December 3rd, 2009

Byrne Gets His Numbers Wrong


Pah, £400,000?  No bother.  Osborne will just take it out of his trust fund…


127 Comments

  1. 1
    Talwin says:

    Lazy. Slack. Incompetent.

  2. 2
    Mr Ned says:

    Scrap the credits. Don’t take the tax off the poor in the first place.

    It is very inefficient, cruel and immoral to overtax poor people, then force them to fill in very intrusive forms detailing their private financial information just to allow them to claim THEIR OWN EARNED MONEY back.

    I have never ever claimed working family tax credit as I find the whole concept to be both cruel and humiliating.

    If you want to help the poor. Don’t fucking tax them in the first place!!!

    • 3
      Grumpy Old Man says:

      +++THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE+++

      • 54
        Grumpy Old Man says:

        Tell that Miss Turd Hat his posts are a so repeTATtive.

      • 109
        Anonymous says:

        Yes!

        take a look at today’s little announcement from Myners.

        approx 5,000 people to be paid over £1million this year.

        £100 (approx) per person living here

        OR – The national average wage for 200,000 people

        OR – 10% pay rise for 2,000,000 people on average wage.

        so;
        - how many pension funds have been plundered to pay for this?
        - how many ordinary people will live in poverty as a result?

        • 111
          Anonymous says:

          plus – look at the RBS Bonus Pool of £1.5 billion:

          that’s the jobs of 60,000 people on average wages

          or a 10% pay rise for 600,000 people!

          and this is just one bank!

          • TaT's 'special' Gay Friend says:

            The Bankers would not have a job if they hadn’t been rescued with tax payer money.

            This move by RBS Directors is wholly mistimed. Like the staff will find it easy to secure another better job right now. They just couldn’t wait a year could they?

    • 4

      works for me, and ensures that there aren’t people employed to take money, and then more people employed to try to give some back

      • 86
        Over population, what are we all going to do? says:

        That’s the problem, we need to find a new mass employer, farming anyone?

    • 8
      James says:

      Hear, hear!

      I have to claim these pissy credits in order to make ends meet, AND have to deal with the ridiculous re-claiming procedures when they accidentally give me too much.

      They take it off me in my payslip, give it back to me via tax credits and then take it back via a direct tax charge.

      Just how many fucking civil servants is that keeping in a job? Scrap the whole fucking thing and STOP OVERTAXING THE LOW-PAID.

    • 11
      Clarence says:

      Ah, yes: Working Families Tax Credit [sic].

      Whose bright idea was that, then?

      • 19
        byebyegordon says:

        Gives Gordon millions of extra votes. Bulk of the 25% probably. Forgot to tell those without kids he was depressing wagws at the same time.

    • 17
      13eastie (154 Days: Good-bye, Gordon!) says:

      If the tax credits were to be scrapped, and replaced with greater tax breaks, we would need another system to run in parallel to give folk regular reminders of how generous Labour was being to them.

    • 35
      Hypocritical Nadine says:

      So how would you fund essential services such as education and health?DOH!

    • 66
    • 78
      Pen and paper says:

      If you didn’t tax them in the first place, how could the government justify it’s army of pen and paper shuffling d1cks? Labour love make-work schemes.

    • 110
      Off to anywhere but here if I could. says:

      But that’s the simple common sense solution, they needed the ‘third way’, aka the one that employs the most liebour voters.

    • 123
      solopolis says:

      Too right Mr Ned. A bit too big a dose of common sense for the shower of bastards in charge though.

      Be careful, you’ll have the bureaucrats after you for wanting to make their jobs redundant. It’ll be like being savaged by a mob armed with pitchforks made of jelly. In triplicate!

  3. 5
    Jimmy says:

    It’s a typo. What’s Gideon Wallpaper’s excuse?

    Are these really the talking points or are you making these up yourself?

  4. 6
    Unsworth says:

    They’re just so bad at it, aren’t they? Can’t even get the lies properly typed. Incompetent (incontinent?) pricks.

  5. 7
    Clarence says:

    Liam forgot to mention that George Osborne and the Tories plan to kill all first-born children in order to destroy public services and finance huge tax cuts for Old Etonians.

  6. 9
    I'm As Mad As Hell and Won't Take it Anymore says:

    Go figure

  7. 12
    Will says:

    Mr Ned: we need all this mind bending bureaucracy to keep people in pointless jobs!

    And if you can remember the ‘working with Liam Byrne’ pompus crap he wrote as guidance his staff, this error means that someone will get a HUGE bollocking.

  8. 13
    Right Bastard says:

    Civil servants ignoring his typos and errors to get back at his self important control freakery.

    What a prick.

    • 105
      Anonymous says:

      If civil servants take revenge on pricks then Bullingdon Georgie has problems coming (and I have heard thats true as well).

  9. 14
    Labour's Losing It says:

    Byrne the Labour “Attack Dog”?

    Not only does he look bloody stupid……..

    • 89
      • 93
        My Other Cars Not A Prius Either! says:

        This gobshite is an MP here in Birmingham,I would estimate 60 percent of his consituents are unemployed/disabled,mostly of pakistani origin.Of the remainder all would be in receipt of one benefit or another mostly tax credits or single slags allowance.2nd highest rate of heroin abuse in the midlands,crime figures appalling and the entire area is a grotty third worldesque shithole.
        Well Done Liam (value added points for him being slow witted)

        • 124
          Abdul, you put the X in the box like the man from the Labour Party told you to says:

          Wow, MP for Hodge Hill. Classy. One of the most corrupt constituencies in the nation.

          The ghetto of East Birmingham has more postal voters than it does constituents!

      • 119
        ERRATA says:

        Byrne gets his words wrong as well as his numbers.

        The word is REMUNERATION not RENUMERATION.

        There is no such word as renumeration, you pillock.

  10. 15
    The Grim Reaper says:

    What a dated early 1970s slogan it truly is:

    NEW LABOUR

    NEW BRITAIN

    Of course, the word CAMPS should be inserted after the word LABOUR

    (and can anyone tell me whats new about Labour after almost 13 years of bad luck for “New” Britain)

    Surely even Handy Mandy and Corporal Campbell can do better than that?

  11. 16
    Brown's Removal Van Man says:

    Next May can’t come soon enough for this bunch of appalling individuals, or us.

    What’s Tony Blair getting for a birthday present?

    The humiliation of Gordon Brown.

  12. 20
    Raving Loon says:

    Can we just abolish income tax already?!

  13. 22
    Dave "Cast Iron Guarantee" Cameron says:

    Tiger Woods is driving through Ireland to go to the K Club and stops for petrol.
    He walks up to the till and asks the shop assistant for 30€ of petrol and the man asks Tiger if he would like him to put the petrol in for him, so Tiger lets him
    The man starts putting the petrol in the car and Tiger bend down to tie his lace and a tee falls out of his pocket.
    “What’s that?” asks the man
    “It’s a tee to put your balls on while your driving” explains Tiger
    “Wow BMW thinking of fucking everything!” replies the man.

  14. 36
    Too much detail,dear! says:

    This Ber cow woman – what an amazing thing to reveal – so drunk she screws anyone,so drunk she’s comatose on the tube.

    And now this thing occupies a building which I pay for.

    And this is just the stuff she chose to reveal!

    As we always say on this site – you simply couldn’t make it up.

  15. 37
    Clarence says:

    Miss Turd Hat,
    Jimmy is scared now leave him alone!

  16. 42
    The bottom line says:

    ‘Tiger bends down to tie his shoelace’ and gets promptly spit roasted by a couple of passing priests.

  17. 44
    Mere simple actions are beyond him says:

    Anyone see Brown saying Goodbye to the Pakistani PM at the doors of No 10?

    Hilarious – his guest starts to put his hand forward to shake Brown’s hand (the mere thought makes me shudder).

    Brown looks away at his next guest and goes to shake HIS hand,the Pakistani PM takes the insult and steps off on to the pavement and Brown then looks at him with a bizarre twitch.

    The drugs don’t work.

  18. 51
    Sam Hart says:

    Civil servants call him “Shakey” Byrne because he struggles to get to grasp with the issues.

  19. 52
    Great site says:

    This is a great site

  20. 61
    byebyegordon says:

    At least at Eton they daren’t get their sums wrong.

  21. 69
    not so civil servant says:

    With Mandy running the country and Ali Campbell now directing PMQ’s, what fucking use is that propped up meathead in No. 10 for?

    • 77
      Nature Watch says:

      bcos he is the masthead / figure head.

      the public face of liebore

      means the other creeps can do their stuff relatively unmolested.

      oh how i would love to molest the whining fuckers

      couldn’t they be trapped in a lovers embrace? – depending on who’s shaggin who – and then left locked togethr – ykno like dogs.

    • 107
      Anonymous says:

      Fulfils the same function as P R Puff and Bullingdon Georgie – lets the plebs think they know whos in charge.

  22. 73
    jgm2 says:

    Not much from jgm2 today, isn’t it?

  23. 80
    Jac says:

    Yep, I’ve walked into Parliament, the debate in here is about as concise! Frankly the sooner we get to election the sooner we hear the same shit different day from the blues not the reds!

  24. 83
    caesars wife says:

    Gives me all the faith in invesment bankers to know Mr byrne is helping to make it up .

    Lord myners , darling , blowing wind on bounus culture for bankers getting a bit of ground laid for next week ,”it was nae me ” Ally campbell is back and we all know it starts with a deft abrasive rebuttals and ends in weeping spads !!

    CW is in the shed gently honing his blade , to mozart , ready to for the spin , no use telling us all your unhappy with Labour EUSSR now in the city , that I once believed worked for the free voting people of the UK .

    The ruin and peter cannot put off answering the questions now .

    Re scientists not forcing MPs decisions on climate change CW thinks the science is not so difficult to understand , but for a moment let us not think of global warming or more accurately heating , if the argument is that we should not do anything and carry on as useual and just cope with the effects , that assumes that you know what the effects will be . Life is dependent not just upon temperature but upon enviroment , certain complex organisms can only survive in certain enviroments , you dont find wilder beast in the dessert as there aint no grass , you dont find large fish in the dead sea as it doesnt support nutients .
    start damaging eco systems and whole layers of life cannot function , the anaology that polar bears will become brown bears , is very different to polluting rivers and land , one is change the other is toxic , toxic that eventually gets into the food chain , toxic that affects other life forms that eventually comes back to us .

    science is telling us a lot about that , MPs seem to overlook it as though the things we dont dont have affects !

  25. 91
    Cynic says:

    Have you see Alex Smith’s interview of Caroline Flint on LieBore list?

    There has been a terrible outbreak of honesty in all the fluff and ‘we can win the next election’ nonsense. Among the Gems are Alex asking:

    ” Can you see how that might look if you’re a vulnerable Prime Minister with a propensity for paranoia? ”

    and her comment

    ” Seeing my name on a list of cabinet members made me feel a bit of a fraud”

    Well, we can all empathise with both of those.

  26. 92
    Cynic says:

    Well Liam is only a Treasury Minister and, as we all know, sums ain’t a strong point there

  27. 95
    The Liam Byrne Initiative says:

    Liam Byrne, the SOB no-one would ever tire of punching squarley in his smug gob.

    New game for Christmas.

    The Liam Byrne ‘Twat Slap’.
    ‘It’s the right thing to do’

    Fun for all the family.
    Available at all good high street stores.

  28. 96
    Anonymous says:

    Another day, another U-Turn

  29. 97
    RestandBthankful says:

    I really couldn’t believe my ears this morning when I heard some twat saying that in order to reduce global warming we should be funding contraception. Apparently unwanted children are causing global warming. Unwanted children are causing women to remain poor. Surely if these people didn’t have so many “unwanted” children they would spend the money on things like fridges, cars etc – which we were told adds to global warming. Duh!

    So it would seem it’s not cars and air travel that is the cause of global warming after all – it’s children. You couldn’t make it up could you. It sounds like someone jumping on the current bandwagon to get funding for contraception which is free in the UK anyway!!!!!

  30. 98
    Realpolitik says:

    They don’t just get numbers ‘wrong’, they get everthing wrong.

    The pure evil that is Labour produces nothing but misery.

    This below is the indicator of ultimate success or failure.

    ‘Britain’s children are the unhappiest in the West, according to a Unicef study of 21 industrialised countries.

    Not only do they drink the most, smoke more and have more sex than their peers, they rate their health as the poorest, dislike school more and are among the least satisfied with life. Their relative poverty, the lack of time spent eating meals with their parents and mistrust of classmates mean that Britain languishes at the bottom of the wellbeing league table. As a result, says Jonathan Bradshaw, one of the authors of Report Card 7: an Overview of Child Wellbeing in Rich Countries, Britain is a “picture of neglect”.

    Lie your way out of that one you child abusing creeps!

  31. 113
    Watt Tyler says:

    Perhaps if the parasites paid back their ill-gotten gains…

    PARASITES: http://eotp.wordpress.com/?s=parasite

  32. 116
    shergar says:

    The giraffesque Mrs Bercow apparently leaves her pint on John’s head while the wee man puts that devious tongue to good use. Ordure!

  33. 125
    Dodgy Punter says:

    I will fuck nything. Give er ere.

  34. 126
    Anonymous says:

    test



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