Financial Times Catches Margaret Moran Lying
If Margaret Moran was not toast already, she definitely is now. The FT has caught her using her Commons office to promote her husband’s firm “EQN”. Then they caught her lying about it.
EQN’s accounts show its funding comes from public grants, business sponsorship and private events organised for paying clients, principally in the housing sector.
Hundreds of documents seen by the Financial Times dated from 2006 to 2008 show that Ms Moran used her parliamentary staff to write funding bids for EQN, telling one that the salary the individual received was tied to working for EQN. Her constituency office also helped organise “great networking opportunities” at EQN conferences with ministers personally invited by Ms Moran.
When EQN bids for funding were unsuccessful, Ms Moran repeatedly used Commons-headed paper to intervene with local authorities and Whitehall departments to express her “concern and amazement”.
EQN received grants in 2008 from public bodies including £10,000 from Luton Borough Council for local regeneration funding, and £20,000 from the East of England Development Agency’s Investing in Communities programme for a “feasibility study” into a local women’s business centre.
A statement authorised by Ms Moran in response to the FT stated that “Margaret has never written any letters for EQN on parliamentary headed notepaper”.
However, the FT has seen copies of letters written by Ms Moran in 2007 on Commons-headed paper supporting EQN funding bids and personal invitations to EQN events sent to businesses on Commons headed paper.
Cameron sacks MPs before dawn when the evidence shows them to be red handed. Gordon just dithers.
Oh dear HAHAHHHAH
Ha Ha Ha!
Guido – when are you going to dish the dirt on Hoon the hoon?
It wouldne’ be funny if your company was bidding against theirs for any work. Unfair competition.
Just posted on the previous thread
“If Brown doesn’t sack her – then the rest will know they are safe – she is clearly the most corrupt Labour MP we have seen so far. Admittedly there are many running her a close second but this is a no-brainer for McDoom. However, if past performance is a signpost to the future he will dither, dither, dither and dither again. He has no leadership qualities at all – being a leader means you have to take difficult choices – he can’t do that.”
Salve, Ricardus
Roman History shews you do not need Leadership Qualities to “lead” into disaster
Arrogance, stupidity and incompetence
combined with power, position and opportunity
can be very difficult to contain and counteract,
if you are at the bottom of the Lowerarchy
… as the soon-to-be-redundantified Lower Orders @ RBS can testify
Vale
Anoyimussissimus
All of the MPs seem to spend all their time on the make, with their property empires,expenses, tax dodges etc,etc,etc that the only time they turn up in parliament is if there is a vote to increase taxes to fund their fucking life style.
Not really on this,but does anybody know if Peter Hains mother who was paid to be his office manager while in her 80s (I am not ageist) ever did get her redundancy pay?
Brown SHOULD sack this disgusting troughing piggy. NOW!
But Cameron should also start SACKING people.
Because I’m afraid Guido is hopelessly lost in the Westminster bubble and as out of touch as the rest of these MP f*ckwits if he thinks standing down at the next election is what SACKED actually means.
The public know exactly what it means and it definitely doesn’t mean carrying on in your job fully paid for months or even a year before getting a Big Juicy Pension.
The public want’s these troughing f*ckers to lose their jobs IMMEDIATELY.
Not in a month or a year. And certainly not with a fat Pension.
The public would also be quite happy to get the fraud squad in and fine or jail all these sleazy f*ckers.
Fagin Brown should be collared for leading these urchins.
Gordon is too busy concentrating on “The BIG issues”. I don’t want to hear that bloody phrase from a Politician,ever again .
CeRR – CAN YOU PLS EXPLAIN EXACTLY WHAT HER CORRUPTION ACTUALLY IS – i CANNOT SEE IT….?
ho ho
We must bring the full weight of our justice system to bear on these MPs. As in our court system we must treat them all as guilty and kick them out for starters. If they can prove they are whiter than white(just a term Mr Vaz) they would then be allowed to re-enter parliament.
Ducks as expenses are totally unacceptable and should be condemned as should all the MPs scam expenses.
However, this expenses row relates at most to a few £millions but it is obscuring and deflecting attention from the massive budget deficit measured in £billions.
Brown wants this distraction from this national debt of his making by a relatively minor issue of MPs expenses which apply to all parties. The IMF and the CBI have both recommended that the budget deficit of £175 billions be reduced. Brown in PMQs has effectively said that he will not do this and that there will be no general election because a Tory Govt. would follow this advice.
In short, he is going to do nothing about the national debt of his making, now or in the future. Where has “PRUDENCE” gone – down the drain in his attempt to hang on to power whatever the cost to the Nation. Treasonable? I leave it to the reader to decided
At 181: Cameron can’t sack an MP – only the electorate can do that.
He has removed from any position of authority anyone with their fingers clearly in the till. Obviously he could remove the party whip – but there may be good reasons for jsut demanding that the MP resigns the seat at the forthcoming dissolution
@196
That would be my point.
That everyone should stop throwing this Public Relations Bullsh*t about “sacked” or “sacking” when that’s clearly not what is happening.
And yes, removing the whip would not be “sacking” either but it would be a damn sight more effective than “removed from any position of authority” as these MP’s will no longer be tarnishing the other Conservative MP’s with their deeds.
And I of course strongly advocate the exact same measures for the disgusting piggies in Browns barnyard.
Vanity of vanities,
says the preacher
All things are full of weariness,
a man (or in these enLightened Times, a Woman) cannot utter it
Well it’s not as if she’s got lots of form for using commons stationary. She’s been done for it before, and still continued after that warning. (I have been on receiving end of her abuses of commons stationary.)
Having had to put up with this woman as my MP for 12 years, nothing that’s come out in the last couple of week has been much of a shock. But I am looking forward to watching Esther kick her out of office. That will be my Portillo moment.
I have my doubts as to whether Esther Rantzen can make a good MP. I have never seen her display any of the qualities needed.
I think Luton could do better.
Esther Rantzen? God help us all! i can clearly remember her abysmal performance on Question Time, shilling for Gordon Brown – saviour of the universe. She’s an irritating, annoying beeboid who should be out in a field somewhere, chewing the cud.
But she’s replacing Moron, hell even brown would be a step up!
Dear god, just how bad does it have to get before JD Broon gets off his fat Scottish arse, opens his eye and does something…anything?
No hat tip? Boo
The BBC local news programme Look East ran a report last night concerning Margaret Moran and her connections to her partner’s company eNetworks.
The report stated that Margaret Moran had used her position as an MP to facilitate the access to Government Ministers for the company. Specifically, it was alleged that she has held parties at Westminster to which Ministers were invited.
It was also alleged that eNetworks is run by local Luton Labour party members.
Perhaps the most damaging allegation was that eNetworks submitted an application for a grant for the sum of £26,000 from Luton Council in 2007. Nothing wrong with that on the surface, but eNetworks ticked the box to say that they were a registered charity and gave a charity number. The Charity Commission told Look East that eNetworks is not a charity and that the number does not exist.
Margaret Moran, her partner Mick booker & eNetworks were invited to respond. Neither did.
Interestingly, eQuality ran a conference on 7 May 2009 on housing at which both Andy Burnham and local government minister Iain Wright spoke. Margaret Moran chaired it. Is it ethical for an MP to run a commercial conference company and use her undoubted influence to secure such top name speakers?
And how nice of one of Ms Moran’s employees at eQuality to nominate her for a Women in Public Affairs Award. From the citation, you’d think she was a blameless heroine…
Margaret Moran MP for Luton South is an outstanding woman and one that Luton should be proud of.Her vision is that of a forward thinking, modern day suffragette and her attitude is one of a high performance athlete…Parliament would be a very dull place without her; I’m 100% positive about that.
Indeed. Indeed.
From Mrs Dales
No doubt many Common Purpose graduates where in attendance.
Hopefully the Carity Cmmisson will be pursuing this matter further.???
I can understand (just) ticking the wrong box on the form, but ticking the box saying you’re a charity and filling in a false number? How is this not fucking fraud?
12 years in the torugh, ye Gods. What were the local press dping, and how come the idiot voters of Luton kept voting her in? We get the parliament we deserve alright. If only the e3lectorate were less primitive, ie less tribal
I find it hard to talk to some of my oldest friends these days – we go back to student days in the late 60s – as some refused to acknowledge the smell under their own nose, admit they were wrong – and kept voting Labour. These are educated people, many teachers and dons or journalists etc. No wonder we are in such a mess, with Govt fgiven over to people like this.
I think the hat tip should go to the Stand Down Margaret Moran campaign, they connected most of the dots, the media filled in the detail
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=81653222860&ref=nf
(see the discussion topic on Equality networks)
Supplying false information in an attempt to obtain a grant is fraud.
Has anyone reported this to the Police? It seems like quite a clear case of it too.
EQN is apparently not a commercial entity – it is a not-for -profit enterprise apparently, which means that neither of them have made any money!
no hat tip?
All right, here’s 50p. Mine’s the brown derby.
Time for my pit helmet.
Today the Times suggests that ugly cow Beckett will be back to replace the red squirrel (Blears), and that Hoon and his sleazy chums are now in the spotlight. A Cabinet reshuffle did not work for the deckchairs on the Titanic and will not work here either.
Becket looks like she’s been set alight an put out with a hammer.
Will someone please look into Beckett’s misuse of the Admiralty building whilst she was in res there (maybe still is)? She allegedly appropriated the Library – a national treasure, and formerly open to visitors and researchers, as her own private sitting room!
This building is the arguably the most iconic of all our hisotric buildings, and I have it on good authority that Labour’s stewardship of it has been shameful – Prescott being the main offender. But these NuLabour types hate our glorious history. Sadly all those in the know on this topic have had to sign the Official Secrets Act, of course
Another piggy for the slaughter oink oink squeal squeal. Fucking election now you maggots.
Tumbril time!
Come on Plod, It’s more fun and better for you than beating newspaper sellers to death.
Kill ‘em All. Kill, Kill Kill.
Breaking news – S&P changes ratings outlook for UK credit rating to negative.
When we lose triple A rating shall we lynch Broon
That makes french beer 1.5% more expensive.
You cant CUT your way out of recession!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nobody but me seems to understand this!!!
Cut Brown to prevent the depression.
“Nobody but me seems to understand this”
There’s a clue there if you think about it.
Her constituency party has reselected her.
Lying, corruption, and misuse of an MPs official position are not only perfectly normal for Labour MPs , the behaviour is approved by the Cabinet who do exactly the same.
Her constituency party is simply following Labour Policy.
What kind of corrupt garbage people are running the Luton South constituency? This is Third World stuff (or is that getting near the knuckle?)
Actually Steve most of them are from the Third World
Where success in corrupt practice is admired. I cite Mr Vaz.
This is the kind of endemic corruption that flows from these third world nations when immigration is unhindered and racism is banned. For to accuse these offices staffed with predominantly foreign third worlders of corruption is condemned as racist
What would we prefer an dishonest nation or a racist one. It seems we cannot eradicate both.
They are the ‘handful of votes at a time’ racketeers.
Banana republic.
Most wouldn’t know democracy if it hit them on the head.
Used to corrupt practices and bring them here.
Labour voters to make sure the rest of the local village can move into Britain.
So many here now its getting impossible to fight.
Luton is no longer first or second world.
Near the knuckle, but also near the nub.
Passing through any of these big towns these days is an eyeopener for rural types like me.
Corruption in politics is endemic in both Europe (carried over into the EU of course) and in Asia
That is why it’s infected so much of our body politic, from both sources.
The other problem is the very low membership of most local Labour parties – almost all the educated middle class people who were members in 97 have resigned, and left the fanatics to get on with it – so they get to select the PPCs. And very few of those types who remain live in ‘safe seats’ – those I know who are still in the Party all live in Tory seats! If there are now 50,000 paid up memeber of Laobur I’d be surprised.
Meanwhile the membership of the National Trust stands at between 3,250,00 and 3,450,000 in any given year. If only the middle classes had such a passion for other aspects of our threatened heritage
It’s up to the electorate to make it clear the corrupt behaviour of MPs is not acceptable – but the electorate in such places is now overrun with foreigners (voting by post). God help us all.
The Chair of the local branch said [to VD on R5] that he hadn’t heard from Moron since this all kicked off big time.
GAME OVER.
The game is only over when they meet and deselect her. Until they do that she has their implicit approval, and every day which passes reduces the Labour vote in her constituency
This twat has filled out a form “wrongly,” er, “correctly,” er, er.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8060563.stm
Surprise surprise, it’s the BBC complaining about a Conservative MP.
I don’t know about marching on parliament, I’d be up for a march on the BBC.
One of the first actions of the incoming Govt MUST be to purge the BBC and to9 rtestore soem semblance of impartiality. Meanwhile I refuse to pay a tax for partisan Government propaganda
Sounds like fraud to me.
It is fucking fraud but the police commander is holding back and is shitting himself because he knows thats the end of his career no matter who wins the next election.
Another despicable abuser of office.
What a complete twat!
They will look back at this, and say “What the fuck was that?”
Just like the Mayor of Hiroshima.
They deserve to be in prison.
At the first meeting of the NuLabour Cabinet in 1997, it was said by MI5 that the only one that didn’t have a boyfriend was Clare Short.
Yes, Blair, Brown, and all the others are as sexually ambiguous as can be!
Brown has always liked his goods delivered at the back door!
Sarah is a convenient distraction.
Well well…
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-7501.html
I’m not sure about your source in the security services but I think you will find that for first cabinet it was true that except for Clare Short, all the cabinet were either Scottish or gay or both.
One of the first acts of parliament passed in the new government was the “gay rights” bill. Evidently one of their top priorities.
Remember Operation Ore…
You aren’t saying that the whole of the British public have been milead Sorry I mean lied too
Luton keep supporting her. That sums up the general level of intelligence in Luton really doesn’t it?
I’ve flown from there several times. If this is an example of their IQ levels, I’ll not be going through Luton Airport again!
Highly intelligent comment Bon.
Just glad you don’t go in for stereotypes!
Dave, I left the UK years ago when I saw this shower of shite for what they really were. I’m watching whats happening with the vague amusement of an external observer.
I’m not stereotyping, but what I see from a distance is Luton supporting an obvious criminal. This is the impression thats being sent to everyone who is watching the Democracy collapse in the UK.
If Lutoners are so proud of their Town and wish to protect it’s image, they should march the bitch onto a plane and send her to a Country where she might feel more at home. Zimbabwe maybe?
You should only tar everyone in Luton with the same Brush if they re-elect this crook. So far it is only their MP and their constituency office (a small number of people) who are incomprehensibly supporting a fraudulent con artist.
IF this crook is returned to office in the next General Election, THEN you can tar all of Luton with the same fuckwit brush!
I agree Bron. the toilets’ airside’ are below standard. reminds me of Lagos.
Perhaps it should be spelt “Looton”
Bon you made a wise decision to move.
I should have moved years ago but, changed though it is I still have a strong affection for the Town and after nearly 70 years it would be hard to leave.
As to Moran, words fail me but sending her to Zimbabwe would be unfair to that poor country.
I think the answer may be to petition Gordon on the No 10 Website and ask him to sack her and call a by election on the grounds htat she is bringing Luton into disrepute. I’m sure he will agree.
Real shame, couldn’t happen to a nicer Hoon
NOW JUST FUCK OFF BACK TO SOUTHAMPTON
Definitely fraud – please can the police investigate this? If ONE Hoon deserves to go to prison over this it is this disgraceful bitch
We don’t want the c*unt in Southampton thankyou
Quack quack.
Quackety quack
Quack quack Spanish Armada quack quack oh fuck
BANG!
Says it all really, we are dealing with people who say ‘notepaper’ rather than ‘writing paper’. There is no hope………JD.
NO TO LISBON MEANS NO TO LISBON!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38059363467&ref=mf
Unless you are Gordon Brown – when words mean whatever you want
Only way to say no to Lisbon and all the other EU shite is to leave the EU. Hear that from any of the ‘main three’ parties? Thought not. Hunts to the core all in on the project and looking for the next swill at the EU trough. I am waiting for the 4th to vote UKIP and tell them all to get fucked.
Ditto.
I shall vote Conservative in the local council elections to send a message to Brown and shall vote UKIP in the Europeans to send a message to Cameron.
In the General election I shall be working very very hard to elect a local independent, because NONE of the Parties can be trusted in Westminster.
I just can’t believe the lows some people will stoop to and it is only going to get worse.
I really do feel sorry for those genuine MP’s (and there are some) who have had their reputations completely f***ed by people like Moran.
It is corruption – simple as.
And if you read the detail the cheeky cow claimed over £6K in expenses from EQN.
I am sorry, but taking taxpayer’s money when some poor old Hunt can’t afford to live on their pension.
I hope your conscience taunts you for the rest of your life.
Makes Bernie Madoff look innocent!
Absolutely no chance of their conscience haunting them – certainly not when they have a claim form in their hands.
I suspect she is the sort of person who will be extremely angry and upset at the disgusting way she has been treated instead of feeling guilty. She’ll never realise, let alone admit, that she is a thief whi should be jailed.
A good sentiment, but unlikely.
I am sure that if you become a MP, and you are prepared to follow the party line by being whipped, you would find a conscience removal operation is available free of charge.
gilts yields up, sterling down, UK on negative with S+P. Another good day on planet Gordon
Pound dropped 3 cents on the dollar in 15 mins this morning as the data all came out
Interest rates must rise soon.
Not with a continuing negative RPI or we’ll have serious deflation. Expect low interest rates for months yet.
Fuck off with your RPI shithead. CPI is 2.3%. The Eurozone CPI average is under 1%. Only the out-of-control Baltic states and the basket cases of Romania&Bulgaria have higher rates of price inflation than UK within EU27. The ONS have form on fiddling the consumer price figures so 2.3% CPI figure can be taken as bottom of range in any case. Wankers like you deliberately misleading economic illiterates are as culpable and immoral as those fucking wankstain MPs with their fithy, evil, disgusting ways.
You must be tied to a fix rate by your mortgage lender – why else complain about low interest rates? HA HA
loathsome Hunt by name…..
You’re right EC1, the consumer RPI is what everyone is working to, the Governor of the BoE said earlier this week to expecet low rates until well into 2010 if I remember correctly…
So far, we’ve had:
Inflation – rising costs, but rising pay and rising GDP
Stagflation – rising costs, pay and GDP static
Deflation – falling costs, falling GDP, pay static or falling
Now we are heading to:
Fuckflation – rising interest rates, rising costs, falling GDP, falling pay, rising tax, rising public sector spend, rising unemployment, falling currency – no fucking clue how to fix it.
All thanks to Gordon and his wise helmsmanship.
OK. Let’s start with the no-brainer “given”, the accepted knowledge:
This is a Government of Incompetent Fuckwits.
But this news, this tale of fraud and spivvery is shocking because of it’s blatant fuckwittery. I mean if there was an Olympic event for Incompetence, this would be a medal winner – it is the very essence, the core, the God particle of fuckwittery.
She is simply astonishing; in fact I’d go as far as to say that if you needed to detail the very reverse image of what a politician should be and how a politician should behave, she is the model.
I mean I know it’s a shithole but really, is this what Luton deserves?
Talking about the Olympics, any guesses on how much these troughing bastards would have theived from this ever ballooning fund?
Would have? Would have?!!
I want to know how much they already have, and are still contracted to receive.
I would like some newspaper to start digging into the relationships between directors, MPs, family etc of the companies involved.
Whale, oil, beef, hooked – why do the only people who want big events like t’Olympics and t’World cup consist of, erm, pillockticians and construction contractors? For ordinary people in the local boozer, it’s all a complete pain in the arse and we would much rather that it went elsewhere.
Last time I looked, there were no ordinary people in the boozer. They were all stood outside because of the FUCKING SMOKING BAN brought in on flawed scientific evidence.
ANY party that repeals that Act gets my vote.
Emphatically yes. What a dump. West Ham always lost there – glad that Town are now in the Blue Square league
Yes – for confirmation see the book “An Irrational Hatred of Luton Town”
These Labour people have absolutely no concern for the proprieties that exist to stop corruption. It makes me sick.
A clear case of Expenses of Mass Corruption – come on Gobshite, come out (hnn, hnn) of the bunker.
It is time for regime change but I expect we will have to drag the Head Hoon (disgusting image) from a spider hole (poor spider).
Have the MPs’ learned from this?
All M.P’s should be paid a salary that takes into account
how far they travel each week and if they justify accommodation
nearer London, and couple this to the mean average it cost to
run their office for a year. We would see then just how prudent
they could be as we are in the real world having to switch lights
off , make fewer journeys and even skipping meals!
Perhaps some of the empty offices (including an entire block in
Victoria could be converted to modest flats for the weekday MP’s?
and other essential workers such as nurses and rail staff etc!
If Nigel Farage was successful in getting us out of Europe this too
would stop the gravy train passing through the Channel tunnel as
well as other funds hemorrhaging that way too!
Next months elections should also enable us to scrutinize the dead
wood in local government and make councils a?little more accountable
for their costs from within so more can be spent on essential services!!
Alternatively. . .
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Dear MP,
I am not a natural *** voter, but I do still have – which is rare these days – a belief in representative democracy, so rather than merely posting this suggestion onto a blog and waiting for a journalist to come across it, I am making it to you, my local MP, as the correct channel to attract parliament’s attention.
My suggestion is simple; means test the ACA. The original idea was, as I’m sure you are aware, an extension of the attempt – as old as Chartism – to ensure that an individual who chose to stand for parliament was not invidiously disadvantaged. Some of the examples we are seeing in the press – which although not representative of all parliament, certainly indicate a general milieu of entitlement, show abuses far above and beyond this.
An individual who wishes to claim Job Seeker’s Allowance may take work, but this counts against their fortnightly claim – my own mother is in this situation at the moment. Similarly, my proposal would mean that any individual who had a source of income outwith of parliament – which I define as anything which would otherwise be declared to the Inland Revenue, including income from rental properties – would have this taken into account when determining their maximum ACA. I haven’t given consideration to the actual bands, but they’d certainly mean that anyone with an income of 500,000 wouldn’t receive a penny for travel or housing.
I heard the most objectionable comment from a backbencher, who stated that if income wasn’t higher, then people such as solicitors wouldn’t be drawn to parliamentary service as a career. I was always under the impression that being an MP was a vocation – such as that of a priest or aid worker. The other implication has been that if we don’t pay our MPs, then nefarious individuals will pay them more. This is a strange argument to say the least – if individuals are to be swayed by hostile interests, then 20K on a wage packet won’t make much difference.
I certainly agree that MPs with capital above a certain sum should not be paid expenses. thgey are supposedly there to enable the less well off to represetn their community in the House.
Expeses should also be available according to the distance of each MP’s constituency from Westminster – it’s hardly rocket science that those who represent an electorate far from London need more in the way of expenses. Ministers and Shadow Ministers, Committe Chairmen etc should have a limited budget for eating out and entertainment.
Housing allowances should be set according to the going rate for a fairly decent but not luxurious rental outside the 3 top boroughs – if MPs wish to live in eg Chelsea, or play the property market, they can pay the extra. Main homes should be in the MP’s constituency in all cases, inc for London MPs of course, so no housing allowance for them..
And foreign boondoggles must be curtailed – they serve very little useful purpose and are open to endless abuser, as ‘Speaker’ Martin has demonstrated
…and whilst I’m on the subject…..
Gentleman’s clubs eh Mr Broon?
Would that be like bringing Mandy back in to the cabinet after being kicked out for sleaze years ago?
How the f*** can you claim to have a moral compass and be “tough” on immoral MP’s when you’ve got that bent* muppet touting for foreign office?
*As in corrupt
* Also, as in bending-over.
Homophobic comments are not in the best interests of the Government or of The Party. New Labour must restore solidarity. It is time for Gordon to stand aside and let Lord Mandelson take the tiller. Only by Peter’s leadership can we avoid the chaos of a Tory government.
If this is a serious suggestion, your ignorance is only exceeded by your supidity, Sir
The PM must come from the elected MPs in the Commons, not from the Lords
- but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, and presume you speak in jest LOL
Bugger, foiled again!
?????!
What the hell is going on?
Why isn’t this reported by the BBC?
Simple, straightforward, corruption.
The courts were spitting nails over the Al Yamama arms deal -
this is the same thing writ small.
Yup, lunchtime news on now and barely a mention of Moron, but plenty of the duckpond etc
PURGE THE BLAIR/BROON BROADCASTING CORPSE! It must be Cameron’s first task
Beware of low flying nokias, copiers, printers, chairs, pens, paperweights.
Look out for a bill for “refurbishment” of PM’s office.
It’s definitely fertilizer season. Squirrels, ducks, bull-shit, thieving rats Broon on yer face… Now there’s a picture
I’m really glad this vile self publicist has come a cropper so soon after standing up at PMQ’s in her Luton FC scarf and trying to get her ugly porcine mug on TV.
See comment below by Pete of Grays re “An Irrational Hatred of Luton Town” – what’s irrational about it?
Are we getting a case of mass wysteria?
A genuine LOL!
A genuine groan
There is a risk that Brown might call an election soon, before things get worse, and before MPs can be deselected.
In the event of an election being called before the cleansing is complete, can we have an undertaking from the Telegraph that they will consider copying data on individual MPs to local newspapers so that the electorate can make an informed choice.
Democracy will be substantially enhanced if sitting MPs with a guilty conscience know that there is no hiding place.
Similarly the Party leaders need to make it clear to MPs and their Constituency Associations that even if an MP is re-elected, they will face expulsion from the party if substantial misdeeds come to light after the election.
A genuine reply from the DT Editor, verified by Guido would be welcome.
I wouldn’t bother with the Manchester Evening News – it’s owned by the Guardian Media Group.
The Guardian used to be ‘the Manchester Guardian’
Off with her head
The thing I don’t get is the very evident culture of “one law for them, another for us”. If I had embezzled as seriously as even the some of the tamer troughers in parliament while acting, say, as a company director, I’d have been hauled in front of a magistrate so fast I’d leave my shoes behind.
When quizzed on what they are doing the Met have a kind of “well yes…. we are investigating… sort of” attitude. Just look at cash for honours, they went out of their way to excuse.
Is the Met full of government plants? While are members of government not held accountable to the same laws as the general population?
Or would be it too difficult and embarrassing for the country if say (at a guess) 630 of our 646 MPs were all thrown in the cells?
That should read “Why are members of government not held accountable to the same laws as the general population?”
Stupid spell checker mutter mutter
The wheels of a criminal investigation such as this can take a long time to get together. The Police must have something to question about. That means that they have to get hold of the receipts first, then examine them for themselves and then make the arrests and in terview the hoons.
Given that this is a fast moving story, we, the public, make judgements and opinions on the reports that we see in the media.
If you want bllod and convictions in court that is going to take months if not years.
Better to have the Hoons kicked out of Parliamnet and then mop up after. What concerns me though is that the Police will only select a few of the worse troughers to face the courts. That in my view is CORRUPT and not worthy of the Police Service that bwe think we have.
Not worthy of the Police Service we wish we had.
Police FORCE, none of the NoLiebore PC claptrap please.
He didpay back the only claim he had made for maintenance on his own house.
Admittedly he’s got a large mortgage, but this is not even close to the same league as cnuts like Margaret Moron, Blears, Hoon, Balls, Darling etc – some of these belong in PRISON
Does anyone think that these Hoons are any better than Archer or Aitkin??
These lot are inclined to keep drugs illegal while some one or organisation Em I guess who are creaming off 6 billion a year not going to the exchequer. That War in Afghanistan has not half worked out well. Good job the smack is illegal no tax and no filling in expense claims. This is the real scandal
Moran-o-tang
Complete and I mean COMPLETE independence for Scotland now and send all the corrupt spongers back there.
Just count up the number of time-wasting troughers you’ll get rid of by shipping them all back north.
Free the English
Have you noticed how many Scottish accents appear on Pravda Radio 4 when ever anyone from the public sector is interviewed?
It is like we English lost a war to the Jock Junta & are now third class in our own country..
Sadly, much the same applies to Geordieland – another Liebour wasteland, 70-odd percent employed by the public sector and Northern Wreck, the rest on incapacity benefit. Labour don’t even have the Scots Nats to fear!
Shut up and keep paying your taxes,you whinging Englis twat.
Ah McStropp, you took the words right out of my mouth…
Fucking delicious!
Labour party conference: sneak pictures
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_urFu6168K6o/SgXVgqgHX8I/AAAAAAAAANI/msl3zTBFGJc/s1600-h/PIGS.jpg
Source: The Motley Fool – Jokers Corner
More Tory propaganda – notice that we don’t get to see what is going on on the right! Bloody toffs!
If only he’d waited – according to the Mail the other day, there is a devastating super pest sweeping through the country that specifically attacks Wisteria. Got to be a metaphor for something.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-460597/UKs-wisteria-threat-killer-bug.html
MM supported by constituency party………out of loyalty or self interest?
Perhaps Gordon should act decisively on this and commision an inquiry, to report back to him in 2012?
Surely it’ll be a commission to look into the need for an inquiry that’ll report back in 2012. The actual inquiry will be 2016, by which time anyone who gives a damn will have emigrated.
Oh go on. Call an election. I’m dying to get some action.
You promised to keep quiet until after we won!
it being a bare face liar part of Celtic culture?
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Margaret_Moran
This: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2235/2106782847_36bcc72290.jpg
> Cameron sacks MPs before dawn when the evidence shows them to be red handed. Gordon just dithers.
Al-BBC just ignores.
Cameron will get the BBC as well – wait and see. He’s already told them they shouldn’t have any more licence money, causing much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Can’t wait to see floods of tears on election night 2010 in Shepherd’s Bush. Their time will come…….
She must go to prison.
Mcmental is sitting at the heart of a cabinet cabal of thieves, swindlers & tax evaders.
They should all be arrested & charged.
Shame they turned the Metropolitan Police into just another state arm of Neo Labour – the Paramilitary Wing of a despotic regime with no mandate from the people & a Prime Mentalist who believes that General Elections cause “chaos”.
Dissolve Parliament.
Now.
… in a vat of acid.
Good. can’t stand her. revolting smug cow.
Indeed New Girl, she has one of those faces that you could never tire of slapping.
Yes, yes – but she might enjoy it. Looks like a BDSM candidate to me…
Even ‘head in the sack’ Snotty has to do something about this. If he doesn’t he’ll be brought to account.
what a pair of tits!
what we need is a general strike……..stop going to the shops….take your money out of the banks.(you can put it back the same day but think of the CHAOS it would cause) (ffs.0.10% interest on savings and 9.9% for a loan after we gave them billions)! with-hold tax payments-
ask to put toilet-duck on expenses!
protest with o/h on saturday!
Brown will not sack anyone because they will all have to go…….
then his megalomania bubble will have truly burst!
I noticed that when Blears stood there beaming last night saying she had “the Prime Minister’s total support”, she didn’t say how her electorate felt about her! A journalist should have pointed out that he doesn’t vote for her – and it’s not at all certain the people of Salford will, either.
Time and time again the BBC have summed up for the cheating MPs, saying how well regarded in the constitency they are, then been unable to find anyone in said area with a good word to say for them and lots of use of phrases like “disgusting”, “thieves”, and “should be in prison”.
The PM’s (how did it come to this?) total support – and his balls in her pocket.
I sympathise with Hazel Blears. No, really – no kidding, why should she accept Brown’s authority? Why should ANYONE?
Oh lordy, have you read her CV?
Leader of Lewisham council?
Can you imagine the corruption that went on there?
I bet the size of the trough was just tooo tempting!
Lewisham. Enough said, really.
How a nation can be deluded by such a bunch of ne-er-do-wells as are
supposed to be running this country – DEFEATS ME. They have tried every
ruse known to mankind to avoid responsibility in addition to lurking in the
undergrowth when the heat is on. ‘Broon’ – a fellow Scot (has shamed me
so often) – I have completely disowned him and the tribe (now rapidly
diminishing) who have followed him hitherto recognise that he,like
themselves, have been weighed-and in the balance and found to be wanting by
the highest law in the land – THE PEOPLE they have conned for the last
decade. However,as a humanitarian,they should not be dealt with harshly -
BOIL THEM IN OIL.
Why does the BBC report Moran’s shag as her ‘husband’ when the truth is he’s just her latest bought(by the taxpayer) ‘fiance’ shag?
I thought Marxist PC said all those in relationships involving anal or even oddly sometimes vaginal shagging were ‘partners’ or co-habitees, not to be associated with the holy sacrament of marriage?
Is the BBC bent? I’m confused with this Marxist relativist shite.
The BBC is the Gay Liberal Propaganda Unit.
How much do the BBC Grandees get in expenses I bet they have the same accounting system
This is so true. I don’t care who people sleep with. I don’t care which god they pray to or how they pray. I don’t care what colour people are (OK green people with antenna need to explain themselves
)
But I do care how the state funded broadcaster portrays the society which funds it.
For the record dear BBC the majority of licence payers are white and hetrosexual and if not conservative with a large C are most definitely conservative with a small c. And live outside London and the Celtic Fringe.
Her official website even has a link to her Wikipedia entry, which includes this gem:
In 2007 a Spanish Court ruled that she had illegally blocked a right of way on her property in Spain by installing a gate and digging up the path with an excavator. She was ordered to make the area as it was.[19] She also illegally used House of Commons stationery during the matter, something which she denied.[20] However on 14 May The Daily Telegraph showed a photograph of the notepaper bearing the distinctive crowned portcullis of parliament and House of Commons, London. On it a hand written note in Spanish and English said “Please note – this road is private & closed. Please remove your motorcycle from our land. Moran family.”[21]
World-class fuckwittery. Give that woman a prize.
£22,500 on dry rot for a three bed terrace house is steep. Follow the money, this has most likely been spent on renovations in the Iberian penninsular. Someone should have a close look, not surprising she was quick to pay it back, doesn’t want Plod looking into the matter
MPs now getting death threats:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1184928/Death-threat-Lib-Dem-MP-AOL-girl-daughter-lives-flat-renovated-taxpayer.html
Quote.
What was said was;
‘Someone should stab him in the belly for all the money he has claimed’, the MP told the Yorkshire Evening Post.”
That is not a death threat, it is an expression of rage.
Clever shit from the MSM. Anyone caught expressing a truthful view on the criminal scum in charge will be arrested on a conspiracy to murder charge – that’s the none too subliminal message here. The wank scum in the establishment and their lackeys in the media have just had their latest marching orders – go nuclear on the plebs otherwise this shit is fit to blow and take us all down. Use every repressive measure to mind-control and a few actual showtrials of ‘hatemongers’ for terror/conspiracy to murder to cow the rest. The original Bolshevik scum would be beside themselves with envy.
Breaking: S&P place Britain on credit watch negative, likely to lose AAA rating – look toward next election. Cassius has it:
http://cassiuswrites.blogspot.com/2009/05/uk-placed-on-negative-credit-watch-look.html
+++According to the Times, Rosa Klebb (aka Margrate Beckett) is to be conjured up from the grave to serve in Gordon’s reshuffled cabinet.+++
Brilliant!
She was nearly lynched on QT last week
Does it matter? the rest of them are zombies anyway.
Margaret “2 caravans” Beckett. What as “chancellor” That ought to be a riot. Who says Browns gonna be around on June 7th to make a reshuffle.
The DT really doesn’t like Wiggin:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5360026/MPs-expenses-Bill-Wiggin-made-23-phantom-claims-but-says-he-is-only-human.html
Now they mention his third home. I wonder what their real beef is though – does anyone have any idea?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8061019.stm
Another record for Snottie.
Record public deficit in April – £8.46bn as against £1.84bn last April.
A further £141 for every man,woman and child in the country added to their credit card bill. And that’s in a month that, historically, provided a massive surplus.
You ain’t seen nothing yet.
Whoever is in Government next will have no option but to put a hatchet to public spending.
No more Muslim Lesbian outreach centres? Think of the chilllldddreeeen…
If they legalised the Drug business that keeps so many Police officers in gainful employment. ah yes AS well as the private prison business and court system. I wonder how much they could save. Prohibition was ended in USA in 33 so that the disappearing Billions into certain families coffers could go via the exchequer. 6 billion the exchequer lost last year as well as how much for the Afghanisatn conflict keeping the Taliban from burning it.
The London stink, and it ain’t the thames. On percentage how many of these Women have filled their stinking snouts. Looks to me like the rotton old girls network stinks of P–s
I take it you don’t mean peonies.
The FT also said this morning that Mandy’s being groomed for Foreign Secretary after the Labour’s June wipeout.
It’s because he’s been such a good business whatever-it-is, right? Yeah, that must be it…
Mandelson on the front bench just makes the Labour party look sleazier and sleazier, who would want to see that thing in Govt.
I’d laugh if Brown had the stupidity to put that creature on the front bench, besides then Mandelson would have to come to the commons and be questioned.
No Chance.
What, surely not the same slime magnet Mandy Mandlebum that said that the whole Telegraph sleaze-revelation was classic smear tactics? How could Pa Broon even consider it? On the other hand, at least he can’t be deselected by an enraged constituency party, so clearly there’s some method here……
He’s got McDoom by the throat and can have anything he wants, only ‘dinna harm the Big Feartie’.
Bringing back ‘The Prince of Darkness’ was the biggest mistake McDoom made.
His power – gone.
His authority – gone
His dominance – gone
and his self-respect, vanished like a snowflake in hell.
Now he can look forward to spending the rest of his life in ignominy with the label ‘The Worst Ever British Prime Minister’
It’s always been extremely clear that Mandelson knows where the bodies are buried, as regards both Blair and Brown. He is untouchable – so will always be ‘re-instated’ and get the plum jobs he wants. In spite of the early sleaze of which he was guilty he waltzes from one top job to another – all with huge perks and grand housing. What does he know that we don’t? (well we kind of do…)
When the Tories get in they must stop this possibility of the great offices of state going to anyone sitting in the Lords. The executive must come only from those voted into the Commons by the electorate
My plan is David Miliband for PM, Lord Mandelson for Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband for Home Secretary, John Berkow for Speaker, Gerald Kaufman for Chancellor of the Exchequer, Esther Rantzen for Defence.
Simon Cowell for Defender of the Faith
Surely the Snot-Gobbler should be moved to De-Fence since he’s incapable of making a decision.
Simon Cowell can’t be confirmed until we’ve received the cheque.
I nearly slit my wrists in 1997, what with Mandy, Blair, Gould and Martin
That lot really would be a suicide job.
Mass suicide anyone – that would teach them!
Luton South will be a shoe-in for the Tory Candidate, Nigel Huddleston. The only mistake he’s made so far is to be nice to Esther Rantzen.
Shoo-in
We are not interested in this and neither should the public be, lets talk some more about that Tory with the ‘duck island’ again shall we ?
Quite right. With Peter Mandelson running things we would be able to focus on the issues rather than minor queries about expenses.
No, no, no. Lord Mandelson must take over as PM to restore party unity. Gordon can then return to the role in which he has excelled – Chancellor. Apart from that, in the interests of the Government project and the party, change should be minimal in order to allow the country to avoid the chaos of an election and of a Tory toff millionaire’s government.
Begun in AD 122, during the rule of emperor Hadrian the “Aelian wall” is a stone and turf fortification built by the Roman Empire across the width of what is now northern England.
1. Why the hell did we let it fall down?
2. How much will it cost to rebuild?
3. When can we start it?
4. When will it be completed?
5. Can it be fitted with one way revolving doors for those sent back?
6. I propose that Hadrian is made a Saint.
I remember reading about a literary contest judged by V.S.Naipaul. He wasn’t impressed by the entries, and decided to award the winner second prize.
Similarly, with parliamentary candidates, there should be a box that one can tick for ‘Not up to the job’.
They do spend all their time on the make because they have too much time.
If 80% of legislation comes from the EUSSR they must have a good portion of the week to devote to other activities. The devil makes work for idle hands.
…and in fairness can we be reassured that the MEP’s allowance system is 4 times as generous?
Has anyone experienced both systems?
Its a great day to be Gordon!
Mortgage lending down 9% from March to April, and S&P take away the UKs AAA rating
Somones just pissed on Gordons green shoots.
Dont let them get you down Gordon.
Dont forget Blears two Televisions if she wriggles out of CGT this should catch her
Soz Guido, ddidn’t manage to get to W Arms yesterday to leave promised pint behing bar..Next time, honest!
Does Mrs Fawkes know about this?
no illicit intention! just wanted to buy guido a pint!
And the fucking BBC are focussed on a tuppeny bit duck pond?
She’s a crooked bitch, no question, but it’s small beer compared to the horrific corruption of our national broadcaster. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – the enemy we need to defeat isn’t labour – it’s the BBC.
I quite agree. I still don’t know what Hoon and Kelly did.
Seconded.
The girls have really shown real imagination, truly incredible forgetfullness and breathtaking chutzpah in the matter of expenses that put the boys to shame. I think a substantial prize for the greatest crook(ess) would go some way in encouraging transparency; perhaps a second home for life, all expenses (both reasonable and outrageous) paid?
well girls ARE better than boys at most things …and we multi task too. So obviously we can claim more than one thing at a time, at the same time, whilst on the phone, washing up, and applying lipstick.
Sorry NewGirl but girls HAVE to multitask because they can’t prioritise. Ha ha.
PS you actually sound quite nice – have you got a sister ?
what do you mean “actually sound quite nice”?? Why the surprise?!!
Do you mean get married?
Cheeky Big D!
Suitably chastised :-]
good lad. You are definitely a) married and b) well trained!
Besides. what else do we get out of it?
Well..I’m going to open myself up for some public ridicule for the following..but perhaps some of you can feel the same way.
I am now starting to feel genuinely sorry for Brown. To me it is quite clear that the man has serious mental illness.The now repetitive gaffes and illusions of being Messiah-like indicate a person who is in a terrible conflict with himself. We all know of his poor peoples skills and displays of rage when things don’t go his way,and these,with his obvious lack of self confidence demonstrate that he is utterly broken…but he cannot comprehend this for himself.
He has always had this symptom of ‘little man syndrome’..witness the finger nails permanently chewed to the quick…his tendency to imply that whatever he says is not subject to debate..classic examples of a person who has an unstable mind..racked by self doubt..yet manifesting itself as a decisive,strong individual.
The latest example is the fiasco at PMQ’s when claiming that an election would cause chaos because he would lose.
He genuinely believes that his reasoning is correct..because he cannot see his own dreadful failings.
Whatever happens now,he will be forever a man in torment.If he loses his seat of power he will never recover,or he will rant about people ‘not understanding’ that he really was the only person who was capable of creating order out of chaos.
Whichever…a very sick man who now,immediately,needs to be put out of his misery.
nope, that creature ain’t worth shit.
So, is anyone actually forcing him to stay? Is it at all possible that he could just say ‘Sod it. I’m out of this game’?
I concur to a degree.
I think he genuinely believes what he is doing is the right thing. Say it often enough and loud enough and you begin to believe it.
Labour will NEVER get in again for years.
I just hope Brown doesn’t go on some scorched earth crusade. I wouldn’t put it past him to make his point.
To weather this storm you need a spine like Churchill or Thatcher. I don’t believe Brown has it.
He is clearly incapable of looking within himself and answering the question whether he is up to it or not.
If he genuinely has the good of the country at heart, he should step aside.
He’s sick, certainly.
Feel sorry for him ? Never. Not when he’s wrecked the lives of countless millions of people and those of generations to come.
i don’t feel sorry for him, i feel sorry for us! the poor, disenfranchised, robbed blind, hopeless electorate, who are going to be paying for what this government has done, financially, socially and morally, for generations to come. Sod him. Sod Blair. Sod all of them. They’ll be sitting pretty in their mansions, swaggering around like world statesmen for years to come. They won’t be paying for anything.
Hey..just because I feel sorry for him,it doesn’t mean I like the prick.
Just to remind you if you have forgotten.
Downing Street website hosts petition calling for Gordon Brown to resign. (PLEASE SIGN)
http://bit.ly/N1FZ
Disgusting filching cow & a liar to boot – now there’s a surprise – not
Whilst Cameron can sack members of his shadow cabinet he cannot sack ordinary MP’s. – that’s upto their local constituency party & why most troughers are saying they’ll go at the GE rather than be pushed. Makes it less messy for their successor
Why is Ms. Morans husband/partner/shag friend, a safety officer at southampton university, a director of this charity/limited company/government agency, equality networks limited. It openly advertises on its website it can help with government relations.
Also, the house in southampton, who does it belong to?
Is it too hard to find out how many of these politicians offspring and spouses are miliking it at Companies and Quango’s that these untrustworthy individuals have facilitated. No wonder our Meritocracy is dead and less people are upwardly mobile They have been crowded out by politicians relations
If anyone was looking for Moran, she could be found in the IoD at Pall Mall @ 10:30 ish.
This makes a bath plug appear essential to discharging parliamentary duties. Neither will there be further police enquiries into who leaked the raw expenses data from the Fees Office. The suspicion lingers that Five Bellies invoked the Samson Option to distract attention from herself. She has managed to keep a remarkably low profile since the Quantitative Sleazing was exposed in the MSM, and one musn’t forget that Thatcher came from nowhere to lead the tories. Plus Five Bellies is the hand that feeds ACPO Ltd.
I still would though. I’d be disgusted with myself afterwards, but it wouldn’t be the first time.
Still would what? Vote Liebour?
Nooooo. just realised! Bloody hell. No wonder you’re Anon!
Whatever fine qualities might exist within the homosexual community , emotional maturity and stability is not widespread. It follows that homsexuals should be kept away from lawmaking.
It is astonishing to read on this site that ,with the exception of Clare Short,every member of the 1997 cabinet was either gay or scottish or both.Surely this is merely a scurrilous story to suit a homophobic agenda?
BUT,it makes sense of the speed at which a vast quantity of chauvinistic,homosexual legislation was enacted- all in the name of equality.
Christ where is the MSM with this?
Nothing on Ed and Yvette ?. So who is covering up what?
Waste of time reporting Moran to the Charity Commission for falsely claiming charitable status. ‘Dame’ Suzi Leather is more interested in persecuting independent schools and bending the rules to allow the League against Cruel Sports to be a charity.
i live in one of Lewisham councils houses (where Ms M was leader and housing minister)for which I pay £100 pounds a weel and £1300 council tax a year.My house is cold, no soundproofing,rotten windows, and is regulary flooded from the flat above and I am paying for Ms Moran to have two houses and a family home in Spain
Lewisham housing has been investigated several times and found to be in mal practise.
The lastest being using an firm called Woodlands (sub contracted via Higgens)to carry out renovations for the decent home programe
So whats the problem?
well Woodlands an Eastern european business had no insurance which we found out after they caused damage to our homes.
Seems Ms Moran has really left her legacy and mark on Lewisham council housing and practise.