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Lord Lamont told ITV News…
“I think the PM is just human and Ed Balls is a pretty irritating person”
I was mugged by an ex pop star last night who demanded all my money. I said no, but he was Adam Ant.
Sorry to be O/T so quick but even the Grunidad are calling it a fire sale. Last time it was the IMF and this time fire sales of public assets. Is that gun in this R&M cartoon pointing at the heads of the British people or the MP’s?
Gordon Brown’s fire sale of public assets to raise £16bn
• Tote, Channel tunnel and loan book on offer
• Lib Dems attack record on sell-offs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/oct/12/gordon-brown-public-asset-sale?CMP=AFCYAH
And We Are Best Placed To Ride Out Recession ! Fuck Me What State Must The Other Countries Be In ?
What’s Jim Bowen got to do with this ?
Did some MP’s go on Bullseyes and claim expenses ?
The fire sale is panic stations. Labour selling off and privatising because this is basically what it amounts too. This is not a coherent policy or strategy in any shape or form its being made up now on the hoof. It was not announced at the conference and apparently all we were to have was investment and more investment as money was plentiful. Instead we now have scorched earth for this can only be what this is.
The situation is now beyond dire when we get to this position it is a scenario which says sell! sell anything that will keep the country afloat and keep the image going if only for a few weeks as something may turn up. It never does though does it.
Disaster is about to strike and I see a vote of no confidence and McRuin being forced out thence either an election before Xmas or a bitter ‘winter of discontent’ until March when Labour will be lucky to get 50 MP’s elected.
Labour have done it again but this time with brass knobs on and sugar on top.
oh dear Ann. just cos the media do as they are told and regurgitate new labour spin does not mean we are in a good state, far from it. the IMF are circling and it is not to grab old crash to give him a job.
What state are the other country’s in ? A hell of a lot better than GB’s GB.
they are all coming out of their recessions quicker and better placed than Great Britain. mostly because they don’t have illusions of grandeur !
instead of grandstanding they have all just sorted it ,got on with it and moved on the quicker the better.
Sid
Thatcher was accused of “selling off the family silver” this one is like selling the childrens virginity to pay the bills. 16 billion just about covers this governments borrowing for one month. Hate to keep reminding you all but we are well and truly fucked!!!
Don’t let Gary Glitter know about this, FFS!
Yes, but you sell off non-vital bits like the odd lung or kidney before you rent whatever’s left. Though you obviously get the lowest price the market will bear by running a downwards-only auction on each Lot of spare parts.
Pre-announcing the sale of our gold reserves will seem like genius in retrospect.
That was about the sum of a hard hitting interview on GMTV this morning of how to save the economy. Vote for me because I’ve had a lot of operations and I’m going to pawn some more stuff off.
Lock up your silver and jewellery Gordons coming to a house near you soon.
GMTV Ha!
McFuckwits comfort zone but I am not sure if their are any impartial interviewers out there now?
Sophie Raworth springs to mind but since she kicked mandy straight in the goolies we have not heard of seen her since. Shame really as she’s a dam good jornalist as well but sadly off message.
I’m sure that Gordon Brown is SO honorable he did not deliberately leak the announcement of selling TAXPAYERS assets yesterday night to hide the MP’s expenses story. Both stories out on the same day. No, must be a pure coincidence!
SUGGESTION: All eagled eyes conspircists should follow the money – not merely to the alleged ‘purchasers’ but to WHO ADVISED ON THE SALE/PURCHASE….
Hint – look for the name N M R……… where Norman Lamont was/is employed pre and post his “career” in parliament…
There’s nothing wrong will selling assets, at the BOTTOM of the market, just as Gordon did for OUR gold reserves. Peter Mandelson has no problem with it, and has no problem with the MP’s expenses scammers either.
And remember this classic event, we’re in the money now Gordon?! Where did all those Euros go then? LOL.
Didn’t embed the Peter Mandelson video properly, trying again…
the only excuse we have not heard yet is :
A BIG BOY DONE IT AND RAN AWAY
Sid
I think this tells us all we need to know:
http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2009/08/mandy-holiday-415×620.jpg
“”It was entirely coincidental,” the Business Secretary’s spokesman added”
I’m sure it was you snake, Mandelscum. You sir, are quite possibly the biggest traitor operating within British “politics” today. You have avoided getting blood on your hands directly but like Bliar, Brown and all the other traitors: “by their fruits ye shall know them”.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23733074-mandelsons-chat-with-gaddafis-son-about-lockerbie-bomber.do
Modded once again….for posting lamestream pictures/articles.
It reminds me of my first job in the Civil Service where a file was marked:
“Top Secret/private and confidential”.
All it contained was press clippings….
I assume those MPs not standing again will just pocket the dosh and get away with it.
Now that the MPs employer has offered to let them repay what they have stolen they have turned the theft from a criminal offence into a civil offence. As a result No M will have his collar felt by a bobby. A very clever move and I think it will work.
Sorry, can’t remember the exact rules, but some of them will get more than just what they have stashed – the are entitled to an additional £30k ‘cushion’ fee when leaving their seats. There is no limit to their bare-faced cheek and the way they will stalk off muttering “After all I did for the public, this is how they treat me”.
Gordon on GMTV earlier said he goes out running 3 miles everyday. Has anyone ever seen this phenomenon?
If Gordon is an example of what jogging does to your health I think I’ll put my feet up.
Also interesting that Gordon did not do Sky or BBC, only GMTV. Either he is after an easy ride or he’s thrown a paddy and isn’t speaking to the two heavier weights.
I think the running bit was one of his little fibs bless him.
does he not get an easy ride on all three? Its only the ‘babee eaters’ that get a hard time.
Just Another Lie From Labour ! His Hands Would Be Killing Him After Three Miles Of His Nuckles Dragging On The Floor !
Gordon has been out running for 3 miles? Yeah. Right – and I’ve been out this morning at the footie ground – practicing my swimming for the Olympics – is he so deluded that he thinks anyone believes his ‘running’ lies? 200 yds & he’d keel over from that well deserved heart attack.
Three miles a day – he should be in Birmingham by now. Why is he still here?
But in the song, he only asked for your stereo and crummy record collection! Jacqui Smith gets away with taking £117,000 of taxpayers money. Gordon Brown gets away with making you pay for his Sky Sports subscription (I thought he said he works tirelessly for us plebs from the moment he wakes to the moment he sleeps).
It is high time the people did the ONLY decent thing, and make sure that these people are NOT re-elected. They have bought that predicament on themselves, it’s about time the people delivered on their disgust at the general election, instead of just talking about it and still re-electing these crooks.
Talking about it is all that we can do until the election is held. Gordon’s too frit to call one.
Was it in a Total Politics interview that Ex-Second Home Secretary Jacky Spliff said that she wanted her Cabinet job back? What’s with this lot that they don’t realise that a> incompetence & b> a sub career as a thief is likely to lose them their job? Oh, I’d forgotten – one law for them, another law for the voters.
I cannot bear to watch that vile man Toilets Maguire. Just another champagne socialist without class or breeding.
Just back from holiday, gay clubbing in Majorca
Blimey. I’m well and truly buggered.
Yeah but you are No 1..Oh? … oh dear, no your not there are two of you. Dosen’t the threads normally get screwed up at the bottom instead of the top?
Did you sleep well?
Hold on. I was told to expect a nice young lad from the boy’s home.
I am choked too
Phwoar! Thats the biggest stiffy I’ve ever seen!
Why the picture of Dennis Taylor?
I thought of an aimiable Irish comedians, perhaps a mixture of several of them.
Did they really want him to look nice and inoffensive?
Its the way they draw’em.
Who the hell is that guy?
He is Sir Thomas Legg, the man who will let the Government get away with ripping off the expenses.
is that Gordon or Badger?
Is it Billy Cotton Junior,whose dad was a musician?
Wakey wake.
MPs are revolting over the payback proposals..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/6300048/MPs-threaten-to-revolt-over-demands-for-expenses-payback.html
Let’s hope they don’t go on strike.
They Are Already The Most Revolting Creatures On The Planet !
Would we even notice if they did?
Just think, if the ex-Postman takes over from Brown he’ll be able to lead two strikes.
It looks like Denis Norden to me.
No this is the man who will let the MPs off the hook. As a reult No MP will go to jail
BBC reporting that Jaquie Smith was wrong to claim her sister’s spare room as her main residence but she will not have to pay any money back.
Justice? is it fuck!!!
And there was me thinking it was Stephen Hawkings, finally getting off his arse and doing something useful…
That Comedian Stephen Hawkins Is Funny But He Needs To Get Some New Material !
You Can Only Do Robot Impressions For So Long !
Not interested unless that pair of vile, troughing, parasites Ed and Yvette are reduced to whoring at Kings Cross to cover their bill
The only thing I would stick in her mouth is a .44
Ed puts his 0.44 of a cm in her mouth every Sunday after Antiques Road show.
Don’t you know they’re far too busy whoring at Westminster to consider extending their pitch to Kings Cross?
Have they sent the letters via Royal Mail? – maybe they’ll get them for christmas
Two No1 Comments Today Guido !
Becuse they were posted at precisely the same time. You will notice, however, there is no No. 02 comment.
Spooky.
O/T
Government is planning to sell of the Dartford tunnel.
When this was built, we were promised that the toll charges would only be effected until the bridge was paid for, which should have been around 2004. Last year, they put the prices up by one third. Now it’s being sold off, who knows how much the new private owners would be able to charge us. There was talk that Roths*hild was interested in buying all the main motorways. Was this the reason Mandleson was on Deripaska’s yacht?
Labour have started asset-stripping Britain already.
Next step will be to sell off all motorway bridges and junctions.
Enter Nat Roths*hild.
They don’t have time. It will take an army of consultants months to prepare this lot for sale. I just hope the proceeds of the sale will cover the consultants’ fees.
Mandleson was in cahoots with Roths*hild months ago. This could already have been prepared.
Yet none of this leaked to the press. If you know about the Rothschild connection surely someone else would have known as well. And why didn’t you say anything until now?
This was in the press back then. It was only a sentence, but it was there – right at the end of the News.
I’m sure I wasn’t the only one to have seen it, but I haven’t heard anything about it since.
Coots, shurely
Usually Yes But This Like Everything Lie-Bore Do Will Be Rushed Through And Ill thought Out And As A Result We Will Get Fuck all For them !
This asset sale (at the bottom of the market) is really small beer – the people have all been sold off already.
Some Liebour goon was on the World at One saying that the sale would take place between 2011 and 2014.
Errm, which party is going to be in power at that time?
Just asking.
Gordon needs the money to buy gold at top prices.
Up In The North They Have Already Sold Off The Rubbish Disposal Sites ! Now If You Turn Up In A Van You Get Charged A Minimum Of Half A Ton £57.75 Even If You Only Have A Bag Full ! As A Result Fly Tipping Has Started Everywhere It’s A Fucking Joke !
Ah, the delightful unintended consequences of twat action.
We must all rise up and take to the streets in London to protest about Brown selling OUR assets.
Thye talk as if THEY own them – WE do.
Rise up people of Britain – why not the 3 million unemployed (plus) get to London on Wednesday and demonstrate for the removal of this crook and fraudster.
Stop writing – start biting!
I would come, but then by attending I wouldn’t be looking for work and so couldn’t sign on. Sorry. Is the offy open yet?
You mean selling OUR assets before Cameron could of course.
IS IT JOHN MAJOR ? Another Day Another SHIT Cartoon ! All In A Days Work For Skid and Mark !
Hey Guido
When Gordon stayed in Downing St
and rented out his London flat
he then claimed second home allowance on his place in Scotland
but where in that case where was his first home ??
surely u need a first home to claim a second allowance??
I hope this isn’t used to let the real crims off the hook by using an anodyne payback system for all.
Duck house man and moaty Hogg may well be accused of taking the piss as well as the money, but they declared all bills and submitted them in agreement with the dippy fees office and there was no suggestion of subterfuge or fraud.
Unlike the Greater Looton Slapper and the Oh Bugger I forgot I’d paid off my mortgage brigade, plus, Ladies and Gentlemen, our own Justice Secretary, one Straw. Who made a false claim, but was miraculously visited with a memory flash just before the sh!t hit the fan and generously offered to pay it back so that’s all right then.
This Straw is a model for any law abiding citizen, and I recommend his pamphlet “When to cough, an experts Guide on the noble art of beating Plod to it by a smidgeon.” There is an excellent chapter on juvenile drug dealing that we can only admire.
DON’T wanna pay it back!
SHAN’T pay it back!
You CAN’T make me pay it back!
And if you do I’ll SCREAM and SCREAM and SCREAM until I’m SICK!!
Our MP yesterday looked pretty sheepish in the local stores, and he’s one of the “clean” boys.
Mind you after 11 weeks holiday and failing to attend any public meetings where discussion by an Independent Review Panel over East Herts District Councillors have been overpaid for 2 years and question marks surround their expenses, he was entitled to feel he had earned his paid holidays.
We need a system where no MP is allowed to serve more than 10 years continuously and at each election every MP is reelected by their Party unless they stand as Independents.
The system has failed. Even the lovely Pakistani serving in the shop thought the British had failed – he couldn’t believe it.
That seems very unJUST WILLIAM.
Oh how amusing!
Poor lambs don’t know which way to turn.
How about towards the Exit?
The British public being treated like passengers on a trans-Atlantic flight.
We’re being fed pap and booze, we get mindless rubbish on screens right in front of our eyes, then the lights are turned down, and we go to sleep.
We deserve everthing we get. Insurrection? Payback? NAFC.
Militwit and TWatson are expected to be up amongst the worst offenders.
Be interesting to see how many of them resign before the next election.
We haven’t heard much lately about arch-taxpayer-funded-property-tycoon and part-time cabinet minister Geoff Hoon (or has he changed his name to Geoff Chump?).
And what about Geoff Chump?
How do those Climate protestors sitting on top of Parliament take a dump?
Very carefully.
I Hope they Save It And Hurl It At The Wankers Returning To The HoC This Morning
A Shower Of Shit For A Shower Of Shit !
Now they’re saying Legg acted above his remit.
Stuart Bell has now said the claims are unfair. That’s the get-out clause. Legg will be pensioned off and nobody will pay a penny piece.
Job done.
He has a point. The fiddles were made “in good faith”.
I do agree that they acted within the Rules, but anyone with an ounce of brain would know that it would only be a matter of time before the general public got wind of it.
If they are vilified, they only have themselves to blame.
Some did not act within the rules and submitted fraudulent claims. Anyone who says they forgot they have paid off their mortgage (a milestone in anyone’s life) or “didn’t notice” is being economical with the truth to say the least.
Yes – these people should be made an example of. They should be taken to Court and sentenced to a spell in the clink.
But you and I both know they won’t.
When I paid off my mortgage the Nationwide gave me a bottle of pink champagne.
Surprisingly I haven’t forgotten I paid it off, but then, I wasn’t claiming it back off the taxpayer, was I?
I wonder how much stuart bell is going to be asked to pay back.?
As he is known as the “Invisible Man” in Teesside, because he is never there, I hope he has not claimed for a home there.
It all seems to have been conveniently forgotton during the conferences. Vote for me! (?)
We will remember.
After fucking up the English economy,he is now starting to flog off English
assets.Eight months left, he just needs the czechs to ratify and his work
will be complete.
As iain dale pointed out on his blog this morning gordon’s August’s deficit was £16.1billion.
So even if gordon achieves the maximum £16billion by selling these assets, and he doesn’t have a very good track record in that does he? – it will still only pay for one month’s deficit.
Drop in the ocean.
He’s trying to equal the Conservative saving plan – and failing miserably.
A blank czech?
Shadow justice minister Eleanor Laing has still not paid back £25,000 in expenses – nearly four months after Conservative leader David Cameron promised all Conservative MPs would.
Ms Laing pledged to return the money after avoiding £180,000 in tax on the £1million profit she made selling a second home partly paid for by taxpayers.
But the MP yesterday refused to deny she still owed the money. ‘Eleanor Laing will make her position about the repayment clear this week,’ said a Conservative spokesman. Tory MP Humfrey Malins also refused to say if he had paid back £9,700 for claiming on a flat where his children stayed. All the party’s MPs were expected to have returned monies owed, said a Conservative Party spokesman.
Mr Cameron won praise in June when he declared 91 Conservative MPs would repay more than £250,000.
It has since been widely reported that Ms Laing had settled the debt – a fact which appears to have gone uncorrected. But Ms Laing admitted to Metro she had not paid the money, adding that it was ‘none of your business’.
Ms Laing, who is married to a millionaire businessman, had difficulty raising the sum but would pay in a ‘couple of weeks’, party figures said at the time.
Prime minister Gordon Brown is thought to be among hundreds of MPs expected to explain or pay back expenses this week following an independent inquiry by Sir Thomas Legg.
Mr Brown paid brother Andrew £6,577 to arrange cleaning services at his flat
Andrew didn’t actually do the cleaning, then?
It’s money for old rope.
I Hope McMental Payed His Brother The Legal Minimum Wage And Payed all His Tax !
What tax? MP’s pay hardly any tax.
After all, it’s the right thing to do.
Pray Tell RE Mp’s Tax ?
They can dodge tax on their houses by flipping them. Did you not know that? We pay for the vast majority of their furnishings, which is claimed as an expense – so no tax there. They get their travel allowance, meal allowance, and subsidised food in the HoC – all paid for by us. They do not pay the congestion charge. They don’t even have to pay for airport parking.
I could go on, but I need a cuppa tea.
Is his brother actually British? He may be Tongan too?
“Free the Tongan Too” – it has nice (Peter Hayne) ring to it.
Mrs.Eleanor LAING,MP for Epping Forest,Shadow Justice Minister,has always lived within the M25 and actually has a house no more than 500 yards from a Central Line Underground Station which is open for about 19 hours every weekday.The
travelling time from her house to HoC would be no more than 65 minutes.
She had no justification in the first place of needing a residence near Westminster.
She had claimed the maximum ,almost £23K per annum, for this residence and has had it pointed out to her a number of times that she could have travelled home outside Central Line hours 460 times each year assuming that the Taxi
fare was about £50.
What is it about Justice/Shadow Justice Ministers?
I Must Have Been Off The Planet For A While What Is This Talk Of A Mass Demonstration On Wednesday ?
180 !
78, actually. Be a bit careful about inflating your claims, or we’ll have the Telegraph on to you.
Don’t sell off the family silver Mr Briun…
How about a starting a City Fund to let those banker boys etc. pay in their bonuses and anything else to get us out of the poo.
Prime mentalist, why dont you piss off back to Scotland and try flogging
Loch Ness,or some mountains.
In this market? Not worth a carrot.
Gordon record on asset sales (like Gold) should make the house think twice before agreeing to sell £2 billion of assets that will probably be worth £8 billion in five years.
Gordon just said “we will not shrink from taking the tough decisions necessary to turn around the economy”.
Surely, calling an election would be the best boost for this economy
Brown : Your Wife Is A Slapper ! Ha What Do You Say To That If You Would Like To Defend Her Honour I’ll Be On The Green Outside Parliament On Wednesday Morning ! Where I Will Enjoy Punching Your Fucking Lights Out ! Thank You !
I’ll be at yours screwing your missus.
Sorry Mate But She Will Be With Me Having A Bitch Scrap With Sarah !
Lol. Can I watch then?
Yes But No Joining In I Dont Want You Kicking Him While He’s Down ! You Might Damage His Eye !
Better than that UK Simon Cowall crap anyway. (Ukrainian).
brilliant !
The original artwork to this cartoon can be found on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200393653305
O/T but this has just happened. Please bear with me on this as its relevant to most on here.
I checked out a price comparison website for some liability insurance over the weekend. The site could not give me a cost online and they stated they would contact me Monday. Ok fair enough I thought well they just did and here is the conversation between me and a well known price comparison website that has just happened verbatim…..
Ring ring
No10 = Hello
PCWebsiteOp = you were looking for a quote
No10= yes thats corect you have all the info how much?
PCWebsiteOp= Well are you going to take some out as I cannot tell you if you don’t do it in the next 30days
No10= Well I might well take it out but I need to know what the price is?
PCWebsiteOp= well are you definetly going to take this out?
No10= Well possibly but I need to know what the price is or at least an estimate?
PCWebsiteOp= well are you definetly going to take this out?
No10= I don’t know it depends on how much like I said?
PCWebsiteOp= Well I can’t tell, you unless you take it out
No10= What? All I am asking is how much before I sign?
PCWebsiteOp= Well I can’t tell, you unless you take it out
No10= But if I don’t know how much it is so how do I know if I want to take it out or not?
PCWebsiteOp= Dunno?
No10 = Look I am really trying to buy something here why won’t you tell me?
PCWebsiteOp = *silence*
No10 = Tell you what, when you think you can tell me how much it is likely to cost me then call me back otherwise just don’t bother.
I am still no wiser. UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE!!!!!
No wonder this country is utterly fucked up.
(I noted that she mentioned ‘taking it out’ quite a bit )
All too believable, I’m afraid.
Then you get the Indian bloke who’s been told to introduce himself on the phone as ‘Steve’. Do they think I won’t want to deal with someone if they’re called ‘Vikram’?
Stop these Kitty Fiddlers!
Oh the humanity.