclosure. What price the same treatment if he was a Tory?
He had his whiter than white chance and he blew it. There should have been a lot of resignations from the Tories the other day. There weren’t. The Labour troughing is on a whole other level but that doesn’t mean that the Toru MPs should be able to keep their jobs after being shown to be thieves.
I think this highlights the entire predicament of the MPs.
Problem is that if nothing changes, nothings gonna change.
A few incendiary devices mightt help.
How many newlabour Klingons will resign? The corrupt bloodsucking scum like lying Blears and her fake cheque will have to dragged from the trough, the smirking cow wants a good kicking….. but I digress!
Cameron will do the business on the worst ccrooks while McMental is planning even now how to shield and protect his worst offenders and there is the difference isnt it? at least the Tories have some last vestige of honour, the newlabour bastards have the moral stature of hungry sewer rats.
Hear, hear!
Have to agree Cassandra !.
Hey don’t tar us with the same brush as those bastards!
Yet another journalist married into these expenses – (where are our investigative journalists?)
BBC journalist Jane Corbin’s husband John Maples C-MP claimed Pall Mall Club as main home… and other things!
The RAC no less – didn’t know they had rooms there, garages yes, rooms …hmmmm
I have resigned too.
As secretary to the bowling club.
Hope this ends the unacceptable media intrusion into affairs that are none of their concern, and draws a line under the expenses story.
Cassius thinks its about to kick off:
http://cassiuswrites.blogspot.com/2009/05/valentines-day-massacre-moved-to-friday.html
I’ve resigned as a voter.
lol!
A Conservative falls on his sword to a certain extent. Trying to force Gordon’s hand?
Gordon can only fall on his arse!
he’d even mess that up!
Will Brown fall on a Pork Sword I wonder?
or a 12 bore shootgun
More times than you will ever know dear
that is anti mozzie hate speech and will be reported …. you swine you
Cant wait to see the detail on this one……..
Its got to be good when dodging £13k Capital Gains tax results in a cheque being waved , whats required to prompt an immediate resignation?
Isn’t it that both he and his wife both had property in London when they could have shared?
So0 that is fraudulent then!
We need to know if he was “pushed”
Either way it shows that once more DC is showing leadership, and Brown is now challenged to dispatch his miscreants forthwith
…and please get the Homes Secretary to repay her allowances
And Morley,Blears,Darling,Brown,Blair,Uddin,Butler,Moran,Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all
… specially Udders – the liebour, bliar-friendly bed blocker who stopped more deserving cases from having a subsidised home because she wanted to ride in a Beamer – greedy hog
He was undoubtedly pushed – but an easy decision
Another point to DC
Anyone care to estimate the parliamentary magority after all the dust has settled (if it ever does). Could be in negative with some luck and a few less Tory/Libdem crooks too.
DT Editor won’t be pleased: he’s been scooped on this one
Great picture……. those in glass houses should not throw stones. Loks like him and and missus will be speaking to the Police again.
Apparantly, according to Sky, McKay and Kirkbride own two properties. Each designated a different property as their second home and so claimed double bubble allowances.
Clearly Cameron has introduced a process for dealing with this but if this pair have any integrity they’ll a) agree to pay every penny back and b) resign as MPs.
Alright, what’s the betting that someone’s got a set of photocopies of the expense receipts from Tony Blair that were supposedly “destroyed by accident” (yeah, right) some years ago?
Those are buried with the Weapons of Mass Destruction – they’ll never be found.
I would like to declare GB as a weapon of mass destruction. The way he is going, possibly the biggest weapon on the planet.
An interesting point.
Surely (yeah, right I know) the accounts dept. in the fees office know the figures.
If nothing else, if we have everyone’s bar Gorbals & Tone, then the difference is their snouting.
Hmmm… Mrs Kirkbride claimed £1300 for spouse travel last year and he claimed £400 for the same thing. I smell fish.
Shut your legs, then.
The Mail has more details:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1181527/BREAKING-NEWS-Camerons-Commons-aide-quits-unacceptable-expenses-claims.html
Telegraph say husband and wide declared different second homes so both house were paid for by the taxpayer.
Mail points out rules don’t prevent couples from double claims: given the £2m Pimlico penthouse, I’d have thought they could both claim full whack on mortgage interest alone. Equally, presumably they can find the funds for some re-imbursement.
If we had honourable MPs the rules would prevent it – claims under the ACA scheme have to be wholly, exclusively and neccessary for an MP going about their duties and MPs have signed declarations attesting to that. For each to have a second home for expenses purposes, it being the other’s main home, is nothing better than racketeering.
Possibly time to organise a plod watch caption – name, offense, law broken, police progress check. Wouldn’t want knacker firing blanks on this would we ?
I have to admit it, Cameron is running away from my beloved Gordon on this, in fact Gordon and Labour are looking very very weak indeed.
MB if it really is you (I suspect not), welcome back to the real world. Glad to see that the narcotics are wearing off.
Andrew McKay/Julie Kirkbride – lightfingered scotchers?
If David Cameron was serious about dealing with the sleaze in his Party, he would be removing the whip from the worst offenders Andrew Mackayʼs “resignation” is a token gesture. This is simply a contrived public relations exercise aimed to pull the wool over peopleʼs eyes. He is a sacrificial lamb. Itʼs aimed at deflecting pressure from the front bench by shedding an easily replaced minor aide who still keeps his seat as an MP – as does his wife – and therefore still keeps his chance to claim and abuse expenses.
Responding to the Conservative leaderʼs decision to sack Andrew MacKay MP, Sir Paul Judge, founder of the Jury Team, said: “David Cameron has come out strong in his reaction to the misuse of expenses in the Conservative party, but a token sacking of a back-bench aide is a typically shallow diversion of the issue. “Itʼs all very well to put his close aides to the sword, but when the shadow climate change
minister made £320,000 on a flat he bought with taxpayer money and Michael Gove and Francis Maude have been caught switching their second homes allowance for personal gain, these are the real culprits who should be reprimanded accordingly.”
Result!!!
Damage limitation and initial strategic move by CMD.
Now what we need is a full on offensive + pincer movement with CMD clearing out his slimy slimes and Knacker of the Yard coming over the hill to relieve half of the Cabinet of their liberty (for taking them in more ways than one)
Wasn’t he the one who spoke so obnoxiously to David Kelly? Shortly before the poor guy (allegedly) topped himself?
If so, good riddance, an objectionable, arrogant, waste of space.
But then, that description fits just about any MP you’d care to mention.
No, that was the thug Andrew MackInlay (Lab. Thurrock I think).
Our party leaders are really showing us what they’re made of.
Do squit for thirty-five years, then snap into action the moment the thefts can no longer be hidden.
There must be some way Guido can publish a list of the MPs of all parties who have made a conscious decision not to steal from us. It wouldn’t be long, would it?
Then we’d know who to vote for.
Orangebird – I think it was some labour twat who was horrible to Kelly.
I hope he’s up there looking down on this with a big feckin grin on his face god rest his soul
Another weird looking fucker! He’s probably a v clever chappie,but lets face it,if he got on the train you were on and sat down opposite,you’d move to another carriage pdq. Do i detect a pattern here?
This is F***ing MAGIC!
I’m glued to the laptop at the moment – don’t get sod all done – bit like being an MP lol.
Guido – this must be like all of your Christmases come at once!
Go on, admit it – you’d love Dolly to still be around in all of this!
He has just been on the Daily politics, and I thought he was suitably penitent, lets see if he follows through
Just one question, why his is wife still in office?
The obvious question to David Cameron is that if he believes Andrew MacKay is not a fit and proper person to be his advisor, how can he be a fit and proper person to represent the electors of Bracknell? And by extension, how can his wife be fit and proper to represent Bromsgrove?
Comrade Ian McCartney claims the max on exes, whilst pulling in over £110k pa as senior adviser to the management team of the Fluor Corporation, Texas-based building contractors to the US Air Force and oil industries.
Suitably penitant???
For a man who may have nicked a quarter mill!!!
FFS
MacKay’s resignation over this was, I think, a pre-agreed p.r. deal with Cameron; he didn’t do it because he was in the wrong, Cameron told him to quit because if a tory resigns over a married couple claiming twice, then Mr+Mrs Balls will both be put into an untenable position once their claims get published.
Cameron’s not stupid, he knows that by MacKay resigning (which won’t hurt the tories one jot), he’s effectively managed to force the resignation of Mr+Mrs Balls too, and that in turn could snowball into a forced election because things’ll be going so far off the rails for the cabinet.
Bollocks. He’s been caught out and is a swindling Hunt.
He should be forced to stand down as an MP…and his wife. Then prosecuted.
Nice one!
Anomaly? Is a dinosaur gonna come out of it?
Notice how short he is…
And guess which Hoon was in charge of reportage of this story over at the Dailie Browngraph? I would give you 2 guesses but you’ll only need one – Andrew “Mr Impartiality” Porter.
[...] let them choose Andrew Mackay. In fact, about the only good thing to say about Mr Mackay is that he’s been sacked/resigned (depending who of Cameron or Mackay said what first). Great, he may be popular, but [...]
Looks like his greedy grasping Hunt of a wife is about to abandon the ship of shame and return to “normal” life. I hope they both get cancer and die, pair of shameless Hunts.