September 4th, 2009

+++ Ian Clements to be Charged with Fraud +++

The ex-deputy mayor fired by Boris, Ian Clements, will be in Westminster Magistrates this Tuesday on charges related to expense fiddling. He won’t be the last politician prosecuted…

Source James Cleverly.


173 Comments

  1. 1
    Has anyone see Mike Hunt says:

    Sir Who is this chap ?

    • 7
      London Kills Me says:

      Why hasn’t Lee Jasper been charged?

      • 8
        Anonymous says:

        Because if you are a hard line trot, looting is part of the job description, for tories, they have to hold a higher standard…

      • 10
        Dick the Prick says:

        Good point LKM

      • 33
        Anonymous says:

        Because there was no evidence he’d commited any criminal offence?

        • 40
          R.U.Shaw says:

          HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!

        • 46
          Anonymous says:

          So large amounts of money being given to organisations run by friends of his in the form of funding which never got used for what it was intended for doesn’t count as evidence in your book?

        • 59
          Anonymous says:

          Because he isn’t a wasp

        • 121
          Anonymous says:

          But it does apply to Julie Kirkbride buts she`s not being charged cos she`s a mate of Dave.

        • 123
          THE THIRD ROUNDEL says:

          There is a staggering amount of evidence against Julie Kirkbride and Andrew MacKay – evidence of conspiracy as well as fraud. The amounts involved are gigantic, the very worst abuse of any Politician. What is revealed so far is just the tip of the iceberg. Why is no further exposure or investigation being done. Neither of this pair have been disciplined. Why has Andrew Mackay not paid back a single penny? Why has Kirkbride not done so? Why has Ian Kirkbride got off scot free? Why have mother Barbara and sister Karen got off scot free. Are the Dent family making any repayments from the public money made available to them to keep the Bromsgrove consistuency in a striaghtjacket to protect Kirkbride? Why did Kirkbride agree to step down when she disi and as it to prevent further even more damaging revelations? Why is David Cameron protecting her? A prosecution is morally justifiable, feasible on the evidence, and would clean matters up. In the meantime MacKay boasts that Cameron will offer both Julie Kirkbride and himself top jobs outside Parliament when he is in power, as well as seats in the House Of Lords/ Julie Kirkbride goes even further, boasting that she will be standing for election in Bromsgrove, has arranged for her constituency stooges to lobby to this end, and claims that Cameron will support her in this. She still arrogantly struts around Bromsgrove, ignoring the disdain and contempt of the electors. The arrogance of this woman knows no bounds. And the expenses still keep flooding in to her family and staff. This is the worst case of abuse. If there is any decency left in the Conservative Party and in the body politic as a whole, this woman must be prosecuted.

        • 124
          Julie Kirkbride says:

          I WILL BE THE CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE IN BROMSGROVE AND I WILL GET A TOP JOB OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT AS WELL.

        • 125
          Anonymous says:

          You will lose and bring the Tories down with you, you silly bitch.

        • 129
          A Lady From Bromsgrove Who Knows says:

          Julie Kirkbride is the pits, squalid and plain nasty. What exactly is David Cameron afraid of?

        • 131
          A Gentleman from Bromsgrove who knows some but not all says:

          We need all the details. I hope they all come before the election.

        • 132
          Anonymous says:

          I was not aware that there were ladies and gentlement in Bromsgrove.

        • 155
          THE THIRD ROUNDEL says:

          The point is that the body politic would be cleansed by a Kirkbride prosecution and what is more the Tory Party itself would not only be cleansed but protected from future danger from this particular source and its environment.
          Much would come out but the party should not be fearful of a prosecution – it may have more to fear from not having one!

    • 11

      From Wikipedia:

      Ian Clement (born 1965 in Bexley), was Deputy Mayor of London with responsibility for Government and External Relations. A former councillor and Leader of the London Borough of Bexley from 2006 to 2008, Clement was a member of the Conservative Party before being suspended following incidents involving financial issues both in London and Bexley.

      • 20
        Anonymous says:

        Thank you for the info. Obviously, a non-entity.

        • 27
          jgm2 says:

          Maybe. But right now the Labour apparatchiks, apologists and liars (and Ken Livingston) will be dusting down their Tory sleaze repertoire and swooning all over the media and blogosphere about how nobody from Labour has been chraged with any crimes but this is just typical….

          blah blah

          Thing is – they’ll play it so badly the whole thing will blow up in their faces. Just like the economy, the NHS, the education system, Iraq, Afghanistan and everyting else their fucked-up heads turn their fucked-up attention to.

        • 69
          Phil O'Pastree says:

          Don’t forget the Libyan BomberforOilgate fiasco.

    • 105
      Cynic says:

      If the evidence is there I fully agree with this …… but I am forced to recall that just a few weeks back hundreds of Met Detectives and Senior Officers who had done this (and far worse it seems) with Met Credit Cards were let off with a smack on the wrist.

      Why are the Met able to prosecute him but not their own?

      Oh dont bother …I know the answer

      • 115
        Larceny with helmets on says:

        Spare a copper, guv’nor?

      • 117
        JJB says:

        Brings to mind Animal Farm. “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” Appropriate that in the book this was written by the pigs.

      • 134
        Anonymous says:

        The Met could prosecute all the political fraudsters. Are they afraid of what might fall out of the cupboard if they open the door?

  2. 2
    Tankboy says:

    Oooooooooooooooooo – let the games begin and the heads roll

  3. 3
    Anonymous says:

    Ian Who?

  4. 4
    Anonymous says:

    It’s about time they charged some MPs with fraud too.

  5. 5
    Has anyone see Mike Hunt says:

    Thanks for filling in the blanks Sir , As long as justice is done be he guilty or not then the process must take its course

  6. 6
    Popeye says:

    Can we be sure your assessment is correct? I do hope so, most of them have been at it so put them where they belong. Sack all who have been proven to have over-used their expense accounts.

  7. 9

    This is excellent news! Hopefully Jacqui Smith will be next. I hope all Guido’s readers are contributing to the Sunlight Centre for Open Politics to get a private prosecutation against Smith. I contributed last week and received a very nice email in response.

    Alan Sugar is a stupid man. (Once all these fraudulent politicians have been dealt with, hopefully we can move on to changing Britain’s libel laws. This is something of an obsession of mine, so I apologise if it’s “off topic”.)

    • 65
      Jimmy says:

      “I contributed last week and received a very nice email in response.”

      Good for you! If was wondering who it was.

      Would you mind posting your e-mail address as a Nigerian friend of mine has an interesting business proposition for you.

      • 71
        Phil O'Pastree says:

        Too late! Got there first and am waiting for my $7,500,000 cheque as we speak.

        • 73
          jgm2 says:

          You’ll have to wait your turn. I’ve already given them my bank details to enable them to make the wire transfer.

        • 74
          jgm2 says:

          And paid 10,000USD in administrative costs and bribes to local authorities. The money’s as good as mine.

        • 89
          Phil O'Pastree says:

          You can haggle about the fee. One asked me for $500 and I said I only had $380 until pay day and he said that would do. I then told the bugger I had sent it by Westen Onion but made a mistake and he could only collect it at some branch in Northern Nigeria. Anyway after three days of silence I got a very angry email …

        • 111
          Jimmy says:

          Are you talking about Nigeria or the Gobshite Centre?

  8. 12
    Your beloved leader says:

    A good use of CPS time which would otherwise be spent on less deserving cases like my dear friend, Harriet Harman.

    This will show everyone that these dishonest Tories are not fit for government and only I can lead your country out of the recession caused by Maggie-loving bankers

  9. 13
    Engineer says:

    Where’s Uddin?

  10. 15
    The Hanging Judge says:

    The green shoots of justice.
    I love it.
    Keep it coming Boris my beauty.
    Tony Mandle-Brown next.
    Oh wouldn’t it be luverly?
    I see a vision of ropes a swinging in the wind.

  11. 16
    John "Hoon Killer" Wayne says:

    Time to get the paedophiles next – hang em high!!
    Remember BLAIR PUT A D-NOTICE ON OPERATION ORE AND A NUMBER OF POLITICIANS ESCAPED PROSECUTION

    http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2009/06/jersey-child-abuse-cover-up-victim.html

    The UK’s Police National Missing Persons Bureau has 1,418 “open cases” of missing children.

    According to Police figures more than 100 children who should be in care have been missing for at least four years.

    Many children who go missing are not reported to the police.

    Member of parliament Helen Southworth says: “All figures on children missing from anywhere are estimates because, astonishingly, there is no requirement for data to be recorded or collected nationally.”

    Almost 1,000 children went missing from UK residential and foster care in 2007.

    The number that went missing from care increased from 570 in 1997 to 950 in 2007.

  12. 17
    M.W. Sir William Waad, Accepted Lodge of Collusion says:

    Let’s hope the magistrate isn’t a brother mason!

  13. 18
    DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

    What fun. I really hope your text in red is accurate.

    BTW, any news on Jacqui Smith?

    • 35
      Jacqui Smith's Old Man says:

      My hands are shaking

    • 68
      Jimmy says:

      Yes indeed. In the last six weeks the total has rocketed from 10,500 to 13,000. At this rate the target will be reached in under five years. Guido has also promised that all the financials will be posted online, but unfortunately the site appears to have developed a fault which prevents any of this information from actually appearing.

      • 102
        stilyagi_air_corps says:

        Yer. Amazing the desperate lengths people have to go to get anything resembling justice in this country, innit?
        I wonder why that is, Jammae?

        PS: I really dig this new subtle approach, all that NLP shouting was getting soooo boring ;-)

  14. 21
    Anonymous says:

    Would he have been charged by the Met, who let off 1,000 officers last month for fiddling their cards?

  15. 22
    Gordon is a gutless wonder says:

    Guido

    Gordon has just stated at the IISS ‘we must tackle illeteracy, drug use and corruption’ – can someone confirm whether he was talking about in Afghanistan or here?

    • 24
      jgm2 says:

      Gordon Brown is officially a waste of skin. We should gut him and make a wetsuit out of the useless c-unt.

    • 29
      Big Bob Joylove says:

      we must tackle illeteracy

      Somebody needs to in your case, you chump.

      • 32
        Gordon is a gutless wonder says:

        any help gratefully received – would pay for some English classes but being taxed to kingdom come – sorry.

    • 49
      M.W. Sir William Waad, Accepted Lodge of Collusion says:

      They have already done remarkably well promoting illiteracy, drug use and corruption. Why do they need another ‘push’ on them now?

  16. 25

    I see from the BBC that some scrotes in Luton – seven in fact – have been charged with “familial homicide” in relation to the decapitation of some other scrote. Now this puzzled me as the new offence of familial homicide had been promised by labour as something to end the “loophole” used in some child cruelty cases; where a child was murdered, one of both parents *must* have done it, but because it couldn’t be proved which, both escaped conviction. This offence was meant to provide for that, by, effectively, linking them both in a joint enterprise. But this scrote was an adult – so I researched and find the offence had in fact been drawn wider than I realised, to include “vulnerable” adults. Well, let’s face it, getting decapitated fairly proves you must have been vulnerable…

    But… Well, it’s a relative thing isn’t it? The more power one person has, the more vulnerable another is. So, here’s my thought, we prosecute the entire Labour shower for the familial homicide of every poor bugger blown to shreds from 20,000 feet, on the orders of *someone* NuLab is in joint enterprise with. No need to determine the guilty party – they’re all in it together. ‘Ang em!

    Just a thought…

  17. 28
    Reevo says:

    Aye, they can run but can’t hide!

    Courts or on the street all the same to me!

  18. 30
    Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

    Please God maybe one day Jacquibootfivebellies will get her collar felt.
    I very much doubt it though but derive a certain satisfaction of the months of squirming and turmoil with Richard Limpdick and the sleepless nights she has suffered which will continue for some time yet.
    Q.Who loves you Jacqui?
    A.No-one!.
    I will change my user name when she is charged with an offence or announces she will not stand at the General Election.
    Skin and blisters spare bedroom? Whose sorry now Jacqui.I bet you are?

  19. 31
    Anon says:

    The Is Brown Bonker’s meme is gaining clinical facts ….

    • 41

      That’s quite compelling…

      On the other hand, it has been glaringly obvious for years. Sane people answer a question now and then, they rarely eat their snot on live TV, they can cope with criticism or failure, they don’t *hide* FFS when things go wrong.

      These are not character traits, they are symptoms.

      • 122
        Nearly Headless Nick says:

        Snot is actually very tasty and a source of extra protein.
        Best left until a nice large flake can be extracted by a fingernail. Carefully inspect and then swallow it.

    • 42
      nell says:

      Yes that sounds about right, doesn’t it.

    • 50
      McGroom says:

      I posted this earlier without knowing of John Ward’s piece.

      “Gordon Brown is staring at the Megrahi story unravelling, Darling warning of a “double dip” reccession, Germany leading a G20 group this weekend to say increased spending is irresponsible, the Afghan mess, relations with the US at an all time low, the UK about to have its credit downgraded by the rating agencies with a resulting collapse in sterling, young jobless NEET’s (not in education, employment or training) is growing, the NHS in disarray, crime and disorder getting worse, education farcical, immigration out of control and a party conference looming.

      As he realises he has actually done massive damage to this country and is not up to the job, he may have a nervous breakdown.

      What odds are bookies giving for Brown resigning for “health reasons” before the end of the year.”

      The odds must be tightening as we speak.

      • 147
        Zed says:

        Mmmmm. I’d like to agree but believe that he is now showing signs of relief rather than stress.
        Believe that after winning the crucial vote from the PLP to continue, he feels that he can now bow out on a high in June after leading his nation into utter despair.
        I pray that the Toriesll be forgiven for the policies that they MUST now implement, that our nation’s people understand, and that the electorate Never Ever forget or forgive what NuLabour Socialism can inflict on the working people.

  20. 36
    Jolyon Wagg says:

    O/T slightly but didn’t Caroline Lucas have some dodgy expenses? She’s been waffling on about some green nonsense or other on the ‘all too willing to publish’ AlJaBeeba today.

    Am I alone in finding her loathsome?

    Wouldn’t be surprised if she were another hypocrite, like toynbee.

    • 45
      righty right wing (mrs) says:

      Vote Green Get Red

    • 48
      genghiz the kahn says:

      She sounded off like some Militant throwback from the 70s.

    • 54
      jgm2 says:

      No. I was unaware of her existence until today but already I detest her. Another product of a comfortable, middle-class upbringing. Another one putting Dr. in front of their name and then pontificating about scientific (and economic) stuff in the hope that nobody realises her ‘doctorate’ is in some fucking wanky liberal arts shit. Aye, that’s you I’m referring to you useless c-unt Brown.

      Another one who, detached from the need to work while young has ‘devoted’ themselves to something much bigger than herself. Anything really.

      In another country and with different chromosomes she’d be cannon-fodder for some terrorist group. Gullible but programmable. Earnestly receptive to any old shit as long it agreed with her pre-conceived ideas.

      The Green party. Almost as dangerous as the Labour Party. At least the Labour Party know they’re being cynical, manipulative, lying bastards. The Greens actually believe all that Al Gore-inspired shit.

      Jackasses.

      • 57

        You can see the future can’t you? Greens on one side, BeeEnPee on the other.

        Given the choice I think i’d vote for the ones who didnt’ want to destroy the world

        • 63
          jgm2 says:

          Look at the mental Titan that is the Greens representative. The kind of keen analytical mind that can cut through masses of data and discern cause and effect and blame man for ‘climate change..’

          From Wikepedia…

          She earned her PhD from the University of Exeter in 1989 with a thesis entitled Writing for women: a study of woman as reader in Elizabethan romance.

          For fucks sake. I’d give somebody a PHD just for burning copies of shit like that.

          That isn’t a PhD. That’s not knowledge. that’s fucking anti-knowledge. That kind of shit is a black-hole of knowledge. Elizabethan fucking romance? A study of woman as reader in Elizabethan romance?

          Newton, Einstein, Rutherford and the rest of ‘em must be spinning in their grave to think that shit like that merits a PhD. I wouldn’t give it a Gold Star if it was written by an eight year old.

        • 82
          Phil O'Pastree says:

          Is this the woman who blamed the Mumbai massacre on Israel as the root cause? Green alright, dead green.

        • 103
          jgm2 says:

          Phil. Say it ain’t so. This woman blamed Israel for the Mumbai mass murders? Where the religion of peace targetted unarmed hotel guests?

          I think the Elizabethan Romance must have gone to her fact-free head.

      • 77
        barefootcontessa says:

        So the higher percentage of the tory party don’t come from ‘ a comfortable middle class upbringing?’ I wonder why you detest people who come from a ‘comfortable middle class upbringing’ ? Sorry to say you’re getting as classist as George Galloway, as narrow minded as newlabour, with a tendency to becoming a mirror image of that ignorant slob John Prescott.

        • 83
          Phil O'Pastree says:

          It’s not just those who had a comfortable middle class upbringing per se but who have had a comfortable middle class upbringing but then seek to deny the same to others with their left wing social agenda.

        • 93
          Call me Infidel says:

          Exactly. Polly Toynbee being the prime example of this.

        • 96
          jgm2 says:

          Ooooooooh. Listen to her. Touched a nerve there. Score.

        • 101
          jgm2 says:

          Exactly Phil. Nothing wrong with a comfortable, middle class upbringing. Everybody should have one. It’s the kind of fucked up mentality that then assumes comfortable middle-class-ness is the natural order of things and so any old shit political philosophy will do and no possible harm could occur. Hence the Greens, Labour and the SNP and their oh-so-heartfelt-I-feel-your pain bedwetting middle class supporters.

          Hard core socialist jackasses, resentful to their parents for the comfy up-bringing they got. Eternal teenagers. The Kevin and Perry’s of the adult world, convinced that by demotivating the very same middle class folk from working by plundering all their earnings for their insane social engineering projects that they’ll make the world a better place.

          Mental fucking pygmies. Jackasses. Absolute fucking arseholes.

        • 113
          barefootcontessa says:

          Your comments do have the ring of a hard working class upbringing People don’t have control over their background, but they do have control over their adult personality, and it’s a decent honourable personality that counts.

        • 151
          Zed says:

          Not so sure SNP have middle class groupies though.
          Scotland has little enough middle classes – and if Scotland Central/West can be weaned of the NuLabour teat by SNP then our nation will prosper for ever.

      • 148
        Zed says:

        Very well put, jgm2, very well indeed.
        Kudos.

    • 70
      H.M.S. Rodney says:

      No you’re not alone.

      Stupendously foul horror who ludicrously fails to address population when discussing co2 emissions. How completely ridiculous is that.

      • 78
        Jolyon Wagg says:

        Her comment today included the priceless ‘more green jobs’.

        Yet more non-wealth creating, parasitical, quango funded arseholes then, all employed on £30k+ whilst the ‘folk who need controlling because they don’t know what’s good for them’ scrape by on far less and just about manage one holiday a year.

        Only they won’t be allowed that because flying causes climate change.

        Climate change my arse.

        I really hate the mentality that Lucas and her ilk promote. When she lives in a cave eating berries and drinking riverwater then she can lecture us all about our ‘consumption’.

        Like I said, I’ll wager she’s a hypocrite.

        • 99
          jgm2 says:

          Like I said. Muesli born and bred. No concept of a hard days work and therefore no concept that an economy composed of the narrow peer group of professional bedwetters, box-tickers, bastards and the professionally ‘concerned’ with which she associates will not function. We will be dying in the streets at 40 while the Chinese and Indians will be wizzing around in fast cars to their orthodentists.

          And good for them too.

          It’s pure patrician ‘knowing better than you what’s good for you’ kind of shit.

          Fucking PhD in study of women as reader in Elizabethan Romance? Oooooh, I think my piss has just boiled. Perhaps she’d like to stand in it and warm her feet up in lieu of turning on the central heating.

      • 79
        barefootcontessa says:

        Take Cover! Lynch mob are out.

        • 149
          Anonymous says:

          its old news, nobody cares any more. look at the terrible Ann MacIntosh MP won a vote of confidence in her constituency last night and forced all the constituency officers into resignation. The vote was based on fiddled expenses!

  21. 37
    pissed of pensioner says:

    No MPs will be prosecuted, I have said it times on this blogg, the MET will piss about till the dust settles and then claim there is insufficent evidence on which to proceed. FUCKING WANKERS the lot of em

    • 72
      Jimmy says:

      “No MPs will be prosecuted”

      Are you calling Guido a liar? If everyone thought like you then the Lord Levy private prosecution would never have happened would it?

      • 106
        stilyagi_air_corps says:

        Something’s really getting to you, isn’t it ‘Jimmy’?

      • 119
        pissed of pensioner says:

        It may well be easy to get fivebellies into court but
        with the judgees all mates of blairs old woman do you
        really belive the old cow will be convicted?

      • 120
        pissed of pensioner says:

        If any do get charged will get aquited you wait and see

      • 150
        Anonymous says:

        We obviously need private prosecutions then.

        • 157
          THE THIRD ROUNDEL says:

          It may indeed be the only way forward. Who will fund it?

        • 167
          Jimmy says:

          I’m so glad you asked

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          Now form an orderly queue.

  22. 38
    SO17 says:

    Freud is charged with being a Clement.
    Using a stupid name in a built up area is quite serious.

  23. 39
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    If Gordon is depressed can you imagine how depressed his wife must be?
    Married to a repressed turkey baster wielding closet homosexual.
    I almost pity the fat slag.

    • 53

      If Broon is really on MAOIs then he should quit instantly. There is no way a person on that medication can handle any responsibility – quite apart from the side-effects (which match Broon’s bizarre behaviour to a Tee) they randomly boost all neurotransmitter levels – I’ve seen adults on these things, years back (they’re rarely used now) behaving like four year olds on a sugar high; zinging around like headless chickens, unable to concentrate, take a decision, settle…

      Kerist…. If this is really true it is inexcusable that he is still in office.

      • 55
        jgm2 says:

        Well the Lib Dems and media lobby hushed up Charles ‘Thirsty’ Kennedy’s little problems so I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they were hushing up any good shit they have on the imbecile Brown. The way he treats them (and us) you’d think they (the media) would be all over him and anybody associated with him like a rash.

        Brown make be an Oxygen thief but he’s no worse than the 400 Labour MPs who sanction his theft. Or the likes of Andrew Marr or any of the media commentators who aint shouting from the rafters 24/7 ‘Gordon Brown is fucking insane’.

        • 62

          Well the Lib Dems and media lobby hushed up Charles ‘Thirsty’ Kennedy’s little problems so I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they were hushing up any good shit they have on the imbecile Brown

          True. I had a go at Michael White on a Cif thread about that point – he responded, as befits a knight of the realm, and was unrepentant about that cover-up. A politician’s health is private, he reckoned, and included alcoholism as a health issue. SO would they include clinical depression – even atypical depression – as a purely private health issue? I think they would.

          But dammit, this man has his finger on the button! A button, at least.

        • 84
          genghiz the kahn says:

          Section of the report from The Guardian on Brown’s speech.

          http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/sep/04/brown-afghanistan-speech

          “Brown said that the government had a four-pronged strategy to accelerate the “Afghanisation” of the campaign: partnering the Afghan army, to build up their capacity; strengthening the civilian-military partnership; strengthening the power of district government in Afghanistan; and extending the “wheat not heroin” initiative aimed at Afghan farmers.”

          Very new Labour, note the three word slogan, and partnering the Afghan army. Afghanisation of the campaign, something G W Bush would not fail to trip over.

        • 108
          stilyagi_air_corps says:

          One could define all successful Socialist parties as support groups for sociopathic megalomaniacs. It just seems to happen that way, again, and again, and again. Coincidence?

      • 104
        anonymous says:

        but if he went on the dole you’d shout at him to get a job Frank!

      • 110
        Captain Haddock says:

        No, no, no .. Give him another large dose of his “Medication” and hook him up to intravenous Chianti drips .. whilst force-feeding him a Cheddar Cheese sarnie every half hour .. That should push the hoon over the edge ..

    • 166
      Zed says:

      And how depressing to have married that beard of a fat slag ?

  24. 43
    SO17 says:

    Clements to be charged with Freud.
    The motherfucker.

    • 61
      Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

      SeventeenThanx for the info the other day about seventeen.
      I was one,six nine and eleven myself.
      Best wishes VVVFJ.

    • 76
      South of the M4 says:

      Very clever SO17. I am not so Jung so I can appreciate that…………..

  25. 44
    nell says:

    Well it’s good to see a prosecution, finally!!

    But what about uddin and jacqui and ms moran?? Not to mention loads of others.??!!

    • 128
      THE THIRD ROUNDEL says:

      Nell, you are being selective again. What about Julie Kirkbride, she outstrps them all both in scale and scheming conspiracy? The Tories need cleansing of this woman. The problem will not go away. Prosecution is the just answer and the best one for the party.

      • 156
        Anonymous says:

        source and evidence (or detailed accusation at least ) ?

      • 159
        Anonymous says:

        David Cameron has some of the evidence.

      • 161
        Anonymous says:

        There is enough evidence already in the open and in the press coverage of the story, surely. Apart from the hard facts the complex cross-arrangements with husband and family consititute conspiracy, surely.

        • 162
          Anonymous says:

          Agreed. They obviously do.

        • 165
          Zed says:

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  26. 47
    Watt Tyler says:

    In the words of Thatcher: “Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice”.

    A reminder of his crimes: http://eotp.wordpress.com/?s=Clement

  27. 51
    genghiz the kahn says:

    I had hoped it was a Labour MP, a Minister, or ex-Minister, funny how it is hasn’t come to pass that the likes of Balls, Cooper, Blears, Brown, Straw, Smith, Hoon, Darling, Usher or McNulty haven’t been spending more time helping the polis with their enquries.

    • 67
      Ctesibius says:

      You missed out Uddin, Mandelson and Blair. In future it will save a lot of space if you simply put a shorter list of those Labour MP’s and Minsiters who should NOT be charged with fraud.

  28. 52
    Sir William Waad says:

    Bit tough on the lags at Pentonville, though, having politicians in their midst. There could be a Human Rights issue looming.

  29. 58
    Amadeus says:

    Piano wire. The thinking man’s solution to any problem.

  30. 66
    Lord R Sole of Chorlton-Cum-Quickly says:

    So the Met are doing Clement Freud for misusing a credit card.

    I may be wrong, but I’m sure I read a story recently which suggested several, if not many, Met Officers had been doing exactly the same.(?)

    What happened to them?

    • 80
      @ello @ello @ello says:

      We, The Met, support Labour, so nothing has happened to us you simpleton.

    • 81
      MondeoMan says:

      In deed, what has happened to all the stories that would put labour on the rack and pushed over the edge to call an election, nothing, all put under the carpet, sat on or quietly ditched. How much more damage will be done before this sorry government is put to the sword…I fear alot.

  31. 75
    Do you like my new yacht says:

    Mandleson is now screwing everything from his Brazilian lady boy to the depressive maniac Brown and just about everything else British. And it’s getting tiresome. He only wheels out the body bag Brown when forced to because of some crisis. This time it’s the Libyan bomber and a little matter of the Special Relationship with our Yankee cousins that’s gone up the spout. The last time it was a bit of a hoo haa about MP’s fiddling a few grand for duck houses and fake mortgages that eventually got Mandleson to drag him in front of the British people.

    So now, eventually, a second rate official no body has heard of is to be prosecuted. A bit late and utterly irrelevant.

    We are now being openly governed by a pontificating slimy spiv with a pulverised prostate who should have been locked up long ago and what do we do? Moan about it to Guido. Now don’t get me wrong, thank which ever god you pray to that we have Guido, but is this the same British people that gave Hitler a good seeing to? We have been belittled, beaten and forced to eat the lies of Labour until I for one am sick, sick, SICK.

    He has lots of time before any theoretical election to do a lot more damage and he will. I talking about Mandleson of course and never mind constitutional niceties, he is in the most powerful position there is right now. Up to now he has just been pulling the strings of the blustering Brown puppet but now wants the top job in name and ASAP. This man doesn’t need to be a Colonel to get control of the country by way of a coup he has already got the job.

    Election next year? I would like to think so but……………

    Engineer a few riots, impose martial law & then you will have Our Supreme Lord and Master Mandleson. Just until things settle down of course and he will get on nicely with the other lovely boys like him down at the end of The Mall.

    Never mind though we have got Dave the Dandy and Basher Boris to protect us. Some hope.

    • 85
      Anonymous says:

      If you (or anyone else) wants to organise a mass-march to Downing Street or Parliament to physically oust these evil unelected negligent lying wankers from their posts and force an election, then count me in.

      • 87

        I’d suggest if we actually forced this or any other government from power, the last thing we’d want to do would be hold a bloody election.

        That’s what got us into this mess. Democracy was a nice idea, it’s had its chance, move on.

        • 91
          May I see Tongue of Bayging says:

          I agree & summed up nicely.
          So what is the alternative?
          People just vote on issues?
          No politicians, no leaders?
          Well there wouldn’t be any after the first vote.
          And then?
          Answers on the back of my little red book.

      • 92
        MondeoMan says:

        This sounds an excellent idea, name the time, we know the place.

      • 94
        H.M.S. Rodney says:

        Me and the boys are up for it. Don’t know about 86 though.
        Sounds a bit, you know, thingy ———-

    • 86
      Phil O'Pastree says:

      I think Mandy would quite see himself in jodphurs and jackboots.

  32. 90
    David, I am a Moron says:

    So “Ian Clement was a member of the Conservative Party before being suspended following incidents involving financial issues both in London and Bexley” – and Boris thought he would make a good deputy Mayor of London??

    Lee Jasper – Baroness Uddin – Jaqui Smith – Kahn – Margaret Moran – Caroline Spelman and her husband over their main ‘residence’ in 2009 European Election

  33. 97
    Bill Goldberg says:

    Who’s next? Jacqui Smith?

  34. 98
    Polly says:

    Tory Sleaze
    Tory Sleaze
    Tory Cuts
    Squak Sqauk
    Tory Sleaze

  35. 100
    Dan Taylor says:

    “Let Down by NATO”- well worth a read!!

    http://ddtaylor88.wordpress.com/

  36. 107
    TV Review Dept. says:

    I thought he did a good job on the Dad’s Army scripts with that Dick Le Frenais chap.

  37. 133
    Not long till labour gone says:

    So it seems the police are just as one sided as the BBC when it comes to how differently they treat conservative members to labour members.

  38. 160
    THE THIRD ROUNDEL says:

    Corrupt politicians appear to be getting away with their misdemeanours. It is an affront to the nation with serious long-term detrimental consequences.

  39. 173
    Porky Pies MP says:

    I heard Tony McNulty on Radio 4 yesterday being interviewed. So all is forgiven is it? Like hell! The cheating lying toad is trying to weedle his way back into acceptance. This lying bastard should be in jail not on Radio 4!



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