Gordon is Afraid
Gordon said Blears’ house flipping and tax dodging was “totally unacceptable”, but apparently doing the unacceptable is acceptable if you are in cabinet. Humiliatingly Brown’s spokesman was later sent out yesterday to express the Prime Minister’s “full confidence” in Hazel.
Blears is a fighter; a weak Prime Minister, unpopular and without authority, deprived of McBride* to put the frighteners on Cabinet ministers, is not going to scare the feisty redhead too much. So she defys him and gets away with it. As Brown looks round the cabinet table he can see known tax dodgers and profiteers from the public purse. Hoon, Darling, Purnell, McNulty and Blears all sitting on their profits from playing the property market at our expense.
Brown is too afraid to reshuffle. Disappoint Mandelson and the Prince of Darkness could easily lead a deputation for his removal. Mandelson will surely be the undertaker for the Prime Ministerial coffin, probably with the other end of the coffin held by Jack Straw. He can’t shift Miliband in case he swaps his banana for a backbone and challenges for the leadership. He can’t fire Blears, because if Blears goes, Hoon must go too and so on…
At PMQs Cameron taunted him, that he was afraid of an election. Afraid that he would lose in a landslide that would see Brown consigned to history as the worst PM in memory. Poor Gordon, the “frightened faertie from Fife”…
*Believed to be in Nice, staying at a family owned apartment. The booze is cheaper in Nice too.
Labourhome hacked.
Also; First?
Morans hubbys firm in Luton was a scam for public funding. She also claimed £6K expenses from it and can’t find the receipts.
whoops a daisy
I lived in Luton in the early seventies, not much happened there in those days, things are going downhill fast for the place, factories closing, football club fallen out of the leagues and now a “fiddling” MP to boot!
Yes Old Holborn, I agree with you. The company is E-QUALITY NETWORKS, which when you read the bumph on it, appears to give certain groups of people, privilleged access to Government ministers and insiders. It also appears they receive tax payer funded grants. MORAN herself appears to spend constituency time promoting it.
The company address is 1, Mullion Close, Luton, which I believe is the address of a Nick Murray, who stood for election and failed as a labour councillor. I did a Google Maps search on this address. It appears to be a council or former council owned flat/maisonette, hardly the high powered premises one would expect if you read the bullshit on their website
The layout of the site is annoying — the new video adverts look like editorial. Is it a deliberate trick to con your readership? (It has to be admitted they are a pretty mob – sheeplike and would probably buy anything you tell them to)
There’s adverts on here??
Firefox and Adblock says otherwise to me….
You look like a raddled tup to me, Dolly D!
Given that NewLabour is full of half truths can we assume that you are NewLabour and a Hunt
What’s a half tRuth ??
Anon. 9:21
re:Firefox and Adblock
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
(Sorry Guido)
No worries Dun.
GF, how’s about a “Donate to Guido” button somewhere that we can send you money for your increasingly large hosting bills. You’d be amazed how many people have their web browsers set up so they never see any ads…
There are hundreds of EQN scams going on, the political classes found a running of funds and have been milking it furiously, fake companies bleeding money from a hopeless and unregulated teat, if you are a face and in with the in crowd you can make a fucking mint.
The newlabour gangsters have been pissing gigantic amounts of taxslave cash up the wall on useless quangos/fake development firms/regional development agencies and they are all staffed with newlabour friends’N'family.
A full public inquiry would uncover fraud levels not seen since the USSR and 1930s Chicago.
Every celeb sponsors a charity as a front to hide their scams from the sheeple. Remember John Stonehouse who faked his own death, but was found in Australia; he even swindled his Bungladesh charity! Secrecy is their forte. None of these MP scams would have seen the light of day but for the whistleblowers whom the establishment want to suppress. As far as this latest quango,when did Sir Christopher Kelly from the Gentlemen’s Club? No one seems to have discussed this point.
On the verge of implosion, I think …
On the Verge?
Past the verge and in it’s side in the ditch more like.
Brown is a liar, a bully and a coward. He is not fit for purpose and I seriously believe that he has mental health issues. He reigns over the most corrupt government we have ever known which is collapsing like the house of cards it is.
Makes the “Profumo Affair” look like a tea party doesn’t it.
It was a skinny dip party
Joanna Lumley says GB is a brave man; we should reommend him for a VC!
He thinks he’s a world saviour, but at home he follows Cameron that too very slowly! Now he’s almost telling that none of his crowd has broken the Rules! It’s amazing that still Labour command 20% solid base support! Unbelievable!
My name. Is Gordon Brown.
You know with Douglas Carswell asking for Parliamentary reform and with a Government unable / unwilling to dissolve itself, does anyone think that there should be a statutory provision for a deputation from Parliament in these circumstances to be ale to go to the Queen to ask for Parliament to be dissolved without the PM having that sole power?
At least then the perfect storm of sleaze, unpopularity and lacking the authority could be side stepped and the will of the people then met.
If we were a truly modern democracy HM would have her own petition website.
There is a petition out there asking Queenie to dissolve Parliament, I know ‘cos I created it:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/dissolve-the-british-parliament.html
Don’t forget the No. 10 one
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/GoToCountryNow/
4,347 and counting…
For heavens sake…who is running the bloody country whilst all this shite is flying?
We have a deadman walking as PM, surrounded by crooks and liars.
We need a government and soon!!!!!!
I wouldn’t worry, Belgium went for about a year without a Government and everything still worked ok. I know it’s Belgium, but all the same.
Maybe if Gordon and chums resigned en masse tomorrow and scheduled an election for a year hence, it’d give us all a nice break.
If you want to see a wealthy country, go to Belgium, especially Flanders.
Dead right!
Thing is JG Broon knows that if he sacks one, he can’t stop there..Hoon, Smith, Balls etc.
Once that happens the whole rotten pack collapses and he is finished.
Cameron could try a vote of no confidence in HM Government. He would loose it, but at least he would have the chance to humiliate Broon and co in public.
Keep the pressure on Guido. Lets get this cowardly, corrupt government out!!!!!
I’d feel happier if this country was run by Belgium car-park attendants rather than this present shower of spivs and failures.
Pants the same colour as his name! Broon is shi**ing himself and quite rightly too.
“frightened faertie from Fife” is a tautology – feartie means someone is frightened.
Unless you meant ‘fartie’…
He is doubly frightened in two languages.
Guido
No mention of flipping Darling in your piece. He and feartie go back a long way; makes things very difficult.
What Salmond actually called him was “the Big Feartie frae Fife”.
Not sure about “faertie” – did you actually mean “the Frightened Faeces from Fife”?
Actually should be “farty feartie fae Fife”….
Pendant machine has now been switched off…
All shows that we should have subtitles when Scottish people are on the BBC.
Frightened fairy from Fife, more like.
you are all wrong. Its
“The Farting Frightened Fucked Fairy from Fife.”
Actually this reminds me. I’d completely forgotten.
An old fashioned method of playground intimidation and bullying is to grab someone round the kneck and shout “Are ye feart” very loudly.
farty feartie frae Fife = effete affray ratifier
Is “kneck” Scottish for knackers?
Besides, it is not a tautology, it is an intensifier. Pointing out that Brown is really, really frightened!
I’m not sure that someone with such advanced psychosis hasn’t already waived goodbye to fear. As his derangement advances we can look forward to some truly horrendous clinical manifestations of mental illness. Unfortunatley the mood of the country will follow.
OT. An Irishman is on a driving test (pre zanu liebore). After the driving, the examiner tests the candidate’s knowledge of the Highway Code.
Examiner: So, Paddy, what does a single yellow line by the side of the road mean?
Irishman: No parking at all.
Examiner: And what does a double yellow line mean?
Irishman: No parking at all at all.
I’m fae Fife and feartie is a valid word meaning “scaredy cat”
But feartie’s too nice a word for Brown – how’s about, “he’s a fucking cu.nt responsible for turning England into a police state and jointly responsible with Bliar for making Scotland an Islamic terrorist target” ?
Doesn’t quite roll off the tongue the same, but….
A tax and spend Government. ‘We’ tax it and we spend it’. How brown must be agonising over his moral cabinet compass. Not. They should repay and pay the price of government by fraud. The DT reckons we will forget about all this in time but we won’t. Blogs won’t allow it.
The DT thinks that Blogs are a flash in the pan too
Gordon thinks blogging is something one does with a fleshlight.
Tax and spend? It’s plunder and squander.
Blogging is just a group of people staring at a monitor, looking at an unknown persons thoughts. There is a no censorship so the content can be quite extreme. Some find it amusing, some get off on the power, some on the voyeurism..
Actually, that may be dogging I’m thinking of.
Replace the screen with the carpark…
Dogger – If you stare into the screen too long the screen starts to stare into you.
… Boo!
Perhaps Richard Alpert has not given him the (moral) compass back?
Why no?
Immediate removal of all MP’s under investigation?
All that’s on offer is,
Iffy resignations at the next election.
An irrelevant “Bun Fight” Speaker contest to decide which expensive dusty be cobwebbed old trusty will replace the last one.
A “so called” Independent parliamentary standards regulator to be responsible for pay and allowances) which will be tightly controlled and hamstrung by Westminster.
The promise of a hue and cry by MP’s to hunt down other naughty MP’s that have broken the rules MP’s made up for themselves to allow them to fleece anything that moved, but please please pretty please vote for MP’s so they can continue the hunt.
Dream On!
‘Independent’.
Like Hutton. Like the coroner at the de Menenez scandal – ‘you cannot bring in a decision of unlawful killing’.
Independent, my backside. If Brown or any ZaNu Labour member has anything to do with ‘independence’ you know it’s a lie.
Glad to see the word “unacceptable” is in inverted commas. In my book it should read WRONG or even CRIMINAL behaviour.
Dastardly, uncouth, criminal & wrong. They have utter contempt for us and the feeling is recipriocated.
Guido, can you please bang on about this CGT “repayment” farrago? As others have pointed out, if these bastards don’t have an existing CGT liability, the cheques they are self-righteously waving about now will simply put their tax account into credit against their next (self-)assessment. They lose nothing. They keep the lot. Sanctimonious New Labour lying bullshit in fact.
Yes, I’ve made that point myself. This cheque waving against non-payable CGT is a smokescreen. What Blears, and others, did was not against the present rules. Therefore no CGT is payable, unless HMR&C decide to investigate and prove otherewise.
I think that I shall write out a big cheque myself and waive it around lots. I won’t be posting it, of course.
Too right. Principal private residence elections for CGT can only be varied with two years retrospective effect, ie to May 2007 if made now.
Blears sold her London home in 2004.
And with or without a PPR election, provided she has used it as a residence at some stage, the last three years of ownership are exempt in any event. She cannot conjure up a 13K liability now. Her cheque has no more substance than the piece of paper Chamberlain brought back from Munich.
“And with or without a PPR election, provided she has used it as a residence at some stage, the last three years of ownership are exempt in any event.”
I think that on a strict reading of the law, she has to have used it as her only or “main” residence at some point during ownership to qualify for the 36 months exemption, although that could be achieved by a retrospective election (s222(1)(a)TCGA 1992 for the tax geeks).
Well said Kukri!
Guido please keep this one running, The cheques are obviously for nothing more than show unless the HMRC decide to investigate.
We need to challenge anyone who says they have ‘paid money back’ as to exactly whom they have paid it to, and that it is a payment against previous misdemeanours (or felonies) and not as a credit against future liabilities, as Squirrel Nutkins’ cheque certainly is at the moment
Well done and absolutely right. nomination of a property as your principal residence for the purposes of capital gains tax assessment is perfectly proper. This can remain free of capital gains tax for up to three years after you leave it and have moved somewhere else. Normal HMRC rules apply.
The stink arises when this property has been declared to the parliamentary fees office to be a second home since purchase and therefore maintained with monies funded from the tax payer. The Court of Public opinion rules here!
HMRC does not need any more than a statement and some documentary support that a property has become the named principal residence. Once that is done the property becomes CGT exempt. Any monies spent by the fees office after that time on the property must therefore have been acquired illegally, or by an error in administration.
So far as HMRC is concerned, the monies paid by La Blears is tax paid in advance of liability, as she has no liablility for CGT, at least on the property in dispute. This money will gain interest, and she will only have to pay tax on this!
Stunts like waving cheques about are as shameless as the tractor production figures routinely shipped out by this gang of fraudsters.
Why doesnt someone ask her if she is aware she is merely using HMRC as a piggy bank for her cash?
The ginger chipmunk must think that we are all fools.
Does she really believe that she is the only one who has ever had a CGT liability? Waving a cheque is meaningless unless you have an assessed liability from the boys and girls at HMRC.
What’s more if you do have a liability and evade it there are steep penalties (at least for you and me). Maybe being a cabinet minister raises you above such mundane matters.
Blears will just get the money back against here next tax assesement.
Sorry chipmunk…we are not all that stupid.
I agree with this. For any numbers of reasons my tax is a tad complicated and there are common discussions (friendly I might add) between me and the tax office as to precise liabilities. The one thing I do know is if I believe it not liable I query the payment and we then assess it. If correct then pay it and live to fight another day or if not after assessment then a revised figure is given.
I don’t know anyone who voluntarily pays tax unless they know they have it wrong and want to correct it quickly and / or avoid a fine or legal proceedings. Any overpayment is automatically credited against the next bill as previoualy mentioned anyway. Blears is just using smoke and mirrors and in affect trying to buy her seat for 13 grand. Its as simple as that.
She has been caught red handed and she knows it. She should stand down or we sacked but no doubt she will be back on the TV screen in a few months with that arrogant attitude pontificating to all and sundry. She really is an evil conniving slimy little bitch and oh so Nu labour.
And another thing. Married couples and civil partners cannot nominate different main residences for CGT purposes. They have to run parallel.
There is no comparable restriction for ACA. Mackay and Kirkbride were within the rules.
GF – Do you already have a cut-out-and-keep-guide to the detailed application of the tax rules and if not do you want one? There must be enough qualified co-conspirators who could contribute.
As you say,presenting the cheque as tax is ineffective.However Blears can make it clear that she is making a voluntary donation to the exchequer of a sum equivalent to the CGT which would have been payable if the relief had not been claimed.She should be asked to confirm that the cheque had been pesented on that basis.
HMRC have no legal powers to accept monies except from the collection of taxes and penalties. This point was made in a court case involving Fayed and an attempt to settle his tax affairs with a “fee” in lieu of a tax assessment.
As I understand you’re just not allowed to make a “Voluntary Donation” to HMRC – they have to categorise it as something.
Let’s face it, it will be the first time anyone has ever made a voluntary donation to the taxman.
She would be better off giving it to charity
Bergen – Her liberty to make a gesture does not imply that HMRC have the power to accept a gratuity.
Alex @ 9.54. Quite right and I acknowledge the slight loss of concision.
Sorry folks but I did say exchequer not HMRC.Donations are received by the National Debt Commissioners and can be accepted.
Apparently Stanley Baldwin donated a quarter of his personal wealth to the nation in this way after the First World War.
yesterday mc mental had a go at ’19 tory millionaires’ in the hoc……..
so what about the so called Labour mafiosi?
Brown himself? Darling,Hoon,Mandy,Blears,Straw,Vaz,Stuart Bell- end with other jobs ie french lawyers,ernst+young (monsanto)?..Michael Martin?………..
just how many have organised this grand theft and made millions out of the poor that they supposedly represent??
Seeing as Duke Nukem Forever has been cancelled forever I propose a new game. GTP
Grand Theft Parliament. You go around mugging the taxpayer to pay for Duck Islands, trouser presses, and tampons.
Would be easier to start with The Getaway, at least they have the map of London done already.
I’m really worried that I might be the only person here who gets either your nom-de-plume or the DNF reference though…
Don’t worry you aren’t.
hat makes 3 geeks on here then
Just read the Moran stuff in the FT Old Holborn refers too. It’s all so corrupt that only a completely new start will suffice.
Vote for Change is the Conservative slogan. Vote for schrapnel vote conservative.
She is a criminal bitch!
Oh I didn’t know that CGT was payable?
Utter bollocks!
She is a pauper really, without her snout in the trough she is a smug cow, with nowhere to go at all!
Reading the blog from bed today, threw a sickie as my floating duck island’s gone tits up and clearly I need that to perform my job.
I trust HR will understand…
Its all a long, long way from Sir Thomas Dugdale’s exemplary behaviour these days in Cabinet.
What a shower of principle-free chod they are.
Gordon is afraid the Blairites are coming to get him that’s why he daren’t change his cabinet.
The Blairites will mount a coup after June 4 I shouldn’t wonder and Mandy will be changing allegiances anytime soon. And then they’ll probably call an election sooner rather than later – at least I hope so.
I see Alex Salmond has also, this morning, called for an early election.
It is rather ironic or even perverse that someone dismissed for fraudulent activities not once but twice and on both UK and EU gravy trains then becomes a kingmaker. It just shows in full glorious colour the damage that Labour have done to our democracy.
As for McLiar at PMQ yesterday just spouted off lie after lie after lie. The man needs to be sectioned.
Surely you meant “Fairy from fife”?
Perhaps the ‘fife whistler’ might be apt
Or even ‘frighted of Fife’ ?
The fucking fucker from fife is fucking well fucking fucked
With McBride still welcomed within the Labour Party, what is the betting that he is still advising Brown! That he will be in the bunker during any general election campaign alongwith Whelen. Because it will still be the same old Brown-throwing out lies and insults day by day.
The man has lived by backstabbing but he will be well and truly stabbed in the heart by the electorate.
the man has no morals, no guts and has to be the worst prime minister in living memory.
But, Guido, let us all demand through this and other blogs, that ALL MP’s who have had their hands in the till -within those bent rules- should all be sacked.
immediately!
He doesn’t have a heart…
;o)
Margaret Moran FT link -
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/272c40fa-4588-11de-b6c8-00144feabdc0.html
You just couldn’t make this stuff up
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.
Bonkers Brown – a diagnosis?
I don’t think Brown is afraid, I think he really, really believes he’s the best possible Prime Minister.
Have a look at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger
The Dunning-Kruger Effect
“The Dunning-Kruger effect is an example of cognitive bias in which “people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it”. They therefore suffer an illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average.
They [Dunning & Kruger] hypothesized that with a typical skill which humans may possess in greater or lesser degree,
1. Incompetent individuals tend to overestimate their own level of skill.
2. Incompetent individuals fail to recognize genuine skill in others.
3. Incompetent individuals fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy.”
Fear is not necessarily irrational, but to be afraid you need to be able to perceive the risks in the environment around you. Brown lacks the cognitive ability and competency to do this effectively.
As well as this, he is a micro-manager, who is pathologically unable to make decisions.
I believe this is what Brown is suffering from; a deeply flawed and very strange man.
You forgot to mention he can hurl a lazer printer from one end of the office to the other. Not many people can do this. Not many would try.
That would be offence contary to the Criminal Damage Act 1971 if it wasn’t his laser printer.
also forgot to mention the fact that he can eat more bogeys in a session than any other PM ever not elected.
Or that he can get away with using £6k of taxpayers money to have a cleaner do his housework???????
I call Balls on this. They are a gang of sociopaths (aka psychopaths) plain and simple. The sociopath feigns humanity to take pecuniary advantage, and has no respect or regard for his/her victim.
What will these sociopaths do between now and the next election? Med schools teach the 4F’s (sometimes only 3F’s, depending on the tastes of the teacher) – responses to fear and stress.
Fight, flee, freeze, fcuk.
Wind them up, and watch them go…
If you think of the personality type, Gen George Custer has many similar traits. He was also wiped out at a last stand!
No mention of that thieving bag of shite Ed the tax payer buys my food Balls and that patronising bitch he’s married to?
yes more labour millionaires-paid for by US!
Could it be the Grande Finale to the OT’s series?
It is time wet he people invaded and took over the Pig Sty SW1A
enough of this preposterous Scots twat and his red headed chippy little ugly
cow from oop North. Hazel Blears – yes she does! and she is as ugly as a
sack full of doorknobs.
It is time we the people invaded and took over the Pig Sty SW1A
enough of this preposterous Scots twat and his red headed chippy little ugly
cow from oop North. Hazel Blears – yes she does! Plus she is as ugly as a
sack full of doorknobs.
If the pouting sphincter of Downing Street can praise the Tenament Turd for his performance as speaker, bung him a £1 million quid pension pot and elevate him to the House of Lords, how can he rid himself of thes shits.
The ginger minge will cross Mandy sooner rather than later and then it’s curtains for the bitch.
With the removal of mcbride (thank you Guido) brown has been evisorated. He should do the honerable thing and resighn he has lost all credibility and authority his ministers are literaly dictating to him.
eviscerated
honourable
resign
literally
Write out a hundred times.
The spelling may not be top notch but the argument is.
Sorry chaps was in a hurry.
*grin*
NuLabour = gud edukashun
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NuLabour = gud edukashun
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Why no mention of Balls and McNulty recently. What McNulty did was clearly fraud yet no mention of him. Is he too a friend of the DT editor?
Blears, Hoon, Smith, Darling have DEFINITELY got to go before the public will even be remotely satisfied that something is being done. They have all fraudulently made gains via their expenses.
At least Cameron is forcing his troughing MPs to stand down at the GE. Why can’t Brown do this?
‘cos he’s got no balls left, that’s why. He is shitting himself that if he fires people he’ll have no supporters any more.
That, and the fact that the Tories worst offenders are backbenchers, Labour’s are in the fucking cabinet, where 141 grand a year just isn’t enough…
Because McNulty and Smith are already under investigation!
Is it true that Jacqui Smith claimed £459k expenses in 4 years?? Does anyone know if this is true? I read it on this site last night but find it hard to believe. What the f*** did she spend all that on if it’s true? She has a bloody good salary.
Porn!
Margy
According to analysis firm QlikView, who have gone through all the expenses, she spent during the 2007-8 Parliamentary year (in additon to her 141k salary)
Staffing £92,587.00
2nd home allowance £22,948.00
Office £16,688.00
Travel £12,300.00
Communications £8,567.00
Central stationery £2,241.00
Stationery & postage £1,765.00
IT provision £535.00
Total £157,631.00
Thanks Steve.
I am disgusted by Miss Smith. Why aren’t the newspapers laying into her? Is Mandelbum up to his usual tricks blackmailing newspaper editors?
Most anoying thing is this ruddy (rural pun there) duck house, enabling the beeboids to forget to mention the two labour created peers suspended for flogging their parts for profit .
We need a general strike.
Every single tax payer in the country should to walk out in protest for 24 hours. Bring the country to a standstill. Demand a GE. If we don’t get it, go out for two days, then three.
We could achieve anything if we work together, get organised, put twenty million on the streets.
It’s the only way. There’s strength in numbers.
Correct.
Without us, their corrupt system fails.
Icelanders managed to throw out their government. We can do the same.
Yep. But the British people… well, you know… gie ‘em a pint o’ heavy and a copy of the current bun (“just a bit of fun eh? Well, you can’t be serious all the time can yer love?”) and that’s them satisfied. This is far beyond Labour, Conservative, Liberal, and any other of the tossers jostling at the trough.
Good summary Guido – hopefully the one-eyed snot-licking Hoon is indeed shitting himself!
DC has now ‘resigned’ 3 Tories at the next election as MPs, Broon can’t even sort out the CRIMINALS in his own Cabinet! He is now SCARED of a reshuffle in case someone doesn’t get their way and forces the leadership or election issues.
The Hoon even admitted yesterday (as everyone but Auntie chose to lead the news) that the Tories will win the election and they will cut public spending – right on both counts, now please give us that election and retire to your fat pension and seat in the Other Place with some fucking dignity – PLEASE
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/GoToCountryNow/
Lovely Lumley has just gone into No. 10 now, I wonder what she will have to say when she leaves – if it’s not what she has fought for over the years then you can be sure she won’t be happy. Ah, she’s just left now and says she’s very optimistic ahead of Whacky’s announcement at 12:30. We’ll see…
“Gordon is afraid”, this is getting close to my lyrics, “Gordon is a Moron”
Does a Whitehall Mandarin get a second home?
Eider imagine he does!
No duck is an island unto itself.
That is all mallard
Hoisted by his own canard
Water fowl joke
Swift be the end to the tit
Cometh the hour, cometh the mallard.
They are all Shovellers.
Ducks fly far far away
Waddle when they fly
To the hot far east bay
Where they pinch my pie
Where is Dominic Grebe in all this?
sorry – missed the Grebe joke above.
maybe the correct duck for all this is the shoveller.
The (S)Teal, surely?
And Balls ?
Balls to you too!!
Balls and Clitoris are just a pair of parasites whose next jobs will be as bitches to their wing bosses in prison.
Is getting on with the job. Completely unacceptable behaviour and within the rules. He has my full backing.
The idea of Balls getting his turds countersunk by a 6ft tattooed drug dealer is bliss.
Thank goodness that McMental has saved the British people from the chaos of a democratic election.
McHoon.
Dissolve Parliament.
The meme that an election would cause chaos is intentional. He wants to sow the seed so that invoking the civil contingencies act and postponing the election becomes not just possible but essential.
Do not trust this vile stinking corrupt bastard – he is evil personified.
I agree that was the first thing that went through my mind when he said it. How can an election cause chaos unless you want it to?
We have an election on June 4th is that going to cause chaos? No!
Just the preparatory spade work underway and a shovel full of shit closer to insurrection me thinks.
I heard on the news that Ruth Kelly has claimed thousands for 30 year old furniture that she says was worthless and wouldn’t be paid for by her insurance. Did she even try to claim on her insurance or was the TAX payer an easier option? I bet there is some really pissed flood victims out there. IF THE INSURANCE COMPANY DIDN’T THINK IT WAS A VALID CLAIM THEN WHY THE FUCK SHOULD THE TAX PAYER……..PAY IT BACK AND FUCK OFF!
Kelly managed to get out of government just at the right time. And she had the balls to say it was to spend more time with her family! Like hell it was.
She knew what was coming and that she was one of the crooks.
Just another nulabour spineless coward running away, rather than taking responsibility for her actions.
What’s she doing these days? Presumably on a comfortable, expense paying, quango.
I wonder if a percentage of all of her claims end up in the coffers of those religious nuts Opus Dei?
I presume the taxpayer paid her insurance premium as well?
Had to smile at this – just about sums the ginga gnome up
This is also wonderful- now this girl IS worth £92K. Note how the chipmunk puts on a stronger accent for local TV.
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
This one is also very good and just shows the rabid chipmunk in her full lying slime mode
Brown will stay till the bitter end – Its within the rules!
Free the English now…
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Quack, quack!
Thats the most coherent and incisive comment you have made in ages
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Quack, quack, quack!
‘Morning Dolly
Pick up a Quango
A mallard apparently will shag almost anything duck-like – I’d lock myself in the bedroom if I were you. Leave the light on and pull the covers over your head.
Wuff, wuff, wuff
I so wish Spitting Image was still around.
Any chance we could get them out of retirement?
Spitting Image was very anti-tory. No chance of them ever attacking their own. Rest assured it will be back once we get a Tory government again.
Anyway how do you lampoon this lot? Even Littlejohn has bother trying to take the mickey out of them!
And we all thought Alan B’Stard was a joke.
I’d quite like one of those duck houses on my pond, although one a little less than 5′ high and a little less vulgar. Seems £1,600 is quite reasonable if you consider the cost of timber, importation, VAT, Euro Exchange rate etc. I think he got a deal actually.
We don’t want a GE yet, we want to see each local association take their representative to their respective passport interrogation centre and process the incumbent MP.
An early GE will let these people off the hook.
The longer this continues the greater they will be discredited.
If we were in the Euro there would be no need for you exchange costs!
By foolishly resisting the Euro we British tax payers are costing our own selves money. Silly general public.
If nu labour, the financiers are in it together. Guns must now be turned on their propaganda mouthpiece. I note that the license fee went up again while all this was going on.
“He who pays Pravda calls the tune”?
Chaos theory – if a Cabinet Minister flaps a cheque in front of a TV camera it could lead to the collapse of the Parliamentary edifice
Ooh, yes please
Good to see that McBride is well out of everybody’s face.
Oh and I beginning to tire of this MPs expenses cobblers, it’s not much more than a good Jo Moore-esque distraction. A small drop the ocean compared to the money the taxpayer has to waste on other civil servants, subsidies handed out to EU farmers to grow food we don’t need, public sector non-jobs, the British Broadcasting Corporation etc.
The REAL issue at stake is WHERE IS OUR BASTARDING EU REFERENDUM THAT YOU PROMISED GORDON BROWN, YOU UNDISPUTED ARSEWART.
Vote UKIP
how much do we now owe. All this distraction and I guess the bill must have gone up a few billion. At least McAreshole does not have to give excuses at the moment for fucking it all up.
Thursday Morning Update. Bercow is up for it (eek!) Martin to quit as MP, Brown blind-sided by Lumley and more news of Brown’s doom
He IS going to “lose in a landslide that would see him consigned to history as the worst PM in memory”. He’s just putting off the dread moment. None of them care about how the country is run or managed. Their only objective in clinging on to power is to spend as much time as possible stuffing their pockets with our cash and valuables and selling honours and appointments to the most dishonourable men and women in the country. They’re worse than Cherie Blair on Supermarket Sweep.
**Alert** **Alert**
Moral compass spin speed warning!
If Gordon was a ship, he should be flying the “D” flag which means “keep clear of me; I am maneuvering with difficulty.”
The constant changes of course required to maintain travel in opposite directions 1, that chipmunks must be shot (for unacceptable behavior) and 2, having a (the same) chipmunk in my cabinet is perfectly fine, will lead to a vortex forming.
You have been warned.
**End of Alert**
Are you saying he could with ever decreasing circles dissapear up his own arse.
Is there a flag that says it’s a plague ship ?
If so then it would be flying that too.
For perhaps the first time in history a duck has made the front page of The Telegraph, courtesy of the mallard-related shenanigans of one Sir Peter Viggers and his expenses quack-ery.
Spotify once again, provides an apposite musical backdrop
http://www.riphertoshreds.co.uk/the-beat-goes-on/spotified/
The Ducky Telegraph?
The Telegraph, Ducky?
“Mob anyone?”
I think I messed the html up. Damn. I wish I knew about computers and stuff!
Martin to quit as MP, Brown blind-sided by Lumley and more news of Brown’s doom
Yep. That’s better! I think I know as much about computers as Michael Martin knows about being an effective speaker!
S+P put UK on negative watch. Well done Gordon. You are breaking the entire country
I have more backbone in my little toe than McCavity has in his entire rotten body
Election NOW!
Strong rumours are about suggesting that Labour are going to vote for John Bercow to be Speaker, on the grounds that:
He is a Conservative
He is not really a Conservative
As a trougher himself he will not be radical on expenses
What an appalling choice he would be!On here, a majority favour Frank Field; when Cameron quoted FF yesterday in the Commons, there was hissing from the Labour side.I sense a stitchup
I can’t believe that Labour MPs are so immoral they’d would be prepared to vote for Berkow and bring parliament into disrepute just to cock a snook at the Tories.
I am afraid they are.Bercow is nominally a Tory; formerly of the old hang ‘em and flog ‘em brigade, he has flipped his stance to that of a very pink social liberal and is in reality another smug trougher.They gamble that such an appointment would reflect badly on the Tories and of course it also effectively eliminates one seat in the Commons
Rank Field has been lobotomized chemically.
Look in to the eyes.
You obviously fear Frank Field then, troll
Mr Onanist you are blind (literally because of the amount of self abuse your right hand does to your knob) and politically because of your relentless support for Gordon Mctwat and his cabal of hooners. Now Four Cough and walk into a lampost..
Wochew won abbaht?
Between 2001 – 2008 John Bercow spent the following on
ACA £143,455
Expenses £109,110
Communication £8,144 (2007 – 8)
Travel £58,826
Now call me cynical (wait for the post with “cynical” in it) But with so many claims over these areas there are bound to be something that is questionable. I bet the DT will feature John Bercow at some point before this election.
It may be necessary for the HC’s to examine any potential Speaker’s receipts before the final vote!! Otherwise we could have the potential of an elected Speaker being investigated by the Police (wait a long day in hel before we see any active Police investigation into any of these Hoon mind you!!!!!!!)
The smiley was not me!! it should say 2008
Thank you for the figures,Papasmurf.I have heard no contrition from Bercow; all “within the rules” I suppose.It shows how totally unsuited he is for public office.The public will be enraged if MPs vote him in as Speaker.I hope we can mobilise an anti-Bercow bandwaggon.
Between 2001 – 2008 David Cameron spent the following on
ACA £140,509
Expenses £114,727
Communication £2,200
Travel £25,286
Ahhtrage us!
I am going to sound very dumb now but here goes anyway.
Now understand and have experience of what I would term informal power structures within organisations; I suppose we all have as they are fact of life.
But most politicians I know are self-centred self-righteous sociopaths. The mere fact that they are elected ministers of the Crown should be enough for their ego to allow them to overcome mere civil servants. But obviously not.
I just can’t believe our government ran scared of somebody like McBride.
It makes me wonder what happen if we had a fire and brimstone general ready to park a squadron or three of Challengers on Horsegurards!
Governmentality and people are fascinating.
You are wrong to say Brown is weak in not moving against them.
He’s using it as pressure to stop them plotting against him. Total loyalty and they keep their positions, any semblance of disloyalty and its off to the NEC, which he controls.
Its simple, oppositionists are criminals and they need to be purged – its been done before.
Cameron is also using this as an opportunity to purge the old guard and replace them with his own people on the A list which he controls.
Quack!
Croak!
Cane!
For those of you interested in the activities of Margaret Moran MP our investigative reporter has just posted the third installment, this link will take you to all three posts on one page, newest to oldest: MARGARET MORAN MP – THE TRILOGY.
Vote for me so I can get on the telly every day.
I know Esther has very good public spirited activities behind her. But am I the only one to sense that she is on a journey of self gratification?
There are many people out there that are incesed enough to want to stand as an independent but do not have her high profile and ability to gain media help. What is this turning out to be “Reailty TV Politics?”
Zen Tent Sharer
We don’t need to replace our bent politicians with vain celebrities, especially those closely involved with the state broadcaster.
Deep and fundamental changes to the ruling of this country are needed, not a mere shuffling of the deckchairs by the corrupt establishment.
Hazel blears believes that the invasion of Iraq was justified because of Saddams greed and governance. I wonder where she summoned the moral authority for that view.
Gordon is indeed very afraid.
So afraid, in fact, that Nick Robinson has closed off his blog completely to new entries after the “no election because I’d lose” reaction started coming through from people.
The moral of this story is that labour despises any form of public involvement in the way that the country is run.
Refuse an election on the grounds that people might vote for someone other than you, and then stop people from being able to comment on the fact that you’re not allowed to vote for your own government.
Scared? Gordon’s petrified. This june 4th will seal the deal. After june 5th when the results are out, Gordon’s going to get “extreme” on us all; a general election will be banned.
“I won’t let you vote because it’d cause chaos” – those are extremely worrying words, and that’s going to be his defence for banning a general election before the recession has fully ended (which it never will while he’s in charge, because there’s no confidence while his government is anywhere near power)
Cameron was right; the americans had a general election right in the middle of the worst financial crisis for 100 years, but the change actually benefitted them massively; it didn’t cause chaos; it stemmed chaos and brought stability. Exactly the same would happen here. A general election will bring massive and much needed stability.
I’m going to be watching the news very carefully on june 5th when the results come in; if any hint of “no general election ever until the economy is all sorted out” comes up then I’m going to keep an eye on the web to see where the riots are going to be at, then I’m going there to join in.
Why wait? It is inevitable.
I agree
Gordon and Labour MPs are spending what remains of their discredited time in office pursuing a scorched earth policy. Anything the country has that is of any worth – economically, politically, historically, morally, legally – is going to be trashed.
Me too – I’m actually more scared of the argument I’m going to get from ‘the wife’ when I tell where I’m going.
Exactly the behaviour seen on the petition for him to resign. That poll has told him just how unpopular he really is – in reality, it may have already attracted at least 600,000 signatures, rather than the mere 61,536 (just 12 in past half hour) that have been allowed to sign.
The Sun said they had got over 15,000 signatures in under a day for their petition – similar to the rate at which the petition against spy-in-the-sky road charging was signed on AVERAGE (1.8m signatures total).
Could it be that people are shit-scared that they’ll end up on the Cape Codder’s hit-list ?
Remember, everyone, that there’s safety in numbers.
It is now apparent that Joanna Lumley has won her battle for former Gurkhas to have the right to settlement in this country.The BNP have shown their true,disgusting colours by criticising her campaign and its aims
It’s hard to be sure, but my guess is that Joanna Lumley would win any popularity contest against the BNP, so they are taking a risk.
He’s not done very well in getting his vision across to us has he ?
Vision ? What vision ?
Wiggin in the rigging
Wiggin in the rigging
Like father like son
You are right Master Baiter, he is no better than the thieving hoons on the Labour side.
Off with all their heads
He is a good laugh because unlike the other old old old Conservatives who will ‘stand down’ at the next election (oh how very dignified) this one is young, actually has a shadow cabinet role, is ex-Eton like Cameron, Osborne, Johnson and no doubt various others.
Best of all he is a monumental idiot. Trying to pretend that he did just get his paper work mixeded up like, knowwhah eyemeen mon?
Where is the Conservative ‘screw tinny panel van’? Who’s in it or on it? What are it’s terms of reference?
Ah ha! Like the rest of Conservative policy it is either ‘Top Secret’ or ‘Do Nothing’ or more likely — both.
Wee Hazel is a repentant “tax avoidance sinner” any Son of the manse, let alone a Prince of the manse like Gordon must forgive her. He cannot do the same with the unrepentant Hoon no matter that his “tax avoidance sin” is most likely 7 times greater than wee Hazels.
Until Geoff comes out with the “fair cop Guv, you got me bang to rights” there is no sin to forgive. No doubt Gordon is finding it hard to square the circle on this one, caused by that rarest of occurrences a Labour Minister saying sorry and telling the truth at the same time, that would explain him describing Hazel’s action as totally unacceptable.
Even the most hard-hearted of us must feel some sympathy for the agonising wait Gordon has until Geoff comes clean allowing him to forgive him his sin(s).
This is a lot of bollocks unless you think that all the benefits cheats get off the hook by saying sorry and waving a cheque around and saying they are repaying it
Off with their heads, all of them
SATIRE……
Gordon Brown MP, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, PhD, yesterday invoked the ancient and feared demon of CHAOS by his own mouth and from within the debating chamber of the House of Commons.
The presence already of pain, disharmony and anti-meaning all around us suggest he’s been practising this for a while.
Brown is happy to keep Blears in the cabinet. He will use the misplaced loyalty engendered by his support to keep her 100% on-side. How do you think he has managed to fight his way up to the top when he is a raving maniac? Why has nobody really stabbed him in the back before now? Because their loyalty has been bought. Brown probably knows far more about Blears’ skeletons in closets than we will ever hear about.
Remember Hitler?
Stalin
What did Mikhail Bakunin mean by “You were not the John Locke I expected?”
Who precisely is the Puppetmaster (or Muppet Pastor if you prefer) on this island?
It is as clear as can be that Gordon Brown has lost the trust of the people, of Parliament and even of his own parliamentary party. An election would be chaotic and there are far too few trustworthy senior Labout MPs to form an effective government. Clearly, then, a change in leadership is the only recourse. Gordon must step down and ask Lord Mandelson to take over. The Noble Lord would, I am sure, rebuild morale and refocus the party’s attention on the important issues.
I hope this is tongue in cheek!
Tongue in cheek? How dare you! I am more than suited to lead this nation.
Using ‘They Work for You’ I dropped my rural Tory MP a line to ask how he could justify nine grand a year gardening/molewhacking expenses. Frankly I did not expect to hear back.To my surprise I have just had a three-page, angst-filled missive, all about having him to pay someone to get his wheelie bins to the gate and chop wood etc etc.The whole defence is all based on the convenient fiction that his country pile, where he has lived with his family for years, is just a second home run for constituency needs, and his London flat is the main home. If so, I will be interested to see where he lives when he steps down!
These Ministers and MPS still don’t get it, do they?
Now I see that another of the local MPs over here in the Welsh Marches, Bill Wiggins (Conservative, Leominster) has been caught claiming expenses on the wrong (?) property.
The House of Commons must be full of one set of extremely dumb fuckers – although their attention to detail (in submitting their expenses’ claims in the first place) suggests otherwise. Just how many more “mistakes” can these people continue to say they have made – and expect that that is sufficient and that they will face no further consequences for their actions? Anyone else would by now be feeling Inspector Knacker’s hand on their collar.
This is on top of the extravagant amounts of money claimed for the refurbishment of a London flat by that utter twat Lembit Opik Liberal Democrat member for Montgomery and their spokesperson for extra-terrestrial affairs (so-called because of his obsession with the likelihood of an asteroid hitting earth).
A pity it doesn’t happen, with the point of deep impact being London SW1.
Lembit can start preparing his cv now. His majority of 10,000 will not save him from the tsunami of revulsion that Montgomeryshire voters will heap on him for his troughing, playboy lifestyle and penning a column in the porn Daily Sort
I think the defence is that the supporting documentation for the mortgage payments gave the details of his second home. However, the covering letter/form quoted his main address. He has only one mortgage and that is on his second home.
The problem/danger with the volume of DT “exposures” there will be genuine errors but they will get lumped together with the “errors of judgment”.
I have spent a lot of time writing on this blog and thank you Guido for giving me the opportunity to do so.
I am now feeling very stressed and depressed that we cannot do anything to get the criminal Brown out of Downing St and have a General Election.
I am going to wait until Friday 5th June and see what I think will be unprecedented Labour losses in the local and Euro elections.
This will then be the time for the grotty cabinet to tell Brown to take the gravy train back to Scotland and never come back (after all,he will be in No Mans Land/unemployable when he is kicked,no company/business will surely want to hear his revolting voice and watch his mouth movements ever again).
So I am going to stop winding myself up so much and will chill out while the electorate makes itself heard on 4th June.
Fingers crossed that 5th June brings this fraudster tumbling out on the pavement at Downing St,no matter how many concessions – such as the Gurkha climbdown – he produces in the next fortnight.
I agree.
I realise a lot of people post many expletives on here, and to some extent I can understand it.
The frustration that we can’t do anything about it and we’re dictated to on the government’s terms I find abhorrent.
I may even go on a media fast as it’s just winding me up too much.
I’m not going into any specific rants as everyone else covers it, but I find it so, so sad that what was once a great country has been ruined over the last 10 years.
I disagree with almost eveything that this lot stand for.
The PM is a big ‘feertie?(that’s afraid in English).
GORDON BROWN;
Unelected,unwanted,unreasonable,unjust,unfair,uncaring,
unabashed,unacceptable,unasked,unapproachable,unable,
unbalanced,uncanny,unconcerned,uncouth,uncontrolled,
undermined,unforgiving,unnatural,unrelenting,
unstable,unsuitable,unseemly,unviable,
and finally,he is very obviously;
UNWELL – Doctors,the screens please.
Underpaid
Unhealthy
Under the bed
Unfit
Undertaker?
Under Mandelson’s glass coffee table.
Labour are in danger of not just losing, but losing to such an extent that they disappear completely from the political system.
I think Brown being publicly forced out and humiliated by other labour ministers is the only way they’d avoid that.
The funny thing is that the labour MPs know that even if they do that they’ll still (most of them) lose their jobs, so they’re going to carry on with Brown even though they know it’d mean that labour would get consigned to history and never be heard of again after the general election.
The next 12 months of troughing is more important to them than saving their country or their party.
For me that’s good news, because it means that labour are so stupid and selfish that they’re going to cause their own party’s total destruction purely for a couple of months of extra cash.
So, go on labour MP’s; you just carry on troughing, and keep your leader, I’m on your side on that front because I know what the long term result will be.
Exactly – doomed either way, so why stick your head above the parapet?
After the general election, there’ll be one or 2 labour MPs left, and perhaps someone like miliband (if still there) will then re-create labour under a different banner/name.
The word “labour” will be so tainted that they’d never get anywhere near power for at least another 20 or 30 years; their only way back to potential power would be to totally scrap the current labour policies and start again.
Something similar to what Blair did pre 1997, but they need to drop the word “labour” completely. My guess is that if Blair hadn’t been hampered by Brown controlling the purse strings and stopping any kind of reform, and if they’d had a chancellor who understood economics/maths, labour might actually have done a good job, despite the incompetence of a lot of their MPs. But with Brown controlling things throughout, they were always going to end up destroying the country.
You’re completely quackers!
The Conservatives are getting a good old Wiggin’ over the allowances and expenses. They’re not coming out of it smelling of roses. Lots of their members will be mown down. The moat they can hope for is to hang on to what they have. Ten is the most they can hope to gain. Their pool of talent is pretty limited. Schwarzenegger candidates will pick them off. They’re rebranding exercise has been completely undone and they look like members of the over privileged clique they obviously are. To hang on to their newsagent, heel bar, small business voters they’ll have to move to the right and lose that all important middle ground. As MadShipman Dandandan! Hannann would say they’re taking on water fast, arrghhh!
Conservatives haven’t changed, that’s their problem.
More lies and spin from Master Baiter.
Labour have destroyed the “middle ground”. We are all extremists now, thanks to them.
What time of day is it on planet MB?
Watch me clock up the Air Miles soon as your unelected Foreign Secretary. Ed Balls can have my current non-job.
Where are we going Peter? To the top! Ho-ho. My plans are all working……
Brown Must Stay Party
Manifesto
Brown Must Stay
Why: Because each week he clings to power, another Labour MP will lose his seat at the general election.
Interesting comment in the Daily Mail about Joanna Lumley winning the battle for the Gurkhas.
“Was Gordon Brown worried that Joanna Lumley might stand for Parliament in a safe Labour seat and slaughter the incumbent?”
Possibly true, she could probably defeat any Labour candidate except in the type of seat where a monkey could be elected if put up as the Labour candidate (and often is).
you mean Scotland?
The best bit of publicity he has had recently is himself sitting one side of the No 10 fireplace and Ms Lumley sitting on the other… ogling each other, and smiling, smiling, smiling… Good Gordon! Honourable Gordon! The future Dame Joanna, daughter of the regiment, is on the box now with her Gurkha brothers and sisters saying ‘he’s put his foot on the accelerator… there are no bumps on the road’. Yes its a technical defeat, but given that… it’s a calculated gambit to show his ‘softer human side’, ‘he has the the grace to change his mind’… blah blah… Join in the joy… Ayar Gurkha!… or summat…
She still might…
Time to bury the Kukri – in his back…
Not in the back. Gurkhas fight face to face: the kukri will take the top half of his head off at about a 45° angle. If the Gurkha is right-handed he’ll lose his right ear and keep the left. His mental and social skills will not noticeably be impaired.
Thank you for this very clear assessment of the situation, much appreciated!
Is there any discussion anywhere about the MPs’ code of conduct, or would that just be another smokescreen?
Our poor MPs who apparently have the wits to comprehend complex legislation in the making, cannot comprehend the simplicity of the code obligations to show “Selflessness, Integrity, Accountability, Honesty, Openness and Leadership” let alone the expectation that “No improper use shall be made of any payment or allowance made to Members for public purposes and the administrative rules which apply to such payments and allowances must be strictly observed”. But like the Nigel Griffiths romp, I suppose all these misunderstandings have no official connection and happened in their private life.
“NOBLESSE OBLIGE”, LITERALLY, “NOBILITY OBLIGATES”.
“Noblesse oblige” implies that with 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.
The Times reports that Beckett might return to the Cabinet!
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Tomas Á I presume
Que?
A ruse to make Brown look better.
Guido, why do you go along with this ‘ Official Spokesman’ guff. Can’t even you refer to them by name FGS ?
Spelt as
Peter Mad Nelson
that would have been one of the best names on this site.
No matter what Brown does, Blair keeps the title worst PM in History.
But the daftest MP must be Perter Viggers.
He paid £1,645.00 for his floating duck house, which is clearly worth no more than about £45. I hope the ducks like it…
Many MPs are now committing to pay Capital Gains Tax on their “second homes”. This sounds good but often hides a deeper deceit. If a property has been designated as the “main home” for Capital Gains Tax of an MP or the MP’s spouse, how could the MP sign the declaration on the Additional Costs Allowance:
“I confirm that I incurred these costs wholly, exclusively and necessarily to enable me to stay overnight away from my only or main home for the purpose of performing my duties as a Member of Parliament.”
The rules about Ministers being deemed to live in London for ACA purposes don’t mean that Ministers are automatically entitled to claim ACA on their constituency home if it’s outside London. What they mean is that they can’t claim ACA on their London home.
I think Joanna Lumley has done a great service to the Gurka’s, but I think she may be “over-cooking” the PM’s help in the matter, if she could cast her mind back a few weeks to the day the opposition got through the vote, lest we forget, it was because Nick Clegg, Cameron and others mainly off Gordon’s back benches who have some decency left in them who really championed the Gurka cause. Brown will now crow that he has sorted something out, but it was like “pulling teeth” to get him to act, and he has mainly done the good deed to save himself, Brown never does anything out of the good of his heart because he hasn’t got a heart!
It’s spelled ‘Gurkhas.’
Unbelievably Brown has now defended Purnell and Hoon for tax avoidance, so ‘flipping’ is OK if you are in the cabinet. Whilst Cameron is putting his house in order, Brown is presiding over his ‘cabinet of crooks’.
Do you really find that unusual. Jacqui Smith should have been fired weeks ago, now his has a list as long as his arm of people he must “deal with”, but he doesn’t because he has none of the courage he writes about.
Too many bodies buried. Too many people know where they are. Perhaps they’ll bury McTwat soon. That would be nice…
The solution is very simple; until there’s a general election, don’t pay your taxes until the last possible minute.
Anyone on self-assessment, and businesses, just delay your tax return and payments until the very last day that you legally have to pay, and then just pay the absolute minimum that would stop you from being taken to court.
That’d starve the government of virtually all its cash, but you won’t be breaking any laws. That’s what I’m doing. I’m on self-assessment. I’m not even going to start filling in my form until a week or so before the absolute deadline, and I’m not going to make any payments until I get the “final demand; pay within 7 days or we’ll start legal action” letter.
and if you have a tax credit or other benefit, then make the claim for it as soon as you can.
Sting them both ways.
Will Hazel Blears ever be asked to return the money she received in exchange for expense claims she made for furniture used to furnish the property she has flipped? I see no reason why she should benefit in any way from expense claims made to enable her house flipping.
Brown’s government is crumbling. We know it, and he knows it, but he’ll hang on until it comes tumbling down.
If he sacked Hoon, and Purnell then that’s two more of his supporters gone, which makes him inherently even less stable.
Then we’ve still got Teddy Gonads and the Barrel maker to be exposed in the DT, and if he’s executed Hoon and Purnell already, he’ll probably have to do the same to them.
Then there is the looming disaster of the European and Local elections.
The men in white coats will be at Number 10 on 5th June to drag Brown kicking and screaming to the Palace.
So General Election at earliest 2nd July, latest 1st October.
Can anyone tell me what the difference in culpability is between Blears not paying CGT on the sale of a property and Hoon and Purnell not paying CGT on the sales of their properties? They seem identical to me. I think she has been singled out because she is a ginger dwarf.
She’s been singled out because she mocked, quite rightly, Cyclops’ farcical, pathetic YouTube performance. Cowards never forgive or forget, and McTwat is a champion coward and grudge-holder.
That’s right – a “feartie” as we say in Scotland. A bit like Maggie Thatcher’s description of her opponents as “frit”
‘Gordon Is Afraid’
I can go to bed happy tonight and sleep well; only need to read the headline to feel at peace (first time in many, many a year).
Let democracy rule.
Gordon hasn’t got a clue what to do other than dither, as long as he’s had a good period of dithering first.
If he does not treat Hoon and Blears the same, he will be guilty of a great hypocrisy. Luckily, being a socialist, he will be used to that.
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Aww, don’t be so unkind. They’re just doing their best! (to fleece everyone!) That level of audacity should be commended!
Cllr Brody x