December 6th, 2009

Sunday Sleaze : Pesky Bloggers Do It Again

Sunday Sleaze

Lord Taylor of Warwick is back in a spot of bother over claiming overnight expenses in relation to properties which he doesn’t live in – again – and if wasn’t for those pesky blogs he would have got away with it.   He claimed to the Sunday Times earlier this year that he had lived at his mother’s home in the West Midlands. However this claim turned out to be false as his mother died in 2001 and her house was sold that year.  His former wife has also confirmed that he lived in London, and nowhere else, until their separation in 2003.

Lord Taylor blogs occasionally on the Lords of the Blog site, it was on there that a co-conspirator* challenged him about the matter in the comments (since removed).

However Guido has a copy:

Lord Taylor of Warwick
Thank you for your comments. For your information, the police have examined my expenses. The police are satisfied that there has been no impropriety or any other cause for concern. They have thanked me for my cooperation, and will not be taking the matter further.

In late October Guido passed this snippet of news on to Jonathan Calvert who originally revealed the fiddles in the Sunday Times and knows more about peer’s fiddles than the House of Lord’s financial administration. Last night Jonathan got back in touch to say

… Thanks for letting me know about Lord Taylor of Warwick’s escape from the police investigation. We went back into it and the result is in the paper tomorrow. He was hiding another address (where, inevitably, he doesn’t live either) …

The result is that the Conservative peer is facing a fresh police investigation into his expenses after using the address of a second house belonging to his nephew’s companion to claim tens of thousands of pounds to which he was not entitled. To paraphrase Scooby Doo: he would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for those pesky bloggers…

*A Conspiracy Member T-shirt is on its way to Guido’s pesky source.  The best stories are always  a result of tip-offs from this blog’s readers.  Peter Hain, Prescott, Damian McBride – all undone in reality by co-conspirators as much as Guido.  You make this blog.


190 Comments

  1. 1
    Good Morning says:

    Morning all

    • 5
      Get Real says:

      Westminster has to realise that Lords and MPs are no different than the rest of society and if given the opportunity some WILL fiddle their expenses. They have to get real and vet ALL claims however small or large and make the consequences of fiddling severe.

      A good starting point would be how expenses are regulated with forensic detail in the armed forces and the consequence of loss of pension and dismissal from the service if caught.

      • 24
        Judge Mental says:

        Then again, there are dangers for the aspiring blogger in tipping off Murdoch’s press…….

        http://tinyurl.com/ybtawa5

        • 41
          Nick says:

          Why has Adam Osborne “reverted” to islam? Surely he wouldn’t need to convert if he’d been born into the ‘religion of peace’?

        • 47
          British Insurgent says:

          Kerrrrrbbbbbooooooooommmmmmm!

        • 86
          This much is clear... says:

          Al Gore jumped on the power trip that is his global warming crusade, to compensate for the fact he didnt make President. That much is clear.

        • 95
          Jus Sayin Guv says:

          No offence but is their another few names to use other than Mohammed? It’s not very original really, I mean fucking hell if the future is going to be 7 billion Mohammed’s walking about, think of the fucking chaos that will follow.

          Have you seen Mohammed?

          Yes which one?

          Errr…….

        • 97
          Sir William Waad says:

          ‘Revert’ is Muslim jargon for ‘convert’. They have an idea that everybody is ‘naturally’ Muslim which justfiies condemning everybody else as an apostate.

        • 104
          Guidos blog of trivia keeps the sheep amused says:

          Only it’s not a global warming crusade it is a global banker goverment fascist dictatorship crusade aided by the global warming hoax that is a proven world wide conspiracy.

          Not only backed by the crooked scientists, but the politicians and the media.

          Anyone else notice how the leaked emails exposing the fraud got little coverage from the mainstreme media!

          Al whore, Gordoom, obaaaamalama – all puppets of the bankers who now own us through fiat debt and interest – we are in essence their slaves.

          Anyone else notice how quiet the mainstreme media are regarding the fact that the EU-which is the global banker european wing of their global empire, got almost no coverage again from the media.

          How people still talk about left and right Labour and Conservatives yet they have almost no power and power that is shrinking by the day as the unelected rule over us and make decisions we have no power to change, especially if we continue to vote the traiterous husks that are Labour and Tory.

          You pay taxes yet you have almost NO representation!

          Yet No one says anything, Guido says next to nothing the media say next to nothing!

          Do you know what they are about to sign this week? and how much influence you DON’T have to either stop it or influence its outcome.

          Exposed as a hoax, exposed as a conspiracy, exposed as undemocratic, exposed as fascist, yet no one speaks up, every one carries on talking about the puppets that are Labour and the Tories and Guido plays his part in the big distraction that is party politics of trivia and bullshit in the big picture?

          Has Gordon explained that he has borrowed money from a private loan shark organisation called the federal reserve banking cartel?

          Why are we not teaching our children about the way money is created out of thin air by a banking cartel that rapes countries of real wealth?

      • 82
        A Trougher says:

        Get real, dont be silly the army are made up of the little people why dont you and your like just accept this.

        • 109
          • ukip are a fake party says:

            Yes what an assshole, abit like the UKIP leader who offered to disband his pretend political party (pressure group) if the Tories gave in to their demands, the Tories led by Dave who will sign us away in a flash to this NWO globalist fascist grouping founded on the climate change hoax while sculating our soldiers in Afghanistan.

            Call yourself a party with a real ideology…pah! pathetic.

          • grant mitchell says:

            What an arrogant, four eyed, foppish geekoid.

          • ukip are a fake party says:

            So seeing as UKIP would have disbanded if the Tories gave us a referendum, It would appear that dispite what UKIP say they are Pro the wars, pro climate hoax and world goverment, pro mass immigration, just as long as we get a referendum on Europe all other issues they care not a crap about – clearly!

          • thick as thieves says:

            said the fake poster.
            what an asshole.

          • ukip are a fake party says:

            Am I standing for election seeking power, thick as shit?
            Do I represent a party, thick as shit?
            Does having a pathetic blog name make me any less fake, thick as shit?

            Now piss off you pointless troll.

          • UKRAP infiltraited? says:

            ukip stealing other peoples videos then put their name alll over it again.

            By the way what is the REAL reason Farage stood down for that dull Tory toff? has UKRAP been infiltrated and undermined by the state?

          • Moley says:

            It was my understanding that UKIP were discussing the possibility of a deal for this election only in return for a referendum on Europe.

            The problem with this is that I have to say with regret that there is no certainty that Cameron would have kept his word.

            UKIP were right to make the offer; the Conservatives were wrong to refuse it.
            I have an infinitely greater understanding of what UKIP stand for than I do of the Conservatives. The only people in the Conservative party with clear principles are on the fringes of it.

      • 181
        Re Nelson Tamped says:

        Who was the MP from Pontypridd who was suspended for giving a member of staff a first class rail ticket that they were not entitled to?

    • 9
      Fred says:

      Those voters in Cheltenham all those years ago had the right idea.

    • 91
      Lies it is all Lies says:

      Gordon and Obama are telling LIES about Afghanistan. Things are NO better

      http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/12/200912685722239138.html

    • 185
      7/7 Islam says:

      He looks like someone’s pet darkie!

      Did they dress him up like that and give him a peerage for some kind of wager??

  2. 2
    Smiley says:

    Tinker Taylor Trougher Liar

  3. 3
    Man With a Very Hot Bladder says:

    Another lord caught on the fiddle. Fancy that!

    • 187
      Kroutdick says:

      And they told everyone what a nice gentleman he was, when he stood as the Conservative Candidate for Cheltenham.!

      He was rejected, then they made him a Lord.

      Now he’s under investigation.

      Shurely a mishtake ?

      He looks rather nice to me, but then I like ‘em all.!

  4. 4
    Shocked of Sheen says:

    Baroness Scotland has just said on “Desert Island Discs” that her father’s advice to her was to:
    “Eat well, for that is the only way to get strong…”
    Trougher.

    • 8
      TJ says:

      Considering her background I’m surprised she ever met her father.

    • 12
      Robinson says:

      What is she taking with her onto the Island?

    • 32
      casa la manga says:

      Meanwhile, her Tongan ex-cleaner gets to go to a real desert island.

      Hope she likes coconuts.

    • 55
      righty right wing (mrs) says:

      “I have always been a devout Christian” – Baroness Scotchland on Desert Island Discs.

      “Thou Shalt Not Steal”

      You are going to hell you troughing hypocritical cow.

    • 133
      Doris says:

      What the f*** is a dodgy Minister who is under investigation doing on Desert Island Discs? This woman should be given NO airtime as she is clearly as dodgy as hell. It’s amazing that labour have created a society where the criminals and idiots get all the publicity and air time. People like Scotland are shameless and believe their own lies. 30 years ago no doubt she would have been locked up in an asylum for her scizophrenic and deceptive nature -but care in the community now means we must suffer these people as ministers. What a crazy country we live in.

  5. 6
    Ey up Fatha says:

    Tha’d better divi up to them as puts bread on’t table then Guido.

  6. 7
    Jon says:

    Lord Taylor is an oily sleazebag. He reminds me of a Tory version of Keith Vaz.

    Meanwhile, over at the Spectator, Rod Liddle is being threatened by a baying mob of multi-culti, ethno-communists and their gang of useful idiots:

    http://www.spectator.co.uk/rodliddle/5601833/benefits-of-a-multicultural-britain.thtml#comments

    • 19
      Len says:

      Poor Rod.

      He white flighted it out of London and fled to Wiltshire to get away from that sort of thing.

      • 88
        Old Nick Heavenly(real dimwit) says:

        Used to know a lot of Rastas in the 80’s.

        They would talk Dread to each other, but excellent english to me, well the ones that had been educated in the Caribean would! The others standard Londonspeak!

        • 148
          Nick says:

          I used to buy second hand CDs from a shop on the Railton Road in the 80s – practically all of the fiercest looking rastas shopping in it had pretty middle class accents and one or two sounded Oxbridge.

    • 23
      Ali says:

      thick as thieves is right. Please don’t post links to the Spectator which is a vicious, rightwing, islamo-phobic racist rag which is intent on stirring up ethnic conflict in our stable, peaceful multi-cultural society. I’m surprised hate-sheets like that are still legal in this country.

    • 25
      JD says:

      tat = mohammedan

      He hates the native English in case you haven’t noticed.

    • 26
      terry says:

      Fuck off you multi-culti, ethno-communist, and stick your curried goat up yer arse.

      • 35
        LMAO says:

        tat = muslim pederast

        He just loves those boys dancing for him!

      • 39
        concrete pump says:

        I would dance…but i’m enjoying a spliff.

      • 59
        duggie says:

        Can I piѕs all over you, like I did last night top boy?

      • 73
        Duggie's Crack Dealer says:

        Could we just get this straight? Top Boy says Duggie did pay me but in fact Duggie didn’t pay me the money he owes me. That is why I pissed all over his head.
        I would not have pissed on him if he had paid me what he owes. And then on top of that he wanted more crack cocaine as well.
        I am a reasonable person but when Duggie failed to pay me what he owes me and then asked me for more crack that is when I thought he was taking the piss and so that is when I pissed on him.
        There, I am glad we ironed that one out.

      • 98
        you're special gay fuck buddy duggie says:

        So, is that a yes or a no?

    • 36
      TaT's 'special' Gay Friend says:

      Still amazing us with you wit, and intellect? Jeesh you will be posting something useful, contributory, and nearly humorous one day. Might even be a Sunday?

      Anoraks cleaning day is it? Guess your free sample pack of Febreeze normally hides the BO, and moves the dandruff for a couple of days. Pity the grease stains persist.

      • 44
        boy wonder says:

        I don’t know what he drinks, but I can’t get rid of the piss stains.

      • 54
        AA says:

        tat has been outed as a muslim who hates the English. I suspect he’s a fringe member of some extremist group like al-Muhajiroun

        He’s probably not an active terrorist, more of an internet gobshite but perhaps the security services should take a look at his bedsit just in case.

      • 56
        TaT's 'special' Gay Friend says:

        I much prefer you as Master beater

    • 50
      Jon says:

      thick as shit, Why would anyone pay me to post a link to the Spectator?

      You deranged fuckwit.

      • 64
        troy says:

        Jon, don’t encourage him. You do realise he’s whacking one out while his posting this shite don’t you, the little perv?

  7. 10
    BV says:

    Does “Lord” Taylor draw his hair on with a felt tip pen?

  8. 11
    Moley says:

    If their lordships understood how much damage their theft and their abject failure to do anything about it was causing to this country and to the concept of justice and law they would quietly do the decent thing and shoot themselves en-masse.

    Who would trust the judgement of a Law Lord now?

    I would guess that now, when their Lordships book into a Hotel, they hide their shame and drop the title.

  9. 17
    Attila the Hun says:

    Never mind his lordship – small beer.
    Read some of what europe has in store for us….

    Could the EU ‘house grab’ law be applied to UK homes?

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1233012/EU-inheritance-law-shake-leave-British-property-owners-homeless.html

    • 176
      Moley says:

      Reading this; if you bought a house up to fifteen years ago that was owned by someone now living in Europe, or whose children now live in Europe, the European courts can undo all the sales subsequent to that ownership to protect the inheritance rights of European citizens.

      So the rights of English children are to be subordinate to the rights of European children.

      The reason why this worries me is that I know as a certainty that none of our politicians will do anything whatever to protect our rights. They will sell us out without blinking an eye.

  10. 20
  11. 21
    delroy says:

    Is he a real Lord, or is that his christian name?

  12. 22
    genghiz the kahn says:

    Baroness Ashton claimed she did not take any money from foreign communists when she was working for CND. But were CND taking funds via CPGB instead?
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1233545/Baroness-Ashton-communist-lover-riddle-Moscow-gold.html#comments
    Am looking forward to her sueing The Mail….

    Good to see Marr giving Darling an easy time on Politics Show, nothing on which school The Chancellor went to – is it because both went to an Independent fee paying establishment?

  13. 27
    Sod 'em all says:

    What happened to that old bastard – a Labour Lord whose name escapes me – who got caught out using his influence to do the bidding of corporations who bribed him to subordinate the public’s interests to theirs? I seem to recall the old Kunt apologising to the rest of the House of Parasites over his being caught out, but was that the full extent of his ‘punishment’?

  14. 28
    Dack Blog says:

    CMD on The Politics Show. Gunfire in the background. Sort those bloody sights out, lads!

  15. 43
    Rock Solid says:

    I wonder if George Osborne’s muslim brother, Mohammed, will be able to keep him up to speed on the latest threats, when Georgy gets to be chancellor?

    Wouldn’t mind betting MI5 have had a word already.

    And what’s the betting there’ll soon be a nice, big new mosque in his town!

    • 62
      streamfisher says:

      Nothing compared to the threats he will get if he later converts to another religion like Blair, Muslims who deny the faith are worse than infidels, that marks you out for a priority death sentence.

  16. 46
    Anonymous says:

    “Lords of the Blog” is a rocking blogsite nonetheless…

    Even if it does feature Lord ‘Freedom to Fly’ Soley..

  17. 51
    genghiz the kahn says:

    Jon Sopel getting worked up on the lack of transparancy about which schools Cameron’s MPs went to, ought to have another look at a similar omission of this web page.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/politics_show/meet_the_team/default.stm

    Nothing like a double standard.

    But Marr seems to be incapable of raising the question of how Alistair Darling’s attendance at Lorretto is somehow less significant than Call Me Dave’s time at Eton.

    • 68
      FD says:

      If the Tories don’t sort out the leftist bias at the BBC as soon as they get in, then they want their heads examined.

      • 158
        Nick says:

        Break up & privatise the BBC! It’s demonstrably biased and produces prolefeed programming, whether in drama, reality, documentary or ‘news’ spheres. In addition, every program that I’ve had to sit through in the recent past seems to have a ‘recap’ of what’s already been shown/said every 10-15 minutes throughout the program.

        If people really want to see BBC output then distribute the various programs on pay per view (or similar). The undiscriminating can pay for the patronising BBC propaganda they watch and the rest of us can choose to pay to watch what we want to.

  18. 57
    Gordon now has less than 24hrs to save the Earth says:

    Greece staring debt default in the face with increasing civil unrest over spending cuts. Could the country be the first domino to fall? Will it trigger defaults in other troubled euro member countries Portugal, Spain, Ireland and Italy as well? Will the Germans and French step in with enough funding to shore the euro project up? Can they even hope to stop the euro’s collapse? It starts to get interesting….

    • 67
      FD says:

      Greece are just a few months in front of the UK. When the shit hits the fan over here it will make Ireland, Greece, and Spain look like a vicar’s tea party.

      • 136
        Old Nick Heavenly(real dimwit) says:

        Indeedy doodaa!

        United Condom is worst placed in the ‘developed’ world!

        My advice is still to swallow your pride and run.

        Northern Europe will ’semi-seperate’ itself from the south when it gets really serious.

        Why should the clever hardworking Krauts bailout the useless bastards!

        The Volk would not tolerate that. German politicos will do anything to stop a total reversion to outright fascism!

        United Condom IS the most fascist country in the EU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  19. 65
    Blast from the Past says:

    “We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists, and in so far as it ever did exist, it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy, followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step.”
    Jim Callaghan – Speech at the Labour Party Conference, 28 September 1976

    Could be that Sunny Jim and Margaret Hilda were actually singing from the same hymn sheet?

    Actually, what was said was, and remains, 100% true.

  20. 75
    REEVO says:

    Perhaps the blogs could look into government services 0845 and other cash cow telephone RIP OFF numbers.

    As it stands it costs you 9 times out of 10 over the odds to ring NHS Doctors, Department of Work and Pensions and many others.

    Why should Government Departments make cash out of people ringing for advice and assistance.

    Everybody expects to pay a little for a call but these loaded telephone charges are taking the piss!

    • 80
      Talking Bollox says:

      NHS free at the point of Delivery…..er…..’cept for this of course….and em…..dentists, did someone say dentists…

  21. 78
    Talking Bollox says:

    I hope those charged with looking after the welfare of our great Leader are ensuring he receives adaquate rest today prior to his herculean task of saving the World Tomorrow.

    I am brought to tears when I think of his courage and self sacrifice and whos only thought is for the many and not the few. All hail the Great Leader.

  22. 84
    iain, ni says:

    Is Ed Milliband’s position that climate change is ‘man-made’?
    Thats what he said to Lawson on the Politics Show.

  23. 85
    The Hitch says:

    So we have a silvery spoon new labour lawyer faking his expenses at a house lived in by two ho mos ?
    One of the Ho mos also just happens to be related to said silvery moon.
    I celebrate their diversity

  24. 89
    anon says:

    No need for a citizens database, soon enough all 60 million of us will be named Mohammed or Aisha.

  25. 90
    Anonymous says:

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6945976.ece

    ‘Gordon Brown snubbed by soldiers’ ‘curtain’ protest’

    I wouldnt talk to the fucker either.

  26. 94
    Proxy Wars (Last Para if you're short of time) says:

    While Judith Curry’s belated point concerning the need for availability and transparency of data, interpretations etc is obviously welcome, there is still a self-serving theme manifested in her letter

    This is demonstrated simply with two quotes from the letter:

    1)” … but the need for such transparency has only been voiced recently as the policy relevance of climate data has increased.”

    Not at all recent, I’m afraid. I remember being astonished in 1995 at the difficulty encountered in obtaining the actual temperature readings from various weather stations across the globe that were being used in mass media reports to increase public awareness (a euphemistic word) of the AGW position. Amazingly, a birthday present in, I think, 2006 from my son of a Michael Crichton fiction novel actually contained an obscure NASA web address in it’s references. That’s 12 years of deliberate data obscurity while the mass media were fed increasingly strident, simplistic stories pandering to the media’s desire for sensationalism. Using this NASA address, I began to understand the difficulties of clean data, data holes, proxies, grid cells for models and so on, together with the assumptions underlying the AGW position

    Judith Curry completely underestimates, even ignores, the frustration and suspicions aroused by this deliberate burial of data from common access

    2) ” … climate tribes (consisting of a small number of climate researchers) were established in response to the politically motivated climate disinformation machine that was associated with e.g. ExxonMobil, CEI, Inhofe/Morano etc.”

    Again, Judith Curry ignores the intelligent agnostic position – we are not fooled by propaganda from anywhere. In 1995, I attended a lecture given by a visiting climate scientist from the US (sorry, I have no hope of remembering who that was now) which was deliberately organised by the Senior Management of the Company I was then the Geology Manager for. After the lecture, which was reasonable given the time allotted, I approached this person quite open-mindedly to ask some simple questions to infill my then ignorance. This innocent approach was met instantly with arrogant, sarcastic hostility. This was the first time in my life that a scientist had responded like this to my insatiable curiosity and at the time it puzzled me mightily. Not now, of course

    Very difficult to convince someone of the integrity of your position when you hide the data in obscurity and then respond to genuine questions by insulting the intelligence of the questioner

    In my view, the self-serving theme manifested in Judith Curry’s letter is that climate scientists (another branch of Applied Science) responded tribally to disinformation from vested interests and then unhappily lost the plot. I disagree – they went public early feeding the media deliberately simplistic and scary stories because the data and modeling had holes which they were not prepared to acknowledge publically. Public support was deemed necessary to overcome this. That they believed their position was correct despite the blemishes is not the issue, but rather that admission of such blemishes would weaken their public support. This is politics

    The CRU emails show this

    I agree with Judith Curry that this pathetic trail of poor decisions weakens public trust in science. The agnostic position remains one of integrity

    • 107
      AGW, made up on the playing fields of UEA says:

      The belated willingness to be ‘transparent’, is in fact another smokescreen using selective data. What a surprise.

  27. 102
    • 119
      BillyBob poops on ZaNuLab says:

      It does not surprise me that those in power within the Police ‘Service’ are fiddling the figures, the hierarchy, the Chief Constables, the Home Office are full of acolytes who came through the universities at the same time as the rest of New Labour.

    • 128
      backwoodsman says:

      OH , interesting. Have a God Daughter who’s granny has been a Magistrate for decades. Raised 4 sensible kids, runs a cancer charity shop in her spare time etc.
      She said, in her extensive experience, the one thing that you can be sure of, is that the police will lie as their default position !

      • 147
        Old Nick Heavenly(real dimwit) says:

        My ex mother became a JP in the 60’s.

        She had total faith in Old Bill at the outset!

        Now she will tell you that you cannot believe a single word that Old Bill says!

  28. 105
    Big Dave says:

    Georgie and I love the muslims you liar.

  29. 106
    Big Dave says:

    I have decided to let Georgies brother Mo to run for parliament and to be parachuted into a safe seat in Birmingham.

    It’s good for the ethnic vote you see.

  30. 108
    Sir William Waad says:

    Yes, John M Taylor was the chap the Tories unwisely parachuted into Cheltenham, Alabama, who then lost the seat for them for the first time since 1910. As one Cheltonian said to me at the time, they could have put up with his being black if only he had ridden to hounds. Instead he was an urban, soft-left Conservative. So he joined the ranks of the unelected politicians and got his snout thoroughly stuck in.

    • 174
      Moley says:

      I thought from what I saw of him that he was a thoroughly odious human being who unashamedly used his colour to force people to support him.

      He was rightly rejected by the electorate.

  31. 110

    “You make this blog”

    Guido. I’m welling up.

  32. 111
    Rock Solid says:

    What happens when the next bombing happens and it’s found to have been planned in Georgy Osborne’s lunatic brother’s mosque?

    • 112

      Oh get real.

      It’s a conversion of convenience so he can marry the woman he’s been in lurve with for a decade or so, while keeping things straight with her folks.

      I respect him for it.

      • 123
        Mr Anonymous says:

        Thats what they all say at the start.

        If you start off with excuses, the question is;

        where and how does it end?

        • 126
          Rock Solid says:

          It’s a death sentence if he tries to change back.

          Doesn’t sound too convenient to me.

          And will his bride be burquaed up, only allowed out with his permission, walk three paces behind him, not be allowed to speak to strange males without him present?

          And how about the inconvenient fact of the koran’s command, which is the sacred word of allah, cannot be changed by any man and must never be denied on pain of death, that it is a muslim’s duty to hunt down and destroy the infidel?

  33. 113
    GWAE says:

    Bank bailout costs UK $1.5 trillion
    By Europe Correspondent Emma Alberici

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/05/2762825.htm?section=justin

    An official audit has found that the cost of bailing out the British banking system was more than $1.5 trillion.

    The UK’s taxpayers have invested heavily in their banks, given them loans and signed them up to state insurance schemes.

    Britain’s National Audit Office found that the Treasury gave the Royal Bank of Scotland a clean bill of health less than a week before having to bail it out in October last year.

    The report also found that the Treasury paid $200 million for professional advice during the early days of the crisis, including to two investment banks – Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank – which were each paid retainers worth $400,000 a month for a year to advise the government on its strategies.

  34. 114
    Mohammed Cameron (No Relation To David) says:

    Alllahhhhhhhhh Ackbarrrrrrrrrrrrrr

  35. 116
    Jonah Watch says:

    “Kirsty Young’s castaway is the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnmr

    FFS
    the beeb “normalising” this tow fingers to the law, smug bitch.

  36. 118
    Mr Anonymous says:

    If say one ruined Ed Balls chances of becoming future labour leader would you all love me and thank me and forgive me of my past sins?

  37. 124
    ENRON STATEMENT says:

    WE DID NOT DESIGN THE CARBON TRADING SCHEME

  38. 129
    Dave "Cast Iron Guarantee" Cameron says:

    I hate blackberry owners so much. They can’t call it a phone like everyone else. “Oh, my blackberry is ringing, excuse me.”
    Yeah… “One second please, my SAMSUNG is receiving a text.” Fuck off

  39. 130
    Nick says:

    O/T

    Harriet Harman attacks Tory tax break ‘for philanderers’

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6945944.ece

    “Harman, minister for women and equality, will accuse the Conservatives of lecturing people on how they ought to live their lives, in a speech this week to the Institute for Public Policy Research, a Labour-leaning think tank.”

    ++BREATHTAKING HYPOCRISY++

  40. 132
    That's Democracy says:

    Alas, so few here have the wit to see beyond their pathetic parochial political sectarianism. Read it here and get a hold of it: it matters not a jot what the political allegiance is of the crimminal caught stealing from the public. Those who continue with the “my party is better than yours” mantra deserve no better than the scorn heaped upon the cheating, lying “elected” troughers. The only way forward is huge, institutional change. Then again, that requires courage and vision, two elements that long departed British politics.

    The sleaze is almost as bad as the idiots who continue to support it. And now the unelected horrors of Buckingham Palace are apparently calling for more “privacy.” The audacity of it is breathtaking.

    Still think you are living in a democracy?

    • 162
      Nick says:

      Not really, that’s why there are so many posts on this and other blogs calling for the entire political class to be shot/hanged from lamp-posts/doused in petrol & burned to death in the streets.

      LibLabCon distinctions don’t matter any more – they’re all likely to get what’s coming to them sooner rather than they think.

  41. 139
    genghiz the kahn says:

    Fans of Ivor Biggun may recall some of the word of The W*nkers Rock and Roll, but this may have been penned before Sally met John Bercow.

    Somehow the words fit all too well.

    “When Long Tall Sally met Johnny B. Goode
    He didn’t do nothing but pull his pud’
    Just the wrist and the fist and you can’t go wrong
    Doing the Hand-Jive all night long

    Chorus
    All you need is the rhythm and the wrist control
    And you can do the w*nker’s rock ‘n’ roll

  42. 156
    gildedtumbril says:

    Guido Fawkes, we are all indebted to you for your heartwarming revelations regarding the troughsnouts in both houses. Have you noticed that the Aussie parliament in Canberra has all the charm of a rather large abattoir? I have long hated the idea that our tormentors meet in a palace. An old draughty aircraft hanger would surely be more appropriate, and cheaper.
    Just a thought.

  43. 164
    Anonymous says:

    Ten lords a lying…

  44. 168
    Vote Vote Vote for Jacqui. says:

    Will some knowledgable fucker on here tell me why that silly bastard Minister of Transport calls himself Lord Addonis? What a c’untish name.

    Thank you.

  45. 170
    Jimmy says:

    “The best stories are always a result of tip-offs from this blog’s readers. ”

    They give them to the newspapers and a few days later the Gobshite Centre writes a green inkletter about it. Or at least they used to.

  46. 172

    Someone’s spotted the link between neotony and benefits.

    Benefits = State Pets.

  47. 177
    Moley says:

    Why is the house of Lords so thoroughly rotten?

    Are all the crooks Blair appointees, or are the Lords a reflection of the low society kept by politicians in general?

    Have they forgotten the meaning of the word “Nobility”?

    The vast majority of the population of this country are more honest, more truthful, and nobler than their Lordships.

  48. 180
    Citoyen says:

    Err, I have a few bottles of a very good Indian red (try it – Sula) and an excellent meal for a couple of comrades at Southalls best restuarant – The Mehfil. Put it through as a business expense and it was rejected as the booze was more than 100 quid ! I wish I worked for the evil empire, my duaghter works (attends meeting, sometimes) for the ###(a division of HM Govt) and has never had any problem with any sort of expense.

  49. 183
    Anonymous says:

    Just how ‘guilty’ do you have to be before the cops will do their job. This guy claimed expenses for years on a house he didn’t even own & he STILL gets off scot free. Hopefully they won’t be able to ignore this further allegation

  50. 184
    Anonymous says:

    From now on he should be known as Lord Taylor of No Fixed Abode.







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