October 11th, 2009

Sunday Sleaze

Sunday Sleaze

target-baronessBaroness Scotland is being investigated by the Bar Standards Board, the barristers’ watchdog, reports the Mail on Sunday.  She is accused of bringing the profession into disrepute.  A quick run down the charge sheet for those who have forgotten: she broke employment laws by not providing payslips or paying all the taxes due at the time, she provided no written contract of employment and effectively paid her housekeeper cash in hand.  She was fined £5,000 for breaking the laws she herself introduced that were designed to punish unscrupulous employers from hiring illegal immigrants.  She has hardly enhanced the reputation of the Bar has she?

The Sunlight Centre For Open Politics claimed in formal submissions to the Bar Standards Board that the Baroness had ‘breached the Barrister’s Code of Conduct by acting in a way that damages the profession’s reputation’. Incidentally, Baroness Scotland, as the highest law officer in the land, is nominally the head of the Bar.  Unlike many of her illustrious predecessors, she is however clearly without shame…

In the coming weeks Guido is looking forward to the next round of expense scandal, the 2008 – ’09 expenses are soon to be released and the Legg letters are going to demand re-payments from MPs who ‘mis-claimed’.   Hundreds of MPs will have to repay over-claims (they are always over-claims) for mortgage repayments that paid down mortgage capital rather than merely covered the interest.  Tory grandees will be asked to repay claims for their stately homes, Nick Clegg will have to justify his serial refurbishment of home(s) at our expense, Gordon Brown will have to justify and probably repay his claims for a Sky Sports subscription and did we really need to pay to have his shirts ironed? It is not as if his wife has a job…

Not forgetting that we have Sir Christopher Kelly’s report with recommendations to the Committee on Standards in Public Life due soon.  The shadow report was tough on sleaze, tough on the causes of sleaze…

UPDATE : Guido almost forgot to mention multi-millionaire Labour peer Lord Paul, a big party donor and financial supporter of Gordon’s ambitions, blatantly fiddling his expenses. They are all at it…


718 Comments

  1. 1
    going mental says:

    Get the gallows ready

    • 25
      Too tired to drive says:

      Mrs Dale is getting her Knickers all in a twist. She thinks Gordon is a man of courage and will Not stand down becuse of his blindness and Guido is a bad bad man to think otherwise. He also thinks Danni Minogue is a Lesbo.

      • 42
        Dick the Prick says:

        Danni Minogue a lesbo!! Now that thought has mileage….yowzers!

      • 50
        randy andy says:

        Are there any pictures to prove it?

        • 70
          Road_Hog says:

          Yes, just search google images, it was in the NOTW 3 years ago, happened at some lap dancing club in London.

        • 72
          The evidence m'lud says:

          Here

          • Ior Spoche says:

            Posting that on here is very distasteful. It lowers the tone and no one will view it anyway; ‘shame it’s only in black & white

          • Lord R Sole of Chorlton-Cum-Quickly says:

            I’ve got nothing against lesbians. In fact I’ve got all their videos.

          • Dick the Prick says:

            The case for the defence err…rests…..ahh

          • backwoodsman says:

            Talking of swinging both ways, I see from the previous story that someone has tried a makeover on blinkies’ bit of rough. The jury remains out on the end result, although The Beast probably would. It’s apparent that the only labour tactic, is to repeat endlessly, either a) the Tories blah blah inheritance tax on richest 3000 families, or b) some Pole is anti-semitic blah blah.

          • Phil O'Pastree says:

            If someone checks out this link can you please tell me if you can make out whether it is actually Dannii Minogue or could it be anyone?

          • WTF?? says:

            There’s some muff diving in that lot!!!

          • The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

            Mr Backwoodsman
            As this is a place for titttle tattle I will reveal one of Mr Fawkes’ guilty secrets
            ( as you can imagine he has many)
            Fawkes fancies Yevette Cooper
            Cross my heart hope to die if it isnt true.

          • Susie says:

            They can’t even get that right — surely Conservative plans for IHT only to start for those with over £1 million estates so the the richest families are actually the ones getting clobbered.

      • 390
        Dale says:

        I have to say,he lacks much charisma – saw him on the paper review the other day – totally lacks any energy and drive.Suppose this makes a good politician!

      • 533
        Scipio Africanus says:

        Guten Tag, Meine Herren und Damen

        HEIL BRAUN

        The Gouvernement-General of Her Britannic Majesty (God Bless Her) should JETZT [maintenant/now] ask the (formerly) honourable Lord Hutton to give a truthful und trust=worthy Report on Lady Scotland, that Socialist Ornament of the Bar und such an example of Integrity to Young People

        If Spinosa were alive, Vot would be his views in this Philosophic dialectic :

        Qvestion : Vot is whiter than whitewash

        Answer : A Report by Lord Hutton

        I suppose Herr Leibniz would say this is Vot you get when you put so many Monads into the Cabinet

        I suppose all Cato would say is :

        Carthago est Delenda [Cruella d Blair's Husband must NOW be elected ReichsPräsident (l'Imperieur de le Monde)]

        Heil Braun Und Heil Antonio

  2. 2
    Sarah B says:

    Gordon can go iron his own shirts thankyou Guido.

  3. 3
    going mental says:

    Gordons mate seems to be troughing so say the times

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6869559.ece

    • 81
      Thunderbox says:

      What is it with these people. Given so much by this country then blatently fleecing us. Lord Paul is on a par with that other trougher UDIN, who, incidentally, has appeared to have dropped off the radar lately. Why can’t justice move with the speed it did when Patricia Scotland was investigated by the Home Office?

  4. 4
    Road_Hog says:

    Sack the criminal.

    • 32
      Road_Hog says:

      Nu Liebor are still trying to cover things up.

      “The Sunday Telegraph has learnt that a top official from the Cabinet Office will be accused of misleading the police about the seriousness of the security implications resulting from the Westminster leaks that led to Mr Green’s arrest.

      The disclosures will embarrass Labour — and be seized on by Opposition politicians — because the role of the Cabinet Office is to co-ordinate policy and strategy across government departments.

      Scotland Yard will also be heavily criticised in the report by Ian Johnston, the chief constable of the British Transport Police, for its alleged heavy-handed and ill-timed arrest of Mr Green. He will suggest that the nature of the raids late last year were disproportionate to the allegations of Westminster leaks. ”

      Sir David Normington, the Home Office Permanent Secretary who first raised concerns that leaks of sensitive material could damage national security, is believed to have asked for passages to be redacted.

      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/6293513/Damian-Green-row-Cabinet-Office-shamed.html

      • 63
        bergen says:

        I trust any incoming administration will send O’Donnell and Normington immediately on garden leave prior to their enforced retirements.

        • 190
          thick as thieves says:

          never mind garden leave, o’donnell should be put up against the gable end of a council house and shot in the back of the head.
          fucking war criminal.
          tony bliar could not have committed his war crimes without o’donnell’s help and assistance.

  5. 5
    Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

    Its a disgrace. Its awful that these investigation drag on and on. Jail them!
    Lets have our country and decent standards back. ‘Standards Not Bastards’

    • 272
      Anonymous says:

      Which was, I think, the motto of Tim Yeo (or was it Parkinson) before it came back to bite them.

  6. 6
    • 9
      Mongrel says:

      You’ll be there to welcome them when they arrive.

      • 12
        Name witheld for medical reasons says:

        ahahaha. ‘will have the door open for you. ‘Ere, clock that german bird
        Your chimes will never be forgiven. Join chime fighters.

    • 19
      slurp says:

      I hear it’s very nice there. Perhaps you could give us a tour.

    • 30
      Sir William Waad says:

      He’s right about that ludicrous old fart Bonio.

      • 46
        Peter Hitchens says:

        “The growing millions of us who loathe the pretensions of rock-music moralists and everything they stand for are completely unrepresented at Westminster.

        Tory and Labour alike are in the grip of some sort of endless Age of Aquarius, where the only music is guitar music, the only good opinion is a belief in man-made global warming, the only religion egalitarianism and the only orthodoxy is multiculturalism and sexual liberation. “

        • 54
          Ior Spoche says:

          Woot.woot

        • 564
          Potential alpha male says:

          I don’t always agree with Peter Hitchens but I do think that this time he is spot on.Why do so-called rock stars think that we should do as they say and why do politicians think that rubbing shoulders with Bonio etc will make us like them?

      • 53
        Dack Blog says:

        He’s right about a few things.

        • 163
          Hugh Bristic says:

          I agree. It is no good believing that just changing the party in power is going to be a solution to the problems. There has to be a realisation that the country has been on the wrong course for at least 20years.

      • 86
        Inglorious Basterd says:

        Alan Sugar drives his Rolls AMS1 using a booster seat. He has fluffy dice hanging from the rear view mirror and he supports NuLabour. He’s in a different class to Bonio

    • 56
      Kevin says:

      That’s rich coming from him

    • 114
      Some bloke says:

      Ah Peter Hitchens. Splendid chap. Just amazing that the government haven’t had him killed like they did with Kelly.

      • 151
        Anonymous says:

        A work in progress perhaps

      • 253
        Billy Sarsted says:

        I remember seeing bliar on tv just after the sexing up story broke,

        WHO WAS IT??!! he snarled and with looks that could kill,

        and they did.

        • 316
          Susie says:

          And I remember his face when he’d heard of Dr. Kelly’s death… he looked like he had killed.

          • Anonymous says:

            I thought at the time he looked very ashen

          • Sam says:

            I’ve no doubt he was. Neither has a UK ‘diplomat’ (whom I believe to be MI6) I met socially the following year. Neither have a lot of other people, including most of hsi neighbours in the village where he lived:
            http://tinyurl.com/yz4mtyt
            A bit scary that the widow was clearly silenced – she will speak to no-one of it

          • Susie says:

            He looked very guilty.

            He was told on a flight in Japan with the press on the plane, I’ll bet he was champing at the bit to get off the plane into privacy to get briefed and get the real story straight. Instead he had to endure Cherie singing ‘When I’m 64′ at some function when they landed.

          • Billy Sarsted says:

            Kelly was an intelligent man, he would have known that cutting blood vessels in the wrist unlikely to cause death, “have you blood on your hands Mr Blair” asked a journalist…

            A man with no reason to commit suicide, an amateurish attempt at making it look like suicide, an enquiry that was a complete whitewash.

            If bliar comes anywhere near me while I have a gun in my hand I will be sorely tempted but then again it wouldn’t be worth doing time for that piece of shit.

  7. 7
    mitch says:

    Lamppost,piano wire and MPs some assembly required.

    • 197

      Be fair old chap. I mean, interest rates have fallen.
      Now if a chap was claiming interest on a £700,000 mortgage at 6% in 2008, some £42,000 but has completely forgotten to amend the claim now rates are 0.5% – about £3,500 then it may look a bit suspicious.
      In fact, what with the worry about MPs expenses and the falling value of second and third homes and the worry about the new Kelly report Its no wonder a chap could forget about something small like that.

      Oh, and I forgot I paid the whole thing off in 2006 too.
      I will obviously agree to repay the sum of [redacted] and a further [redacted] amount.

      Maybe the local paper can do a piece on me waving an unsigned cheque to make it look as if I’m giving money to charity instead of having stolen it.

      Where was Blears during the Labour Con-ference?
      Flinty was on Sky but the Krankie was nowhere to be seen.

      • 459
        Sam says:

        The Labour confernece was notable for the number of absentees and empty seats.
        They will have difficulty doorstepping come the election I fear! ha ha

    • 210
      thick as thieves says:

      that would not be appropriate in the case of baroness scotland mitch.
      everybody knows there is only one way to kill witches: not by hanging, or decapitation or by stabbing a stake into their heart, no, the only way to kill witches is by burning them on a bonfire.
      BURN THE WITCH! BURN THE WITCH! BURN THE WITCH!
      I think we would be well advised to study the scene at the end of the wicker man and to use it as our reference point and template regarding the way we deal with the witch of scotland.
      I am not being partisan about this, I mean, if we get a good bonfire going we might aswell sling a few of the other politician witches on it too.
      I have a list.
      if the readers wish to post the names of witches from any of the parties that they would like to see burned I will happily add them to the Burnings List as we still have a few spaces left; unfortunately the Traitors Hangings List is full.

      • 298
        Boycott the ПРАВДА licence fee says:

        Tat, I like your style! Tat for PM!

      • 318
        The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

        Burning would add to her carbon footprint
        And mine as i danced on her ashes

      • 331
        Sir William Waad says:

        We never burned witches in England. In Scotland they would strangle them first and then burn them. I think you are all being cruel and nasty. I would just put her in the pillory for a few hours.

        • 356

          I’d put her in a trebuchet for a one way trip.

        • 372
          Sod 'em all says:

          Cruel and nasty, Waad? What do you think these utter cu­nts have been to us for the last 12 years? And what do you suppose your darling “Dave” is going to do to remedy the situation? You pompous old fucker!

        • 376
          thick as thieves says:

          oh yes we fucking did.
          I think you will find the last witch to be burned in this country was incinerated in the pleasant county of hertfordshire.
          sir waad, I am a witchcatcher and demon hunter and I am also an expert on the subjuct of English history, so do not contradict me on my fields of expertise or I shall be forced to conclude that you too are a witch, in which case, excuse the pun, I would have to hunt you down and burn and salt your bones.
          and you don’t want that to happen, now do you?

        • 410
          ferret says:

          No but we burned plenty of people who believed in other than specific religions or were sexual deviants. Putting them in the stocks is a waste of time unless you substitute rotten eggs with brickends as in Iran.

      • 419
        Summer_Breeze says:

        Yep, I have a few names for you tat.
        Cherie Bliar, Cooper, Harmperson, Becket and if you can manage it while she is hereabouts, Hilary Clinton.
        Actually, just put the whole lot of them fire, lets see how much of a carbon footprint they leave then!

  8. 8
    Mongrel says:

    They’ll be hoping the Legg letters get lost in the postal strike.

  9. 10
    lupus lupus says:

    Brown will have to find out where he’s stashed his wallet after all these years.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/I/hi/uk.politics/8301161.stm

  10. 11
    nell says:

    Fine. But when are they going to do a thorough public audit of Lords Expenses?

    And when are they going to prosecute people like BaronessU?

  11. 14
    Inglorious Basterd says:

    Even low life Kevin Maguire says this expenses scandal is set to run till the election and because labour have more MPs it will hit them harder and most probably be the final nail in the NuLabour coffin.

    • 84
      Mind your eye - mend your ways ... says:

      Brown will be nailing the final nail in NuLIebor’s coffin from the INSIDE

    • 131
      Boycott the ПРАВДА licence fee says:

      So what? Enter Dave’s Nu Conservatives to save us?
      BWHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!!!!!

      • 171
        ENGLAND says:

        Five more years on Liebore would destroy us.

        • 212
          A Humble Man (with much to be humble about!!!) says:

          That is correct.

          But don’t expect the Conservatives to be any different. They will act on the orders of our EU Overlords.

          The best way to prevent the regionalisation of England- and therefore the destruction of the World’s first nation-state- is to have an English Parliament.

          But I don’t see the Tories arguing for that, even though it would be a gauranteed vote-winner.

          • Hugh Bristic says:

            This may happen sooner than you think.
            If Cameron wins the election, it is likely that the Scot Nats will win a lot of Labour seats. Salmond will then campaign for a Scottish referendum for independence, as he will claim that the Tories have no mandate in Scotland.
            This will probably bring about the end of the British parliament.
            Cameron will probably calculate that Scottish independence would make it easier for Tories to stay in power in England, as the large contingent of Scottish labour members will have been eliminated.

          • A Scot says:

            The first part of your political stargazing is correct. The SNP will win seats from Labour In Scotland, a referendum may swiftly follow, HOWEVER you would be wrong to associate a vote for the Nats as necessarily meaning support for Independence. Manin the election because they are best placed to rid us on the Labour incombent otherwise hitherto known as the monkey in the red rosette. Once that objective has been achieved there is no way I would vote Yes in a referendum, I suspect many people think similarly up here.

          • COVLAD says:

            No English Parliment may bind a future Parliment.
            This goes back to the civil war.

            It is for this reason that the regionalisation of England is so important to the Jocks and Irish running the country at the moment.

            The funny thing is that the union, they hate, has to survive long enough for the regionalisation to take place.

            When there is no English parliment there will be no way the country can repeal the act that took us into the EU.

  12. 15
    going mental says:

    stupid Q of the day but , Is there any mp/lord NOT robbing us?

    • 27
      Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

      Lord Charles is straight. (Out the box) His flapping jaw was modelled on Gordons’

    • 48
      Mongrel says:

      Kelvin Hopkins, Labour MP for Luton. Shows up his next door neighbour Maragret Moran

    • 76
      Bottle-fed Triplet says:

      Glenda Jackson? I don’t think she claimed for anything.

      Anyway “Lord” Paul is said to be worth £500 million. All those people struggling on the minimum wage and paying tax for him to claim.

    • 178
      One for you, Six for me. says:

      Lord Lucan. At least he no longer claims from the public purse.

    • 211
      Phil Free says:

      Sarah Teather, I think.

  13. 17
    British not Brit! says:

    You can say what you like – but don’t mention the word that is similar to Raki because it will immediately go into “awaiting moderation”. Try it and see.

    • 20
      British not Brit! says:

      Perhaps in future we should call the corner shop the khaki shop. In fact that’s a word that is absolutely suitable for more reasons than one.

    • 24
      Anton du Beke says:

      I know, I’ve tried.

    • 33
      Susie says:

      You can’t even mention the proper name of the country you refer to without it joining the mod queue. Try it and see.

      • 41
        • 321
          The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

          As a Cockney I always prefer to shout “wicki whacky go ome ” if I see one down the old kent rd
          You can imagine what a nightmare brick lane is for me

      • 49
        Ior Spche says:

        You can see where this is going can’t you children?
        We will all be just european and woe betide anyone calling another a frenchman or german or scot or fin whatever. Identities won’t be permitted

      • 64
        British not Brit! says:

        Yes you’re correct, I did try it on another post without any reference to it being good or bad and it came up as ‘awaiting moderation’. I also tried Iceland and that was accepted without ‘awaiting moderation’ so Guido’s site is just as ludicrously PC as all the others.

        • 78
          Road_Hog says:

          Well if we can’t use p4k1, is raghead acceptable?

          • Captain Haddock says:

            How about “Turbanaut” ??

          • barefootcontessa says:

            Even ENGLAND is a dirty word.

          • You Couldn't Make It Up says:

            Dear oh dear. It’s the Arabs who wear the headgear, not the Asian Muslims.
            No wonder Guido doesn’t trust some of you eedjits to avoid the sort of stuff which might get him prosecuted for harbouring a racist website. Morons

        • 160
          English Viking says:

          English not British. I have always been slightly uncomfortable describing myself as British, because this used to mean that I might be Scottish, Irish or Welsh, when in actual fact I am English. The fact that British now seems to mean anybody that the Gov have decided to grant a passport to, of any colour, of any religion, of any country other than England, Ireland Scotland or Wales has been the final straw. I am not European, I am not British, I do not come from the UK, I am English and I come from England. If this makes mr racist, I am proud to wear the title.

          • Susie says:

            Well said sir.

            I posted this a couple of days ago, but late in a thread:

            http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/2006/05/dowie/John_Dowie_-_British_Tourist.mp3

          • English Mongrel says:

            Weren’t the Vikings illegal immigrants?

          • Anonymous says:

            Not at all. They only made a swift business trip to educate us in American Football.

          • Observer says:

            Races that conquered this country by force only added to its gene pool in a positive way. Races that are admitted via the back door by internationalist traitors simply ruin it.

          • Susie says:

            You’ve made a very good point there Observer.

          • The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

            Mongrel that was class
            They came over here seducing our monks ,pillaging our churches
            A Labour Govt was of course in power at the time
            We still pay Dane Gelt only this Time its to the EUSSR

          • English Viking says:

            English Mongrel

            The difference between previous invasions of this country and one taking place now is that all previous invasions have been by the same races as the indigenous and almost always of a variant of the same religion. The fact that the last invasion was in 1066 is relevant because, being almost a 1000 years ago, it means that all invaders have been assimilated and their genes so diluted that they have become indistinct from the original inhabitants of these islands. There were at most 5000 Normans involved in the 1066 invasion. That compares with about 4 days worth of legal immigrants into this country at the moment. Such a rate is unsustainable and, if continued, will lead to the destruction of our infrastructure, heritage, culture and race. This is really a side issue to my original post, which was about what constitutes a British person and why I object to being called British when it can mean absolutely anything.

          • Summer_Breeze says:

            Here, here.

          • Jan Boy says:

            What about us Cornish. You Kraut monkey.

          • Carl Isle (Cumbria) says:

            And us. Piss off back to germany.

      • 180
        Did that Work? says:

        and lo and behold it went into moderation (the word P**kist*n)

        • 202
          Susie says:

          There’ll be problems ahead when we’re in there shoring up the country against the Taliban bid to get their nukes.

        • 241
          thick as thieves says:

          if you do not like it here DTW then you know where the door is.
          stop moaning or fuck off.
          cretin.

          • thick as thieves says:

            I forgot to mention that gideon and his bulingdon crew are outside my door wanking again. one of the cretinous toffs has just put his knob through my letterbox and masturbated al over the pile of junk mail and final demands that have piled up against the inside of the door.

            there’s no fucking way I’m going to pay any that electric bill now.

          • streamfisher says:

            If you don’t get one you needn’t pay one (electric bill), rock on anarchy, or New Labour……. revolution by default.

          • Abolish the Licence Fee says:

            Tat, you’re terrific value. Guido should pay you to post here. :-D

          • Deidre Barlow says:

            Here, do you know where he is?

            I’ve been looking for him all weekend

          • Densiny Liquelo says:

            tat and guido are one in the same

          • Henry Wood says:

            Did you suck his knob?

          • Georgie Osrborne MP says:

            Oi open the door pleb we want your vote and we won’t sticking our willies through the letter box until you give it to us!!

          • Anonymous says:

            saddo

          • Anonymous says:

            Good thinking of you to let the junk mail pile up for just that eventuality. Think of the saving on carpet cleaning costs…

          • Anonymous says:

            what carpet?

          • Ratsniffer says:

            Pay online. Guaranteed wank stain free electronic mail…..

    • 137
      Anonymous says:

      So does (unbelievable but true) the most common word for imbibing a liquid!

      • 175
        Road_Hog says:

        Funnily enough so does the word that is used to describe the verb/adjective to describe the use/control of a car.

        • 221
          thick as thieves says:

          I am top boy so I never get modded but I must say I am getting very bored of you trolls going on and on about being modded.
          STOP FUCKING MOANING MOTHERFUCKERS.
          if you do not like it here fuck off.

    • 296
      Adam "I'm certain Eve was a virgin" says:

      In India they refer to their neighbours as “Paks” and no-one is offended. Why not use the word here?

      • 310
        Just Curious..... says:

        Likewise the Palestinians are referred to by their supporters as “Pals” – this nonsense arbitraryness has to end FFS.

      • 548

        ‘Pak’ is the correct term – not ‘pakis’. That’s why you’ll hear the US government going on about its ‘af-pak’ strategy.

        I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned that ‘paki’ was judged to be abusive in a court case in 2003.

        http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/s/60/60862_paki_football_chant_ruled_racist_by_court.html

        ‘Use of the word “Paki” in football match chants is racially offensive, the high court ruled yesterday as it ordered magistrates to convict a fan previously acquitted on grounds that the term was no more insulting than “Brit, Aussie or Kiwi”.

        In a highly unusual move, Stoke-on-Trent magistrates court – where the district judge argued that “Paki” was merely a shorthand expression for someone from Pakistan – was initially ordered to pay costs for the appeal brought by the director of public prosecutions (DPP). It subsequently agreed costs would be determined at a later date.

        I hear that immediately after the ruling, those police that have to deal with our rule-bending friends switched from calling then ‘pakis’ to calling them ‘stans’.

    • 414
      ferret says:

      No the new word is stani

  14. 18
    Anonymous says:

    Ah, the ‘Sarah Brown Ironing’ joke will probably prove your own ‘Downfall’…

    The massed ranks of Number 10 spin doctors, Government sleaze merchants and MI5 / MI 6 labelling you an ‘enemy within of the state’ are as nothing to a load of feminists on the warpath..

  15. 21
    A firm pair of breasts says:

    We need open government.

    • 475
      Cabinet Secretary says:

      My dear boy, it is a contradiction in terms: you can be open or you can have government.

  16. 22
    Exiled in Wales says:

    If the Bar Standards Board is anything like the GMC Professional Conduct Committee, they’ll do no more than slap her wrists.

    Let’s hope the Sunlight Centre keeps up the pressure.

  17. 23
    Sir William Waad says:

    Failing to account for PAYE and NI is a breach of tax law, not employment law. It’s actually naughtier than a breach of employment law and might lead an uncharitable Revenue officer (however unjustifiably) to suspect that My Lady of Asthal was colluding in an attempted fraud on the Revenue as well as an attempt to deceive the Border Agency. But then, barristers are notoriously vague about money, in a sort of Harold Skimpole* way, preferring to leave the grubby business of FEES to their clerks.

    *A character in Bleak House.

    • 31
      Old person says:

      Paying the wages to the housekeeper’s husband is surely in breach of the Money Laundering Regulations.

    • 38
      nell says:

      THe Baroness’s Tongan cleaner had only worked for her for about 6 months. She has apparently had a high turnover of cleaners over the years.

      If she didn’t pay tax and NIC or check for a legal right to work here with this one, what are the chances that she had committed similar illegal acts with the other/previous cleaners?

      Someone should investigate her actions further back and find those other cleaners because there is a story there to be told.

      • 68
        Kevin says:

        Good point.

      • 98
        Shudduppa you facebook says:

        Her whole life should be investigated back to her immigration and birth.

        • 484
          Lord Prof Dr D Draper BA BSc MA MSc Phd (M Mouse Uni) says:

          RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

          • nell says:

            Dont’ be so silly!! You Labour Idiot!! What has racism to do with the top legal mind in the land breaking the law??

            Who cares about her colour!!

            She is the Attorney General for goodness sake!!

            Don’t you think she should be beyond reproach and seen to be observing every law of the land , including one she herself introduced???!!!!

          • Mongrel says:

            Nell I think you have been spoofed.

      • 115
        barefootcontessa says:

        Bet she was a bitch to work for.

        • 485
          Rt Hon Lord Prof Dr Sir D Draper BA BSc MA MPhil MSc Phd (M Mouse Uni) MC GC VC KCMG says:

          RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

          • nell says:

            She is the Labour Attorney General and here she is employing someone for £6 an hour, cash in hand, no check of legal working status, no NIC or tax paid.

            What has racism to do with it???

            The big question is —- why is this highly paid , highly educated woman, exploiting this lowly educated, deprived female to carry out menial tasks for a pittance.

            Real Labour Exposed!!!!

      • 335
        The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

        Nell I know of cleaners that get paid £20 an hour cash in hand in the better parts of London
        At least Scotland seems to have some business nous.

        • 487
          Rt Hon Lord Prof Dr Sir D Draper BA BSc MA MPhil MSc Phd (M Mouse Uni) OBI DFC AFC CGC MC GC VC KCMG says:

          RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

          • nell says:

            So the Attorney General employs illegal immigrants at below national rates to do menial tasks and those of us who criticise her are called , by the Labour Party , racist.

            Truth is this Labour Party has descended into the sewer where rational argument can no longer be used in its favour.

            Frankly speaking the Labour Partty is drowning in the stench of its own excrement!!!

    • 43
      Great Granddad says:

      “*A character in Bleak House.”

      That’s a book by Dickens.

  18. 29
    The Grim Reaper says:

    So you are looking for sleaze are you……look no further than His Holiness, Pope Blair I, President Elect of Europe…..start checking out his activities…….and a veritable vipers nest will be uncovered…….do so before the Evil One becomes Emperor of ALL of Europe….

    It’s goodbye to tired, Torn Eyes and it’s a big Liberal Elite and billionaires welcome back for Demon Eyes….The Evil Emperor of Europe……..and 80 million Turks…….and next year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner

    • 34
      the clerk of dodgy works says:

      Too late. He’s had the shredder on overdrive for years, and has ‘inadvertently’ lost many important files.

      • 75
        Justice Fingers says:

        Can someone explain why the Fees Office haven’t kept copies?

      • 158
        Phil O'Pastree says:

        That’s fair enough. Original receipts go to the accounts office and you may keep copies of what you have submitted in case there are queries but once you receive the dosh you wouldn’t be bothered about keeping records.

        But the Fees Office should be keeping original records for 6 years at least.

        • 417
          Davy says:

          In that case
          1) Will Bliar be getting a letter tomorrow?
          2) Are the posties going to deliver it?
          3)Which of his 6 addresses will they deliver to?

          Anyone got any inside info for us?

        • 448
          In the end Blair WAS the demon eys like the Tories said all those years ago remember says:

          There will be a record of these Claims on Computer somewhere. If there is the will they can be found.

    • 59
      Obama says:

      “….and next years Nobel Prize winner.”

      First!

    • 82
      Ctesibius says:

      Elect?

    • 88
      Squaddie Grunt says:

      Demon Eyes has got blood on his hands.

    • 90
      Road_Hog says:

      Ah Pope Tony, that always reminds me of this election spoof clip for 2005.

      The Pope Tony bit is at the end, I do hope they do one for next year.

    • 95
      I'm As Mad As Hell and Cannot Take it Anymore says:

      £50,000 a hour….blood money….does this monster sleep well at night?

    • 124
      barefootcontessa says:

      It’s written all over his face. How delightful it is to see him looking so old, so tired, so ugly, so criminal, so guilty. That’s what too much money for old rope does for you.

    • 144
      Blair's shrink says:

      Demon Eyes…Back From His World Tour….of billionaires, banks and crooks…..

      • 225
        thick as thieves says:

        until blair is hanged for his war crimes this country’s reputation will remain tarnished.
        he must be hanged for the international war crimes he has committed.
        he must be hanged for the greater good and to restore law and order.

        • 308
          Blair Witch Project says:

          TAT – totally absolutely tops

          Perhaps when he becomes President Napolean of Europe a group can mount a legal case to arrest him and take him to the International War Crimes Tribunal – now that would be embarrassing for all those Heads of State that endorsed him……….

          • Susie says:

            Perhaps it’s all a cunning plan to get him where they want him i.e. out of the USA where he couldn’t be extradited. Heh heh. Hope it works.

          • Ruth Kelly's plaything says:

            Wish I could believe that would happen.

            Surely, every libertarian/rightist/half-decent international lawyer has been poring over the evidence for years now? Landing Bliar in the dock in The Hague would be a major coup for anyone.

            The fact that he’s got away with it suggests that nobody can make it stick.

            Pity.

          • Davy says:

            I don’t have any recollection of voting for him to be a prospective candidate for the EU Presidency!
            Where is the democracy, again?

          • barefootcontessa says:

            Lovely jubbly bwp!

          • You Couldn't Make It Up says:

            Now they’re threatening us with Millipede for EU “Foreign Secretary” if Blair gets turned down
            Its beyond a joke

    • 334
      Blair Witch Project says:

      Perhaps his close special friend Mandelwitch can become his consort and even get the post of Eurotrash Foreign Secretary through the back door…..so to speak……whilst wantaway wifey Queen Slot Gob could then commit her socialist principles to aid the shopping malls of Euroland

  19. 35
    Inglorious Basterd says:

    I get called to the bar every night of the week. I fall down at the bar every night of the week and I get barred out of the bar most nights of the week.

    After a few drinks I start to think whose legs I prefer, Sarah Browns, Baroness Scotland, or Sam Cam.

    And what the fuck do we need 750 thieving, lieing and cheating twats when the Lisbon treaty is about to be ratified?

    • 73
      Sod 'em all says:

      Since Brown has signed up to Lisbon, Westminster is an expensive irrelevance we can well do without. If we are to be governed from abroad (which has been the case for the last 37 years if the truth be known) then we may as well dispense with this pointless British parliament altogether. They have given away all their authority and so may as well be abolished outright. We need to make savings thanks to their incompetence anyway. Let Darwinism prevail.

    • 155
      Phil O'Pastree says:

      Well they have constituencies to represent….. oh hang on a minute… I forgot that local authorities had been invented to do all that stuff.

  20. 37
    Great Granddad says:

    I got robbed of seeing the England/Ukraine game this week, but I don’t mind. There is better entertainment coming from Westminster this week.

    • 91
      Inglorious Basterd says:

      Gordon must have wished them good luck

    • 184
      Gok Only Knows says:

      You missed nothing. Apparently flares were thrown on the pitch. Surprised that they have not moved on to more modern trousers there – the ’60s and ’70s have been over for quite a while. Ukraine if you want to.

  21. 39
    Anonymous says:

    Drop the Baroness Scotland thing.

    She is just small fry and a distraction from going after ‘Mr Big’.

    It is like arresting drug pushers and bringing them in for questioning.

    While leaving the dealers and smugglers alone.

    • 51
      Doc Trough says:

      By that logic Josef Kramer would have walked.

    • 61
      The Grim Reaper says:

      Demon Eyes, of course

    • 69
      Sod 'em all says:

      Nope. They’re all deserving of a bullet to the back of the head.

    • 77
      Justice Fingers says:

      Wrong. I want all these fuckers in a line – queuing to get into court. Major prison expansion programme needed.

      • 100
        Captain Haddock says:

        We need a bloke like this to sort things out … http://no1sicko.com/arpaio.htm

        Have a read of the article .. it certainly makes one think ..

        • 161
          Sod 'em all says:

          Sinister to read here that the law in the US requires cable TV to be piped into jails thereby ensuring inmates’ minds remain permanently scrambled. Fucking Nu Labour introduced a similar policy in the UK too some years ago. Whereas as once upon a time the possibility for self-improvement and rehabilitation for prisoners existed, this one change in policy extinguished it. The crims must endure the same diet of lies on inside that they had to when they were free. It’s time to kill all politicians.

          • Anonymous says:

            But the UK has devised a way around the problem by giving control of cable TV to Virgin – so, of course, it never works. While we are talking of killing can I add the old serial groper Branson to the list.

          • Doc Trough says:

            They’ve got Phorm!

      • 385
        Ruth Kelly's plaything says:

        Agreed.

        As usual, Brown got it wrong – he wants only ‘the most serious offenders’ to be prosecuted.

        NO! ALL offenders should be prosecuted. The least culpable to receive relatively light sentences and the worst to be hanged (or whatever limp pat on the wrist passes for punishment these days). The CPS should decide who goes to Court, not sodding Brown. The Courts should then decide who gets punished and to what extent.

    • 292
      Technomist says:

      She is a role model.

  22. 40
    Anonymous says:

    MPs may have to repay “mortgage repayments that paid down mortgage capital rather than merely covered the interest”, but what about MPs who took out a mortgage they didn’t need in order to claim the interest payments?

    • 66
      Sod 'em all says:

      Since when has just repaying what’s been stolen been seen as the end of the matter??

      • 156
        Phil O'Pastree says:

        Whenever I get stopped walking out of Sainsbury’s with a case of Heineken I haven’t paid for, I simply say,”here, take it back.”

        The security guard says, “thank you, that is the end of the matter.”

        Mostly I don’t get caught.

        • 162
          Sod 'em all says:

          Yes. A typical story of everyday folk. Not.

        • 394
          Supermarket sweep says:

          I drink all the cans as I walk round the store and then use the trolley to lean on while I stagger out after 18 cans of 550ml Stella – I dare not try the self scan machines in this state – might try scanning my willy and putting it in the shooping bag (of course it would weigh so much that the buzzer and red light above the till would go off…..

        • 455
          In the end Blair WAS the demon eyes like the Tories said all those years ago remember says:

          Whenever I get caught walking out of Sainsbury’s with my case of Heiniken up my jumper I simply get the manager to shred the evidence and not bother reporting it. I fancy becoming the European President of Heiniken sometime.

      • 299
        Hysteria says:

        exactly – where are teh fucking so called “free press”? Come to that – where are the mobs with pitcforks..????

      • 348
        The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

        A defence against theft is that you didnt intend to permanently deprive the supposed victim of the goods(or cash)
        Ask any copper
        As long as you didnt obtain said items by force , forced entry or deception you are innocent

        • 457
          In the end Blair WAS the demon eyes like the Tories said all those years ago remember says:

          what about clandestine theft ie joyriding. Still a Crime.

    • 74
      Anonymous says:

      They didn’t ‘need’ their plasma tvs and Sky sports, but it didn’t stop them.

      • 195
        Nearing Normality says:

        Yeah, we’re told how busy they are working hard for our benefit. I amazed they’ve actually got time to watch TV.

  23. 44
    • 110
      Shudduppa you facebook says:

      At only 578 signatures, the only ‘going down’ the Bogus Baroness will be doing is on her husband’s swollen appendage – and she will be doing that with great reluctance given her probably lezza leanings.

  24. 45
    Swraj Paul says:

    Where e’er’s a lucrative flat
    That’s my home……

  25. 46
    TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

    Lord Paul : “It was my main home, but I never slept there”.
    Scotland: “I was fully aware of the law, but broke it inadvertently”.

    Will this farce never end?

  26. 55
    Anonymous says:

    http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23751628-mp-spent-taxpayers-money-on-coffee-morning-mail-shots.do

    Jim Fitzpatrick MP currently under investigation by the standards board for misuse of public money.

  27. 57
    A. Noble-Laud says:

    Where e’er’s a lucrative flat
    That’s my home.

  28. 58
    Anonymous says:

    The British government has become as corrupt as any third-world banana republic and tinpot dictatorship.

    Hardly surprising when you look at who’s leading it and who his hand-picked loyal lieutenants are.

  29. 61
    Sod 'em all says:

    Perhaps we need a return to the Burning Times to purge government of all thieves for ever?

  30. 67
    They really are all at it says:

    There are few circumstances where phrases like “they are all at it” actually mean what they say, as they are usually put in to dramatise and/or emphasise the point. But in this case the evidence confirms that the vast majority of MP’s & Lords really were all at it.

    Well done to the likes of Guido for refusing to let this issue go.

    • 149
      Sod 'em all says:

      Indeed. Guido’s doing a massive public service job, but since he ain’t no government lickspittle, he’ll never get a peerage out of it. You have to be a full-blown traitor to get one of those.

  31. 80
    jpt says:

    Fast tracking?

  32. 83
    - says:

    Baroness Scotland cannot persued any further under existing legislation, she has admitted and error and paid the fine.

    There is no longer an equitable dimension that has been a feature of English common law for nearly 1000 years.

    This is going to be a disaster for the poor, women and ethnic minorities as the white male business community no longer has any moral dimension to their commercial activities.

    • 159
      Skippy says:

      Which error? She has admitted one offence of not taking copies of the documents, which is a civil offence. But is there not another offence which she has not admitted? That of knowingly empolying an illegal ?

      She says she saw the passport, we now know the passport contained no valid work visa, so if she really did see the passport, she must have known, and that is a criminal offence. However the house keeper says no passport was shown, that makes the baroness a liar. If she did not see the passport that too would be a criminal offence, no?

      • 460
        In the end Blair WAS the demon eyes like the Tories said all those years ago remember says:

        Correct, no matter how you look at this, she HAS to resign.

    • 248
      D L George says:

      Take the passport viewing / non viewing out of the equation.

      1) She didn’t sort out tax or national insurance for Her employee for several months.

      2) She paid the cleaners wages directly to her husband.

      3) She still claimed over £170,000 for living outside of London when She has a £2,000,000 property in London where She lives with Her hubby.

      None of the above are covered by the initial findings or the fine imposed.

  33. 89
    charlie the chancer says:

    After the Liesbon referendum is fully ratified,shouldn’t we start a referendum or something to close the Palace of Westminster,we don’t need Lords or MP’s or staff,as the EUSSR already has the regional councils setup,we would save a load of money and get rid of a load of lieing,thieving,scheming,corrupt crap at the same time.

    • 107
      Inglorious Basterd says:

      A welder welds, a bus driver drives, a teacher teaches but what the fuck is an MP’s job specification, what duties & responsibilites do they perform and what experience, training and qualifications must they hold?

      The answer is fuck all.

      • 661
        Boycott the ПРАВДА licence fee says:

        That’s a little unfair. They have to be lucky enough to be elected. Oh – and if they’re members of a major party, they need to sell their souls to the whips.

    • 116
      Shudduppa you facebook says:

      We should get this going immediately, no need to wait until it’s fait accompli time, get the fire burning under this right now. If we are about to be effectively taken over by a foreign power let’s make it a switchover to our new masters, rather than an additional, redundant tier of control. See if they like that.

    • 125
      Ior Spoche says:

      No.
      That is the daftest comment I have ever read. The HOC is for the parliamentary gove’nance of our country and just because we elected these turds on their false promise and lies does not mean we shouldn’t fight to restore it to honest political debate and Government.
      The Lisbon Constitution treaty is voided by the crooks that instigated it. Elections are also unsound if unfair. The Irish referendum was unfair and unbalanced.

  34. 93
    Phil O'Pastree says:

    She’ll get whitewashed.

    • 105
      kylie minogue says:

      They’ll be no whitewash in the dykehouse.

    • 123
      Phil O'Pastree says:

      Kerrist a black lesbian immigrant. If she’d only been a cripple as well she might have made PM.

      • 146
        Father Jack says:

        On Merit of course.

      • 186
        Anton du Beaky says:

        I’m keeping my mouth shut so will just nod.

        • 237
          thick as thieves says:

          nah, I’m not having you dopey tossers attacking lesbians unchallenged.
          thick as thieves and the independent movement is 100% pro lesbian and I will stand in solidarity with the lesbians when they are being attacked by arseholes like road hog and phyllis.
          hey phyllis, you are a woman, why are you attacking other women you fucking turncoat?
          road hog I can understand, he’s just a spastic, but you phyllis, attacking another lady just because she might be a lesbian?
          what a fucking nasty bitch you are innit.

          • Top Boy says:

            Takes one to know one.

          • Lesbian Watcher says:

            Tat, you’ve obviously never met a real lesbian. It ain’t a pretty sight, mate. A bloke’s image of a lezzie and what really constitutes a lezzie are two different things.

            And on a totally different subject, here’s a computer joke that will only be understood by mathematicians and computer nerds so the rest of you don’t even bother to try to understand it -

            “There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don’t.”

            [cue deafening applause from the nerd community]

          • Dack Blog says:

            I’d give up on the comedy and stick to watching lesbians.

  35. 99
    Anonymous says:

    Darling, I’m going to take out a mortgage for £250k on the London house.

    A mortgage? But why, dear? We’ve got millions, why take out a mortgage?

    Well, it’s like this, we borrow £250k and invest it, we should clear at least a Grand a month on it!

    Don’t be silly dear, we’ll only have to pay a thousand pounds interest on the loan.

    No,no, that’s the clever bit, the taxpayer pays the loan interest for us.

    Is that legal?

    Well, it’s within the rules.

  36. 102
    Baroness Houdini says:

    Just like to remind everyone here of the continued existence of my large udders, they seem to get overlooked.

  37. 104
    Sod 'em all says:

    Miliband and Clinton making belicose noises about Iran now. They’ve fucked up Iraq, fucked up Afghanistan and now they want to attack Iran.
    Warmongers need to be killed before they visit further destruction on innocent people. They need to be taken out and burned in public.

    • 135
      barefootcontessa says:

      They’ve also bombed the moon.

    • 262
      rick says:

      If Iran hasn’t already got a nuclear weapon, it should certainly consider getting one PDQ. Britain and the USA have never attached a nuclear armed country.

      • 360
        snafu says:

        Smoke from the White House chimney indicates that Obama has agreed to Netanyahu’s requests for a strike against Iran. Stand by for initial bombing in the Lebanon, with fast follow-up action on mainland Iran and in the Straits of Hormuz. Stand by, too, for the usual crap from the MSM and NuLabour.

  38. 112
  39. 112
    Anonymous says:

    Guido it’s all gone very quite about the search for a current passport for the ex housekeeper of B’ Scotland.
    Have I missed a news report or is it being buried?

    • 122
      Shudduppa you facebook says:

      Given that the intact passport for a 9/11 terrorist was ‘found’ in the wreckage of the WTC only minutes after its demolitiion, finding as Tongan cleaning lady’s passport should be a piece of piss.

  40. 118
    Taxfodder says:

    Now we will see..

    If MP’s really are above the laws they make!

    If I, by simple mistake, design or desire break the law of the land I can expect fine imprisonment or both.

    Let us remind ourselves of those that conveniently made “so called rules” that conveniently allowed themselves to feather their nests at the UK taxpayers expense, and, took full advantage of it!

    The MPs who voted to keep their generous expense accounts but did not want you to know! were:

    Labour
    Nick Ainger (Carmarthen West & Pembrokeshire South),
    Graham Allen (Nottingham North),
    David Anderson (Blaydon),
    Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen),
    Ian Austin (Dudley North),
    Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West),
    Gordon Banks (Ochil & Perthshire South),
    Kevin Barron (Rother Valley),
    Margaret Beckett (Derby South),
    Clive Betts (Sheffield Attercliffe),
    Liz Blackman (Erewash),
    Roberta Blackman-Woods (Durham, City of),
    Bob Blizzard (Waveney),
    David Borrow (Ribble South (South Ribble)),
    Nick Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend),
    Richard Burden (Birmingham Northfield),
    Colin Burgon (Elmet), Andy Burnham (Leigh),
    Stephen Byers (Tyneside North),
    Alan Campbell (Tynemouth),
    Ronnie Campbell (Blyth Valley),
    Ben Chapman (Wirral South),
    David Chaytor (Bury North),
    Tom Clarke (Coatbridge,
    Chryston & Bellshill),
    David Clelland (Tyne Bridge),
    Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley),
    Ann Coffey (Stockport),
    Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead),
    Michael Connarty (Linlithgow & Falkirk East),
    Rosie Cooper (Lancashire West),
    Ann Cryer (Keighley),
    John Cummings (Easington),
    Jim Cunningham (Coventry South),
    Tony Cunningham (Workington),
    Wayne David (Caerphilly),
    Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West),
    Janet Dean (Burton),
    Frank Dobson (Holborn & St Pancras),
    Brian Donohoe (Ayrshire Central),
    Jim Dowd (Lewisham West),
    Angela Eagle (Wallasey),
    Maria Eagle (Liverpool Garston),
    Jeff Ennis (Barnsley East & Mexborough),
    Bill Etherington (Sunderland North),
    Caroline Flint (Don Valley),
    Paul Flynn (Newport West),
    Michael Foster (Worcester),
    Michael Jabez Foster (Hastings & Rye),
    Mike Gapes (Ilford South),
    Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North),
    Linda Gilroy (Plymouth Sutton),
    Nia Griffith (Llanelli),
    Andrew Gwynne (Denton & Reddish),
    Mike Hall (Weaver Vale),
    David Hamilton (Midlothian),
    Dai Havard (Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney),
    Stephen Hesford (Wirral West),
    Sharon Hodgson (Gateshead East & Washington West),
    Jimmy Hood (Lanark & Hamilton East),
    George Howarth (Knowsley North & Sefton East),
    Beverley Hughes (Stretford & Urmston),
    Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood),
    Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East),
    Eric Illsley (Barnsley Central),
    Adam Ingram (East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow),
    Brian Jenkins (Tamworth),
    Diana Johnson (Hull North),
    Kevan Jones (Durham North),
    Martyn Jones (Clwyd South),
    Tessa Jowell (Dulwich & West Norwood),
    Eric Joyce (Falkirk),
    Alan Keen (Feltham & Heston),
    David Kidney (Stafford),
    Peter Kilfoyle (Liverpool Walton),
    Bob Laxton (Derby North),
    Tom Levitt (High Peak),
    Ivan Lewis (Bury South),
    Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central),
    Ian Lucas (Wrexham),
    Tommy McAvoy (Rutherglen & Hamilton West),
    Stephen McCabe (Birmingham Hall Green),
    Christine McCafferty (Calder Valley),
    Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East),
    Sarah McCarthy-Fry (Portsmouth North),
    Siobhain McDonagh (Mitcham & Morden),
    James McGovern (Dundee West),
    Anne McGuire (Stirling),
    Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes),
    Rosemary McKenna (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth & Kirkintilloch East),
    Tony McNulty (Harrow East),
    Denis MacShane (Rotherham),
    Khalid Mahmood (Birmingham Perry Barr),
    Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West),
    Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South),
    Alan Meale (Mansfield),
    Gillian Merron (Lincoln),
    Andrew Miller (Ellesmere Port & Neston),
    Madeleine Moon (Bridgend),
    Jessica Morden (Newport East),
    Elliot Morley (SHuhnehorpe),
    George Mudie (Leeds East),
    Denis Murphy (Wansbeck),
    Paul Murphy (Torfaen),
    Mike O’Brien (Warwickshire North),
    Eddie O’Hara (Knowsley South),
    Sandra Osborne (Ayr, Carrick & Cumnock),
    James Plaskitt (Warwick & Leamington),
    Bridget Prentice (Lewisham East),
    Gordon Prentice (Pendle),
    Gwyn Prosser (Dover),
    Ken Purchase (Wolverhampton North East),
    Nick Raynsford (Greenwich & Woolwich),
    John Robertson (Glasgow North West),
    Terry Rooney (Bradford North),
    Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd),
    Christine Russell (Chester, City of),
    Alison Seabeck (Plymouth Devonport),
    Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield),
    Jimmy Sheridan (Paisley & Renfrewshire North),
    Angela C Smith (Sheffield Hillsborough),
    Angela E Smith (Basildon), Jacqui Smith (Redditch),
    Anne Snelgrove (Swindon South),
    John Spellar (Warley),
    Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West),
    Gavin Strang (Edinburgh East), Gisela Stuart (Birmingham Edgbaston),
    Gerry Sutcliffe (Bradford South),
    Mark Tami (Alyn & Deeside),
    Gareth Thomas (Harrow West),
    Emily Thornberry (Islington South & Finsbury),
    Don Touhig (Islwyn),
    Derek Twigg (Halton),
    Kitty Ussher (Burnley),
    Keith Vaz (Leicester East),
    Lynda Waltho (Stourbridge),
    Claire Ward (Watford),
    Tom Watson (West Bromwich East),
    Dave Watts (St Helens North),
    Phil Wilson (Sedgefield),
    Rosie Winterton (Doncaster Central),
    Shaun Woodward (St Helens South),
    Phil Woolas (Oldham East & Saddleworth),
    David Wright (Telford),
    Iain Wright (Hartlepool),
    Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey)

    Conservative:
    David Amess (Southend West),
    James Arbuthnot (Hampshire North East),
    Henry Bellingham (Norfolk North West),
    Brian Binley (Northampton South),
    Sir John Butterfill (Bournemouth West),
    Christopher Chope (Christchurch),
    John Greenway (Ryedale),
    Gerald Howarth (Aldershot),
    Bernard Jenkin (Essex North),
    Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove),
    Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest),
    Anne McIntosh (Vale of York),
    Andrew Mackay (Bracknell),
    Andrew Rosindell (Romford),
    Hugo Swire (Devon East),
    Sir Peter Tapsell (Louth & Horncastle),
    Angela Watkinson (Upminster),
    Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald),
    David Wilshire (Spelthorne),
    Lady Ann Winterton (Congleton),
    Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield)

    Independent:
    Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent),
    Robert Wareing (Liverpool West Derby)d

  41. 120

    And… Harriet’s car crash. What happened to that?

  42. 126
    Anonymous says:

    How many votes can nulabour rely on from open borders?

  43. 132
    BillyBob says:

    Lord Paul…. a corrupt, dishonest, arrogant, common thief and that is being nice, considering he is another who has besmirched the ‘honour’ he has been given!!

    Also, coming to a news page near you, the Ian Johnston report on the Met’s blatant politically motivated arrest of Damian Green, I am hoping it is not a whitewash.

  44. 136
  45. 139
    Road_Hog says:

    NuLiebor seem to be in self detruct mode. They’re obviously trying to see how many people they can piss off before the election.

    Newsagents are threatening to boycott the Labour Party at the next general election if legislation bans them from openly displaying cigarettes.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8301195.stm

    • 204
      anon. says:

      I would love to know how much this “Smoke free” crap is really costing us all.

    • 240
      nell says:

      And did you know that you are now banned from buying alcohol in a supermarket if you are accommpanied by your teenage children?

      http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/oct/11/morrisons-wine-ban-mother

      • 268
        Nearing Normality says:

        That’s what happens when you vote in the Nanny State.

      • 305
        Hysteria says:

        completely amazing on so many levels – if that were me I would have thrown a complete hissy-fit. Creeping fascism – it’s getting us from every angle. We are like the frogs sitting in the pot as the temperature getsa turned up…

      • 354
        Annoymouse says:

        Yes, because in your own home it is illegal to allow a child under 5 to drink alcohol. And that 17 year old might have been in disguise…..

        It’s ridiculous. I guess a lot of adults who have no choice but to take children to the supermarket will be going dry from now on.

      • 466
        anon. says:

        Wasn’t there a woman stopped from buying cheese because she was pregnant… fucking unbelieveable.

  46. 140
    Anonymous says:

    It all needs sorting out.

    Lords are just as bad, if not worse to be honest blatantly grabbing cash.

    They are supposed to be the upper chamber and so on.

    What has happened to Udders and the like?

    • 147
      Father Jack says:

      Removing the hereditarys and replacing them with LieBour place-persons was always going to end like this.

  47. 141
    Anonymous says:

    I see Iain Dale has gone soft on the great charlatan Gordon Brown.

    If Dale can be conned that easily then I can see why he has never been picked to be a prospective parliamentary candidate for the Tories.

    • 219
      Once a night keeps the curtains tight says:

      I’m expecting him to be “confined” to a wheelchair in the run-up to the election to attract more sympathy votes.

  48. 142
    Anonymous says:

    With all this focus on the BBC about the weapons inspectors going into Iran, it sounds just like a repeat of the build-up to the invasion of Iraq.

  49. 143
    Bottle-fed Triplet says:

    So what is going to happen after Baroness Scotland steps down? No doubt some cushy billet will be found for her AND she will be allowed to keep the style and title of Lady Scotland.

    These old Marxists love their titles though, don’t they? It’s a shame Yvette Cooper doesn’t understand the correct forms of address. On Thursday’s QT she referred to “Lord Peter Mandelson”. That is the correct form of address for the youngest son of a Duke. I thought Mandelson’s Dad was a pleb?

    • 157
      alf tupper says:

      If nowhere else, there’s always a place for disgraced Marxists in Euroland. In fact, it’s the Marxist version of heaven, ie unlimited expenses on the public teat.

  50. 145
    barefootcontessa says:

    I think the whole stinking lot (of politicians) should be taken out of the HoP and put up against a wall. Then the HoP should be deep cleaned, and thoroughly sanitised. People should be chosen arbitrarily from the street and given a seat, presented the country’s problems, and allowed to get on with sorting them out. After two years if things weren’t going along smoothly another lot would be installed, and so on. They couldn’t do worse.

    The MPs should be given menial jobs in the community and paid the minimum wage. Try that you opinionated lot of lying bastards!

    • 265
      D L George says:

      Wow Contessa, you’d trust MP’s loose in the community?

      Can you imagine Balls and the panto boy walking around in circles trying to pick up leaves, banging into each other then stepping out in front of fast moving traffic. Oh yeah, I see your point.

  51. 153
    • 213
      Anonymous says:

      *snigger*

    • 396
      good says:

      good

    • 416
      Dark_Brown_Matter says:

      The Opticians Sketch:

      Scenario: At The Opticians

      Mr Brown wants a re-check on his eyesight, but wants to do it ‘incognito’; so he goes in disguise……..

      Brown: Can I have an eye test today?

      Male Receptionist: Sorry. Fully booked for today Sir

      Brown : But it’s urgent!

      Male Receptionist: Very sorry Sir. We can not fit you in till next week…

      Brown : Could you not make an exception for a very special person?

      Male Receptionist: I don’t care….even if your name’s Gordon Brown; I couldn’t do it!

      Brown: But you’ve guessed it …my name IS Gordon Brown!

      Male Receptionist: Pull the other one – it’s got bells on!

      Brown: Is the ‘other one’ to the left or on the right? – and can you guide my hand so I can pull it?

      Male Receptionist: Shit! this person’s eyesight must be as fucked as the national economy !!

    • 708
      Hugh Janus says:

      When do we get the spoof version?

  52. 154
    pissed off voter says:

    I noted a report that Legg’s investigation carried a price tag of c. £1million. Presumably that cost is met by the treasury i.e. the taxpayer. This seems to me to be quite immoral – the victim paying costs incurred by the criminal in in the course of his crime.

    I believe it is quite often the case in law that the guilty have to pay court costs and that seems fair and reasonable. Surely therefore the same should apply to our ‘honourable’ MPs, Lords and Ladies.

    There is a case, I think a very strong case, for accummulating the costs incurred from Martin-initiated legal costs against FOI and all actions, enquiries, etc which relate to expense fraud and that total is billed to guilty politicians. Otherwise, we have the absurd situation of the taxpayer paying people to rob them.

    Another little point which seems to be largely ignored. The current furore, penalties (??) and excuses relate to a period of 4 years. Yet many of those involved have been in post for 20, 30 years and longer. Are we to assume that one day, some five years ago, our politicians collectively and suddenly became dishonest overnight? Do you trust politicians enough to believe that? I think not. as a minimum, the thieves should be billed pro rata – it’s called accountability.

    • 167
      TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

      When HMRC makes a “discovery” during its investigation of a business it does exactly that. There are many, many documented cases of them filling in the blanks in the absence of any evidence either way – in their favour, natch.

    • 236
      nell says:

      At the very least MP’s should be required to pay back what they have troughed plus interest. I do believe HMRC would charge interest in such an event.

    • 709
      Hugh Janus says:

      When Davis interviewed Mandelslime on Toady just now, he somehow forgot to ask him when he would be re-paying the vast sum of money WE spent on having HIS roof done just days before he left office.

  53. 164
    Sod 'em all says:

    The little poofter from boyzone has croaked. Let’s all spend two minutes in sincere grief over it. It’s always doubly tragic when someone so famous and popular with the media pops their clogs. So much more important than when your average pleb snuffs it.

    • 188
      Susie says:

      Or soldier…

      Where’s the inevitable condolence message from the PM?

      • 192
        Susie says:

        I tell a lie… here’s one from his ex-PM:

        Bertie Ahern, former Irish Taoiseach, described Gately as a personal friend and his death as a “huge, huge tragedy” for Irish music and culture.

        Indeed, on a par with James Joyce and Samuel Beckett… guys like that.

        • 302
          Anonymous says:

          I rate their music on a par with the squeels heard from George Osborne when he finds his stache missing. Nevertheless it is less painful than reading Joyce or being forced into an evening of Becket.

      • 636
        Mongrel says:

        It’s worse than that. The poor sap had the misfortune to be introduced to Jonah McDoom last week, so his fate was sealed.

    • 208
      It's a funny old World says:

      I particulatly liked Louis Walsh’s comment that ” I heard the news whilst on X Factor………Gately was a GREAT man !” He may have been lots of things but GREAT ? – Get a sense of proportion Louis !!!

    • 209
      Last chance to see Stephen Fry says:

      I’ve had to go well out of my way to acquire some genuine crocodile tears.

    • 436
      Unsworth says:

      Two minutes? As long as that?

  54. 170
    Swiss Bob says:

    Yes, they’re all still thieving like there’s no tomorrow, which there isn’t for Labour.

    Anyone see Miliband on the Tele this morning:

    WTF is that on Miliband’s lip? .

    • 196
      Susie says:

      Mandy’s into the retro construction worker look for his protege atm… he’ll be wearing checked shirts and hobnail boots circa early ’80s for his inauguration, wait and see.

    • 205
      Chomping at the bit says:

      He’s starting to disguise himself, when her is integrated back into the wider community.

    • 333
      Doc Trough says:

      It’s a sign of wanting to ‘fiddle’.

      • 340
        Susie says:

        I used to go out with him!

        Bobby Valentino/Vaselino/Beckenham — the looks of Clarke Gable and the voice of Bing Crosby… what a hunk!

        • 347
          Doc Trough says:

          Did you hold his resin Suse?

        • 357
          The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

          Did you let him have a fiddle on the first date?

        • 382
          QE my bowels says:

          Susie, you might be intelligent but you’re also obviously a bit of an old slapper having made this admission. No brownie points for you!

          • Doc Trough says:

            Consider for a moment QE, the possibility that Susie may have been a tad pizzicato – as can be the way in the company of musicians – ;-) The choice of a player of a stringed instrument – especially one as expressive and tender as the violin shows, imho, both wisdom and awareness. She can strum my Washburn any time.

    • 611
      Mike Litorus says:

      Dirty Sanchez!

  55. 174
    cherie says:

    slightly o/t………….

    more shit from blair,byers and who else?

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6869429.ece

  56. 179
    Francis Futurama says:

    The issue of Brown’s opthalmological health is crucially significant now, (OK, off-topic). The timing of this No10 press-release suggests a step-down on ill-health grounds and that any sympathy gained from the public will be deployed to engineer a climate of forgiveness as he departs No10, rather than to gain votes in the coming election (which he quite simply will not be fighting).

    A change of Nu Labour leader under these circumstances will be conducted against a BBC and tabloid campaign of publicity about eye disorders, medical specialists will be interviewd about the risks of blindness, a patients’ rights group will spring out of the woodwork to agitate for more NHS funding for eye conditions, celebrities will be encouraged to reveal their own eye problems and Burnham will announce a programme of health-care improvements for the blind. Not being too cynical am I? Surely this is how things work?

    The result will be we will all be deliberately reminded of the most vulnerable and precious part of our body (the eye, stoopid), and we will all be humbled and made to feel grateful for our good fortune not to be in Brown’s (hardly enviable) position. All well and good in some ways, it puts things in perspective. It makes us feel kinder.

    Whereas, Brown should be driven from No 10 by popular revolution and anger at the insult of having him unelectedly imposed on us. He has long given up any right to sympathy and deserves the most ignominious exit possible. Followed by the gallows.

  57. 183
    Anonymous says:

    Hi everyone, please go along to my blog and give me support. I am a young card-carrying Tory and am keen to be heard! http://conservative-vision.blogspot.com/

    • 303
      Anonymous says:

      Nope, sorry. Never come across the idea of a young Tory.

    • 386
      QE my bowels says:

      Sorry, Tories are dead in the water. Young, old, whatever. Finished. Same applies to the other wings of the same party which go under different names in an attempt to fool everyone (Labour/ LibDem).

    • 606
      Bird with small brain says:

      Yeah Go for it and ignore these old fogies. They’re jealous because you’re young. But why post as anonymous?

  58. 185
    Tak Tak Tak says:

    The Law replaces personal responsibility

    Don’t attack Baroness Scotland for who she is but for what she has helped create.

    Baroness Scotland has done nothing morally wrong by employing a poor woman money to clean her house, same as a scrap yard owner would do nothing morally wrong in paying a person with learning difficulties a few pounds an hour to do odd jobs at half speed, but Gordon Brown and his Government don’t trust us not to abuse the situation.

    As business owner it suits me, I just pay Peninsular to do my HR and Health & Safety

    I cannot afford to give someone a chance

  59. 193
    Down with Brown! says:

    Really stupid aticle from David “son of a Commie” Milliband in the Observer: ‘There will be incredulity that the party of Churchill chooses allies like this’

    Five points: 1. Churchill’s pragmatism permitted him to ally himself with the foul mass murderer Stalin when it was in the interest of the British people.
    2. Milliband shoudl worry about his own parties allies e.g. the Hungarian and Bulgarian socialist parties.
    3. His smears about Polish Law and Justice Party have been dismissed by people who actually know the Polish political situation or who have taken the event to speak to Kaminski.
    4. Can’t remember Milliband kicking up a fuss when the Conservative were allied to Kaminski et. al in the EPP. I think he’s really beef is that they are anti-Lisbon and the Brussells gravy-train.
    5. Is he not aware that the Tories’ Euro allies include many individuals e.g. Václav Klaus who showed extreme courage to bring down inhumane Communist regimes in Eastern Euorpe and end the cold war?

    It’s Millibnad and his cronies who need so much damage to our national reputation with their illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq.

    • 198
      Down with Brown! says:

      Really stupid article from David “son of a Commie” Milliband in the Observer: ‘There will be incredulity that the party of Churchill chooses allies like this’

      Five points: 1. Churchill’s pragmatism permitted him to ally himself with the foul mass murderer Stalin when it was in the interest of the British people.
      2. Milliband should worry about his own parties allies e.g. the Hungarian and Bulgarian socialist parties.
      3. His smears about Polish Law and Justice Party have been dismissed by people who actually know the Polish political situation or who have taken the effort to speak to Kaminski.
      4. Can’t remember Milliband kicking up a fuss when the Conservative were allied to Kaminski et. al in the EPP. I think his real beef is that they are anti-Lisbon and the Brussels gravy-train.
      5. Is he not aware that the Tories’ Euro allies include many individuals e.g. Václav Klaus who showed extreme courage to bring down inhumane Communist regimes in Eastern Europe and end the cold war?

      It’s Milliband and his cronies who did so much damage to our national reputation with their illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq.

      • 242
        Nearing Normality says:

        He’s a complete and utter moron. This article was written soley for the benefit of happy clapping, PC loving, left-wing idiots, who will probably believe every word as gospel.

        Linking Churchills name to this article is a dirty, low-down trick. The sooner we get rid of these eejits the better.

        • 359
          udderly 'orrible says:

          Indeed it will now get a neon-lighted rerun on liebour list for all marxist luvvies to swoon over.

      • 428
        Jimmy says:

        “I think his real beef is that they are anti-Lisbon”

        That would be an excellent point if they were anti-Lisbon.

        • 640
          Mongrel says:

          So no comment on all the other points raised by Down with Brown, eh JImmy? Par for the course for you lot, really, you are so discredited you can’t even begin to engage in a logical argument.

          • Jimmy says:

            Which point? The one in which he compares Cameron’s EPP “bribe” to the flat earthers with the position Britain faced in 1941? Or where he refers to Klaus, elected to office only with the support of the communist party, as a staunch opponent of communism?

            I though it more polite to gloss over it.

    • 200
      Susie says:

      And why is it ok by him that President Blair openly kisses the hand and grovels before an ex-member of Hitler Youth i.e. The Pope?

      • 234
        streamfisher says:

        Just occurred to me that could be Blair’s long term mission, HE wants to become the Pope. The presidency of the EEC + the Vatican = The Holy Roman Empire Mk 2, whereas Presbyterian Brown prefers The New World Order but also thinks of himself as The Saviour (of the World, etc.etc).

      • 345
        Susie says:

        Both total nutters the pair of them.

        But he’d have to renounce not only Cherie and the kids (easy!) but also Satan (more problematic).

        • 388
          streamfisher says:

          Who is Satan?, Obama…. Nobel world peace prize,… Blair…. Peace Envoy and awarded the U.S.A congressional medal of Honour who has promoted war and destruction on the basis of a pack of lies. Gandhi cry your eyes out.

    • 207
      nell says:

      Funny isn’t it how Stephen Pollard of the Jewish Community Online has come out in favour of Michael Kaminski

      http://www.thejc.com/stephenpollard

      Odd too if Mr Kaminski is as anti semitic as militwit keeps asserting in ever shriller tones, that the Israeli government should have invited him to Israel.

      In the guardian it was claimed that Mr Kaminski has been condemned as anti-semitic by the ‘most senior members of the jewish community’. When the identity of these senior members was questioned it emerged Y….es! you have it they were militwit and a labour MP.

      It is beyond disgraceful that our Foreign Minister will stoop to false claims of anti-semitism against a foreign official for his own party political smearing. It completely demeans his office.

      • 223
        Church Mouse says:

        What do you mean “our own foreign minister”? Both the home department and the foreign office are headed up by Jews. This country would be a damn site better off being run by English people. No wonder we’re always in the shit when we’re run by people with a hidden ethnicity and a hidden agenda.

        • 239
          Down with Brown! says:

          Plenty of Jews have served in British public life with distinction, especially Benjamin Disraeli and Keith Joseph, we should be grateful for their positive impact on our politics and government. The problem with Milliband (D) is his constant smeering and slander.

          • rick says:

            And his allegiance to Israel.

          • nell says:

            militwit isn’t doing Israel or us any favours by his hysterical anti-jewish condemnations , of newly emerging east european political figures who are clearly NOT , as influential jewish journalists are saying, anti-semitic.

            militwit has hijacked this issue in a cheap and ill-judged attempt to smear the tories. In the process he is damaging the genuine campaigns that fight anti-semitism and racism.

            Also in the process he is bringing respect for the Foreign Office which he represents into ill-repute. Frankly he is a disgrace.

          • The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

            Milliband isnt a a 4×2
            He is an aetheist
            I still hate the wanker

  60. 199

    [...] The Bar Standards Board is the barrister’s watchdog and is investigating the Baroness following complaints that she brought the profession into disrepute. [...]

  61. 203
    Down with Brown! says:

    CON 43 (+1) LAB 29 (+1) LD 16 (-4)! No point voting for Clegg’s lot. They are finished. Cameron is the only one who can get rid of Gordon.

    • 230
      lollipop says:

      Which one is this? The last ICM had, CON 45 (+5) LAB 26 (nc) LD 18 (-5).

      • 243
        Down with Brown! says:

        BPIX poll in the Mail on Sunday

        • 254
          thick as thieves says:

          no 50% breakthrough in the polls, no majority.
          why are you tories so dim?
          that is the propaganda majority rule, it does not matter how much you bleat on about 44% or 45% indeed it weakens your case for a conservative majority because you keep proving that the tories do not have popular support because of the fact that they cannot break the 50% barrier.
          DOH!
          but hey, you guys keep shooting yourselves if you want to, I am for a hung parliament so you are doing my work for me.
          thanks.

          • anon. says:

            Might as well vote for the British ‘NProud party then

          • thick as thieves says:

            we did not defeat hitler to then vote fascists like the british nazi party into Parliament.
            you fucking imbecile.
            DON’T BE A SPASTIC – DON’T VOTE BN P.

          • albanord says:

            Tat, if you defeated Hitler, or had anything to do with Hitler’s defeat, I’m a fucking Dutchman.

  62. 206
    Down with Brown! says:

    The piggies are squeeling already about the legitimacy of Legg’s letter led by Stuart Bell.

    http://page.politicshome.com/uk/mps_may_feel_expenses_letters_unfair_says_sir_stuart_bell.html

    Give us back our money you thiving swine!

  63. 214
    Monty says:

    Somewhat off subject, but Guido, how about Labour’s very own “Bullingdon Club” – a montage in their robes of Labour peers such as Truscott, Taylor, Paul, Moonie,, Snape, Kinnock (2), etc all living high on the hog, subsidised in countless ways, cheating on mortgages and second homes, cheap booze, unaccountable food allowances etc etc. And not even paying for their finery, I think?

  64. 224
    BillyBob says:

    SKY still looking for some sympathy for Gordo Clown, I had a tear in my eye as they mention the tear in Gordo’s good one!!

    On the MP’s expenses scandal, having reviewed claims going back 5 years I just wonder if they found details of the expenses claimed by Mr T Bliar and Gorbals Mick, surely another scandal if they are not found??

  65. 231
    Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

    I do so hope the Jacquifivebellies has the most restless of nights sleep
    and her letter tomorrow identifies her as one of the worst of all offenders.
    Her sisters sparebedroom as her primary residence?don’t make me laugh.
    Live by the bath plug,die by the bath plug,who said that anyway?

  66. 232
    Saatchi and Clifford says:

    Yeah,yeah,yeah. We’ve been here before. And what happened? The electorate promptly voted for more of the same.

    • 284
      D L George says:

      How do you mean?

      The last time the electorate had a vote after the initial scandal NuLabia came 4th.

      • 383
        Saatchi and Clifford says:

        Norwich North By Election.
        C Smith: Thieving bastard Conservative Party. 13,591
        C Ostrowski: Thieving bastard Labour Party. 6,243
        A Pond: Thieving bastard Lib Dem Party. 4,803
        71.2% of the votes cast

        • 621
          D L George says:

          Fair point.

          It’s beyond my comprehension that one in five people in the UK think not only are Zanu’s ok, but they’ll even venture outdoors to vote for the scandalous b*ggers.

  67. 243
    Stuart Bell protests too much. says:

    No doubt Stuart Bell will turn out to be one of the biggest troughers.

  68. 245
    streamfisher says:

    Anybody seen the latest ludicrous Govt. funded waste of more public money information film being touted on terrestrial, little girl has story book (very appropriate) read to her by daddy about the bogey man MR Co2 Emission with children’s book illustrations. The Brothers Grimm did it so much better.

    • 257
      guilt-ridden white bloke Not! says:

      It’s very much like the ‘sponsor some poverty-stricken African child and if you can’t spare 5 quid a month you’re worse than Stalin you white, bastard, air-polluting piece of capitalist shit. If you’re not feeling guilty by now you fucking should be’ etc, etc.

      • 297
        streamfisher says:

        Does not compute, no its nothing like ” sponsor some- poverty stricken African child” at all, I was talking about the great climate change scam. And why do you assume I am White, should I assume you are Black?, I would not hold it against you and I would certainly not call you a Stalinist, Capitalist Shit. Feeling Guilty?

      • 349
        sreamfisher says:

        Feeling grumpy! (Snow White).

      • 389
        U2 Boneo says:

        You should be feeling guilty.

        Not me though. I have a tax accountant.

    • 278
      Nearing Normality says:

      The PC brigade were spouting some nonsense a while back that kids reading faiytales was wrong, as it was frightening them, and didn’t reflect real life. ie wolfs eating grannies and so on.

      So are we to take it that this advert is just one big fairytale, frightening our children and it’s all wrong?

  69. 251
    • 261
      String 'em up says:

      “Yes, but just because the European Union has morphed out of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation and gone through the Common Market and European Economic Community phases and now boats a flag, and anthem and (in a few months) a President doesn’t mean we’re heading down the path towards a Pan-European superstate, so shut the fuck up you bitching little Englanders”

      • 288
        ENGLAND says:

        England USED to be great.

        New Liebour is still ‘Work in Progress’ turning the Country firstly into Little Britain and then into Little England.

    • 294
      D L George says:

      Remove Blair/Brown/Mandelson from Europe, do not let them get their petty laws, their political spats, their delusional self obsessive desires anywhere near the continent.

      This is irrelevant of wether you want to be part of the EU or not.

      Very nicely shot movie.

    • 339
      Sir William Waad says:

      We are Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

  70. 255
    • 307
      nell says:

      The truth is they don’t have loyalty to a country.

      They are avidly centred on feathering their own nests and how they can make loadsamoney from Europe when the Labour scam finally collapses next May.

      Well in truth Bliar is doing that already and he’s going to share his knowledge with mandy and brown so that they can go Euro troughing too next year.

      I hear militwit wants to go and work in the UN – no doubt he thinks there’s greater scope for leeching money from the public purse there than in the EU.

      And then there’s prezza who thinks he can turn himself into a globe trotting english Al Gore on climate change to keep making his living when the english electorate finally kick him out.

      What a shower!!!!

      • 332
        streamfisher says:

        “And then there’s prezza who thinks he can turn himself into a globe….” Prezza has been working on it….. turning himself into a globe, and if I might say with some considerable success.

  71. 256
    Fanny Padz says:

    Mrs Dale is getting her Knickers all in a twist. She thinks Gordon is a man of courage and will Not stand down becuse of his blindness and Guido is a bad bad man to think otherwise. He also thinks Danni Minogue is a Lesbo.

  72. 258
    Daveyone says:

    Yet for me the biggest crime she has commited is her neglect of duty in her so called profession, at a time when we see so much injustice in criminal and civil court. As with so many Ministers in this government, she is content to sweep the important issues under the carpet!( Even Brown’s nightmare is about to catch up with him too) http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/03/2008_30_tue.shtml

  73. 260
    Anonymous says:

    Strangely Guido, you forgot to include Dodgy Daves need to explain his home flipping in the list of prominent politicians needing to explain themselves.

    • 384
      Ever Vigilant says:

      Dave’s home flipping ? I must have missed that . Perhaps you will kindly explain .

      • 415
        Down with Brown! says:

        Dave has a mortgage on one of his homes, despite his wife running a highly successful business and the Cams being likely to inherit a lot of money one day, but I don’t think anyone has accusing Dave of flipping.

  74. 270
    Mrs Tiddlewinkle says:

    Baroness Scotland looks like the spitting image of Teal’c from Stargate SG-1. It’s really freaky.

  75. 271
    Onelawforall says:

    HMRC levy a fine – sorry, a ‘penalty’ of £100 per month if the employers annual return is sent in late – even if no tax or NICs are due. Has Scotland been returning her annual returns on time ? If not, will HMRC insist on its pound of flesh, as it does with civilians ?

  76. 299
    That's Democracy says:

    Still think you live a democracy do you? Here’s a few facts to consider:

    “Baroness” Scotland, one of the highest figures of law in the land, breaks the law at least three times and escapes. She doesn’t even pay the ten grand fine often applied in the illegal immigrant employment case alone.

    Lord Paul steals money from the country under the guise of “expenses.” He’s a multi-millionaire, of course, but don’t let that bother you.

    Gideon Osborne, all chinless huff, does the country for fifty grand by avoiding capital gains tax.

    The prime minister, his second in command, and five of his top ten lackeys were not elected

    None of the house of “Lords” were elected and mainly gained office on a qualification best described as DNA

    With unemployment so high and despair so deep, Elizabeth Saxe-Coburg is set to be given nineteen million pounds more per year.

    Still think you live in a democracy, do you?

    • 501
      Hysteria says:

      never thought I would say this – but is this time for a Republic? Apart from some soft “feel good” nationhood stuff, and a rallying point for the military – what purpose does the monarchy seve today? Certainly does not protect us from the bastards in the HoC….

      • 586
        Anonymous says:

        The institution of Monarchy is an instrument which is used to make respectable to the unthinking and the irrational a political system which is grossly oppressive. The Sovereign is a mere tool of the ruling party. He/she is kept quiet by the mere hint that the Civil List might not last forever. Who knows, they might even nationalise the Duchy of Cornwall.
        All the pomp, pageantry and the so-called Royal Prerogatives are little more than ritualised play-acting. To rely of the Sovereign to save the country from a dictatorship is self-evident delusion. The Sovereign is part and parcel of the problem.
        Blair sent Her Army, Her Navy and Her Air Force to war on the basis of a pack of lies. What happened? Hundreds of thousands of innocent people died. Anything else? You tell me.
        Apologists for the Monarchy often try to frighten people by asking how would they like someone like President Blair forgetting that President Blair was precisely what we had and we now have President Brown. Either has or has/had more power in their little finger than a real President has in his entire body. In this God-forsaken country with a so-called constitution written in invisible ink there are no checks and no balances of any description. The PM/President is, in a very real sense, omnipotent. Who is there to stop him. Think back over little more than a decade.
        An American President has to take care that he does not upset Congress or the Supreme Court not to mention the Constitution and even in some cases individual States. In this God-forsaken country the PM controls all the levers of power : the judiciary (remember Lord Hutton?), the legislature, the civil service and the police by the simple expedient of ensuring that they are all headed by political appointees, placemen/women and carpet-baggers. Do you really need examples?
        I believe that Cameron or no Cameron, the national cancer is too widespread, it is now terminal and the nation is dying. And you are pinning your hopes on our Sovereign, when something made of wax at Madame Tussaud’s would do just as well?

        • 632
          Boycott the ПРАВДА licence fee says:

          The only purpose this Sovereign will serve is to attempt to defuse a Rebellion. If there is a popular Revolution (which seems ever closer by the day judging by the ‘blogosphere’) the Queen (who is as great a traitor as Blair and Brown put together, incidentally) will appeal for a period of coolness and reconciliation. The resulting hiatus will enable the government side to re-assert the upper hand and crush the revolutionaries. It will destroy the momentum necessary to drive out this corrupt parliament and snuff it out in the blink of an eye. THAT and THAT alone, is the purpose of this vile old crone in whose name decent men fight and die in foreign lands. HM the Queen/ Blair /Mandy / Brown: there’s not a shred of difference between the lot of them.

        • 706
          Phil O'Pastree says:

          Oo what a moaning mingebag you are. The days of the monarch deciding to take the country to war are long since gone. Those powers now rest with the elected giovernment of the day; Tony Blair is responsible for the mess in Iraq not the Queen.

          The monarch has a clear constitutional role but it has no comparison at all with that of an American president. It is closer to that of, say, the Irish presindent.

          I’m not sure what you else are advocating except that you dismiss a system which has been a thousand years in creation. It seems to me you are an extremist of one side or the other that hasn’t a hope in hell of being democratically elected and whose only route to power would be to create chaos.

  77. 312
    Lizzie says:

    The paying back over the phoney expence claims will probably not do a lot to help the treasury purse. Gordon and his Brownies did a really good job of emptying the coffers.

  78. 324
    nell says:

    It’s Sunday.

    I wonder what Scotland is doing today in her fine mansion – Entertaining friends to a fine lunch cooked by servants?

    Is gordon entertaining at Chequers? – no doubt the invited include european bigwigs who might offer him some well rewarded job after next year’s election debacle.

    Is jeffhoon entertaining in his tax funded mansion in the country or maybe his palatial london pad?

    Is mandy entertaining his famous rich european pals enthusing about how he and they plan to make loadsamoney in br+z+l next year?

    Where is bliar and his letterbox lady? No doubt they are in Europe somewhere lobbying for his tenure of the EU presidency.

    “It can only get better” ?

    They’ve all but destroyed Britain , syphoned its wealth off into their own bank balances and now they are planning their next con in Europe and America.

    Socialism exposed!!!!

    • 338
      nell says:

      Oh and I forgot to say, they have all but forgotten there is a war on and our troops are dying. Let’s not us forget it.

      http://www.michaelyon-online.com/

      • 368
        Susie says:

        Don’t worry they’ll all be back in a month’s time looking all po-faced at the Cenotaph. Cherie too (black’s sooooo flattering).

        • 489
          Aberdeen Angus McDayie says:

          Reading your reminder, Susie, of this rank hypocrisy made my stomach turn. My go now:

          You do know that when they stage this ritual there they are all effectively worshiping a giant prick.

          • Susie says:

            By ‘all’ who do you mean?

            I’m taking my 91 year old dad up this year (Burma/Siam Railway). Remembrance Sunday means a lot to him as it does to me.

            Cherie can airily dismiss Blair invasion of Iraq as “a 51:49 decision” (oh that’s alright then — so long as it was 51). They have hearts of ice and none of the old boys who fought and won WWII want them there.

        • 715
          Hugh Janus says:

          Yes, the usual line-up of hypocritical pygmy lightweights, most of whom have never worn a uniform, and some of whom actually despise the military. Absolutely nauseating to watch when compared with the proud and self-effacing veterans to whom we owe so much.

  79. 325
    Anonymous says:

    Gordon Brown to resign in November after senior colleagues publicly urge him to step down for the sake of his eyesight.

    It’s all being worked out right now, behind closed doors.

    • 367
      Infanta of Castile says:

      It was all worked out months ago. Why do you think the leadership challenges all fizzled out during the Euro elections ? Obviously – as I said then- the Prince of Darkness promised Johnson, Barry Shearman et al. that , if they spared the party the destructive effects of knifing Gordon, he would ensure Gordon resigned on health grounds at the most propitious moment, affording an opportunity to select a new leader who could take them into the next election and give them maximum opportunity to wrong foot Dave.

  80. 329
    Anonymous says:

    Why is there a photo of an orang utan at the top of this thread?

  81. 341
    Mercian says:

    Why should be pay anything towards the one-eyed git’s flat in London, when he’s got a house in Jockland, plus Downing Street, Chequers etc to live in?

  82. 344
    Henry Wood says:

    And let’s hear about more investigations into that Fat Foulkes Fucker, Lord of Shitknowes Wot, who not only troughs in the House Of Lords, but is also a well known bottom feeder in the “Scottish Parliament” expenses tables. Something wrong with the rules shurely, when grasping, greedy, gulping Huhnes like Foulkes are allowed by law to gorge themselves until they are so full of themselves they cannot even speak proper, like when he attacked that poor BBC lassie. Why does not some impartial member of *ANY MEDIA* publish a comparative list of General Dannett’s expenses alongside FATTY FUCK FOULKE’S GREEDY GRABBING EXPENSES and just let the general public compare them both?

    Come on you, Foulkes Fucker! Let’s have it all out in the open like wot *you* tried to do to that army bloke, but you failed ‘cos he had no expenses worth mentioning.

    Can *YOU* say the same, you abhorrent LITTLE LABOUR LEECH?

    • 351
      Lord bignose says:

      Fatty isn’t an MSP so won’t be a bottom feeder in the Scottish parliament. He’s an MP in the big parliament in that London. But I share you sentiments about big nose.

      • 393
        Henry Wood says:

        Oh yes he is!

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Foulkes,_Baron_Foulkes_of_Cumnock

        “He is currently a member of both the Lords and the Scottish Parliament.”

        Unless he has suddenly resigned from one/both of them after his scurrilous attacks on Dannatt?

        • 406
          Bottle-fed Triplet says:

          According to Wikipedia,

          “Lord Foulkes is very active on Caribbean matters. He serves as President of the Caribbean Britain Business Council, Chair of the Dominican Republic All-Party Parliamentary Group, Chair of the Belize All-Party Parliamentary Group, Vice Chair of the Trinidad and Tobago All-Party Parliamentary Group and Vice Chair of the British – Central America All-Party Parliamentary Group.”

          ‘very active on Caribbean matters’…………Hmmmmm!

          Don’t forget the factor 30 and flip flops your Lordship!

    • 366
      nell says:

      Ld.george fookes – earns £36K pa as a consultant for Eversheds to lobby and make connections for them in the HoL.

      The media describes him as a ‘prize buffoon’ and ‘increasingly hysterical’

      In 1993 he was convicted of being drunk and disorderly during an incident in which he struck a Police Officer.

      In 2007 he was also elected as an Member of the Scottish Parliament.
      In 2007/8 he claimed £55k expenses from the HoL
      In 2008/9 he claimed £45K expenses subsistence allowance from HoL for a flat that he had inherited.

      • 370
        nell says:

        Earns £36Kpa lobbying and arranging connections in the HoL for Ev+ersh+ds.
        Media describes him as being ‘increasingly hysterical’ and a ‘prize buffoon’
        In 1993 he was convicted of being dr+nk and diso+rderly after striking a Police Officer.
        In 2007 he was also elected as an MSP.
        In 2007/8 he claimed £55K expenses from the HoL
        In 2008/9 he claimed £45K subsistence allowance expenses from the HoL for a flat that he had inherited.

        Truly the face of labour.

        • 378
          shelling-out says:

          Desperation.

          They’ll take anyone these days.

        • 397
          Henry Wood says:

          Oho! Thank you for that information, “nell says”, (I presume you were torking about our mutual friendly Lord, the High Fucker of Foulkes?)

          Why cannot anyone from our MSM (or even our trusty bloggers) simply print such information when Huhnes like Foulkes try to muddy the waters with their dishonurable claims?

          p.s. there seems to be a fault on this site. When I write Huhnes it comes out as hoons. Fix it! Because Labour Huhnes = once a Huhne always a Huhne, and ther will be Huhnes galore in the months ahead.

        • 401
          fanny padz says:

          i say prescitt is a fat fuck nell

        • 432
          troughing piggies says:

          what part of “They are all at it…” did you find most difficult to pierce your tiny partisan brain nell ?

          duck houses, moats ? not ringing any bells ?

          fuck all of the piggy thieving scum
          This isn’t camerons personal website and the conservatives don’t get a fee pass
          At least they didn’t before

          • nell says:

            NAME the troughing tory lords tp and I’ll happily attack them as well.

            We need ALL of the troughing Lords exposed . We need to devise a means of cleansing and establishing a decent and transparent and HONEST HoL.

            Don’t you agree??

  83. 374
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    I hvave seen the ” noble” lady in the flesh , she is much darker
    In that photo she must have neen using skin lightener
    Obviously a self hating egg and spoon

  84. 377
    shelling-out says:

    I’m sick and tired of hearing about these shysters who have fleeced us all.

    The sooner I’m out of this god-forsaken country, the better.

  85. 392
    all change says:

    yet another shopping ban

    what sort of country is this?

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/oct/11/morrisons-wine-ban-mother

  86. 399
    streamfisher says:

    Try again!!!, Obama , Blair, Nobel peace prize and peace envoy?, Ghandi 11.

  87. 400
  88. 402
    Henry Wood says:

    George Foulkes, Baron Foulkes of CumStain NuLiebour, the man who queried General Dannatt’s expenses.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Foulkes,_Baron_Foulkes_of_Cumnock

    “He is currently a member of both the Lords and the Scottish Parliament.”

    Shum mistake shurely?

    Going by the pic, he is a dead silent actor AKA W.C. Fields. Well, the nose looks the same?

    When he opens his big, fat, GULPING, GREEDY, GRASPING GOB in order to take in even *MORE* expenses from me and you, why, he LOOKS JUST LIKE A Huhning W.C. in need of a good scrubbing, a good bleaching, and a jolly good dose of Harpic poured right down his GULPING, GREEDY, GRASPING, GOBBLING GULLET!

    There ought to be a new political movement:
    FUCK FATTY FOULKES!!!

  89. 408
    black pudding says:

    [REDACTED]

  90. 411
    Georgie Osrborne MP says:

    I’ll put my left leg in and my right leg out and pull down my trousers and shake my willy out and about on live tv if you vote me in.

    • 503
      Silvio Berlusconi says:

      Mandy, be-a verra careful what-a you wish for. Just look-a whats ‘appened to me!

  91. 412

    [...] become interesting and very real – for in a very short time there will be an election.  Guido Fawkes asks if we are being softened up for Gordon Brown stepping down (To bottle yet another election – [...]

  92. 418
    Lizzie says:

    Britain is broken and Brown has decided to sell of the assets, probably on e-bay. First it was the gold now it’s a “everything must go” sale. It’s shamefull what Brown and Labour have done to Britain. The world must be looking on and the Arabs must surely be eyeing up Buckingham Palace.

  93. 433
    Ratsniffer says:

    It was interesting watching Yvette Balls on QT the other night berating Cameron for using his contacts to get himself a job…

    Nulabour appointees would never be a party to anything like this, of course.

    There is absolutely no way that David Nicholson, the man in charge of the NHS (with perfect labour credentials, if according to the mail, he is indeed “a former communist”) would ever be in favour of the promototion of anyone for any reason other than their sheer ability to do the job. This goes without saying.

    Why, what better example of the right person for the right post, than the highly talented Sarah Jane Marsh, who at just 32 has been promoted to Chief Executive of the Birmingham children’s hospital. She is, according to the Mail on Sunday, now probably the youngest hospital chief executive in the country, with a salary circa 155K to go with such a prestigeous job. A fabulous achievement for one so young, I think we can all agree.

    Indeed, if 55 year old Mr Nicholson wants to keep tabs on how this bright young high flier is getting on, he’ll need to look no further than across his breakfast table.

    The pair are to be married next year.

    http://tinyurl.com/yh9rkl9

  94. 435
    nell says:

    MP’s who have been the worst offenders in troughing are going to be told tomorrow how much they have to pay back.

    The Times is asking today when it will be the turn of the House of Lords.

    With Lord Paul, exposed today as seriously abusing the expenses system and Baroness Uddin still not being prosecuted for her offences, when are the House of Lords Authorities going to act?

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article6869577.ece

    And what are we going to do with those Lords who are eventually founbd to have committed fiscal offences because surely they should be removed from the |HoL and their titles rescinded!!!!

    • 437
      nell says:

      modding is a bit harsh on here today!

      Let’s try again.

      MP’s are going to learn tomorrow how much they are to pay back from those troughed expenses.

      Another Lord was exposed today as also falsely claiming expenses that he was not entitled to.

      Baroness U has still not been prosecuted.

      When are the HoL authority’s going to undertake the same thorough public audit of Lord’s expenses that they have now done of the HoC?

      The Times says if the HoL Authority’s won’t do it , their Insight team will keep digging and exposing.

      http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article6869577.ece

  95. 439
    Anonymous says:

    Brown privatizing major UK assets!!!!!!

    • 444
      Anonymous says:

      Just dumped the market for assets. When will he learn. There are only so many buyers, they should not be divided so there is no competition for a single asset.

      Now I know he hates the UK, and wishes to destroy it.

      • 478
        Down with Brown! says:

        Panic measures to keep the baliffs away, flog off state assests to the Russians, Saudis and Chinese.

  96. 454
    Summer_Breeze says:

    So Guido, any whispers as to who the sacrificial lambs might be tomorrow?

  97. 456
    Daveyone says:

    I would not put anything past this Government? Would you………………….?

    • 514
      Mercury Falling says:

      Excerpt of the relevant article from the Guardian:

      “One chapter of the report, ‘The Fluorescent Particle Trials’, reveals how between 1955 and 1963 planes flew from north-east England to the tip of Cornwall along the south and west coasts, dropping huge amounts of zinc cadmium sulphide on the population. The chemical drifted miles inland, its fluorescence allowing the spread to be monitored. In another trial using zinc cadmium sulphide, a generator was towed along a road near Frome in Somerset where it spewed the chemical for an hour.

      “While the Government has insisted the chemical is safe, cadmium is recognised as a cause of lung cancer and during the Second World War was considered by the Allies as a chemical weapon.”

      Full text here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4398507,00.html

  98. 469
    Monty says:

    Sorry forgot in my earlier suggestion (Labour’s own Bullingon Club) the Mandelson and Madame Jay. And a note on their provenance/bloodlines/appointments would help illuminate the point.

  99. 471
    Davy says:

    Well Mr Fawkes,this enquiry is going back quite some time.
    Could you please enlighten us as to whom rented to you this cellar beneath the houses of Parliament,and for how much.
    There are no lengths the government ministers will go to in the persuance of a little extra cash.

  100. 474
    In case you're interested says:

    Off the thread ….

    The Bank of England has kept the UK base interest rate on hold at 0.5% which translates into a real interest rate of -1.1% adjusted for CPI inflation of 1.6% which continues to seek to punish savers for the crimes of the bankers.

    The UK base interest rate is being kept low to allow bankrupt banks to rebuild their balance sheets by overcharging customers against the base interest rate and the interbank market rate of 0.54%. The real market interest rates have been climbing steadily since March 2009 which has meant that the base interest rate has become increasingly irrelevant to the retail market place.

    The rising market interest rates are being charged to retail customers regardless of the base rate being held at 0.5% into the end of the year and will go on increasing, which is inflationary in terms of rising mortgage costs.

    Savers are being hammered by the 20% tax on savings and therefore need an interest rate in the order of 2% just for savings to keep pace with inflation and tax. This is set against the tax payer bailed out banks such as the Halifax paying a pittance of just 0.1% on across the range accounts from current accounts to savings accounts, with other mainstream institutions not much better, which is a result of the bailout of the bankrupt banks that has resulted in an artificial market heavily skewed in favour of the bailed out bankrupt banks now making huge profits so that tax payer capital injections can be repaid, in-effect the government giving free cash to the banks to enable the banks to repay capital for POLITICAL REASONS (read electioneering). Under a free market system the banks would be forced to raise interest rates paid to customers to reward savers , however in the present distorted and politicised market the Treasury and the Bank of England fund the banks to the tune of liabilities of £1.5 trillion that has resulted in the countries liabilities doubling from £1.7 trillion at the end of 2007 to £3.4 trillion by the end of this year.

    We, the tax payer, are, of course, expected to bear the long term cost and the sooner the cuttings starts the less painful it will be in the long run.

    7 billion savings is peanuts

    54 billion will have to come in short order.

    Neither party has made this clear.

    • 495
      Grammar Boy says:

      This is the major issue of the day, not whether the Marxoid lice overcharge for their ironing.

      The Expenses Issue is a false scent so that the plebs look the other way while the country is destroyed in front of their very eyes.

      The postings on this site prove this.

      • 500
        South of the M4 says:

        Unbelievable that there are not yet riots on the streets with every single Labour constituency HQ being fire bombed.

        • 508
          Grammar Boy says:

          Sadly, as long as they have footy and X-factor (bread and circuses) they are in a state of happy ignorance of reality, and have little idea what is coming because most of them barely read, and numeracy only extends to footy scores.

          But then, are the BBC (or is anyone) making it plain what dire straits we are in.

          Traitorous scoliashist scum the lot of them.

          • South of the M4 says:

            I *loody am to my kids. Sad to see them go but they must leave the UK to have any life at all. Me, I am too old to get any points to gain entry to anywhere. But as long as my kids are ok my job is done.

          • Grammar Boy says:

            Agreed, but it’s a bit sad that we’re reduced to this. You’d rather hope some champion would emerge to lead us forward out of the gloom but it seems unlikely.

            Sadly, all we have to look forward to is the Past

      • 510
        Shocked of Sheen says:

        Agreed. Well put.

    • 523
      Boycott the ПРАВДА licence fee says:

      Closer to 70bn in the next 3 years by my reckoning. No sign of that becoming available from any source yet defined, unless the government starts stealing large amounts of money from each and every one of us.

  101. 476
    Daveyone says:

    http://news.uk.msn.com/world/article.aspx?cp-documentid=150147823
    and just when I was thinking this was a good way to dispose of failing M.P,s!

  102. 479
    Monty says:

    Dear Guido
    Why is my comment at 1405 still awaiting moderation?
    I thought it was – like all my comments – very moderate.
    TTFN

  103. 480
    Georgie Osrborne MP says:

    NELLY WELLY I HOPE WE CAN COUNT ON YOUR VOTE FOR THE TOFFY PARTY.

    • 486
      Truth Sayer says:

      fuck off 555pedo shorts

    • 505
      nell says:

      The toff party? .

      Darling, The Balls, Bliar, harpyharriett, etc all privately educated.

      Oxford and Harvard = yvette and her ed, the militwits and on and on

      Mandy has his own toff aspirations .

      http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/133449/It-s-Labour-s-very-own-Bullying-Club-

      I’m a working class lass – I left school at 15 to support my widowed mother and the rest of the family. I was raised on a council estate and I was taught, and I believe, that you work for your living. I got my degree through the Open University whilst I worked a 50 hour week and raised my two children at the same time.

      THE Toff Party = This Troughing Failed Labour Crew. No I shan’t be voting for them!!!!

  104. 482
    Exiled in Wales says:

    The BBC now saying that Brown will announce on tomorrow that he’s to sell off £16 billion of Goverment assets to help balance the books.

    Seems they’ve started the scorched earth policy sooner than we thought.

    • 521
      One flew over the No 10 bunker says:

      So the Labour party have now brought us so low that having already sold the gold he now has to start selling off the family silver for no other reason than his and the Labour parties desperation to balance the books that they themselves completly screwed up.

      This is the governmental equivilant of a visit to the pawnbrokers

      FFS and STILL 28% of people vote for them and they again will walk away scot free to leave someone else (normally the Tories) to clear the mess up.

      • 556
        charlie the chancer says:

        You can beat me up if you want,but who sold most of the family silver and all of the tat(BMC),water companies,most origionally owned by local councils and gathered together by the sailor boy Heath and made into water authorities and sold by Thatcher,electricity,post office telephones,british gas who were then regional ,cable and wireless,british steel,the list goes on,most of it sold cheaply to her friends,McSnot and his mates are a pieces of crap.

        • 578
          ExEng says:

          It is not the selling. It is the fact he is selling all on one day.

          Just like the gold.

          To maximize assert values you do not flood the market with all the assets on the same day. Anyone capable of buying has to have competitors to make sure the price is high enough. The assets have to be sold intelligently.

          This is a FIRE SALE.

        • 597
          barefootcontessa says:

          C the C, glad to read somebody elses description of the calumnies that took place under the Thatcher regime.

          • and all those state run monopolies were so well run…

            Only a 2 month wait for a phone.

            Not that I agreed with ALL aspects of privatisation, I think as all citizens already owned these businesses through the state then the state should hand ownership of a share back to everyone rather than make people bid for the shares.

        • 691
          Call me Infidel says:

          The industries that were old off by and large now make a profit and pay tax. They also employ a lot of people who also pay taxes. British Leyland was a shite company run by communist unions rather than by the managers. British Telecom was a crap company until it was privatised and most of the nationalised industries were equally moribund. The theory of state ownership was tested to destruction in Poland, Hungary, Romania etc. It doesn’t work.

    • 607
      Shopping channel says:

      Table sale has already started on eBay.

      I’ve found a used turkey baster (one Scottish owner), a pair of NHS specs held together with elastoplast, set of 1997 Labour manifesto pledge cards, signed photo of the Pope visiting the Blairs, Nokia phone (needs attention), shredder (worn out), black marker pen as used for redactions, detached rectums. Much more ….

      • 637
        The Archbishop of Canterbury says:

        Could we sell the Palace of Westminster while we are at it?

        I wonder how much Buckingham Palace will go for?

  105. 488
    Not long till labour gone says:

    Gordon Brown is to announce the sale of £16bn-worth of assets by the government in a bid to shore up public finances.

    Could save a few bob replacing baroness scotland…

  106. 490
    Fees Office Clerk says:

    Brown’s going to sell off the Tote, Dartford Crossing, the Student Loan Book, the Channel Tunnel Rail Link and – having protected national security – the government’s stake in URENCO.

    Bet he accepts the lowest fucking offers!

    • 497
      South of the M4 says:

      Could he sell Scotland to the Norwegians and Wales to the French?

      • 567
        Mad Jock McMad says:

        Under the crofting laws we Scots get to buy our own land back from the troughers in Westminster…

        After that we will then sell to the highest bidder….

        • 574
          Down with Brown! says:

          Poor time to see thse off, Gordon’s selling them off at rock bottom prices as he did with our gold reserves.

    • 502
      Not long till labour gone says:

      Ministers (labours red ken I believe) originally said the tolls on Dartford crossing would only be in force until the bridge had been paid for. In 2004 the crossing started making profit yet the charges continued. Labour lied…

      Now they will sell it to someone…who will want to make profit.

      • 519
        charlie the chancer says:

        They said the Mersey road tunnel would be free once it had been paid for in 1934 , another road tunnel was built in 1974? and they now have a £100million in loan charges,the 1974 road tunnel is part of the M53 motorway,it was Maggie who said that if any bridge or tunnel was built within 20 miles of estuarial waters then they would have a toll charge on them,all political parties a liers,once they have your vote you are no longer required until the next election.

        • 648
          albanord says:

          Yeah, so the obvious thing to do is abolish elections. You know it’s coming anyway so shut the fuck up.

    • 560
      ALBERT TATLOCK says:

      Next Stop They Will Be Selling The Lead Off The HoC Roof !
      Fucking Bankrupt Pikie Bastard Lie-Bore SCUM !

  107. 491
    thick as thieves says:

    just because was my last post was deleted doesn’t negate the fact that gideon and the bullingdon boys are still outside my council flat wanking furiously and shouting abuse at me through my window where the schoolkids smashed the pane a few months ago.

    I’m desperate to go across the street to the little p*k* shop on the corner to get a couple of mars bars and a bottle of ir’n bru for my tea but I can’t go out while gideon and his mates are out there. they’ve threatened to debag me followed by some sort of ceremonial sex ritual and I’m still a virgin.

  108. 493
    One flew over the No 10 Bunker says:

    Once a Hoon always a Hoon

    “How Geoff Hoon ‘checked his phone during Iraq war service’: Former Defence Secretary is accused of disrespect during memorial”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1219557/How-Geoff-Hoon-checked-phone-Iraq-war-service-Former-Defence-Secretary-accused-disrespect-memorial.html#ixzz0TegR9DNz

    • 600
      El Presidente says:

      He was probably bored to death by the whole charade and decided to break the tedious monotony by fiddling with his phone. Nobody likes listening to long winded rambling sermons full of bollocks.

  109. 496
    One flew over the No 10 Bunker says:

    and Labour are Hoons as well as being utterly nasty bastards

    “Labour threat to dock £40,000 from Dannatt pay for joining Tories”

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1219575/Labour-threat-dock-40-000-Dannatt-pay-joining-Tories.html

    • 529
      nell says:

      That’s exactly what Labour bullies ( AlastairC in that case) threatened Dr David Kelly with, isn’t it?

      In Dr Kelly’s case they threatened to take away his pension. Labour (Frank Dobson) is threatening General Sir Richard Dannatt with a £40K fine.

      Trouble is Labour’s bullying tactics have become Big News. It is frankly their most famous trait. Labour = Bullies.

      Here we have a National Hero, someone who has spent 40 years of his life in the front line , fighting for his country.

      And now this cowardly, failing, labour crew are proposing to fine him £40K because he has finally had enough of their disastrous, uncaring management of the Afghan War and joined the Tories on his retirement. in the hope of getting a better deal for his men still fighting in Afghanistan.

      Well go on Frank Dobson you keep pressing the point. All you’re doing is losing Labour what’s left of their diminishing vote!!!!

    • 541
      ALBERT TATLOCK says:

      This “MAN” Served His Country Unlike The Utter Shithouse Scum In The HoC Who Only Sought To Serve Themselves With Our Money ! Whilst Our Troops Die Through Lack Of Funding The Amount Of Money ThIs Pile Of Shite Stole Would Have Made a Difference ! There Should Be Mass Suicide In The Commons ! How Can They Live With Themselves ?

      • 642
        Mad Jock McMad says:

        Albert – its OK they have generals by the hundred in Whitehall…. maybe Gordon will flog a few off to countries that actually need them..

  110. 507
    Anonymous says:

    Is it true what they say about scousers?

  111. 511
    Now is the time to say "STOP"! says:

    First it was OUR gold,now its everything else this fraudulent b’satrd is selling off – we must STOP this criminal BRWON before we have NOTHING left in this country;

    MARCH ON PARLIAMENT ON WEDNESDAY

    5 MILLION BRITS MUST STOP THIS ODIOUS CRIMINAL BROWN

  112. 517
    Mary Poppins says:

    I am beginning to hate Scotland and all things Scottish or anything to do with Scotland – I am also fed up giving them billions of English “hard working families” Tax pounds to the Scots in return for giving Labour a block vote – WTF is going on??

    • 531
      Exiled in Wales says:

      Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are a deadweight on the English economy.

      Time for full devolution and full tax-raising powers to all three. And not a penny in subsidy from England.

      • 652
        Mad Jock McMad says:

        Yippee – go for it cowboy…. can’t wait for you to come crawling to the energy rich Scots when power cuts hit the SE of England on a routine basis.

        Your choice: leave Westminster to keep on buying off the Scots and winding you lot up or let us go and start paying the commercial rate for all the energy you suck out of Scotland for next to nothing – not including all the extra-territorial income that is being used to subsidise Lundun’s Olympics, Cross Rail, Channel Tunnel Link, Dome, MP’s expenses etc, etc, etc. .

        Just think: England’s energy requirements in the hands of a bunch of Frogs, Jocks and the Russian Mafia…. you know it makes sense.

        • 694
          D L George says:

          “paying the commercial rate for all the energy you suck out of Scotland for next to nothing”

          Have you been to England McMad? Fuel costs a fortune, if someones making money out of this, it isn’t the English taxpayer. Englands much like Scotland, only without the Free Prescriptions and Free University. etc. We also get ordered what to do by Liebore Scots, Liebore Welsh, and Liebore chummy N Irish.

          In fact, We ‘d ALL want to move Scotland if it wasn’t for one serious issue. This time next year, you’ll have Brown back.

    • 716
      Hugh Janus says:

      And equally hacked off with the Scottish voices on the Beeb – announcers, weather presenters, the whole bloody lot of them. They are, like the House of Commons, over-represented to a ludicrous degree.

  113. 518
    Sally Webster says:

    Has anybody seen my Kevin?

  114. 524
    STUPIK HUNT says:

    Will We Have To Wait For A Whistle Blower To Tell Us Who Got The Letters
    and How Much The Thieving Bastards Stole Off Us
    And Will There Be Prosecutions ???

    • 532
      nell says:

      All to be published , unredacted , in December. Nicely timed for us to think about it all before we vote in the 2010 elections.

      What I want to know is when they are going to examine and publish the expenses of the House of Lords?

      And also what they are going to do to get rid of those members of the House of Lords who are found to be major troughers?? How are we going to get them out of the HoL and how are we going to strip them of their titles???

  115. 530
    ALBERT TATLOCK says:

    Hey Anyone Notic That All The Backing Music At The Party In THe Rovers Was Rare Northern Soul ?

  116. 535
    An unelected monkey, screeching, jumping up and down on the end of its chain and banging its tin mug says:

    IT is’nae fair, it is’nae fair!

    Ah daserve a N’bel Prize

    Fa’ tha’ eccernomics ye un’stn.

    Cos nuthn’s ma fult!

  117. 537
    Grammar Boy says:

    It is time to sell Jockland, to anyone, for anything.

    They’re only with us ’cause they last bankrupted themselves in 1699 with the Darien Scheme. They have, it seems, a history of believing they are great at economics whilst actually being useless.

    This unwarranted self-belief coupled with their inate attachment to Marxism has now truly beggared Olde Englande as well, but then maybe that was the plan from the start.

    Anyhow, depite having Jockish blood in my veins, it’s time to say goodbye, and the plan to send T’bbit the Nroman to encourage them to make the right decision sounds excellent.

    • 613
      grobdj says:

      Good idea

      Renege on the Trump deal (because he went bust after Alex Salmond gave planning permission for his Scottish golf course), rebuild Hadrian’s Wall and lease Scotland to China for 100 years

      Well it worked for Hong Kong

  118. 542
    One flew over the No 10 bunker says:

    Re McRuin’s visit to the pawnbroker spot the error in these two headlines. Does anyone out there actually know whats going on???

    SKY NEWS
    PM Set To Outline £3bn Sell-Off Plans

    BBC NEWS
    Government’s £16bn sale of assets

    • 551
      One flew over the No 10 bunker says:

      apparently he is getting local authorities to sell off stuff as well to bring it to 16b. Bloody hell is there going to be anything left?

      By the way this sell off is going to take place over the next two years. So well into the next government then. I smell another timebomb being placed ready to explode after these evil fuxkpigs are dead and gone.

      • 558
        Down with Brown! says:

        Expect schools to merge so they can sell off the land, goodbye to playing fields.

        Maybe Gordon’s been told by one of his bankers that they ain’t go to lend him any more money and he can’t go on borrowing indefinitely. I would have thought learning to live inside your means would be a better way to solve the bursting deficit.

      • 595
        charlie the chancer says:

        The local council Libour/Libdum have already announced the are amalgamating two schools by us,one is a girls school,the other is a boys school,both are next to each other,the excuse is the old one not enough pupils,both have playing fields.

      • 603
        In case you're interested says:

        Ever see the David Niven film ‘Around the World in 80 Days’. The scene where they have run out of coal and start smashing anything made of wood (deck, planks, cabin fittings etc. etc,) on the paddle steamer in order to get across the Atlantic to make up for the lost day (which wasn’t really lost due to the International Date Line). Ripped up everything to fire the boiler.

        Gordon’s fire sale is like that. He has to do it. And it’s only the beginning. But is being done now to keep the international bailiff at bay (untill the Election). Then we’ll see what really has got to be done. And. it won’t be pretty.

        The Government is playing with fire.

    • 555
      Grammar Boy says:

      How’s £3 billion going to offset £700 billion, or is this some McDoom economics that we little folk don’t understand.

      How about selling off large chunks of Buck House, or the Isle of Wight, or the Army, then there’s all those London Bridges to Arizona opportutinities.

      I’ve got it, how about, at a knock down price, AlJaBBC. What no buyers ?

      I still think the Scottish fire sale sounds good, especially the constituency of Fife.

      • 559
        hootsman says:

        Hey, why doesn’t he sell off some of our Chavtowns?

        http://www.chavtowns.co.uk/

      • 565
        Raving loon says:

        How is £16bn going to put a dent in £1tn in soon to be amassed government debt?

        • 572
          Down with Brown! says:

          Brown is beginning to realise that there’s an elephant in the room, but he still thinks it’s a small elephant.

        • 580
          Grammar Boy says:

          Time for Cocoa, oh bugger, Gordon’s gone and sold the mugs.

          There must be something desperate coming down the ‘pike for McDoom to be doing this. Dread to think what it is. No doubt we will find out in due course.

          We live in ‘interesting’ times .

          • barefootcontessa says:

            Well, he’s not getting me packet of maltesers.

          • Hysteria says:

            its fuckin amazin – this tosspot got us in this mess and then has the balls to lecture us about the importance of balancing the books and selling assets so to do…WTF????

        • 581
          Rip Van Winkle says:

          Well, it covers next months spending on the credit card. Fuck, it’s Christmas the month after…. but don’t worry about it, have a good time and we’ll sort it out in the new year, eh?

        • 582
          Boycott the ПРАВДА licence fee says:

          It won’t. We’re bust. On monday I’m going to borrow a pair of pliers to pull out my 2 gold teeth and flog them by post to http://www.cashmygold.co.uk before the government does it for me.

        • 585
          ExEng says:

          Part payment on Interest!

    • 576
      Down with Brown! says:

      Gordon’s going to force efficient local councils to sell off their assests to pay for the failure of the Labour-run Westminster government. It’s like Henry VIII forcing the monastires to shut to pay for his divorces.

      • 587
        Mr Growser says:

        Anything of value round here’s already been nicked so I don’t know what’s left they could sell.

        Maybe the speed cameras ?

      • 588
        A Vile, lying, cheating, thieving little git says:

        Ah wan’ tha’ N’bl prize fa’ tha’ egonomics, ah doo,

        Cos’ ah’ sav’d tha’ wuld ye un’stn

        an nuthn’s ma fult!!

  119. 546
    Grammar Boy says:

    It is time to ‘let Scotland go’.

    They’re only with us ’cause they last bankrupted themselves in 1699 with the Darien Scheme. They have, it seems, a history of believing they are great at economics whilst actually being useless.

    This unwarranted self-belief coupled with their inate attachment to Marxism has now truly beggared Olde Englande as well, but then maybe that was the plan from the start.

    Anyhow, depite having Scottish blood in my veins, it’s time to say goodbye.

    • 659
      Mad Jock McMad says:

      Ah! The old Darien canard…. nope Scotland wasn’t bankrupt in 1707, its economy was growing by a healthy 2.5% that year but a bunch of Scottish Tory loving lords and land owners were, so the deal was done.

      The Scottish Tory Toffs got their mortgages paid off, Charlie Stewart got the boot once and for all and the Hanoverians got their fat butts on the thrones of England and Scotland. Scotland in fact did not go bankrupt until 1709 as a result of the collapse of Scotland’s European markets due to the English predilection for upsetting everyone all over Europe… especially the French – plus sa change, plus sa meme chose – as you English might say.

      PS… please, please persuade ‘Call me Dave’ to kick us into the long grass so we can sell you all the energy you get from Scotland on the cheap at the commercial rate. While keeping all the extra territorial tax income from gas and oil, just for us poor wee Scots:-)

    • 660
      Anonymous says:

      They stopped us kicking out Labour in 2005 too.

  120. 573
    roy rover says:

    this website is a mess

    • 579
      ɹǝʞunq 01 ou ǝɥʇ ɹǝʌo ʍǝ1ɟ ǝuo says:

      .suǝddɐɥ sıɥʇ ʍoɥ ǝʇınb ʍouʞ ʇ,uop ʎ11ɐǝɹ ı ǝǝɹbɐ ı sǝʎ

  121. 575
    One flew over the No 10 bunker says:

    Sir Stuart Bell MP (Labour} Sky News at 9 tonight in regard to the climate change protestors on the Commons roof

    “We live in a Democracy and we have to respect their right to protest”

    Protests are banned within a mile of Parliament and a referendum was stolen from the British people by Labour.

    Discuss…..

  122. 582
    Daveyone says:

    I wonder what the record contributors are to a single Guido thread is?
    http://www.thesun.co.uk/discussions/forums/show/SunTalk-6401.page

  123. 589
    The previous Vile, lying, cheating, thieving little git says:

    Hey! Trust me!

    I’m a straight kinda guy!

  124. 592
    The Lord High Mandleson of Hubris says:

    Woops I did it again !

  125. 596
    Barrow ness Udder, sucking on the Great Sociashitalist Tit says:

    Like the other Noo_Lie_Bore Wimmin, I take what I can, when I can. The chance don’t come that often.

    Mzzzz. J Boot, Das Uber Groping KampcommandantenFuhrer says

    Hey Boys!!

    Like my Uniform!? – and the whip?!

    (Bath plug is going well too – kno vat I mean? Hein?!)

  126. 612
    LEONARD SWINDLEY says:

    stupid boy !

  127. 614
    thick as thieves says:

    and before black and white people were primates we were fish, and before we were all fish we were amoeba and before that bacteria and before that just chemicals.
    you see now we are getting to the heart of the matter: the bn p are, doomed by their own criteria and beliefs to be creationists.
    nick griffin does not believe in evolution, he believes the world really was created in 6000 years, and judging by the bn p supporters comment, they believe that black people are descended from primates but that white people are not.
    where the fuck did white people come from then? out of thin air?
    and due to phenotype expressions occurring infrequently it is entirely possible that people who look white had black ancestry.
    so that is the cat out the bag, the bn p are crazy white supremacist creationist motherfuckers.
    damn crazy honkies.

    • 618
      duckman says:

      You’re a shoe in for next years Nobel Peace prize surely.

      • 633
        rick says:

        tat, put down that crack pipe for a moment. B*np Creationists! Sober up, go into their website, digest (not necessary to agree) then come back and re post. You’re funny tat, and I like you, but you’re still a pillock.

      • 679
        The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

        Is there a Nobel prize for Hoonism?
        If so TWAT ,
        Sorry TAT!
        Is a fucking shoe in

    • 668
      Ivor Schwartzporcshe says:

      Why are we hairy where primates privates are bald? Answer that one. We are of the earth, that’s why and all the other living things are aliens from another time dimension. Probably.

      • 684
        The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

        Mr Ivor Schwartzporch (double glazed PVC)
        Have you ever seen a gorillas bollocks?
        They are as hairy as fuck
        My grandfather had a pair that he used to polish his shoes with
        As you can imagine the Gorilla used to get a bit pissed off.

  128. 615
    In case you're interested says:

    Annual Budget Deficit Cuts Total PSND

    2008 90 0 624

    2009 185 0 809

    2010 213 7 1022

    2011 183 7 1205

    2012 133 7 1338

    2013 108 7 1446 (120% GNP)

    All figures in Billions.

    Cuts announced so far will have NO IMPACT. Gordon’s fire sale will only buy a very short time.

    Cuts need to be circa 50 billion ie. 500,000 public sector jobs to achieve any traction. Foreign investors are using these same publically available figures and have their withdrawal slips ready to be posted very, very soon and, knowing the markets, all at one go.

  129. 623
    Patriotic says:

    Been on this site for a few weeks now,but not anymore,have never heard such a foulmouthed diatribe in all my life,you all need to get a life instead of playing the piano on your keyboards,when will it occur to you no matter who you attack with foul mouthed comments will make no difference whatsoever as to who the electorate chooses to govern this country.
    I have taken note that a lot of you say one thing on one post and then say the exact opposite on another post.
    In fact I am rather sorry that I tuned into this site believing that I would read something constructive and instead reading the diatribes of bitter anoraks intent on pushing their own views which amount to absolutely zilch in the scale of things to come.
    Good luck to you and dont bother to reply to this because I have now deleted this site.

  130. 634
    bofl says:

    so we are best placed to ride the recession?

    gordon has saved the world?

    printing £infinite solved everything?

    i know-lets sell off everything at the bottom of the market!!!!!!!

    ffs!!!!!!!!! gordon brown would have lasted 5 minutes on a trading desk!!!!!!
    10 years as a chancer (chancellor sorry) and he learned what?

    meanwhile not content with losing £7 billion on OUR gold he then gives £1 billion to india and china- who then sends rockets to the moon!!!!!!!!!!

    if only we could have put him on one………

    mind you the selenites would not have wanted the shitbag either!

  131. 655
    • 662
      Ivor Schwartzporcshe says:

      O/T Danaiel Hannon’s telegraph blog essay 121009 is very nice. I would comment and support him but I’m not signed up. Well said Daniel. England and the UK as a whole is the best place on earth. It is unique and worth every acorn to fight for. Fight we will.

    • 663
      anonymous says:

      Standard & poors have given the Student Loan Book a Triple A.

      David Dunnarunner, considering his options, having graduated with a third in Media Studies and currently working in aan Irish bar in Bruges, has expressed his surprise.

      • 672
        Ivor Schwartzporcshe says:

        Well they would be AAA. Don’t pay-go on ze list-never work-blacklisted for life. Innit.

        • 675
          bofl says:

          triple A?

          oh really- all those students on the dole are going to pay back how much exactly?

          didnt s+p rate AIG as AAA?
          or what about all the mortgage bonds that the boe had to buy??????

          so the meister plan is to raise £3 billion in the next two years?
          should make a big hole in the £200 billion QE then!

          all of this lying and cheating is leading the uk to bankruptcy……..

          gordons dad must be so proud!!!!!!!!!!

        • 687
          P.Yates says:

          Britain has more graduates abroad than any country in the world ( inc. India ).
          What percentage won’t be repaying during the next few years due to no work /income threshold?
          It has to be a shocking book.
          Let’s see who queues up to pay full whack for it.

  132. 658
    Daveyone says:

    Have you ever considered how paranoid these Ministers are with all of us watching them all the time?

  133. 664
    Sod 'em all says:

    I ‘d just like to say that as a country we are committing collective suicide with our immigration policy. Our ministers are knowingly waving in hoards of illegals with dodgy paperwork even as we speak. The crime rate is through the roof thanks to these fuckers. But who will be held to account? Under Nu Labour or Dave’s Nu Conservatives no fucker. No fucker at all.

    • 677
      Anonymous says:

      Tricky one that. I was wondering what we are going to do for the irish coming into the uk via the north once they cotton on to the real euro agenda? Many have my sympathy; especially those who voted NO.

  134. 669
    matthew hopkins says:

    mps are all freebasing…….

    apparently they are going to fight the expenses issue………

    Sir Stuart Bell (end)told the BBC they were examining a basis for a challenge. “If there is a suggestion that Sir Thomas is not abiding by the rules and standards at the time, I think the public would accept that some breach of fairness there is not actually proper for our MPs,” he said.

    ++++++++++++++++
    so there we have it-sir thomas not playing by the rules!!!!!!!!!!!!

    ffs!!!!!!!!!!!

    they should all be sacked-their money taken under the proceeds of crime act-then thrown in jail…..
    preferably in iraq or afghanistan or perhaps guantanamo!!!!!!!!

  135. 676
    roy rover says:

    tidy this website up and i might come back its disgusting – bye

  136. 688
    sTEVEN gATLEY says:

    Just look at Boyzone as they arrive in spain, particularly Ronan Keating. What kind of fucker wears that sort of garb having just been told their best friend has died ? No wonder Louise took time of the x factor, he was arranging the photo shoot !!! FFS !

    • 714
      Learn from Jimmi H says:

      And the Greatest Hits album is released ermmm,now then lets see,oh yes;

      TODAY!

      I am choked

  137. 689
    Jimmy says:

    Is a formal submission more or less serious than an official one?

  138. 696
    Hard Working, Honest Tax Payer says:

    So all you whingers on here, what are you going to do about it?

    700 posts of script. Not one of you dare stand for any election?

    Bitch bitch bitch. You all have a fair point, some even a sense of humour.

    Get off your arses and do something.

    Me? Yes, I’m elected and yes I’m stirring it up nicely in my patch. There are leaders and followers. Go out and lead.

    Bunch of poncing ninnies. Go out and tell your electorate whats going on. Stand against the incumbants – that’s the only language they understand.

    • 697
      Down with Brown! says:

      A Day of Reckoning is here. Time for the MPs to pay up the money they took.

    • 702
      Sarge says:

      I think you might want to rethink your approach as pissing of voters usually does not help (ask G Brown for further advice)

      Also,arrogant fuckwit,do not presume that none of us are involved in politics and stop fucking preaching to the likes of me. I can get that anytime

      You,like the rest of the political classes are the enemies of the population

    • 712
      The scene is set says:

      My tunnel under Parliament is almost finished.

      Then I shall pose as a Sri Lankan Greenpeace activist and light the fuse.Thye might even give me a Big Mac!

  139. 698
  140. 699
    nell says:

    I see this morning that MP’s led by Stuart Bell are mounting a fightback against the demands that they repay money that they troughed out of the HoC

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1219708/Expenses-Defiant-MPs-vow-fight-demand-pay-1million.html

    • 700
      Down with Brown! says:

      The most greedy piggies will always fight for what they have taken from the trough. MPs who don’t pay up should be put in jail.

  141. 701
    Down with Brown! says:

    25 years on from the Brighton Bom, lest we forget!

    “The bomb attack on the Grand Hotel early this morning was first and foremost an inhuman, undiscriminating attempt to massacre innocent unsuspecting men and women staying in Brighton for our Conservative Conference. Our first thoughts must at once be for those who died and for those who are now in hospital recovering from their injuries. But the bomb attack clearly signified more than this. It was an attempt not only to disrupt and terminate our Conference; It was an attempt to cripple Her Majesty’s democratically-elected Government. That is the scale of the outrage in which we have all shared, and the fact that we are gathered here now—shocked, but composed and determined—is a sign not only that this attack has failed, but that all attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. “

  142. 703
    Hugh Janus says:

    Never mind the expenses scandal (although it is bad enough). We now have McBust selling off the family silver – at the bottom of the market. He obviously got a taste for this perverse practice when he sold off the family gold – again at the bottom of the market. Nothing if not inconsistent I suppose.

    • 704
      nell says:

      Yes but £16billion is a drop in the ocean given that brown has run up a debt of £175billion and is still spending at a manic rate.

      And given this government’s dire record in selling assets at bottom of the market and getting poor deal in such sales for the taxpayer I bet they don’t raise anywhere near £16billion in the end.

  143. 707
    Francis Futurama says:

    The silence on Uddin is earsplitting. By rights she should be flushed out of wherever she is hiding using surveillance helicopters, with a persuit crew ready to chase her out into the light, corner her and haul her plump, ambushed corporeal existence into the concrete box she belongs in for the rest of her life.

    This foreign witch needs what’s due to her and fast, or I’m going to get a bit edgy.

  144. 710
    An Humble MP of average means and talent says:

    You do realise that we MPs are entitled to as much, if not more, natural justice than anyone else don’t you. We are the ones who put our lives at risk, everyday, on the front line of the war against the British people; we are the ones who make tough decisions about putting up taxes; we are the ones who disregard the bleedin’ obvious in order to score a political point over our opponents; we are the ones who have to use the crappy BBC as our mouthpiece FFS!!!

    What do you take us for???

    We will not be dictated to by Jonny Legg or anyone else. Our expenses are our expenses, not his or anybody elses. We claim them, we get the money. That’s fair. As for the population – who gives a fuck?? We are above all of this nonsense, rules, laws, who cares?? Now piss off the lot of you!

  145. 711
    Everlasting debt and no assets says:

    This so called “asset sale” is just as if I had a credit card bill for £500,000 (on a salary of say £13,000 (per year,not month!)) and then sold the furniture in my lounge one week and then sold my kitchen the next week and then the bathroom the following week and so on and so on until there is simply the shell of a house left.

    Within a month I will have cut the bill down to £450,000 but the interest will take it back up to £500k within a few weeks.

    One day I will have no house and nowhere to live and the debt will still be as big.

    What does it actually take for the people of Britain to understand they are in the grip of a lunatic and actually take action to remove him?

  146. 718



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