January 28th, 2010

MPs’ Scams

Austin Mitchell has an EDM up supporting Scams Awareness Month,

“this House welcomes the Office of Fair Trading’s Scams Awareness month blah blah blah”

By coincidence this week Austin Mitchell was ordered to repay £10,000 he over-claimed on his mortgage.

At 4 p.m. today MPs find out if Legg has rejected their appeals to be allowed to get away with such scams…


135 Comments

  1. 1
    Browns Broadcasting Company says:

    Do as I say, not as I do.

    • 11

      Nope. Not listening. Had enough. Take your policies to financially and morally bankrupt the country and stick them where the sun don’t shine.

      I’m off to have a freer, less taxed, simpler life in Mongolia.

    • 16
      David Davies says:

      So what is wrong with this?

      Row over MP’s rape case comments

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8485113.stm

      It could well be that the lad’s background influenced the way he behaved. What is so wrong in stating the obvious?

      • 25
        Anonymous says:

        Bloody hypocritical whitewash…….well it’s just politics.

        • 67
          Anonymous says:

          Don’t get depressed, cheer yourself by watching Pat Condell’s latest video about Islam.

          • Anonymous says:

            Wow that bloke is saying exactly what the politicians are not saying. This Guy speaks for the people.

      • 35
        Moley says:

        A case was reported recently where a woman received 101 lashes for being raped and becoming pregnant, and the rapist was forgiven. The victim was also ostracised by her family if I remember rightly.

        • 57
          TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

          Stone me!

          • David Davies says:

            “There do seem to be some people in some communities who don’t respect women’s rights at all, and who… without necessarily saying that this is the case on this occasion, who have imported into this country barbaric and medieval views about women “

            And now they are stoning him for telling the truth.

          • ( THE ARSEHOLE SPOTTER ) says:

            On last nights crimewatch 7 out of 8 of the ” MOST WANTED ” were ethnics

            good old labour

      • 40
        Moley says:

        A case was reported recently where a woman received 101 lashes for being raped and becoming pregnant. The rapist was forgiven.

        Sharia Law in action.

        The MPs comments were and are entirely justified, and to pretend otherwise is a betrayal of all the standards of modern civilisation.

        • 80
          BBC says:

          Are you racist? Have you “changed”?

          • jgm2 says:

            Nu Labour.

            Chains you can believe in.

          • jgm2 says:

            ID cards.

            Chains you can believe in.

          • ( THE ARSEHOLE SPOTTER ) says:

            More than £230 million of British taxpayers’ money is spent every year housing the tidal wave of utterly fake asylum seekers, official Government figures have revealed.
            There are no legal asylum seekers at all in Britain. International asylum law states clearly that people have the right of refuge in the first safe country neighbouring the one they are fleeing.
            There is therefore no excuse at all for people to cross 20 safe countries to get to Britain and then claim asylum. The government should declare Britain closed to all such scrounging criminals and turn them back at the border without any exception.
            Those already present should also be immediately deported without compensation. They have broken the law and cannot be rewarded for doing so, as is the Tory/Labour/Lib-Dem plan for dealing with these criminals.
            According to news reports, immigration officials have “authorised the use of public money on more than 25,000 council houses for claimants to live in while their applications to stay in Britain are processed.”
            This figure has nearly doubled from £132 million three years ago, the reports claimed.
            The outrage of allocating social housing to scrounging fake asylum seekers is made even worse by the fact that nearly two million British families are on the social housing waiting list.
            The official figures showed that £584 million has been spent on council and other social housing for asylum seekers over the past three years. This translated to 16,550 homes in the 2007–08 year alone. The next year this figure had risen to 19,050 houses.
            * According to a Freedom of Information Act request submitted to Middlesbrough Council, “asylum seekers” in Cleveland get £40 per week for gas and electricity and another £35 per week per person towards food, clothing and toiletries. Failed asylum seekers don’t get money to pay for food but they do get vouchers worth £35 per week.
            This means that a family of four gets £140 for food and another £40 for gas and electricity, a total of £180 per week. In one year a family of four will get £9360 in direct benefits. This is more than many British families spend on household bills.
            * NHS treatment will be available for tens of thousands of failed asylum seekers to ensure their human rights are honoured, it has been announced. There are understood to be around 450,000 failed asylum seekers who have not left Britain.

        • 105

          Nick Leeson and James Clavell – Changi you can be locked up in.

      • 44
        Arturo says:

        It’s time for the big sweeping changes back to sanity. Sadly I can see no one who is capable of doing it.
        The only way out is an apolitical society, but who will set that up?

        • 58
          Her rapist was pardoned by the elders says:

          A 16-year-old girl who was raped in Bangladesh has been given 101 lashes for conceiving during the assault.

          http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/7073191/Rape-victim-receives-101-lashes-for-becoming-pregnant.html

          • The truth..culture is imported says:

            Pakistan’s real problem with rape
            Aamer Khan

            By Aamer Ahmed Khan
            BBC News, Karachi

            rape victim
            Rape victims often find it difficult to get their cases heard
            Women’s rights in Pakistan are once again in the international spotlight as delegates attend a high-profile two-day conference on the issue in Islamabad.

            One of the key objectives of the talks, according to Pakistan’s women’s development ministry, is to improve the country’s image in the context of women’s rights.

            But activists argue that crimes against women are not an “image problem”.

            They say such crimes – especially rape – result from a combination of tribalism, retrogressive cultural values and a criminal justice system in a state of deep rot.

        • 72
          Hugh Janus says:

          Back to sanity? If only. Take Job Centre Minus or whatever they call themselves, for initially rejecting an advert for a reliable cleaner, as that would have been discriminatory against the unreliable type.

          Christ on a bike, is this what we pay public servants for?? I hope the jobless total has been increased by at least one for such ludicrous crap.

      • 98
        David Cameron says:

        I never have and never will support any conservative thoughts. I will modernise the BBC by stopping it being hideously white. If you vote for UKIP instead of Tory then you’re a fruitcake racist.

        Ha ha I’m going to be PM and you can’t stop me. New Labour will win.

    • 23
      Gorgon, Economically illiterate Moron, Loony Leader of Londistan, author of gibberish on ‘Courage’ says:

      Gae on Jummae!

      Gi’us anather 5 yars!

      Ar’ nad’ fi’ mae yars tae finsh tha’ jobby!

    • 116
      ( THE ARSEHOLE SPOTTER ) says:

      Wasnt he the MP filmed coming out of a Massarge parlour in Northampton a few years ago WANKER

  2. 2
  3. 3
    Gordon's favourite Butt Plug says:

    Austin Mitchell: I joined Labour, because I knew that I could commit any Crime, and get off Scott free. Labour Party Membership is the ultimate, “Never get Prosecuted Card”.

  4. 4
    Gordon Brown says:

    Tha mo bhàta-foluaimein loma-làn easgannan

  5. 5
    Cleethorpes Rock says:

    http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/news/Austin-best-man-job/article-1761703-detail/article.html

    I’ver never known the locals get so anti a Labour candidate. Could Labour really lose Great Grimsby for the first time since the war?

    • 15
      smig says:

      Why not? Grimsby was lost to the rest of humanity decades ago.

      • 50
        Archer Karcher says:

        Why not vote Labour out in places like Grimsby? After all it is not as if they have transformed the place for the better in the last fifty years, is it?

        • 97
          jgm2 says:

          You would think that would be a winning Tory strategy in places like that. Wouldn’t you?

          Just drive around with one of mobile advertising hoardings.

          50 years of Labour – is it better yet?

    • 75
      Michael Winner's ringpiece says:

      From the readers’ comments, this made me laugh:

      I fitted a new avacado green bathroom suite in Mr Mitchell’s home in 1983 and by an oversight installed two baths instead of one. It was only after checking my books that I realised the error. Only after confronting Mr. Mitchell at a later date did he agree to give the extra bath back. He claimed he didn’t notice it. This guy has previous.

      S. Piper, Gy

    • 113
      just dropping by from meggies says:

      for the first time gy people are beginning to see the light i think

  6. 6
    The IMF is coming says:

    Beware of the biggest scam of all:

    Gordon Brown as PM

  7. 7
    John Cipher says:

    Austin Mitchell – the man of the people, the independant thinking voice of reason? Not fit to bear the name of the Spitfire creator. Get thee hence like the rest of them.

  8. 8
    ( THE ARSEHOLE SPOTTER ) says:

    I bet thay all get away with not paying all the money back, its fucking obvious
    Legg is one of their own. BRING ON THE WHITEWASH

    BASTARDS ALL OF EM!!!

  9. 9
    Fees Office Clerk says:

    “Adam Crozier has been confirmed as the new chief executive of ITV”

    Fucked up the Football Association
    Fucked up the Royal Mail

    Watch him fuck up ITV. He’s got the FUCK UP FACTOR.

  10. 12
    I Vote Labour says:

    I vote Labour becuase I am a criminal and I have a better chance of getting away with it under a Labour Government

  11. 17
    His Holiness, Mnsgr. ‘Miranda’ Phoney Bliar, ********, ******, and ***, emoting, + stupid grin, says:

    Hi! – Trust me!! I’m a straight kinda guy!

    Everyfing’s building up to my climax as Star of the Show tomorrow!

    They say it’ll cost a quarter of million to protect me – but Hey, – I’m worf it!

    And remember – you probably voted for me!

    So don’t forget to vote for the rump of Noo_Lie_Bore in Spring!

    • 21
      Charles Flaccidwidger says:

      “And remember – you probably voted for me!”

      No I fucking didn’t, you smirking wanker.

    • 22
      Oldies (not)Goldies says:

      Lord Fondlebum has said that Phoney Blair will be involved in the Nulabour Election campaign.

    • 24
      smig says:

      Oh Lordy! Are you trying to get down with kids?

      Keep the street jive in Wandsworth. Mofo!

    • 73
      History is whatever you remember says:

      I thought you were a shyster in 1997 and nothing in the intervening period has changed that original assessment but it’s nice to know that from being in the minority I am now in the majority

  12. 18
    concrete pump says:

    Gordon Brown being made PM is the scam equivalent of waking up one morning to find that pikeys have tarmacked your drive BADLY, and they’re on your doorstep wanting fucking paying.

    I didn’t ask to have my drive tarmacked. Just like i didn’t ask to have you as PM.

    C*nt.

  13. 19
    Jonah Watch says:

    Andy Murray has just been jinxed into losing the final.

    ” the Prime Minister praised Murray’s achievement.

    He told BBC Radio Five Live: “He is in the final, probably against Federer, and I hope he wins this major tournament.

    “It would be great news. He is a great tennis player and a great guy.”"

    http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/dunblane-celebrates-as-murray-battles-through-to-final-1.1002151

  14. 26
    Rainer Unsinn says:

    There’s a program on TV about 6 MPs who went to live in a council house/flat for a week – one of them was Austin Mitchell.

    Maybe sizing up his lifestyle after the GE?

    • 30
      smig says:

      6 MPs in the same flat? Room for another 300 at least. Just before I throw the napalm in.

      • 40
        D. Pressed says:

        You cruel bastard!!!!

        Far too quick! and quite inhumane.

        Seal the ******s up for a few days first, – surely? – so they ‘get to know one another’ (though not in the biblical sense).

        Then they can ‘discuss the ishooss’

        • 92
          smig says:

          Me? Cruel? Never!

          There’s a housing shortage don’t you know. Can’t be having a council flat unavailable for a few days. I’m not putting some fecking Somalian pirates up at the Savoy while I wait.

          • Savoy is too cheap for our immigrants says:

            Single mother with seven children received highest housing benefit last year of £147,000; add on council tax, dole and child allowances, total say £180,000 post tax for her ‘family’. How many taxpayers worked hard to pay for this one ‘family’, that came from Somalia?

            Guy and his wife in my village have seven children, but they live in a three bed council house and I have never known him to be out of work.

      • 91
        lol says:

        what like celebrity big brother – won’t catch on ……

    • 33
      concrete pump says:

      One of them was Mark Oaten, probably sizing up Mitchells arsehole.

    • 36
      MisterE says:

      Huh, I bet they all claimed second home expenses on it too…

      • 63
        Archer Karcher says:

        Oaten cracked up and burst into tears after three days, saying he could not take it anymore! To think these worthless cowardly shits make the laws that supress us all.

  15. 29
    Chester White MP says:

    I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls
    With servant and slaves by my side
    And of all who assembled within those great walls
    That I was the hope and the pride
    I had rubies to play with and money to count
    My name was renowned with fame
    But I also dreamt, which pleased me most
    That you’d vote for me still the same
    That you’d vote, you’d vote for me still the same

    (Note: ‘Chester White’ is a breed of pig)

  16. 34
    Lynch Mob says:

    Leave it to us.
    We will take care of these thieving c’unts.

  17. 37
    Cherie Blair says:

    Tony and I are filthy rich off the backs of taxpayers and dead Iraqis and there’s sweet FA you can do about it! I’m off to get some botox and buy three pairs of Manolo Blahniks!

  18. 39
    Joey Joe Joe says:

    Austin Mitchell is just like Dennis Skinner: a twat with the undeserved reputation of being a “maverick” who in reality is a total sell-out who feeds at the trough. I hope both Hoons lose their seats.

  19. 43
    Ali G says:

    Booyakasha! I iz here with none other than me main man, Austin Rover. Him be an MP. Now Austin, why iz you an MP? Iz it cos it’s a well easy way to get rich?

  20. 45
    Anonymous says:

    And many more Destructions played
    In this ghastly masquerade,
    All disguised, even to the eyes,
    Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies.

  21. 46
    Damian McBride says:

    I am not an MP.

    Give me a job.

    • 101
      smig says:

      You’ve already got a job.

      Some kid has pissed all over the floor in Year 4.

      You know where the mop is. Get busy.

  22. 47
    Gordon's fire sale says:

    The British government is seeking to raise more cash by selling its 71.5 billion-pound ($116 billion) stake in three crippled banks than Margaret Thatcher generated by disposing of state-owned businesses during her entire 11 years in office.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aLtzgen8S8b4

    Now there’s food for thought.

  23. 48
    Tom Logan, Institute for Studies says:

    OT but this post does involve the words ‘Labour Party’, or lack thereof

    Here is a BBC story highlighting a report into bad law making by government.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8481943.stm

    Given the outpouring of shit from labour you would expect they might get a mention. They do not. The word Labour does not appear once in this story, not a single time (I checked using a search function!)

    However, you will find examples of tory law cited such as the 1990 poll tax and 1991 dangerous dogs act, the CSA (set up in 1993 to implement a 1991 Act).

    Charitably the bbc does mention Labours hunting act and the millenium dome as does Blair and brown ‘informal’ method of doing whatever the fuck they like.

    Good old bbc!

  24. 49
    Mzzzz. HaHaHa-HoHoHoPerson, alias ‘The Joker’, alias ‘Minx of Mediocrity’, + pig-tails n’ ribbons says:

    I believe in equality – fair shares for all – regardless.

    And boys – I’ve got something you might like to share!

    So if you want a portion, come round to the tradesman’s entrance and knock loudly twice.

  25. 51
    Oymoron spotter says:

    Here’s a few oxymoron’s for you champions:

    Honest Labour
    Caring Conservative
    Public spirited banker
    Caring, sharing Britain

  26. 52
    bergen says:

    Years ago this disgusting chancer was a TV reporter with an especially holier than thou attitude.I recall that as an MP he has picked on various professions as exploiting the workers.What a surprise that he has been found out troughing off the rest of us.

  27. 55
    Dick Scratcher says:

    This was his finest work. All downhill since…young man.

  28. 65
    I Vote Labour says:

    I vote Labour because I am a trade union official.

    As a trade union official I have to secure my own job. The increase in employee protection legisilation, minimum wage, health and safety, equality, race discrimination etc in recent years effectively make a large part of my own job redundant.

    • 102
    • 112
      South of the M4 says:

      I have long been of the opinion that the ‘ success ‘ of NuLabour should really be that it has legislated itself out of existence. There is no longer a reason for the Labour party to exist.

  29. 69
    CHOP THE THIEVES HANDS OFF says:

    With the Commons made of marble
    And armed police on every door
    MPs are safe to rape the silver
    That the taxpayer sweated for

  30. 76
  31. 77
    Jimmy says:

    On a completely unrelated topic, how are the “Justice for Jacqui” contributions coming along?

  32. 78
    I Vote Labour says:

    I vote Labour because I work in PR for the local authority

    I know my job is a waste of public money so I have to take Prozac becuase of how I feel.

    I have lots of days off becuase my department is full of people on medication with personality disorders onset by doing work of no value to society. I don’t like lying for a job for there is no work in the priavte sector that pays these wages.

    • 84
      jgm2 says:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAYLD06MefI

      A million of the fuckers hired at vast expense since 2001.

      [Kenny Everet] We should round them up. Put them in a field. And bomb the bastards [/Kenny]

    • 125
      Groucho says:

      Grant from EU to North East England to help small high tech businesses: £2 million
      Cost of local ‘enterprise’ quangos to administer the fund: £1.5 million

      Its a safe bet that almost all of those quango employees will be loyal Labour voters.

      So here we have the govt using EU funds to buy votes.

      Bastards.

  33. 87
    I Vote Labour says:

    I vote Labour because I got made redundant from the Steelworks in Wales, my Doctor was instructed to sign me off as unfit for work in order to keep me off the official unemployment statistics.

    I wish I had a job with the lads on the local industrial estate but it would mean me losing most of my Government funded income

    Because I stay at home all day, i have lots of medical problems which must cost the NHS a fortune

    • 99
      Labour lobotomist says:

      It’s Margaret Thatcher’s fault.

      Vote Labour.

      • 106
        smig says:

        I agree it’s all down to Thatcher.

        She should’ve sent in the army with big fecking tanks instead of Police horses against Scargill.

        • 115
          Ron Devie says:

          Interesting that yesterday’s report on the staggering levels of inequality and unfairness in the UK attributed much of the massive disparity to the levels opened up by Thatcherism. As Cameron knows, this legacy still haunts his party. The terror that Thatcher visited on the Midland and the north may yet trip Teflon Dave.

          • Moley says:

            It’s interesting to note that three Labour Governments have completely failed to address any of the problems claimed to have been left by Thatcher.
            Child poverty still with us, social mobility worsening, the gap between rich and poor even bigger. Midlands industry savaged, all under Labour.

            Not exactly a platform of outstanding success from which to launch a campaign for a fourth term in office, is it?

          • Anonymous says:

            Bollocks, social mobility is at an all-time high, people are leaving Britain in droves.

  34. 89
    Oxymoron spotter says:

    Here’s a few oxymoron’s for you champions:

    Honest Labour
    Caring Conservative
    Public spirited banker
    Caring, sharing Britain

  35. 110
    oldfella says:

    the scandal and the scam of our reduced pensions

    Brown has a lot to answer for and here’s some figures to show the outcome –

    http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23800147-harriet-harman-i-dropped-my-cut-glass-accent-for-labour.do#readerComments

  36. 132
    SirSidneyRuff-Diamond says:

    TONY BLAIR wearing PURPLE VELVET JUMP SUIT with BERLUSCONI

    Some of you will recall earlier in the noughties ‘that’ photograph of Tony Blair meeting Berlusconi whilst on holiday when he wore what was surely the most absurd attire ever donned by a British prime minister, setting or retired.

    His decision to dress like a perfumed pratt was clearly influenced of CAROL CAPLIN, the Blair’s New Age life coach/adviser.
    http://www.deadbrain.co.uk/news/article_2004_03_11_3233.php

    I have searched everywhere for this photograph and have failed to find it. It does seem very strange that it has apparently disappeared from public view. Can anyone please post a link to this photograph. Someone must know its source. Many thanks.

  37. 134
    James says:

    How many of these MPs have second jobs, consultancies etc. I would bet that any review of their expenses at these second jobs would reveal that they claimed the same expenses as they did from the taxpayers. Given their avarice, lack of conscience etc. they are sure to have done just this with travel, accomodation, food etc. This would be hard to prove because these expense statements would be hidden, but they couldnt then claim they didnt break any rules. It would be clearly a case of double dipping and fraud.
    Will the MPs have to pay income tax on the money they stole. Wouldnt buying a television, fridge, furniture etc. be considered income from an Inland Revenue point of view. Wouldnt the money they are paying pack, belatedly, be considered an interest free loan from the IR viewpoint. Or does this only apply to the honest workers.

  38. 135
    Anonymous says:

    Is it possible that Bliars expenses, hardcopy and computer were deleted. Is it possible that his lucrative new career in the USA is not connected to his taking the country to an illegal war in their support. Is it possible that the lives being lost are his end of the deal to make him very rich. He left the UK to live in the USA. If his Labour party had done such a good job of sorting out this country, instead of rising violent crime, poverty, failing NHS and failing schools it may have been worthwhile him staying. But, like many more MPs to come, he used his position to feather his nest, then exited. At the next election, many more will follow in his footsteps. On the one hand, good riddance, on the other, they are laughing all the way to the bank at our expense. We have to live here in the awful mess they created.







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