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Lord Lamont told ITV News…
“I think the PM is just human and Ed Balls is a pretty irritating person”
Go? To jail?
He’s got a ‘get out free’ card as they all have, due to anticipated increased overcrowding.
FUCK THE POLICE! WE WILL HAVE TO ADJUDICATE THE HANGINGS OURSELVES.
CARPENTER: BUILD US THE GALLOWS, ROPEMAKER: BRING US THE ROPE.
LET US STOP FUCKING ABOUT AND IF THE ROZZERS WON’T DO THEIR JOBS THEN WE, THE GOOD CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY, WILL HAVE TO HANG THE THIEVES OURSELVES!
WHO IS FOR?
I’m in , honey . I’ll bring some cucumber sarnies .
E x .
I’ll bring the wine. Is a ’98 Puillac acceptable ?
I’d prefer a Palmer.
>Is a ‘98 Puillac acceptable?
For a hanging dear boy? Certainly not!
You need something lighter, more refreshing, something to raise a toast with.
I’ll bring a couple of Dom Perignon White Gold Jeroboams.
But isn’t Dom Perignon a trifle passe with cucumber sandwiches. With cheese and pickle perhaps.
It’s a nice day. I would break out the Pimms. Use some decent gin and plenty of it. Pip-pip!
I’d better keep out of this. I’d be quite happy with a couple of pints of Marston’s Pedigree.
Is this a black tie event, or will a lounge suit suffice?
Full top and tails for me old boy. Wouldn’t be seen dangling in anything else.
You can’t have any of my wope. A wobber wobbed me of mine fwom my wurwal weetweat when wumours awent wound about my expenses.
But isn’t Dom Perignon a trifle passe with cucumber sandwiches. With cheese and pickle perhaps. Also a claret stain can help disguise the blood splashes from the drawing and quartering.
His ‘explanation’: “… sloppy accounting in a very loose and shambolic allowance system”. OK, so let’s see if I’ve got this right. It’s ‘fraud’ if I do it, but ‘sloppy accounting’ if an MP does it. And it’s ‘conspiracy to defraud’ if someone helps me to do the fraud, but it’s a ‘shambolic allowance system’ if the conspirators are in the parliamentary Fees Office.
Is that about it?
You are NWA and I claim my £5
I’d prefer Madame Guillotine so I could get on with my knitting.
Yes yes – the blood of a condemned man – much more effective than hydrocortisone.
Don’t forget to clean the guilloutine between sentence executions. The troughing relatives may try claim compensation for hepatitis or hiv infections owing to nhs-level hygiene standards
The Guillotine is so quick. However if we could flog them and flay them first it could prove entertaining.
Yes, that would be lovely but the wine must wait.
FIRST OF ALL WE’VE GOT TO START STRINGING THESE MOTHERFUCKING THIEVES UP!
WE WILL CELEBRATE AFTER THE FIRST HUNDRED THIEVES HAVE BEEN HANGED AND NOT BEFORE!
I loved the contrast between the quiet polite bit and when you went all shouty.
I’m with you. I’ll bring some hard hats. 17 stone of lard dropping on you could be dangerous.
Can I buy the TV rights?
Rope? Barbed wire is too god for these fuckers.
I’ll do the catering.
Subsidised – just like these CaUNTS get in Westminster
LET US STOP FUCKING ABOUT AND IF THE ROZZERS WON’T DO THEIR JOBS THEN WE, THE GOOD CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY,
This encapsulates the true stupidity of Guido’s mob.
Execution? For the crime of theft? Like in Saudi Arabia or somewhere like that?
Yes indeed the fat fuckwits of England are becoming a mob. Just like Coleraine last Sunday.
There’s still one thing missing from your scenario: a mob leader
YES, YOU ARE A Hunt!
AND YOUR STATEMENT OF DEFIANCE HAS BEEN JUDGED BY THE CITIZENS’ COURT TO BE EVIDENCE THAT YOU ARE A COLLABORATOR.
GUILTY AS CHARGED.
STRING UP THE COLLABORATOR!
IMMORAL C’UNTS LIKE YOU CREATED THIS BLOODTHIRSTY MOB SO DON’T START BLEATING WHEN THE LYNCHINGS BEGIN.
TAKE YOUR HANGING LIKE A MAN.
I always prefer a nice St Emilion with a good hanging, an Ausone ’82 perhaps.
I’ll ask the HoC caterers what they recommend. And how much we can get away with on expenses.
Only an Aussie would call his vineyard http://www.hangingtreewines.com.au
“The ‘Hanging Tree’ sits at the entrance to the property and was the site where the original family hung beasts”
How very appropriate.
I’ll bring some knitting to do whilst I watch.
We could sit together.
Can we watch the Wintertons swing together?
Am very afraid that when it’s fatty Prescott’s turn, the rope will snap.
Oily Vaz can sit on one of his pricey silk cushions until he is called.
On a nice breezy day like today, the Wintertons would make nice wind chimes, don’t you think?
Hear Hear.
i will bring the barmy army
I’m in on this – nothing like a bit of slaughter of the guilty – I’ll bring the clapometer and the lightshow
Any suggestions for the music? I think a disco on the side might appear a bit tasteless.
If it goes on late at night, we’ll need some light. Usherettes can attend with their torches, a tray of Kia-Ora, pop-corn, and drinks-on-a-stick.
WHEN ARE THE UK GOING TO SUMMONS THE STATES OF JERSEY WHO HAVE BEEN FIDDLING THE UK TAX PAYER OUT OF MILLIONS GOOGLE JERSEY EVENING POST FOR THURSDAY 27th MAY YOU THINK OUR MPs ARE BAD SEE WHAT ONE OF OUR CROWN DEPENDENCIES HAS BEEN UP TO
no need for CSI investigation , no mortgage ,took money guilty , this one is as good as jaquis , put the cuffs on and repay it back
Enough talk, its getting nowhere, time for violence.
Hangman, hangman, hold it a little while
I think I see MPs coming
Ridin’ many mile
So MPs, you get some silver
Did you get a little gold
What did you take from me, my MPs
To put you on the gallows pole
What did you take from me to put you
on the gallows pole
with respect to Page and Plant, Gallows Pole
Good choice, sir. After that, could we have ‘Hanging Around’ by The Stranglers, a beat-combo of some repute I gather. Over.
…since, I understand, at hangings there is some involuntary release of Urine, faeces, etc., surely ‘… the answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind…’
To jail?
To start with,I’ll settle for out of Parliament and public life. To give him more time to assist Plod with their enquiries.
The scale of his misdemeanors demand immediate, full resignation from the Commons. Nobody “forgets” that they’ve paid off a mortgage – too many clues. Statment of final account, Title Deeds, that sort of thing.
Then a nice “office” in Pentonville.
That’s pretty much the message that the local CLP are getting from people in Dover. Those that aren’t telling them to “Piss off” that is
http://doverwatch.blogspot.com
That’s pretty much the message that the local CLP are getting from people in Dover. Those that aren’t telling them to P-Off that is
http://doverwatch.blogspot.com
PS: Is anyone else having trouble with the comment system?
“One of those delivering leaflets was called back by an irate householder who angrily demanded “Do you see a sign saying please push excrement through my letterbox?”
no
Yeah – not stepping down, going down. That’s what we want.
I really really have had enough of all this now.
At first it was like “wow”, then there were further revelations that were “shock and awe” and now I am just totally f*cked off with the whole thing.
How Baroness Uddin can stand up and moan about social housing whilst defrauding not only the taxpayer of hundreds of thousands, but also some of her own ex-constituents who are desperate for social housing is beyond any sense of comprehension.
The woman is immoral and should be stripped of her peerage IMMEDIATELY and the police investigation needs to hurry up.
Those two tw*ts who were suspended from the HoL in the “cash for legislation” scandal. They should be booted out pronto and plod in for a corruption investigation.
The integrity of the people in the HoL is supposed to be without question. This is some of the most immoral behaviour I have ever heard of in this country.
Then there’s the MPs.
What a shower of sh!te.
The government are bringing in laws left right and centre not only depriving us of our freedom, but positive discrimination against the majority in the workplace.
What sort of f***ing idiots run this country?
Then they wonder why so many people cheat benefits or claim discrimination (Tarique Ghaffur or Dizaei or Shahrokh Mireskandari anyone) when they encourage that very culture.
That arrogant tw*t Malik claiming for a £2,500 home cinema, even Brown claiming for a flat when he had a grace and favour home.
For a party that is supposed to be for teh common good, all NuLab have doen is feathered their own nests.
How they have tha audacity to dictate how I should run my life is beyond me.
Suicide watch? Suicide watch? What about the public who are so f***ing depressed at seeing what a pile of sh*te this country has become.
I’m not anti-labour. I think people like Tony Benn (whilst I didn’t agree with him) were men of principle and went into politics for what they believe in rather than what they could get.
In Harriet’s own stupid words, “the court of public opinion” says your government is f*cked and good riddance.
Bye bye porky!
Never mind all this shit- have you noticed the new business news correspondent on Skynews- Nina de Roy. Got the best legs on TV, but I think I still love Lucy Verasamy more because she can tell the future- weather. And incidentally, isnt Lorna Dunkley the hottest MILF on the tele.
Would any of us give 2 shits about MPs expenses if any of them accepted our dinner invitation?
Leave off Lucy,she’s mine
Go to the bank to pay in a huge wad of fraudulently obtained cash more like.
Not going before the next election so this thief can get a golden handshake. What a corrupt country we live in.
Another light-fingered toe-rag that really won’t be missed….
But he won’t go until the General Election and will trouser the termination payment of about £50,000!
Perhaps Lord Myners could adjudicate on this one.
Why is this butcher’s boy still in his job, he was caught lying to a select committee wasn’t he, deserves a damn good thrashing at the very least.
Slightly “off-message”, but what’s happening with the Uddin woman? She seems to have peeled off a few bob too, but all is quiet it seems. Anyone know the state of play at Lords?
yes, the Windies lost, well beaten on all accounts
Why is he not getting done for fraud? Do we have to lynch him ourselves? Gordon bennett!!!
Anyway off topic, Nick Clegg has an unmoderated blog so tell him what you think http://nickclegg.wordpress.com/
What is a special envoy?
The Government (as in PM down to the slugs like Morley) is altogether far, far too large. With perhaps a third of the Labour Party in Government and much of the other two-thirds keen to curry favour so they can be ‘in Government’ at some point it’s no wonder there are few proper Parliamentarians on the Labour benches.
Like dominos. Prosecutions next.
Last night’s QT, first two parts are up (YouTube): Question Time – Euro Elections & MP’s Expenses.
Good public service Swiss
– try as I might I couldn’t watch it anywhere.
I understand the BBC restricting sports, documentaries or Top Gear to viewers in the UK, but current affairs programs? It’s not as if they can sell it to the US or release it on DVD next year, is it??
And yes, I do pay for a TV licence on my UK apartment.
Er, have you not tried installing a Sky dish then? I can get HD on the Costa Del Sol.
I’m a bit further than the Costa del Sol unfortunately, in the land of the sand and the Sheikhs.
Getting sport, drama, documentary etc is no problem at all via a variety of methods, either legit or otherwise, but QT has proved to be very elusive indeed.
So well done to Swiss Bob, I see part 3 up now
Cameron’s just said that Cash has some ‘very serious questions’ to answer. Davespeak for ‘f*ck off’. So today or tomorrow perhaps.
Oh dear, how sad, never mind.
I think ‘serious questions to answer’ is a bit like an old boss of mine who would wield the axe with ‘can we have a little chat?’
No that’s Dave speak for “go and face your constituents because I haven’t got the bottle to face you myself.”
True. But most seem to opt for the ‘little chat’ brunch than face their constituents.
Forgot to mention of course that Dave has an ulterative motive – Cash has been a pain in the arse to every Tory leader so if this is a chance to get rid of him…
Cash is uber EU sceptic and tried to bring Major down over Maastricht.
He’ll probably be glad to see him go but will be getting increasing worried that, thanks in part to the skewed coverage, he’s having to say the same thing daily when Gordo’s keeping his head down. There’ll still be a lot of old school Tories left to stab him in the back if they see it as a root and branch exercise.
Whereas as Gordoom has no bottle at all….just ask Hazel
I will gladly shove a broken bottle in that fraudster Brown’s ugly god forsaken face and then grind it thru to the back of his motherfucking thieving head – the scottish piece of shit – criminal bastard has ruined this country.
Rubbish Gordon has his very effective chocolate starfish chamber
Utter rubbish, the only fellow with no bottle is old ‘bottler’ Brown, remember that election that never was plus just about everything else the odious man has ever done.
Oh, and where is brave Gordon hiding now? His ‘star chamber’, just another pathetic piece of pseudo macho nonsense from the ‘roid rage merchants at number 10.
He’s wrapped in cellophane desperately trying to lose a few pounds so he’ll not look the fat middle-aged loser he is next to Obama — even the 85+ year old D-Day vets will probably look better than McSnot.
Dave is finished in my book.
He’s shown to be useless.
Im normally a tory voter, but he’s lost my vote.
That’s a huge relief all round.
Focus on ZaNuLab next week in time for the elections?
You know it makes sense…..
The Telegraph have still got plenty left in their backpocket.
They have grown used to their massive bost in circulation so they will pace themselves to keep it going as long as possible.
But it has to be said that Nadine Dorries amusing meltdown and subsequent rabid attacking of the Braclay Bros. has made certain that the Conservatives will be getting the lions share of the expenses publicity for a while yet
Her lunatic conspiracy theories aside. If you are so staggeringly stupid as to personally go after the proprietors of the Newspaper which has the biggest Political scoop in years, and has ammunition on every MP, then don’t be surprised at the self fulfilling prophecy of retribution because you have done so.
Doesn’t matter that Nadine recanted after her eccentric fashion.
The damage was done.
Think you will see Dave or Gordie going off on a lunatic rant after Rupert Murdoch personally for any slight real or imagined ? Even those two have enough common sense left in their noodle not to commit such obvious Political suicide.
Dave must be delighted he stood by Nadine Dorries as the Tory Expense stories keep dripping out day by day.
‘Dave is finished in my book.’
That would be ‘Courage’, would it?
‘He’s shown to be useless.’
At hiding away like Gordon, you mean?
‘Im normally a tory voter,’
You hooning liar!
‘but he’s lost my vote.’
Bwahahahahahahaha
ZanuCon et al
You are Master Baiter, and I claim my £5.
I’m not normally a Tory voter but I was considering it – right up until he tried to defend Julie Kirkbride. My vote is lost. And no, I won’t be voting Labour either so I guess under the system we currently have my vote wil be wasted. Better than giving it to a party full of thieves though.
Back under your bridge, you can’t even troll properly!
Vote UKIP
Since when do you give the orders?
Well, it seems that Cameron is not much better than Brown, though we really need to suspend comparisons as it’s all so corrupt that we need to start again with a completely new system.
MacKay has been exposed as a fraudulent hustler. But he has been that for years, of course. Why did Cameron choose such a bad man as an adviser? Did he lack the wit to see that the deplated one was a shyster? Not much of a judge …
http://www.takebackpower.org/
Like the no 10 resign petition, it’s unlikely to have any impact, but well sod it, I signed them both anyway.
Why so few of the Government front bench have not been sacked or prosecuted amazes me. From my lowly viewpoint in the crows nest, most of their actions can be construed as fraud.
Hopefully, the cull of the cabinet is on the way next week.
Brown is avoiding any confrontation with them at the moment as he knows they will have to go – Smith, Darling, Hoon, McNulty, Blears, Cooper, Balls et al.
There is no way he can carry on with a disgraced cabinet and he would have to call an election.
When you say expected to go “today”, do you mean today or do you mean at the next election? Afterall there’s a few hundred thousand squid difference between the two dates for our Elliott.
I’ll go as soon as it’s possible.
As soon as it’s possible to pay all my bills with your cash.
I wonder if the wretched BBC will give the same coverage to the Labour oinker as they did to Kirkbride?
In this target rich environment, who have they given prominent coverage to today?
Of course, it’s the Tory, Bill Cash.
I’ve got no problem at all with troughing Tories being horsewhipped by the media, but the disproportionate attention given to relatively minor Tory misdemeanours -whilst giving criminal Labour felons a virtual free pass – is striking. Equally, they seem to have no interest whatsoever in Liberals.
The BBC is beyond reform in its current iteration.
Just a thought. Are the BBC majoring on the Tories misdimeanours as there is too high a risk of prejudicing fair trials of the Cabinet serious troughers!!? To say nothing of libel actions…..
Let’s see who the DT concentrate on next week – run up to the EU elections.
Good point – food for thought. I seem to remember that it was quietly reported a couple of says ago that Plod where “gathering information” from the Fees Office. (Sadly, can’t remember where I saw the report.) Clearly, after the Damian Green fiasco, Plod is going to step very cautiously in anything involving MPs.
“days ago” not “says ago”. Note to self – read first, press button second.
You can’t prejudice a trial if no-one’s charged, can you? Sure, in due course the defence might argue undue publicity…not get a fair trial, etc. but exposing high-profile defrauding is in the public interest and the facts would speak for themselves.
And you’re assuming a ‘not guilty’ plea.
I hear the BBC put the crazyjuice in Nadine Dorries tea and ensured the Barclay Brothers continuing vendetta against the Tories.
Well it was the BBC or the Barclays themselves.
A babbling madwoman assures me this is so.
We’ve already said …..goodbye.
Where is Toenails? Where is Brown?
What about my friend Bill Cash or should I say, Cash Bill ???
An MP named Bill Cash stealing taxpayers money ???? Ha bloody ha! How ironic!!!
Is that a joke name???
What next? A PM called Gordon Brown who is full of shit?? ’nuff said……..
Yes, here he is……..
Well Guido did say that it ws like Christmas had come!
there must be a time–when backbenchers smell the coffee and realise ministers are letting them hang–even thou ministers have done the dirty deed themselves.
if i was a backbencher id call there bluff—lol
It must be getting to the point that Guido, rather than reporting rumours that are gathering steam, actually creates them.
With millions of hits a month may come the power to focus the media spotlight in the way that seems necessary to force these thieves out at the next election at least.
I hope so anyway.
It would be interesting if some coordinated blog entries from the right could getting some champagne socialists out.
When’s Jacqui’s day in court?
And Hoon and Darling etc etc
All the lying thieving Labour MPs who know they’re about to be booted out are queueing up outside no 10 to ask for a seat in the Lords so that they can continue their thieving ways. What a shower of twats.
There needs to be a campaign for no Dissolution Honours for the dissolute, and no Queen’s Birthday present either.
Hopefully we’ll have a new parliament for the New Year.
GO WHERE exactly?
None of these fucksters are going anywhere, just lying low, and waiting another 10-12 months for the GE, when they receive the goldon handshake.
No mention on the BBC yet as far as I can see.
The BBC will wait til after they have confirmation from his constituency meeting tonight, which probably won’t end in time even for Newsnight. By Breakfast Time it will be yesterday’s news, not worth reporting.
The BBC is treating this story like an aunty who has flatulence.
Pretend it doesn’t happen, look the other way when does, and congratulate yourself on avoiding the subject when she’s left the building.
June 26th on expenses. No date set yet on torture.
Ok, when date for torture set, film it, burn it onto DVD, sell it to MP’s spouses, so they can claim it on expenses!!
Must be able to think of a good film title…………
Fantastic. Hope she’s the first of many.
Since Moron McSnot-Gobbler uses 1984 and Anmal Farm as his manuals for running the country, when they were written as warnings by a man called Blair, why can’t we use V for Vendetta as a manual for dealing with the troughing hoons.
What a shambles: Veterans blame Brown as Palace says it’s too late for ANY royals to attend D-Day anniversary in France See the Daily Mail.
Cash has got the potential to be a big problem for Dave.
All the ingredients are there: patrician, millionaire Tory with glamourous, would-be MP, daughter. He’s stubborn, won’t be bullied, can’t be bought, has the backbone for a fight and probably won’t be de-selected.
Now that Dave, unwisely, has put the black spot on him, he could become the new Kirkbride soap opera for the media. And this one could run and run – hogging attention and keeping the spotlight away from the multitude of venal, ministerial fraudsters.
Dave might eventually get his way and lever LosdsaCash out, but at what price?
Dave had no choice but to put the black spot on Cash, just as he did with the others. In his defence, at least he’s been relatively consistent, admittedly only with low level back benchers – no high ranking high profile household names really. What the fuck has Broon done? He’s managed this the same way as he manages everything else – hide away…. call Tories names….water down Tory proposals then use in part and claim as own… All in all DC has at least reflected the mood of the people, and sent MPs to their constituancies for them to decide, so far resulting in thier delayed resignation. I repeat, where is Broon, not on the news, in the papers…. What the fuck is he doing?
Who’s to say in 12 months time Moran, Kirkbride etc won’t turn round and say, “actually I’ve taken soundings in the constituency and I’ve decided people may be stupid enough to vote me in again, so I’m staying on this gravy train”
more like for a shit on a tax payer’s head
don’t forget Gordon has taken your pension and spent it on the Nu Labour social experiment which includes the Home Secretary’s husband masturbating in front of a huge plasma screen that you have also paid for
To porn that you paid for..
I bet we bought the kleenex too
What about McNulty and the other cabinet troughers?
All within “their rules” ???
Cash for questions!
Cash for law change Peers!
And now Cash for the family!
What else have they been hiding from us all?
Can all these MPs get away with everything?
I suppose when they all voted for an illegal war and got away with that, they believe they are all untouchable. Well for the next year at least. It’s just a shame with have to wait that long to fire them and any other puppets that are put up in there place!
Questions for Cash eh?
Where an MP is convicted of a criminal offence they should automatically lose their seats. However the electorate should not be allowed to take the initiative. I would oppose recall of MPs, referenda and direct democracy, because this would put the wealth of the country, which is currently owned predominantly by the elite where it belongs, under the direct control and effectively the ownership of the jealous majority who never vote Conservative. Giving the plebs a vote in regular parliamentary elections jeapordises your property as it is, without taking it to the next level, where their jealousy would not be moderated by Labour MPs deradicalised by comfortable salaries. Would you want all the housing estate chav plebs to be given something approaching or actually constituting a direct vote over your property? Even if the majority chose to let me keep my property, effectively they would still be the ultimately owners, and I would only have the stewardship of it on license. I could not tolerate such a diminution of my status as a property owner and would leave the country.
So long, could you leave the key under the mat?
Forget it. What I could not take with me I would destroy, and I would find some way of putting my land itself beyond use for the next few thousand years, rather than let you scum get it.
Pretty much what the Liebore gummint are doing to the country then?
My ideal is government by the aristocracy, so I am certainly very suspicious of any government elected on a post 1832 franchise. However
bad as the Labour Government is, I can assure you that direct rule by the pleb majority would be even worse. The plebs never stop saying how much more communist the Labour government should be. Any government, even a Labour one, is by definition an elite, and I prefer any elite to the pleb rabble, even an elite such as this that was the pleb rabble’s own choice. Naturally, Cameron would be far better, but not if he surrenders power back to the plebs the moment he gets it.
Lets not forget that it was to facilitate greater democracy that MPs salaries were introduced in the first place almost a century ago in 1911. Which just serves to illustrate the point : if you try to extend democracy, you will end up hating the consequences. Be careful of democracy and everything associated with it. This is not an argument for dictatorship or royal autocracy – merely for government by the aristocracy and the most successful industrialists as before 1832.
You are Michael Winner and I claim my £5
You are a lefty and I claim my £5 million.
Evening Standard – Margaret Hodge paid for Labour office from expenses
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23701307-details/London+MP+claims+public+money+for+Labour+party+HQ/article.do
An Evening Standard investigation has found that Barking MP Margaret Hodge has let her local Labour party use half of the two-storey building she rents in the constituency
‘Barking MP Margaret Hodge’ brilliant! just brilliant!
and she always reminds me of Hyacinth Bucket
Dave seems to have lost the initiative. At first he appeared to be running rings around Gordon with his Blair like soundbites that seem to promise the Earth but in reality are meaningless. His biggest mistake was not to immediately sack Kirkbride, closely followed by his letter of support for her closely followed by the deal he cut with her husband that only one opf them would have to go.
Dave’s next problem is that Cash’s daughter Laetitia is one of Dave’s top shoe in ‘A’ listers.
For once Gordon has got the better of Cameron.
Nonsense.
This is all going to come back and whack Brown in the face so hard, he will wonder what has hit him.
I do agree that Cameron should have been tougher with Kirkbride, but what about Brown and his cabinet?? The public will not forget about Blears, Smith, Hoon, Balls etc and sooner or later Brown will have to do something about these crooks.
And let’s not forget, it would seem that most of the cabinet are guilty of the bigger crimes ie ‘flipping’ mortgage fraud and tax evasion.
For all the publicity she’s had, you’d have thought Kirkbride was the one who:
Claimed for dry rot at partner’s house 100 miles from constituency,
Flipped their home 4 times in 4 years,
Claimed for maintenance on London apartment while living at No 11,
Told the fees offfice and HMRS that different homes were first and second to aviod CGT
Forgot that they had paid off their mortgage.
She wouldn’t even have made the “Cnuts Cabinet” if she wore a red rosette
Hear hear Margy. Smith, Hoon, Darling & Purnell are crooks and HMRC should be investigating.
Well, something has already whacked Brown in the face. Have you seen him recently?
Utter drivel, Brown is, as ever, doing nothing but hide away from problems.
Cameron is out there, actually facing them. With Brown its all about saving his blubbery neck.
Cameron out there facing them?
Last I heard he was telling his MPs who had been caught fiddling expenses to hold meetings with their constituents and let the constituents decide their fate. “Nowt to do with me mate”
Its not so much ‘Nowt to do with me’, as go back to the people who elected you and who you represent and let them have a say. What has Broon done? He is not leadership material, never has been, and reminds us of the fact every time leadership is required. He has got to go for the good of the country and that means a general election.
The last time the socialists got together to pick a PM amongst themselves we ended up with this failure. Broon and his clunking fist were going to straighten things out after the fall of Blair. While no one in their right mind would want the return of Blair, I think he would have been in the media, speaking to the people, even if it was lies, not hiding in his bunker wondering how to defeat Johnson & co after coming 4th next week.
What a load of utter crap
Laetitia??!!? FFS. And she’s the piece who occupied the flat Cash called his second home? And I’m pushing for a Tory win. They don’t make it easy do they?
Morley was one of the leading lights of the anti-foxhunting campaign before he went all ‘respectable’ to take a Ministerial job after 1997.
We should all celebrate that he has been uncovered as no better than a common thief.
The problem is, as other have commented, he will hang on and be paid about £200k in salary, expenses, termination fees and other fiddles (move to the House of Lords?).
In the expenses saga, heads or tails, these cheats come up winning!
Even if the majority chose to let me keep my property, effectively they would still be the ultimately owners, and I would only have the stewardship of it on license. I could not tolerate such a diminution of my status as a property owner and would leave the country. Do you think Margaret Thatcher could have driven through her essential reforms if Tory MPs in marginal constituencies would have been subject to recall at any moment? No wonder the left, outside parliament at any rate, would love the idea of recall so much, or of direct referenda in which they could severely curtail even those property rights that survive under nokiaGBh. So however obnoxious the prospect of swindling MPs retaining their positions for another year undoubtedly is, it is still in the broad scheme of things better than a system of direct democracy that would jeapordise property even more than parliamentary democracy and Labour governments. Direct democracy would equal communism, so no true Conservative would countenance it.
great cartoon in the Times:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/cartoon/
I do wonder why Tom Harris thinks he needs two electirc shavers…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5402587/MPs-expenses-Tom-Haris-and-the-MP-and-battle-of-the-bottle-steriliser.html
Doesn’t he own an overnight bag?
Er, I have several shavers for different areas. Is that a problem?
“Barking MP Margaret Hodge..”
How right you are !!!
Couldn’t have put it better myself!
Do you think Margaret Thatcher could have driven through her essential reforms if Tory MPs in marginal constituencies would have been subject to recall at any moment?
cash–live on sky–DIGGING A MASSIVE HOLE
said his son SAM was using his flat–so he needed another
daughter was getting married
RULES as they were
Morley departure now reported in DT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5405492/MPs-expenses-Elliot-Morley-expected-to-be-13th-MP-to-step-down.html
Morley – you’re fucking scum.
Can scum, per se, be fucked?
Does Snotty Broon not count? He’s both scum and totally fucked!
I can find no fault with this. Except, perhaps, it should be “Snotty McBroon”
Woo hoo! Bring it on!
ZanuLab = ZanuCon.
Once the Tories win the next GE, ZanuCon can continue the Zanulab agenda.
The Cameroons are takin us all for CNTZ.
“Step down” in due course. Nice parachute payment. A seat in the Lords. Lovely jubbly!
I did not have sex with that woman.
That is not a woman. And your hand does not count either.
Ma Palm tells a different story, Ricky.
When put like that, you would not be lying.
Having seen your wife I really believe you.
Oh no, not again!
Has anyone seen Gordon?
Does anyone want to?
I don’t
But the “odd” appearance gives credence to the other parties.
I think Labour know he’s not a vote catcher so they keep him under wraps (possibly a straitjacket).
I do appreciate all these distractions. People have forgotten all about me and my scams. Ho-ho, off to Heathrow we go …
Is Elliot Morley one of those self-serving, freeloading, swine who have applied to be, cough, enobled – elevated to the House of Lords?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/28/labour-reform-a-new-politics
It is a disgusting spectacle: MPs thinking only of how to continue living the luxury to which they have become accustomed, paid for by “little people”. Get down the job centre, losers.
Entitlement – the bane of our society today………
Just reading the Telegraph about Charlotte Atkins.
Does she think I’m f***ing stupid?
Charlotte:
“I bought my second home cheaply because it required some repair so my mortgage interest claim was low but my repair bill was high,” Miss Atkins said. “If I had chosen to buy a fully refurbished property I would have paid a very high mortgage interest but this would not have been questioned.”
My interpretation of this:
1) You don’t mind living in a home that requires repair – ergo all of this bullsh!t about needing nice TV’s etc – you managed when you first bought it!
2) You have done this purely to get the taxpayer to pay for refurbishment of the property in order that you maximise your capital gain at the time of sale
Her defence…..
“David Cameron’s additional costs allowance claim is almost entirely swallowed up by mortgage interest but this is not considered in any way inappropriate.”
Why the f*** does she think she is entitled to do what she has done based on David Cameron?
I know, I’ll start wars in Labour constituencies as I think they are “oppressed” and use the justification:
“Tony Blair took the country to war but this is not considered in any way inappropriate”
It’s this entitlement which is absolutely NO defence against what you have done.
Don’t treat me like a f***ing idiot! I’m well aware of what you are up to.
If you had an ounce of moral fibre you would have already agreed with the fees office that ALL capital gain (not just the CGT if you bother to pay it) would be repaid on the sale of the property.
Won’t hold my breath for that one.
These people are like primary school kids and they boil my pi$$
The bitch needs a fucking good slapping, sir. Over.
BTW- what time is the caption thing today? I, and my fellow filth, do have a laugh over some of the efforts, sir.
Let’s start talking about the elephant in the room. David Cameron himself.
Why does he think we taxpayers should pay his mortgage interest when he is a very wealthy individual, reported to be worth with his wife £30 million.
Does he think we are stupid? In the same way flippers, remortgagers, extenders, trust funders a la Wintertons, relative renters, club dwellers, etc have sought to maximise their person gain he has done the same.
If he is maintaining any savings that a normal person would have sold to pay for either of his properties, then he is artificially maximising his interest bill by having a larger than necessary mortgage, and is a fiddler on the same level as the others.
Answer the question Dave – “Did you use all your family savings when you bought your house, or did you deliberately chose to get a large mortgage so you could maximise your subsidy from the taxpayer?”
I will not vote Tory until this has been answered.
Great point. Dissolve parliament now, preferably in a vat of acid
I guess you think Ronaldo should play football for free.
Footballers are mostly a bunch of grossly overrated upstart plebs. I do not care how good they are at chasing a ball, and at amusing millions of other plebs. Despite exceptions, ability with a ball is usually a sound indicator of stupidity, and if it was down to me footballers would be living in poverty.
including the managers – ferguzzon, benitezzz etczzz
If you’re going to troll you need to do a bit more than just call yourself tru tory. A bit more subtlety is called for otherwise you just look like a tosser.
Very helpful, now sod off.
Stop waving me about John.
The Hunt even claimed to have the Wisteria moved from his chimney before his windmill went up. It’s easy being green…on expenses.
Pure tosh.
People should be paid the going rate regardless of their personal assets.
If I have a house worth £75K, should I get paid less than someone in a house worth £60K?
Comrade, you are no more a Tory than I am!
The least you can do is be honest about your party affiliation isnt it? Its always sad to see such a transparent partisan attack, its very cowardly and so very like the newlabour guiding principles, dishonesty/cowardice/dirty tricks/smear tactics.
Do yourself a favour and quit the fakery eh? we can see straight through it.
Balls and boy wonder wife Cooper,between them, earn total monthly sum of £15,000 net after tax/NI.
They claim an average £600 per month food.
That makes it £138.50 per week food claims,to eat – remember,they get £15,000 per month cash into their bank account – that’s £3,461 cash per WEEK.
Now think of a 78 yr pensioner who gets £90.30 per week pension,to pay for EVERYTHING;
gas,electricity,rates,TV licence – oh and of course FOOD.
So these two pieces of total shit get paid by you,a total of ONE AND A HALF times the pensioner’s total weekly pension,just to keep them in food every week – remember they are getting £15,000 per month/£3,461 per week cash into their account (and I am not even going to talk about the mortgage relief and the CGT avoidance).
Now tell me,how happy are you reading this?
How comfortable do you feel?
Ready to march on Parliament and hang these two thieving nonentities?
My hatred of these two rancid freeloading fuckers know no bounds.
Sorry,but I hate them more than you do.
Just 1 minute with Ball’s and my new electric chair – he won’t have any Ball’s – they will look like fried mushrooms.
I better stop cos I am seething with anger at these two criminals.
Nah
Not ‘avin’ that
I hate them more than anyone
Ever
I ‘ate the bleedin’ pair of ‘em completely
Utterly
Loads
Fuck this for a laugh. This trougher shouldn’t be stepping down – he should be going down.
This isn’t Lord Boffington-Woffington getting his drawbridge oiled, or Ron Leninspart finally getting the 50 inch plasma he’s always coveted. This is plain, simple fucking fraud.
That’s why Elliot Morely should be going to prison. We’ve been saying it for weeks. Why’s it taking so long?
Take him down..
Nadine news – New (spoof) interview
“Nadine Dorries, The Parliament’s Princess, gives an exclusive interview” at
Bo Beau D’Or blog http://www.bbdo.co.uk/blog
- nothing to do with me, just a fucking funny photoshop and movie wizard- the guy who did the Martin musical interlude a couple of weeks ago
Superb stuff! Very, very funny.
Guido should do the decent thing and link to this too.
He’s very good, most famous for photoshopping satirical images, but recently moved into doing videos…
I’ve been following his blog for a couple of years now, since he did a load of stuff on Blair and the infamous double take on Kate Moss and Pete Docherty as Hindley and Brady.
There’s a good sports kit MP story on his front page now, MPs should wear shirts so we know where they are, either home, second home, or away
About time he went, has been a useless Hunt all his life.
certainly could never have earned that amount in the real world.
So what!
That sounds terrible!
How can they justify claiming all that money to fill their very ugly faces?
Hang ‘em high…
The crooks who claim on food are clearly using expenses for their every day living and probably not touching their basic salaries. This is a scam in itself and means they are getting rich at our expense.
Simple. Balls has a very large belly.
What did the cross stitch say to the ball of wool?
Bill Cash is taking to the airwaves talking horseshit and digging his Political grave furiously.
Buh-Bye Bill.
Cash has said he’ll pay back some of the, well, cash.
I think he hears the sound of knives sharpening very close by.
Isn’t it strange how all these MPs who have been caught out can suddenly find the cash to repay?
Cameron says Cash has “some serious questions to answer” otherwise by implication UKIP will soon be having a new member of Parliament shortly.
Oooh how I wish I’d said that !!!
You can’t have a trial until evidence is gathered and charges brought. Plod does the first stage. Is the DT staying off Plod’s back for a while?
I am a floating tory voter myself, yet over the past twelve months or so, I have been increasingly ill at ease with Mr. Camerons “non performances”.
On countless occasions the empty net has been beckoning, McBrown and his utterly useless cohorts and defenders all over the place, yet Cameron has hit the woodwork, booted the ball into row Z, hit the corner flag or turned around and started running towards his own goal.
Does he ever want to score a direct hit I wonder? Does he realise just not being McSnot, might not be enough?
Or is he simply waiting for the current gang of mercenaries to leave the pitch tired of office, weighted down with their ill gotten lucre and allow Cameron to celebrate his great victory over the thoroughly discredited ZanuLab, tell anyone who will listen in triumph, his brand of radical ZanuCon, will usher in the new age of purity, hope and prosperity for the long suffering, hard working folk of Britland?
Or is all he brings, more of the same, just not as incompetent, slightly less venal, a little less authoritarian, not quite so servile before the real government in Br***els, Bliar 1`s Bliar 2?
I am a floating tory voter myself
Classic Dolly opening line.
Has the great man come back among us?
Don’t forget he is the product of the Tories losing three elections to Blair. To lose once could be considered a misfortune, to lose three times a disaster. Now the climate’s changed, the fraud(s) of the past 10 years exposed, he’s actually got quite a chameleon act to do. He was selected to out Blair, Tony (I’m stopping for three full terms, hang on whats that brown stuff heading towards the fan…) Blair.
The daily drip of revelations certainly does bring back the sleaze memories, of the Major years but he’ll have to stick to it. Labour can’t capitalise on it as the only thing stopping Brown sacking everyone other than the very worst is the fear that the remaining labour ministers could have their next meeting in a phone box. Won’t stop them trying though.
Not mentioned it for a couple of days:
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to call a general election immediately.
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/GoToCountryNow/
5165 and counting – with all the troughing Hoons determined to stay on “until the next election”, shouldn’t that election be as soon as possible?
I’m sure these comments are getting more and more OTT every time I look at them.
you might be right
then again…..
But surely all in the “best possible taste” to quote the late great Kenny Everitt
no they fucking aren’t – bring in the next one for the decapitation machine
Mandy’s been on saying what a pity it is that all this has come out ‘now’ – particularly because it’s something that’s been going on for so long. Eh?
Does Mandelson always talk in double entendres?
Mandy’s one of the very worst troughers. From a terrace house in the north to a place in Regents Park worth millions in just a short time. How did he do it?
You can be sure he never wanted it to come out. Mathew Paris had to do that for him.
He should be going into custody along with many other career lobby fodder.
i always wondered why torys dont like the public sector,the last two weeks as shown me why.NASTY BASTARDS
Perhaps the reason is that the public sector is bloated, overpaid, over-unionised, and with pension entitlements which far outstrip those of the private sector. You know, those same private pensions which were plundered by Snotgobbler…and which has led to a two tier system: those lucky enough to be sucking on the state teat, and those of us who have had to pay our own way, whilst being fleeced by the treasury for daring to do so.
Bill Cash lol, now there’s a feller who deserves defenestration if ever was one
And to give it a European flavour(I know how Bill loves Europe)no doubt in Prague for those history buffs amongst us ?
Go now. Do not pass go. Do not collect thousands when you do.
When Morley goes , perhaps SHunthorpe should be renamed Shorpe .
Or JeremyThorpe?
Guido, please give us a caption picture.
Don’t make me have to do any work on this lovely sunny day…
ffs … Scun’thorpe then
Guido’s “spellchecker” killled your joke!
It doesn’t like references to S C U N T H O R P E – but you’re right, when Morley goes it then be known as Shorpe anyway
lol aye , I don’t usually require any help to kill jokes .
Still , at least it was not lost on all …
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Is it just me who keeps reading the headlines about Cash renting his flat to his daughter as renting out his daughter in his flat?
You wish !!!!!
Well, obviously that would only work if I were another Tory MP and we could come to some arrangement over who pays for what on expenses.
Er, hang on…doesn’t Dave want new candidates?
Where is Brown?
A man of fragile mental stability. Has he cracked?
Could it not ne that he is being hidden away to be pulled round. Not in fact the first PM to have this happen in the face of failure in a long awaited positon.
Look at Mandy’s face today when he announced the new car sales figures. Something is wrong. Maybe this explains all this jockeying for Brown’s job.
Resignation? Ill-health?
Gordon Brown is evidently enrolled on a 4 day course entitled;
“Smiling – When To Do It At The Proper Time,Without Looking Like Gordon Brown”
Cost; £234,546
Bill to be sent to;
The wankers called taxpayers.
For taxation purposes,this course can be claimed against CGT and £1,250,000 food claims will be accepted,as long as receipts are included (sorry,new rules).
Slightly OT but Peter Oborne has hit the nail on the head and shown – in my view – why NuLabour will hopefully never be re-elected again in living memory. They have fleeced and stolen from ordinary middle income earners….while featherbedding themselves (the rich political classes) and those who can’t be arsed to work.
This will not be forgotten. Read it and weep….and remember it when you go to vote.
http://tinyurl.com/nbnk43
Well make sure he causes a by-election please
Talwin – rather than being a troll as you suggest, i suspect i have been a member of the Tory party rather longer than you. I have also been a candidate.
My point about Dave maximising his mortgage artificially is a serious one. How is this any different to any of the other claims? It is designed to maximise his take at the expense of the taxpayer.
Whether we are funding duck houses, unnecessary rental cost for those with alternative suitable property, or unnecessary interest for those with savings the cost is the same.
Why do you think it is somehow ok?
Dont’ worry Guido..
Finkelwhatnot is YEARS BEHIND THE CURVE
STill in New Labour’s paradise the idiot…
Has he gone yet? Why are we waiting?
Another week gone by and hardly into double figures. A few scraps thrown to the wolves but armor plated so that they last until the next general election and get their golden parachute.
Conservatives still offering tidbits to placate the masses, DC’s become a candidate. Lib Dems proposals for change, Labour lets set up a committee.
The public anger will not abate until the chasm between treatment of MPs and that of the public is filled. So many people have made the distinction of what happens to a member of the public caught cheating and how MPs are allowed to continue, unhindered for a further 12 months.
What will it take to get through to these people that they are increasingly seen as a waste of oxygen?
I’d rather they did resign immediately, or that they automatically forfeited their seats upon criminal conviction, but not to such an extent that I would create a backdoor to communism in order to force them out now through direct democracy.
Not gone yet.
Tru Tory— So what if Cameron bought a prpoerty at a price requiring a mortgage repayment of £1700/month?
Would you have preferred him to pay cash up front ? Why should he forfeit additional costs allowance?
You are no tory mate whatever protestations you make. Mcbride would have done a much better job. Bet you miss him lots.
Channel 4 news has confirmed that Elliot Morley will step down – at the next election.
Hoon
Sorry to go o/t, but have you seen this one? http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23701307-details/London+MP+claims+public+money+for+Labour+pa
Now we have not just some of the pigs, but the pig farmer himself – the Labour Party.
Who should plod have been talking to by now? Margaret Hodge, her Constituency Manager, her Constituency Chairman, her Constituency Treasurer, the Labour Party Treasurer, every clerk in the fees office who had any knowledge of this unconstitutional scam. A ten-year-old would know better than to claim on this one – “just following the system”.
The pig swilling by individuals is bad enough, but institutional theft from the public by the ruling party is the stuff of banana republics. Let’s have a new petition, not for McBruin to go, but for the Labour Party to be dissolved. This, to me, is the end of the road.