Labour Grassroots Disgusted With PLP
The grassroots of all the main parties are pretty outraged with their parliamentary representatives. ConservativeHome polled readers who overwhelmingly wanted troughing Tories punished and deselected. LibDem activists lobbied their Federal Executive over Chris Rennard’s dishonesty. Labour activists including prospective candidates and elected councillors have written to the party’s governing NEC to change the rules to allow troughing MPs to be deselected more easily.
Clegg has been lucky in that none of his MPs have so far been accused of flipping properties. The difference between the reactions of the party leaders is clear. When Cameron became aware that Andrew MacKay was on the fiddle, he immediately dispensed with his senior adviser before the sun rose. Cameron went further yesterday and told Conservatives to sack their local Tory MP if they had their snoughts in the trough. Guido will stick his neck out and say that by contrast Gordon will do whatever he can to hold onto Nick Brown, his troughing chief whip, come what may. No wonder over 100 Labour activists have described the prime minister as “negligent” in his response so far to the unfolding revelations about the allowance system.
The Labour Party whips office has been revealed to be corrupt through and through, yet it is supposed to police the PLP’s behaviour. Labour’s chief whip Nick Brown has claimed tens of thousands of pounds without producing a receipt. Gordon Brown sits in cabinet with James Purnell, Hazel Blears, Jacqui Smith and Geoff Hoon. Each of them has defrauded the taxpayer and milked the system to an extraordinary degree. As long as they sit around the table he presides over a cabinet of crooks.
Nick Brown’s claim for food amounts to £21 per day. No wonder he’s a fat Huhne.
The Penguin.
Nick Brown is just disliked. Anyway its his second home so its not £21 a day but £147 / 2 as his second him is in Newcastle and he works in London Monday to Friday.
I think most people would have difficulty spending £73.50 on food a day without keeping receipts.
FORCE him to repay if he has no receipts and resign or be sacked if he cannot produce them
Remember, he was the idiot who tried to handle the foot and mouth crisi and failed utterly, at an enormous cost to the country. But money is of no concern to labour members. They can always get more from hard working families.
Gorbals Mick will not let go. Is this why: The Reluctant Speaker?
Join me on Saturday at Noon outside the Houses of Common Criminals and let’s take back what is ours from 646 thieves.
My calculation is explained on my blog. It is based on 3 nights a week plus 7 nights a week during the recesses.
The Penguin.
OH what’s the point of going on Saturday? The House in in recess after Friday
Well may we rejoice in all our collective schadenfreude, about the downfall of (part of) (one of the) Enemy Classes that currently oppress us on purpose.
But we ought to be careful, and think about this __ “who benefits from the total discredit of our Parliament in Westminster?__ For it /is/ ours, as Charles Moore pointed out over the last weekend.
Dr Sean Gabb thinks it’s all a put-up job by Boris Johnson, to get himself into the position of the only major Tory politician without stain, and so to be the next Tory-PM-but-one:-
http://libertarianalliance.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/sean-gabb-on-the-commons-expenses-row/
But by contrast, Ian Parker-Joseph, of the UK Libertarian Party, thinks it’s all part of a much cleverer and longer-term “Destroy the UK” project. This involves so discrediting the whole institution of a united central Westminster Parliament, that “the people” will “call for” “bringing government nearer to the people”, and the complete breakup of the UK into EU-dirigible regions will be able to be completed:-
http://thejournal.parker-joseph.co.uk/blog/_archives/2009/5/18/4190192.html
Personally, I favour IPJ’s analysis more than Sean’s. Boris Johnson is far, far smarter than he looks. But I don’t think he’d have failed to spot the awful, mortal risk to the very institution that he wants eventually to go back to and dominate, which is identified by IPJ. Therefore Boris could not allow his plan to involve the removal of Parliament’s importance as an institution the authority of which we as the people must protect.
Henry, the Bank of England wasn’t open on G20 day either…..
If Iceland can overthrow their corrupt government, so can we.
It’s incredibly easy not to keep receipts. I just eat them.
“I think most people would have difficulty spending £73.50 on food a day without keeping receipts.”
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I would not be able to spend £73.50 per day on food for my whole family without wasting a LOT of food.
Didn’t the Government create more pretend police recently, this time as food inspectors with the power to enter property to inspect fridges and the power to fine people who waste too much food on the grounds that they claimed that this is a danger to the climate and creates more climate change? What happened to them?
This Government are Hooning hypocrites!
Force him to eat all the food has claimed for per day, in a day for a week.
I once sat on a train next to Nick Brown and two pimply researchers.
The fat fuck was boasting of how little work he needed to do, and how to get away with doing the inimum effort in poitivs.
‘Working flat out’ my arse.
Little Johnny Gummer has the right idea about receipts.
In true feudal style, your underlings do the work (mole catching, jackdaw nests, “Gardening”), tug their forelocks and bugger off the estate quick without the trouble of bills or receipts.
You then sit down in your study, think of a number, double it and write it on a piece of paper for the Fees office to approve and pay. You do this very often.
I can assure people that this is entirely necessary otherwise one might sully one’s hands with bits of paper handled by the lower classes.
If Baroness Hardup Uddin wants to posh up a bit, she should forget marble mansions and take a lesson in style from Gum-Gum.
I emailed Mr Malik and asked him some questions last week. I copied the email onto this site and promised a copy of the reply.
His response was : He couldn’t be bothered to open his email, deleted it unread.
Sums it up really, I thought he was 1000% within the Rules.
Perhaps that’s why he’s got so much chocolate smeared around his face in the picture above… too much food, too little time to eat it all!
At least, I hope it’s chocolate…!?
Sadly it does look like chocolate.
I’m not sure Mr Oaten, that appearance alone is sufficient basis on which to make an assessment. The totality of features has to be taken into consideration. I defer of course, to your wide and well accepted experience in these matters.
It also looks like poo. One of the less savoury aspects of brown-nosing.
Maybe he’d been eating a mousse?
Is that a mousse that lived in a hoose ?
Or a moose?
shit more like
There are pensioners who struggle to find that much money for a weeks food. If this trougher says once more that everything was within the rules and he has a healthy appetite he should be given a one way ticket to Biafra.
or to the People’s Republic of Bangla for a long holiday in the marble millionaire mansion we paid for but owned by his co-porker the appalling Baroness Udderly-Disgusting of Council Housing, Tottering Hamlets EC4 (the one with the 64000 quid BMW parked outside).
Looks like I’m getting away with it though, does n’t it ?
18k in 3 years on food alone is just unnacceptable.
This man is a greedy fraudster. He gets a good salary and should not be claiming for food, whether it’s in his main home or 2nd home.
This is a travesty and he should resign immediately!
I love the picture Guido! Brilliant! Is that chocolate all over his piggy fat face??
Aye lad, he’s nowt but a fat queer.
Margy you obviously lack the refined and discerning palate to become an MP. Wild smoked salmon, good organic beef and top quality caviar are so expensive now .
The trouble is you not understand how much things cost in a top class restaurant these days.
Is it just food? You know can also get booze from the supermarket. No wonder there are no tell-tale receipts.
He would claim that wouldn’t he?
but he did eat it didn’t he..
£21 per day is expensive pig fodder. The price for live pig meat is £1 per kilo. At that rate Nick Brown is worth about £125, and Gordon about the same. Can restaurant owners please send them some swill.
No, no, that’s illegal. We don’t want another outbreak of foot and mouth, do we?
Simple. The government wants to get the fat fuckers to slim down to save the NHS money.
Take all MPs’ BMI – If they are higher than overweight (slightly, moderately or morbidly obese) move the fuckers to the back benches as they are bad role models.
I’m reckoning that could include troughing Brown and of course our own Guido if he sat on the green benches.
If it looks like a pig, eats like a pig and acts like a pig etc.
The twat is now my MP after recent boundary changes. These have gone against him and he’s shitting himself that he’ll be kicked out next election. That stuff on his face is not chocolate!
Why does he need to supply receipts? Look at him ffs! If that’s not £75 a day of troughing I don’t know what is.
Surely we should be saying, Brown-noser old boy, you don’t disintegrate into a revolting tub of lard like that on just £75 a day, you need to up your claim, and here’s a digital camera, take a photo of your dick, remind yourself what it looks like.
The twat is now my MP after recent boundary changes. These have gone against him and he’s shitting himself that he’ll be kicked out at the next election.That stuff you see on his face is not chocolate!
The twat is now my MP after recent boundary changes. These have gone against him and he’s shitting himself that he’ll be kicked out at the next election. That stuff you see on his face is not chocolate!
‘The grassroots disgusted…’ Bollocks! Is that why the constituency parties of Malik and Margaret Moran have expressed their full support for their MP’s.
There’s a tidal wave of whitewash coming our way ! They all need to be culled… with extreme prejudice.
It strikes me that some of them might be selling the groceries on to their local corner shops to make a few bob. And don’t tell me that they’re not that bloody petty.
11-40hrs Sky news sources report that the speaker is to make a statement at 1430hrs and will stand down as speaker.
A big score for Guido and the blog
Does everyone remember the fiasco of the foot and mouth outbreak that he presided over in 2001. Because of his inaction at the beginning, sheep were being moved around the country and spreading the disease. He is both a thug and a waste of the considerable space that he occupies on the planet.
Guido spot on. These are serial troughers who desrve no sympathy. The longer they stay the worse it is for Brown
Yes the longer they stay the worse it is for Brown – but the longer the Nulabour troughers led by Brown stay in government the worse it is for us. Lets have an election NOW.
FFS It has fuck all to do with receipts.
Why the fuck is there an allowance of £400pm for food.
Troughers charter -= litterally.
I want an election ASAP. Brown’s falure to act immediately only undermines him. Those troughers clinging on for a week or two makes it worse. Brown is impotent.
It has been an interesting time to see true leadership brought to the fore these last few days.
With the last vestiges of Parliament’s credibility excavating out the barrel base, dribbling across into the gutter and now halfway to China, I have noticed, by his absence at least, Grinning Gordon seems reluctant to be seen in the House.
By all accounts, even when he has to be in there it’s more a duck and run deal.
However, we have been treated to the smile at all manner of hugely relevant events, from the opening of fetes (OK, I made that one up) to pouncing on on scrappage buyers (hopefully not disappointed Ford or Honda ones as, surprise, the scheme hasn’t been properly thought through).
Then there was the big one, as the towering intellect in a safety zone sandwich between Messrs Rooney and Beckham.
At no point have I heard it mentioned, much less asked of him by his few remaining mates in the entourage, whether actually running the country from the driving seat might be a bit of a plan?
Most of the hoons in the press lead with “Martin Apologises” well here’s what he said
“We must all accept the blame and, to the extent that I have contributed, I am profoundly sorry.”
Well pardon me but I am profoundly sorry to the extent that I have contributed too, which is as worthless a statement as his. We all know he does not think he has done anything wrong. It is a non-apology and needs to be highlighted as such.
“We must all accept the blame” – at a stroke, the Speaker alienates every MP in the House who has not milked the ACA.
The abuse of the ACA will have been incredibly divisive *within* Parliament – I mean, those MPs who happen to live outside London have had the opportunity (and some have taken it) to build a property portfolio with the public purse, and those MPs unfortunate enough not to qualify for second homes’ allowances now see that they also didn’t qualify for making themselves rich with taxpayers’ money. If I were one of the latter, with “clean hands”, I doubt that now I could tolerate being in same room as any of the troughing out-of-London MPs.
Or on the other haned has at a stroke IMPLICATED every MP in submitting hooky expenses.
Yeah, a clever move from the Weegie bastard.
P.S. He’ll be after your hubcaps soon…
His real ‘Profoundly sorry’ is that he did not cover things up better to spare us all from this unpleasantness! How can we want such a nice man to go?
When are Crooked MP’s going to be Arrested and thrown into Prison?
MP’s are truly deluding themselves if they think this Speaker sideshow episode will divert the Taxpayers outrage.
Frankly I’m just getting angrier!!!!!!
Me too.
And me.
Add me and millions of others to that list!
These crooks must be taken to court but there does not seem to be any stomach for it from the police. If Brown thinks disciplining the crooks is enough punishment then he is in for a big surprise because we will not stand for that.
No wait, the Speaker forced me against my will to put in dodgy claims and flip my homes. The Speaker must go to save us all.
God forbid that Parliament should need to be recalled in time of crisis during the summer retirements.
I don’t know, they might press for this, then they can claim the additional expenses and use to buy their holiday in Tuscany?
Those Lavish Holiday’s won’t book themselves!
Come now, these poor MP’s are now despised and regarded with almost universal contempt. And while it’s entirely true none of them have been charged yet or thrown out of their job with no fanfare or pension like anyone else who had perpetrated and got caught enacting such digusting piggery and fraud, they are feeling vewwy vewwwy sad !
Some even had to pay a token sum out of their vast ill gotten gains and say how vewwy vewwy sowwy they were.
This has all but reduced these fragile MP’s to nervous wrecks who are now counting the days till they can f**k off from the Electorate the Media and forget about their own repulsive behaviour while praying fevently that the British Public has a collective bout of severe amnesia for a few years.
It seems that the NuLiebore MPs are going to be the most difficult to deselect, perhaps the wonderful Georgina can help out here with her new found oral skills
Tell me more about this Georgina and her oral skills??
I’ve got a twister for her to get her tongue around…
Not by the voters.
Take a positive view.
If they reselect ‘clean skins’ they may be able to con more of the hard core ad stupid Labour people who persist in voting for them.
My name is Georgia (as in Georgia on my mind).
I learned from my Dad that there is no more rewarding career than being an MP and making a contribution to your …………
At least you’re not as in Georgia who just got fucked by the Russians.
Is that all we’re talking about? ‘Deselecting’. I want these venal scum publicly arrested, preferably called out one-by-one on camera in Trough Central and then up on charges of defrauding the taxpayer, Just deselecting them means nothing – they can then retire to the country to look after their money and they get away with it.
The scenario should be similar to when Saddam Hussein called out names in the Iraqi parliament, and these people were taken outside and shot. We could make some money out of it by doing a deal with Hollywood to make a film about it with the Hollywood star “babe” playing Gordon Brown.
I do not want them shot, Very unBritish. I want them to be hung by their scrawny necks!
Now, now. You meant Honourable Scum, surely?
Guido
Have you read the posts about organising some sort of lapel badge / colour / ribbon so the ordinary person can show their disgust and for the PM to calll a General Election.
All these petitions and calls for them to step down will do nothing. An organised and sustained show of passive resistance will scare the living daylights out of politicians as they will be faced by it where ever they go.
The more the media pick up on it the better.
I vote for Yellow on the lapel for cowardice.
How about shit Brown?
Which one ??
White may be better a colour/shade. I like the idea though-millions of car arials and lapel ribbons adorned with contempt for these dishonourable cheats and pillagers.
Golden bath-plug?
If Meek is interpreted as strong / silent, then a passive uprising ( oxymoron ?) is indeed what we need. Dave C support us by flushing the House and Speaker – General Election ASAP
otherwise there will be little of our ” green and properous” land left to inherit
The problem is that all the colours are associated with political parties.
A co-ordinated expression of disgust would be to stop paying the TV Licence fee. I have already done it.
The BBC is supporting Labour and the £6,000,000 they are paying Jonathan Ross for making obscene phone calls dwarfs the venality of the MPs.
It will be a kick against the system which makes a point and does no damage to law and order.
… and the bumper sticker could say “Don’t pay, Won’t pay BBC/Liebour license to trough”
I white ribbon on car aerials and worn as wristbands would be a good idea. I shall be doing that!
Make them like a folded up £50 note
Gordon Brown sits in cabinet with James Purnell, Hazel Blears, Jacqui Smith and Geoff Hoon
and four-flipper Alistair Darling and ‘pay 50% tax but claim 100%’ Jack Straw.
Sack them all. They have no honour, integrity or honesty.
Be fair: there are just one or two lefties with integrity
OK, maybe just one …
That Huhne claimed £6000 for ‘cleaning’. He should be out on his hole too.
safety in numbers
Numbers are not my strong point
“Numbers are not my strong point”
Are you after the Chancellor’s job?
Wouldn’t mind being Home Secretary so i can watch some nice blue smurf chick in a Porno.
I barely scraped through Key Stage 1 Maths
The picture is awful. Old chinese proverb ‘Always scratch your nose before the arse’
Yes but be fair these fine people are driven by a fine and noble egalitarian principle that all people should be able to defraud the taxpayer, not just council tenant barbarians
A poll in Sky this morning shows that Labour is coming out of this far worse than the other parties (Lab.11.5% -Cons 31%) – 24% of voters are saying they are going to vote for the smaller parties or for Independents – this would be a good time to stand as an Independent – any more Martin Bell’s out there?
The only and remote chance for Brown to save his own skin is to call an election. This he will not do because he dithers and delays, making the situation of this country its governance and its future worse by the day. He MUST act without delay. Get rid of the Speaker who has contributed so much to wreck the political system and then, immediately, call a general election.
In the meantime, he must demand that Barry Gardiner repays his ill-gotten gains of at least £200,000 made at the expense of the taxpayer.
We can’t have an election straight away, as we need a process of deselection (to run in parallel with criminal proceedings where appropriate) so that the election can be fought between candidates who are at least superficially clean. There are not enough Martin Bells who will give up the day job to replace all the crooks.
So what is the alternative to getting rid of the Speaker, the thieves, the Prime Minister and all the other opportunists? Suggest something constructive. Your negativity is little different from G Brown’s.
I could think of a way of deselecting MPs. Heavy duty nylon cord from DIY store. Lamposts have been provided already.
A night of the long knives awaits some of the Cabinet very soon perhaps.
Or at least a night of the empty wallets as they try to “buy” off public anger.
(Won’t work)
Gove didn’t go straight away and seems to be hanging on and trying to placate his detractors, and one swallow does not make a spring.
The Public doesn’t care how tough any of the Party Leaders sound to be frank.
The Public wants to kick out some piggies or see far more piggies sacked and lose their appallingly sleazy and lucrative scams, sorry “jobs”.
Damage control is still damage control.
None shall escape the effects of this disgusting piggish greedfest.
They’ve all got too much dirt on each other. If one goes, they’ll all go.
We can but hope.
I think you mean: “When Cameron became aware that Andrew MacKay was on the fiddle, he immediately kept him as a Conservative MP.”
Yes indeed. MacKay lost his advisors role and nothing else.
Cameron is fudging as much as Brown is.
MacKay will be deselected. His day of reckoning is not far off.
And Bromsgrove will deselect Lady Trough too.
De-Coupling
Yes, Camerons response has been *almost* as pathetic as Browns. He SAYS he’s doing something but really he’s just giving his MPs as much cover as possible. Where are the resignations?! Of course, Brown isn’t just giving his MPs cover – he’s refusing to even admit there’s a problem. Third parties are going to get my vote until Cameron or Clegg get rid of the thieves. I’m guessing third parties are going to have my vote for at least a couple of elections….
I’m sorry but how can Cameron remove an elected member of parliament? Kicking them out of the Conservative party isn’t that easy either. In any case they should be properly investigated, not some knee-jerk reaction to a newspaper article.
Democracy requires that the constituency gets rid of its MP, not the party leader.
The question therefore is;
“What more needs to be done to enable constituency parties to get rid of incumbent MPs as fast as possible to pave the way for an election of a clean Parliament?
It is a question for all the party leaders, not just Cameron.
And by the way, democracy does not require proportional representation which is what the Lib Dems want. It will also let in the B N P.
In a contest between jackboots and sandals, the sandal wearers (and the rest of us) will be squashed.
PR equal weak government as history shows.
We need compulsory voting.
“We need compulsory voting”
No you don’t, it is here in Aussie & all it does is drag the welfare wankers out to vote for more dole handouts.
An election must be called by May 2010 – less than a year.
Local branches should commence deselection proceedings against the premier div troughers as soon as possible. This will demonstrate to voters at large that they are serious about being part of the solution. It will also give time to select a PPC.
Act decisively act quickly.
blah blah blah
more negative campaigning from the do nothing right wing
you might think Labour is finished, but you will be surprised come 2010, there’s life in the old girl yet.
Couldn’t agree more.
The maggots are wriggling furiously.
Labour may survive if they decriminalise looting, pillaging and allowed anarchy for all of us – not just for themselves.
They have legalised looting – what do you call the 50% tax rate?
Dream on
I think you have been drinking something or you are living in exile somewhere.
Bet he’s a deluded Newcastle United supporter as well. Poor fool.
When do they have time to eat all this food? If they argue that they work all these long hours and then have fully subsidised restaurants and bars in the HoC. I struggle with the level of venary displayed.
I hope that the companies employing these parasites in their second jobs as advisors and consultants closely scrutinise the expenses that they present for that work. It would be dreadful to think that with such poor accounting skills and weak mathematical knowledge that there wasn’t the odd duplication of a dinner at the Ivy etc
Wojtek ol’ boy,
What do you know about consultants? Are any of them in the planning racket?
How many and whom? We have highly respected firms, dare I say “honorable” like Berwin Leighton Paisner, Nathaniel Lichfield, and GVA Grimley to name by three all approved through the OGC. They must all be above reproach, surely?
Honi!
No, you would have me believe that this type of crime is not limited to the MPs? My God, this is just like Poland!
I must admit Koba did a good job of training the Labour Party in this country, he would be very proud of the overall mischief created
Poland? Is that the Poland where Walesa and the shipbuilders, in a totalitarian state, took on the Russians to secure democracy?
Malik having a massage chair and Heathcoat-Amory getting horse-shit, bad as they are, are hardly revolutionary acts.
Exactly the same place only the Totalitarians you speak of were actually self interested troughers in their own right – they even had their own supermarkets and made no pretence of needing receipts. The Socialists in the UK – if you can tell them apart from the Tory’s have just expanded on the idea and based upon the laissez-faire of the population have robbed you blind – they obviously realise that they can carry on doing it because if it really hurt then you would bloody well do something about it instead of pouring out your disgust on blogs – If I was a bit younger and lighter I would lead you all over the gates of Westminster!! Except on a Saturday when I’m a bit tied up at B&Q
Czuwaj!!!
When the police are corrupt then it is impossible to enforce the law.
The Police have separate departments that investigates serious organised criminal activity within the Police. They also have complaint departments that deal with incidents that are complained about from day to day policing that may amount to a criminal act eg assault in the course of an arrest.
It is my wirry though that the very highest levels of the Police are paralysed by the fact that they may have to come off the fence and deal with criminal activity from their political masters. Only MASSIVE public disgust will show them that they must investigate.
It will be easier to investigate these Polictical master after they have BEEN KICKED OUT. Which is why we need a General Election to cleanse Parliament.
WHITE LAPELS AND WHITE CAR ARIELS
UNITE TO SHOW PASSIVE RESISTANCE.
Please couldn’t we have black car ariels to show, um er …., the mourning of the death of democracy?
Mine’s already black but that’s besides the point.
Why are MPs so fat?
We pay them to trough.
Will Brown disown Brown?
Will Brown disown Martin?
No
Because if he does they will bring him down. Martin will confirm that Brown used expenses to keep his backbenchers quiet. So did Blair. Why do you think that 98% are docile/
Check expenses vs voting against Govt. The troughers never dissent.
QED
BBC Radio Scotland is this morning looking for answers from Labour MP Michael Connarty, (who chairs the European Scrutiny Committee) over his expense claims. His accounting over the sale of the contents of his London flat to fellow MP Jim Devine was described by The Telegraph’s Alan Cochrane as ‘interesting’. Mr Connarty was not answering calls.
Readers might also find this aritcle in the Aberdeen Press and Journal ‘interesting’.
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1222257?UserKey=
Frank Doran uses his expenses to pay for the heavies from Scumdee that hang around with him when he’s at the polling stations. At the last election people were actually afraid to go into the Linksfield Community centre to post votes as he had several clowns standing beside him. We now realise this was incase he was set upon by very angry voters and should he turn up again he’ll be stoned.
BBC Radio Scotland!!! If party faithful are turning on party faithful, there’s going to be some serious blood shed…
The Conservatives need to get their act together fast.
Do nothing Dave…where are you? Call an election? Is that it? No thanks, not until you sack a few of your thieves first.
Haslehurst for Speaker. How about he repays some of the £142k he troughed.
Brown and his party are finished. We all know that. I’m not voting for a party which fails to change so Dave, please in the name of God, get your blitheringly useless act together.
Hear Hear!
Both the Leaders of Nulab seem to have a great deal of difficulty getting rid of their gay friends; look at Mandelson’s original stuttering departures; the continued inuendo about the sexual leanings of both Blair and Brown make this a matter of genuine interest to me if no one else.
Has anyone written a well researched article on homosexuals in politics in general and the Labour party in particular? Maybe it’s just me but they seem to be rather over represented as to the population as a whole; perhaps they see it as an extension of show business.
If Martin is determined to stay I suggest he pretends to be gay; he’ll have the job for life.
I don’t think that anyone should reach any conclusion regarding Gordon Brown’s sexuality until they have studied the picture of him alongside David Beckham and Wayne Rooney in the Times today.
A dog with two dicks doesn’t do justice to the expression on our leader’s face.
Sir Reg a question:
Have you ever visited Clapham Common?
Do you own a large white Standard Poodle?
Do you like chatting to other dog owners(male) whilst ‘walking the walk’?
Maybe it’s simply because they don’t have kids to distract their time? Or bloody moaning wives for that matter.
Interesting point I hadn’t considered. Politics is not, at least before becoming established, the reliable job that having a family to support requires. Plus there are all those meetings to attend in the evening which probably don’t go down well with wifey.
It works for the Jesuits.
This is why there will NOT be a debate on removing the Speaker today.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1184352/PETER-OBORNE-If-goes-Brown-him.html
Roaringly sensible stuff Titbrain!
About time someone blew off long and loudly about these “chutney blowfish”.
(as I believe they are called in the Lieberal Elite circles.)
Why is it that these uncouth “trouser partridges” infest the ranks of New Labour ?
I’ll tell you why! They all need a damn good thrashing!!
Cameron and his cabinet could not be more different from this chummy network of “hubcap squeezers”. They had any residual disgusting “sellotape farming” tendancies beaten out of them at Eton and elsewhere. And they did not forget it!!
The shadow Cabinet are the masculine butch model of rampant hetrosexuality we envy BECAUSE of the many late night sessions with their trousers at their ankles getting their arses polished to a rosy sheen by an obliging older and wiser fellow who knew the meaning of tough love.
Those moans and cries that rung through the night are not something an impressionable youth soon forgets and soon puts him on the straight and narrow driving out any unmentionable repugnant thoughts of “Parsnip Fishing” forever more.
These “Cigar warblers” are indeed everywhere now and it would not surprise me in the slightest that the rumours of Mandelson staging mini vignettes from the Musical “Hello Dolly” before any Cabinet meeting were true.
When will the Freedom of Information Act reveal these Communist “trombone paragliders” for what they are ?!??!?
That’s what I want to know.
Did you make those wonderful terms up? If so, many congratulations!!!!
The Penguin.
Good stuff.
Finger on the pulse as usual, Sir Buf, if that’s not too much of a euphemism.
LOL is a cliche but you really did make me laugh out loud. Very good!
This has to be the best post – EVER.
Sir Bufton Tufton:
Are you realated to Lord Stepney Bufton of Butterside-Ups?
If so send my regards and ask if he still has that rash.
Sandy: Hello, anyone there?
Julian: Ohh, hello I’m Julian and this is my friend Sandy.
S: Ooo, what bona parle. In ‘e bold!
J: Yeah, varda is eek an all.
S: Is willets ain’t bad either. Is it too early for a vera? That’s your actual French, that is. Bona nochy, boys.
Let’s a give a warm hand also to zanu liebore’s anchovy bay marauders. Five Bellies is particularly well in with them, as her fatuous legislations makes clear.
93. That’s 3 questions, titbrain.
I don’t give a fuck what they do in their private lives, the paramount questions are how well do they run the country, and what does it cost us?
Neither do I. But I do object if people get public jobs because of what they do in their private lives rather than through suitability for the jib.
This is a bit silly. It isn’t who or what they do behind close doors that bothers me
It is the rich vein of Catholicism that runs through the rotten lot that worries me.
There are more Muslims in the UK than Scottish Catholic. If any of the former were in a real position of power their would be uproar. Yet Catholic thinking is different and as alien to Protestant thinking majority. Even if they don’t attend church the majority of the people in this country have a protestant mindset.
Catholicism or Socialism or Europeanism are an anathema to the Protestant mindset.
Together those three regimes are a poisonousness cocktail.
You are David Icke and I claim my £5
Don’t forget the illuminati and the alien lizards too
Sorry Sir Reg. I withdraw my poodle questions. I was put up to it by Ron Davies of that Parish.
Yours
#93
Fuck off, there are more Catholics than Protestants in Britain now.
Anglicanism will be a dead duck in 20 years.
Whilst those who tread lightly on the carpet do appear over represented on the leaders of the left which would make an interesting study it should also be noted the disproportinate representation of the followers of Judaism and the number of ministers involved in Labour Friends of Israel. Now what’s that all about!!!
I think we should organise a march to Parliament square, each carrying a bag of rotten veg of which we will unleash at the mother of Parliaments.
Or even sacks of monopoly money I don`t know something needs to be done.
Hopefully not on this Saturday it is 10% off at HomeBase!
The French farmers do this best – lorry loads of cow shit.
Methinks . . . . PIGNUTS
Christ no! Do you have any idea how much pignuts cost?
£6 for a 25kg sack.
What Gordon is doing is typical New Labour. The perception is critical, the action is secondary and, if possible to get away with, unwanted complication.
He wants to reassure the people with words and proposals, not with actions.
You are right of course, but step back for a second and look at Cameron – you can almost say the same thing about him. Yes, he’s way out in front on this compared to the other leaders but it’s really just all noise so far. Nothing has really been done. DAVID CAMERON – sort your shit out so we can actually vote for you. I, and many others, will not vote for a party poluted by thieves.
Just because MPs are not “flipping”, does not mean that they are being “honest”!
If you stick all available data into Excel, you quickly realise that ALL MPs are submitting similar levels of expenses. Now this cannot happen unless it is done with the connivance of this “Fees Office”. Somebody, somewhere is coaching MPs how to maximise returns!
As any previous Public Account Holder will agree, the whole system of Public Accounts is geared to waste and corruption. If you do not spend your whole budget in the current year, you are docked a similar percentage in the next…… and that is before you get any increase in line with inflation!
It is easy to see WHY things are as bad as they are in the Fees Office. They are obviously encouraging MPs to claim to the maximum, so they do not experience a future budget shortfall.
In this “endeavour” it is obvious some MPs are cleverer than others. I would suggest that the “flippers” are just too dim to be considered effective MPs and should be removed for that dimness!
I agree with your main points, it’s too widespread to be explained purely by individual greed. It seems clear that at some point someones agreed to a low payrise for MP’s for PR purposes in exchange for “flexibility” on expenses. This can only have been done with full party agreement. There’s the smoking gun, who agreed it, with whom, and how was it communicated to the Fees Office and the MP’s themselves?
No wonder £300 000 was spent trying to cover it up, and how ironic that their very own Freedom of Information Act caught them out. Got it wrong there me laddos. Hoist by your own petard!
But I disagree that the non flippers are fools, my take would be of honest public servants entering a club and being fearful of upsetting the status quo and too scared at the consequences of disclosure.
But tinkering is pointless, root and branch reform is what’s needed now, it’s the only way to get some sort of trust back, maybe even up to the level of the Italians if we are lucky.
Vote Berlesconi, you know it makes sense.
Sings “Things can only get betterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr”
I see that there is a concerted effort in the press and TV to defend Michael Martin this morning. The main defence tactic is to go down the “mostly true” route of making out that he is being made a scape goat and at the same time totally ignore that it was he who wanted the status quo of fraudulent claims to continue without being exposed to the freedom of information of the public.
Oddly enough the press seem to also ignore the speakers historic role as defender of MP’s rights against outside interference. I seem to remember an incident last year in which this venal, partisan, duplicitous little twat allowed the police to search an MP’s office.
What was that MP’s crime, exposing this useless government for what it is.
When are we going to get a system of independant MPs, not subject to the awful “whip” system.
Only then will people be represented as they want, without interference from party central.
Its disgusting that MPs are requered to support the party line even if it goes against their own views and more importantly the electorates.
I think we have one more chance to change the system and its now.
When the GE comes, forget the political associations and go for an independant.
IF you are getting bored with the daily torrent of sleaze, Can I recommend as alternative breakfast TV viewing ….Redeye on Fox News (509 sky satellite) It’s supposed to be late night American ‘pink’satire so goes down well in the UK at breakfast, though a couple of bloody marys and a gallon of strong coffee make it look better…<B.
Meanwhile back in HMP Westminster, the inmates are getting restless. If Gorbals Mick does throw in the golden sponge, the hacket faced woman would be the temporary replacement, no? OR its back to the tub of lard and see if anyone notices. sigh….
One more thing, please please vote in the euros, dont let them say we are happy with the status quo by a low turn out, make your voice heard.
Iam sorry to be pleading but its important.
+1 Agree totally
Yes. Everyone MUST vote. For third parties – no Tories, no Labour, no Lib Dems (unless Cameron or Clegg actually start forcing resignations).
Not me. My Euro MP is Hannan – one of the good guys.
He has my vote – guaranteed
Quite so – nulabours words have always been lies, but it is easy to judge them by their actions.
JD.
Does anyone have any information about Bary Gardiner and his £200,000 of our money?
Cassius thunders about the Speaker and Cabinet:
http://cassiuswrites.blogspot.com/2009/05/question-of-honour.html
The “Ides of March” in May methinks!
Reading the news, main stream and blog, the politicians still have no idea of the anger caused by their greed. Hypocrisy compared to their behaviour is to compare the light from a candle to the sun.
None of them, including those who are asking for the ability to de-select candidates, seem to understand the reason for the anger.
Simply, it is the difference between what they say and what they do.
The house of commons is responsible for the amount of money people have to live their lives. The two examples of pension fund tax credits and the 10p tax debacle are the highlights. Both measures, passed by the HOC with no regard to the effect on the general population and fixed for MPs by voting themselves increases.
The government of Eire showed some respect to their population by taking a pay cut when their economy contracted. The UK response, a self awarded pay and allowances increase.
Paying back the proceeds of crime or error is judged insufficient reparation for benefit cheats, a criminal record is added. How can the punishment be less for politicians.
When political parties start calling the police to arrest their erring politicians, not just de-selecting them, then we will know change has started.
Am I holding my breath waiting? Hell will be tepid before any political party starts to apply the law to their own people.
Martins dead eveybody knows it except him, forget it lets move on, a new election is moving closer, lets make sure all the troughers are outed and made known at the time so people can see them for what they are, I hesitate to go further but criminal charges should be filed on a number of them.
Without this action they will be laughing all the way to the bank.
We need to start independant election branches now to stop the gravy train from contiuing.
Maggie that’s the third time you’ve spelled “independent” with an “a”. I know democracy is at stake an’ all that, but it’s doing my head in.
Alan
Don’t be a pedent
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The best comment on this is from Reuters:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKTRE54H6I020090518
“Independent Labour party website Labourlist” *snigger*
Reuters is an international news service.
Our politicians have only days to put out the fire before the world loses confidence in Britain’s economic prospects and downgrades our debt ratings.
nick brown ! You can tell when labour think they have found a truly incompetent fuckwit, they put them in charge of Defra – every little helps in their ongoing pogrom against the rural community !
Looks like another victim of the curse of tony banks.
Saw the new boy on Sky today speaking for Labourlist. Now Draper has left he doesn’t seem afraid to lampoon Brown, maybe there are green shoots in Labourlist! As to the speaker, well as Caesar said ” better to die once than a hundred times”, he should use his head and resign before he makes a complete fool of himself.
It’s the survival of Brown or the Labour Party. They can’t have both.
Brown will choose Brown and the Labour party will follow suit.
Nearly threw my porridge at breakfast TV this morning, Call me Dave saying that he was going to hold a European referendum. No he ain’t, unless a whole bunch of terms and conditions are met, which he fully well knows will not be met.
Very true
Tuesday Morning Update. How long can Brown & Martin last?
It’s a “let them eat cake” situation.
Looks like Nick Brown has been tucking into “lunch” with his old mate Mark Oaten.
Time for Cameron and Clegg to show some cojones to reflect the public mood of anger and disgust with this rotten government. Why don’t they arrange for two of their “clean” mps to resign their seats and re-stand on a platform of “general election now + Clean up politics”. They could ensure that their respective parties would not contest the sitting mp’s seat and they could appeal to the general public to get involved with the canvassing process in both seats. I would expect that this move would ensure a huge turnout in both constituencies: it would then just be impossible for Bunker Brown to resist the will of the public. Desperate situations need desperate answers.
Talking of Wales, I see Peter Hain is now giving advise to the PM, only the other day he stood down from the cabinet.
This ‘honest’ once terrorist scumbag has or had his eigthy year old mother on his pay list. As good as ignored by the media.
Don’t be conned by this dirty handed bastard.
Hain is one of the first of the disgusting twats that should be strung up.
If they did that without removing the thieves from their party I would vote for an independant candidate to show just how much I want a new government. A fully new government – without thieves.
“Value for Money” a new labour spin !!!!
A Labour MP has denied using a second home allowance for London to furnish her first home in south Wales.
Bridgend MP Madeleine Moon has been accused in the Daily Telegraph of claiming more than £4,000 in expenses for furniture bought in Wales.
She defended the decision as “value for money” and one that “would bring money into the Welsh economy”.
“These and additional furniture from my family home were transported to London by a local furniture and haulage contractor. The Telegraph has a copy of receipts confirming this,” she said.
Ms Moon added: “Before making purchases I have always contacted the Department of Finance and Administration to confirm I was acting within the rules.
>>>>
I’d like to know how the cost of transportation to London helped the “value for money” calculation let alone the Green/carbon impact of this action.
another snouter I’m afraid
“When Cameron became aware that Andrew MacKay was on the fiddle, he immediately dispensed with his senior adviser before the sun rose. ”
and what about Michael Gove? Will Cameron be deselecting the flipping Michael Gove? No! Why? Because he’s an important member of the shadow cabinet. Dispensing with a bag carrier is one thing, sacking a senior member of the shadow cabinet is quite another.
Yet again this site masquerades as some kind of crusade against corruption, and again any mention of Conservative corruption is limited to pathetic figures that nobody has heard of, and old farts cleaning moats out that just provide Cameron with an opportunity to show how he’s ‘changed’ the party by turning fire on the pre-97 lot.
What about Julie Kirkbride?.
Why only MacKay?.
They were both in on it.
Bloody sexist.
Both out and not missed.
Gove is clean; see:
http://iaindale.blogspot.com/search/label/Michael%20Gove
Thier was something I think last week on the speccy coffeehouse blog with a piece from Gove dating back last year complaining about having to commute with the unwashed and having to change his house.
Also see: Michael Gove is far from a villain in expenses-gate
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2009/05/michael-gove-is-far-from-a-villain-in-expensesgate.html
“Michael Gove has been the shadow cabinet’s biggest supporter of David Cameron taking a hawkish line on transparency”
Gove is not the only one who has complained about public transport.
Who was it who said, “The problem with public transport is the public”?
There are occasions when antisocial behaviour makes public transport unspeakable.
Ollie
Michael Gove arranged and appeared at a public meeting in his constituency last night where he faced an audience of 350 locals. He went through his expenses line by line.
Credit where credit is due.
Gove is the least of the troughers.
Cameron has shifted the task of cleaning onto party members. Call it delegation? However, at least he has publicised a how-to.
Gove actually was only elected for the first time in 2005.
live phone in Cameron now, five live
Labour are the party of government (ha, ha) they get, and deserve the most stick by far. This is, after all, politics, and Cameron is playing it rather well. As for Nick Brown, a more unpleasant sack of cack you would be hard pressed to find, outside the Labour Party that is.
Brown by name, Brown by nature. Like a Turd.
The Penguin.
You wont get true representation until the present party structure is dismantled, until then we will have party hacks supporting whatever is spouted by the “leadership”. yes we need leadership to function but not the kind we have now which disrespects the public and carrys on regardless.
Referendums are one way to go, they may not be perfect but at least they show the will of the people.
The next election is our chance to change please take it.
They all need to be hung from lamp posts.
So, I’ll get you Butler claims for a hot tub and Call me Dave claims for wisteria erradication. How come Butler gets all the flak and CMD blue skys?
As far as I can see they are as bad as each other, excepting that Dave could have erradicated his wisteria with the small change doiwn the back of his sofa.
Tell Dolly we miss him.
The Penguin.
By god they frighten me, but nothing frightens more than a government that doesnt listen.
Let me know if you need infantry for the battle ahead.
Iam facing difficulties at the moment but I know whats important
Even the Old Guard went down.
At this point I don’t actually think they can have either. It’s too late now.
Is that Gordon’s shit all over his face ??
Rent boys shitting on your face dont come cheap (So I hear)
And they dont give receipts, so poor Nick Brown was completely within the rules.
The fat,thieving HOON
Oh goody – I do like a good guillotining before lunch.
No one will be inside the building. It will be empty.
Burn it anyway
“Building”? Houses of Parliament?
I am still waiting for my MP to appear on any list, “saintly” or not. I am bracing myself because it may be that the DT is saving the worst til last.
Today, I feel very sorry for the MPs of integrity who went into politics to make a difference for the better, to serve their electorate, perhaps sacrificed a better-paid job or more comfortable career to do something they believed was right, did not steal from the public purse, yet have had to listen to the Speaker telling them that they must share the blame for the scandal and contumely.
Unfortunately my MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown has been exposed as one of the greedy troughers and house flippers. Unless they deselect him I will find it difficult to vote Tory at the next election and will probably go for one of the smaller parties as a protest.
good get an independant to stand, who will trully represent your views.
He’s my Mum’s MP – she says he has always been a bit too much of a smart-arse.
From Dave’s speech yesterday:
” I want to remind Conservative party members and local activists of the rules we already have.
If you think your MP is not right to stand, there’s a simple process for triggering his or her re-selection.
It only needs ten per cent of the members, or fifty people – whichever is the smaller number.
Obviously, this process is not to be used lightly.
But it is a process that can be used by Party members.
The Chairman of every Conservative Association can also trigger a re-selection process.
And, where necessary, the board of the Party can order it too.”
Perhaps one of those routes is open to you or some of your friends?
That’s leadership Dave.
Get the local party to do your dirty work from central office.
Do you really expect with all the political and social fall out locally that this would happen? Unless the incumbent MP is so bent and twisted that he/she falls on their sword anyway it isn’t going to happen. You know it and anyone with brain cells know it.
Don’t believe me? Watch Haslehurst survive. His local association is run as a cocktail party for the supposed high and mighty. Actually they are a diminishing band of old guard, honest, decent people but they are truly scared of making a fuss of things socially. Dave has them over a barrel.
There are no ethics left in Parliament, the main political parties or their associations. Pretty sad state of affairs.
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Which may let Labour back in! Good choice.
I feel sorry for both of them, as well.
I know one MP a bit, from “school”.
He probably did go into politics for the right reason (but 65k was a pay rise).
He’ll only have been able to “trough” about 6k (a lot of valid travel in expeneses).
However, he’ll look a bit of a daft little prick if he knew all about the system, went along with it a bit, half heartedly claimed on stuff, and didn’t say anything.
I rekon thats about as good as it gets for any MP.
“Houses” of Parliament? Looks more like the “Whorehouses” of Parliament. Well they ARE “professional” or so they claim!
Don’t think that by having an election things will be a whole lot better! The basic distorted system will be the same. Hope Esther R and lots of others take up the
challenge and become independents. Yes, n brown was – good name when you see what’s smeared all over his face, – deeply involved with maladministration during the foot and mouth disaster. He went into hiding for a long
while popping up when brown became pm. Curious how this mafia seem to be clinging together. Mps, like ants in a nest will be running for cover right now, starting diversionary tactics, hiding from the light, regrouping, waiting ’til the coast is clear and they can resume their corrupt practices. Can you expose (really expose) the power of the lobby groups next Guido? How much money
is handed over to mps and the lords illicitly by lobby groups I wonder.
Independants make sense
“hope Esther Rantzen…”
You cannot be serious. Margaret Moran has been thrown a lifeline as I can’t think of anyone I know (although , mind you, I don’t live in Luton) who would support this bossy, self-publicist being given a platform.
And it’ll get worse. Just think of all those self-loving has beens who’ll jump at this chance to be “important” again. Janet Street-Porter, Germaine Greer, Bob Geldorf, Michael Barrymore….
The Penguin.
Esther Ranszen has a reputation of being a foul mouthed drunken bully – a bit like Gordon Brown on vodka
Correct. Somebody I know who spent 30 years dealing directly with customers reckoned that Enid Rancid was the most unpleasant individual that she came across. Could just have been a bad day day in an otherwise saintly life, though I doubt it.
Esther Rantzen – good replacement for Margaret Beckett
In the mid-90′s I worked briefly with Esther Ranszen’s (ex)-researcher, heard many a Bunkeresque tale of expeletive-ridden vodka-sodden rage directed at her assistants
She [alledgedly] knocked back a bottle of vodka before eash show [alledgedly]
Politics is showbiz for the ugly. What could that possibly mean?
All of this is becoming very repetative.
Whilst parliament is squirming and MPs are caught in the headlights what exactly is happening to change things? Martin is still in position despite the pressure. Brown and Cameron and Clegg are running around trying to hold things together. MPs are claiming it’s all within the rules. Daily submissions of yet more fraud continue.
But what about us??
The system has fallen down, is in ruins, the economy, managed by these bastards is in shreds. Even the new car ‘scrappage scheme’ is in taters. MPs and parliament has no credibility and yet they continue pretending that it’s ‘business as usual’. Parliament sits, committees meet etc etc. These people are frauds and continue to ignore public opinion. Yet, there is no action to change things. It’s not now just about expenses. It’s about our democracy. We are treated to their patronising comments and their complete denial that anything is wrong.
We are paying these fools, these fraudsters, these criminals. It’s our money. I can’t help but reflect that if the shoe was on the other foot, we would be in serious trouble, arrested, charged and in gaol by now.
Its finished, lets start new.
Get rid of Martins now and call a GE, you know it makes sense.
Cameroon for president.
OT but one for Dolly
http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events.php?event=EVT0183
Another Labour MP exposed by the Telegraph. This time it’s jacuzzi loving dimbo Dawn Butler who claims thousands for one house just 15 miles away from her other house:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5346398/MPs-expenses-a-whirlpool-bath-and-a-week-away-for-whips.html
What really takes the piss is that her second home is the same distance from Parliament as her first home.
Yoo iz bein racist innit!!
Just far enough to work up a sweat so you need to use the jacuzzi.
Don’t forget, Dawn Butler is a Labour whip alongside that other greedy, lying sleazebag Nick Brown. Labour are rotten to the core right up to Gordon Brown with his huge expense claims for a London flat which he hasn’t lived in for 12 years.
A jaccuzi! I mean a f…g jaccuzi. Sorry JACUZZI.
I paid tax for years and my humble abode doesn’t even have a simple bath let alone a JACUZZI
I have ONE shower.
Let me say it again.
JACUZZI
JACUZZI
JACUZZI
JACUZZI
JACUZZI
JACUZZI
JACUZZI
JACUZZI
JACUZZI
JACUZZI
There, that feels better.
She’s a bit of all right lads.
Dy’a think she would be kind enough to share it with me?
She is your social superior and therefore deserves to have a jacuzzi.
You are her social inferior and therefore do not deserve to have a bath.
Wholly necssary for her job as an MP and not all extravagant, so she will bleat it was “within the rules”.
Looks like 6 months for fraud to me, but only if she pays the money back, with interest, first.
Newspaper spin: They say “jacuzzi style”.
They don’t say how much that actually cost. (could be ~ £1k)
I’m less shocked by 2 grand on a bath than 2 grand on a TV.
And of course, if you want to trough in peace you just make sure you’ve got 20 grand interest on your mortgage.
It’s actually a bath. She farts frequently
Now that really is taking the piss.
I wonder if this greedy cow at any point ever considered that she was being just a teensy bit unreasonable in her expense claims?
Or did she fully realise how unjustifiable her claims were and just thought “f*ck it, its only taxpayers money”
I suspect the latter. She needs a spell in prison.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5346633/MPs-expenses-Nick-Brown-claims-18800-for-food-without-receipts.html
Stunning headline.
£18,800 for food – no receipts
He probably ate them too
Vote Tory or risk getting another five years of Brown.
That’s the only real choice in front of us.
Too bloody right and i despair at people that still go on about “never voting because they remember the Thatcher years”, well jesus, looking at the Brown and Blair Labour years, I’d take her back in a second.
Couldn’t have put it better myself!
How about lapel ribbons, car rear widow stickers etc in Red & Black horizontal stripes (like a burglars jersey) possibly with the word “Thieves” or “Looters” thereon ?
Like the car sticker idea.
Any entreprenneurs out there?
The NEC has some good, hardworking people on it – and they can be found at all levels of the Labour Party. It will be hard to forget the damage some have caused to the party:
http://blog.matthewcain.co.uk/labour-is-also-ann-black/
the large conference and exhibition centre near birmingham?
‘Snouts’ not ‘snoughts’ . .
Everyone should read yesterday’s Hansard transcript to realise what a pathetic individual the Speaker is. A bully who has been found out.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm090518/debtext/90518-0003.htm#0905186000002
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm090518/debtext/90518-0004.htm
It also show how scared the majority of the Labour Party are; scared of what will happen to them at the next Election, scared of what lies outside the piggy trough snuffling world of Westminster.
Read ‘em and weep!
Pink mafia looking after one another.
Gays fine, but totally disproportionate influence.
Serves Nick Brown right, his behaviour with that of his whips sitting in the House shouting “give way” when George Osborne was speaking trying to disrupt his speech was shameful. He has also been responsible for bringing the House into disrepute.
Its sooo not fair! – we dont want that fat ugly fuck Nick Brown batting for our side (how much does he pay to get ‘serviced’?) – but I suppose we gays have to also put up with the old addage “politics is showbiz for the ugly”
“Fuck the electorate, they’re loyal MP’s” says Brown in response to a question from Toenails.
Well he didn’t actually say that .. but inactions speak louder than words
Another sort of corruption, the Daily Politcs report into Glamorgan Social Services: Bugger Thy Neighbour
Apologies, I broker the link: Glamorgan Social Services – Bugger Thy Neighbour
The collective noun for a group of CROOKS – a CABINET
Excellent GF
Web of deceit?
From The Scotsman:
An MP sold furnishings to a Labour colleague who then claimed the money back on expenses, it was reported today.
Michael Connarty sold his flat in London to fellow Labour MP Jim Devine, the Daily Telegraph said.
When Mr Connarty moved out, he left behind furniture and household items which Mr Devine bought for £4,000, including £1,000 for a sofa bed.
Mr Devine, according to the newspaper, claimed this sum as expenses for his second home.
Mr Connarty then claimed for goods at his new second home – including stereo equipment and a £250 alarm clock.
The newspaper said Mr Connarty, MP for Linlithgow and Falkirk East, also claimed back the cost of two beds and two sofas.
One bed and bedframe was claimed for in January 2007 and the delivery address was his constituency home in Falkirk, it said.
Mr Connarty later changed his designated second home to a flat in London owned by Ian Davidson, Labour MP for Glasgow South West.
In April 2007 he claimed £2,181 for household goods, including a £178.95 set of scales from John Lewis and £249.99 for an alarm clock radio.
In August that year, he was said by the newspaper to have bought a £365,000 flat near Mr Davidson’s with an interest-only mortgage, charging the taxpayer £13,136 in conveyancing and stamp duty.
He designated this as his second home, claiming mortgage interest of about £1,700 a month.
Sack them both , don’t bother asking any questions. Advise plod and see if 6 months in Barlinnie appeals.
250 quid for an alarm clock -Was it fucking BIg Ben?
Labour Grassroots Disgusted With PLP
The grassroots are in touch with the rest of us. Unlike the PLP.
Just a thought chaps…
Whilst all this is going on, who the hell is running the country?
As I see it the only solution is wholesale deselection of the crooks and then a general election.
I am not really a political animal but Brown must go and Cameron must show some serious backbone.
or Mike Jackson/Jock Stirrup steps in, “until democracy can be restored”?
In the interim they could ask Jeremy Clarkson.
Suggest Emergency Cabinet of Cowell (PM), Clarkson (FCO), Liitlejohn (Home Office), Goodwin (Treasury), Andy McNab (MOD) with a few lightweights to look after peripheral (non-centralised) stuff like Health, Education, DSS, Scotland, Wales. Job done.
What is DC up to?
He has failed three major hurdles in two weeks now – & he has the audacity to criticise Mcmental for lack of leadership?
1: When the troughing Tory Grandees were exposed, he should have immediately booted them out of the Conservative Party.
2: He knows that Martin has to go & should say so.
3: He has again used mealy mouthed language to fudge the Lisbon Treaty / EU Constitution – he should have stated clearly without any doubts that he would put the matter to a UK Referendum – irrespective of other countries.
Sorry DC, my vote stays with UKIP – & your lack of leadership is to thank for that.
Brave men fought and brave men fell
defending country loved so well,
they gave their lives in valiant deed,
what would they think of current greed?
That freedom won at such great cost
has now been either sold or lost.
Our politicians have prevailed
where Hitler and the rest all failed.
Empowered with the public trust,
they paid us back with greed and lust,
Flat-screen TV, moat, plug and worse,
they plundered from the public purse.
The system’s wrong, we had no choice,
they bleat together in one voice,.
but moral compass had no role
as MPs lied and flipped and stole..
They still can’t see the Speaker’s chair
is broken now beyond repair,
don’t understand it’s time for change,
it’s time to rid us of this mange.
Now soldier turns in honoured grave
embarrassed that the life he gave
is so shamed and disrespected
by the dross that we elected.
As MPs squabble, slinging mud
our ailing country loses blood.
They practice still, deceit and lies
while once pround nation slowly dies.
Labour know what they have to do to get rid of Brown, get seventy names behind your candidate, surely with the mood of the Labour grassroots they could manage that. But it is the ugly mood in “the House of Horrors” that they all need to deal with, the only sticky plaster remedy is a General Election, like it or lump it Brown.
Has Cameron sacked Ed Vaizey yet? Yeah, thought not…
Don’t believe the hype.
How very sad
It used to be leftie bloggers would have the courage to give themselves a name , now you’ve all crawled back under the stones you came from
Notice you don’t answer the question.
How very sad!
De-selection in FIfe anyone?
Crisis, what crisis? Labour mantra.
Hey Guido,
How generous of you to pay for my well deserved expensive holiday instead of the bleeding heart taxpayers.
As a man without sin, my legal eagles, Farter Fuck will be singeing your ass for loads of your ££££££££££££££££££££.
I will pay for my own sun blocks. Thanks
Dissolve Parliament immediately.
The public – as well as the Parliament/media/authorities – need at least a month to get clear exactly who has;
1.) stolen/defrauded and hence face criminal investigation
2.)exceeded the spirit of the rules (the moats/TV’s etc)and face a damn good grilling from their constituents and subsequent deselection.
3.been TOTALLY trustworthy and without any blame for their expenses claims and can continue in the knowledge they are to be trusted by their constituents.
To carry on with Parliament now until July is unrealistic.
The expenses system needs to be re-written by the end of May (listen to Steve Easterbrook,CEO of McDonalds UK,appearing on last week’s Question Time, who cannot believe that cash expenses has been handled in this way – it would never be so in any business in this country and he rightly says this can be sorted within 48 hrs).
Once the system is sorted,we then have a General Election circa early July.
There is now a constitutional crisis,not just surrounding the behaviour of the Speaker,but the whole Parliament.It must be dissolved and the whole thing re-built with the electorate deciding who remains an MP,which current MP’s are not re-elected and which new MP’s are elected (hopefully a load of Independents,as the whole Party system has corrupted the way Parliament behaves,especially under the Brown administration which does politics before anything,including the safety and wellbeing of this fine country.
By the way,how interesting that it takes a man who runs a chain of fast food outlets to bring the greatest clarity to the table.
Apparently the Speaker of the House of Commons will resign today at 2.30. Why is he ill?
Source?????
Hear Hear!
How embarassing internationally, the New York Times commenting on UK politics, they make it all sound like a “soap opera”, but a nice bit of free publicity for Guido, well done my man.
martin to resign today, sky news
YES!!! The fuckwit is resigning!!
Sky reporting Martin to resign pm. Sterrrrriiiiiiike!
AND NOW FOR G BROWN – HE MUST DISSOLVE PARLIAMENT THIS WEEK.
Sky saying Martin is going to resign this afternoon.
Humiliated – hahahaha
Breaking news
Martin is to resign at 2.30pm
See Below
http://waugh.standard.co.uk/2009/05/martin-to-resign.html
The “Ides of March” in May has occured, the Speaker is going to do the “honourable” thing at last. Will Brown and his Brownies be next, Rome may burn yet!
AU REVOIR MICK!
Anyone remember the writings of C Northcote Parkinson?
While more well known for Parkinsons Law he also wrote about something he called Injelitis. This stated that organizations get infected with injelitis, which causes the organization to become moribund, resulting in little constructive activity and accomplishment.
His suggested remedy was that the only way to get the organization back to health was a total clear out, as putting a few good people in was pointless as they realised they were helpless to change the disease ridden culture, and either left or became infected themselves.
He also stated if I recall correctly, that good people could be found within such infected organisations and they survived by keeping their heads down and going with the flow.
A man ahead of his time it would seem.
While you are examining Labour Snouts in ye olde trough, have you seen what Linlithgow and Falkirk East MP Michael Connarty has allegedly been up to?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5348738/Jim-Devine-bought-Michael-Connartys-furniture-on-expenses.html
On one level it’s par for the disreputable course, and though I think that some of the outrageous claims discussed might amount to matters for Inspector Knacker, that’s not even surprising or unusual any more.
However, what was more notable was his reply (see the bottom of the above article, and below):
‘Asked to justify the expense claims, Mr Connarty responded in an email: “The Daily Telegraph is involved in using stolen property to financially benefit the newspaper and the pay of its journalists. “In my understanding, this is the criminal act of ‘reset’. I hope the newspaper will eventually answer in court for this criminal act.” Mr Connarty failed to respond to The Daily Telegraph’s questions on the details of his expenses claims last night. ‘
This is quite breathtaking hubris if you ask me. Either he thinks he is fireproof both electorally and within his local party, whatever the national party say, or he is too stupid to realise that the game is up for him. I wonder whether he will be fighting the next general election on the Labour ticket, having stared down all appalled challengers, even as the police start sniffing around his expenses claims and oilling their handcuffs?
YES!! : The Reluctant Speaker is gone.
That James Purnell, Hazel Blears, Jacqui Smith and Geoff Hoon, not to mention Mr & Mrs Balls, are still members of McTwat’s team and that the bumbling oaf masquerading as the Speaker is still masquerading as the Speaker tells you all you need to know about the UK’s magnificent sub-prime minister.
If he doesn’t get rid of them soon, he will be got rid of and rightly so.
And N Brown, and Butler and Uddin, and G Brown hismself of course. All have troughed to the limits and all should go. Let’s remember Martin wasn’t just useless on MP’s expenses, he was useless as a Speaker, troughed himslef (as did his wife), and he let the Met search Damian Green’s office for the terrible crime of having embarassed Jackie Smith (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). Good riddance and no pay-offs (G Brown – “there will be no rewards for failure”)……………………………………
The Mail is quick:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1183897/Michael-Martin-jumps-pushed-Speaker-resign-later-today.html
the man is dead
NEWSFLASH
Gorbals Mick to resign this afternoon.
Ray Mallon for Speaker .. NOW !!!
I’m not dithering. I just don’t know what to do.
Any ideas would be welcome…
Martin will resign at 2pm
No receipts and 18,000 grand claimed. Totally unacceptable. Why should we pay for MP’s to eat? Let’s have an election now.
Guido let’s have the expenses for Gorbals. Should make interesting reading.
And where’s the Hoon guide to flipping?
http://uk.reuters.com/
Reuters has some good Breaking News.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8057203.stm
Speaker to go…
Who passed the revolver, or who pulled the trigger?
Can anyone tell me…..
How will a government be formed if Independents form the majority of the HoC?
(Serious question btw)
Guido
I can break another POTENTIALLY EVEN BIGGER SCANDAL HERE ON YOUR BLOG
AND THIS COMES FROM THE HEART OF MI5
DOWNING STREET “SPECIAL FUNDS” voted each year by Parliament with their eyes closed
These funds are supposedly used for national security
IN FACT THEY HAVE BEEN EMBEZZLED FIRST BY BLAIR AND NOW BY BROWN TO PAY FOR THEIR DOWNING STREET “DIRTY TRICKS DEPARTMENT”
WHO PAID FOR THE DIRTY TRICKS OF BALLS/ALEXANDER/WATSON/MCBRIDE ???
WHEN IT IS SHOWN THAT THESE WERE PAID FOR BY “SPECIAL FUNDS” WE BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE GROUNDS FOR IMPEACHING THE PRIME MINISTER AND PROSECUTING ALL INVOLVED
WE ARE ALREADY IN THE WORST CRISIS FOR GENERATIONS, THIS NEW DOWNGING STREET SCANDAL WILL ASTONISH BEYOND BELIEF
GUIDO THIS BLOG WILL BE THE FIRST TO EXPLODE THESE LABOUR CRIMINALS
THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT AND MPS HAVE BEHAVED CRIMINALLY SINCE 1997
YOUR HONOURABLE INFORMER
I have no doubt this is true.
When will this morally bankrupt Government stand down?
I really HOPE this is true. In which case we MUST bring back hanging. I was in NZ in 1989 when I heard (via BBC World Service on short-wave and rather before NZ had caught up) that Ceaucescu had been executed. I REJOICED that such a crook had received his “come uppance”. WE need the same to heal the wounds since we have MANY crooks in the HoC and HoL and in government. Public execution MAY be extreme but “Community Orders” and payback simply won’t cut it anymore!
Nick Brown claimed £18000 without receipts? No wonder he did nothing about Elliot Morley(Fraudster) or Hazel Blears or all the rest.
He was well down in the trough with them.
Chief Whip? Cheating corrupt thief.
Go now.
Join Speaker Martin in the cess pit.
We must have an Election now.
Surely this Dawn Butler has to go as well?
A Jacuzzi?
Give me strength.
Nothing on David Lammy MP (Mastermind Pillock)?
Hey
Nick Brown. Well I KNOW him . He was a Newcastle Councillor and a union organiser when I was a very senior officer in said council 20 years ago.
He was ALWAYS “chunky” and some years later I once encountered him on an early morning flight from Newcastle to Gatwick. He by then was a Minister no less and he hadn’t changed a bit. The ONLY difference was that he was wearing a smart suit rather than scruffy jeans and a sweatshirt. As I recall the Old Labour councillors (some of whom at least were honest as the day is long) HATED him. I could say much more but will not for legal reasons.
As I remember Nick Brown always lived in the East end of Newcastle so it is a bit surprising that he now classes that as his “second home”. then again he does have a somewhat southern accent.
I also knew Stuart Bell, another councillor as I remember, who was significant by his absence!!! No wonder Newcastle, a Tory stronghold in 1973 (yes really) , then a Labour stronghold for 20 years after re-organisation, finally flipped to LibDem (and I know John Shipley, the leader, as well).
I was also aware of Stephen Byers who was a Law Lecturer at Northumbria University I think – but best not to go into that, AND Millburn, another union organiser who, in my time, secured a seniorish job for which he had little experience, in a neighbouring Labour authority. Not that I would dream of calling “foul play” but I WAS pressured by SOME Newcastle Labour councillors (neither Nick Brown nor Stuart Bell for the avoidance of doubt) to support the promotion of Labour activist employees. I told them to F off. Could THAT be why I was made redundant? Hmmm
I WAS once told that I HAD to join the Labour Party or my career would be over!!!
The twats now in Government were cutting their political teeth in Local Authorities 20 years ago and already practicising for “politicisation” of public servants. I KNOW where Blair got “the scratches on my back”. It was from HONEST PROFESSIONAL APOLITICAL Local government people who thwarted his plans for very good reason!
I never rated Nick Brown or Stuart Bell – or many others come to that but they NOW are “running the country”. Is it ME who is stupid or them?
Byers – did he not teach his now partner whilst at University, Jan Cookson.
Milburn worked in North Tyneside and in so far as I am aware has not published any expenses as yet.
They may show disgust in public but scratch the surface and they still support the troughers. Looks like it’s business as usual as the Luton constituency office:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5346198/MPs-expenses-Margaret-Moran-MP-faces-Esther-Rantzen-challenge.html
have the lib dems paid back the money they got from their biggest doner who is on the run from the law ???????????????
Gordon’s now showing firm leadership.
Rule breakers (if any) wont be allowed to stand at the next election which they would lose their seats anyway.
Their consolation will be that they can still trough out on the resettlement grant.
It should be revoked (with restrospective effect) as the first act of the next Government.
Add it all together with the Ecclestone affair, cash for passports, cash for nannies, the proxy donors scandal, cash for peerages, “good day to bury bad news”, Drapergate and the sexed up dossier and you get a clear picture of a Government high on moral lecturing but low on personal moral rectitude.
What a shower.
Surely Margaret Beckett, a greasy blob of nastiness who showed her true colours in her snide blocking response to questioners on the Dimbleby programme a few nights ago, should be included in dismissal. Her trough-guzzling performance is hard to match