October 15th, 2009

Another Trougher Bites the Dust : Wilshire to Stand Down

wilshireAccording to Nick Robinson the Tory chief whip Patrick McLoughlin, gave the Wilshire the bullet. He is sticking to the “it was all within the rules” / “approved by the Fees Office” line.

In reality, like in so many other cases, the £3,250 a month in parliamentary office allowances to Wilshire’s company Moorlands Research Services was completely outside the spirit of the rules and the Fees Office was wrong to make the payment.  Goodbye and good riddance.


308 Comments

  1. 1
    GONE FUCKING MENTAL says:

    another hoon bites the dust

    • 3
      Buy Forks says:

      Is that stand down as in hang around for 6 months picking up 10K a month then walking off with tens of thousands in severance pay.

      A whole new definition of the word quit.

      • 7
        hh says:

        A TORY TROUGHER

      • 31
        It's a trap! says:

        Well at least he won’t be doing as much damage to our Economy as “Lucky Gordon’, the only student to have had a huge eye problem in two different games of Rugby.

        Bet they were both House Matches, and his fellow pupils had it in for him.

        What sort of popularity ratings he had at School and College? Better than now?

        Hmmmmmmmm

        • 146
          Marty says:

          You don’t really believe the rugby/eye story. See a picture of him at school. All that hair! I’m about the same age as Gordo and played School and county rugby. We all had short hair.
          I’ve searched all the Scots rugby archives online and can’t find anywhere anyone who recalls Gordos eye injury. It’s all rubbish. To make him look manly!

          • ferret says:

            Somebody obviously found him out many years ago and settled it with a baseball bat. It wasn’t an injury acquired in service of his Hoonry or ours.

          • It's a trap! says:

            I don’t think he will have played Rugby in any match that would ever have been reported on.

            He was an Uber Geek.

            House matches were always the nastiest, because it was a legitimate occasion to get physical without being pinged for Assault.

            Gordon the Jonah.

      • 34
        Mr Ned says:

        he should be in prison, the thieving twat!

        • 61
          cant hunter says:

          Yes, surely the constabulary should be investigating this thief now.

        • 248
          DelBoy says:

          In his defence, he did say he (and his partner) has not received any personal reward from the money. So that’s alright then isn’t it? – over £100 Grand, no personal reward? I should coco.

          For the first time ever, Thought for the Day on Today was actually worth listening to!

    • 6
      A fate worse than death says:

      Parachute payment,pension and no doubt he’ll keep the cash

      • 68

        From my facebook stream

        “At this rate there’ll be no existing MPs standing in the next election.That can’t be good, regardless of what some wannabe MPs might think!”

        I give up. We don’t NEED MPs. We have the internet. I can vote on anything they can. Why do we need 646 people, controlled by party whips to make laws? WE can do it. US. The people they are supposed to represent (but don’t). Every penny is our money, not theirs. We don’t NEED them. They NEED us.

        • 81

          Agreed. The current system is so ingrained into the psyche of the people that they can’t see the wood for the trees.

        • 92
          thick as thieves says:

          you have GOT to go easy on the acid motherfucker.
          but let us humour your anarchist’s charter you revolutionary bastard.
          I am top boy and I thought I was bad but you are one crazy honky motherfucker for suggesting such vast democratic leaps.
          in order to even face that direction we first have to smash the party system into smithereens. when the dominance of the parties has been destroyed anything is possible, democratically speaking.
          there is only one way to do that.
          VOTE INDEPENDENT
          WE MUST FUCK WITH THE PROGRAMME
          WE MUST FUCK UP THE PARTY MACHINE
          VOTE DEMOCRACY VOTE INDEPENDENT
          this is a last chance deal.

          • Phil O'Pastree says:

            WE MUST EXTERMINATE!
            EXTERMINATE!
            EXTERMINATE!!!

            I am not top boy a fucking Dalek and will to rule the Universe with my army of Independents who can never be allowed to speak to each other for fear that they might agree on policy and therefore create factions aka de facto parties.

          • Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

            Exterminate, exterminate, Interminate, interminate, intimate, intimate. I know let’s make a group up and have ourselves a party. We could call it the independent party. Oh what a jolly wheeze idea.

          • The Baiters Master says:

            TAT you poor ignorant sod , it’s not just the Party system that’s broken it’s the “system ” in it’s entirety that’s bust. What will voting independant achieve? Even if the next Parliament were made up entirely of independant MPs nothing would change, because the Judiciary, House of Lords, civil service, established Church and Monarchy and EU all remain in situ. The unwritten covenant between people and Crown is broken. The choice is either we go or the others go and I know which side I am on, do you?

        • 210
          Chump says:

          Whatever problem there might be with the current electoral system (fraudulent postal votes, the charmingly-named offence of ‘personation’) would be magnified – and unverifiable – were voting to be transferred to the web. In all other respects, this is an excellent idea.

          • Notaz bogdweller says:

            yeah you big Chump – that´s why no-one does internet banking as it is unverifiable.
            Get a fucking life loser, the internet is far better controlled than any penny-ante local election rigged [run] by fuck-whats like you and Colonel Mustard.
            The technology is here – embrace it or fuck off back to your mud hut in the Fens you fucking troll.

      • 223
        It's a trap! says:

        This highlights the issue of a Partner being involved in Co-Troughing.

        A sort of monetary Co-Dependency.

        Like with the Wintertons, Kinnocks, Blairs, it really is improper for a Spouse or Partner to leverage off the position of an MP/Minister.

        In the Forces and most Corporates, partners, spouses, or de-facto spouses have to leave the Organisation, Division, Location.

        There should be similar rules in Parliament to stop this Double Dipping.

        Balls and Balls(Ms) should have to decide which was is retiring. Couples should not be allowed to serve to-gether. Partners should not be allowed to benefit from employment by the State services. Whether directly or Indirectly.

        Looks to me like Couples in the System are the biggest abusers of trust with fiscal proprietory. Go on Blinky give it up!!

    • 88
      Thomas Aquinas says:

      And this little piggy went reeeetire meee!

  2. 2
    chomping at the bit says:

    Just no Propriety. He now GETS IT. Good riddance.

    • 107
      Road_Hog says:

      I see Guido is starting to remove any comments about Muslims. Freedom of speech is disappearing even if your company is located overseas.

    • 129
      The Baiters Master says:

      Some sources are reporting that he “did the honourable thing and fell his sword”; “did he bollocks” to use the vernacular, who ever resigns on a pint of honour nowadays? No what happened is that the chief whip had the “games up better head for cover” conversation with him and he agreed to “fuck ‘orf pronto”. It’s not just Hon members who don’t get it, it’s us , no such thing as honour in Parliament, it’s finished,over, rip it up, throw it out, a new order, a new covenant, dare I say it dam the crown, yes yes , good God almighty free at last free at last.

  3. 4
    Dack Blog says:

    Sorry if this asked/discussed in an earlier thread, but – what research was done?

    • 10
      chomping at the bit says:

      Haven’t seen anything written about it. Would like to find out too.

    • 28
      Buy Forks says:

      Several years of research was carried out into how to fuck the taxpayer backwards, sideways and up the chuffer.

      To be honest that research was completely successful, so a triumph really for British ingenuity.

    • 53
      Surrey Puma says:

      Seen it reported that he had a hand in getting Clause 28 on the books? Anyone know anything else.

    • 151
      L J Key says:

      I doubt any.

      If you looked closely, the “Moorlands Research Services” was not (as is being reported) a company. It’s a partnership made up of Wilshire and his wife. There was not even the fiction of a separate legal entity.

      Effectively, he (presumably) made up invoices at home from ‘Moorlands’ addressed to himself and then had the fees office pay them.

      Given the Fees Office also presumably had no remit to challenge them, he just got huge sums of money from the taxpayer without doing anything more than knocking up an invoice on Word.

    • 279
      Moriarty says:

      Personally I don’t think that he was getting any expenses money that that other MPs don’t already claim for, I expect the whole idea of ‘Moorlands Research Services’ is part of a tax dodge.

  4. 5
    Anonymous says:

    Has this pig actually achieved anything in the time he troughed from us?

  5. 8
    Anonymous says:

    The story about Wilshire pocketing £100,000 comes out and he is “resigned” the next day. Jacqui Spliff pockets £100,000 and…

    • 17
      Gurner says:

      errr….Gets a Peerage?

    • 19
      It's a trap! says:

      Ms Smith will lose her seat in Redditch, or wherever she may stand.

      More likely, it is a done deal to get her to follow Lord Gorbals into the Upper House.

      No money back, and she get to trough in a better class of swill.

      Nice work if you can get it. At least we can be sure that Brown hasn’t shagged her!

      • 29
        number 10's cat says:

        One can’t be sure he hasn’t been up to no good with the famous turkey baster

      • 32
        Buy Forks says:

        Do the bloke a favour, he’s manage to fuck 60 million of us.

      • 109
        Hugh Janus says:

        I used to think the EU was the resting place of clapped out/disgraced politicians, but they appear to have competition now in the H o L.

      • 192
        Dick Chimney-Sweep says:

        Haven’t seen action in her seat for a few years now. Why d’ya think I watch those videos?

    • 127
      It's a trap! says:

      How about this Hoon just apologises to the House in an insincere way.

      That’s all it takes in the Labour Caucus.

      He could aplogise to all the other thieves and vagabonds for stealing OUR money!!

      Just stunning really.

      Bastards.

      • 194
        Davy says:

        She did apologise to her constituants, was it for conning them or stealing their cash, what about the rest of us we paid as well?.
        Unleash the dogs from the fraud office I say ,get her prosecuted and put her behind bars where she belongs that is after she pays back the £116,000.

  6. 9
    Justice Fingers says:

    I said before but will repeat it.

    Here’s an unbelievable wrinkle from the Wilshire Telegraph story that doesn’t seem to have got much attention yet:

    “In a highly unusual arrangement with the Commons fees office, he claimed thousands in monthly payments that he said went towards the cost of decorating and replacing its curtains and carpets in the future. He has refused to repay the money despite conceding that it has not all been spent. ”

    In other words he has claimed and been paid for completely non-existent expenses!!!!!!!!!!

  7. 11
    Anonymous says:

    hey guido, you like causing a stir.

    Any chance you could include a link to the wikileaks website?

    nice documents (amongst others) other the Mccanns case

    regards

  8. 12
    DANIELLE says:

    Guido how come you have let Jacqui Smith off the hook?????

  9. 13
    chomping at the bit says:

    Perhaps a little message asking him to now report himself to the Metropolitan Police?

    WILSHIRED@parliament.uk

  10. 14
    Chump says:

    Put the bottles of Krug on ice. Golden days are here again for elite investment banks. Goldman Sachs is gearing up to pay its biggest ever bonuses to its 31,700 employees after raking in profits at a rate of $35m (£21.5m) a day, in the clearest signal yet that the Square Mile and Wall Street are returning to their old ways of money-making prosperity.

    Just weeks after the leaders of the G20 countries called for restraint in financial industry pay to avert “unacceptable risk-taking,” Goldman’s astute trading on resurgent financial markets yielded an almost 300% rise in quarterly profits to $3.19bn.

    Under the US firm’s policy of setting aside nearly half of its revenue to pay its staff, a remuneration fund for employees has reached $16.7bn for the year to date – amounting to $527,000 (£323,000) per person.

    • 75

      All it took was 200 billion of inflated loans against our future earnings…

      We’re slaves.

      • 100
        R.McGeddon says:

        Thomas Jefferson 1816

        “And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”

  11. 18
    nell says:

    Yes that’s Good.!!

    But when are the rest of this corrupt Parliament going?!!

    The Wintertons’s are going, McBride/Mackay are going/ Wilshire is going.

    When are the megatroughing balls going???
    when is the fraudulent uddin going???
    when is the lawbreaing scotland going???

    and on and on………..

    • 114
      Hugh Janus says:

      Going is one thing, paying back what they have stolen isn’t happening however.

    • 119
      Angry as hell awakened says:

      Too little, too late, Nell.

      How to deal with ex-’speaker’ (sic) Marvin and his putryfying works?

      and his cronies?

    • 196
      Davy says:

      I am ANGRY ANGRY ANGRY
      300+ Mps are ANGRY? They are a minority.
      Out here there are 60,000,000 people who are ANGRY x 60,000,000

      • 302
        the more things change... says:

        oh well let´s all stomp our little clown shoes and throw a five year-old tantrum now we don´t have to go to skool for another year.
        By the time of the elections, you and 60,000,000 others will have forgotten and re-elect the same bozos.

  12. 21
    James1st says:

    If he was a Labourite he’d be on his way to the Lords

    • 62
      The Master says:

      no he wouldn’t. too old & white

      • 76
        It's a trap! says:

        And not a Gay or Lesbian, transgendered or with drug dependent relatives.

        You have to be special to be a Labour peer.

        Like at work, there has to be a token queer, retard, ethnic, and disabled.

        Ms Smith is all 4.

        And a bonus Pervy Husband!!

      • 189
        Grit in the Vasceline says:

        …and not Scottish.

  13. 22
    I HATE SPONGERS says:

    This one really needs to be prosecuted ! Cameron Show You Have Balls And Prosecute This scumbag Via The party !

  14. 24
    highfieldoval says:

    And to think these c—- figure that Griffin gets a burnished image by appearing alongside them on QT. He should pull the plug right now if he wants to retain whatever credibility he has.

  15. 26
    I HATE SPONGERS says:

    Parliament Is The Most Honest Place In Britain ! 646 Mp’s All Of Them Have “Done Nothing Wrong ”
    Isn’t Wiltshire Where All The Pig Farms Are ?
    Just The Place To Find A Top Trougher !

  16. 27
    Anonymous says:

    looks like tories are second in bedford

    • 44
      Mr Ned says:

      Who to? UKIP?

    • 257

      That would hardly be surprising at any time, when it comes to local elections the Clangers are notoriously bloody minded and Bedford council spends more time under No Overall Control than anything else. The last mayor (elected twice) was the late Frank Branston, a well regarded independent. There are two independent candidates in this election and I expect them both to get good chunks of the vote. So might the Green candidate. There is no UKIP candidate.

      What will be interesting is how the major parties fair against each other. Bedford’s parliamentary seat is currently held by Patrick Hall, NuLabour lobby fodder of the first water but his majority is only about 3,000. In the last local elections Labour came a distant third.

  17. 30
    Shepperton voter says:

    The thieving twat was my MP . . .

  18. 33
    chomping at the bit says:

    “Ann Palmer, Wilshire’s partner, tells me it’s ‘false’ that their company was not registered – but I can’t find it in Companies House records
    about 11 hours ago from web

    BBCLauraK
    Laura Kuenssberg”

    So where’s the details Ms Palmer? Another conspiracy to Defraud.

    • 285
      Skippy says:

      Hate to be seen as defending these disgusting troughers, but if they were operating as a partnership, like sole traders, they have to register with HMRC not companies house.

      It is probably a tax scam to run at a loss and reduce tax liability on their other earnings.

      Either way, I really can’t see why they have not been arrested.

  19. 39
    mitch says:

    And who in their right mind will give him a job after this eh? hahahahaha fukin parasite.

    • 45
      Buy Forks says:

      With his taxpayer funded pension? He’ll be reading the job ads on his sun lounger in the Bahamas.

      • 60
        It's a trap! says:

        The Pension should be cancelled.

        Bet Cameron and the Chief whip have done a deal though.

        Pension to be cancelled. NOW!!

        It would give the rest of the MP’s the shits. Watch them pay up fast then.

        • 199
          Davy says:

          One way of getting attention of hearts and minds. As FU used to say “let’s put a bit of stick about”
          I couldn’t possibly comment.

      • 74
        Charlie the Chancer says:

        Let’s hope the moment they elect another MP in his constituency the taxman and plod are waiting for him,he must have a lot to answer.

  20. 40
    Shepperton voter says:

    I hope the thieving bastard dies screaming of cancer – and suffers as much, if not more than my late wife did.

    That £100,000 he stole could have paid for a years plus parking at St Peter’s Hospital – for visitors forced to cough up whilst visiting their dying loved ones.

    Suffer the humiliation you thieving bastard.

    Never again will I vote for scum like you – UKIP from now on.

    • 47
      Mr Ned says:

      here here!!

    • 51
      chomping at the bit says:

      Sorry to hear about your wife.

      • 71
        Shepperton voter says:

        Thank you.

        A senior local nurse and respected member of the community, she would be appalled at such behaviour. She worked her socks off to assist others in this piece of scums constituency; while this Hoon stole and banked money that would have helped the ill and vulnerable,

        If the man has any dignity, he will place the barrel of a shotgun in his mouth – soonest – and bring this latest example of corruption to an end.

        • 82
          Knock knock says:

          Dont worry my friend – he will be visited pretty soon for payback,so I have been assured.

        • 85
          killemallletgodsortemout says:

          So sorry to hear about your wife.

          You might like to send the troughing twat an e-mail

          WILSHIRED@parliament.uk

          • Shepperton voter says:

            Thank you – and have done so.

          • chomping at the bit says:

            Subject: Please now report yourself to the Metropolitan Police
            From: chomping at the bit
            Date: 15 October 2009 20:58:10 BST
            To: wilshired@parliament.uk

            Already did this, I recommend you all do too.

          • Shepperton voter says:

            I’m ex Met Police – nothing will be done by this current day shamble of shit.

            Shepperton, however, is in Surrey Police area.

            Perhaps Surrey Police can shame the Met into getting their arse into gear, by nicking this Hoon and making an example of him.

            A simple charge containing the words “. . . within the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court” would open the gate for a none Met police force [sic] to get the ball rolling.

      • 89
        chomping at the bit says:

        Shepperton most of us on here feel the same way and can’t wait for the moment that the X in the box pulls that trigger. They have all let the population down. EVEN those that are deemed to have been ‘good.’ They KNEW what was going on and did nothing about it. That makes them complicit in my book.

    • 106
      Angry as hell awakened says:

      So sorry to read about your wife, . . . may she rest in Peace.

      But as for this turd, . . . . May the horrible shit suffer torment . . . and we need not go into details . .

      Enough said

  21. 41
    Irn Bru Snorter says:

    “Goodbye and good riddance.” (GF)

    Exactly.

    Pity he can’t be prosecuted first though and spend a little holiday at Her Majesty’s Pleasure.

    It’s just becoming wearisome now.

    This ‘I was only obeying the “Rules in Good Faith” as an “Honorable and Hard Working Public Servant”..’ stuff is getting really old and tiresome now….

    Is that the best excuse they can think up?

    I thought these folk were meant to be the best of leadership talent?

    This is really becoming a failure of the Crown Prosecution to in not bringing them to book IMO.

    Duh…

    • 128
      Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

      They all work in the same Company-UK PLC.

    • 219
      Sarge says:

      But it’s not goodbye. he has only resigned the party whip.There will be no by election. The thieving bastard will still be sitting there being paid and claiming expenses and accruing pension rights. He is therefore an independent,so his problems become nothing to do with the Conservatives.

      That’s slightly better than Labour – how many of their troughers have resigned the whip? The Political Classes have a different definition of resignation – ‘wait in that room over there -once the dust settles we will find you something so you do not lose out. e.g Elliot Morley who has been suspended from the Labour party but has not resigned. He’s in the same situation as this tosser -All smoke and mirrors.

      Shower of shite

      • 271

        So what are people doing about it? I know it’s easy to sit here at the arse end of Africa and criticise, but ranting on the blogs is going to do fuck all.

        Where are the people harassing their MPs? Where are the people signing up with whatever party they choose and aggitating for the deselection of scumbags? Where the chuff are the crowds in Parliament Square demanding an immediate election?

        And don’t give me any bollocks about it being illegal – a handful of bloody Tamils managed to block Westminster Bridge for days over something completely unrelated to Britain. Where are the sodding Brits when it really matters? Surely if people care as much as they protest here and on other forums they can get of their bums and do something.

  22. 46
    Arthur Haynes (Comedian) says:

    One day maybe they’ll get it through their thick skulls that the population will no longer tolerate this troughing. Be an MP yes, but be an honest one or at least don’t get caught!

    AH (C)

  23. 48
    Mister Mann says:

    How about we make a citizens arrest on all MP’s that are implicated in this god-forsaken mess!

  24. 49
    saltire not satire says:

    fees office

    who ran it

    NAME & SHAME GUIDO

    • 86
      Engineer says:

      Not quite fair.

      The Fees Office, and all other Civil Servants, are there to servethe country, by executing the will of parliament, which is the representative body of the Queen’s subjects. MPs make up the House of Commons, and together with the Lords, are the highest authorities in the land (in effect – since the Crown has vested all authority in Parliament). MPs are supposed to conduct themselves honestly and honourably in all business, so if they say to the Fees Office officials “this is how it will be” the Fees Office is honour bound to comply. The problems have arisen because quite a lot of MPs have not been entirely honest or honourable, but even if they thought that was the case, the Fees Office can’t do anything about it except in the most outrageous cases, e.g. turning down Tam Dayell’s £18,000 claim for bookcases just as he was about to retire.

      Don’t blame the Fees Office. It’s the MPs who made the rules. And then often broke them – but the Fees Office could do little. It took Heather Brook, some very pissed-off moonlighting servicemen and the Telegraph to change things.

      • 97
        chomping at the bit says:

        Engineer…. don’t entirely agree with you here. “the Fees Office is honour bound to comply”

        If they thought it against the rules / law / propriety then they had the option all people have in that position and that is to resign, blow the whistle and fight for compensation. I accept that before the shit hit the fan with the Telegraph scoop they would have had an uphill struggle just as Filken had, but they were now bound to meekly allow their reputations to be stained with the gravy frothing at the mouths of the troughers.

        • 110
          Engineer says:

          It’s easy to be high-minded when you’re far removed from a situation. If you’re a Fees Office clerk, with a mortgage to pay and a career in the Civil Service to consider (possibly), then maybe it’s not so easy. You do what Civil Servants are supposed to do – you do what you’re told.

          • chomping at the bit says:

            Are you in the Fees office? Close to the Fees office? etc etc?

            I do understand their position but why was the information not leaked sooner?

        • 142
          If but one Domino Falls.... says:

          Have to disagree as well Engineer. There are some in the Fees Office who Knowlingly allowed/permitted and possibly even encouraged all manner of false expense claims to be processed and authorised thus rendering them complicit in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the public purse.

          This of course is a major problem with the current Investigating/prosecuting authorities who realise that a whole can of worms lurks under this particular stone.

          Why do you think no one has been formally charged ?

          • Davy says:

            They are self perpetuating, the more claims put in the more jobs for the boys, and up go the costs.
            Who looks after the exes of the fees office staff? check em out Tommy boy.

    • 216
      Dack Blog says:

      No one had the guts to stand up to the boss/for what was ‘right’. It’s that simple. It’s not easy – I do it, and it causes me a lot of stress I could well do without. If you lose your job for sticking to your principles and standing up for the people you’re meant to ‘serve’ (in this case, us) then you’d have a case for a tribunal. I’d love my boss to try – more obviously than he does now, which is to make my life as difficult as possible – to sack me.

      • 291
        Anonymous says:

        OK – let’s assume the fees office were under pressure at the time. Point is what have they got to lose now? If they were being bullied they are in a position of enoprmous strength. What is to stop them approaching the legitimate whistle blowing channels and offering to tell their side of the story? They could do this semi publicaly, i.e. tell a newspaper journalist what they intend to do. If their whistle blowing is declined or they are threatened in any way they leak the whole thing. the authorities would be scared shitless of being seen to deny them the opportunity to put their side of the story. Alternatively approach Cameron, or Clegg and seeking their support for immunity from the Official Secfrets Act it has to be Public Interest. Or thirdly go to max clifford and get rich – is there any real chance they would go to gaol? we’d break the walls down to get them out. in fact by keeping quiet they run more risk of quietly disappearing.

  25. 52
    All sing along says:

    FAGIN: Let’s show Oliver how to do it, my dears. You see, Oliver,
    In this life, one thing counts:
    In the bank, large amounts!
    I’m afraid these don’t grow on trees,
    You’ve got to pick a pocket or two.
    You’ve got to pick a pocket or two, boys,
    You’ve got to pick a pocket or two.
    BOYS: Large amounts don’t grow on trees.
    You’ve got to pick a pocket or two.
    FAGIN: Why should we break our backs
    Stupidly paying tax?
    Better get some untaxed income:
    Better pick a pocket or two.
    You’ve got to pick a pocket or two, boys,
    You’ve got to pick a pocket or two.
    Sing, boys!
    BOYS : Why should we all break our backs?
    Better pick a pocket or two.
    FAGIN : Charlie, take your hat off while you’re in class!

    Robin Hood, what a crook:
    Gave away all he took.
    Charity’s fine, subscribe to mine.
    Get out and pick a pocket or two.

  26. 56
    COVLAD says:

    Did anyone hear the first question on PMQ’s ?

    Were clear, very important question. Not a word about it anywhere. ??

    The Reich Lite marches on.

    No one paying attention ?

    • 64
      Truth Sayer says:

      what was it?

      • 96
        COVLAD says:

        The PM was asked about his and parliments future relationship with the EU government. The question was along the lines of :

        After Lisbon, is it correct to say, he and the government can ONLY act in a manor which actively promotes and forwards the interests of the European Union. ??

        The answer, not provided is yes. So as an MP :

        If you are in a talking shop parliment with no real power, why not just take what you can from it and make the best of a pointless job.

  27. 57
    david says:

    Why is he allowed to stay on, why hasn’t he been kicked out?

  28. 58
    The Master says:

    Uddin, Holloway awaits

  29. 63
    One flew over the No 10 bunker says:

    Good !!!

    But I want them all and in particular the Wintertons and Cooper Balls double dipper flippers

  30. 65
    SO17 says:

    Another grey man in a grey suit whose finances are a bit of a grey area.

  31. 72
    The Cunt of Monte Cristo says:

    He’s retiring to spend more time with the yardie bum boys in cell 201, the scrubs.

    As his hero Winston Churchill was fond of saying ‘keep buggering on!!’

    Enjoy that black schlong up your fundamant Wilshire you grasping, greedy little
    shyte.
    If only someone at the EU was wiling to blow the lid on Little Lord Sodomite’s financial ‘arrangements’, that cell would see some cracking sodomy.

  32. 73
    The Ghost of Christmas Past says:

    Buy my new book: “Creative Accounting strategies for maximum profit”.

    Written by A. Trougher MP.

  33. 78
    A firm pair of breasts says:

  34. 79
    Jac says:

    Chalk up another success to the virtuous… now is he paying it back?

  35. 80
    The time has come says:

    Kick the crap out of this criminal fraudster until he pays back all the monies he has stolen from us all.

    The time has now come for the people of this nation to take action and FORCE these scum out of Parliament immediately.

  36. 83
    THEO'S GRANDAD says:

    I Told My Grandson That Brown Would Win The Next General Election
    He Is 8 Months Old And Already Knows About Politics !
    See His Response

  37. 84
    I am Michaels Batman says:

    What about the new troughers coming in at the General Election?.
    Give me a tinkle…..

  38. 93
    Shepton Mallett QC says:

    Goodbye-ee, Goodbye-ee,
    Wipe the tear, baby dear, from your eye-ee
    Tho’ it’s hard to part, I know,
    I’ll be tickled to death to go,
    Don’t cry-ee, don’t sigh-ee,
    There’s a silver lining in the sky-ee!
    Bon Soir, old thing! Cheerio! Chin-Chin,
    Nah-Poo, Toodle-oo, Goodbye-ee

  39. 94
    It's a trap! says:

    Just how many inquiries are running at the moment?

    Surely they all need to be stopped. And a full Judicial Inquiry given a full remit to go back 25 years on these polluted, egregious munchkins.

    They fucking well try and hammer us with Parking Tax, Speeding Tax, and now punative Bin Tax.

    About time the whole HOUSE was cleansed, and disinfectanted.

    Justice has to be done, and has to be seen to be done.

    This is getting very piecemeal now. Quite deliberate methinks.

    • 121
      Hugh Janus says:

      You forgot the mansion tax, although it did only survive barely 48 hours after contact with the media…

  40. 98

    And we’re still paying how much, as a nation, to ‘prop up’ banks that should have been left to stick up for themselves? To fund a pointless yet vastly costly – in every sense – war? To pay for public services, so rubbish that they are employed by virtually no one who can afford to escape them?

    This whole MPs’ expenses thing does, past a point, shade into bread n’ circuses – or safe seats for pet Cameroons – do keep an eye on whose work you’re actually doing, Guido.

  41. 101
    Exiled in Wales says:

    This turning-out to be like one those slow-mo explosions where all the bits float off into oblivion.

    Love it.

  42. 102
    A vile, two-faced, lying, thieving, cheating little git says:

    Nuthn’s ma fult ye un’stn

    Yon skunner is’nae Noo_Lie_Bore.

    He’s one o’ya toffs, – and made us bring in all the guff tae’do wi’ya benders, –

    Like wot oi am!

    Kno wot oi mean?

  43. 104
    Benny Hill says:

    Another one bites the dust…
    Who’d have thought it? Temptation is mightier than g’powder.

  44. 108
    Anonymous says:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eco-dIDTpYw
    A Song for Mcmental in the”twilight of his career

  45. 111
    Gordon's Binnacle says:

    O/T but I’d just like to say that Brown is a prick.

  46. 112
    Angry as hell awakened says:

    Oi! mods! . . . wot’s wiv the daley . . . . . delay?

    Woz it sumfin oi said?

  47. 113
    ICan'tTakeThisAnymore says:

    I can’t find words, there is a lot more ‘under the carpet’ I’m sure. Notice that all the errors are one way – this is statistically extremely unlikely.

  48. 115
    tisfedup says:

    DC should not hesitate to get rid of these blatant troughers..and
    why was gordon brown claiming at his wife’s london flat when he has been living in 10/11 downing street for past 12 years? why has nothing been said about this?
    and has mr legg sent jackie smith her letter yet and what does it say?

    • 123
      chronic says:

      ” pay £1500 pounds ” and she’s contesting £500 of it, the fact she has got away with over £100,000 makes this quite surprising, or maybe not.

  49. 120
    Gordon says:

    How come all the thieves in parliament are walking off with the money and massive pensions. They should be gassed like vermin.

  50. 130
    Olly boy says:

    Guido, at some point can you give us a run down on the troughers that have been sent to the slaughterhouse together with the extent of their troughing as I’m losing count. Thanks.

  51. 140
    Moley says:

    Here’s a corker;

    EU to arrange for compulsory indoctrination of schoolchildren into the benefits of the EU.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/6338934/MEPs-call-for-compulsory-EU-lessons-in-schools.html

    The secret police will be knocking on your door very soon.

    • 147
      Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

      Thanks Moley. Mario Davies can fuck right off.

      • 150
        Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

        PS: Why don’t these eurochampions come into pubs instead of schools? Answer-’cos they know what happens when peoples’ toes get stepped upon.

        • 198
          Susie says:

          A whole day devoted to the Founding Fathers eh?

          Half of them were in Berlin in Hitler’s bunker wondering how to turn around their imminent defeat.

          • Chump says:

            I foresee another one of those -hilarious- ‘Downfall’ redubs on the Tube that is You.

          • Archer Karcher says:

            The EU`s Founding Fathers:

            # Walther Funk: The economic reorganization of Europe (July 25, 1940)
            # Joseph Goebbels: The Europe of the future (September 11, 1940)
            # Werner Daitz: The reorganization of Europe on a racial and territorial basis (Second half of 1940)
            # Joachim von Ribbentrop: Speech on the prolongation of the Anti-Comintern Pact (November 26, 1941)
            # Karl Megerle: “European themes” (prob. Autumn 1941)
            # Vidkun Quisling: Norway and the Germanic task in Europe (September 25, 1942)
            # Werner Daitz: Genuine and spurious continental spheres. Laws of Lebensraum. (Second half of 1942)
            # Joachim von Ribbentrop: European confederation (March 21, 1943)
            # Joachim von Ribbentrop: Establishment of a “European Committee” (April 5, 1943)
            post-war plans of IG Farben

            This letter, written by the IG Farben executives to the Nazi government, is particularly important for several reasons:

            1. It outlines the plan of the world’s largest chemical/pharmaceutical cartel, IG Farben, for a Europe under its control.
            2. This letter is a response to the request by the Nazi government to IG Farben for its blueprint for a new economic order in Europe under the IG Farben/Nazi-coalition.
            3. The date of the letter, July 20, 1940, corresponds with the first phase of WWII, where the IG Farben/Nazi-coalition had conquered central and western Europe in Blitzkriegs. In Summer of 1940, after the conquest of France, it seemed only a question of time until the IG Farben/Nazi-flag would flutter over Europe.
            4. It is a highly significant fact that the greatest concern of IG Farben in a subjugated Europe was the new regulation of patent law and its control over the chemical/pharmaceutical markets of Europe via patented products.

            This document was also part of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunals against IG Farben, documented at http://www.profit-over-life.org
            # Notiz für den Herrn Reichsaußenminister (September 1939, in German)
            # Aktenvermerk über die Besprechung in Görings Hauptquartier am 19. Juni 1940 (June 20, 1940, in German)
            # Gustav Schlotterer über die “Neuordnung Europas” (July 19, 1940, in German)
            # Versammlung der AO der NSDAP (July 26, 1940, in German)
            # Léon Degrelle: “Le rôle de la Belgique dans la nouvelle Europa” (October 20, 1940, in French)
            # Vidkun Quisling: “Denkschrift über die Regelung des Verhältnisses zwischen Norwegen und Deutschland” (October 25, 1940, in German)
            # Unterredung zwischen dem Reichsaußenminister Joachim von Ribbentrop und dem Admiral Darlan (May 11, 1941, in German)
            # Martin Bormann: “Nationalsozialistische Zielsetzung in Osteuropa” (July 16, 1941, in German)
            # Karl Megerle: “Positive Presse- und Propagandathesen” (September 27, 1941, in German)
            # Aufzeichnung über die Unterredung zwischen dem Führer und dem Grafen Ciano (October 25, 1941, in German)
            # Hitlers Empfang des finnischen Außenministers Witting (November 28, 1941, in German)
            # Aufzeichnung über die Unterredung zwischen Reichsmarschall Göring und Marschall Pétain (December 3, 1941, in German)
            # Ernst Freiherr von Weizsäcker: Tagebuchauszüge (Dec. 1939 – Nov. 1941, in German)
            # Der niederländische Staat in dem neuen Europa (August 1942, in German)
            # Baldur von Schirach: Rede anläßlich der Europäischen Jugendtagung in Wien (September 14, 1942, in German)
            # Joseph Goebbels: “Das neue Europa” (October 4, 1942, in German)
            # Adolf Hitler: “Verfügung” (November 4, 1942, in German)
            # Anton Reithinger: Die europäische Wirtschaftskraft bei planvoller Zusammenarbeit (November 13, 1942, in German)
            # Werner Frauendienst: “Der innere Neuaufbau des Reiches als Beitrag zur europäischen Ordnung” (1942, in German)
            # Arthur Seiß-Inquart: “Zum 10. Jahrestag der Machtübernahme” (January 29, 1943, in German)
            # Joseph Goebbels: “Erlaß über die Behandlung der europäischen Völker” (February 15, 1943, in German)
            # Franz Alfred Six: “Das Europabild des 20. Jahrhunderts” (March 3, 1943, in German)
            # Wipert von Blücher: “Goebbels “Leitsätze” für die Gestaltung eines Neuen Europas” (March 16, 1943, in German)
            # Hans Frohwein: “Grundgedanken eines Planes für das neue Europa” (June 7, 1943, in German)
            # Notiz betreffend die Gründung eines europäischen Staatenbundes (August 1943, in German)
            # Carl Clodius: “Leitsätze zur wirtschaftlichen Neuordnung Europas” (August 20, 1943, in German)
            # Notiz für Herrn Reichsaußenminister (November 16, 1943, in German)
            # “Entwurf zu einer Denkschrift betreffend die Gründung eines Europäischen Staatenbundes” (Autumn 1943, in German)
            # Adolf Hitler: Rede zum 11. Jahrestag der Machtübernahme (January 30, 1944, in German)
            # Schlußprotokoll der Arbeitstagung des Arbeitswissenschaftlichen Instituts der Deutschen Arbeiterfront (March 19, 1944, in German)
            # Herbert Bäcke: “Das Schicksal der europäischen Landwirtschaft” (Juni 29, 1944, in German)
            # Karl Heinz Pfeffer: “Die europäische Besinnung” (October/December 1944, in German)
            # Mario Mantovani: “Sull’idea europea. Il nemico numero uno” (May 1940, in Italian)
            # Alberto De Stefani: “Il riordinamento e la pacificazione dell’Europa” (October 1941, in Italian)
            # Camillo Pellizzi: “L’idea di Europa” (December 1942, in Italian)
            # Due lettere di Camillo Pellizzi a Ugoberto Alfassio Grimaldi (August 12 and September 4, 1943, in Italian)
            # Carlo Borsani: “Scoperta dell’Europa” (June 18, 1944, in Italian)

            Charming chaps all.

  52. 141
    TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

    I don’t get this – hes still squealing his innocence yet gets the boot for thieving less than jacqui smith, who has been found guilty of stealing more and is free to trough away like nothing happend?

  53. 144
    Steve Expat says:

    Question Time starting off with expenses – Damian Green on for the Tories, sadly suggesting that maybe he will be the only MP to be arrested this year!

    • 149
      PUKI says:

      Farage cut Johnson half a new arse!

      • 152
        Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

        Good. I can’t view it sadly I’m flying.

        • 167
          chomping at the bit says:

          Respect!!!!!! Technology is incredible nowadays. Or does flying mean your spaced out on speed or something?

        • 174
          Farage rhymes with garaage says:

          No wonder Liebour stick with McDoom seeing Johnson’s hopeless performance on QT.
          Dream Ticket-Nigel F & Joaney B.
          Oh suit yourself !

      • 197
        Crumpet, I Think says:

        Postman Prat – a purrfect name. Joan Bakewell might be getting older but she still has something of the minx about her. I would.

        • 205
          Media Whore says:

          She is a media whore. So long as she could later publish the story you are in there.

  54. 145
    Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

    That book called ‘Zero Based Policy’ which Guido is advertising looks good. The amazon comments suggest the next government should read it first and it may be time to put ThePlan to one side whilst you’re in bed with it?

  55. 154
    PUKI says:

    Fecking Johnson is such a smug hoon making fancy flippant comments about the Mail strike and historical references to Tories!

    Farage is trying to rip him another half new arse!

    • 158
      Steve Expat says:

      Johnson getting yet more stick about troop numbers in Afghanistan – why send in yet more people with no equipment, or do we not have enough equipment to justify actually complying with the announcement.

      • 165
        Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

        Everyone knows this is about oil pipelines. They might get a bit more undersytanding if the truth be told and paid the appropriate ground rent

  56. 156
    Anonymous says:

    Make the thieving Cυnt pay it all back AND prosecute him and his ‘girlfriend’.

  57. 157
    Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

    Balloon boy 6 found alive in garage-breaking news

  58. 163
    Charlie the Chancer says:

    See our lawyer friends look as if they are trying to shut up Parliament.
    subjudice is tonight’s word.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/15/carter-ruck-trafigura-parliament-injunction

    • 168
      Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

      Has Peter Bottomly had a word with the law society yet? He was going to complain I think. Anyway-our parliament is sovereign by the people for the people so Carter Ruck should have their offices somewhere else if they don’t like it. IMO.

    • 184
      Steve Expat says:

      Good luck with that one Carter-Fuck. Parliament will not be halted by 3rd party la.wyers

      Good first big test for Bercυnt as Squeaker though…

  59. 170

    [...] David Wilshre, the rather unpleasant Tory MP has been thrown out of Parliament because he paid money to a company controlled by him.  (Yes, I know he’s the same party as [...]

    • 307
      Skippy says:

      If only he had been thrown out of parliament, he’s merely had the whip withdrawn, and will continue to collect his ill gotten gains and then go on to a gold plated pension.

  60. 171
    John Lyon CB - Do Not Disturb says:

    I would just like to clarify, even at such a late hour, that the demise of this poor, honest, hard working MP, is not at all due to anything I have said or done, because as my followers will know, I say little and do even less.

  61. 173
    LEGAL ABE says:

    Diane Abbot On This week: Brown should Have sacked Some Senior Mp’s

    • 178
      Anonymous says:

      Quite right Diane.

    • 185
      Steve Expat says:

      He should have sacked the whole fucking lot of them!!

      Election as soon as possible please, let’s see how many of the troughers trying to get away with their expenses manage to be re-elected…

    • 293
      Porky Pies MP says:

      Diane Abbot, that hypocritical hoon. (I did write ‘hoon’ didn’t I?)

  62. 180
    Broonfall says:

    Much talk of next weeks appearance on QT of Mr G of the PNB

    cue some decent marching music:

    • 195
      Genghiz the Kahn says:

      Bollocks and the same to you.

      Hitler has only got one ball,
      Goering has two but very small,
      Himmler has something similar,
      and Goerbals has no balls at all.

    • 214
      The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

      At least the Nazis had better dress sense than Labour

      • 229
        2party state says:

        they are labour and tory -suffer only one common purpose dogma any real opposition require a ‘no platform’ final solution – get real

    • 283
      General Danatt says:

      Can’t help noticing how much better equiped those chaps are than our boys in Afghanistan, everything seems to work.

    • 308
      COVLAD says:

      Ein reich,ein volk, ein Europe !

  63. 186
    Fuck 'em all says:

    Please let us face facts, dear readers.

    This gentleman was only implementing Labour policies in propping up his private business with public money. Those of you under 30 may not remember this practice, but it was regarded as a job-saving measure by the Labour governments of the past. It’s called ‘subsidisation’ – look it up you wankers. Labour trolls here might shout and scream, but this bloke’s only doing what they used to do 30 years ago. And he’s saved us a bomb, because he didn’t claim for any middlemen – as of course your Labour thieving shits always do.

    Hope this helps, Kiddie-Winkies,

    FTA.

    • 187
      Steve Expat says:

      lol – still doesn’t make it right though. They’re all ‘chumps’, no matter what colour rosette they have been wearing.

      Election can’t come soon enough, let’s see how many of the cυnts are laughing the day after that..?

  64. 190

    I have had enough of MPs teling us that they need these expenses to supplement their meager’ration’ and how thay are living like crap on their paltry 64,000 pounds salary. I aim to challnege this assertion by standing for Parliamentt next year and only receiving the minimum wage. Millions of us get by on it already and don’t complain aboutit. If i win and go about my forego the majority of my salary i dare any MP then to look me in the eye and reasonably suggest they are underpaid. David Campbell aka Minimum Wage MP

  65. 206
    Media Whore says:

    Downing Street will be hoping the the Royal Mail strike happens and takes media attention away from Expense Gate.

    In the event of a national UK postal strike MPs who do not check their pigeon holes in the House of Commons will NOT get any forwarded post (so that means NO letters from Thomas Legg). Also MPs can say their cheques are in the post and they will never arrive!

  66. 208
    Gordon says:

    Can you imagine – you work in Tesco’s and thieve £100,00+. The management find out, and a deal is worked out where you stay in your job for another 6 months on full pay, and then get a massive pension for the rest of your life.

    MPs are3 corrupt filth. They should be stabbed and burned. MPs are dirty filthy evil thieving lying scum from Hell.

    The fucking filth need to be killed.

    • 281
      Pay up says:

      I agree – but no one is doing anything – why not we get about 100 of us over to this stealing SOB tonight and make him pay?

  67. 209
    terrace bar frequenter says:

    as of now not one MP has been prosecuted by plod or the taxman.
    even when the evidence is in black and white.
    and none will be, as they know what would happen to their career if they did.
    tories are just as bad as labour, the difference beong just that they leave at the election on a big pension and the labour troughers get promoted to the unelected chamber that so many call their trough away from trough.

  68. 215
    Down with Brown! says:

    A Cambridge university report into primary education criticises “the Stalinist overtones of a ‘state theory of learning’ enforced by ‘the machinery of surveillance and accountability”

    A generation of youngsters are having their potential limited and their minds indoctrinated by Nulabour putting leftie propaganda ahead of proper education.

    • 226
      Comrade Herr Gregorovich El-MugabbyBrownstainovich, a crackpot control freak says:

      welcome to my regime in the EUSSR.

      We will decide what you do, think, say, and eat little boy.

      Now run along before we arrest you for something or other.

      • 235
        Herr Cameron says:

        You are welcome, and I will be pleased to carry on the good work.

        • 242
          Master Baiter says:

          The report suggests that formal lessons not be started before the age of six.
          Saying that children respond better to a ‘play based’ curriculum as is the case in Scandinavia, Germany and Austria where formal learning in effect reading and writing does not begin until the age of seven.

          Take a look one day at the situation in the private ‘pre-prep schools where from the age of three wretched little accountants’ off spring are made to sit in rows of desks and produce evidence of work to take home to their negligent parents in an effort by the schools to justify the rip off fees.

          It’s the Germans, Austrians and Scandinavians by that (state) system that manage to produce well educated multilingual students.

          Welcome to Europe!

          • resurgemus says:

            Yes, that’s because a foreign language is compulsory in education in these countries.

            You twats did away with this in our schools.

            Dumbing down the nation to your own level.

          • Straight fact says:

            “You twats did away with this in our schools”
            Didn’t Labour make it compulsory in the first place?

    • 233
      Raving Loon says:

      “The philosophy of the classroom today
      will be the philosophy of government tomorrow.”

      Abraham Lincoln

    • 250
      Straight fact says:

      The national curriculum and Sats were introduced before nulabour.

      • 255
        Sir William Waad says:

        True. What we need, however, is for teachers and their leaders to take a constructive stance towards reforming and improving education in LEA schools. The teaching unions, especially the NUT, have become reactionary and seek to block any change. SATs were imposed on schools partly because of this ‘leave us alone and send us lots more money’ attitude, which the unions concentrated on an abstract social agenda. As long as teachers won’t take charge of reform it will imposed on them by governments and quangos.

  69. 218
    The Old Boot says:

    Question Time Damien Green “We Mp’s have shown that we are not to be trusted with our own expenses”

    If they cant be trusted with something as simple and straight forward as expenses then can they be trusted with the economy, the banks, Irag etc etc.

    No they cant! They should go and go now straight to Jail and not collect £200 on the way!

  70. 224
    Porky says:

    . . looks like he’s fallen on the Pork Sword . . or will have to . . . them that live by the S. die by the f ucker.

    Swine.

  71. 228
    Pour encourager les autres says:

    The message is clear – there is NO place any longer in Parliament for such people who consider it their entitlement to claim these sort of amounts or claims whether they whinge that their claims were “within the rules” at the time. Its what’s reasonable and proper to claim and THAT was always the case The public isn’t interested any longer in their whines or excuses.The gravy train is finally derailed – the good times of scamming the tax payer are finished

  72. 230
    When all this nonsense over Mp's expenses is over says:

    If you boys and girls (peasants to those in the H of L and H of C) think this “problem” is over think again.

    Yesterday someone blogged that Cameron fraternised with people like Christopher J Moran. In the DT today I read kirsty (Crusty) Allsop of Location Location Location is being considered for a Peerage. Someone out there has a poor sense of judgement and a very poor sense of humour.

    Oh dear is all I can say.

    Britain is not what it used to be.

  73. 237
    Catering tin of pineapple rings says:

    Brown should have all his property confiscated and be thrown naked on the street

    • 247
      DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

      That’s a bit harsh on anyone who happens to be passing by, isn’t it?

    • 256
      jgm2 says:

      As long as he’s thrown naked onto the street from a helicopter hovering over the London Eye then I’d have no problem with that.

  74. 238
    The Inquisition says:

    Financial misconduct = Conservatives.

  75. 239
    Tin Cunliffe-Arsely says:

    So … the expenses that weren’t on the Telegraph CD are coming to light?
    Staffing, office – two new cans of worms to be opened and enjoyed.

    PS: I see he’s the MP for “the town that cannot be named”.

  76. 240
    The Inquisition says:

    David Wilshire
    Conservative MP for Spelthorne

    Financial misconduct = Conservatives

    • 245
      DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

      Jacqui Smith
      Labour MP for Redditch

      Financial misconduct = Conservatives = Labour

    • 280

      So Wilshire was a tory – this issue is beyond political tribalism. We now know every member of the House of Common Thieves has either been on the fiddle or connived at others doing so. The question is what are the British people going to do about it. I suspect the Court of Public Opinion would rule that the bastards must pay back every penny before resigning thereby allowing the elctorate a chance to replace them with people of ahigher moral calibre.

      Still, if your little mind can’t lift itself out of the tribal rut in which it appears to be stuck, try this for size.

      At least Wilshire’s party leader has done something. Withdrawing the whip iwsn’t much, but probably the most he can actually do to punish the bent bastard. What has Gordon done to punish Jacqui the Tealeaf?

      What has Gordon done to Jacqui the Tea Leaf?

      But

  77. 241
    Fees Office Clerk says:

    Anyone who thinks that Alan Johnson is Labour Leader material is a fucking idiot. His attempts on Question Time last night to score political points were both lame and inept. If Gordon Brown watched last night’s programme then he must have pissed himself laughing. Postman Pat wouldn’t stand a chance against David Cameron at the Despatch Box.

    • 244

      “he must have pissed himself laughing”

      He normally only vents his bladder when appearing in public.

    • 246
      Anonymous says:

      Lame and Inept ! Sounds like ideal material for The Labour Leadership.

    • 261
      jgm2 says:

      I didn’t see QT but that’s all any Labour mouthpiece ever does. I bet every reference was to ‘Duck houses’ or ‘moat cleaning’. No mention of smut videos or mock tudor beams.

      Were there sufficient questions asked about what kind of bunch of incompetent Labour jackassess managed to maouver our economy to the position where we’ll have a 16% of GDP deficit this year? And when do they propose to commit mass suicide by way of apology for their abject incompetence and barn-storming idiocy?

      ‘Cos that is chiefly what I’m interested in hearing about. A few million quid looted by MPs is neither here nor there compared with the 800bn quid this shower of arseholes and jackasses have added to the national debt.

      • 270
        Porky Smith says:

        You are right of course – we have been done over by the shower in Westminster by more ways than one. The expenses scandal sticks in the gullet, partly because our so called “representatives” have been so inept at representing us. If they had been representing us these recent years, they would not have encouraged mass immigration, there would have been no crazy human rights act and the discredited asylum system would be history.

        We have had a Parliament of third rate lobby fodder, prepared to nod through any legislative nonsense dreamt up by the traitors in the executive. We have had bad law after bad law – laws so idiotic and complex, even the Attorney General cannot abide by their provisions. Brown thought he could keep everybody happy by hosing us down with our money – but now the money has run out and we are creating a foreign debt mountain for our successors to be buried under.

        What a legacy Brown – get out of Government you filth!

  78. 243

    Radio 2 advsies me its Friday, but in the twilight world of order-order Thursday lives on – come on Guido, up, shower, teeth, coffee, and at the troughers please.

  79. 251
    Sir William Waad says:

    Guido, you usually photoshop a pink piggy nose onto pictures of troughers. In this case you’ve just used Mr Wilshire’s photo ‘as is’. Are you beginning to feel a twinge of sympathy for MPs?

    • 262
      Gold_in_sacks_Man! says:

      Photoshops pink piggy protuberances probably performing post-pleasure prohibitions pro prehensile plutocrats

  80. 259
    Porky Smith says:

    Something which amused me regarding Question Time last night – when Dimbleby read out Jacqui Smith’s name as a future possible panelist, she got a bigger jeer from the audience than Nick Griffin – think again Jacqui – the lynch mob are after you and boy, do you deserve it!

    • 264
      jgm2 says:

      Now that would be funny. Put Jacqui and Nick Griffin on together and see who the audience really despise. Self-serving, incompetent, lobby-fodder like Smiffy or Nick Griffin.

      Better to lie low and flee the country Jacqui. And be sure any complicit self-serving Labour MPs who have, by their silence, allowed your jackass PM (and ex-chancellor) to completely fuck up the UK’s economy for another generation, it is only your utter inconsequential contribution to the interests of the population that has thus-far assured your anonimity.

      If it had anything to do with me then the newspapers would be showcasing one of you fuckers every day from now until the election day with a front page picture under the word ‘TRAITOR’ and a full list of the egregious bills you had voted in favour of and the full implications of the imbecilic economic policies that you went along with.

      You nasty, incompetent, self-serving, evil FUCKERS.

  81. 260
    Anonymous says:

    Is this man any more culpable than any other MP? What I don’t like is the execution without trial. Every man should be allowed to defend his position before being dismissed.

    • 265
      DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

      He hasn’t been dismissed. He’s going to quit sometime next year, while continuing to feed deeply from the trough in the meantime, before collecting the sort of pension that most of us can only dream about.

    • 267
      jgm2 says:

      It’s the court of public opinion as advocated by the deputy Prime Minister. And the Court of Public opinion has spoken. As it has on Smith and the incompetent jackass-arsehole, Brown.

      Y’all fuck off now d’ya hear?

    • 286
      Skippy says:

      Surely, the evidence which is not in dispute, claiming non-existent expenses some of which has not already been spent, and which he is refusing to repay, is proof enough of wrongdoing.

      He should have been dismissed on the spot, with no pension.

      • 295
        DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

        And face criminal charges. If it’s really true that he hasn’t done anything wrong, I’m sure the court would find him innocent.

      • 304
        ron Vibentrop says:

        He and his entire family should be shot! And the cat! That flabby arsed schoolboy Cameron hasn’t got the balls to SACK him immediately, forfeiting his pension and so called re-acclimatisation allowances.

  82. 266
    nell says:

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jo9YdKcwCKBYj7ICZin1L61H-Ebg

    I see Trafigura’s solicitors have written to John Berkow the Speaker of the House advising that the injunction which they obtained last week is sub judice and that therefore the debate scheduled in the HoC for next week on this issue may not go ahead.

    Anybody know anymore about this?

    • 272
      Sir William Waad says:

      If the story is true (and it’s hard to believe) it is a chance for MPs to do something useful: debate the injunction and summon the Carter-Ruck partner to appear before a committee of the House to explain his attempt to interfere with Parliament.

    • 275
      DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

      That does sound very hard to believe. But if there’s any truth in it, no doubt Guido will get to the bottom of it and let us know what’s going on. Sounds right up his street.

  83. 276
    Brigham says:

    Nobody has suggested sacking the whole of the fees office staff. I would have thought this was a good place to start.

  84. 284
    Daveyone says:

    http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/p/pig_trough.asp
    Keep up the good work Guido this will seperate the wheat from the chaff!

  85. 287
    Anonymous says:

    NuLab vs Con troughers
    NO DIFFERENCE – Fu**sters

  86. 290
    Anticrustes says:

    Every year, toward the end of October, I wait trembling with horror at the thought of the first sighting of Britain’s most patriotic poitician. (The first poppy of autumn).
    He appeared yesterday, 15th Oct, on The Daily Politics.
    It was that ugly pig-snout-troffer Lab turd wotsisname.

  87. 292
    Daveyone says:

    http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/cartoon/view/2009-10-16 Good bye Wilshire we don’t like greed when the rest of us are struggling!

  88. 294
    Emma says:

    Guido – can you complain about the BBC coverage of this? The BBC says today on it’s website ‘Many MPs are furious they are being asked to pay back money for claims they were entitled to make under old rules.’

    Where did this ‘entitled to make under old rules’ nonsense come from and why is no-one in the media challenging it?

    If you read the Green Book guidance it clearly says they shouldn’t claim for anything extravagant – and – if we test the opinion of the taxpayer about what is ‘extravagant’ then I think MPs will find that cleaners, gardeners and massive mortgages on huge properties not that far from their first homes are considered highly ‘extravagant’.

    My husband commutes 4 hours to London each day. We’re forced to live over 100 miles away because we can’t afford London property prices – so why can’t MPs commute like he does? His job is responsible and requires him to be there more than most MPs (with their massive summer recess).

  89. 303
    Clipped Three says:

    PROSECUTE JULIE KIRKBRIDE AND HER BROTHER IAN KIRKBRIDE !!!!

    same situation but far worse than Wilshire!




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