May 28th, 2009

+++ Tory MP, Chris Fraser Standing Down +++

You campaign for years for troughing MPs to go and then three come along at once. 

Goodbye and good riddance.


681 Comments

  1. 1
    The Yorkshire Ripper says:

    Pigs…1st?

    • 116
      Ashiata says:

      THE TIME HAS COME FOR BOTH BROWN AND CAMERON TO STAND DOWN. THEY REPRESENT THEIR PARTIES AND THEIR PARTY’S MP’S. DO THE DECENT, HONOURABLE THING: STAND DOWN BOTH OF YOU, NOW!

      • 148
        The Admiral says:

        And who do you want instead? Think laterally, if you are able…..

        • 275
          Grumpety Grouzel, the Cornish Mouse from Cornish Mousehole says:

          This is how the world ends: not with a bang but with a lot of long-drawn out whimpers.

        • 282

          Think? oh come on don’t expect that.

          “Chancellor of the Exchequor is caught flipin homes to avoid tax and no one in the media bats an eyelid” — the media is a bunch of lefties. they roll over and beg for brown at all his press rallies – oops ‘conferences’.

          “I think she has been systematically targeted by what we might call the McBride tendency, specifically in order to provide cover for the enforced departure of the gratuitously corrupt Margaret Moran” — another ex’ is right in this and other assertions and comparisons. More partiality from the lefty media.

          And ‘Golden days’ — the moat was never specifically cleaned on expenses and the duck house was not at all ever paid for by expenses either. (being a thick pratt cost him his seat).

        • 459
          Anonymous says:

          Well done, stick to the facts. The media have used these silly icons to distract everyone from the main points. All MPs need to answer for their own expenses. Just look at the top twenty troughers, most of them are Labour. I don’t care what party they are from. The rules are very clear!

          You are only allowed to claim expenses for something if it is vital for you to be able to do your job.

          Tax evasion is a criminal offence, so is fraud and embezzlement. NO quarter will given to any MPs on the take!

      • 157
        Anonymous says:

        8 Tories are going and only 2 Labour.

        You have to laugh. Brown charges us for a kitchen then transfers his home to his wife. No one complains. Brown flips his 2nd home no one complains. Brown charges us £1500 for a gardener no one complains. An unknown Tory charges us £1800 for his gardener to plant trees all hell breaks loose.

        The Keens claim 2 additional cost allowances no one complains. MacKay/Kirkbride claim 2 additional cost allowances all hell breaks loose.

        Half the Cabinet are caught fiddling their tax. It’s a one day story, until another Tory appears over the horizon, then it’s off the news.

        What the fuck is going on here?

        • 161
          Another ex says:

          see 125 below

        • 193
          Cardinal del Monte says:

          All this shows Labour in a bad light. Why would you be complaining about it?

        • 195
          Anonymous says:

          UK IS a police state, didnt you know??

        • 202
          oldrightie says:

          I have been screaming for weeks Jim Snot leaked or organised those cd expenses leaks knowing he would control the media narrative. Have a browse through the arguments. He wrecks the EU and Local elections, he resurrects his endless Tory Toff mantra, he controls Blears and Co. and forced The Tories onto the back foot. With luck David Cameron will still outflank the bastard abuser but I wouldn’t count on it.
          Furthermore if he were ousted by his Party he has this vehicle to get revenge on any successor. Another sulking and useless queen like Heath.

        • 217
          Court of Public Opinion says:

          And The Feckin Chancellor of the Exchequor is caught flipin homes to avoid tax and no one in the media bats an eyelid. I mean for fecks sake what is going on here ???

        • 229
          freddie flintoff says:

          what the fuck has happend to this country , i fuckin despair , we have been fucked up the arse by em and i think we the people need to take a stand , i have no confidence in the houses of parlimant

        • 258
          Greychatter says:

          155 – Anonymous

          Exactly – who is doing the orchestrating of calls for MPs resignations?

          Tories being targeted and a few nonentity Labour MPs thrown to the dogs.

          Is McBride still active behind Gordon? Why are Balls and Cooper below the radar? Mandelsen, Hoon, Blears, Purnell, Milliband, Darling all Gordon Brown’s main support still dodging the flack.

          When were the rules to allow tax dodging on mortgage interest and second homes allowances brought in? Was this to allow Tony Blair to claim the interest on his 3.6 million mortgage?

          Questions, questions but very few real answers.

        • 290
          Anonymous says:

          Just be grateful we’re gradually clearing out parts of the Mother(fucker) of all Parliaments.

        • 349
          Grumpy Gordon says:

          Just watched ON THE FIDDLE on BBC1. An army of fraud investigators, plod and sundry kicking in doors and asking all sorts of rude, intrusive and downright impolite questions about a possible fraud of £28 a week… the main subject got 6 months inside for a £15k fiddle, so using my maths head, that gets Jackboots 6 years, and her assets frozen and her front door and her relatives front doors kicked in at 4am… Same goes for that hoon Purnell, and all the other troughing hoons, red and blue alike….. DO AS WE SAY, NOT DO AS WE DO appears to be the rule, same old same old….

          FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK… when is this country going to get REALLY angry!

        • 662
          Big Dave Must GO NOW says:

          The tory troughers hav been far more cynical and callous – claiming back council tax for gardeners quarters, owning a flat which you rent out then paying your daughter to rent her flat (no different to paying your family for doing a job they never do), having a secretary working 100 miles away from your office (just try applying for a job and telling the employer tat you won’t be in the office because you live 100 miles a way), having the public pay for an extension so that your brother has somewhere to live. And of course we can’t/won’t forget the moat, duck house or tree inspector

          Granted the non existent mortgages are indefensible but these tories are using us to improve their lives when we employ the to help improve ours.

          If cameron is serious he should make them all resign their seats now and have by elections. But of course he won’t and that makes his demand for a general election as hollow as everything else he as ever said

      • 208
        dirtyden says:

        Totally agree. They’re all a fuggin’ joke now. They have to go.

      • 508
        Aethelred says:

        Who does Ashiata campaign for I wonder. Is he/she/it a Greeny? A Commie? A Fascist? An Islamo-Fascist?

        He/She/It didn’t say.

        Don’t trust anyone at the moment. Make them speak their agenda or fuck off.

    • 235
      Anonymous says:

      oldrightie, I suspected so myself, wouldnt put it past him , he is desperate to stay in power in an almost pathalogical sense.

    • 278
      Grumpety Grouzel, the Cornish Mouse from Cornish Mousehole says:

      Every single one of them who refuses to show any remorse or shame should be brought to a swift and painful justice.

  2. 2
    Engineer says:

    Another trougher bites the dust.

    • 6
      Decapatalist says:

      A Tory MP who claimed £1,800 of taxpayers’ cash to pay for trees at his property is stepping down for ‘personal reasons’.

      • 8
        There's More says:

        He said: “My wife’s ongoing health problems and the major operation that she had last year have made it difficult to juggle my family life with my duties as an MP.”

        • 12
          Commoner says:

          Fuck off you fucking trougher.

        • 18
          Troughtastic says:

          Mr Fraser used the money to buy 140 cherry laurels and 75 red cedars for his £350,000 house in his South West Norfolk constituency, which he designates as his “second home”.

          Mr Fraser also lives on a farm worth £1.2 million in Dorset, where he was an MP between 1997 and 2001, before being voted out and re-elected to the Norfolk seat four years later. He designates the farmhouse in Dorset as his “main home”, while letting out a smaller farmhouse on the same estate and the surrounding land. He also rents out another property in London. Despite neither of his designated properties being in the capital, Mr Fraser told his local newspaper last week: “For a politician outside London, a second property is a necessity, not a luxury.”

        • 29
          Anonymous says:

          Mmm … I would be in jail (or gaol) if I’d done half the things that our representatives had done. Best place for them.

        • 30
          Anonymous says:

          He wasnt to busy to plant feckin trees though was he !!!

        • 35
          DT Editor says:

          Yup. Good fucking riddance. I wouldn’t be surprised if your wife starts giving you health problems, Mr. Chris Fucking Brazen, sir. I’m sooo angry, I just pissed myself.

        • 76
          Totty overload says:

          Does he have any fit relations you can show us pictures of?

        • 135

          So Chris has gone too. These MPs just aren’t tough enough anymore.
          Alan Bastard would never have quit.
          Me neither. Look at the last election results.

          Eric Lenin {Lab} 1,099
          Florence Sanskrit { Lib} 3466
          Maj Rupert Bellend {UKIP} 1001
          Sky Rainbow {Green} 456
          Billy Nomates {IND} 2
          Bill Quango {Con} Maj 24,565

        • 166
          The Illinois Enema Bandit says:

          lmao Quango

    • 33
    • 374
      The Rt Hon Santa Claus says:

      Ha! you all thought I didn’t exist ….

  3. 3
    Waiting for Gordo says:

    I fear an ‘honest MP’ (sic) will be lambasted if he resigns.

    Saying that they are probably all guilty, even by association. I am sure all of them have done something that would see the ‘man off the street’ get a visit from plod or a tax inspector…

    • 19
      Zanucon says:

      If it were me or you… our feet won’t tough the f**king floor.
      Plus the coppers would give you a swift kick in the bollocks just to make sure you were feeling at home

    • 92
      Anonymous says:

      “I am sure all of them have done something that would see the ‘man off the street’ get a visit from plod or a tax inspector…”

      Oooh Mr Certain. Please please please choose my lottery numbers this week!

  4. 4
    Torylab troughers says:

    How can you say “goodbye” etc.
    No-ones gone anywhere. Still plenty of time to Trough some more.
    Plenty of time left before the GE!

  5. 5
    Ex Civil Servant says:

    I once met Julie Kirkbride at a Civil Service training class, where she gave a talk on the workings of Westminster and the importance of honesty in the Civil Service. I guess that didn’t extend to her as well.

    I’m really tired of hearing all this “I didn’t realise I hadn’t done anything wrong” crap. You can be immoral and still within the rules.

    Bollocks to Julie Kirkbride, and good riddance.

    • 23
      Anonymous says:

      The bitch aint gone nowhere!

    • 38
      Coming to a constituency MP near you sometime soon says:

      Hello hello hello what have we here then ??

      • 115
        Inspector Bollocks says:

        Don’t take the piss sunshine or else I’ll knick ya!

        • 122
          P.C. Filth says:

          Oh dear, sir. Will I be required to get off my lardy arse? Shall I polish my truncheon AGAIN, sir. I’m beginning to wish I’d gone into stockbroking. Over.

        • 538
          Special Plod, nulabour liaison officer says:

          ‘kin Tories, We’ll send special branch round to give ‘em a kickin’.

          Gordon loves it when I do that, and he’ll stroke my truncheon extra nicely.

    • 126
      Another ex says:

      Well, up to a point…

      Julie Kirkbride was extremely naive if it never occurred to her that employing her sister at a distance and extending her constituency home might be dodgy. She shouldn’t, in my view, be an MP if she was that naive and/or blind to reality. HOWEVER, I think she has been systematically targeted by what we might call the McBride tendency, specifically in order to provide cover for the enforced departure of the gratuitously corrupt Margaret Moran – as evidenced by the announcement of this woman that she would not seek re-election as soon as Kirkbride said she was standing down.

      If one examines Kirkbride’s “crimes”, they are very much on a par with large numbers of other MPs of all parties. Her naivety was to extend a property with an increased mortgage rather than just cash in and buy a bigger one (capital gains tax and stamp duty free of course) when she needed more bedrooms. After all, why did the Cooper-Balls duo move to Stoke Newington from their previous home? Why did Francis Maude need to move his London home? Indeed, the blessed peacemaker A.C.L Blair, remortgaged his consituency home – not to extend accommodation there- but to finance additional properties including one for his student son. Does Peter Hain’s old mum who is a whizz on e-mail and masterminds his Christmas cards, live in his constituency?

      Oh yes- the spirit of McBride lives yet. Which reminds me – isn’t it lucky that Peter Mandelson doesn’t have a constituency any more so he doesn’t have to justify his own past expenses.

    • 639
      Scallywag says:

      Well don’t look to Cameron to do much more than look and sound outraged when another of his ‘team’ is exposed for stealing taxpayer’s money. All we seem to get is an exchange regretful pleasantries by letter which nobody reads and little else.

      He should have personally chased her out of the party and made sure that Sky News was there to broadcast it live. As it is she’s being allowed to ‘stand down’. For ‘stand down’ read get lots more taxpayer’s money to keep her and her smarmy husband in the style to which they have become accustomed and a fat pension to boot.

      I’m beginning to think the ‘do nothing’ tag is not so far off the mark and I am beginning to form a view as to why…

      • 641
        Agent 99 says:

        And Brown the instigator of the ludicrous remark given the Tories are not in power has done precisely what to his troughing MP’s in his own cabinet??
        A big fat fucking ZERO

        Kirkbride deserved to go as did her pratt off a husband. Fact.

        However how come as the Tories fall one by one nothing from Labour. I just cannot believe that Balls and Cooper are squeaky clean. There is now something very sinister about the Telegraph drip drip of relevations now noticeably targetting Tories despite the top 20 being littered with Labour Mp’s yet nothing is said, no outcry? what the Fuck is happening here?.

        The Telegraph has moved onto a political agenda now which is destroying the country and we the people of this country don’t deserve that even if the MP’s do.

  6. 7
    Siegfried says:

    Another one who belongs in JAIL!

    • 225

      Pity none of them look like Brazilian electricians

      • 359
        Britain's Got Idiots says:

        who WAS an illegal immigrant and stuck two fingers up at the laws of this hoonry.

        • 387
          thick as thieves says:

          Britain’s Biggest Idiot,
          lie.
          he was entitled to be here.
          and how precisely do you think he stuck two fingers up at the law?
          pray tell, liar.

        • 402
          Budgie says:

          I’m not quite sure why you think someone who sticks two fingers up deserves to be shot?

        • 406
          Britain's Got Thicker than thieves says:

          permission to remain until 30 June 2003

        • 411
          Britain's Got Idiots says:

          Of course he didnt deserve to be shot FFS. But if he had played by the rules such as they are he wouldnt have been in the wrong place at the wrong time.

        • 417
          thick as thieves says:

          half an aswer will not suffice.
          how did he stick two fingers up at the law?
          stop stalling you c’unt and answer the question.
          and then I will deal quickly with your latest lie.

        • 425
          Britain's Got Idiots says:

          what the fuck is there more to say you bellend?

        • 442
          thick as thieves says:

          Mr De Menezes was entitled to be in the country. your reference is irrelevant in that the particular form you mention is part of an overall ongoing administrative process and not an end in itself.
          you know nuffink.
          er, what party do you support?
          not ashamed to say are you?

        • 449
          Britain's Got Idiots says:

          by playing the system

          “Mr De Menezes was entitled to be in the country. your reference is irrelevant in that the particular form you mention is part of an overall ongoing administrative process and not an end in itself.”

          lol

        • 485
          thick as thieves says:

          so, a person who you believe was ‘playing the system’ was repeatedly shot in the head, in the capital city of the country and you think that is ok.
          never mind your madman logic just answer the question c’unt.
          how do you think Mr De Menezes stuck two fingers up at the law?
          ok, let us talk of law then you cretin.
          the special operatives who murdered him knew straight away that they had committed a crime.
          that is why a cover up operation was mounted. I believe that a contingency plan was in place in the circumstance of an innocent civilian being mistargeted by special operatives.
          the plan would be to smear, lie and to decieve the courts and media.
          you are one of the cripples who pumps your smears and lies on the blogosphere. whore.
          anyway, as soon as they murdered him they triggered plan B and began the disinformation campaign. one of the shooters went outside the tube station and fed false information on camera to the BBC. Blond wavy hair balding on top dressed like a builder gave a really convincing false testimony straight after the shooting, real smooth motherfucker.
          he said he was a witness on the carriage. very strange for someone who had just witnessed a murder to be able to leave the scene of the crime, walk out the station unchallenged and then calmly give false testimony to the BBC, fucking hell must be special forces, they don’t like going on camera unless they fucking have to.
          innit
          now fuck off you retard.

        • 545
          The Yorkshire Ripper says:

          TAT – his visa had run out the year prior and he hadn’t seeked a new one. Ignorance? Trying it on springs to mind……He might not have warranted getting plugged on the underground but he shouldn’t have been here – like plenty of other immigrants who don’t add anything to our society or culture and who instead attempt to change it for their own minority interests. The only church you’ll see going up in Tehran is one in fucking smoke or been bombed. It’s all these people know when they’ve got no answer. One rule for one……

        • 575
          Britain's Got Idiots says:

          For the love of christ no-one is saying he deserved to be shot once or a hundred times you hoonwit.

          As you say the shooting itself , well thats another story.

        • 621
          Jack the Smiling Black says:

          In the immediate aftermath of the de Menezes state sponsored murder (in a mean mood this morning), was blogging my little heart out that the MET were lying through their collective teeth (so what else is new?), and getting a lot of personal abuse for my trouble. Especially from those arrogant Samizdata grandees who couldn’t distinguish police brutality from a hole in the ground. What do you think now, boys? Or don’t you do remorse? A selective memory is so convenient.

        • 634
          Call me Infidel says:

          Thick as shit he was “landed” as a visitor. The entry stamp in his passport would have stated “no work or recourse to public funds” By working he was breaking the law. How hard is that to understand you moron? Getting shot in the head was unfortunate I grant you but maybe if he had been a genuine visitor and not an illegal immigrant working illegally then he would not have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Unfortunate but that is how it is.

        • 670
          thick as thieves says:

          Britain’s Biggest Idiot and his idiot friend the yorkshire tripper,
          you are both too cowardly and dim to follow your own statements to their logical conclusion.
          Mr De Menezes entered the country legally.
          what you retards are saying is that because he did not have in his posession an up to date document proving his entitlement to stay (y’know, to show the shooters to stop them shooting) then should he be shot in the head on his way to work, well, that’s just too bad.
          very strange thinking.
          sociopathic really.

      • 439
        Britain's Got Idiots says:

        I think Ive been moderated

        Look him up on Wikipedia. If you think that he played by the rules then Ive got several get rich quick schemes you might be interested in.

        People trying to get into/stay in this country – god only knows why but that is a different story – think we are mugs – a soft touch. The ‘Student Visa’ is probably the most abused type.

        Ive got several anecdotals if you wish to drag this out

        • 447
          thick as thieves says:

          Britain’s Biggest Idiot,
          if you look above you you will see me bashing your fucking brains out.
          Enjoy!
          you fake c’unt.

        • 453
          Britain's Got Idiots says:

          My Polish mate will gladly regale you with stories of how he does the coursework for his friend from Turkmenistan so that she complies with her Student Visa.

        • 457
          Britain's Got Idiots says:

          Thick as Prescott, sure it’s not your bishop that’s getting bashed?

        • 466
          A M says:

          Hi TwAT, N C or what?

        • 469
          Rick says:

          Plus, he was taking work from Polish electricians.

        • 504
          thick as thieves says:

          please form an orderly queue you fucking cripples.
          no pushing to the front to get closer to your hero, thick as thieves.
          thankyou.
          are your subs up to date c’unts?

        • 610
          Mong from Jury Team says:

          I get about a bit dont I? I was a plant on QT tonight.

          pathetic plot to split the anti eu vote…..?

          Well, Thick as Prescott, got an opinion on that, hoon-face?

        • 618
          Tat is a twat says:

          ‘Thick as’ wants friends, that’s why he keep appearing here. But ‘Thick as’ lacks the social graces,inter-personal skills or intelligence to have any, so appears on these sites as he likes to be punished for being bad, just like daddy used to.

          ‘Thick as’ is as thick as shit; but as a mental and social retard he should be given a bit of rope….and then have it pulled tight.

          Have you stopped having sex with kids yet TaT?

          You did say that Gary Glitter and your Dad took turns messing with you as a child, and they say it does have a way of being passed on.

          Find another hobby retard.

        • 671
          thick as thieves says:

          the comments you have made are not appropriate.
          not only have you had an episode by having an inapproprite outburst but you have also published your outburst on a blog.
          you would be well advised to seek some form of help from the mental health authorities, perhaps as an informal outpatient.
          such vulgar comments are beyond tourettes. you are clearly a vulgar and obnoxious individual with some serious personal conflict issues.
          seriously, get some help.
          oh, and concerning your application for the great thick as thieves fan club:
          DECLINED!

        • 673
          Tat is a twat says:

          Twat. Comments are totally appropriate to describe an arsehole like you. Now go fuck yourself and leave children alone; Labour’s slogan ‘Looking after hard working families’ just doesn’t have the meaning you wish it would have.

  7. 9
    Engineer says:

    Can we have some Labour scalps, please?

    • 26
      LittleBigHorn says:

      Scalps are scalps!
      Lets have ‘em all

      • 230
        Custer's Caff says:

        You want ‘em with the salad and chili, LBH? BTW, whatever happened to BigBigHorn?

    • 43
      Wise up to Labour says:

      Dont be daft, Gordon want give you scalps because that would make them look guilty and he wants to spin Camerons actions as showing the tories as being worse. ‘cept we aint as stupid as Gordon thinks we are the Hoon that he is !!!

      • 55
        Filtylucre says:

        The Tories are worse – didn’t you know its all Thatchers fault”

        • 142
          Right-thinking Male says:

          (Slaps forehead) Of course! It was Thatcher made them fill in the expense forms! And misled all those poor, innocent, honest-as-the-day-is-long Labour Ministers! Quick, tell Charles Hardwidge!

        • 231
          G. Brhoon says:

          it started in America

        • 242
          Walter Mitty says:

          But now like SineFlu it is pandemic

        • 250
          Walter Mitty says:

          Make that SwineFlu
          I don’t know..some days I don’t even know my own name…..

        • 346
          Adordon Brownler says:

          and ended at the IMF

    • 112
      thespecialone says:

      Seems to have gone quiet on the BBC and Sky about Balls/Cooper. Wonder why?

      Off topic and I apologise but couldnt help but see Harriet Hatemen squirm on BBC News24 (dont normally watch it but flicking to History Channel talking about Omaha Beach attack) . Initially the questioning was about Gordon with HH saying that he was doing a great job blah blah, evil Tories blah blah. Then………….

      P. Sissons to HH ‘So what do you have to say about the Queen not being invited to the 65th anniversary of D-Day’

      HH to PS – ‘I dont know the answer to that and will have to get back to you’

      I think that she needed to get confirmation from no. 10 about what to say! Also PS is likely to get a dressing down for daring to put a Labour minister in an awkward position!

    • 224
      The "Angry Aberdonian" says:

      And how about a big one? I think Darling’s scalp would make a lovely fire-side rug!

      • 249
        Court of public opinion says:

        His position is untenable by any standard of decency. Resign man you have besmirched a great office of state.

        • 577
          The Yorkshire Ripper says:

          Yes, an utter disgarce. Historians will look back on this and wonder why more were not held more to account. They’ve no shame, no morals, no future, no clue – like the last Socialist government before them (and the one before that) – they’re washed up and will hopefully be fucked off into oblivion for several generations. Seen for what they really are. Fucking cretinous, lying, thieving c’unts. So everyone should be equal? That’s what they stand for in reality, and look at what they’ve delivered.

          Fucking drivel.

      • 383
        Doctor Mick says:

        His eyebrows would make wonderful draught excluders for my external doors. On second thoughts, perhaps not – they’d rise every now and then when I start cursing Labour.

    • 307

      Agree.
      Had lunch last week in the Churchill Room and Bar with some colleagues.
      We all remarked then that there weren’t enough subsidised Scallops.

    • 422
      Anonymous says:

      we want kirkbride`s first. she`s still on the run!

  8. 10
    Pissed off voter says:

    Not sure I heard correctly, so can someone cofirm or correct please that his claims were for first and secod homes, one in dorset one in norfolk.

  9. 11
    Anonymous says:

    The outcome of this all is … Guido for PM ! Perhaps a better choice than the rest!

    But, of course, we will be watching your expenses !

  10. 14

    More Toryboys abusing the system.

    Labour MPs aren’t perfect but at least they aren’t claiming for moats, duckponds and servants’ quarters!

    • 22
      xsdogskin says:

      Holy flippin properties batman!

    • 37
      Sniper says:

      No, just tax and property and more property. Hoons that they are.

    • 48
      Dr Feelgood says:

      But what about ‘graphics fidelity’?

      Citations please!

      • 60
        EC1 PhD says:

        There aren’t any!

        • 75
          Dr Feelgood says:

          What!?! But Charles assured us he invented this popular term in the ‘game industry’ – I can’t believe he would have made up something so important.

          If we can’t trust him on that, how can we trust him about Labour? I’m becoming concerned.

        • 291
          EC1 PhD says:

          If Charles ever authored a paper on graphics fidelity, he forgot to tell the academic community.

        • 366
          Dr Feelgood says:

          Oh no! But he says he invented it – but no evidence of patents or any citations yet. I do hope we haven’t got a deluded fantasist here. Shocking, quite shocking.

    • 54
      sick of the greed says:

      Go back to Nick Robinson’s Blog where you got up everyone’s noses! I moved to here because I was sick of the moderation and pratts like you.
      Flipping is just as bad. Immoral earned money is still Immoral which every way you slice it!

      • 254
        Anonymous says:

        Fliping might actually be illegal if it involves the misrepresentation of what is your second home. I think this practice may actually be more likely to constitute Fraud since it involves a deception in some cases. Claiming for trees and moats doesnt ,although all such claims should have been rejected.

        If I was one of the flippin MP’s I would be a tad worried actually them and the non existent mortgages, they are the ones who could get their collar felt you know.

    • 67
      Charles Halfwit says:

      Although when the Cabinet speaks a lot of sh1t pollutes the atmosphere

    • 96
      Interested Observer says:

      If you click on Charles_Hardwidge it takes you to something called “LabourList.Org – Where Labour people come together”.

      So – a sort of left-wing community wanking pit, then.

    • 98
      Tricky Dicky says:

      Oh Charles Hardwidge of the Nick Robinson blog – he is another Labour troll!
      Let’s look at Labour now – Miss Piggy Jackboots is every bit as bad as Julie Kirkbride – she should be next. All those CGT avoiders need to go next – Blears, Hoon, Purnell. How about Ministers who flip homes? Then those with grace and favour residences.
      The Tory claims are more entertaining for sure, moats and duck islands included, but for sheer thieving, hypocritical piggery, it is difficult to beat Labour Government Ministers for fucks sake!!!!

    • 101

      Holy working class integrity out the batcave, Batman!

    • 104
      Papiere - zeigen mir Ihre Papiere - schnell!! says:

      Fucken sie mein, Herr Hardwidge – are you back again?

      Do you really believe ziz shite you spout, or are you really Frau Dolly Draper in disguise – Ich zink ve should be told!!

    • 110
      Labour people can do no wrong says:

      No, just a million pound plus property portfolio each at the tax payers expense.

      • 341
        Budgie's socialist moron MP says:

        ZaNu MPs deserve more taxpayers’ cash because we are running the country.

    • 118
      no longer anonymous says:

      Tory troughers have class.

    • 120
      Postal Vote says:

      but the labourites seem to have been cleverer:

      -by just claiming the most possible rather than a few odd items (if you get 400k one way, you can spend your above-board money on a duck house, or a digital camera like the wife of the wannabe-pm)

      -at house flipping, including Darling at 4 times, which explains why the government was so happy when the bank of england let inflation resurge again in 2006-2008. House prices boomed for a longer period. It wasn’t just the general public that was hooked on house price inflation, mps were even more so!

    • 188
      Scunnered says:

      Charles Hardwidge = Which glad red arse

    • 226

      I thought you were supposed to be fucking off. Typical Labour. More empty promises

    • 245
      barefootcontessa says:

      II don’t particularly want to pay for it, but I’d prefer any day to pay for a duck-house
      out of my taxes than many of the other useless tasteless things mps have spent our
      money on. At least the ducks will be happy! Brown and Cameron are playing a
      waiting game, but the constituencies will be waiting. Nulabour have snooped into our
      lives from every angle, but they don’t like us knowing about theirs! A pox non all their houses!

    • 342
      jgm2 says:

      Hardwidge = Tory troll

    • 386
      Doctor Mick says:

      Hardwidge has had more comebacks than Gary Glitter. Thought he was leaving forever?

    • 398
      Election Now! says:

      CH FU

    • 551
      Aethelred says:

      The cabinet is full of people who have defrauded HMRC and the tax-payer and should be in prison.

      These are the people who make the legislation that can lock us all up if we break the same laws as they do.

      In summary, fuck off you lefty twat.

    • 582
      The Yorkshire Ripper says:

      No, they’re only defrauding the public purse and breaking the English Law Charles. And that’s the Executive, the politicians put forward to lead Great Britain – not so fucking great anymore after 12 years of Socialism, is it?

    • 609
      City of Vice says:

      That’s right, Hardminge. Labour MPs haven’t claimed for any moats as yet, but in keeping with the medieval theme Prescott’s claimed for mock Tudor beams so I guess that#s quits. Of course, Labour MPs have only claimed for work related essentials such as porn and bath plugs, and for mortgages that they’ve already paid off. In the case of the latter, there’s an ordinary word plod uses to nick people who do that: FRAUD.

      A thief is a thief regardless of the colour of the rosette they wear.

      I

    • 659
      Lofa on the Sofa says:

      It doesn’t matter to me what the claim was for, mock tudor beams, duck houses etc. just was it a justifiable claim or theft. The Tories are at least making an effort to clear out the scum, lamentable effort though it may be. Where is Brown, he’s supposed to be in charge, if he’s going to play catch up on this, can he start soon.

      Leading from the back, what a wanker!

      pass this message on to your masters charlie boy

  11. 15
    Anonymous says:

    and the rest !!

  12. 16

    A question for all you Toryboys.

    How many Labour MPs claimed money for duckponds, moats or servants’ quarters?

    Now who’s “out of touch”?

    There’s no way Gordon Brown will resign over this. Believe me I’ve seen it all, in 2 months’ time everyone will have forgotten about this scandal and be watching Britain’s Got Talent or whatever. By the autumn the economy will be on the way up again and next May Gordon Brown will win the elections and you Toryboys will be crying for another 5 years in the wilderness.

    If you think Gordon Brown worked 12 hours a day for 40 years to reach the top, only to quit over some silly tittle-tattle you’ve got another think coming.

    The press and public can whine all they like. What can you do to remove him? NOTHING. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. If you disagree, you’re basically terorists and you can explain yourselves to the Police.

    Because at the last election, WE WON AND YOU LOST.

    Why can’t Toryboys ever grow up and admit defeat?

    • 27
      Anonymous says:

      bloody hell – its not a football team Charles! This is the Government of our country you are chanting about!

    • 36
      Anonymous says:

      I thought you were leaving Charles?

      Anyway, to your points – you think the economy will be on the rise by Autumn?

      I personally think the reason we haven’t seen McBroon is that the economy is so f***ed that they need to have another look at the budget, possibly even an emergency budget.

      So anyone who disagrees with ZaNuLab is a terrorist? Hmm, you’ve probably got a point there given the erosion of civil liberties over the past 10 years.

      Trust me Charles, you show complete arrogance in assuming all people sit & watch reality tv sh!te. That is a typical out of touch Lab view.

      Lab will get absolutely mullered in the elections and there is jack you can do about it.

      NuLab hasn’t worked and you won’t admit it.

      • 52
        Anon says:

        He ‘left’ in the manner of a politician. ie he’s still here.

      • 593
        The Yorkshire Ripper says:

        Ignore this Charlie fuckwit. It’s easy to see it’s some braindead cretin like Dolly or one of his fudge-packers.

    • 40
      lolol says:

      Charles,Charley are you Charlie #1 or Charlie #2 have we had a shift change on our Charlies,please mark your scripts as used or you get duplication as you two Charlies have done today.

    • 42
      Gordon Brown should step down says:

      No Charles, I think that GB worked all the hours only to be found wanting. I care more about his fucking-up of the country for generations to come.

    • 49
      Anonymous says:

      TWAT

    • 53
      Anonymous says:

      Charles – how do you explain Labour MP’s claiming for Mortages that had been paid off. They are really in touch with the common man.

      I used to enjoy your contributions on Nick Robinsons blog, but I fear that you are becoming just a wind up merchant.

    • 57
      xsdogskin says:

      Just For Charles SoftWick,

      Somewhere over the rainbow- way
      up high
      in the land
      that I heard of once
      Once in a lullaby

      Somewhere over the rainbow- skies
      are blue
      and the dreams
      that you dare to dream
      really do come true

      Someday I’ll wish upon a star
      and wake up
      where the clouds are far behind me
      Where troubles melt like lemon drops
      away above the chimney tops
      that’s where you’ll find me

      • 183
        Almost a Virgin says:

        Is a hardwidge what I think it is?

        • 237
          Pony Club of Herts says:

          We’ll have her in harness. But the one we’d really like to see trot about in thigh-highs an nothing else and pulling a trap is Five Bellies.

        • 251
          Pony Club of Herts says:

          234 was supposed to be after 210 – what to do with Harperson. BTW whips are provided. Flouncy tails are optional, no self-respecting pony would go without.

        • 257
          Cyco Billy says:

          No it isn’t. It’s got a poxy suppurating apppearance from perversely stuffing where it shouldn’t. And it isn’t hard either.

    • 59
      wolvreen says:

      You forget one thing the media has now turned on Labour. They now want the tories in god help us!

      • 91
        NRobinson says:

        Where has the BBC turned on Labour?

        I think you will find that was merely sarcasm to highlight the fact that its all Thatcher’s fault and there is no such thing as Labour sleaze.

        Double the license fee.

        Up the workers.

        Tory Toffs.

        • 107
          wolvreen says:

          The BBC’s Mark Thompson has had secret talks with Cameron and is avoiding spilling the details in FOI requests.
          Remember the tories are just Blue Labour so the lefties have nothing to fear, they are going to carry on where Blair left off.
          The lobby want rid of NuLabour and want jobs with the next lot.

      • 176
        Anonymous says:

        R U an X-man?

    • 62
      Freggles says:

      What % are Labour on again?

      • 132
        Postal Vote says:

        labour will do some 5%points better than the last opinion poll prior to elections will indicate

        28% of households get more than half their income from the state. They will vote for their wallet, i.e. labour, while there will be more than one voter in many of these households. The 2.7 million on incapacity benefit already account for 40 commons seats (that’s right prezza, commons seats, not loo seats)

        Labour will get a huge percentage of the postal votes as they are very clever at getting the postal vote out. Last year’s Glenrothes byelection not only saw a quadrulping of postal vote. The marked voters register went missing following it all. And in 2 recent labour candidate selections, postal votes played an important role as well. And there are many more labour-related postal votes strories.

        • 168
          Anonymous says:

          I hear Labour are proposing setting up Polling Stations in Britain’s cemeteries as that is where half their votes come from.

        • 171
          Samee says:

          To lose 1 register would be deemed careless; to lose 646 would be, well mildly suspicious at best!

        • 264
          Aberdeen Agnes McDayie says:

          And there’s talk of a postman being the next Nu Dear Leader.

    • 69
      Dr Feelgood says:

      Ah, the voice of the true believer. For the 1000-year empire and all that, what?

      The Russians will never take Berlin!

      But, more to the point, what about ‘graphics fidelity’, Charles? What about it?

    • 88
      GoldenDays says:

      Charles, you’re just a tease. You’re laughing at us. Toryboys, don’t waste keyboard wear replying.

    • 89
      RavingMad says:

      If all the New Labour Party can do is send out Charles HedgeWickerMan everyday then the country has nothing to fear.

      His inarticulate ramblings highlight the efficacy of the government’s education policy, the sentiments of the government’s foreign policy and the sheer audacity of it’s sports and entertainment policy. He is indeed a true believer in the government of all the talents and a complete hoon as a result.

      • 127

        Let’s try the probe at 120 volts this time Mr. Hardwidge, and see if we can’t get a sensible comment out of you.

      • 140
        Postal Vote says:

        Efficacy of government education policy explained

        - 28% of households get more than half their income (including state pension) from the state

        - the average uk wage is just below 25,000 pounds

      • 274
        Anonymous says:

        By talent you mean the Simon Cowel definition of talent meaning Freak

        as in Britains got Freaks

        as in The Government of all the freaks

    • 205
      Rt Hoon Gordon Broon MP says:

      Well said.

      Wibble.

    • 213
      Anonymous says:

      Charles, Gordon Brown, just to bring you up to speed, is a complete fuckturd. He’s so thick, even the sheep in Kirkculdy or whatever the little inbred shithole he comes from, won’t shag him. He hasn’t reached the top – he’s merely pulled the position of PM down lower than it’s ever been since the position was created. And as for working 12 hours a day for 40 years – has he really so little to show for all that effort? Maybe he should have tried something a little less challenging – like road sweeping, or emptying rubbish bins in a busy town centre – as long as he’s able to handle crossing the road on his own? May I just mention, at the last Election, which you won, Gordon wasn’t PM, Tony Blair was. Gordon is an UNELECTED PM & that’s how he’ll die – UNELECTED. Because he hasn’t got two brain cells to rub together & all he can do is lie – and now it looks as though his lies have been found out.

    • 218
      Susan Boyle says:

      Don’t forget to vote for me. I’ll do a special wiggle for you!

    • 219
      Anonymous says:

      I’ve given your comments all due consideration … and I have to say you make some interesting social observations. I was particularly impressed by your capacity to think and ‘visualise’ the future political landscape.

      That said, you are an absolute and total Cu nt.

    • 270
      Anonymous says:

      Give us an election and let the country decide . Come ahead if you think your hard enuf u prick

    • 303
      moral compass says:

      No you won and we ALL lost.

    • 332
      jgm2 says:

      Hardwidge = Tory Troll.

    • 390
      Doctor Mick says:

      Classic WUM (Wind Up Merchant). He’s not bad actually as there’s loads of little fishies biting.

    • 493
      Anonymous says:

      HOW MANY LABOUR HOONS CLAIMED MONEY FOR FEEDING THEIR FAT PIGGY FACES TILL THEY WERE FUCKIN SICK….PRESCOT FOR ONE !!!

    • 557
      Jacqui Smith, porno secretary says:

      I claimed £119,000 pounds for my “second” home.

      Does that count?

    • 645
      God says:

      ‘If you disagree, you’re basically terorists’

      Says it all really doesn’t it? Shame about the spelling.

  13. 17
    pissed off pensioner says:

    THE RAGE

    The parliamentary ruling mob
    Have all enjoyed a cushy job
    The taxes paid by you and me
    Helped these scoundrels live for free

    They tried to stop us finding out
    What their expenses were about
    Somehow they think that we are fools
    By claiming, “It’s within the rules”

    Such claims alas just will not wash,
    They’ve lived like royals on our dosh
    It’s not the dosh that we want back,
    We want them ALL to get the sack

    That’s not all, for we want more,
    We want them in a court of law
    Some of them it seems are frauds,
    Both in the Commons and the Lords

    Flipping homes to dodge the tax
    Has got up the electorates backs
    Porno films and cleaning moats
    Is really sticking in our throats

    Don’t think because they haven’t claimed
    They’re innocent and can’t be blamed
    Not speaking out what some were getting
    Is simply aiding and abetting

    Their secrets out they’ve lost control
    We want them jailed or on the dole
    Parliament’s no sacred cow.
    BRING ON THE ELECTION NOW !!

    • 23
      Troughtastic says:

      Well said PoP. That’s going in my scrapbook to give to my kids in 2020.

    • 51
      Pissed off voter says:

      applaud

    • 56
      Anonymous says:

      Nice effort POP! … Only trouble is, ultimately an election won’t really help … other than get rid of the current bunch of corrupt benefit fraudsters, … who are you gonna replace them with? One or two relatively decent MP’s from assorted parties? And what are you going to do about replacing all the thieving corrupt scum in Whitehall and the House of Lords … and what about all the gravy train riders in local government. The whole system stinks!

  14. 20
    Viva la Revolucion says:

    From now, I’ll only ever vote for a politician who will publicise all his/her expenses and income.

  15. 23
    Unsworth says:

    So far the majorty of those choosing(?) to step down are Conservatives. What does this say about the other parties? Are they all ‘Purer than pure’?

    • 31
      ZanuCon washes dirt away! says:

      None washes whiter

    • 70
      Little princess on board says:

      No it just shows that the other lot are led by a one-eyed Scottish fuckwit who’s as useless as a bundle of RBS shares.

    • 100
      GoldenDays says:

      No, Cameron is anxious to prove he’s tougher on sleaze than Gordo. The boss don’t like you, you might as well go. Gordo, as usual, refers all decisions to a committee and then hopes to “draw a line under this and move on.”

    • 566
      Gordon Brown, Prime Mentalist and Deranged fat scothcho fuckwit says:

      I’m more interested in the penis of history on my shoulder.

  16. 32
    Lumberjack and not ok says:

    Timmmmmmmmberrrrrrrrrrr!!!

  17. 44
    anon126 says:

    all the corrupt and the dubious need to be cleared out so we can get an honest politics in this country. As I keep saying, as is most of the non-political populous, we want the guilty prosecuted not let off with their thefts.

  18. 45
    CryBaby says:

    No MP will resign unless they have to. They’ve had it too cushy. We are driving them out one and two at a time. Their contempt for us voters is finally biting them in the arse!

    • 476
      Technomist says:

      They are losing nothing – they get huge pensions and have already lined their children and relatives up to carry on sucking the blood from everyone else.

  19. 46
    Call Me Dave says:

    I worked in Parliament for 2 years for Tory High Command… and the first I’ve ever heard of most of these losers is now. Total non-entities who have under-delivered and over-claimed.

  20. 47
    Ewanme says:

    OMG !!

    C’mon DT Ed . Givvus Adolf Balls an Eva Coopers’ heads on a plate , honey .

    Pleeeze x .

    E x .

    • 68
      DT Editor says:

      Fuck off, love. You’re barred, aren’t you? You are out of your depth on this one. Leave it to the big boys. Edward is about to buy me a half and then we are going for some sushi. It doesn’t matter if it’s any good because you lot are paying for it. Losers. http://www.telegraph.co.uk. Ta.

  21. 50
    wolvreen says:

    They stand to pocket ANOTHER 200K each by standing down at the next election, in expenses and severance pay.
    They should just go now and save us all a lot of money.

  22. 58
    • 261
      Troughtastic says:

      Brown is on Minus 53?

      So for every 100 voters 153 would vote for someone else? Sounds a bit NuLab to me. But then numbers never were my strongest suit.

  23. 61
    DMC says:

    Another one bites the Dust

    Not since 1985 have so many MPs in one day stepped down and this is the greatest amount of MPs to be brought down by scandal.

  24. 63
    alex taylor says:

    Standing down! standing down!, he should like all the rest be going down.

    • 117
      anonymous says:

      yeah

      just like newcastle united

      • 561

        The Deluded Geordies are worse than the Labour Party trolls. They think that Noocassel will be in Europe next year against the trolls thinking Labour will win the next election.

    • 131
      thespecialone says:

      Julie can go down on me any time. Not sure about 5 bellies though!

  25. 64
    Anonymous says:

    Eton’s staying closed because of a swine flu outbreak, so expect more teen-minding claims from the Tories.

  26. 65
    A N Other says:

    Toynbee on Sky talking sense for once.

  27. 66
    Siegfried says:

    Let’s go after Mad Nad!

    Dorries in new web row
    http://www.bedfordtoday.co.uk/bed-news/Dorries-in-new-web-row.5311354.jp

    • 272
      Digging with a TBM says:

      > Nadine Dorries is involved in a new political row, after disputing whether the time one of her rivals spent serving in Iraq counts as having “fought” for democracy. David Reeves, the Labour parliamentary candidate for Mid Beds, spent six months in Iraq as a lance corporal in the British Army intelligence corps in 2003-04. <

      Thank christ she can’t claim expenses for being a total fuckwit. There isn’t enough cash in the country to cover it.

      • 292
        Minekiller says:

        Well, standing as a Labour candidate having been a veteran who served in Labour’s probably illegal war, in an army overstretched and under-resourced while the toughers at home stole from the taxpayer, seems to me to indicate that he could be lying about serving in the Intelligence Corps.

        • 321
          jgm2 says:

          Was he the source of the ‘Intelligence’ that Blair had re-written and re-written until it quasi-ambiguously justified his pre-determined decision to have himself a war and cement his popularity like Maggie T’s Falklands?

          Figures.

          that’ll explain why he’s a Labour candidate. Like the woman who leaked state secrets to Brown all those years ago. Labour looks after its own.

      • 431
        Steve Expat says:

        Does this stupid woman not know the one about what to do when in a hole?

        As was seen with the Gurkhas story, there is something of a public affinity with those who are prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for their country, irrespective of the political whim on which they were sent to the desert

        Nadine, the best thing you can do is SHUT THE FUCK UP!

  28. 77
    The Inquisition says:

    Financial misconduct = Conservatives

  29. 78
    GoldenDays says:

    There’s something really, really bad about duck islands and moats, unlike the noble Nulabs who are just trying to build up a property portfolio to help them with their pensions, which is actually admirable when you think about it. It’s just Tories who are at the trough, not Nulabs.

    • 201
      Anonymous says:

      Yeah, there was poor little Whatsit Moran, just trying to bring a little bit of pleasure into a loved one’s life by paying for repairs to his home & what happens? She’s forced to stand down! Terrible isn’t it? Oh wait, SHE wasn’t actually paying for repairs to his home – we, the taxpayers, were paying for repairs to his home. Don’t you just love the thieving hoons? No, actually, I don’t – I think they’re long overdue for the Lampost Line Dance.

      • 259
        Anonymous says:

        That Cow is blaming her downfall on the fact she is a woman. The troughin bitch has absolutely no shame. Yeah its cause your a woman love, nothing at all to do with the fact that you took £10,000 of tax payers money to do repairs on your boyfriends flat in Southampton, give me fekin strength !!!!

      • 345
        jgm2 says:

        No you silly bitch. It’s because you’re black.

      • 490
        Anonymous says:

        Can I apologise profusely to Margaret Moran whom I incorrectly stated had stolen £10,000 from the Tax Payer to maintain her boyfriends flat in Southampton. I now realise I was mistaken IT WAS IN FACT £22 FUCKIN THOUSAND which she claimed, WHICH OF COURSE MAKES HER AN EVEN BIGGER HOON !

  30. 79
    Worried says:

    I am really worried about the health of our MPs. They’r going down like flies, citing health problems. Liars even to the very end.

  31. 80
    Sophia Pangloss says:

    Can I be so bold, Mr Fawkes, as to suggest that you start a ‘counter’ of MPs standing down at the next GE, perhaps by party. I do get a bit confused.

    Maybe even, if we ever see them, MPs honest enough to take to the Chilterns?

    Strike the last one, we’ll never get that lucky.

  32. 81
    OAP angry says:

    At Last The people have spoken ,By getting rid of the sponging MPS its a people revolution ,who are finally having their say ,these MPS have not represented the people just themselves for the last 25 years since Margaret Thatcher was in power she brought this rule in that MPS could draw on expences so for the last 25 years think of all the money these grubby little MPS have been helping themselves too fiddling their way through Parliment

    • 95
      Oinkssssssssssssspelling says:

      OAP
      we expect people of your age to be able to spell.
      expenses not “expences”

    • 160
      Couldn't Givva Toss says:

      Spellcheck? Think how much money has been wasted on the whole fucking shebang over the last however long. If you’ve been paying into the con then I have nothing but contempt for you. You fed this monster, you gave them licence to go on a spending spree, you are the reason why we are at this rather pointless T-junction on the road to nowhere. Don’t get too excited.

  33. 82
    Anonymous says:

    The score so far is six Tories and just one Labour.

    Considering all the thieving they’ve been doing, Labour are getting off very lightly so far.

    • 85
      Anonymous says:

      Crooks arrogantly refusing to resign = Labour

    • 108
      GoldenDays says:

      I’m betting more tories than labour resign AND that the election will not be until next May/June, and I’m sure that I’ll win.

    • 309
      Mr Meaner says:

      Would probably need two sets of counters… One to count the number of MPs implicated by party, the next showing the number to resign/be fired.

      Would then see how NuLabour’s troughers are consistently not being dealt with.

  34. 84
    caesars wife says:

    Funny old world .

    So does Ed balls jonah either johnson or milliband ??

    mustnt let milliband forget his Lisbon treaty service to the british public !!

    • 87
      Anonymous says:

      Have Balls and Cooper resigned yet for double claiming and for lying about which is their main residence?

  35. 97
    Sir NOAH says:

    I’d join Al-Qaeda today if it meant I could blow away Broon and the rest of these corrupt, authoritarian Parliamentary Hoons.

    • 315
      GorgeousGeorge says:

      Well I might be able to help you there, I have some friends in the ‘resistance’..

  36. 99
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    They can’t even leave with dignity, lying about a sudden concern for his wife’s health in this case, about the ‘stress’ being caught has caused her in Moran’s, and about ‘putting her family first’ in Kirkbride’s.

  37. 103
    Daily Wirker says:

    Fraser said “where the state is a hand-up, not a hand-out” It handed out to him the patronising crook. Twats should be on trial.

  38. 105
    Hampton Wick says:

    McNulty is paying money back, apparently. Not one of the troughers of all parties, not one, has done a thing wrong, committed a crime etc. Every single one of them made a mistake. Bankruptcy is clearly a moral issue…

  39. 111
    It doesn't add up... says:

    I don’t know if this is a hint of a change of direction from the pack of hounds at the DT:

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/david_hughes/blog/2009/05/28/mps_expenses_what_about_the_big_fish

    Who said hunting had been made illegal??

    • 152
      Anonymous says:

      This is exactly what I’ve been saying. This corrupt government conspired to make the institutionalised thieving legal within the House of Commons. It could not have happened without their knowledge. In deed they themselves have benefitted from this thieving. Does the LAW apply to every citizen or not? It’s no wonder they all fought for 4 years to prevent disclosure. It’s time to concentrate now on the big fish.

      The man who levies stamp duty, getting it paid for himself with HofC expenses. You couldn’t make it up! Clearly there for themselves. What we dont need are career politicians any more. They have fucked us all. Make them pay it all back. c u n ts

  40. 113
    chris g says:

    Bit like the buses?

    They still leave with a nice little pension though, eh?

    http://www.plenty2say.com

  41. 114
    Vote Vote Vote for Jacqui says:

    Whatever rosette they are wearing fucking good job to see the
    back of the swindling bastards.More,more and fingers crossed SIX Bellies will eventualy float to the surface when the gases in her guts make her rise from the depths.

  42. 123
    Anonymous says:

    Tony Mcnulty pays back over £3k “mistakenly” claimed on his parents house.

    So let’s get this straight. The culprit who stole your digital tv recorder is found. He’s asked to return it. He knocks on your house and says, sorry here’s the recorder I stole from your house. End of story. Is this what would happen to the little people?

    One law for MPs, one for everybody else. Thieving c u n t s.

    • 130
      anonymous says:

      McNulty’s one of these bastards whose face you would never get tired of punching.

      What an arrogant, two faced, corrupt, lying bastard he is

    • 156
      It doesn't add up... says:

      £57k and a couple of years in Ford to go then

    • 200
      O.Var.Thyme says:

      “The culprit who stole your digital tv recorder is found.”

      As Harry Hill might say “What are the chances of that happening?”

      Plod too has expense forms to fill in, health and safety risk assessments about the dangers of responding to your call due to your ferocious dog or the Koi carp in your pond, the dangerous state of the path to your door, and the risk of electrocution from the short circuit in your doorbell.

    • 207
      Mistakes, Mistakes, Everywhere says:

      Bloody hell – not another mistake. Can’t these politicians get anything right without having others point their mistakes out to them? Makes you wonde rif all their decisions and policies are mistakes.

  43. 134
    Ever Vigilant says:

    Does anyone know whether master baiter and thick as thieves use the same therapist ?

    • 165
      grobdj says:

      They enjoy mutual therapy by each placing a hand around the others plonker

    • 592
      A Nut-House Doctor says:

      Thick as Thieves has more self-hate issues I think

      • 614
        Augeards says:

        But less delusional about Nulab – if he can just lay off the shit about retards, cripples and spastics, and stick to keeping tribal tories honest, there may yet be a use for him.

  44. 138
    Court of Public Opinion says:

    Can I suggest that additional funding be provided from the public purse to finance the Mets investigation into this whole sordid affair. I am sure that after the abuses suffered under these greedy bastards that such an expense would be a wise and cost effective investment. We should do “What ever it takes” to clean out our parliament of this disgracefull troughing and if that means prosecutions then so be it ! Power to the People 1

  45. 139
    The Inquisition says:

    I sniff Gordon’s cack splattered pants

  46. 141
    john says:

    Just heard Clegg on PM.
    Querulous chap. I diagnose piles or a stomach ulcer.
    Or maybe he’s not getting his end away.

  47. 143
    Stronghold Barricades says:

    So we have to start at the bottom and work our way through the whole lot

    When will the message be passed into the Bunker that Brown and his shady cabinet also need to pay the price for their troughing

    It will be a day to rival the night of the long knives

  48. 144
    The Beastof Clerkenwell says:

    Im happy
    Just about every one of these Hoons has just given me, and the rest of you more and more defences against charges of tax evasion (not that I evade tax)
    Arseholes

  49. 151
    Andrew McLie says:

    Hoon next ??????

  50. 154
    Jackanory says:

    A police source said: “There is no question the fees office has done anything wrong. This is purely to establish the ground rules that MPs were operating under. We need to know how the system works.”

    So we can now look forward to Plod saying the thieving swine were playing it by ‘the rules’ and did nothing wrong!

    • 187
      Knacker says:

      Rozzers are thick and useless.

    • 189
      P.C. Filth says:

      Rules are there to obeyed, sir. By you, the general riff-raff, that is, sir. Over.

    • 313
      The court of public opinion says:

      Im sorry there are plenty questions about what the hell the fees office were playing at!!!!!!

      They need to be investigated as well for possible offences re conspiracy to defraud the public purse( along with the troughing MP’s they acted art and part with ) and misconduct in public office. Jesus Christ what is it about this lot.

    • 316
      The court of public opinion says:

      The only ground rules are those established in law. not some “rules” thought up to justify wilful and negligent mismanagement of our money.

  51. 155
    Siegfried says:

    Hello Julie.

    More good news:
    http://www.bromsgrovestandard.co.uk/news75807.html

    With love,
    Your best friend.

    • 174
      It doesn't add up... says:

      With regard to letters we received suggesting Mr France was a member of the Respect Party and accusing him of political point scoring, he said, “I’m not a member of Respect Party – I resigned from that on Tuesday (May 26) because I knew people would try and brand the petition as being from that group.”

      Right up there with I claimed expenses last year fraudulently, but I’ve paid them back. No, it’s better than that… he’ll sign back up to Respect as soon as the heat has died down. He’s a charlatan, whatever the wrongs of Kirkbride.

      • 196
        thespecialone says:

        You have got to admire the excuses these old lefties come up with. Will anyone actually believe what France has said?

  52. 158
    grobdj says:

    Job interview:

    So what experience do you have?

    I was Member of Parliament until 2009, although I’m no accountant I was successful when filling out forms…

    Next!…

    • 163
      Siegfried says:

      They all plan to sit on their arses till the next general election. A lot of pressure will be needed to force them out in the coming weeks. It can be done…

      • 405
        cynffeeaarr says:

        161-Does this mean we can expect there to be a run on Anusol in the coming weeks.

  53. 159
    Siegfried says:

    The economy is really bad. Looking to make some extra cash? Why not set up your own buseniss?

    How to Build a Gallows
    http://www.wikihow.com/Build-a-Gallows

    • 167
      anonymous says:

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8072340.stm

      Brown to attend D Day celebrations as UK representative instead of Queen who is Head of State(We were not asked !” – an interesting weekly audience methinks)The French say “Zut ! Alors ! Eeet is Monsieur Brown who ees at fault, eet is ‘ow you say in le Grand Bretagne “nuthin to do with me, guv !” n-est-ce pas ?

      • 191
        Engineer says:

        Is there nothing this gang of goons can’t totally destroy? For heaven’s sake don’t tell them about the Ashes….

      • 194
        The Admiral says:

        Or as it was reported :

        “US President Barack Obama will join French president Nicolas Sarkozy for commemorations at the American Cemetery in Normandy.

        We have never expressed any sense of anger or frustration at all, and are content with all the arrangements that are planned

        Buckingham Palace
        Some critical reports had appeared about the absence of the Queen from the event.

        French officials responded by insisting she was welcome and said the UK government was responsible for deciding who should attend what they said was “primarily a Franco-American ceremony”.

        WTF!!!

        • 203
          The Admiral says:

          What about the rest of the Allies!……….

        • 310
          Jethro says:

          Remember that wonderful riposte from the American President, when de Gaulle said he demanded the removal of all French Soldiers from French territory? – “Including the dead ones?”
          But then, of course, it was the Americans who captured vital Enigma machines and code-books from a sinking U-boat, the Americans who finally stormed Monte Cassino and took the surrender of the German garrison; of course, it was the Americans who ‘stood alone’ against Nazism in 1940, the Americans who moderated the indecent hunting-instincts of some upstart British Officer (Bernard something?) so that Berlin should not fall into the hands of a decadent, worn-out Empire, and should fall into the hands of…. And wasn’t it USAF planes that, single-handedly turned aside the wrath of Goering’s Luftwaffe, in the so-called ‘Battle of Britain’(great myth-makers, the British…).
          Of course it’s “primarily a Franco-American ceremony”: but for British cussedness, the War would have been won in 1941 or 1942 – admittedly won by the Germans, but the Americans would still have been buddies with them, so that would have been all right!

        • 328
          jgm2 says:

          The French, still clinging to the myth that it was De Gaulle who liberated France.

          We should definitely have shot De Gaulle.

        • 407
          Doctor Mick says:

          demanded the removal of all French Soldiers from French territory? – “Including the dead ones?”

          You meant to say …. removal of all AMERICAN Soldiers from French territory?

          Then it’s a good anecdote.

          HM shouldn’t go to this service because as a Head of State she’d be the Odd-Man-Out. She’d be the only head of state there who has actually done military service for her country and furthermore was serving at the time of the D-Day Landings. Stay at home Ma’am and let the new boys try to remember something that happened before they were born.

        • 487
          Dr Feelgood says:

          HMQ is also Head of State for Canada, who were heavily engaged on D-Day as well – so that is at least two countries insulted.

          The French would have perfectly understood the issue and the embarrassment this would cause. I don’t blame them for standing back and shrugging their shoulders – probably having a laugh, they can’t help it, it’s what they do. Bof!

          Obama’s lot – ignorance pure and simple – little idea of the significance of the event.

          The root of the problem, yet again, is the defective weirdo Brown and his cronies. On one hand short-term perceived political advantage; on the other risk of insult to the Queen, veterans and their families. A no brainer for them – after all, the Monarchy and Royal British Legion are ‘forces of conservatism’.

          And as usual, these pathetic machinations have back-fired and Brown looks like a complete twunt yet again.

        • 596
          Thick as Thieves Shit-caked Dildo says:

          have you got a link for that?

        • 647
          Saving Private Brown says:

          Admittedly Eisenhower allegedly thought Montgomery was a pain in the arse BUT he was OUR pain in the arse and we put more men ashore on D Day than the Americans did on day one(83,000 cf to 73,000). Thank God Brown wasn’t PM otherwise with his chaotic planning we’d have still been sitting on our arses in Dover.

          If were HMQ I’d dissolve Parliament whilst he was away on his “photo-op! with Obama -that would be revenge indeed !!!

      • 298
        Anonymous says:

        I believe the Quenn has told that short arse used car salesman Sarkozy wideo boy to fuck off, although in more diplomatice terms

      • 330
        Moral Compass says:

        Brown just wants to spend time with men in uniform.

    • 172
      Jackanory says:

      There may be some drawbacks to this business:

      “Gallows may be considered weapons in some jurisdictions.
      You may be convicted of murder if you hang someone.”

      Would this apply if it was only hoons being hanged?

      • 301
        A member of the public writes says:

        are Gallows Tax deductable and can you claim tax relief if its your own lynching your claiming for ??

    • 263
      M.T.BUCKET says:

      A sturdy english oak would do just as well.

  54. 162
    Atlas shrugged says:

    Putting these people in the metaphorical stocks is all well and good.

    However, finding out that PM’s like a freebee just as much if not more then the average person, is hardly a revelation, now is it Guido?

    Politicians are small and medium sized crooks, when not also being a bunch of boring, two faced largely ignorant idiots, and reasonably proficient, habitual liars, so what?

    It is the SYSTEM that has corrupted them. As it has also corrupted just about every small business man, immigrant, and tax credit or benefit claimer.

    Add to that the serial criminalization of many other former legal activities, leaving society with only a few million half starving cold pensioners, and a half a dozen young school children left with a guilt free conscience, remaining in the country.

    Such is CORPORATE SOCIALISM.

    my question would be this.

    What on earth else did we expect to get?

    We currently have three major political parties to chose from.

    The Red Fascist Party
    The Blue Fascist Party
    and always last, but NOT at all at least The Yellow Fascist Party.

    What we don’t have is,

    Any form of ‘nice’ socialist party.
    Any form of conservative party.
    Any form of liberal party.

    Yet they all claim to be liberals, democratic, socially conscious and generally conservative in nature.

    Yet in REALITY all we EVER actually get is more authoritarianism.

    This simply for the benefit of multi-national conglomerates and the ever more over enormously wastefully corrupt, local, European and WORLD GOVERNMENT, that these criminals ‘bought and sold,’ many hundreds of years before any of us were born.

    If we genuinely have no collective understanding of what SOCIALISM, or CONSERVATISM, actually are. Still less, if one or the other is left or right of which.

    How on gods earth can we seriously expect are politicians to help us, or indeed have the slightest clue of what the fuck they are talking about either?

    I blame the BBC mainly, which is a whole gigantic ‘can of establishment worms.’

    A far more interesting question which I fear will not get asked enough, or to the right people would be this.

    What the fuck has organizations like The Daily Telegraph, The BBC, SKY, and therefore by implication ones such as AP and Reuters been up to for the last 15-20 years. Especially in this case, which is incredibly serious, systematic corruption at the highest democratic level?

    If we can not trust ANY of our media to tell us what is happening BEFORE it is far too late to do anything about it. Then WHAT PRICE DEMOCRACY???????????????

    I put it at about £0.25 a share, and falling sharply.

    • 182
      Couldn't Givva Toss says:

      Another fine post, Shruggy, mate.

      I don’t have the answer but the only way I can square any of this with my own conscience is to know that I have only paid into this scam by having a good time. They can screw me for smoking, drinking and driving but they will not get a ha’penny more than than that until they screw me for death duties. Fuck the c unts.

    • 286
      Too Lazy To Fight The Moderators says:

      Nice post

    • 325
      grobdj says:

      Leave the small business man out of this you hoon, many of us are incorruptible and make a living without giving or receiving bribes, despite being systematically ripped off by banks, landlords, utilities and local government.

      There is good and bad in all walks of life

    • 327
      Educational operative who 'accidentally' looked at this site says:

      I’m still trying to say that I liked this post but something heavy is blocking any response.

    • 648
      Schadenfreude says:

      ‘It is the SYSTEM that has corrupted them’ To a degree true but they invented the system,so they are not ‘victims’. They also had the opportunity to change what some must have realised was absolutely unethical.

      I am more worried about the bastards who do not even recognise this fact. They have abandoned all morality and that is scary. What won’t they stoop to?

      We often talk here about the clean,honest MPs – they should be on the receiving end of our anger too, as they said and did nothing,just looked the other way. Even if we clear out the rubbish, this group might still creep back in. They are equallly corrupt.

      I share your contempt for the media,which is just a weapon of the political classes. Until the system changes these people are our enemies.

      All that fuels them is our money – step 1 let’s stop giving it to them willingly.

  55. 169
    Arthur Haynes (Comedian) says:

    So what’s the difference between a London Bus and a Westminster MP?

    They both take the public for a ride, but Westminster MPs don’t know when to stop!

    AH (C)

    • 586
      Anonymous says:

      You started it, so..
      What you call a ManU fan with a glass of champagne in his hand ?
      The Waiter.

  56. 173
    Julie K's Mum says:

    We look forward to our Dear Daughter getting her £100k+ golden handshake.
    Thank you and goodnight.

    C U N T Z

    • 199
      thespecialone says:

      Has your daughter thought about becoming a porn star? She is quite a babe.

      • 204
        Siegfried says:

        At 48? MILF stuff, doesn’t pay that well.

        • 584
          Snotgobbler Brown says:

          48 ?
          She’s had a very hard life then.
          58 I’d have guessed.
          Time for a 10 years younger makeover I’d suggest.
          And she needs to choose better accessories – starting with her hubby.
          Spooky bloke.

  57. 185
    Tony Blair says:

    I’m looking for an audience for a pilot of my TV show “Strictly Come Troughing”
    Any takers, or indeed contestants??

    • 190
      ArchDruid Runcie says:

      Though you had God?
      No time – foward with Salvation…………….

    • 197
      Engineer says:

      If you come asking me to build you a Spin Machine one more time, I’ll shove this 36″ Stillson Wrench sideways in you mouth.

      Damn, it’s not long enough…..

    • 295
      Anonymous says:

      How about calling it “Strictly within the rules”

  58. 209
  59. 210
    papasmurf says:

    Don’t know if anyone has read this article but it confirms many of the points first raised on this blog but also comes up with a few other points.

    Quote
    ” Finally, all expenses claims should be suspended with immediate effect until a Certificate of Full Disclosure is submitted to the fees office. That is the simplest way of getting immediate results, and separating the rotten eggs from the rest.

    Brian Friedman is a retired senior tax partner with Ernst & Young. He runs the Forum for Expatriate Management (totallyexpat.com).”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5402034/MPs-expenses-We-need-to-make-MPs-lives-more-taxing.html

    • 233
      Siegfried says:

      Excellent article. Indeed, they all need to end up in jail. They need to stand down NOW!

      • 240
        Papasmurf says:

        Siegfired…. was your earlier “revelation” on JK as what panned out this afternoon? Or are you indicating something else?

        • 256
          Siegfried says:

          Well, she and her wig-arseclown are like an iceberg. 90% of their tricks are, for now, unknown to the public.

          It is under that pressure (and after making a new deal with DC to secure her financial future) that she gave in.

          They have much, much more on both of them. They are truly rotten to the core.

          So, yes and no. Yes, stepping down was a matter of time. No, since the 90% was not released since she “stepped down”.

          Mind you, I predict that it will be impossible to stay on as an MP till the next general election…

          The tsunami is yet to arrive…

        • 283
          papasmurf says:

          Mmmmmmm……… Now you really are teasing us all!!!!!

          I am assuming that is why the press have been hounding them both? With bigger ‘political’ fish to fry there has to a reason why these two have been singled out.

          The Milligan affair did have quite a few unanswered questions and one supposes that ‘skeletons’ can be traced back to that incident?

          I recall having to deal with a similar incident…. not a celebrity…just some poor old sod banging one out befoe his wife got back from work. Anyway, getting the body down from the noose was extremely difficult…. the weight of the body being a heavy, literally, ‘dead weight.’ A single person could in no way hold the weight for any length of time to get it down. The poor bloke must have been flaying around trying to find his stool, which was not in a good position being kicked half way around the room.

          Must have been a truely awful sight to be faced with.

      • 287
        Anonymous says:

        Alistair Darling has disgraced the office of Chancellor.

        • 458
          Alie Darling says:

          Why ? I only flipped my second home four times in four years.

          What’s wrong with that ? You taxpayers are so touchy, anyone would think
          the government had ruined the economy.

        • 651

          You are Chancellor not some member of a Circus family.

  60. 227
    Anonymous says:

    Nick Clegg actually has a point for once.

    Would MPs have found it acceptable if the bankers took 2 months off during the credit crisis?

    No…

    So why are MPs taking 2 months off before they have sorted out the expense mess?

    • 246
      anglo-celt says:

      Duuh!!

      Because they don’t want to sort it out. They just want all the fuss to die down so they can get back to ripping us off.

      It’s not fucking rocket science.

    • 248
      Anonymous says:

      They dont want to sort it out. They want to carry on troughing.

    • 265
      Anonymous says:

      244
      Nick Clegg has a point to answer !!!!!!!!!!!!! how about handing back the £2.4 million, donerontherungate. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • 279
      Jail the hoons says:

      We could arrange some time off in Bellmarsh. The Archer wing has just been upgraded.

    • 412
      Doctor Mick says:

      Two months off from what? Would we notice the difference? They do fuck all but spend.

    • 464
      Housing Hubba Bubba says:

      Clegg being wise after the event again.

      If only time flowed in the opposite direction. He’d be the world’s foremost psychic.

  61. 228
    Anonymous says:

    come on, what about Balls, and for that matter Bliar, Is the DT holding back for the elections

    • 243
      Anonymous says:

      There’s lots of thieving Labour crooks still to be exposed.

    • 277
      Anonymous says:

      Just because Bliars returns were shredded doesnt mean there is anything untoward about them. NOT!!!!!!

    • 297
      nell says:

      Ed Balls said today (Guardian) that David Cameron is not being tough enough with his own MP’s over expenses. Ed Balls???!!!!!!!!!!. What a hypocrite!!!!!!!!

      When questioned about the dual claims where 2 members of the same household are MP’s he said “you can’t fit that into the traditional model and therefore it is more complicated.”

      Excuse me whilst I go away and throw up!!

      • 336
        Moral Compass says:

        I would like to fit Mr Balls in to an original model. Perhaps a Zanussi washing machine, and then turn on the spin cycle.

        • 427
          Balls today and none tomorrow says:

          Ah for Balls we have more refined tortures, just send a map.

      • 465
        Housing Hubba Bubba says:

        I think steady Eddie meant not being tough enough in covering it up.

  62. 238
    braindead fuckwit from politicalbetting.com says:

    First!

  63. 247

    Which party leader is clearing the decks better?

    There’s some pretty heavyweight, faux-intellectual analysis going on over here, with the powerful metaphor : Does Gordon need a poo?

    I think he does, to urgently void himself of all the nasty troughing turds in his party. Dave’s started already, and will feel much better soon.

  64. 276
    Anonymous says:

    Did I hear correctly on Question Time Last Week did Dimblebore announce that Fiona Phillips would be on the panel in a few weeks ?

    Fekin hell and they say the Beeb are not dumbing down.

  65. 285
    Anonymous says:

    New Yougov poll out shortly:

    Labour 25%
    Tories 41%
    LD 21%

    • 296
      The Admiral says:

      And some prat will come out with “which means 46% don’t want the Tories in”

      Duh…..

    • 320
      Educational operative who 'accidentally' looked at this site says:

      UKIP 24%
      BN P 14%
      Screaming Loonies 11%
      GreenFingers 9%
      Ewanme Botha Party 7%
      Co-operative of Unemployed Naughty Tories (C.U.N.T.) 2%

      Statistics are there to make the blind believe they can see.

      • 340
        lolol says:

        PoliticaBetting are waiting to see if there are any polls tonight,if Guido doesn’t have it in his headlines take no notice.

        • 663
          Big Dave Must GO NOW says:

          If Cameron (sorry Hague, as he’s one of the people pulling the strings) get power I’m off to France. Got a nice little place and plenty of opportunities in a country that knows how to look after its people

  66. 288
    nick says:

    These crooks seem to think that by standing down it makes everything better. I do hope that someone at least tries to get them to pay back what they have stolen , plus interest , plus a fine , plus a jail sentence . Just like ordinary folk.

  67. 293
    VotR says:

    Just like a clapped out bus service that has huge fares, and little returns (the management keep it all for themselves). Then.. three buses in a row at once, as Guido metaphored above. Wonder if any will show up at the stop tomorrow? We can only wish…

    More sackings!

  68. 299
    Anonymous says:

    How the fuck did we arrive at a scenario where the Queen is NOT going to a D-Day commemoration ??

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8072340.stm

    It is like those shite hollywood ‘movies’, as they seem to insist on calling them these days, where any British involvement in the war has to be air-brushed out and the American Yankee-Doodle-Dandy effort emphasised to the max…

    Or maybe Her Maj knows that with Gordon going, she is better off keeping well away from proceedings…

    • 305
      Anonymous says:

      Gurks part 2, Brown is not wanted by the troops who invaded the beach. I hope he is booed by them.

      Brown is shamed by this, but Magj appears to have out manurevered Brown, this will be all over the front of the papers on Friday.

    • 312
      nell says:

      I agree. I understand it was down to No.10 to determine the British contingent, at least that’s what the French were saying this morning.

      I presume it’s all down to Gordon needing the limelight at the moment. The Queen would have outranked him wouldn’t she?

      Personally I think it’s disgraceful. How I abhor this man. Even the veterans are angry about the way he is behaving.

      • 630
        Susie says:

        Especially the veterans are angry with this situation. They fought for King and Country, not some fat tin pot unelected dictator. Plus of course apart from the D-Day veterans, the Queen will be the only leader who saw service (in the ATS) at the time… and Gordon ‘forgot’ to add her to the list?????????????????????????????????????

        This completely through the looking glass now. I weep and feel so ashamed for my country.

    • 317
      Ratsniffer says:

      We arrived at it because unlike Snotgobbler, Her Mag cannot invite herself. Gormless Brown was totally indifferent to the event, until he discovered that Obama would be there. Never one to miss out on some grovelling tongue action, the one-eyed winker suddenly discovered a gap in his diary.

      Another bit of opportunism by Broon, who could so easilly have had a word in a few shell-likes – including the vainglorious dwarf Sarcoma – and thus ensured a royal invite.

      But no, the snot eating one wants to be seen as the sole representative of the UK…and can’t risk being upstaged by a person that the public, and especially present and ex-servicemen, would really like to see there.

      • 331
        Anonymous says:

        But surely the point here is that this wasn’t on their bloody radar at all – and by the time it was, the buffoons had left it too late to give Her Maj a reasonable notice period to build it into the busy Royal schedule ??

        The sight of the British and French Governments disagreeing with each other, with the consequent impact on the resurrection of the ‘Entente Cordiale’ which the last state visit had worked so hard on, will not be lost on Her Majesty next time she invites Gordon around for a cup of tea.

        If only there was a webcam in Buckingham Palace..

        • 357
          nell says:

          I hope she laces his tea with bromide then!!!!!!1

        • 436
          Insider says:

          if only there was a large deep greasy moat, a fast raising drawbridge and some handy vats of boiling oil in place for his next trip to Buck House (where I’m told he is made to stand for the entire audience).

      • 472
        nell says:

        Well 428 Insider – I wouldn’t want him to sit on my chairs – unclean person!

      • 495
        Ed's creepy Boy-Wife says:

        Should be fun watching everyone blank him at the event in any case.
        The man is useless at small talk, is not at all likeable, his reputation is in tatters and everyone knows he’s yesterday’s man who can’t influence a damned thing.
        He’s damaged goods and a failed brand.
        Let’s all witness his humiliation amongst those he would prefer to be admired.
        and I don’t just mean tea stains upon his tie and socks tucked inside his suit trousers as per normal)
        McTwat.

    • 329
      It doesn't add up... says:

      Broon wanted to spite her for having hinted that she disapproved of him through big headlines in the Mail and Express would be my guess.

      • 632
        Susie says:

        Shows what a coward he is… I just want to see those veterans turn their backs on him as he goes down the line, or better still say if the Queen doesn’t go WE won’t go.

        Selfish bastard, it never occurs to him that it may be many of the D-Day Vets last ceremony they are mostly well into their 80s and 90s and they want their head of state there with them. But he’d rather slime up to Obama and hog the event. Disgusting little traitor.

    • 400
      Erwin Rommel says:

      +++ WEHRMACHT BULLETIN +++

      Western Front Headquarters, June 7 2009

      Fellow German people,

      Following visit of British Prime Minister to the invaded zone of Fortress Europa yesterday our secret weapon, codename ‘Jonah Brown’, has been unleashed.

      We can report successful counter-attacks by panzer troops have stopped invading Allied forces securing a foothold on the Normandy beaches.

      The Atlantic Wall has been secured.

      Hail Victory.

  69. 300
    The Admiral says:

    And just where IS Gordon?………

    • 314
      The Hoon McHoon of Hoon says:

      No-one here but us hoons …

    • 323
      nell says:

      Adam Boulton on Sky Online said yesterday that he had heard from reliable Labour sources that Gordon was going to retire after the June th election results, on grounds of health. I wish!!

      To think of him in a straight jacket in a Swiss Clinic somewhere remote in the mountains, wonderfully eases my blood pressure.

      • 483
        cynffeeaarr says:

        Nell!! Why give him the luxury of a Swiss Clinic when we can supply him with death on the N.H.S at a hospital in Brighton or Staffordshire!!

    • 381
      Dr Feelgood says:

      It’s quiet… too quiet…

      The buggers are up to something.

    • 388
      AnonyMouse says:

      dunno. haven’t seen him for days

    • 473
      Ed's creepy Boy-Wife says:

      Ought to have a competition along the lines of “Where’s Wally ?”
      Anyone who spot’s the tw*t can identify the location then we can track him through his underground bunkers, primary school photosessions, gay clubs etc etc.
      Thing is – we need a name for such a competition.

      What about “Spot the Snot” for a starter ?

  70. 302
    Greychatter says:

    http://playpolitical.typepad.com/uk_conservative/2009/05/exmp-and-now-independent-journalist-michael-brown-explains-on-sky-news-why-no-mp-will-resign-their-s.html

    So that’s why no MP will resign or step down before the next election.
    Plus they will get another years pay and expenses.

  71. 308
    Trough Mixture says:

    There is an Antipodean wench on the news who keeps referring to ‘Johlee Kirkbride’. It’s very annoying

    • 348
      Jethro says:

      Diversity, thass wha’ they call it, ol’ pal!
      If you get the local news from down here, like as not, it’ll be delivered in a Geordie or Scotch accent (and without sub-titles!): but you won’t find the local news in Aberdeen being delivered in a Welsh accent, still less in mine.

  72. 318
    Minister makes "calculation errors" says:

    Work and Pensions minister Tony McNulty has handed back £2,600 received for mortgage interest payments on the property, and another £455 for council tax.

    The Commons Standards Commissioner is investigating his claims while Scotland Yard considers whether to launch a formal investigation.

    But a spokesman for the minister insisted the repayments related to “calculation errors” over the past four years rather than fundamental problems with his claims.

    “These were errors in calculating costs which once identified were immediately rectified,” the spokesman added.

    http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Minister-Tony-McNulty-Repays-Thousands-Of-Pounds-He-Mistakenly-Claimed-On-His-Parents-House/Article/200905415290927?lpos=Politics_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15290927_Minister_Tony_McNulty_Repays_Thousands_Of_Pounds_He_Mistakenly_Claimed_On_His_Parents_House

    • 326
      General public makes "sacking errors" says:

      The general public apologised today after sacking 645 MP’s.

      “These were errors in calculating the number of troughers which once identified were immediately rectified,” a spokesman said.

      One MP was later re-instated.

      • 352
        Jethro says:

        You after my job?
        I thought I was s’posed to be the one to make folk laff.

    • 347
      nell says:

      Doesn’t seem very much for the £60000 he is said to have claimed on his parents’ property for one thing and another does it?

  73. 333
    anonymous says:

    Just watched a programme on BBC1 about benefits cheats. Loads of police, doors being kicked in, people being interviewed – NOT ONE MP IN SIGHT!
    Funny that!

  74. 339
    JimDee says:

    Margaret Moran is proper criminal filth. She is seriously bad trash with fake claims and fake companies thieving from taxpayers on an industrial scale.

    Julie Kirkbride is just run-of-the-mill corrupt scum in parliament. She and her (gay) husband have only thieved a £million between them. However, I’m surprised that organised criminals like Margaret Moran and the filth John (Mike) Booker have got away with it with very little press attention.

    The BBC is an organ of Nu Labour and jew kleptocrats. BBC news is lying filth. It has barley mentioned the organised criminals Margaret Moran and the filth John (Mike) Booker.

    Oh well – come the revolution all the filth in the BBC will have to shot along with the thieving trash in parliament.

    • 444
      Ed's creepy Boy-Wife says:

      Did she claim for that fake suntan also ?
      She’s just too Orange to be taken seriously

  75. 343
    Anonymous says:

    Look what did you expect?

    We have to put up with summary justice ourselves since this government came to power. On the spot fines for all sorts of things, speed cameras, congestion zones etc, we get these things upon us every day. They make it as difficult as possible to appeal these things.

    Enforced unfettered immigration taking over our country and our culture but you mustn’t say any thing for fear of being labelled a racist.

    You reap what you sew, politicians get what they deserve. They really do deserve everything they are going to get and it can’t come too soon. I’m fed up to the back teeth being told what I can and can’t do, but little did I know that these rules are only for the little people and not the ruling elite classes.

    Will any of them pay the money back or be arrested or prosecuted as we all would? Those standing down of course will benefit from huge parachute payments, no wonder they dont want to go now.
    Heads you lose tails they win.
    Then there’s the corrupt MEPs expenses. And you wonder why people are so fuckin angry. They have every right to be. They all knew what they were doing, thats why they spent 4 years trying to prevent disclosure.

    Who would believe the chancellor who levies stamp duty, gets it paid for himself by HofC expenses and flips his main homes several times to avoid CGT? You thinks that’s ok then do you?

    This thing is big and it’s not going away. Now for the really big fish to go!!

  76. 350
    Anonymous says:

    cant wait for the torys to get in….better NHS(shorter waits inAandE and quicker ops .schools,transport (trains on time)FREE bus travel,no entrance fee for museums,helping more with pension credits and winter fuel payments,low interest rates, low inflation etc…….we need you dave…giggle giggle

    • 355
      Anonymous says:

      Yep I agree, so many people like you just so happy to sponge off others as usual.

    • 370
      Anonymous says:

      Yes its a good that there people who will get you through life I suppose. Although in Darwinian terms I can’t see the benefit.

    • 382
      brain dead socialist jerk off rodent says:

      Yeah, we’ll just plant a few more magic money trees you cυnt.

  77. 351

    Kirkbride is a classic example of MP’s just not getting it.

    When the MP’s expenses crisis first broke in the Telegraph Cameron was quick to come out and make pronouncements on ridding parliament of dodgy MP’s and giving confidence back to the people and electorate. However I don’t think he has really grasped the gravitas of the situation.

    He has not removed the whip form 1 MP, he has meekly accepted their standing down at the next election. This is not real leadership it is consensus decision making, which may be well in a chat between friends but it is not the decisive decision making that is needed from a Prime Minister in waiting.

    Cameron is showing all the leadership qualities of Gordon Brown.

    If Cameron thinks he is in touch with the public mood as he has suggested in recent speeches, I’m afraid he needs to reengage with the mood of the nation, because he seems desperately out of touch and is looking as if he is dithering.

    He needs to grasp the MP situation decisively and start sacking MP’s. He then needs to bring real reform proposals to the electorate and ensure the electorate are given the opportunity to give their views and those views listened to, anything else will not be accepted by the electorate.

    Why has the media not put more pressure on Darling, Hoon, Parnell and the rest of the Labour apparatchiks?

    If an MP stands down at the next election and they have completed 12 years as an MP will they be awarded their full pension?

    However if they were to go now would they get that full pension?

  78. 356
    Staffordshire Bull Terrier says:

    Cameron is a waste of space

    posh bloke, no spine, pathetic

    • 368
      Anonymous says:

      If Cameron is pathetic then what does that make Brown?

      Cameron is taking action against the crooks in his party whereas Brown is doing nothing, apart from mumbling about a “star chamber” that nobody bothers attending.

    • 372
      Anonymous says:

      Try to ignore Draper and he might go away. He has lots of debts he should try paying off rather than wasting time posting shite on here.

    • 379
      nell says:

      What good is Gordon?? – Nokia throwing- Uncontrolled rages that mean he has to be actually constrained from violence on occasion ( comment from a Labour Constituency Chairman), edge of a mental breakdown – failed Chancellor – strange fascination with men and antipathy towards women – really poor speech maker – no empathy with the public he is supposed to serve – unable to make decisions – living in a bunker afraid someone will make him face reality – suffering really badly from egomania .

      More importantly – Where’s Gordon??

      I don’t blame his colleagues for hiding him away – Just looking at him is enough to cause nausea – He’s hardly a vote winner is he? And here they are all fighting to keep their, very troughing, profitable seats. Not with Gordon in charge they won’t.

      I feel really sorry for his wife and children. What sort of husband and father does this man make?

      Will Gordon survive the Labour disaster that is coming at the June 4th elections ?

      I hope not.

      • 399
        Engineer says:

        May the fleas of a thousand badgers infest his crotch, and may his arms be too short to scratch.

      • 452
        Doctor Mick says:

        Maybe he has genuinely had a nervous breakdown. He has spent his entire life plotting and planning (even learning to smile) with one goal in mind – to be Prime Minister. And then when he gets it, he finds he’s no fucking good. In fact the worst Prime Minister ever. Nobody likes him, the country is spiralling out of control, his colleagues are manuveuring behind his back; the next election is a certain defeat if not a whitewash…. fuck… even Cherie Blair could have done a better job than this fiasco.

        He loses his number one hound-dog McBride (who would normally deal with all this) and his wee poodle Draper in a untimely expose.

        Add to this the reports of the ever-so mobile phones and lazer printers.

        Then there are the weekly carpetings by HM which thankfully aren’t public but humiliating nonetheless.

        The PMQs which are.

        He’s cracked.

  79. 360
  80. 373
    Tony Blair says:

    Bovvered?

    Am I bovvered?

    Does my face look bovvered?

    • 376
      Tony Blair says:

      You do realise that Gordon is a barking mad psycho don’t you? (giggle)

      • 413
        Psychoanalist with a twitch says:

        Err – we think there may be a case-study in the making. We need the ‘it all finished on global T.V.’ moment to be sure.

  81. 377
    Tony Blair says:

    You do realise that Gordon is a barking mad psycho dont you? (giggle)

  82. 378
    Anonymous says:

    Apparently Margaret Moran was the inspiration for the Fat Slags cartoon in Viz.

  83. 395
    Bill Cash says:

    Next to go?

    • 397
      Johnny Cash says:

      Jailhouse Rock for you, sunshine

    • 430
      nell says:

      Well I hope we aren’t forgetting the Illustrious Baroness in all this upheaval.

      I understand she may be facing eviction from her Housing Association house not least because she earns more than the HA rules say is permissible for a tenant – If that’s the case then her son who occupies an HA house close to hers and who also earns more than the rules allow, should also be asked to leave.

      But she has other questions to answer. What about the £100,000 she claimed for her empty Maidstone flat?

      What about the Uddin Fund for poor Bangladeshis – set up with the support of Kitty Ussher, Margaret Moran and George Galloway and the fact that it was quietly closed , with no-one benefitting,as her Italian Marble palace complete with it’s servants in Bangladesh was being finished. Where are the audited accounts of the Fund?

      Is the HoL investigating? Are the Police doing anything? What about the Inland Revenue?

      Unless these institutions start showing that they are serious about applying the law equally to all people – they are going to face some serious difficulties with law and order.

  84. 401
    52 Labour Mp's want to trough in the upper house says:

    Gordon Brown is facing an escalating ­crisis of confidence inside the parliamentary Labour party as record numbers of his MPs apply to sit in the House of Lords after the next general election.

    In the clearest indication to date that increasing numbers of Labour figures believe the party is heading for a heavy defeat at the hands of David Cameron, the Guardian has learned that at least 52 MPs have formally approached Downing Street to be given places in the upper house.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/may/28/gordon-brown-labour-crisis

    • 423
      papasmurf says:

      What better story to cement the need for Lrds reform. That they have the audacity to even think that it is their right to trough off to the Lords to continue their raids into the public purse.

      It is enough to want to p*ss in their Pimms.

    • 440
      It doesn't add up... says:

      There needs to be a campaign for no Dissolution Honours for this band of dissolutes. No Birthday Honours either.

      • 455
        It doesn't add up... says:

        Cos we’re all peers together
        That’s why we go round in pairs
        Yes we’re all peers together
        Excuse us while we go upstairs

      • 456
        Speechless at low we have sunk says:

        Not one of these leeches has had the decency to resign without having their balls ripped off first. Not one.

      • 520
        Ed's creepy Boy-Wife says:

        Agreed.
        Extraordinary measures for Extraordinary times.
        No honours for current MPs or current PMs at the end of this Government.
        I’m sure this meets McTwat’s expectations.

    • 450
      Lord Gideon Partisan BabblingBigot says:

      Too late piggies!

      The pressure for a fully Elected House oif Lords will be virtually unstoppable as the Party leaders scramble to enact reforms that make them seem more in touch with the people.

      • 470
        It doesn't add up... says:

        Do you think an elected Lords will look any better than the elected Commons? The prime role of the Lords is as a legislative revising chamber. I don’t think ex MPs elected via a party list is a good way to go about it. You need breadth of expertise, not populism, for an effective Lords.

      • 676
        Mary Hinge says:

        I want an elected Lords that ex-MPs are banned from.
        Also an elected Commons that ex-Lords are banned from.

    • 620
      Augeas says:

      Shameless thieving bastards

  85. 404
    • 410
      Chantelle O'Shea says:

      Outrageous. Where is the backbone of these so-called leaders? Get rid of him now.

  86. 408
    Chantelle O'Shea says:

    Matters not a jot what party you belong to. This kind of corruption knows no political boundaries. It’s staggering.

  87. 409
    Durotriges says:

    I’m a bit worried the Daily Telegraph is gettig all the credit for this when it is really down to Guido & us

  88. 418
    Esther says:

    My public are literally begging to stand. What do you all think I should do?

    • 432
      Dack Blog says:

      Get a new battery for your hearing aid.

    • 435
      Anonykins says:

      Get Doc Cox to fuck you up the shitter and then stand on a dual ticket?

    • 441
      nell says:

      Margaret Moran is going so there is no need for you to stand in Luton South now.

      You could start looking at a few Labour seats such EBalls or YCooper – Up North – they are major troughers who need to go as well.

      • 491
        It doesn't add up... says:

        I don’t think Esther wants to move up North. Gosh, she might need a constituency home and have to have some expenses for it. I had thought of suggesting Salford as a suitable constituency. Harrow East (McNulty) has the virtue of being close to home, but Labour should lose it regardless – majority was only 4,000 odd last time.

        • 514
          Cyril(')(,)Fletcher says:

          She doesn’t want to move “up north” to Luton either.

          She wont be seen on the Thameslink or the Tube.

          Let’s remember that she has admitted that she was responsible for the “revolution in child protection”

          How many dead?

        • 528
          Doctor Mick says:

          How far North will her free bus pass carry the old bint?

  89. 419
    Chantelle O'Shea says:

    52 Labour troughers ask for peerage…

  90. 420
    Anonymous says:

    Cash is in the shitter, aye.

    Bastardoooooooo.

  91. 434
    Chantelle O'Shea says:

    Margo McDonald most frugal MP. Charged a mere thirty two quid.

  92. 437
    Questions for Ca$h says:

    Bill Cash’s £15,000 for his daughter was all within the rules.
    Nothing to see here. Move along please.

  93. 437
    Dr Feelgood says:

    Not too much on this yet…

    Speaker ‘leaned on’ over expenses
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8071731.stm

    Sir Stuart Bell* claims Michael Martin was pressured by “very senior political sources” into fighting a legal battle to keep MPs’ expenses secret.

    Did anyone listen to the R4 show on this?

    So that will be Gordon who is responsible then…

    *Tosser, but might be in the know.

    • 451
      nell says:

      Michl Mrtin ‘leaned on’!!! ????

      That’s like saying Al Capone was pressured into decisions by his lieutenants!!!!

      I suspect McBride is sitting somewhere in Brown’s cellar still putting out these rubbish stories.

      • 510
        Dr Feelgood says:

        nell, if I understand your comment, you may have got the wrong end of the stick. This could be a very powerful anti-Brown story.

        Bell is one of Martin’s best mates, and the source of the story – not a confidential source/spindoctor.

        About the only person who could put pressure on Martin would be Brown.

        Therefore, Brown is responsible for trying to keep everything to do with expenses secret, the system/rules, and the whole fiasco.

        • 608
          Senior Citizen says:

          That is called Perversion of the course of justice when you know theft is taking place on aand you act to cover it up by any means..

          Simple really

          Brown and Grobals are simple criminals…

    • 462
      Indigo says:

      Yes I heard the proggie on R4 – I was fully expecting the beeboid to conclude that the rot all started with Thatcher but, in the end, the conclusion was that the MPs have only themselves to blame, having passed up several chances to put the expenses system on a more honest footing.

      Still waiting for my MP and his MP partner to appear anywhere. Not one of those listed as “saints” yet …

  94. 446
    Madine is Batshit Insane says:

    Methinks Dave might just be regretting standing by Madine Dotties as the Telegraph does indeed have the bit between it’s teeth after she went on a half arsed crazy rant against the Barclay Bros.

    If the Telegraph weren’t out to nail Tories before Madine’s withdrawn allegations they sure as fuck are now.

    Well played Madine.

    And well played Iain Dale. Finger on the pulse sir.
    Not out of touch in the slightest.

  95. 448
    Snowball says:

    The expenses issue has become a melee (Wilkpedia – disorganized close combat …. locked together in combat with no regard to group tactics or fighting as an organized unit; each participant fights as an individual).

    Now it really would not suprise me if a member of Labour released the files to The Telegraph. In a melee there is no knowing who is going to be the victor. Both sides are suffering damage in the expenses issue. It is now causing more damage to the Tories than Labour. Moats and chandeliers make for better front pages than mundane tax evasion.

    Think about it; before this, Labour were definately going to lose the next General Election. Now who nows?

    • 460
      Engineer says:

      They’ll still lose big. The question now is the balance of seats between Conservative and LibDem, possibly with some independents thrown into the mix.

    • 461
      Doctor Mick says:

      I know.

      Labour are definately going to lose the next election notwithstanding the BBC’s efforts.

      If they get rid of Brown they might just avoid slipping into third behind the Liberals.

      • 481
        nell says:

        ‘Notwithstanding BBC efforts ‘?

        The BBC are going to pull every stop for labour – who else is going to keep the BBC in its ineffectual, partisan, trouging habits?

        Hopefully the Tories will finally bring its ‘licensing’ days to an end and make it function as a proper business to sink or swim on merit with everyone else.

        • 492
          Ratsniffer says:

          You’re right Nell, the senior Beeboids are quaking with fear at the thought of their idiological masters suddenly being out of office. Spot the way Al Beeb spin stories of naughty tories buying duck sheds but conveniently forget Zanulabour ministers getting their fingers caught in the till.

          In Beebland, labour = good, tory = bad.

          This is something that the boy Dave is going to have to sort out once he gets in.

          I hope he has the balls to do what is required.

      • 525
        Doctor Mick says:

        That’s what I meant nellie, notwithstanding the BBC’s efforts to prevent it

    • 463
      nell says:

      Sorry Snowball but have you truly taken a good look at Gordon lately ?

      What attributes do you think she has to win the next GE?

      • 473
        grandma B says:

        Serve Labour right if they did win the election. They’d have to do all the things they’ve been putting off until after the election.

    • 471
      Scorched Earth says:

      It can also be thought of as part of a Scorched Earth tactic as it’s known in military parlance. Wreaking total devastation and leaving nothing behind.

      And whether deliberate or not some of us always suspected that it would happen. Because the expenses were always going to be explosive even in their redacted form, long before the Telegraph started printing them.

      The ever likelier desperate moves by the Labour Party for Proportional Representation also falls within this tactic leaving the Conservatives forever fighting UKIP but also opening Labour up to attacks from left wing and other extremist Parties as well as making a hung Parliament hugely probable.

      • 517
        where is Gene Hunt when you need him says:

        We can only hope it backfires and Scotland Yard grow some balls and nail these bastards

    • 478

      tax evasion? Mundane? No.

  96. 475
  97. 477
    righty right wing (mrs) says:

    Just as McMental insanely & unreasonably clings to power, Cameron clings on to his disgraced MPs.

    I assume they keep the Tory whip until they stand down?

    What utter cowardice from both leaders of the main partys.

    These disgraced MPs should resign & force by elections – & Cameron if he had any balls would insist they do so.

    But no.

    How did we reach this sorry state of affairs?

    Dissolve this utterly corrupt & rotten Parliament – & where are the Met?

    • 486
      nell says:

      Hiding in the bunker with Gordon?

      • 501
        Georgy Zhukov says:

        When Gordon does come out of the bunker and surveys the rubble strewn political landscape will he shoot himself and ask Prescott to burn his body I wonder?

        No, he’ll probably be found in an ambulance disguised as a nurse trying to scurry back to Scotland

        • 513
          Anonymous says:

          That greedy c unt Prescot would probably eat his bloated rotten carcass and claim for it ! Well its an ilness innit !

        • 554
          Sir Mallard (my expenses are private) TwatterSteen says:

          Damn you Sir!

          I was going to say that. :lol:

  98. 479
    Mob Justice says:

    Well spotted Mr Paxo. Mob Justice it is.

    Trouble is the Mob is hardly being unreasonable for wanting these crooks and thieves to fuck off.

  99. 482
    Ratsniffer says:

    Labour will lose; that’s a certainty. The public loathe what NuLabour has done to this country, and all the more so since they have been revealed as greedy trough snafflers. Yes there are some guilty tories, and lib dems, but they are easilly outnumbered by NuLab swine, who have systematically been fleecing us with stealth taxes for years to pay for their pathetic social engineering experiments, while all the time gorging on the largess of the taxpayers. Do us all a favour. Call an election..now.

    • 601
      English Liberation Front says:

      Not so sure judging by the Labour Rent-A-Crowd on QT. Seems that more and more people are applauding stupid comments by the ruling fascists. Flint seemed to have her own fan club.

      This country must deserve socialism.

  100. 488
    Peter Robusall says:

    Well, I must say, after all the bad headlines about DUP Peter and Iris Robinson’s expenses recently, its great to see that they’ve had a bit of good fortune.
    The Planning Service have given permission for a development of 38 homes to be tastefully developed in their (and a few neighbours) east Belfast mansions back gardens.
    Nothing questionable about that decision of course, guvnor….especially when its the planning service under the control of their DUP colleague Sammy Wilson. Full planning permission granted, never mind the 20 objections.

    There’s a stroke of luck, eh?

    Oink, oink.

  101. 496
    Ewanme says:

    Faberge doin well on Cutie , so far .

    E x .

  102. 497
    Indigo says:

    Reading the latest revelation in the DT – Bill Cash this time -

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5402742/MPs-expenses-Bill-Cash-claimed-15000-to-pay-his-daughter-rent.html

    it occurs to me that MPs have created a new stratum in British society: a sort of Philistine priest caste that is not only paid a salary (three times the national average wage) but also has its luxuries paid for by the electorate. Words cannot express the contempt I feel for the greed and undeserved sense of entitlement of these people.

    Look at this,

    Asked why he lived in clubs rather than his own flat, he said: “I just didn’t and that’s all there is to it. I was nomadic at the time. It was around the time I was moving between two places and I was moving around.”

    See that – we are paying for him to live like a rock star but clearly he thinks it is impertinent of anyone to question his lifestyle.

    • 503
      The Rolling Stones says:

      Me and keef are goona look out some old receipts we had from our coke dealer , so we can claim it back !

    • 518
      Senior Citizen says:

      I have always been a Tory voter .. I am getting on now

      I have recently started reading this blog because of the disgraceful McBride episode

      I find it stimulating and amusing..

      But I must say that even though I awlays knew labour was a scam, I am astounded by all these senior Tory MPs making faudulent claims.

      Most of them have “private means” as we used to say (as I do !) and I simply cannot understand what collective madness struck them to make all these obscene “expenses claims” for years now…and even dream that they could get away with it…

      I am thereforee a floating voter now…Libertas looks good for the European elections.. but I cannot see anyone halfway serious to vite for in the General Election…

      Parliament as a whole, Commons and Loerds, have become deeply corrupt now

      It will be very difficult to clean it up

      I am shocked like many of you by the complete absence of real police and judicial action..as if our worst fears of a politicised police and judicial system are coming true..

      Something we have foiught against for centuries here in Britain

      This is all deeply saddening..and worrying…and to think that the Prime Minister did not even pass on President Sarkozy’s invitation to HM the Queen for the Normandy Ceremony…just revolting…

      How low can a Prime Minister sink ?

      • 531
        Mercian says:

        Like you I am an old man, and disgusted by the corruption and malaise of our ‘political class’.

        Re the invitation. I thought HM just hadn’t been invited, but if Brown didn’t pass the invite on, then it is unspeakably vile. Mind you, as head of state, Sarkozy should have invited HM directly.

      • 542
        Anonymous says:

        PM is Scots-there are NO DEPTHS LOW ENOUGH to which he will sink!

        ALL the liebourites N of the border have been doing it for years up here!

      • 559
        Senior Citizen says:

        1) Mr Sarkozy’s spokesman said that there was “an open invitation tfor a representative from Great Britain” to come to NormandyHe sent it to the “British Government”
        2) On the point of “Anonymous”, you are probably right. But Labour English and Welsh MPs I used to know would never have allowed a bunch of Gorbals gangsters to take over the Labour Party, the Government and Parliament without their saying anything !

        That is what is so serious and devastating

        • 595
          Engineer says:

          Agree entirely with all the above. However, I am a little more optimistic than some; things have now become so bad with the economy and government generally, with MPs expenses, and with the apparent democratic deficit in Westminster and Brussels that the usually fairly phlegmatic British are peeved enough to demand better of their elected representatives. Things will change, both at the European election, and at the General Election, when we get one. It won’t necessarily be quick, and we’ll have to keep shouting at our politicians for a bit, but we will change things for the better.

  103. 499
    Anonymous says:

    Im going out at the weekend to buy myself some nice digital cameras, i pods and any fucking gizzmo I can get my hands on. Then Im gonna send the bill to Jackie Fuckin Smith and her husband ! I suggest you do the same.

  104. 505
    Anonymous says:

    That Libdem girl on QT should shut the fuck up go out and get a proper job for a while since she’s just out of school.

  105. 506
    Anonymous says:

    Obviuosly fancies herself as part of the “Career Politician caste” which has infested our Parliament.

  106. 509
    Anonymous says:

    Caroline Flint I wouldnt mind if the stupid bint used tax payers money to get rid of those bags under her eyes.

    • 511
      Right-wing social engineer says:

      Flint should be demoted to Hannan’s cum sponge.

    • 519
      Anonymous says:

      Flint can’t do much about her fat ankles and tree trunk legs but she could try squeezing her blackheads or even put a hot flannel over her face occasionally.

    • 536
      Ed's creepy Boy-Wife says:

      She “employs” her husband at our cost. Just like the others.
      He has a job description she tells us .. oh, that’s OK then.
      I suspect he was chosen based on his typing, organisational and administration skills, and was more qualified than all others who applied for the same position and were all offered the same T&Cs & salary.
      I’m sure there are audit trails and notes on all the interviewees who were originally considered, and the best candidate was actually appointed in line and in spirit with socialist non-descrimination policies.
      Like F*ck he was !!!!!!!!!!

  107. 516
    Obit Scribbler says:

    Saint Daniel just buried himself. Sharpening my pencil.

  108. 521
    Roll on the weekend says:

    Balls and Balls

  109. 523
    Dack Blog says:

    Take that spade off Flint, someone.

  110. 524
    ahhhh bisto says:

    Bisto parties ? Good one .

  111. 526
    Anonymous says:

    Carloine Flint has just said “The European union has contributed to our economic sucess ” Fuck me is that not the most stupid comment ever at a time like this. The audience are aghast !

    • 567

      The same European Union which has scraped our fishing grounds dry? That has banned our beef, even after it was declared safe? That is bleeding us dry with our “contributions”. That is stifling us with bureacracy. That is so utterly corrupt that it makes our Houses of Parliament seem like convent of Mother Theresas.

      Oh THAT fucking European Union! I thought she meant another.

    • 570
      Dack Blog says:

      Christ. Think how bad things would be if it hadn’t.

  112. 527
    Anonymous says:

    Shes now trying to backpedal by mentioning the BNP , fuck me this is desperate stuff !

  113. 530
    Anonymous says:

    Flint has imploded tonight, she is fucked, bye bye love !

    • 533
      Right-wing social engineer says:

      Flint will redeem herself if she gets it on with Swinson, who has something strangely alluring about her.

      • 579
        insert-coin-here says:

        Is it her tramp like rosey nose or just the thought of shutting her the fuck up by punching her kidneys into a mush while kicking her back doors in?

  114. 537
    Staffordshire Bull Terrier says:

    I wonder how much phlegm, urine and fæces Gordon Brown consumes on an average week from unhappy waiters and chefs serving “special” meals.

  115. 541
    GC says:

    Flint was previously married to a Borat look-a-likey Saief Zammel

  116. 543
    Snowball says:

    Tax avoidance may be illegal, arranging your affairs to minimise tax is acceptable. People are been bored by the arguments about the flipping to avoid tax etc.

    It is much easier for the NuLabour leftie leaning media to print stories about Tories in castles abusing the system to pay for moats and chandeliers. Talk about give the dog a bone.

    Hopefully we will get down to some real good Labour dirt soon.

  117. 547
    Fred Goodin's undersea Goose Mansion says:

    Flint’s a hilarious car crash.
    What moron media advisor spod thought putting her up was a good idea ?
    Christ she needs to fuck off.

    Farage is being a bit twatty but captian youtube Hannan is doing all his hard work for him. Poor Dave doesn’t seem to get that putting a rabid eurosceptic up only strengthens UKIP.

    Farage also sounded weasely and piggy about his Parties Expenses.

  118. 548
    Anonymous says:

    Gawd QT is boring.

    Root & Branch, Star Chanber, Committees etc blah fucking blah

    What a load of old bollocks

  119. 555
    Subversive Cameraman says:

    Did you notice how I keep focusing on the black bloke?

  120. 556
    Anonymous says:

    F** me – Fiona Phillips is going to be on.

    Gawd – that’ll be a classic episode

    • 564
      Dack Blog says:

      Is she thinking of throwing her hat in the trough?

    • 644
      Anonymous says:

      Absolutely – her incisive questioning of Brown on GMTV will always be classic political journalism – it goes something like this – “It’s not fair Gordon everyone is being really horrible to you and how is Sarah and the children ? I must pop in next time I”m passing for coffee !”

      AND she was bloody useless on Strictly Come Dancing !!!!!!!!

  121. 560
    Sir Mallard (my expenses are private) TwatterSteen says:

    Shut the fuck up Farage you colossal twat.
    Let Flint dig her own grave and stop sounding like a pompous fuckwit.

    • 587
      Bob A Job says:

      Farage did well this evening. He gets my vote

      • 604
        Dack Blog says:

        He wasn’t honest about the allowances. And I didn’t notice him answer the ‘relative employee’ question – doesn’t ‘he’ (may be wrong) employ his brother?

      • 656
        Private Sponge says:

        “Farage gets my vote”. Oh really, he’s been at the EU how many years ? claimed £2,000,000 in expenses, and what has he achieved ? absolutely nothing !

        • 664
          Winston Smith V says:

          Go on to youtube and you’ll see him taking on the EU in its rotten parliament. I like him for that.

  122. 568
    Cheshire Cat says:

    Just watched QT – a whole hour, and nobody asked that cow Flint whether she’d read the Lisbon Treaty yet.

    I was really looking forward to watching the bitch squirm.

    Still, Dan Hannan and PY Gerbeau were good value.

  123. 569
    lolol says:

    what a boring QT tonight, it was a PPB on behalf of UKIP and the f*kin Greens

  124. 571
    1381 says:

    Question Time!
    What a farce.
    All slanging off one particular party who has no right to defend itself and cannot respond to the allegations because of a fascist style ‘banning order’ by the elite.
    Just and fair – NOT.
    Why are they not on the panel?.
    Because of blatant political censorship.
    Daniel Hannan waffles on about those who died in past wars and who would oppose these non people.
    Funny then, how many of their candidates are ex military.
    I thought our people died for freedom and democracy.
    There was none of that on Question Time tonight, as far as I could see.
    Stacked and stitched up and completely unfair.

    • 622

      Hannan was also completely wrong about the reason why Australia, New Zealand and Canada supported Britain in two world wars. It was precisely because Britain was the ‘Home’ country, even if they’d never been there.

    • 628
      caesars wife says:

      I think farage is entering Hoon territory ,subtext “I get paid loads of dosh and guess what you vote for me ” doh

      flint was brilliant, butting in shut up shut up .does my bum look big in this .

      dan hannah misfire laser cash seeking tomahawk launched off into brussels

      Jo swinson yeah but no but yeah but , only with fashion sense and an education

      P Y yerbo france has beocome a socialist state??? , can do business over here

      caroline lucas , did not say how much she troughs

      Still berlusconi , denies he did anything with an 18yr old lingerie model , could be her statement hard to tell

  125. 572
    Paxman, Jeremy, Fuckwit by appointment to nulabour says:

    Yah, I’m really intelligent OK and I hate fucking Tories so good riddance but I still soak the tax-payer through my BBC licence-payer funded enormous salary and pension and I’ll do everything within my power to stop the Tories being elected in any way I can, even though I’m not a politician and have a mickey-mouse degree in history or english or some other poxy arty-farty-lefty-wank subject which is right on with my politically correct chums in the BBC.

    Fuck you, Plebs.

  126. 573
    Ewanme says:

    Na night from Ewanme an all her familiars x .

    E x .

  127. 576
    Anonymous says:

    Just what we need in hour direst hour with Parliament in chaos and the economy fucked. Fiona Philips and Esther Rantzen, fuck me !

    • 581
      Dack Blog says:

      I’m assuming that wasn’t a request.

    • 619
      City of Vice says:

      Esther Rantzen?

      Is this what the country’s come to?

      • 646
        Trough Mixture says:

        There was a clip of Moo-ran’s constituency office door on telly last night.

        It has ‘THAT’S LIFE’ scrawled upon it in foot-high red paint.

        Wht a shame old Cyril Fletcher and his maroon smoking jacket are no longer around. He could be Speaker and read out Early Day Odd Odes.

      • 654
        Anonymous says:

        Lol, apparently so. Fucking dismal. But who can you trust?

  128. 585
    Anonymous says:

    Notice Flint saying that being opposed to the EU is basically “racist” lol – they really are pathetic, hope she loses her seat

  129. 589
    Anonymous says:

    Bill Cash next.

  130. 590
    Conspiracy theorist in the tin foil underpants says:

    In the world of political tactics,who is behind the leaks? If its Brown, as some suggest,his plan to keep the cabinets heads down and rely on stage managed appearances,and push on the more newsworthy stories of moats and duck houses. Sounds like Mandy’s kind of war. Have they suckered Dave into trying to play tough,thereby pushing him into a corner,and concentrating the agenda on who the next tory to be sacked will be. Will this plan work in the long run? If nulab can wear the voters boredom threshold down,Hoons averice will seem mundane by comparison.

  131. 591
    Spedo Shorts says:

    Anybody noticed how much on telly the pigs are seprating into their own pig-styes – the tory pigstye – the labour pigstye – the libdem pigstye – all of them reccommending “solutions” tha would be in line with their own party line and detrimental to their opponet’s party line. They ALWAYS miss out on the possibillity of the public having a say…..all this is just a game to them…..
    “The More it Changes the More it Stays the Same”
    ================================
    (sorry I dont know the French way of saying it).

    ___________________________
    all hope remains in Spedo Shorts

  132. 599
    Anonymous says:

    Shamed MPs cash in on golden goodbyes by staying put until General Election
    Forced to quit.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

    So now you know why no one wants to go now.

    • 606
      Cross Party Consumption says:

      Another day. business as usual

    • 615
      Boris says:

      The only way to deal with these crooks is to put them in Court and order them to repay all their illlegalk gains – plus penalties and tax charges..

      And let them loose of the streets after…no prison… but cripple them financially…

  133. 603
    Anonymous says:

    Tory and Liebour combined membership less than regular attendance weekly at C of E church services.

    According to the left the C of E is on its last legs.

    How main stream are the main parties??????????????

    • 611
      MI5 says:

      The Labour is actually BANKRUPT

      WHo is giving secret guarantees to stop the Labour party being wound up ?

      Is it our friend Ronnie Cohen and his private equity friends who have so benefited from tax breaks given to private equity firms by New Labour ?!

  134. 607
    Anonymous says:

    Remember, no one has actually yet stood down. The only pig going in June is the speaker. No one else is going. More pig feed for the trough please.

  135. 612
    Over the garden gate says:

    The economies fucked. Parliament is a den of thieves and chancers. Public Services are crippled with spivs and PC stasi. the MSM is composed of careerist celeb wannabees. The streets are running alive with verminous immoral arseholes. the justice system is only concerned with cost effective law.
    Public attention is primarily concerned with 15 minutes of fame.
    Still. Mus’nt grumble

  136. 623
    Doris says:

    The politicians are poorly paid (£64K p.a. ….shit money, that) and so many of them, in order to make ends meet, are forced to systematically plunder the country’s coffers and take on other employment too. For their pains, they’re forced to become the CEO’s, non-executive directors, chairmen, lobbyists and board members of all the multi-nationals, conglomerates and big businesses operating in the world today. Operating without scruple and vision in their political career, it stands to reason this is the way they’ll operate in their business career. So, when it comes to who shall get arms, medicine, food, water, nuclear technology, all those big commodities that’ll become more and more important as the world’s resources dwindle under the weight of a burgeoning population and the shrinking land to support it, they’ll act as they have for time immemorial; by pocketing the profit and flipping to Bora Bora
    They’d sell their grannies for a shilling and, as we’ve seen in the behaviour of those who have stood down so far, they’ll stop at nothing to shift the blame and invent excuses for their lamentable consciences. These people, these ex-politicians that gain so much by being of the ruling elite will sign up to anything just so they can open up three bottles of port instead of two, they’ll use up all the earth’s resources and destroy anyone in their path. (Such a pleasure to hear that, at last, Dutch Shell are being hauled into court to answer the charges surrounding the murder of Ken Saro Wiwa…..but watch them fight it; it’ll not be a pretty sight, there’ll be blood-and-claret-aplenty….and keep a careful eye on the witnesses). They’ll use up all the earth’s resources just so they can have nine homes not eight, they’ll give out the free smokes to third-world peoples, thereby creating a power-base of third-world people with first class cancer, just so they can keep their BAT shares dealing at a high, they’ll invent reasons for a war and prosecute it in defiance off all the truths and public outcry….. The way they’ve behaved in the spotlight of politics will be as nothing to the way they’ll behave in the shadows of big business. Be afraid, be very afraid.

    • 668
      It doesn't add up... says:

      You should get out more to see how some other countries are run. For example, the Abacha family was found to be holding around $4bn in Swiss accounts siphoned off the Nigerian economy (and that was just what was traced). Put it another way: Abacha could have funded the entire HoC troughing bill for around 20 years personally. The tribal and religious divides within Nigeria remain as important as they were 40 years ago during the segregation of Biafra (the oil rich, Ibo dominated province of the SE) – an event that led to mass starvation as well as “civil” war.

      Perhaps too you should look more closely at the activities of the “communist” Chinese in supplying arms to Mugabe’s henchmen, or some other undesirables in the Horn of Africa. There is no crisis of conscience about that – they are using cold political calculation to secure access to resources for themselves.

      The human condition is not isolated to any one particular group. It’s actually much rarer to have a relatively uncorrupt bunch in charge: when it happens, it tends to lead to better economic and social development. Paradoxically, it also is associated with the development of empires – Rome’s and Britain’s being two examples.

  137. 625
    dirtyden says:

    The Telegraph’s still targeting the wrong bloody troughers. Wtf is going on? When do we see some real Liebour blood. They sodding-well deserve it just as much as the Tories – if not more so.

    I’m getting very pissed-off with the Sleazygraph’s one-eyed coverage.

    And I don’t care who knows it neither. S’there.

  138. 626
    PB says:

    Brilliant

  139. 629

    The biter bit! – A must watch video on MEPs allowances:

  140. 631
    Spedo Shorts says:

    Bill Cash – oink oink

  141. 636
    Gnu Statesman says:

    ah yes .. … .. … hmmmm . .. . … was Broon circumsized. . … … .. ..

    • 637
      Spedo Shorts says:

      Funny you should say that. I hear tell Broon worked at that before becoming an MP. He said the money was shite but there were plenty of tips doing circumcisions – did he do you too fuck face?

    • 638
      Spedo Shorts says:

      well that was an intelligent comment fro you…

  142. 640
    Mr Christopher says:

    But not a single arrest yet!

    Only when we have seen miscreants in public office dragged away in chains will we know that those that are left are honest enough to trusted

    • 667
      Steve Expat says:

      Hear here!

      Compare how the “authorities” are treating MPs compared to the rest of us, Mrs Mranil Patel is being PROSECUTED for FRAUD by Harrow council after not informing them that she had changed address while her daugher’s school application was being processed. She faces on conviction a fine of 5000 pounds and a year’s imprisonment :-O

      Good article in the Labourgraph about this, now let’s see some MPs in court please!
      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/5335572/The-great-school-scam.html

      • 675
        1381 says:

        Two wrongs don’t make a right.
        People doing this should go down for deception and fraud.
        Some other kid gets the short straw – one who has honest parents.

  143. 643
    !Otsumkash Tbungme, Traffic Warden says:

    Did tred am gettin long in de toot so Ah’m callin de truck an havin it towed away.

  144. 649
    Anonymous says:

    Why not suspend all further claims and payments from the date an MP announces they are leaving and/or when they lose their party whip for financial misbehaviour? That would surely put a stop to people hanging on until an election in order to gain a golden goodbye payment?

    Also, why on earth are these discredited people being allowed to swan off on long paid holidays leaving behind this stinking mess of their own making. If they were at all serious about putting matters to rights they would want to roll up their sleeves and stay at their posts until the whole affair is fully sorted out,and when a final resolution is reached that should be confirmed as being acceptable by the Public in a General Election – after all it is our money and we are entitled to have the final word on whatever arrangements are reccommended to resolve the situation – and any MP who does not choose to knuckle down and get on with the sorting out process should have the whip withdrawn and be sacked immediately! :-(

  145. 653
    Private Sponge says:

    And the very next thing we will see, next week, is many of the CARDBOARD ballot boxes tampered with. Please don’t try and kid yourself it will be a fair election. England, the new Zimbabwe of the Northern Hemisphere.

    • 669
      Anonymous says:

      The cardboard ballot box. Labours Weapon of Mass Distortion.

    • 674
      1381 says:

      Why bother.
      You can apply for a hundred postal votes at a time, apparently.
      Haven’t they caught this happening in Labour constituencies.
      As a judge rightly observed – we are a banana republic.

  146. 657
    Jonathan says:

    Prize for the most arrogant comment made by a troughing MP to date:-

    “What is lawful is appropriate”.

    Bill Cash MP for Stafford (expose on this creature’s expenses in this morning’s – Friday’s – Daily Telegraph).

    With arrogant and out of touch individuals like this in the House of Commons, no wonder things have deteriorated to the level they have. Oh, and by the way, Cash’s daughter, a barrister, is aspiring to become a Conservative MP and follow daddy’s trotters to the trough. Some of the worst abusers of the Parliamentary expenses’ system to date have been lawyers (Hoon for example), so the last thing we want are yet more of the same (whatever political party they belong to) being returned to the Commons following a General Election.

  147. 658
    Stronghold Barricades says:

    Today programme reporting that over 50 Labour MP’s have approached Drowning Street about being elevated to the Lords after their defeat at the next election where they are expecting a whitewash

    What makes these people believe that we’ll allow them to take any further part in our political system and continue troughing when we already know that they couldn’t keep their hands out of the till whilst they were in the Commons?

    • 665
      Chantelle O'Shea says:

      Nice to know that there’s the House of Lords isn’t it?. Unelected officials making laws that determine so much of our lives. Here’s to British democracy and justice…

  148. 660
    Anonymous says:

    At least Ruth Kelly’s £31,000 redecoration is getting some exposure in the North West news even though her local party are not censuring her.

  149. 661
    parish councillor says:

    “My MP’s comment Easter Monday “When all this nonsense over MP’s expenses is over…..”

    What effing planet are they on?

    • 679
      Jonathan says:

      As I have said several times now, they (the MPs/pigs ) still don’t get it, do they?

  150. 666
    Steve Expat says:

    I was doing something for French radio with Ben Brogan yesterday – he was asked how much longer the paper might continue exposing MPs.

    “He explained the newspaper has got a team as much as forty-strong working on the story, and so far they’ve managed to get through around 200 MPs. That’s about a third! – Could be a long summer…. “

    - Joey Jones, Sky News
    http://blogs.news.sky.com/boultonandco/Post:c411b084-e8a8-4349-8862-2ba1db8aeedb

    Well if it’s taken them a month to go through less than 30% of the total number of MPs’ expenses, it could be well into August before the DT are done with their scoop – obviously lots more blood on the (new John Lewis) carpet to come ;-)

    Rebekah Wade at the Sun must be crying herself to sleep every night for having turned the story down!



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