+++ Rennard Resigns +++
UPDATE :
Dear [ ],
First, I’d like to thank all members for everything that you are doing to help our candidates in the European and local elections (if you have local elections in your area). I am sure that they appreciate your support at a difficult time in politics. If you are standing yourself, then obviously I wish you the best of luck!
My reason for writing is that I have decided to make the current election campaigns my last as Chief Executive. I discussed this with Nick some time ago and I have given notice to the Party President that I will stand down as Chief Executive at the end of the Summer. I want to be able to work more flexibly in future whilst of course continuing to help our party advance. I believe that I will be better able to do so without the administrative burdens of being Chief Executive and running the party’s day to day organisation. For family and health reasons, I have needed to change the way in which I work. My wife Ann has supported me enormously in all my work. But since she retired a few years ago after more than 35 years teaching, we wanted to have something of a more normal life outside the Westminster bubble. This has become more important to me as I have struggled to maintain good diabetic control with the rigours of a very demanding lifestyle. This has proved to be increasingly difficult whilst carrying out the role of Chief Executive at HQ and around the country.
I decided that this Summer would be the best time for me and for the party to make a change. I am letting the party know this now, so that it can take the necessary steps to appoint a new Chief Executive in the Autumn.
My major work as Chief Executive in recent years has been to help create new structures for the party organisation and help to recruit an extremely strong professional team to work for it. The role of Chief Executive has therefore changed significantly since I undertook this role six years ago.By the Summer, we will have had crucial local and European elections and I believe that we will do well in them. I am also confident that Nick Clegg will prove to be the most successful Leader that we have ever had. I am immensely proud of the roles that I have played so far in securing the steady advance of the Liberal Democrat cause. Our values and beliefs have never been more important than they are today. I will, of course, continue to support the General Election campaign, but not as chair. Finally, I would just like to thank all members personally for all the support that I have had whilst working for the party and I look forward to continuing to work with you in future.
With all best wishes,
Yours sincerely
Chris
Clegg was too fucking slow!
The Penguin.
Must be his metabolism.
and another one….. and another one… and another bites the dust oh yeah!
Surely some credit should be given for the responses of the opposition parties. They contrast so sharply with the lack of response from Gordon Brown.
He has defended Hoon & Purnell today whilst hanging out Blears to dry for exactly the same scam. See Gordon Brown – Accepting the totally unacceptable
Correct: ‘ . . For family and health reasons, I have needed to change the way in which I work. My wife Ann has supported me enormously in all my work. But since she retired a few years ago after more than 35 years teaching, we wanted to have something of a more normal life outside the Westminster bubble.
This has become more important to me as I have struggled to maintain good diabetic control with the rigours of a very demanding lifestyle. This has proved to be increasingly difficult whilst carrying out the role of Chief Executive at HQ and around the country.’ from Rennard’s email to members just received. He will stand down at the end of the summer.
He used to sign in at the House of Lords every day to get his allowance and then go to work down the road as CEO of the Lib Dems
Bastard
Clegg might have been slow but he was still not as slow as Cameron was in demanding Martin should resign.
@21, he did not hang her out to dry, on the contrary he demonstrated his own massive weakness and inability to tackle sleaze, but publicly declaring her behaviour to be utterly unacceptable, whilst accepting her to remain in her job.
He is the black is white prime minister, from declaring British jobs for British workers (as long as they are from Poland) through to admitting that he is responsible for the smear scandals so he has sacked those responsible, right through to this Blears chaos.
I mean, he claims tories would create chaos. Well, I remember the tory Government and their sleaze which by today’s standards was very very small beer indeed. I remember when a mere 2K in a brown envelope to a very Junior minister was a “SLEAZE SHOCK HORROR SCANDAL!!!” Headline. The tory sleaze of 1997 appears LAUGHABLE now! The country ran better, had a gevernment that could enact it’s legislative program and crime was lower education standards were higher, we were not twisted into convolutions trying to keep up to date with every little new piece of health and safety and politically correct legislation. We could put our bins out where we wanted as full as we wanted without fear of being fined, we were much more free to live as we chose.
WE HAVE CHAOS NOW! Call that election you supine, craven, cowardly chickenshit! Grow a pair for ONCE in your life and do the right thing for the country. STOP putting your miserable, cowardly arse before the country. You are going to lose the election anyway. You have shown in graphic detail over the last two years that there is NOTHING you can do to turn this around for your party. Every last drop of political capital you ever held with the media and every last bit of fear your political pit-bulls extracted has gone. Vanished. You do not have the ability to pull anything out of this fire. You are finished.
Your new labour “third way” project is finished. We saw though it. Many people thought it looked good. They were taken in by the flashy bauble and light show, tricked into averting their gaze from the obvious and many contradictions and flaws and the basic incompatibility between the new labour words and the actions of the new labour leadership.
But now it is finished. Do the right thing for once in your empty and failed existence. CALL THE FUCKING ELECTION FOR FUCK’S SAKE!
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Anonymous says:
May 21, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Clegg might have been slow but he was still not as slow as Cameron was in demanding Martin should resign.”
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Martin is not a tory MP you prat!
Cameron has been much quicker to kick out those troughers in his own party from their shadow cabinet positions, where he has the power to do so. He has also ordered local Conservative associations (over which he has no direct power) to de-select and dodgy MP’s from the ballot for the next election. he has acted quicker and more decisively than Brown or Clegg in that regard.
Brown dithers like a particularly indecisive cowardly worm. He is the personification of the word pathetic.
I care not a jot he is a talentless poltroon, shamelessly overpromoted. It is no skin off my rosy nose he is unable to do any part of his Chief Executive’s job. It is irrelevant that his one ability is writing election leaflets, and that he hasn’t handled a budget since he was Treasurer of his ward party branch at the age of 11 (and it shows).
This is snobbery, pure and simple. Just because Rennard is a working-class lad from a humble Liverpool background, who’s true to his working-class roots, the effete school of liberal snobs have been out to get him. That he is an incompetent crook is a side issue, distracting us from the real facts of the case.
And our favourite working-class hero will now be drowning his sorrows in the National Liberal Club, where he frequently props up the bar. Or the bar will prop him up, before it collapses.
Rennard in all his glory, just prior to making his resignation statement:
http://www.danieledwardcraig.com/blog/uploaded_images/Jabba-the-Hut-1-749957.jpg
Watch me take decisive action.
I’ve decided to do NOTHING.
@Mr Ned
Martin is not a Lib Dem either you f*ckwit.
And Cameron hasn’t kicked his toughers out the Party either as “instructing” Conservative associations is, as you pointed out, mere words that have no binding effect. Removing the whip is entirely within his gift and would stop the most disgusting piggies tarnishing the “brand”.
Of course all of this is fairly futile as you are so hopelessly partisan as to think that a few slick Public Relations moves will mollify the public.
They won’t.
Not for Brown. Not for Clegg. Not for Cameron.
This is as bad as it gets and having a few MP’s stand down after the next Election is the equivelant of being the leper with the most remaining limbs.
The public honestly isn’t that impressed.
I for one would be delighted if an Election was called tomorrow.
But I’m also not stupid enough to think it will be no matter how loudly anyone huffs and puffs.
People have been correctly calling Brown a useless dithering tw@t for a long, long time before this and he will reap the biggest whirlwind at an Election because of it, enabling a Banker devastated Economy, the Recession and the disgusting greed of almost ALL Parliament’s MP’s
But you are deluded of you think he will be the only casualty.
And if you truly despised the “third way” pioneered by Blair and “the flashy bauble and light show” then perhaps sucking the c*ck of a Public Relations man like Cameron who aspires to be the “heir to Blair” might not be the best way to reverse such a trend ?
Here’s the Steen [500 trees] interview on World at One – hilarious car crash ‘this is like Coronation St/kangeroo court/jealousy for my very very large house’
HHAHAHAAHH
Did he jump, or was he pushed by the Federal Executive?
Was he given the Mr Creosote treatment?
It’s not easy being Jabba the Hut.
Much slower than Penguin. #1 again ! (saddo)
Guido – Please can we have a picture of Joanna Lumley.
I think I missed it. Where does it say really really sorry and deeply ashamed for being a thieving bastard who has no intention of paying back all the expenses and allowances I have bullied out of the cowering fees office staff? I read it through twice…must be there somewhere..
Have just been talking to a mate, who was an ex-lib dem councillor, who knew the sly old fox from his days up north.
He can’t believe that Jabba was only 49 years old. my mate said he looked about ‘fooking sixty’ even then.
Also noted that his wife was a teacher for 35 years before retiring 3 years ago, did they meet at school!!. There are rules about that now
How bloody old is she???. He’s starting to sound like that creepy David Walliams character in Little Britain whos always trying to shag the granny.
the fat dirty twat has even managed to lower the tone of Liverpool. And that’s not easy. I was Ken Dodd’s paperboy
Shame!! Such a nice man too. Threw super parties.
I’ve just heard Anthony Steen on R4. Apparently we are just jealous of his £1M house and have no right to know about his expenses.
Had to go and get the radio back from the garden.
Bastard
Beyond believe we pay for the fucker’s expenses and he says we have no right to know how he uses the money. Fuck all the main three parties, they are all wallowing in the same shit.
Just as well it was not Steen’s garden, you might have been some time…
The Penguin
I was f***ing furious when I heard that old dinosaur today. The Conservative Party has got to get rid of all of these condescending, patronising, so called grandees – their festering presence continues to perpetuate the negative connotations of privilege and wealth.
What planet does this greedy old scrote inhabit?
He does what the f*ck he likes and we have to pay for it, no questions asked?
Just when I thought my blood pressure could not get much higher over this….
Bugger, the aerial on my wireless snapped when it landed in the rockery. I have to say that of all the interviews I have heard in the last few weeks, this one was in a league of its own in terms of “not getting it”. Steen made Marie Antoinette sound like an operative from the Camden Wimmins Collective.
One of the interesting things about this whole scandal is that until recently you might have been forgiven for thinking that the House of Commons these days was largely made up of slick ‘n slimey types like Shahid Malik, Ms Moran, Nu Look Tories and various assorted ageing Blair Babes. It turns out that, buried underneath that lot of ordure, there are still rows and rows of old Tory and Labour dinosaurs stuck somewhere around 1975.
Strange old tory dinosaur. Perhaps all the fairly diverse lot of prominent conservatives all the way through the 80s and 90s (inc Thatcher and all the posh-but-jewish lot) did nothing to the stagnant backwaters of the shires remained a little jurasic. As odd as finding a coelacanth.
I couldnt quite follow all of the incredible things he was saying.
Didn’t he also blame the labour government for allowing such things to come out into the open?
Like a fish with feet he’ll trudge through the lobbies voting for cuts in services when he plainly thinks that his family requires the kind of luxury you only usually see in period dramas.
(oh yes. and i was going to do more to repeat 140).
Backbenchers don’t need to evolve a brain i suppose, just rudimentary ability to move on land.
His constituents can be heartily glad that he’s not puutingbhimself up for re-election. What a ghastly, self important, nasty piece of work he sounded on Rado 4 today. Good riddance and I sincerely hope he is utterly shunned by his neighbours and people living within his consituency.
De-Gardened Steen
Sounds German to me
This goes so far beyond anger that it reaches a kind of insane comedy. Last week, Private Eye tried a spoof on MP’s expenses but even they were beaten – there just wasn’t anything they could invent more absurd than reality.
Nice to see that old Cameroon is so eager to act that he was ‘surprised’ by Steen’s resignation. So much for that idea…
As Kirk Lazarus in Tropic Thunder would say “never go full rennard”
Are we on a role here?
Hamlet?
Sorry you are in contravention of Government directive
34-00/df–45200067/90 which specifically identifies this as a non smoking area
Do you want mustard on that?
I ‘relish’ more disclosures actually.
I thought gov directive 34-00 was the one about “no member shall wear womens underwear whilst eating oranges without first seeking the permission of a senior cabinet minister”. I believe this rule has never been broken.
Not for about 15 years, no…
I think you will find that permission was sought and obtained 15 years ago….
Only insofar as oranges and seeking permission.
Outrageous slander. Get your facts straight.It was a satsuma.
No I will not. Absolutely not. No, I will not tolerate it.
Is Brown suffering from senile dementia? He seems to be having problems deciding what is and what is not acceptable.
Mine’s a duck house btw.
NEW LABOUR CREATES CHAOS
another drink Duckie? go on, and I’ll ‘ave a babycham
Wow – must be some sh!t in that cupboard.
Just watching Ms Lumley when someone said she should be Dame.
Considering what she has achieved in a couple of years versus what Fat Mick did in 10 years, she is far more deserving of recognition versus a peerage for the pig
It was brilliant wasn’t it – HMG rolled over completely by her.
My favourite comedy moment was Phil ‘Tampax’ Woolas nodding like a school boy as Ms Lumley told him what he had to agree to.
Hilarious.
Yip – gets my vote for TV moment of the year. Bafta take note.
Sadly the cameras did not show that she had his bollocks squeezed in one hand and a kukri pressed against his ring-piece…
http://therantingkingpenguin.blogspot.com
Here it is:
http://plato-says.blogspot.com/2009/05/in-case-you-missed-it-lumley-tells.html
We probably paid for the cupboard as well.
Lumley should stand against Woolas..
landslide
“….Stand against him”? She probably wouldn’t touch him with a bargepole.
Or even a tampon
First, I’d like to thank all members for everything that you are doing to help our candidates in the European and local elections (if you have local elections in your area). I am sure that they appreciate your support at a difficult time in politics. If you are standing yourself, then obviously I wish you the best of luck!
My reason for writing is that I have decided to make the current election campaigns my last as Chief Executive. I discussed this with Nick some time ago and I have given notice to the Party President that I will stand down as Chief Executive at the end of the Summer.
I want to be able to work more flexibly in future whilst of course continuing to help our party advance. I believe that I will be better able to do so without the administrative burdens of being Chief Executive and running the party’s day to day organisation.
For family and health reasons, I have needed to change the way in which I work. My wife Ann has supported me enormously in all my work. But since she retired a few years ago after more than 35 years teaching, we wanted to have something of a more normal life outside the Westminster bubble.
This has become more important to me as I have struggled to maintain good diabetic control with the rigours of a very demanding lifestyle. This has proved to be increasingly difficult whilst carrying out the role of Chief Executive at HQ and around the country.
I decided that this Summer would be the best time for me and for the party to make a change. I am letting the party know this now, so that it can take the necessary steps to appoint a new Chief Executive in the Autumn.
My major work as Chief Executive in recent years has been to help create new structures for the party organisation and help to recruit an extremely strong professional team to work for it. The role of Chief Executive has therefore changed significantly since I undertook this role six years ago.
By the Summer, we will have had crucial local and European elections and I believe that we will do well in them. I am also confident that Nick Clegg will prove to be the most successful Leader that we have ever had. I am immensely proud of the roles that I have played so far in securing the steady advance of the Liberal Democrat cause. Our values and beliefs have never been more important than they are today. I will, of course, continue to support the General Election campaign, but not as chair.
Finally, I would just like to thank all members personally for all the support that I have had whilst working for the party and I look forward to continuing to work with you in future.
With all best wishes,
Yours sincerely
get lost looser
Please learn to spell.
Fingering the Wiggin
Fingering the Wiggin
Top stuff from the Telegraph on Eton fag, Bill Wiggin MP, like father like son.
What a waste of a safe seat, you naughty cheapskate mortgage claimer for a house with no mortgage.
Flipping cheat, call the pole eace!
What’s David O’Cameron got to say on this one?
To which please note also four ‘Firsts’ a ‘Second’ and a ‘Third’:
Additional Costs Allowance
2007/08 £23,083 (joint 1st)
2006/07 £22,110 (joint 1st)
2005/06 £21,634
2004/05 £20,902 (joint 1st)
2003/04 £20,333 (joint 3rd)
2002/03 £19,722 (joint 1st)
2001/02 £18,009 (joint 2nd)
A stomach churning £145,793.
Something doesn’t pass the Daily Mail smell test.
No wonder they want a cover it up election.
Very gracious of you, m’Lord. We peasants hope that removing your snout from the trough will do wonders for your … diabetic control.
Reveal yourself, Arsehole.
They have DEFROCKED me
No priests left
So they are turning on PEERS
Champagne Charlie Rennard
Better than being DE-MOATED…
Dont’ take my name please
I am “Corkscrew Charlie” Moran (formerly Winston Churchill’s docter)
Mrs “SPANISH PRACTICES” MORAN is my HEIRESS
So there
Full statement at http://www.libdemvoice.org/chris-rennard-to-stand-down-after-4-june-14913.html
Who’s next? Blears and Hoon have my vote.
Osborne. When the best photos the tabloids have come out all else will be forgotten.
I’m so glad he really was a right wanker that one
I can’t wait! He’s sexy!
and then nulabour’s rent boys will make a splash. Nucrooks would be taking a big risk considering their own skeletons.
Gerald Kaufman
Getting rid of Osborne would probably gain the Tories another 20 seats, as if they need them.
Fat chance. The PM, interviewed on TV a few mins back in some form of transport or other, has just given his full support to them! Well well. Evidently their expenses claims were within both the letter and the spirit of the law…
Bring on the ‘anging judge!
That’s them fucked then – The Jonah Effect
Don’t DE-CHAUFFEUR me please
…but I thought you liked it…naughty boy..
The ongoing saga of non-payment of Capital Gains Tax continues to haunt this parliament.
Hazel Blears made a big show of holding up a cheque for £13,332 for possible CGT.
Questions for Hazel Blears…
1.Will you provide full details of the CGT calculations done (showing either the 18% rate, or 40% rate of CGT)?
2.Does the cheque cover any envisaged penalty HMRC normally charges in these cases?
3.Is she paying penalties for late submissions of a correct tax returns?
4.Was there a deduction made for mortgage interest that was funded by the general public?
5.Was there a deduction made for property improvements funded by the general public?
6.Was a deduction made for legal and Land Registry charges that relate to the buying of the next property?
7.Did you use only your single personal GCT allowance once in any single tax year.
The current government have introduced endless tax laws, and, even worse, unclear tax rules that obfuscate everyone’s tax compliance. E.g. The uncertainty of IR35, and ever changing rules, destroyed the freelance contractor IT industry.
In view of recent events, it is quite clear that HMRC needs to conduct a full tax enquiry on every elected official in the Houses of Parliament.
The tax laws applied to the general public should equally apply to elected officials.
What is good for the goose is good for the ducks.
Blears.
Red hair.
More Irish
More Irish what?
A bunch of Sassenach-hating Scottish hoons have been bleeding England dry for over a decade, helped by the Quislings and idiots who congregated round the overfull swill bucket.
McNulty is about the only “Irish” person I can think of in the whole sorry mess.
What the fuck are you on about, you piece of amoebic dysentery?
Check their family backgrounds, Sarah.
A large % of Central & West of Scotland MPs have Irish roots, not Scots.
Most of Labour MPs hail from Central and West of Scotland.
Check Wiki and all will be revealed. Forensic really.
(Feet out of mouth first please).
I’m Irish and I’m neither rich nor a thief…..
What do you make of that Dr. Mengele?
You may also be interested in the scientifically-validated and peer-reviewed material about the natural dishonesty of people of Welsh origin.
You could google the phrase “Taffy was a Welshman” to get the correct journal.
Dennis Skinner.
Brown next
I’m for Cooperballs next.
Harman last – make her wait for it.
One more for trophy head for Guido’s wall.
Now, remember, folks, don’t vote for extremists in any election, but avoid the Liberal Dumbocrats like swine flu.
Too, many, commas,,,,need, more, air….*chokes to the sound of general cheering*
No extremists? So no Golem, Dodgy Dave, Dick Sniffin (sorry Nick Griffin)….
Coo … Quick off the mark with that news. It is not even on the Sky News giddiness-inducing Breaking News strapline yet…
Alert
The Manchester Evening News is reporting that Martin Bell intends to stand against Hazel Blears in Salford during the next GE. Should be very interesting but highly unlikely that the other parties will step aside as they did in Tatton.
Nonsense. Have you ever been to Salford. Any party would stand aside to avoid the unpleasant tak of having to visit this hole. Its always a giveaway when a place has a tourist office from Chernobyl on the high street.
Nonsense. I have been to Salford and it is almost as beautiful as our glorious Shitograd.
I knew someone who went to the University of Salford. Christ, he was thick. As you’d expect.
He got burgled three times in Salford. As you’d expect.
I hear our own tap-dancing Division Belle ‘Hazy B’ is planning to help the inmates of Salford to learn how to walk erect someday. Personally, I think a better start might be imparting the secret of fire to them.
if i had dysentry i wouldnt stop for a crap in salfod
If you did the locals would see it as a takeaway.
A red-on-red attack – blimey if it’s true.
Martin Bell was one of Campbell’s stooges – he was no Man In White Suit independent. It’s all in Alistair’s diaries.
Where is my old friend Ally Campbell that spinning charlie ?
Gone quiet like the rest of them ?
How many houses has he made out of Nu Labour ?
He’s got no chance. The people of Salford refuse to vote for anybody who’s not ginger,gobby and under 2ft 6. I’m definitely in for another 5 years.
Not a chance when Donald Trump finds out where his spare rug ended up.
So if Mick Hucknell stands, you’ll be worried?
Mick Hucknall’s cock is bigger than HB.
So I’ve heard.
He’ll be the BBC Salford candidate. Just like the BBC Luton one.
What a good idea
I will tell my thousands of Troughers to stand for Parliament
That way we will have a BBC Parlimant…
No more government spokesmen and idiots like that
Don’t forget that the BBC lefties (inc. BBC Sport and Radio 5 Live) will soon be moving to the Sloane-ranger areas of Salford as part of their relocation jolly. All paid with generous packages and no-limit travel expenses.
Expect the NuLab vote to go through the ceiling with dubious postal voting.
How much power does David Cameron actually have?
Is he not capable of sacking anyone who has stolen from us? We know how corrupt Labour is and will probably never get into government again, but do we really just want the same old thing? Just a different colour.
And another thing I saw this morning at around 10:30, Jackie Smith getting up to answer a question on MPs expenses only to say that she had meetings to make sure that MPs allowance for second homes was to be set at 2005 rates! I thought an independent body was going to look at what MPs allowances should be? Why are we being lied to again and again? And why has no party said anything about the speaker being made a Peer and getting 70K for his incompetence and his corruption. TAXI anyone?
I believe the answer is (1) shares in half the power companies in Europe and (2) enough land in the UK to host half a dozen windfarms.
If you are quick off the mark you could quiz Diamond Dave at his open discussion meeting tomorrow… 12 noon in the Corn Exchange in the centre of town… that’s Witney, (capital of the Independent Republic of West Oxfordshire). Can’t honestly fault him as a constituency MP. Spect he will be fielding questions on his own relatively straightforward expenses claim… That wisteria… it plays havoc with the stability of your chimney.
I believe Portillo claimed it was other things which played havoc with the stability of his chimney…….
Sneet! Sneet!
Fuck their resignations – get them in court. This must be the next aim for everyone who is sick to fucking death of the third world bannana republic the EU/Nu Labor has turned this country into.
Great.
Well said Sir swearalot!
The cheating scum should be sacked and jailed immediately.
And as for that unless “Tried to cover it all up” speaker, he should be dragged outside and shot!
Daily Update
Thank you friends for the mountain of criminal complaints you have filed
Only problem now
CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE DRAGGING ITS FEET
Campaign for JUSTICE now
Denounce the obstructing of the course of JUSTICE by the CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE please
Your honourable Commissioner
Louder Please!
Taxi anyone!
THREE OUT OF FOUR GONE
Bliar (1) gone [ √ ]
Bliar (2) gone [ √ ]
Gorbals gone [ √ ]
McTwat to go [ ]
Since when was Dodgy Dave known as McTwat?
Ever since he got into the house old boy!
Not your sharpest today, young Anonymous, are you ?
200 lines for tomorrow.
Keep up with class.
so kind – many years since I was called young.
One blue one, one white one
so where’s the one with a bit of shite on?
Gordon? Gordon?
Apologies – I missed ‘others’ off, even though THREE OUT OF ‘TOP’ FOUR GONE! -
Bliar (1) gone [ √ ]
Bliar (2) gone [ √ ]
Gorbals gone [ √ ]
McTwat [ ]
OTHERS :
Arselickers [ ]
Arsewipers [ ]
Jobsworths [ ]
Quangocrats [ ]
Thought Police [ ]
Bin Inspectors [ ]
etc
That’ll be about six and a half million then. Hope you’ve got a big clipboard.
Re others:
What will we do when the entire establishment has been cleased as you suggest
Some paid work for a change.
Next step
Stop unemployment benefits, pensions and other “self voted benefits” for them
Quite simple
Chris Rennard aka Baron Rennard of Wavertree.
How can they resign….?
Police investigation – please.
They can resign because there is nothing we can do to stop them – from collecting their fat pensions and saying they didn’t break the rules.
Inspector Knacker is about as interested in policing our dishonourable friends as he is about policing hunting.
No shortage of coppers to knuckle the miners though
That is sooooo 1980s.
Haven’t you heard, the Met are only interested in cracking the heads of middle class country folk these days.
That’ll be the saboteurs then.
I’m a bit puzzled – this Rennard chap is clearly as bent as a nine bob note, but he doesn’t appear to be Scottish. Is there some kind of a mistake?
DNA sample’s the answer.
Must be Jock blood in there, I’d swear
Oh puzzle over – he appears to be a scouser.
Yes, Ray-nard has been stealing hubcaps for years.
Quick check on UK map shows Liverpool, Glasgow … both just a quick sail across from Ireland. Both with sizeable Irish settlements.
Got the “thieving bastards” link.
Its not Scottish, its Irish.
All descendants from the 1845 Potato Famine.
Elementary.
“but he doesn’t appear to be Scottish.”
Its even worse, his is a Fr*nch descendent.
well of course monsieur…raynard the foxy bastard
Scousers come from Ireland. The Irish came from Scotland. He has Jock blood in him. Case solved.
Correction.
THOSE Scottish came from Ireland. Check it out.
After which we should agree most NuLabour troughers were from Irish decent.
McTwat wasn’t however ! Scots can’t deny he’s one of theirs (but soiled goods so no return even with an expense receipt).
If you hand him back, just think about all those criminal Australians who’ll be looking for a one way ticket back.
His folks are kockneys.
Need i say more?
never trust a micky mouser theveing bastards the lot of them they would walk with the sugar from your tea
“I discussed this with Nick some time ago ”
This morning perhaps?
Back to Newsnight.Dawn Primarolololololo in her role as Health minister is refusing to recompense Haemophiliacs who were given toxic blood products which resulted in them getting Hepatitis C.Haemophiliacs with HIV have been given just £12,000 a year (the minimum).On Newsnight was a young man who was infected with Hepatitis C when he was NINE.The Irish government have been far more generous to Haemophiliacs infected with the same diseases and have been giving out huge sums in compensation.(The Irish health service can be a bit chaotic but in this case the HSE has been magnanimous). This young Haemophiliac had great dignity unlike Dawn the Trougher who was in joint first place for her ACA’s for years 2006-2008.It makes me absolutely sick that this useless waste of space can be such a c….t.Of course she won’t be voted out of her Bristol constituency as they are all a load of druggies and hippies.She’s yet another f….g sociologist now running your country.
The cupboard is bare – the Treasury has no money left!
Wait..
Yes.
Royal Mail Pension Fund raid… aha… hang about, we may have identified an option.
Druggies and hippies tend not to vote.
druggies and hippies ?????
we’re not all druggies
and we didnt all vote for Red Dawn
and we didnt all vote for red Dawn in the last election
This is the government that dished out about a half a million to a typist with repetitive strain injury caused , by err … what was it now,? Oh yes, typing.
Getting damaged by HMG action, or having your legs blown off serving your country are minor matters only worthy of minimal compensation.
On the net the bloggers come and go
Talking of Dawn Primarolo (T S Eliot)
Not sure about sociologist but fairly thick lesbian former legal secretary apparently.
Mrs Dale has an interesting piece on Luton’s finests’ pecadiloes. With form like that, theres only one place for her, the government benches in the House of lords.
Moran. More Irish.
Who was Rennard?
What about Uddin, Blears, Balls/Cooper, Hoon, Smith (and Mr Smith), McNulty and of course Brown – the man with the super-clean and refurbed flat he hasn’t needed for about 12 years now, and which he has given to his wife as part of his own personal “tax planning”?
Unfair. I kept that flat for a full 10 days after Tony announced he was resigning.
Anyway, exactly WHY would I get married anyway, if not to avoid paying a tax central to NuLabour beliefs that everyone ought to pay their share ?
Ah.. the Whiff of Lavender
Errrr…. 10 whole days was it? So that’s all OK then Gordon. Hold on a minute, what about the time before then when the generosity of the taxpayer allowed you the use of No. 11 Downing St (I think you swapped with Tony in practice, so you had the flat in No.10), so you didn’t need your flat from May 1997 onwards?
Before you sack the other fellas, you might need to think about sacking yourself, matey.
and all those contracts for his wife’s “public relations” firm
Don’t forget that these “public relations” firms have been siphoing off £ millions of our money for years to “introduce” companies seeking public contracts to corrupt NULabour Ministers..
We want a list of these public relations companies (and their Directors)
They have been SELLING PUBLIC CONTRACTS for gain
THeft and embezzlement at the same time
Interesting that the letter doesn’t mention House of Lords expenses (for more on which, see today’s postings at http://maxatkinson.blogspot.com)
So what’s the backstory to this resignation?
Please desist from using these vulgar Americanisms – the word is history don’t cha know.
If you don’t know, I don’t see the point in commenting. Do you know?
you are quite correct Mr Chips. I will vote for you. kndly send me a postal order for half a mil’.
Backstory???????
background story = sock a dryrot bung!
Why don’t we have a referendum on the speaker?
Should he be thown into jail?
or
Should he be made a Lord and given over 50,000 a year for the rest of his life for trying to cover up corrupt MPs and to protect his wifes Taxi’s paid for by us?
Which do you think the public will vote for!
He’s clearly an Honourable man and I put it to you, Sir, that he is the victim of sectarianism and snobbery alone.
A victim only because the vulgar DT aided and abbeted a crime by offering money to enable it to present the details to an electorate which had no need to know.
I look forward to welcoming Lord and Lady Gorbals to the House.
Do you really believe the public are going to accept this corrupt politician becoming a lord and being paid?
I think not.
They won’t stand for it and if the current crop of crooks in the house thinks they are it just shows how out of touch they all are.
Unwilling to sack the guilty and still trying to convince the public they have not stolen anything at all! The public are angry and even if they don’t sort themselves out now. The public will get the chance to fire them all in one go next year. I can’t wait to vote again. Haven’t bothered for years because the system was so corrupt. But now the sheep of the public have actually woken up and realised they really do have some power to sweep aside the corrupt government and opposition’s parties in one go. Fantastic.
Of course they will allow him to become a Lord.
Mrs H keeps asking me why the population of the United Condom are not out on the street and rioting.
You see the terrible attitude that you get from growing up in France.
La Honte!
Has Uddin been arrested yet?
She’s waiting in the queue behind Kirkbride
When will the photos of Kirkbride be published please ?
There is some unkosha stuff going on there as well…
I am getting angry now
Can I feed Uddin to the Tamil Tigers please ?
answer no. he’s running a take-away kebbab and croissant cafe, London Road, St. Leonards on Sea.
“run, run Rennard, run run run, you got to run for your life and you’re still not done…”.
luvly
We are going to have a spate of new songs now..
Summer hit parade..
Any views on Nadine Dorries?
Sorry
NADINE DORRIES?
She’s taking Champagne with Ms ENGEL
yes but we waiting for yours on Moran first darling MB
Yeah. My view is that she’s a babe.
What you think ?
are you the new poet laurate?
don’t you listen to julian cope??!!
What a spineless resignation letter. Nothing to do with being found with his fingers in the till…just a load of waffle about why he was going to resign anyway. Coward!
Anyone who uses the word “whilst” instead of “while” is at best a fucking moron and worst a total twat.
Well said sir, and with such eloquence,decorum and panache.
Anyone who expresses views such as these is both anally retentive and in need of a blow job.
fuck me. Brown really is a Huhne. So to show his commitment to cleaning up parliament he’s promoting the nasty and UNELECTABLE Peter ‘I have a weakness for rich men’ Mandelshit to Foreign Secretary!
Well at least there goes Brown’s credibility on the issue COMPLETELY down the toilet.
mandelscum has something on brown and blackmail works wonders when you have a deranged and desperate man to lord it over.
Yes
Mandelcash wants the position for the future
When he goes abroad he will describe himself as
FORMER FOREIGN SECRETARY
That brings in lots of cash.and, of course, he will sign the Lisbon Treaty…
If only you knew..
I could blow Gordon Brown out of the water in 5 minutes with all the shit I have on him..
But so can half the Cabinet..
WE ARE ALL CANNIBALS NOW
Only thing left to do as everything collapses on us…
The fabled photo of Gordo on a rocking horse wearing a nappy and sucking a dildo is the most likely option.
I thought ‘science’ had proved it was woman wot had a weakness for rich guys?
Oh – wait a tick – sorry!
It was Bliar
Toenails blog:
“This entry is now closed for comments”
The mods had a terrible time hiding their bias today on Toenails blog – so much so that they have suspended comments.
Thats what you get for being a Brown nose, Toenails.
Dissolve Parliament.
I can’t hold back the floor so I am
SUSPENDED by my TOENAILS as they say
There is some poetic justice in this world
mind you there seems to be the same problem on the Moran story on this site. My question to dirtyden as to whether he is really Dick Sniffin and whether dirtyden is a BNP sexual practice still has not appeared…
According to wikipedia he lives in Vassal ward (Kennington) in Lambeth.
Eurgh – south of the river. No wonder the Lib Dems are so amateurish.
Just goes to show what happens to once-great parties when they allow themselves to be run by below-stairs types.
Where the scum-sucking bottom-feeders known as Lambeth council, have just discovered a 9m gaping hole in their housing budget. Which they plugged by raising rents by an incredible 17%.
Is gross incompetence not a kind of fraud?
I pity anyone who has to live in Lambeth, it’s a banana republic shithole run by a Labour cabal of crooks and imbeciles.
Off topic (before Guido tells us) but:
The real story this week is, of course; S&P revising Britain credit rating from stable (AAA) to negative (AAA).
S&P, meanwhile, now fears that the net general government debt burden “could approach 100 percent of GDP and remain near that level in the medium term.”
It’s hard to describe the UK public finances as anything other than a disaster area. The forecasts made in last month’s Budget looked optimistic within days, and even these require the DMO to borrow 220 billion pounds this financial year, or almost a billion pounds every working day.
Yet while the DMO soaks up cash, the Bank of England is desperately creating it. Its “quantitative easing” programme has been in full swing this week, buying in 1.326 billion pounds of a stock which looks very like the one that the DMO was issuing just one day later.
The experts will tell you that because the life of the new stock is not quite five years, it falls outside the Bank’s five to 25-year target zone for QE, and is therefore qualitatively different. This is pure mumbo-jumbo. Essentially what is happening is one arm of the government is creating money for another arm of the government to borrow.
The traders can hardly believe their luck, selling expensively to the Bank and buying cheaply from the DMO.
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate-uk/2009/05/21/a-reality-check-from-standard-poors/
From SKY, Brown backs Purnell and Hoon:
“However, he [Brown] has accepted the explanations given by Mr Purnell and Mr Hoon.”
Those explanations in full:
“I have a copy of the Rocking Horse photo….”
“Me too..”
Everything I did was entirely legal after agreeing it with the stable manager.
Someone just sent me one too
LOL
SO HE’D LONG PLANNED THIS, AND DISCUSSED IT WITH CLEGG LONG IN ADVANCE, BUT WILL RESIGN IN TWO WEEKS, SO THE PARTY CAN TAKE THE STEPS TO APPOINT A SUCCESSOR IN THE AUTUMN?
A likely story.
He was fired over getting caught fiddling expenses.
Get Speaker Martin to resign.
I can’t believe this man hangs on to his position.
Trougher.
Hear hear!
The first party to take away his peerage and pension will win the election. If no one does that then independents that promise to do this at the election will win every seat they go for.
I am enjoying this
BUT
I want those CHAMPAGNE FLUTES of Labour MP Ms ENGEL..
and ex-Lord Rennard as my Butler…
and the Jacuzzi of Miss Butler Labour MP
so that I can throw an orgy in my country pad
I have evrything else I need
Watch this space…
So, in a nutshell, over troughing leads to diabetes.
By Westminster standards of standard troughing he has really gone for it!
Wish me luck as you wave us goodbye,
Here we go…
Not a friggin tearmark anywhere….
What a sh1t
Do these guys really believe the lying rubbish theyr’e spouting?
OT but could be case of troughing.
Just had new passport delivery, not by good old Royal Mail Special Delivery but some dodgy outfit called ‘Secure Mail Services’
Which of the Porkers owns this one then?
You couldn’t trust Royal Mail with stuff like this – too many letters/parcels dis-appear(5 Million a year according o McTwat at PMQs)
Makes the Great Train Robbery look like a Buckingham Palace Tea Party..
They’re all piggies, but what kinds of piggies? Blears is a little squealy Tamworth piglet perhaps, whereas Rennard is more of a Gloucestershire Old Spot. Any ideas?
You are obviously a piggie expert Sir
You raise the whole tone of the discussion…thank you
We will call on you for identification purposes in the future
OK?
Oink oink
Oh Sir, – hav marcy on me an’ me little piggy-wiggys.
Tamworvs is lovely little piggys – me fav. really.
Likewise G. Olde-Spots.
Might you be more satisfied with ‘Feral hog cum wild-bore’?
seems a bit more apt than a fine domestic crita
Goodbye to another frigging traitor. Every member of parliament for the last 50 years needs quantitative easement of the neck. That includes those now dead. Dig the traitorous bastards up and hang them
You are inciting murder. Post your name and address right here, right now, and I’ll report you to the authorities.
Charles, I know his name.
Let me get it for you.
It’s “gildedtumbril”
Go get him.
Oh Sir, – oi’ve oft wondered – why gild your tumbrel?
Cos, – the use I think you have in mind for it scarce deserves gilt – wot wiv the inevitable staining ‘n that.
Muck cart would be quite sufficient, – and appropriate.
Them’s nasty men are quite puffed up enough wivart fostering the delusion that worf anyfing.
NULABOUR ESTABLISHMENT HAS DISGRACED THE NATION
I have always told you they were frauds..
Reading some of these comments I get the idea that most of you either haven’t been following politics for very long or lack the necessary life experience and insight that comes from being a successful entrepreneur and running your own business.
I don’t know whether it’s a British thing in general or if it’s simply that I’ve seen more than you and done more with my life than you. I’m a game developer and been around the internet longer than you lot. I’ve taken leading policy positions you’re only just catching up and got my ass flamed by thrill seekers before your blog even existed as an idea. I’ve had political parties pinch slogans and ask questions in PMQ’s, and had my first invention published in the Sunday Times Innovation Section before I left full time education and coined industry terms like “graphics fidelity”.
My point is this. Before the expenses scandal, the Tories were heading for a big win. People wanted to dump Brown and vote Cameron. Now they want to dump Brown AND Cameron. They think Labour are bad but the Tories are no better.
Now they won’t vote Labour but they won’t vote SHAMeron either – his lot are just as bad.
The expenses scandal has taken the wind out of the sails of the right-wingers like Guido and changed the atmostphere of British politics. All the parties are in the same boat now. It’s all to play for. Believe me, I know what I’m talking about.
Because the Tories were just as bad as labour, disgruntled Labour voters eitehr won’t vote at all or will vote UKIP/BNP/Libertas/Green. Wasted votes.
If Labour win the next election with 25% popular vote on a 20% turnout, I don’t really care. I don’t give a damn if Labour are unpopular as long as SHAMeron is equally unpopular.
You’re a “game developer”?
Is it just me or is there a strong correlation between criminal activity and being a fat bastard?
I think I’ll put a tenner on Eric Pickles as the next trougher to be outed.
Reading some of these comments I get the idea that most of you either haven’t been following politics for very long or lack the necessary life experience and insight that comes from being a successful entrepreneur and running your own business.
I don’t know whether it’s a British thing in general or if it’s simply that I’ve seen more than you and done more with my life than you. I’m a game developer and been around the internet longer than you lot. I’ve taken leading policy positions you’re only just catching up and got my ass flamed by thrill seekers before your blog even existed as an idea. I’ve had political parties pinch slogans and ask questions in PMQ’s, and had my first invention published in the Sunday Times Innovation Section before I left full time education and coined industry terms like “graphics fidelity”.
My point is this. Before the expenses scandal, the Tories were heading for a big win. People wanted to dump Brown and vote Cameron. Now they want to dump Brown AND Cameron. They think Labour are bad but the Tories are no better.
Now they won’t vote Labour but they won’t vote SHAMeron either – his lot are just as bad.
The expenses scandal has taken the wind out of the sails of the right-wingers like Guido and changed the atmostphere of British politics. All the parties are in the same boat now. It’s all to play for. Believe me, I know what I’m talking about.
Because the Tories were just as bad as labour, disgruntled Labour voters eitehr won’t vote at all or will vote for fringe party. Wasted votes.
If Labour win the next election with 25% popular vote on a 20% turnout, I don’t really care. I don’t give a damn if Labour are unpopular as long as SHAMeron is equally unpopular.
What a big head you’ve got.
Troll.
you don’t seem quite as clever as you’re trying to say on that CV of yours.
Whatever it is you’re boasting about, I’d hope that anyone’s statements are judged as freestanding ones.
I judge many of your statements as boastful shit. Other parts not particularly interesting.
“right wingers like guido” don’t run the tory party, and are probably quite opposite to the odd chaps that have been getting in the papers recently.
Have you considered that this whole episode has panned out in ways no-one would have expected or could possibly have predicted. And we’ve still got weeks to go.
You must be wearing your right hand out on your hardwick.
I’ve googled the apparently famous industry term claimed to have been coined by Charles Hardwidge “graphics fidelity” (with quotes) and get just 1,010 results (it was 1,080 when I looked previously). Hardly a great result if this is part of the lexicon of the global computer gaming industry.
Add his name (admittedly it is probably a pseudonym) and search: “graphics fidelity” Hardwidge – and you get 4 results – all his own postings.
Mr Hardwidge, perhaps you can point us to some peer reviewed academic journal, or even some industry press to support your assertion? I am willing to be corrected.
Google Hardwidge and onanist – you’ll probably have more answers
According to Google Scholar the key academic authors associated with “graphics fidelity” are:
W Kim
A Bejczy
J Rossignac
S Beal
S Bhattacharya
So, which one is Charles?
We have rumbled NULABOUR’S SCORCHED EARTH POLICY
So be careful old son…
I do’nt understand it either, can you explain the difference between positive AAA and negative AAA.
They’re opposite ends of a little battery.
Can’t be like batteries – ‘AA’ would be bigger and better.
‘DD’ would clearly indicate that the country’s being run by a pair of tits.
So that’s why M&S needed to charge more for anything bigger than DD
‘I’m a game developer’
Ah, a very good career choice, pheasant breeding. We used to have one on the Estate, although in those days he was called a Gamekeeper. Chin chin.
Troll.
Charlie old boy what games have you developed?
You’ll soon be an ex game developer if Sony pull out of the market as well.
Reading some of these comments I get the idea that most of you either haven’t been following politics for very long or lack the necessary life experience and insight that comes from being a successful entrepreneur and running your own business.
I don’t know whether it’s a British thing in general or if it’s simply that I’ve seen more than you and done more with my life than you. I’m a game developer and been around the internet longer than you lot. I’ve taken leading policy positions you’re only just catching up and got my ass flamed by thrill seekers before your blog even existed as an idea. I’ve had political parties pinch slogans and ask questions in PMQ’s, and had my first invention published in the Sunday Times Innovation Section before I left full time education and coined industry terms like “graphics fidelity”.
My point is this. Before the expenses scandal, the Tories were heading for a big win. People wanted to dump Brown and vote Cameron. Now they want to dump Brown AND Cameron. They think Labour are bad but the Tories are no better.
I’ve met people like you, but I usually had to pay admission
Charles,Charlie welcome back,you being a computer professional can you fix my computer for me,it’s still showing Brown from that awful YouTube video and I can’t get rid of it.
Go away, you tiresome little Troll.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it probably fagged at Eton.
Just as I was getting really depressed about the decline of our nation, the change in the climate, the collapse of the banking system, the difficulties of running a business and paying a mortgage etc etc etc ………..here is someone whose sole but possibly unintentional mission in life is to cheer the rest of up.
Thank you – I feel better already. When can we have more ?
Oi Charlie can I be a troll too – pleeeeeeeeeeeeeze !
only very SPECIAL people can be trolls you know. Ask Master Baiter. He knows.
As an expert on Zen Buddhism, do you agree with Sir Laurens van der Post that only in the sea of silence can we find the fish of peace?
That’s peas not peace.
Master Baiter
That is actually very funny
The sole intelligent message you have posted in 5 years
Well done…
Peas before swine
Runaway lovers taking their chances
Leaving their troubles behind
Charlie and Baiter laugh at each other
Lovers are two of a kind
Charlie and Baiter going together
Leaving their hometown, running away
Charlie and Baiter, two in the morning
Spending the night on the motorway
Wheels rollin’ along
Wheels rollin’ along
Wheels rollin’ along
Wheels rollin’ along …
Troll
Charles, on most occasions you seem to try and justify the gravitas of your comments by giving us the precis of your career.
Why? I’m sure you think the profile and intellect of those that blog here is inferior to your high minded ideals and intellect but to prequal your comments smacks of a high degree of insecurity. Besides that, it’s good to see how a true Gruniadista thinks.
Testing
Not bad?
Additional Costs Allowance
2007/08 £23,083 (joint 1st)
2006/07 £22,110 (joint 1st)
2005/06 £21,634
2004/05 £20,902 (joint 1st)
2003/04 £20,333 (joint 3rd)
2002/03 £19,722 (joint 1st)
2001/02 £18,009 (joint 2nd)
Listen
I’m a Whip you know
And we can do anything we like
We are Enforcers..
Like Nick ‘the Capo’ Browne’s lot
But I only claim interest on a mortgage that does not exist (wiki)
So there
Wiggins seems genuine, unlike Brown’s cabinet. They have been flipping so much that that dolphin of yesteryear would be proud of them.
I don’t think being joint 1st means very much in that a vast number of MPs seem to have claimed the maximum so there would be tons of them in joint first position.
it does mean that he maxed out though.
No wonder the whips were ordering a truce before this all came out.
Tom Watson on petitions:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8060324.stm
Digital Engagement Minister Tom Watson told a Lords Committee the e-petitions site was an “excellent” example of online government communication.
How about a few more siggies to ask for ‘jacqui smith’s resignation in view of the government’s humiliation over the gurkha settlement vote’ ?
Signatures: 191
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/smithshame/
I am geeting a lot of ENQUIRIES FROM MY SCARED LABOUR COLLEAGUES
FOR ACCOMODATION IN SPAIN…
Funny……
and Gordon’s brother has a place in France I think…
But he’s paid by EDF
I just stole from the British taxpayer to have all my houses…(and my husband is of course an accomplice to theft)
From the Independent:
—————————–
Public anger at the conduct of MPs is likely to be exacerbated by the news that any MP forced to quit over the expenses scandal will be in line for pay-offs of more than £100,000 and pensions of up to £30,000 a year.
MPs embroiled in the scandal remain entitled to two pay-offs so long as they serve until the general election, rather than resign immediately. All MPs who step down, or are defeated, at an election are paid a “resettlement grant” designed to compensate for loss of salary. It ranges between six months’ and one year’s pay depending on age and length of service in the Commons.
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The brain cells cannae take it Captain.
I think I’m going to blow.
Will a group of independents please stand with the following promises?
Freeze corrupt MPs assets.
Cancel their pensions.
Change the laws on “Their corrupt Rules” and backdate them so MPs no longer in the house can be sent down for crimes against the public.
Sacking Peers who work as “consultants” or have done.
Changing the laws on Peers expenses and being able to fire Peers and MPs immediately when proved they have acted in their own interests and not the publics.
Having to wait until the next election to fire them is just not good enough. They all need to be prosecuted ASAP. This delay only gives them time to cover things up and to shred evidence. Send the police into the house to drag them to jail where they belong now.
Make room for Katie Price and Peter Andre. Maybe Russell Brand could stand up to the plate as well.
Whilst I hate most career politicians, I’m not so sure that a load of independent chancers is a better alternative. This is not equivalent to Dr Taylor in Wyre forest whose constituents knew what he was standing for and, given that he had been a local consultant physician, had a certain level of guarantee that he was reasonably intelligent, competent and hadn’t been in jug.
I suppose mandelson will give you a “high five” for this crap?
You know the special one, where he has to take his Rolex off.
Where’s GuidOrc Oaf?
That’s a pretty dress you’re wearing today, been out shopping with Phil ?
HAHA.
Did anyone see on Channel 4 news last night, coverage of the massive demonstration about MPs expenses?
Five people attended.
It was wysterical.
You can type but you cannot march.
This Saturday G20 protester types are planning an event and subsuming Oaf’s nomme de plume as part of the event.
Enjoy!
“You have been sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.”
Did anyone see on Channel 4 news last night, coverage of the massive demonstration about MPs expenses?
Five people attended.
It was wysterical.
Enjoy!
Yeah saw it , believe Neil Hamilton was there , he’s standing as an ethical candidate against Elliot Morley – plus ca change
Catch a bus Derek, nobody’s listening to you.
Sorry I couldn’t hear that.
Did you say Bill Wiggin MP (Con) claimed for mortgage interest on a house with no mortgage. He spins now that he filled out the form wrongly, flipping unbelievable.
Something fishy, no?
Yes, deep fried fish.
We’re waiting Mr David O’Cameron, we’re waiting.
Where’s your screw tinny panel van?
I think you’ll find that’s Bill Wiggin MP (Lab ) he’s fallen in with bad company – Hazel, Geoff, Elliott, Ben …….
TWENTY HIGHEST EXPENSES CLAIMANTS
Total claims 2005-08 (excluding travel)
Liam Byrne £ 478,536 LABOUR
Joan Ryan £ 469,893 LABOUR
Dan Norris £ 450,985 LABOUR
Shahid Malik £ 446,314 LABOUR
Charlotte Atkins £ 443,244 LABOUR
David Wilshire £ 438,377 TORY
Tom Levitt £ 436,686 LABOUR
Diana Johnson £ 436,632 LABOUR
Fabian Hamilton £ 435,999 LABOUR
Jacqui Smith £ 434,909 LABOUR
Margaret Moran £ 434,456 LABOUR
Ian Austin £ 434,409 LABOUR
A. Rosindell £ 434,149 TORY
Andrew George £ 434,062 LIBDEM
Dawn Butler £ 433,865 LABOUR
Roger Godsiff £ 433,298 LABOUR
Tim Farron £ 433,260 LABOUR
Peter Hain £ 431,905 LABOUR
Norman Lamb £ 431,683 LIBDEM
S. Hesford £ 431,527 LABOUR
Source: The Sunday Times 17.05/09
TWENTY HIGHEST EXPENSES CLAIMANTS
Total claims 2005-08 (excluding travel)
————Labour outright Win————
Liam Byrne £ 478,536 LABOUR
Joan Ryan £ 469,893 LABOUR
Dan Norris £ 450,985 LABOUR
Shahid Malik £ 446,314 LABOUR
Charlotte Atkins £ 443,244 LABOUR
David Wilshire £ 438,377 TORY
Tom Levitt £ 436,686 LABOUR
Diana Johnson £ 436,632 LABOUR
Fabian Hamilton £ 435,999 LABOUR
Jacqui Smith £ 434,909 LABOUR
Margaret Moran £ 434,456 LABOUR
Ian Austin £ 434,409 LABOUR
A. Rosindell £ 434,149 TORY
Andrew George £ 434,062 LIBDEM
Dawn Butler £ 433,865 LABOUR
Roger Godsiff £ 433,298 LABOUR
Tim Farron £ 433,260 LABOUR
Peter Hain £ 431,905 LABOUR
Norman Lamb £ 431,683 LIBDEM
S. Hesford £ 431,527 LABOUR
Source: The Sunday Times 17.05/09
I am too busy to comment on fiddling and expense claims. The violin lessons now take all of my time.
Bye. And thanks for all the fish.
McMental – history is watching.
You have run out of our money & y ou have no mandate to be PM.
Go to the country now.
Bill Wiggin de Friggin in de Rigging MP (Con) Her Red Ford, has a made a the same a mistake a 26 a times a.
Kapeesh?
Totally unacceptable behaviour – he’ll be getting a place in the cabinet then
Baronesss Uddin
Double chips
Nadine Dorries
Julie Kirkbride
and see you.
Chipmunk
Moron
Usherette
and raise you AAA ( take it quick 30% chance it won’t be there much longer )
Not the “Bungalow” Bill Wiggin, that used to be married to Joan Collins? Strike a light; I’d always wondered what happened to him.
your call masterbator.
Gulp !
(Folded)
This is in danger of running out of steam. Brown telling us Blears behaviour was unacceptable then today, no mention of same and Purnell and Hoon found to have done nothing wrong either in law or in the spirit of the rules.
He is hoping that if he procrastinates long enough we will all forget about it.
Cameron requesting the standing down of the old duffers who are at the end of their careers but stating the young phantom mortgage guy made a mistake.
Twenty three consecutive months of forms with the wrong address on!!!
Guido, what can we do next to make sure we continue to keep this alive and kicking. Please keep digging and posting.
The script writers in No 10 are totally confused now
They no longer know the difference between truith and fiction
They are totally spaced out as we used to say
Even they do not believe a word they are putting out..
It is post-Orwellian now…
and don’t forget,
WE ARE IN PALERMO NOW
(its going to be Summer hit song
and I have given the copyright to Guido !)
Blears and Hoon know where Brown’s secrets are.
Don’t know what all the fuss is about? Just give us more expenses and be done with it.
The public can’t do anything to us anyway even if they do get some honest MPs in the house. There will not be enough of them to bother the old boy network. After all the new Lord corrupt Martin is still getting promoted and still keeping his payout even though he got caught red handed trying to cover our perks up!
The Trolls are very keen on Wiggins today.
The guy has been careless but what he did is equivalent to someone who has two cars and uses car A for work related journeys and car B for private use. He hands in the receipt for petrol/garage bills for car A as he is entitled to but, without thinking, writes down the registration number of car B on the claim form. When the accounts clerk says, oy, this garage receipt has the registration number of car A on it, he realises what he has done and confirms that it is indeed a claim for car A but the claim form was filled in incorrectly. He had paid the bill for car A and the bill was for work related travel so nobody was defrauded.
I never did nuffin no way no how and anyway at Eton O’Cameron was my fag so he has to polish my….
polish your Udders Sir ?
Ah
education, educashion, edukayshun. Things have only got bitter
The Germans have finally twigged the English/Scottish miracle economy and English/Scottish inbuilt ‘superiority’ – it was all a mirage of shite:
“Das britische Modell hat ausgedient”
http://www.wiwo.de/politik/das-britische-modell-hat-ausgedient-397253/
You are all now officially laughing stocks. What are you going to do about it?
BREAKING NEWS
Labour finds WMD in Poland
It never takes long for labour to wreck the economy. scrap the welfare state I say
“Nicht nur im eigenen Land sind Brown und seine Regierung unpopulär. International ist der Ruf Großbritanniens als Musterland der freien Marktwirtschaft in der globalen Finanzkrise völlig verloren gegangen. Genau 30 Jahre, nachdem Browns Vor-Vor-Vorgängerin Margaret Thatcher begann, mit kompromissloser Privatisierung und Liberalisierung das Land zu entkrusten, ist Großbritannien kein Vorbild für marktwirtschaftliche Reformen mehr – ganz im Gegenteil.”
http://www.wiwo.de/politik/das-britische-modell-hat-ausgedient-397253/
Na und ?
Das deutsche Modell ist auch kein Vorbild. Arbeitslosigkeit 4-5 Mio, die Wirtschaft schrumpft und die Banken sind kaputt
Yes
Germany is KAPUTT as well
So don’t gloat..
Otherwise you know what happens to Germans when they gloat too much don’t you?!
English/Scottish. Economical with the actualite. Perfidious Albion. Masters of producing spin and f.a. else.
Germans registered as unemployed in April 2009: 3.58 million, not ’4-5 million’. Registered unemployed figure in UK statistically worthless due to long-term unemployed/youth/>55yr. being registered as incapacitated/on training schemes/early retired etc;
yes, the German econonomy shrank at a greater rate than UK in Q1 09 but on the other hand it never set itself up as some miracle paradigm of ‘economic perpetual motion’ and then went around preaching to everyone else to follow suit; besides once again UK official statistical data is untrustworthy, with ONS knowing to have falsified UK retail sales growth data, as a most recent example;
Germany, unlike UK, has not de facto, or de jure nationalised any banks yet and nor have any of its banks gone kaput. One mortgage bank in Bavaria is headed for state ownership but this hardly compares to the once world’s biggest bank, RBS, needing hundreds of billions of pounds to keep it just afloat, not to mention HBOS.
Face it mateyboys you’re fucked and your famous delusional arrogance and insufferable superiority won’t let you see it.
I agree with everything you say, Ludwig. But sod off anyway, eh?
We’ll join you Krauts and help you win this time instead of fighting against you’s twice in a row if you decide to go for the European championship for a third time. You’s should ask the Italians and the Japanese if they want to join forces again.
Let’s invade the frogs first then we’ll deal with the others.
That’ll teach the Commies.
Sir Peter Viggers Wikipedia entry reads:
Sir Peter John Viggers (born March 13, 1938, Gosport) is a lawyer and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
He was knighted in the 2008 Birthday Honours. In the scandal over MP’s expenses it is asserted Viggers claimed £20,000 on gardening expenses and £2,000 for a duck island [3]. He is the third Conservative MP in two days to announce he will stand down at the next election[4][5]. On his website, however, he claims about expenses: ‘Personally, I have of course always scrupulously observed the rules.’[6]
If, Viggers who is a Lawyer misappropriated money in an office of trust – as a Member of Parliament – will he be struck off the Law Society and be unable to practise as a lawyer?
Good one less lawyer – can you see anything about a bloke called Blair?
I think the Birthday Honours are awarded on the basis of a competition to see who can trough the most…quick analysis…
So John Bercow should be in for a Knighthood soon don’t you think ?
After he becomes the next Speaker old chap
The duck house is manna from heaven for the newspapers and the BBC as a metaphor for Tory sleaze as of course was the moat. Sadly no one has come up with a dungeon yet, but there’s still time.
He did what Hoggy did.
He simply lumped all his expenses for the designated property together and sent it off with a note, effectively saying, look at the astronomical cost of this lot, just agree to pay a percentage in monthly instalments and lets stop pissing about with the tedious details.
Hoggy, if I recall, was quite near the bottom of the expenses table, but the moat did for him.
Yes
What is incredible is the lack of any political sensitivity of these people…
After 30 years in politics, you would think that they would have the noodle not to put fucking moat dredging and duck islands on the list…my 10-year old daughter has more intelligence than that…
These really are people who would “Give them cakes” when the people cried for bread…
Mmmmggmmm!
Mmmggmmm!!!!
No other Car Crashes today ??
Apart from Piggie Rennard (small fry)
What is the world coming to ?
Small fry ? Have some small beer with that, please.
Wiki entries being drastically shorted recently Have you noticed that ?They want to hide entries like Eton..second homes…adresses etcAmusing
I’m bored of expenses now. Can we go back to sex scandals please?
May be the telegraph is holding back the juicy stuff.
hope so. otherwise I’m giving up politics and going back to Heat!
Your in heat you say? My barrells still fire full loads i say.
Be patient young lady
There are on the way
Especially the expenses claimed by MPs shagging EACH OTHER..we will even know the names of the hotels etc!!
This will be real SPORT..
think, all the people in the world, and some of them stupid, and they shag each OTHER. proves they’re bonkers.
There has to be something behind Nadine Dorries’ New years Eve 2006 Charlton Club receipt in the name of Mr N Dorries….
Who was the Man in the Mask, I ask…
That would be the best
MPs shagging each other in the Carlton Club FFS
What are Gentlemen’s Clubs becoming ?
Oh dear…
Can some one please start a campaign to fire the rotten speaker of the house and get his pension stopped?
How are they going to find a replacement who isn’t corrupt from the house? They can’t, because no one in there isn’t on the take.
The whole system stinks as is so corrupt even when it’s found out they just ignore public anger. Very dangerous thing to do in my oppinion. Chaos will follow and the MPs and Peers who believe they are untouchable are playing Russian roulette with the public at the moment. This time of course things will change but we may have to wait for what the independent candidates have to offer now the 3 main parties are no longer trusted or electable!
To the corrupt speaker we want your wife’s taxi fares back now. That’s our money which you have stolen.
Everything he has stolen should be paid back along with a large fine and prison sentence. Nothing else will do.
It is an absolute disgrace to the people of this country that he has not been thrown out and arrested for what he has done. The lack of action from the PM and oppositions leaders is absolutely pathetic.
I can see that as usual the old boy network are protecting MPs, Peers and the speaker their crimes and giving them the opportunity of staying in their jobs until the next election simply is not good enough. Which party will fire MPs now if any? Or will the PM and opposition’s leaders just do nothing as usual?
If you want something done you have to do it yourself. I can’t wait to get the chance to sack my MP Claire Ward in Watford for the pathetic job she has done and all the expenses she claimed within MPs rules but which both myself and the majority of the public believe have been stolen from us. She should resign along with all her corrupt colleagues now.
Celebrites to stand at next General Election
* Note: Others on request.
Esther Rantzen 6/4 Sir Alan Sugar 8/1 Sir Alex Ferguson 25/1
Martin Bell 5/2 Bono 10/1 Katie Price 33/1
Lynn Faulds Wood 5/2 Frank Skinner 10/1 Simon Cowell 33/1
Jeremy Clarkson 9/2 Rory Bremner 16/1 Liam Gallagher 50/1
Will Young 6/1 Piers Morgan 16/1 Pinky and Perky 500/1
Bob Geldof 6/1 Sir Richard Branson 16/1 Sir Fred Goodwin 500/1
Joanna Lumley 7/1 Peter Stringfellow 25/1
God forbid, most of them – especially Rantzan, Geldorf. If Katie Price put herself up, at least she would be maongst the biggest tits in the UK. Next thing would be for Archer to renounce his peerage and offer his candidacy.
Life peers can’t renounce their peerages, only hereditary peers.
And NewGirl, 2-1 on
Ooo 3 sums eh!
Took me ages to work out what you meant then!!
Stop it luvvies
Not in public please
Yeah, that’d be why he is quitting, right enough!
Meanwhile… “Look, mum, no talents!” says Gordon Brown
The ad on this site is very apt..
John Lewis :
“We can make a difference”
Yes chums, you have changed the course of British history !
Little did you know………..
I am thinking of starting a “Send Gordon Brown to Jail Forever” Party – do you think I would get any support
Yes, as long as it is a jail in North Korea.
Just so long as it’s nowhere near the nukes.
send him back to Scotland – serve ‘em right
We have found the right jail already for these Scottish Labour criminals
Barwinnie Prison
In GORBAL’s Constituency
Purrfect, MI5…(I love spies)
See you at the Carlton Club then my dear…
6 sharp…
He is already a war criminal.
Don’t know why the little shite isn’t in there already?
they refused to have him. said they’d got “some standards, thank you very much”.
I have never seen anything remotely as ridiculous as this fucking duck island.
Everyone who has ever been fined for not paying the Telly Tax should be refunded x 10 out of Viggers bank account.
I think it was very environmental of him. These ponds are whole little ecosystems you know. Full of ponf lifre. Amoebas, toads, tadpoles, beetles, weeds…Bit like Parliament.
when I said ponf lifre, I meant ponf lifre. would hate you to think was a typo for pond life…
Was a rather large bill even for a duck.
it was a filigree hamster duck though. they are very expensive.
It seems that sleaze runs in the Wiggin family
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/tory-mp-in-new-sleaze-row-1619822.html
Did I miss the bit where Voldemort was disgraced and resigned again or is that to be the grand finale? Please let it be so!
According to the FT GB’s considering this master plan.
Mandy must have some really juicy scandal on GB to be getting this plum job. No doubt Rio de Janeiro will be his first foreign visit – cultural exchange !
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/81e1b774-4582-11…144feabdc0.html
How much is this pussy cat claiming on Lords expenses?
WMD found in the Carlton Club
Oh sorry
Just an old and used French Letter..
???
Populus poll at PB:
CON 39 (nc) LAB 27(+1) LD 17 (-5)
More than half those polled want an immediate general election
Cameron is letting them off the hook..
Lack of cojones…
Understand all British expats can vote in the next GE providing they left UK less than 15 years ago.Apparently you need to contact the local council where you last lived in good old Blighty.Forms can be downloaded. I urge all the millions of you who read this blog whilst sipping sangria/sake/Guinness/vodka/schnapps/Ricard…whatever, to do the decent thing.Help the the poor b……..ds who are left in the wasteland,suffering because of those lying, thieving scumbag politicians.Get Ali McBroon and the 644 thieving tossers OUT.Your vote will really count.As for me I’m on my third g & t,supplies are dangerously low, will have to return to Blighty soon.Bombay Sapphire is on special at Waitrose so I’ve had 12 bottles delivered to my mum(that should keep me going).I must say I don’t think much of the local gin,it’s a bit like meths.It’s wonderful living here in paradise but the drink is a trifle expensive.Guido and Mrs Guido anytime you are in Beal Atha Da Chab do pop in.
Go for their bank accounts like I did with Al Capone…
You will nail them that way…
I got a great way for this country to save some money.
the “Wilkinson” list
Closing down the Lords.
Corruption problems solved once and for all.
Of course
But abolish all titles at the same time
We are meant to be in a democracy
Titles are for feudal societies as any historian will tell you !
Even Comrade Stalin was a title (and he bestowed plenty too).
Why has BBC1 Question Time been moved forward to 21:00?
Presumably they also have had to move the recording time forward.
has it? Good post would have missed it. Who’s on though? Hague? or is that next week? Thank you.
I hope it is Hague…
He has far more talent and cojones than ‘Teddy” Cameron…
yes, I’m a big Hague fan. He’d make a fab PM, but I think we’ve had it as far as that goes
They scraped the barrel last week as they had a job to get anyone to face the handpicked audience.
Bring your knitting !
According to the Grauniad
quote
BBC1 is to move its political discussion show Question Time to an earlier 9pm slot tonight to capitalise on the interest in the MPs’ expenses row.
The hour-long show, hosted by David Dimbleby and featuring members of the public putting topical questions to MPs and well known figures, usually airs in a 10.40pm slot after the BBC1 late news bulletin.
However, the BBC1 controller, Jay Hunt, has decided to shunt the show forward after the resignation of the House of Commons Speaker, Michael Martin, and continuing political crisis surrounding MPs’ expenses.
Tonight’s panel will include the shadow foreign secretary, William Hague, the government minister Ben Bradshaw, the former independent MP Martin Bell, and UKIP’s south-east candidate for the European elections, Marta Andreasen.
Last week’s edition, which saw the government minister Margaret Beckett being shouted down by the audience, pulled in 3.8 million viewers and a 30% share between 10.40pm and 11.40pm – the show’s biggest audience since it moved to its current slot in late 2000.
/quote
remeind me, has this bradshaw chap had fingers in till?
Good luck Chris, and best of luck.
Regards,
Nick Clegg
P.S. Can we have the money back? Thanks.
Message for Channel 4 Bring back “Monster Raving Looney Party” we a party we can all respect and trust in this country and not the morons we have in the 3 main parties we have now. Ineffective and unable to get rid of the thieving B’stards we have hanging on in there now. Unacceptable. Total disgrace. Can’t wait to vote them all out of a job and voting for a party that will change the rules and get them to pay not only what they have stolen but all there pay from the time they broke the rules as well.
Why has no one been arrested yet? Slow response from the police is not helpful.
Are the police being forced to discuss what they will be doing with the MPs before the public are told about it? Or are the main parties doing “magic” handshakes to stop their corrupt colleagues from going to jail?
It is the CPS and NOT the Police who are holding back the arrests etc
Please note
Told you before. C.P.S. Couldn’t Prosecute Satan. or. Criminal Protection Service.
Likely to have the “Not in the public interest” clause invoked – as any defendant unlikely to get a fair trial in view of the amount publicity therefore no charges will be brought against the majority of MPs although of course there is a matter of opinion as to what constitutes “public interest”
Alot of the MRL parties policies actually made sense lol. I would vote for them if they came back.
We’re busy, at least in the City:
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article6335954.ece
After all £50m is a lot more than an 88p bathplug
Here’s more to make your day, from the Telegraph.
This is getting ridiculous.
—————
Anthony Steen, who spent nearly £90,000 on his second home over four years from his MP’s expenses claims, insisted his behaviour was “impeccable” and he had merely been “caught on the wrong foot”.
“As far as I am concerned and as of this day I don’t know what the fuss is about,” he told the BBC Radio 4′s The World at One.
“We have a wretched Government here which has completely mucked up the system and caused the resignation of me and many others, because it was this Government that introduced the Freedom of Information Act and it is this Government that insisted on the things which caught me on the wrong foot.
“What right does the public have to interfere with my private life? None.”
——————–
Did he really say that ???? HE IS BILLY BUNTER!!
Oh well. he’ll have alternative career in comedy I guess.
Obviously Brown is getting nervous – all this talk of unleashing chaos at yesterday’s PMQs has seemingly unnerved him – so much so that he’s had to neutralise Joanna Lumley and her Brigade of Gurkhas and invite them for tea and buns on the Downing Street lawn although the mob(sorry electorate) are seemingly still restless for “blood” rather than cake !
We have every right when its our money, they just dont get it.
That’s certainly the quote as it appears in the who-the-hell-are-we-this-week-graph.
He won’t be missed.
I heard someone say that this lunchtime and I thought it was the swedish duck house man.
Viggen is swedish for a duck.
Did you hear Elliot Morley MP answer Peter Levy when asked if he expected to get his collar felt after claiming for a non existent mortgage?
It was an honest mistake.
Yeah right.
Gordon Brown is on the comeback trail with a bang!!
Eat your hearts out Tory boys. Joanna Lumley heaps fulsome praise on Gordon ……
“Ms Lumley….said: “This is the welcome we have always longed to give.”
She called Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who she had met earlier, a “brave man who has made today a brave decision on behalf of the bravest of the brave”.
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8060607.stm
He’s not THAT brave !
Brown is dead ‘ard when he wants inee??
so hard he’d make a dead good telegraph pole.
Why is Brown “brave”? All he’s done is caved in again under pressure and made another of his customary U-turns.
He is a bottler.
I don’t think Hoon and Purnell are that brave. Do you?
Nothing brave about dodging CGT, unless you’re Hazel Blears.
Goodbye and can you leave a cheque totalling everything you have claimed for by the door please?
V for Vendetta again:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5362697/MPs-expenses-Gordon-Brown-is-pursuing-political-vendetta-against-Hazel-Blears.html
BIG problems for Brown in the reshuffle that’s coming. Why? Because he’s not going to fire the one man who’s been a major stumbling block all through his premiership – indeed, throughout his career.
Can you guess hoon it is yet?
The Poison Drawf is making Brown danse now !
This is going to be fun….
Yes
But when will she sting him ?
That will be the end…
This is getting a bit boring.
We need some REAL dirt lifted by the DT.
There must be more
Guido please save England!
Your country needs YOU.
Stand at the election please.
We need at least one competent person to lead us. Remember free beer. Free house, telly, duck residence, moat cleaning, holidays, I mean work trips! Commit as much crime as you like in your time as an MP with the full knowledge that no one can sack you before an election is called. So that’s 5 years of sticking your fingers up at everyone with the chance of getting on white wash committees and even becoming a Lord.
I think they should make you a Lord anyway for services to the public.
Do you think the queen is hated even more now by the public, for her total lack of action on the crooks in both houses that represents her?
Let’s get her out too.
Republic please!
Sharpen those blades and get the fires ready.
Clear out the rubbish, chop it up and burn it!
Gordon Brown agrees with dodging capital gains tax when it comes to Hoon and Purnell (and presumably Darling) but not when it comes to Hazel Blears, who he now wishes to destroy.
He wants to be careful. The Salford Midget knows where all the bodies are buried and won’t go quietly.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5362697/MPs-expenses-Gordon-Brown-is-pursuing-political-vendetta-against-Hazel-Blears.html
Dish the dirt. He’s a shirtlifter isn’t he? He’s a fucking bender!!
Tell us summat we don’t already know.
Cape Cod
Screaming Lord Sutch
A politician that had the decency to hang himself, and he didnt even cost us a penny.
Id like to see the rope or piano wire that could support this morbidly obese Hoon Rennard.
Im sure our Iranian friends could help out with some advice.
Hazel Blears is in reality a very small Irish man.
They might be your fucking “Iranian Friends”, but they certainly ain’t mine, you thick fucking dhimmi twat.
Don’t be too hard on Beast. He just has an irrestible urge to suck muslim cock.
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Could you post here definitions for the other excuses which have been trotted out by the ‘Honourable Members’ which I can add to my web site http://www.snollygoster.info best ones will be added and credited.
many thanks
A genuine mistake is something that is ‘done within the spirit of the rules’ and is ‘authorised by a committee’ that you put in place to do exactly that.
In a ‘Genuine Mistake’ scenario, if you are caught out…..sorry, make a ‘Genuine Mistake’, then you pay the money back and claim that it was a ‘Genuine Mistake’ and all is well in the garden.
If you are not caught out making a ‘Genuine Mistake’ then you keep the money and say nowt.
‘Genuine Mistakes’ are not prosecutable under common or statutory law if you have the letters MP after your name.
All other people are not entitled to make ‘Genuine Mistakes’ and therefore get bounced by the fuzz and sentenced to death usually after crucifixion by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.
Joanna Lumley praises “brave” Gordon Brown…
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23696352-details/Lumley+praises+Brown+after+Gurkha+victory/article.do
Mr Swinger
The Iranian Govt may indeed be filthy Hoons,however they mean us no harm and certainly know a thing or two about punishment.
My favourites were
Theives having their hands cut off with a paper cutter
A woman blinded by a rapist having his eyes gouged out by a Doctor as she listened in the same room.
Bandits being stoned to death.
Sounds about right to me .
You wishy washy Hoon.
I might have missed it, but presumably Brown has sacked Uddin, Hoon, McNulty, Blears, Purnell, Darling, and Ms Smith this afternoon? If not, they’ll all get through to the other side of the recess, and by then the Met might well have started to take names. Can’t understand why Brown hasn’t used that Moral Compass to see which way to go….may be he’s just spineless, as well as incompetent?
This week’s QT has strong representation from the BBC party:
Ben Bradshaw (formerly BBC radio)
Martin Bell (formerly BBC TV foreign correspondent)
Yasmin Alibhai Brown probably belongs to the same chapel of the NUJ given her list of affiliated publications.
It just gets worse
Better line up on American Idol Final. Is Brown on it tonight, as last year’s “charidee speshul”?
Panel also includes Fred Goodwin, Nigel Griffin and Katie Price (for balance) – should be good telly, but not as good as American Idol final on the ITV button.
BRAKEING SKY NEWS
BEN BRADSHAW (Wirral) announces he will not stand at nect election due to fees scandal
Blames fees office for allowing him to trough expenses
Do you mean Ben Chapman? Ben Bradshaw is the little gay trud from Brighton.
Ben Chapman you’re a thief.
Put this man in jail now.
This man should be locked up and not going to work as an MP for another year.
What are our leaders doing nothing about this?
Sack them now.
Don’t let them work another day when we know they are corrupt.
Johnson standing down at next election.
How come he hasn’t been interviewed by Plod yet? This “next election” bit is a smokescreen to allow the seedy ones to collect a bit more taxpayer cash for doing the square root of diddly squat in this “vacuous” (thanks to Frank Field for that description) Government.
Yes, yes, I meant Chapman. Tricky to get names when dealing with back-bench lightweights of no consequence.
Ben Chapman (No Mortgage Party) to stand down at next GE:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8062408.stm
using his magical “dithering powers ” the great leader pulls off making british loverly Joanna Lumley smile , but the realises she is being chaperoned by the most feared army battallion and declines a dance .
as viggers gets internet inquiries for the cost of a fortnight in the £1800 duck house palace (as he will be spending more time at home) , caesars wife visted the local library recently and while thumbing through the biographies of , henry vIII , Bill clinton and Francis Drake he came across courage by one G Brown , after a quick look through at revison of left wing heros and in some cases giving whole new interpretaions to history , Caesars wife had a look at how many had taken the book out which had been on the shelves for nearly 2 years , answer : a big fat zero !! so if no one has taken his book out looks good for ballot box .
on a side note guido , Damaien Macbride has not been chucked out his Finchely local labour party , do they have bar ???
Do you think Brown has made a “Courageous” decision over Hoon and Purnell et Al(istair Darling)?
There is absolutely no point in these total Feck wits saying all they are going to do is not bother to stand at the next election. What punishment is that? If they did stand at least the public would get the chance to fire them. Cowards as well as thieves.
Take the money and run
Tête de Ricard!
God’s wounds I wish I’d thought to go into polities!
I could be retired in comfort instead of existing on the OAPension.
Whose that ugly blonde tart in the video?