Anthony Steen to Spend More Time With His Garden
Anthony Steen MP is to retire at the next election, he has just told ConservativeHome
“The real issue is who can fix the country, and I have become a distraction, so have decided that I won’t stand again. I don’t want to risk the party losing the seat, so it is in the best interests of the party that I go. There has been no pressure from my association; they have been marvellous: members have been very put out by the Daily Telegraph coverage. I’ve had a very good innings, there’s no bitterness, no anger, but as the saying goes, all political careers end in tears.”
He will be able to spend more time gardening, saving the taxpayer a fortune. Voting blue in Totnes was perhaps going a little too “green” with Steen claiming some £88,000 in expenses for the upkeep of his garden. Guido will admit this, Steen goes with class, without desperately clinging onto the greasy pole.
UPDATE : The Tory press office says: “Sir Peter Viggers has confirmed that he will retire as MP for Gosport at the next election. He will do so at the direct request of David Cameron”. Out for a duck. Well fired for claiming £1,645 for a floating “duck island” in his garden pond. Quackers.
“Hain tried to claim payments on two homes at once”
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/05/20/expenses-row-hain-tried-to-claim-payments-on-two-homes-at-once-91466-23667447/
The MSM in Wales is Labour’s catamite rent boy. Hardly a whisper about Hain and Bryant who are active hooners. What makes the tragedy complete is that the electorate for places like Neath, Rhondda etc will carry on voting Labour inspite of the hooners and the fact that the valleys are as poor and deprived,in relative, terms as they were fifty years ago.
Number of sackings by party leaders to date for hooners:
Gordon “Mcmental shitehouse” Brown – zero
Dave “I’m posh” Cameron – three
Nick “calamity” Clegg – zero
Bunch of scoundrels all
Cheers and trebles allround….
Gordon has had no need to get rid of any party members unlike those horrid horrid tories!
HH Eat shit you bitch
This is more moderated than the BBC
I must agree with you here, I was born in Neath, they would vote for a “dog” I suppose as long as he was wearing the red rossette. But Neath is a great little town of solicitors and farming, and the claims to fame are Lord Nelson stayed at the Castle Hotel, and a chancellor introduced death duties much to his grandmother’s anger, and last but not least Hain stepping down from the cabinet of Gordon Brown for “crooking”.
Wales will always vote Labour! The incapacity benefits are excellent, boy.
Did you hear this moronic Buffoon talking on the Radio today Guido ????
“Guido will admit this, Steen goes with class, without desperately clinging onto the greasy pole.” Yeah, he showed REAL class trying to blame his own constituents for his hilarious predicament and whining about the freedom of information act.
This story will run and run and run because Duck houses are irresistable.
Luckily one shouted phone call from Dave later and he did a u-turn on his blithering idiocy but he’s clearly a complete f*cking paltroon who has no place in Politics.
And no-one has been “sacked”. They are retiring after the next Election.
Stop using the Westminster Public Relations Spin please Guido.
apparently one of the duck’s said that they had to move out because of the excessive rent this trougher was charging them “what with that and the pole tax we could’nt afford to live there” latest on the duck island (sky news) he’s taken it to one of his other houses in france! surely this is theft?
Where’s Freddie?
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Sir Reg
Notable methinks is that on the whole (and that is not to say all) Conservative troughers faced with deselection -Steen a case in point – resign before being pushed while Liebour troughers – Moran prime example – fight tooth and nail to stay put.
Difference lies in breeding methinks.
If you want to be a hooning trougher have some class I say.
the talk everywhere is why is brown still surounded by all his top troughers? i say because he would not have a cabinet left others think that they know to much about his and others expences the only way out for me is an election new blood in the HoC and old blood spilt on the street.
Breaking news – second missing link found in Luton.
Morons provide a clue to an early stage in primate development.
Political Poetry?
http://westminsterverses.blogspot.com/
Quack quack.
From verse to worse.
After the credit crunch, the credibility crunch…
..which also started in America
Sorry, but not standing at the next election is just not fucking good enough. The troughers must pay back everything. Everything. No exceptions, none whatsoever. Everything. Now, is there anything still unclear about what needs to be done?
More hoonishness of dizzying stupidity. Here’s the trougher Blears talking to a dinner at the Board of Deputies of British Jews:
” … Before I conclude, there is one area of the Board’s efforts I want to talk about in more detail.
That is your work to challenge the far right.
I have been a politician for the best part of 30 years now. Every couple of years, the far right pop up with a new disguise or a new slogan. At the moment, they’re aspiring to a veneer of respectability. You don’t have to dig too far to find the same old message of hopelessness and hate underneath.
As I’ve said already, challenging bigotry is a constant struggle. But let me also say this. You never lose your appetite for that fight.”
Oh, so the far right are “aspiring to a veneer of respectability”, are they? Blears might take a lesson from that aspiration.
“NOBLESSE OBLIGE”, LITERALLY, “NOBILITY OBLIGATES”.
“Noblesse oblige” implies that with wealth, power and prestige, come responsibilities. Public-responsibility should provide good examples of behaviour and decency.
To enter the House of Commons and the House of Lords imposes power, prestige, responsibility and certainly, nobless oblige.
Am I advocating class distinction? – No I am not – The house of commons is for the people of all classes.
I am proud of my British heritage and saddened by the current situation. Britain is beset by parliamentary scandal, global financial chicanery and foreign dominance in complicity with our own parliament. I am not implying anti-Europe nor anti any other country but: Britons never, never, never should be slaves………………………………….
“Great Britain” has had some wonderful examples in our historic leaders and to quote from but two:
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on two separate occasions had noblesse oblige and summed up his feelings for his people with the often “misquoted”:
“A French army is composed very differently from ours. The conscription calls out a share of every class — no matter whether your son or my son — all must march; but our friends — I may say it in this room — *are the very scum of the earth. People talk of their enlisting from their fine military feeling — all stuff — no such thing. Some of our men enlist from having got bastard children — some for minor offences — many more for drink; but you can hardly conceive such a set brought together, and it really is wonderful that we should have made them the fine fellows they are”. *Speaking about conscripts in the British Army, 4 November 1831
The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) First Lord of the Admiralty, Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, certainly had noblesse oblige:
“I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside”.
“It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar”.
“The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst”.
Time for change and noblesse oblige…………………………………..
Wellington also referred to his army as the “Scum of the earth” after witnessing them massacre the population of Badajoz in the peninsula campaign. Does Noblesse oblige mean that you can expect a better class of expense claim ? Moat Cleaning or Toilet Seat. Where is the public interest?
Maybe the time is right for a return of “noblesse oblige” – people who believe they ought to give something back. I much prefer that to the opposite principle as practised in the Labour Party, which is is full of self-serving chippy bastards like Michael Martin and Two Jags who seriously believe they have the right to take what they think is “rightfully theirs” .
Bob the builder can fix it! Just make sure he’s not Polish.
The Polish ones are the only ones doing any work
Polish builders generally have been properly trained in an apprenticeship, they work for their money, and they don’t leave the job with their vans full. give me a polish biulder anytime.
No shit, Holmes.
I only supply ladders to stop Labour Ministers being defenestrated..
Bob the Builder, your friendly builder
(please get it right two B’s)
To the compost heap and so say all the rest of ‘em.
There’ll be many like him, all preparing their regretful resignation speeches while gazing out over their acres or smiling at their bank statements….they’ve made their pile- literally.
At least they’ve invested our money in something real, green, beautiful and lasting — their gardens. Labour MPs just use it for porn, tellies, tacky suburban property speculation and gin palaces — common in other words. (Ooooh I’ll have the class police onto me now).
According to gardener’s world, there are certain things you do not put on the compost heap but you burn it to prevent further problems like diseases.
Say what you like about Nick Griffin but he has never stung the taxpayer for £88,000 to keep his garden.
Probably too scared immigrants might hide in it.
He’s a Hunt………… – sorry didn’t read the rest of your post
He hasn’t had the opportunity so that really isn’t saying anything is it?
Keep it that way if you know what’s good for you!!!!
Long may it stay that way!!
Au contraire.
He’s clean.
But in Guido-sycophant newspeak, clean is the scary new dirty.
Better the devil you know.
Plus ca change.
We’ve had Zanu-Labours Anti-Nation Socialism, so the National Socialists will really be more of the same, except worse for the economy (amazingly).
Even ZanuLab doesn’t believe in protectionism* any more.
*Transferring money from lots of consumers to a few in business.
My owner says tht the British Union of Fascists sprang from the Labour Party (Oswald Mosley) and their suporters i.e. east end dockers.
Fascism always follows socialism. The socialists create the system for the fascists to take over. Spain, Germany, Italy, Russia with Putin and now GB is heading that way
I frequently say what I like about Nick Griffin. Here’s just a sample:
Racist
Moron
Wanker
National embarrassment
Because he can’t find anyone who’ll work for him. Twat
That’s cos Nicky Boy aint at thr trough yet.
I have more belief in Griffins patriotism and honesty than I do any of the Hoons who have sold us out to the EU.
All political careers should end in jail would be more apposite.
That is too defeatist over the issue.
We need honest politicians, some who wont go troughing, and part of the solution is to jail the ones who have troughed to give an incentive for future honesty.
Ah yes. Honest politicians. The Holy Grail (Like the Heineken Cup to Leicester supporters).
Suffice it to say that a few more heads will turn the mass trough snoughting in Westminster into a delightful pork slaughterfeste. May the strets continue to (metaphorically) run red with their blood. Fresh blood to replace them is whats needed there so we can start afresh and turf out this turgid ZanuLabour trash.
Besides, red is a trés jolie colour – just like mon cassock.
Le Cardinal.
The original is by Enoch Powell and goes: “All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.”
So, ‘failure’ is the word the hoon was searching for, not ‘tears’.
Steen you later
Steen claimed on TV that he had been caught out by being too honest!
He apparently “ticked the wrong box” on the expenses claim forms.
FFS.
Surely Steen already comes near the top of the awards given for “Being a troughing git for a decade and not having a decent alibi ready when the shit hits the fan”.
‘Ticked the wrong box’ ??
Crikey, that’s more pathetic than my ‘ Accountancy is not my strongest suit ‘ defence.
Was that the box that says ” I confirm as an Honourable MP that these expenses are claimed soley in the execution of my duties” (Sic)
Apparently the box he should have ticked was the one claiming for “Mortgage Interest” rather than the one for “£80,000 worth of goodies”.
Apparently if had head ticked the former box instead of the latter box “we would all be sitting round having a cup of tea”.
If you thought Alice in Wonderland was surreal check out the interview with him on Sky news.
I nominate Mr Phil Willis for the above mentioned award:
“The MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough claimed the full interest costs of his home loan on his London flat, had it rewired and repainted. He later bought a flat next door and his daughter Rachel, a former model who appeared in AOL adverts, now lives there.
Mr Willis said his daughter had never been a ‘permanent resident’ in the flat and said they were registered jointly with his wife and daughter respectively because he had suffered a stroke.”
I nominate Bill Wiggin:
Bill Wiggin, a Conservative whip, can today be uncovered as the most senior MP to have claimed interest payments for a property which had no mortgage.
Mr Wiggin, a contemporary of David Cameron at Eton, received more than £11,000 in parliamentary expenses to cover interest payments after declaring that his Herefordshire property was his “second home”.
“It was purely an administrative error, and it was of absolutely no financial advantage to me,” he said.
Source: DT
Accountancy not your strongest suit either ??
Fair enough. Resign !
Well, perhaps his mother loves him. What a degenerate cretin. The kind of damage to place, item, and person this fraudulent cuckoo has done over many years is too horrible to contemplate.
SIR- Fucking shitter, sir. These ne’er-do-wells are jumping ship because they’ve filled their boots, one wouldn’t wonder, sir.
Fucking rotters and good riddance. No honour, no integrity, no substance but they’ve done us good and proper. HRUMMMPH.
Yours, whittling an effigy of the blighter, Col. M.T. Kernel (retd.)
Yes Col. They’re all up their own arses including this lot. Whatever you do, don’t not toe the line. Pussies.
Don’t you mean tow the line? Do you read The Grauniad? Tow the line unless you’ve got a digit stuck up Gordon’s plughole.
OMG !!
Clever Turd is being moderated by the thought-police !!!!
Fuck that . This is an ex-blog , honey .
Get on wiv it but don’t claim to have any gravitas . I woz a fan for 5 mins .
Much later E x .
If you are going to be a smart arse at least get it right
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line
garden more spend time steen antony his to with
Wrong box filled in. Sex education needs again, try front garden.
It’s widely rumoured in his constituency that he was about to be deselected anyway…
The gravy train terminates here.
Please disembark and find another tax payer funded organization to pay for your unacceptable expenses (e.g. BBC, quangos, NHS).
What are you suggesting ?? That failed politicians get ‘jobs’ on the BBC or LBC ??
How dare you !!
Is he going to pay the money back though ?…that’s the real question
Pay the money back? He’s been troughing for 35 years, for goodness sake. Not even Northern Rock would lend him that kind of money.
Western Mail, Cardiff. Just reporting John Smith MP (Labour – Vale of Glamorgan) standing down at next election.
Is he going to pay back the money?
I Haven’t seen any reports on what he spent £148,514 on in 2007/08.
Total £148,514.00
Staffing £77,861.00
2nd home allowance £23,083.00
Office £18,453.00
Communications £14,967.00
Travel £9,159.00
Stationery & postage £3,277.00
IT provision £983.00
Central stationery £731.00
Source – the excellent http://demo.qlikview.com/AJAX/MP%20Expenses%20Analysis/SH01.htm
First?
No, I’m not and what the bollocks does it matter anyway! Why the hell do they do that?
Anyway, he may have class, Guido, but he’s still a troughing hoon.
Is he giving up his golden parachute of £30K and his pension?
Thought not
Hunt
Spedo recall this old codger ws a stalking horse for Frau Thatcher. I thought he had retired ages ago. Enjoy your retirement Sir – Spedo salutes your long public service.
Aren’t you confusing him with Anthony Meyer, the original stalking donkey?
Shouldn’t the judgement on troughing make some allowance for taste + style ?
i.e.
Swimming pool +200 points
‘Bang and Olufsen’ telly + 100 points
Corby trouser press – 20 points
Jacuzzi –100 points
Oh yes
I win !
Moat +500 points (be fair, that really is class!)
Mock Tudor beams -500 points (pure chav)
Tampons & nappies -10,000 points (just vile)
You forgot Mole Catching.
And if piggish little Hogg was found drowned in his moat that would be real class.
Antique and restored rug from New York. 3000 points for the hoon with balls of brass and more front than than the Great Wall of China.
What, no points for artistic impression?
and Gerald Kaufman’s 40 foot TV (at £ 8,000 FFS !)
4,500 points
and then he spoils it by wanking off to a Neil Kinnock Speech
-25,000 points
Absolutely.
Liebour tends to be so common and grubby with it claims for mortgages, bath plugs and porn.
At least the landed gentry have been making the countryside beautiful with our money.
It’s a class thingy isn’t it.
Let the hoi polloi into the House, bang go the standards.
Pack em all off to Butlins I say.
More are going to be going in the next few days with the latest trougher outings in the Sleazygraph.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Just think
The next Parliament will be filled by 646 luvvies like Esther Rantzen
What bliss
And the Financial Crisis
Never heard of it…
But lots of live TV direct from an empty Westminster
With any luck Esther Rantzen wont be standing in Luton South! We don’t need another part-time MP.
Anyway – I take it Rantzen’s on a sequel to I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here (2008) with I’m a Celebrity…Vote Me Into Parliament (2010).
Celebrity MP – I’d rather not!
Ah but Mora(o)n won’t bere there at this rate or any rate.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/272c40fa-4588-11de-b6c8-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
Even if the ghastly fat old bag Margaret Moran isn’t deselected she will not win under any circumstances. It’s too easy an option for Rantzen and all she’s doing is splitting the vote and probably keeping the Tory out.
If the sanctimonious old crow had any guts she’d stand for somewhere like Normanton (Balls) Ashfield (Hoon) or Stalybridge (Purnell) where the sitting MP is a minister and monster trougher and CGT dodger/flipper par excellence, and shows no sign of being booted out by Brown, and has enough dimwit incapacity junkie Labour voters to otherwise keep them in. How about it, Rancid?
At the next election there will be 4 more snouts in the trough making a total of 650.
Is it just me or do you think Brown’s likening of the abuses to a “gentlemen’s club” is an attempt to make the public associate it all with the tories.
I can’t believe members of the Drones would have claimed for dry-rot in Southhampton, let alone massage chairs.
Brown is a dyed-in-the wool class warrior to the bitter end- which hopefully is not far off.
He’s got no fucking class at all.
Strong with the Farce the Brown side is!
Aye I agree,can ‘e not see?
Well he probably can,but it seems a bit one-eyed to me.
What is it with Broon?
The whole flippin New Labour edifice is crumbling.
Election now !!
Yep, and completely inappropriate because you could of course trust a gentleman’s club to behave, well, gentlemanly. In fact if it were a gentleman’s club there would barely be any need for rules because they could all be trusted to behave themselves.
They let in the wrong sort of people round about 1997.
Remember Blair’s Babes? They must have been OD-ing on Viagra if they seriously thought the likes of Smith, Jowell, Blears or Harperson as anything remotely like a babe more like hard-faced old hags even at the time.
The Liebour side are more like a working men’s club – where everyone is on the take from the steward to the committee – well known in my part of the Liebour heartland!!
The only Gentleman’s club left around here is the local Labour Club which is fighting to be able to remain an all-male institution.Ironically,the wives of the members are their best supporters.They know they’re free from temptation there so are allowed to go there.
Only let in mingers. Look at the mis-named Blairs’ Babes. Even Ricky wouldn’t do Jacqui preferring the couch and hand relief.
It appears that many Conservative Constituency Associations are supporting MPs who have been guilty of impropriety over their expense claims.
The first loyalty of a Constituency Association is the Country, the second is the Party, the third is to the MP.
The electorate will not look kindly on Associations which betray their country and fail to listen to what the voter is saying.
Possibly making the calculation that in Conservative safe seats, the already minority Labour vote will collapse, leaving only Lib Dem and possible Independent challengers. Arguably cynical, but probably accurate.
Doesn’t mean that they can’t select another candidate for MP.
With an election twelve months away (as it would appear, given recent noises from number 10) the electorate’s memory of troughergate may have dimmed a little, and be more concentrated on economy, education, public spending etc. Also, some Associations have a bit of a reputation for – ahem- mateyness, which might dull their sensitivity to the electorate’s feelings. If you are a Conservative voter in a safe seat, you may hold your nose and vote for an alledgedly repentant trougher just to get a Conservative government.
So – the solution is to be an independent with policies the Conservatives can understand.
The conservative voters aren’t necessarily members of the party.
I admire your optimism.
But it’s the same kind of mad optimism Brown seems to think will save some of his disgusting troughers. Not a chance.
The public aren’t going to forget about this one. And come Election Time all the Parties will have to run against campaigns that will splash hugely on the troughing behaviour with the figures in black and white to back it up.
What evidence do you have of this? I can only speak for the constituency I live in where I am an active Tory party member but there is an distinct feeling amongst the members that our MP (who’s behaviour was bad but not one of the worst) must not represent us at the coming election.
He has been a truly excellent constituency MP but his dishonourable conduct with respect to his allowances means that he must go.
And Mock Tudor beams
= 2 million points and my name in the history boosk
So there
Do I lose any points for extra bog seats though ?
You and Dr Reid, remember his were all black and sparkly oh er.
I’ll vote for whoever promises to hold the 645+ buggers to account,and to claw back all ACA payments. If that is the unmentionables,so be it
I have just asked the Red Cross to intervene
There are dozens of headless MPs wandering about the Palace of Westminster
They dont’ even know the way to the Fees Office any more…
It’s got serious my friends
We need support…
Thank you for your support – I will always wear it.
Can we spend more time with his garden as we paid for it? I don’t have a garden, but I’ve got an old deck chair in the understairs cupboard.
I’d like to use my secateurs on his nether regions. £88,000 for gardening – that’s more than I’ve earned in my entire life (I quit workin in 1979 because paying tax was too stressful).
We should demand the BANK STATEMENTS (at least the legal ones) OF THESE THIEVES
THAT WOULD REALLY SET OFF THE REVOLUTION
The shit really hitting the fan in the Cabinet. Grab some popcorn, somehow i knew this was going to happen.
Looks like a “if we go, you go”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1184626/Brown-faces-cabinet-revolt-Hazel-Blears-senior-ministers-fight-survive.html
Brown faces cabinet revolt as Hazel Blears and senior ministers fight to survive expenses scandal
Gordon Brown was facing a cabinet in revolt tonight as Hazel Blears and other senior figures took a defiant stand against moves to shift or demote them in the Prime Minister’s next reshuffle.
We squirrels are nasty if cornered
Bring back Special Branch.
Nuts.
I prefer Zoo!
You’re just nasty.
Friends of Ms Blears made clear that she is prepared to embarrass Mr Brown if she is ill treated. (never trust a cornered chipmunk)
‘She knows where the bodies are buried, that’s certainly true,’ one said.
But it is not just Ms Blears who will fight to keep her job, potentially derailing Mr Brown’s efforts to reshape his team. The Chancellor is also resisting any move amid Whitehall talk that the Prime Minister would like to replace him with his most trusted ally Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary.
The Foreign Secretary David Miliband is also fighting behind the scenes to resist a campaign by Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, who has long dreamt of taking his post.
An ally of Mr Miliband added: ‘David doesn’t want to move and he’s not the only one.’
The source warned that Mr Brown might find several cabinet ministers prepared to wreck his reshuffle rather than accept a demotion or sideways move.
NU LABOUR are no longer in TRIBAL MODE
They are going CANNIBAL
Surreal…
…to resist a campaign by Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, who has long dreamt of taking his post…
The living dead eating the partially dead and soon to be dead.
Well, if he can’t move the ministers below him… lemme think … well why don’t they simply move him ?
Not easily done considering his mental state, but let me try to give some advice.
Just say what the country is thinking:
“F*ck off, Loser”
So glad that they are focused on the problems facing the country, rather than their own positions (which they’ll all lose at the GE in any case).
Labour tossers.
Good.
Thars a picture of Darling on that DM page. I think his eyebrows look really cool, gelled up like that.
Quote.
“Mr Brown came under fire from cabinet sources for singling out Miss Blears for condemnation, when other senior members of his team also have serious questions to answer over their expenses”.
In other words his Cabinet said, “What are you picking on her for; the rest of us are just as bad as her, if not worse.
Or they were saying: “Watch out you hoon, Gordon. We will back Hazel, not you?”
It would be hard to take, by the public, by the Labour party and by the Tories, if Brown engineered Blears’ removal before that of Jacqui Smith. Blears is of course an odious lefty fuckwit, but Smith has real power and has sucked out a lot more tax-payers’ cash. Smith is more odious than Blears.
Brown of course does not have the bollox to remove Smith.
This just shows how divided the Cabinet is!! Add to this a divided party (Post Offices) and it all bodes well for the GE – dividied parties never win elections – ask John Major
Don’t believe a word. Never seen a snail or a slug grow a backbone.
Who is going to win Guido’s first Porkie Pie Prizes
There is a hell of a race on now…
He/she who wins the most points…
Prezza in the lead so far…
Jacuzzi Butler running a close second…
Any other bids…
Douglas Hogg of the Moat running close
Call me an old traditionalist, but the bags o’ shite take some beating. And some spreading, I assume.
Quack Quack
You’re an old traditionalist.
And a Labour Luvvie to boot, I believe.
Whoosh!
Horse manure is a vital necessity of being a MP. You spread it on paper, wait a day and then read it out in Parliament.
A Labour luvvie? Me? You must be joking
Aye, you.
From the Herald’s 2007 election coverage:
Labour unveils star endorsements
By DOUGLAS FRASER, Scottish Political Editor
Comment | Read Comments (37)
Labour yesterday unveiled significant endorsements late in the Holyrood campaign, including actor Robbie Coltrane, broadcaster Muriel Gray and football commentator Archie McPherson.
Robbie Coltrane eh? Another socialist from Harry Potter. What with JK Rowling, the Dark Lord and too many witches to mention….
It’s a fair cop.
So Steen has gone. Hogg has gone -
Mackay (and his wife) are going – why would they want to stand again??? even though their constituency parties are trying to bolster up their chances.
Mr/Mrs Mackay don’t bother standing – no way will either of you be re-elected!!!!
Unfortunately Gordon if you think these Conservative woes are going to help you weather this hurricane – you are, of course, completely wrong.
Why are Blears, Smith, Hoon, Darling, etc etc (Uddin) still in office when all of them have been shown to have defrauded the taxpayer????
And Prezza
He is such a joke we forget his thieving
Ho ho, my triple flipping has been forgotten too, chortle!
Sweetie it hasn’t!!!!
I posted on another thread that I suspected Ed and Yvette costed we, the taxpayer’s, approx. £1Million per annum in wages-aca-travel-office-staff-food–plus other hidden expenses that they don’t tell us about.
We accept of course that you are friends of the DT editor (and therefore have not been exposed as you shoud have been)
- but the rest of world (ie us) know you for the troughing mp’s that you are.
Time to get beaten at the polls – go for it !!!!
Please don’t mention Prezza he makes me feel physically ill to even think of him – he is such a foul man !!!!
Come on Nell, gissa snog…
Not if you were the last man on earth!!!
The world needs Prescotts as the lowest common denominator against whom others are measured.
I’ll even let you have my last chipolata
http://demo.qlikview.com/AJAX/MP%20Expenses%20Analysis/SH01.htm
Here is the public record on the Testicular one’s troughing, you search for the fragrantly evil Yvette also
I’d go with class if i’d have managed to legally swindle a fortune like he has. Hope somebody robs the Hunt
It’s all “the Establishment”s fault”
and
WAIT FOR IT
Gorbals is working class and “one of us”
I said to roars of approval from the Parliamentary Labour Party
Of course the Daily Telegraph has blown their fucking minds to pieces…
NU LABOUR ARE IN TRIBAL MODE NOW
EVEN TALKING ABOUT CATHOLICS STICKING TOGETHER FFS
A CATHOLIC BISHOP EVEN CAME OUT PUBLICLY FOR THEM
I THOUGHT WE WERE IN 2009
THEY ARE STUCK AT AROUND 1645 … LITERALLY
Re: Catholicism, weren’t NuLabour talking about revoking the Law prohibiting Catholics from becoming King or Queen a short while ago.
So now they are moving on from Class War to Sectarian War.
Have Sin Fein rallied to the NuLabour cause yet?
It’s still 31 January 1919 for Glasgow Labour . . .
Latest Scottish opinion polls
NSNP 40%
Labour 21%
If there is a General Election now
SNP = 37 Westminster seats
Labour = 13
HISTORIC
WE WILL KICK THE BASTARDS OUT FOR YOU
VOTE SNP
That will be a vote winner after all the abuse findings coming out of Ireland….
Have Nu Labour rallied the Sinn Fein is the question ?
They are so desperate they are capable of it
#93
You noticed that too ?
Scots Labour apologists – starting with Foulkes – were all over the news playing this card yesterday.
Scum
Sounds very much like Dr John Reid has been lobbying his clientel again.
Labour are just a disgusting party that thrives on hate:
Set the Catholics and Protestants against each other
Set the working and middle classes against each other
Set the north and south against each other
Set the Scots and English against each other
Etc., etc.
Divide and rule – and we have all fallen for it. They destroyed this country for transient political gain.
Sinn Fein would demand Liz, Charles and William’s heads on a plate as the price for their votes… and what do you know? Brown would probably oblige.
255
Yes Dr Feelgood
A long term student union marxist/trot scam planned by the young McSnotty and his malevolent tribalists and executed with exquisite success because the liberal establishment thought the scot-trots would never get away with it.
After the election there should be a society-wide cleanout of treacherous marxist scum from every institution in the land to stop it happening again.
The fall of the Berlin wall brought down communism but not in Britain.
.
“members have been very put out by the Daily Telegraph coverage”.
Yes, that nasty old Telegraph, airing our dirty laundry in public.
And such big skidmarks too. Like tractor tyre marks they were.
Never seen the like, not since I got the squirts on the Burma Road.
They are picking on the poor ducks now !!!!
Mr Fawkes. Is that your idea of “class”?
I’m afraid it is’nt mine.
If we all thought alike there would be no horse racing.
Another honest business?
Horse racing is cruel!
what sort of mentality does it take to tie a terrified midget to a fucking big horse!
That’s got to be against their human rights.
“I don’t want to risk the party losing the seat, so it is in the best interests of the party that I go.” That is the correct attitude.
This is what Michael Gove needs to consider. Perhaps different rules apply in Surrey Heath than they do in Devon, but I doubt it. The voters will not deny themselves the opportunity to punish the Oka kid. It’s not the amount spent (£13,000 on decoration and a flipped property) it’s the fact that the spending was not “necessary” to enable him to do his job as an MP. He took taxpayer money for himself and his family and broke the rules, weak as they were.
We don’t want these people hung, drawn and quartered – we just want them out of Parliament. If Gove and other MPs with Gove-like spending habits hang tough they will lose their seats.
http://howtoremoveyourmp.blogspot.com/
Gove is clean:
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2009/05/michael-gove-is-far-from-a-villain-in-expensesgate.html
We are witnessing before our very eyes the Decline and Fall of Britain
You see what it was like when I was around now…
On the cointreau. I think we have lots to look forward to. We are better educated in so much as the speed and knowledge available to us via the Internets allow for these blogs and coverage. Without fear of contraception, I suggest that before the age of instant communications much of this skuldaggery may have been covered up. It isn’t now.
So, Porky- how come ‘we’ better organised ourselves in 1685? pre-internet I believe. (not ‘internets’- singular BTW)
“I’ve had a very good innings”, said the old hoon.
Too effing right; you’ve been filling your boots for years.
Straight to jail for you.
Latest score.
Sir Peter Viggers out for a Duck
Straight to number one hoon.
Did you mean cυnt?
How many hoons make a cυnt?
I’ve been telling myself I’d vote Conservative in the General Election if it weren’t for having to vote for Peter ‘waste of space’ Viggers. And now he’s gone! I can’t believe it, I’m actually going to do it, I’m actually going to vote Tory.
My 18-year-old self would throttle me!
Tit
Steve, you’re not one of those voting floaters are you? If so, can I have your number?
Oi – choose another name!
Religious Ruth Kelly’s insurance fraud?
You’d have thought an opus dei nut would have had slightly higher standards of morality. Two Our Father’s and several thousand Hail Marys for you then Ruthy.
Catholicism has never been a bar to Venality, Alex Borgia took whatever he wanted, including his own daughter. Cesare his son, was Machiavelli’s Prince.
When I alluded to Catholicism in an another comment on this website somebody accused me of being David Icke.
I am glad somebody else notices this aspect to our problem with Liebour.
My trouble is I have spent too much time over the last few months ploughing through accounts of Council of Trent. After a while it sort of warps your perspective.
Now where did I put that Dan Brown book ……..
I thought Ruth was a womens name
I hope she remembered to give 10% to Opus Dei.
She may be a Ruth she ain’t no Babe.
What’s so bad about moustaches FFS?
Gavin Esler on Newsnight tonight was holding the frontpage of the DT.There were three photos.He mentioned the duck,he mentioned the Tory MP but no mention of JimmyCrankieMullard (our Ruthie).He held this page up for some time.Talk about f…….ng one-sided.For f….ck sake.
Reveal sign?
Sign of what though?
she did not claim off insurance because insurance companies do not like insuring houses thta will be left empty 5 weeks at a time whereas claiming off MPs expenses is quite all right?
Wow! A Duck Island!
I have to say, it does have a certain class
Beats a chavtastic 60″ plasma tv
We Brits have a soft spot and a unique kindness to animals and fluffy chicks. Arhhhhhh. But he was probably having their eggs away.
No way Hosay, he was going to hold duck shoots in the Autumn. Quack Quack BANG.!!
You have to have a duck island to protect them from foxes. Labour banned fox hunting and so even more need for duck islands i.e. it’s Labour’s fault.
or cushions or an empty flat in Maidstone or simple criminal tax evasion.
Don’t forget the bathplug. 88p.
Can I order some more porn please Jac ??
OK, but don’t get fucking caught this time.
As a sign of our general disgust we decline to supply any more bathplugs to MPs of any persuasion.
Piggies don’t take baths.
Thats got to be a bloody fancy duck island.
Mine’s just like a Kennel. On old pop bottles.
Shit I’m just common aren’t I.
Home Secretary to give a statement on the Gurkha’s tomorrow. I do hope that it is going to be what Joanna Lumley and we the public expect it to be.
However I have to say that I do not think this Labour Government is capable of decenc. I suspect they are not going to do the right thing by the Gurkhas.
I could of course be wrong. And unlike Gordon – I know how to say ‘sorry’ – and I will if they should do the decent thing here. Hmmmmmm….
The nation will be greatful, actually
It’s clear that Gordon Brown, Saviour Of Parliament, has been planning to make the right decision on the Ghurkas weeks ago, but hasn’t had the opportunity, having been distracted by Sleaze That Started In Tory Gentlemens Clubs
It’s all Thatcher’s fault
Kneepads, it’s nobody’s fault that you’re an utter cυnt.
Don’t worry — there’ll be an outbreak of a ‘new and deeply worrying Gurkha Disease’, so no probs.
94% of people think ‘fiddling’ MPs should face criminal charges. Other 6%? Must have been asleep…
They don’t know what ‘MP’ means. Or ‘expenses’.
Or anything else for that matter.
It means ‘mine please’.
At least they have some manners eh? Got to smile whilst paying for things with Tax money that everyone else would have to use their lower wage on.
You see there are another bunch of people that get tax money to pay for their homes, holidays and house improvements. They’re long term benefit scroungers from our welfare state.
Oh sorry, it was within the rules.
The other 6% were MPs.
These Hunts have boiled my piss in ways I never thought possible.
Can I be the first to actually CONGRATULATE the Daily Telegraph for actually DOING SOME FUCKING WORK FOR A CHANGE, rather than recycling Government bullshit as they did with smeargate.
They have redeemed themselves with the hours they have put into the expenses claims.
Now that they have added a few readers to their rag by doing some honest good old fashioned journalism for a change, will they keep it up or revert to type?
Tonight they report that they have covered 170 MPs. If somebody does some maths,that should mean another fortnight of entertainment
Better than what you get from the BBC.
Dunno hun . My comments still get spiked . Think they got a couple of new readers but it’s basically the same old Controlagraph . Why do they invite comment when they don’t actually want it ???
Their in-house shite is sooo sterile . Sure , they got the naughty numbers but why gloat an exude an holier-than-thou attitude ??? They were lucky that some rat came to them coz they were on the verge of becomin a non-paper .
Now they are portrayin themselves as the saviour of the free-world but they still don’t take comment unless it suits them .
FUCKIN HYPOCRITES . DT – when this dies down , you are still dead vegetable matter walkin.
Suck on it , hun .
E x .
Go away, love.
Anybody who says ‘hun’ on any blog should be shot.
Fuck off, hun.
I’ll have you know I’ve shot more hun than you’ve had your backpipe rimmed, you cυnt.
I think it’s creepy.
Hiya StoryGraph people
I know you read this shit. Why are you so scared of what the average punter has to say ???
You pretend to be on the side of the plebs but you ain’t really , are you ???
You are on the side of the Failingograph and therefore you are doomed , along with your paymasters .
You came up wiv a good story which has created some ripples but I see thro you . Is that my problem or yours ???
I’m quite dogged when it comes to double standards an you are in Ewanme’s radar . Yes , you are fucked . Ain’t I been givin you grief for nigh on a year ???
I see thro you , hun , and so does everyone else .
I will make it my project to expose you . Let’s face it – you are troughers too , honey .
How many ‘journalists’ does it take to turn out a daily paper ??? Bout a thousand too many . Money for old rope , hun .
Get a real job an contribute to the economy , whytdontcha ????
Fuck your useless degree you twats
E x .
The Daily Mirror used controversial stuff over a war they did not support and what happened them?
People do not like MPs troughing even if they only see Tories doing it.
Ignore him hun x
“Yeah, leave ‘im hun ‘es not wurf it.”
I knew this blog would turn into fucking Eastenders one day.
I agree,we all know now what a bunch of bad people they were.
Hopefully,now we get good people.
Pravda breaking the news about Wiggins and Viggers. Nothing about Kelly.
Oh, did I mention the first two are Tories, Kelly isn’t?
A 2% licence increase today to help maintain the BBC’s impartiality . . .
Tossers.
Report on BBC news tonight:- Shock, Horror, Tories want to freeze Licence Fee for 2009/2010
The government stats office tells me inflation is negative. Surely a cut to the TV Poll Tax is in order?
Yes noticed that too. bastardos. Is it really that difficult to be impartial? no more licenCe fee from me.
Don’t pay the renewal for a month.
Nobody’s going to charge you for “forgetting” – take a month for them to notice in any case.
That’s an 8% annual reduction in the fee and you feel like you are getting a deal.
Direct action.
Bad Tories, ducks, and that prick James Hansen on Newsnight – business as usual for the BBC.
“Coal is the largest source of atmospheric CO2 on earth” says Newsnight. Yeah, apart from those damn plants eh…
and Volcanos.
And my farts.
Fisher, Frank. For politics you get an A, but for science an F-. Plants do not produce CO2. Unless, of course, you were referring to the NuLiebour plants on Question Time. We may have to hold you back this year.
Bottynist.
Plants do emit CO2 at night.
@316
Sneaky photosynthesising bastards…
Hopefully,we get good people now.
Just watched Bill Wiggins interrogated on BBC Breakfast.
He gave a perfectly reasonable, justifiable, and honest account of his case, which shows he did nothing dishonest, cynical, or greedy, but merely filled the forms out wrong for several years and then righted his mistake.
He never claimed a penny more than his mortgage actually cost (he submitted his mortgage papers to the fees office) nor did he “flip” his homes either.
The Telegraph’s headline – and possibly story, I’ve not read it – was utterly misleading and actionable. I hope Wiggins sues the bloody pants off them. Bastards.
I agree, Wiggins came across as someone prepared to admit that he had been stupid/negligent in that he put down his main home address on the fees office forms in the box where he should have put the second home address (I bet they were filled out for him by an underling but he daren’t use that excuse as he signed them and is responsible – he’s not Jacqui Smith). However it was clear that the actual amount claimed was genuinely incurred and supported by the mortgage receipts and that he changed then when the fees office (eventually) noticed the discrepancy between the addresses. He did not flip in the Blears sense – he consistently put down the wrong address.
What struck me was the way Charlie whatsisname couldn’t resist bringing in where Wiggins went to school. The duck also got a mention but still nothing about Ms K. I’m sure she’ll be along later.
Pravda’s latest take on this is
Tory MP …
Tory MP …
Former Cabinet Minister Ruth Kelly
Was Ruth Kelly a minister in the Tory administration? Sounds like it, but I’m too young to remember.
Lurk Ethyl
I’ve got to say that a Tory fiddler shows far more class than a new labour fiddler.
Mock Tudor beams and wide screen TVs are straight from Coronation street, while duck Islands and moats have the Brideshead revisited touch.
Aye – Ye jist cannae buy – or steal – real class, can ye ?
Theft is theft and I doubt the Dave thought the Electoarte would find it very classy or good for the Conservative image or they wouldn’t be standing down a the next Election.
Hoon under the hammer in the Telegraph tomorrow.
What a snobbish attitude!
Fraud is fraud. Whats worse,stealing £10 from a disabled pensioner,or a million from the taxpayer?
Ask Ronnie Biggs.
He’s playing the dementia card until he get’s out, so don’t expect a coherent answer.
He would have been perfect MP material.
Thieve what you can,re-invent yourself,fact finding jaunts to Australia and Rio,and then home for good old blighty and the NHS benefits.
If he lives long enough,He should be able to stand at the GE,when it comes.
A. Stealing £1M from 100,000 disabled pensioners maybe ?
Boils down to the same thing
Politcal Poetry?
http://westminsterverses.blogspot.com/
Hey – what am I doing on the front of the Telegraph tomorrow ?
I was only carrying out Gordo’s orders when I was the-ever-so-impressive Treasury Secretary and fleeced all those Equitable pensioners of their life savings.
Opus Dei – where are you when I need you ?
What about Peter Hains contribution to snouts in the trough
what about it ? go on ?
Who’s been paying for his fake tan all these years?
Don’t know what colour Mr Hain is, but if you know the Dulux code could you let me know please ?
My misus just saw him on TV and shouted me in from the front room
“Quick – there it is” she screamed.
“That’s the exact colour I want for the hallway”
Before I could get the colour match swatch up to the TV… poof… he had gone.
Chocolate Starfish #371.
Its the colour of my back passage.
Time for bed.
I hope this Foul Government is going to do the decent thing over the Gurkhas tomorrow – if not Gordon you can expect to be confronted by the fragrant but steely Joanna Lumley yet again.
And we shall all be there side by side with her – You’d better be listening Gordon and Jacqui – unless you want more humiliation ……….
Good night – God bless
nell, what will you be wearing?
labour or tory is just a name; a crook is a crook.
At least employing a Butler to press ones trousers creates employment.
OK, lets be butt fucked by NuLab again for the next twelve years. I’m loving it.
No a Butler’s job is cleaning the Jacuzzi stupid…
Wait for me, Nell……
Joanna Lumley is purdey …. .
Can I just say that I think claiming for the Duck Island is a bit OTT, but I actually think that Moat cleaning is a valid claim. It sounds like the sort of thing an Englishman would have been required to do under pain of death by Henry VIII or something.
Moat cleaning should be an Olympic sport.
I believe Alan Duncan is also a bit of a “moat cleaner”.
Though whether he engages in “Mole hunting” is anyones guess.
(Mole hunting being somewhat akin to “Badger spotting”.)
I thought the current vogue was “parsnip fishing”…
Along with bog snorkling.
Is that how Prezza broke his loo seat?
Is that like uphill gardening?
Don’t forget about “Duck Ponding” and it’s unspeakably degenerate variant, “Duck Island Floating” Unmitigated aquatic filth that even the Germans and Dutch would blanch at.
I think it’s about the lengths you might go to defend a moat.
That was an impressive speech by Brown to the CBI tonight. Especially the bit where he broke his mic and couldnt be heard.
What a prick.
LOL You Hunt, your portrait of Gordon just made me spray the keyboard with Horlicks.
Did it make any difference – was anybody listening?
It was all this walking around the stage stuff he has taken to doing. Total shite. No-one was listening. He ran off the stage at the end and tripped up again over his leads and mics. The man is a complete bollocks
They ought to have slow handclapped him.
Learn a lesson from the Women’s Institute – he’s f*cking your country, your employees and your businesses and you lot give him the courtesy of an audience ?
Impressive? I know you’re joking. It was a bizarre and chaotic performance.
I turned on the TV, which was covering the speech, to witness the extraordinary spectacle of Brown apparently grovelling on the floor. The mind boggled. Had he lost the plot and was looking for it on the ground? Was he begging the CBI members to keep generating the wealth he needs to support the public sector, the benefits crowd and quangoland?
No. Apparently he had knocked his microphone flying with one of his flailing hand and arm movements, and was looking for it on the floor. What a photo that must be. Then he carried on as if nothing had happened. Wierd.
And what was he rambling on about? His “speech” was a disconnected kaleidoscope of platitudes, meaningless jargon and soundbites.
He couldn’t get off the stage quick enough at the end, presumably to avoid questions. And then to cap it all, he knocked his microphone off again on the way off stage.
One has to worry.
Unfortunately,this is the same hypocritical attitude of the speaker “I did’nt come into politics not to get what i was owed” Opposite sides of the trough,snouts equally jammed in the swill.
Nope, cant make myself believe it.
Cant believe any of what this lot are saying vis a vis “we’ve cleaned up our act”…like bollocks they have.
I cant believe Martins got a nice seat in the lords after presiding over and actively attempting to conceal fraudulent behaviour by mps and himself the fat slag trougher.
Sooner we have a civil war and string these fucks up the better ill feel.
So sick of it all now, i want a swift end to it but a long painful death for the bastards that have done this country down.
Read Nick Robinson’s blog today? The Tory leader has struggled to get much attention for his call for a general election to elect a new Parliament to go along with a new Speaker. This, despite the fact that he is working in partnership with the Sun.
Working in partnership with the Sun? Does Nick have something to substantiate that claim?
What a NuLab cocksucker that sorry excuse for a journalist is.
I wouldnt’ mind – I applaud a plurality of views in the media. But I really dont’ like being forced to pay for these ones.
A little dig in response to the Tory licence fee vote eh?
2% of loadsamoney is quite a lot
Now FF, – in true progressive NuLab fashion, let’s deconstruct that a little :
NuLab Cocksucker – the word cocksucker is superfluous – since by definition, NuLab is a ‘party’ of cocksuckers.
Otherwise, fine.
Toenails still taking orders from the No 10 bunker, eh?
Yes Nick, I’ll have some total gabshite followed by a heap of steaming bollocks.
Now fook off.
(I fookin’ ‘ate journos.)
He has certainly struggled to get much attention from Toenails or his chums. Can they really believe they are impartial? The more shit their beloved party digs itself into, the more stridently partisan they become.
whats Robinon going to do after the next election because he won’t be able to get a seat within a mile of the Govt. The Tories will have him sacked by the BBC. He may end up covering duckponds in wolverhampton if he doesnt start getting on the riht side of Cameron.
Oh I’m sure there’ll be a steady stream of moat cleaning and duck island maintenance jobs for the likes of Toenails — no grudges born in the sunlit uplands of Toryland.
“The Tory leader has struggled to get much attention for his call for a general election to elect a new Parliament to go along with a new Speaker. ”
What the FUCK??
EVERYONE EXCEPT THE BBC IS LEADING WITH THIS STORY!!!
Ze scheisser is continuink to hit ze air rotator.
As my old freund Ludwig von Mises vould say:
When ze ego bubbles go pop, revulsion steps in, ze people’s respect depreciates and ze MPs flee with their depreciating assets.
Zis is klassical political economy, nein?
3 down (Bliar / Bliar / Gorbals), – 1 to go – then the arse wipers and jobsworths, – oh sorry, tautology.
You’re pushing it a bit with ‘tautology’ on here mate, but we’ll let you get away with it this time.
If Sir Peter Viggers is prosecuted for diverting tax payers money to ducks, will he be up before the beak and will he have to address him as Ma Llard?
Arf, arf!
Cameron is really wielding the axe, thats 3 tory mps now out on their ears.
Yep, sacked for cleaning water courses, planting trees and breeding wildlife. And there was me thinking Dave was a green at heart.
I think you’ve picked up on tomorrows Al-BBC news propaganda.
Good to see Snooty taking action, while Snotty does nothing (again).
Snooty’s crowd went a bit over the top on their gardening, Snotty’s crowd are tax-evading property-portfolio-building fraudsters – not much difference eh?
Aye but whats the Broon doin ?
Great Anti C….the duck island wd’ve got a grant from somewhere else so what’s the problem??
Steen is correct in saying that he was “Too honest. If i’d claimed it as mortgage interest ,nobody would be asking me to pay it back” This does show the inconsistancy of ACA, whereas Cameron, and plenty of others,from all sides, claimed the same amounts as him,but no one questions their payments.
If he had claimed it for , say a Cleaner , then no one would have batted an eyelid.
Even if you were enjoying a grace and favour home and had no neccessity for the cleaner.
Eh Gordon.
Oh yes, Purnell fingered tonight by the Telegraph, that makes him, hoon and blears for evading CGT. Browns cabinet is full of thieves and Ruth Kelly, no wonder she stepped down after thieving for flood damage.
Ya bust’ds!
Ya crookie crak’d and cuk’d
In lard. Ya oila’ skumys
Ya yell’a bell’as spola’s!
Wa’ll ha’ ye! – e’en tha’ rewardy’s co’
Thra’ dae’n ‘an’ wun’ ta’ gae,
An’ tha’n tha’ raest
O’ scunners
Ya’ shit’a heeps a’ stinkun turdy’s
Frae’ fudy’s tht’s tha’ bust in land.
Ya’ win’ an’ dun’ a’ ur’ uxpans’
Wa’ll ha’ ye
An’ wae’l ceas’ ya’ wurdy’s
[TRANSLATION :
You worthless bastards (spawn of unknown parentage, illegitimate in every sense of provenance).
You crooked people, encrusted and caked in layers of putrid oily substance that you have used to oil and sneak your way through life. You yellow bellied, cowardly, worthless scum, - a scum that floats on top of fluid and pollutes it.
We ( the populace - decent people with integrity that care) will have you! (i.e. see to it that you are dismissed, - even then you may connive to obtain rewards).
Three down, we have - the odious politico Bliar, the ridiculous policio Bliar, the ridiculous speaker, and one left, - the ridiculous, posturing hectoring control-freak bully. The rest of the apparatchiks and yes-persons will follow these.
You are shit heaps of stinking turds. And the turds are from the best food and wine that we, the taxpayers provide.
We will 'have' you (i.e. dismiss you) and stop your whining words and sanctimonious bullshit.
Commentary :
The poet, torn between anger (at the state of parliament) and joy (at the dismissal of another bent politico) reflects on the shifty fuckers that have obtained, held, and purloined power and privilege, - and have the audacity to prescribe what others should - or should not - do.]
what is this Nich Robinson spouting agin? He really is a horrible little bendover, taking information up the rear passage form his new Labour bully boys
rrring rring
NR: Hullo this is Nock Robinson speak
GB: Hullo this is Gordon brown, and I would like you to go and play with a goat this afternoon
NR: Certainily sir, would you like me to film me playing with the aformenstioned goat? I can take my communist frined form the Daily mirror, kevin McGuire, he is a famous northern monkey, why eye, ant and dec, shipyards, coalmines, 20 years ago, tabs, beer, and if you live on the wromg side of the river you are not a jordy. I can also suggest they we take fatty prescott, he could make friends with the stupid Bovines, maybe they could swap,head butt stories
Just the butt stories for now. Touch your toes, Robinson.
And polish your head and glasses 4 eyes (only jealous).
Viggers had to go but he was one of the few who understood what has gone on in banking
If any MPs read this blog as we sort of know you do if you’ve got any sense because doorstepping is a waste of time by comparison, then please listen: Your expenses fiddles are secondary to our concerns but if it is the only way we can reach you, then so be it. What we really hate about you (and David Davis MP is spot on about this) is that you’ve been so weak for the past 12 years in the face of the greatest assault on our freedoms and democracy that you are now less than worthless to us as a legislative power. Consequently you no longer are worth the value of your hot water heaters to us. We pay you to defend our rights against socialist dictatorship, if you can peform that one simple task for us then it’s gold leaf wallpaper all round guys. Understand?
They probably don’t read it because it would require paying attention to what real people think and they’re too busy waffling on and on with their own delusions, but you are bang on with this comment.
Excellent.
All I want is (a) to see socialism totally and utterly destroyed for evermore and (b) the hoons who have wrecked our country PUNISHED. Like fines, pensions cancelled, honours revoked, humiliation, throwing of rotten fruit, and general payback for their years of being effing incompetent useless self-regarding parasites.
Agreed. And while you’re about it, why not repatriate the powers you have traitorously ceded to Europe? What’s the point of we taxpayers paying for you lot to sit around chin-wagging in Westminster because any real power to govern this country no longer resides with Parliament? All that is left for Parliament is to waste time and taxpayer money imposing illiberal and interfering regulations. Your treachery has come back to bite you on the bum – you have made yourselves dispensable, lied and spinned yourselves out of a job.
I’m going off piste.
Who wants a bit of pre-Ashes fun?
http://denverthen.blogspot.com/2009/05/ashes-stuff.html
I am dismayed by some of these ill informed comments about “class” and Moat cleaning.
What rot!
If your moat needs cleaning it indicates a definite loutish tendancy.
A gentlemans moat is a thing of self sustaining beauty.
If you cannot afford to stock your moat with a few Crocodiles or pirhana to keep out the undesirables out then you should not be surprised when it fills with supermarket trolleys, lesbians and the floating bloated corpses of poachers and paparazzi full of buckshot for their impudent trespassing ways.
And a floating Duck Island is the height of bad taste.
I do not hunt these quacking vermin only to coddle them with their own private repose in which to breed and hatch their evil schemes.
Standards are slipping. We are sinking under the weight of mediocrity.
Wonderful way to end the evening. Thanks and goodnight.
Harumph Harumph
And there’s the cannons. Don’t forget the cannons.
Won’t be long until Labour MPs start claiming for mock moats, replica drawbridges and authentic plastic ducks.
Brilliant! And fake coats of arms…
New role for Derek Draper?
Gordon’s promised me my own castle with a moat, and free rides on Brown Force One. Andy Marr, go fuck yerself.
Let’s hope it’s one of Saddam’s old palaces, Nick
Anyone else actually think it was Bn Brogan who had the expenses disc, its seems a bit coincidental, that Brogan gets hired and arrives at the Telegraph and then voila 1 week later, expenses galore.
Definitely, must have been a clincher at the interview.
Mention of the word “Hun” is incorrect in dealing with ex speaker-to-be Martin. he ain’t a Hun, he’s a Taigue.
Don’t mention the ( class ) war. I did once but I think I got away with it.
Spot On.
If you prod him, does he bleat?
Four ducks on a pond,
A grass-bank beyond,
A blue sky of spring,
White clouds on the wing;
What a little thing
To remember for years—
To remember with tears!
I’m welling up.
Depressing newsnight just now; as I feared; more weasel words, lots of fertilizer being spread to make the long grass grow even taller so the expenses ball can get well and truly lost. Constituency parties closing ranks with gov’t (yes I know, ‘government’ with this lot is an oxymoron) who will stick it out to the end and hope something will turn up .I think a large turn out and some serious protest voting at the euros followed by a significant number of independants at the GE is needed or nothing will change.
“(yes I know, ‘government’ with this lot is an oxymoron”
It certainly is some sort of moron.
A Morgaret?
Viggers’ website just days ago:
The topic of the day is, of course, MPs’ expenses and many people have asked for comments.
Personally, I have of course always scrupulously observed the rules.
More generally, I have always believed that MPs’ pay and conditions should be set by an independent body. I wrote last month to Sir Christopher Kelly, the Chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, supporting his Committee’s study and making recommendations for its consideration.
Another one hanging on to his seat until the election. I cannot imagine why. The time is nigh for people to demand these troughers stand down now OR else, make a legally binding declaration that they will waive the resttlement grant they receive by retiring at the end of a full term of a parliament.
This wanker will stand to get somewhere in the order of a year’s salary under resettlement grant rules, the first £30K of which is income tax free. This applies to any MP who is still a member when parliament is dissolved, even if they do not return by virtue of not standing rather than fighting for, but losing, their seat.
The same should apply to Blears, Hoon, Moat-Boy, that ugly bird with the dry rot, et al.
Ffs: You are moat boy, moat boy.
Or are you moles? Is Hogg the moles? Not sure any more.
Now, I know you’re not ducks. And you’re definitely not horse poo. Or wisteria.
So, no, you’re definitely moles or moats, one or t’other.
Tories, man. Wildlife, castles and country gardens: an altogether better class of trougher.
Of course
That is why I do not want little Gorbals scum in the House of Lords
My family have been here for generations you know…
A Duck Island For Fucks sake !!!
If it looks like a a duck island, walks like a duck island, and quacks like a duck island, it is a duck island.
Because we’re worth it.
For Ducks sake !
The lords is going to be quite full.
Perhaps they should quietly convert it into a new prison, without telling any of the new arrivals of course.
Now that is what is called a reasonable, common sense approach to the problem.
Portmerrion has served this purpose before.
Did anyone see The Jonah speaking at the CBI thingy tonight? He looked like he was loosing it at times, almost Mr Shouty at times, I fear the meltdown as begun !
It was funny when his mic. broke.
‘Do you really want to see tomorrow, in the midst of a recession, while the Government is dealing with this, the chaos of an election?’
Doesn’t bode well for democracy if we are still in a recession on June 3rd 2010.
“The Chaos of an Election” soken like a true Tyrant,
spoken even !
Sounded like he wanted to dispense with elections altogether. This man is totally deranged.
sane then tony?
just heard ms. harperson on r4 ; closing ranks with fellow mp’s against the pesky unwashed populace (I thought we were the electorate who put them there, but never mind eh?).why should we be put in barrack blocks bleated another. they all make me sick – to hell with the lot of them.
No bitterness Mr Stein? Funny that because I was in Totnes on Tuesday and there was a car driving around the town with a p.a. system and a chap saying you should be sacked to nods and shouts of encouragement from the good people of that town that you’ve shat on.
Take a walk up(it goes up a sodding great hill)the High Street on Saturday Afternoon you ignorant tosser and see if you still can’t detect a note of bitterness by the time you’ve gone a few hundred yards.No need to go any further because even you will have got the message by then and you’ll be going home in tears.Think I’d leave Devon completely if I were you old bean because your not welcome.
Apologies to anyone called Stein,typo and I did of course mean Steen.
So he’s not kosher then?
Does it have to be kosher to be kosher then ?!
Fucking hell
The Missus and myself arent short of a few bob,but Id mow that hoons lawn for half the price.
Call Buck house and ask for Phil or Liz
We have a few horses,
we could turn them loose for some grass munching and we wont charge you for the manure
Mrmmmmmmmm stealer
I now intend to return to my office,ignore my fake wife and children,
put mah undies on mah head,put the cocks of Nick Brown and Lord Fondlebum up mah nose and carry on saving the world by wurking 33 hours a day
Qua…
Has Tony Blair got away with his troughing?
Even though his wife his a highly-paid lawyer, their £ multi-million property portfolio takes a lot more explaining.
They shredded the documents.
Bastard.
cameron has learnt a lot from him; ie how to be a smiling robbing ******
Maybe we should take it all back and get them to prove it’s all legit.
Ask the Labour “financiers”…
Guido knows them…
I see Ben Chapman is still refusing to pay the money back he knowingly claimed on a mortgage he didn’t have. What a thieving, shameless shit.
You really could not invent this one
We have often spoken of champage Socialists
Ms Natascha ENGEL, another Criminal Labour MP, bought, with OUR MONEY
WAIT FOR IT
CHAMPAGNE FLUTES
So Ladies and gentleman after days of proof of sordid Labour thieving we have the original CHAMPAGNE SOCIALIST
BUT SHE LIVES THE CHAMPAGNE LIFE AT OUR EXPENSE
OBSCENE
ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS
No more pint of lager and a packet of crisps for this lot!
Matin Bellsa standsa against thiefa mesa asking?
Why are you asking about Labour MPs being expelled from the Labour Party.
The Labour Party is clearly an organised criminal conspiracy.
You have to be blind not to see that after the deluge of disclosures.
The question you should be asking if why some very decent people like Frank Field and Kate Hoey are still members of this Criminal Labour Party.
They should understand that as well.
Mr Plod you are more of a one eyed twat than brown.
it is indeed Palermo
Ime not avin it , Nick Brown has now said Michael Martin was victim of elitiest coup , i would like to ask Nick Brown how Mr Martin is supposed to be defined as a good speaker !!
how do you define a labour man whose party promised a referendum on the European Constitution to the people in an election manesfesto , sit in the speakers chair and willingly force through parliment somthing that was 90% of the constitution but renamed a treaty , and call himself a defender of democracy .
Go on nick see if daily politics will let you air it , Michael Martin may be nice bloke with tribal tendancies that some would call lack of finesse , but really dont you think he could have done the job of the office somewhat better !!
caesars wife thinks he has gordons cabinet reshuffle
if mandelson gets foreign secratary
milliband for home sec or straw
ed for chancellor
jaqui for education
alistair for business
hoon out possibly straw or milliband (de selection for hoon)
blears demoted to housing
flint promoted to communities
alexander to europe (labour activists think campaign is crap)
purnell stay
burnham out or to europe
new face in sport ?
however as gordon has promised to de select expense fraud mps could hit the rocks , but even if this side show is played out , nation still needs to send them big message on how labour have ruined the country let alone the cross party troughing .
gordon had bounus hit at CBI lunch on top tax rate , IMF says gordon stayed off total collapse and gives him a good word , however they also say level of personal and national debt makes recovery uncertain .
looks like Labour camoflauge is on , still dont know how they intend to stop national tax death scenario
Typical caesars wife; takes all night to respond with her diatribe and is still a load of shite.
That was me by the way, don’t know why it came up as anon.
I love you
Scenario sounds plausible to me. Having a known whore in charge of schools may not go down well, but can’t see her being demoted further than this as she now seems to be escaping from her pre-troughgate fate. Can’t see her being popular at her first parents evening; hopefully a fist-fight will leave her with a couple of lovely shiners and a permanent limp.
Blears in housing, luvvlyjubbly! The sort of sick, ironic sideways move that may keep Brown’s midget infestation in check, but not really as much of a demotion as, say, being on trial in The Hague or head cracked open slowly in a vice with live web-streaming. The scheming little quim will still be able to wreak vengeance on a significant scale and her mountain-troll gurn will not disappear from our TV screens. Expect a breakout of mass-delight. The skill with which she waves cheques around on TV could alternatively prompt Broon to create a Minister for Charity. Now, doesn’t that have a delicious Brownite ring?
If Lord Peter Benjamin Mandelschwein of Boy, Foy and possibly other words ending in ‘oy’, but excluding ‘joy’ is manoevered into the Foreign Office he will be the first in this senior job to not have a seat in the Commons since Carrington. I can just see this happening – if so it should cause outrage, but probably won’t.
Sport – difficult one. Kate Hoey is unlikely to get her old job back after publicly facing down the Scottish mafia. With the approach of the Olympics the propaganda possibilities of this job will require an equal share of telegenicity and Brown-nose.
The Reshuffle of the Vanities?
Day by day, this expenses fiasco gets worse. And yet the police have yet to be called in. I guess the only time one of these bastards will ever be arrested is when The Daily Telegraph catches one of them dressed as a bishop, performing a Black Mass, fist raping a donkey while eating a barbequed baby. Then they would spin their way out of it!
All hot air filling up the balloon of politics.
For spare change you can believe in: get up off your knees, and bring in a version of the Glass Steagall Act.
‘Politics is showbiz for ugly people.’ Do you want to be the eejits in the stalls?
There is no democracy unless feckwits stop watching celebrity TV and Print, and start demanding reality. Money talks and BS walks.
While the chattering classes were enthralled by politics, the politicians were robbing you blind, and you cared little for the vulnerable, e.g. children, the elderly, the destitute, and dispossesed.
But Lordy, Lordy, how you do bitch and moan about your petty provincial fate. F U.
Got gold and silver? Nope. Understand economics? Nope.
Eejits. Leave it to others to solve the problems while you just whine, and your idols profit. You whinge, but you do nothing to help yourselves or those less able than yourselves.
Proof that politics is showbiz for ugly people, and the provincial boors whine.
if the mp’s had to operate by the 2006 fraud act, how many would be in trouble, 200? 300? 500?
in other words it is probably the “majority” who are on the take. and therefore the system is endemically corrupt from the inside.
return all monies made on second homes in the last 10 years at taxpayers expense and sack anyone who has made flase claims over 5,000 pounds.
that would leave a few from each party, but not many.
and turn a revamped house of lords into acommodation for the commons. and get rid of the 746 unelected scum from there who contribute little to the country but lots to themselves.
things have not changed since i was there. just harder to see which ones are the labour party people now.
Where did the extra hundred come from (the Chiterns?) and why are MPs exempt from the Fraud Act?
Another one who should consider his position very carefully is James Purnell.
I had a letter published Wednesday in the Tameside Advertiser, Purnell’s local paper, largely based on the following, although they did cut it down to 200 words:
‘Last week’s Advertiser contained an article on James Purnell, in which he vigorously defended the expenses he had personally claimed.
Mr Purnell expressed regret the current expenses system had brought MP’s integrity into question. However, it’s not the system (which MP’s devised) at fault – it’s the way individual MP’s have abused the rules, sometimes spectacularly, and it is this that has sparked feelings of anger towards MP’s from the law-abiding majority, in a way not seen in living memory.
In Mr Purnell’s case, he has claimed in excess of £100,000 tax free in housing allowances over the past 5 years against property in London. This is on the basis that his constituency home in Broadbottom is his main residence. However, is this claim really justified?
House of Commons guidelines state an MP’s main home is generally the place where he spends the majority of his time, that is, 183 days/nights or more each year. Has Mr Purnell spent anything like 183 nights at his constituency house in the last 12 months, in the sense he actually slept on the premises overnight? If not, the claim the constituency house is his main residence fails, and his claim for the £20,000+ a year allowance becomes invalid.
I suspect only Mr Purnell and his neighbours know the answer to that particular conundrum’.
The online version is as per the link below. My online moniker is ‘Disgusted of Broadbottom’. My name and address appear in the paper itself.
http://www.tamesideadvertiser.co.uk/news/c/1115030_mp_urgent_need_to_reform_expenses
Following this, I knocked on the door of his next door and next door but one neighbour last night and they both confirm he is hardly ever there, one night a month being the absolute maximum.
I will attempt to speak to his other next door neighbour later today and will update this site as soon as I have something further to add on this point.
But prima, facie, there is a case for Mr Purnell to answer, as it seems he is claiming his constituency home is his main residence for ACA purposes when quite clearly it is not.
Thoughts anyone?
Nice work – the more pressure applied to these scumbags ripping off the taxpayer the better.
Good for you.
Don’t expect Plod to come running anytime soon. They are to busy filling in their own expense claim forms and overtime sheets.
Good for you.
Don’t expect Plod to come running anytime soon though. They are too busy filling in their own expense claim forms and overtime sheets to be bothered with something as tedious as organised crime or serious fraud.
Er, SNAP?
Filling in their own expenses? Not for James who claimed £395 on an accountant to help him dodge paying CGT. He is too lazy that he can’t be bothered to do it himself. And here is me thinking TAX DOESN’T HAVE TO BE TAXING.
Mail has the headline “Fascist on the Palace Lawn”. For one moment I imagined Phil had keeled over during croquet, but the story’s about Griffin.
Non-story- the party that cannot be named is loving all this free publicity and notoriety.The Mail would have been better to ignore it all together . Barnbrook could have been “unlucky” in his ticket request and if he complained told to put it in writing and go away. Instead it’s front page news.
All she needs to do is let her corgis loose on him to bite his ankle or wee up his leg – either or both will do.
Morning folks.
Offtopic slightly, but the Telegraph has published its “Top 30 Saints”, those MPs who claimed the LEAST on their Second Home Allowance.
There’s at least a dozen MPs who chose not to claim anything, despite the entitlement to do so.
Let us make sure that we give as much credit to these as we give shit to the troughing hoons.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5342811/MPs-expenses-The-saints-Part-i.html
Rightly or wrongly financial misconduct is more serious when it is Tory
Ex-Minister and Blairite Ruth Kelly prefers the “Tax Payer’s Householder Insurance” rather that “Norwich Union”. ‘The insurance assessors are so much more amenable to paying out for flood damage’, she said allegedly to our political correspondent, ‘and they are very good about not reducing the claim down too ! I recommend them to anyone in a similar position !’
There’s also no irritating little nuisance where you have to pay the first few hundred of any claim yourself.
There has to be a General Election. This whole thing is now beyond parody !
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/GoToCountryNow/
4,268 and counting…..
These petitions on line are not strong enough, a march will be needed, but keep it peaceful.
4422 now – going up slowly.
You’re right though Lizzie, I think we need to organise a march on Parliament, someone earlier mentioned one this Saturday I think.
Someone else mentioned a General Strike, of the sort the French are known to do every summer when they don’t like what the govt of the day are up to. Now THAT they would have to take notice of, I think the Monday after the June elections might be the best day for that one??
“here has been no pressure from my association; they have been marvellous: members have been very put out by the Daily Telegraph coverage. I’ve had a very good innings, there’s no bitterness, no anger, but as the saying goes, all political careers end in tears.”
Pathetic.
Fuck off you robbing Hunt and the rest of your greedy ilk.
Arrogant fuckwit.
…And i support the tories!
For now.
I support the Tories too. However my local MP’s have troughed £142,000 and £94,500 apiece. Hardly a squeak. They are a total disgrace. I am ashamed. I hope they both lose their seats.
I am pleased to hear that Plod is not going after the mole who sold the expenses material to the Telegraph. Apart from the knighthood the person deserves what name should he or she go down in history with. America had “deepthroat”, what could we call the Westminster mole?
Deeptrough
Steen was not bad as an MP, he worked hard for his constituents.
Not as hard as he worked for himself.
You can get a perfectly good floating duck house for under £500- why spend more?
What am I to say to my ducks now when they complain about having to sleep under the stars?
Quack off elsewhere
Why spend more? Daft question.
Why NOT spend more. Put it on the tab.
with every great person theres another side,
so Winston Churchill if memory servers me correctly….
1) likened Palestinians to dogs, and therefore he was happy for the Jewish people to have palestine.
2) whilst people were dying (fighting), we nicely tucked up at home eating the best food, whine blah blah…..
How old are you?
you wanna get access to where the were, without expending effort…
go get the mobile phone records which track their location….. after all they were wanting to spy on us
Why has what I would consider very wrong or even criminal behaviour suddenly become merely unacceptable behaviour?
Gordon’s right behind me. What’s that scraping metallic sound? Like a sword being unsheathed in a movie… Kill Bill I think.
Gordon’s right behind me. Ohhhhh
re james purnell………he has claimed £395 for accountants to sort his ‘expenses.’
as far as i know , accountants have to report any suspicious behaviour to the tax man…………or themselves get into serious trouble………
so why the silence?
dodgy dealings here and elsewhere?
http://www.theabi.org.uk/press/p0403.htm
Martin Bell: Yes – integrity and independence
Joanna Lumley: Yes – intelligent and with a sense of justice
Esther Rantzen: No – opportunist, attention seeker, desperate to revive a career
Esther got kicked off strictly come dancing as well, so how does she expect to do when people really have to vote for her, she can’t be serious surely!
It has to be said, none of the greedy bastards has the decency to resign BEFORE the revelations are published!
I agree with others that resigning is not enough. If as an employee you defrauded the firm you would be fired AND prosecuted for the money. I am sure we can make room in the jails.
(And I’m getting sick of Mr Plod saying when it comes to speeding we can’t pick & choose which laws to enforce, and then deciding MPs expenses are ‘too complex’, evidence of fox hunting is hard to obtain, gays can have sex in parks but heterosexuals can’t… )
[sings] “Gypsies, tramps, and thieves
We’d hear it from the people of the country
They’d call us gypsys, tramps, and thieves
But every night the lobbyists would come around
And lay their money down”
Looks like Derek might have a new job, guess who’s paying for this shit!
“Now MPs call in a psychiatrist to deal with the ‘stress’ of the expenses furore”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1184656/Now-MPs-psychiatrist-deal-stress-expenses-furore.html
Floating duck island? What other kind of duck is there?
Crispy
Dear Guido
It is well known that ducks destroy pond life.
So I’m amazed that an old hand like Sir Peter failed to realise the risk of encouraging these feathered foes.
See: http://thegardenpondblog.org.uk/2009/05/21/sir-peter-viggers-duck-pond/
Jeremy
Gardening leave!
I’ve just heard this bastard snout Steen moaning on the news that it’s all the fault of the government for bringing in the FOI. According to him the public shouldn’t be allowed to know anything about his and other MPs affairs and expenses. Thank goodness this discredited and ‘foul’ MP is standing down. These snouts beggar belief in their audacity and sheer fucking arrogance.
I heard Steen, too.
“It’s just jealousy. That’s all it is. They don’t like my big house. It’s a bit like Balmoral.”
“If Labour hadn’t brought in this stupid freedom of information act, no-one would have known about it.”
“Anyway, it’s nothing to do with the public, what I do with my money.”
“Cameron didn’t mind. It was my constituents.”
Even Littlejohn couldn’t have made it up.
Definitely up there with Kelly’s “I didn’t know I could claim for flood damage on insurance.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8062205.stm
Here is the link for a true Tory nose in the trough!
Hear it and weep!
All parties are as bad as each other!
I gasped when I saw the website where they advertise (produce) these Duck Islands. Not only are they the ugliest and naffest things I have ever seen, but they are outrageously expensive.
http://www.birdpavilions.com/
Those Tory troughers might be a bunch of bastards, but their extravagance has style. No fake Tudor beams there.
Goes with class?
What about this rant of Steens?
Take the blinkers off please Guido. Each party is bad as the next!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8062205.stm
Vote Duck.
A vote for better homes and landscaped gardens.
Somehow the mention of a “duck island” stirs musical memories of long ago. Come on, Mrs Dorries, here’s a song for you to sing to keep your spirits up when you’re tempted to top yourself:-
Oh, the Duck Island Line is a mighty fine road.
The Duck Island Line is the road to ride.
The Duck Island Line is a gravy-train road;
So if you want to ride it,
Just think up a few good stories.
Join the lying thieving Tories
On the Duck Island Line.
Oh, I may be right an’ I may be wrong
But I sure feel good just singin’ this song!
Oh, the Duck Island Line is a mighty fine road.
The Duck Island Line is the road to ride.
The Duck Island Line is a gravy-train road;
So if you want to ride it,
Climb aboard and screw your neighbour
With the robbers of New Labour
On the Duck Island Line.
A – B- C- W – X – Y – Zee
The voter’s in the dark and so he cain’t see me.
Oh, the Duck Island Line is a mighty fine road.
The Duck Island Line is the road to ride.
The Duck Island Line is a gravy-train road;
So if you want to ride it
And you’re Liberal-Democratic,
Then the perks are automatic
On the Duck Island Line.
Jee-zus died for all our sins
So we’re all right, Jack: ev’ryone wins.
Oh, the Duck Island Line is a mighty fine road.
The Duck Island Line is the road to ride.
The Duck Island Line is a gravy-train road;
So if you want to ride it,
You are sure to be a gainer
Even if you’re a Sinn Feiner
On the Duck Island Line.