June 16th, 2009

+++ Shahid Malik Being Investigated +++

Malik Reported to Parliamentary Standards Commissioner
Standards Commissioner today confirms he is investigating if Malik’s parliamentary expenses were used to defray his personal expenses.  He has written to Malik asking him to explain himself…

UPDATE : Letter is now up on Sunlight COP’s site.


424 Comments

  1. 1
    Rascal Puff says:

    Decent people just know when it’s time to resign.

    • 9
      Ivor Biggun says:

      Yes, but we’re talking about Shadih Malik here…

      • 13
        Posh Tory says:

        Voluntary resignation doesn’t work for people with no honour.

      • 43
        Anonymous says:

        Son of a beach

      • 54

        Labour has taken the right decisions to promote prosperity. And it has put policies in place to offer everyone the chance to harness their talents, not just the few. Labour’s New Deal programmes have helped more than 1.8 million people back to work. And our investment in programmes such as Train to Gain, which pays for people to get training at work, has helped hundreds of thousands not just to get a job, but to get a qualification and get on. We will only be able to compete globally if we harness the talents of everyone in our society, without discrimination. We will need to offer greater opportunities for our workforce to get the right skills and training throughout their careers.

        • 61
          Sunny Jim says:

          Don’t you get dizzy, spinning so much?

        • 62
          Jane Goody says:

          What about my hoon?

        • 84
          Lt General Sir Barbour-Jacket KFS RAC MOT says:

          Like creative accountancy used in MPs expenses?

        • 86
          Talwin says:

          CH
          In case you hadn’t noticed this thread is about Shahid Malik. Do try to keep up. (Although, on reflection, it may be that Malik will need some Train to Gain sessions in due course).

        • 160
          Had quite enough of Charlie boys propaganda thankyou very much. he must be bipolar innit. says:

          Er, shouldn’t you have done all that stuff BEFORE you flooded the labour market?
          Too little too late Charles.
          A bit like your posts.

        • 161
          FireForce says:

          Mali will now learn how to sew mail bags, uring his next employment.

        • 226
          Lil Olmey says:

          Does it amuse you writing such bollo.. ?

        • 247
          Brooned off says:

          Quite, Labor has done an excellent job of promoting prosperity in the case of Malik!

          ZaNuLiebor – bringing you 3rd world corruption to a country near you.

        • 278
          Charles E. Hardwidge says:

          Excellent post.

        • 299
          Shithead says:

          You’re not listening, are you, CEH? I told you. Take the medication and shut your pathetic face. Unless you’ve been running rings round Uranus for the last 12 years, you can’t even believe the bollox you write yourself. Twat.

        • 309
          Anonymous says:

          You must be on a good screw to spin for these rogues. But how do you sleep at night? Are you heavily sedated?

        • 401
          Beano says:

          Employment created by Labour is either in the Public Sector, or where one job has been split into three with subsidised wages through Tax Credits etc. Education has been dragged down to a point where qualifications are worthless (with A* grades for all and sundry), and Employers and Universities unable to tell the bright and studious from those who have downloaded essays etc. The entire Economy of this Country has been based on debt, and the present Recession (created largely due to the mismanagement of the PM/ former Chancellor) will see the Country laid low for decades, if not permanently. Just watch the Unemployment figures!

        • 410
          MI6 says:

          You Twa- What you really mean we will pretend to give you things while we Nick you Freedom. Police State ready for BNP take over. What a bunch of C-nts.. PII was set up to force privatisation of NHS only the Daft Corrie watchers missed it while steve went up the rovers for a pint. What a bunch of happy cheeky chapies.

        • 419
          dave says:

          have seen your stupid comments on other sites,think most people now treat them with a bit of a touch of pity as you are very likely to be sectioned soon.what a moron you are..last time i read one of your posts you were saying the expenses scandal wasn’t a scandal.you’ll be denying the holocast next….if you havn’t already.

    • 23

      Decent people don’t do what this slimeball has done.

      The Penguin

      • 48
        Stronghold Barricades says:

        but Brown still keeps him in government

        At least last time he stood down whilst the investigations occurred

        He should be disbarred from ever standing in any political capacity again

      • 285
        Lizzy says:

        I do hope he is the first of many, reading the papers over the last couple of days it kinda looks as though everything has gone away, the MPs think they have all got away with it, there has been a little blood on the carpet, and now its business as usual.

        Their big mistake is that the British Public has a long memory

      • 385
        pissed off pensioner says:

        You can demand as many unvestigations as you like the outcomes will simply
        be ” IT WAS ALL WITHIN THE RULES”

    • 50
      Tattooed_Arry says:

      Resignation is Un-Islamic.
      I asked Mr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for clarification, but he’s busy mopping up at the moment, I’ll try him again later.

      • 122
        Anonymous says:

        Quite right.

        Resignation and honour, rather like receipts, payments in cash, attempts to, shall we just say, diminish tax revenue, are all very much a cultural/religion-of-the-righteous, issue. So that excuses that then.

      • 300
        Shithead says:

        Ahmadinejad has done what all cowardly hoons do. He’s fled the country.

        • 344
          Thick As Mp's says:

          ”Future President” Malik of Englandistan will be cleared from all wrong doing and promoted.

  2. 2
    Hugh Janus says:

    I would much rather it was plod doing the investigating.

    • 31
      PC Broon says:

      Don’t be silly, we’re far too busy eating pies and filling out our applications for promotion…

      Move along, nothing to see here.

      • 195
        AJC says:

        Actually they are rather busy investigating abuse of the Met’s Amex Card!

        AJC

    • 39
      older not wiser says:

      It really is time that we had some criminal prosecutions. Until people are prosecuted there will be no acceptance of the politicians by the British public.

      • 83
        Sir Mufbourne-Harbor says:

        Well done to The Sunlight Center. Thank you for your work Guido and that of your new colleagues. It’s an easy site to navigate too.

      • 91
        Cato Street Conspirator says:

        We don’t ‘accept’ politicians, we ‘tolerate’ them. And our patience is wearing very thin.

      • 95
        Koba says:

        Didn’t we just read that the police have been busy using the forces’ credit cards for uninteded purposes?Have’nt

      • 222
        Steve Expat says:

        Heads on poles please, Shahid Malik and Margaret Moron for the first two lamp-posts on Westminster Bridge

        • 271
          Pissed off taxpayer says:

          As a good muslim surely malik would approve of having his thieving fucking hands cut off eh? After all, that is the punishment meted out by the religion of peace for stealing.

    • 311
      Anonymous says:

      Plod couldnt even catch a fucking cold let alone any crooks, especially those bastards in Nu Lieboor

    • 371
      Lizzy says:

      How do you get Sunlight to take up your complaint? Do you have to make a formal written complaint to the Commissionar before he investigates, or will he just go through back copies of the Daily Telegraph and investigate one by one.

      It would be a very warped view if the Commissionar were to state that as he has not received a formal written complaint about the rest of the loathsome individuals he will not be investigating because everyone must be happy.

  3. 3
    Anonymous says:

    aha

  4. 4
    Olaf says:

    Let us see how closely that ludicrous cock Brown hugs this particular member of his zombie clique to his chest.

  5. 5
    hoof-hearted says:

    This should be properly investigated as theft and fraud.

    Malik deserves to be in jail for a very long time.

  6. 6
    davemcwish says:

    ‘Bout Bloody teim – although I fear a white wash comming on.

    Anyway what about the rest of the scroats ?

    • 44
      Anonymous says:

      the rest of the scrotes will be reselected as Tory candidates.

    • 82
      PM says:

      Nah, a Brown wash surely.

    • 132
      Anonymous says:

      Yes all quiet on the Baroness Utterly Disgusting front, are she and her 32k BMW still holed up in Tottering Hamlets subsidised social housing or has she shipped off back to her Balti Palace? We should be told.

      • 173
        nell says:

        Now you know perfectly well Anonymous- she really lives in Maidstone. It’s just that the Maidstone Flat’s not very well maintained at the moment because she had to ship all her servants to Bangladesh to get the Palace up to scratch.

      • 263
        Baronness Houdini says:

        Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!! I’ve escaped !!!!

        • 351
          Thick As Mp's says:

          Bet someone is still clocking in her House Of Lords fee for her, you can’t quite tell who or what is hiding under a burkha these days.

  7. 7
    Steve Expat says:

    About bloody time, the theiving fucking Hoon.
    Can’t wait for him to resign twice in as many months, will make Gordon happy :-)

    • 56
      Tattooed_Arry says:

      Steve Expat said:
      “Can’t wait for him to resign twice in as many months, will make Gordon happy :-)

      Mandelson did.

      • 66
        Lonesome Dave says:

        Thought Mandy was sacked (in disgrace) twice?

        • 403
          Sacha Lottovem says:

          None of them are ever sacked. They (see Fondlebum, Blunkett, Vaz, etc) always “resign”. In some cases (see Fondlebum, Blunkett, Vaz, etc) they later re-sign.

      • 87
        Steve Expat says:

        Mandlebum resigned twice in a little over two years,

        Malik is about to have to resign for the second time in a little over a month. I would take a bet that never before has a minister had to resign twice in a few weeks.

        Broon must feel like a right Hoon today for beliving that Malik was clean, if he is found to have lied to the original enquiry he belongs in jail rather than the front bench

        • 198
          Anonymous says:

          Brown is probably shit scared that if he doesn’t back Malik, he’ll be accused of islamophobia or some such poppycock.

        • 305
          Shithead says:

          That cow-baiting twat from Sheffield, the one who wrecked the Home Office, resigned twice, but it was more like months than weeks between the two crises.

        • 326
          Steve Expat says:

          Thanks for the tip Shithead.

          The ‘cow-baiting twat from Sheffield‘ resigned twice in 11 months, Dec ’04 and Nov ’05.

          This appears to be the record in recent times (since 1979). Mandy was a little over two years between resignations.

          Malik is not yet up to 5 weeks since his last resignation on 15th May…

        • 329
          Dead Ice Cream Van Man says:

          they found me in my van covered in hundreds and thousands……

          don’t know who topped me though.

  8. 8
    Sir William Waad says:

    I thought the main scam was that his landlord charged him a low rent on his house but an artificially high rent on his constituency office. Mr Malik was able make us pay the rent on his office and so, in effect, have us pay most of the rent on his house. Is that a fair summary? If so, is it actually a crime or just a dirty trick?

    • 10
      Anonymous says:

      Are the ‘invoices’ actually genuine??

      • 14
        Y Frontz says:

        How can there be any invoices. That lot do all their business in cash. They don’t trust banks and it is against sharia law. Have they forgotten BCCI? Known as the Bank of Crooks and Cocaine International. That was one of their banks. Is it that they do not trust the banks or is it that when you deal in cash there are no records and therefore no tax? Which is it? We deserve to be told.

        • 32
          Anonymous says:

          You are a muppet. THere can still be an invoice for cash.

        • 47
          Anonymous says:

          Are you a total moron – the BCCI was a conventional bank, not a sharia operation. It just happened to be as bent as Dick Sniffin.

        • 63
          Bewick says:

          you don’t need to be told . You,, me and everyone else (except GB and HMRC) KNOWS.
          Remember it’s a “cultural” thing as Malik said. I doubt it’s “religious” as he also said because I know non Muslim Asians who live far beyond their means – if declared profits are anything to go by! and YES I DO know that it isn’t just Asians. There’s a whole class of people – sir Philip Green and many others – who “avoid” tax legally and a whole load more who “evade” tax and get away with it. Plus of course all the benefit cheats and the workshy. HONEST people seem to be paying taxes far beyond their REAL share.

        • 85
          Tattooed_Arry says:

          The reason they don’t use banks is that the money trail can be chased.
          It’s easier to pay money to someone at Friday Prayers, who then makes a phone call to someone in Pakistan, Iran, or Afghanistan, and tells the person on the other end to pay that money to whoever you want to have it.
          Its an old established system, rather like an updated version of the Templar banking system.

          Re: Shahid (Bomber) Malik, I once worked with a “Shaik” who took all the Muslims there at prayers. Very Fundamentalist chap, (incidently a close friend of Cat Stevens) -anyway a highly respected Muslim, he had no problems as far as Banks went, we all had wages paid into bank-accounts – it was a rule.
          There are Banks which meet the requirements of Sharia Law, which “Bomber” Malik could have used but he chose not to.
          This “I couldn’t use a bank because I’m a muslim” is hog-wash.
          Those members of the Saudi Royal Family (Wahhabis- very strict – make Iran look like the Lib-Dems) who bought property around London must have used Banks to do so.
          Is “Bomber” Malik more austere than the Wahhabis?
          I was unaware of anyone who was more “literalist” than the Wahhabi branch of Islam.
          Many “literalists” say that to involve yourself in Kafr politics is Haram. So if it is Un-Islamic to use a bank – why then is it okay to work for the Crusader state?
          It’s a load of Ed-Balls.

        • 171
          Chell Puddock says:

          You’re clearly on the dim side Y Frontz.

          I’m no fan of Malik, but “that lot do all their business in cash” & “that was one of their banks” are comments that make me think you’d be more at home on the BNP message board.

      • 134
        Alan Bread says:

        Shady doesn’t do invoices.

    • 12
      hoof-hearted says:

      Mr Malik may face a Parliamentary inquiry into why he used his MP’s expenses to pay rent for office space in his house, something forbidden by Commons rules.

      The DT has also established that the minister avoided paying capital gains tax on the sale of a house in Burnley last year. He told the taxman and the Commons it was his “main home,” but has made public statements saying he has lived in Dewsbury for the past five years.

      I think this is just the tip of the iceberg.

      • 16
        Barry Manilow says:

        Lettuce hope so…

      • 58
        Anonymous says:

        You are right. Only a full and open investigation will suffice. He has some very serious questions to answer. Another one with serious questions to answer is George Osborne.

        • 143
          robthepoor says:

          Are you a Labour lacky from the E-Smear dept perchance, we are not talking about George, but one of yours, a shifty little bugger at that. And there are a lot of buggers in Nulabour.

        • 217
          Anonymous says:

          I beet he’s at the root of the dip

      • 125
        Sir Mufbourne-Harbor says:

        He deserves a rocket if found out. Lettuce hope not a que for some cumbersome dressing up of the pork pies

        • 140
          Funambulist says:

          He’s undoubtedly a rap-scallion.

        • 365
          Anonymous says:

          No, you half-wit, I have no agenda. The clue is in the ALL of “ALL troughers.” All of them Malik, eyebrows, Osborne, the lot of them. Is it too much to ask that you suspend your atavism for one moment? ALL troughers, regardless of political persuasion should be completely investigated. Osborne has done the country for over fifty grand. That much is obvious. And he’s not alone, as the focus on Malik et al seems to be revealing. Once again, ALL troughers must be removed.

      • 394
        Salad dip -in your pocket says:

        He’ll soon be a has-bean

    • 17
      Steve Expat says:

      Short answer. Yes.

    • 37
      SLIEMA SLIMEBALLS says:

      Nokia shares crash as Francis Maude reveals that the company repair Downing street mobiles for free!

    • 40
      13eastie says:

      Crime, definitely.

      This was his primary home.

      To claim expenses payments for an office, that were de facto rent payments for his primary home (which are forbidden) is to defraud the Expenses Office.

      If his landlord, Tahir Zaman, has been complicit in this, he is also guilty of conspiracy.

      Furthermore, there are no proper records of payments, and Malik has apparently claimed they were made in cash. It will therefore be virtually impossible to prove that this money did not somehow find it’s way BACK to Malik. That’s embezzlement.

      People should also rightly wonder whether Zaman declared this cash income for VAT and income tax purposes. Scope worthy of investigation for evasion and conspiracy here too.

      As far as parliamentary standards are concerned, the Standards Comissioner should also find out why Malik decided that the proper thing to do would be to make sure that so much tax-payer’s money ended up as cash in the hands of “slum landlord” Zaman, a convicted criminal and bankrupt, who apparently spends most of his time in Dubai (I wonder why?).

      Malik is scum of the lowest order. And Brown (‘cleaning up politics’) appointed this turd, AFTER he had been implicated.

    • 53
      Tin Cunliffe-Arsely says:

      “low rent on his house but an artificially high rent on his constituency office.”
      That was suggested. Actually wide of the mark – I’ve not heard that the real/first constituency office was overpriced.

      The trick was to pretend that his house was partially “second constituency office”.
      And without invoices effectively pay £100 for upstairs to live in and £50 downstairs for his “2nd office”.

      The telegraph wasnt really looking into dodgy office expenses. What odds would anyone like to put on there being another 20 or 50 MPs doing this particular trick.
      (Officewithabedgate” ? ?)

      • 131
        Sir Mufbourne-Harbor says:

        You see, the photo shows a ventaxia and bog outlet 2nd floor, wheras the larger house next door does not appear to have these? 9The brickwork is shite btw.

      • 230
        Steve Expat says:

        There will be loads more to come after the publication by the HoC next week of all the expense claims.

        The Telegraph had 30 journos on the story for over a month to get what they did – they said themselves that there was lots they hadn’t gone through, there’s literally millions of documents to look through!

  9. 11
    A Akhbar says:

    Throw him out of Parliament and into jail.
    Guilty twice over, just like Lord Handlebum of Boy.

    • 19
      r supward says:

      like mandy?. so he will be put aboard the Euro gravy train and then made a lord?. Oh the shame off it.

  10. 18
    Steve Expat says:

    Another one bites the dust!!

    Sky reporting Tory Ian Taylor as standing down as MP at the next election.

    Another troughing Hoon we’ll be pleased to see the back of.

    • 20
      freddie flintoff says:

      that leaves how many ?

      • 228
        I am Sick says:

        “that leaves how many ?”

        Ohh, around 600 or so. Token resignations of dead wood will not work, the wonder is that so many “intelligent” politicians dont still get it.

        They will all pay on polling day, the LabLibCon trick is on its last legs.

    • 24
      hoof-hearted says:

      We’ve got too many MP’s in the UK.

      At least this way we can get rid of them through natural wastage.

  11. 22
    Jonathan Cook says:

    Well done Guido and the Sunlight Cops.

    P.S. I loved Alastair Campbells suggestion today that MP’s who are sectioned under the Mental health Act should not loose their seats. They are doing everything they can to prop up dear old Gordon.

    • 25
      hoof-hearted says:

      The lunatics are already running the asylum. We don’t need any more.

    • 46
      SLIEMA SLIMEBALL says:

      Tell Littlejohn someone!
      You couldnt make it up!

      • 363
        Thick As Mp's says:

        Old Alastair is obviously trying to save his own skin and career as he spent time in the looney bin before helping his fellow loony Blair and his looney party win in 97.

  12. 26
    Barbie Tourette says:

    ZZZzzzzzzzzzzz…….. . . . . . .

  13. 27
    Ian Phlegming says:

    Thwoop!

  14. 28
    Harry Cole-Bean says:

    Prrp!

  15. 33
    .243 Win says:

    Right old pantomime, isn’t it ?

    Ali Malik and the 640 thieves.

    Other cast members to include :

    Gordo “The Great” as the Snotgoblin’ King,
    MB as “Wee Willie Wankie”
    Lord Fondlebum as “The bad fairy”

  16. 34
    Thats News says:

    This will reflect badly on Brown. Thankfully.

  17. 35

    Just Malik? What about Brown and Darling?

  18. 41
    Pete-s says:

    No sign of the council being investigated who sold him the council owned flat at a well below the market rate of 87k. He knew the market rate as his brother owned the upper flat, which he sold for 220k only two years later. The flat in question is now thought to be worth 300k. Why was he sold the flat so cheaply?

    • 77
      Pete-s says:

      For those who may be confused, the first investigation was about him paying a below market rate for his house in Dewsbury. This second investigation is for payments to his SECOND office which he has refused to give an address. I am referring to his third investigation about the flat in Southwark which he allowed his brothers to use while claiming for it under Parliamentary expenses.

    • 338
      Sir Mufbourne-Harbor says:

      Which council was the fine for non-payment of council tax paid for by the taxpayer?

  19. 51
    Man with very hot bladder says:

    I thought we weren’t allowed to criticise Muslims.

    • 67
      Cruel but Ferret says:

      Publish and be damned I say, and investigate on pain of fatwah….

      Jihad it now!

      Slightly put off by the pouting Piers below; makes a change from a pouting Peer I guess?

      • 111
        Susie says:

        Iranian Mullahs have their own problems atm I’m delighted to say. Not much of a chance of getting fatwah’d this week.

        A good week for burying bad fatwahs, in fact.

    • 116
      MrPeregrination says:

      Why all the whining about him being a muslim? He’s a thief first, muslim second. Just like some of the other corrupt MPs will be thieves first and christians second. The religion is not important. The theft is. I’m atheist by the way, before you accuse me of believing in the wrong sort of all powerful fairy.

      • 149
        Cruel but Ferret says:

        I am a theist by trade and a member of the rolled up trouser brigade to boot, so mote it be. But do agree with you, religion is irrelevant full stop. Just you know how things get spun….

      • 150
        Dick the Prick says:

        The dude made a speech in which he stated that Muzzies are gonna take over parliament inshallah etc etc. He’s got form.

        • 286
          Mucky Malik - time to go says:

          Whilst ZaNu and NuCons keep the blinkers firmly up.

          See how long Parliament lasts once there is a Muslim majority!

        • 313
          Allan@Aberdeen says:

          You mean this moment of honesty from Shahid (martyr) Malik:

      • 165
        Funambulist says:

        Certain all-powerful fairies lead their followers to believe they have a claim to ‘special rights’ and preferential treatment over the followers of all rival fairies.

        And especially over those who say they don’t believe in fairies.

        Goddit?

      • 211
        Parliament of Pigfuckers says:

        He tried to use being a Muslim as an excuse for cash-in-hand accounting with his landlord. Apparently Allah thinks receipts are a Satanic Jewsih invention or some such bollocks.

      • 405
        Sacha Lottovem says:

        Why all the whining about him being a Muslim? Better take that up with Malik himself – after all, it was Malik who attempted to explain away paying rent in cash without receipts as a religious thing: as the first inquiry reported – “Mr Malik explained that this request had not seemed surprising to him given the preference of many religious Muslims for cash transactions rather than transactions using Western banking arrangements.”

  20. 57

    A strong economy is vital for hard-working families who have benefited from ten years of growing employment, low inflation and low interest rates. Despite rapid social and economic change we must continue to ensure that all families with children are treated with fairness so that they get the support they need both at home and in the workplace. We have given new parents new rights, with longer and better paid maternity leave and paternity leave for dads. And as children get older, we are providing more financial support than ever before to help parents balance their family finances and save for their children’s future.

    • 72
      Democrat says:

      LO LO

      Charles a cut and paste from

      http://www.labour.org.uk/supporting_hard-working_families

      PS Free the English

      • 74
        Democrat says:

        And are Labour that short of ‘hits’ that the need to pimp traffic from a high PR site?

        Free the English ™

      • 319
        Cjamesk says:

        He used to do it or he may still do the same on Nick Robinsons poor excuse of a blog on the BBC.

        If you want to see “Purer than Pure” No10 statements then check it out.

        I`d personally advise against it! ;)

    • 80
      Rexel 56 says:

      “paternity leave for dads”

      Well, who’d a thought it!

    • 92
      Trough Mixture says:

      “We have given new parents new rights”

      Out of the bag of ‘rights’ they see as their’s to administrate?

      Presumptuous lice.

      • 221
        General Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri Castelli McBroon (but you can just call me 'El Presidente') says:

        “we have given new parents new rights” – provided they vote the right way. If they don’t, they should be afraid – very afraid, as we will be taking children away from “subersive elements” and placing them with people who we can trust to bring them up in the right way, i.e. teaching them to love the glorious leader and not to question any of his wonderful ideas on how to make our glorious homeland a better place for all who inhabit it.

    • 147

      A strong economy is vital for hard-working families who have had to put up with twleve years of growing un-employment, high inflation,high interest rates and mass immigration. Because of rapid social and economic change brought about by labour’s mass immigration policies and of importing poverty, we must continue to ensure that all families with children are treated with fairness, so that they get the money they need both at home and to send back home, all without the need to work. We have given new parents new rights, with longer and better paid maternity leave and paternity leave for dads, all at a considerable cost to most companies and this is helping to swell the dole queues right now as no one in their right mind would want to set up a business in this country any more as they not only have to pay for the employee now but also for all the employees children. And as children get older, we are providing, no giving them, more money than ever before, save them having to go out and earn it. It all helps help parents balance their family finances and save for their children’s future so they can carry on spending just like labour does in government without the need to know where it’s coming from or how it will ever be paid back.

      • 197
        Gordon Brown says:

        I’m deactivating you agent Hardwidge,

        For gods sake man, people now know I’m a raving loon, I don’t need the likes of you hammering the point home.

        pssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

      • 293
        Jack-Hughes says:

        How much better this version reads than the previous one (56, 12:50 p.m.); it didn’t even make me smile, though, let alone laugh out loud!

      • 304
        Charles Halfwitted says:

        My cut and paste skills were acquired whilst I was doing community service.

  21. 65
    Anonymous says:

    Good to see the Standards Commissioner starting to do his job. Perhaps he can now do the people of Guildford a favour and investigate Ann Milton for improperly influencing her husbands pay package without declaring an interest.

  22. 68
    Isa Downferafullhouse says:

    I cannot even walk past our local Mecca bingo hall without thinking about this charlatan. Will life ever return to the good old days when boys were boys and girls were grateful?

  23. 69
    zobbit says:

    Dont get to exited it will be another Fkn cover up he works outside of British Law as he said most of his Transactions are done in Pound Notes.The Inland Revenue should go after the little turd he paid money to as he wont have paid Tax on it.

  24. 71
    Malik is Pork says:

    Malik’s another arrogant socialist and Muslim retard – and not born here either. Isn’t it odd how the party of the people attracts so many rotten scumbags to lord it over us. Methinks the people have been conned.
    Labour is run by a bunch of shysters who haven’t got a shred of common decency between them and don’t give a fig for the electorate.
    Anyway it’ll be fun watching how Malik tries to bluff his way out of trouble a second time. I wonder if his friend Gordo the Gorgon will help set up a whitewash investigation again.

    • 117
      Susie says:

      If he wasn’t born here, why’s he allowed to be an MP in the first place?

      Obama’s presidency hung on whether he’d been born on US soil (he was as Hawaii’s a US state), so why is it different here?

      • 155
        Dick the Prick says:

        There’s no rule against foreigners being MPs at all which is pretty cool really I guess.

        • 200
          Anonymous says:

          and look at the benefit of this rule. We now have a Danish UKIP MEP, previously an EU auditor, who will be going after Kinnockio whilst knowing where the bodies are buried.

      • 340
        Sir Mufbourne-Harbor says:

        Didn’t spock join up too?

    • 159
      barefootcontessa says:

      He works for the MINISTRY OF JUSTICE no less, headed up by Jack the Straw. What else can you expect? Sorry, worked, – or is it works?

    • 210
      The Wasp says:

      Peter Hain didn’t move to the UK until he was 16. Wasn’t he born in South Africa?

      • 224
        Alibarbs says:

        Boris Johnson was born in New York – didn’t stop him being an MP, and unless I’m very much mistaken, Malik was actually born in Burnley.

      • 391
        Time for repatriation of the orange one says:

        Yes, seeking asylum from the dastardly apartheid system, funny he never went back, then like a lot of asylum seekers, he soon learned how to play the system and rob the taxpayer.

  25. 73
    Chairman Malik says:

    Ayup me owd loves.

    There’s nowt on t’ big telleh. I’m off down t’ Dhimmi’s Arms to play t’ bandit an’ ‘ave a game o’ crib wi’ t’ lads.

  26. 75
    President Havingmedinnerinbed says:

    yesssssssssssss. get in.
    back of the net!

  27. 76

    “Letter is now up on Sunlight COP’s”

    The Sunlight Centre for Open Politics – “We Advocate Transparency in the Political Process” –

    http://sunlightcops.ning.com/

    has banned me as a user.

    Perhaps their politics is not as open as they would like us to think.

  28. 78
    Anonymous says:

    Malik is a crook. Simple as that.

    Pity we have a corrupt police force.

  29. 79
    Anonymous says:

    Inshallah, bokhara, malesh.

  30. 88
    arthur says:

    What’s all this about Cameron and Basil Fawlty ?

  31. 96
    For the love of God says:

    I fail to see why he should still be drawing a ministers celery while this is going on.

  32. 101
    A Silent Emission of Bowel Gas says:

    They wouldn’t even trust him with the fertiliser fund at his local mosque.

  33. 102
    backwoodsman says:

    What about the away days at taxpayers expense with the girlfriend, which of the three investigations cover those ?

  34. 106
    Ever Vigilant says:

    Mandleson keeps cropping up in these blogs .I would like to see a concerted campaign to compel him to prove that he did not ues corruptly obtained funds to purchase his London house.

    Mandleson is a crook who should have been prosecuted for mortgage fraud and now that he is a senior minister it is a disgrace that he refuses to discuss his new found financial strength, especially in view of the suspicion that he took a big cash bribe when he was mincing around Europe.

    • 264
      Lord Mandelson says:

      Leave me alone, I’m busy wanking over this Piers Morgan clip.

    • 390
      windfarmer says:

      fill in the missing verbs- mandelson, enron, ministers,gas fired power station licences, wind farm subsidy level, cash, peter hain, dti, guardian, peter hain’s son, employed, energy company.

  35. 109
    Billy Liar says:

    Shahdi-ahdi-ahdi-ahdi! OI! Shadders!

  36. 112
    Spiderman says:

    I have to say how much I have enjoyed the quiet, stillness of the space above me. At least it hasn’t been filled with those boring people from labourlost. Just lying back and enjoying the sun….

  37. 114
    Spiderman says:

    AGhhhhh!!

    Gawd

    he’s back, bloody Piers

    Is this a bargaining position or what????

  38. 118
    Man from Uncle says:

    A reply from Auntie regarding the 1h hour Labour Party Political Broadcast of the weekend before last!

    “Thanks for your e-mail regarding the BBC News Channel on the 7 June.

    We understand you felt our coverage of Gordon Brown’s speech to Labour activists was biased in favour of the Labour Party.

    The pressure on Gordon Brown has been intense and mounting this week and so to hear from the man at the centre of the story was clearly a journalistic necessity.

    As a live event on the News Channel it would have been irresponsible not to take it up in full. That said, it was clear that this was an orchestrated event with only “loyal” activists and politicians allowed to be there.

    However this was a point that we emphasised in our introduction to the event, during the event itself and in our analysis afterwards, including in our later packages. Our correspondents spoke of “loyal, supportive, sympathetic” people in the audience. Some went further, talking of a carefully stage-managed event and even a “parallel universe” where everything in the Prime Minister’s world was rosy.

    Furthermore, while the event was ongoing, one of the on-screen captions read:

    BROWN UNDER PRESSURE

    PM appears before supportive audience in London

    So the Prime Minister’s meeting was an essential part of the main story of the day. But we recognised – and made very clear to the audience – that this was an event carefully managed and orchestrated by Labour.

    Our obligation is to provide impartial coverage and we do that through providing consistent news judgments and offering critical analysis. In this case we would have taken entirely the same approach regardless of which party was in power or had it been an opposition leader whose leadership was under intense scrutiny in the same circumstances.

    We’d like to assure you that we’ve registered your comments on our audience log. This is the internal report of audience feedback which we compile daily for all programme makers and commissioning executives within the BBC, and also their senior management. It ensures that your points, and all other comments we receive, are circulated and considered across the BBC.

    Thanks again for taking the time to contact us with your concerns.”

  39. 123
    hoof-hearted says:

    Did anyone see Harperson on TV earlier, when she was putting the government’s case about MP’s expenses?

    It seems that nothing much has actually been done, although Harperson told the Committee she would like it to appear to the public that something is being done. It’s all ben filmed. You couldn’t make it up.

    I would be very surprised any of this was sorted out before the next election.

  40. 126
    RavingMad says:

    +++ Breaking News +++

    Our dearly beloved Prime Minister is speaking now, live on BBC and Sky, to the GMB conference in Blackpool. Yet further opportunity for the media to provide this government with airtime, to propogate it’s lies and larceny.

    • 129
      L. O' Boulez says:

      Don’t worry old son, nobody believes any of it these days anyway. They’re talking to themselves.

      • 137
        chronic says:

        I wrote him a letter telling him to fuck off, he hasnt mentioned that one yet.

    • 138
      Steve Expat says:

      …and within a minute of standing up, he’s talking about the “Global crisis, which started in America” and about “MPs of all parties are affected by the scandal”

      Shut the fuck up you Hoon, call an election so we can throw you to the wolves!

    • 139
      hoof-hearted says:

      What tosh! Brown is heralding himself as more of a saviour than Bliar.

      Look at his body language when he relates his stories about the people who have written to him about their wonderful lives under Labour. You can tell he’s lying through his teeth.

    • 145
      Trough Mixture says:

      He says he can see.

      He’s started pointing for no reason = like a child playing a Shepherd in a chav nativity.

      • 169
        Margy says:

        Now he’s harping on about kids in Africa again.
        What the hell has this got to do with the dreadful mess he’s made of this country?
        The guy is just an out and out lying criminal – he also says the BNP have no role in a democratic society; what democratic society would that be Gordon? Certainly not Engand under Browns’ sick and incompetent regime.

    • 151
      Anonymous says:

      It’s priceless stuff. Totally shameless. To summarise so far….under the Tories we would either be illiterate or dead – or both.

      He is also reading out more of those letters from the serfs thanking the Dear Leader for the air they breath.

      • 177
        barefootcontessa says:

        He must be so grateful to the Iranians squabbling over their election, takes the heat off. Pity we can’t have a general election and get rid of all our unelected
        rulers, particularly the gorgon.

    • 152
      Anonymous says:

      Posting 113 refers, not worth getting your blood pressure up, save your health and cost to the NHS, no one is taking any notice of him anymore, yesterday’s man or mr whitewash, take your pick.

    • 321
      Fells Point barfly says:

      The more airtime, TV or radio, that this Labour Government get, the more they totally turn people off. I’d love to see them on 24/7, though I wouldn’t personally be watching it. The comments in the pub says it all. Nobody, but NOBODY, wants them around any longer, including long-time, dyed-in-the-wool Labour voters.

      Loving every moment. Just hope the next government, whoever they are, can do something, honestly for once, to sort this mess out. If call-me-Dave can grow up fast and get his real cabinet, excluding the pro-EU nuts, together, we may have a chance. Much work to do though. No need to declare everything now, as the situation WILL change week to week, never mind before next May/June.

  41. 133
    Anonymous says:

    Just listening to the mentalist on Sky – he makes me fucking vomit

  42. 142

    A strong economy is vital for hard-working families who have had to put up with twleve years of growing un-employment, high inflation,high interest rates and mass immigration. Because of rapid social and economic change brought about by labour’s mass immigration policies and of importing poverty, we must continue to ensure that all families with children are treated with fairness, so that they get the money they need both at home and to send back home, all without the need to work. We have given new parents new rights, with longer and better paid maternity leave and paternity leave for dads, all at a considerable cost to most companies and this is helping to swell the dole queues right now as no one in their right mind would want to set up a business in this country any more as they not only have to pay for the employee now but also for all the employees children. And as children get older, we are providing, no giving them, more money than ever before, save them having to go out and earn it. It all helps help parents balance their family finances and save for their children’s future so they can carry on spending just like labour does in government without the need to know where it’s coming from or how it will ever be paid back.

    • 166
      Shiftless crook says:

      ‘Ere, what about me.

      I need a strong economy too or their’s fuck all worth stealing.

      • 183
        Anonymous says:

        Well you can just buy a plot of land with no planning permission on it, use the human rights act by telling them you’re a traveller or something, build on it, and make a fortune and you won’t never have to steal again. Oh give me back my watch you thief, I was only trying to help you go straight.

    • 196
      God (He's Real!) says:

      You really are a complete and utter fucking c­u­n­t.

      • 243
        Anonymous says:

        Ah democracy, if only it was for me and no one else. I could rule the world!

    • 201
      Master Baiter says:

      Go for it Charlie boy, gee, you really really know how to electrify an audience with your clunky words. Just like Gordon!

    • 291
      Prescott Pride says:

      At last, softtodger tells it like it is!

    • 330
      Four-eyed English Genius says:

      Hardworking families! Good idea. About time we started sending boys up chimneys again, to pay for the total pile of ordure that the Gurning Loon has landed us in!

    • 387
      Jethro Q. Walrus-Titty says:

      do you play with your penis at night?

  43. 146
    hoof-hearted says:

    How about Chancellor Brown being irresponsible and unfair when he was in office? No mention of that. of course.

  44. 154
    hoof-hearted says:

    He even sounds like Bliar. Was the speech written by the same bloke?

  45. 156
    It's all Balls says:

    I need a helpline. Every time I blog I have this vision of a fat prick pouting at me.

    Is anyone else experiencing similar symptoms?

    Could it be a NuLab attack on Guido contributors?

    Does it affect everyone or are MB and Widger immune?

  46. 158
    hoof-hearted says:

    I haven’t looked at it, but it looks like Piers Morgan.

    • 185
      nell says:

      I suggested a replacement on here last night- maybe a nice young john wayne or someone and Guidi modded me – so Beware .

      Personally I am converted and think Piers Morgan looks wonderful (for his age!!!!!)

  47. 162
    chronic says:

    Where are the IRA when you need them.

  48. 172
    A Silent Emission of Bowel Gas says:

    I’ve managed to get hold of some unpublished responses to questions from muslims to a UK website, based in Malik’s area.

    Q. I’m thinking of having another bride sent over from Pakistan. I’m not sure of her name, but I know she’s at least ten. Are there any rules I should follow?

    A. The British are a bit funny about this. However, your local mosque should be able to draw up very realistic documents. You should approach them without delay.

    Q. My wife went out of the house twice last week without permission, and before that, tried to walk in front of me outside Lidl. I’m wondering whether I should beat her or just remove her food allowance for a week

    A. Beating is approved so long as the stick is small and leaves no permanent mark. If she continues with this behaviour, or fails to show the correct attitude towards you or the other men in the family, you may have to send her on extended holiday to Pakistan.

    Q. My nephew has been overheard once or twice saying that he would like to convert to Christianity. What is the best thing to do?

    A. The first thing is to remain calm. The funeral arrangements can all be handled by your local mosque and there should be no need to involve other members of the family.

    There are dozens more, but that will probably do for now.

  49. 178
    A NON says:

    A bit of sun needs to shine on Paul Drayson who turned a £100 000 donation to Labour in 2001/2002 into a £32.5M Government contract shortly thereafter, followed in 2003 by receiving £20m from The North West Regional Development Agency for a new factory, a research lab and staff training for his company Powerject.

    Two months later (no research lab built) the company is sold to American company Chiron.

    Lord Drayson, who was chief executive of PowderJect, is estimated to have personally made more than £40million from the takeover, with his family’s profits totalling £80million.

    Paul Drayson received a peerage by Tony Blair in 2004, Lord Drayson joined the Government the following year and became Gordon Brown’s science minister October 2008.

    Lord Drayson is now a science minister and, following last week’s reshuffle, also a defence minister attending Cabinet meetings.

    Read how to turn £100 000 into £80M and receive a Peerage – all within 3 years!

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1193282/Lord-Moneyjabs-How-Drayson-fattened-drug-firm-taxpayer–80m-selling-Americans.html

    • 372
      I hate the corruption under Labour says:

      Thanks for bringing this to light.

      I’ve always wondered why no else one seems to question this ‘Lord’ so proud of his urban working class roots that he lives in an ex-Royal mansion in the country, sends his kids to private school and has made millions out of government contracts.

      Typical honourable Labour Lord then, and yet another unelected member of Brown’s cabinet…..

    • 381
      barefootcontessa says:

      Thanks for that info, f….g unbelievable!

  50. 181

    Is it coz I is Muslim?

    • 189
      Coeur de Lion says:

      Yes, now fuck off back to the dark ages and leave our civilised society alone.

    • 190
      chronic says:

      its cuz u iz a Villa fan

      • 206
        Anonymous says:

        a villa fan eh? All together now to the tune of Amarillo;

        Is this the way to Aston Villa
        Where all the players bite their pillows
        Dreaming dreams of Martin O’Neill
        Or Sweet Marie as hes known there

      • 265
        Sent Mucky Malik back home says:

        Funny how the troops on the ground soon recognise a traitor, I would put money on Mr. Villa fan having his caked and eating it, taxpayer paying him and extended family plenty of benefits leaving him to go back ‘home’ and fight the tommy!

  51. 186
    Sir William Waad says:

    “Woe to those that deal in fraud – those who, when they have to receive by measure from men, exact full measure, but when they have to give by measure or weight to men, give less than due.” (83:1-3)

    • 315
      Tariq Ramadam says:

      Yes, Waady, but that only applies to Muslim on Muslim fraud. Ripping off the Kaffirs whenever and wherever possible is soft Jihad and earns you extra brownie points from U Know Hoo(n).

      What the Shahid has been doing is simply collecting the jizya tax on infidels by indirect methods. Perfectly acceptable to the righteous.

      taqqiya = feeding disinformation to gullible infidels.

  52. 192
    Anonymous says:

    Heard the latest? The Prime Mentalist is telling the Iranian Government that they should listen to the people.

    • 216
      The Wasp says:

      If Labour get re-elected next year there will be similar scenes around the country – and I bet Gordon won’t be afraid to use live ammo either.

      • 236
        Twizzle says:

        Why bother having possible trouble after a rigged elction?

        Just don’t have an election in the first place.

      • 261
        no longer anonymous says:

        Methinks the armed forces would turn the guns on him.

    • 316

      Gordon was right! rigged elections do cause chaos.

      Of he forgot to say rigged.

  53. 193
    nell says:

    So Shahid Malik – he who thought he was going to be our first ethnic minority PM is being investigated again!!!!

    What an embarrassment for gordon – another example of his lack of judgement.

    Will gordon ever get anything right???? Not likely.

    • 225
      Demograph says:

      I think you’ll find he thinks he will be the ethnic majority pm

    • 253
      Sir William Waad says:

      Surely the Great Lump of Misery himself belongs to an ethnic minority, the Scots? Or did you mean an ‘ethics minority’?

  54. 199
    Penfold says:

    Ahhh, second bite at the cherry, and whats the betting that it’s a whitewash.

    No-one’s going to win against the PC mafia, and Malik can play quite an impressive set of PC cards, almost a full house, sic.

  55. 209
    Anonymous says:

    Hope people are reading about the Times’ contribution to the advancement of the world by killing an award winning blog and screwing up everyone’s anonymity. I’ll never buy that wretched paper again

    http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6509503.ece

    • 270
      NewGirl says:

      Luckily they haven’t discovered who Inspector Gadget is yet – that’s a fantastic blog

    • 388
      Tattooed_Arry says:

      Jealousy – they don’t like the internet, they can’t charge you to read their advertisements.

  56. 213
    747 says:

    Soory to be O/T and travelling again but has anyone seen this

    HOLY SHIT!!!!!! This is beyond serious…..

    Struggling BA asks 40,000 staff to work for nothing in desperate fight for survival
    By Ray Massey, Transport Editor
    Last updated at 1:24 PM on 16th June 2009

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1193242/Struggling-BA-asks-40-000-staff-work-desperate-fight-survival.html

    • 231
      Sir Mufbourne-Harbor says:

      ‘Rock and a hard place to choose. It’s a bit of a gamble and they have my sympathy but it doesn’t pay the bills at their home. It’s an extraordinary story indeed. I guess we are following behind Schwartzniggere in Califorina which is laying off firefighters and cops and destrying pets in pet rescue centers, etc.

    • 241
      Moley says:

      No green shoots there.

    • 281
      hoof-hearted says:

      Does it include the Director and CEO?

    • 383
      barefootcontessa says:

      if that unspeakable mr.walsh gave his enormous salary up for a year perhaps his staff might think of giving up theirs’ up for one month.

  57. 214
    Anonymous says:

    If he has indeed creamed off vast sums of dosh you would have thought he might have invested some of his ill-gotten gains in dentistry.

  58. 223
    The Wasp says:

    *** NEWSFLASH ***

    Gordon Brown asks UK population to work for nothing for a month to help pay for MP’s salary increases.

    Willie Walsh voted Businessman of the Year.

    • 227
      Paxo says:

      Dickie Bird voted Lancastrian of the year.

      • 275
        Tyke O'Todger says:

        Thees avin a laff. My old mum could do better with a stick of rhubarb.

    • 229
      jgm2 says:

      Well a big ‘Fuck you’ Mr Brown. According to the Adam Smith Institute we already work four and a half months a year for fuck all.

      I don’t doubt we’ll have to work another month for free soon too thanks to your fucked-up economic mismanagement. No doubt it’ll be all the fault of ‘Tory cuts’ though. And it started in America.

      • 235
        jgm2 says:

        You can be sure that not one single public servant, box-ticker or bedwetter or such-like bastard will be working four minutes for free. Quite the opposite. The fuckers will be out on strike if they don’t get their annual pay-rise.

        And Brown, in his infinite idiocy, created another million of the whores on his watch. So we’ll have crashing private sector tax receipts and redundancies going to pay for five or six million feather-bedded money sponges.

      • 240
        The Wasp says:

        You must be part of the 95% of the population who are clearly in the wrong for not thinking Gordon is the best man to lead us out of his crisis, hard-working families, blah blah, do nothing tories, blah, no more boom and bust, blah blah, obama beach, blah.

    • 233
      Sir Mufbourne-Harbor says:

      It’s about time we started charging the government for ‘working’ on our behalf

    • 258
      Sir William Waad says:

      Actually we all work five months a year for no money. It’s called ‘tax’. We earn it, they nick it, they spend some of it and piss the rest up the wall.

      • 322

        I call it extort and squander.

        Socialists think stealing is more moral than reciprocal exchange.

        They really are mad.

        • 380
          thick as thieves says:

          new labour=conservative
          haven’t you figured it out yet Anti-IntellectualOne?
          tony blair was a conservative.
          this country has just experienced thirty straight years of conservative policy and look at the fucking mess we are in.
          and your solution to the problem is ……. more tory policy!
          you’re a fucking lunatic.

  59. 238
    Anonymous says:

    BBC World News

    reporting right now thousands turn out for dinnerjacket… and he has gone to Russia where he has been welcomed as the re-istated leader. All in the interests of balanced reporting of course.

    In one slightly sympathetic point the BBC reporters are saying they are bound to their offices and not allowed to report on naything thats happening.

    Is this the first example of red on red ?

  60. 239
    Anonymous says:

    I’m getting fed up with all those persons who keep using the same name as me “Anonymous says:”. Now if you don’t stop it I’m going to have to call the police. I’ve warned you.

  61. 242
    Moley says:

    And the Labour Party blame the Tories for the rise in the party that one million voters dared to mention.

  62. 245
  63. 248
    Moley says:

    Disabled Pensioner fined £75.00 for displaying Disabled badge wrong way up.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5549815/Disabled-pensioner-fined-75-for-displaying-parking-badge-upside-down.html

    MPs above the law and allowed to steal, lie and cheat without any penalties.

    • 266
      NewGirl says:

      this country has gone mad

    • 276
      resurgemus says:

      Since Dave’s mob run most of these little tinpot dictators why the hell are Tory councillors letting this happen ?

      Dave can make jokes about Cyclops but on the ground his lot are enforcing this shit. Why aren’t they tearing up the rule book ?

      If this had been Livingstone or any number of Red councils they’d have told the National govt to fuck off – rude note to follow.

      Why are Blue councils enforcing NuLab policies and making life hell for voters? All politics is local telling Brown to sod off begins at the front door.

      • 307
        More Tories Please says:

        Because the Tories, like Britain in the EU, follow the rules even when they are not in their own interest.

        • 308
          MrPeregrination says:

          If you believe that I’ve got a used birdhouse to sell you….

        • 314
          It's all Balls says:

          Who makes the rules?

          If the Councils – then the Tory County Councils should rewrite the rules.

          A badge is a badge for Ch—t sake.

          The next fw months are a chance for Cameron to show that the era of big Government and jobsworths will be over once they get in by providing guidleines to the CC’s – which he now owns almost 100%.

          Has he got the bottle?

        • 356
          resurgemus says:

          So the defence is ” we were only following orders”.

  64. 249
    Swiss Bob says:

    Bent as a nine bob note.

    No bobophobia intended.

  65. 254
    "When all this nonsense over MP's expenses is over" says:

    Chop the thieving lying bastard’s hand off.

    it will stop him thieving
    be a warning to others
    a sign he is a thief
    and stop him gesticulating

  66. 255
    A firm pair of breasts says:

    They should investigate two bog seats Pestcott.

  67. 256
    John Prescott's skidmarked pants says:

    Malik has Mandelson as his hero. Say no more.

  68. 257
    Steve Expat says:

    What a complete c­u­n­t. Lying, theiving, cheating little c­u­n­t.

    Go to jail. Go straight to jail, do not pass “Go” and do not collect £200.

  69. 258
    NewGirl says:

    Malik has clearly been following the rules encapsulated in latest publication “The Easy Guide to Achieving High Office in Brown’s Britain”.
    In Chapter 4 it says
    “Having to resign or being fired only once in disgrace is now so common, it simply doesn’t make a candidate stand out. If possible, a seeker of high office should be swathed in muck and publicly humiliated at least twice, and if at all possible three times. The best way of achieving this standard of infamy is to lie wilfully when caught out misbehaving the first time; this way one can be assured of further scandal when the deceit is uncovered. Only by repeatedly coming to the attention of the Prime Minister in this way can a candidate be assured of future promotion”.

    • 335
      space monkey says:

      It really is quite remarkable how New Labour have debased our democracy, and hardly a whimper from the MSM.

  70. 262
    Brooned off says:

    Jesus H! what on earth woke Lyon up from his self imposed coma!

    Hardly worth the wait though, I can’t wait for the usual result, a la the fragrant Jacqui Smith.

    It will be even worse in this case though, Lyon will not dare speak out, through fear of the oft promised 10,000 faithful marching on Parliament!

  71. 267
    Steve Expat says:

    BREAKING NEWS

    Unison cutting off funding for 64 Labour constituencies in protest at MPs’ expenses and Party Policies – Sky News

    Now even the UNIONS are giving up on Liebour…

    • 272
      The Wasp says:

      This is where Gordon Brown, as part of his constitutional change, will start taxing people to pay for the promotion and sustaining of political parties – namely, the Labour Party.

      The Labour Party’s coffers are near empty. They can’t even raise funds to save their own party so how are they going to raise money to get the country out of trouble.

      Lack of funding will kill off Gordon. Undone by the mighty pound – how ironic.

      • 287
        hoof-hearted says:

        They all want us to fund their party at elections instead of getting funded by donations from the private sector. They make their own rules so I bet they’ll get it too.

      • 290
        jgm2 says:

        Taking care of course to establish a certain ‘threshold’ of votes before any party becomes eligible for funding. And a list of ‘approved’ parties.

        Thus making sure that Tory constituencies can enjoy ‘competition’ from UKIP, Libertas, Jury Party and any number of right-wing ‘spoiler’ parties but Labour areas will be unhampered by the ‘unapproved’ B&P.

        • 312
          Steve Expat says:

          There’s no chance he will get public party funding through Parliament before the election – the Lords certainly wouldn’t agree to it in the face of universal opposition right before an election.

          There is also the question of how he could screw it so that the unmentionable party don’t get any money, despite the fact they will stand in a huge number of seats.

          I might throw a few quid the Tories’ way now, see how much money we can get them to campaign at the election.

        • 374
          Anonymous says:

          Mr Expat; I trust you are resident in Belize as the Tories only recognise donations from that country.

  72. 268
    Shady Malarkey says:

    A complaint against a Mr Shahid Malik MP is being investigated by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.

    Sky News have announced the decision to investigate Malik but have sought to undermine its impact by identifying the complainant as Harry Cole, a well known Tory who blogs under the name of “ToryBear”.

    It should be noted that the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards is not obliged to launch an investigation into all complaints. On receipt of a complaint, from any source, the Commissioner will “weigh each one and the evidence in support of it carefully”. He shall reject complaints which are anonymous; which fall outside his terms of reference; which are unsupported by any evidence; and which are so minor as to make investigation ‘costs’ disproportionate. The aim is to weed out “frivolous and vexatious” complaints and to establish a prima facie case for proceeding with an investigation.

    The decision by the Commissioner to proceed with the initial stages of investigation implies that the complaint is bona fide. So why are Sky attempting to undermine the impact of this decision on its viewing public?

  73. 273

    I am absolutely delighted to hear that Malik is being investigated. I know that one can’t really say this in “fashionable” circles, but do you think Malik would have been put back in the cabinet so quickly if he wasn’t a representative of Brown’s “diverse” cabinet?

  74. 277
    The Wasp says:

    Talking of pigs wallowing in muck, where is this swine flu leaflet everyone was supposed to be sent.

    I never saw one. Has anyone else ever seen one or was it a clever way to “divert” funds….?

    • 281
      Throat Tickler says:

      … k’off you twat.

    • 297
      Brooned off says:

      Plenty of them about, very expensive production, all the usual ZaNuLiebor hallmarks, being available in all twelve official languages of the UK

    • 301
      Anonymous says:

      How much did they spend on these leaflets?

      • 377
        Anonymous says:

        God I hate that twat looking all gay butch at me above. Get rid of him.

        Anyway has anybody else noticed that normal flu is worse than swine flu, kills more people and gets practically feck all coverage?

        The media should all be murdered.

    • 323
      Sir William Waad says:

      It’s a fine piece of work. It gives you instructions on how to sneeze. The basic rule is CATCH IT, BIN IT, KILL IT. If only we could do that with the the Right Honourable Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath!

  75. 283
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    McMental adresses the General and Municipal Boiler makers Union?
    Fucking Dinosaur.
    Not so much “Beer and sandwiches”
    But” Queer and menswillies

    • 375
      Anonymous says:

      Sorry – am I to understand a union has joined the Buggers Nutters and Perverts?

  76. 292
    Anonymous says:

    O.T
    Just heard Prescott’s Express Battle Bus has broken down outside GREGGS (the bakers) Lewisham, and theres a run on the pies!

    • 298
      TheManager says:

      Sausage Rolls 52p each, or pack of 4 for 2 quid.

    • 302
      Pies all round says:

      Can you imagine if Prescott had gone into Sweeny Todd’s the pie production would have hit true ZaNuLiebor tractor stats (the inverse of the immigaration stats) level!

  77. 295
    Ratsniffer says:

    Digital Britain: a tax on phone lines so that the chavs can watch HD porn on the internet. Nice one, NuLabour.

  78. 306
    Dirty Rat says:

    When I was working, and heaven forbid had been investigated for dishonesty, I would have been suspended. Why is this thieving cnut still clocking in?

  79. 317

    Has anyone else spotted who signed the letter of complaint from Sunlight COP? Available on the committee’s website.

    http://www.public-standards.gov.uk/Library/OurWork/E534_Sunlight_Centre_for_Open_Politics.pdf

  80. 320
    It's all Balls says:

    Just found post 178

    Makes the odd bird-house seem very acceptable.

    I reckon that the NuLab quangocrats will be a much richer seam to tap into for investigating the misuse of taxpayer’s cash.

  81. 325
    Anonymous says:

    Loverly Jubberly !

    I’m reminded of this twatfaces speech about the doubling and doubling and doubling of muslim MP’s in parliament.

    Looks like there’ll be one less soon, eh Shahid?

    You Hunt.

  82. 327
    simon hughes says:

    I hope & trust & pray that brother Shahid will be cleared of these horrendous cultural slurs on his character & religion, inshallah.

    You anglo saxon dinosaurs do not know how lucky you are to be ruled by uslims of Shahids standing & intellect & i hope & pray that more Muslim intellectuals like him become MPs.

    Vote Lib Dem everyone.

    • 376
      Anonymous says:

      Dick Sniffin back again! No gay skinheads round tonight? Hows the tattoo on your arse (No entry – except for Martin Webster).

  83. 328
    simon hughes says:

    Inshallah

  84. 331
    Unsworth says:

    Who’s going to be picking up the tab for Malik’s legal advice? He’s certainly not going to write his own formal response to Lyon.

    Then again, maybe Lyon will help him a little. After all, one hand washes the other, eh?

    • 392
      Another container ship load of whitewash asap says:

      Exactly, the cowardly, useless, Mr Lyon CB, a thoroughly worthless sponge of public money!

  85. 334

    I’ve just read about Labour’s new policies for the new Digital Age and I think they are perfect. I think they hit a few nails on the head about the direction Labour are taking our country. As Steve Jobs faced a declining market for the Apple Macintosh and Apple’s own next generation Operating System, Rhapsody, was stuck in development hell, so the Prime Minister’s vision and bringing in the best of the best are set to create the OS X of government policy. How can the Tories Windows and Liberal’s Linux compete? Answer: they can’t. You have cool, or you don’t.

    • 339
      hoof-hearted says:

      Wait until they start looking into your computer Charles. They’ll be able to see exactly what you download, your e-mails, bank accounts and anything else you use the internet for, and all under the guise of getting the internet to every household in Britain. Free Country? I don’t think so.

    • 345

      Hey, Hardwidge! You mindlessly agree with all the Labour spin, don’t you?

      Do you also agree that ‘Labour Policies and Values should be made LAW’?

      Some of your Lavour-luvin’ comrades do.

      This would make it illegal for any future Government to abandon any Labour policy.

      The ultimate scorched earth policy, eh Charles?

      • 359
        .243 Win says:

        Dicey’s definition of Parliamentary Sovereignty in Constitutional and Administrative Law

        “No Parliament may be bound by its predecessor or bind its successor”

        Or in ZaNuSpeak, it’s what McMental means by “Constitutional Reform”.

    • 346
      stilyagi_air_corps says:

      Oh Charles, you really are a laugh: if New Labour = Mac OX 10, how comes nothing works, the system keeps crashing, and they keep wasting *billions* on Microsoft based software everytime they try (and fail) to modernise the NHS system?

      Mind you, if I were a Lib Dem, I’d be flattered by your comments!

  86. 336
    alex taylor says:

    Well here we go into round two…… this should be his second hand (insh-allah)

  87. 341
    Ronald McDonald says:

    Guido some troll on labourhome named Quietzapple is fixated with banding about your personal details and smearing you.

    http://www.labourhome.org/forum/?p=5876

    Mcbride???

    • 348
      .243 Win says:

      Some troll going under “Baron Laurence de Quietzapple” got disbarred from posting blog commentary on the DT – I remember something about his rantings being “publicly funded”.

      Only 3 “Quietzapple”-related bloggers there now. All the same person ?

      • 358
        Treasury Mole says:

        I have it on good authority that Hardwidge, Quietzapple, Darren from Bristol and Bob Roberts from Worcester are all the same person

        • 369
          Thick As Mp's says:

          Well said sir, good old BOB ROBERTS on the Daily Mail, well worth the monthly internet bill just to read his comments.

    • 357
      lolol says:

      Quietzapple has really come on in leaps and bounds in his witterings,it looks as if he has had some media study training since I last seen him on a blog..

  88. 342
    ooooo says:

    try employing a decent new graduate

    private sector are finding it difficult to compete with public sector wages and conditions for new graduates

    • 347
      Death to quangos says:

      Too true.

      We have been outbid for new employees by a State sector company 3 times in recent months. Said state sector leeches can offer £40k plus benefits.

      • 370
        Matt C says:

        I’ve been on the dole since finishing uni recently and spending my days on this site trolling and sometimes making constructive comments, Currently my life is a shallow existence and i apologise for coming across as a prick.

        I have got a job interview with Tescos on thursday though, If that doesn’t come through I will apply and live in hope i will get the opportunity to study in Mcdonalds for a NVQ or BSC in burger flipping.

        I want to get in Tesco’s more though so i can use the staff discount of booze cause the dole isn’t really any good for going on down town or to a pub more than once week and even then that’s if you are lucky.

    • 416
      fengwan says:

      Makes a change. Don’t forget there are no backhanders, bonuses, private health bunces or company cars in the public sector. Take away the pension deals and the pub sect will have recruitment problems big time.

  89. 343
    Huge Stool says:

    I have heard that as a battle against obesity Labour are going tax your shit output, those who shit most will pay more tax, vomiting will be classified as tax avoidance

    • 360
      John Prescott says:

      Bloody hell!

      *Downs pint of condensed milk with the stress of it all*

  90. 349
    Oink says:

    OT:
    Anon Bloggers at risk Night Jack unmasked Eady J does it again.

    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/24e078d2-5a7a-11de-8c14-00144feabdc0.html

  91. 350
    Dirty Rat says:

    One day soon there will be one less Muslim MP. – Inshallah.

    One day soon there will be one ex MP. standing in the dock of Westminster Magistrates Court – Inshallah.

    One day soon there will be an ex MP. sharing a cell with a 22 stone Jewish homosexual – Inshallah.

  92. 352
    Shady Malarkey says:

    He is being investigated. The stage of the investigation process that has been initiated is a “Preliminary Inquiry”. It is defined in a document titled “Parliamentary Standards – Complaining Against an MP – Procedural Note 2″ [http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/PCFSProcedNote2.pdf. The relevant section is:
    “Preliminary Inquiry

    21. If the Commissioner decides that your complaint justifies him making preliminary inquiries, he may ask you for further information and will ask the MP about whom you have complained for his or her response.

    22. This information and the Member’s response may enable the Commissioner to report to the Committee on Standards and Privileges either that the complaint is not upheld or, in minor cases, that suitable remedial action has been taken.”

    There is an option for the Commissioner to conclude that a “full investigation is necessary” without going through the Preliminary Inquiry stage. This does not apply in Malik’s case. Perhaps this is what you mean by “No, he is NOT being investigated..THAT is yet to be decided…”?

    • 400
      Shady Malarkey says:

      I don\’t think we\’re really disagreeing. I accept that he may be able to slip off the hook back into the water after the Preliminary Inquiry. I suspect the political will is for Malik to face the same scrutiny procedures that all other MPs are due to go through, i.e. that he should not to be \’singled out\’. However, this can only now be achieved at significant discredit to the Parliamentary Commissioner\’s formal complaints procedure. Let\’s wait and see.

  93. 366
    It started in America says:

    **** Breaking news*****

    Obama now saying that he is ever so slightly discombobulated at the sight of unarmed Iranian protesters being shot in the head at point blank range by police with automatic weapons.

    Reuters states that he may well write a letter to someone if this carries on.

  94. 378
    Gordon Bum says:

    There are Sunni Muslims, Shiet Muslims and Shite Muslims. Shahid Malik is, as we all know, a Shite Muslim.

    • 382
      Harvey Tuckett says:

      And a cheeky fucker as well!!!

      • 386
        Shahid Malik says:

        ‘appen I am ! a reet cheeky fucker telling you kaffirs one thing and the ummah summat else entirely!

        eeeh, in’t'it grand ! When the caliphate comes I will be living in a fookin’ palace , me, happen I will!

  95. 395

    If cheeky Malik ain’t an ex-public schoolboy, then I’ll eat my kippah!

    http://boardingschoolcapers.wordpress.com/

  96. 396

    If cheeky Malik ain’t an ex-public schoolboy, then I’ll eat my kippah!

  97. 398

    [...] +++ Shahid Malik Being Investigated +++ Standards Commissioner today confirms he is investigating if Malik’s parliamentary expenses were used to defray [...] [...]

  98. 399
    simon says:

    I have been on ‘Shahidwatch’ before he became an MP- or an NEC ctte member. I was always amazed when-ever, where-ever there was a ‘racial incident’ -lo and behold -’super Shahid’ would appear speaking for himself or ‘moderate’ people on whatever. A big headed f’r was my conclusion. I’m glad to see my ‘twatwatch’ antennae is still working.

  99. 402
    contempt of court says:

    The Malik family of Burnley are well known. Father like son, except his dad was only a town councillor and not a minister. SM is pissing in a bigger pot.

    Surely this all depends on the people of Dewsbury voting with their brains and not their stupid traditions at the next GE and to get rid of these parasites.

    • 415
      Anonymous says:

      Sound comment. The rumour in Burnley went that when Peter Pike retired a female candidat5e had to be selected to prevent Malik and the former council leader Stuart Caddy putting up. Surprised that Dewsbury got lumbered with this rat.

  100. 406
    Shady Malarkey says:

    [Just a test]

    The re-appointment of Shahid Malik as a Minister of the Crown is morally indefensible as well as being administratively and politically inept.

    The government has become so convinced that it is the victim of a press conspiracy, that it is blind to how unacceptable the abuse of expenses system is to the electorate, in particular its own core labour vote.

    The Malik issue has everything to do with honesty, transparency and accountability in politics. Malik’s alleged abuses of the parliamentary expenses are not, in the overall context, particularly grave. It is the MP’s and his government’s response to these allegations that makes his reappointment and continued occupation of office unacceptable.

  101. 407
    Shady Malarkey says:

    [Just another test]

    This is nothing to do with Shahid Malik’s religion or racial origins, nor is it a party political matter. Dewsbury has a substantial Muslim population and it is appropriate that it should be represented by a Muslim MP.

    • 414
      Anonymous says:

      Bollocks. The country is Britain remember! Do these Muslims not receive enough concessions without the rest of the electorate being foisted with this twxt!

  102. 408
    Shady Malarkey says:

    [Sorry a final test]

    The Tories agree: in the 2005 election, Malik’s Conservative opponent was Sayeeda Warsi, who was born and educated in Dewsbury and is a muslim of Pakistani descent. Now Baroness Warsi, she serves Cameron as Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion and Social Action.

  103. 409
    Shady Malarkey says:

    [Sorry, I lied - a final final test]

    The Tories agree: in the 2005 election, Malik’s Conservative opponent was Sayeeda Warsi, a muslim who was born and educated in Dewsbury. Now Baroness Warsi, she serves Cameron as Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion and Social Action.

  104. 411
    Anonymous says:

    Saw it comming —– Dewsbury resident.

  105. 412
    toady says:

    Shahid Malik is the biggest con man since Nelson Mandella, a bigger smoothy
    than Mr Whippy, and a bigger lier than Tom Pep. It’s allright you people out
    there having a go at him for his greedyness and stupidity, but we here in
    Dewsbury and Mirfield have to put up with him all because Gormless Gordon
    wants him as his Token Brownman. His latest ‘mistake’ made in his expenses
    claime was to claim twice for one poppy wreath ( 2 x £30 ). You can’t belive the a – se of this fella can you ?.

  106. 413
    Anonymous says:

    the man was bent during his time at Burnley before moving over the pennines.
    hang the bar stewar5d and have done with him.

  107. 418
    toady says:

    Hi’ its me again Toady

    Malik was out weapons training in the Lake District last week, when asked by
    Captain Hook what is the best sight? Malik replied ”Two dinners on one plate”.
    sir, inshallah. It was this creep Malik who told a mainly anglo saxon press -
    pack that he loved a pork pie now and then. He never metioned black pudding
    though, that’s loyalty for you.

  108. 420
    toady says:

    News ( wind ) just breaking from No 10.

    ‘ MPs could face criminal charges over expenses. The ‘could ‘ word automatica-
    ly lets all the present set of misbegotten twats off the hook, just what we
    expected from the guy Gormless. It goes on ….. ‘to get rid of the old system
    of self – regulation by MPs because past attempts by the Commons to reform
    itself had failed, ( it gets better now ) He ( Gormless ) said, if the new system
    proves to be insufficient, the Government is prepared to bring in futher meas-
    ures. What a plonker, can’t he get it right to start with ?.
    It goes on: ‘We will go on further in future if we need to, like for example mak ing sure that the rules for expulsion are clear,—- no mention though of action
    to be taken agains’t present miscreants. ” C’mon Gordan do a runner before
    you implode, you look knackered as it is.

  109. 421
    toady says:

    King Jacko, don’t make me laugh, he was nothing but a child molester, who’s

    money saved him eather from that 22 stone Jew, or the electric chair ( that

    would have realy made him dance while holding onto his parcel ‘Ooooo My ‘.

    Those little kids he once had his hands on have finaly got JUSTICE.

    Elvis for King, and Arnold Ridley for Prime Monister.

  110. 422
    Wedgehead says:

    Malikwatch—- He was last seen in Scarborough on Armed Forces Day as

    guest of the British Legion of hoon he is keeping well in with in the hope that

    sommehow members can save his bacon by putting in a good turd, fat chance

    of that, most members can’t stand him. Malik, representing the Queen,

    took the march past, and hoped that everyone had had a gay day and

    promised more pork pies on the National Health. He also told a joke. ——

    While speaking to the Queen, someone called out, who’s that speaking to

    Malik. He also nicks from chari shops, have you seen the suit?.

  111. 423
    toady says:

    To contribute to Malik’s testimonial, go to http://www.timetogomrmalik.co.uk
    But remember folks, to qualify you must live in one of the following towns -
    Dewsbury, Mirfield or Heckmondwike. You can also contribute at the next general election by getting off your b- – - s .

  112. 424
    Wedgehead says:

    Don’t let Malik look after the Wembley trip money. And here’s another bent Paki.

    Mohammed Sarwat M P claimed almost £ 100,000 to cover mortgage interest

    that he paid from an account with a Swiss bank, this guy realy does want in -

    vestigating, Swiss bank account indeed !!!!!!. we ain’t half being shafted by

    this lot, and while you are still here, take a look at the Kinnok’s income on

    ‘ Timesonline’ = lucrative transition.



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