May 18th, 2009

+++ Source : LibDems “Uneasy” Over Rennard Expenses +++

Shhh, Don't Tell Anyone We're in StockwellThe Federal Executive of the LibDems is meeting at 5.30 tonight.  Guido hears there are mutterings about the party chief-exec Chris Rennard’s expenses situation (he is a non-voting member of the executive).  He pretends his main residence is in Eastbourne and thus claims for “second home” expenses in London.  He also signs into the attendance register at the Lords on his way to do his day job at the LibDem HQ office in Cowley Street.  Handy extra dosh to pay for all those summer parties he and Lady Rennard throw in their Stockwell home just over the other side of the Thames.

Wonder if they will just ask him not to throw any more parties?

UPDATE : Liberal Vision’s Mark Littlewood is reporting that LibDem Voice’s Alix Mortimer has written to members of the Fed Exec calling for a resolution of the Rennard problem.  The grassroots is calling for him to be brought to book: privately behind closed doors and under point 5 (subsections [a] to [b]) of her blog post. Insurrection is in the air…


508 Comments

  1. 1
    Dack Blog says:

    Corrupt politician shocker!

  2. 2
    Dicky Hearing says:

    Louder Please.

    Taxi anyone?

  3. 3
    Andy Carpark says:

    Caption: Can you hear me, mother?

  4. 4
    The baronessleaze says:

    Today’s supporter of the Speaker, Michael Martin is Stuart Bell MP for Middlesbrough – his Wikipedia entry reads:

    “Controversially Bell is one of the few MP’s in the country not to hold a weekly surgery for his constituents. This has lead to the nickname “the invisible man” being given to him by the people he is paid to represent.”

    The more we hear about these MPs the more unbelievable it becomes….. who are the other MPs who do not hold surgeries???

    • 19
      jgm2 says:

      Never a better example of the saying ‘you get the politicians you deserve’. If his constituents are prepared to vote for an arrogant fucker like that then they truly do deserve him.

    • 31
      Andy Carpark says:

      The last time Stuart Bell featured on the radar was when he was sent in to bat for the families in the Cleveland child abuse scandal.

      The judge who led the subsequent enquiry fingered him for a bit of a hoon.

    • 32
      It's all Balls says:

      Bell is from the ‘nothing must change and fuck the electorate’ school of MPs

    • 38

      Baroness, the Speaker post is below, do you understand how to stick to the topic? Am going to start deleting people who go off topic stupidly when the topic is on the same page.

      • 46
        Master Baiter says:

        GuidOaf Orcs,

        Temper, temper

        Now exhale, slowly, let it all go.

        There, that’s better isn’t it?

        Just forget about the Telegraph, it’s not important.

      • 49
        Doctor Mick says:

        Order…ORDER!!!!!!!

      • 70
        Dack Blog says:

        Or… or… or… or…

      • 111

        Quite – its bad enough having to trawl through the usual 1,350 comments without being put off the scent in this manner. It really is appalling.

    • 72
      Jack Daw says:

      How’s this for a laugh. The Indy had some tax expert or whatever to comment the other day on John Selwyn “Apostate” Gummer’s molecatching and other fake expenses and self-receipted overheads.

      Said expert opined that if Gummer held surgeries or meetings in his rural retreat then it might qualify for expenses.

      There is as much chance of anyone attending a surgery at Gummer Towers as getting Martin to go quietly. The Oiks i.e. the poor bloody constituents of Suffolk Coastal are more likely to be shot on sight by the keepers.

      Gum-Gum does hold the odd surgery when the mood takes him in Southwold. It’s less a surgery than a form of obeisance, where you have to tell him how wonderful he is and hand over the tribute of moleskin weskits.

    • 83
      Groucho says:

      Its a staunch Labour area. They would vote for a chimpanzee if you stuck a red rosette on it.

      Its the same in my constituency, Durham North. Kevan Jones is an utter waste of space. He has been one of the loudest voices calling for MPs expenses to be kept secret. (Hmm, I wonder when the Telegraph will get around to publishing his expense claims…)

      If he gets in with a big majority next time around, then the Labour voting people of Durham North truly are witless.

      • 123
        Mr Ned says:

        The labour MP’s could be eating babies alive and then buggering the corpses on live television and people in the North East would STILL vote labour.

        They do not understand that when they vote that there is a connection between that and the totally incompetent, thieving, lying bastards that end up in Parliament ripping off the people who voted for them.

        If the destruction of our Education system, or law and order or committing war crimes, or the destruction of the economy landing us woth a TRILLION pound bill will not wake them up, then clearly a few grand per MP expenses scandal certainly will not.

        It terms of scale, it is fairly small, BUT coming on top of the cumulative accumulation of all the previous years massive cock-ups, this has become the straw that broke the camel’s back.

        We need them all voted out!

      • 333
        Moley says:

        On a point of order.

        Wouldn’t you have to bugger the corpse BEFORE you ate it?

      • 371
        Hugh Janus says:

        Same here in Wales. My neighbors tell me they vote Labour because it’s one of the poorest areas in Britain. Doesn’t seem to occur to them that generations of local labour rule, labour MPs, Labour MEPs and now well over a decade of Labour government has left them as piss poor as they ever were…

    • 113
      Pienomics says:

      What was this non-entity knighted for? Services to brown-nosing!

  5. 5
    Anonymous says:

    It should also make them uneasy that those ‘lavish’ parties for staff in his Stockwell home were paid for by the party. He put them on his internal expenses… the big hearted philanthropist…

  6. 8
    Stephen says:

    Second homes? sign-in and go? Perfect training for him to become a Euro-trougher should he encounter any local difficulty. I’ll have to ask St Vincent of Twickenham (my MP) what his view is on this Glib Dem activity.

  7. 9
    Chris says:

    No 10 signature petition is being controlled and not going over 60,000 mark.

    • 14
      The Mother of Parliaments is fucked and needs to be unfucked says:

      I think it has been controlled form day 1, I have noticed that some names just get deleted!

      • 469
        The Red Wag says:

        I’ve been monitoring the petition for a couple of weeks and in that time there have been over 130 deletions, mostly people like Her Majesty The Queen (x5), Gordon Brown (x6), and several each of Adolf Hitler, Tony Blair, Alistair Darling, Ed Balls, Hazel Blears, Harriet Harmon, Sarah Brown etc. And more than 10,000 additions.

        There are maybe a dozen or so deleted signatures (can’t quite be bothered to identify and count them right now) that could be genuine but they have additional text, which the petitions site explicitly says might cause them to be removed and so (I hate to say it) fair enough.

        If somebody has genuinely signed the petition (and followed the rules) the signatures do seem to “stick”, but I can only check signatures that have made it onto the published list.

        If a reasonable number of people go back at a later time (preferably from a different location) and check that their signature is still on the full list then that would confirm that the signatures are not accidentally failing to make it on to the list.

    • 16
      Anonymous says:

      Proof please.

    • 65
      Anonymous says:

      Been thinking the same thing, lying and corruption are second nature from the top to the bottom of this slimy bunch, so doctoring the petition is small fry to them.

    • 466
      Anonymous says:

      it went past 60,000 between 18:35 and 19:05

  8. 10
    Grimley Fiendish says:

    Nobody does sanctimony like the LibDems…

  9. 12
    Magic_2010 says:

    Gorbals Mick has put his two fingers up at the country today.

    So now exercise what little people power you have until the elections and tell his tribal chief who thinks he’s doing a a very, very good job to jog on.

    http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/please-go/

    Currently at 59,873. Six figures is do-able.

  10. 13
    Dogger says:

    Today should mark the point when the patience of anyone saintly enough to still be holding any should snap.

    Today we are given the message that the Unspeakable will continue to rub our faces in the uneatable. Martin is more than well aware of what is the decent thing that he should do, well aware of public outrage and the pace with which it still grows, hardly oblivious of the exteme skepticism, at best, with which many MPs views his personality and skill-set.

    But, get this, we are being asked “Who the fuck are you?”. MPs are being told “Yeah I know what you want – go suck”.

    Of course, if the MPs really, to a man, wanted him out, they could easily have created merry hell in the Commons. Have sixty MPs ever been suspended from the house by the Speaker in one sitting? How would that look?

    In truth, of course, only a minority of MPs really want him out, the rest understand that the most desirable outcome is that Gorbals Mick continues to oblige with the mutha of all distractions from their own sorry arses. And he does.

    They are all playing a dangerous game, now.

    • 21
      The big D says:

      Hear hear. At the moment, the greatest fear MPs have is that the trough will be snatched away from them. By sitting on their hands and shouting la la la they think the problem will go away.

    • 44
      G says:

      Hear hear

  11. 15
    Anonymous says:

    Good photo of a flying pig, Guido.

  12. 17
    M.T.BUCKET says:

    Is it just me or is it my imagination, there now seems to be a concerted effort from certain honerable gentlemen to incite civil unrest.

  13. 18
    Oh G A W D - not the LibDems tooooo?! says:

    Giv’em the cold steel!!

    They don’t . . . . etc etc

  14. 20
    SlimSlow says:

    I’m guessing his expenses go towards pies, chips and lard.

  15. 22
    Anonymous says:

    These fat bastards are just rubbing our noses in it. They have to go!

  16. 24
    Lydia Dustbin says:

    I have followed the link to the “Federal Executive”.

    I had no idea that there was such a thing as the “Federal Party” – antonym: unitary – I don’t think so!

  17. 25

    Isn’t that Steve Pemberton?

  18. 26
    anonemo says:

    The mans a fox, what do you expect.

    O/T

    The last paragraph in this article in the times.

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6313482.ece

    “As they mulled over the extraordinary events, MPs of all parties later voiced anger at Mr Martin’s request to them not to submit expense claims for the time being. Some were complaining that they would be seriously out of pocket and said the Speaker risked what remaining support he had.”

    The poor dears, I feel so sorry for them (not), maybe they can get tick in the subsidised bars and eateries.

    • 61
      Phil says:

      I have noticed that they seem to live pretty close to the bone. Letters pleading poverty all the time. It shows that if they are all suddenly kicked out there could be problems for many who are living beyond their means. I look forward to seeing some of them bankrupted.

    • 259
      Animal Farm - Nulab my arse says:

      Better get used to it. It’s cold out here in the real world and lots of Labour types will be out on their ‘ear soon.

  19. 28
    It's all Balls says:

    It’s a sad reflection on our political rulers that a blog entry which would have had the keys flying off the keyboards and old maids fainting is met with a sort of

    “so what”

    They really are the pits.

    Dissolve Parliament now and deselect all the troughers.

  20. 29
    It does not add up... says:

    The sly fox is trying to slip away amidst the hubbub. The Limpdumbs are showing they did learn something from the Jo Moore school of PR.

  21. 33
    Several should be in jail by now says:

    I know it’s not a caption competition but just look at that pose then click here and make sure you’ve got the sound nice and high It matters not, Lords and Commons, all in it up to their necks.

  22. 34
    Sunonmars says:

    Brown making emergency address to Labour Parliamentary party at the HOC in 30 mins, sounds serious. Completely unscheduled.

    With any luck its a cave in with Brown saying he is calling an election. No such bloody luck, more like Hitler’s last bunker stand.

    • 47
      Anonymous says:

      “Go back to your constituencies and prepare your expenses claims.”

    • 129
      Boris says:

      Emergency statement of Dirty Trick Brown to the Parliamentary Labour Party

      “Comrades, I have been informed by the Police that they are moving in. We have been found out comrades. We are now changing our name (like the Communist Party of Great Britain did) from the Labour Party to the Mock Tudor Party. That will fox them (and our electorate but we don’t really have an electorate left apart from all thos postal votes do we). So cheero comrades… I am off to play tennis on Lord Levy’s tennis court with Tony Blair while all this rumpus dies down. And, by the way, that criminal defamer McBride is back working for me so we will have some more smears coming out soon to protect the Titanic”

      Over

    • 183
      Harpic (cleans round the bend) says:

      He is going to introduce “An indipendant expenses agency” and “A Cap to interest payments” before the house tomorow. Note he has not consulted the other parties.
      You tube if you want to strikes again

      • 263
        Animal Farm - Nulab my arse says:

        “Peace in our times” springs to mind.

        What a retard, go to the country you coward.

      • 344
        Moley says:

        And what’s the betting he has previously agreed it with the Speaker so as to wrong foot Clegg and Cameron.

  23. 36
    tory dalek troll says:

    Can someone please dress him up as an arab and chase him through Stockwell Station?

  24. 37
    MI5 says:

    The House of Lords is SO FULL OF THIEVING TROUGHERS THAT IT MUST BE ABOLISHED…..Just add him to Udders, Thorn tits, Truscott, etc – the list of so fucking long already…

    AND THIS IS ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG…

    You cannot reform something that is this rotten…

    We are obliged to reform the Commons cos we need some semlance of Democracy..

    BUT NOT A CORRUPT USELESS SECOND CHAMBER

    • 92
      trimalchio says:

      I think this must be next – an investigation into the Lords. The Funday Times massively restored its reputation by its expose of corrupt peers. This (actually more serious issue) has been blown out by the snuffling commons but we need to revisit the ‘other place’ and soon.

      As a Lib Dem member, I get sent all sorts of emails by Milord Rennard. Next time, I am going to be sending a reply…

      Oh and Euro MPs as well, please!

  25. 48
    INSPEQKTOR MOLE says:

    *

    STOQKWELL

    STOQKWELL
    HERNE HILL
    EXIT JEAN CHARLES DE JUMPING DGJIMINEZ

    WOT*S IT ALL ABOUT

    HAO MANY BULLETS DID THE COPPER IN FEAR OF LIFE
    PUMP INTU THAT SUKKERS* HEAD

  26. 50
    MK says:

    It can’t be long now before we start getting Labour defections.

  27. 52
    Doctor Mick says:

    That’s Rennard doing his famous party piece – a Tommy Cooper impersonation.

    “I’ve made six pies disappear… JUSS LIKE THAT!

  28. 54
    Alix says:

    ” privately behind closed doors.”

    Oh, that’s just arrant bollocks, Guido, and you can take it back at once!

    Look at the top of my blog for an entire bloody post about how getting the Rennard thing into the light and sorted out is absolutely critical. I’ve said much the same on LDV in the public area and so have a number of others.

    By all means, pile the pressure on the party – I’m one of many not stopping you. But you can stop with the nasty inferences that I’m doing anything “behind closed doors” thank you very much.

  29. 58
    Anonymous says:

    I hope the Telegraph release new revelations every day up to the Euro elections just to keep the anger going. The MPs have earned it.

    • 81
      MI5 says:

      Until the Speaker resigns, the Police move in and the Government falls of its own putrid weight I hope…

  30. 60
    Dave says:

    Can we have a league table of members of the commons who have made unreceipted claims? Published by annual value of claim it should provide interesting reading.

    • 191
      nell says:

      Just an annual league table of MP’s and Lords’ claims would be good. People like Rennard and Uddin (please don’t forget the illustrious Baroness) are going to be at the top of the table for the Lords – the list for MP’s will be much longer -

      When’s the ebook on this historic mess due out Guido?

  31. 66
    Pickles says:

    He makes Eric Pickles look quite svelte.

  32. 68
    The Admiral says:

    OK you got me.

    O/T

    Sorry. Thought you’d missed it……

  33. 69
    Anonymous says:

    Conservative petition form calling for Brown to hold an immeadiate General Election:

    http://www.conservatives.com/Campaigns/Sign_for_Change/Petition_Item.aspx

  34. 76
    Expat says:

    French TV channel TFI broadcasting Speaker’s statement

    Their correspondent in London speaking of “constitutional crisis” and “discredited Parliament and Government in Great Britain”

    For you information…

  35. 77
    Bhoonagree says:

    How do these fat Hoons get so fat?
    We all know that they are Pigs but fucking hell.
    Lets see if any of the fuckers have claimed for lard on expenses

  36. 78
    Berntley Boy says:

    WOT*S THE SCORE SO FAR

    DO MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF HYPOPLECTIC VOTERS WANT

    A REST

    • 85
      Typo Tally says:

      BENTLY BOY
      AND THE OLDBOREYTORY RUMP STUMP AND HARF A PINT OF LUKEWARM DD
      PARTY REMAINS COLON
      WELL AND TRULY STUQK IN ACCELERATED TERMINAL COUNTERPRODUCTIVE NEWBENTLYTURBOVISION2012 MODE

      THE SLOANE SQWARE PETITIONERS

  37. 84
    Criminal lawyer says:

    Interesting that the Speaker has asked MPs not to claim expenses for the time being

    My interpretation is that continuing paying these expenses under this sytem will only be further proof of fraud and theft

    AND THAT THE SPEAKER HAS BEEN WARNED OF THIS BY LAWYERS AND/OR THE POLICE…

    The Police are getting active now

    See statement of the Commissioner of the Met this morning in DT…

    • 89
      MI5 says:

      Yes

      and of PERVERSION OF THE COURSE OF JUSTICE SINCE IT IS NOW COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT FRAUD AND THEFT HAVE BEEN TAKING PLACE IN THE COMMONS (AND LORDS) FOR YEARS NOW…

      ANYONE CONTINUING THIS CRIMINAL ACTION IS LIABLE FOR PERVERSION OF THE COURSE OF JUSTICE SINCE CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN FILED BY THE DOZEN….!!

      We will get there my friends…

    • 127

      Nah, now the DT has the disc, they probably have a backlog of claims to make up for the ones they asked to be refunded.

  38. 87
    Anonymous says:

    MPs have let us down today, yesterday the day before………

    Can anyone remember when any MP did anything useful for the public except by dying in the job?

  39. 88
    MI5 says:

    Will anyone with knowledge of them please expose on this blog any INJUNCTIONS granted recently to members of this Labour Criminal Conspiracy…

    With names if possible..

    Are there still gag orders being applied ??

    Our democracy has broken down my friends…

  40. 90
    For The Time Being says:

    TIME IS KNOT ON ANYONES* SIDE,
    IT AWLWAYS RUNS OWT
    INDyEND

    SO TAYKE YOUR TIME
    AND USE IT WELL,
    AND REMEMBER THAT TIME
    IS
    KNOT
    YOUR
    FRIEND

    • 95
      There's Dark Barons, Fat Barons, Gay Barons no Straight Barons Though! says:

      That’s a notty one!

  41. 91
    Good Lord - They're all at it says:

    Here’s a funny story if you have time.

    Before the advent of blogging and when I believed Parliament was fairly straight, I wrote to my MP to complain about a certain criminal Peer being allowed to stay in the House of Lords and the fact that we the taxpayer were paying his salary.

    Rather than just reply to me, the MP attached a letter which was intended for him, from Black Rod which said that he, (the MP) should disabuse his constituent of the notion that Peers received any salary, they gave their time freely for the greater good. Furthermore, there were no powers in place to remove a Peer just because he had a criminal conviction!

    I now find that in fact they don’t need a salary when they are ripping us all off in the 10s of thousands of pounds.

    It really is a nice cosy club, the Speaker looks after himself and his flock whilst Black Rod does the same for the lovely Lords, then Mr John Lyon, paid for by us but given the job by the MPs, makes sure he pretends to uphold the ‘Standards’ of parliament whilst actually doing nothing for his very nice salary of £108,000 a year plus perks and scams!

    At least we know what the ’standards’ are now, pretty damn low!

    • 100
      Angry Citizen says:

      So low that they have not just disgraced Parliament but dicredited British democracy

      Sorry of someone has said this but it is bloody serious after all these centuries…

      • 112
        Angry Citizen says:

        can’t we hire the BOUNCERS from CLARIDGE’S TO GET SPEAKER GORBALS OUT OF THE WAY..?

        They did a good job last night clearing up some mess it seems (Daily Mail article)

    • 356
      Moley says:

      What really sticks in my throat is Parliament imposing taxation, (Stamp Duty) on the plebs and then making sure that they never incur it themselves because they claim it back.

      We must force the bastards to live in the world they have created.

  42. 98
    Vote Vote Vote for Jacqui says:

    It was so comforting to see Jackboot Jacqui smiling,even laughing and mincing through Home Office Question time before Gorballs Mick took centre stage at 3.30pm.
    All her troubles behind her now? I pray to God they are not and she is to be the first fraudster arrested and interviewd by HER Police Service.
    Has she met Delboy Trotter lately,who also lives in Peckham,just down the road from her main residence in her sisters spare bedroom?
    A right pair of chancers,Jackboot & Delboy.

    • 102
      Angry Citizen says:

      I the Speaker still in the Chair?

    • 128
      Sunonmars says:

      Oh jackboots is just grabbing as much as she can, she knows she is out on her ass as soon as the GE comes.

  43. 99
    I don't get politics says:

    Why is Nick Clegg being such an arse and attacking Cameron? Surely, he should be trying to kick out ZaNu? Or does he think he can scrape a couple of extra votes if this drags on?

    • 104
      Sunonmars says:

      He’s trying to look like “I’m not like the other two” but really he is just an arse.

      He should back the call for a GE but i suspect he knows he’ll lose seats.

    • 189
      Moley says:

      He hopes to use this crisis to get proportional representation.

      I wouldn’t mind so much but for the fact that the LIb Dems, The Guardian and the BBC are an unholy alliance.

      They are the problem, not the solution.

      • 220
        Moley says:

        I forgot to mention, the Party whose name we dare not mention, (which begins with a B), would also very much like proportional representation.

        Do not let fascists get a foot in the door! It will be the beginning of the end.

        Remind Lib Dems of this at every opportunity.

      • 385
        Hugh Janus says:

        anyone who disagrees with a liberal is a fascist

  44. 103

    Did someone mention a free buffet?

    • 139
      youdontknowwhoiam says:

      Mr Tony, I still have a photo of you with a pint of Speckled Hen in one hand, and dressed in the St. Georges flag which was concealing quite a substantial girth, so I’d be careful what you say old son.

  45. 108
    KNOQK KNOQK KNOQK says:

    *
    *
    *

    ENTER BLAQK ROD STEWPOT WITH TOAD IN TOW

    HEAR YE
    HERE YE

    THE RIGHT DISREPUTABLE AND DISINFORMED
    NON~ELECTED NON~MEMBER
    FOR SOMESAFESEAT IN LOQKSLEY SQWARE
    CLOSE TO THE HEART OF ENGLAND

    Uproar In The House

  46. 110
    Sunonmars says:

    Oh that annoying Fraser Nelson on Sky, why does he sound like he’s always talking through a mouthful of vomit

  47. 114
    It does not add up... says:

    59,992

  48. 118
    Pienomics says:

    Why aren’t the Telegraph printing Gorbals Mick’s expenses? He’s had his nose in the trough for years. Go for it Guido.

  49. 119
    Ton of bricks says:

    ?

  50. 122
    Anonymous says:

    He is a fat fucking pig! :(

    http://nickcleggneilkinnock.blogspot.com/2009/05/lord-rennard-on-his-trotters.html

    This pictue sums him up well! :lol:

  51. 124
    Beautiful Day says:

    Country in recession, increasing unemployment, public losing faith in politicians, the most momentous day in parliament in our lifetime, and my New Labour MP comes on local TV to talk about the problems of . . . . wait for it . . . . fake Viagra.

    “You couldn’t make it up” doesn’t seem adequate any more.

    • 154
      Anonymous says:

      If he is a career politician what else will he do? The big issues are now decided by the EU and he isn’t going to campaign for anything that is off message with his party. So why not make a song and dance about fake viagra as if you are doing something? This may be an opportunity to ban something else, Pfizer won’t object.

      • 490
        Doctor Mick says:

        You can tell if it ain’t kosher viagara as it gives you fake orgasms.

    • 192
      Moley says:

      It rather suggests that he was caught out by fake viagra in a moment of need.

      Sex and eating are the only priorities for a lot of MPs.

      • 244
        Rennard Lover says:

        It depens what you mean by ‘fake’ viagra – a placebo is all that’s needed in some cases.

      • 392
        Anonymous says:

        my missus wanted to eat her placebo post sprog

    • 305
      It started in Kirkcaldy says:

      You couldn’t get it up?

  52. 133
  53. 134
    Spin Doctor says:

    What the friggin’ hell was McGobShite doing at the launch of England’s bid to hold the World Cup?

  54. 136
    Nick says:

    That picture is proof indeed that £100 a week for food is way excessive for one person!! Meanwhile the politicans have ensured that our WW2 veterans have had to survive on slim pickings. They get £90 a week pension, which is supposed to pay bills, heating and food as well as everything else.

    SO ONE QUESTION…… HOW COME THESE POLITICIANS DECIDED THEY NEED £100 A WEEK FOR FOOD ON TOP OF THEIR £64,000 WAGES BUT OUR VETERANS WHO WERE PRISONER OF THE JAPANESE, STORMED THE D-DAY BEACHES ETC HAVE TO BUDGET FOR ABOUT £25 A WEEK ON FOOD!!!!?????

    http://www.theunknownwarriors.co.uk

  55. 137
    Commissioner of the Met says:

    Good evening fellow citizens
    Daily update
    I said publicly what I have been telling you privately here for some time now.We are moving in on the frauds and thieves in the House of Commons (we are also looking at several criminal complaints against Peers)
    So I hope I remain credible with you
    The only point I warn you about, fellow citizens, is the problem with the CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE. They are trying to DELAY PROGRESS in arresting obvious thieves. This is serious and I may have to go above their heads to the Courts to gain permission. This is allowed under English Law.
    But Please keep sending in all thos criminal comlaints.
    It is really helping us all.
    Boris and I send you our best wishes
    Your honourable Commissioner

    • 258
      Enough of being robbed blind by the "Westminster Boys" - the new Essex Boys says:

      Can you arrest that Mr John Lyon bloke, who is supposed to uphold “Parliamentary Standards”
      who is payed by us ( over 100K for 4 day week ) but employed by and answerable to….surprise, surprise the MPs my, my, what a really cosy little private members club Westminster is!

    • 325
      Stephen says:

      Ah, if only it were true that the Met were really looking at the troughing miscreant pigs. I suspect that kind of activity would be seriously risking the ascent of the greasy pole for officers of certain ranks?

  56. 138
    It does not add up... says:

    Another millestone

    60,046

    • 140
      Anonymous says:

      Only another 1,040,000……ish then.

      • 158
        Anonymous says:

        FFS, I’m having a MP moment by overestimating the amount required. I do of course mean 960,000 ish.

      • 160
        Anonymous says:

        Er…….940,000 ish. I give up. Back to the single malt.

    • 188
      Dear Abby says:

      It will be interesting to see if the Tories release figures on how their petition is going re numbers – maybe they have inside info that the scots Mcfuckwit is fiddling the numers

  57. 141
    genghiz the kahn says:

    C4 have a where’s Gordon monment.

    Snow chasing McTwat for an interview.

  58. 143
    Anonymous says:

    POLLY TOYNBEE SAYING THAT SPEAKER HASN’T DONE ENOUGH !!

    Wonders will never cease !!

    • 148
      Polly's dildo says:

      I’ve taken it out…you see……

      Tuscan Tony will be happy…

      • 153
        Boris says:

        Put it back in Polly

        You will think better…

      • 161
        Boris says:

        Dont be rude about Pilly Polly

        She is the Michael Foot of British politics

        Any thing she supports collapses instantly..

        She really should be in Madame Tussaud’s you know…

      • 184

        I’ll arrange for Paolo the Peasant to take a look at it; he’ll probably be able to squeeze a couple more horsepower out of the thing for you.

    • 150
      MI5 says:

      She is boring this woman…

      Always about 3 weeks behind the news…

      And 25 years behind in her ideology…

      Do grow up Polly…we are not in the kindergarten anymore !

    • 162
      Anonymous says:

      He’s done too fucking much.

  59. 146
    Expat says:

    Any statement by Brown, Mandelson? Prezza ?

    News on the PLP meeting please…?

    • 170
      nell says:

      Haven’t they gone into hiding – hoping that if they stay out of sight the Met won’t examine their expense claims too carefully?

  60. 155
    snark says:

    So what exactly is he, a fox or a pig?

  61. 157
    Esther Rantzen says:

    Haaaaaaaaaaaaalo everybody

    Have you heard the BIG NEWS

    I’m sooooooo important

    I’m standing at the next Election against SIR Gerald Kaufman…

    Jolly good show don’t you think…

    I can then be Life Baroness you seeeeeeeee

    • 163
      Anonymous says:

      Here, have a carrot.

    • 166
      Boris says:

      When the House of Lords is abolished I suppose…

    • 185

      How’s Normski?

      • 208
        Rick the Roman says:

        It may have been mentioned already but the BBC have announced that Ester Rantzen is considering standing as an independent against Margaret Moron in Luton South!!! Apparently she is in talks with Martin Bell about how to do so!!

      • 213
        Papasmurf says:

        Martin Bell could set up a small but profitiable business in given lectures to prospective Independent Candidates.

        Why should Esther get all the “in’s” on the information? Privelidge just keeps on getting circulated around the same old people.

      • 492
        Doctor Mick says:

        But won’t her bum look big in a white suit?

    • 437
      Blooper says:

      Esther, you’re a vodka sozzled old midgetess

    • 445
      Airey Belvoir says:

      Esther certainly understands how patronage works- that’s how she operated in her ‘That’s Life’ period, when her husband Des Wilcox was also her direct superior at the Beeb, much to her advantage.

      • 484
        Susie says:

        And about a decade before that. BBC casting couch must be very worn, high time for another on the license payer.

  62. 164
    Devonport Dave says:

    UKIP gloating about the reputations of the main parties that are going to get them plenty of support from disgruntled voters sick of sleaze,dodgy dealings and association with shady characters have today announced backing from…….David Sullivan,there’s squeeky clean for you.

    http://www.ukip.org/content/latest-news/1048-millionaire-businessman-backs-ukip

    • 404
      Dr Feelgood says:

      Looking at the polls tonight, a lot of people have fallen for the UKIP fiction that they are a clean alternative.

      Labour may come a close second to Tories because of this in the Euro elections – and will give him belief that he has mandate to carry on.

      Brown and and the left must be pissing themselves laughing at how easily the conservative opposition has been split.

  63. 165
    Expat (France) says:

    Hi Guido

    I would like to know please…

    Did you ever expect the political scene in Britain to become this surreal when you started your blog ?

    And to have been one of the prime movers in collapsing the stack of rotten cards ??

    Please answer sometime…

    Best wishes and thanks for all you have done…

  64. 167
    nell says:

    Well so much for MP’s serving the country. Michael Martin made it quite clear this afternoon that he is only serving his own interests. Never mind the good of Parliament which is crumbling before our eyes, he’s going to hang on by his fingernails in this disintegrating house for as long as he can, leaching the system for every penny he can get out it. And I’ll bet Chris Rennard is taking a similar stance in the Lib Dem Executive meeting tonight.

    These men have no integrity and no honour. But more importantly they have made Westminster a laughing stock around the globe. Italy thinks we are even more corrupt than they are with our very own “Village of Westminster Mafia”

    • 176
      Give me 650 Lamp Posts and some piano wire and I can fix Democracy says:

      Interesting that most of those defending were jocks or the Sottish mafia as reported on Sky.

      • 179
        Anonymous says:

        No not interesting, entirely expected.

      • 217
        nell says:

        It’s not many months ago that it was being said the “West Lothian” question was going to be a deciding factor in the next election. And yet here we are watching the “West Lothians” suffering a slow drowning death before an election has even been called.

      • 298

        I try to be even handed and comitted to the vibrant diversity that we all love so much, but I’ll tell you what I’m gettting sick to fucking death of all these scottish twats down here, bolloxing up our country.

        Is that a hate crime?

    • 241
      MI5 says:

      Nell

      Yes

      But I think it is high time for England and Scotland to part company…

      This is too much…

      • 256
        nell says:

        Yes-but what about the Act of Settlement?

      • 336
        Scots aweigh says:

        To hell with the AOS.
        Cast the Scots off give them to Nessie of the Loch and let the English rule England They couldn’t possibly be any worse than the cabal of Liebour dinosaurs that have ruined the country since 1997.

    • 290
      Give me 650 lamp posts and a roll of piano wire and I can fix democracy says:

      The jocks keep telling us English how brilliant Scotland is, so I’m sure the 2 million that live in England won’t mind pissing off back there will they?

    • 332
      Stephen says:

      Frank Fisher

      No, the sooner we get all the unelected Scottish Mafia out of England’s government the better – Home Rule for England!

  65. 169
    Canary Wharf Rat says:

    Gotta be a shit loads of support for the first opposition party that actually expels a dishonorable member or gets the hoon to resign with the exception of Sein Fein of course!

    • 178
      harry's game says:

      Yeah, we don’t want those fuckers to start robbing banks again, they’ve got enough problems paying bonuses to the in house crooks.

  66. 186
    Mr Mnar says:

    Corrupt speakers cover up attempt

    “We all bear a heavy responsibility for the terrible damage to the reputation of this House. We must do everything we possibly can to regain the trust and confidence of the people.”

    Not a chance.

    Get out of the house before we get the chance to fire you all next year.

    • 212
      Hank Ruquedempease says:

      It’s obvious what he all the rest of the scum should do to regain the trust and confidence of the people – resign.
      Fat chance.

  67. 190
    The baronessleaze says:

    The topic being….?

  68. 193
    Papasmurf says:

    O/T

    We have petitions on No 10 website.

    We have DC initiating a petition to oust McMental.

    I was wondering what type of PASSIVE demonstration we could all partake in until a General Election is called? Remember Gandhi’s march to make salt? The Orange revolution?

    It strikes me that some sort of sign eg a coloured ribbon worn on ones lapel could show solidarity with the silent majority of right thinking people that want a General Election.

    What do you all think about that?

    I expect all the funny posts but I am serious. Can one imagine the horror that these HOONS will experience if they saw every person in the land, across ALL political spectrums, wearing the colour of and for a call to McDoom to call the General Election.

    I suggect something YELLOW to signify his cowardice.

    • 201
      Mitch says:

      I’m for dressing as V and standing outside Parliament.

    • 206
      nell says:

      Didn’t Gandhi use white to emphasise purity? We masses could use it to wave at this very impure bunch of ‘lawmakers’

    • 236
      Max says:

      Brown badge with yellow stripe down it; obvious innit?

      • 264
        nell says:

        It has to be the Cross of St George then doesn’t it ? – as opposed to the Cross of St Andrew.

      • 277
        Papasmurf says:

        Good one Nell a red ribbon on a white background in the form of a cross.

        But what about the scots….. or does anyone care????? Irish?????? Welsh??????

        I still like something simple YELLOW for cowardice.

      • 287
        nell says:

        Don’t like brown or yellow – they’ll think we’re common and they’re superior.

        We can’t have that. How about the White Boar – the badge of the last Plantaganet (Richard III) , the last true English King. Or the Sunne in Splendour which was the badge of his brother Edward IV.

        After them came the bastard (literally) Tudors – and the last Tudor – Lizzie the first failed to secure her line and so sacrificed us to the scots – hence – eventually the Act of Settlement.

      • 372
        Moley says:

        My vote is for a pork pie couchant on a chequered tablecloth.

    • 303

      cross of st george has been corrupted by the beeennnpeeee and the bloody ukrainians or georgians or something, so I would say a Red Lion, rampant. And english lion. Woken from his slumbers, wanting his fucking country back.

      Know that lion at the end of westminster bridge? I legged it up there away from some police horses once. Some of you may remember that scrap. Got fond memories of that beast.

      oh england…

      • 314
        nell says:

        The Heraldic Lion Rampant – Yes I think that is the one!!!

      • 323
        Papasmurf says:

        So now we need to get 20,000,000 into the shops so they can get distributed.

        Any ideas?

      • 357
        Stephen says:

        Frank – don’t let the BNP nick our flag – I’m all for St George’s Cross, McMental Reid, Robertson, Gorbals and all the rest of them would really hate that.

    • 335
  69. 196
    eye-eye says:

    Martin he……shaken, not stirred

  70. 198
    nell says:

    We are watching history in the making.

    There should be two brass plaques erected (by public subscription?) – one in the entrance to the House of Lords and one in the entrance to the House of Commons.

    Each plaque should be inscribed with the names of all MP’s and Lords found to have been troughing in this year of our Lord 2009. Those who have troughed the most at the top of the list. This way even when they are out of a job they will never be forgotten. We’ll be able to take our grandchildren and great grandchildren to see the plaques and tell them how the taxpayers were defrauded of millions by these criminals masquerading as public servants.

  71. 200
    The Accountant says:

    So the truth is out -we are governed by dodgy time share salesmen who are motivated by pure greed

  72. 210
    Anonymous says:

    I see our hard working MPs are now going away for their half term holidays. Which is rather odd as they are neither teachers nor pupils.

  73. 215
    Anonymous says:

    So why the flying Fcuk is Dave so beholden to tradition? Don’t he know that traditions only come about when someone does something?

    So Do something Dave instead of pontificating and worrying about your wisteria.

    • 229
      nell says:

      The LibDems need to get rid of Rennard and Dave needs to offer up an Opposition Day in Parliament to allow Parliament to debate getting rid of this bullying, corrupt,incompetent , not fit for purpose, speaker.

  74. 218
    capital ideas says:

    can’t we have one of those poxy wristbands or a ribbon badge to demonstrate we want to get rid of Brown

    maybe we could have red and white stripes like Sweeney Tod

    • 225
      Give me 650 Lamp Posts and some piano wire and I can fix Democracy says:

      We could have a day where we all wear a particular colour to show that we want the Snot man out, a bit like the Orange revolution in Georgia I think it was?

    • 230
      Anonymous says:

      So in a nutshell. The problem with Parliament is the Scottish contingent.

      • 292
        Give me 650 lamp posts and a roll of piano wire and I can fix democracy says:

        Yep. 12 years of McLiebour and England is fucked. Totally fucked.

    • 231
      Papasmurf says:

      see 193 above

    • 235
      Canary Wharf Rat says:

      Tarten swastika’s

    • 255
      Animal Farm - Nulab my arse says:

      Let’s carry Michelin tyres and a can of petrol. Worked well in South Africa.

      • 271
        Papasmurf says:

        What happened to passive resistance??????

        tyres are too heavy to lug around…..or are you getting them off the cars that go by?

      • 293
        Give me 650 lamp posts and a roll of piano wire and I can fix democracy says:

        Yes, seeing Gorbels Mick and McTwat with a Soweto Neck-tie would be good.

      • 347
        Anonymous says:

        It’s called necklacing. Not very nice thing to do to someone and quite fatal. It’s probably better than this lot deserve though. But then thats what they seem to always get.

      • 468
        Troughminster says:

        Yeah…South Africa is a real success story…fucking idiot.

  75. 221
    Dubbya says:

    next person who says “It started in America”…..

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt

    Er… no!

    OK!

    …well, perhaps the practice of consultant lobbyists and vast expenses

    but not the debt.

  76. 222
    Bollocks to NuLabour says:

    I’m no longer able to be shocked. I will see you next in prison after I have killed one, two, or many of the wankers. I’m at a loss for this country. I’ll make it an early night before I do something bad…….

    nighty night all

  77. 227
    Cassandra King says:

    The question each and every MP needs to asked is, what have you done today to make the country you have sworn an oath to better?

    What have our MPs been doing recently, making laws, looking after our interests and calling the government to account?
    ooooh no, they have been trying to save their own miserable skins and cover their own grubby arses, right at the very time when we are on the undergoing a great depression they only have time to think about themselves!
    Of all the things they could be doing they are looking after their own interests, the best description of patriotism is the determination to put ones country first and before ones own petty and selfish interests, MPs have failed this test.

    • 239
      Beautiful Day says:

      Like I said above, mine raised the problems of fake viagra on local TV, well someones got to make a stand

      I’ll get my coat.

      • 304
        81 Year Old says:

        Yeah, I’m fucking devastated that some prick can’t get it up.

      • 408
        Anonymous says:

        you’d have thought their faithful old wrinkled retainers would help em out

  78. 237
    stereodog says:

    Since when did the expenses scandal give everyone the right to forget ordinary courtesy? Criticise Mr Rennard’s finances if you will but to call him things like a “fat lipped nasty looking ugly pig” or to criticise his house just isn’t on. It seems to me that both MP’s AND the public ought to remember the phrase “Do unto others as you would have done unto you” more often.

    • 250
      Jacqui Smith-Timney Fan Club says:

      Fat lipped nasty looking pig really suits Jacqui Smith and her second house is so small it is barely bigger than a room!

    • 252
      Animal Farm - Nulab my arse says:

      Take our money takes yer choice.

      He got off lightly with the fat lipped ugly pig bit.

      The correspondent earlier was merely relaying facts. He is nasty, ugly, he is fat lipped.

      Looks like an oxygen stealer to me and a waste of skin (there is rather a lot of that).
      Slimy toad looks like he can get under a snake with a top hat on.

    • 269
      Bollocks to NuLabour says:

      Fair play. I won’t call him a ‘Fat C unt’l I will just say that he is a greedy C Unt instead! Who the fuck are you?? Maybe a member of staff draining the taxpayer?

    • 273
      Bollocks to NuLabour says:

      “ordinary courtesy?”
      As you say, includes HONESTY. Dumm fucker, as dumm as the fuckwits elected.

    • 281
      Anonymous says:

      “Do unto others as you would have done unto you”

      So If I give him all that I can claim in expenses will he reciprocate?

      • 428
        Anonymous says:

        “Do unto others as you would have done unto you”

        That’s what your right hand is for.

    • 282
      Anonymous says:

      I can’t take his money as he has taken ours so for now I will have to be satisfied with calling him a fat Hoon.

    • 400
      The Reverend says:

      To a very large extent I agree with your plea for some degree of respect for fellow human beings. Whatever their misdemeanor, even if wilfully criminal, there is a need for some civility when the actual face to face encounter takes place. That said however, the growing resentment and anger appears founded upon indisputable evidence and it is inevitable that certain members of society will fee justified in exacting revenge for that which is viewed as stolen – particularly those being put out of homes reposessed. The problem is in finding the equilibrium between permitting a verbal slanging match like this forum to focus and dispel a steaming pressure cooker of fury, or let it fester until rioting starts – as forewarned in news articles not long ago. They say there are 7 deadly sins – 1 of which is anger. Perhaps when the human spirit is driven to such inner passion, the spirit dies and breaks and forms something new and peaceful – compassion. For until we acknowledge that every one of us if presented iwth the same temptation might well have taken advantage of the expenses available, there will be no forgiveness of the perpetrators. Therefore, perhaps if the force and emotion of disgust engenders anger within and can be prevented from physical confrontation, we might be changed without drawing swords.

      • 457
        Kind-hearted fellow says:

        Dear Rev, I reckon Denis Diderot was spot on when he said “Let us strangle the last MP with the guts of the last priest’.
        Yours, with a lead pipe, in the vestry.

  79. 238
    Anonymous says:

    So Gordon’s cunning plan to save the car industry has failed at the first hurdle.

    Silly carmakers don’t they know to read the small print when dealing with Gordon? He will always try to pull a fast one, he can’t resist it.

    • 251
      MI5 says:

      It was Mandy’s idea…

      Anything he touches turns TOXIC…

    • 283
      nobby says:

      Yeah that’s a good idea, two thousand quid off an eight thousand quid car for someone on benefits. Gorgon your a fucking genius.

  80. 242
    MI5 says:

    No Car Crash this evening yet ?

    Nurse is minding Dirty Tricks Brown I suppose…

    • 265
      M.T.BUCKET says:

      Well he is buisy doing miracles, he has this vision of turning rotten apples back to delicious firm fruit. Never been done before.

  81. 245
    Caligula says:

    when is the public lynching going to start ?

  82. 246
    Robbin B'stard says:

    Now I hear that even Estate Agents are ripping off the public with added fees for HIPS charges!
    Getting as bad as MPs!

    • 260
      Anonymous says:

      Yes HIPS the bastard brainchild of Mrs Balls…Haven’t worked out what’s in it for her and Ed but you can bet there will be something.

      • 274
        M.T.BUCKET says:

        They have vat on them I think, think of a new income stream for mr brown and you get extra brownie points.

      • 284
        yacht boy says:

        I think you’ll find that brainchild and Balls is an oxymoron.

    • 267
      Max says:

      Nearly time to feel sorry for estate agents; McBroon got his sums wrong when throwing cash at first time buyers to try and keep house prices afloat so the ship is going down again, green shoots an’ all.

      Story Here.

      All things to all men McBroon wanted to help people, particularly ZNL voters, also known as “key (government) workers”, buy over-priced houses so instead of allowing the market to correct he subsidised entry into over-valued housing stock.

      Another clever way of wasting the poonds whereas the tories might have, er, done nothing…

    • 285
      Anonymous says:

      “Now I hear that even Estate Agents are ripping off the public…..”

      No change there then.

    • 331
      Tattooed_Arry says:

      The rip-offs perpetrated by Estate Agents are not restricted to sales of Property. Since Gordon’s Gang changed the system to stop Landlords being paid housing benefit directly from the Council, Estate agents here have been insisting on compulsory credit checks for all applicants for rented property. No credit check no rental.
      They charge £138 per person which is non refundable, even in the event you do not get the rental for which you have applied. It gets worse, if you apply for another property you have to be credit checked again – yes you’ve guessed it – at a cost of another £138 per person. I have been informed of this by an Estate Agent and have spoken today to someone who has spent almost £400 applying for three rentals, he was unsuccessful.
      Do the sums 10 applicants for a property = £1380
      Nice money when you can get it.
      Thanks Gordon for making some of the poorest people in the land poorer still.

    • 380
      Moley says:

      Another case where Parliament has imposed charges on the plebs that the MPs will claim back on expenses.

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  85. 268
    Fred Goody says:

    Poonds
    Transperancy

    It started in Scotland

    • 275
      Gogons cleaner says:

      och Gordon, your skidmarks make me heave

      • 278
        Gordon's badger pie says:

        it really did start in Scotland

        celts with big heads in tartan hats

        one two buckle my dig ginger nogin

      • 310
        Florence Nightingale says:

        Gordon was seen on Clapham Common this evening…

        Without nurse..Awful to say but I think his er “thing” was hanging out…

        Do you think he escaped ?

    • 295
      Anonymous says:

      If things are going as I think they are, it’s gonna finish in Poundland.

    • 308
      Anonymous says:

      Bloody right it did!

      They ought to be strangled at birth-the lot of them!!

      England for the english!

  86. 276
    Enough of being robbed blind by the "Westminster Boys" - the new Essex Boys says:

    Just wondering, there are Rich Barons, Fat Barons, Criminal Barons, Lib Dem Barons, Dodgy Muslim Barons, Lady Barons even lots and lots of Gay Barons, why oh why, No Straight Barons.

    • 299
      MI5 says:

      NuLabour does not “do” straight barons

      Far too honest for them…

      • 337
        Mrs Kindleysides, Penrith says:

        I don’t understand their greed for money. After all a lot of them are supposedly socialists and they’re all living it up like tory grandees.

        Mr and Mrs Cooper-Balls have basic salary of £300k between them, yet they still claim £600 a month food allowance and flip properties to gain more allowances. They are forever harping on about tory wealth and acculmulation of it, yet this seems to be their aspiration. They’re a bunch of social climbing bigots.

        These people are really physcologically flawed and really not fit to run a country. They don’t even know what they’re supposed to stand for or represent. We should have MPs who have normal jobs and attend Parliament to vote in the evening, as it always was before Blair started meddling. Being an MP IS NOT a full time job. That would mean many labour MPs going back to manual jobs which wouldn’t suit them at all!

        Cabinet members, however should be full time.

  87. 280
    Max says:

    OT and Not Headline News: apparently McBroon was not the father of the poor bastard child of Lloyds and HBOS but it was 15 year old Chek Blank who might take a whole year to run away; or something like that (I might have got these stories muddled). Anyway it’s Here (I think).

  88. 286
    adge says:

    why did Gordon Brown sneak out of the house today before any MPs had a chance to speak, what a wimpering coward this man is.

  89. 296
    3rd floor Treasury Official says:

    Guido

    My first time on this blog

    But there is something very important I want you and your people to know

    The Government is running out of cash

    Revenue about 20% below budget and expenditure about 13% above budget

    I am risking my job telling you this but you must get it out

    This means that there will have to be an emergency Budget soon

    • 302
      eye-eye says:

      how many of you on the third floor?

    • 306
      Papasmurf says:

      That’s why all the Hoons have salted it away.

    • 316

      we all know that me old mate – anyway I wouldnt’ worry about it. At the current rates of increase in fury Whitehall will be a smoking ruin in a fortnight

    • 318
      Anonymous says:

      As if the public didn’t know.

    • 322
      4th Floor Treasury Official says:

      There is no 3rd floor at the treasury

    • 324
      Dack Blog says:

      Shit – are we up the creek without a paddle? I’m worried now.

    • 363
      going down the pan says:

      thats not all i work as a self employed builder im down 50% on last year and so is everybody i speak to put that across the country and tax reciepts will be well down next year.

    • 366
      Dr Feelgood says:

      I saw the money being lavished on your lovely building when it was redeveloped a few years ago. Nothing’s too good for our public servants.

      Perhaps you could sell off some of the light fittings to raise cash?

    • 388
      Moley says:

      Watch the credit rating agencies.

  90. 297
    Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

    Had the misfortune to see Esther Rantzen on the box this evening when I called round to see ma and pa. She’s thinking of taking on the Luton trougher as an independent. She made out a half decent case for being able to perform as an MP, what with her investigative journalism bla bla bla. Looking at her, and remembering her jungle escapades, I thought she’d be better as a Gurkha, but nevermind.

    The thought that struck me over this shambles, was what a crew of bloody nonentities all these MP’s are. I haven’t seen one of the snivelling wretches that I’d pay in washers, they are all simply cretinous, with the Luton piece approaching that level, but sadly from below. She’s so thick she hasn’t worked out yet that her boyfriend wasn’t working in Southampton, he was escaping.

    Who selects these useless arses? Who, in the real world, would believe a word they say, give them a job or the price of a cup of tea?

    • 315
      Mrs Kindleysides, Penrith says:

      I was just saying to Mr K, where is Elizabeth Mountbatten-Windsor when you need her?

      I think taking steps to dissolve parliament would only increase HM’s popularity amongst the people, which is already on a pretty good footing.

    • 319
      Mrs Trellis says:

      Lock up yer children…….

  91. 300
    Richard the Lionheart says:

    Resign petition now over 60k ( names not ex’s).

    This one rising slowly. If he won’t resign ( bastard coward ) then sign up to this one.

    http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/GoToCountryNow/

  92. 307
    Angry Citizen says:

    You are right Sir

    The dregs

    Their faces frighten me

    And of course we now know they behave like the dregs

  93. 309
    Anonymous says:

    Credit where it’s due- Today Gordon did something big. He made Beckham look handsome, articulate and a leader!

    • 321
      Dack Blog says:

      Yet he can’t even hand over two grand for your old banger without cocking it up. He’s the anti-Midas.

  94. 311
    Papasmurf says:

    Telegraph

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5346398/MPs-expenses-A-whirlpool-bath-and-a-week-away-for-whips.html

    MPs’ expenses: A whirlpool bath and a week away for whips

    A Government whip spent thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money renovating a house less than 15 miles from her main home. Dawn Butler claimed for a Jacuzzi-style bath to be fitted in her north London second home while claiming her main home was in east London. She was found to have claimed £2,600 too much in rent, but staff in the fees office allowed her to “dig out” other receipts to cover the over-claim.

    Miss Butler’s expenses are among a number of questionable claims by whips uncovered by The Telegraph, which has now disclosed the expenses of 160 MPs.

    Now the following claims are revealed:

    Nick Brown, the Chief Whip, claimed £18,800 over four years in unreceipted expenses for food consumed at his designated second home in Newcastle.

    Patrick McLoughlin, the Conservative chief whip in charge of auditing Tory expenses, claimed £3,000 to have new windows fitted at his second home.

    Steve McCabe, a Labour whip, over-claimed on his mortgage by £4,059.

    Diana Johnson, Labour assistant whip, spent £1,000 of taxpayers’ money to hire an architect for a decorating project at her second home.

    Helen Goodman, assistant government whip, claimed for a week’s stay in a holiday cottage in her constituency.

    • 316
      Papasmurf says:

      Love the Holiday.

      Now……. it would really nice to get off Wimbledon Common just for a few days

    • 328
      eye-eye says:

      These people are giving whips a bad name

    • 402
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      In fairness to Dawn Butler I think the jacuzzi was on prescription. The terrible flatulence she has developed eating £400 worth of food a month is an embarrassment in an ordinary bath.

  95. 320
    Boris says:

    HERE ARE THE LIVING DEAD ?

    I WANT THEIR BLOOD

  96. 326

    Close all bars and restaurants in the Palaces of Westminster.

  97. 329
    Horrified Citizen says:

    THE THUG NICK BROWNE CLAIMED £ 18 000 IN UNRECEIPTED EXPENSES…

    THAT IS PURE THEFT BY ANYONE STANDARDS

    SEND IN THE POLICE STRAIGHT AWAY

    AND HE IS NU CRIMINAL LABOUR CHIEF WHIP FOR GOD’S SAKE…

    • 341
      eye-eye says:

      He looks as though he eat it all himself

    • 354
      Mrs Merton says:

      Nick Brown, what first attracted you to the position of Labour Chief Whip?

      • 383
        Very Angry Citizen says:

        It was his turn in the Criminal Labour Party my dear…

        Pecking order in the Labour Mafia you know…

        Chief Whip £ 18 000 without recipts (and that is probably the tip of the iceberg)
        (they probably have bad men who carry out around the cash) the soldiers of their Mafia will start taking now…

        Little Whips like Miss Butler only get illegal second homes and jacuzzis…

        We are in Palermo now my dear…

  98. 330
    Miss Jacuzzi Butler says:

    You dont’ understand

    The Chief Whip steals without receipts

    I claimed my jacuzzi with receipts.

    SO I’m honest

    and Jaucuzzi’s are necessary for MPs you know

    Vital for constituency work

    Can even shag in them…

  99. 334
    Miss Jacuzzi Butler says:

    Have I blown your fuses ?

    • 355
      White Rabbit says:

      Is that jacuzi D. Butler the cow who objected to a newspaper taking a picture of her on her doorstep when she got outed for some earlier expense scandal a few weeks ago?
      If so she is another snotty little overpromoted upstart, only in her job because the equality commissiuoners stuck their noses in. Off with her bloody head.

      • 449
        Airey Belvoir says:

        She’s the one who wrote her own, semi-literate letter ‘from Obama’ bigging herself up, and then bamboozled him into signing it when he visited the Commons.

    • 361
      FT Correspondent says:

      NO

      We must start JAILING these people

      And IMMEDIATELY CLOSE THE FEES OFFICE

      Other wise the shredders will start working again like for GORBALS AND BLAIR

      We now why their expenses were shredded of course

      WE CAN SEE THIS A CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY THIEVE NOW…

      CITIZEN’S ARRESTS are in order now

      JAIL THE BASTARDS

  100. 338
    nell says:

    An MP today described Michael Martin as a ‘Dead Man Walking’

    Listening to him today reminded me of a book I was given on Speech Day many years ago – John Bunyans ‘Pilgrims Progress’.

    This is without doubt ‘The Slough of Despond’

    • 349
      Dack Blog says:

      It’s not deep or wide enough for that lot. Eureka’s principle – it’s going to overflow and drown us all.

      • 367
        nell says:

        No it won’t -the only one’s who are going to drown are the West Lothians.

        I’m sure Gordon Brown, Alastair Darling and Michael Martin know their Pilgrim’s Progress – and know about Oliver Cromwell and his prophetic words as he turfed out the commons in the 17th Century – it is happening again -

        Gordon – time to go!!!!

      • 382
        Dack Blog says:

        Let’s hope he goes to West Lothian, in that case.

      • 389
        Very Angry Citizen says:

        We need to reserve a lot of rooms in Barlinnie Jail now for thieving Labour Mps…

        About 250 I would say, plus some 50 or so piggie Nu Labour criminal Barons and Baronesses

      • 391
        FT Correspondent says:

        They should be packed into prison dormitories

        and forced to do Hard Labour during the day…

    • 412
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      More like Vanity Fair. The Slough of Despond is where we live.

    • 426
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      All of a sudden Jacqui Smith and McNulty don’t seem so bad; neither does Uddin. And the sandal brigade are on the up, due to their ineptitude extending to fraud as well as policy.

      How have we come to this ?

      • 498
        Mr Smith says:

        Much like hard core porn, huh ?
        The impact desensitises quickly – what appeared to be appalling quickly becomes run of the mill.

  101. 343
    Anonymous says:

    Why has Dawn Butler got a second home on the taxpayer? She’s a London MP FFS!!!! Let the greedy bint commute to work like the rest of the working population.

    • 360
      Elsie says:

      That’s disgusting and so is she! She got a jacuzzi too!!! Now that’s taking the piss big time. Fat slag!

      • 370
        Elsie says:

        That’s 2 of them now who even look like pigs…….Margaret Moran & Dawn Butler.

        And Margaret Becket looks like a horse (or a bit of an old nag!)

        Any more lookalikeys (pigs) out there?

      • 375
        Dick Emery says:

        Oooh….you are awful!

      • 378
        Dawn Jaccuzi Butler says:

        I gots a jacuzzi cos I likes swilling around! It’s essential for me to carry out my duties as an MP innit.

      • 379
        caroline flint says:

        You fucking bitch.

      • 416
        Dawn Jaccuzi Butler says:

        You’re not looking so good yourself dear since the demotion, so I’d keep that slack gob of yours shut! Innit

    • 461
      New Mafia Boss says:

      Actually her real name in New Labour Dame Jacuzzi Butler, if you please

      Honorary member of the Naples Mafia, if you please

      (Capo “receiptless” Nick Browne introduced her as a reward for loyal service)

  102. 348
    Anonymous says:

    Oh Come on Nick Browne. No one yes no one claims expenses without backing them up with receipts.

    Are you thick? No you are not are you, one can only conclude that you did not spend the money on what you have claimed for.

    • 359
      eye-eye says:

      Should be interesting, he will have to account to himself for his actions

    • 368
      FT Correspondent says:

      They thought they were above the law

      That is why they fought tooth and nail to stop expenses being published

      He is a GANGSTER

      LIKE THE REST OF THE NU LABOUR CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY

      THE QUEEN SHOULD DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENCY

      AND APPOINT A CARETAKER GOVERNMENT

      THIS CANNOT GO ON

      That is all

      • 483
        Nic Brown Brown's obese Enforcer is a Blot on the Landscape says:

        Nick Brown need only submit his obese, flacid cadaver as a valid receipt for £18,000 of cream buns.

        Given his apres scoffing proclivities some of the ‘whipped cream’ may have been recycled as an …………

  103. 349
  104. 364
    Dack Blog says:

    I’m watching ‘The Warriors’ (nostalgia-fest). I reckon we load up all the MPs, take them out to a remote constituency and drop them off, and they have to battle their way back to the House of Common (crims) though gangs of pissed-off proles.

  105. 369
    anonemo says:

    Here’s an idea for a post Guido, it seems that plod and the CPS are not even going to meet to discuss the possibility that a crime might have been committed, until next week! Here was me thinking something as important as widespread fraud would be trated as a matter of urgency, but it seems the police are struggling to find some spare time.

    Fucking scandalous!!

    “A panel, comprising officers and a senior CPS lawyer, will commence a series of meetings next week.”

    From here, dated 18/05/2009

    http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/2009/05/18/cps-considers-call-on-mps-expenses-84229-23649443/

  106. 381
    raisethegame says:

    A jacuzzi type whirlpool bath a necessity !!!!!!!!!!!!! Has she no shame?
    Sorry folks, what a daft thing to say – of course she hasn’t. What’s really worrying me is that the swines will limp to the holiday break and by the time Parliament resumes there will be ‘trougher fatigue’ from the sheer avalanche of dirty dealings – and while we will loathe them they will in the main get away with it. I mean how could Margaret Moron’s (she of the dry rot) constituency party say they have full confidence in her?? How could they??

    • 460
      Alien8n says:

      Everyone has their price. My betting is a few thousand quid went into the constituency leader’s pocket.

    • 497
      Golum McSmug - His Legacy says ... well, F*ck All, Really. says:

      A real necessity, yes – have seen the size of her Arse ?

  107. 386
    Give me 650 Lamp Posts and some piano wire and I can fix Democracy says:

    Big nosed geordie twat on Sky News now.

  108. 387
    Anonymous says:

    And to cap it all. The MOD is trying to stop families of servicemen who have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan from claiming compensation.

    Only brave MPs are allowed to make claims these days…without the paperwork too.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/5345008/MoD-facing-compensation-claims-after-legal-ruling.html

  109. 393
    little kitten says:

    Dawn Butler is just a filthy slag, and a whore.

  110. 393
  111. 397
    nell says:

    I rather suspect that HM the Queen has taken the words of Walter Bagehot in his 19thC treatise “The English Constitution” to heart and WARNED Brown that if he continues to pursue his present course he is headed towards what Bagehot called :

    “Unpleasant Circumstances”

    ‘Night Folks -Tomorrow’s another day.

  112. 401
    Anonymous says:

    Now they are threatening us with Esther Rantzen. Ok, we surrender. You can have all the bath plugs and porno you want.

  113. 407
    Anonymous says:

    Stuart Bell is a C U N T

  114. 408
    Boris says:

    I suspect that New labour are “receiptlessing” themselves

    We have to invent new words to describe this VERMIN…

  115. 415
    RASTA BOB says:

    I told you they all taking far too many deliveries of my lovely stuff

    You see what happens

    They loose control and buy jacuzzis to smoke in their bathes…

    It all rather decadent you know

    Call me Bob, your friendly supplier

  116. 417
    Expat says:

    What’s happening on the English TV please ?

    • 422
      Wossy says:

      Ester Rantzen is standing as an independent, Paxo and Creepy Crick look devastated, Sir Stuart Bellend certainly looks up to the part.

      • 458
        New Mafia Boss says:

        I am waiting for someone to butt-fuck Paxo in public…

        Any takers ?

    • 424
      Rich Russian Referee says:

      Usual pish taking advantage of a chance to show England cheating their way to the World Cup in 1966.

      • 432
        Engerland says:

        Engerland, Engerland, Engerland………..Engerland, Engerland, Engerlaaaand…

      • 493
        Doctor Mick says:

        Ow Jock: he wasn’t Russian, he was Azeri; he wasn’t the referee, he was the linesman; we’d have won anyway, thanks to Geoff’s third.

  117. 420
    Grenouille says:

    Can I be first to say:

    Dawn Butler : – J`Accusie !

  118. 425
    dirtyden says:

    And the award for the fattest piggy in the sty goes to…..

    Niiiiiick Brown! Oink.

  119. 427
    Michael Martin says:

    fuck off

  120. 429

    It’s time: No confidence? Time to speak up.

    A discreet, well-behaved gathering of people. And Old Holborn.

    Be there…

  121. 440
    Anonymous says:

    I don’t normally read The Guardian but this is sort of relevant:
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/henryporter/2009/may/18/indentity-card-tax-office

    • 451
      arthur says:

      It is a scandal what is happening in this country and to make matters worse is how easy the powers that be can influence peoples thinking, yes there is outrage but the politicians have now got a handle on it and are directing it; they will pick their sacrificial lambs. this will not stop them having power over ordinary people or making vast wealth for themselves, the expenses furore is only the petty cash side to their corruption.

    • 452
      Expat says:

      Thank you for this itm

      I do not know Mr Porter from Adam. He looks as though he has just stepped out of a washing machine.

      But we must not judge people by appearances.

      The breal point here is very apt..

      But given that the “State” with all its multiple tentacles has spent millions of our money keeping PUBLIC INTEREST information from us, I think these left wing “intellectuals” might pose the real question

      WHY ???

      • 471
        Max Clifford`s ex typist says:

        Are you Gary Glitter`s PA ?

      • 474
        Expat says:

        Is that you McBride ?

        Still your disgraced criminal defaming self ?

        Even in your cave where rats belong ?

        And even after having disgraced Dowing Street with your filth ?!

        You are vermin scum…

    • 459
      Anonymous says:

      National ID for National Socialism

    • 464
      Anonymous says:

      buncha fucking Hoons

  122. 441
    • 442
      Dawn Butler says:

      You iz jus racist coz you fink I shudunt ave a jakkuzzi innit

      • 443
        Barry O'Barmy says:

        Can I have my signature back, you useless thieving slag?

      • 448
        Blakey says:

        I ‘ate you Butler.

      • 501
        The Right hoonerable Jacqui Smiff MP says:

        And Sexist. Do not forget sexist. She is only getting this treatment because she was WOmen MP of the Year and no man could ever win that so men everywhere are begrudging her of her hardly worked for jacuzzi because they have not had the good sense to be born female.

    • 454
      Miss Jacussi Butler says:

      The Chief Thug Whip told me I could so there..

      And I am here to whip the rest of the Lodnon Mps who do not agree with us..

      So there..

      We are just simple gangsters

      We learnt our trade from the Gorbals (oh no) gangs and the Mafia…

      Don’t you understand ?

      So be careful what you say…

      And rpoud of this !

    • 475
      livid socialist says:

      Bubbles Butler?

      My 417 – J`accusie failed to register

      Fkn hoon

  123. 444
    Anonymous says:

    Get ready for the excuses……

    Itz the fees office innit, they made me do it!

    • 477
      Fee Office spokesperson says:

      ” Willin`”
      Original Words and Music by Blair, Campbell, Mandelson
      ( arr. Brown)

      Orchestraton by Sir Polly Toynbee and the BBC chorus.

      oh fuck – i can`t be bothered to do the satire now

  124. 450
    Agent 99 says:

    An MP reportedly made a profit on the sale of a flat he had spent more than £12,000 doing up, and which was just miles from his main home.
    Leftwinger John Austin, MP for Erith and Thamesmead, is said to have made £30,000 when he sold the flat in Southwark, south London, in 2006.

    The claims by the MP, who is retiring at the next General Election, are, according to the Daily Telegraph, “one of the clearest cases so far of an MP profiting by flipping their expenses claims to a new second home”.

    VOTE LABOUR!!! THEN VOTE FOR SLEEZE AND THE REALLY NASTY PARTY

    • 456
      New Mafia Boss says:

      heat hear

      I am the criminal Chief Whip of Nu Labout Organised Crime Inc…(registered in New York City when Tony Blair was our CAPO DI TUTI CAPI) (Have you seen the millions that our Tony Blair has made???)

      Vote for the Scottish Mafia

      We are a Clan and we are proud of it

      People will write about us like Al Capone and Meye Lansky for years to come

      And make films !

      (but we will have the rights you know us, Mandelson will see to that !!)

  125. 453
    Agent 99 says:

    An absolute classic as the first post on the thread on Toenails latest blog see below in copy

    1. At 6:14pm on 18 May 2009, I_Despise_Labour
    This comment has been referred to the moderators. Explain.

    Its the ‘EXPLAIN’ bit that has me ROTFLMAO
    Hat tip ‘I despise Labour’

  126. 455
    Anonymous says:

    Nick Brown gave up his free ministeral car. This meant he could claim 40 pence per mile by using his own car, the queston is did he claim it?

    • 462
      pooh sticks says:

      Do bears do dodo’s in the woods?

    • 467
      Boris says:

      “Commons officials” are worried that the thieving by MPs using mileage expenses will come to light as well…

      It never ends..

      These people were drugged on power, their own self-importance and suicidal greed…

  127. 463
    goose says:

    has anyone else watched this? fantastic speech.

    • 478
      nobby says:

      Er, we did this weeks ago mate. Where the fuck have you been, Westminster?

  128. 465
    caesars wife says:

    Pierce an Mcguire have weekly love fest on sky , pierce was deadly, nailed mcguire to sofa , class war always is pointless when faced with incompetence.

    every paper “mr speaker should go” except morning star “mr speaker should go on holiday to barbados”

    Lord rennards actions are a mystery to me , however there is a problem with the lords , i dont buy into an elected house , but i do buy into a representative one , also why not let good politicians have a palce in the lords , the problem is when the lords doesnt thin its self into a usefull body .Assuming you have to have revising chamber , them that would imply both competance and experience . Claiming lords attendence when in actual fact running the partys election machine doesnt quite seem right, but you could say that about mandelson or a tory .

    i doubt the lords would work without party members , but it is an interesting thought that it could reform , but i would want it to have the ability to halt legislation rather than just send it back in extreme circumstances .

    just to make the point , there is no evidence to suggest an elected second chamber will behave any better than an unelected one , i would wager it would cost more never mind the actual election expense . Besides the maturity of Lords members has proved to be of great value , especially when compared to the vandalism of the hoon party .

    i also would like to know why we arnt to be allowed to recover our tax payer bank investments, seems odd to be trying to flogg them oversees , seems a shame we shouldnt see the gains being as we have took on the risk .

    hardly an old banger when banks share prices are rising

  129. 470
    Johnny Zero says:

    Speaker Martin cares not a sqiff for what the British |Public think or what the |Media might say.

    He is rooted to that chair awaiting ONLY is £100,000 pound guarranteed golden handshake if he can survive until the next Parliament. He will not resign as a bi election would be forced and again he could lose money.

    Martin sees this only as a “Job” and he is the Shop Steward who cannot be sacked. He was dragged on stage eight years ago symbolically to take over as Speaker and he will have to bwe dragged off that green chair to go.

    Reason, appeals to honour or integrity are unknown and not relevant to such a man, with a huge working class chip on his shoulder. Our PM Mr Brown is still frightened to make the decision tp push Martin out now.

    • 479
      Anonymous says:

      Exactly so. Anyone calling for him to go ( most of the country) is just a bullying employer.

  130. 472
    Tory Dan says:

    http://www.blogger.com/profile/17438589403298919636

    Hats off to the person who made this!

  131. 476
    R.D.Laing says:

    So far tonight I’ve watched, ‘Snog, Marry or Avoid’ (BBC 3, thoroughly recommended), David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, and Simon Templar (The Saint) ordering a scotch and Perrier (WTF?).

    And now this.

    Talk about a mind fuck.

    • 481
      Silvio Forks says:

      TORK TO YOUR SELF U WANGQKER

      • 482
        Anal Log says:

        These days, it is not just Conservatives who say that the Labour leader is an analog

        politician in a digital age.

        Rachel Sylvester, The Times 19 May

    • 508
      LIP WREEDER IN LUTON says:

      *
      DIDGJIT~AL POLLYTYQKS

      IOU
      OIU
      UIO
      UOI
      III
      OOO

      O MY GOD MY GOD IS O

      OO

      MY GOD MY GOD IS IO

      YOD = TEN IN HEBRU SUKKERS
      YHOD = 12.5 = 12 AND A HARF
      THIS IS THE BANGQKHURS*

      SINGQKING
      FUND

      FYNDER

  132. 485
    Day Twelve says:

    How time flies.

    We will be arriving at Day Ninety-four in no time at all – perhaps Private Eye can do a special issue.

  133. 486
    anonymous says:

    Brown will have to have decided the Speaker’s fate by 12 noon on Wednesday(now why is that time and day so important ?)or cobbled together some sort of compromise and hopefully tied in the other party leaders otherwise he’s gonna get kicked from one end of the Chamber to the other by both of the Opposition parties

    This whole affair highlights Brown’s main faults – partisanship;inability to act decisively or make a decision or comprhend that whilst he’s playing party politics the whole edifice of Parliament is crashing around his ears.

    He should be thankful that this is Britain had we been in continetal Europe or the old soviet bloc or South America there would be crowds on the streets storming Parliament by now.

    Much like the “anciene regime” in France pre-Revolution what the Speaker offers is too little too late metaphorically the mob is almost at the gates of Westminster

  134. 487
    Nigel Bowker says:

    Brown’s premiership is turning just as chaotic as I predicted in my book “Boom and Bust” written before he became PM. Contact me on nigel_bowker_917@hotmail.com for a free electronic copy.

  135. 488
    nell says:

    Is it Day 12 already? and still the revelations are coming. Drip Drip. Be interesting to watch what Michael Martin does today – hope LibDems and Conservatives are going to unite to get him out.

    Then and again perhaps Dave has ulterior motives for wanting to keep him there, he is an embarassment to the government after all.

    Anyone know what happened to Rennard last night?

    Morning Folks.

  136. 489
    terrace bar frequenter says:

    can the chappy in the fees office explain who authorised him to break the rules, assuming he did not make the decision unilaterally and does not want to go down for multi million dollar fraud.
    he can claim the nuremburg defence, “i only did what i was told to do”.
    and as a trougher himself, he will no doubt ask as he has (belatedly) been so helpful, if he can keep his pension and nice house he got with this cushy caper?

  137. 494
    parish councillor says:

    Everyone gone very quiet on the thieving Camerhoon MP’s.

    So Sir Alan Haslehurst being mooted as replacement for Gorbals, other than Alan has £142k in expenses looming over his head. Ummmm. Why so quiet?

    Martin, hang on in there, we don’t want an election just yet; we want to imprison all the thieving MP’s first.

    In the words of my own MP “when all this nonsense over MP’s expenses is over…..” (He only helped himself to £95k.)

    Do the Conservatives really believe that being mute will save them?

    Dave, be a man, sack a few of your wretched thieves. Otherwise millions like myself will vote UKIP

  138. 495
    Guido's Naughty Younger Brother says:

    I’ve connected the Speaker’s chair to the National grid!

    Order..Order..Fizzzzzzzzzz

  139. 499

    In spite of his dismal showing yesterday, Gorbals Mick will not let go. Perhaps this is why: The Reluctant Speaker

  140. 506

    [...] The great interest rate rip off +++ Source : LibDems “Uneasy” Over Rennard Expenses +++ – Guy Fawkes’ blog [...]

  141. 507

    [...] govt is running out of cash – interesting comment on Guido’s blog +++ Source : LibDems “Uneasy” Over Rennard Expenses +++ – Guy Fawkes’ blog [...]




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