+++ Lord Rennard to Get the Crick Treatment on Newsnight +++
Won’t be about his personal mores, just his financial dishonesty. That Cowley Street moral high ground looking increasingly shaky..
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Guido chuckled at the following exchange he had with a Tory insider:
Tory: “What’s Labour’s position on the Syria crisis?”
GF: “They say you should be talking to Russia.”
Tory: “Labour have been saying that since 1945.”
DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:
Maybe if they really wanted to “decontaminate the Labour brand” with business people, they shouldn’t have totally buggered up the economy?
Just a thought.
He has brought the name of Cowley, head of CI5, into disrepute, and I hate that.
Anything to do with Morris Cowley?
Don’t think Purdey will be impressed either. She hangs out with some fearsome types nowadays.
Fearsome they maybe, but they are also very loyal and efficient with a great sense of humour. They also have what Parliament seems to lack these days, a sense of honour.
TELL US ABOUT HIS PERSONAL MORES, GUIDO!
Kick ‘em when they’re down. And locked away.
Prefer the RS2000 or the Dolly sprint to his Granada.
Dolly Sprint? He doesn’t look like he could any more.
Please Please Please Guido, take that grinning psycho off your pages
It’s no wonder Guy was caught. Not exactly incognito unless he was dressed as Robin Hood at the time.
Someone tell me they caught the video of Gordon Brown’s mic falling to pieces in the middle of his CBI speech
Yup.
Youtube if you want to….
Broken mic, broken banks, broken families, broken government, broken country. What more can you say of this Hoon?
James Purnell is another who needs to consider his position as well.
I had a letter published in the Tameside Advertiser, Purnell’s local paper today in the following terms:
‘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’.
I followed this up tonight by speaking to Purnell’s next door and next door but one neighbour. They both say he is hardly ever there; once a month would be rather generous. I will speak to his other next door neighbour tomorrow and post up further details as soon as I have them.
The Telegraph were around about 3 weeks ago apparently – as they didn’t ask how often he stopped there the information did not come out!
But prima facie, there is a case for Purnell to answer.
Any suggestions (polite ones only please) as to how this should be taken forward?
(My name and address are in the paper if anyone wishes to check the authenticity of this out – the online version of this is at:
http://www.tamesideadvertiser.co.uk/news/c/1115030_mp_urgent_need_to_reform_expenses
I am ‘Disgusted of Broadbottom’ in the online edition, in which there is an extra final sentence, which the paper edited out).
Purnell is the Minister who tried to introduce interest payments on loans from the Social Fund. May he be deselected and sacked soonest.
We NEED an ELECTION!!!
The Mail gave a graphic expose of his London flat:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1173769/Revealed-The-filthy-rental-home-vacated-James-Purnell–1-600-cleaning-paid-taxpayers.html
Perhaps they’d do a feature on his other home? news@dailymail.co.uk
Email him from his web page and ask for an explanation.
Leah that is disgraceful. A disabled friend of mine who had to borrow for a new cooker had to pay the loan back weekly from her job-seeker’s allowance – which is a pittance. the paperwork & postaage associated iwth this loan and repyament must have cost a fortune – weekly 3-oage notifications etc etc!
When I was young and settign up my flat as a student, the poor and those on benefits could go along to a Council site and get a 2nd hand cooker or fridge which had been re-condtioned. Now it’s agaisnt the law or at least impossible to buy any electrical goods whatever 2nd hand due to the Elf- even a lamp, hairdryer or iron, much less a fridge or washing machine etc. What a ridiculous policy – if you go to your council dump any day, there are people driving in and chucking away skiploads of perfectly good stuff, inc TVs and computers. It makes me mad as hell!
Sam – the big problem with that old, discredited policy was that it added nothing to the gross domestic product of the nation.
just laughed my head of when he lost his mike, but what on earth his he going on about, I think everybodys left the room and he does’nt know.
I hope they ask him about the libdems £2.4 million impermissible donation
I cannot imagine that ZanuLabour luvvie Crick could give any one of the leftish mafiosi a hard time.
Tonight the Conservative attempt to freeze the BBC’s Evil Empire Licence Fee has been lost this evening. Quelle supris. Once again Lib Dems & Labour MPs have given millions of us more good reasons not to trust them or vote for them in any election in the future.
Neither party gives tuppence for the feelings of the electorate who are paying an unfair tax to promote a one dimensional ideology.
And when they claim they are voting to retain the so-called “independence” of the Evil Empire – we know they are guaranteeing themselves the full and unconditional support of the Evil Empire come election time.
It is our duty to support the Conservative Cultural & Media Shadow and give him every piece of ammo we have on the misuse of public money by the bigots at the Evil Empire.
Time to turn the spotlight on the money soaked BBC.
Spot on Reaper, as usual.
The BBC is notoriously profligate with our money.
They need to be exposed too.
What are the numbers in the vote?
374 MPs approved the 2 per cent increase in the licence fee.
From the Telegraph
2 percent – so that’s 3.2% above this month’s inflation rate. Who else (apart from MPs) gets this much rise this year?
Thousands of pounds to tempt them to move North, hundreds on endless taxis and hospitality, millions wasted on promoting the Labour cause, thousands wasted on paying fines with our money, endless repeats, multimillion deals with foul mouthed louts.
The BBC has got to be worse than the self serving gits in Parliament.
Jeremy Hunt doesn’t need use any words to ensure the BBC give them a fair crack during an election. Three letters will do it: F O I.
You think the BBC will be worse than our MPs at spending money? That’s rubbish.
For a start, I pay an awful lot more to the government in taxes than I pay to the Beeb, The beeb occasionally produce something of value with what I pay them (Not much it has to be said, but more than Broon ever has), and I very much doubt that the BBC expenses will include a mock tudor beamed floating duck pond in a recently cleaned moat…
Yes the BBC is left leaning, but that it a simple reflection of the majority of people who work in the media, who have very socialist ideas sometimes, believe me.
MPs are simply trying to shift the focus from themselves onto someone else.
FUCK OFF INSECTS?
No 36 Anonymous
FUCK OFF BBC BOY!
….Won’t be about his personal mores…..
Well fill us in here then. What’s interesting in that respect?
By the Hoonly-Trough-Wanker method this is now the most corrupt, inept, treasonous government in the history of the world.
The BBC News is a waste of viewing these days, I only watch Sky News, or ITV, but still have to pay for a license perhaps somebody could think of a way around this.
19: I watched this today and guess who were in favour, yeh labour and Libs. what a load of two faced tossers.
The same goes for the overseas version. Even with Sky and ITV unavailable very few Brits watch BBC news, preferring CNN instead. The World Service on radio is not much better, being used only for time checks and the football results.
Sorry, should have been attached to 20.
So what is the Crick treatment, a clammy handshake?
I should jolly well hope so, I’m only on £92k and I’m due a rise!
God luck to Rennard the Fox_______________that’s what Spedo calls, private “enterprise”!!
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all hope remains in Spedo Shorts
So did he get a Crick in the neck?
Where IS the Liberal Democrat reply on the Rennard issue then ? It makes me hoot with joy – the cleanest of the bunch (trouser presses …. really?) and they cant sort one Lord. they are taking the mickey.
Broon got wot he wanted – he wuz Primunistur for a day – There’s blind ambition for you.
Rennard has gone. Emailed statement to all members (mailmerged, but I’ve de-merged it):
First, I’d like to thank all members for everything that you are doing to help our candidates in the European and local elections (if you have local elections in your area). I am sure that they appreciate your support at a difficult time in politics. If you are standing yourself, then obviously I wish you the best of luck!
My reason for writing is that I have decided to make the current election campaigns my last as Chief Executive. I discussed this with Nick some time ago and I have given notice to the Party President that I will stand down as Chief Executive at the end of the Summer.
I want to be able to work more flexibly in future whilst of course continuing to help our party advance. I believe that I will be better able to do so without the administrative burdens of being Chief Executive and running the party’s day to day organisation.
For family and health reasons, I have needed to change the way in which I work. My wife Ann has supported me enormously in all my work. But since she retired a few years ago after more than 35 years teaching, we wanted to have something of a more normal life outside the Westminster bubble.
This has become more important to me as I have struggled to maintain good diabetic control with the rigours of a very demanding lifestyle. This has proved to be increasingly difficult whilst carrying out the role of Chief Executive at HQ and around the country.
I decided that this Summer would be the best time for me and for the party to make a change. I am letting the party know this now, so that it can take the necessary steps to appoint a new Chief Executive in the Autumn.
My major work as Chief Executive in recent years has been to help create new structures for the party organisation and help to recruit an extremely strong professional team to work for it. The role of Chief Executive has therefore changed significantly since I undertook this role six years ago.
By the Summer, we will have had crucial local and European elections and I believe that we will do well in them. I am also confident that Nick Clegg will prove to be the most successful Leader that we have ever had. I am immensely proud of the roles that I have played so far in securing the steady advance of the Liberal Democrat cause. Our values and beliefs have never been more important than they are today. I will, of course, continue to support the General Election campaign, but not as chair.
Finally, I would just like to thank all members personally for all the support that I have had whilst working for the party and I look forward to continuing to work with you in future.
With all best wishes,
Yours sincerely
Chris Rennard
PS I thought about letting you know this after the current round of elections, but having taken the decision and informed the Leader and President, I wanted you to hear directly from me and to fully understand why I have been trying to make lifestyle changes and will make an even more significant one later this year.