Punters Shun Bercow, Beckett Now Favourite Horse for Speaker
Ladbrokes spokesman Robin Hutchison says: “Bercow has been drumming up support since Michael Martin announced he was stepping down. But his chances now appear to have gone for a walk.” Punters on Betfair have also shifted the smart money onto Beckett, making her the new favourite. Bercow has come across badly at hustings, proving that the more you know Bercow, the less you like him. The realisation is also growing on the Labour benches that as Speaker he will be like a football referee who thinks the crowd are cheering for him.
There are is also a suggestion that his “back story”, the supposed “journey” from the right to the left under his wife’s influence, will not withstand scrutiny. Her political past is a little more interesting than hitherto has been understood…
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/MPs-To-Be-Investigated-by-Scotland-Yard-Over-Expenses-Scandal-Sky-Sources-Say/Article/200906315312744?lpos=Politics_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15312744_MPs_To_Be_Investigated_by_Scotland_Yard_Over_Expenses_Scandal%2C_Sky_Sources_Say
Looks like Udders is nicked
The speaker should not be another Labour Stooge.
I’ve had her pic in the chair for weeks!
http://oldrightie.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-speaker-at-her-first-pmqs.html
i have her pic on my dart board
I don’t know why any one is surprised about the depth of Fraud that is being uncovered, Sorry I mean accidental mistake.
Filling the house of Commons with a bunch of legal eagles who take it up the proverbial as well as their female counterparts, you couldn’t expect any other. They have no Honour should be the cry and without it we don’t have a representative democracy., Last time I voted I didn’t vote for fraud or to pay some over inflated bill etc. Lets have a proper clear out and replace these sh-t houses with people of merit.
Beckett’s Arse says.
Horsey was one of the fraudster’s, sorry accidental mistakists.
Surely sour but very intelligent Widdicombe would be best, if she is not going to the fair.
She’s a gargoyle aright.
They should rush through an early day motion to make her wear a bag over her head.
She’s trash – remember how she rushed from TV station to radio station to say how wonderful Tony was for slaughtering 100,000+ Iraqis, and that the falsified dossier about WMDs was 1st rate clear evidence.
She’s filth of the lowest order – a fugly Nazi whore.
I hope she burns in Hell but Satan might be frightened of her hideous face.
Bitch perverted the course of justice in mid-July 1997. Any earlier examples of crooked behaviour by NuLabour?
She claimed £1,000 on her expenses for ‘scaffolding’. Erk what has she got planned ?
And to think people criticise a certain Roman Emporer for ensenatoring his horse!
Is this why Frank Field didn’t stand for speaker? Everyone seemed to think he was one of the good guys because his second home allowance was relatively low. But now we know that is because he has a very small mortgage but he makes up for it with £1000 a pop unreceipted claims.
See The Sainted Frank Field’s halo slps.
correct. hang the stooges not promote them innit.
margaret beckett is having a fucking larf.
the iranians have still got our two boats, the boats they stole from our navy during magaret beckett’s tenure as foreign secretary.
if she had offered her caravan in exchange for the boats the iranians would have given the navy back its property.
she chose not to do that because she values her caravan jaunts to devon above the national interest.
selfish fucking bitch.
and what an ugly fucker!
the c’unt looks like skeletor for fucks sake.
note to beckett: fuck off you war criminal.
Here Here, I am pleased we ain’t lost our sense of humour. But you are right about here looks
They’ve desectrated my passport, ruined my country our pride and our wealth, these thieves and traitors. Enough is enough – call an election
With possibly two exceptions, why are Nulabour women so ugly. The rumour mill has it that if Horsey Beckett should make it to become ‘speaker’ the Speaker’s chair is to be replaced by a horse box. Instead of “order, order” she will shout “Nay, Nay”. God I hate this excuse for a woman.
I assume the two exceptions haven’t yet taken the bags off their heads ?
I object to people saying she looks like a horse! Horses are beautiful – she ain’t.
Unfortunately, on good report, she still buys her clothes in Derby, at our expense probably.
To be honest I couldn’t give a tinker’s dam what she looks like. Widdecombe would make a much better Speaker despite, let’s be honest, looking like a smacked arse.
What infuriates me about Beckett is her sheer bloody arrogance. I’ll not forget her on QT, snottily preaching that the proles simply “didn’t understand” the pressures of having to claim expenses to run three homes (the home, the second home and the grace-and-favour home). She typifies the condescending “we know best – we will think for you, your lives are too insignificant for us to listen to you” attitude of this bunch of discredited scum.
Beckett is going to get the chair and if you thought Gorbals was bad watch out because this horrible excuse for woman as a real partisan bitch. This is a serious issue and if she gets the speakers job it is a major step back for the country.
She could have a complete make-over, courtesy of the many expert tv pundits. To remove the words NEWLABOUR that run through her like a stick of rock might be more difficult.
Beckett .. the original “Screaming Skull” …
The comments here are a trifle unkind. This woman deserves our respect; she can’t help being an ugly Hunt with a face like an Egyptian mummy.
She could wear a Burqa!
I hope she gives back that £22,000 that she was accidentally overpaid, and let us have a butchers at our flowers she bought, on our behalf, etc. Only Fair !
Then, with a written, humble apology, I MIGHT be able to face PMQs
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Obviously Kitty Ussher is one of the exceptions?
The reason people are syaing that Mrs Beckett looks like a horse is because Mr Guido Spoons has put up the wrong picture. That is from the biography of George Formby, The Transvestite Years.
Best that she wears the speaker’s wig back-to-front if she makes it to the chair for the benefit of the troughers’ eyes..the clerks will be ok as they face the same way!!!
We don’t need another horse as Speaker for chrissakes. I thought that Caligula did this enough.
Barnsley Labour MP Eric Illsley over-claimed council tax by £6,000, other over-claimers include David Blunkett and Beverley Hughes, yet all you hear about on the BBC are a couple of Tories who over-claimed a few hundred.
Cmon we can’t exactly lay Blame at Blind Pew’s door. He could’nt see what he was signing, Or is that the reason Blair had him in the cabinet? What a bunch of scamsters i mean hamsters they fu—–g stink
Arrest Blunkett the thief, shagger, rail ticket, nanny, whorehouse operative, arrest him, arrest him. Everyman woman and dog crooks in ther whorehouse of commons laughs at us, robs us of our childrens pocket money. Arrest them, arrest them, Bwwwaaaaarrrrrgggghhhhh
They have committed fraud.
Seems to me the really snidey expenses scams are hidden amidst the Additional office costs,MacShane claimed for 4 digital cameras in 2 years was he giving them out as christmas presents,also a £1,275 purchase from Currys that was totally *Redacted* £1 to 1p says it was a flat screen tele.
and who needs 4 computers in 2 years
Blunkett’s dog doesn’t deserve to do time with him.
Yes it does; – cocking a leg at the rest of us, weeing on our green and pleasant hills, our palastine.
Air Canada say they’re going to allow dogs and cats to go in the aircraft as hand-luggage. So you thought skriking kids were bad? How about a fretting dog barking through your mid-flight repast or snooze? Or, whoops! the smell of dog-shit from Toronto to LHR. Nice.
Ilsley was a shoo-in when the previous MP for Barnsley Central, Roy Mason, managed to wheedle himself a Lordship.
ive been robed blind but never been robed by the blind
That’s “robed” as in “did you dress yourself in the dark?”, is it?
Ill believe it when I see/hear it, but “Hope springs eternal in the human breast”
If we are to believe these lot of Scoundrels, then it seems none of them can add up or for that matter fill in mortgage or council tax details correctly. If this is the case then they are all a bunch of imbeciles, however as we all know this is not the case and just another attempt at lying. No wonder this country is in the S–t with this lot of fraudsters trying unsuccessfully to run it. Blairs governments successful attack on the Rule of law has helped to garner this situation.
Clerarly there was a CONSPIRACY to defraud going on. One or two maybe. But for 50 to overclaim on Council Tax means that they must have been discussing this in the bars.
Well pointed out sir. Conspiracy to defraud the crown not a very nice crime but a one I am sure the Police could advance with vigour. How about the proceeds of crime act. These lot enacted it so lets see them show how much they have really made from the compounded yearly frauds they have had the benefit of
Well it seems so doesn’t it. We’ve been had over big time as our six year old said yesterday ‘why are there criminals in charge of our schools’? very clever.
“our Schools”? State schools are run for the benefit of the state, not the children incarcerated in them, or the parents who place them there.
Proceeds of Crime Act was only introduced to deal with real crime like fishing boats that catch a few cod too many
And, who are their accountants? They must be incompetent, or maybe just forgetful?
They gave Ashley Mote (ex MEP) 9 months jail for alleged fraud. He says it was alleged.
I wonder what the FIRST convicted MP will get.? Community Service – cleaning out the Commons ?
He, or she, could mow David Blunkett’s lawn !
Don’t be too sure…when it appears we’re in a near-impossible situation, there’s always one card left to play…..
Yeah .. and you, along with all yer mates won’t be backward at coming forward when the time comes to “play” it either .. Cheating, lying scumbag hoons .. the lot of ‘em ..
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
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Like throwing red meat to the lions you mean?
er you misunderstand the situation old man.
in this country, if a person commits a fraud, it does not matter whether or not that person knew they were committing a fraud: a fraud has still been committed.
it is all very well for corrupt politicians to regurgitate that childish line to the public and press, but an MP who appears in court to answer fraud charges would be very well advised to not waste the court’s time with such fanciful tales.
an MP up on fraud charges would be best advised to prepare a real defense.
if they can.
the main question is this; is the prosecution of what appears to be systematic and organised fraud committed by MPs a matter of public interest?
only a madman would argue that it is not.
if these fraudsters are not tried and convicted then our laws and courts and police will have failed us.
and so we will have to take the law into our own hands.
my favourite idea at the moment is this: considering how keen the new labour war and torture party is on occupation, we should storm the commons, eject the MPs into the thames and occupy the house of commons until we get a general election.
obviously the police would use machine guns to mow as down as we make our way across the commons lawns but I will be in the front line and am willing to peacefully make my way into the house. if I am cut down by heavy police machine gun fire as I make my peaceful way then so be it.
if that is what is necessary for us to reclaim our democracy from these dogs then that is what we will have to do.
that is the price.
who is for?
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We’re sending a hard disk over by taxi.
Seriously, Tat. I’m thinking the industrial revolution what seems to be taking pace may well end up at Westminster, in which case I shall join my brothers and sisters there. What I’m saying is we still need a catylist even though in other proud natiions what we’ve had so far would have been enough already but we’re British and have a higher threshold to tip over.
Let’s give the Old Bill a fair crack of the whip first, shall we? I’m not confident they’ll do the job on these scummy thieving shits that they would on the rest of us, but maybe they’ll surprise us for once. Just maybe. Let the investigation proceed first…..
What a sterling offer Old Chap. If you get gunned down and I really hope you don’t, can I have your watch as it won’t be of any use to you?
Regards
Yes, TaT. I share your view and – as a 70 year old with the best of my life behind me – I would be happy to join you on the front ranks. However, Closing in @ 297 has a fair point in saying “let the old bill have a fair crack first…” BUT can we trust old bill? I don’t, and in any case the whole exercise will be another whitewash, as will Brown’s Inquiry – just like Hutton etc.
So, where do we sign up and when do we march?
ofcourse we will give the courts the opportunity to do their job.
but should they fail to mete out justice to the fraudsters, we, the honest citizens, will be compelled to intervene.
note to self: check ebay for bullet proof vests.
You can be sure it will be a complete whitewash. Going through the motions, soundbites etc and then nothing. Would the same happen to joe public given tax evasion, wrongly claiming for benefits etc – NO. It is why so many people are furious one law for them and another for joe public.
I thought that on the expense forms it says that the expenses incurred were to be wholly necessary for the duties as an MP. That being so, then it is fraud. More importantly, it has to be a massive criminal conspiracy esp. with the fees office and the government!
Yep .. absolutely correct …
“Rusty” Stephenson wants his Peerage .. so won’t permit mere “Justice” to obstruct it …
Is it safe to come out yet ?
“Back Story”. What’s that all about then?
Shunning the Bercow sounds like something done on village greens with inflated pigs bladders on long July evenings, with cider and healthy rutting with apple cheecked wenches behind hedgerows afterwards.
If wet, to be held in village hall.
You won’t persuade me to hold a wet Bercow even if tea and buns are provided.
What about little sausages, cubes of cheese AND a piece of pineapple on cocktail sticks? Would that do it?
He does look louche, doesn’t he?
Wasn’t it BERCOW who wanted to hang Nelson Mandela ?
He’s not all bad then??
Mags is a problematic choice but I guess she was shit loads better than Millytwat….hmmm….
Sorry but I do not agree. Time will tell but my view is gorbals will turn out far better speaker than Beckett, which is not saying much. Hope I am wrong.
Reminds me of a line in a Roddy Doyle novel where someone asks the difference between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. “The same as the difference between shit and shite” came the reply.
I’m worried about where poor Margaret Beckett is going to park her caravan !
I’ll park it wherever I like mate if I’m neposited into the Speakers chair
Beckett the favourite, at least they won’t have to change all the “Mr Speaker” stationary.
Amusing comment – it would certainly be amusing to have a Speaker who looks like the back of one of her publicly funded caravans. But it wouldn’t do. Three Labour Speakers in a row would be taking the proverbial, plus Beckett is one of the serial troughers in Parliament. I am with Frank Field in today’s Telegraph – he wants Ann Widdecombe, since she has clean hands on expenses, is a formidable personality and she only wants the job until the next election to clean up Parliament and its reputation.
Widders for Speaker says I ! The People’s choice.
But could you bear to hear her rather strident tones from the chair?
ANYTHING’s better that what we’ve had for the last few years.
Bring back Betty Boothroyd!
I don’t give a carrot if the speaker is lab or con. I want the speaker to be unbiased,unlikely to be intimidated and have some awareness of reality.
Widdy is the only one who fits the bill.
YES!
Yes I agree – although she isn’t squeaky clean over her expenses. She did claim for gardening – didn’t she?
And it surely isn’t right that there should be third Labour speaker in a row.
A thrid laobur speaker in the row would be just one more example of Labour trashing our constitutional arrangements for party politcal gain. If she gets in, the Tories should refuse to endorse her position and make her a “lame duck” and replace her after the next GE. Would she really want to follow Martin and be sacked rather then resign?
Beckett is compromised by her earlier Ministerial incompetence and expense claims. She is just in it for herself and the perks. Nothing has changed.
Labour are traitors.
Join the Midsummer Revolution.
Don’t forget the patio heaters. Absolutely necessary for her to carry out her roll as an MP. The new speaker, in order to attempt to regain the trust of the public must be squeaky clean – mission impossible I think.
Hear hear. I completely agree with you point. However, if she gets in unlikely tories will move away from protocol better if she does not get the chair in the first place. Cameron needs to act and act now. No votes from tory MP’s and she is out of the race. simples!
What about getting rid of Gordon as PM and putting him in the Speaker’s Chair? He’d keep his eye on one side !
I think the question should be were Margaret Becket and Ken Dodd separated at birth, I’m sure that I’m not the only one to notice the resemblance and wasn’t Doddy done for being on the fiddle too?
No, but then his trial was in Liverpool.
Ah ok, I’ve just looked it up my mistake I was still in school at the time, forgot the details of the case, let’s just hope that Becket doesn’t get the same judge then if charges are brought against her, mind you I can’t see the “Some accountants are comedians, but comedians are never accountants” quip working in her favour but a modification to it might “Some accountants are comedians, but MP’s are never comedians or accountants as they’re the ones who are laughing at us”.
Didn’t they go to the same accountancy school?
on being made Speaker, they are supposed to sever links with their original parties. It should not matter which party they are from.
And voting is on individual basis, so party lobbying of any kind is disgraceful and I’m waiting ot hear someone properly denounce it.
Given that both seem impossible to achieve this time, suggest speaker is appointed by popular vote from people who have never been connected with any political party. The job is to force parliament to do its job; to provide proper protection for those MPs who are doing their job, to hold in check those things – parties and government mostly – which prevent them.
I don’t think any elected politician should be allowed anywhere near the Chair. I’d want to put in a senior army officer – someone like Tim Collins or General Jackson for example – who would require the same standards of behaviour from MPs and Civil Servants as would be expected of serving soldiers.
It would come as a shock, I can tell you.
what an excellent idea! Gen Jackson for Speaker. Come to think of it, wouldn’t the army do a better job of running the whole show?
stationEry.
Yes, but I’ve just learnt that it’s wistAria and who fusses about that, especially in a quickly typed internet comment?!
Don’t think her voice will stand up to the strain……oooooorder, oooooorder. She is already wheezing and croaking.
A horse will naturally snort out its nose, especially when at work. Just this symptom does not mean the horse is or may be ill. Look for other symptoms like raspy or irregular breathing or discharge that is a yellow or green color from the nose. A higher temperature and or cough. Just a snotty nose (clear snot)is not enough to say that this horse is ill.
Stephen Twigg(he who replaced Portillo as MP for Enfield(?) has been parachuted into standing for the safe labour seat seat(is there now such a thing)of Liverpool West Derby. The constituency includes my beloved Knotty Ash. He had on his website a petition for Doddy to get a knighthood which amazingly disappeared about the same time as all the expense scandal started. This twat Twiggy was shamelessly being populist in trying to appear like he knows what the people want. Unfortunatly we only want people to pay their share. Piss of back home you gobsh*te.
Love Dixie
Tribal newlabour, Mr. Twigg.
Don’t read too much into this betting market. Only £20K has been bet in total on the Speaker. Lots of bets of many times this amount have been placed on single horses at Royal Ascot this week.
Thank you for that insight into the world of gambling, very informative
With a weak market like this any one of them could make themselves favourite with a bet of one month’s stolen mortgage interest.
A necessary and knowledgable post Let the people decide.
It’s clear that on such a specialised bet as this the bookies are hardly to be relied upon.
Becketts disasterous appearance on QT will give the backbenches huge pause as they don’t want someone like that drawing ire from the voters after Martin.
And George Young is a Political relic of a bygone era who is the last person they need to implement much needed reform.
George Young would be a MUCH better choice than the gypsy rover.
He’s a rather huge trougher. And having one of the Big Piggies as the Speaker just won’t fly.
His old Etonion Baronet background also makes it a certainty the Labour backbenches will keep him out.
At least he knows how to wear a suit!
The bookies are hesitant about accepting bets since the world these creatures inhabit is full of corruption.
I bet £20k on Margaret Beckett.
I thought she was running at Royal Ascot!
shes running at ascot you couldnt find any body to throw a leg over her
It’ll be Beckett by half a length.
My first laugh of the day. Not bad.
I laughed my fuckin arse off , honey .
E x .
Go to bed princess. You must be wankered.
Yes, Bravo again. You must be tired Ewanme. May I add that your contribution to the Iraq enquiry debate is worth a lot. It was heartfelt and true. Thank you.
Oh , cheers Sir Muffy x .
Wotever I do (which ain’t a lot) , I do to the best of my ability .
I can get that published in the DT but every time I say d███k on here , I get bounced .
Fuckin weird .
E x .
See post 22!
LMAO , honey !!!
You extracted the first non self-induced giggle from me , today !!
E xx .
Bet Jackboots’ husband would get there first!
Will honourable (sic) members be able to keep a straight face when the tellers say ‘The neighs have it’?
They may keep ‘straight’ faces but I’ll be ROTFLMAO coz I’m immature an normally quite drunk .
E x .
I used to be a responsible adult quitley bringing up my family and working hard for a living. Then This shower of thieving bastards stole my pension and taxed me to buggery. Not only that but the Utility companies have now licence to bugger you with extortionate Bills and nobody says boo. Then I saw how this Government encouraged dependency and exarcerbated a growing underclass thriving on benefits by doing nothing in return !!!
So I thought bugger this responsibility thing lets just get pissed ” ooerrrr get yer tits out for the Boys !”
For some reason I’m bein moderated ???
Every time I mention the word ‘drunk’ , somethin heavy happens .
It ain’t like I’ve made anyone drink to excess an piss their pants an choke on their own vomit x .
Grow up E x .
Excellent!
You fuckin done it again !!
Stop givin me the ebeegeebies will ya ??
Ta.
E x .
Order, winnie, order, winnie, order if you don’t allow the dis-honerable to continue I’ll give you a clop ’round the ear
It would be so unfair to be saddled with Beckett. Then again maybe she’s being voted for in the spur of the moment
LOL Clop round the ear FFS! Sounds like the plod in allo’ allo’
Beckett by a horses face.
Neigh,neigh a thousand times neigh..
More like a horse’s arse.
Rentboys ringpiece more like.
You’re mixing her up with Mandy !
She’s the one who, when asked if she is going to pay back the money she had thieved replied, ‘I am not!’
I can’t stand the thought of having to look at that haughty, imperious (not to mention unprepossessing) look every time I watch PMQs.
Don’t worry. Every time Beckett appears on the telly that’s thousands more votes lost for Labour.
She’s almost as repulsive and as big a turn off as Brown himself.
And she’s shed-dragger too!!
WTF’s a dred-shagger , honey ???
One needs to know these things .
E x .
Pulls caravans…
bout the only thing she has pulled in her life I suspect
…. apart from that funny face ??
She can pull her caravan into the HOC car park and offer Gypsy Rose Beckett furtune readings for the troughing MP’s on there next job move. Doubt there will be many employers wnating their services!
We could dock it from her wages.
She gets the job, in my book, provided she flogs her caravan, and pays us back ! Fair enough ?
What about Mandy? Anyone who falls out of line would be whipped, humiliated in an s&m dungeon and placed in stocks, while the Baron of Foy charged in from the rear. Suits you, sir.
We are having a full dress rehearsal on Thursday evening at 8pm and your presence will be required polly.
Drinks will be served from 7.30pm.
Please do bring a friend.
Count me in!
Is anyone invited?
I think Beckett would do a good job. Though Id prefer Widdecomb if she werent going to leave so quickly.
Beckett would do a good job of protecting weak, cowardly Brown in PMQs which is all that matters anymore in this pathetic, wretched excuse of a Parliament.
She’s got form. I’ve seen her on Question Time on a number of occasions defending Brown like she was his mother!
you do talk some drivvle. Nobody should be elected to the speaker’s job until we have a general election, and even then the system will be totally flawed.
Beckett is Gordon’s candidate. Gordon needs help at PMQs and Beckett’s going to come through for him.
Exactly. And the fact anyone is even discussing the other options means you just don’t get it.
Beckett will be ‘elected’ to keep the executive sweet and away from prying eyes. Just as Martin did.
Wot about the Beeb’s favoured candidate ??? Some Asian guy – I think he’s a MP ?
E x .
Leaving quickly is a good thing. She’ll do the job until the end of this parliamentary term and then a newly elected parliament will get to choose a new speaker. What could be better – at least for the tories.
If they get Margaret Beckett now they are stuck with her until she decides to retire – through this parliament and the next!!!!
The Toried have to say that they will allow the next Government to choose their own Speaker. That would make her position untenable.
And don’t tell me that the House cannont unseat a Speaker. Labour have trashed the Constitution for their own ends. If the Tories make the election of a new speaker a manifesto pledge, then they will have a mandate which will trump all else.
Labour are self serving traitors.
Good point in a future manifesto as a pledge would for me as long as its any party but labour they never keep pledges. Lisbon treaty etc.
She’d need a plastic job first, Q. Can that be fiddled on expenses.
I’m sure we could run to a box of lego and a tube of superglue
Oh no, anything but a god lover!
Good job! Christ what planet have you been on these last 12 years. The woman is completely useless.
Beckett bought £600 worth of hanging baskets. How exactly are they going to help her do her job in parliament?
She’s as bad as the rest of them. Nothing will change.
£600, six hundred quid? Where did she buy them from, bloody Babylon?
Yes, they were hanging baskets, so they must have come from Babylon.
When she bought them, she thought they said “hanging bastards” !
But she needs a few flowers to remind herself of her femininity.
Yes well I keep phalic cactus but I don’t charge ‘em to the taxpayer
would have though carrots would have been more to her taste but still
Let’s all talk about it then!
Who was the giver and who was the taker?
Or, who was the horse and who was the jockey.
God, not Old Mother Horse Face. We don’t want to have to look at her during PMQs.
Any push for beckett is another in the eye for Britains image here and abroad and apart from being aesthetically challenged she looks as though she’s been on the sherry when I watch her. Whilst I shall not be voting Conservative whilst Dave is their leader I do believe Anne Widdecombe would be better in the role if we leave out facial diplomacy
LOL , petal !!
Hmmm . Diplomacy ?? Remind me again .
E x .
This is the same Beckett who as Foreign Secretary would get so drunk at official functions her close protection officers would have to carry her down the stairs?
She’s got Anti-sway Bars on her Anti-Sway Bars. When she’s towing she keeps up to speed by breathing into her carbureator.
Head First ? Or legs akimbo ?
off topic,sorry,
Gordon Brown has said in the guardian today “i could walk away from this tomorrow”.If he goes to “petition to resign”on his number 10 website, he will find 68,045 agree with him (as of saturday 20th. june at 9,30 a.m.) i say to him “please take their advice “and go..not tomorrow..do it today.
But please do not go into teaching, as this profession needs communication skills that you clearly do not have, i suggest sheep farming in a remote part of Scotland ..perhaps the Outer Hebrides , michael.
Ewe must be joking we don’t want a one eyed twat chasing us through the heather.
Mind you I hear the climate is quite good in Wales and the sheep are quite attracted to incompetent political morons who cannot take a hint
Signed: Angus McSporran
Chief Ram
sorry to have upset you Angus Mcsporran,i do feel your pain,a mountain top in wales will suffice,michael.
All gob and no plank, or is that all plank and a gob?
You’ve got your mother and your brother
Every other undercover
Tellin’ you what to say (say)
You think I’m stupid
But the truth is
That it’s cupid, baby
Lovin’ you has made me this way
So before you point your finger
Get your hands off of my trigger
Oh yeah
You need to know this situation’s getting old
And now the more you talk
The less I can take, oh
I’m looking for attention
Not another question
Should you stay or should you go?
Well, if you don’t have the answer
Why are you still standin’ here?
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Just walk away
Just walk away
Just walk away
I waited here for you
Like a kid waiting after school
So tell me how come you never showed (showed)?
I gave you everything
And never asked for anything
And look at me
I’m all alone (alone)
So, before you start defendin’
Baby, stop all your pretendin’
I know you know I know
So what’s the point in being slow
Let’s get the show on the road today
Hey
I’m looking for attention
Not another question
Should you stay or should you go?
Well, if you don’t have the answer
Why are you still standin’ here?
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Just walk away
Just walk away
Just walk away
I wanna love
I want a fire
To feel the burn
My desires
I wanna man by my side
Not a boy who runs and hides
Are you gonna fight for me?
Die for me?
Live and breathe for me?
Do you care for me?
‘Cause if you don’t then just leave
I’m looking for attention
Not another question
Should you stay or should you go?
Well, if you don’t have the answer
Why are you still standin’ here?
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Just walk away
If you don’t have the answer
Walk away
Just walk (walk) away
(Just walk away)
Then just leave
Yeah yeah
Walk away
Walk away
Walk away
Darling you got to let me know
Should I stay or should I go?
If you say that you are mine
I’ll be here ’til the end of time
So you got to let me know
Should I stay or should I go?
It’s always tease tease tease
You’re happy when I’m on my knees
One day is fine, the next is black
So if you want me off your back
Well come on and let me know
Should I Stay or should I go?
Should I stay or should I go now?
Should I stay or should I go now?
If I go there will be trouble
An’ if I stay it will be double
So come on and let me know
This indecision’s bugging me
If you don’t want me, set me free
Exactly who’m I’m supposed to be
Don’t you know which clothes even fit me?
Come on and let me know
Should I cool it or should I blow?
Should I stay or should I go now?
Should I stay or should I go now?
If I go there will be trouble
And if I stay it will be double
So you gotta let me know
Should I cool it or should I blow?
Should I stay or should I go now?
If I go there will be trouble
and if I stay there will be double?
So you gotta’ let me know!
Should I stay or should I go
Just one hornetto, give ‘em to me
corruption, in all honesty..
just let them be
I read a book called “Life among the Hebrides” but it was all about a group of bloody islands.
Try one on The Isle of Man next.
If we’re going for horse-faced c*nts, Ruud van Nistelroy should throw his hat in the ring. Don’t miss Margaret in the 3.40 at Ascot this afternoon
His strong Protestant persuasion has of course scuppered his chances with the hordes of Scotch Labour vermin in Parliament who hold power over the hard working, coping English.
£94 Million a year in expenses:
646 Troughers downstairs
746 Troughers in the Upper House
=£67,528 per trougher
Nice work if you can get it.
At least that Uddin is under investigation:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5582211/MPs-expenses-Police-open-criminal-inquiry-into-MPs-and-peers.html
Probably skip back to Bangladesh… extended holiday to see her extended family.
Guido stuffs Bercow’s chances! And Brown threatens to take his ball home and we lose trial by jury.
I was a couple of years behind Bercow at university and he was a regular visitor. (Harvey Proctor was a local MP) He is a truly nasty piece of work. The beliefs he held and regularly talked on were apalling. But it is what he said and did in private that was the most concerning. The idea that “he found girls in his 30′s” is laughable – I really hope some of the girls who were connected to the Conservative students in the mid 80s come forward-if they do he is GONE. His views on race and religion were shocking and even by the standards of that time were off the scale.
I agree your views and opinions can change over life but the things he came out with were from the heart not the head and I simply do not believe he is fit to be an MP let alone Speaker.
I strongly suspect that his raised profile will bring him down as there are so many skeletons in his closet. As we speak I bet there are ex students busy rummaging through the attic looking for old photoalbums from uni.
You must always remember we need people of ill character at the heart of government so that if in the event they don’t do as they are told we can always out them in the News of the World. Why do you think Tony Went to War. That Politics today
Fuck me. Harvey Procter. There’s a blast from the past. If you hadn’t reminded me that it was a person I would have sailed through life thinking it was a treatment for piles. Cheers for saving me from making a fool of myself in Boots.
I had the supreme misfortune of meeting Harvey Proctor!
I was pitching (illegal street trading) Hollywood style temporary tattoos on Richmond High street, early ’90′s.
Art! No competition to the shops!
When a very obnoxious hoon came along and told me to go away and that if I did not then he would call Old Bill!
Didn’t go and 10 minutes later Old Bill turned up and asked me to move along.
They were polite and friendly and asked me if I knew who had grassed me up?
‘That was Harvey Proctor. He works for Richmond Chamber of Commerce.’
We all laughed and I left!
PS:
Coo Coo Ewanme Honey!
Old Nick xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hiya Old Nick , honey xx .
How is my no.1 fan doin , petal ???
Wicked , I hope !!
Big fondness E xx .
Fuck me !!!
Is that true , Nick , petal ???
I thought I’D led a sad life !!!
E x .
P.S. Sorry for ignorin the topic Guido x .
BTW – somethin keeps makin a farty noise from ur site . Bit like a mouse tryin to play the trombone . WTF is it ???
E x .
Yo Ewanme.
Everthing is mega wicked! The tale is true!
Harvey is not the only famous whore that I have met!
I met Cristine Kieller, twice!
A very shy woman! Looks just like any ordinary housewife!
I have had a very exciting life, most of which is unrepeatable in company!
57 years old and the youthful Mrs H has a mini baguette in the oven (planned)!
Still your No 1 fan. Where’s Brenda Laclustre?
Love from the Belgian Ardennes (fucking delicious).
Old Nick
I’m not sure I would ever use the phrase “Fuck me Harvey Proctor”
Well not unless I was a rent boy in need of an extra 20 quid as a ti anyway.
Bercow will be at home then, won’t he?
are you saying Bercow is a nonce?
Ill-advised and unlikely, as that would be a slander. Unless it were written down, in which case it would be libellous instead.
One thing is sure though, I am still a massive hoon.
No comment.
I’m Bert, Bert, I haven’t a shirt
But my people are well off you know….
I have just left a similar post at #34 were you at Essex Univ in the mid 80′s?
Those of you out there who were and knew Bercow and other young Tories of the time get the truth out now this man is a shit and needs to go.
If that’s for me, I’m afraid I wasn’t. I frequently have Sunday lunch in his constituency though, so will ask some of the good burghers their opinion. Not this Sunday though – the GP traffic will be murder.
Not Bercow, but I was at Uni with Gordon. He hasn’t changed much – back then he was a devious, manipulative bully with very poor social skills. Oh, and his thesis was piss-poor. If the external and internal examiners hadn’t been Labour party stooges, I doubt he would have passed.
Nepotism. Labour love all that.
We do not need anyone associated with the New Liar project in any position of power in Parliament. They have discredited the place enough.
Convention is that the position is rotated between the two main parties.
If this happens then Cameron has to break with protocol and make clear the position of Speaker is gonna be re-visited after the next GE
Bercow is a political choice to piss of Dave + Co
For Fuck’s sake when are we going to get some sense and propriety from the assembled twats.
can I get a bet on Beckette through The Horserace Totalisator Board?
Probably not, but try The Horseface Totalisator Board.
T’is a pity vince cable is not in the running.
….and we’re under starter’s order-orders!
Nay Nay, a false start sir.
Brown: ‘I Could Walk Away At Any Moment’
So why don’t you?
Brown – “I could be a teacher ”
What of???!!!
Geography. He could find a use for that moral compass of his.
In that case I hope he is better at Geography than Ubber Trougher Eric Joyce whos Travel expenses make his contituency of Falkirk appear to sit on the Arctic Circle !
defence against the dark arts
Morning Nell, still no answer to our question as to why the majority of the claim forms are in the same handwriting?
Be interesting to see if the 2008/2009 expenses which should be published soon carry the same hand writing won’t it??
Is the writing thick marker pen?
His degree is in history. I can’t wait until he’s part of it. I should not want the Great Lump of Misery to teach children because of the high risk of suicide amongst the pupils.
Brown said, “To be honest YOU could walk away from all of this tomorrow.”
It’s a peculiarity of his – he uses ‘you’ when he means ‘I’ .The interviewer speculates that it is his way of distancing himself from unpleasant possibilities.
Just as he talks of ‘walking away from all this’ to infer he is not addicted to the power of his office. Which is clearly nonsense -because he is!!!!
He also said he was never much good at communication. In the next breath he said he would like to go into teaching. How does that work, then?
The days of throwing the blackboard rubber at a misbehaving pupil are long gone, but Gordon’s is well-practised in the art of mobile ‘phone throwing.
I think he’s trying to say that ‘you’ or anybody else would walk away but not ‘me’. I’m getting on with the job because it’s the right thing to do and I’m going to see this through to the end and fuck the country up completely.
He’s just pretending he’s a senior member of the royal family.
This is a very deliberate, cleverly thought-through, long-term play – it comes across rather as a classic Mandleson softening-up operation to quieten the Labour benches.
The next phase would be to talk quietly of an ordered transition, making Gordon look noble in defeat and making Mandelson the kingmaker. The aim is to force potential successors to do a deal with him or risk looking destructive.
The counter thesis – that Labour badly needs a clearout and a period of proper blood-letting and policy freefall so that it can recover its connection with voters – will be rejected as anarchic meltdown and Gordon will be presented as ‘the only alternative’ to such a prospect.
Opponents this autumn will find themselves obliged to argue for self destruction or to toe the line.
Even if a credible alternative leader emerged they would sort it out at a private dinner; the Leader would promise to do the difficult stuff in taking Labour through the next election and, in return for support, he would promise that at a suitable time he would step aside and let a successor take over.
The whole point is to control dissent in the period between now and the next election. Emasculated opponents have to sit by whilst Gordon and Mandelson carve up the party between them …
Hang on, haven’t they done all of this once … ?
What the gorgon really wants is to go to darkest Africa and work as a missionary. His presbyterian father was fond of Africa. The thing is, I can’t imagine what he’s going to teach. The cleverest way to climb a greasy pole?
How to be the principal ingredient of a cannibal’s lunch?
229 That would do wonders for our Export trade in Rennies.
1 in 4 SA males have raped children as young as 12.
How to ruin an economy or perhaps How to totally ignore public opinion because “its the right thing to do”.
my comment on this is” being moderated” why ? the only bad words in this were “Gordon Brown”
Try printing it again with stars for some of the vowels. It works for me – well sometimes!!!!
After reading that article on my beloved beeb, I am seeing a human side to Gordon. “He could have walked away” but chose instead the to walk the road less travelled. What a man, what a hero. Maybe just maybe he is doing it all for us. Then again, NOT. what a lying Hunt. This must be one of his many new PR staff trying for the Dickensian angle. I just find human side and Gordon as incompatible as a snake and an Elephant. Such a Hunt.
G*rd*n fucking Br*wn
242 Ok Steve Expat that made me laugh!!!! There’s no logic to some of this moderating is there???
because the CIA have told him to stay put.
he hasn’t finished his list of jobs for them yet: ID cards, Trident, covering up his and American war crime in Iraq, supporting the American thieves in Vietnam er, I mean Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan and protecting American banking, commercial and legal interests in Great Britain.
and he is carrying out all these CIA chores at the expense of the British Taxpaying Electorate.
what a fucking traitor, eh?
should be strung up really.
We don’t hang traitors now, we give them honours, and lots of lot !
It isn’t the Yanks we have to fear, it is the EUSSR. They want the ID cards etc.
Leave Trident alone. It is one of the few weapons we have that works, came in under budget, completed early, and is cheap. Yes I did say cheap. The MoD civil servants cost per month the same as Trident costs per year.
Yeah, of course you could, Gormless.
I could win the Lotto today but the odds will still be 14 million to 1.
I think I’ve got a better chance of winning the Lotto than of seeing you EVER ‘walk away’.
Indeed, why doesn’t he just feck off….perhaps it’s all part of the plan to discredit the UK Parliament in favour of total rule from Brussels….over my dead body.
Hang em all and hang em high – then put REAL people to work sorting out the ‘ordo’ ready to rise from the Phoenician ashes ‘ab chao’ as orchestrated.
“Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them”.
As for Gordy becoming a teacher, I’ve heard he likes children….but wouldn’t it be a good idea for HIM to at least have learned some lessons in humility and how to become an honest, responsible and sovereign human being first before he’s let loose indoctrinating our future generations with Fabian “socialism” aka FASCISM??
If this is the new PR guy, it’s not working for me! Mills and Boone eat your heart out.
Hi!!
Keep the plan quiet a bit longer!!
Pretty sure that the Dear Leader would not get through any vetting procedures to become a teacher. Anyway, the only vetting procedure I would like to apply to him would involve a rusty, blunt pair of gelding shears!
“Teachers need to have enthusiasm, patience, a sense of humour and the ability to communicate…They must be capable of building good relationships with their students in order to encourage pupils to realise their potential. Teachers need the social and communication skills to manage large groups of children..”
Department for Education and Employment (now DCSF) publication
Sounds like the title for a song.
Extract from an interview with Gordon Brown in today’s Guardian:
“Gordon Brown meets me in the garden of No 10, and looks like a man without a care in the world. His skin is peachy and fresh. His 58-year-old face is surprisingly unlined, despite the sometimes windswept little pouch under his chin that makes him look so haggard in photographs. His stripy, liquorice allsort hair is shiny”
Is this an attempt by the Bunker Crew to inflate another Brown Bounce?
Must have a doppelganger
Every time I see him of TV he looks one step off death
Christ that Katharine Viner must have sucked his little dick before interviewing him. And the point is the guy does look like he doesn’t have a care in the world, he’s autistic you Hunt he doesn’t have feelings. He’s fucking Rain Man isn’t he? his episode at PMQ’s this week surely show how insane he is. The best answer was, 6457 6497 6487 6660. He looked so happy at that answer.
“His stripy, liquorice allsort hair is shiny”
His what?! Having disturbing visions of GB as some sort of fairytale gingerbread man…
The food metaphors here indicate that the writer has a subconscious desire to eat the PM.
I feel queasy.
He looks like dog food regergitated with black mould on
No no no, she’s inadvertently got something here. Remember Doctor Who and the Happiness Patrol? What a brilliant analogy.
http://www.drwho-online.co.uk/episodes/bbcvideo_happinesspatrol.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mickey_glitter/2255233463/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/happinesspatrol/
Gordon Brown is the Kandyman
Sounds like something outta Lucy in the sky with Diamonds, what the hell are they serving with the canopes inNumber 10 these days ?
I do not know the man and have had no communications from him
He must have been at the monkey glands, or else the Mandelson the Lord High Everything Else had demonic possession of him at the time.
He’s alright, he’s just finding his way. Mandy is right there behind him. That should bring a smile to his face !
Nah .. Mandy’s giving him a daily rub-down with that stuff the Soviets used to use on Lenin’s corpse …
Yes, mandleson is right behind him, but who’s stuck onto the rest of him? shaun, late of the tory party of course.
As I’ve said previously, pass the sick bucket please
Puke double puke. Must be a spoof though, surely? Sounds Mills and Boon
How can they write this shyte when he looks more like a three-flush floater?
Is this an attempt by the Bunker Crew to inflate another Brown Bounce?
No, it’s just a guardian puff piece! We all know he looks as good as he is effective.
after reading that my first thought was that Flint stormed out because he turned her down for a shag!
Ah yes, the statuesque Sally. I was at college with her. She certainly had an interesting time as a student.
I wonder if Mrs Bercow is the same Sally Illman who gave that “boys will be boys” speech at the Tory Party Conference in 1993?
It a few short weeks since the Sunday newspapers were touting the Beckett creature for a return to the full cabinet in the most recent reshuffle as a Gordo-loyalist-safe-pair-of-hands. Of course that was before Michael Martin’s position was made untenable.
Yet soon after she was supposedly dismissed from the court of King Gordo and after Martin walked the plank has now emerged as front runner to be Speaker. Am I the only one to smell a large Brown rodent here?
She made a cunning move on the political chess board of life.
Its all going very well , with gordon in charge we will have a victorious 4th term , and clean up what we have been allowing for years , so read it and weep tory boys .
caesars wife accepts no responsiblity for , for describing fabian pride as deluded perhaps he/she will want to teach ??
as for betfair , Ian dale put £100 on the nose of alan hazelhurst at 40/1 , so nice jolly if he pulls it off .
I just wish ken clarke had put forward , all commentators have there view so still wide open to me
I suppose it is all subjective, but I always loathed Margaret Beckett – typical Labour female, hectoring, arrogant, convinced she knows what’s best for the proles. Where do these women come from? They’re uniformly ghastly… Flint, Cooper, Smith et al. Honourable exceptions, of course, but the norm is horrible.
She always looks as if she has a bad smell under her nose, – I had a cousin like that , once.
She does. Herself!
Put you down as a ‘maybe’ then?
Absolutely.
So, yet another new labour dung beetle emerges at the top of the putrid shithouse that is westminister…
Fucking delicious!
Wonderful use of words, Fucking A+++!!!!
Much appreciated CWR. I enjoy reading the comments you make.
Regards…
Fucking delicious!
Beckett’s a shoe-in? Not at my forge she’s not.
She is the face of Eau du Singe perfumery with foundation of manure applied with a rasp file forged annealed and set to hard as nails. Someone put a twitch on her nose.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s got the hots for Cameron !
Bloody hell…so the third labour stooge in a row whatever happened to convention?
Betty wasn’t a stooge but fair point
Does she sport a ‘Brazilian’ – I like to know these things.
Have you heard about Eric Joyce New Labour’s Mp who has the highest expenses claim of all?
He is also the most cringeworthy New Labour MP
Read http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Threat-of-constituency-challenge-.5385316.jp and then watch this video to the end and cringe at Joyce when interviewed on Newsnight Scotland http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00l94hz/Newsnight_Scotland_18_06_2009/
Unbelievably this guy was also an army officer see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Joyce
Margaret Beckett – the equestrian oportunies candidate.
well she is pony
So It’s a one horse race then?
Where’s Brian Paddock when we ned him
not stalking horse then
One trick pony?????
Three Labour speakers in a row is a real issue. If she is elected the Tories and Lib Dems should make it clear it is up for challenge after the next election (assuming McTwat and Dame Mandelson deign to have one). Beckett has been a part of this rotten administration and that taints her candidacy further. If they elect her Labour is going to be seen to have party politicised the Speakers role. What a pack of hoons they are
It should be Beith I think or Cormack – longstanding MPs with a clear love of Parliament
Could not agree more your ladyship.
Widder’s is my candidate opinionated,fearless,unbiast and intelligent – what more do you want?
Beckett’s only claim to fame that I remember is the debacle over a huge cock up in farming payments that led to several farmers committing suicide and hundreds of millions in fines from the EU for not paying farmers out on time.I think she was sacked shortly after although she may have been booted upstairs instead – It’s the nu labour way.
Alan Beith?! You must be joking. Have you scrutinized his expenses?
oh god! just realised it’s that posh lady virginia again. Talking utter balderdash as usual
Bare foot and bare of intelligence as well – not Sarah Ferguson are we?
I love to suck toes and lick feet.
Now, now ladies, let’s not get bitchy!
I would would always prefer a chicken kebab rather than a donna. I only order donna when there is no chicken available. I also have an preference when presented with a choice of chicken, much preferring the tikka” option to the “ordinary”
I also like a nice Pukka pie, but they are better eaten in pairs
Would a “a brace of pukkas please” be grammatically correct?
It’s doner (kebab) you dickhead. Donna is a girl’s name.
Correct. As in organ doner.
Döner, if we’re being pedantic.
I once had a Donna kebab
It’s only a game if you win but if you lose it’s a stinking waste of time.
lol Ted i’m a big fan of your work.
Margret Beckett should prove a good Speaker, as Speakers go. I think she takes Parliament more seriously than most modern pols and she has the right mixture of intelligence and dullness. I would expect her to be unobtrusive, like a good referee.
Morning Mr. Beckett
If her performance as Speaker is anything like her performance at DEFRA then Michael Martin is going to look like Betty Boothroyd or Bernard Weatherill
You must be on something or slow on the uptake.Everything Beckett has touched has gone wrong and she has been a dedicated lickspittle to Brown since day one.
The following scenario is far more likely
P.M. approaches Beckett and asks her to be New Speaker
Beckett broadcasted for promo in reshuffle
Beckett does not get promo – mock fury – fell out with Brown
Beckett gets speaker job shoe in
Beckett carries on where Martin left off – Licking Brown’s arxx at the drop of a hat
2 or 3 weeks back Beckett was interviewed on TV in the context of expenses and, at a time when most MPs were taking the “it has affected all parties” line, she immediately attempted to make it party political by highlighting Tory abuses. This does not give me any confidence in her ability to put aside tribal loyalty.
Don’t be ridiculous, she’s tribal labour, newlabour through her like a stick of rock!
I’m replying to the lady virginia, oh how extraordinarily posh.
Do beg your pardon lady virginia , it was sir william waatsit that I was replying to.
Intelligence? The forsaken moose?
OT but entertaining nonetheless – DT is reporting that Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno is Austria’s least favourite Austrian
Astonishing for a country that produced prize shits like Hitler, Jorg Haider and Josef Fritzl.
Hey and Scotland gave the world a fat ugly one eyed gay twat who fucked up the English.
Don’t hold back old boy tell us what you really mean.
They probably don’t know he was born in Hammersmith in 1971 and is only taking the piss out of them.
MPs are queueing up for the mauure. She’ll make a packet and they can claim for it. It’s called recycling
Don’t be so foul mouthed
Anne Widdecombe is past the post – surely, in this field of donkeys
Islam is against anyone who is a member of the Caravan club
Surely not? What do you people use for camels these days? It’s not like you can use a Toyota 4×4 for much more than driving around with a load of swag.
Oh .. I don’t know .. a Toyota 4×4 is quite handy with a .50 cal Machine gun (infidel harvester) mounted on the back …
On the plus side PMQs could become “ladies day”
All female MPs could wear nice hats and the rest of us could drink champagne as we scream
“COME ON BECKETT”
Ex-cell-ent
Islam respects Widdicombe
Just as long as she isn’t one of the 72 virgins awaiting you after martyrdom – might discourage a few of them from strapping on the exploding rucksack
Who do you get on day 73?
the clap.
Margaret Beckett !
A strapacocktomy.
Only one a day? You are all old men!
It’s a specialist market
Anyone else notice that the BBC are playing down the Labour sleaze stories? If it were Tory MPs being investigated the BBC wouldn’t shut up about it.
Don’t bother with the BBC anymore – can’t get any kind of straight analysis out of them. Nick Robinson’s blog is nearly as much of a joke as Toilets Maguire’s one.
Why is the Geordie arse wipe known as “Toilets” McGuire please ? .. Do tell …
…is it because he is a Gent.?
I only watch pravda to get the government spin on things. Newsnight last night investigated an old story about the Lib Dems £2m donation and a couple of Tory MPs who were troughing. Nothing about Labour which was staggering even for them.
What’s more staggering is that the BBC would hire somebody like Kirsty Wark who is completely unintelligible.. I cannot understand a word she says..is she p………..d all the time? Her and her husband have certainly made millions our of the Scottish-and-ethnic minority-but-no-English-need apply-unless-they-are-lefties-Corporation.
Wark is the personification of the cronieism and nepotism that is The Labour Party in Scotland. The “establishment” is riddled with Labour placemen. If you think the Beeb are biased in England you should familiarise yourself with a certain Glen Campbell.
She wasn’t even allowed to comment on the last Scottish elections due to her holidays with Jack McOnnel the former Labour First Minister. And that Glen Campbell is just a jumped up Rhinestone Cowboy.
Yes, the BBC are swamping the expenses scandal with Iran.
BBC caught inventing huge anti-government rallies in Iran:
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/june2009/061809_iran_propaganda.htm
Nick Robinson didn’t even mention the expenses scandal in his blog. I stopped watching BBC News about 3 months ago. Their reporting has sunk to new depths.
BBC R4 News had some smirking pseud on today supporting the government scrapping the age-old ‘I before E’ spelling reminder. ‘Spelling rules are no longer necessary,” he pontificated. Then, extraordinarily, he launched into an attack on David Cameron, claiming that the Tory leader had misspelled ‘wistaria’ (sic) as ‘wisteria’ in his expenses claims…
Message: Everyone should make up their own spelling, but even then evil Conservatives would still be wrong!
Gave up on BBC World after the Queen scam!
It was not just the utter dishonesty, it was the smirking ‘apology’ given by Michael Somebody!
Sadly, BBC 1 has enturd the house!
At least Im too old to charge for porn, although God only knows i need it
Get yourself and your tadger round to youporn.com. Beat your meat for free man !
Three Labour Speakers in a row? Surely not?
Well they need someone who’s on their side. Beckett would fit the bill for them nicely.
Guido do tell, stop being a tease, what is the story on Mrs Bercow?
She takes it up the arse. Well, she’d have to where John Bercow’s concerned
Take another look at the photo. Every time she speaks ther will be shouts of ear ear
Neigh, sir – neigh.
I see Maguires been on telly this morning telling us how human poor Gordon is really. Gordon’s hurt you know, he could just walk away tomorrow but he’s such a big man that he’ll stay on to save us.
Desperate stuff, scraping the barrel. Brown’s shot himself in the foot again.
Toilets is a fucking disgrace – less a politcal journalist than a spokesman for the Labour Party
The Mirror lost what little remaining credibility it had when it failed to fire him over his involvement in Red Rag.
The mirror is a disgrace, hence their continued employment of toilets. What a rag.
The Mirror – toilet paper?
You’re far too posh to use words like toilets!
Above is for lady virginia.
Down here, we d’call ‘em ‘bogs’ or ‘dug-outs’, but we’re smart ‘nough t’unerstand when posh trippers or second-’omers talk about the Laavatry.
He has recently changed spin doctors, hence the I could walk away tomorrow stuff. It’s sort of child like-”I’ll go I warn you, I will really go if you dont start liking me”
“Go now, walk out the door, dont turn around we dont want you any more”
and take your friggin eyeball with you
Well, it’s hard not to warm to him. I think the man has a slight image problem but is otherwise sound as a pound.
Ha ha ha
Why do they constantly wheel out this cretin as a NuLabour shill? The BBC treat him with reverence, he’s an oily hack for fucks sake, and we’re not interested in what he has to say.
He’s far lower than an oily hack – more like that bit of smelly cheese that drops out of your foreskin if you don’t shower for a week.
A hoon of the highest order.
‘Smegs’ McGuire
She’s 66 years old.
Why can’t she just feck off gracefully into retirement.
No wonder there are so many unemployed when 65+ year old old farts are taking the jobs.
Derby M1 / M25 / M20 / Dover & keep going.
We do NOT want her over here!
Is there enough room to park the caravan?
How could Bercow have even been considered? This is someone who has maxed their expenses for years. What message would electing him send?
POLITICIANS STILL TREAT US WITH CONTEMPT
BETWEEN THESE TWO THERE IS NOT A WHISPER OF A DIFFERENCE
EITHER IS LIKE USING A BRILLO PAD AS TOILET PAPER
“My hair isn’t an arse-wipe !”
She flipped her 2nd home 52 times last year
Different caravan site every week
Does she take her pot plants with her?
Oat-bucket, hay-net and shovel.
Engineer do stop. Horses are noble beautiful beasts!
So..who believes this latest load of bollocks from Brown.?..”I could walk away tomorrow…I never cared about the trappings of power..blah,blah”
The best bit..”it’d be good for my children”..
If he thinks anyone believes him he is definitely due to be taken away by the Men in White Coats.
It’s about as honest as anything else he’s said in the last few months – which is not aying much at all. I wish he’d just fuck off and fuck off now!
As Chancellor did not know much about sub-prime mortgages and wants to be a teacher. Alarming eh?
He’d be teaching them this crap
http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2009/06/get-them-while-theyre-soft-and-yielding.html
Unless he’s setting up for a Moran-style “I’m only leaving because of the effect on my family” withdrawal.
If he wants to teach kids they’ll always try to sit on his blind side.
DT are reporting today that Moron’s name is NOT on the list of those who have paid money back to the fees office.
Apparantly she doesn’t have the moeny and has asked to pay it back in installments – how’s about you sell one of your your houses like anyone else would have to do, you fat theiving bitch
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5581430/MPs-expenses-Margaret-Moran-yet-to-pay-back-a-penny-of-22500-she-pledged.html
It’s amazing (well, it isn’t) how many of them can just airily scribble off a cheque for several thousand quid. When reading the article you linked I thought, for about a femtosecond, “well at least she isn’t sitting on a bloody great pile of cash”. I stopped thinking that when I read the “four houses” bit. The troughing slapper’s probably biding her time until the housing market picks up.
Now, now. I before E except after C.
It would be good for EVERYONE’s children.
Even better for EVERYONE…!
PS you need to Happy B’day me in Spanish today
Feliz Cumpleaños cariño.
Voy celebrar tu cumleaños con un vaso de whisky, felicidades y salud. Besos y brazos.
Oops! can I have a ‘P’ Bob for cumpleaños?
Lost! But you can have a P for whatever honey!x
Thankyou!! xx
Beckett for Speaker???
Mister Speaker will be Mister Ed
Why? Have you got something in common?
Todays Times
Vive la Republique
This is what our ‘representatives’ should be doing
France could bar Muslim women from wearing full veils in public, a government minister said yesterday as parliament took action over concerns about an increase in women who are wearing the niqab and burka in big cities.
The latest controversy over dress habits among France’s six million Muslims follows public differences this month between Presidents Obama and Sarkozy over the merits of legislating on religious clothing.
A group of 58 MPs from the Left and Right called on Wednesday for parliament to react to the phenomenon of women who are adopting what they called oppressive head-to-toe Islamic dress that “breaches individual freedoms”.
Luc Chatel, the Industry Minister and government spokesman, supported the MPs. “If it were determined that wearing the burka is a submissive act, and that it is contrary to republican principles, naturally parliament would have to draw the necessary conclusions,” he said.
Would stop the nicking of wheelchairs from the Trafford Centre mobility shop
Can you imagine the handwringing if this were to be proposed here, as the New Labour sisterhood jump through idiolological hoops to try to balance feminism with “cultural sensitivity”! It’s funny how feminist principles seem to have suddenly been abandoned whenever such matters are mentioned…of course, if it means votes, no principle is too precious for New Labour to sideline.
We could make an exception for Madge Bucket – lets face it – do we really want to?
…feed-bag and blinkers would do a pretty good job.
We all facked no one will stand up against the nut jobs like Khamenei and his sickofants in the UK watching a paid by taxpayers TV and eating food paid for by the taxpayers sitting their wanking over him and cheering him on while he’s saying death to the UK.
There’s no way to stop the woman from wearing the Burkha we will all have to get used to it.
£93 million was claimed by MP’s for expenses and allowances last year (2007 – 2008). That figure excludes salaries.
The amount claimed for expenses and allowances for the period 2004 -2008 is around £300 million.
Not all of the £300 million would have been illegitimately claimed, but even a small percentage of £300 million is an awful lot of stolen money. The amount stolen would almost certainly be more than Britains biggest ever robbery of £24 million from he Northern Bank. It all depends on how you define a reasonable claim.
Having looked at quite a few MP’s expenses sheets over the past couple of days my feeling is that about 75% of the claims would have been disallowed by most major companies, but I would be interested to hear the views of someone who works in the finance department of a large organisation.
FYI, 75% of £300 million = £225 million – ten times bigger than the Northern Bank robbery.
“I would be interested to hear the views of someone who works in the finance department of a large organisation”
I would be interested to hear the views of HMRC and the police!
There is an update to these figures here
The actual figure is £423 million since 2003
& we thought Tessa was a thief Gawd she’s got now’t on this lot
They seem determined to turn the place turning into a laughing stock.
Beckett has had the reputation of an unpleasant bully in every department she’s headed – so perhaps not a bad choice for Speaker.
I didn’t of any bullying when she ran the Cheltenham Gold Cup.
Pity the poor jockey, with that between his legs.
I hope for her husband’s sake she takes the teeth out when she’s down there.
Margaret Beckett for Speaker? That’ll finish NuLab in the public’s eyes – if the party isn’t already done for. She’s roundly despised by the public.
Why can’t Beckett retire gracefully – go and run The Nag’s Head or something?
Widdecombe is the public’s choice and it wouldn’t be a bad idea for MPs to listen to the public – for once. They’re not as dumb as MPs would like to think they are. They showed more sense than MPs when they opposed the Iraq war in their millions and I have no reason to doubt that they are showing more sense than MPs when they express a preference for Anne Widdecombe as next Speaker.
What a pity MPs always think they know what’s best for us and are so disinclined to listen – however much they may protest that that is what they are going to do. Hot air, that’s all it amounts to when they bleat on about “reconnecting with the public”. More likely ride roughshod over us on Margaret Beckett’s back. Giddy-up…..
Widders would be superb, enough of an old battleaxe to be authoritative, and enough principles to be fair minded. But please remember we live in a NuLabour democracy. Which means the vox populi is not only ignored, but treated with abject contempt.
Agree with you about Widders – she’s like the old fashioned Matrons that used to keep hospitals running – clean and efficient – and could stand up to any bullying. Widders would do the same for the House of Commons from the Speaker’s chair.
I also agree that the public are treated with contempt by MPs.
At least they now know what happens when they treat the public thus – they get a whole load of righteous anger heaped on their heads and lose the trust of the public.
Their arrogance has brought Parliament into disrepute.
Do you think they will be so stupid as to ignore the public yet again when it comes to electing a Speaker?
More fools them if they do.
They are totally and utterly stupid, so yes, they will ignore the public as ever.
At least they now know what happens when they treat the public thus – they get a whole load of righteous anger heaped on their heads and lose the trust of the public.
Which matters to them how, exactly? This has been going on for weeks. During that time we have had exactly one immediate resignation (Ian Gibson), one deferred resignation (Gorbals Mick) several “will stand down and collect my severance pay”s, a frankly bizarre release of expenses “information”, the setup of an in camera enquiry into Iraq, the appointment of a large number of unelected placemen and women to the Cabinet (including ones dragged back from Europe to mouth platitudes), and much chuntering about revising the Consitution. What has there been of any substance? Bugger all. It’s business as usual for these people, despite them having “lost the trust of the public” (which I very much doubt was there in the first place – all this troughing stuff has merely converted apathy and mistrust to explicit ridicule and anger).
We’re all brainwashed by centuries of hoons. Why doesn’t the public vote on who should be Speaker?
We pay their wages, and their first allegiance should be to us!
Let’s think ourselves out of this westminster bubble : why don’t we get a vote on who is P.M., whether an M.P. needs to be recalled because he/ she isn’t representing our wishes, when parliaments should end, who gets on a quango, whether all the wages and allowances of all public servants appear on the web ( I do mean all!), and how many M.P.s we now need.
The photos of Speaker applicants and their pitches stunningly show them all as fossils suddenly from a previous age: something much bigger than they hope has changed everything. Don’t let Gorgon just use vinegar and brown paper.
Definitely Ann Widdecombe!!
Run the Nags Head???
She IS the Nags Head!!
LMAO, brilliant.
No wimmin should be considered for this job. And Becket, ffs: She’s too old, too ugly, too mired in socialist crap! Who the bloody hell keeps putting these idiots forward? Let’s have a real idiot in the seat: ask fatty Prescott to take it on. What bloody larks then.
We’ve had enough bloody larks.
How do you know a gay sparrow? It flies upside down for a lark.
We’re already paying for Prescott’s food, and several other things besides. For christ’s sake the man talks with his fists and he can’t even cobble a sentence together.
“We never knew with our MPs whether we were getting value for money.
Now we do know and the answer lies at a general election with the voters. They can look at these things and they can vote the crooks out and keep the honest ones.”
Martin Bell, 21st October 2004
Outstanding.
You vote out a Labour crook and get a Tory, Liberal or UKIP crook to choose from.
Henry Ford said you can have any colour you like as long as it’s black.
Or something similar.
The caravanner?
That pompous, arrogant, woman who charged us for fixing her up-the-workers cottage? That hanging basket woman? How could anyone even contemplate trying to charge the public purse for a hanging basket as a necessary cost of being an MP? This has to be a joke. She lacks the intellect, she lacks the weight, she lacks independence and appears to be a forelock touching machine politician.
Guido, please tell us this is a wind-up.
I don’t particularly want Beckett to be Speaker but if she’s the price we have to pay to keep Bercow out of the Speaker’s Chair then it’s a price worth paying
You’re right, sadly. Such is the loathing and contempt for BerHunt that frankly, they could resurect Stalin and he’d be a more popular choice. Oh, sorry, I forgot, he’s already running the country.
No he is not. Lord Voldemort is!
Could they not find an Ugly Woman for the job. Ahhh well the Wig will be an improvement i presume she will bring it back.
… just needs to remember to wear it back-to-front.
What happened to the convention that after a labour speaker there would always be a Conservative one? Oh yes, it was abandoned under Blair Government, like so many other “traditions” like honesty, transparency, etc. That’s how we ended up with the Sweaty Sock as speaker.
Bunch of shysters. Can’t wait til they are history.
Guido, don’t know if you saw the interview with the MP for Falkirk West, Eric Joyce, on Newsnight Scotland t’other day. It was almost a parody, the guy seemed to be on another planet. It was especially fun watching him being questioned on the large sums of cash he paid to a friend for “consultancy services” and on his CGT arrangements.
Another fucking moron – obviously one more for the CGT avoiders list, does he think we’re all stupid??
Memories of Michael Howard’s famous non-answering of Paxman’s question…
Dreadful. Check out the record of Brian Binley too in this respect. He seems to have been making some very suspicious claims indeed.
Badbobby – Thanks for bringing this absolute GEM ! to a wider audience…
Classic !!
This man is slime. Voters, please take note.
Now Joyce is the geezer to advise McTwat on teaching. Because that is what ‘former soldier’ Eric Joyce did ( after what appears to be BMT with the Black Watch) in the Army. Teach in the RAEC. Per Wiki left screaming racism, sexism and discrimination.
What’s known in the trade as a ‘shiny arse’.
This is typical of the sense of entitlement that the scottish Labour establishment have for themselves.
Is Falkirk located in the Arctic Circle, judging by this hoons travel expenses ?
EJ is an abominable man, a warmonger, and a major usurper of expenses. Scotland should not be proud of him, or is he Irish?
He was the first MP to make a million in expenses which is strange when he claims to be working ‘to reduce poverty in Britain’. His poverty is reduced anyway.
Frank Field is one of Anne Widdecombe’s proposers. That’s good enough for me to place her above all other contenders.
He’s one of the most honest, intelligent and thoroughly decent MPs in the whole House – from any party.
Pity he isn’t standing himself – but he’s too honest and decent to get the backing of his Liebour colleagues.
Next best person is anyone he proposes and votes for – so Ann Widdecombe wins all round as far as I’m concerned – public choice and Frank Field’s choice.
That is precisely the reason why Ann W. won’t get it.
Such is the Marxist spite of Nulabour that anyone or anything to do with Field is frozen out. They cannot stand the fact that he dared think the unthinkable: that benefits claimants should actually be encouraged to get back to work. This is Herecy as far as NooLabour is concerned: they need the bought and paid for votes of a large swathe of benefit claimants as a get out of jail card.
Yet he is one of the few, principled, honest and intelligent thinkers among them. But is a man out of his time – more suited to Atlee era of principled socialists than the Broon era of nasty, petty communist style partisanship.
Ah, Saint Frank to the rescue again.
+1
Frank Field perfect? Surely not.
I cannae comment til I have had a few days rest. Simon keeps trying tae slip mdma intae my iron bru tae get moving and back on stage. Off for a kip. Yawwwn
lol it’s me subo your pussy.
cat that is
meow meow
Dear Guido,
Why have you been so horrible towards dear old Gordon? He is very, very hurt, does not know why he keeps getting on with his job, does not care for “the trappings of power”, could just as well walk out tomorrow (no, really). Does not think either No. 10 or Chequers is that marvellous, really fancies becoming a humble teacher, somewhere.
You’ve been very naughty towards this son of the manse, whose Presbyterian conscience has prevented him from ever doing anything dishonest or underhand in any way.
So please just stop being horrid to the nice man.
But first pass the sick bag.
If he can walk out tomorrow, then go ahead Gordon, please do…
Make that Two Bags.
I would prefer it if Guido kept trowelling it on.Brown has been a complete and utter bloody disaster both for the economy and the country.
Putting it as clearly as I can in Anglo Saxon “Fuxx off back to Scotland you incompetent, thieving scottish twat and good fuxxxxx riddance.
p.s. You will not be missed by anybody and if you want proof stick around for the election.
the iron chancellor! ffs!!!!!!
( well definitely an iron)!
why on earth should he have know about banks investing in sub-prime?
er,perhaps you fat useless lying shit you should have been doing your job instead of bumming gay boys in the usa?
he says he might move into teaching!!!!!!!
more lessons in swindling the state and taking empty beers cans to parties?
just go……preferably via beachy head!
And when Gordon does in Fuck off back to Scotland, you will still be left with Mandleson, prestcot, balls and Co where do you wish them to fuck off too. Or is it just the scots that are the problem ??
We’ll stick a hot poker up their arses, we can’t do it to you Scots cause you’s will sue us for racism.
We will sell you some “Clyde bulit” pokers should you desire, on second thoughts we will give you them for free, now thats a first !
You can tell he has a new spin meister can’t you?
Did you say new or old?
Horse being the operative word looking at the picture.
If the choice were down to me I would go for Anne Widdecombe.
Completely OT but I’m sure Guido won’t mind if i post link to petition to keep libel law out of science in support of Simon Singh
http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/index.php/site/project/333
Yas saw this article on the Guardian good luck old chap is all I have to say, those crafty frauds sure pulled a fast one on him.
MPs face an Inland Revenue investigation after news that a Tory MP has been claiming £20,000 a year to travel 25 miles home.
Mr Trend, 50, told The Mail on Sunday that although he did spend “most evenings” at his home in Windsor, he had done “nothing wrong”.
Link
Article dated: December 16, 2002
There are hundreds of stories about MP’s troughing every year after 2002.
Eleanor Laing made a profit of ONE MILLION POUNDS on a property bought with the help of her expenses. She DID NOT pay capital gains tax. Capital gainst tax on a sum like this would run to at least £180, 000.
I’m getting really angry again now. I need a glass of vino and a sit down!
Michael Trend MP has agreed to repay more than £90,000 after a mix-up over accommodation expenses. The MP apologised for what he said had been a “genuine misunderstanding.”
Article dated 20th December 2002
Yeah, right. I can understand if one or two MP’s misunderstoood the rules, but 90% of them seem to have their grubby little hands in the till. This was no misunderstanding. This was just sheer greed!
I would say, just sheer fraud!
Sir George Young is now 2nd favourite with Betfair. Bercow is 3rd favourite and Widders is 4th in the betting – just over 7/1 if you fancy a punt.
My earlier estimates for previous years MP expenses were far too low.
Here are the actual figures for previous years MP expenses with source links:
2003 -2004 – £76 million – Link
2004 – 2005 – £81 million – Link
2005 – 2006 – £86 million – Link
2006 – 2007 – £87 million – Link
2007 – 2008 – £93 million – Link
TOTAL: £423 million
Troughtastic
The real figure is probably more than this. Cash purchases which need no receipts were probably not all accounted for.
Tax evasion should be top of the list for these troughers. Labour have always said they are the party of the people. Everyone pays taxes so that the less well-off can be given help. The government needed money, so they abolished the MIRAS scheme for the ordinary people, but kept on claiming interest on their own mortgages as an expense. They all draw a salary most people can only dream about, but top it up by giving themselves an unlimited expense account which amounts to more then their salary, paid for by the very people they are shafting while all the time telling us they are helping us! They also seem to evade paying council tax. How can this be? If I did this, I would be taken to Court.
I was made redundant in April, and despite applying for over 50 jobs I know I am well qualified for, I can’t even get to an interview. I now hear that there is a 15% pay rise in the pipeline for these self-serving bastards.
I am so mad, cannot even put into words how I feel about these people.
The figures above are the total amounts claimed for MP’s expenses, with or without receipts. The figures do not include salaries though.
I am still trying to find the 2002-2003 expenses figure.
The sum total will reach nearly half a billion pounds in six years when that is added.
But Gordon says he created low inflation in this Country. How comes the annual increase is nearly always above 2% with the same number of MPs ??
Oh, I remember now, if you’re like Hazel Blears and Alistair Darling, constantly flipping houses, the estate agents fees and Council Tax increases are above 2%. Silly me.
The tories flipped no houses? Neither did Lib Dems? They were about as bad as Labour and what the hell does that matter anyway? Get a grip on reality you partisan fool. This is beyond the childish tripartite atavism peddled here. There are people here advocating this speaker or that one. It makes not an iota of difference. S/he will still tramp around in a ridicilous wig, wearing a ludicrous cape, spouting anachronistic language, while paying homage to a system that is unfair, corrupt and pathetically anachronisitic. The idea of restoring some sense of credibility assumes a return to the present system in some for or another. Do you lack the imagination to consider something democratic, fair, even-handed, that might benefit us all? The problems in hand are far, far deeped than simply a change of party–of whatever stripe.
Gordon, oh Gordon you’ve taken us for fools.
You lied about Prudence and your ‘Golden Rules’.
You plundered our pensions and decimated our savings,
We’re fed up of listening to your ‘global’ ravings.
Blair claimed you’re a genius; he lied to us too.
The ‘British’ economy is in deep doggy-doo.
‘No booms, no busts !’ you used to shout out.
That was all hubris, of that there’s no doubt.
You bang on and on about your Presbyterian daddy,
Born a son of the manse and raised in Kircaldy.
Now how would he regard you, with disgust or with pride ?
Seeing you’ve got friends such as Draper and McBride
You say your ‘moral compass’ isn’t pointed toward sleaze,
But what about Darling, McNulty,Malik,Moran, Smith and Blears ?
Of the Top Twenty Troughing MPs, NuLabour’s got SIXTEEN !
Sir, your Cabinet is rotten – you’re nowt but a has-been.
Now,if you’d like us to show a scintilla of affection,
Screw up some courage, CALL A GENERAL ELECTION !
The real rate of inflation?
2004: 6.5% inflation
2005: 6.1% Inflation
2006: 1.1% Inflation
2007: 6.9% Inflation
i’d be a buyer at those levels!
i’ll make you 20-25……
If there are 640 MP’s, that’s about £662,500 each. It would be interesting to see how these expenses stack up against private sector companies. How many people would a company have to employ to reach this figure?
If you remove the low spending MP’s from the figures, some of the greediest ones have drawn £1 million plus in expenses in just five years.
That is before salary, before flipping, before second jobs, and before brown envelopes.
You can see why it is proving to be such a bitch getting them off the gravy train.
When you think how hard it is to earn a living, then pay the taxes, just so they can buy some luxury for themselves etc, on a whim. I really resent the fact that my hard earned taxes pay for their 2nd home, 2nd flat screen tv, 2nd digital camera, 2nd , 3rd, and 4th anything and everything, I want to spit!
you need to look at these figures un conjuncyion with staff allowance expenses.
Family – brother sister mother friends as in Kirkbrid coupled with wifes brother etc as in MacKay – and why are we talking about 1 or 4 years, why not 12? The figures are astronomical. Bercow has also been at it. most unsuitable for Speaker and a riend of Kirkbide`s into the bargain. The trifling amouns paid back if a all are an insult. Th part leaders should remove the top 50 named in the Teelegraph today at the very least, and encourage the police to prosecute, and withdra their resettlement grants. MPs and part leaders are still contemptuous and still do not et it.
> why are we talking about 1 or 4 years, why not 12?
I haven’t found any figures for the years prior to 2003 published anywhere yet, but I am still looking. The figures aren’t even published on the Parliament website. If you want them you have to make a Freedom of Information request apparently.
I might just do that.
yes – essential. in these cases at least, it will be very revealing. we only have the tip of the iceberg currently. paments to staff need listing, naming, and comparing. Kirkbrides sister Karen has received £210,000 oe 12 years
and her brother Ian nerly £450,000 over the same period jointly from Kirkbride an MacKay, excluding “shopping” and other expenses. DT names her 5th on list of worst offenders but when the full picure is taken into account she is way out on top by a mile. Why are the police not involved in this one? There will be many witnesses come forward if prosecution proceeds.
I will be one!
If you will be what are you? Is this a taunt?
I am the Third Roundel, invented by MacKay I am not perfectly round unlike my two colleagues, and I have seen all and know all. Yes it is a deliberate taunt but I will be there when needed.
Let’s hope Bercow is done for. Beckett, no, no. Widders as a temporary, no.
Leaving a bunch of oldies and one inexperienced. Dastardly choice
I am all in favour of BECKETT for the chair. Maybe someone can then plug it in and switch it on.
Supercilious,Ugly,Caravanning,Hanging Basketting Bitch.
Is that The Chair at Aintree racecourse ??
One aspect of the expenses saga that hasn’t been focussed on is the “petty cash claims” which can be up to £250 per month, no questions asked it seems. What the hell is that for? Paper clips and rubber bands? That sounds like another right old scam – up to £3,000 (= up to £5,400 equivalent income for someone on the upper tax band) for what? Breathing in air on a regular basis?
On the speaker, on Radio 4 this morning, the current deputy speakers were being spoken of as possibles who had performed well on the hustings.
I’ll bet they put their expenses claims in before they even gave a single thought to their constituencies.
These “little” perks they seem so fond of awarding themselves with. If I was to take such a little perk from my employer I would be sacked and prosecuted.
Just watched Draper and his missus on millionaire,he/she did well walked away with a £1000 pounds for charity,two █████ s████ together.
Well, they probably got paid quite well for attending and Derek must be short of a few bob.
has she dropped the sprog yet?
100 year old Beckett to kick bucket before the GE?
She has already been taken to the knackers yard twice. They’re not interested.
Bolt gun to the head and then trip to the glue factory is the only diagonsis i can give i’m afraid.
Coming to an envelope near you…
Two crocodiles were sitting at the side of the lake in St James Park.
The smaller one turned to the bigger one and said, ‘I can’t understand how you can be so much bigger than me. We’re the same age, we were the same size as kids. I just don’t get it.
”Well,’’’ said the big croc, ‘what have you been eating?’
‘Politicians, same as you,’ replied the small croc.
‘Hmm. Well, where do you catch them?’
‘Down the other side of the lake near the parking lot by the Parliament House.’
‘Same here.
‘Hmm….How do you catch them?’
‘Well, I crawl up under one of their Lexus cars and wait for one to unlock the car door. Then I jump out, grab them by the leg, shake the shit out of them and eat ‘em!’
‘Ah!’ says the big crocodile, ‘I think I see your problem. You’re not getting any real nourishment. See, by the time you finish shaking the shit out of a politician, there’s nothing left but an arsehole and a briefcase.
Well, she stuck a fat rod up the arse of us farmers so in Labour land she’d be the perfect stooge. What an outrage that she is ever allowed anywhere near such a position. Pissy faced cow.
O/T
Guido, I read that Cowan has got his way at the EU summit for the Eire amendments. The Lisbon nightmare returns…
This woman should have been investigated weeks ago and I suspect by now she’ll have ‘fixed’ much of the evidence.
Who want to bet she’ll play the race card at some point in the inquiry?
Cheltenham or Ascot?
McMental teaching
haHAHAHAH
As you all know *Jaw does funny thing*
There is nothing He enjoys more than lifting children (and shirts)and hanging around school playgrounds, so apart frpm being Prime Mentalist its probably his dream job
What next..
Chief Boy scout?
Yeah, Chief Boy Scout for his old mate Peter Fondleboyz
women keep telling us that they do the majority of the cooking and cleaning, therefore it must follow that women are primarily responsible for fat children
Fat children, like increased house prices are one of the side effects of more women in the workplace
The role of housewife need to be given increased status – it is the feminists who have downgraded the role.
Housewives will be a long way down the list. Carers need money to care for relatives suffering from Denentia and the like, which the state has knowingly abandoned. They get virtually nothing but they save the country a fortune. If we can pay out to keep all the scroungers who have no wish to find a job, why can’t we recognise these people? Even £50 per week would be better then nothing.
++++ VAZ RESIGNS+++
Keith Vaz has insisted he resigned because of ill health, and was not sacked because of sleaze allegations. The parliamentary standards commissioner has extended a second inquiry into his affairs.
Link
Article dated 12 June, 2001
Missing him already……NOT!
Ummm.. sorry, HF – that’s eight years ago.
Anyone remember the film Witches based on a Roald Dahl book? Beckett kinda reminded of the after-shot when the witches took their masks off…
Perhaps not the greatest sentiment to have carried through from childhood, but ‘not trusting anything I cannot positively identify as human without the aid of a blood test’ has put me in good stead thus far.
Beckett, Harperson and Jowell. The three witches of Endor.
Dear hoof
Shouldn’t that be Mordor?
Endor is the small moon in Star Wars.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
I always thought the 3 witches of Endor were in Macbeth. I read the book a long time ago. Perhaps I’m mistaken.
It still works.
392 Bible, rather than Bard: Saul consulted The witch at Endor, who summoned up the spirit of Samuel…
Samuel the devil?? Aint one of the books in the bible written by Samuel QED one of the books in the Bible is actually the devils own work.
I will burn all my bibles tonight.
George.
Mordor is what they investigare on Taggart ye dunderheid!
Star Wars is in the Bible? explains Luke then.
Two outside interest incomes, MP´s income, Minister´s income, supreme arrogance, face to frighten horses & curdle milk, sounds about right for the UK Parliament.
Wedgie backs Bercow….
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/benedict_brogan/blog/2009/06/20/wedgwood_benn_backs_bercow
The old boy has lost his last remaining marbles.
He only had two to start with.
I saw McMentals cavalcade this week
Gordon if you are so popular get the fucking tube or a taxi we would all love to tell you how great you are
When on private business our Queen manages to drive about London on her own (as does the DOE) Granted there is a Discovery behind with at least two coppers in it but she doesnt have roads shut down by out riders .
Why do you have all that shit Mr Popular as you go around the country talking to hard working families who think that you are so wonderful ?
Another weird thing the coppers in the discovery behind McMentals Jag were wearing yellow Marigolds
I SWEAR ON MY LIFE
Maybe they saw that video
Anybody have any other excuses as to why the Mentalists POs were wearing yellow rubber gloves?
‘When on private business our Queen manages to drive about London on her own (as does the DOE) Granted there is a Discovery behind with at least two coppers in it…’
Have you heard of contradiction?
Every viewer of the Grimsby edition of Question Time found the condescension of Beckett totally revolting.
Grimsby constituency has returned a Labour MP at every election since 1945 but the audience howled with derision every time the Beckett woman opened her ugly,ugly mouth.
So,if Labour MPs vote for Beckett , they think that to be almost universally detested is a good quality for a Speaker .
DO NOY DO IT. YOU WILL REGRET IT IFYOU DO— BIG TIME.
Grimsby, that’s Austin Mitchell MP isn’t it?
No wonder wonder they were laughing.
I’ll take the job but I want paying in cash
Can you honestly imagine anything worse?
An east coast holiday resort. Cold. Pissing with rain. Just eaten a cold plate of greasy fish and chips whilst sitting opposite Madge in your caravan.
Poor old Leo!
Surely Madge would be grazing outside the caravan?
worse? I think very – share a chemical toilet with her – pheeeewwwwwwwww Margaret, I think you should cut down on the Goblin Stew
“Leo, let’s go up the road to Grimsby and see if Austin is in”!
Jeronimo complained to Scotland yard that Beckett “mistakenly took” his horses arse and thinks it is her face….easy mistake.
Widdecombe is the right choice. The HoC needs a celebrity to “get us all out of here”. She is media savvy without coming across as a media whore. We need a year of the referee being the star on the pitch. Widdecombe would be a first step to restoring confidence in Parliament and a foil to Broon claiming credit for expenses reform.
Liebour MPs will not of course allow this outcome, so what the ‘opposition’ needs to do now is make it clear to the public that Widdecombe would win if it were not for Broon continuing to stuff the nation.
A moral rather than an electoral victory would then be won.
Ann Widdecombe is in the same camp as blair, they are both god lovers, a Catholic god at that. So that would never do.
Sir Philip Mawer was Secretary General of Church of England’s General Synod. Did that account for his forgiving acquittal of Shahid Malik? If you can’t score with the right foot, why not try the left?
Blair, having reflected on being responsible for the deaths of, what, 100,000 Iraqis, probably thought it best to sign of with God.
I think the nauseating Bliar SAYS he’s a god-lover to try to camouflage the crimes he committed over the Iraq war and his contribution to the premature death of the quiet and dignified Dr Kelly. How can he be any more of a genuine god-botherer than Bagpuss? If we had journalists of the calibre of Woodward and Bernstein operating in Britain Bliar and his repellent crony Campbell would currently be swallowing prison food. As blogs like Guido’s keep on chipping away at Bliar’s hitherto unpunctured carapace that could still come to pass. Are you reading this, Anthony B? I hope you wake up in a cold sweat every night, you loathesome piece of scum.
Concur!
not to mention she’d tell them all where to get off, no backdoors on that woman.
If Margaret Beckett speaker I bet she will have to stock up on Deflatine and jumbo packs of TenaLady
Employing Beckett would be like closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Employing Beckett would be like employing an Goblin Stew guzzling incontinent flatulent pensioner to control the house of commons
“That’s what being a man is like: making mistakes and not caring” – Al Bundy
Would I get the hose shit for free?
No Labour cut and paste trolls again. Nice.
Check out the latest on Shady Malik:
http://www.timetogomrmalik.co.uk
Suggest you do some digging in the newspapers archives. I am sure I saw a reference to him in relation to previous dodgy dealings from 2005/6, but I can’t find the link now.
I are is still backing Haselhurst. Put your money where your mouth are is, Fawkes. Pony?
I’ll see your pony and raise you shire horse
OT
News Just Coming In….
Looks like the government have succeeded in getting 2 of the 5 Iraq hostages back.
In bits SO sad………..
Will a member of HM. Government be there to meet them? They haven’t managed to turn out for any of our servicemen/women. CNUTS
Labour ministers cannot meet and greet the repatriated bodies of British servicemen or civilians as they would be accused of cynically trying to gain political advantage from such appearances.
I am working tirelessly behind the scenes to get the other three back. It’s the right thing to do, and we are not negotiating with terrorists.
My good Friend Keith Vaz has nothing to hide.
Take my word for it (I charge £50 a word in baksheesh)*
*Keith
just shove the usual envelope through my letter box
What would you prefer sir, a red hot poker up the arse, or a nail gun to the brain?
Ordure! ordure!
Beckett = Goblin Stew
Beckett – a hoof on the face of humanity
Billy Hague says-”bad laws should be repealed” STARTING WITH LISBON!
John Bercow was once the enthusiastic secretary of the Monday Club’s Race and Repatriation Committee. Once described by Tony Blair as ‘Nasty and ineffectual in equal measure’ Bercow acquired an unenviable reputation not only for racism but also for baiting homosexuals, lesbians and feminists.
Bercow actually wrote up the minutes of a committee meeting which called for voluntary repatriation of “coloured” immigrants.
He wrote: “It was formally agreed that the policy of the committee should be: an end to New Commonwealth and Pakistan immigration, a properly financed system of voluntary repatriation, the repeal of the Race Relations Act and the abolition of the commission for racial equality. Particular emphasis on repatriation.”
When Bercow attempted to secure election to the Club’s Executive Council he personally chose to issue a Political Statement which included the following; ‘THE STRENGTHENING OF OUR NATIONAL IDENTITY DEMANDS A PROGRAMME OF ASSISTED REPATRIATION’
But past indiscretions should not be allowed to dog a man forever. That is why we must treat with indulgence the caustic sarcasm and scorn which the then Chairman of the Essex University Conservative Association regularly deployed at Student Union debates, way back in the heady Thatcherite days of the 80s. Campus feminists, CND supporters, and members of the Gay and Lesbian Society – none were safe from the verbal onslaughts and patronising chauvinistic and homophobic put-downs unleashed by Bercow.
Ratboy met his match when he attempted to denounce an NUM visitor to the campus and was promptly told to ‘Sod off back to Fascist land’. On another occasion an enraged feminist tipped an entire pint of beer over Bercow’s head. The dripping little figure slunk off like a scolded schoolboy.
During 1986 Bercow’s mug shot appeared in The Guardian alongside that of BNP leader John Tyndall. At Essex University, by the way, the remarkably unphotogenic – not to say ill-favoured – Bercow gained the nickname ‘Pizza-face’ after a well-trodden example of the delicacy was pinned to a noticeboard above the caption ‘Portrait of John Bercow’.
… I begin to warm to the man…
It takes ten minutes of lubrication of the anus followed by fingers being slided in first and ultimately a fist to loosen yourself up followed by a few minutes of manually easing your partners rock hard cock into the anus a few times before you can enjoy anal sex for the first but far from the last time.
Beckett was found to have claimed £600 for hanging baskets and pot plants by The Telegraph in the 2009 scandal.
She appeared on Question Time in Grimsby where she was heckled for calling this claim “an error” and also for her refusal to repay £72,000 of controversial second home allowance.
As she had no mortgage or rent outstanding it was queried how she managed to claim £72,537 between 2004 and 2008 on a house in her constituency when she was renting out her london flat and living in a grace and favour flat.
In a Parliament of Whores, it is only right that the Speaker should be a raddled prostitute.
1 to 5 odds on
why?
Only an incompetent Labour would leave 5 people in Iraq for two years as hostages to die a horrible death.
What was the problem?? was it because they weren’t labour voters or something??
At least the Tories would of sent in the SAS.
Notice how these two bodies are sent to the embassy a day after dickhead Khameni shouts death to the UK from Iran
You must be deranged to make such a suggestion.
The problem was that they were only blokes.
If it had been women, the Foreign Office would have been all over it, there would have been regular features in the media, and the price would have been paid – with plausible deniability – of course.
That’s how it is in NuLab’s feminist Gulag.
Would HAVE sent in the SAS.
Where were all the legal chatterers like Clive Stafford Smith who only seems to represent people if they are dark of hue.One Binyam Mohammed I believe has been given help.Was there also not an Indian in the US on death row that said bleeding-heart liberal was representing.Haven’t seen any of them trying to get the release of these men in Iraq. Oh well they are only white blokes so it desn’t matter does it?????? Thumbs down for Reprieve.
When faced with a choice between a berk and a cow it would hardly surprising if most MPs settled on Bercow.
A real Animal Farm of a Speaker’s Election.
We have old Horseface,a Berkcow, umpteen pigs a troughing and a one-eyed headless chicken pretending to be in charge.
One has said he might resign and become a teacher, no not Michael Martin (ordure in class!) but what’s Brown and sounds like a bell (dung) who’s grasp of Education must be akin to that of Mr Squeers of Dotheboys Hall.
Apparently the people sitting on the new Iraq whitewash (oops sorry) enquiry I mean are also the same people that investigated why an honest old scientist went for a walk in the woods and comitted suicide with a blunt penknife no blood and a paracetamol that wouldn’t have cured Alice in wonderlands PMT pains.
You just couldn’t make this shit up you really couldn’t. Nothing to see here now move along please before me ave’ya.
how do you work that out?
OT, but Nick Griffin saying ““However, we have enough evidence right now to make a case against Jeff Hoon and Tony Blair for an incident during the Balkans War when a Serbian TV station was bombed. I will be laying a charge with a central London police station very soon over this matter.”
Might be a good idea to get the spelling right the, but good luck!
About time.
Ask Gneral Mike Jackson why he stood back and watched a quarter of a million Serbs driven out of Kosovo – doing nothing except protecting the islamic terror lords and helping to supply the cattle trucks.
Photos were shown at the Hague showing NATO watching Serbs in their own country being rounded up, fire bombed, raped beaten etcand ethnically cleansed.
He had promised their safety under the terms of the Serbian surrender.
If we drive Serbs out of their country for narco/islamic terrorists – its a small step to the ethnic cleansing of parts of Britain when the militants here start claiming to be a majority population in certain places and declare UDI.
How can we dispute it.
Totally agree and the whole Yugoslav thing was so one-sided and anti-Serb. The media made the Serbs out to be monsters,while all the other groups were seen as victims. Where did it start…..Wasn’t it to do with Germany’s recognition of Croatia their WWII buddies wanting independence from Serbia who they had slaughtered in WWII.. As for the Kosovo thing, we have living amongst us many Albanians purporting to be Kosovan. I was told by a Serbian friends that if I asked a Kosovan child if they spoke Serbian if they said no,then they were Albanians. Because all Kosovans had to learn Serbian.
Do you wanna know something facking sick and i mean this is one of the sickest things i ever heard.
A lady friend at uni who is training to be a doctor and says that under Labour that GP’s have been bribed and peer pressured into giving as many non diagnosis of patients as they can like a blooooody rota system so you won’t be sent to hospital and Labour can spin the illusion of low NHS waiting lists.
WTF.
You might turn up and have cancer or something but if they’ve filled up their qouta your as good as brown bread and will be told your fine and dandy until it’s too late to do anything.
I believe there is currently a financial incentive for GPs to make fewer and fewer so-called ‘unneccessary’ referrals to hospital consultants.
Instead of emphasising rapid treatment for people who show possible early symptoms of illness, Nulabour prefers pouring money into patient-blaming… drinking, smoking, obesity and all ‘lifestyle’ stations west for all illnesses. (Breast cancer is the sexy exception here.) Health education is important, sure, but note that exhortation to live cleanly is cheap. Unfortunate genetic heritage and chance play just as big, or an even greater part in what you come down with, and concentration should not merely be on ‘prevention’ which will not work for the many.
Nulabour forgets 100% of people die. They do not die of old age, 100% die of some illness or other or a combination of them. Before they do, they still need and deserve treatment.
Another Nulabour worrying tendency is the OK-ing of cheap and stupid and useless ‘alternative’ non-treatments… This is also to get patients out of GPs hair. Shocking!
Gordon would make an excellent hands-on kindergarten teacher.
I would like to second that.
Hope he doesn’t decide to work in Plymouth then. It’s like Belfast, but with less scenery. The people are as scary as fuck. Britain’s first lynching for a century might occur down that way fairly soon.
He could draft the school’s bullying policy,sorry,anti-bullying policy.
So you think Widdecombe isn’t up to the job of controlling a bear garden?
re no trolls , its the weekend of course
You mean they only support Labour when they get paid to do it?
If we are going to have more of Beckett on TV – can we insist she wears a berca?
Learn to spell you fuucking mooron
Be fair, Barker Tuff: he knows she’s a berk, I know she’s a berk, you know she’s a berk, possibly even she knows she’s a berk – and the comparative form of Berk must be ‘berca’.
Anyway, isn’t there a ‘gu’ in meringue?
And anyway, berk means the same as hoon, so why not just call her a hoon?
as Speaker Martin had is own brand malt whiskey, Margaret Beckett is planning her own brand Speakers Perfume – Eau de Caravan, a chemical toilet base with notes of piss stained cushions, marrowfat peas and Glade Air Freshener
That would be cat’s piss.
Not marrowfat peas, however.
Brussels Sprouts, I think.
Moderated into oblivion says: ?????####££££$$$$ hula hoops!
State TV reports opposition protest called off in Iran amid continued claims of the government stealing the election. I wonder if ZanuLabour have been watching the process and outcomes ?
There was a time when members of the House of Commons resigned over issues of conscience. Those days, it seems, are gone.
Robin Cook’s resignation speech was a prescient analysis of why we should never have gone to war in Iraq, and why principles should come before party loyalty.
The speech is in two parts.
You mean the guy who was shagging his secretary on the side and then dumped his missus at the airport when his career was threatened as a result?
Very principles indeed. Just another slimey little hoon
You must agree that his member was honourable. Everone knows that a standing prick has no conscience.
Sorry Anonymous but there are two points from this speech (which I had not heard before) which are very important :
1. He said “History will be astonished at the diplomatic miscalculation” and if you look at the records now ie Hutton Inquiry – the 45minute claim which was used as the central plank for Labour’s argument for the necessity for War with Iraq – we now know that it was utter lies .!!!!
2.He said “The British Public is not persuaded of the need for military involvement in Iraq”. He was right then – but it is even more true now, when more of us know, more of the truth, of the lies that Blair, Cameron, Scarlett (let’s not forget Scarlett!!!!) and Powell!!!!, and Brown (YES Brown!!!!), told us.!!!!
Sorry Nell, I think you missed the point, infidelity and honour and gentleman…?
I shall be discussing this with Julie Kirkbride.
‘Favourite Horse For Speaker’…. has got to be MISTER ED.
Saddle up and form a
pussyposse.Champion the wonder Horse?
Robin Cook, the last Honourable Member? says:
June 20, 2009 at 7:53 pm
There was a time when members of the House of Commons resigned over issues of conscience. Those days, it seems, are gone.
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Not that I’m one to speak ill of the dead buuuuuuut… do not forget that Cook resigned from a non-job.
Would he have resigned had he still been Foreign Secretary?
Cook was an odious little man He shafted his wife good and proper remember. He resigned to postion himself for what many anticipated would be a leadership challange to Blair. Calculating to the end.
Make Bercow wear this horse faced bitch rather than having her wear a burka
I suggest that she sits on his face rather than the wool sack and lets us all have a crafty wank every Wednesday lunchtime during PMQs.
Gotta be better than Mmmmmmmr McMental wanking himself off with turnip production statistics
I really wish I was making this up but I am not
#Read and weep
Gordon Brown has vowed to lead Labour into the next general election – and declared that he will defy the polls and win the party an historic fourth successive term. Skip related content
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090620/tuk-pm-s-vow-on-labour-election-victory-6323e80.html
I wish I was good and now this? The man has utterly lost it
Take comfort in the fact that this is good news for the Tories. Dave wants to face a discredited gordon – and more Labour MP’s will lose their seats this way .
If they had a new leader before the election ie johnson – less Labour MP’s might lose seats!!!! Aalthough \Labour would still lose – just by a smaller margin.
What idiots they are!!!
They’ve never thought of this. Pssst, don’t tell them will you?
What exactly does he mean by “defy the polls”, I wonder.
>> New challenge: Nick Griffin <<
Show us the world through Nick Griffin's eye:
just what is the one-eyed nazi simpleton really
scared of? Challenge suggested by Griffy Savalas
http://b3ta. com/challenge/ nickgriffin/
Every time he opens his mouth he loses a thousands votes. That’s why the UAF should stop chasing him around, they’re is just martyring the sod.
You have to be more clever than that. Invite him into interviews, record what he has to say then stick it into the public domain. His mouth is his own undoing.
Check this one out on Youtube: 6X8QQwU00Jk (type that into youtube search)
Grifin stalked by Roger Cook. Brilliant.
Griffin is a Welsh surname. Did you know that?
Brilliant suggestion. Give Young Nick some air-time, at last.
Live and unedited, mind. One to one. Level playing field and all that.
Brown, Cameron, Clegg, Farage (and even our generous host, Guido) – now, they’d see him off, for sure. Wouldn’t they?
Uh! Oh! The cat’s laughing so hard he ain’t gonna make it to the litter tray.
So now it takes a Horse to tell it like it is, Mr Ed I love you.
Mmmmmmadam Speaker
As you know
We are the party that offers Turnips for the many not the few
And the figures for tractor production are up again,so everyone can have one of those aswell.
But the dacha caravans are reserved for those who are more equal than others.
Margaret Beckett, the bookmakers’ favourite to become Speaker, claimed for almost £11,000 in gardening expenses, including £1,380 for plants.
Last month, Mrs Beckett said that a £600 claim for plants for hanging baskets, tubs and planters in 2005, which was rejected by the fees office, had been “a mistake”. But the Telegraph can disclose that she had made three similar claims between 2001 and 2003.
Link
I bought two hanging baskets from Notcutts this year for £10 each. margaret spent £600 on hanging baskets!!!!!! That means, doesn’t it???? that margaret was buying 60 hanging baskets.
60 HANGING BASKETS!!!!!!!!!!!!
You need a full time gardener to keep watering them, daily, at that rate. Was she claiming for that as well ????!!!! And where was she hangng that many baskets ?????? Has she got acres of garden more than Gardener’s World.???? Even they have never, over the years, had that many baskets!!!!!!
And we think this person might be the next speaker ?????
God (anyone’s God) forbid!!!!
As one of our brethren would surely ask,were they hanging by piano wire from lamposts?
He he he he. Love the logic.
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MP’s inflated their Coucnil Tax claims according to the DT tonight. Eric Illsley claimed more than £6000 too much. Beverly Hughes and David Blunkett did something similar.
Well that can’t be an ‘accident’ ‘oversight’ or ‘mistake’ can it????
In fact more than 50 MP’s did it. Bet most were Labour!!!!
Beckett should get ‘the chair’…… or lethal injection, the rope, a bullet or any other method of execution you could care to think of. Now I now why Bliar repealed the law on treason.
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Another sleazy old trout that likes to trough with the best of them. I remember her on TV haughtily trumpeting forth on how she deserved her expenses and was not paying anything back.
Same old MP, same old sleaze.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1095866/EU-fines-Britain-75m-rural-payments-catastrophe-pushed-farmers-brink-ruin.html
Just a reminder that Labour reward failure with promotion, the above mentioned £75 million fine was on Becketts unacountable watch!
That’s three nulab failures in a row…
Plus ca change…
No 310 She should be forced to wear a burqa.
Bent Beckett? Her of “Hanging Gardens of Babylon” fame? Has to be a joke there somewhere. Pick up the ball and run with it.
It is enough to make me cry. I wish I could emigrate.
Anonymous:
I never stop crying. It’s the only way I can wash the political fall-out from my eyes.