Digested Read : Maya by Alastair Campbell – John Crace
What Happened To 19 Secretive Tories? – LibDemVoice
Charged MPs Still Take Labour Whip – Paul Waugh
Labour Distances Itself from Official Law Firm – Iain Dale
Labour Party’s Solicitor Defends Theft Charged MPs’ – Telegraph
Doing Emotional – Jon Craig
Gordon Brown’s Policy Inventions - Fink
Conservatives Need Clear, Discernable Principles – Fraser Nelson
Union’s £75 Million Lever on Labour – News of the Screws
Cameron Has to Come Up With Something Better – Fraser Nelson
Republican Twitter Kings – Time
Prosecute Racketeering MPs – Times
Yeo’s Pre-Blogged Ambush – Indy
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Sarah Palin said…
“A year later, I gotta ask the supporters of all that, ‘How’s that hopey, changey thing working out for ya?’ “
-Gilts (Mar)
As of 28 Jan 2010 +5.8%
Wouldn’t that break the injuction and you be called to court?
Sunday Times have got their men – Lords Truscott and Taylor – suspended from Lords – first since 1600s!!!!
the house of cards is falling around our dis-honrable members
….yes, but will this be of any value? Presumably they can continue their ‘business’. At what point is this a criminal offence? In what way has this committee, who are in the same game, independent and of any fuckin’ use?>
The corruption continues….so what’s new????
Why only six months? Should be for life and a criminal trial.
Anyway, things always come in threes, where are you Uddin?
What! Does the Gentleman Usher of Black Rod know about this, he has protected crooked peers since time immemorial!
Serves them right for replacing the hereiditeries with LieBour place men.
Quite right Feduptothebackteeth! Wouldn’t have happened when the House had real Lords.
Speaking as a commuter who has bought Dailt Telegraph each and every day since this scandal broke ( i woz a times reader) – i must say i do like a good chuckle in the morning commute…..
anyway we need a clear Scope for the second sunday of the expose’
So lets have quick poll
Who do you think will be exposed on Sunday …………
Cannon & Balls ?
Second.
You can’t know the terms of the injunction without seeing it so it’s a Catch 22 situation.
why doesnt someone just blow the place up i would have thought someone must of thought of it before
Agree 100% with feduptothebackteeth.
At least with the OLD House of Lords there was the entrenched concept of ‘noblese oblige’ which meant that with the privilege of being enobled one had to always taken into account the interests of the common people. When Phony Tony, Broon and Mandy ‘reformed’ the House of Lords, that ancient principle went straight out of the window (in favour of troughing, trousering and cronying). And all in the space of a fleeting 12 years….
I have a large dog
I have a rather large penis!
And an imagination to match it . . .
I too have an enormous cock. Its outside rogering 10 bells out of the cat…..
Pictures, pictures
Pictures, pictures!!!!!!
I’m named after one!!!
Incidentally, I’ve not mentioned that I may have enjoyed frottage with Mrs D (on the bonnet of my spitfire) for a while…sorry!!!
I have a big prick – it ‘works’ in parliament.
*looks up from trough*
Any chance of a taxpayer funded wank ala Jaquis old geezar then?
*goes back to troughing*
First!
Fuck it!
You have to get up early in the morning to beat the smurfs
Well done PapaSmurf, you beat the 1st dickhead and posted a sensible comment.
Actions speak louder than words.
Actually…. that is a good way for these Hoons to abide by. Action……….resign before being kicked out.
Name change to Fifth required.
balls has strange eye-function
It’s the hamster he keeps rammed up his arse wriggling. The anal tickling forces a blink reflex. It’s true – ask any doctor!
It’s true – hamsters do have that effect.
Mmmmmfmmmfrffffff.
Sorry, there is a gagging order on Ed Ball’s Hamster.
Not a squeak out of the hamster then?
How could anyone mistake me for that talentless waste of space?
Eight pies, two tongue rolls, breast of chicken fricarssee and a finger bowl, please Tracey.
There, that’s my gagging order for elevenses.
Put it on the Taxpayers’ slate as per…
I was after that job.
Richard Gere, if you had been an MP you would have been one of the Master Troughers: Cutie Cindy wasn’t enough for you, you wanted the hamster too!
Ah well, you re-entered politics in style, making Kim I-will-leave-my-hat-on Basinger cheat on the hubby.
I heard that Nick Griffin ate all the hamsters.
If the injunction story isn’t true, how is it we haven’t heard anything about this egregious pair? I keep hoping the DT is leaving the best for last.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8044207.stm
Balls and Cooper BOTH claimed £12,219 EXACTLY for second home, both claimed circa £90k staff each, Balls’s office cost £21k, Coopers cost £16.5k
We’re still waiting to hear about the Labour MP who claimed for a sauna
I wonder if all the treasure is now hidden deep in a mineshaft.
Perhaps in Mangledbum’s mineshaft? – now that’s very deep.
Because they set it all up.
It all depends who the Barclay bros want to back at the next GE imo
BENEFIT SCROUNGERS: WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND WHERE YOU LIVE. AND WE’RE CLOSING IN ON YOU…..
Well a tory Mp has resigned as Cameron’s bag carrier due (if the rumours are correct) due to the fact he’s on double bubble.
Come on Balls and Cooper they really must be troughing it.
Could be it points to a clearing of the decks by Cameron. Pressure on McDoom?
The story appears to be that they are both claiming each other’s house as their second home so we’re paying for the whole lot.
How very creative of them.
I bet it’s ‘within the rules’ too …
He said on Radio 5 that OTHER married couples are at it as well.
Your claim for 650 lamp posts has been disallowed by the Fees Office as there are only 645 MPs. Report for alternative compensation at the House at 10am tomorrow morning sharp!
A tory aide to cameron has just quit/ been fired because he and his mp wife were claiming on different houses. Could Balls and Cooper be doing the same?
MacKay got in 14 ours early (or Cameron did). Teddy Testicles is tomorrow’s toast.
14 hours – some fucking sub I am
Ed balls dishonest Schurly some mistake? :)
http://cassiuswrites.blogspot.com/2009/05/valentines-day-massacre-moved-to-friday.html
Let us be logical : unless today’s DT was the last one with expenses exposure, then the Balls (and others) are still to come. Please, all you lovely guys at the DT, please keep it coming.
That pair are hardly likely to be squeaky, are they?
Squeaking, more precisely.
rubbing two balls together without lubricant does produce a squeak!
There is no verb “to injunct”. The verb is “enjoin” (alternatively “injoin”)
It is in common use amongst Lawyers, however. As in “We have sought relief, they have been injuncted, you have been invoiced”
Lawyers also talk about a man “giving good discharge” whatever that means. If you want plain English, don’t consult a lawyer.
That will be £800.
or as Cato would be too delicate to write :
Bendo
Whackere
Ouchi
Sorebum
In the first point I can continue to assure you that you have my fullest and ongoing subjunctional and non-conditional compleasance that the fiducary duty of the party of the second part will hereinafter Voir Dire and hold safe all encumbrances in both Lien and exculpation whilst holding in abeyance all negotiable instruments and promisary notes notwithstanding the gagging order.
Last time I wanted a good discharge I had to pay £800 didn’t realise she was a solicititor?
Thank you ! You saved me the trouble – drives me mad.
The Telegraph is enjoined not to publish, Guido.
Doomed
We’re all Doomed
Presumably an injunction would be sought only to Ensure … errr … Insure that the TRUTH be not published
AND if the Injunction be issued, won’t reading this Blogge be a Contempt of Court …. and be punishable by an unlimited fine or imprisonment
Don’t panic
Don’t panic
Injunctions don’t work on Wikileaks….
Was Richard’s hamster en ventre sa Gere?
I’d like to make it clear that my client was not involved with the party of the first part in any way whatsoever.
Is “involved” typo for “invoiced”
There is no sanity clause.
*
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UP THE DGJUNQKTCHION INIT
In English please, Silvio.
hope he gets his underwear laundered on expenses or he’ll be skint by the weekend
If this rumour is as accurate as the one describing the cars on Harman’s “drive” it’s time to move on. The cars in question are in a different road from the one she lives on. They are not her cars. Harman’s house has room for one car only, a dirty white thing – an old Jag?
That is your idea of moving on?
Has she been caught for speeding again? If so I find I have a free hour or two so could possibly represent her also.
Balls and Cooper
Enjoy! Enjoy! a nastier pair you would hard pressed to find!
So what! Ed So what!
So Weak, Ed, So Weak.
What about this week, Ed ?
we are still between Animal Farm and 1984!
Balls & Cooper Inc of the Treasury. They love collecting other people’s treasure.
Nothing to see here, move along
At last Terrance and Philip’s surnames revealed.
We’re laughing all the way to the bank.
And all we are doing is giving real help to real MP’s as we get on with the job.
It was so kind of Thatcher and the Americans to start all this.
O/T
Whatever happened to McBride ?
Update, I wrote to my Labour MP asking confirmation that McBride doesn’t have a position within Number 10 OR the Civil Service, and never will have.
Response was positive and confirmed understanding he was in the employ of neither, and as a backbencher has no influence on these appointments.
However, unsolicited, my MP has confirmed that they will write formally to Cabinet Secretary and have my questions answered definitively.
I have been promised a reply once received by my MP.
Don’t hold your breath waiting
The wait or response will be telling enough ….I could simly have received a “I have no reason to believe…” and “a person’s future career is …..”
So far so good .
Anyone else got detail on where he is or whether he may be on a retainer from No10 (to stop him singing or simply honour amongst thieves) ?
P.I.L.O.N.?
I wonder who is paying for lawyers? Expenses probably
If that is the case then what have they got to hide?
Along with the rest of them the Balls need to be dropped in the meat grinder too.
Come on Mr Fawkes keep up….Truscott and co are being suspended for 6 months!!!
AH (C)
why not ask the Irish Independent – the DT’s partner paper published in Dublin.
They can clearly comment on any issues and carrying stories on Westminster at present. Also if an injunction is stopping more stories on Irish MPs it’s a legit story.
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Can the two Balls both claim second home allowance if they are sharing hoose?
It depends on what you mean by two Balls.
If you mean the Ball with two balls – then yes.
If you mean the Ball with two balls and the Ball with no balls – then no.
Too many balls for me.
Has someone started a snooker match?
didn’t see this before posting above. My guess is that it’s within the rules, because the rules would never have foreseen that someone would be devious enough to double claim simultaneously.
Never underestimate the scheming porkbarrelistas.
It started with Peter Heinous Hain and just goes on giving
Looks like they are claiming half each.
We mustn’t forget the FOUR LIEBOUR PEERS who have had a kicking today as well. I notice Sky are reporting it, but the BBC not. What a shock.
Democracy is under attack in Thailand and Burma. This is far more important to Al Beeb.
The BBC only report on real crooks who are those people who rip off working class people like me and these people are Tories and the followers of Mrs. thatch.
your not Ben Elton im Ben Elton. Your Caroline Flint you are
Yes indeed, bit of politics there.
The BBC’s Evil Empire has been protecting their mates in this government ever since Year Zero when Blair’s sovietised state began it’s mission to “destroy the forces of conservatism”. Anyone who criticised any of their bizarre policies became ostracised through the intellectual gulag they created for us since 1997 – in every walk of life from local government gauleiters to the set ups on Question Time.
Today, we see the results. They have all been rumbled. Labour placemen – from the Speaker to celebrity head teachers are all on the make. The government has been crushing our spirit with an average of six new laws a week since 1997, whilst breaking them themselves.
The BBC is up to it’s neck in abusing public trust, fiddling expenses, breaking their Charter at will, misusing public money on useless jollies and paying fines for repeated abuse with OUR money.
It’s time they were exposed, along with their fellow crooks in the House of Common criminals.
Hear, hear. Every word spot on.
Excellent post.
No one need to be under any illusion that the crass lefties at the BBC will give Conservative miscreants a much tougher time than their Labour masters, the mafiosi they serve so well.
The BBC traditionally “interview” Labour & Lib Dem representatives but “interrogate” Tories.
The BBC has much to answer for, for protecting and promoting the criminals in the Nasty Party, now in government who pass the laws that they then break themselves.
Time to turn the bright lights on how the bigots at the BBC spend our cash.
Might |Al beebo be charged with criminal association ?
Possibly another one for Taxpayers Alliance
You don’t have to watch the Beeb. We can do without Antiques Roadshow. You do have to pay for the Beeb, although that will surely end soon when the technology advances a little further and we all stop watching ‘live TV’.
Once we have a Conservative government we should organize a grass-roots campaign via blogs like this, Facebook, petitions, etc. for a drastic overhaul of the BBCs charter, culture and organisational structure, in light of the incredible bias in their political coverage over the last 20 years or so.
I trust that with enough such public opinion the new administration will comply.
Until then, DC has plenty on his plate and this would be a distraction from the number one task of routing Brown and Labour.
One to diarize for May next year. In the meantime, there’ll be lots of evidence to gather.
BBC – the Evil Empire – good name
On Radio 5’s 2PM News they mentioned in thier headlines a TORY resigning but only that two peers had been found guilty of dodgy dealings. I compalined and on the 3PM news it was TWO LABOUR PEERS.
But why does the BBC have to be continually reminnded of this? You only have to check out the BBC news website to see how the BBC ensures TORY is in any bad news headline but if a Labour MP is in the shit LABOUR is almost always absent from the headline.
The BBC will survive. The boys from Bruxelles intend to liecence computers.
You can watch the telly on them now you know. This is an on going project that will be completed in three to four years.
If you hear one of them saying ‘I was just talking to me old China, in the computer trade’. He or she will not be lying.
BBC == Bruxelles Bullshitting Clowns ( Hoons )
Labour Lords Prescott & Taylor suspended
Radio 5 Live
By the neck until dead?
Yup
They should be stripped of titles for the shame.
Good ole trade union boys, one and all…..expert at getting something for nothing
Look at today’s telegraph page 2, top left hand corner, that would make a fantastic picture for tomorrow’s caption competition.
just release it overseas on the net-
sweet f/a they could do about it……..
https://secure.wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:United_Kingdom :-)
No injunction, just the DT doing a good job of whipping up the frenzy to the max before the killer blow. No point running a story like this unless you can claim a big scalp.
So long as the public outrage is still increasing, keep Ed and Yvette sweating.
I fooking loove it
What is Mrs Anon looving
About half-an-hour ago Sky Captain Boulton skipped mentioning the Balls when talking about MP couples.
Ball and Cooper = Blooper Scandal!
Concentrate!
Balls and Cooper = Blooper Scandal
Balls and Cooper = Lord Palace Snob
or
Balls and Cooper = Fkin thieving bastards
As well as claiming lots of lovely Taxpayers’ lolly, we might be claiming the Straw get-out; Accountancy is not our strongest suit.
Yes I noticed Boulton doing that too. He very nearly said Balls but managed to recover after a few sentences of verbal garbage,
I wonder if Balls n Cooper cleaned up their act to some extent having previously been splashed accross the papers. I’ll not hold my breath on that though.
Transparency will sort this all out. That was why Martin was eager to cover it up.
More anagrams of Balls and Cooper
Drab on collapse
Calendar Bloops
Scandal Blooper
Ballooned Craps
Balanced Slop Or
Balance Lord Ops
Capable Lords No
Cabal Led Pornos
Cabal Dole Porns
Cabal Drone Slop
Cabal Plod Snore
Salable Cod Porn
Banal Credo Slop
Scandal Probe Lo
Rascal Bone Plod
Anal Bold Corpse
Anal Probes Clod
Cable Loads Porn
Time on your hands, eh?
Cable loads porn ?? Can I bung that on HID’s expenses ???
If this information is available under FOI,how can anyone be granted an injunction to suppress it?
My mum wrote this for me whilst I was having my ASBO renewed
And what about the claims of Ann & Alan Keen who have neighbouring constituencies in Feltham and Brentford, live together in Brentford, easy commuting distance from Westminster but also have a home close to Westminster?
They will definitely be in tomorrow’s paper. And it won’t be pretty.
I doubt there is an injunction in place.
Last rumour I read (on Old Holborn) was that an application for an injunction may have been refused and that was yesterday.
It could be that there was an attempt to obtain an injunction and – by the time the issue was resolved – the printing deadline had been missed. Dead tree press and all that……
So the injunction rumour is a load of Balls?
We’ll soon know for sure, they’ll put the lawyers’ bills on expenses
Is Cameron sacrificing MacKay in order force out Balls and Cooper?
Let’s hope so.
What strange wording – “sacrificing” – as though it didn’t need to happen. The guy has made significant unreasonable claims on the public purse. He had to go.
I don’t believe Cameron did it just to get at Balls.
Morley fraud story taken off BBC front page, replaced by McKay resignation over as yet unknown crime.
Remind me which parties they each represent?
Themselves.
Well, the BBC clearly represent the Labour Party at the moment.
Did I hear a rumour the other day that the Tories had compained to the BBC Trust and Ofcom over politial bais during an Election period??
Balls & Cooper – DEAD MEN WALKING !
Hold your breaths guy’s these two will be hanging from the highest point on big ben. Hung, drawn & quartered.
They will be financially ruined. SMUG BASTARDS :)
The DT has been stringing this out for a week. This is fast getting to my boredom threshold – as an observation if they have nothing to publish they have a moral obligation to calm speculation.
Back in the real world the country suffering from a clapped out administration, unemployment is heading for 3 million, the educarion system doesn’t work and the government is getting away scot-free.
This lot are so bad that we need to bring back old punishments. Nothing that’s been around for the last 150 years is good enough for ‘em. Drag the bastards throught the street on a hurdle, flog ‘em, hang ‘em, cut ‘em down before theor dead, disembowel ‘em, burn their intestines in front of ‘em, break ‘em on the wheel, and watch ‘em die!
I wish the government was scot free……..
I wish the government WAS Scot free
I wish the Government was Lisa SCOT Lee….
No idea guvnor but you’d be bloody surprised if I did.
The Daily Politics has its first statporn post and an updated ‘Contact & About’.
Thanks to all who have visited, Lord Guido for most of my visitors and Mr OH for being such a slag.
STATPORN
Where’s the guide to HOON flipping. Did I miss it? Or has there been yet another injunction?
I dont care what the facts are, Balls & Cooper would be the recipents of the first rounds from my .303 and they can argue the toss later.
I`m prepared to let Yvette off with a jolly good spanking.
Meanwhile, in other news, the curse of Guido strikes again
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1181385/Has-Kate-Garraways-husband-spun-This-Morning-job.html
F***ing hell Guido, you must be exhausted.
Not only is this stuff breaking news every other minute and at every hour of the day, it must give you a stiffy seeing the smug bar steward’s wriggle.
Heather Brooke MBE
You know she deserves it.
Imagine the HoC reaction to that one lol.
Right, I’m off to see if Udders has been caught yet
Has Guido knobbed her, I wonder?
I wouldn’t mind a go on her myself
Tell me you’re referring to Brooke please?
Two peers suspended for ‘cash for access’. Not quite the type of suspension (by the neck) we had in mind. Still, it’s a start.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6286168.ece
I reckon Fred Goodwin stumped up the cash for the DT.
Bet he’s pi$$ing his pants at all of this
He’s next in the Court of Harmallpeople Opinion
I’d love to be a fly on the wall when they’re at home in the evening.
How about the Horrible Ian Taylor – Conservative for Esher and Walton – Is his snout in the trough?
Why do people use the word HOON ? Surely HOGG would be a better word.
Are you new here? Thought so.
Not now, Cato
The priority must be :
Carthago est delenda
Oh crikey – is that a gerund, or a gerundive?
Help him out chaps.
Geoff Hoon is the biggest K*unt in the house
His name is a synonym for the C word.
Now type C word into Guido’s blog watch what happens.
Have fun
Maybe the Telegraph is saving up for a “The couples of Parliament” issue where all the couples get thrown in together. One week in and they are still going very strong with these stories. I won’t think there is anything suspicious about Balls’ absence until the stories stop coming so thick and fast.
I’m still a hoon.
Don’t you take that tone Harm Man
It the Torygraph run their last article on the families troughing it tomorrow – with the Ballses at the top of the page – then it will dominate the weekend , the journalists can put their feet up on Saturday and rehash it all on Sunday, stretching this into next week.
The silence from some senior political figures is quite deafening. John Humphries said this morning to Nick Robinson that Labour hadn’t offered up a minister on the day of their Euro election launch – which is quite extraordinary.
bunch of cowards, how can you expect to win an election unless you put someone up.
We know they are fucked, and now so do they.
We know they are fucked, they know they are fucked, they know that we know that they are fucked and now that we all know they are fucked.
So be it.
Yes, but we’re fucked if they ignore the fact that they are fucked, and go on fucking the economy and the legal system to make it fucking difficult for the next set of fuckers to unfuck. Then we are all fucked. Or as Louis 14th should have said
“Apres moi, la monde peut s’en culer”
Hoggmoat’s being left behind by the other thieving troughists
Some of them seem to be claiming for the whole fucking castle.
According to Metro, Balls and Cooper claimed £32,000 during 2007/8 on their London home, which they designate as their second home which is well over the £24,000 allowance for a second home. This means they are doing the same as Mackay and Kirkbride, just all on the same house. Does this mean goodbye to our favourite double-act?
Well that’s not what the official records say:
Ed: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/edward_balls/normanton
Yvette: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/yvette_cooper/pontefract_and_castleford
There’s no story.
Yes there is Yvette or is it Ed ?
The BBC website has a page with official-looking statistics on what every MP from Brown to the most insignificant little newbie claimed for 2007-2008 under every allowable category. Both EB and YC claimed for second home costs: EB £12.219 and YC £12.219, aha… splitting it… which is in total… er er… £24.438. Or are they trying the two second homes gambit a la MacKay-Kirkbride system… The max for second home allowance appears to be £23.083pa which, most curiously, and to the very penny, is what loads of MPs seem to have claimed. Surely the man who is castigating so many teachers for inexpertly teaching primary maths cannot have made an arithmetical Blooper himself? Or maybe the poor dears live apart? I certainly think we should be told.
drip.. drip.. drip.. drip.. drip.. drip.. drip.. drip.. drip.. drip..
little april showers
Guido.
I am less than impressed with some of the rude and crude comments you allow here.
But there, perhaps I am out of tune with current acceptable trends.
However, I say again, as I have said several times before, are Mr & Mrs Balls both claiming ACA for the same property which in which they both reside?
I wonder if the Prime Minister or Mr Cameron would like to speculate as to how many current MP’s will still be sitting in the House after the next general election?
Whilst it is good to read some of the articulate, well crafted, cogent debate here – and some of it is very very good indeed – it’s also gut-achingly funny to see people letting off steam in a tourettian stream of filth, pent up anger, and surreal comment. It’s part of what makes Guido’s site irrestistable: the combination of common sense comment mixed in with a smattering of mad, funny, rude and crude.
As Dudley Moore said to Peter Cook. “This c unt came up to me, and do you know what he said? He said, ‘you c unt’ ”
Now, I don’t know why that is funny, but it is.
HERE.HERE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We also remember with affection:
“Good morning”.
“Provocative fucker!”
As a member of many (moderated) forums I find the light touch used here amusing and refreshing after some of the tortuous attempts at free speech I have posted and read in other places. Order order.com is rather like the wild west days of the BBs, that were largely unmoderated, though slightly tamer. It’s a break from the dead hand of censorship.
Though I seem to have upset someone, my comments have awaited moderation in the past whilst other arguably more controversial comments sail through the system.
Pleese, no wurds mor then 3 siluballs
Ah, The legacy of Balls’ turn at the Department of Education has spoken.
Ah, I see the legacy of Balls’ turn at the Department of Education at work
That comment wasn’t here a minute ago! Ad hoc moderation methinks.
It’s the last bastion of political in-correctness, and long may it continue.
Flippin Ken Clarkes at it too!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5310015/MPs-expenses-Ken-Clarkes-council-tax-flip.html
On Radio 5 Tory twat said other married couples are at it as well. So when itcomes out about Balls and Cooper with they both resign? Me thinks not.
What about the uberschwein Alan and Ann Keen, £40,000 on ACA, over £200,000 on staffing[ what are they running Corus ?] and £19,000 on staff cover WTF.
Those couple of Hoons have really got it coming to them, can’t fucking wait.
Bonnie and Clyde of Parliment.
Tomorrow.
Is this what’s in store for Mr & Mrs Blinky?
One minute you’re happily screwing like good little piggies, then ….
On LBC today they said that Balls and Co will be in print tomorrow. It’s a couple’s special!
His ‘n’ hers Fiddles?
Balls/Cooper could be an interesting show, since they have “form” in the 2nd home arena, but I think there’ll be a few more straightforward Morley situations to come out that are more spectacularly cheeky in terms of renting each other’s pads, “forgetting” that a mortgage didn’t exist, flipping and flipping again etc.
So let’s hope Balls and Cooper are for the big one, but we don’t want that feeling of dissappointment that will be there if they squeeze through “within the rules” etc and just pay back for a patio-heater smug-dispenser or whateever.
Others to look for will be Hain, the Keens, and Martin (hopefully as part of a Scottish Labour special).
What happened to the rumour about the two MPs having an affair who each claimed for the same hotel room?
That was us wasnt it dear?
I don’t know, but they have gone awfully quiet…..
Tomorrows Telegraph could run a special full-colour pull-out supplement on MP’s expenses…….
It could have a scratch and sniff section – with the fragrant whiff of pig shit.
…..the Telegraph expenses supplement could become an annual event set to rival the Sunday Times Rich List
They could reprint it as a bound, limited and numbered edition and make it a collectors item, sell for millions on E-bay.
Signed copies by your favourite porker go for trebles.
Ex MPs could man book signing tables at WHSmith and be green-slimed by their constituents
Funny
Look, it is perfectly reasonable for the testicles to be granted an injunction to stop publication of their financial affairs. BUT, we are not interested in THEIR financial affairs, we are interested in OUR financial affairs.
Sorry, keyboard problems! – to continue – It is OUR money THEY are spending, so we just want to know about OUR money – they can keep what they spent their own money on (if they ever use their own money) to themselves. Just tell us what the robbing gits stole from US!!!!!!!
170 Anomymous. Agreed, I cannot see why they would get an injunction about their expenses, their own financial affairs maybe. I dont give a fuck who they are or what they get up to. or what their are worth, its my money in their pocket that bothers me.
Morley is in poo poo, claiming for something that doesn’t exist, isn’t in the rules. For the rest all this stuff is covered in the rules, the police should investigate, but theres no crime, a crime against decency maybe, but if it’s in the rules, they’ll get away with it, till the election that is. Even then it’s gravy
Purer than pure????
Be sure your sins will find you out.
I put all this anger down to pheronomes.
Apparently, when you take piss, all these pheronomes fly off into the ether, little entities they are, and when they land on you or you breathe one in, it triggers an anger response in the recipient.
Im not a 100% on that being a fact, but some supporting evidence is a Rangers fan once took a piss in me coat pocket…i was f*ckin furious!
…..this expenses supplement could become an annual event set to rival the Sunday Times Rich List
Purer than pure????
Be sure your sins will find you out.
Go to jail and live in a hair shirt.
Purer than pure????
Be sure your sins will find you out.
Go to jail and live in a hair shirt.
Has Baroness Uddiddled resigned yet? Have the Met been to see her? I assume man-of-action Brown has already sacked her, so perhaps resignation not needed.
Nice to see the Labour lords having some treament meted out, but not strong enough to satisfy the Court of Public Opinion methinks.
The lovely Baroness Uddini must be a distant relative as she seems to have escaped, almost miraculously. Our family are famous for it.
well, she is brown, init
The balls cooper story was on the Telegraph yesterday for a short while, essentially 300k p/a then it was pulled.
That story was from 2007, I think it went onto thier search results and made it up the ‘most viewed’ chart because. There is I’m sure a lot more to come! :-)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1567397/Balls-and-Cooper-claim-300000-in-expenses.html
Balls and Cooper claim £300,000 in expenses
By Robert Winnett and James Kirkup
Last Updated: 12:10AM GMT 29 Oct 2007
Thanks Steve.
I’ve posted this four times now and it keeps getting pulled. I am starting to feel like billy no mates!
And these are the same 2@s who tell us that if we have ‘nothing to hide, then we have nothing to fear’ as they dismantle all our inherant freedoms, establish DNA databases and spy on our every move.
What are you hiding, Mr and Mrs Balls?
Furthermore, they are the same 2@s who put out threatening TV ads telling us they will crush our cars, put us in jail if we don’t pay the TV Licence/Council Tax and that we will be prosecuted if we commit benefit fraud.
Let’s see some serious prosecutions against these fraudsters – or would the CPS decide on our behalf that it would not be in the public interest.
No, they would simply say “insufficient evidence”. Which country do you think you inhabit?
Oi, don’t get lippy with me!!
Telegraph sales have risen by around 100,000 a day=£90,000 a day xtra revenue. This will run at least 10 days=£900,000. Not bad for an investment of £200k.
ST circulation also needs a boost so expect a few DT hints that the main feature will be laid out for your viewing delight on Sunday. Expect to see the grinning faces of:
Mr MacKay/Ms Julie Kirkbride
Mr Ed Gonads/Ms Y Cooper
Mr Keen/Mrs Keen
Mr N Winterton/Mrs A Winterton
INjunction. I don’t think so. DT would just print and be damned. Court of public opinion would not find against them.
Sales would soar further and offset any legal costs
Last nite on Sky News they said 9 more MP’s would be outed today.
2 hours later only 4 were named.
Injunctions?
If you’ve done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear.
Little Lord Fondlebum seems a bit quiet lately.
He’s busy searching out goose-fat since the announcement that there’s a shortage of KY Jelly.
I hope that Ed Balls gets what’s coming to him. By that I mean a sacking. A SACKING!
Everyone knows Eds had his fingers in my second home…..
So have I! By the way what are you doing tonight?
Did I say that I do not want to be Prime Minister?
The saddest part of all this is that the day after the next General Election we are not likely to see the headline “It was the Telly what done it”.
Bloody hell! You go out for a few hours and there’s 5 stories and 1000 posts on here!
Thanks for clearing up the lack of injunction Guido -I was looking everywhere for any evidence yesterday but there was none, even in the foreign press and Wikileaks who could have been given the nod due to the lack of jurisdiction over them.
If today’s revelations were enough for sackings, I wonder what the next few days might bring? **rubs hands**
O/T but there’s a hoons’ gallery lined up at the Labour conference now, would the collective noun ‘a cabinet of hoons’ work?
If there is an injunction, which would be no surprise, let’s hope the Labourgraph breaks the terms of it. Public interest and all that.
Read the quote of the day. Was our Dave in on putting Davis as the 8th image on the DT front the other day. A lesson in how to get rid of a maverick. I see tory prints all over the way the DT have timed and released these stories. They know they are going to take a hit, but the grandees – gone. Davis -gone. Plenty of candidate places for new talent. Our Dave taking the chance to clear out the stables. He didn’t sacrifice his advisor, he didn’t have to, but I bet he would. You have to be wonder of someone who always gets the timing right, maybe he’s being given the nod
I sincerely hope so.
According to the Telegraph, a leading Criminal Lawyer has said that MPs could fall foul of both the Theft Act AND the Fraud Act if they have claimed public funds under the second homes allowance for items or services which they have not purchased. MPs can only claim for “costs you have actually paid”. Well, that’s half of all MPs I suspect!
Prepare for a General Election in June, troops.
An injunction, on what grounds. The courts have already deemed these details to be published. If they have attempted to overturn that, and they fail, they are fucking toast.
If the public think they tried to cover it up, their ruined. If they do manage to cover whatever up, it will dog them forever.
Their only way out is to ride it out, on the basis everyone did it.
I can only see an injunction being granted if releasing details of their financial affairs interferes with another investigation
There are comments on several blogs that balls-cooper have taken out an injunction against the Telegraph – is there any way of checking the truth of that???
Brown is in a sewer of his own making – he should have sacked Jacqui Smith a couple of months ago and McNulty a few months ago. See Brown is making an electioneering speech for the Euro elections – shut up Brown – no-one is listening!!!!!!
Well, 3 options really:
1. They have taken out an injunction
2. They didn’t claim for anything even remotely dodgy so there was nothing for the Telegraph worth publishing
3. Their finances are so amazingly corrupt they will make a fantastic story, and the Telegraph is saving the best till last.
Although to be honest, I find option 2 pretty hard to believe.
If balls and cooper are clean, ill shit meself with woe!
If balls and cooper are clean, I’m the one eyed, slack jawed, smiling, jock, hoon, buggering up the Hoonry
You’re making me horny.
Am i missing something here, what grounds would they have to gain an injunction?
‘ I’m a very important person and so is my wife, far more important to the country than even I think, and that’s a lot, I’m also a thief and embezzler, could I have an injunction please your honour?’
Option 3 in my view!
If balls and cooper are clean ill shit meself with woe!
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Weren’t they pulled up for something similar to Mackay a year or two ago?
You can bet (and all the little piggies are like this) what gets taken away with one hand they’ll grab twice as much with the other.
Don’t forget just because they look low in the rankings you’re looking at half of the picture.
I want to make it clear to you Guido and your great unwashed readership that I have the utmost confidence in super Ministers Mr and Mrs Ed Balls
until
they lose their jobs, when all bets are off. Naturally.
In these stringent times I am prepar AND their ‘usual’ expenses .
Which is very generous of me.
God, I am drunker than I thought.
You are not allowed to discuss my affairs.
I know better than you and I’m entitled to the money and I’m not giving it back and I’ll slap an injunction on anyone who says I should.
We are the ruling class and we know where you live so watch out.
Y Copper-Balls
Stand by for an interesting Sunday… and an interesting Monday too!
Somebody in the bunker better order some more phones and LaserJets because McTwat’s going to need them because he’s chewed his nails down to the quicks.
what will balls do when he’s exposed as a cheat? unlike the Scotish Raj who have done so much damage to England, Balls was born and privately educated in here, the treacherous Hoon. When they all go back to the land of cross dressing to set up the Democratic Republic of Scotch Socialist (DROSS). Balls will be out in the cold, and blue Balls is a situation that only a wanker can resolve
It’s going to be interesting since Cameron has obviously sacked Mackay for double claiming expenses with his MP wife. If Balls and Cooper have been gorging at the same trough then Brown will have to be seen to be just as tough, losing him his favourite boy and his favourite boy’s wife. Since the Daily Telegraph’s information goes back before the perky pair were last investigated, there’s bound to be plenty dirt to come out.
Didn’t get my Telegraph this morning – it had SOLD OUT!
Yup, I could get a Telegraph, either. There’s obviously a sudden demand for this REAL news that wasn’t there before (previous MSM diet of ‘celebrity marriage breakdowns’ has finally failed to stimulate readers). Now all they want to read about is troughery, snorting and trousering at their expense.
Print the article and then censor the thing with a great big bloody black marker or empty space – fitting for a Labour democracy like this-hell, we aren’t as bad as other countries?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/3157883/Ed-Balls-and-Yvette-Cooper-cleared-of-fiddling-expenses.html.
This is some funny stuff. The above link is the daily telegraph’s article from the 8th of october 2008 about party expense’s involving ed balls and yvette cooper. If they had been fiddling all along they are going to be in a world of shit now. Naughty labour party.
Come the excreta hitting the whirling blades, do you think Mr and Mrs Balls might have the surname to sell their story to the press highest bidder?
Despite the claims of Toerag trolls on here, it appears the the Balls are clean!
McKay and Kirkbride though are clearly a pair of thieving manipulative fuckin scumbags
From Daily Telegraph
“Miss Kirkbride received £1,392 from the taxpayer to pay for Mr MacKay’s travel costs, while he claimed £408 on her behalf.
The couple are the only husband and wife couple to take advantage of the perk. Fellow Tories Sir Nicholas and Ann Winterton did not use it, and neither did Labour’s Alan and Ann Keen, or the Cabinet spouses, Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper. “
Look at them full off Crabs even walk sideways
BENEFIT SCROUNGERS: WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND WHERE YOU LIVE. AND WE’RE CLOSING IN ON YOU…..
Unfortunately not quite the type of ’suspension’ I’d been hoping for.
(Bet someone’s already done that pun by now, though).
I’m sure it is all above board and that all innocent people run to court for injunctions (if it is true of course)….no wait a minute…..they don’t do they?
always a first time I suppose, I suppose it is all part of the Balls for PM operation for when Brown disintegrates
Hey Ed, don’t worry about going to prison for a while – you can rely on old JP to keep Yvette filled-in and happy.
Bless you my son!
Cheers God – I’ll keep Yvette filled-in while old Ed’s away awaiting Her Majesty’s pleasure and the blessing always helps – makes me a sort of “By Appointment bringer of pleasure to desperate Labour women who need a good shag” doesn’t it!
And I’ll make sure that she goes on getting all your essential allowances and expenses Ed. My fee will be obscene, but it is not negotiable and (for another fee) I’ll see that Yvette can reclaim it as an “essential expense”. I’m good you know – I’ll even make sure that Yvette is able to claim for the pies that Prezzer eats before, after and (possibly during!) his servicing of Yvette
Did someone mention pies?