Irish Speaker Resigns in Expenses Scandal
John O’Donoghue, the Ceann Comhairle (speaker) of Dáil Éireann the lower house of the Oireachtas (parliament), was forced out of office last week in an expenses scandal arising from Freedom of Information requests exposing his troughing to the tune of €200,000. He became the first Ceann Comhairle to be forced out of office in Irish history. The picture of his robe of office draped over the chair is set to become iconic.
With the usual sense of exaggerated self-entitlement that is characteristic of politicians the world over, he tried in his resignation speech to justify his nights in Cannes hotels and trips to international horse race meetings as in the Irish national interest. FoI revelations that he had taken a private Lear jet from Dublin to Cardiff for the Heineken Cup rugby match, before heading on to Cannes for the film festival and then to London for a Ryder Cup promotional event before returning home to Kerry in a trip that is estimated to have cost the taxpayer in the region of €32,450, did for him.
The Irish Taoiseach Brian Cowen shares his fate with his British counterpart, Gordon Brown. Like the Prime Mentalist he is the former finance minister, like Gordon he is unelected and without a personal mandate, having succeeded his more politically skilled predecessor, Bertie Ahern. Like the former Chancellor he can’t escape political responsibility for the state of the economy. The parallels across the Irish Sea are remarkable.
Christ, not just our lot, every fucker’s at it.
I saw a French newspaper in May. “Could it happen here” they said. I think the answer was no because they never keep receipts.
The Inquisition
Property Portfolios = New Labour Troughers
Nu Depths = Nu Labour
Financial Misconduct
Clearly a ZanuLabour expert on the subject
You couldn’t make this stuff up could you?
That HAS to be misconduct in public office surely (appreciate the legislation might be different).
This is clearly why the Irish were forced to “rethink” their rejection of the EU constitution aka Lisbon treaty…. Forget the voters its all about whats in it for them in the way of cash and perks. Why should they- the MPs – ever consider what the “little people” do or suffer as consequence ?
Ireland is finished, the days of living off the EU are over, but it will take a while for the Irish to wake up to this problem. Here in the UK we are to suffer a similar fate….. unless…..
There’ll always be a Britain
And Britain shall be free
If Britain means as much to you
As Britain means to me
There won’t be a Britain
Britain shall be lost
To eurocrats in Brussels
At even greater cost
Our system of MP’s topping up their paltry salaries with spurious expense claims was brought in under Tony Blair.
We all know the biggest government gravy train is the European parliament.
Now we know why the trougher in cheif, Tony Blair wants the presidency. How can this man enter No.10 with one house and exit with six?
I wonder whether we will get transparency on MEP expenses? A scandal could help Klaus stall signing the Lisbon Treaty until Gordon is removed.
McGroom says: Our system of MP’s topping up their paltry salaries with spurious expense claims was brought in under Tony Blair.
Under Margaret Thatcher. It’s bad enough without twisting the facts to support your side. They are all at it.
The allowance of “flipping” was initiated under Blair.
The Nepotism
Paltry salary? 3 x average wage + benefits unheard of in any other walk of life, or 6 x average wage with any sort of made up government job. Plus you don’t even have to pay for your own food.
1 in 3 working in Wales are working for Guvment, Turkeys won’t vote for traditional christmas
His wife is a QC, known in the profession as Cherie Booth QC, a silk.
That’s like the legal equivalent of a premier league footballer.
Ok?
And gets most of her work through “connections”.
The Nepotism
Old, but relevant, Jack Straw, wife, nepotism
Financial Misconduct = NuLabour
http://archive.thisislancashire.co.uk/2000/10/2/712191.html
Cant imagine why her husband was in such a fucking rush to bring the Human Rights Act in, so she could get her fucking big fucking slot gob and troughing Scouse fucking snout right in there….. robbing champagne socialist fuckers.
Cherie also specialises in the Human Rights Legislation that her husband brought in – makes quite a lot of her income from that.
Walk in to the wall.
Now, let’s examine the source of ‘wealth’ of the Conservitude front bench.
No?
Oh yes, that would be the politics of envy or some such useless worn out post neo-liberal right wing clap trap.
Hahahaha
Was the first thing telling the police not mto respond to anti-social behaviour so that ASBOs could be brought in?
///His wife is a QC, known in the profession as Cherie Booth QC, a silk.
That’s like the legal equivalent of a premier league footballer.////
strange, isnt it, how when Tony Blair was elected in 1997, the first thing he did was send the toady robin cook scurrying to brussels to sign us up to the European Human Rights Act? Strange too, how Matrix was set up specialising Human Rights law?
OK?
Yes, absolutely fine.
On being elected to power, the first thing Hitler did was get rid of human rights legislation.
Ok?
Robin Cook was a lying adulterous piece of filth, ask his first wife.
“His wife is a QC, known in the profession as Cherie Booth QC, a silk.
That’s like the legal equivalent of a premier league footballer.
Ok?”
Known on here as Slotgob.
Sarah, the stationer wife of Dave Komodo, lizard lips, flicking tongue and stupendous comb over, the leader of the Conservitude Party has a pointy head shaped and pointed by a pencil sharpener. One of those desk jobs school children queue up to use.
At least she knows her stationery in life.
Sheesh!
Samanatha, the stationer wife of Dave Komodo, lizard lips, flicking tongue and stupendous comb over, the leader of the Conservitude Party has a pointy head shaped and pointed by a pencil sharpener. One of those desk jobs school children queue up to use.
At least she knows her stationery in life.
That’s better
“A three-cock gob” as somebody once observed, although a BJ from Cherie would be like tightrope walking – OK as long as you didn’t look down.
First, I believe the problem started under the iconic and very lovely Mrs Thatcher but agree salaries were too low which has resulted in the troughing in successive leaderships. She very publically refused her salary she was so well heeled and sort of expected MP’s to follow suit – what were her expenses like I wonder.
Second, what has been exposed is a corrupt political class which infects virtually everything in the country. We have today a corrupt managment in British prisons, suprise suprise.
Third, what moral authority have we as a nation to criticise Kharzai the Corrupt or even Muguabe the Mad? Bloody none. Thanks roughing lads and lasses.
Panorama exposed the git society where innocent asians can be assaulted and abused by the mindless pricks and their children without any fear on their part of being prosecuted.
I stand to be corrected, but I believe the expense manipulation may have started earlier, during the days of pay restraint in the 1970’s, but I’m not sure under which administration. It was a convenient way of quietening unrest on the back benches among MPs, who at that time were quite poorly paid, and felt, with some justification, that they deserved better remuneration. Of course given the prevailing economic conditions of Mrs Thatcher’s time in office, it suited everyone to continue the arrangement, so it gradually became entrenched.
Not a very popular idea just now I accept, but MP’s salaries are far too low, which has made the troughing acceptable (to them).
With even low grade merchant bankers taking home £1m a year plus who would be a cabinet minister on a paltry £80k or whatever.
Correct:
God is Truth is Love
Sorry to dissapoint you old chap, but Klaus has already signed. Someone had a quiet word and he didn’t want to start feeling ill.
We haven’t had our plebiscite yet
Wouldn’t it be great if The Telegraph made a list of the Euro laws imposed upon us already? I can tell you of one coming: Road tolling for commercials over 3.5 tonnes in 3 years and followed by road tolling for ALL vehicles 18 months later. (If not before)
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1423&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
So how far do the parallels go? What happens to O’Dpnoghue now? Will he be ennobled in the same way as Martin? That was an utter disgrace And our ‘honourable members’ kept very quie, probably mindful of their own aspirations.
Please – “Expenses scandal” = “corruption exposure”
All these Irish names sound like something from the Lord of the Rings.
One of my first toy’s had the tune when Irish eyes are smiling.
It wasn’t an “Action Paddy” perchance?
Action Paddy? An oxymoron if ever I saw one.
You leave us out of this.
Just before it blew my best mate to smithereeens
Eeeh. When I were a Lad we weren’t bothered about muslim terrorists.
Lol!
Yes Phil, the name does sound abit odd dunnit?
Phil – if you mispronounce your name it sounds like a type of savoury pie crust. I(I wasn’t sure if you had noticed.)
Savory? I been doing it wrong all these years. Doh (geddit?)
This comment from Cowen made me chuckle:
“Yeah, well, there’s a mirror in the toilet if you want to go in there and talk to them.”
– Brian Cowen responding to Martin McGuinness stating “We’ll have to consult the [IRA] army council on this” to certain proposals made during the peace talks concerning Northern Ireland.
Der joke is de rong way rund Padraig – der tag loine goze at the hend.
The sercret of comedy………………………
Tim.. ing
Yup, snouts in the trough of excess, time to get rid of these dinosaurs and ZaNuLab, roll on next May……
What’s this about next May? You’re thinking there’s going to be an election?
Dream on.
Yes, you are right, it is a dream, a wish and a hope ….. however, I would not put it past ZuNuLab to create a diversion thus bringing in the possibility of Gordo Clown declaring a state of emergency and delaying an election sine die.
Alan Simpson has joined the fight to get more ‘members only’ seats allocated at a cafe in Parliament.
Nottingham South’s Alan Simpson is among a group of MPs who became angry after half the seats reserved for them in the cafe were made available to the public.
The change was made because staff and visitors often have to wait for a seat even if the less-used cordoned off MPs’ section has spaces.
They don’t like it up ‘em do they?.
They want to spend their food allowance perhaps.
A senior politician resigning over an expences scandal? It’ll never catch on in Westminster.
expenses. Quick, nurse, more coffee.
I wonder if John O’Donoghue will be automatically elevated to the unelected Irish Senate (Upper House) as a reward for raping the tax payers like Michael, Baron Martin of Springbum
You ought to be ashamed of yourself. He isn’t.
All politicians shpuld have somewhere unelected where they can go after they’ve been rumbled, IMHO.
It is about to be closed down. There is no need for a second chamber to a Regional Assembley. Ask the Jocks !
The Reich Lite marches on !
Eu should pay more attention.
Celts
Hand it to him, he put together quite a reasonable itinerery, not many at Westminster would have the same wide range of interests that the Irish obviously expect from a public figure.
Surprisingly inexpensive given the venues. Now if there were six of them on that jolly, it would have worked out ay quite a reasonable rate.
If only our lot were so efficient.
Is Brian Cowen’s favourite biscuit also the same as Gordon’s?
The jammy dodger.
Brown likes a Mandelson’s old fashioned soggy biscuit
“I ..er.. can’t quite remember what my favourite biscuit is. I should…
…it was on the tip of me tongue this morning.”
Soggy biscuit, my favourite.
If you want a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join my club.
funny.
I can understand that election fraud in Afghanistan will mean our troops will have to stay there (as planned) but why all this over here and why now??
Am I the only one that sees the significance of our being rushed further into the EU with Lisbon; the opening of the UK’s ‘Supreme Court’ which pushes out the Lords – and presumably the “monarch” – and the forthcoming Copenhagen ’summit’ that looks like the capstone is about to be lowered onto the globalist pyramid, signalling the end of any remnants of “demockery”??
We’re being driven towards fascism whilst being diverted by REAL matters but which are being used as a diversionary tactic. . .imo, and fwiw of course.
Eric Blair was the last true prophet
But not, as far as our parliamentarians are concerned, the last true profit.
Very good very good
There must be a few good old fashioned: Englishman, Irishman and Scotchman jokes in this somewhere?
Oooooooh !! Careful !! That was very nearly racist. Jokes about different nationalities are very ‘iffy’…
What’s black and blue and floats in the Irish Sea?
A priest shafting an Artane Boy on a lilo ?
Englishmen who don’t leave Irealnd
Sands that’s an english name – better start packing.
Weren’t it Sandys? …As in Duncan Sandys (LOL)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Sands
Sands ..this anglo-saxon surname……
http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?name=Sands
“Oooooooh !! Careful !! That was very nearly racist. Jokes about different nationalities are very ‘iffy’…”
Tell me about it.
ffs. Who gives a sh*t about Irish Politicians. They’ve been bent even longer than our lot have.
The other parallel is that no one worried about corruption in politicians while the property boom continued. Now it’s over, the rage is flying. It will get far worse yet on all sides.
Not long now until we see a similar “gown” left over the arm of our Speaker’s Chair.
With a bit of luck!
Another Mick taking the Michael.
I like it!
He left with a parachute payment of over 100 000 euros on top of his salary as a TD (MP) and has vowed to continue in the dail he also poured millions into his constituency as a minister increased his work force for 3 to 10 (mostly family members) and employed a relative as a legal adviser despite having access to free government lawyers.Flying from Dublin to Kerry airport to get home an official car with garda driver would be dispatched from Dublin to meet him at Kerry to drive him to his house.He could actually teach the Brits about troughing
Shame they don’t have House of Lords….hang on Gordon may be bale to help -ours isn’t quite full yet.
Is this going to be the new excuse…. this is a worldwide troughing. Although they’d have to say we started it and are world leader in the megatrough, or did it start in america?
thats why they voted yes troughing bastards
Amazing how this happened after the EU vote in Ireland.
The probem as I see it is our politics and those of the Iriosh have gone from being traditional British values and traditions >yes even Ireland< and been transformed by the cheating Europeans.
Now how politicians meet with these buggers across the channel they too are being taught the great expense gravy train rules.
have gone from being traditional British values
Like getting pissed and fighting in the streets every weekend.
This is the problem.
And what really scares me how these unelected hoods rule our lives — why are we tolerating the likes of Brown, Cowen, Mandelson in government? Why should unelected, appointed Lords be lobbying to access what is an elected Commons? The rot has to stop.
David Cameron
Sorry for the delay in my response to you, Just to say if you Tories, want to get down a bit earlier, we could all have a game of conkers in the car park before kick off.I got a sevener!!.
No painted stones, or oven baked kelva coated marbles will be tolerated though.
Strings and stampsies are allowed, but can I please ask you mind the carpark surface when applying a stamp manouvre. We dont want any potholes!!,in the unlikely event that 3 swings each result in a draw,The winner will determined by a game of penny up the wall. look forward too seeing you all today at the Green Green grass of Home
I always said you was conkers.
That’s what Albert Stepoe always said CONKERS
Perhaps we should follow the Irish example and have a series of Tribunals to investigate what has been going on. You forgot to mention that Bertie Ahern, the predecessor to Brian Cowan (nickname BIFFO where O is for Offaly), resigned after some trifling matters in relation to his financial affairs came to light during these Tribunals into certain planning issues in Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s.
While the Tribunal report is awaited the evidence has been fascinating and has included:-
* while Finance Minister himself, Bertie (once christened as ‘the cutest hoor of them all’) didnt own a house or bank account and only worked in cash (he was just too busy to open one apparently)
* he had various little ‘lifts’ and ‘dig outs’ from party colleagues down the years. As he didn’t have a bank account some of these seem to have been in the form of cash in brown envelopes stuffed into his pocket. In one case he was ’surprised’ when a close friend who was a property developer handed him £30k in a briefcase to pay for work on a house they were renovating together and then willed this to him in the event of his death. On another memorable occasion he allegedly flew to Manchester to see Man Utd play while carrying a briefcase full of money – well, have you seen the price of a ticket these days? Yet again he went to speak at a business dinner. Afterwards the organiser slipped an envelope into his pocket and low and behold when he looked at it a day or two later there was €8k in there
If we followed the Irish example heaven knows what we might unpeel at Westminster
How much does a Government policy cost these days?
He claimed some of his cash came from a bookie at Aintree.
The Irish people are already having to endure the severe hardships that are heading our way.
Greedy and corrupt polliticians do not sit well with high unemployment, and salary cuts.
What will take people on to the streets is having nothing left to lose.
Their lives?
We will all die one day, that is a certainty.
Better perhaps to have died for something worthwhile than to have your livelihood and your family’s future taken away by greedy, corrupt and lying politicians without putting up a fight, betraying those you love who depend on you for a future in the process.
They are both horrendously ugly feckers who would benefit from wearing a sack.
Some hope. Once on the gravy train wherever they are I see no evidence of them ever again living normal lives.
Great work from whoever made those freedom of information requests and have exposed the Irish speaker’s corruption. Global democracy is under threat from a self-serving, money-seeking political class. Their crimes must be exposed and punished, if democracy is to survive.
Hahahaha. You journalists out there in freedom land: If you think (Including you murdoch) that you will have a role to play in the EUSSR think again. Only one socialist news outlet will be neccesary me thinks.
At least there was no corruption in the ancient Greek City States, or the Roman Empire.
The more things change, the more they stay the same!
The Irish parliamentarians have always been more financially suspect. Charles Haughy was a fine ‘Cash Only’ proponent.
Actually, one of the biggest scandals in the cash McGuinness and Adams have rorted without any contribution whatsoever. And were responsible for more Innocent deaths than any other couple in our History.
Are folks scared to speak out?
History ain’t a strong point with you, is it.
More innocent deaths than say in India, Kenya,Congo, Stalin’s Soviet era, Hitler’s Germany. Yeah right.
We will not negotiate with terrorists, unless they attack the City of London and Canary Wharf, in which case, where do I sign?
I guess our faith in the political class is renewed as we discover yet more corruption and greed, this time in Ireland. Joining the elite of the greedy, money grabbing, self interested morons! What part of public service are these people not getting?
Can we not start a lower the higher wage campaign. It’s nice to aspire to more, but surely there needs to be perspective and limits on how much wealth one person needs!
Post a link and I’ll sign
They (politicians and their hangers on) all see themselves as the new aristocrats with Europe being the new pinacle – note Bliars aspriratons here. It is true all over the world not just here and Europe. The difference in Africa etc. is that once you get in to power you hang on for grim death – oh hang on a mo. there’s Bruin to think about isn’t there…
Look it’s all academic because there is now only 48 days 23 hours 32 minutes to save the World – unless the “Doomsday Clock” on my desk is “fast” of course ?
Brown did well with that,one incomplete newscycle,even Pravda kicked that into touch.
Maybe nobody’s listening but you’ll all live to regret it – I’ve seen “The Day after Tomorrow” 14 times you know – scarey !!!!!
When?
I thought the whole point of Global Warming was that we wouldn’t be alive to regret it.
No, that was the nuclear holocaust.
I wonder what the next generation’s apocalypse will be. Previous generation’s was nuclear holocaust. This one’s is global warming. Each generation believes itself to be living at the edge of the abyss. Religious nutters go up mountains to pray together because they think they have the exact date when ‘everything will come to an end’. Asteroid cloud impact maybe, for next time?
That declaration would look good on a revised Hitler Downfall video – lots of huffing and puffing and I will blow your house down.
Talking of DOWNFALL, I am taking bets that Brown will NEVER appear on any UK High Street during the election campaign – too scared,too unable to socialise with normal people (ie; those he has ruined or are about to be ruined (our children’s future) and too corrupt to be able to answer any question truthfully.
You can ask me about biscuits, er on second thoughts best not to.
intelligence is when the brain knows it’s limitations
Brown has no concept of intelligence, he is an animal, driven by his own sense of inferiority
He is physically repulsive, the repulsion a manifestation of his dark soul
Don’t let your prejudices spoil what may be a reasonable point concerning Brown’s sense of inferiority.
What would a reasonable person consider repulsive about him?
Public sector borrowing is now this day the highest ever it has been.
What the fuck is there to show for it?
30% for Labour in the polls ?
A fat, long deluded, Bruin.
Wasn’t It Better When All Our Politico’s Were Doddering Old Farts?
It Seems To Now Be All Young Career Politico’s
Maybe we Should Have A System Where You Have To Start At Local Level For 5 Years With NO Expenses And Work Your Way Up
None Of This Bringing In A “Ringer To A Safe Seat You Would Have To Have Lived There For Say 10 Years To Be Able To Stand
And NO Employing Family Members !
A safe seat? Bless.
I’ll be with you shortly once I’ve finished wanking.
Jaqui or Pamela?
That’ll stop the dirty little bugger.
‘Ere, stop messin’ abahht!
Finished wanking now then Master Baiter? So how many laminated photos have you got of Gordon then?
Wow!
We await the invention and deployment of the Electric Speaker’s Chair.
Are dose my feet?
Except John O’Donoghue is not going to be promoted to The House of Lords and given the opportunity for even more troughing.
To be sure at least the fella had some class
Lear jets and the races not bath plugs and gay porn
You can take the fat bint out of Redditch but you can’t take Redditch out of the fat bint.
At the minute it is more the opposite – You can take Redditch out of the fat bint, but no-one cannot get the fat bint OUT of Redditch. At least not before the next GE
The fat bints I’ve known (only a couple – in long bygone days), have had red itches. I think it has something to do with friction ‘twixt mating surfaces. I’ll wager the plug monster looks like a little pink and red bumblebee under her vest.
Saw that Peter Hain on Newsnight last night. Has he had a lobotomy? He didn’t sound too good.
Best news all day.
I reckon he takes himself too seriously – pity for him we don’t. Arsehole
Now he is no longer in the inner sanctum, and now merely on the outer rectum, he is expeted to produce his own logical arguements, rather than rely on supplied sound bites. It is his refusal to enter debate on B&P getting 6% of popular vote that is causing this ‘Stepford Wife’ malfunction.
It is and will continue to be demonstrated by all indoctrinated Labour MP’s, as the reality of what they have done comes into focus
I hope everyone enjoys it next year when the SNP and the LibDems decide who is to form the government.
As they say in Ireland wir sind gefickt.
we need a punishment for the hoons , any idea?
Transportation to Cuba? There’s a nice little emptying camp on the southern tip.
Gordon Brown;
The first British Prime Minister to be booed by British war veterans (near Obama Beach,back in those heady days when it looked like some “brave” Labour lightweights would get rid of him).
Gordon Brown;
So hated and despised by so many British people – unlike Marmite;
You either hate him,or you REALLY hate him
It must be difficult for morons to understand this but Gordon Brown is liked and respected. Read the FT coverage of the anniversary of the banking crisis. His intellect is many times greater than Dave Komodo, lizard lips, flicking tongue and stupendous comb over, the leader of the Conservitude Party. The Conservitudes don’t have a clue about what to do about the crisis. As usual they’re wedded to hackneyed, worn out and disproved neo-liberal nostrums. Poor things.
Now picture this image, George Osborne then George Osborne’s ridiculous mouth.
Hahahaha
Boooooo….!!!!
Even if contemporaneous there must have been twelve or fifteen voices, wow!
Read the FT article on the anniversary of the banking crisis.
Hahahaha
“Even if contemporaneous there must have been twelve or fifteen voices, wow!”
Yeah, this is the event where he re-christened Omaha beach, Obama Beach. What a twat.
I really enjoyed the look on Prince Charles’ face at that juncture of Brown’s speech… a sort of resigned into the middle distance look.
He is liked by those who don’t have to suffer his failed politics. FFS, he policy is to completely fuck the British economy for years to come instead of taking the pain now for a better future with some growth is the next 10 years that won’t have to be used to pay off debt. Some fools may see him as some kind of messiah but it is like maxing out all you credit cards, loans, mortgages etc whislt you are redundant in the hope that sometime in the future you will get a job and be able to pay them all off whilst still managing to pay all the interest yet your income is less than the payments and is likely to be for years to come. The politics of a prick.
The debt, oh yeah!
The UK has a lower debt ratio than any other leading economy apart from Canada.
Cutting in the middle of a recession would cause a ‘death spiral’ and a return of the Great Depression with 25% or more mass unemployment and deflation. Deflation where the value of your assets disappear but the cost of your debts grow.
A simpletonian supermarket basket case take on economic policy will not deal with the crisis. Which is why no other country is following the policy espoused by the Conservitudes.
This is what the people think of that bollocks.
MB
your economic ignorance never ceases to amaze.
Oh really, fascinating.
So apart from the first officer of the Star Ship Enterprise, one time Welsh linguist and Secretary of State John ‘Deregulate the Mortgage Market’ Redwood, who actually supports the cut now view of dealing with the crisis?
Hahahaha
Do I hear the sound of hollow laughter?
Labour are finished and you know it.
The Conservitudes are busy painting themselves in to a corner, again.
All they can do is cling on to their suppurating core that’s why they’ve run back in to the right wing woods.
George Osborne, corr! phew!, what a gift, to Labour.
Hahahahaha
There’s that hollow laughter again. Oh dear.
Crap.. Add the public sector pensions deficit and PFI into the mix and this country is indebted up to our necks. Don’t believe what you read in the Mirror… Labour have screwed this country up big time.
Umm, ok, the debt ratio is less than all other leading economies apart from Canada, according to the IMF. The favourite bete noir of the Daily Mail dimwits.
Oh yes and the IMF forecasts that by 2014 the UK debt ratio will have grown substantially to around 87%, which will be substantially less than all the other leading economies. All of those economies have public sector pensions liabilities. The PFI debt is not government debt and even if it were it does not add significantly to the debt ratio and would leave the UK’s relative position better than all other leading economies other than Canada.
It’s not the Mirror or the Daily Mail, it’s the IMF, ok? That’s why the Conservitudes are on their own. No other country is following the policies they espouse because they are mad policies.
Hahahaha
Ha ha ha… no MB we already owe 127% GDP, by next year we’ll owe 157% GDP — about £2.2 trillion. £85k for every household in the UK.
Amusing how Darling is being stern with the banks about ‘no more off-balance sheet debts’ and transparency, where his own government omit PFI (the government has contracted to underwrite every PFI project) and public sector pensions off their own.
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2009/10/brooks-newmark-mp-exposing-the-true-scale-of-labours-hidden-tax-bombshell.html
Place turning to shit before his very eyes. This is what Sissy McSnot is up to:
http://tiny.cc/JAIhF
Brown campaigning to allow gay marriages to take place in the HoC.
“We want more gays and minorities in Parliament, and this should encourage them”.
Who is Brown speaking for?
Not for me, and not for the average Labour voter.
That’s if there’s any HoC left after we’ve finished with the fuckers.
BTW, shouldn’t he be having better things to do, like saving the fucking economy or summat, the wanker.
Bet Mandy had a hand in that.
I suppose its only a matter of time before the modern progressives insist one should be allowed to marry an animal,they are fast running out of taboos to break.
What about the Welsh?
Croeso i Loegr! Yer, what about the Welsh. I’m not Welsh but in my trips to South Wales all I seem to see is industrial dereliction. Poor sods whose only hope is benefits, “training” or the armed forces.
Where are the Kinnocks? Were they straining every sinew to bring jobs and investment to Merthyr or Bridgend? Nah, they found they can go far on the Eurostar!!
As an Englishman I feel genuinely sorry for the state that the youngsters of Wales are in. Add to that others around the UK and you have a lost generation completely let down by the political class.
They say that they didn’t count the Labour vote in Merthyr, they weighed it. I’m sorry Wales, given the state of your nation, I still don’t understand your political allegiance.
I fully agree.. The Welsh vote Labour and where has it got them? The same as everywhere else that voted Labour, nowhere…. A vote for Labour is a vote to remain at best where you are and at worst see your living standards decline. Why do people vote for a party whose main aim is to keep people in poverty, keep people on benefits and therefore keep people reliant on the state. FFS, vote for anyone but Labour. I live bear the border with Norh Wales and short of an aircraft factory their is fuck all expect shit small scale white good manufacturing and the dole.
The Labour government has done plenty to improve conditions and prospects for the average person in the UK.
That’s why the Conservitudes have been manoevered in to promises on the NHS and wibling about education and ‘Sure Start’.
Where’s The Conservitude bull on hug a hoody and vote blue get green wear recycled trainers gone? They’re so scared they’ve run back in to the right wing nutcase woods to stroke their core vote of mean spirited bigots, nationalists, dimwits, flat earthers, newsagents and stationers.
Hahahaha
Ha ha ha… there you go again. I’ll enjoy watching all those final salary public sector pensions dissolve into Scotch mist. A grades rejected by universities as they have to do a year’s remedial work before they can attempt the course, transgender and breast reduction ops becoming unavailable on the NHS.
The bailiffs are coming…
With very few exceptions, all politicians are corrupt,self-serving,immoral bastards
no matter which party they’ve aligned themselves to. They don’t give a shit about those
they’re supposed to represent.
I think you might be surprised by who the Welsh vote for if there’s ever an election. People don’t vote Liebour because their great-granddad did any more.
Another coincidence. They are both two f the most attractive men in politics!
We are now properly politically correct.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6375884/Mock-The-Week-in-trouble-over-Rebecca-Adlington-joke.html
Sorry Rebecca you are a very pretty girl but the joke was very funny.
Where do they think we are, fucking North Korea? Sorry, silly question.
I can’t wait to hear his jokes about Amir Khan, Joe Calzaghe and Mike Tyson.
The only jokes you don’t hear much of are ones about Islam. Plenty about vicars and tarts of course. Funny that, or not as the case may be.
Frankie Boyle is the funniest bloke on telly.
If you don’t like his humour, turn the fucking programme over.
In the words of the time honoured test, I would give her one!
and their economy was so buggered that they had no choice but to ratify the Lisbn Treaty – which is exactly what will happen to us – I don’t know why we even bother voting anymore.
Now the useless muppet (James Brown) is in front of the diversity panel to spout more PC bollocks – and faltering over the ‘4 white scottish men’ in the Cabinet with no ethnic minority groups there. Oh hang on – he is talking about the very successful attorney general – is he on the same planet as us?
Thanks Gordon and Merchant Bankers, this is what we are now brought to.
Carry on troughing.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6359356/Half-of-specialist-heart-units-for-children-face-closure-under-radical-Government-plans.html
The article is sensible and is suggesting that the smaller cardiac surgery units should close because their surgeons carry out too few operations and therefore lack the skills to get good results.
The article reports that the moves are supported by the majority of parents with affected babies.
I suppose it’s as well that we don’t really know how much Hamid Khazi has salted away for his inevitable exile, but we do know how many military deaths and injuries it has cost for him to get to where he’s at.
Cowen and Brown look remarkably similar, only the former is a fat ‘tard with 2 eyes.
http://photos.thefirstpost.co.uk/assets/library/brian-cowen-big–123805815517901800.jpg
So troubles in the Irish Enslaved State (It is no-longer the Free state after they voted away control over their lives in the EU referendum).
Bertie Ahern claimed some of the “cash” found in his safe, came from a bookie at Aintree !!
They are all at it .
Does he get a cushy seat in the House of Lords too?
The Paddies need to stop babbling in their retarded unga-bunga moon language and start speaking English, like their betters across the Irish Sea.
Yes. Having a prime minister named after a teashop. Just ridiculous.
There are far more similarities than that Guido,both came to power in 1997 after the opposition party had straightened out after their previous spending binge,both staffed civil service with party loyalists and started to govern solely by quango ,both have a nonchalant view on terrorists,both suck up to artists for the kudos,both relied on stamp duty from an ever expanding property market to underpin treasury spending commitments,both bought off as many members of the electorate with social welfare(whether working or not) as they could,both spend more on welfare than receive in tax,both have the national TV broadcaster firmly on side,the opposition get no positive publicity,both are totally financially incompetent and an attack on their policies is declared an attack on ones country,both are in thrall of the unions and pass laws which empower unions but make job creation a thankless task best avoided,both love corporations but treat self-employed as thieves.
I could go on but why bother.
Fianna fail will be returned at the next election as the opposition parties supporters will have emigrated again to where they lived in the 80`s when the only jobs went to the “partys” people.
The reason for these similarities is simple,politics in Ireland is a family business and damn near this entire generation have studied at the London School of Economics.Yes I know its supposedly a school of economics
Though he has been exposed as a fraudster he at least did the right thing and resigned. Our lot on the other hand…..
[...] today comes the news that the Irish Speaker has been forced out of office after blatantly treating the public purse as [...]
Celtic Parliamentary Democracy.?.?.?
Give me a break , please.
Boru’s Chaplain