May 14th, 2009

MPs Crying Into Their Subsidised Beers

Guido was on the Commons terrace last night drinking subsidised Guinness.  In the bar were some of the shadiest racketeers in Britain, hanging around for a Finance Bill vote on Bingo (Guido kids you not). In the bar were wannabee Red Rag bloggers Charlie Whelan and Kevin “Make it up” Maguire – they made a swift exit before Guido could say “hello”.  Gordon’s thuggish enforcer and chief whip Nick Brown was holding court like the mafia boss he resembles.  A glum Lembit was literally propping up the bar all night.  Outside on the terrace another disgraced LibDem, Andrew George, was glued to his mobile phone – no doubt still spinning that his daughter “sometimes” stays at his taxpayer financed flat – in reality it is him who sometimes stays there from Monday to Wednesday night and his daughter is there all week.  (If he wants to challenge Guido on this he’ll be sorry).

lovelyGeoff Hoon was glumly sipping his beer, he downed his last pint and did that “I know who you are” stare thing that Labour figures have taken to doing with Guido, before  presumably leaving for the bed we have bought for him.  Rosie Winterton, Phil Woolas and a large gang of Labour cronies all looked pretty miserable.  The low morale of Labour MPs was palpable, the perfect storm of smear and sleaze revelations has broken them.  Guido will drink to that for some time…


209 Comments

  1. 1
    Clapham Commoner says:

    I walked past Harman’s house last night (Herne Hill) and there was a Range Rover outside and a ferrari in the drive.

    She is a “socialist” MP and he is a union official.

    Go fuigure.

    • 7
      Anonymous says:

      No snoubt Lemprick opium MP is trying to forget his political suicide on radio 5.

    • 8
      Right-wing social engineer says:

      Left-wing hypocrites should be put in jump suits and decapitated.

      • 44
        (yes I am a cunt / no I am not Nu Labour) says:

        Yawn.

      • 65
        solopolis says:

        Death is too quick and easy. I advocate them being placed in the stocks and only being released to be birched once a week.

      • 165

        Just chain them to railings or lampposts and let the public administer the verdict of the Court of Public Opinion.

      • 178
        going down the pan says:

        just bury them up to their necks in sand and let the sun burn their eyes out that should take about five years in this weather

    • 9
      Margy says:

      Duplicitous, hypocritical, nasty pigs!

    • 22
      Anonymous says:

      You’ve got the wrong house on the wrong road, dipstick.

      • 36
        Clapham Commoner says:

        No, it is the right road and house. She also has an underground garage (it pops up from the drive), as you have asked. Dipstick!

      • 60

        Why?

        Is it “just” a RAV and a boxter?

      • 67
        Andy Carpark says:

        It seems so long ago that Cheeky Girl, Gabriela, twittered “Our love is like a mushroom”.

        Now poor old Lembit has taken refuge at the bottom of a glass but finds no balm for his ruined heart.

        He knows he has no future but to dance barefoot on a frozen pond and sing songs of self-pity to the accompaniment of Mark Oaten grinding his barrel organ while the dogs of the village snarl round their ankles and casually use them for lampposts.

      • 137
        Bardirect says:

        Maybe she’s moved. Or is she still up from “The Village” within swine ‘flu sneezing distance of Alleyn’s.

      • 159
        Anonymous says:

        Sorry Clapham Commoner, you are a dipstick. I walk past her house every day. I saw her being collected by a chauffeur yesterday. She can only get one car off the road on her “drive”. The house you refer to is in Burbage Road and indeed has a grey Ferrari and an underground car elevator on the forecourt. Harman lives in an adjacent road. Check it out with the Father’s Alliance and have a look at the snaps of Superman on her roof. NOT the same house.

      • 179
        going down the pan says:

        fucking hell how much did these thunderbird s underground car parks cost us ? greedy bastards

    • 37

      Get a photo next time. Please.

      • 54
        Silvio Tanner says:

        *
        HERNE HILL
        EXIT JEAN CHARLES DE MENENEZ
        PLOD ON TO STOQKWELL

      • 57
        Road_Hog says:

        If you know the address, Google streets or whatever it is called might have a piccy, a long shot but worth a try.

      • 75
        Anonymous says:

        Guido, the two cars referred to are regularly parked on a drive at the Herne Hill end of Burbage Road ie. NOT Harman’s Road so NOT Harman’s house or cars. Harman’s “drive” has only room for one car and it needs washing.

      • 205
        Bardirect says:

        Has she claimed for gardening? Her hedge is scruffy.

    • 95
      freddie flintoff says:

      o/t england win toss and will bat first

    • 110
      Give me 650 lamp posts and a roll of piano wire and I can fix democracy says:

      But I bet it was a RED Ferrari.

      • 124
        Anonymous says:

        It’s a grey one and it’s not hers and it’s not even on her road but the next one up. I walk past it every day. She couldn’t fit two cars on her “drive”. Let’s keep this blog as accurate as possible.

      • 138
        Hazel Blears with a Jacqui Timney reference. Save the Salford One says:

        Ferrari Testarossa

      • 180
        going down the pan says:

        it would be a chacoal ferrari if i live down there bastards

      • 181
        going down the pan says:

        it would be a chacoal grey ferrari if i live down there bastards

    • 172
      Churchill's Cattleprod says:

      Good Guido, I hope you chucked a tenner at the fuckers saying “here, buy yourself a life you sad sacks of shit”.

    • 173

      If the commons bar had to rely on selling subsidised beer to MPs to make a profit it would not be doing well.

      Lots of other staff benefit – not to mention some disreputable journalists, do we see them complaining. I am happy for secretaries to get a cheap pint.

      • 182
        going down the pan says:

        have a look in the regester of members interests all flights jack straw takes are booked down as club class space available upgrade for him,wife, daughter etc not a bad perk on us.

  2. 2
    Colin says:

    Keep up the good work Fawkes.

    I’m putting you forward for a “K”

    • 6
      Chris says:

      More chance after the election!

    • 32

      I can’t believe he’s (still?) doing Ketamine!

      • 133
        Grapefruit Boy says:

        Ketamine is SOOOO 1990s. It’s GBL these days (… or so i hear, hem hem)

    • 73
      Peter Grimes says:

      WTF do you think Guido was doing mixing with the low-life on the HoC terrace anyway?

      It wouldn’t just have been for the cheap Guinness!

      • 113
        Goat says:

        WTF! You mean I’m subsidising Guido for his fucking Guiness as well? Give me my money back Guido then fuck off. Birching is too good for the likes of you.

      • 176
        Harold says:

        perhaps he was looking at doing a better job than the original Guido Fawkes!?

        I hope someone soon comes up with the idea of disolving parliament, getting rid of the lot of them (in both houses) and calling a general election asap

      • 183
        going down the pan says:

        how do we get in to this bar?it would be great pissed up and ripping in to these bastards, would be a great night and at chucking out we could toss a few over the wall into the thames an ideal night out.

      • 184
        going down the pan says:

        how do we get in to this bar?it would be great pissed up and ripping in to these bastards, would be a great night and at chucking out we could toss a few over the wall into the thames an great night out.

    • 76
      freddie flintoff says:

      speical k more like

    • 116
      Right Bastard says:

      @2- Seconded. You also deserve the nation’s gratitude for setting the ball rolling on this self-serving bunch of crooks.

      Oh, and as much lifetime’s Guiness as you would want to drink.

    • 130
      Plato says:

      One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

    • 147

      I hope you had a good wash afterwards.

      The Penguin

  3. 3
    Go on jump! says:

    When will the suicides start?

  4. 4
    Anonymous says:

    Guido, I bet the general public do not know about taxpayer-funded subsidies for MPs beer. This would make a hell of a lot of ordinary punters very very angry!

    • 18
      Boudicca says:

      Wong. It’s fairly common knowledge that Parliament is treated like a Private Members Club but without subscriptions. The Taxpayer foots the bill.

      Time for the subsidised bars to go. People at work – and doing the important job of making laws for the rest of us – shouldn’t be getting pissed during working hours – particularly when it is at the taxpayers’ expense.

      If MPs want to receive ‘professional’ salaries they should start behaving like professionals and stay off the booze in their place of employment.

      • 59
        Postal Vote says:

        Yep, and no more food on expenses for those with BMIs above 25, otherwise we have to pay for more new loo seats.

        And only food costs reimbursed above a tenner as everyone spends on food, not just MPs, with a sensible max of course.

      • 62
        Papasmurf says:

        Ask what happens in the Stranger’s Bar……… open all hours last time I heard.

      • 64
        chronic says:

        Publish the bar price list.

      • 72
        Silvio Tanner says:

        *
        ALCOHOL IS FRAUWNED UPON IN THE WURKPLAICE

        EMPTY THE CELLARS

        ORKSHUN THE LOT

        ASTA

      • 83
        Postal Vote says:

        Forgot to add,

        Can HMRC look into whether the food expenses allowances should be taxed, since we all foot our on food bill and employers/employees should pay tax on salary paid out in goods, health insurance, car allowances and gym memberships etc.

        Proud not be working for the government, but angry to be paying tax (not yet rich enough for Monaco, but my missus does look the part though!)

        Now I will bugger off, unfortunately not to a bar with taxpayer-sponsored lager!

      • 126
        John Johnson says:

        Cellars in westminster should be used for storing KNO3 as anyone knows!

      • 143
        Four-eyed English Genius says:

        Shouldn’t that be KNO3 + S + C

      • 185
        going down the pan says:

        STRANGERS BAR? woudn’t like to go for a piss in there: mandelson, nick brown (the common man) and all the other sordid little cretins doing a bit of cottaging . yuck!

      • 203
        going down the pan says:

        you need two loo seats if youv’e got two arsehole’s one at the rear and one between their fucking ears

    • 25
      Postal Vote says:

      Agree Anonymous, but well done on Guido to get something in return for the taxes he pays, in addition to making a living by writing how taxes get squandered.

      • 29
        Captain Anonymouse says:

        I would get the sack if I drank while on duty.

      • 103
        Postal voter scam ahead says:

        24
        Glad to see your moniker.

        The postal vote scam will be the one to follow once the troughers have paid back their filched “entitlements”. The Nuliebour mafia are lining it up as they did in Glenrothies. Vigilantes needed at at every council voter registration post.

        I went into Camden’s a few years back to change address. Very slack, no proof of identity requested.

    • 35
      A Pensioner says:

      If I was a bar steward I’d be tempted to piss in the beer. GTW Guido, does it taste OK?

    • 58
      It's all Balls says:

      Can they still smoke in there?

  5. 5
    boulay says:

    i woke up this morning like an excited child at christmas and bleary eyed grabbed my i-phone to rejoice in reading the gift of mr and mrs blinky’s heads on a pole for dodgy expenses and nothing!

    why?

    surely, surely they cannot be clean and i have just been mislead by stories of an injunction etc.

    i really want them to suffer – please confirm it will happen soon??

    • 46
      1984 is a Labour Party instruction manual says:

      Me too – wished I had bought the 30p Sun instead.
      What a waste of 60p this morning.

      • 69
        Road_Hog says:

        You certainly are stuck in 1984 if you think the DT costs 60p.

      • 94
        1984 is a Labour Party instruction manual says:

        DT 90p. Sun 30p. Difference 60p.
        Keep up with class, young Hog.

      • 127
        A Troughing Labour MP says:

        So I have been only claiming 30p back by buying the Sun and pretending to buy the Telegraph. Oh! L’Humanité!

    • 70
      Eliott the Cheque says:

      Am praying too, and for the Keens and the Wintertons……

      • 120
        Remington Steele says:

        You have to hope they’re storing up Balls and his husband for Sunday.

        The suspense is killing me.

        Odious as the Wintertons undoubtedly are, they’re another Hamilton-style novelty act compared to those two.

      • 145
        Anonymous says:

        The keens have been troughing, big time.

  6. 10
    Anonymous says:

    Will Guido be repaying his beer subsidy and/or declaring to HMRC ;)

    • 105
      Refunds department says:

      no he’s based offshore.

      • 202
        going down the pan says:

        i would like all our mp’s to be based off shore about 25 miles off cornwall 300feet down wearing concrete wellies

  7. 10
    Master Baiter says:

    Hoon was just thinking ‘what an ugly bugger that is’ when looking at you.
    Face it GuidOaf you’re out of your depth and a liability.
    When was the last time they asked you on the telly, belly boy?

    • 30
      resurgemus says:

      MB we missed you over the weekend.

      I suppose you were at a cross-dressing conference with the cabinet.

      PS any comment of Baroness Uddin ?

      • 89
        Master Baiter says:

        No problem with cross dressing.
        You are not someone to be missed, especially at the weekend.
        If you want to specify the Uddin situation, happy to put you on the right track.
        Any comment on blinking John Maple from you or GuidOaf, no?

      • 106
        Udderly 'orrible says:

        Yes watch that dodgy Baroness, arrest Udder before she slacks off to Bangla land by bus.

      • 128
        A Union Official says:

        Unison’s Badder

      • 141
        Sound Brandies says:

        urbanised dons?

    • 45
      Postal Vote says:

      Are you Whelan in disguise?

      Did you order to brake into that ballot box filled with postal votes for Gould junior (you’re way too big a cowered and unfortunately not stupid enough to break into that ballot box yourself, despite supporting another (non-blairish) candidate).

      If you’re not Whelan by the way, I fear you’re being supported by the tax payer, in some public sector or quango non-job.

      • 92
        Postal Vote says:

        oops, that should have been break into rather than ….

        question still stands though

      • 96
        Master Baiter says:

        Is your own illiteracy the reason you have concerns about postal voting.
        To date only a Conservative has been proven to carry out fraudulent postal voting.

      • 114
        Postal Vote says:

        fair point, but up to a point, the conservative guy was just not clever enough to cover his tracks

        -Glenrothes: marked voters register went missing, vote counting tables not clearly visible

        -Times undercover reporter witnessing students being recruited by labour politicians somewhere up north (south of the wall)

        -Gould junior and Ms Booth’s stepmother all enjoying huge number of postal votes (look at the posintgs on labour-minded blogs and John Harris’s work on The Guardian website – never expected to mention this wite as a reference)

        PS I’m not illiterate, but contribute (or spoil) blogs in between my trading in the markets and have found out that using word spell checker (I know, here its more a grammar issue’, but then you could get the green lines in the checker) and then copy-pasting many times the punctuation goes missing.

        PS2 You did not answer the question

        PS3 Weblinks to all these postal vote issues can be provided at a later time, quite busy now, although you would not believe me

        PS4 I’m not a conservative hack, no uk passport, not in uk, and not a native english speaker (but you figured that one out)

    • 51
      Anonymous says:

      I imagine Guido’ll be on TV quite a bit commenting on what’s happening once the fraud & tax evasion trials start!

    • 148
      Anonymous says:

      Ad Hominem attacks, oh dear masturbater, try and calm down.

  8. 12
    Geordie Scoot says:

    I’m surprised you did not follow in that good old Irish tradition after a few Guinesses of saying to the Hoon “Are yew lookin’ at me?” before punching his lights out. Have you gone soft?

    • 28
      MisterE says:

      Why waste time with small talk?
      Just punch the twat straight off…

    • 48

      thats a geordie tradition, not irish, in ireland we just punch, we are far to lazy to talk about it first :)

      • 61
        1984 is a Labour Party instruction manual says:

        And in Scotland it’s just a straightforward. “Het Mate, pick a window ‘cos you’re leaving”

      • 175
        Dunfesterin says:

        Its obvious you’re not Scottish, 1984.

        We don’t tell people our intent. We just batter them.

        Guido, pity you never followed Maguire, I would love for that Hunt to snap and get lifted by the Met.

        Is it just me, or does anyone else feel a major seismic movement – politicos, commentators, everyone involved in promoting ZanuLiebor seems to be in the shit. And I LOVE IT!!!

  9. 13
    Anonymous says:

    The two left Balls? Two Dinners? Harpic? Are they all clean? Amazing!

  10. 14
    John Maples says:

    Blink, blink

  11. 15
    D. Bunker says:

    Hoon ws thinking ‘what an ugly bugger’ when looking at you.

  12. 16
    Taxfodder says:

    I like your thought Guido, search out the clean MP’s but who are they?

    I suppose we start with those that voted for MP’s Expenses transparency?

    Then it should be a matter of sorting the honest from the stupid that put their cross in the for’s but ment to vote in the against’s

    • 82

      Its hard to tell really. Whether the ones not talked about are the ones in for the big telegraph finale. Presumably at the end the ones left (see still some naive optomism left in me) will be fairly clean.

      Perhaps one has to look amongst those who’ve already been done for small things like wooden spoons or bog standard bog seats.

  13. 17
    Anonymous says:

    Still no mention of the execrable Cooper- Balls duo in all this. Is the rumour true that they have a court injunction on the Telegraph?

    • 81
      Ed Balls's Pocket Chipolata says:

      Bloody great if they have……. the great court of public opinion will find them guilty instantly.

      • 108
        Right thing to do says:

        …or anyway.
        They are such a pair of sanctimonious testicular twats that most people agree “its the right thing to do.”

    • 186
      going down the pan says:

      who pays their legal cost’s ? WE DO

  14. 19
    Anonymous says:

    Just be careful Guido, you are now dealing with cornered rats…and they don’t all wear a red rossette.

  15. 21
    Ian E says:

    Well, say what you like about Toilets-Maguire (and I frequently do), the Mirror does have a good article (god, did i really write that?!) online slating the
    ghastly luvvie Stephen Fry and his comments claiming that everyone cheats on their expenses and that it’s not terribly important.

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/columnists/reade/2009/05/14/why-we-should-pan-stephen-fry-s-expenses-jibe-115875-21356337/

    No, Stephen, everyone doesn’t cheat – most of the ‘little’ people don’t even get the chance to cheat by more than a pound or two and can usually even resist that temptation. The real trouble is that the ‘big’ people devise systems that are so open to abuse that they become even more corrupted than they started. This is bad for them and bad for the way they carry out their duties – in the case of the Commons and Lords, it is, I am sure, why they (particularly the Commons and the Labour Lords) have become so supine. Don’t overfeed our MPs, rather we should keep them just a little hungry so they are ready for a fight with No 10 and the Cabinet.

    • 142
      eagerbeaver says:

      Well the fat tart did 3 months inside for credit card fraud when a youth so you would think he’d take these things a bit more seriously.

      • 146
        Ben Elton says:

        That was all the fault of Mrs. Thatch who was Education secretary at the time. Stephen just used credit cards that no one else was using so that he could use them as necessary to keep himself in the style that he deserves. So it was all mrs. thatch’s fault, so there!

    • 144
      Ash James wahle Former Assistant and Producer Says No to the TV TAX says:

      “Maybe the Thinking Man’s Boris Johnson had been Twittering with Barbara Follett about her claim for £25,000 private security despite being married to a multi-millionaire author (Imagine a sink estate pensioner living in fear of attacks from smackheads demanding similar treatment).”

      Who is the Labour minister who campained in her own constituency with a police escort and a stab proof vest?

      “But back to his charge that everyone fiddles their expenses. Let me tell him about 74 year-old Mirror reader Matt Mills, a volunteer handyman for Age Concern.

      Matt does jobs around Torbay that old folk who aren’t as fit as him can’t do themselves. He fits tap washers, hangs mirrors, clears mice nests, fits bolts and checks smoke alarms. He uses his own tools, petrol and van.

      He charges nothing for his labour but gets 35p a mile and 15p per phone call. His expense claim for March came to £22.06.”

      We get the luvvies we deserve.

      Get a TV detuned to turn it into a monitor and it can be worked with a DVD player such that you can follow your favourite shows on DVD without having to pay the incredibly smug luvvie tax.

  16. 23
    JesmondJim says:

    The twats should be behind bars not in them. In Blears’ case a budgie cage will do.

    • 50
      It's all Balls says:

      Yummie – best millet on expenses.

      Can I have a second cage?

      Yours

      HB

  17. 26
    resurgemus says:

    Maguire hasn’t posted anything on his blog since May 6 – must be very little happening recently.

    Also I take issue with Guido that Maguire’s blog is full of distortions. The first four words of the introdcution read ” Kevin Maguire low life ” which seems pretty accurate to me. After that though it’s all downhill.

    • 63
      Anonymous says:

      Old Toilets was on TV this morning – apparently not such a rabid Liebore supporter now (Gordon must have refused to give him McBride’s job). Rats & sinking ships sprang to mind.

  18. 31
    Anonymous says:

    You’re like Daniel in the Lions’ Den in there.

  19. 34
    Inspector Knacker of the Yard says:

    And to think, PC Filth…we used to be called the pigs.

    Another porkie pie, please.

  20. 38
    It's all Balls says:

    Guido

    We can scream and scream and scream until we puke our guts out – but what the fuck can we actually do?

    Will Brown vote for Xmas?

    Not even our afflicted leader is that much of a Turkey

  21. 39
    Pienomics says:

    Guido, we need to more about Darling and his four ‘flips’.

    We need to know about Cooper n’ Balls.

    We need to know about The Hoon.

    We’re relying on you.

    • 187
      going down the pan says:

      ARE DARLINGS :FLIP’S not unacceptable to brown ?or was morley a scapegoat?

  22. 40
    Barry says:

    andrew mckay resigns over unnaccaptable expenses

    • 66
      Anonymous says:

      but only as DC’s parliamentary aide, not as a conservative MP, neither has he had the whip withdrawn.

      • 98
        Queen Gordon's Makeup Ladee says:

        Oh, yes. Snip, snip, snip for the Balls, please.

        YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!

  23. 41
    Ben Elton says:

    One of D.C aides just resigned for unacceptable expense claims. He and his wife claimed 1/4 million last year. She a MP was well.

  24. 42
    The Master says:

    Picking up the soap in prison will sort some of them out but we have to hope that the same will happen with some of the bankers

    • 84
      Papasmurf says:

      They’ll all do their bird and come out bleating about prison reform, write a book and make another fortune.

      Whatever happened about confiscating the profits made from the crime?

    • 112
      Nuremberg Tribunal says:

      Yep mustn’t take our eyes off the banskters just because MPs are also at it.

      Brown’s banksters ruined the world and we need a new Nuremberg Tribunal to deal with their economic crimes.

    • 188
      going down the pan says:

      BREAKING NEW’S mandelson’s just been seen loading four large box’s of soap into his car

  25. 43
    Andrew MacKay says:

    Too hot for me. I’m out of here. Back to the mansion batman!

  26. 49
    Backwoodsman says:

    Fawkes, I invited my MP to sign the buy mr martin a Stagecoach ticket home petition , but he tells me he can’t ‘because he’s in the shadow cabinet’. Surely this should be a free vote !
    Can we have a sweepstake on the total amount of the balls’ expenses, at the top of the page – that will keep it in the public eye and provide a story for one of the msm hacks who subscibe to your esteemed organ to nick.

  27. 52
    Sub Editor says:

    If you’re hoping for a red Telescopic sight on The Right Hon. Teddy “So what?” Testicles.

    It’s in the post….

  28. 56
    Dick Cheese says:

    Hasn’t appeared yet on other thread so to update….Andrew Mckay, Dave’s factotum, has resigned. He voluntarily submitted his expenses and it was decided that they would not stand up to public scrutiny.
    Must be pretty bad as that more or less applied to Gove et al and they escaped.

    • 77
      It's all Balls says:

      Hope Plod and the Taxman pick this up.

      memo to Straw: build more prisons

    • 93
      Anonymous says:

      MacKay is Cameron’s Common’s Aide – he was toast as sson as any discrepancies were found and I suspect he won’t be the last one to have to go either although in true fashion Brown is still dithering and losing authority every second he delays. It will be particularly bad if it’s revealed tonight that any husband/wife who have Ministerial Responsibilities have also been claiming within the rules but NOT the spirit

      P.S.

      David Miliband has allegedly said that he has no intention of paying anything back as every pound he claimed is justified and is in relation to his work for his constituency and Parliamentary duties. Either very brave or another foolhardy statement by our Foreign Secretary = only time will tell

  29. 70
    Stronghold Barricades says:

    Amazed that you are willing to walk amongst those about to face the gallows

    Is this your charity work?

    • 99
      Silvio Tanner says:

      CHARITY

      CHARITY IS A VIRTUE
      AND AVARICE IS A VICE,
      SAID THE CAT IN THE CRADLE
      TO THE THREE BLIND MICE

      AND TURNING A BLIND EYE,
      TO YE THREE,
      AMOUNTS IN ME
      TO
      CHARITY

      • 104
        Silvio Tanner says:

        CHARITY, SAID THE QWEEN
        IS A VERY GOOD THING,
        IF YU HAPPEN TO KNOW,
        WOT
        I
        MEAN

        SO DON*T THROW ALL YOUR MONEY AWAY,
        GIVE A LITTLE TO CHARITY,
        EVERY
        DAY

    • 115
      Silvio Tanner says:

      CHARITY, SAID THE KING
      IS A VERY VERY GOOD THING,
      LIKE A BURD ON THE WING,
      OR A SUNNY DAY IN SPRING,
      A CHOIR THAT CAN SING,
      A GOLDEN WEDDING RING,
      OR FLOWERS THAT YU BRING

      CHARITY, SAID THE KING
      IS A VERY VERY GOOD THING

      • 136
        Silvio Tanner says:

        CHARITY, SAID THE GNOME,
        BEGINS AT HOME,
        WARE THE HART WURKS PUMPING BLOOD:
        CHARITY KAN BE A TRIQKLE,
        CHARITY KAN BE A FAOUWNT,
        CHARITY KAN BE A FLUD

        CHARITY, SAID THE KNAVE
        FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE,
        CHARITY WURKS TO SAVE,
        THE LONELY AND THE BRAVE

        CHARITY PLAYS WITH LOVE
        SAID THE TURTLE TO THE DOVE,
        FLYING IN THE SKY ABOVE,
        LANDING ON A VELVET GLOVE,
        CHARITY PLAYS WITH LOVE

      • 189
        going down the pan says:

        charity is a con , your hard earned mony gone, for every pound you pay ,ninety pence they sleal away ,and with all the other tenpences ,they tell us that is there expences.

  30. 78
    Dick Cheese says:

    Mackay claiming he did nothing unreasonable but resigns; David Millivanilliband issues apology about his expenses, (£300000 on house and £180 per month on garden) says he did nothing wrong and er…that’s it.

  31. 85
    Ed says:

    is it just to me or deosn’t kevin Maguire bare more than a passing resemblence to Julian Clary?!
    http://www.crescent-theatre.co.uk/Y2007/images/julian_clary.jpg

    • 107
      Redvers says:

      You beat me to it Ed.

      Peas in a pod.

    • 149
      Joan "the talented" Collins Sister says:

      Kevin is a marvellous stand up comedian whereas Julian Clary is a rubbish columnist. That is how I tell them apart.

  32. 87
    Anonymous says:

    So was you there on your own then?

    Obviously there were a lot of people in the bar till you walked in?

    Are you really liked that much?

    They really don’t like it up ‘em do they?

    Hunts

  33. 100
    What me? Impartial? Nick Robinson says:

    Some of these vermin will be scrounging off the taxpayer via the benefits office in a years time, it should come quite naturally to them

  34. 101
    Oliver Cromwell says:

    So when do we start on the expenses of the MEP’s, bearing in mind the euro elections are just around the corner. Much bigger sums involved here.

    Any discs around for these?

    • 117
      Silvio Tanner says:

      *
      THE QWEEN WILL WIN INDyEND

    • 190
      going down the pan says:

      their expenses shoul be out now then we can see the shite we are about to vote for. scum

    • 191
      going down the pan says:

      their expenses shoul be out now then we can all see the shite we are about to vote for. scum

  35. 109
    Give me 650 lamp posts and a roll of piano wire and I can fix democracy says:

    Guido, what does cheap Guinness taste like? As a Prole I’m never likely to find out, unless we storm Parliament one day and take back what is ours.

  36. 111
    Master Baiter says:

    Double bubble Andrew McKay and Julie Kirkbride, naughty, naughty.

    Her Majesty’s Official Opposition
    Leader of the Opposition Rt Hon David Cameron MP
    Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition Desmond Swayne TD MP
    Senior Parliamentary & Political Advisor to David Cameron Rt Hon Andrew Mackay MP

    with advice like that no wonder Cameron’s going to lose.

    “He was my MAIN man!”

    • 122
      Remington Steele says:

      “with advice like that no wonder Cameron’s going to lose”

      Whatever it is you’re taking, time to lay off it.

      • 129
        Master Baiter says:

        Just stuff like this, can’t get enough of it really. Best thing is the backlash in their constituencies is going to be enormous, this isn’t some wisteria claim or something this is ‘over the line’. tee hee hee

        Mr Mackay has used his second homes allowance to claim more than £1,000 a month in mortgage interest payments on their joint flat near Westminster.

        However, his wife used her Additional Costs Allowance to claim over £900 a month on paying off the home loan for their family home near her constituency.

        This means they effectively had no main home but two second homes – and were using public funds to pay for both of them

      • 168
        The BBC are vermin says:

        And your comments on Labour troughers??
        What a wanker you are baiter.

  37. 119
    Gordon Doom says:

    MPs confuse work with drinking subsidised beer in the commons bar! British Pubs are closing at the rate of 39 a week. MPs should be out there pretending to work in their constituency pubs. We’re all doomed!

  38. 121
    Preseli View says:

    What is it with ZaNuLabour & mortgages? If they’re not capable of organising their own affairs, why should we believe that they could possibly run the country?

  39. 123
    Five a day says:

    Now we know why the gummint has been banging on about 5 a day for the last 2 years- it was a wake-up call to MPs ‘to do the right thing’

  40. 131
    Odds Bodkins says:

    Boo Hoo! My heart bleeds for the poor miserable wretches…

    On a serious note Guido, I am a little concerned for your safety drinking amid all those undisputed shithorses.

    So long as a glare followed by a walking off in disgust is all you are getting…

    • 195
      going down the pan says:

      guido’s got his eye on a nice little flat in westminster and was just getting some advice on how to get it for now’t

  41. 132
    Odds Bodkins says:

    Bloody hell, what have I done now? Why is my comment awaiting moderation?

    • 192
      going down the pan says:

      here. here. if you re submit changing one word it will appear twice

  42. 135
    niceonecyril says:

    Out of interest how much is a pint of Guinness at subsidised commons prices?

  43. 139
    hoolio says:

    In 2007/08, I calculate Labour MPs cost £2,847,914 more in expenses than Tory MPs. Details below:

    Party Total Count Average
    CON £26,837,937 194 £138,340
    DUP £1,337,816 9 £148,646
    IND £369,956 3 £123,319
    IND CON £237,820 2 £118,910
    IND LAB £139,210 1 £139,210
    LAB £51,543,552 352 £146,431
    LD £9,528,094 63 £151,240
    PC £459,695 3 £153,232
    RES £136,390 1 £136,390
    SDLP £463,096 3 £154,365
    SF £681,235 5 £136,247
    SNP £911,288 6 £151,881
    SPE £74,522 1 £74,522
    UKIP £140,987 1 £140,987
    UUP £134,004 1 £134,004
    TOTAL £92,995,602 645 £144,179

    • 206
      Poor bloody tax payer says:

      Don’t want to piss on your parade but could it be that labour trough more cos there’s more of ‘em

  44. 150
    anon says:

    Purer than pure????
    Be sure your sins will find you out.

    • 157
      Silvio Tanner says:

      *
      *
      *
      THE DEVILS* ADDING MACHINE

      EVERY LITLE SIN
      NO MATTER HOW SMALL,
      EVERY LITTLE SIN,
      THE DEVILS COUNTS THEM ALL

      FOR WHY SHOULD THE DEVIL
      LET YU GET AWAY

      WEN ADDING UP IS SO EASY,
      AT THE END OF THE DAY

      • 193
        going down the pan says:

        if you do the crime. then you should do the time .if you steal from the public purse. you should leave in a fucking herse

      • 194
        going down the pan says:

        if you do the crime. i beleve you should do the time .if you steal from the public purse. you should leave in a fucking herse

  45. 151
    Anonymous says:

    Andrew George seems to lead the Additional Allowances (John Lewis) list most years as well – what’s that all about then??
    http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/andrew_george/st_ives

  46. 152
    The Evil Scotsman (not the Brown one though) says:

    Guido
    That must have been a lonely pint for you. Bit like Mongoose in the Snake Pit.
    Hope you dont believe in Voodoo and Witchcraft…….
    Keep up the good work..

  47. 153

    [...] Vote MPs Crying Into Their Subsidised Beers – Guy Fawkes' blog [...]

  48. 154
    Alix says:

    Guido, point of information, Andrew George says he and his wife own a third of their flat – see his website. The taxpayer pays for two thirds of it, and for half the furniture. He has never disputed that his daughter is currently staying there (see his bumbly piece on the Beeb – could he not have had some training??). But he does dispute that it’s her main home and he bought it for her – usually, and in particular during the period the Telegraph was talking about, she was a student in halls of residence.

    Just trying to be helpful :-) I’m all for exposing the cheats, Lib Dem or otherwise – see my posts on LDV yesterday. And I’m still not 100% happy with some of George’s furniture items. But it looks to me very much as if the Telegraph has basically roughed him up unjustifiably, I’m afraid. They’re still refusing to acknowledge that he owns a third of the flat. They’ve now started going over his hotel claims instead because they’ve realised the flat story doesn’t hold water.

  49. 155
    subrosa says:

    Remember and drink moderately Guido. I’m surprised el Gordo hasn’t managed to get your Westminster pass revoked. Don’t be surprised if that’s his next enquiry.

  50. 156

    “The low morale of Labour MPs was palpable, the perfect storm of smear and sleaze revelations has broken them.”

    Sweet as poetry, Guido. I hope they all succumb to depression like many of their electorate have as a result of Labour’s healthist bullying.

  51. 158
    Anonymous says:

    Guido,

    It is you who deserve all the credit for telling us all about all this expenses stuff well before the DT and other media outlets did.

    You deserve a medal.

    • 160
      Silvio Talli says:

      *
      CREDIT

      KREDDIT WARE KREDDIT IS MONEY,
      KREDDIT WARE KREDDIT IS DGJHUGH,
      KREDIT WITH THE BANGQK OF ENGLAND,
      FROM HALLYFLAX LAUD MON TAG U

  52. 161
    Silvio Talli says:

    TIME AND MONEY IN THE BANGQK OF ENGLAND

    TIME IS TIME
    AND MONEY IS CREDIT,
    THERE IS A SINGQKING FUNDUNDER THE BANQK

    SEW SAVE YOUR PENNIES AND YOUR POUNDS,
    FOR A RAINY DAY,
    PREWDENTSCE IS THE LADY
    THAT WEE THANQK

    • 163
      Silvio Talli says:

      *
      BANGQK OF ENGLAND GILT~EDGED GOVERNMENT BOND CREDIT SECURITIES

      BITS OF PAPER

      PROMISES TO PAY
      IN GOLD

      NO VOTES = NO SECURITY = NO CREDIT

      ONLY CREDIT NOTES = BANGQK MONEY

      NO QKHASH
      NO STASH
      NO GOLD
      GOLD SOLD

      THE APATHETIQK VOTER IN THE ASCENDANTSEA
      AT THE NEXT GENERAL ELECTION
      KAN BUST PARLIAMENT AND THE BANGQK OF ENGLAND SIMPLESIMULTAYKNEEUSSLEA
      BY
      KNOT
      VOTING
      WUNTSCE
      AND
      FOR
      ALL

      • 196
        going down the pan says:

        this guy must write the M P’S rule book no wonder they can’t understand them????

      • 199
        going down the pan says:

        silvio prepare the planet ZOD for an influx of ex m p’s

  53. 164
    Aethelred says:

    Hey Guido, how did you get access to the Commons bar?
    I love the taste of subsidised alcohol.

  54. 169
    barefootcontessa says:

    been out all day and came in just in time to hear that turd lord truscott
    not apologising for his – shall we say- indiscretions! What a nerve, what balls- where are balls and cooper by the way. Brown is STILL sitting in that
    cupboard chewing his nails cunctating as usual . From Chambers Dictionary:-
    CUNCTATOR, (SOMEONE WHO DELAYS OR PROCRASTINATES.

  55. 174

    [...] This post was Twitted by BarRoomBoy – Real-url.org [...]

  56. 177

    *
    *
    *
    TELLYGRAPH TOMORRWOH
    HEADLINE
    RECIPE
    RECEIPT
    STUB

    SHAFTED MALIK AL~ BAR B QC DGJUSTICE
    MINI STIR
    SHEK~EL~MLEKKLUM

    SAUCE FOR THE PAY GAN D*UR

    • 197
      going down the pan says:

      this guy must write the M P’S rgreen book no wonder they can’t understand the rules???

  57. 201
    going down the pan says:

    when allthis die;s down lets start on local councilors who claim lots of expences and move on to quango’s and finally let’s not forget the rite disshonourable house of lords.

  58. 204
    Silvio Tanner says:

    *
    SUPERSIZE THOSE SUKKERS

    INIT

    M8*

    SUPERSIZE THOSE SOUPERSUKKAS

    MAKE THEM RUN THE LUNDUN MARADONNATHON IN SUPERSIZED

    GRAVYTRAINERS

    *
    ASTA

  59. 207
    Poor bloody tax payer says:

    Don’t want to piss on anyones parade but could it be that labour trough more cos there’s more of ‘em If so it would account for the greater figure

  60. 208

    As a resident of St Ives Cornwall I’d be interested to hear more about Morvah’s residence. George says on his website that she was living elsewhere and used the flat as an “occasional bolthole”, she was named on the insurance because she was “keeping an eye on the place”.

    “Outside on the terrace another disgraced LibDem, Andrew George, was glued to his mobile phone – no doubt still spinning that his daughter “sometimes” stays at his taxpayer financed flat – in reality it is him who sometimes stays there from Monday to Wednesday night and his daughter is there all week. (If he wants to challenge Guido on this he’ll be sorry).”

  61. 209
    Pater Noshers* Nose says:

    *

    AN EYE FOR AN AYE,
    A PENNY FOR YORE THORTS,
    A DROP IN THE OCEAN BLUE

    THE SHIP OF STATE
    IS SINGQKING FARST,
    WITH THE CAPTAIN AND
    THE BLOODY CREW



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