Quote of the Day
David Cameron says
“In the end, if people are asked to pay back money and they don’t pay it back, in my view they can’t… stand as Conservative MPs”
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Lord Lamont told ITV News…
“I think the PM is just human and Ed Balls is a pretty irritating person”
Gordon, over to you..
It all started in America!
… and if ONE MORE MP pops up on tv and says ‘Look, what we need is to draw a line under the past and move on’ etc etc, I will be forced to point out in capital letters that, no, what we need is
1) to find out who took money to which they weren’t entitled,
2) get that money back,
3) establish whether their taking it amounted to getting money by deception and
4) place those took it before a jury to establish whether they are guilty of theft, deception or obtaining money etc …
5) and if so, jail them.
A friend of mine went to prison after he was found to be claiming expenses he wasn’t entitled too. It wasn’t a great deal of money and he had believed in good faith that he was fully entitled to it and had permission to do so , but he still went down.
And if these mps were soldiers rather than mps, you can bet that no excuse for this kind of behaviour would be accepted.
So no, sorry, no. No whingeing about the report, no rebellion by disgruntled MPs, no drawing lines, no moving on. Even paying it back isn’t good enough – it might help in a mitigation plea, but do not treat this matter as though it can be left undealt with.
And no ‘stopping all of this’ until we’re satisfied that it has been put right.
Westminster might have ‘moved on’ from this, but the public has not. We’re still furious.
There speaks a millionaire wanker.
Tony Blair said it!?
Pay up, look big and move on. Tossers.
There’s the dividing line – now, where’s “Courage” Broon gone?