Piers Morgan is a Tory – Fraser Nelson
The Bunker Bod Funded Entirely by Unite – Standard
Welcome to the e-Election – John Harris
Mad Nad: Declaring War on Scantily Clad Women - Devil’s Kitchen
Cameroon Cliquishness is a Weakness – Matthew Norman
Youth Crime Stats Suppressed Until After Election – Indy
Factcheck: Labour Sure-Start Spin Untrue – Cathy Newman
Bercow Loses his Rag in Chamber – Paul Waugh
Cameron Casts Himself as Obama – Political Scrapbook
Brussels Attacks Darling Deficit Plan – FT
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Michael Gove said…
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Keep up the pressure, Guido
Hurrah!
Moron is gone. But I still feel sullied, Guido.
I will never again partake in Burger King comestibles.
Right, I’m off to watch that excellent Hula Hoops advert again…
There’s nothing to see here – the Telegraph picked the bones clean weeks ago.
All of this is just Flogging a Dead Horse. No need to go through every last Hobnob’s bill : we already know they’re all thieves.
This is a distraction to the press and the public, while Gordon is still in number 10, and The Lord Mandelson is still running the show.
No CF, when you clear out a nest of rats you have to kill every single one.
Going over every MP’s expenses is also a good way of showing who the good ones are.
.SORRY.WRITING OUT ANOTHER CHEQUE………..
NO THEY DIDN’T – CHECK CAMERON’S CLAIMS………HE WILL BE WRITING OUT A CHEQUE SHORTLY….
@57 Ashiata
If Cameron is in the wrong, he should not be safe – what is it with you clowns who think that there’s a desire to see Tories get away with it on this site?
Oh, and writing in caps doesn’t accentuate your point, it just makes you look like a moron.
All this expenses nonsense has been over-hyped.
I am concentrating on getting inward investment for the people of Salford.
I’m good for a 5% cut of the pre-tax gross.
I see one of my former colleagues has been taken on by BT.
I find it all a bit phoney.
Whats ths about flogging a dead horse? That claim by little Frankie Fraud (sorry – the Rt Hon Francis Maude) was very definitely redacted.
Its not all over – we`ve only seen the tip of the iceberg yet!
Tip for interested parties: compare salaries paid on allowances by Andrew MacKay and Julie Kirkbride. List the names and note that MacKay has also been paying Ian Kirkbride as well as his own family members. This is a major fraud, the biggest of the lot!
GREAT THINGS LABOUR HAVE DONE
* Devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, an elected Mayor and Assembly for London and directly-elected mayors for those cities that want them.
* Modernised local government, introducing a clearer and more transparent decision making process, allowing local councillors to spend more time leading their community.
* Greater freedom for local authorities through additional resources and local public service agreements.
* Substantial reform of the House of Lords including the removal of the vast majority of hereditary peers, as the precursor to final, lasting reform of the second chamber.
* Increased rights for individual citizens through the Human Rights and Freedom of Information Acts.
AKA
* Stopped the english being fairly represented
* centralised desision-making with numbskull edicts
* forced up the cost of local government and council tax
* cocked up constitutional reform
* redaction
nuff said
Devolution – fine for Scotland and Wales, but has left the West Lothian question unanswered, has disadvantaged England and may ultimately lead to the breakup of the Union.
Local Government is no longer local government but a cipher for central government. We need some genuine localism in the UK!
Local authorities have less freedom under the present excuse for a central government than ever – it has to spend its whole time fulfilling edicts from the centre!
The House of Lords – don’t make me laugh! We are left with the worst of all worlds – a wholly appointed crony chamber where Cash for Honours can prosper!
The Human Rights Act is a farce which protects foreign nationals at the expense of UK citizens – it must be repealed. Will give credit for Freedom of Information though, even Blair now says he regrets it. At least it has exposed the porky piggies in Westminster!
You’re just a boring turd Prickwidge.
GREAT THINGS LABOUR HAVE DONE
you forgot to add purchasing plasma televisions on tax-payers money whilst uk troops died in iraq due to lack of body armour. oh, let’s not forget the 100thousand iraqi civilians who are now dead thanks to that 45minutes wmd shite. the only “wmd” that could reach the uk within 45 minutes from iraq are duke nukems, and if saddam had some of them blair and co would have been singing about it from rooftops. roll on the election, out with the different legged but same walk parties. former oh so glorious m of p back on civvy street sans police protection…
oh i forget hardwidge, you’re above the day2day stuff, politics is all about carving out a designed future innit? nevermind the foundation of blood and misery it’s built upon. shit all you scumbags. no more need for snake-oil spivs representing “our” interests- bring in online voting and if it’s decided to war in some far away land then ship out anyone who’s ever been an mp and make them fight with their tax-payer paid designer bathroom fittings.
Yeah, but the war crimes and Treason really detract from the above, don’t you think?
Took away the power to control the banks from the Bank of England.
Massivly Increased NI contributions without consultation
Increased 100’s of indirect taxes.
RAPED THE ENGLISH MIDDLE CLASS En Masse…
not this tosser again!
Gave pensioners 75p a week extra pensin and now charge tax payers for 85p bath olugs and £10 porn films
* Devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, an elected Mayor and Assembly for London and directly-elected mayors for those cities that want them.
Yep, got me on that one…..Boris is the MAN. If I was a Scottish, Welsh or N.Irish I would be only to pleased to be distancing myself from our unelected Loonytunes PM and his not so merry men and wimmin. and I’m sure that H’Angus the Monkey is doing a great job in Harlepool…….
* Greater freedom for local authorities through additional resources and local public service agreements.
= To use anti terror laws to snoop on their constituents.
* Substantial reform of the House of Lords including the removal of the vast majority of hereditary peers, as the precursor to final, lasting reform of the second chamber.
= Filling the Lords with the likes of Uddin to fleece, trough and then lie about it
* Increased rights for individual citizens through the Human Rights and Freedom of Information Acts.
=Burger Kings for convicts. Why in the UK with it’s unwritten constitution that has served us well for the last century or two we need to be bought to our knees with the European Human Rights Act is beyond me.
Charles please honour your word and fuck off back to LiarList
Charles, did you consult your doctor before you decided to stop taking the medication?
And Northern Ireland was stalled for how long with people claiming salaries as MLAs when they were not MLAing?
- 10p Tax
- Complicity in extraordinary rendition and torture
- The illegal invasion of Iraq, killing over a million innocent people
- No referrendum on Europe
- Introduced ID card schemes and snooping surveillance databases that nobody wants and hideously invade privacy
- Destructive environmental policies
- Continuing the unworkable PFI
- Clampdowns on peaceful protestors and activists
- 42 days detention
- Cash for honours
Thank you New Labour, you’ve saved us all!!!
Clearer & more transparent local govt? What planet are you talking about? Definitely not this one! Do please explain how misuse of RIPA bears any relation to ‘transparancy’.
Substantial reform of the House of Lords? Don’t you mean ‘Cash for Honours’ – Tony Bliar’s speciality? Followed swiftly by Brown using it as a method of getting people into his govt that he knows wouldn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of actually getting elected by a democratic vote – Mandelsnake being a prime example. Oh just slither off back to LabourLost, it’s more your sort of people over there.
At 3.10pm on Thursday, the allowances for Gareth Thomas MP (Harrow West) and a Government Minister have still to be published by Parliament
(http://mpsallowances.parliament.uk/mpslordsandoffices/hocallowances/allowances-by-mp/)
Is this cock-up or something more sinister, an entire MP redacted? It’s somewhat ironic that his allowances haven’t been made available as his ministerial duties include “international institutional reform”.
There now though – interesting that he claimed the BT bill back for 171.81 (page 89 of the 2007/2008 incidental costs) as the address on the top of it says “Harrow Labour Party”
Actually seems to be a common theme of him paying the Harrow West Labour Party BT bills – see page 118 for another £315.
They also seem qualified in PC data recovery – as page 127 says he paid them 570 (though the receipt – page 129 – actually shows 610 and is not Vat registered).
Then he’s got an accountants bill for 1087 on page 150 (from Moore Stphens) – funny that he blanked it in the cover sheet on page 148.
Then you’ve got the OU fees for “Studying Law” on page 176 at 1350,.
Most curious one I found for him seems to be the payment of 10000 to Harrow Labour Party with no receipt on page 108 of the 2006/2007 incidentals – as well as a 293.75 bill for Conways to assess a property for renting out. Probably ties in with the bill on page 120 for 500 for “consultancy”. Again in 2006/7 claimed for accountancy fees.
MMMMMMMMMMM…..SEEMS ‘CALL-ME-DAVE’ HAS BEEN AT IT…………
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFjFa4HTbH8
Come on people!!!!!!! Let me hear YA SAYYY………..
Of course he has, as it’s all about the evil Tories – they will eat your babies and rip your heads off and piss down your neck, and then they’ll reanimate your rotting corpse to form a part of their unholy army of the night which they will use to attack hard working families……getting on with the job……all started in america….etc etc.
You know the terrible secrets – but you forgot it is the American jews that are behind it all yes I know they did it they did it all Hitler was a jewish agent and that is a fact, the holocaust never happened, Elvis was abducted by alien to hide the fact that he had a jewish banker love child by Jackie Kennedy. I vote Labour because I know only they can save us from all this evil.
Be fair – reanimating rotting corpses is a necessary prequel to a good night at the Tory S&M club.
With the PM with2 grace and favour homes we still pay to:
cut his grass
trim borders and weed
washy his windows
refurbish his kitchen
clean his houses
buy his lights
pay his ground rent and council tax
all tax free
Surely their lass should be doing most of these jobs? Him being a good Presbyterian and all.
send the twat on garden leave then he can do it himself !
And provide him with Sky Sport – how does that help him in his duties? He’s just as much a thieving bastard as the rest of them.
he needs to see how big a twat he appears on the UN state controlled channels !
Different expenses. Sugar sugar that creep, is going to keep his job with the BBC. BBC says there will be no conflict of interest, they must be as stupid as the government. Don’t watch the waste of time programme, I can live without it!
Tessa Jowell’s Vodafone bill is in the name of Tessa Mills. Is she related to the David Mills found guilty by an Italian court?
What a waste of space those redacted expenses are. Thank Christ the Telegraph ones will all be available tomorrow. Just hope the whistleblower strikes again next year as we know it’s going to be straight back to the trough for them all – particularly the Labour MPs who know that this is very likely to be their last chance to trough at taxpayers expense. Hoons all of them.
Police investigation into expences
NO ONE WILL BE PROSECUTED
IT’s all a put up job just you wait and see
This is just a sop to the public, after a week or two it will be anouced that there is insuficient evidence to proceed. GET THE WHITEWASH BUCKET READY
Second!
Seconded, too
motion carried
Mark Oaten carries motions…
I thought he faced up to them
Thats a bit hard to swallow…
Now wash your hands.
Story of Labour’s life, eh Charles?
Good comment: short, snappy, and all the punctuation is correct.
My heart leaps with joy!
My work here is done!
Adieu. Till the next time.
Till?
‘Til or Until, surely.
If you’re going to be a pedant, at least be a well-informed one.
Pronunciation: \təl, təl, ˈtil\
Function: preposition
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English til; akin to Old Norse til to, till, Old English til good
Date: before 12th century
1 chiefly Scottish : to
2 or ’til also til : until
You’re speaking Old Norse, then? I do apologise, you didn’t make that clear.
You wouldn’t, being an Italian.
I don’t know why I bother with the little people…
Apologies – its not Old Norse then? If its the little people I presume its Hollywoodspeak.
No comma before “and” please Peter
Unfortunately it gets to the point where there is so much corruption that it difficult to isolate and hold individual MPs to account.
Except at election time. It’s all we’ve got if the law won’t work for a living.
We could do an Iran job and take to the streets, don’t really know what colour we would choose. Blood red would be appropriate but is too synonymous with Zanulabor.
If only. Can’t see the docile, bovine English taking to the streets. Can you?
No where to park legally and more than 3 are a riot. We’ill just have to wait until there is no more taxable incomes left to pay the police or traffic wardens
It is what needs to happen – we should choose flesh colour, since the politicians have stolen the shirts off our backs!
Brown G., Mandelson, Brown N., Bradshaw. Pink?
Anything but pink – we would not want the uprising to be mistaken for the Pink Panzers.
Keep listing the transgressions
HMG keep losing all of our sensitive data, wouldn’t it be nice if the Telegraph ‘accidentally’ lost a full copy of the expenses?
They said they would publish the full contents on Saturday alongside the governments version so you can spot the differences. Get your copy early !
I thought I’d pick someone at random -Bercow (since he wants to be ‘above-reproach’ Speaker.
On one day before Dec 06, he claimed er… some amount of money for the purchase of something, … for somewhere…………. ?
There was more blackout than text (well, there basically was no text)
Looks like whoever put together these silly bits of paper is in contempt of court.
Bill Quango MP
Communications Allowance
Date: 20:08:08
Re.Satellite system.
The fees office has refused your request for your own Ariane Communications Satellite to communicate with the people of SurreySex East. The fees office has found the claim for £14,000,0000 to be excessive.
Further the claim for a rampant rabbit is refused as pets are not covered.
There was some confusion as to what exactly a strap on dial-do and a cook ring were and their use. .Are these necessary for your duties as an MP.
22.08.08
Further to our conversation with Nigel Griffiths MP we have now passed the claim for Fleshlights, A – nal beads and handcuffs, cock rings and ropes.
invoice
Saucy Sue’s..
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APPROVED
We could use the italian national flag A white cross on a white background
Third!
Er… fourth.
4th
I think you mean 7th, Sir!
i was replying to the fact that you were 4th. plonker
After I did?
Bit of a waste of time, wasn’t it?
Plonker.
Well said Charles. Apart from the insulting adjective, which I personally find gratuitous and superfluous.
Jukes, you’re full of crap.
Plonker is a noun, Peter.
‘Tis dependent on context.
Must I always be forced to have the last word?
And in this context, it is a noun, Petey-poos.
Zygote.
That’s a good last word.
Aardvark.
A very good first word.
The Penguin
Hats off to Guido! You were the trigger and the gunpowder has partially exploded. Would be good if some of the really big scalps. No Piers Morgan!!
What a rubbish comment.
Grow up, wise up, and come back when you’ve got something worth saying.
I’m sick of you people that don’t understand blogging, I’ve been doing it for 20 years, in fact I invented it.
You’ve been a crap blogger, I’ve been Charles E Hardwidge, goodnight!
blogging for 20 years….goodnight at 3.40pm? says it all
It would be 9:40 PM somewhere and 9:40 AM somewhere else.
And the C19th in Norn Irlon!
Yup, congrats to Guido and also the Telegraph of course. However, having this PIGGERY in my face again has just made my blood boil all over again. And to see what these vermin had tried to get away with suppressing just beggars belief. Thank God the truth came out in the end and we now know exactly the kind of unmitigated SCUM that’s ruining our lives and making this country such a dreadful place to live in. Keep it up, Guido. Keep it up Barclay Bros.
Would it be easier to name those MPs who DIDN’T try it on with their expenses?
Easier, but less fun.
I’m off hunting trolls now….
Are you Peter Jukes?
Are you Celia Stobart?
Troll.
I guess it would. Does anyone know of one?
Looks like that’s a “no”, then.
I think Annette Brooke, LibDem for North Poole or North Dorset has a pretty clean record – she’s certainly a superb constituency MP – not mine unfortunately but nearby.
Telegraph are publishing the uncensored version this Saturday
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5548464/The-Complete-MPs-Expenses-Files-is-free-inside-the-Telegraph-this-Saturday.html
A copy of the CD would be nice.
Which MP took the least money? Must be an idiot to miss all the money that was sloshing around.
Should be Deselected – or sectioned!
Looks like this tosser has issues with your excellent site Guido.
http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2009/06/18/the-unbearable-pointlessness-of-guido/
Well, thats put us in our place hasn’t it ! Limp dim complaining that its their job to be sanctimonious, and its only ‘pointless’ when we do it.
“· About the author: ‘Unity’ is a regular contributor to Liberal Conspiracy. He also blogs at Ministry of Truth.”
Liberal Conspiracy is run by trendy (self proclaimed of course) lefties outside the new labour regime. They are labour fans so why the title ‘liberal’ – confusing or what. Sunny Hundal edits the set up and very rarely says anything worth noticing.
Seems they would like all the expenses information to disappear so they can get on with the ‘real issues’ like getting labour re-elected. Basically, they talk CRAP
Read this piss-take on Unity and other bloggers here – brilliant satire, even Guido clapped his caricature.
http://fountain.blogspot.com/2009/04/laffaire-smeargate-blogosphere-responds.html
A tosser indeed. Self important non entity “Unity” is in fact Labour Party member and general gobshite Dave Lambert, twat of the highest order and perhaps most revealing, friend to the self appointed leader of the pompous lefty twats club, Tim Ireland.
It is hardly surprising that he is posting anti Guido bile dressed up as the classic ‘nothing to see here’ deflection. Both “Unity” and uppity wanker Ireland have dreary hate blogs that have seen better days making it difficult to distinguish their genuine criticisms of Guido from the spiteful jealousy that is driving them.
Note to Tim Ireland: There is no suggestion in this comment that you are a sociopath, stalker or otherwise suffering from a mental health problem. I have simply accused you of being a twat and an uppity wanker, which is widely documented by your many posts evidencing you thus.
Can’t be the real Jonty, but well said anyway.
The Penguin
Heather Brookes deserves to be honoured by this Nation, in doggedly exposing this mass criminal fraud committed by the dishonourable members of Parliament.
Is Heather the american lady journo who is a star?
Yes. Where the UK press failed or probably could not even be arsed she succeeded.
I found a very talented lady of the same name on google – is she the same one?
Could anyone tell me why a hatstand is necessary to carrying out one’s Parliamentary duties?
A look alike of Mrs Balls for her opposite number to practise on?
We can use the hat stand later to hang them by their pig tails
Could be tricky. Georgie Osborne only wears the pigtails on a Friday night for attendance at Mistress Camersons Dominatrix Club. And to avoid them coming off when you try to hang him by them I suggest you tie them around his testicles first.
From what I can see either MPs have a chance to clean up their act or hide behind legislation and become more devious in their claims. Let’s face it, the only reason why they have had such a hard time recently is down to their own laziness, arrogance and stupidity!
BUT people have to be a bit more understanding about why some details are not revealed in future expenses publications. I wouldn’t want my bank account, NI number, home address, travel arrangements and hotel accommodation published and I can see why this is being held back. Sadly there are too many nutters out there (Andrew Pennington being a famous victim) and this information is too useful to them. Somehow a fair way forward needs to be found. And fast.
Well they have failed at the first hurdle haven’t they. All the blacked out details just goes to show their contempt for the public and it creates far more confusion than it clears up.
Try reading what I said again. The blanked out details include bank accounts, NI number, home addresses, singatures, travel and hotel arrangements.
There has to be a sensible line drawn on what should be revealed. For example the redaction of home address details allows them to hide instances of ‘flipping’, but it is also reasonable to allow some degree of privacy as well.
Their constituency home addresses are already in the public domain. This redacting business is just a smoke screen, of course bank account NI numbers and other private details should not be published.
I could see a payment to a staff member – no mention of who that was.
Also the second home – we don’t have a clue where it is.
The first part of the postcode would indicate to within a mile or two where it was – whether its constituency, london, or some other random spot.
My MP has blacked out all the details, except total cost, of a purchase from the office suppliers Viking Direct. Why would he do that?
Dunstationery, I suspect it’s because he’s/she’s a crook.
It does make it look dodgy. If they were compelled to give a full explanation as to why details were being blanked, with this being approved and signed off by their party leaders and the claims office, then we might see a lot more transparency. The leaders wouldn’t want the hassle and there’d be a few more resignations in short order.
Viking seems to be a regular supplier to quite a few MPs. Why?
Viking? Perhaps coz they’re high profile and good at mailshots?
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Watch out for the smokescreen : musn’t publish people’s bank accounts/credit card numbers, etc. Data Protection law, personal details, security, the usual bullshit.
When did the Telegraph print any of these thieving bastards’ bank account or credit card numbers? No need. For all I know (or care) any thieving MP can put his swag in a bank in the Caymans. It is the theft that matters not where the dosh is hidden.
More pathetic excuses will no doubt be put forward before the day is out.
Why is it a smokescreen to have your bank account details and your signature blanked out? If you think it harmless enough then publish your bank account details and signature on here for everyone to see.
MPs have taken the rise, not just with the claims but the entire system as well. But the genuine concern and anger has begun to go to extremes. MPs should take the voters seriously, your comments make us look like clowns.
They’re saying the blanking is only to protect account details, which would be ok, but that isn’t the case, they’ve blanked out LOTS of other things too, including some things that have already been released. Gordon Brown’s SKY package, for instance. I’m sure that must help in his job as an MP…
Blank out personal details, fair enough. But my MP has “expense category” blanked out as well.
That’s just taking the piss.
And all supplier VAT numbers and addresses – why?
Really hard to understand. It creates the impression that there must be something dodgy going on, whether there is or not. I wonder if the MPs know or care just how bad this excessive redaction makes them look?
What gets me is the amount of digital cameras these MPs are buying my local MP has bought 3 plus tried to buy a replacement lens for about 900 quid,that was turned down.
Also 3 computers over 4 years,what happens to the old ones?
and I like the £200 per month petty cash,always bang on £200
wherever I lay my hat is my (2nd) home
Is your hat funded by the taxpayer?
By the way, correct punctuation is both polite and free.
You have been warned.
Jukes, I do believe thou art a grammar Nazi.
Good work.
My thanks, my friend!
make sure you post every mutha fucking transgression mind
As mentioned by another poster – is there anyone out there who can create a spreadsheet so we can plug all this stuff into it as we go along?
Voters needs to know who has done what when the GE is called and at this rate it’ll all be too fragmented to be really useful.
Google has a free spreadsheet facility here
http://docs.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=15115
It would be great if, rather than rushing through this data looking for realy juicy scandal, somebody would step in and organise us rabble by allocating somebody to each MP. to scrutinise their claims and produce a short report. The reports could then be available for use to bring these awful people to heel. I’d volunteer, but I’m far too disorganised and blog innocent.
Good idea.
Happy to volunteer if someone can create somewhere it stick the data.
Likewise.
I may be the only one to have got a reply here from my MP, Nick Palmer (see the other long thread on piggie busting) but I still have questions about his use of tax payers’ money.
Post144 above has a link to a google spreasheet, can you use that and let us know what it’s called. Then we can pick a subject (victim) and fill in the details.
They have all pushed the taxpayer funded envelopes – the Flippers are the real crooks that need to be booted.
Can anyone confirm the rumour that we have been charged for the plastic surgery to replace George Osbornes septum?
Damian, where have you been?
I can swear that I have NEVER been replaced at the tax-payers’ expense! Powdered a little, allegedly, but not replaced.
I had mine lowered so I look taller when seated.
Are you sure you’re talking about your septum?
Gordon Brown is claiming for “domestic services” I presume that this is what he classes as “cleaning’, but why not put cleaning – strange
Perhaps he gets on of those naked gay male cleaners?
http://www.hallolondon.co.uk/free_ads/friends_&_partners/men_seeking_men_!77/Naked_Gay_male_cleaner_servant_or_housekeeping_~87109.html
I do and a jolly nice seeing too he gives my smalls.
He has a claim for cleaning as well. It’s revealed in all its details on the BBC website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/opensecrets/2009/06/filling_in_the_blanks.html
I particularly like the way he did the sums to get the total amount of cleaning (see comments 7 and 8 on that page). And this, as one of the contributors there puts it, from someone who claims to be on top of the nation’s finances.
Maybe the “domestic services” are for the French maid.
And the mad bastard thinks there are 31 days in June.
The Penguin
I know my local MP has at least one strike against him on the troughing front but as it’s for a pretty small amount I probably wouldn’t have held it against him. However, having now seen his redacted expenses, with all those black square I reckon he must have something to hide so I won’t be voting for him come the GE.
Do we know if Alan Duncan has an interest-only mortgage? The reason I ask is because on page 14 out of 51 of his 2007-2008 additional cost allowance, there is a letter stating that the monthly payment he must make is £1427.26 and this covers “all elements of your mortgage account”. As he claims all of this amount on expenses, surely it is a fiddle if he has a repayment mortgage as MPs are only allowed to claim for interest?
I see the BBC are going after Cameron and Osborne. Why might that be I wonder? Not a mention of yet another lying Minister resigning to spend more time with her family. Not a mention of McMental and his Sky TV. Why might that be BBC?
All the really bad stuff with expenses has involved Labour MPs, yet the BBC ignore this. Fucking kuntz
I want to see them asking Tony Wright why we had to pay for his eye test 3 years running. And for his tax advice.
You mean ‘PHONEY’ WRIGHT I think.
Eye tests are free in Scotland but I bet there are a few who have claimed. Will start wading through the claims of the specky jock MPs right now. Oh no can’t be arsed and it’s tea time
Kitty thingy has resigned becuase of a capital gains avoidance flip. Odd then that Prime Minsiter Mr G Brown felt it was OK to transfer his london flat (which he didn’t need anyway) to his wife’s ownership just before he left the Treasury. What was the reason for this move? Was it by any chance to improve his overall tax position?
The PM has absolutely no credibility on this – he has milked the system for unnecessary costs to improve his own income and he did the ownership swap thing above. No moral authority, charmless, no electoral mandate, only 5% of eligible voters voted for his party a couple of weeks ago, no ability (destroyed pensions, sold gold low, fiddled figures, trashed the economy, wasted billions on pet projects, bullied collegaues, appointed McBride, Draper and Watson, 10% tax debacle), a bottler (election that never was, couldn’t sack Uddin, Lisbon Treaty invisible signing) no humility, no self-awareness, he can’t tie his tie, and he’s a global laughing stock to boot – never mind, he’s only our Prime Minister!
You forgot the disgusting personal habits – snot gobbling, pissing himself, chewed fingernails.
The Penguin
Pissing himself – when? Do tell.
Dave’s office has publised his revised expenses – so they have created the story.
Could be interesting attempt to get on the front foot again and make Brown be more open with his
I still say that MPs pensions needs to be looked into. Quentin Letts said today on DP that the Speaker gets a 100k pension pot after stepping down. They trough when they are in, and trough even more when they are out.
Even more reason to ensure that Margaret Beckett does not become Speaker. Just think how many caravans she can clog up the roads with on a £100k per annum pension? Don’t forget The Daily Telegraph is publishing ALL the data this Saturday in a neatly bound booklet, something you can flash in the face of your MP..
There’s also the wheeze that the Speaker’s constituency traditionally does not field an opposing candidate to a sitting Speaker (without that she would undoubtedly be history come the GE) – though I could see an independent candidate ignoring this and cleaning up in her case.
Let us hope this activity venal
Leads to some sentences penal
And the huge overpowering stink
Puts some of the MPs in clink
That’ll never happen because old Manders
Has palmed them off with slick backhanders
From ‘The Guardian’: Gordon Brown has set up a team in Downing Street to counsel and support distressed Labour MPs facing flak from constituents over their expenses claims.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/18/expenses-mps-labour-support-line
1. Why is a service for Labour MPs being handled from Downing Street rather then Labour Party offices?
2. Is the Labour Party or the taxpayer paying for this.
Poor Luvvies!
They should be setting up a scaffold in Whitehall
See all those taxi receipts for George Galloway? He has legs doesn’t he? Let him walk!
Walk out in public on an English street?
No, he may meet one of those “wolf” British squaddies who toppled his “indefatigable” friend Saddam Hussein.
The fat traitor has not got the balls.
Best not to call him a “traitor”, since he’s notoriously inclined to litigation. Safer with “t*****r”, or “l**r” or “corrupt, arrogant, terrorist-coddling, bought and paid for crook with eyes like an angry little piggy”.
Presbyterian, sanctimonious etc, etc, that’s the spin from Nulab.
Reality = Village newsagents put a notice in the window:
ONLY TWO M.P.s ALLOWED IN THIS SHOP AT ANY ONE TIME.
Says it all really.
You forgot the apostrophe after M.P.’s, thus: M.P.’s.
M.P.’s deserve their apostrophe, they work hard on our behalf.
Balls and Cooper each submitted an invoice for internet services in Cooper’s name for £124.86 dated 12 Jan 2005. There is no record of them splitting their expenses until later in the year. The Telegraph let us down badly on this one and we all know why.
Why? Do tell.
D Tel editor is Karaoke mate of Balls.
thats a small bit of poo in the river of shite.
Give them(*) a small break – perhaps it was after they’d been to the pub.
(*) – the telegraph that is.
Dammit, my MP can only be accused of filing out what look like multiple taxi receipts in the same handwriting. What a loser, they are all only for 6.50 each… my MP can’t even scam the taxpayer properly. *sigh*
It may be taxi to the pub or betting shop or knocking s
Poor guido.
(sorry to bang on about this one but … )
Its a good job the staffing allowances aren’t out then.
There would be howls of anger all across the land, from lands end to john o groats, from DOVER to CONWAY.
Office equipment
My MP’s only exes
Paper clips and stuff
Simon Hughes (my MP) seems rather boring on the expense front. That is if I am looking in the right place.
My Mp’s (LB Sutton and Carshalton) LibDem have been charging LibDem Office charges to “Liberal Democrats” and not to their individual names. have you noticed Hughes doing that?
This will look petty at first sight, but give it some thought:
I think parliament should stop the use of the title ‘honourable’. Why; it would be several things; first it would be a humiliation for them, second it would be a PERMANENT reminder of their corruption.
These privileged crooks are full of ’s**t’, this would be a constant reminder that they could be poked with, as in a few months/years time they will be at it again.
Sod this “Newlieborspeak” word Redacting, I prefer the good English descriptive
word Censorship.
It started in America.
It really did.
I agree.
I am unanimous in that
Redacting reminds me of rendering. They both sound very sinister. Although I have been known to render down a bit of lard.
I’m waiting for a Terror Redactyl to come swooping in.
David Taylor MP.
I know you read Guido.
No wonder you are “retiring” at the next GE.
Very worrying that you are entering into “Local Government Accountancy” as your next career move in the public sector.
Now, pay back the money you Hoon.
I think Guido should put in a claim to the HoC for having to deal with all these emails.
More Claire Ward:
Handling of personal (PERSONAL, mind you) tax affairs at my expense
A mobile phone – but over 700 quid?????
HUGE mortgage interest – sometimes over 2K / month – that’s some mortgage
Whenever life get you down, Mrs. Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you’ve had quite enu-hu-hu-huuuuff
Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour
That’s orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it’s reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way
Our galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars
It’s 100,000 light-years side-to-side
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light-years thick
But out by us it’s just 3000 light-years wide
We’re 30,000 light-years from galactic central point
We go round every 200 million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that’s the fastest speed there is
So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space
Because there’s bugger all down here on Earth
Still a brilliant song after all these years!
Everyone seems knackered by the troughing there’s only so much outrage in the
poor old body.
But all the MP’s seem to have done is shoot themselves
in the foot…why bother with a redacted (another neologism meaning censored)
website which gives no information about anything and HIDES anything revealing stealing, fraudulent conversion, mortgage fraud, passing off, and anything else you care to mention because they wrote the rules to allow themselves to be beneficiaries of corruption.
They collectively stink, even those with no expense account claims because they knew what was happening and did nothing! And so did the dead tree press and sundry lobbyists who are now calling foul!
Grant Shapps – paying his own firm over £1000 from tax payer’s funds.
I thought Shapps was one of the ‘Saints’ as pointed out by the Telegraph? (well that’s what he’s boasting all over his website anyway)
Pathetic, disgusting excuse for a man if this is true – anyone got any further info on whether or not this is true?
Isn’t Grant Shapps a cocktail ?
How many weekend spa breaks equal a duck house?
Just trying to get the exchange rate right so understand the methodology behind Dave’s choices.
I reckon, what with travel, 2x duck houses = 1x luxury spa. (You can’t get cattle class spey
Phoney Tony Wright – when are you going to pay back the money you spent on your annual eye tests? Your £499 John Lewis secret appliance? Your ginseng teabags? Your tax advice? Your contributions to Labour Party funds? Thre money you claimed for a bottle of Fairy liquid?
I have read that the home office have kicked the ID card system into the long grass – contracts for running it will not be assigned until Autumn 2010…and if, as expected, Labour are not in power then – there will be no system…yeeha!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/18/id_card_end/
See? An Iraq inquiry, ID cards kicked into touch – looks like Gordon and New Labour have listened to the public after all. Lessons have obviously been learned. We definitely need to draw a line under all this now.
“New Labour have listened to the public”?!?!?!?!
They’ve tried desperately to covering their backs and are scrabbling round to make it look as if they haven’t been treating the public like excrement for the past 12 years more like!!!
If they had any honour they’d have a full, open enquiry into Iraq and scrap the ID cards scheme and all the other databases they’ve made like ContactPoint, ONSET, the NHS Spine and the rest. But they won’t. Because they’re cretinous scum.
It’s all staged managed any way, why publish now?
Well the summer recess starts soon and when they come back in October, you will have forgotton all about it! Simples!
This is so true. I hope that these things are renewed and plastered everywhere just before the next election. We must not let the bastards get away with it.
GREAT THINGS LABOUR HAVE DONE!
* Devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, an elected Mayor and Assembly for London and directly-elected mayors for those cities that want them.
* Modernised local government, introducing a clearer and more transparent decision making process, allowing local councillors to spend more time leading their community.
* Greater freedom for local authorities through additional resources and local public service agreements.
* Substantial reform of the House of Lords including the removal of the vast majority of hereditary peers, as the precursor to final, lasting reform of the second chamber.
* Increased rights for individual citizens through the Human Rights and Freedom of Information Acts.
And will be leaving office with more people out of work than when they were elected … as usual.
Labour Have Done It Again.
Useless Hoons.
It’s the economy, stupid.
Devolution – fine for Scotland and Wales, but has left the West Lothian question unanswered, has disadvantaged England and may ultimately lead to the breakup of the Union.
Local Government is no longer local government but a cipher for central government. We need some genuine localism in the UK!
Local authorities have less freedom under the present excuse for a central government than ever – it has to spend its whole time fulfilling edicts from the centre!
The House of Lords – don’t make me laugh! We are left with the worst of all worlds – a wholly appointed crony chamber where Cash for Honours can prosper!
The Human Rights Act is a farce which protects foreign nationals at the expense of UK citizens – it must be repealed. Will give credit for Freedom of Information though, even Blair now says he regrets it. At least it has exposed the porky piggies in Westminster!
Charles
Your attention span seems to be getting shorter
You have already posted this. Is this repertition a trait you have learned from Looneytunes at PMQ’s?
At the risk of reapeating myself I offer you the same reply.
* Devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, an elected Mayor and Assembly for London and directly-elected mayors for those cities that want them.
Yep, got me on that one…..Boris is the MAN. If I was a Scottish, Welsh or N.Irish I would be only to pleased to be distancing myself from our unelected Loonytunes PM and his not so merry men and wimmin. and I’m sure that H’Angus the Monkey is doing a great job in Harlepool…….
* Greater freedom for local authorities through additional resources and local public service agreements.
= To use anti terror laws to snoop on their constituents.
* Substantial reform of the House of Lords including the removal of the vast majority of hereditary peers, as the precursor to final, lasting reform of the second chamber.
= Filling the Lords with the likes of Uddin to fleece, trough and then lie about it
* Increased rights for individual citizens through the Human Rights and Freedom of Information Acts.
=Burger Kings for convicts. Why in the UK with it’s unwritten constitution that has served us well for the last century or two we need to be bought to our knees with the European Human Rights Act is beyond me.
Charles Please, Please (intentional) honour your word and fuck off back to LiarList. This thread is about expenses not propaganda and bullshit spin.
Devolution: Created a monstrous white elephant at Holyrood at vast expense to the English. PR experiment backfired terribly, with Labour (probably forever) kicked out of power (but not before bestowing a crooked leader on the grateful nation).
Local Government: Council tax bills out of control. Now an expensive rubber-stamp for Labour HQ. Necessary because there will soon be no more Labour councils.
Lords Reform: Class War antics here have achieved nothing, save to stuff the place full of Labour crooks. The reform worked so well Blair went on to use the Parliament Act over and over again (more than any other PM). Half the cabinet now unelected.
Human Rights Act: Ah yes, the law that gives pornography and enfranchisement to prisoners. Don’t tell me, this was Labour’s idea and the EU copied it?
Don’t forget these:
*THE END OF BOOM AND BUST. FOREVER.
*IGNORED MANIFESTO PROMISES ON TAX AND TUITION FEES
*UNEMPLOYMENT UP
*STOCK MARKET AVERAGE DECLINE OVER TEN YEARS
*LARGEST NATIONAL DEBT IN HISTORY
*45 MINS TO GO TO WAR
*THE WORST DEVELOPED COUNTRY FOR RAISING KIDS
*700 HOURS WASTED DEBATING FOX HUNTING
Please just ignore Chuckie..he’s so desperate that he multiple posts the same off topid trash on as many blogs as he can.
Charlie has gone soft in the head and should be avoided at all costs.
Why are the English landed with all the Scottish MPs. What have we done to deserve them? Couldn’t we persuade them to stay home.
Since you’ve posted this more than once, I thought I’d just make these points again:
- 10p Tax
- Complicity in extraordinary rendition and torture
- The illegal invasion of Iraq, killing over a million innocent people
- No referrendum on Europe
- Introduced ID card schemes and snooping surveillance databases that nobody wants and hideously invade privacy
- Destructive environmental policies
- Continuing the unworkable PFI
- Clampdowns on peaceful protestors and activists
- 42 days detention
- Cash for honours
Thank you New Labour, you’ve saved us all!!!
McTwat speaking on a dodgy link to Sky just now said, if I understood it correctly, that he had always planned to let Chilcot decide which parts of the whitew….inquiry should be held in public and private.
That is NOT what he said yesterday to the HoC.
For a son of the manse he don’t half lie like a Lord.
Son of the manse ?
Fascinating. Thank you for that.
son of a manx
Charles e Hardwidge should read this. Good find, thanks.
Looks like President Blair was rehearsing for his future position in the EU, makes you wonder what it was that got so conveniently shredded last year.
I was under the mistaken impression (2nd hand info) that his office was turned over and they “disappeared”. Dumb fuck I am.
Can we set up a page for MPs who haven’t been on the take? Then they could form a national Government…
So far Ed Miliband is PM and his cabinet consists of, er, well. That’s it at the moment.
Cabinet ? A closet should be big enough.
Hardwidge will know what to do
Caroline Spelman looks like being the big Tory scalp over this, not as much richly delicious fun as the downfall of that lying, theiving, grasping, piece of shit kitty kat, but I think deserved all the same.
Yesterday lunchtime Ussher was spewing forth Labour’s lies about Tory cuts, today she’s almost out of Parliament, you fooking beauty.
Spelman and her husband had different interpretations as to where their second home was, so give her the massive ‘obnailed boot up her overlarge pair of wobbly buttocks fellow proles!
I’d have said Jacksi or indeed arse, but she’s a middle class, mumsy fiddler innit
Shitehawks all in the HoC.
If you walked out of Tesco with a stolen tin of cat-food worth 50p (49p more like) they’d grab you in the car park then drag you into some dingy back room to await the pigs. Who then would grab you, throw you in the back of their wagon, and take you pronto to the nick, where you would be interrogated by some fat bastard sergeant, be photographed and fingerprinted and DNA swabbed, then dragged down to the dungeons to be beaten with rubber hoses until you confessed to being Jack the Ripper and got sent to Broadmoor for life + 200 years.
If you are an MP and steal £200,000 from the taxpayer, you get to “fall on your sword” (a misnomer if ever there was one, swords being carried in the main by the noble and chivalrous), and then ONLY if you are found out and don’t have the protection of the DT editor or the Gorgon.
All a statement of the bleedin’ obvious, of course, but it can’t be reiterated too much, innit?
How about this analogy: An off duty policeman takes fallen branches from the floor of a local forrest to use as kindling/firewood. He is reported and sacked. True story. What ain’t yours ain’t yours and therefore=theft. It’s the law you know.
Dont forget the parachute payments and gold plated pensions that these “honourable” members, who will not be standing again, will get also.
is it just me, Martin Linton Battersea. He seems to have claimed over £10k per month from stationary supplier Banner? is there a trend in this? it seems unbelievable that a small to medium business could even consume this amount of stationary consistently. I smell yet another rat, allowing for normal consumption of say £2500 per month this leaves a short fall of £7500 per month??? does he have a stationary fetish? or is this part of something bigger. I know for a fact that some businesses over state the invoice amount and then split the proceeds with the person who approved or placed the order.
It’s just you and nothing to do with this blog whatsoever. (I’d hate to see guido fawkes sued)
okies, sorry i offended, i wasn’t suggesting that the individual had done anything like that however i was wondering if there was a trend. No insult or smear intended. and point taken.
Guido you can remove my post if it is to close to the edge.
Loads of MPs use Banner – no idea why.
As I posted elsewhere-
Banner is the name for the stationary branch of what used to be the HMSO. Most Government departments use them, but I think that they are no longer part of the Government. I wouldn’t be too surprised if they occasionally contributed to MP’s funds or perhaps ran the odd hospitality event.
Pendant alert – stationery. Stationary is Gordon’s political nous.
Thanks for the info Seth, makes more sense now.
Pedant alert — a pendant is a thing you hang round your neck; “pendent” means “hanging”, not, unfortunately, practised in the country any more on the right people, and “Independent” is the name of a dismal leftish rag which is about to go bust.
Maybe he sends as many letters full of party political spin to all his constituents as mine seems to. Pretty much every month we usually get a letter (actually 2, as Mrs Disgusted gets her own letter) from our MP telling us how wonderful Labour are at running the country and that we should all vote Labour.
Sending out letters to all your constituents must use a lot of stationery.
So it may not be a scam in the way you’re thinking of, although I strongly suspect that claiming expenses for party political activities is not within the rules.
Banner is the official stationery supplier, the one with the 50% off deal with the Commons.
George Galloway paid £10,000 for website services from April 2007 – October 2007? Anyone know who Ron MacKay is?
Now that is worth investigating. Must have been a heck of a lot of work, website stuff is pretty cheap and it’s not as if he’s operating an e-commerce site.
Probably the one who wrote “The Battle of Bethnal Green” with him.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Battle-Bethnal-Green-George-Galloway/dp/0954950720
As you say Guido, they are all at it. Not that any of us doubted it for a minute but its nice to see it there in black and white. Well, more black than white in some cases, eh!
Incidentally, I wonder if Gordon will take offence to me renaming the home of cash trousering central?.
Like I give a toss!
Just had a sniff round David Amess (Sarfend West).
Every few months he claimed on handwritten ‘invoices’ for £1,250 and £1,500 a time. Various redactions, but the Telegraph would have the full info.
If they’re providing research etc as described, they would surely type the resulting info, so why not the invoice ?. It makes one wonder
This is insulting. Going through George Galloway’s reciepts and the redacted stuff is stupid.
I assume that at one point the single line in his invoice from the printers in 2008 that reads:
Overprinted with XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX printed in…
should read:
Overprinted with George Galloway MP Details printed in…
Why? Because that second one is taken from a 2006 invoice that was not redacted.
WTF? If that is what they are taking out (in a half arsed manner) then what else is coming out that should not be?
But then he claims £178 for a keyboard?????
Galloway is a HUGE fan of the million-selling synthesiser-pop legends Erasure (he even named his own one-man band after one of their hits).
He has to stay current with his digital music technology.
You’re kidding – what page?
What was it. A bloody Steinway?
The MPs in fairly marginal constituancies are obviously going to be affected by these revelations, but what about the rest of them in safe seats that rarely change, in spite of the shift in political fortunes?
Will they be deselected by their local associations, or will, as i suspect, they all resume troughing as usual, albeit with more future openness?
Alan Duncan should be removed from the Tory frontbench. His abuses are unacceptable for anyone but especially from the so-called Shadow Leader of the House.
Man of the people, Mr Alan Ordinary Johnson charged the taxpayer for an automatic envelope stuffer at £8289!
You fookin beauty, oh can I be an ordinary bloke like you Mr Johnson?, I luvs gadgets I does
I wonder if he delivered them personally ?
That is not true.
Mr Galloway is a graphics fidelity enthusiast (whereas I am an expert).
He needs an up-to-date computer keyboard to ensure faithful graphics on his constituency website.
Mr Ben ‘bandit’ Bradshaw made the taxpayer fund the purchase of a ‘lifestyle’ magazine for arsebandits.
Fookin juicy gayist, and naturally an ex BBC employee
steady on
Our beloved leader the lying Scotch mental charged the taxpayer to deal with pests ‘plaguing’ him in both London and Scotland!!!
Were these ‘pests’ overtaxed voters, or just voices in his twisted & tortured mind?
improvement
I won’t hear a word against David or others of the Conservative front bench.
Compared to the nasty, thieving scum of Labour they are angels.
He’s sending that cheque simply to show how scrupulously honest he is.
It’s nothing like that ghastly Blears woman. He certainly did not need to send it.
I should know.
I’m his mother.
Unfortnately, Dave has been found out. He has to pay the money back. If he had an ounce of morality this would never have happened. I used to think he might be able to change things, but he’s just as bad as the rest of them.
If he starts to sack those Conservative MP’s who have so blatantly flouted the rules, I might start to trust him again, but until then……
Quite so. This latest business, plus his reluctance to sack any Tory troughers (like Gove) the sacking of whom wouldn’t benefit him politically, plus his continued evasions over the Lisbon Treaty, all make Call me Dave a less and less attractive option to the Cyclopean snot-gobbler. Its almost too late for this country but on the evidence Call me Dave is only another greasing, sneaking consensus politician. Too bad – for us.
Re 136
This ‘Banner’ outfit crops up with intriguing frequency in different MPs’ claims. Might the relationship be more than a simple supplier/customer one?
if they all use the same supplier, and spend nearly the same amounts this equates to approx £70mill pa in stationary! wtf! for 646 ppl that is insane if nothing else
And on their web site they have a piggy bank!!
http://www1.banner-online.biz/
Staples and Viking one has heard of.
The Penguin
Banner is the name for the stationary branch of what used to be the HMSO. Most Government departments use them, but I think that they are no longer part of the Government. I wouldn’t be too surprised if they occasionally contributed to MP’s funds or perhaps ran the odd hospitality event.
My MP (Siobhain McDonagh) claimed for something from Banner as well. I would say there’s nothing remarkable about it, as they seem to be a legitimate looking office supplies company.
However, in that case, I wonder why so much of the details of what she bought from them was redacted? I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that they supply shredding services.
oddly enough i cannot see any ref’s at all to claiming postage or franking etc(is that documented?) what the hell do they do with all those pens and paper, at this rate they could setup what would probably be the largest small business stationary supply company in the uk or one hell of a print shop!
Yes, that is odd, isn’t it? I can’t see it either. I guess it must be accounted for separately. I know that they spend a lot on postage. If you look at some older figures that were published in less detail at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3763440.stm you can see just how much. It’s a lot, and strangely absent from today’s stuff.
Blank, blank and fooking blank
oh and blank
Blankey Blank Tax-Payers Cheque Book and Pen
My MP’s expenses in full
Five surgeons are discussing who has the best patients to operate on.
The first surgeon says, ‘I like to see accountants on my operating table because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered.’
The second responds, ‘Yeah, but you should try electricians! Everything inside them is colour-coded. ‘
The third surgeon says, ‘No, I really think librarians are the best; everything inside them is in alphabetical order.’
The fourth surgeon chimes in, ‘You know I like construction workers. Those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over at the end, and when the job takes longer than you said it would.’
But the fifth surgeon shut them all up when he observed, ‘You’re all wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on. There’s no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains, and no spine, and there are only two moving parts – the mouth and the arsehole – and they are interchangeable’
BOOM BOOM!
CHA CHA
£300 for shredding? Well I did have a lot of expense records to destroy
Call me old fashioned but doesn’t that infer that (a)Tone’s got something to hide and (b) is it not illegal?
If he shredded a few by mistake, fair dues but shredding the lot would surely make the most miserable tax man break into a smile and shout gotcha!
ooooooooooh I forgot – Politicians,especially the New Labour variety, are above the law.
Illegal? Our Tone would never do anything Illegal…….
How did he manage to miss the £7000 for the roof? More haste less speed.
Did Tone shred his copies, or the copies that the Fees Office held? I always kept a copy of my claims, and usually receipts. Surely, the Fees Office still has its copies? MHR&C Regulations after all.
One thing that struck my about my MP (Siobhain McDonagh) is how overdue a lot of the invoices were when she claimed for them. Given how the government loves to tell us how important it is to pay businesses on time, and that she’s not even paying for it herself anyway, you have to wonder why her suppliers didn’t get paid more promptly.
Perhaps it was just so she could have the pleasure of being charged late payment fees and then grinning as she claimed them on expenses.
Yeah, you mean like a power and control mentality; Was she ZaNuLabour by coincidence?
To the core.
Why does that patronising twat Keith Vaz need so many fecking silk cushions ?
“Vaz – washes whiter than white”
Heeees probably got a big car with a big parcel shelf?
and a little gold-colour tissue box inscribed with koranic twirls….
Has got the bare faced cheek to put Rt Hon. in front of his name when filling out his claims. Shameless
Rt. HOON
… and he probably does mini-cabbing on the side
Why is mini-cabbing always used in a demeaning manner? These guys are self employed earning shite money for very long hours. The only reason that many of them do it is because of inherent latent racialist attitudes or their lack of written english which prevents them from climbing out of this occupation.
By the way travelling in a minicab in London is safer than a blackcab as has been proved recently by the case of John Warboys. Every minicab job is booked through a booking office (apart from those where the public are fool enough to get in without booking) therefore there is a paper trail. Black cabbies once qualified are completely able to roam unchecked.
we could do with him in Stockport. All you get if you try to direct them to your venue is “You office ring”
Has anyone seen my dada or mama??
Hilarious, how on earth are the media establishment going to get away with covering David’s smarmy arse this time in another vain bid to get the public to clutch at the most hopeless of straws that the Tories are somehow going to be any better than the Neo-Conservative NewLabour project that towed the Tory line on exactly the same kind of bloated economics that has failed us again and again for years.
‘We have to believe!!!!’, ‘we have to believe,!’ the sheep like conformists squeal when the media wind blows them back towards the NeoCons in the blue corner and while litlte by little the illusion is smashed and even the tiniest amount of scrutiny results on the Tory Party predictably being found out as the same prehistoric, ancient and creaking standard bearers of all that is breathtakingly self-indulgent and detached from reality in our political system we stand aghast in pretend disappointment like this is anything new.
As quick as Thatcher can say ‘Why Don’t they play foot-ball behind closed doors, the crowd don’t need to be there do they’ stories of moats, floating duck ponds and and the financial irregularities of the Earl Of Arseshire who once dined with the….fill our concious again to reveal the trumped up corporation boys for what they are …. yaaawwwwwwwn. Like we didn’t know.The same pompous elitists trumping the same greying ideology that has ripped a gaping hole in our financial system. Snouts in the trough. Surprise surprise.
And while backbench Tories plot to snatch the minimum wage away from greedy proles on just over £5.00 an hour the overwhelming thought police in the media establishment representing the every whim of the overbearing Private sector that Cameron wants to give yet more power to and already has more control over our lives than any Government ever could (controlling our energy costs, fuel prices while also being free to spy on our internet movements to build profiles of every one of us) continue to shield Cameron as they know all the sleaze ridden money that corrupted Blair’s smarm offensive has shifted it’s weight behind the snivelling Eton bully boy.
Which is why no doubt there will be reams of apologist Cameron and Osbourne stories in our media outlets tomorrow stating how Cameron did wrong yes, but was so eloquent and humble in apology that we must let him off the hook(yet again) so he can waltz into Downing Street unchallenged in our 1 Party election contest because you know, he’s er……, channnge, er…………..maybe not but at least he’s not Brown. Is that good enough? the Neo-Cons will quiver.
Of course it will be, this country is the the most stupid, conformist, do anything the media tells them populus on face of the planet. Some even believe Guido’s Viz melded with page 6 from the Sun rhetoric that Tony Blair and the Rupert Murdoch enterprise that bedded the Big City was actually a socialist Government, ha ha ha. That is funny. But seriously, anyone would look socialist to the leave em to rot and die in the hospital wards Tories. Even the NewLabour Neo-Conservative project which sent a few more social reform
scraps the publics way than the evil Tories. Big deal. Who wouldn’t look like investers compared to the Private Sector Goon Squad.
You want to know what a Tory Government will be like, well we’ve pretty much had one for the last decade or so. Oh, and the Tories backed war in Iraq for regime change irrespective of WMD’s as well as doing nothing but changing like chameleons to drift on whichever populist wind happens to be passing by. Change. Don’t make me laugh.
Dada is that you?
I seriously think that even the Tories newest tea boy recruit has a better grasp of economics than the prat currently ruining the country.
You obviously voted New Labour in and got what you voted for in spades.
Calling the current Brown shower of shite tories is about 12 years too late and aiming in the wrong direction you fxxxxxx moron.
Wow, That’s a fucking long way of saying I voted Labour.
Maybe what you should have said in Precis was this: I voted NewLiars in the mistaken belief that they stood for the working class but they turned out to be a bunch of mind control thieving middle class, luvvie loving thieves who ultimatley imploded in a shitstorm of their own making taking the country down with it.
Does that sum it up?
PS what’s all that got to do with this thread?
I know you don’t like taking your medication but you should still take it, you really should. You’ll never get better if you don’t.
Not the carry on taking the pills line, surely. Wow! How old is that line. Further
proof, if needed, that the jokes, like the prehistoric age of the ideals and creakingly irrelevant and failed ideology of Neo-Conservatism that dangles for life support machine of tiresome cliches ripped from 80’s editions of the Sun Says and stale jokes from UK Gold sitcoms.
The people on this site are even staler, unfunnier and crustier than a week-end full of Jim Davidson live at the Blackpool Empress Ballroom repeats. Eerrie stuff. Now I know how people can swallow Cameron’s time for change mantra. They’re all living in a late 70’s sitcom with Terry and June. Mind you, the right has never been known for it’s comedians, just it’s comedy value. William Hague, ‘Partying Dowwwwwn’ at the Notting Hill Carnival springs to mind. Now that is comedy Gold. So long you tedious, brainwashed, mind numbingly conformist fuckers.
This guy can’t be be for real surely – sounds like the Dave Spart column in Private Eye. I kind of sympathise though. If you’re a bona fide comrade who do you vote for these days?
What happened to the balls?
weren’t theirs supposed to be so bad that they go an injunction?
Nah, they got their mate Will Lewis, Editor of the DT to back off. And funnily enough Will’s brother is now Gordon’s spin doctor.
What a coincidence!
Adrian Sanders (LD, Torbay) has — for reasons that passeth understanding — two land lines (one with Phone Co-Op, one with BT) and two mobiles (one with O2, one with vodafone) — why?
And he’s billing us for his laundry!
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ta for that Seth, more digging i think for me
So what about Guido’s analysis and exposure of the hoon Hoon’s extensive property portfolio then?
This has been promised, the delay explained by the wish for accuracy made problemmatic by the multiple residences.
I must say I’m a bit bemused that MPs purchase their stationery, etc. individually. Surely a HoC purchasing department could get a better deal from suppliers by placing bulk orders for commodity items like photocopy paper?
Soon we’ll have the chance to compare the real expenses forms held by the Telegraph (as opposed to the blackwash version) along the refused claims and correspondence with the Fees Office.
I suggest the next step is to analyse the relationship between MPs and their suppliers. It’s a pretty obvious scam to put business (particularly if the bills involved are above the market rate) the way of your relatives and associates. We already know that many of them ‘employ’ spouses, children, etc. at our expense, it is virtually certain that some ‘Members’ are engaged in dodgy ’supply chain’ activities.
A simple external and independent audit would tumble these dodgy transactions. There will be more than a few. Remember Al Capone was jailed for little more than income tax evasion!
An audit certainly sounds like a good idea – the Fees Office are clearly under too much pressure from MPs to do more than curb the most absurdly blatant abuses.
I don’t know much about how Parliamentary finance works, but is there any kind of ‘declaration of interest’ to be made if you use public money to buy from a relative/associated party?
Regarding bulk ordering, that argument would also logically apply to other ACA items as well: rather than allowing the Kaufmanns and Maliks of this world to order fuckoff big widescreen plasma TVs for their “second homes”, bulk order a couple of hundred bog-standard 22″ TVs from Argos and dole them out to MPs. Same for most of the furniture and so on.
Or give them a voucher, redeemable for one bog-standard 22″ TV at Tesco. If the MP wants a fuckoff big TV then fine, let them pay the difference out of their poor pittance of a salary.
Just out of interest, do these grasping twats ever pay for anything out of their own money?
The list of MPs who’ve regurgitated troughed cash is up now, according to The Times.
Interesting – but not good enough. Not good enough by a long way.
Ben Bradshaw MP – Incidental Expenses 0708, Page 261.
Kirk Radio Ltd
Repair to VTV 2025 Television Combination Unit
Dismantled Unit and located fault. Resoldered connections on scart socket. Reassembled and tested. This unit was on test in our workshop for several weeks.
£55
A service call to [redacted] was requested as staff there were unable to get the Freeview box to work with combination unit. It was explained that there would be a call out charge if the fault was unconnected to the repair, also they were asked to double check the scart was connected correctly. However, they felt a call was necessary and we sent an engineer along, unfortunately they were trying to connect the scart the wrong way around. A charge therefore had to be made, as a gesture of goodwill we have not charged a full service charge of £30 + VAT
£20
Total £88.12 inc VAT
And? Are you a shareholder in Kirk Radio?
Er…..what?
He claimed for calling out an electrician, because he or his office COULDN’T WORK OUT HOW TO PLUG IN A TV!
Freeview box.Would have thought Bradshaw was a flat screen kind of guy with freeview at least.
PMSL – the cnuts in his office didn’t know how to connect a Freeview box to a TV
Shocking – a callout was 20 quid, the stupid idiots, I would have charged 50 minimum!
resolder scart connection !£55 ? BUY A NEW CABLE FOR ABOUT £5 from asda you muppets !
There is no way Ben has a freeview box. All tvs these days have it built in
There is a choice between Labour which believes we must grow our way out of recession – and the Conservatives who have revealed that they would cut the vast majority of public spending by ten per cent.
What these cuts would mean…
Schools: The Tories are planning to take £5.1 billion out of education spending, the equivalent of losing 44,130 teachers, and 34,490 teaching assistants and school support staff.
Police: The Tories are planning to take £930 million out of the Home Office. Cutting police funding by the same 10 per cent as the rest of the Home office could see the loss of 15,000 police officers – exactly the number of extra police officers delivered from Labour’s record investment since 1997. That’s nearly 30 off the beat in every constituency across England.
University places: The Tories are planning 10 per cent across the board cuts for public spending. That could mean cutting the number of places available each year by 32,000.
Defence: The Tories are planning to cut 10 per cent from the defence budget – the equivalent of cutting 10,000 soldiers, and a further 8,000 members of the armed forces from the Navy and Airforce. That’s double the number of troops the UK has in Afghanistan.
Source: http://www.labour.org.uk/david_cameron_mr_10_per_cent
What a surprise – Dave Cameron is to pay back the £947 that he wrongly claimed on expenses, bringing his total admitted misclaim to £1,627.
How dare this pampered Old Etonian lecture the rest of us about cuts in public spending when he and the rest of his Old Etonian elite wantonly spend thousands on wisteria, duckponds and moats?
This isn’t the Bullingdon Club you know, when Cameron and the rest of his upper-class snobs destroyed pubs and restaurants and paid for the money with daddy’s cash.
Now Cameron’s bow-tied, penguin-suited clique are intent on destroying the country and returning us to the dark days of Thatcherism, and leaving the poor taxpayer to foot the bill. Just as in their Bullingdon days, they will pay for their destruction with other people’s money.
Labour has always been the party of the many. We will stand up for the ordinary, hard-working citizens of this country. The Tories with their City pals are the party of the few. They will raise taxes and close schools and hospitals, in order to cut inheritance tax for the 3,000 richest families in Britain.
The Tories will make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
I could answer this, but I think it’s a wind-up.
PS what’s this got to do with this thread
HP Sauce!
Everything this admininistration has focussed on has turned to shite culminating in the bancruptcy of the Uk both financially and morally. It’s not about money, its about sound management and NewLiars have proved (In spades) that they have the management skills of a schizophrenic on mescaline. Fucked up but determined to carry on!
and dont forget they eat your children !
Why are you repeating Labour on-message sound bites??
Do you not have the ability to express yourself freely?
Obviously you haven’t been very well educated and have to parrot phrases that the Labour Party is giving to you.
Sad. So sad!!!!
why dont you stop spouting crap you stuck up whore i they eat your children is not a lie bore phrase !
I DONT VOTE LABOUR AND THEY DONT REALLY EAT YOUR CHILDREN AND I DONT GIVE A FUCK WHERE YOU WERE EDUCATED !
dont patronize me you snob, who gives a shit about your degree ,ten a penny nowadays kids stacking shelves at Asda got one . big deal thats what happens when your labour party is obsessed with sending everyone to uni .where i grew up we didn’t even know anybody who went there that doesn’t make you any better than me !
I suspect Dave scoured his expense claims to find something (has it been defined?) that he could pay back today. He therefore succeeded in capturing prominence in all MSM bulletins and front pages as a “do something” leader. The late Sky reports even started to dilute Dave’s action by claiming that Gord also paid back a false claim today. A late word in the ear from PM perhaps?
“Now Cameron’s bow-tied, penguin-suited clique are intent on destroying the country and returning us to the dark days of Thatcherism”
Oh yeah, because Blair and Brown have been completely unlike Thatcher. No, nothing the old witch at all. Under Blair and Brown, everything changed completely. Had the Tories won the last three elections, they would have done things in a tangiably different. It really matters which party wins the next election, because they are so different to each other. We are in no way living in a country where the entire political class is a load of corrupt, Thatcherite scum who should be chucked into the grave she will no doubt soon be occupying so we can all piss on them.
“Returning us to the dark days of Thatcherism…” I wish!
After all the dust has settled on MP’s expenses MEP’s and Councils wasting council tax The biggest tragedy facing the UK is letting our kids down a subject I have made a 5 year involuntary study of and Family Courts are as guilty as Baby Peter’s mother and the justice secretary Straw is allowing kindergarten carers to abuse kids with immunity what happened to Ed Balls reform of Social services in the wake of Baby Peter other then instruct more councils to employ yet further incompetents rather then encouraging returning mothers with some understanding of raising children at least to teenager to go into the profession?
How many more Baby Peters, Victoria Climbes or Khyra Ishaqa has there got to be?
Once knew a Senior Copper who often said that in over 25 years of dealing with shoplifters suffering from PMT and The Change he never found one who actually PUT tins on shelves and never one who took Tuna, it was always the Salmon.
Can anyone find in these millions of claims any “accidental” underclaims?
Question Time tonight. All they could get from Liebour is Charlie Falconer. It’s said that all cabinet members were told not to appear and one by one they were all asked. When the going gets tough, lie and run for the hills. Pathetic
anybody having trouble getting BBC 1 ? can’t get it up norf !
Probably just as well. Who would want it??
i wanted to see the scum cringe on Q/T
The Curse of The Gorgon: Thames residents beware. The Gorgon visited the Thames Barrier earlier today.
The Woolwich ferry will probably collide with it tomorrow
Why did he need to wear a hard hat?
To protect his soft head.
where did they find one to fit ?
HAZEL BLEARS ! NOT deselected ! 10PM
why didn’t some fucker hurl him in ? missed out on a knighthood there !
Why are Lemsip Obit’s ‘phone bills so HUGE ?????
Probably telephoning for dates on his favorite TV channel or maybe asking them to take off the drawers before the 9pm watershed!
Cheeky
BREAKING NEWS – HAZEL BLEARS NOT DESELECTED BY SALFORD LABOUR PARTY!!!
You stupid fucking idiots, first unmentionables MP coming up….
Having tried every trick in the book to avoid publishing anything, the next strategy was to delay to allow MP’s some time to pass to stop making the most rediculous claims, in the hope that clear blue water would be between them and the duck island as it were. It would have worked if the Telegraph hadn’t got its sweaty paws on the full data.
Having being forced to supply the information, the next challenge would have been to hide the more obvious scams such as over paying, paying family members, companies which they were linked to and for work that wasn’t actually done (a Devlin). The only option was to hide in plain sight, or perhaps as a needle in a haystack.
To do this they had to ensure that all the details on the “dodgy” invoices were removed, which in turn meant that they had to delete similar information on all the invoices – hense the large slabs of black on council tax demands etc when surely the address of a council was not a security / privacy risk.
The challenge therefore is to identify the potentially dodgy invoices from the others.
Take Nigel Griffiths (Edinburgh South) for example. Leaving aside his fetish for stationary, the £400 or so a month he claims for his mobile phone (for heaven’s sake man, get a better tarriff) and all the other stuff that makes him look like a plonker.
In April 2006 he was charged £1800 from a company called CDAPPG, and £3000 in June of the same year. Why do I pick them out? Well for a start the name of the company is stupid, and they were for nice round numbers – and no VAT was charged – unusual for a company providing secretarial services. Also the invoice looked as if it had been knocked up in 5 minutes, and finally -the redacting was very, very thorough.
We don’t know if this was dodgy, but we do know that the company has a profile lower than a snake’s belly by the Red Sea.
So Mr Griffiths, when you are not buying overpriced flat screen TV’s, charging back for a full Sky TV package or shagging hookers can you have a look back in your records and let us all know who or what exactly CDAPPG is, and perhaps declare any interest. We know how you like to keep it in the family as it were, charging the taxpayer rent on an office that you owned outright.
BREAKING NEWS ! MP’s to get £10,000 pay rise ! as recomended by the ” independent pay revue body” this is just to make up for what they can nolonger trough !
And while you are doing this Mr Griffiths, please reflect on your appalling conduct in 1998 when you were forced from Office by your Permanent Secretary, Sir Michael Scholar, when you actually wanted to uphold the law but were told that that was not how things were done in your department.
You supinely gave in so that you could carry on troughing rather than standing up for justice and penalty for wrong doers while protecting those you were suppose to defend.
You will lose your seat at the next election anyway, so why not seek some redemption now by publishing your regrets on your calumny and providing the evidenced that would allow justice to be effected?
This evening, just before 10 pm, I left the following comment at Lord Renton’s blogpost Connecting Parliament with the public:
Here’s hoping that other members of the public will make their voices heard at Lords of the Blog
just had a look blog is closed !
Can MPs really claim for Public Relations consultants on office budgets?
Not according to the Times.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4347249.ece
I wonder what Mark Field was paying for!
http://mpsallowances.parliament.uk/mpslordsandoffices/hocallowances/allowances-by-mp/mark-field/Mark_Field_0708_IEP.pdf
Anne Shore, W11
I’ve just worked out that it has cost £14,000 to keep my MP fed for the last four years, and £3700 to keep him clean. I reckon it woulda been cheaper to have more kids.
I also found out that we pay for him to get all his computer-based needs catered for by the company he helped set-up and used to be MD of.
Gotta love Fabian Hamilton.
Eric Joyce, Labour MP for Falkirk, has just appeared on Newsnight Scotland(18th June) and given one of the strangest interviews I have ever seen.
Hopefully someone can put it on Youtube. It might be on BBC iplayer.
Very strange.
It’s on iplayer, at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00l94hz/Newsnight_Scotland_18_06_2009/
Bizarre indeed: “Did you pay Capital Gains Tax when you sold your house in Croydon?”. “Stop asking questions about my wife”. Eh?
They are not all at it, don’t be silly. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2009/04/30/in_a_democracy_you_get_the_politicians_you_deserve
Have you noticed how every single ‘mistake’, inadvertent error’, ‘wholly within the rules’ claims, has ALL been one way? So far what I find quite unbelievable by the ‘honourable gentlemen’ is that there has not been ONE SINGLE claim for expenses that were under claimed in error.
Out of 650 people, not one managed to forget to claim for something!!
Accidentally breaking into someone’s house is an easy mistake, which any of us could make, especially if you’re wearing a mask.
And if you go so far as to return anything which happened to fall into your holdall as you made your way around, and apologise, that makes it even less worthy of condemnation.
I think people just have it in for MPs, and it’s about time they stopped all this carping.
And as for those who attack MPs for not working hard enough, one of them actually has ten jobs, and several have three or four!
How many of you could manage that?
Ha ha ha – the Telegraph has just said it will over the next few weeks publish every document it has relating to expenses, starting tomorrow with the Cabinet.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5575676/Cabinet-expenses-in-full-published-by-Telegraph.html
Every expense claim, email to and from the fees office, all the claims not paid, most of the redactions removed (they will keep redactions of precise addresses and anything that could impact security)
Ha ha ha – how do the fucking pigs like it now, still want us all to have ID cards and cameras tracking our every move do you??
Lib Dem Foreign Affairs spokesman Ed Davey claimed £7343.74 for a mail machine to send thousands of letters and propaganda to local people. Yet he is being painted as an innocent.
He was on Question Time last night saying “Thank God for the Daily Telegraph”.
Inspector Knacker and his Rozzers are finally going to do some investigating.
HMP Holloway prepare for “Baroness U”. Going to find it rather hard to claim some expenses in there. Mind you……she probably will designate it as……….
Prisoner Cell Block U here we go!
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