September 21st, 2009

Chris Davies Attacks Expense Fiddling “Dirty Cheating Bastards”


Guido was in Bournemouth yesterday speaking at a fringe meeting on the topic of MPs’ expenses organised by Liberal Vision.  Greg Dyke was on form, his political promiscuity means the former Labour-luvvie  is now a LibDem and he is helping the Tories formulate their media policy.

Thieving BastardAt the end of the meeting Guido asked the members of the audience to put up their hand if they thought the former LibDem chief-exec Lord Rennard should keep the £42,000 he claimed for overnight subsistence despite living in Vauxhall, just over the Thames from parliament.  Not a single hand went up, not even the manicured hand of the Telegraph-beatified ‘Saint’ Lynne Featherstone MP who was in the room.

Even the co-panellist LibDem Lord Teverson, who was sitting next to Guido, said he was abstaining…


216 Comments

  1. 1
    Baronness Houdini says:

    SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!!

    • 90
      guardian reader says:

      racist!

    • 177
      MI6 says:

      I would hate to be a politician of our time as they have completely fuc-ed the countries finances. Yes I mean all of them. by the time they take their eye of their expense fiddles it is all going to be too late. Lets spend some more of those hardworking Tax payers money on things that we will never get a return on. Then we can borrow a few billion from the IMF and pay them back with the last little drop of private money that we can nick off the last TAX payer. Well done for Quasi Capitalism run by a bunch of monkeys too busy eating their bananas to see what has happened. I wonder who’s idea it was to put interest rates up just when things needed a push into a depression, I wonder if we have been hear before. Ah yes after the WAR. only problem we are still fighting this one

    • 202
      Anonymous says:

      Well at someone managed to catch the mood of the nation

      • 206
        The Ghost of Christmas Past says:

        The mood of the nation.

        I want my country back.
        They raped it, and sold its citizens into EU bondage for a quick buck and gold plated pensions whilst stealing hard working peoples meagre amounts of income to give to their banker friends.
        The made it virtually illegal to express a contrary opinion,launched a new paradigm called “political correctness”, a thinly disguised variation of a fascist theme to my mind.
        The aims being much the same- control.
        They made the perpertrators of some of the most horrific crimes imaginable the victim in all this, its not their fault theyre bastards and cowards, its society which makes them act in barbaric ways.
        Or so theyd have you believe.
        And all the while they continue to smugly claim ” dont worry, about a thing, cos every little things, gonna be alright”.

        For all these fuckwits have done to you and me, they need to be treated with utter contempt.
        Shun them.
        When fat Mr Brown sends out for his shopping order- tell you dont deal with his kind, you can deal with who you like.
        When Alastair “banker boy” Darling tries to buy a cream bun with your fiddled tax money, tell him to fuck off out, you dont deal with twats like him.
        When Alan Duncan pops i to get another sharp suit on the knock, put your foot up his arse and tell him, i only deal with honest folk, get out.

        Only when these bastards get it at street level, at all levels in fact will anything change.

        I want my revenge, and have it i will, as will you all.
        You know what to do, you know when to do it.

  2. 2
    going mental says:

    well it is true init

    • 41
      Tell it like it is, says:

      So there is at least one good Libdem. This man deserves the media attention not prima donna Vince Cable.

      • 51
        Thomas Aquinas says:

        Even James O’Brien on LBC is getting sick of hearing Saint Vince of Cable.

        • 59
          Mr Ned says:

          yup, considering how often Vince has flip-flopped and been on all sides of the arguments regarding the economy. The man is full of shit. One half good quip about Brown (Stalin to Mr Bean) and they think he is the second coming!!! OK a good quip is sorely lacking from the mouths of liberals, so it did make him stand out, but he is a rank arsehole and not worthy of the media love-fest he seems to enjoy.

        • 121

          James O’Brien is a wonderful thermometer of general public opinion. A self-confessed tribalist labourite, it has been wonderful to see him doubt his own socialist beliefs as:

          (1) he grows up
          (2) starts a family
          (3) sees the car crash that is his beloved party of ideology self-implode.

          He is atypical of most of the non-thinking sections of our society that blindly believes in socialism as the balm to solve our so called “life’s inequalities” as stated by the frothing pinkos, but once you start to really make a start on your life through hard work, sacrifice and commitment, you can see through the lies of those that attempt to dumb down our lives and liberty through the gospel of socialism.

          Maybe one day, we will view labour, and socialism, the same way as we despise authoritarianism under the banner of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche ArbeiterPartei.

      • 56

        Is His Lordship Rennard doing a weightwatcher’s commercial.

        Eid Mubarak to all

        • 61
          English Christian cockney says:

          Send for bomb disposal – quick.

        • 121
          Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

          Yeah, well; people wanted the Lockerbie bomber punished too. ‘Didn’t happen.

        • 180
          barefootcontessa says:

          God, I thought the overblown man in the blue airtex shirt was guido for a moment, but then it dawned on me it must be that sly fox Reynard. The drink must have flowed, had to do with one topic all day yesterday, today we’re saturated. Proves buses do all come along at once.

        • 210
          MikeHunt4u says:

          Duck and cover!

    • 196
      Anonymous says:

      ‘Beware of geeks’

      Its been fascinating listening to the doubts and changes of O’brien as he grows more and more aware of of his false dreams.
      His interview with Gordon Brown (hero) was toecurlyingly embarrassing.

  3. 3
    Marcus Oatcakes says:

    What would be the position for an MP living in Cockfosters?

  4. 4
    Hysteria says:

    What the fuckity fuck is going on??? Whey is not the fees office under more scrutiny – HTF could anyone possibly claim for this allowance when living in London…. FFS !!! have they no shame at all..?

    Oh ….. ok…

    • 52
      Scrobs... says:

      I’ve been wondering about that too Hysteria. Surely even the thickest/stupidest Fees Office clerk could lift his or her ink-stained fingers to the nearest A-Z and see where the address was!

      Or perhaps such actions are classed as ‘racist’, or subject to some imposed EU directive, where nobody has an address, only a numbered bank account somewhere in darkest Switzerland…

      And no, they have no shame, only lots of money filched from you and me!

      • 211
        Hysteria says:

        and while I am on a rant – why the FUCK has this woman not resigned/been sacked ??????

        remember Lord Carrington? resigned after the Argentine invaded the Falklands – despite him probably being the best man for the job he said “nope – my watch, my fault – I’m oudda here” (I paraphrase)…….

  5. 5
    Anonymous says:

    Please – ‘dirty cheating bastards’ is a big difference to ‘dirty thieving bastards’.

    Renault are the former, but that is not quite as bad as the latter..

    • 11
      Steve Expat says:

      Big difference – Guido your quote’s wrong, Davies described them as “Cheating” rather than “Thieving” on the video.

      Renault were lucky to get a suspended sentence, the CHEATING bastard Briatore got what was coming to him though, he’s banned “indefinitely”

      • 22

        Ahh, thinking not hearing. Corrected.

      • 63
        Mr Ned says:

        There is a difference, a BIG difference if the cheating in question leads to a direct risk to life and limb of drivers, marshals and the paying public! Renault basically attempt manslaughter and lose not a single point or dollar and the result of that race still stands and they keep the prize money too???

        Renault should have had all their points from last year annulled, had to return any prize monies and Briatore, Symonds and Piquet should be tried for attempted manslaughter.

        The FIA’s claims to promote safety is a sick sick sick joke.

        • 118
          Anonymous says:

          I race stock cars and no one needs to tell me to crash into the safety fence at high speed. I am so crap behind the wheel that I do it all the time, just wish someone would pay me a couple of mill for the job.

        • 152
          Steve Expat says:

          I wonder what would have happened if this has been McLaren in the dock rather than Renault?

          The punishment is nothing compared to McLaren’s $100m fine for getting hold of Ferrari’s car designs, something which any company would do given the opportunity.

          Renault got off with a suspended punishment becuase the FIA are shit scared of more teams quitting the sport, especially the car manufacturers.

  6. 6
    TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

    Gotta love the libdems. Hate expense fiddling with such passion. Love handling all our affairs to Europe with, err, such passion. Good job theres no corruption going on there then. And if there was, its great the UK has such clout it can sort it all out.

  7. 7
    fedupwithbrown says:

    Don’t they know we are waiting for a list of MP’s who will stand at the next election. Why haven’t we got it. Just so’s we know who’s got real and who hasn’t.

    • 9
      nell says:

      Do you think Julie Kirkbride is still planning to stand? And what about Jacqui Smith ? Do they both still think they’re electable. I do hope not.

      And it was being suggested yesterday somewhere in the press that gordon might not contest his Kirkcaldy seat next time around – now that would be a turn up for the books!!

      • 13
        English Viking says:

        I think she would stand, but she can’t get up off her fat backside because of all the wodges of cash that are weighing her down.

      • 23
        Stronghold Barricades says:

        Better to let them think they can stand, and they allow the electorate to have a say

      • 26
        Agent 99 says:

        McDoom not contesting his seat would be precisly the way this streaky piece of cowardly shit would exit. He’s terrified of elections and he knows he’s going to take an absolute beating and so would just slink away and re-appear when the trouble is over like all good cowards do.
        Next stop for him though would be the EU so don’t think that would be it as the EU don’t do proper elections or balance the accounts either so it would be just perfect for McDoom.

        • 34
          jgm2 says:

          It’s possible. A couple of quarters of 0.1% ‘growth’ on th back of 200bn quid per year of printed cash and he’ll declare his work on earth is done and he’ll hand over the renewed and growing economy on to a new generation.

          Now that he’s saved the world he will turn his collosal intelect to new challenges. His literary career. His university research. His global trouble-shooting career – like Blair only better. Wherever there is a photo opportunity for my memoirs – I’ll be there.

          His own fucking make-belief-land in his fucked-up head.

        • 43
        • 62
          Budgie says:

          If Bliar makes EU President post Lisbon, then I can’t see any room for McBust in the EU.

        • 102
          R.McGeddon says:

          Do all failed or dodgy Labour MPs go to Brussels for a financial ‘top-up’ ?

          The Kinnochios, Handelsmen, Bliar ? Is this a trend that McBruin wants to be on ?

        • 120
          Number 6 says:

          Yep, Broon will do a Kinnock and still take our money and piss in our faces. The EU is made for and by total fucking scum suckers like Brown, Blair, Kinnock and Mandy. Anyone in favour still staying in it – why yes call me Dave.

        • 172

          Newly elected Barroso is a Maoist FFS.

      • 45
        THE THIRD ROUNDEL says:

        Kirkbride has said she WILL stand and that Cameron will back her. What folly! She will not be elected and the campaign would be chaotic. On the facts so far disclosed she is by far the worst offender of any MP of any party and when this is added to husband MacKays activities, the amounts over 12 years add up to millions.

      • 47
        Old Moores' Almanac 2010 edition says:

        From- political predictions section

        1. Julie Kirkbride = 95% YES to stand and probably hopes to be elected with reduced maj although independent will give her/conservatives a scare in a historically true-blue heartland of the West Midlands. But the “Get out of Jail” Free Card” is that she still has “Dave’s Blessing” and will be in government either as elected MP or eventually as Baroness Kirkbride as he still rates her as potential Minister material- depends on size of Tory maj and size of her defeat if she’s not re-elcted as to timing.The same holds true for Andrew MacKay her husband – he and Cameron go back a way and Dave rates his “Gate-Keeping”abilities when he was “Chief of Staff” although probably best not to rate his accounting aptitudes(!)
        2. Jacqui Smith = 100% YES to stand 30% chance of re-election. She will return to teaching 7b at Redditch High School after defeat in the polls(joke)

        3. Kite flying and speculation -Brown will stand for Kirkaldy IF he is still leader of the party at the election.If not he will have resigned already and be on his way to making serious money(I know but someone WILL offer him a job).He won’t accept a peerage although custom dictates the Queen will offer him one as ex-PM – Baron Brown of the Mearns(or lack of)won’t appeal to the “Son of the Manse”’s socialist tendencies

        • 57
          THE THIRD ROUNDEL says:

          It is a very bad reflection on Cameron if he rates Julie Kirkbride at all. It is folly if he approves her as candidate. It is outright stupidity if he appoints her to a job later as this will rightly be seen as rewarding the corrupt. In these circumstances Cameron`s judgement has to be seriously questioned.

        • 66
          Old Moores' Almanac 2010 edition says:

          I only make the predictions I don’t comment on the soundness or ethics of the matter I leave that for others

        • 72
          Steve Expat says:

          If Kirkbride stands that’s one seat closer to a hung Parliament

          The party leaders are misguided if they think the electorate won’t want to get rid of troughing incumbents from whichever party, especially if given the alternative of a strong local independent.

          If the rumours are true of a massive SNP campaign in Kirkaldy and Cowdenbeath (possibly with Tory and LD support), I’m sure Broon would rather resign than suffer the indignity of being the only PM in modern history to lose his own Parliamentary seat.

        • 82
          jgm2 says:

          If Brown loses his seat rather than resigns I shall consider it a small blessing that the people of Kirkcaldy are not as stupid as the people of Glenrothes.

        • 91
          Mr Ned says:

          I was thinking that Brown will be parachuted into some high-level safe Euro job for his attempt at stopping the Brits from having any say whatsoever on the future of the EU. However IF we are sorely unfortunate enough to have to suffer a President Blair, then maybe not. IF we are that unlucky, (and Please Ireland, think very carefully about how you vote, because you will be infilicting Blair on yourselves too), then Blair and Mandelson will rule the EU together, with Mandy being appointed the Governor of the regions that formerly made up the UK. In other words, would have the same powers that were invested in the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister’s role will be devalued and changed into a purely ceremonial affair, to rubber stamp the EU diktats without the effort required to even read them.

          The media will still play it’s role in pretending that the UK Parliament is where it is all happening and we will have utterly powerless MPs on Question time pretending that they do something other than line their pockets, pontificating on the latest sun or Daily Mail or Guardian headline and revelling in their false importance in the media glare. Meanwhile Mandy imposes a tighter and tighter fascist state from Brussels whilst keeping all the pomp of the ermine in the Lords. His title will be expanded further to be Supreme Lord Mandelson, Governor of West Eurasia, Baron of Foy, First Secretary of State for the EU and her Former colonies.

          Then the Rothschilds and the Russian Oligarchs will be holidaying on HIS Yacht.

        • 114
          Old Moores' Almanac 2010 edition says:

          “The Runes” tell me that Kirkbride might just have more support (both in her Constituency Association and the electorate) in Bromsgrove than you or the media think THAT’s why she’s actually re-considering her considering her position(a bit tortuous phraseology that)She is actually a very good constituency MP despite her lack of accoutancy skills and surprisingly there is some sympathy for her situation – don’t ask me why cos’ I’m baffled as you.All we/you have heard is the usual vocal minority some of who support her political opponents.People if asked in the street about MP expenses will obviously say they are totally disgusted but as to Kirkbride personally if it comes to an election ?????????Nothing surprises me in politics anymore !! Julie just might be the “come-back girl”and surprise everyone.

        • 175
          Anonymous says:

          114 that would be a disaster. And the Runes are wrong:

          1. It is part of the Kirkbride spin to say that she has massive support.
          2. the Consituency Office is under her control and the Secretary Rita Dent is paid by Kirkbride. The office is non-stop lobbying for Kirkbride.
          3. Alaqn Dent, wife of Secretary, is Constituency Chairman. His daughter is nanny to Kirkbride (paid how)
          4. Kirkbride is NOT a good constituency MP – false and scheming.
          5. It is not true that opposition is solely from political opponents – they want her to stay!

          This woman is a spinner who is attempting to deceive the Party. It is a pity if Cameron and others are deceived by the scheming. She will never be elected and it would be utter folly to allow her to try.

      • 179
        Labours New Aristocracy says:

        Nell Im afraid it would not really be a turn up for the books as it is completely in character for the spineless one. I fully expect him to stand down on health reasons. Second best kept secret in Westminster,

      • 200
        Biffo says:

        He’ll either whinge about ‘ill health’ & try to get the sympathy vote & then stand down when it’s obviously not forthcoming or he’ll move to a really, really, really safe Labour seat – if such a thing still exists. ‘Man of Courage – The Books’ is too chicken shit (with apologies to real, organic chicken shit for that comparision) to risk being humiliated at the polls. Anyway, he’s got his PM’s pension for life, he’s ripped us off over his mortgage(s) & his ‘cleaner’ – what further ripping off does he need to do?

  8. 8
    gildedtumbril says:

    Bastards!

  9. 10

    I do hope that Chris Rennard has managed to find some gainful employment since his nice little earner was taken away from him earlier this year.

    I would so hate to think of him going hungry….

  10. 12
    Troughy says:

    Ms Featherstone shines like a golden lily in a sea of swampgrass. Can’t be doing with her party mind, or the others come to that.

    • 15
      English Viking says:

      Is it coincidence or was she deliberately named after a prison?

    • 17
      jgm2 says:

      Just looked up her wiki entry. Not as blameless as first appears. Looks like a Labour rebuttal job on her wiki entry.

      in April 2007, Featherstone was forced to return large quantities of stationery after her office ordered £22,000 worth in the previous month in an attempt to beat new rules on stationery allowances. Featherstone blamed a staff member for the incident, stating she “knew nothing”…….

      She came to the attention of the national media in 2008 when she was criticized by Conservative Member of the London Assembly Brian Coleman for calling 999 (the UK’s emergency number) when her boiler began making noises and sparking. Coleman referred to her as a “dizzy airhead”, Featherstone responded by calling his comments “sexist” and “political” in nature’

      Note the instant Liberal go-to shout of ’sexist’. Yuk.

      • 21
        jgm2 says:

        Definitely a Labour rebuttal job. Bigging up her religion as ‘Jewish’ in the wiki entry. I’m guessing the religion of peace is well over-represented in the constituency.

        • 67
          Old Nick Heavenly says:

          ‘Slightly’ OT, but I must share my excitement now that the Clearstream Affair trial has finally started in Paris.

          I have been waiting for this for ages!

          The vile Villepin’s (Chirac’s assassin) defence, to be offered by 4 (quatre) lawyers is, so le figaro informs me:

          ‘He did not know anything about it all!’

          You see the influence Gordoom has on the worlds leading politicians.

          The vertically challenged, but from the smile on Carla’s face, not horizontally challenged, Sarko is willing to take his enemies before the courts!

          Hope Dive is taking notes here!

        • 89
          Mitch says:

          You believe Sarkozy didn’t take bribes?

        • 105
          Peter Handlesmen says:

          Oi ! I’m in charge of re-butting.

        • 106
          Mr Ned says:

          @89 Of course he probably did, but then all French politicians are corrupt. The thing is, Sarkozy is backed by an international cabal of very powerful, very dangerous and highly influential Zionists.

      • 28

        It may well be that she was just too stupid and unimaginative to have leveraged here exe’s. The boiler story support this theory.

      • 78
      • 125
        Old Nick Heavenly says:

        Mitch, they are all politicians! European politicians!

        The Emperor of bribe takers was Chirac. allegedly with some 30 odd million bucks in his bank account in Japan.

        Villepin was Chirac’s heavy. He is a vile an odious man and I would personally prefer 100 Sarkos to that c’nt. ( Mrs H, a well educated young woman and nice girl does not know the slang word in Frog)

        The Clearsteam bollocks was a stitch up from beginning to end. I followed it closely in the Canard at the time.

        I look forwards to the blood and feathers.

        It’s nice to have your own political scandal instead of having to watch you Brits all the time for amusement!

        • 147
          Old Nick Heavenly says:

          The alterative to Sarko was Sego Royalle.

          If she had have won it would have been like, like… like having Gordoom running France.

          Then we would all be totally fucked instead of just you lot and the Yanks!

          All my German hippy buddies were totally against Angie Merkel, but 6 months later, after that erection, they were quite relieved to have somebody competent running the show!

  11. 14
    fedupwithbrown says:

    And lovely Vince wants to get rid of quangos. Does that also mean the biggest non elected quango of all. The dirty thieving European commission.

    • 20
      It's all Balls says:

      The European Commission isn’t a Quango Mr fedupwithbrown – it’s a retirement home for Europhile UK MP’s – with a rather well paid sinecure to boot

      • 109
        Mr Ned says:

        It’s a retirement quango for Europhile UK MP’s and a place whereby the EU can ride roughshod over any and all democratic principles of any member state.

  12. 18
    Master Baiter says:

    The Irish have been smacked around by the post bubble puss more even than the UK.
    They’ll be hanging on to the EU apron strings for grim death.
    Watch them vote Yes in their Lisbon plebiscite.

    What do the Tories stand for again?

    Isn’t Cameron looking tired?
    He’s scewered if they vote Yes and scewered if they vote No.

    • 27
      jgm2 says:

      Post bubble MB? Tut tut.

      Come on. Back on script for you me lad. It’s not a ‘bubble’. It’s a global economic crisis that started in America and has fuck all to do with me, Gordon Brown. Remember?

      If it had been a ‘bubble’ any old eejit Prime Minister would have seen it coming. Only a reckless maniac would have sat through a nascent housing bubble after we seen what happened in 1989-1992.

    • 31
      economist and realist says:

      Yawn.

      UR a crap troll.

      Where is the other one who used a similar name to you?

      Now he was a good troll.

      • 33
        Master Baiter says:

        Yawn

        • 75
          Old Nick Heavenly says:

          This is the 3rd, third, that’s 3 times, housing bubble that I have watched explode in the United Shithole! There was one in the ’70’s as well!

          It was as predictable as winter following autumn!

        • 117
          bergen says:

          Remember,trolls like MB regard 1997 as Year Zero.

          Curious that Brown lectured in Economic History in view of his catastrophic misunderstanding of it.

        • 157
          Master Baiter says:

          The crisis is not a housing bubble, it’s much much more than that. For a start the commercial property bubble and crash is going to be far worse than the slide in house prices.
          This crisis is a a financial derivatives bubble far far bigger than any housing bubble could become. Noone has seen anything remotely like it before.
          The crisis is a catastrophe which will cause social devastation.
          The Tories don’t care about social devastation.
          They think it’s a sound idea.
          They are thick.

        • 165
          jgm2 says:

          A crisis that will cause social devastation?

          Shocking. Luckily we had a prudent government that prevented any kind of a clusterfuck like this building up eh? Rampant house inflation. Insane levels of personal indebtedness. Insane levels of national debt. Insane annual deficits.

          Gah! The signs were everywhere.

          I mean only a government of incompetent jackasses would sit there and let a clusterfuck like this build up and fail to spot it. Reckless doesn’t begin to describe it.

        • 166

          Nope, it’s not credit derivatives, or any other symptom of excess credit it’s simply the fact that THERE’S TOO MUCH CREDIT.

          As is well known The Regulator (FSA/BoE/Government) decides on the volume of credit in the currency by setting bank reserve requirements.

          This debt was used (very badly) to fund consumption and to hide the fall in living standards and the economic damage caused by “progressive” taxation of incomes. Governments also gained as they taxed this credit expansion driven consumption.

        • 168
          jgm2 says:

          No bergen. For Labour trolls Year zero was 1979.

          Anything bad happened between 1979 and 1997. In fact everything bad happened between 1979 and 1997. Although obviously they didn’t want to reverse any of the bad things that happened.

          Everything good happened between 1997 and today. Even the economic clusterfuck that started in America and has fuck all to do with me, Gordon Brown is ‘good’ because it would have been so much worse under the Tories.

          Do you see?

        • 174
          Master Baiter says:

          “You can’t buck the market”

  13. 25
    economist and realist says:

    The Lib Dems havin’ a go at expense fiddling?

    And they are pro EU?

    Ho Ho Ho.

    Oh, the utter irony & insanity of the terminally confused Limp Dums.

    • 129
      Number 6 says:

      Where I live the limp dumps are furious about an incinerator being built to burn all the rubbish we bung out, limps are very very green you know. I pointed out that it was being forced on the council to meet EU landfill directives as we can’t recycle any more (sorry ship it to India to be buried) and the council is shitting blue lights about fines from Brussels in the offing for the temerity to decide where to bury our own trash. Blanks stares all round, before our potential MP said “well as a Liberal Democrat I HAVE (emphasis mine) to support the EU.” Nice to know a sock puppet can admit to being just a sock puppet, albeit through a slip of the tongue.

  14. 29

    YOUR ALL WRONG!!!!

    After much reflection on the matter I have come to the conclusion that MPs SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO THIEVE FROM THE TAX PAYER……my reasoning behind this moment of lucidity is that we are all going to die one day so it doesn’t really matter…..

    You could get hit by a bus tomorrow so I personally welcome any news that MPs have destroyed both the countries and my own personal wealth and take comfort in the knowledge that in one million years time there will be no visible proof that I ever existed except maybe for a tooth that may drop from my decaying mouth and land in a pool of resin if I am lucky.

    • 111
      Mr Ned says:

      How ironic. “YOUR” wrong too. It should be “YOU’RE ALL WRONG!!!!”

      • 123

        Ah…..Sorry Mr Ned…part of being a genius is the inability to spell for toffeaq and my grandma is far from desirable….

        • 193
          barefootcontessa says:

          Is toffeaq an exotic variant on those wonderful old fashioned toffees made by Sharpes?

        • 194

          No berefootcontessa toffeaq is a small unknown island just of the west coast of Wales where dolphins swim up the rivers and mythical creatures play the most mesmerizing music on instruments resigned to folk law….a beautiful medieval tavern can be found at the the heart of this island where beverages of untold pleasure await and if you follow the ancient signs left carved in marble stones that predate oxygen up a hill called Bent Egg Whisk you reach the great temple of toffeaq from which it is said you never want to leave…

          You asked ;)

        • 205
          barefootcontessa says:

          I like your imaginative prose, you were getting quite carried away there, but if the island of Toffeaq is unknown how will your grandmother ever be able to find it?

        • 208

          @BarefootContessa

          My Grandma was born there she was a high priestess there but her love for my grandfather’s brother drew her away. One night she swam over to a rock with a bag of feathers and stuck them to her legs to make herself look like a mermaid using bee’s wax that she had stolen from the sacred grove on Toffeaq Island. She then waited for a passing ship to catch her sitting shivering on the rocks and come to her entranced with her song as she tossed back her hair that was as black as night and her eyes as green as the grass that only comes after a sun shower on the hottest of summers days.

          The just as all hope of being picked up began to fade along came a ship and standing proud at its helm with a chin that looked like it was set in concrete stood the handsome captain who was unfortunately gay which disappointed my grandmother immensely but he extended a strong hand (With nail varnish) to my grandmother and she was helped aboard and fell into a deep sleep.

          When she awoke she was on dry land and was in awe of the strange things she saw….cars, houses, televisions and mice (She had never seen a mouse) but she knew that she must find her true love…who’s photo was washed onto the shores of Toffeaq some months previous.

          Then by amazing coincidence 30 seconds later she bumped into him (Even though he lived 100 miles away) and shortened this story…she married him then he died and she married his brother because she was bored.

  15. 30
    Sir William Waad says:

    It’s time to contract it all out. We’ll have the Germans running our industry, the French running our railways, the Dutch can do infrastructure, the Swiss can handle the economy and the French can run the restaurants.

  16. 36
    Willsteed says:

    For those of us who live abroad, would you care to explain who Chris Davies is… or the significance (coming this week) of the clip you posted?

    • 42
      Steve Expat says:

      Christopher Graham Davies (born 7 July 1954 in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire) is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom. He is a former Member of Parliament, and since 1999 he has been a Member of the European Parliament.

      from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Davies

      • 70
        shelling-out says:

        He’s on a good wedge, then. Double bubble. Nice work if you can get it.
        I’d love to see his expenses account.

        • 86
          Steve Expat says:

          MEPs don’t have expenses in the way MPs do. The system was designed that way to avoid what happened when the DT got hold of the MPs’.

          Instead they have “allowances”, paid in full every month into the MEP’s bank account, with no checking on how they are spent and with no income tax paid. I believe they recently demanded receipts for travel expenses as the previous system was seriously over the top and was paying out BA business class fares to those who flow Ryanair.

          Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3618191/I-tip-my-hat-to-those-voting-for-a-clean-up.html

        • 104
          Peter Davies for P.M. says:

          Fucking hell, in light of that video it shows how much brass neck the cheeky bastards have got – calling mps thieving bastards and being in the cadre of a set of even bigeer thieving bastards.

        • 107
          shelling-out says:

          I’d love to know what his alowance is, then.

          No point in doing the job if you can’t fleece the taxpayers for a hefty sum, is there. I thought that was their motto.

        • 156
          Steve Expat says:

          A more detailled artlicle on MEPs’ allowances – makes the MPs’ deal sound like Alan Duncan was right!!

          http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7229259.stm

          287 euros daily allowance
          4,052 euros per month for constituency office
          16,914 euros per month maximum parliament allowance
          Travel allowance
          Chauffeured taxis to airport
          Up to 4,000 euros per year for non-EU trips

      • 116
        Mr Ned says:

        And he has the fucking nerve to call our MP’s corrupt? Cheeky bastard!

        I’ll listen to Chris Davies rant about corruption when he has set fire the the EU commision and the EU Parliament buildings in Brussels and Strasborg.

        What a fuckwit!

        • 133
          albacore says:

          Why all the aggro?
          What he said in that video is righteous.
          Why hasn’t Cameron the messiah (pbuh) pledged hellfire, brimstone and legions of avenging seraphic plod on every one of the multitudinous Parliamentary sinner-men, -women and -not sure?
          Disclaimer: I wouldn’t cross the road to piss on any Lib, Lab or Con if it was on fire.

        • 198
          Mr Ned says:

          @ 133, I agree that Cameron should be this passionate about exposing and removing the thieving cheating bastards. I agree with this lib-dem fuckwit that the snouts in Westminster should be removed from the trough, but an MEP has no room to talk. It’s like a child molester and rapist criticising a bloke that merely felt up some woman in a pub.

    • 46
      PC World says:

      I don’t think that anyone knows who he is so don’t feel left out.

    • 77
      Kitchen says:

      Don’t rush back – he is only famous in his own lunchtime.

    • 88
      Lil Olmey says:

      Does Chris Davies know who he is ?

  17. 39

    Never mind this LibDem wankery – what about Greg Dyke’s accusation that the BBC intentionally conspires to sustain the political status quo? What other explanation can be put on Dyke’s “conspiracy”, other than a willful distortion of reality to fit a BBC/Westminster/Luvvie mindset?

    • 48
      fedupwithbrown says:

      He should know

      • 73
        jgm2 says:

        When the BBC got too close with Gilligan and Kelly then he had to go.

        http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3441181.stm

        ‘The pair quit after parts of Andrew Gilligan’s BBC reports of claims Downing Street “sexed up” a dossier on Iraq’s illegal weapons were branded “unfounded” by Lord Hutton. ‘

        The entire BBC neutered by a bullshit Hutton report. Instead of standing up to the most naked political interference and snowjob in recent history.

        The guilt of eating that shit after shilling for the evil Labour regime must be eating him up.

        Good.

      • 132
        bergen says:

        Hutton destroyed my last illusions about judicial independence.

        Skillfully his report was based on two premises:

        1.Anything submitted by HMG was deemed to be true unless proved to be false.

        2.All other parties needed to prove their submissions.

        He was well chosen.

        • 146
          jgm2 says:

          I think the rather closed parameters of his ‘report’ (a lesson learned from a careless brief given to the investigator in Bill Clinton’s case) helped too.

          ‘Did the government receive a report stating that Iraq was able to deploy WMD in 45 minutes’ YES or NO.

          Weeeeeeell ‘yes’ they did but…..

          Hurray we win. Fire Gilligan. Fire Dyke. Kelly was wrong. We’re great. We own the BBC.

          the …but bit never got heard or even considered.

          So if Tony Blair keeps sending back intelligence reports with suggested ‘improvements in emphasis’ until somebody eventually gives him one he likes and can wave under the nose of a rigged investigation that counts as vindication does it?

          And that is how the BBC came out ‘losers’ when they were so demonstrably in the right.

          It’s the same technique Brown and Darling use with their ‘treasury forecasts’.

          No, that’s no good. Go back and make up some better number. No, I couldn’t possibly suggest what they would need to be. Just use your experience but if they’re ‘wrong’ again I’ll fire you and get somebody who can do the job.

      • 134
        Mr Ned says:

        Indeed he should know, he did as much to get Blair elected as any other person in the country.

        As for the Gilligan sexing up report.

        The vast majority of that report regarding the sexing up of the September Dossier into Iraq’s alleged WMD capabilities was entirely accurate in letter and spirit. One sentence could not be proven to be correct, but was still closer to the truth than anything coming out of the lying government of the time.

        A draft report (in Microsoft word format with edit histories turned on) stated that Iraq was not a threat to us or our neighbours and presented evidence backing up that assertion. After a “presentation” meeting chaired by Alistair Campbell, the report suggested that we were 45 minutes from doom!!! If that is not sexing up, I am a handsome, multi-billionaire who has just bought the Entire Unites States to turn it into a fish pond!

        The Labour government did lie and sex up and exagerate the threat from what was known at the time to be inert and probably non-existent stocks of old, useless WMD. The UN knew that the amount unnacounted for stocks were the result of accounting speculation. A calculation that the UN did in 1992 when they guestimated the maximum possible capacity of all the factories and laboratories at full production and if those stocks were stored properly in ideal conditions. That number slowly morphed over time from a speculated and imaginary amount, to a set-in stone amount of stocks that had to be accounted for. THEY NEVER ACTUALLY EXISTED! All the known stocks were accounted for and destroyed by 1995. The unnacounted for stocks were a figment of the UN’s imagination.

        This was all known prior to the invasion and was admitted by sections of the UN and the inspectors themselves.

        Bush, Blair et al all ignored this, even when they were personally briefed to this effect by intelligence officers before the invasion. Blair and Bush were both informed by intelligence assets in a position to know that Iraq definitively bore us NO WMD threat whatsoever. They KNEW it for a fact when they decided to illegally invade that sovereign state and set in motion a series of events leading directly to the deaths of over a million innocent souls.

        Greg Dyke supported and boosted and propagandised for Blair all the way up to that invasion. Now he lives with the consequences on his conscience.

        • 136
          Mr Ned says:

          Sorry, mistake:
          “A draft report (in Microsoft word format with edit histories turned on) stated that Iraq was not a threat to us or our neighbours”

          Should read:

          A draft report (in Microsoft word format with edit histories turned on) stated that Iraq was not a threat to us or HER neighbours

        • 155
          jgm2 says:

          Greg and the governors should have stood their ground. They were in the right. Iit was only the tortuously prescribed limits of parameters of the Hutton Report, designed to give the ‘right’ answer, that allowed the liars to claim victory.

          They should have shouted out that it was a rigged report with a rigged remit. Instead of which they rolled over and now they are completely Labour’s biyatch.

          Even more than they were before if that’s possible.

        • 184
          Labours New Aristocracy says:

          ……….It ended of course with Blair “converting” to Catholicism and being appointed as peace envoy to the Middle east

          Mindfuck or what ?

        • 190
          barefootcontessa says:

          Alistair Campbell back on BBC performing on Radio 4 , a comedy programme with E Izzard. Campbell keeps popping up on the BBC, will be on tv shortly. Must have friends in high BBC places, considering he tried to destroy them.

        • 191
          pete-s says:

          Nice to see there are many others out there who saw through the Hutton report. For my own sanity I will give you my main points.
          1) Scarlet was the heir apparent for the Mi6 job, he had no competitors, basically keep your nose clean and the job is yours. No pressure there then.
          2) Hutton took a deliberate view not to make any judgement on the changes. Any reasonable person would come to the conclusion that the changes altered the meaning. Hutton took a perverse view of that if the intel people agreed to the changes then it was o.k. The whole report turned on this premiss, with it Gilligan and the Beeb went down. Then the gov had full control over the Beeb. Remember Campbell had been complaining that the Beeb was not giving him a fair hearing. That’s the point at which No10 took full control of the Beeb political output and ANY possibility of democracy in this country was extinguished.

          Hutton deliberately took the perverse view as to take a reasonable view, the report was sexed up and Bliar and Campbell would have had to resign.
          .

        • 201
          Biffo says:

          I’m still living in hope of seeing George W & ‘Christian’ Blair getting the Saddam treatment.

    • 108
      Trevor says:

      I’ve no intention of listening to that racist he’s ‘hideously white’.

    • 170
      Status Quo says:

      Apparently Status Quo know four chords: “We Love New Labour”

      …… Not to be confused with the pop group Status Quo who have done something useful in their lives, unlike Labour MP’s.

  18. 44
    Peter Hitchens says:

    His hair is thinning
    Chances are that now he is a Libdem he will soon develope a taste for eating shit rather than just spouting it

  19. 49
    Julie Kirkbride says:

    Everything is so simply simply wonderful. Dave in particular is so simply simply adoreable.

    • 55
      It's all Balls says:

      If Kirkbride doesn’t stand Dave gets my vote. If she does, he doesn’t.

      Simples

      • 60
        Anonymous says:

        Hear Hear

      • 65
        Anonymous says:

        No decent elector would vote for Julie Kirkbride in any circumstances whatsoever.

        • 92
          English Viking says:

          No DECENT elector would have voted for the scum that we’ve had for the last 12 years, that’s the problem with so called democracy.

      • 68
        Concerned Tory says:

        This is a widely held view. Personlly I could never vote for Kirkbride – she is the epitomy of everything that is wrong in British political life. As for character, personality, morality and decency………..yuk!

        • 203
          Biffo says:

          But I have heard it said that she is a very good constituency MP & very popular with the local voters & that all the hooha over her expenses was drummed up by out of towners & local labour supporters.

          Personally, I think that all MPs of whatever party that got exposed by the DT should be shot & their bank accounts/homes/boats etc should be taken away & divided amongst the voters where they were MPs.

      • 76
        Julie Kirkbride. says:

        But I simply simply adore my job.

    • 58
      shelling-out says:

      I’m really glad you’re not my MP, Ms. Kirkbride.

      I woudn’t vote for you in a pink fit!

      • 69
        I luv Julie says:

        What about a gym slip?

      • 74
        Anonymous says:

        Widespread view. What`s wrong with Cameron?

        • 87
          It's all Balls says:

          I have real doubts about Cameron. I worry that he is actually quite a weak individaul who dithers over making key decisions. An example would be Alan Duncan. Why wait a month to sack him after making those crass remarks?

          If he was up against anyone but Brown I think he would struggle.

          As it is, stick a one legged alcoholic monkey with a personality defect up against Brown and he/she would get my vote.

        • 94
          Anonymous says:

          Never underestimate that fundamentally flawed, scheming, and thoroughly nasty woman, Julie Kirkbride. She has obviously fooled Cameron.

        • 98
          I luv Julie says:

          He’s an unprincipled professional power seeker rather than a principled feckless ordinary joe with a burning desire to do the right thing

        • 99
          THE THIRD ROUNDEL says:

          I agree with your doubts. Let`s hope we are both wrong!

        • 135
          Sir William Waad says:

          Cameron is a pragmatist. He has no strong beliefs on anything. This is a strength and a weakness. It is a strength because it makes it more likely that he will win a general election. Most of us would blow it by expressing conservative policies that Labour could use to frighten people. The weakness is that, like Blair, he may not know what to do when he becomes PM. Fortunately the Tories lack a mad axeman like Brown who could destroy everything, so my vision of the next Conservative government is that they muck things up much, but may not be radical enough to make a real difference.

        • 153
          albacore says:

          What’s right with Cameron?

        • 188
          barefootcontessa says:

          To look on the bright side of things, he may be a humanitarian.

        • 199
          Mr Ned says:

          Apart from being another NWO Rothschild puppet you mean? His intention to sell us out on the EU and deliver us unto his Lucifarian masters on a sacrificial platter would be one reason I could never support him or his party… He will finish what Blair/Brown started. The complete destruction of everything that made Great Britain a strong independent state. We will be broken up into small, powerless regions in a European fascist superstate.

  20. 95
    • 171
      Anonymous says:

      lol sums the bbc up. They are determined to make obama a hero, above criticism. Couldn’t help noticing they hardly reported the protests against Obama’s changes to health care, was there a single anti-Bush protest they didn’t cover?

  21. 110
    Master Baiter says:

    Pus

    • 119
      Winnie Ille Pu says:

      …is the plural of Pu.

      • 137
        Master Baiter says:

        pus, thick white or yellowish fluid that forms in areas of infection such as wounds and abscesses. It is constituted of decomposed body tissue, bacteria (or other micro-organisms that cause the infection), and certain white blood cells.

        • 149
          jgm2 says:

          OOOhhh. Look at you. Suddenly you’re an expert on puss.

        • 154
          TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

          Random: A series of meaningless utterances spewed on an interactive blog in the false belief that being seen to do something, no matter how irrelevant, is somehow better than being seen to do nothing. Aka new labour policy since 1997.

        • 186
          Troughy says:

          The pub up the road serve it on Salmon. I’ve seen it. I think the chef is a foreign chappie.

        • 204
          Biffo says:

          And Gordon Brown likes to bathe in it – you can see that from the state of his skin. Luckily, he can get gallons of it from his fellow Labour MPs as most of them are pus filled bags of boil slime..

  22. 128
    Marcus Oatcakes says:

    Life is quite simple, you are either parasite or not – everybody knows which side they are on

    Gordon Brown, brick and empty beer cans

  23. 130
    going mental says:

    why do the lib dems have a confrance its not like a lot of people vote for them

  24. 140
    Master Baiter says:

    A painful, circumscribed pus-filled inflammation of the skin and subcutaneous tissue usually caused by a local staphylococcal infection.

    • 145
      Mr Ned says:

      will you stop describing yourself!

      • 161
        jgm2 says:

        This isn’t the real Master Baiter. There’s no shit puns (now, now Oaten) plus he’s way off-message.

        He reckons there’s been a property bubble. Well, he’s right – there has been, but that’s not Labour narrative. Labour apologist propaganda is all about ‘it’s the yanks, it’s the banks, it was a ‘Black Swan’ event, nobody saw it coming’.

        A fake. A troll of a troll as it were. Like the fake Hardwidge.

    • 160

      That’s Celulitis, it’s not fun (except for squeezing the massive spot).

  25. 150
    TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

    Mark Oaten only attends these for the caviar.

  26. 151
    caesars wife says:

    good clip fawkes !

    Lib dem stealth paper milliionaire housing tax: Georgist ?? (fascinating bit of ecnomic history)

    is there any ecnomic theory that could be termed Crappist sort of synomimous with Brown .

  27. 162
  28. 163
    Shagadellic says:

    Chris Davies was my MP briefly in the mid 90s. This man is no hero – he’s a political mentalist. He was desperate for the Little and Sad constituency after Geoffrey Dickens kicked the bucket – friggin’ orange signs all over the place. I voted Tory but was delighted when Woolas kicked him out in ‘97. He’s always been slightly crazed – but the way he has aged it looks like he’s been undergoing electric shock treatment.

  29. 164
    Master Baiter says:

    abscess, localized inflamation associated with tissue necrosis. Abscesses are characterized by inflamation, which is due to the accumulation of pus in the local tissues, and often painful swelling. They occur in the skin, at the root of a tooth, in the middle ear, on the eyelid (see sty), in the mammary glands, in the recto-anal area, and elsewhere in the body. Abscesses may develop in lung tissue, in the lymph nodes, and in bone. A sinus abscess may result in a fistula, and abscess of the appendix in appendicitis. Unless an abscess discharges spontaneously, surgical incision and drainage is required.

  30. 169
    jgm2 says:

    Labour: Incompetent. Clueless. Not a scooby.

  31. 178
    Al Yamamah says:

    Is that a picture of old ’scratcher’

  32. 182
    barefootcontessa says:

    On another tack. I hope Monsieur Villepin manages to squash that little shit Sarkozy flat. Court case currently dominating the political news in France. Talk about ‘beauty and the beast’!

  33. 183
  34. 197
    Patriotic says:

    Anyone know what UKip stand for ie:referendum or not?.
    Forecast:-
    1)Ireland will vote yes.
    2)Cechs and Poles will ratify.
    3)Mandelson will sink McMental.
    4)Postman Pat or one of the Millipedes elected leader.
    5)General Election when:- not sure but probably early next year.
    6)Call me Dave now in big shite over EUSSR,we will not let things lie means buggerall,will he go for the nuclear option and stick a referendum into the manifesto.
    It would take a lot of balls to do this but if he did he would have a huge landslide
    victory.

  35. 212

    What an ugly-looking bastard he is, even for a politician.

  36. 214
    Mungle says:

    How contrived and unconvincing. Isnt he enjoying eu expenses?

  37. 215
    Anonymous says:

    So should Lembit Opik pay back the money he claimed on his flat when he actually lived with his then fiancee Sian Lloyd ?

  38. 216

    [...] Fawkes, who’s appeared on Newsnight denouncing the cosiness between reporters and ministers, ignored what Dyke said, despite sitting beside him at the meeting. Presumably, they didn’t further [...]







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