June 2nd, 2009

+++ David Chaytor to Stand Down ++++++ Patrica Hewitt Retiring from Politics ++++++ Beverley Hughes Going +++

Hewitt is retiring to spend more time with her family and health company directorships. Chaytor is going to spend more time in Court over his phantom mortgage claims…

UPDATE 11.01 : Beverley Hughes is going over “family circumstances”. Three MPs today.  Not bad.


778 Comments

  1. 1
    M.T.BUCKET says:

    More work for ”ticks boxes”

    • 37
      Mr Tick says:

      Busy summer looming in the undergrowth

      • 44

        Small fry!

        We need to see the flippers go, Darling, Hoon & Blears

        I made a little video Flipper.

        • 47
        • 150
          Churchill's Cattleprod says:

          Nice to know that fraud upon the public purse is now known as “inadvertent administrative error”. Mind you, if you’re going to be a complete Hoon then there’s none better than the original Hoon of all Hoons.

          Don’t worry Geoff, this lamppost’s for YOU.

        • 178
          There's a place for us says:

          Here’s one I bagged for Gordon

        • 238

          Tom Miller of Labourlist has a stunning post over at his place

          Alan Johnson for leader, because he’s not Gordon Brown.

          There are many people who are not Gordon Brown. The question is what merits AJ above anyone else. In all the (irresposible) talk about alternative leaders and jockeying jockeys, it seems to be a case of candidate X, normally Johnson, compared against Gordon Brown.

          It was a failure to compare any possible leaders against competitors which got us into this situation in the first place. These things are worth thinking twice about.

          Sublime

        • 262
          Praise Bent's Cynic Ceremony says:

          Weren’t these the people who spent £85 million chasing benefit fraud and came up with 1 fraudster?
          The Daily Telegraph spends nothing near as much and they only turn up Inadverdent Administrative Errors. Like that which benefitted

          Snare BOD in UN

        • 295
          Plato says:

          Found something rather amusing on the BBC’s Election 97 website

          Gordon stars in Reservoir Dogs.

        • 419
          Alan Johnson Goes To See The Queen says:

          The patsy’s are going today to draw the heat and flak away from the senior party members caught flipping. Its the death throws now of nulabor, they are ruthlessly trying to save their own necks. They forget its was much lesser sleeze that destroyed John Majors chances of getting re-elected and the sleeze of fraud and corruption sticks, regardless of the economic upturn later this year. They are dead, deceased, no-more.

          I hope they are investigated by the police, as they are not above the law, and should face prosecution.

        • 473
          Basil says:

          And it’s not only in Central Government that the knife needs wielding …

        • 583
        • 623
          We just can't afford Labour says:

          What about the Balls.

          How can Balls possibly be promoted to Chancellor when he and his wife both claimed second home allowances.

          Compared with the current Chancellor Balls must be considered a master criminal

        • 727
          Buckingham Palace says:

          One has to be forthcoming.

        • 765
          Death To Labour says:

          Hang the phuckers from the lamposts ! :)

      • 114
        • 141

          Excellent work, OH.

        • 158
          Anonymous says:

          Now let’s get the quangoes, starting with this lot – responsible for ensuring local authority officers get hugely overpaid on our money. Bring back town clerks and elected Mayors on a stipend.

          http://www.solace.org.uk/about_background.asp
          “The SOLACE Group of companies is a membership organisation, a commercial services arm and a charitable trust.
          SOLACE (Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers) is the representative body for senior strategic managers working in the public sector. The Society promotes public sector management excellence and provides professional development for its Members who come from all areas of the public sector….”

        • 564
          Ken Hall says:

          Looks like a good description of those Common Purpose communist traitors.

          We need more lamp-posts!

      • 410
        Anonymous says:

        13.07 BBC Radio 4 ‘The World at One’: Jackie Smith has decided to stand down confirmed by Whitehall sources.

        • 422
          Arthur Haynes (Comedian) says:

          That was quick matey, I’ve only just ordered the gallows to be erected!

          AH (C)

        • 446
          Alan Johnson Goes To See The Queen says:

          Fucking yes, Awesome news. Let’s all do the conga, let’s all do the conga. (Everyone in my office is)..

        • 466
          Anonymous says:

          Oh great! Only stepping down from her Ministerial position; she is still going to stand for re-election to continuing serving the people of Redditch at the next General Election.

        • 475
          Santa Claus says:

          Who says I only come once a year?

        • 481
          solopolis says:

          Standing down as Two Homes Secretary by the looks of it. Staying on as a greedy little piggy backbencher.

          At least we might get a Portillo Moment, (1997 Vintage) out of the munter.

        • 487
          80mg of blood per 100ml of alcohol says:

          I’ll drink to that

        • 511
          Sue Blackhead says:

          Thank jesus of Nazi wrath.

          She’s like some money grubbing retard on a Parish Council trying to buy gardening tools for herself from the war memorial budget.

          How the hell can a person of such low intelligence become a senior minister?

          Having thought about it – she’s more like the local pig-faced middle-aged bike on a council estate, who lets a gang local chav yoofs ‘do her’ in return for them vandalizing the cars and property of neighbours she has a grudge against.

          She is evil.

        • 581
          Tricky Dicky says:

          Of course Piggy Smith should be hounded from her seat like Kirkbride. However, part of me hopes she does stay on to lose the seat at the next election to Karen Lumley instead.

      • 477
        Bordeaux Binger says:

        Jaquiboots Smith is going in the reshuffle. BBC 14.20

        • 572
          Bordeaux Binger says:

          Oops. 13.30 BST. 14.30 Continental. I’ve just got my brain back out of the ‘fridge.

    • 147
      Carnot says:

      Good riddance to the “I’m not incompetent” Hughes. Not much. Couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.

    • 406
      Anonymous says:

      bbc says jacquiboots going…confirmed

      • 432
        iphone says:

        Does Mr Timney get movies on his Apple iphone?

      • 462

        http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8079205.stm
        Jacqui Smith is expected to resign as home secretary in a reshuffle, Whitehall sources have told the BBC.

        Is that a source beginning with B and ending with N?
        She is off to spend some more time with herself.
        Better take the videos.

        • 474
          Redditch Raven Master says:

          She’ll also be spending more time at home after the election. She will lose Redditch spectacularly absolutely certain

        • 540
          No resignations please, we're Scottish says:

          That is not a resignation. Being pushed out because you’re shit at your job is not resignation, it is demotion. But I notice the news states that she WILL CONTINUE to be an MP, so she can carry on stealing more from the taxpayer. Her constituents MUST wield the axe on her career once and for all and kick that Nazi into the history books being written of the sorry state the UK has become. A police state in all but name, a virtual prison for it’s population, but open door door the worlds garbage. Smashed freedom and democracy to install a Communist satellite province in the Communist EU project.

        • 614
          Anonymous says:

          Now we know why she brought her hubbie the iPhone – for watching porn while he’s jobhunting.

        • 649
          Gordon Brown MP says:

          Och, take that back. Ah tol’ yon Peston tha’ he cannae ha the story until Yvette ha’bin told she wa guin to be Home Secretary. Ma trooble is that she now wants to be Furrin Secretary and Home Secretary and Educashun … Edukashun … och fook it … Schools Secretary as well. She and Ed say, “since we can get away with 3 separate homes on the taxpayer then why can’t we each have 3 separate jobs as well”. Ed is guin ta be Chancellor, Prime Minister and Protector of The People.

          Me? Ah couldna gie a shite. I’ll be back across the border by the time the handcuffs come doon and nae scunner is going to drag ME back doon tae London to stand trial. Fooking Sassenachs – tha’ll show ye for William Wallace ye bastards.

      • 464
        80 mg of blood per 100 ml of alcohol says:

        I’ll drink to that.

    • 503
      Alan Johnson Goes To See The Queen says:

      Come on Broon, how long can you hold on? Its like seeing a drowning man, lash and mince around in the cesspit of his own shite, pushing down the heads of underlings, trampling on ever more senior aids, to stop it getting into his own mouth and lungs, there’s only so far you can can carry on with this before you drown and snuff out the political careers in such shit.

      Just appoint your mincing pal as Chancellor… Its all you need do really.

      • 541
        Anonymous says:

        Mince Balls, now that’s an idea!

        • 630
          Brownbadger says:

          Balls must not be allowed to become the Chancellor.

          He’s not Scottish!

        • 660

          Ed Balls is arrogant, opinionated, incompetent,rude, lacks judgement, lacks empathy, lacks skill. He has poor media skills, poor expressions, poor mannerisms and poor diction. He has been over promoted once to avoid falling into the Smith ‘no experience’ trap. He is tribal, partisan, divisive, factional, biased, red flag waver, heavily involved with Watson, McBride and smears for Peers.
          He is also a serial expense fraudster, double dipping with Mrs Balls, into the purse of the taxpayers.

          He should fit right in.

          So it looks like Darling to the Home Office and Balls to the Treasury.
          Can anyone else hear the warning beep of a reversing dustcart ?

        • 716
          Anonymous Misogynist says:

          Bill Quango MP.

          Your resume of Ed Balls more than qualifies him to become Chancellor, it would appear thr Prime Mentalist has a very similar resume.

    • 545

      Jacqui Smith is going.

    • 690

      An MP a day keeps the spin-doctor away.

    • 723
      Ashiata says:

      *******************************************
      ************** BREAKING NEWS **************

      CHARLES CLARKE TO BE NEW HOME SECRETARY

      ************** BREAKING NEWS**************
      *******************************************

  2. 2
    (yes I am a cunt / no I am not Nu Labour) says:

    Lets just have all the info out and get rid of them.

    This drip drip drip of has gotten boring.

    • 4
      Man with very hot bladder says:

      No it hasn’t got boring.

      This “government” has boiled my piss in ways I never thought possible.

      I’m enjoying every minute of their humiliation.

      • 44
        The MP for Ashfield says:

        Better to see all the Hoons boiling in your piss.

        And less painful for you, I’d imagine.

      • 580
        Ken Hall says:

        quote: “This “government” has boiled my piss in ways I never thought possible”

        ROFLMAO!!!!!!

        Now that is a quote to remember!!!

    • 16

      I think the Telegrapg is playing a blinder. 26 days and still they have the Hoons wriggling and squirming and those not yet “outed” shitting themselves. Brilliant!

      The Penguin

      • 35
        M.T.BUCKET says:

        Whot goes round comes round, it’s just whot they deserve.

      • 57
        Tin Cunliffe says:

        What happens next?

        a) Keep dribbling
        b) Twist the knife hard before the election.
        c) A few days off for the election, then kick ‘em when they’re at their weakest?
        d) Telegraph don’t know. They still have juicy things to find.

      • 729
        Shithead says:

        I hope they have something definitive on Bliar and the Snotgobbler. There must be more than Cyclops supposedly putting a flat in his wife’s name?

    • 30
      Walter Mitty says:

      They are taking the piss and they are taking it out of you and me
      Let the toe-rags squirm
      BTW Is Hoon a hoon??

    • 254
      Goat says:

      Labour have spoiled every single sodding day I’ve had since May 1997. So, if anybody thinks I really am going to get bored watching them lot of fucking idiots squirm for a month or two then they are mistaken. Personally I’d burn the fuckers out with a flame thrower and it would be over in about five minutes, but no, plod will take years to decide to bring no charges. Can’t burn them, can’t shoot the fuckers. Can’t get rid of them either.

      • 340
        (yes I am a cunt / no I am not Nu Labour) says:

        So yes your life is shit, but can labour be blamed 100% for that?

  3. 3
    The Yorkshire Ripper says:

    Glad she went. Another useless, self-serving, gloating socialist granted position thanks to not being male – wankstain Darling should go and pull McBust’s card on the way and bring the house down. Jaqcboots’s about to get the bullet on the 5th I’ll warrant.

    • 15
      Inspector Foyle says:

      warrants already signed…

    • 18
      freddie flintoff says:

      they wont be missed

      • 40
        Greenkeeper says:

        Hammer the Scots!

        • 89
          I dream of a futre with dual-purpose lamp posts says:

          Sack the Queen; bring back Longshanks.

        • 145

          Sack Mandelson, bring back Danny La Rue.

        • 212
          Former Lib Dem says:

          The longer Brown delays calling the general election, in the forlorn hope “that something will turn up”, the angrier the voters become. Brown is caught between a rock and a hard place, it’s moments like this that make it all worth while. The pressure following the Euro debacle will be galactic, all the wannabe PMs in the Cabinet will surface, oh joy. The best result of course will be if Brown remains in situ because he is doomed anyway..

    • 155

      Darling, the Trotskyite, will be holding out for his peerage.

  4. 5
    Fred Goodwin's Goose Palace says:

    meh.

    Hewitt always did look shifty and Chaytor is probably unrecognised even in his own home. And they will still hang on to get that luvverly bonus of course.

    CnutS!

  5. 6
    JGordon has only got one ball says:

    Little wonder then that Balls is being made Chancellor, there’s no one left in Gordon’s bunker. Just like Hitler, Gordon has only got one Ball.

    Very fitting that Colonel Bogey is the tune to Gordon’s downfall.

    • 23
      Sunonmars says:

      I have my theory on why Balls is getting the Chancellors job, no other moron is stupid enough to take it. Poison chalice and after what they have seen Brown do to Darling, they all went Eff Off.

      • 596
        y fronts prevent fall out "testicles" says:

        Is my time coming Oh Master? I’ve been wearing your pants so long now I’ve got itchy balls but I so wish to continue ruining the Country and we’ve only got a year to make it a complete success

  6. 7
    Tricky Dicky says:

    Waiting for Gordot, waiting for Jackboots! When is our Home Secretary going to be forced to stand down for claiming for a second home when she did not have one? Plus the washing machines, multi-media systems, antique fireplaces, kitchen sinks (and plugs) and the porn movies for her 40 grand a year office boy (otherwise known as her husband).

    • 379
      Anon says:

      She just has!

    • 732
      Shithead says:

      What about the Arch-Hoon of Hoons, the original, pristine Hoon himself? Surely he should be sent off to spend more time with his mortgage?

  7. 8
    strapworld says:

    Standby for BARONESS HEWITT !!

    • 17
      Welsh windbags unite says:

      Sadly, you are correct. The political rewards for failure are either a seat in the House of Lords or a seat on the Brussels gravy train. Unless you are a Kinnock that is, where you are given both seats for your services to gross political incompetence.

    • 60
      Carnot says:

      God forbid, but you are probably right.

      The thought of Lord GB makes me puke more.

      • 326
        Anonymous says:

        Given that it’s normal for ex-PMs to be made Knights of the Garter, we still have Sir Tony Blair & Sir Gordon Brown to look forward to.

        Apologies to anyone whose lunch has been spoiled.

        • 411
          Pint Pot says:

          Her Majesty can always adjust the Garter to a part of the body much higher up and pull very tight!

    • 95
      Boris says:

      We really will have to abolish the House of Lords with all these Labour frauds and wankers in it !

      • 619
        Mental Ward Escapee says:

        Sadly I concur. I have always supported the Lords as an institution that has no democratic mandate as (ironically) it gave them more freedom to actually hold the Government to account without fear of an electorate to worry about. However, labour have destroyed the democratic process so much, that it makes no difference any more. Labour have continually acted in direct opposition to the majority wishes in the UK and sought to take the piss to an unbelievable extent.

        Contaminating the House of Lords with these bastards would be the final straw. We aught to have a democratically elected second chamber that is NOT made up of the same parties as the Commons. We need an elected second chamber that can revise or reject the excesses of the Commons.

  8. 9
    Stuart says:

    Who will she patronise now?

    • 22
      RavingMad says:

      everybody

    • 39
      Anonymous says:

      What you have to understand is making a decision like this doesn’t come easy for ordinary people, but for one as important as Patricia…

    • 63
      Patricia Hewitt (through closed eyelids) says:

      How can I POSSIBLY be in the wrong?

    • 74
      'kinell says:

      She alway cheesed me off when she was “Minister of State for Health” ie health minister for England. From her frequent patronising announcements it was obvious she didn’t have a clue she was health minister for England only . She often used to on about the “UK” – never mentioned England.

      Scotland , Wales and NI have their own health ministers and their own health services.

      • 196
        Presbyterian conscience says:

        Indeed , that’s why John Reid, a scottish MP, was secretary of state for Health and inflicted policies on the English that his own constituents escaped

      • 323
        Little Englander says:

        Which we pay for…

  9. 10
    michel de montaigne says:

    Make sure you read the link on the left “Disgraced Ex MPs….”

    • 48
      P Dant says:

      Sur le droit?

    • 333
      Anonymous says:

      Quote from said link:

      ‘One MP told the organisation that “being given a black bin liner to empty my desk, then being escorted out of the building with my pass taken away, is the sort of treatment usually reserved for those ex-employees caught with their hand in the till.”‘

  10. 11
    Anonymous says:

    This all start with the masters of lying, Blair and Campbell, but they called it spin.

    12 years down the line of the new labour project, we now know what it was really all about. I feel sad and sorry for the families of those who have lost loved ones in a war SOLD to us by them.

    We no longer have any friends any more in the middle east states. I don’t even know why we bother having a secretary of state either. Never has our standing in the world been so low. We are a laughing stock.

    Call an election now and get rid of all of them.

    • 12
      Stanlycam says:

      You are dead right SPIN = LIES

    • 20

      Yes, but sales of bananas have also collapsed thanks to the Boy Millipede.

      The Penguin

    • 277
      Anonymous says:

      You morris dancing cretins were ALWAYS a bit slow to know what was actually going on under your noses!

      Never mind, now the penny has dropped and you can dispose of the Scots thugs who you elected in your millions!

      How the mighty have fallen!

    • 293
      fewqwer says:

      They are like the crooks in Die Hard, minus the charisma.

      Make a load of ‘concerned’ political statements to the public, while behind the scenes they’re drilling into the safe.

    • 734
      Shithead says:

      Please don’t forget the family of that decent, intelligent Dr Kelly.

  11. 13
    Ranetr says:

    Spend more time with the family………Yawwwnwnnnnn!

    They didn’t mind ignoring the bastards when the goods times rolled did they?

    • 24
      RavingMad says:

      no, you’re quite right, but she’s got an urge to do more gardening, and knitting, and making cups of horlicks, it’s the sunny weather what done it!

      • 66
        CB says:

        Wonder if she is giving up her work with Allied Boots, Cinven and BT too? Currently seems to bring her over £100,000 pa. Bloody Australian Hoon!

        • 203
          Presbyterian conscience says:

          au contraire. It is probably Gordon’s intention to stop MPs having outside interests and the prospect of future HOC expenses being less generous that has made her review her options. As a former cabinet minister she probably expects a peerage as well to add welly to her patronising manner and provide a few bob if she is ever down on her luck once the corporates realise she can no longer provide anything they need.

        • 238
          RavingMad says:

          probably not

      • 176
        Anonymous says:

        M’mm didn’t Ms Patricia ‘My Shit Don’t Stink’ Hewitt grab a director’s job at Boots just after she’d been the Minister in charge of the NHS? Don’t think her family will see that much of her, she’ll be off troughing in all that lovely dosh!

  12. 14
    dr. sipp says:

    everyone jumping a sinking ship

    • 185
      Anonymous says:

      Hope they all get dragged down in the undertow (or whatever you call it) as it goes under for the last time (while Gordon re-arranges the deck chairs).

      • 219
        EC1 PhD says:

        It’s a wake and I look forward to a huge celebratory wake for Labour after Thursday

  13. 19
    pintandapisstheorist says:

    Good bloody riddance too … and a start but here’s the real problem; the first, second and third rule of the United Kingdom:-

    1. The Jockocracy – the queer Scottish folk that run our nation at the moment.

    2. The Cockocracy – ditto.

    3. The Mediaocracy – the dienasty that is the BBC/Guardanista – Im thinking the Dimblebores closely followed by the spore of such eminent greasers as Michael Buerk and John Serjeant whose cloned progeny now carry on the good work of reducing the once proud BBC to the gutter of world news reporting. Not forgetting of course, Cervical White and his hideous sidekick, the gorgeous pouting (sick) Polly Toywasp. What a motley bloody crew!

    • 626
      Mental Ward Escapee says:

      Could not agree more. These pro EU Pro “global warming hoax” bastards are all traitors.

  14. 21
    justoneglass says:

    It really is a house of cards. One by loathsome one of them…..

    • 29
      RavingMad says:

      make your mind up!

      a sinking ship or house of cards??

      this politics is so confusing…..

      car crash or wreck on the highway?

      they really are crap whatever :0)

      • 368
        Four-eyed English Genius says:

        I think it is House of Ships. Whoops, seem to have mistyped something there!

  15. 25
    Silvio Tanner says:

    *
    *
    *
    SUM PEOPLE THINQK THAT PATRISHAH HUGHWIT IS KLEVER

    VERY
    KLEVER
    TREVOR

    • 234
      Ian Dury says:

      Clevor Trever, thanks very much Silvio!

      “Knock me down with a feather”

      • 329
        Plaistow Patricia says:

        Arseholes, bastards, fucking Hoons and pricks – pretty much sums them up

  16. 27

    So when – just WHEN are the criminal proceedings going to start. There isn’t even a whiff of the law round this one!

    • 50
      M.T.BUCKET says:

      Thats the big question everyone is asking, the police are loosing all credability.

      • 162
        artboyusa says:

        Yeah. If they were all Brazillian electricians we’d see some fast action…

    • 69
      michel de montaigne says:

      Could be that the police are holding back ’till after the elections, in which case they are acting politically. Are their internal memos available under the FOI Act?

      • 105
        MrPeregrination says:

        To be fair – I can see why the police may want to wait until at least after the Euro elections. Just imagine the uproar if they ended up looking at only Tory or Labour MPs simply due to the way things fell. Much easier to wait until after the elections and then it doesn’t matter so much about the order of arrests.

        Sadly, I suspect what is really going on is a police force with no independance or integrity left refusing to arrest criminals.

    • 175
      Sniper says:

      Looking for the political classes goon squad? Try the other side of the barricade.

    • 180

      The Police are due to enter the Fees office AFTER the Euro elections apparently.

      I dare the Fees Office to shred anything. Let’s not forget the Telegraph has a full copy and I doubt it is the only one…..

      • 633
        Mental Ward Escapee says:

        They didn’t wait so long to go after Damien Green on trumped up false charges.

        They still haven’t nicked anyone for wasting police time on that one.

  17. 28
    Mr Christopher says:

    It’s like the Röhm-Putsch all over again. But who will be left on stage when the curtain falls on the New Labour regime?

    • 190
      Anonymous says:

      Yes, but that was successful – the result was that all the c**ts were dead. Here, they’ll continue to fanny around, spending our money.

  18. 31
    The Right Hon. Geoff Hoon MP says:

    Go fuck yourself you stupid voters. I’m going to keep my hand in your wallet even if I have to defect to the fucking Tories.

    • 56
      Raffles says:

      A Privy Councillor too! Let’s hope her Majesty has her handbag firmly closed when she drops by.

  19. 32
    Dougal google says:

    Blinky for promotion and then, and only then, I am guessing the telegraph will pull the tax payer funded rug from under his size nines.

    I will be howling with laughter.

    • 42
      Sunonmars says:

      Balls is only going to get it because Brown can’t hoodwink anyone else into taking on that piece of “poison”

      Who’d seriously want that job right now with McMental around.

    • 62
      Tin Cunliffe says:

      I thought balls had already been done. If you see what I mean.

  20. 33
    Bring Back Hanging says:

    Chancellor of the Exchequer & Second Lord of the Treasury responsible for the countires finances caught with his finger in the till.

    Home Secretary & Head of the Home Office responsible for the Police caught with her finger in the till.

    Secretary of State for Transport……………………………and so it goes on.

    May god have pity on their souls.

    • 41
      Bring Back Hanging but only for thieving, lying MP's says:

      We need a hung parliament

      • 68
        Edwina Currie says:

        We need a well hung Parliament.

        • 90
          Was Edwina Currie right about salmonella in eggs says:

          To think when I was rolling drunk I use to fancy you, what an ugly bat you turned out to be.

        • 602
          Sir Robin Knest-Magpie says:

          Yeah. We could all tune in to Noose At Ten and watch the hungings with Treveor Mc Scottishname as the anckor as the americans like to call their equivelent but who are mostly stunners with big…..giving us the latest news and gossip.

      • 93
    • 43
      St Peter at the Pearly Gates says:

      I doubt it somehow. They will be flipped to the “other place” on arrival.

    • 192
      Anonymous says:

      No! No pity from either God or Man. They called the tune – now let’s hope they have to pay the piper.

  21. 36
    michel de montaigne says:

    Latest…………….Hewitt’s family say she spends too much time with them already.

  22. 38
    JP says:

    eryones angry with these MPs expenses, but are we not forgetting the biggest ‘troughers’ of them all, The Royal Family?

    • 46
    • 51
      QE2 says:

      I am the only Head of State to wear a uniform in WWII and I’m the only one not invited to commemorate the 65th Normandy landings.

      I blame “Saving Private Ryan”, not a single Brit on the Normandy beaches and that jock twat for not inviting me.

      • 98
        Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

        This is the Queen’s fault.

        She is not up to date on the new protocol for Royal involvement in events such as these.

        Gordon Brown said on the Andrew Marr show that if any member of the royal family wished to attend then she should contact him, and he will arrange it.

        Is she cannot watch prime time telly she cannot expect to be included. fancied another hour in bed I suppose.

        • 194
          Nokia Norman says:

          Gordon Brown has just left Sky News Studios

        • 214
          Agent 99 says:

          You know Sir Reg

          I feel great sadness as your comment most likely is right on the button.

          For the Queen not to be present is an affront and insult and a disgraceful act by not only the French but also McTwat who bears the full responsibility and should have reminded the cheese eating surrender monkeys what their duty was. If Brown was PM in 44′then not one landing craft would have got onto the beach.

          Instead a hugely historical event will be overshadowed by the McShitforbrains getting OK pics with Obamarama. I attended the 50th anniversary and it was so much different to this charade about to be played out across our screens.

          Twat!!! I really utterly despise Brown and his cronies and I just want them gone.

        • 632
          Frank says:

          More likely she can’t stand the sight of McLoon and as soon as she saw he was going she told Charlie boy to go

    • 53
      Tricky Dicky says:

      Go and stick your head in a bucket of vomit!

      • 255
        Cleanup says:

        Then bill us for buying the bucket, buying a kebab, 7 cans of special brew, vomiting into the bucket, cleaning the bucket, cleaning your head and disposing of the bucket.

    • 55
      Engineer says:

      Leave the Royals alone. They earn their keep. They are among the finest diplomats this nation has.

      • 76
        The truth about expenses says:

        Earn their keep – you must be taking the piss, fuck me, they recieve money and are occupied. That iis entirely different to working and earning my friend.

      • 85
        Edwina Currie says:

        Take a look at the appointments and duties of all the senior royals. Not many people would undertake duties as extensive. They earn their keep.

    • 57

      Brenda and Co. are value for money, unlike the trough pigs in Parliament.

      The Penguin

    • 59
      Grytpype-thynne says:

      JP, you are a Hoon.

    • 64
      Mona Kiss says:

      They’ve been cutting down on costs for over 20 years

      • 86
        Cromwell's ghost says:

        Yea Charles is so hard done to that he still has a valet to put toothpaste on his toothbrush for him

    • 81
      English Liberation Front says:

      I very rarely write such words as this here, but for you I make an exception.

      Fuck off you repulsive shit.

      • 92
        Cromwell's ghost says:

        Why don’t you liberate these fucking Saxe-Coburg Gothe’s back to the Fatherland you then you c’unt

        • 218
          Mid Devon County council says:

          prince Albert is rumoured to have been the illegitimate offspirng of a Jewish financier so I warn you that this comment is racist

        • 350

          217 – If you’re talking about Alan Sugar that would certainly explain Prince William’s hair.

        • 450
          English Liberation Front says:

          Because I’d much rather have them than the scotch and English communist traitors occupying this country or shite republicans like you. So “you then you” can fuck off too, you illiterate bolshy little man (probably Tony Robinson).

    • 96
      Dr Feelgood says:

      Revenues from the Crown Estate go to HMRC – this massively outweighs the Civil List.

      A poor deal for HMQ – and a huge boost for public revenues.

      • 107
        Cromwell's ghost says:

        Crown Estates. Who did these fuckers tke these ‘estates’ from in the first place. The revenue is of the people and should belong to the crown whatever the fuck that means today.

        • 138

          …is of the people … who will see fuck all of it because the political elite would skim it off.

          If you want to live under bolshevism fuck off Russia.

        • 211

          Prince Charles only ever sails up the Bristol Channel, not the English Channel

          He never passes the Duchy on the Left Hand Side

        • 249
          jhonny rotten says:

          Yea fuck off Russia you big red Hoon

        • 251
          Dr Feelgood says:

          Good question!

          If you go waaaay back, the Normans took them from the Saxon aristocracy, who took them from the Roman landowners, who took them from British tribal chiefs.

          The trail goes cold there, anyone got Dan Brown’s phone numer?

        • 257
          jhonny rotten says:

          quality

        • 501
          English Liberation Front says:

          Oh do fuck off you sad and boring republican with all the usual anti-royal rants, the chips on the shoulders and the stupid Saxe-Coburg crap. Without the Monarchy this place would be as boring and miserable as it was when you were alive vandalising the place and confiscating Christmas trees with your badly behaved cavalry, your warts and your homespun, sanctimonious drivel. We would have a Republic (boring – parochial) with even more of the money-grubbing, venal, thick career politicians ripping us off and fucking up the country and some twat like you or Mbeki as Head of State.

        • 537
          Elby The Beserk says:

          Yeah right man. Property is theft, anyway, innit?

          What’s your address again?

      • 111
        Chuck Fuckwidget says:

        I know more about the royal family than any of you because I am a genius gaming geek computer who invented tea bag fidelity and I invented

        • 208
          Anonymous says:

          Hi Chuck, great to see you on a rare visit away from your spiritual home of LabourLost.

        • 247
          Chuck Fuckwidget says:

          When I invented internet blogging blah blah famous blah blah you’re all a bunch of little shits blah blah but fame only really hit home when I became the world’s most prolific user of mathematical modelling (Newton Rapheson, Poincare, Piskie Scale) and coined the phrase “graphics fidelity” which if you check on Google is complete bollocks. Now, where’s my walking frame?

        • 291

          Charles,

          You forgot; you are also the worlds worst Taoist.

    • 103
      Freddie Mercury says:

      Long Live Queen

    • 179
      Sniper says:

      Duchy of Lancaster. Try finding out the information hidden away in books.

    • 199
      Anonymous says:

      Fuck off JP. At least we know exactly how much we pay the Royals – unlike MPs. Her Maj has done a good job & she & the rest of them are great tourist attractions. How many people have visited Britain to see Gordon Brown? Apart from illegals that is.

      • 227
        Charles Flaccidwidger says:

        “How many people have visited Britain to see Gordon Brown?”

        Just one sniper with a high powered rifle would be enough for me.

        • 276
          Cromwell's ghost says:

          How many people would not visit England just because a few troughers weren’t in situ’. Would all the palaces and estates disappear and not be visited? Can You imagine how heartbroken The Japanese tourists would be knowing Andrew Sax Coburg had to pay for his own helicopter to ferry him to the golf club.

    • 283
      Anonymous says:

      hear hear

    • 292
      Goat says:

      Do one you dickhead.

    • 468
      Dan'l Whiddon says:

      Yeah Right, the Royal family don’t claim for Buckingham Palace and then flog it so that they can keep the profits. 78% of the people in a recent poll wanted to retain the Monarchy. HM is a very rare figure of trust in a world peopled by dodgy characters. She has worked on way past normal retirement age and been a fine example to all and what does she get? snide comments from jokers who know she cannot answer back.

      Sarkozy and Brown snub her over the D Day commemoration but she is the only one of them who can justifiably wear a world war 2 Victory Medal. What do you honestly think would have happened to her and her sister if Hitler had invaded?

      If you don’t want the Royal Family to get taxpayers money then let HM have the Crown Estates back.

  23. 52
    Tricky Dicky says:

    Patsy hasn’t been exposed by the Telegraph yet. That either means that she is squeaky clean, or that she knows she is about to be fingered. Will be interesting to find out which.

    Either way, she was a rotten health secretary who totally screwed up the way Junior Doctors are placed, leaving many newly qualified doctors unemployed.

    • 72
      P1 says:

      She was useless everywhere, not just health. A complete lightweight with a patronising manner as well. Any chance of her waiving her sign-off cash and pension? Not a hope.

    • 75
      It doesn't add up... says:

      She seems to have escaped under the radar. Here’s the DT writeup on her so far:

      Patricia Hewitt claimed £920 in legal fees when she moved out of a flat in her constituency. Stayed in hotels then rented another flat in Leicester. Claimed for furniture including £194 blinds delivered to her London home

      • 121
        Trough Smeller Pursuivant says:

        Trougher

      • 204
        CB says:

        Did she sell the large house in Leicester then? When was that? Pay capital gains tax on it did she?

        • 534
          CB says:

          Constituency house in Leicester sold in December 2005 for £215,000. Did you pay Capital Gains Tax Patsy? Or just pocket the cash and then charge the taxpayers for renting flats?

    • 132
      Grimy Miner says:

      Fingering Patsy? Does that job come with danger money?

    • 635
      Frank says:

      Interesting that she wants to devote more time to the health companies she is involved in. Did she aquire these whilst on the job, so to speak?

  24. 54
    Grytpype-thynne says:

    The Taxpayers’ Alliance says it will carry out private prosections of MPs who have broken the law but whom the state will not prosecute.The TPA is asking for donations to help fund this.I am sending a few quid and urge you all to do the same thing.

  25. 61
    Retiring FROM Politics says:

    Utter codswallop you retire INTO politics.

  26. 65
    The Master says:

    Jack Straw seen visiting a knife sharpener. Alan Johnson visiting hairdresser. Ed Balls measuring for curtains at the Treasury.What are the chances of The Chipmunk going ballisitic early next week when the Euro results are in, a variation on the Howe attack.

  27. 77
    J R Hartley Esq says:

    Wasn’t she the welsh windbag’s press secretary when Jennifer’s Ear blew up during the 1992 General Election.

    I seem to remember the scene where the old welsh cnut had to try and rescue her during a press conference – “They’re not worth it”

    Ha ha – useless to the end. Sod off back to Oz.

  28. 78
    Unsworth says:

    Hewitt ’spending more time with her family’?

    Poor bastards!

  29. 79
    The Hewitt Family says:

    Spend more time with your family?????, You must be kidding, fcuk off back to Westminster.

  30. 82
    freddie flintoff says:

    we need most of parliment hung

  31. 83
    I dream of a futre with dual-purpose lamp posts says:

    I must be missing something here. All this wholesale thieving from the public purse and not a sniff from PC Plodd. If you commit benefit fraud or VAT fraud or anything else against the Treasury’s coffers, you’re looking at doing bird. But not if you’re a politician, curiously.
    Perhaps there really IS something in this masonic conspiracy business…

  32. 91
    MP claimed for mortgage before he was elected says:

    Shailesh Vara, the shadow deputy leader of the House of Commons, tried to claim £1,500 on his expenses for costs incurred before he was elected.

    Shailesh Vara lodged invoices for mortgage interest payments, council tax and cleaning services that covered part of 2005 when he was not yet an MP.

    He then used his parliamentary expenses to refurbish his second home – owned solely in the name of his wife – before selling it for a £150,000 profit and buying a £1.2 million house near Westminster. Mr Vara, a solicitor, was a vice-chairman of the Conservative Party before he was elected to represent the seat of North West Cambridgeshire in May 2005.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5425247/MPs-expenses-Shailesh-Vara-claimed-1500-for-costs-incurred-before-he-was-elected-to-Parliament.html

    • 99
      Johnny says says:

      John Wick gave The Telegraph the gift that keeps on giving!

      • 120
        Kidnap and Ransom Negotiator says:

        He’s the sort of shifty soul who would negotiate a fee based on column inches

    • 100
      Peter Madnelson says:

      He’ll go far but not yet in my league.

    • 122
      P1 says:

      All explained by simple mistakes and misunderstandings on instructions. Thank god these people are not professionals – solicitors and the like – as their clients would be livid if they made all those mistakes “at work”!

      Still, not as bad as a non-existent mortgage or bill, and not as bad as claiming that you needed a second home in Westminster when the taxpayer gave you a nice place in Downing Street and a country house to live in , eh Mr Brown?

  33. 94
    Geoff (Trouser Cough) Hoon says:

    Attention: HoC Fees Office

    I have just inadvertently farted. Can I now claim this on expenses? I’ll put £820 so no-one will notice.

    PS. Please shred this document after paying me.
    PPS. Send cash to my third house.

    • 126
      Fees Office (Red Watch) says:

      All Ok. Please confirm John Lewis price for fart though – we need to keep these things tightly controlled.

    • 128
      Subordinate Clause says:

      PS I need to claim back 56p for another tin of beans so I can repeat the process

      • 172
        Fees Office (Red Watch) says:

        56p? Is that all? Please take full £400 monthly food allowance and make sure you eat all beans in your second home, whilst thinking about parliamentary business.

    • 216
      Fees Office rubber stamper says:

      We have just got wind of this scam. Claim is valid only for air freshener and any 45-minute chemical alert warning brochure.

      • 271
        Hoon the Hoon says:

        The notion that my fart was in any way responsible for the sad demise of the home office scientist Dr David Kelly is in very poor taste. However, don’t you think that I looked so incredibly shifty at the press conference the day after that somehow I must know more than I’m letting on? Besides, it was a CIA fart.

  34. 101
    Can't Kukri, Won't Kukri says:

    Pray that the Tories tell the bloated thieving PFI crooks to fuck off, then all the ZaNu ex-ministers will find that their verbal nod-and-wink guarantees of revolving-door riches are as reliable as a Gordon Brown promise.

    • 165
      Susie says:

      I like this. I like this a lot.

    • 324
      Tattooed_Arry says:

      It’s the only way you’ll stop them taking up their Directorships – plus the recession works in our favour. Next time one of these PFI-Criminals tries to blackmail the local community – we need more more money or the hospital/school closes – call their bluff. Not a lot you can do with an empty school/hospital.
      Ditto the transport system, privatisation was meant to be cheaper and better for the public – why is “Beardy” still getting subsidies for his train services? And putting up fares, and then turning the carriages into cattle trucks.
      Good God, what a legacy New Labour have left, granted the privatisation happened under the Conservatives, the oversight of these newly privatised companies has been appalling. How much have these gangsters given to to the Labour party?
      There really needs to be a “root and branch” clear out of this rape of the public purse, no matter who sits on the Board – Labour, Conservative or Lib Dem.

      PS. I had a look at the Conservative Blog, the one that is linked here, someone was posting saying that it was a breath of fresh air posting there having been at Order.Order.com. Something along the lines of Commenters here being foul mouthed, no-political debate etc…
      As a new-comer to the “political blog” I’d like to say that this is the only one which mirrors what I hear the “man on the street” saying. Don’t they understand that it is the dislocation of the public from politics, and the erroneous belief that the rarified air of their closed debates reflects the real concerns of the public, that have led this country to the situation it finds itself in today.

      • 339
        Anonymous says:

        Exactly.

        And anyway, what idiots let Hewitt have these directorships in the first place.

        It’s clearly A CONFLICT OF INTEREST.

        I wait for the time when the law is changed as follows:

        a) No directorships for any politician while in office.
        b) No directorships for politicians while out of office for two years
        c) All subsequent directorships vetted for conflict of interest
        d) Politicians have to prove new directorships have no conflict of interest.
        e) Retrospective legislation to investigate old directorships, seek out favours given, and prosecute. New type of economic ‘Crony Crime’.

        That’s enough for now back to work

        God what a bunch of Hoons.

  35. 106
    Steve Expat says:

    Sky now saying Beverley Hughes also standing down “to spend more time with her family”

    Three in one morning, could be a good day for MPs’ resignations!!

  36. 109
    Swiss Bob says:

    Not long now. Brown will announce his reshuffle and will then himself get told to go forth by the rest of the party.

    Harman for PM, things cn only get better.

    WOTSONTELLY. NEWSNIGHT WITH OUR MASTERS.

    Live chat the Daily Politics from midday. Vince Cable, Andrew Porter (Ed Balls karaoke partner?) and Michael Winner on celebrity MPs: Live chat midday.

    • 144
      RavingMad says:

      **********BreakingNews******************

      Brown reshuffle to be announced later. One problem though. Brown has reshuffled everyone including himself and not given himself a post! He claims it was a simple mistake and that he is the only person to correct the matter>

    • 308
      Reds under the bed says:

      Lots of media comment on Brown’s expected reshuffle – yet no-one has pointed out that he no longer has the authority to force through the changes he actually wants.

      He’s bound to bollocks the whole thing up and end up with a cabinet of all the talentless.

      Remember when Blair tried to demote Prescott and was told to fuck off?

      Brown will get Balls as Chancellor, of course. But this will be his fatal mistake. The loathsome toad Balls has made too many enemies with his agressive, arrogant manner. I suspect that many prospective ministers will just refuse to head up departments with Balls holding the purse strings.

      A botched reshuffle might just convince one minister to refuse a new post and return to the backbenches and provide the nation with that Geofrey Howe moment that we’re all hoping for.

  37. 112
    michel de montaigne says:

    Brown ” Im getting on with the things that really matter”………. kissing old ladies and giving them swine flu

    • 130
      little old lady 103 says:

      I tried to ask him who was running the country, but he just gave me an inane grin and said ” Who the fuck do you think you are Adam Boulton”

  38. 113
    Anonymous says:

    BLOODY HELL, CAMERON AS A 30 MILLION FORTUNE,HOW THE FCK AS HE EARNED ALL OF THAT….CRAZY

  39. 116
    The Right Honourable Prime Minister says:

    After the Andrew Boulton Sky News Interview yesterday where I nearly lost it and kicked him in the balls, in future I will only do live interviews if no questions are asked or I’m placed in a straight-jacket.

    This has nothing to do with my bizaar temper or personality disorders but are to be put in place purely for Health & Safety reasons.

    • 189
      RavingMad says:

      are you infectious, prime minister?

      • 260
        Gordon Brown says:

        I told you I no longer do Q&A interviews so stop asking questions and I’ll stop giving answers.

        Live interviews will now only be conducted when I’m dead.

  40. 117
    Cassandra King says:

    Lets hope that a full public inquiry and a specialist forensic accountancy team are set up after newlabour are destroyed at the next election.

    The treason and betrayal of the newlabour gang cannot go unpunished, the sheer scale of the disaster is yet to be felt and untill experts can get into the ministries and interogate civil servants and the guilty newlabour scum we as a nation cannot hope to pul trough.

    Every emal and every piece of paper(not shredded)willhave to be examined, all the books will have to combed through and every dodgy deal made by the newlabour gangsters for favourable contracts to friends and family, every fiscal transaction and secret offshore tax haven bank account setup by the newlabour scum will have to be investigated.

    It will take years to track down the missing,stolen and wasted billions, cash will be in Swiss banks and hidden in offshore trusts and mansions in the caribean and the Indian sub continent, fraud investigators will be tracking the kick back slush fund payoff money for years.

    If Cameron starts this inquiry just after he walks into No10 he will only start getting results when he next calls a general election, its going to take years just to get some results!

    • 241
      Anonymous says:

      Couldn’t we make it easier? Assume they’re all guilty – which is what our Second Home Secretary & Minister for Porn Jacky Spliff does with us plebs nowadays, having turned the old British Law of ‘innocent until provend guilty’ on its head – and cull the bastards? Farmers cull vermin every day in the country – we just move the culling to city surroundings – or go visit them in their country mansions at the weekend. Simples! And it saves on redundancy money & pensions.

  41. 118
    RavingMad says:

    Beverley Hughes standing down at the next election but ‘not due to MPs expenses’…… same old, same old!!!

  42. 123
    Stronghold Barricades says:

    was her seat safe?

    Have her expenses come out yet?

  43. 131
    Dirty Rat says:

    You know, if I was planning the exposure by the Telegraph I would keep the very best to last. I have this lovely feeling in my water that the last few days of the story are going to be a blinder – I aint half getting excited!!

  44. 135
    Troughtastic says:

    Does anyone have a video link for the protest at HoC yesterday? (not BBC)

  45. 137
    Anon says:

    Hewitt: the most annoying woman in politics? Hard to say, so many to chose from. Harman, Cooper, Flint………..

    • 153
      O. B. Noxious says:

      Maybe – but don’t you think Flint has got that certain something?

    • 235
      XXXX says:

      ..Jowell…

      • 268
        O. B. Noxious says:

        That’s Mrs Mills isn’t it? Mrs Mills used to play the pub piano really well.

      • 269
        Anonymous says:

        It really is difficult to decide which of them is the most annoying. And they’re all so plug ugly – apart from Flint who has a certain sluttish attraction – only you’d need to wash very carefully afterwards. Harman’s saving grace is that at least she looks as though she understands what soap & water are for & she wears clothes that are the right size for her – most of them seem to try & squeeze into clothes that are either far too young for them and/or 2 or 3 sizes too amall – ref any Jacky Spliff picture – stomach churning. Most of them have horrible speaking voices too – rough as f*** or horribly patronising. H.H wins on voice too, IMHO. Not that I’d vote for he mind, but out of that lot…. Guido, maybe we could have a caption contest or something – Top Labour Totty. We’ll need it before Friday though because after that most of ‘em will be dust.

      • 345
        Paradise Avenue says:

        Is Mrs. Boon any better?

  46. 140
    righty right wing (mrs) says:

    It is not enough.

    We want prosecutions & convictions for fraud & theft.

    They will not be allowed to slip quietly out of the back door with their accounts stuffed with our cash & with property portfolios they have not earned that we paid for.

    Where is the Met?

    Where is the poodle they put in charge after their man Blair got ousted?

    He is a disgrace to the uniform & is nothing more than another political patsy controlled by Neo Labour.

    Dissolve Parliament. Arrest the trougher MPs. Clean out the Met.

    • 154
      RavingMad says:

      Agree entirely.

      How come these people are free to determine their own escapes from this bloody mess and still retain all the allowances????

    • 201
      Anonymous says:

      We’re closing in…

      * With over 600 calls a day to our hotline
      * With over 3,000 fraud investigators
      * With over 200 benefit thieves reported online every day
      * By carrying out over 2,000 investigations every week
      * By cross-checking the bank accounts of benefit thieves
      * With hidden cameras and mobile surveillance
      * With every means at our disposal

      http://www.dwp.gov.uk/campaigns/benefit-thieves/

      • 206
        Anonymous says:

        Benefit thieves – we’re closing in. And when we catch you, you face:

        * having to pay all the money back and sometimes more than you stole
        * prosecution
        * a criminal record
        * a fine
        * having your home and possessions taken away
        * and even a prison sentence.

        Once we have completed all our investigations you will be asked to attend a taped interview under caution. And the stigma of benefit fraud is not something you can keep to yourself. There’s no hiding the shame from your family, your friends or your neighbours.

        • 279
          Anonymous says:

          Ah yes, but that’s only for the little people, not MPs, particularly not Labour MPs. ‘We are all equal under the law’ maybe in another time, in another place but certainly not in – Britain 2009, under NuLabour.

  47. 142
    10 Pin Bowling says:

    They’re going down like 10 pins.

    • 177
      Anonymous says:

      Yes, but they go down with a fucking pension more than most people earn, so they are still taking the piss for the rest of their miserable fucking lives. I have waited for a politician from one of the the Lib/Lab/Con hoons to come round for the Euro election. I have a big fuck off UKIP poster in the window, but if I was still hoping they would be thick enough to ring the bell to persuade me to vote otherwise. For some strange reason we have not seen any of the cnts this time around – just as well for their little piggy oily skins as I was planning to just tell them to fuck off and die, plenty of lads round here have lost their jobs and hanging onto their houses by their fingernails, they planned a lot more..

      • 202
        Wheel Clampers are better than MP's says:

        Maybe the baseball bat in the window with blood on it and nails sticking out of it gave you away.

  48. 149
    dog food says:

    wouldn’t it be best if Gordon Brown became unconditional ruler, monarch, head of church, etc then he can get on with the job without having to explain things to idiots like you lot

  49. 151
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    Three in a day? Nanny Government recommends ‘five a day’. That’s what we’d like to see.

  50. 157
    Mr Burns says:

    Excellent.

  51. 159
    It's this poor bastard I feel really sorry for says:

    This poor bastard has popped into my head several times over the last month. How must he be feeling right now?

    • 173
      3 Viagra per day and I'm only 18 says:

      I wish I had 4 inches too high

    • 191
      P1 says:

      Terrible. His real offence was in having a wheelie bin from Cardiff outside his house in Cumbria – should be in jail for that one.

    • 679
      Mary Hinge says:

      He should be fined for having four kids, the idiot. The fucking planet is FULL UP!

    • 711
      Moley says:

      I fought the fuckers until they gave me a second bin.

      Apparently the rules say you can have one if there are more than four in the family.

  52. 160
    Moley. says:

    Like Comedy

    Timing is everything.

    • 174
      EC1 PhD says:

      Moley, you’ve added a full stop. Is it to make a point?

      • 703
        Moley says:

        Sorry, an inadvertent clerical error due to the pressure of work.

        I am entirely responsible and I have therefore sacked my secretary who should have known better.

  53. 161
    Vietnam veteran says:

    I love the smell of resignations in the morning.

  54. 163
    John Bull says:

    Dimwit Murnaghan has just given the three Zanulab MPs stepping down about 10 seconds of coverage on Sky News. No mention whatsoever of Chaytor’s phantom mortgage. Excellent objective journalism.

    • 169
      RavingMad says:

      the BBC’s line on ‘objectivity’ is that it should broadly follow the line of the government of the day. That way they curry favour when the obnoxious tv tax is debated.

      • 386
        Steve the Hammer says:

        cameron must be itching to torture those bastards…can’t wait to see it happen

  55. 168
    NEWS ALERT!! t'GROUNIAD URGES 'READERS' (sic) : VOTE LIMP DIMWITS, says:


    …… uhmm ….. follows …….

    • 394
      Boris says:

      Even¨Polly Twaddle is eating her hat and saying vote LIMP DEM…

      She is deserting the Criminal New Labour sinking ship as well…

      Poor luv…

      She never did a brain in her head…

      God knows why anyone her pays here £ 1000,000 to write such drivel…

  56. 170
    Unsworth says:

    Hughes, too? Fucking splendid. She’s almost as monstrous as Hewitt – and certainly as bleeding incompetent. But the point is, why are they waiting for a whole year if being an MP is taking such a toll on them and their families? Could this just possibly be about MONEY?

    Immoral mendacious bastards right to the end.

    • 288
      Anonymous says:

      Of course a GE now would get rid of the troughers without their extra year of pay.

  57. 182
    righty right wing (mrs) says:

    What did Sir Paul Stephenson do to earn his Knighthood?

    Who put him forward?

    There has to be a very good reason, given the ample evidence in the public domain, why this man has thus far refused to do his duty.

    I am shocked at the complicity & apparent impotence of the Met in this sleazy sage of fraud & theft from the public purse by the political elite.

    I have said it here before – the Metropolitan Police are nothing more than another State Arm of New Labour.

    They had no problem attacking the peaceful Countryside Alliance marchers in London yet when our whole democracy is truly threatened by these staggering events they do nothing.

    Why not?

    Dissolve Parliament.

    Arrest the trougher MPs.

    Clean out the Met.

  58. 184
    It's all Balls says:

    Reminds me of that old nursery song

    “10 green bottlers shitting on the pot”

    or something like that …

  59. 188
    Wheel Calampers are better then MP's says:

    They know the games up, the gravy train is coming to the end of the line.

    They’ll all end up at B&Q telling people where the duck ponds are.

  60. 197
    Dr Feelgood says:

    O/T but worth it. Amusing NEW anti-toytown Nazi animation:
    http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=80296377990&h=HUEKv&u=ZYo6T&ref=nf

  61. 198
    Tick Boxer (jus’ gotta keep tickin’ them thar boxes – it’s me Noo-Lying-Bore trainin’ y’kno, innit) says:


    Bliar (1) gone [ √ ]
    ‘Third Way’ bullshit gone [ √ ]
    Bliar (2) gone [ √ ]
    Gorbals gone [ √ ]

    Mr ‘2 jags – mock tudor shags’ Prezza gone [ √ ]
    Blind ‘Shagalot’ Pugh gone [ √ ] back [ ] gone [ √ ] back [ ]
    m’Lud MincingCrinkleBum gone [ √ ] back [ ] gone [ √ ] back [ ] gone [ √ ] back [ ]
    Cinq-Bellies going . . . . going . . . [ ]

    Baroness Udder of Gravy-Train [ ]

    ‘Neo-Endogenous’ bullshit gone [ √ ] coming back [ ]
    Parasitical + verminous MPs [ ]
    ‘Britain-best-placed’ bullshit [ ]

    Mad Jock McSnotty, the Grinning Kirkaldy Twatty [ ]

    OTHERS :

    Arselickers [ ]
    Arsewipers [ ]
    Jobsworths [ ]
    Quangocrats [ ]

    Filthy infected hospitals [ ]
    St Patricia of Hack-It (see hospitals above) going

    Local Authority claptrap, waste, mindless interference [ ]
    AlJaBeeba [ ]
    EUSSR [ ]

    British ‘envy of the world’ crap ed-yer-kay-shern, child indoctrination, pointless exams [ ]
    Reintroduction of proper education, literacy, numeracy, and values

    Junk qualifications [ ]
    Banal Job Titles [ ]

    Rubbish ‘Universities’ (sic) – (aka pretentious polytechnics) [ ]
    Reintroduction of proper Polytechnics that do an honest worthwhile job waiting [ ]

    Thought Police [ ]
    Bin Inspectors [ ]
    Compliance Officers [ ]

    Etc .

    • 215
      John Bull says:

      During their term in Office, Labour have introduced Police Support Officers, Pedestrian Training Officers (Yes honest) and Teacher’s Aides. The creation of these state sponsored positions have been paid for by Brown’s Stealth Taxes.

      These positions were in fact in existance for many, many years prior to the Labour Party coming to power. The holders of all the above posts were known as Parents but under this Government we have seen the destruction of the family model and the subsequent deterioration of this Country.

      • 243
        michel de montaigne says:

        We recently had a mis-directed letter to sombody in Stockport telling them that an interpreter ( vietnamese) would be calling to accompany him ( a visitor ) to Doncaster prison to visit a friend. Nice work…learn a language.

      • 336
        Susie says:

        Teachers assistants?

        Wasn’t that Mohammed Sidique Khan’s job (@ Labour MP Jon Trickett headmistress wife’s primary school) — shortly before he blew himself and 11 commuters up?

        Can’t have been that demanding if you’ve got the time to train, plan and execute the logistics for 7/7.

      • 408
        Gordon Brown - the Agent of Chaos says:

        “…but under this Government we have seen the destruction of the family model and the subsequent deterioration of this Country.”

        It was the right thing to do.

    • 273
      Next! says:

      You missed out:

      Groucho Fiddler-on-the-hoof Darling

      Surely just an inadvertent oversight or just an accounting error?

      • 302
        Tick Boxer (jus’ gotta keep tickin’ them thar boxes – it’s me Noo-Lying-Bore trainin’ y’kno, innit) says:


        With ack. + gratitude to Next! and apologies for ‘oversight’

        Bliar (1) gone [ √ ]
        ‘Third Way’ bullshit gone [ √ ]
        Bliar (2) gone [ √ ]
        Gorbals gone [ √ ]
        Mr ‘2 jags – mock tudor shags’ Prezza gone [ √ ]
        Blind ‘Shagalot’ Pugh gone [ √ ] back [√ ] gone [ √ ] back [ ]
        m’Lud MincingCrinkleBum gone [ √ ] back [√ ] gone [ √ ] back [√ ] gone [ √ ] back [ ]

        Cinq-Bellies going . . . . going . . . [ ]
        Baroness Udder of Gravy-Train [ ]

        ‘Neo-Endogenous’ bullshit gone [ √ ] coming back [ ]
        Parasitical + verminous MPs [ ]
        ‘Britain-best-placed’ bullshit [ ]
        Groucho Fiddler-on-the-hoof Dharhaha-ling . . . going . . . . [ ]
        Mad Jock McSnotty, the Grinning Kirkaldy Twatty [ ]

        OTHERS :

        Arselickers [ ]
        Arsewipers [ ]
        Jobsworths [ ]
        Quangocrats [ ]

        Filthy infected hospitals [ ]
        St Patricia of Hack-It (ref. above hospitals) going [ ]

        Local Authority claptrap, waste, mindless interference [ ]
        AlJaBeeba [ ]
        EUSSR [ ]

        ‘envy of the world’ crap ed-yer-kay-shern, child indoctrination, pointless exams [ ]
        Reintroduction of real education, literacy, numeracy, values . . . waiting … [ ]

        Junk qualifications [ ]
        Banal Job Titles [ ]

        Rubbish ‘Universities’ (sic) – (aka pretentious polys) [ ]
        Reintroduction of real Polytechnics that do an honest worthwhile job waiting [ ]

        Thought Police [ ]
        Bin Inspectors [ ]
        Compliance Officers [ ]

        Etc .

  62. 200
    sick of the greed says:

    slightly o/t but I wonder if the MP’s that were on suicide watch due to duplicate expense claims with their mistresses have been “outed” yet?
    Now that would be a very interesting press. :-)

    • 230
      michel de montaigne says:

      Take a look at Darling’s wife and ask yourself……………..?

    • 231
      Wheel Clampers are better than MP's says:

      For the Right Honourable thieving lying Members, an Honourable way of dieing, Seppuku (“stomach-cutting”) is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment and is performed by plunging a sword into the abdomen and moving the sword left to right in a slicing motion.

      It is very slow and painful and therefore demonstrates courage, self-control, and strong resolve.

      Have you the guts for Hari Kari?

      • 303
        Anonymous says:

        You morris dancing twats have not got an oz of guts between the lot o ya!

      • 304
        Anonymous says:

        ‘Free Hari Kari Lessons now available to MPs of all Partys. Personal lessons available (in case you chicken out, I’ll do the job for you)’.

      • 354
        Tattooed_Arry says:

        A second (best friend) would often be standing by to take your head off with a sword after the first cut.
        Seppuku – roughly self-immolation
        Hara-kiri – roughly “belly-cutting” is offensive – crude I suppose.

    • 724
      Moley says:

      Waiting for Balls to be named as Chancellor before its made public.

      They make a bigger crash if they are as high as possible before you shoot them down.

  63. 210
    Osama the Nazarene says:

    Pleased to be rid of La Hewitt. When is Dawn Primadona getting her comeuppance. These two hypocrites, with the ditherer in the background, drove through the infamous IR35 regulations which penalised all contract workers by turning them into pseudo full time employees for tax purposes but without full time tenure.

    I’m sure all health workers will be well pleased with her departure. Shame it can’t be earlier.

    • 319

      The main beneficiary of IR35 was the large consultancies who Hewitt used to work for…

      Zanu-Labour. Corrupt from DAY ONE!

      • 674
        Anonymous says:

        But don’t forget all the ‘agencies’ (often foreign) who profited by filling the ’skills gap’ that IR35 created. Lots of money to be made from pretending the UK has a shortage of IT staff (- most of the British ones are now unemployed with their jobs being done, usually badly, by imports).

  64. 217
    Dungeekin says:

    BREAKING NEWS:

    Top Doctors Called to Westminster

    A team of medical experts are being rushed to London to deal with an ‘unprecedented crisis’ at Westminster.

    The team, from the Spinal Injuries Unit of Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, were called in by Prime Mincer Gollum Brown after recent trauma in the opinion polls. The injuries the Government sustained were exacerbated by the announcement today that three more Labour MPs, David Chaytor, Patricia Hewitt and Beverley Hughes will all stand down at the next Election – Hewitt and Hughes to spend more time with their families, and Chaytor to spend more time being raped in the showers in Parkhurst.

    D

    • 769
      Dungeekin you are one boring cunt says:

      Dungeekin, you are one self-promoting unfunny idiot.

      Wherever I surf, you are there like a bad smell.

      If the shite on your blog was of the least merit, then people might link to you.

      Please just do us a favour and fuck off.

  65. 221
    michel de montaigne says:

    Mandelson is also stepping down to spend more times.

    • 242
      Peter Madnelson says:

      LORD Mandelson … please. Don’t you people ever listen to Radio 4?

      By the way, Vauxhall Motors is now up on eBay with an opening bid of 10 p (not from me). Get in quick. I told you that I would do everything possible to save this fine company.

    • 261
      Blooper says:

      Leave Lord M alone to his grief

      His latest mail-order toyboy was on that Brazil-Paris plane

  66. 222

    I am delighted to announce that thanks to Guido this is National HOON Day. the first word of the headline in todays Daily Torygraph . Hoons are well know for diiping into bank accounts, running up ghost expenses and claiming in the style of old time Fleet Street journalists.

    There is also a Hoon cocktail Creme de Menthe, loads of crushed ice, Ameretti, Calvados all measures 50 ml in a Brandy Balloon and sipped through a short straw (Yes, Hoon drew it) taking in each layer.

    You need two to become completely pissed enough to recognise the soon departing speaker and in order to complete your parliamentary expenses…in the style MP’s have become accustomed .

  67. 223
    NewGirl says:

    Ha Ha and today’s Telegraph front page headline can only have been written by a Guido blogger….!

  68. 226
    Susie says:

    O/T, but this is the most sensational, international, prime-time, 100% organic, put down for Brown yet:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8078294.stm

    Take him down baby.

    • 253
      Steve Expat says:

      Yeah baby! Brown fucked by Obama now, doesn’t it just get better every day ;-)

      • 325
        Anonymous says:

        Fantastic! Go Obama, go! Three MPs down, Hoon recognition & Obama fucking Brown. Oh bliss, oh rapture.

    • 264
      Gordon Brown says:

      Obama for President

      • 289
        P1 says:

        He seems to be in charge of D-Day arrangements here, so why ot put him in charge of everything else? At least he got elected recently, somewhere other than a close-knit fiefdom in Jock-land.

    • 318
      michel de montaigne says:

      I have a feeling that in 65 yrs time we will be celebrating ” The Comeuppance”

    • 395
      Gordon Brown says:

      ………”the event was intended for prime ministers and presidents, rather than royals”…………………

      • 702
        Susie says:

        You left out the word ‘elected’ from that statement, Gorgon.

        Bang goes the knighthood — that’s one honour the Queen does control.

  69. 228
    boulay says:

    the times is re-reporting allegations in a jockanese newspaper about jim devine mp (lab) who:

    “billed the taxpayer £2,326 for shelving for his constituency office, but the name on the receipt – Tony Moran – was the name not of a carpenter but of the licensee of a bar near Mr Devine’s home in West Lothian. ”

    surely not a fantastically large booze tab on the tax-payer??

    nice.

  70. 229
    Dungeekin says:

    BREAKING NEWS:

    Top Doctors Called to Westminster

    A team of medical experts are being rushed to London to deal with an ‘unprecedented crisis’ at Westminster.

    The team, from the Spinal Injuries Unit of Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, were called in by Prime Mincer Gollum Brown after recent trauma in the opinion polls. The injuries the Government sustained were exacerbated by the announcement today that three more Labour MPs, David Chaytor, Patricia Hewitt and Beverley Hughes will all stand down at the next Election – Hewitt and Hughes to spend more time with their families, and Chaytor to spend more time being raped in the showers in Parkhurst.A team of medical experts are being rushed to London to deal with an ‘unprecedented crisis’ at Westminster.

    The team, from the Spinal Injuries Unit of Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, were called in by Prime Mincer Gollum Brown after recent trauma in the opinion polls. The injuries the Government sustained were exacerbated by the announcement today that three more Labour MPs, David Chaytor, Patricia Hewitt and Beverley Hughes will all stand down at the next Election – Hewitt and Hughes to spend more time with their families, and Chaytor to spend more time being raped in the showers in Parkhurst.

  71. 237
    Anonymous says:

    Sod the lamposts. Take em to the nearest forest. Epping would do nicely.

  72. 240
    ex-soldier says:

    Keep pushing, keep pushing – you’re doing really well.

    • 248
      Stuck in the trenches says:

      Send three and fourpence. We’re going to a dance.

      • 306
        Anonymous says:

        Changed my mind-send reinforcements, were going to advance!

      • 322
        Her Majesty the Queen says:

        Send for the servants, we’re going to La France

        • 331
          Anonymous says:

          Good one! Queeny certainly has more right to go to France than Cyclops – at least she served in the Forces. What has Cyclops ever done for the country, apart from ruining & bankrupting it that is.

  73. 244
    Gordon Brown (after Tennyson) says:

    Nearly all our best men are dead. Chaytor, Hewitt, Hughes. I’m not feeling well myself.

    • 256
      Man Overboard! says:

      Told you that last night’s Bombay Doorsopen take-away would go straight through.

  74. 263

    I hear John Lewis are delivering a much smaller cabinet (the size of a minibar) and a table to Number 10, on the basis there are only a few honest MP’s left from which a new cabinet can be formed after the thrashing Labour will be getting in the Euro & some local government elections later this week.

    The weather man has confirmed it will be cold and raining on polling day so few die-hard labour voters will venture out, others are advised to ensure they do not show any bias and to place a single cross in each of the boxes presented to ensure balance and fair play. Twitter hashtag #GoBro NOW! – if you are into Twitter..

  75. 267
    God says:

    Good riddance to Chaytor and Hughes. As for Hewitt, she was one of the worst ministers among a bad lot and how she has been able to secure positions as a director of even a whelk stall is totally beyond my comprehension, unless she is providing corrupt inside information and “fixes” for them! She is a disgrace to politics, business and everything that I can think of!

    • 281
      A Good Judge says:

      … and she is bleedin’ ugly. My beer always goes off suddenly if her name is mentioned. Same goes for that Beckett hound.

    • 390
      Andy Carpark says:

      Melanie Johnson – good riddance to a waste of Oxygen.

      She was ahead of the troughers in plying the “I was comatose” defence, claiming ignorance of a Romanian visa scam that she was proved to have been briefed about a year earlier. What a turkey. Her pre-Parliamentary “career” consisted of a lectureship in grievance studies at the University of Noddy, (qv Tony McNulty: bullshit artist).

      She was bred in the same Blair Babe chimp farm as the likes of Melanie Johnson and Rosie Cooper: bimbos who could not even be relied on to read out a “Will the Prime Minister rejoice with me …?” plant question at PMQs without holding the cue card upside down or stumbling over disyllables and wetting themselves for an encore.

      Piss off, Melanie, you waste of space.

      • 424
        Andy Carpark says:

        Erk. For Melanie Johnson, read Beverley Hughes. I cannot tell them apart. I literally cannot tell any of them apart.

        They are just one oozing, undifferentiated mass of protoplasm with eye-balls on stalks, spewed in a projectile from the mouth of hell.

        Still, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Tony McNulty will be out on his arse by Friday. Shifty looking tosser, never trusted him.

        • 772
          Susie says:

          Andy… A star is born! Your post(s) have given me some of the biggest belly laughs of the year. How about Simon Heffer’s job when he becomes an MP?

  76. 270
    Mzzz. HaHaHaPerson, Minsta fer the Lesbianisation of Britain ‘n the Tranny Hod Carrier’s Collective, says:



    As Prime Minsta inWaiting, I think we should bring a lighter note to proceedings, – something the cheer the grumpy old men up.

    So me ‘n Jake – ‘n anyone else we can rope in – are gonna get boob jobs done – so, in the hot wevva, when we’re wearin skimpy blarses, – the blokes will notice us .

    Good innit?

    • 337
      Anonymous says:

      If you regard making the reader’s stomach churn at the very thought as ‘good innit’ then yes, otherwise, no.

  77. 274
    The Master says:

    So The Indepedent says the Gorgon must go and Guardian says vote LibDem.
    Nokia avoidance will be the time consuming activity in the Downing Strasse bunker from today through to at least Monday,when a private ambulance will arrive to take the Gorgon off to keep Ms Boyle company in The Priory.

  78. 275
    John Henderson says:

    Following Adam Boultons interview with Brown on Sky. It takes very little thought to cast one’s thoughts back to pre 2004 and Brown’s thirst for power. It is clear that he and Balls came up with the scheme for flipping and a change to the expenses rule in 2004. This undoubtedly provided huge support and popularity, from MPs (making money within the new rules)for Brown’s push for power against Tony Blair. The whole of this expenses affair can be laid at the door of Browns cabal. They appealed to the most mendacious elements of cabinet and backbench colleagues on the Labour party.His anger at Boulton’s initial questionning gives one the impression of yet another ‘plausible deniability’. In my view if this claim can be supported then it amounts to a virtual criminal conspiracy to defraud the taxpayer. It is hardly surprising that the police have not already been involved as they are being encouraged to look at individual claims. (not I may add by the Labour Party). This whole affair stinks to high heaven and calls into question the whole of the political class as well as the government of the day. It may only take pressure on one high profile casuality (Hoon or Darling)to be criminally investigated for defrauding the taxpayer to provide the beginnings of a trail of the worst corruption to come to light in British History. I will not hold my breath however, too many vested interests ensure a resounding silence in the face of the British electorate.

    • 285
      lee says:

      It all started in Browns head.

    • 297
      Dr Feelgood says:

      Would also explain why Brown leaned so hard on Michael Martin to fight the expenses FoI requests.

      The twat is personally responsible for creating the whole shambles.

    • 310
      kraig says:

      It’s like investigating Al Capone’s tax arrangements.

      Unfortunately, probably no paper trail leading back to Brown. He’s way back behind the defensive wall of bodies, as usual.

    • 312
      Anonymous says:

      Got it in one John!

    • 315
      It doesn't add up... says:

      Maybe the Quincunx knows just what a load of Balls lies behind this story….

    • 327
      sukyspook says:

      Might I suggest a new twist to a well worn phrase:

      “Hell hath no fury like an MP scorned” – I live in hope that Brown’s ‘little helpers’ won’t merely go quietly…

    • 338
      Cicero says:

      Boulton was right – the change ALLOWED the fraud to happen.

      Gorgon kept saying it wasn’t intentional. Weak, pathetic defence. He knew full well that if he dangled temptation in front of people, a good number of them would take it.

    • 383
      MI5 says:

      Quite right

      As I have repeatedly said

      THIS WAS A CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY BY NEW LABOUR LED BY BROWN, BALLS, MANDELSON AND CHIEF WHIP BROWN TO DELIBERATELY CORRUPT BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT AND STEAL FROM THE BRITISH PUBLIC

      WE MIGHT CALL THEM THE GORBALS GANG (THEY HAVE THE RIGHT BACKGROUND)

      AND THE SPEAKER GORBALS COVER UP WAS EQUALLY APPALLING

      IT MAKES RICHARD NIXON LOOK LIKE AN ANGEL…

      • 774
        Susie says:

        I reckon you are right on the money… watching that Boulton interview was like watching a seasoned hood being interviewed by the Plod. He even said, “You can’t prove it” implying there was an ‘it’ to prove.

        Perfect way to bribe your way into getting rid of another partner in crime. Blair was as bad as the rest of them, but at least had some veneer of personality which lulled the public. I’m quite sure Brown used blackmail to get him to go. Sends a shiver down one’s spine.

  79. 278
    It doesn't add up... says:

    Darling can’t do basic arithmetic:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1190212/Alistair-Darling-admits-getting-expenses-sums-wrong-Gordon-Brown-hints-explosive-reshuffle.html

    Is there a position where no maths are required?

    • 286
      House of Commons (Situations Vacant) says:

      The Fees Office has had a vacancy for 13 years ever since the chap with the abacus ran off with the tea lady. No-one else can work the thing.

  80. 282
    Johnny says says:

    I wonder what promises have been agreed over the last three weeks.

    Arise Lord Chaytor, Lady Hewitt and Hodge?

  81. 298
    The Underdoug says:

    Can we have a totaliser (per party) of retirees (hurt), please?

  82. 299
  83. 305
    markedman says:

    Did I hear correctly on the DP that tomorrow is the final day of the expenses exposure in the Telegraph?

    • 309
      NewGirl says:

      yes i heard it too….hope they make the last day a good one

    • 382
      Groucho says:

      I heard a couple of days ago that the Telegraph had only worked its way through about one third of the expense claims.

      I have a feeling we will be getting further instalments in due course.

    • 694
      Anonymous says:

      He said ‘Tomorrow is the last day. Probably.’

  84. 313
    It doesn't add up... says:

    A bunker briefing:

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/benedict_brogan/blog/2009/06/02/royal_dday_compromise_imminent

    I think HMQ should simply invite Obama for tea afterwards at Windsor so he can tell her all about it.

  85. 314
    Lolicia says:

    Will none of these MP’s start a fight to cut out the cancer of bent and twisted journalism in our country with the simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of British fair play?

  86. 317
    sukyspook says:

    Just one of today’s whacky headlines:

    “Woman Too Stupid to Keep Child”

    and of course, the full force of ‘the system’ swings into action as there are so many snouts in the ’systemic troughing hierarchy’ not to pursue such a money-spinning ‘gift’ from this unfortunate situation, paid for, as always, by you and me…

    I suggest:

    “Prime Mentalist Too Stupid to ‘Run’ Country”

    but looks what happens – NOTHING!

    • 332
      NewGirl says:

      Couldn’t believe that. Especially as in my line of work I regularly meet mothers and fathers who are too thick/criminally minded/lazy/dirty to look after their pitbulls let alone their (many) children. I thought the system was bent on encouraging reproduction in those circumstances, and making the rest of us pay for it….
      (not that you need to be in my line of work, thinking about it. You need only to go into any town centre on a saturday night, or on a flight to Tenerife, for a good sample).

  87. 328
    Master Baiter says:

    What is George Osborne?

    • 628
      English Liberation Front says:

      The target of your pathetic one-man struggle to smear him it seems.

      Piss off you stupid leftist twat – your days are numbered. People are no longer interested in Labour lies, smears or propaganda.

      • 647
        Master Baiter says:

        Where is he?

        George Frogspawn that is.

      • 661
        Master Baiter says:

        That’s it numbskull you doff your cap and pull your forelock like a good little serf.

        • 775
          Susie says:

          He’s top drawer, Etonian, sex on a stick.

          I fell in love about a year ago when I saw him lounging on the front bench, scowling at the clapped-out, fat, charmless, Hibernian rough trade opposite. Yum City.

    • 636

      The next Prime Ministers’ mate.

    • 650
      Slaphead says:

      You are Richard Timney and I claim my £5

  88. 334
    They don't like it up'em says:

    The mps on DP just now were really trying to make the Telegraph guy have it. They were lke whining schoolgirls ,what set of wankers.

    • 359
      NewGirl says:

      I though Howard had a fair point. I do think the Tgraph got enough genuine dirt without trying to muckrake where not justified.

      • 587
        Anonymous says:

        If they’ve misused their expenses it’s justified. They’ve only themselves to blame, each & every one of them knew exactly what they’d done and instead of holding up thir hands & resigning at the beginning, they’ve tried to hang on & prevaricate & now it’s all coming back to bite them. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch.

      • 708
        Anonymous says:

        If there is nothing wrong with State funds finding their way (entirely properly, I’m sure; it’s just that apparently it’s a secret) into party bank accounts, why was Howard so upset about it?

        How many other ways are there for the liblabcons to get the public to pay for their political activities?

  89. 342
    Steve Expat says:

    BREAKING NEWS – JACQUI SMITH TO RESIGN FROM CABINET THIS WEEK.
    Source – Joey Jones, Sky News

    • 351
      Trough Mixture says:

      Deep Joy! Oh yes!

    • 391
      Dr Feelgood says:

      Can’t even go out for a piss without another one going.

      Surely this pre-empts the reshuffle and destroys any remaining shred of Brown’s credibility.

    • 401
      English Liberation Front says:

      She is only resigning to avoid being kicked out. Labour are already conniving and plotting to try to survive the debacle facing them on Friday.

      The only thing they should be planning to announce is the General Election.

      What do we want? A General Election!
      When do we want it? Now!

    • 418
      Anonymous says:

      Yet another piece of very good news today.

    • 712
      Anonymous says:

      Does that mean she will have no further need for a husband?

  90. 343
    Heads on poles says:

    Home Secretary to stand down at next re-shuffle – SKY NEWS!

  91. 346
    michel de montaigne says:

    Suggestions please for headlines should he make it:-

    Balls up
    it’s Balls
    Balls for Striker ( No 11….geddit)
    The Economy, it’s Balls
    Darling down, Balls up.
    Gordon finally makes a decision, it’s Balls

  92. 347
    will says:

    well i think we need an election otherwise you will have ministers and MP kicking thier heels until the election not doing any good and feeling that if they are going then they can mess around and rebel all they like. come on gordon call an election make my MP work for me, by allowing me to vote against him and make him get a job flipping burgers in Mcdonalds. well they are all good flippers so employment in Mcdonalds should come easy to them.

  93. 349
    Anonymous says:

    Oh frabjous day – Smith going to spend more time with her husband on the sofa

  94. 352
    Michael says:

    Good news, Sky news is reporting that Jacqui Smith is to resign….

  95. 353
    Anonymous says:

    Without bi-elections it means nothing. We pay them for another year. We pay them a golden good bye.

    • 364
      Steve Expat says:

      Sod by-elections, give us a general election Gordo.

      But what a day so far, and it’s still lunchtime. How many more today to go??

      Wooooooooooo Hoooooooooooo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;-)

  96. 356
    StoneWaller says:

    SKY are saying Jaqui Smith to RESIGN! Another scalp … are the cabinet going to resign?

  97. 357
    It doesn't add up... says:

    Jacqui Smith to resign – Sky

  98. 365
    Anonymous says:

    Jackie oh why go so soon?

  99. 367
    Boris says:

    Beverely Hughes MP prior to being Boy Balls’ Goffer was

    WAIT FOR IT

    A PROBATION OFFICER !!!

    She might find herself being “probated” I fink !

  100. 370
    The big D says:

    Vince Cable on DP has an interesting way of dividing the MPs, “… those who were committing fraud, those who had fraudulent intent but were within the rules and those with no fraudulent intent at all.”

    I do not see much difference between the first two groups, if anything the second category shows lack of application and drive. Both should be removed from parliament immediately with no golden parachute.

    Michael Howard attacking the Telegraph reporter shows that MPs still believe that if they follow the “within the rules” defence they are safe.

    The public anger is still not registering. What can be done to get through to them?

  101. 372
    dr. sipp says:

    how can there be no election with all these MPs standing down

    its a CARRY ON GOV movie

  102. 374
    will says:

    Jacqui Smith is to step down as Home Secretary on a day of crisis for Labour.

    yes yes yes they are doomed election this autumn my prediction

  103. 375
    Iwona says:

    Would you want a President like Blair or unelected Brown, history will judge them to be failures who damaged this country, thank god for the Queen who is beyond reproach.

    • 397
      Anonymous says:

      Well said. The Queen represents continuity. The systems of state and population stay but the politicians change to reflect the mood of the moment.

      Take Germany one of the the top five economies can you name their head of state?

    • 413
      The Queen says:

      God Save Me

      • 497
        Peter Madnelson says:

        You rang?

      • 615
        Judge not says:

        It is easier for camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich woman to enter te gates of heaven

        • 713
          TheWilyOne says:

          I’ve found it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for me to enter a rich woman.

    • 416
      Koba says:

      I’ll second that, the people are being reminded why we have a monarch as head of state.

      • 494
        Waiting in the wings says:

        Until the hidden imam replaces your seedy christian heresy with the caliphate. inshallah you stupid English bastards

        • 624
          Cardinal del Monte says:

          “The hidden imam”, eh? Is that the bomb strapped inside your jacket, or is it just the Prophet Mohammed hanging around a school playground?

    • 445
      Tin Cunliffe says:

      And pray to god she lives forever.

      Is Charlie beyond reproach?

      • 482
        They don't like it up'em says:

        No, he’s behind the sofa

        • 495
          Anonymous says:

          Martha Kearney just ripped Harriet Harman a new arsehole on Radio 4. Harman was left furious and full of empty bluster.

          BTW It’s strange how all these Labour women, Smith, Hewitt, and Hughes, are announcing their resignations at the same time. It seems to be an organised protest against Brown.

      • 579
        Anonymous says:

        Monarchs and princes have always played away. The vein of respectability that runs through out society’s mentality is a Victorian abstract. Some times our society is rather like a teenager than thinks it has invented sex.

        Compare Prince Charles’ life to Blair’s, Brown’s, or even Cameron. Served his country, has deep knowledge of architect and agriculture, grasp of world issues etc.

        Compare Princess Anne to Cherie Blair or even Diana. The Princess Royal hasn’t just been a mouthpiece for the charities she represents she has actually spent got her hands dirty driving aid lorries etc.

        Prince Philip speaks his mind. Guess so do most men his own age. I think they have right…..

        A lot accuse the Royals of being different. But as soon as they act normally get divorced or whatever they are pilloried for not being moral.

        One final thought. Prince Harry a bit of lad yes. Campaigns to go with his men to war. A war that Blair took us into. Euan Blair? He goes to be an intern in Washington probably getting drunk every night and getting the odd BJ.

        Perhaps I come over as very monarchist. But I know my history. In may ways the House of Windsor is the most moral monarchy this country has ever had. Compare they behaviour to NuLabour’s. And let see which will still be here this time next year.

        The middle classes despise those below, envy those above, and only value themselves.

  104. 376
  105. 377
    Agent 99 says:

    JACKIE SMITH QUITS!!!!!!!!

    DAILY MAIL BREAKING NEWS

    • 515
      Sir Robin Knest-Magpie says:

      Iffy Smiffy gone in a jiffy. Wey hey. Woot. Yipee, etc, etc

  106. 378
    Anonymous says:

    Smith and her ilk remind me of personnel managers from third rate companies.

    The growth in soft management has been the hidden cancer that has helpd to destroy industry over the last decade and a half.

    • 389
      Fivebellies says:

      ‘The growth in soft management’

      - you calling me fat you kunt?

      • 456
        Anonymous says:

        Fat? Perish the thought – just about 2 foot too short for her weight! See her on Sky as she exits from her car with all the poise & dignity of a hippo in high heels.

  107. 380
    Fat Arse To Star In New Porn Film says:

    Breaking News;

    Jacqui Smith leaving Cabinet to star in;

    “Jacqui Does Bromsgrove”

    Directed by her husband based on his experiences watching crappy pay per view porn films on TV while his wife was staying,sorry, LIVING in her main home (a shoebox in her sister’s house).

    Produced by Ed “Up To His Ball’s In It” Ball’s (last seen in 1945 in a Berlin bunker)

    Funded By The Scum Taxpayers,bloody peasants…

    Screenplay by James Gordon Brown,writer of “The Budget” – the biggest pile of crap that took down a country.

    • 396
      will says:

      Jackie does bromsgrove would be a third rate porn movie, god knows who would pay to watch it. I know porn caters for all tastes but come on thier are some things that should be left well alone. He husband rather than do jackie rented a porn movie, does that not tell you something.

      I suggest jackie smith for burger flipping in mcdonalds, she has had enough practice at flipping.

    • 480
      Anonymous says:

      Does this mean that as she will no longer be a Minister, her porn loving house husband will have to forgo his £40K per annum job as her whatever it is he’s supposed to be? Slap it into them both.

  108. 381
    Agent 99 says:

    Cant see my post

    BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS

    SPLIFF QUITS ON DAY OF CRISIS FOR LABOUR

    SEE DAILY MAIL WEB SITE

  109. 384
    Fivebellies says:

    fuck. It’s that wanker Timney’s fault

  110. 385
    MI5 says:

    TO PARAPHRASE TONY BLAIR

    NEW LABOUR IS THE PARTY WHICH CORRUPTED THE WHOLE BRITISH POLITICAL SYSTEM

    WE NOW HAVE THE PROOF

    AND THE SCANDAL IS FAR FROM FINISHED

    WHAT A FRAUD THAT BLAIR

  111. 387
    Agent 99 says:

    Spliff gone now for Darling and then the top prize

    McMental

    The occupants of the bunker are now running for the allied lines

    YEEEEEEEEE HHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!

  112. 388
    It doesn't add up... says:

    Now the Mail has Smith too:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1190242/Blair-babes-Patricia-Hewitt-Beverley-Hughes-MP-David-Chaytor-claimed-non-existent-mortgage-quit.html

    ignore the description, it’s the headline: BREAKING NEWS: Home Secretary Jacqui Smith quits on day of crisis for Labour

  113. 391
  114. 398
    Master Baiter says:

    ComRes’s last poll are CON 30%(-10), LAB 22%(+1), LDEM 18%(nc).

    At that rate David O’Cameron will be staying on the Opposition benches.

    Where is gaga George Osborne? Isn’t he in charge of the Conservitude election strategy?

    • 421
      Blooper says:

      This poll has been discredited by analysts – Its puts 30% as voting for Others [ie UKIP, BNP, Greens, Respect - including 10% of voters who said "Others Others" - ie Monster Raving Looney Party, Independents etc]

      Its bollox and you think 21% is reason for crowing in Labour circles – talking about satrting from a low base

    • 449
      M.T.BUCKET says:

      He will be looking at a sea of green on the other side of the house…empty. tra la

    • 498
      Dr Feelgood says:

      For reliable analysis of why this is a rogue result see:
      Are the ComRes numbers down to weightings changes?
      http://politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2009/06/01/are-the-comres-numbers-down-to-weightings-changes/

      ALL other polls are tracking Conservatives in range 39-41%; e.g.:
      Ipsos-MORI WESTMINSTER: CON 40(-1) LAB 18(-10) LD 18 (4)

      Of course, the best way to settle this would be to have a General Election.

    • 507
      Primus inter pares says:

      MB you are worse then useless when you try to defend Labour. You actually manage to make the average person more convinced that they should vote for anyone other than Gordon. Please please please keep up the good work!!!!

    • 520
      The big D says:

      MB. Stop being georgeist. You have already been rebuked for being ageist and sexist on another thread.

      Were you having a quick one off the wrist at the back of class instead of listening to teacher during your diversity lessons?

    • 625
      deeznuts says:

      @ 393..that comres poll is for the EU elections you fool

      • 653
        Master Baiter says:

        Nice try in fact it’s for Westminster.

        The Conservitude Party would be delighted with 30% for EU Parliament.

        • 697
          Charles Flaccidwidger says:

          Not as delighted as Gordo and his rapidly diminishing group of henchmen.

  115. 400
    Hold on there me hearties and a barrel of rum, sqwuak says:

    Downing street says Home Secretary rumours are speculations

  116. 402
    Monkey Chops says:

    Smith has just quit.

  117. 404
    Prediction says:

    Amazing – Brown now changing the executives during the middle of an economic crisis – yet the criminal Brown says he is the best man to deal with the crisis.

    When all this finally finishes,it will come out that he interfered with every detail in every Ministerial Dept every day.

    I predict Brown will be out by the end of next week.

    • 457
      M.T.BUCKET says:

      An election would cause chaos, pray tell me whot do we have now.

    • 461
      Dr Feelgood says:

      And Brown said a General Election woudl cause chaos… I’d love to know what the twunt would call this.

      Plus, you are right about the micro-management. I have it on first-hand authority from a senior Cabinet Office insider that he has to control everything across Government. He’s nuts.

  118. 405
    The Master says:

    1.03 Jackboot to go says world at 1

  119. 407
    Downing Street says:

    Breaking News
    ~
    ~
    ~
    Jacqui Smith not resigning.

  120. 414
    Dope smoking, expense fiddling, hardcore porn watching fat kunt says:

    was it something I did?

    • 467
      Mr Dick TImney says:

      Yes. I had to use my hand cos you weren’t here. Living it up with your sister.

  121. 415
  122. 417
    Blue&Proud says:

    BREAKING NEWS

    Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is to leave the Cabinet in the wake of the scandal over MPs’ expenses, according to Sky News

  123. 420
    Lee H says:

    Come Guido, keep up. Looks like Jaqui is going too!!

  124. 423
    sick of the greed says:

    Sky and the Daily Mail are stating Jackboot Smith is leaving the Cabinet

  125. 426
    It doesn't add up... says:

    Hague knifes Duncan over at Con Home:

    William Hague: I had a really great time hosting Have I Got News For You on several occasions, but I took the view that appearing on it is not compatible with being on the Front Bench. It is always fun, but the trading of insults that is a necessary part of the programme is best suited to people with relatively few responsibilities so while I don’t actively discourage anyone from appearing on this excellent programme, I would always advise Front Bench colleagues to bear this point in mind.

    • 510
      Anonymous says:

      It also helps if you dont incite people to murder Miss California on prime time tv for not agreeing with your particular lifestyle choices although of course in keeping with the spirit of the programme that was no doubt a humorous quip from Alan much like the one about his expenses claim?

  126. 428
    P1 says:

    Smith – has she or hasn’t she?

    Her problem now is that it’s too late. If she has resigned a couple of months ago, paid money back, sacked her husband, put her housing arrangments in order, and oh yes, actually been competent -she might have stood a chance of holding on to her seat (no pun intended). As it is, we’ll all wave her goodbye when she goes and hope that she gets a decent job as, say, deputy manager of a shop in Redditch.

  127. 431
    Dave says:

    +++ David Chaytor to Stand Down +++
    +++ Patrica Hewitt Retiring from Politics +++
    +++ Beverley Hughes Going +++

    ADD Jackboot Smith

    woohoo! I laughed so hard I popped a grape!

  128. 433
    A Minute is a long time in Gordon Brown's cabinet says:

    BBC Radio 4 -

    “there is a sense that Gordon Brown is no longer in control of events” – Political Correspondent

    A week is a long time in politics – this is falling apart hour by hour,almost minute by minute..it could even be finished by the weekend.

    Hazel Blears as Home Secretary?
    Harriet Harperson as Miss Strap-On 1906?

    • 464
      Groucho says:

      Has he ever been in control of events?

      Agreed, this is turning into a runaway train, on an increasingly steep descent.
      Marvellous!

      This re-shuffle will be interesting. There is hardly a senior Labour figure left who isn’t
      1. A tax evading crook
      2. Utterly incompetent
      3. Reviled by the public
      4. All of the above (e.g. Geoff Hoon)

    • 584
      MI5 says:

      It could not have happened to a nicer gang of people…

  129. 435
    Groucho says:

    The sun is shining, birds are singing, the New Labour project is imploding…

    Makes you glad to be alive

    • 485
      Lee H says:

      Happy days, who next? Bets now on for Hoon, Darling, Blears and even Harman after imploding on Radio 4 by the sounds of it!! Where is the PM when you need to laugh at him?

  130. 436
    Jules Wright says:

    And so is JaqBoot Smith – breaking news right now on Sky. Brown is so not in control of party and government. Come on Guido – get the juice!

  131. 438
    VengefullVoter says:

    Needs to be corrected.
    Goodbye Wacci Jackie!

  132. 439
    Steve Expat says:

    MORE BREAKING NEWS – CHARLES TO ATTEND D-DAY ANNIVERSARY AFTER OBAMA INTERVENTION

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/theroyalfamily/5428769/Prince-of-Wales-to-attend-65th-D-Day-anniversary.html

    • 478
      Boris says:

      As the article says this is a major cock up by the Foreign Office

      Little Millibum is the worst Foreign Secretary we have ever had

      He has caused the most embarrassing diplomatic incident for years

      To think that it had to be sorted out by the White House

      What the fuck has Millibum beein doing ??

      yet another Labour disgrace……

      • 599
        Tattooed_Arry says:

        He’s been busy trying to protect Terrorists in Sri Lanka. Oh, sorry, I meant broker a cease fire -leaving the Tamil Tiger Leadership intact of course. Sri Lanka effectively told him to Feck Off.

      • 733
        Groucho says:

        Millipede is actually worse than useless. A Foreign Secretary is primarily supposed to promote friendly relations with other nations that will be of benefit to the UK.

        Ok, the Foreign Secretary may have the occasional off day and just manage to maintain the status quo. But recently this muppet managed to mightily piss off India. India, FFS!

        How did he do that? That’s not just incompetence – it is a special gift of some sort. Similar to Brown’s reverse Midas touch.

    • 484
      Gill Bates says:

      Fucking amateurs.

      Obama for PM.

      • 526
        Anonymousr says:

        Says it all when Obama speaks for the British on this matter. Brown & Miliband are a fucking disgrace to their office

      • 549
        MI5 says:

        Never in the history of Britain – even in the darkest hours of the War -

        has the country been organised by a foreign power – albeit friendly one…

        BRITAIN HAS NO GOVERNMENT LEFT

        IT IS AN AIRCRAFT WITHOUT ANY PILOT HEADING FOR DISASTER

        • 684
          jgm2 says:

          Air France Four Four Seven this is Dakar ATC….

          Come in Air France Four Four Seven…..

          I do not receive but I transmit ….. changing frequency to eight eight six one …

          Air France Four Four Seven this is Dakar ATC are you receiving me? Over…..

          Yep.. That’s the UK alright. Powerdiving into the economic ocean while the rest of the world scratches it’s head and wonders how they fuck that happened.

          Suicide pilot mate. That’s how it happened.

        • 707
          No respect left? says:

          jgm, don’t you think that’s just a little wrong?

          I know there’s a good amount of banter on here, but taking the p1ss out of 228 dead people that happened yesterday?

          FYI, likely to be weather-related rather than anything more sinister – unfortunate. RIP

        • 728
          Winston Churchill once said says:

          “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else”.

  133. 440
    Anonymous says:

    SOCIALISTS = SCUM

    THE LABOUR PARTY. BANKRUPTING BRITAIN SINCE 1929.

  134. 442
    Gill Bates says:

    This board is fucked already, posts not threaded properly and all that.

    I can disclose that this is caused by insufficient memory on the server, or processor too slow. This whole shebang needs updating.

    • 453
      Harman fried alive says:

      I agree – it must be run by a Labour appointed quango – I am posting and it appears all over the place.

      Call in Gordon Brown – he will sort it out;

      Committee
      Star Chamber
      Consultations
      Sir David,sorry Christopher Kelly
      Report in circa 12 yrs.

    • 556
      Boris says:

      I agree

      I am trying to send love and kisses to NewGirl

      and they all get “deviated” !

      It must be another New Labour plot of the No 10 Smear Brigade !!

    • 559
      MI5 says:

      The whole “shebang” as you elegantly say (in fact I think it’s a hebang !) is clearly overloaded because Guido’s Blog is being visited by millions when it was intended for a few thousand..

      It’s the price of Glory in fact…

  135. 443
    Harman fried alive says:

    Martha on Radio 4 slaying alive Harriet Harman!
    Harman is a crap person for interviews and we all paid £10K for her training for god’s sake.

    • 488
      Rt Hoon Harriet Harman says:

      Steady on … um … I am trying my best. It’s pure coincidence that three of my women New Labour colleagues have announce the same thing on this day. Er … um. Now hold on. Paxman. Radio 4. Fathers4Justice. You’ve all got in for me. As Deputy Leader I am convinced that Labour will come out on top in Thursday’s elections. Gordon is in the best position … blah, blah ….

  136. 444
    • 524
      Stronghold Barricades says:

      hurrah

      Apparently she told Gordon 2 months ago…anyone know the exact date of her expenses furago?

      Just had Harperson on tWaO trying to defend Brown’s cabinet and Labour party in Break up,

      not all that convincing

  137. 447
    Swiss Bob says:

    Smith to Resign, Hurrah!

    See it on Sky News (YouTubed): JACQUI SMITH TO RESIGN.

  138. 448
    Laney says:

    I’ve just got a text about the home secretary going? Is she or isn’t she?

  139. 451
    More Tories Please says:

    The 2nd Home Secretary is due to resign according to the BBC.

  140. 454
    Anonymous says:

    Hoon the hoon next and the ginger haired poison dwarf – oh boundless joy.

  141. 455
    • 483
      Tattooed_Arry says:

      So, do I understand this correctly – The French invited a representative from the UK and Brown nominated himself? Can someone remind him he is not our Head of State.
      Doesn’t surprise me he, and Bliar, always ran off rather than face the music.

      Incidently this whole corruption fiasco is the best endorsement of the Monarchy I have ever seen.

      • 517
        Spot the irony says:

        Too right its about time we got rid of all those who have forgotten what they were really for in the first place, and are free loading of taxpayers and expecting them to bow and srape for the the privilege…errr.

        • 610
          Tattooed_Arry says:

          I don’t see the irony in this case.
          Two unelected leaders – one was in the armed forces at the time of the D Day Landings, the other wasn’t.
          One is our Head of State, the other would like to be but isn’t.
          Do I understand you’d rather have Brown or Bliar as our Head of State?

      • 618
        English Liberation Front says:

        Well said.

  142. 457
    McLovin says:

    Guido, shouldn’t you add a ‘Twat Watch’ tag to this lot?

    Or are you mellowing in this slice of vindication?

  143. 459
    Moley. says:

    MPs and the Police between them have destroyed the Welfare State.

    In the absence of any police activity, who will report benefit fraud?

    Who will not feel that the system demands that they rip the State off at every opportunity?

    As a Russian friend said to me,

    “The Government steals off us; we steal off the Government, it’s the way the system works, but it’s not our choice, it has been imposed on us.”

    It is both Ironic and fitting that a Labour Government destroyed the Welfare State.

    • 646

      If only they had destroyed the most damaging thing the government ever did (the failure reward and encouragement system called the “welfare” state).

  144. 460
    HOLY COW! CAR CRASH INTERVIEW NOW LIVE says:

    HARMAN BEING FUCKED LIVE ON RADIO FOUR – WHO SAID THE BBC ARE PRO LABOUR – THIS MARTHA AIN’T!!!!!

    • 491
      Boris says:

      I think Al Jebeeba is getting the message loud and clear..

      Thanks to blogs like Guido’s…

      We will wind the fucking organisation up if they are just a Criminal New Labour mouthpiece like Pravda….

    • 505
      Anonymous says:

      Labour have just been ripped apart and ridiculed on Radio 4. Brown has been accused of having lost control and being in disarray while Harman was torn to shreds by Martha Kearney.

  145. 463
    Inspector Foyle says:

    AND Jakki to go..!!!

  146. 469
  147. 470
    It doesn't add up... says:

    Even AljaBeeba is now saying the dinner lady is off the menu:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8079205.stm

  148. 478
    iphone says:

    Why does Obama get to boss the Royals around?

  149. 490
    It doesn't add up... says:

    The Grauniad is also reporting Jacqboots for the backbenches:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/02/darling-hoon-expenses-reshuffle

    The bizarre omission is nothing as yet from the DT (though equally bizarre is nothing from The Mail on royals attending D-Day celebrations following their campaign on the topic)

  150. 492
    Anonymous says:

    Martha Kearney just ripped Harriet Harman a new arsehole on Radio 4. Harman was left furious and full of empty bluster.

    BTW It’s strange how all these Labour women are announcing their resignations at the same time. It seems to be an organised protest against Brown.

    • 506
      It doesn't add up... says:

      Do you think Hazel will blow

      cover?

      Or perhaps Caroline “I’ve not read the Lisbon Treaty although I’m EU minister” Flint?

      • 573
        MI5 says:

        Hazel and the Blairites are just waiting for the roof to fall in on Thursday then I think it is curtains for Dirty Tricks and his Boy Balls..and Eva Balls who is rumoured to be the next “Home Secretary” FFS…

      • 606
        Dope smoking, expense fiddling, hardcore porn watching fat kunt says:

        ‘Do you think Hazel will blow’

        - she’s certainly the right height, slim bastard

    • 776
      Harriet Harman says:

      Can I just say how disgusted I was by the atitude of Mz. Kearney. When I launched my jobs for the girls scheme I intended it to benefit women supporting each other not to allow a vile sexist idiot to be questioned on her idiocy.

  151. 499
    DR says:

    BBC reporting just now that Home Sex Smith will stand down at next Cabinet re-shuffle!

  152. 500
    Prince Charles to D Day says:

    PRINCE CHARLES TO REPRESENT THE QUEEN AT D DAY. – BREAKING NEWS

    • 523
      Lee H says:

      Being kicked in all directions at the moment is the PM?
      Great!! A man only intouch with himself.
      Does that mean the PM loses his place in the photo op?

    • 533
      National Emergency says:

      Oh fuck, what will we do withot him in the country? God, his very important work will have to be left for another day. Is there ANYBODY ANYWHERE who could fill the gap.

      • 544
        Lee H says:

        Where are the A Team when you need them. Imagine, the black van outside No 10. BA on public relations, Murdock running the economy, Hanibal putting a plan together and Face turning up in his Corvette with a bevvy of ladies…..happy days….

    • 554
      Steve Expat says:

      We’re losing the plot completely now – this government are a complete joke!

      But do you know what, I say keep it coming, I wonder how many more fuckups or resignations there will be today??

      WE WANT AN ELECTION NOW http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/GoToCountryNow/

    • 565
      nell says:

      Hope he’s going on Obama’s Air Force One – just to add to the PM’s embarassment.

  153. 504
    Odds Bodkins says:

    Jacqui gone!

    As D’ream used to say things can only get better…

    What does Charles HardWank have to say about this?

    • 551
      Charles Flaccidwidger says:

      I am a stupid sad little Hoon with no real thoughts on the policital situation – just a blind, slavish devotion to the brilliant Gordon Brown who I love and want to have his babies.

  154. 509
    Sunonmars says:

    Jackboots humiliates Brown by resigning before he could sack her.

    Clever Cow, she’s made it look like she’s going of her own volition and not Brown’s.

    • 577
      nell says:

      Yes very sensible of her – she’s likely to get voted out as an MP as well at the next GE. What on earth are she and her unemployed husband going to do for money then?

      And why has the porcine Tom ’sticky fingers’ Watson resigned as well. I thought he was Gordon’s last pal – What on earth will Gordon do without him in No.10?

  155. 519
    Sunonmars says:

    The Biggest laugh however is this…

    “Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, is resigning from the Cabinet at the next reshuffle to focus her efforts on retaining her Commons seat at the next election.”

    Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha Thats some serious Hubris right there.

  156. 521
    That's Life! says:

    Just when you thought things we were on a roll

    +++++++++ ESTHER RANTZEN WILL STAND+++++++

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6401907.ece

    That’s Life!

  157. 527
    Tick Boxer (jus’ gotta keep tickin’ them boxes – it’s me Noo-Lying-Bore trainin’ y’kno, innit) : says:


    Bliar (1) gone [ √ ]
    ‘Third Way’ bullshit gone [ √ ]
    Bliar (2) gone [ √ ]
    Gorbals gone [ √ ]
    Mr ‘2 jags – mock tudor shags’ Prezza gone [ √ ]
    Blind ‘Shagalot’ Pugh gone [ √ ] back [√ ] gone [ √ ] back [ ]
    m’Lud MincingCrinkleBum gone [ √ ] back [√ ] gone [ √ ] back [√ ] gone [ √ ] back [ ]

    Cinq-Bellies going . . . . going . . . GONE!! [√ ]
    Baroness Udder of Gravy-Train [ ]

    ‘Neo-Endogenous’ bullshit gone [ √ ] coming back [ ]
    Parasitical + verminous MPs [ ]
    ‘Britain-best-placed’ bullshit [ ]
    Groucho Fiddler-on-the-hoof Dharhaha-ling . . . going . . . . [ ]
    Mad Jock McSnotty, the Grinning Kirkaldy Twatty [ ]

    OTHERS :

    Arselickers [ ]
    Arsewipers [ ]
    Jobsworths [ ]
    Quangocrats [ ]

    Filthy infected hospitals [ ]
    The Living Dead – St Patricia of Hack-It (ref. above hospitals) and others – going [ ]

    Local Authority claptrap, waste, mindless interference [ ]
    AlJaBeeba [ ]
    EUSSR [ ]

    ‘envy of the world’ crap ed-yer-kay-shern, child indoctrination, pointless exams [ ]
    Reintroduction of real education, literacy, numeracy, values . . . waiting … [ ]

    Junk qualifications [ ]
    Banal Job Titles [ ]

    Rubbish ‘Universities’ (sic) – (aka pretentious polys) [ ]
    Reintroduction of real Polytechnics that do an honest worthwhile job waiting [ ]

    Thought Police [ ]
    Bin Inspectors [ ]
    Compliance Officers [ ]

    Etc .

  158. 529
    Stronghold Barricades says:

    Iain Dale is saying Tom Watson has gone too

    • 539
      nell says:

      Oh Yes Please!!!!!!! That would really make my day!

    • 560
      Elby The Beserk says:

      Yes, and even funnier over on Mrs. Dale is this…

      “Things are so bad that Susan Boyle has rung Downing Street to check that Gordon Brown is OK.”

    • 578
      P1 says:

      The No.10 Tea and Cakes trolley will look a bit forlorn this afternoon, unless Brown just hoovers up the lot.

      Any news on Uddin? Have the Met had a look yet?

    • 593
      M.T.BUCKET says:

      Thats three empty seats on the labour benches then.

  159. 530
    R.Chimney's Old Truffle says:

    Apres moi, la deluge

  160. 532
    Hub says:

    CHECK OUT THE BBC – DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD, WHICH OLD WITCH – JAQUI SMITH.

    Sorry, that’s made my day

    • 547
      Sunonmars says:

      I bet the police are happy, now she’s no longer Home Sec, they can go after her with full force, she may regret pissing them off with the pay farce.

      • 561
        Drunk Tramp Troublemaker says:

        She should watch her her back, particularly the the back of her knees.

    • 566
      Andrew McLie MEP says:

      “REJOICE in that NEWS”, as the Iron Lady used to say…

  161. 535
    Mr Weird Smile says:

    Some twat on TV keeps saying that Mps should get a pay rise. TWAT

    • 666
      madbadger says:

      They should double the salary, scrap expenses and halve the number of MPs.
      Oh – and require that they actually turn up on a regular basis.

      • 748
        I am Sick says:

        Bullsh*t, £65,000 is plenty for a part time job that requires no qualifications and a blind obedience to “the parteh” above everything.

        Lets see just how much money Chayter, Hewitt, Timney, Hughes, Smiff et al, are worth in the real world.

        I venture nowhere near what they currently recieve for being serial incompetents.

  162. 538

    Just rejoice: Jacqui Smith is on her way out.

    In typical Labour fashion, the announcement has come out in ten different ways through ten different channels, and nobody’s real sure what the fuck is going on.

    But it looks like, by next week, Ms Smith with be back behind a trestle table, ladling luke warm ‘mystery meat’ stew into plastic bowls at a Redditch Comprehensive.

    Hopefully this is just the first stone, that represents the beginning of an absolutely fucking enormous avalanche of MP’s disappearing from the Cabinet, from the backbenches and from our lives.

  163. 542
    A vile, amoral, lying, cheating, thieving snot-nosed little shit says:



    Aye! – we’re doomed! DOOMED ar’ tell ‘ee!!!

    E’en tho’ nuth’n is ma’ fult’

    [TRANSLATION :

    We’re completely, utterly, fucked!!

    Finished!!

    And nothing is my fault!!

    COMMENTARY :

    It might appear that the obnoxious knob-jockey has found a modicum of insight. Don’t be fooled. ]

  164. 543
    Michael, Islington says:

    Just wait, boys and girls.

    They’ll be Little Lord Fauntleroy Osborne, Wally Willets, Theresa the Squeezer, Swivel-eyed Redwood and that self-satisfied shorty whose name I always forget.

    You’ll be sorry.

  165. 553
    It doesn't add up... says:

    Tom Watson going too? See Dale here:

    http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2009/06/jacqui-smith-falls-on-her-sword.html

    • 575
      Move Along says:

      Nothing there except more fawning to dead politicians?

      “I shall now again risk being flamed by my readers, but I have always thought Jacqui Smith is a thoroughly nice woman who was overwhelmed by the job”

      I think you will find it was her partner who was overwhelmed by the job.

    • 612
      MI5 says:

      Interesting that Watson is going..

      He is one of the worst of the Dirty Tricks Brown operators…

      Back door hachet job on Blair etc…(after having “given a present” to Brown’s daughter at his house in Scotland !)

      The Blairites will come out with the real truth soon I am told…

      He must realise that he is toast as well !!

      Great…

  166. 567
    Peaceful Warrior says:

    Just come back from hoilday in Czech Republic. Much inspried by reading about the Velvet Revolution and seeing where it all took place. Can we have one please Guido, please, pretty please! Surely you could muster 250,000 honest citizens against corruption around Westminster who would stay there playing loud rock music until all the buggers inside resigned en masse!

    • 622
      Tattooed_Arry says:

      Don’t the Americans have a unit that blasts their enemies with Heavy Metal?
      Perhaps we could borrow it.
      “Things can only get better” – all together now!

  167. 570
    'kinell says:

    just heard the glad news !

    Jaqueboots “to resign” as Home Sec.

    Sleazy, bigoted , lecturing old bag– and just think, if she had simply taken the palatial grace and favour residence which comes as a package for all Home Secretaries ,complete with all mod cons and all utility bills paid for by the taxpayer – no claim forms required

    (and that includes TV bills and therefore the porn items would never have seen the light of day!!!!)

    - instead of deciding to work a fiddle-the-taxpayer racket with her sister and claim for her sisters front bedroom as her “main residence”

    NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED.

    crikey!— the small time, sleazy, two-bit , re-used snotty tissued, pettiness of it all

    from a person who occupies one of the great offices of state

    its not only the lack of principle I despise , its the lack of style.

  168. 574
    It doesn't add up... says:

    A catty remark from the DT, who now finally have a story on the booting of Jaqui

    The departure of Miss Smith has the hallmarks of the controversy over the resignation last autumn of Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly, whose decision to leave the Cabinet was eventually confirmed by now disgraced Downing Street aide Damian McBride in a notorious 3am party conference briefing.

    What can it mean?

    • 597
      Sunonmars says:

      Basically, was she refusing to go but instead she is being briefed against by the Cabal.

      Oh I hope so, this would be fun but would Brown be that dumb to do that and create a enemy like her.

      Sounds like fun.

    • 744
      Moley says:

      Did Brown resign her and make an announcement without telling her first?

      Too cowardly to sack anybody face to face?

  169. 576
    Jacqui Smith says:

    Go back to your constituencies and prepare for ointment.

  170. 582
    annon says:

    Whats Beverley been up to?

  171. 585
    Toryminer says:

    Is anybody running this b***** country?

    • 747
      Skidmark says:

      I am getting on with the job of getting on with the job. Lala la lala la lala

  172. 586
    Anonymous says:

    Brown as the unelected PM, Ed Balls as the chancellor, and possibly someone like Harman or Blears as home secretary.

    Marvellous. I feel so much happier now.

    Kicking out a chancellor who dares to occasionally speak the truth and replacing him with your best mate who’ll lie for you on every occasion; excellent.

    The look on Gordon’s face when labour comes 6th in the euro/local elections and all his backbenchers gang together and tell him straight to his face: “fuck off and die you mad hoon” – priceless.

  173. 589
    A sometime cook and ‘person’ i/c National Security says:

    No, – don’t hold me back!! . . let me through!! . . . I MUST speak before I go!!!

    I want to thank the taxpayers for my bath plug.

    It is very nice, and fits a treat.

    Now . . . . where did I put my rags and Mr Muscle? . . . must give the Chip Van a going over.

    • 601
      88p bath plug says:

      Give it back nasty, crawling thief.
      Only home secretaries have a right to our bathplugs.

  174. 590
    Trough Mixture says:

    Passports please! A receipt will be issued. Please don’t leave town without informing the authorities.

  175. 592
    MI5 says:

    When we break up the BBC and fling it to the “Private Equity” vultures

    We will take the rotten New labour BBC website infrastructure and use it for Guido’s Blog…

    That will provide, as they say, media diversity and independence, which the BBC has clearly failed to do…

  176. 598
    Dogsbollocks says:

    I would like to complain that someone called Gordon an arsehole ! This is discrimination against arseholes. I would like to point out that without the arsehole one would be full of shit exactly like Gordon!

  177. 600
    Reactionary Reformist says:

    Does Jacqui Smith falling down the back of the cabinet count? I mean it’s a 60K paycut.

  178. 604
    Anonymous says:

    I see they are re-arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic yet again.

    The captain remains in place as the iceberg closes in.

  179. 607
    Charles Flaccidwidger says:

    For those who can’t bring themselves to look at LabourList, here are a couple of comments from Charles E Hardwidge:

    “Personally, I don’t care what some random media mouth fires off anymore. If it’s not an official statement from Downing Street it’s speculation. They just want attention or are trying to shake a loose apple out of the tree. There’s not much they can do if people just look at them blankly is there?

    Jacqui Smith just needs to calm down and relax more. The obvious opposition for oppositions sake and vested interests in the police didn’t help. Apart from that I thought she was quite good and, if truth be told, some of those mouths operating from the herd probably know it even if they’d never admit it.”

    And:

    “Her policies were fine. They were sensible, propotionate, and innovative. They could’ve benefited from some polish but apart from that they were shippable. I can’t remember the media properly explaining the issues or any better suggestions from her critics, just a lot of wind. I blame thickie Cameron and a dumbed down media”

    • 705
      STD says:

      Hope you are using protection when you go there.

    • 736
      Anonymous says:

      “Her policies were fine.”

      The Labour Party would have called her policies fascist had the Tories proposed them; and the Labour Party would have been right. Sadly, the Labour Party was destroyed by nulab fascists.

  180. 609
    Anonymous says:

    i have done my bit.
    I have hounded SIX BELLIES since the bathplug revelation.
    Now is the time for the Cops,not Keystone Kops,to move
    against her,interview her under caution and fucking charge the
    fat bastard with Fraud/Theft whatever.What a hateful bastard.This
    could be the first time her rotund boat race has not smiled out at
    me from my T.V.
    Goodbye Morley,goodbye Gorbals and now goodbye SIX BELLIES. I have a fourth in my sights but am still in the research phase but that I am on her case.

  181. 613
    VotR says:

    Jaqcui Smith, eh?

    Thank god she’s going. Love how Harman responded to the news…

    “It is not the wheels falling off the government.”

    Nice to see she’s in touch with reality as ever, And she’s Leader of the Commons. God help us all.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5428871/Jacqui-Smith-to-resign-as-Home-Secretary.html

  182. 616
    A Porn Star's Pussy says:

    They say my smile is just like the one ol’ jaw dropper gives when he’s fawning to the cameras.

    Makes me feel so warm!

    • 645
      It's all Balls says:

      Come to think of it, Brown’s face reminds me of a porn star’s pussy – well used and with no feeling.

  183. 617
    • 750
      Moley says:

      Governments bribed to introduce anti smoking legislation by the manufacturers of Nicotine replacement therapy.

      Good one.

  184. 620
    Jack the Smiling Black says:

    Hit the fan time, Britisher pals.

  185. 629
    sd says:

    Fatty Watson’s going as well! Rejoice, rejoice, re-fucking-joice!!!

    http://tinyurl.com/fat-tosser-quits

  186. 631
    Mr Christopher says:

    Who would shed a crocodile tear for Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, hanged upside down in front of an Esso petrol station in Milan, 29th April 1945?

    This is how most ordinary folk now feel about New Labour, and no one will be taken in by any “Celebrity Star Chambers” game-show staged to draw attention away from the capital guilt of Brown and his accomplices.

  187. 637
  188. 639
    Baiter Master says:

    You muppets just don’t get it do you. All these silly women going will help Gordon Brown to win over the MCP floating voters and the ethnics who think that women should neither be seen nor heard.

    I keep telling you, as does my learned friend Chuck, that Brown will lead NULab to a glorious victory.

    He has the brains, he has the tactics and, above all, he has the photos.

    • 655
      Benny says:

      He will soon be in Court with the rest of the Criminal New Labour gang which has deliberately and knowingly pillaging Britain old chum !!

      • 673
        It's all Balls says:

        It was a wind up misusing a well known Brown lover’s pseudonym

  189. 651
    Dame Celia Molestrangler says:

    Jacqui going back to lav cleaning then? Shame…. not many jobs now!

  190. 652
    It doesn't add up... says:

    “Yes Mr. Grace”

    http://page.politicshome.com/uk/pm_cabinet_have_all_done_well_in_very_difficult_circumstances.html

    Now go and see to Mrs. Slocombe’s pussy

  191. 654
    Election Now! says:

    Goodbye you useless Labour ‘ministers’. You will not be missed…..

  192. 656
    Spin Doctor says:

    Hewitt quiting to spend more time with her family…I say piss off you patronising old bitch!

    I walked past her once in John Lewis (shopping at our expense, no doubt). It took considerable effort on my part to refrain from punching her lights out!

  193. 658
    caesars wife says:

    John Redwood asking some interesting UK ecnomic questions , will the chancellor be answering them???

    re jaqui , saying she tendered 2 months ago , harman says jaquis resignation pure speculation .

    could be a non story whilst other miscreants get under radar !!!

    macnulty or strawski then ??? be fun if new emergency bill on bloggers being enemy of the state , is gordons new move .

  194. 659
    Honourable I A M Rich MP says:

    Oh this is a great day. Two-homes Smith, nanny Hewitt and finger wagging nanny Hughes all going. Let’s hope more of these lecturing barmpot females leave the government. Their partners can now suffer these gobby women and give us all a break.

  195. 662
    Moderator says:

    NewGirl:

    I am ready to moderate you.

    Meet me in my room at the Carlton Club.

  196. 665

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  197. 668
    Karl1982 says:

    Bye bye Jacqui Smith – when will Gordon Brown step down?

    Check this out for a laugh

    http://www.wekip.org/

  198. 676
    RavingMad says:

    GreatBritishPublic (GBP): “Hello, good afternoon Prime Minister, hope you are well..”

    GordonBrown (GB); “Thank you for the welcome. This proves that I listen to what you have to say.”

    GBP: “We’ll see about that in a minute, still, what about giving us an election Prime Minister?”

    GB: “I’m getting on with the job. It’s a big job and I’m the best person to do it. There will be a commission to look at every MPs’ expenses, that is all parties, not just labour. We are also going to change the way allowances are made and create a new system where there will be no opportunity to cheat. I’m also considering a reshuffle of my government to enable me to be best positioned to deal with the economic crisis. These are difficult times and we need to have a quality government to serve the people. We shall also…

    GBP: Prime Minister, we know all this, you’ve repeated it every day for what seems like forever…now, can you answer our question, when are you going to let the people speak and comment on the economy, corruption and our future?

    GB: I’m doing all that I can to make sure the economy improves and I’m totally focussed on this. You are surely not alleging that we don’t have the best interests of the country at heart. That would be absurd. Where is the proof that we don’t care? Come on, give me some facts to support your claim….

    GBP: Prime Minister, we want an election now so that we can tell you and your government what we think. You claim that you are listening so can you please give us some indication that you are doing so? Election now!

    GB: As I said, these are difficult times and need the reassurance that I and my colleagues are setting about the task of making things better for all of us. I hear what the people say and that is why we are getting on with the job.

    GBP: Mr Brown, we’ve had enough of you and your government so please call an election or we will revolt and force you to leave. Do you hear us now? It’s over, shtummm, capputtt.

    GB: Come on, that’s just idle talk created by the previous do-nothing Tories. We are the party of action, compassion and innovation. In my reshuffle I will…

    BANG

    GBP: wanker

  199. 677
    Master Baiter says:

    There are signs that the controversy on expenses has alienated older people, those normally most likely to vote. Conservitude support among those aged 65 and over has dropped from 49 to 28 per cent in the past month and, unusually, the party’s highest level of support is now among 18 to 24-year-olds.

    Aunt Maudes aren’t happy.

  200. 678

    Just cos Mo’ had sex with a nine year old girl doesn’t make him a paedophile…

    Does it?

  201. 680
    Give me 650 Lamp Posts and some piano wire and I can fix Democracy says:

    how can that fat bastard Balls be Chancellor? He’s got his snout in the trough more than the other 6540 of them combined.

    • 698
      P1 says:

      a) His mate is Prime Minister and he dishes out the jobs.
      b) No-one else wants it
      c) He’s too stupid and ambitious to turn it down.

  202. 681
    Master Baiter says:

    Guidorcs Oaf,
    Your numbers are up the pole.

  203. 686
    Gordon is a moron says:

    Guido are you on an extended lunch. Why no mention of Jocky Smith standing down?

  204. 688
    Anonymous says:

    Is it me or does Gordon Brown seem strangely calm and unbothered,
    especially considering the amouint of shite piling up around him.

    Is he on drugs? (seriously)
    Or is he just m-m-m-mad sir!

    • 696
      Mrs Kindleysides says:

      I think the entire cabinet is on anti-depressants……………..including Brown. They are all deluded and living in some sort of cocoon.

      Darling certainly looks and sounds as though he is on valium.

      • 758
        Susan Boil says:

        Darling just needs to recharge his batteries, but no one can find the charger.

  205. 689
    It doesn't add up... says:

    Parliament next week could be interesting for an unexpected reason:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/02/mps-to-debate-dissolution-of-parliament

    SNP and Plaid calling for the debate.

    • 741
      nell says:

      To be debated after Question Time on the 10th- and I’m going to be away so I’ll miss it!!!!

      I hope Dave and Clegg will support it.

      Surely it would be difficult for Cameron not to support it given that he has already said he wants an election and given that more that 60% of us have said in a poll that we want an election?

      To get rid of Brown soon – if only that were possible.

    • 759
      Baldnob says:

      What a cunning plan

  206. 691
    Question master says:

    Questions for the Prime Minister:

    1) Why do you consider that Sky TV and garden maintenance in Scotland are essential for your job as an MP?
    2) What is Damian McBride’s current employment status, and on what date did he leave the Civil Service?
    3) Which cabinet jobs does the PM consider are outside the capabilities and experience of Mr E Balls?
    4) Do Mr Teddy Balls and Mr Tommy Watson attend weekly Labour party strategy meetings on Wednesday afternoons in working time needed for their “full time” jobs in Government?
    5) Will the Prime Minister call a general election in the next 7 days if local and Euro-election results are “dissappointing” for the Labour Party?
    6) Can the PM confirm that the following ministers are still in post in his Labour goverment: Hoon, Purnell, Blears, McNulty, Uddin, Balls, Cooper?

    And many more…….

  207. 700
    It doesn't add up... says:

    Has the FT’s Alex Barker had an interesting conversation with the Badger?

    These are dangerous times for Brown. There are no serious plots in motion. But his position is so weak it would take very little to tip the balance. Geoffrey Howe did for Margaret Thatcher with a speech. It might take just a few pointed words from Alistair Darling to have a similar effect. This has the potential to be a historic political week.

    (Westminster blog at FT)

    • 719
      Boris says:

      This journalist writes what Churchill used to call “A blinding flash of the obvious” alrerady stated on this Blog for weeks..

      Funny these journalists are always weeks behind and use our words !!

  208. 704
    Just another fat, bloated, troughing Minister says:

    So long Jacqui Smith. You cu nt!

    who’s next

  209. 709
    Exiled in the Gulf says:

    Darling is still there at the moment…do the press not know about him fathering a daughter with a classmate from his University days and it’s been hidden from view. In true frugal style and to show how much a scumbag he really is – it wasn’t until the spurned woman threatened Ally with having to pay some money that he reluctantly agreed. True story, he only needs to be asked about the allegation…over to you media… The man is scum!

  210. 710
    Jacqui Smith - My Part In Her Downfall By JOHN LYON CB. says:

    well non whatsoever actually.

    I thank you, for my continuing salary at your expense.

  211. 714
    Gordon Brown from der bunker says:

    “I dreamed a dream in time gone by when hope was high and life worth living”

  212. 715
    Anonymous says:

    If Labour come 5th or 6th and only get something like 10% of the vote at the euro/local elections, what’s the likelihood of a physical storming of parliament and/or downing street by the electorate to force a general election?

    If one gets planned, just post about it here and count me in.

  213. 718
    dirtyden says:

    It’s all gone Pete Tong for the Broon. The taint is all over his pisspoor government and he’s on the way out. Yessssss.

    He’s LOST CONTROL!

  214. 721
    RT Hon Member says:

    Lest we forget. Most of the troughing stemmed from this:

    ‘TONY BLAIR and accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers jointly helped push through a rule change in 2004 that brought the MPs’ expenses scandal to the heart of government. Without Blair’s new rule, explicitly designed to boost ministers’ expenses, many of the current frontbench embarrassments would not now be an issue.

    The Senior Salaries Review Board (SSRB) looked at MPs’ pay, using a survey of MPs prepared by PwC, and the firm was happy to support a point that was pushed by the then prime minister. Its report said: “There were comments made about the rules which require ministers and other paid office holders to elect their London residence as the main residence and the constituency as their second property. The rules mean that the ACA [Additional Costs Allowance] is used against costs on a property which in many cases has been owned by the MP and his or her family for a significant number of years and where the mortgage is typically low.”

    So the never- emptying trough has been open for business since February 2004. It was intended for Ministers,so Tone could claim to be keeping salaries down, whilst slipping them cash through the back door.

    And McDoom did not know? He fucking should because he used the new rules himself and he held the purse strings as he never stopped telling us until about August 2007.

    Can’t blame this one on America Gordo.

  215. 722
    Ever Vigilant says:

    What about Mandleson? He should not escape scrutiny

    At the very least there must be a suspicion that he has received a bribe from Oleg Deripaska with cash sufficient to buy his expensive London home.

    If the purchase did not involve corruptly obtained cash,how did Mandleson finance his prestigious accommodation ?

    Mandleson refuese to discuss the matter (no surprise there ) but he is a
    government minister and must be made to disclose details .

    The fact that he was a European official at the time is of no consequence.

    If he refuses disclosure it is not unreasonable to conclude that he is a crook
    as well as being the most odious creature ever to hold office,apart from Brown

  216. 725
    Anonymous says:

    PMQ’s is going to be f’king brilliant this week.

  217. 726

    What a great day – it’s sunny, I’ve just had a FAB ice lolly, an indiscreet encounter with the missus in a buttercup dappled field at lunchtime, and now another brace of do-nothing, know-nothing Zanulab fuck-knuckles are shuffling off into oblivion. Bye Jacqui!

    • 757
      SNATCH says:

      so it was you with the young lady who was gamboling glandneck with gossemaring hobble skirt!!

      i’ve got the video

    • 760
      Byron says:

      How very poetic.

    • 762
      Justice Fingers says:

      Are you sure is was YOUR wife?

      I hadn’t seen hide nor hair of mine since 11 o’clock and she’s just turned up with a silly grin on her face.

  218. 730
    Little princess on board says:

    So Jacqui Five Bellies is jumping before she’s pushed. She wants to spend more time watching films with her husband. Next step is for the voters of Redditch to ram a P45 up her fat arse. Then good riddance to the thieving porcine retard.

  219. 731
    Ernest Marples says:

    Christ – Stamps are bloody expensive now!

  220. 739
    nell says:

    So who next for the Home Office ? -

    I think Yvette or that Phil ‘ope chap ( he of the £41000 to furnish a tiny two bed flat) , would be useful candidates.

    Both know a bit about law and order and how to exploit it by manipulating the rules.

    Of course Gordon is going to struggle to find enough people for a cabinet re-shuffle because everyone knows that if they join his cabinet they’ll be even more tainted than they would be as just MP’s. Then they’ll have even less chance of getting re-elected at the next GE.

    Anyway why would anyone want to join a cabinet that’s going to be dominated by bully balls and nokia throwing brown? Won’t be much fun, will it?

  221. 746
    His Excellence Tony Wrightprat MP says:

    If anyone else mentions MPs expense claims I will be very angry. We have now dealt with everything. It is time to move on.

  222. 754
    bandersnatch says:

    And Hoon? What about Hoon? Will Hoon walk, or wait to be re-shuffled? I know in this blog, and elsewhere for that matter, a hoon is a Hoon. However it is not so where my daughter lives, in Australia. There a hoon is… best equivalent is a ‘boy racer’… a guy who races his souped up, customised car, or a stolen one, up and down residential streets at night, displaying handbrake turns in a sceech of brakes. You can be charged with being a hoon. Articles appear in the local press on ‘How to prevent hooning in the Jubilee Suburbs’. Hoon… such a nice name for a Minister of Transport. For that alone he will be missed…

  223. 768
    Porky Pies MP says:

    Good riddance to the incompetent Smith and the finger wagging, nanny type Blair’s bloody babes Hewitt and Hughes. They’ll all be able to spend more time with their partners – poor blokes! Imagine waking up to those three charmers in the morning, even one at a time!

  224. 771
    Porky Pies MP says:

    What the fuck’s up with this site. Why aren’t all comments being forwarded?????

  225. Anonymous says:

    Following Adam Boultons interview with Brown on Sky. It takes very little thought to cast one’s thoughts back to pre 2004 and Brown’s thirst for power. It is clear that he and Balls came up with the scheme for flipping and a change to the expenses rule in 2004. This undoubtedly provided huge support and popularity, from MPs (making money within the new rules)for Brown’s push for power against Tony Blair. The whole of this expenses affair can be laid at the door of Browns cabal. They appealed to the most mendacious elements of cabinet and backbench colleagues on the Labour party.His anger at Boulton’s initial questionning gives one the impression of yet another ‘plausible deniability’. In my view if this claim can be supported then it amounts to a virtual criminal conspiracy to defraud the taxpayer. It is hardly surprising that the police have not already been involved as they are being encouraged to look at individual claims. (not I may add by the Labour Party). This whole affair stinks to high heaven and calls into question the whole of the political class as well as the government of the day.

    It may only take pressure on one high profile casuality (Hoon or Darling)to be criminally investigated for defrauding the taxpayer to provide the beginnings of a trail of the worst corruption to come to light in British History. I will not hold my breath however, too many vested interests ensure a resounding silence in the face of the British electorate.

  226. Tricky Dicky says:

    It would be fun to read the panic on Labourlist, but I won’t do it since I don’t want to give their site a “hit”.

  227. Anonymous says:

    Make a formal complaint about Brown’s complicity online or at your nearest police station .

  228. Marie Antoinette says:

    Anon – are you really John? Cos I just read this post over at the DT, authored by John.
    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/james_kirkup/blog/2009/06/02/fear_and_loathing_in_the_parliamentary_labour_party

  229. J'accuse says:

    I agree – judging from his denial before Boulton had even finished his question,I accuse the Brown criminal of fraud on an epic scale.
    This has got to be investigated and followed up – it could be the thing that brings Brown in to a Law Court.

  230. John Henderson says:

    No someone has copied and pasted under anon

  231. R.Chimney's Old Truffle says:

    No, it’s actually a generic name for Labour voters and should read

    ‘Thickos and Thieves’

  232. RavingMad says:

    unsurprisingly, Brown even blames the French for yet another newlabour balls up!!!

  233. Heard it.

    That sill bitch harman is either as delusional as the prime monster, or she’s lying through her teeth.

    At one point the obnoxious preening self important cow said to Martha; “It is not your position to say…”

    Harridan?

    Yes it is.

    Martha has a vote.

    She pays your wages.

    You work for her.

    Telegraph? If you’re stalling on balls ’till the reshuffle, can we have the harridan up next?







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