February 10th, 2010

Carry On Claiming M’Lords

Clerk of the Parliaments Michael Pownall has given the Lords almost free reign to continue troughing after his meek and timid review into Peers who have broken expenses rules. Yesterday he cleared nine peers and referred just one for further scrutiny. Most of them had been up to the classic trick of claiming overnight allowances despite not really requiring them. The Sunlight Centre was repeatedly knocked back when pursuing former Lib Dem CEO Lord Rennard about this so it comes as no surprise that a total whitewash has been undertaken by Pownell.

Not only did he clear offenders, in an attempting to clarify the rules Pownall has made things worse. The Peers now just have to spend one night a month, while the House is sitting, at whatever location they choose to state as their “main home”, be it their own, a spouse’s home or even a relative’s place.

In other words a Member of the House of Lords can now make up to £30,000-a-year by spending ten days a year at a residence, of their own designation, outside of London. (One night per sitting month and £174 overnight allowances the rest of the time.)  Yet again it really is “all within the rules”.


215 Comments

  1. 1
    Throbber says:

    They really need to be culled.
    All of them.

    • 3
      Mr Ned says:

      Agreed

      • 5
        DelBoy says:

        Bulldose the lot of ‘em into the Thames. None of the buggers still seem to have an inkling of how low they have sunk in the public’s mind.

        • 9
          jgm2 says:

          One day a month? That’s your ‘main’ residence?

          Hmmmm. All discretionary spending is further deferred indefinitely. I ain’t paying a penny in tax I can avoid until this system is brought down by ‘events’. As surely gets more certain by the day.

        • 55
          Lord Ponsonby says:

          Up yours you bunch of oiks we are appointed and do not have to submit ourselves for election, like the other lot, Jimmy Gordon has appoint a lot of us, toodle pip

      • 61
        Gagging for it says:

        Simon Cowell for the House of Lords including his new hot muslim totty who can replace Barenoess Uddin.

        http://londonmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/02/simon-cowells-muslim-girlfriend.html

        • 130
          Trickle says:

          Bounty any one!!!?

        • 156
          shelling-out says:

          I wouldn’t be at alll surprised if Cowell was offered a peerage. He’s rich, and government need money.

          • Hugh Janus says:

            At a million for a peerage I doubt whether this will make much of a dent in our growing mountain of debt.

            Whilst on this subject, can anyone say what Lord Sugar has contributed to national life since his elevation to the Supertrough??

          • You can't beat the old ones (its immoral) says:

            We’ve not heard much about Sugar latterly, perhaps he’s been fired.

          • Rear-ending of the year says:

            Lord Sugar? Of Amstrad? Has he got the contract to supply and distribute 200 quid computers at 1000 quid a time?

        • 159
          BUSTERS COCK child friendy website says:

          Wheres her Burka !
          and muzzies ain’t supposed to eat pork !

      • 177
        Airey Belvoir says:

        Far worse than Commons corruption, because we have no means of getting rid of them.

    • 24
      gildedtumbril says:

      Culled? Surely that is a bit rough? Although I believe silk ropes were once used…
      I believe quantitative easing of the neck is called for, right well and soon. These troughsnouts have earned it, and how.

      • 58
        Lord Ponsonby says:

        I believe the axe was used on lords in the past, rope was for oiks

      • 65
        Sir William Waad says:

        Peers are entitled to be beheaded rather than hanged, but this privilege could be extended to all Parliamentarians out of respect to their high office. I’ve always fancied myself as a headsman. Just imagine the soft ‘plop’ as Elliot Morley’s pudgy phizzog hits the decking. Picture Brown’s bonce with that slack-jawed grimace frozen on it for the last time. Imagine the cheering crowds with dads lifting their small children on to their shoulders and mums telling their kids that, if they are bad, they may end up like that wicked, wicked Mr Devine, shorter by the head. Imagine Yeo with his head in a basket rather than a trough, or Mandelson’s bean spinning right off the scaffold!

        We can dream.

        • 75
          DelBoy says:

          Time has moved on. No need for axes or hangings, just house them in a block in Tower Hamlets (charge them rent of course). They’ll soon bugger off and cost us nowt.

          • Not long until Labour gone says:

            They won’t be naming Tower Hamlets as their main residency then….

          • 700 unelected worthies says:

            Closer to people in Tower Hamlets…it will help them in their deliberations and be in touch with those they serve.

            But then a poky, little flat in Maidstone seems to be OK as a main residence for at least one of them so they can’t be all bad, can they?

        • 81
          Sir Everard Digby says:

          Are their actions not treasonable? In which case the drawing and quartering would need adding to your repertoire

        • 161
          BUSTERS COCK child friendy website says:

          well put, but if only !

    • 64
      Max the Impaler says:

      Does this mean my good friend Sir Reginald Fillet-de-Boeffencroute can now claim for the apartment in Nice as his main residence?

      • 78
        DelBoy says:

        Of course it does.

        • 107
          Max the Impaler says:

          Mmm..this would seem to indicate that if I were an MP my main residence could be offshore,which in turn could affect my domicility, which in turn could reflect in my tax position.I’m begining to like the sound of this.No UK tax plus the benefits and pension.F****ing ace. My God,not only are they the best whitewashing company in the world but their ingenuity at self-serving has to be admired.

          • Hugh Janus says:

            This lot make our troughing MPs look like rank amateurs when it comes to fleecing the taxpayer. It also looks as though there is another expenses dungheap just waiting to be turned over. Pity we can’t vote them out, however. I supose they thought that they were bullet-proof because of this.

            Another job for DC when (if?) he gets in.

        • 117
          Lord Poppinjay of Claime says:

          Don`t forget the cost of airfare commuting too, first class of course.

    • 144
      Anonymous says:

      Does this mean that Michael Pownall should now be reffered to as a” Parliaments corruption denier”?

      • 213
        Worried in Westminster says:

        Has HMRC been asked about nights at primary residence?
        Is this linked up Government?

        183 is a familiar figure… so a Lord Cashrakoff might be seeking domicile in Monaco while raking in the dosh from the UK taxpayer …..

  2. 2
    Mr Ned says:

    O/T but in relation to climate change. Spotted this and damn near pissed myself laughing at it, especially the last line:

    Eleven green-energy wind turbines in Minnesota, which are supposed to provide environmentally safe electricity and fight global warming, cannot operate because they are frozen stiff.

    The Star-Tribune reports the machines were supposed to be spinning by Christmas, but so far have been motionless. The state’s power agency says cold hydraulic fluid has turned to gel and oil lubricants are getting sluggish.

    North St. Paul City Manager Wally Wysopal says, “it’s been a little embarrassing to have it not turning on the windiest of days.”

    The company that installed the turbines, which came from California, says it was not consulted on “climate compatibility.”

  3. 4
    Lord Food says:

    Damn

    • 11
      Lord Itup says:

      In the old days we didn’t get involved in this grubby practice. All my chums had their own bolthole in London, no need for exes.

      It’s all these ghastly non hereditary types that will put the kybosh on it when someone gets a grip.

  4. 6
    Lord and Lady Kinnock says:

    Because were worth it

  5. 7
    Nicholas B says:

    This would not be acceptable practice in any other place; it would probably be regarded as fraud in the real world. This is our money. This, and a whole load of other scams need to be ended.

    • 74
      Susie says:

      Here’s another one coming up for the General Election:

      http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7021653.ece

      Gives them the whole night to consign votes to the landfill and falsify the turnout.

      • 188
        Hugh Janus says:

        Did anyone else hear the pitiful little jobsworth on Toady this morning? His argument for conducting the count the next day was (I paraphrase) that it is important to ensure that it is accurate. So all previous overnight counts have not been?? Oozing from evey pore was his complacent view that he is there to serve those conducting the count rather than we poor sods who pay his wages.

        Far from legislating for the count to start within 4 hours, it should start straight away – unless, as in the Scottish islands, they have to be flown in to the mainland.

    • 82
      Sir Everard Digby says:

      This is the real world – why judge them by any other standard? Common thieves.

  6. 8
    Anonymous says:

    So let me get this straight… On the day that Migrationwatch reveal an unexpurgated policy document from 2000 revealing Labour’s intention to flood this country with immigrants Flaky Dave asks six questions on a policy which the Tories voted in favour of.

    • 13
      Mr Ned says:

      That is about the size of it, and Brown STILL could not answer ANY of Cameron’s questions. At all, not even close. Didn’t even try, didn’t even pretend to try.

      Certainly Cameron COULD have gone after Brown on this immigration issue, but I knew he would not touch it with a bargepole. BUT what surprised me is that he raised this issue, which I am interested in as I have aging parents, and asked serious questions on this.

      • 27
        Commander Alie Dizael says:

        RACISTS !! RACISTS !!

      • 37
        Anonymous says:

        I don’t disagree with you – I think he battered Brown with it. But why the fuck were the Tories voting in favour it in the first place . They either knew of it and were prepared to accept it or it was poorly scrutinised but they nevertheless voted for it like the pathetic sheep they are.

        • 116
          Mr Ned says:

          I have no idea why the tories supported it. I cannot give a reason for that, but then if Brown really wanted to ask Cameron questions of this, or any other, sort at Prime Minister’s questions, then he should call an election and he can then ask Cameron all the questions he likes from the opposition or third or (fingers crossed) fourth party benches.

          What I wanted to know is the answer to Cameron’s question. Will I have to find up to £20,000 to fund my own health care in old age? Will I have to hand over £20,000 of my parent’s estate to the tax-man upon their deaths if they have to go into a care home?

          Cameron is right to raise this issue. I do not know why he voted for it, but seeing as that is the system they voted for, I want an answer to that question.

          • Why is Dave always so dismal? says:

            “Flaky Dave asks six questions on a policy which the Tories voted in favour of.”

            As predicted earlier today, a couple of hours before PMQ`s. Brown was there like a shivering dog waiting for a beating it knows is coming and as always Dismal Dave didn`t have it in him to beat the savage critter.

            February 10, 2010 at 10:19 am

            “CMD will say nothing of interest to the British people on anything of substance, now or when elected.

            Massive uncontrolled immigration and racial manipulation / Balkanisation?
            The EU and its direct undemocratic control of virtually every aspect of our lives?
            The corruption and deciet at the heart of the AGW fraud?
            Secret courts abducting children?
            Generations enslaved to ever higher taxation by Keynsian “economics” bloated debt and fiscal incompetence?
            The systematic removal of our ancient rights and freedoms?
            Promotion of the sexualisation of children in schools?
            Bailing out banks with taxpayers money, effectively rewarding private corporate failure, with future public tax debt burdon?
            Billions spent on international aid to countries like China and India, while the infrastructure of this country is crumbling?
            The eternal wars entered into by this warmongering government?
            The step by step removal of free speech and the Gulagisation of words that may be offensive to anyone and fascist thought control, that is it`s inevitable companion?
            The destruction of real democracy and choice, by consensus politics?

            There is plenty more that CMD could rip into the useless shower of shite who have and still are, engaged in treason and fraudulent behaviour while in government, but of course he will not, because he agrees with most of it.

            No, you can be sure CMD will say nothing.”

    • 33

      This *was* the most popular story on the Telegraph site up till half an hour ago – most read story. Then it vanishes off the list, 60 odd comments are deleted, it drops from the front page

      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/7199457/The-deceit-of-Labours-immigration-policy.html

      Theyr’e already ganging up to make this an unstory.

      It is up to the blogosphere to stop these treasonous aresholes.

      Guido, I know you have nerves in this area – there i no need. There are impeccable non-racist reasons to be highly concerned about immigration; hell, talk to a civil engineer, someone who is wondering how to get drinking water to these arriving millions. And it is about democracy.

      if you don’t want the bernerpers to benefit, this must be dealt with. Dave has to grasp this nettle and do as he is fucking told, by us, the people. We are the boss.

  7. 10
    The big D says:

    The establishment don’t understand how much damage this is doing to the public opinion of the body politic. Worse still is that they don’t care.

    Sensible changes made to the rules now would prevent the changes that blind fury will make in the not too distant future.

    Is their attitude brave or foolish?

    • 15
      jgm2 says:

      The Lords used to be a sleepy backwater of Nth-generation Tory landowners. These days just a rest-home and sinecure position for failed Labour politicians.

      It has been completely ‘reformed’ in the past 13 years and it will be ‘reformed’ again. No way will Dave et al sit there having their legislation tampered with (for cash) or blocked through ideological bone-headedness by the likes of the jackass duo Lord and Lady Kinnock.

      And if they do(put up with it) then they deserve everything that’s coming to them.

      • 29
        Baroness Houdini/Baroness Snotland says:

        Don’t forget us !!

        • 62
          udderly 'orrible says:

          Yep the Border police are preparing their paddy wagon and baggage-hold Ryanair tickets for me Ladies of the Night. Back to the dominions with you.

    • 21
      The Cops says:

      If they think we’ll support them they’re fucking living in dreamland.

  8. 12
    Hamish says:

    It is worth reading the Clerk’s report.
    It reminds me of an occasion when I was on a jury trying a habitual thief.
    In summing up, the defence lawyer went through the claims the accused had made, and every time added “I ask you to believe that”.
    But he didn’t look the jury in the eye when he said it.

  9. 14
    concrete pump says:

    Just wait until they shoehorn Cherie Blair into the House of Lords.

    Screeching, whining twat.

  10. 16
    Geordie says:

    There was a load of Hindus around a big fire and I lit my ciggy from it. They all gave me a dirty look.Whats going on?

  11. 17
    Anonymous says:

    Bollocks to “the rules” – send in hmrc and find a policeman who’s going to treat them the same as everybody else.

    It’s clearly fraud on a massive scale.

    If anything remotely like this happened in the private sector where virtually every member of staff was defrauding the customers, then the staff would all be in jail by now and the company would have been forced to stop trading.

    This kind of “hey, you guys in the private sector can’t claim for a kit-kat when you’re travelling on business, but we can claim 30grand a year for staying at our mum’s house for a couple of day’s a year” crap is something that should be leading to mass riots and a physical take-over of parliament.

    Fuck them all. They’re just taking the piss, and they all need booting out and prosecuting.

    The “well, everyone here’s at it so we can’t do anything” defence is bullshit. If everyone there is at it then they all need booting out.

    I don’t accept the “it’s just how it is” argument; that’s not how it’s supposed to be; they can’t be outside the very laws that they lay down for everyone else, and if they think they can be then they need to be strung up from lampposts.

    “We need different laws/rules to everyone else” argument doesn’t wash, and if they continue to use it as their defence then they’re going to have a revolution on their hands pretty fucking soon.

    • 63
      Todger says:

      It’s institutionalised organised larceny on a grand scale and there is nothing, but NOTHNG we can do about it. They who ratify our laws can spend 29 days each month living in one place and the one day they live in another qualifies them to call it their main residence.

      These people laugh at us because we are too stupid to protect ourselves against them. They cry when it looks as if they are caught red handed and then manage to wriggle free by having only the minor issues against them punished.

      A few sacrificial lambs are slain in order to let the sheeple think they are winning but there is absolutely no question of who the big winners are.

      Fight back through the ballot box: vote for one of the minor parties. They will probably not win but if the BNP for example get a big vote it will put the shits up the rest of them. Unless you are happy with the status quo do not under pain of death vote for the three troughing parties.

      It may be that you let the trougher in chief Brown back in for another term but democracy has always had to be paid for and this time whilst he will fuck up the economy, so will red Dave therefore, you have llittle to lose

    • 90
      Charlie Peace says:

      Go and report it then. See how many of them take you serious.

      • 207
        Anonymous says:

        I’ve tried reporting multi-billion pound fraud before, as have loads of other people that I work with (hackers/card-stealers who I/we knew the details about and had proof of their activity etc), but the “authorities” wouldn’t even give me the name of someone at the police that I could talk to about it.

        Went something along the lines of:

        ME: “I’m a techie, and while working on fixing a hacked site I managed to find the details of hackers who are in the process of stealing billions right now, who can I talk to about it on the police side ?”

        POLICE: [don't repond to the initial question, or to countless followups, and then just give a generic crime report url without any contact info, and then they don't follow up on that either]

        telling the police about a serious crime which goes up the ladder a long way is utterly pointless.

  12. 18
    Sir William Waad says:

    All tax-free of course? The general principle is that the proceeds of criminal or unlawful activity are taxable if they arise from supplies of goods or services, but not otherwise. For instance, drug dealing and prostitution are taxable, but theft is not. Presumably, then, the Lords consider that their expenses are theft and that they are not supplying any services.

  13. 19
    700 unelected worthies says:

    A report in 2007 stated that many members of the Lords (particularly the life peers) do not attend regularly.

    But I bet they attend regularly enough to qualify for those allowances.

    Best Trough in London

  14. 23
    The big D says:

    O/T BBC News surmising that the EU “big guns” (Germany and France) will come to the rescue of the Greek economy at the summit on Thursday, in line with article 121 of the Lisbon treaty.

    No mention of article 122 that says the UK will have to chip in as well.

    Wonder why?

    • 34
      Stan Butler says:

      Brown was asked at PMQ’s about this and skirted around the issue (no surprise) by waffling some answer about the G20 have decided a way to support other countries. No straight answer as usual.

      • 50
        Hedge Fund Nigel says:

        BBC are apologists for the NWO and their surmise is probably wishful thinking. More likely the Euro will be trashed by the markets in the nearish future.

        ** Rubs hands **

        • 92
          Susie says:

          You can hear the dam cracking — the sharks are very hungry and they smell blood.

        • 113
          sockpuppet #4 says:

          I’m not sure that the markets can beat Germany.
          They might get to the quarter finals, but no further.

          • Anonymous says:

            ja!

          • Susie says:

            The Germans will bail out of the Euro and revert to the Deutschmark, German taxpayers have had enough of funding basket-case economies, they’ve already done it for the GDR and don’t want to do it again for everyone else — quite right too.

          • sockpuppet #4 says:

            I bet they don’t. Poor sods.

            I was originally going to say “only one country can wreck the euro”.

      • 192
        Hugh Janus says:

        The day that McBust gives a straight answer in PMQs will be the day the House gasps and falls silent…..

    • 86
      Sir Everard Digby says:

      yep. 10 billion quid is our share -is that in McDoom’s spending plans?

    • 87
      Susie says:

      Article 122 says member states only have to chip in:

      ““When a member state is in difficulties or is seriously threatened with severe difficulties caused by natural disasters or exceptional occurrences beyond its control, the council, on a proposal from the commission, may grant, under certain conditions, union financial assistance.””

      So no, we don’t have to chip in at all… as the circumstances were within Greece’s control, but you can bet your bottom euro, Mc2@ has already signed away another £6 billion on our behalf.

  15. 28
    there will be whitewash in the shitehouse says:

    I always go long on whitewash.

  16. 32
    David Cameron says:

    FUCK ORF

  17. 38
    Afghanistan Banana Stand says:

    O/T

    Merv is saying that inflation could reach 3% “in a matter of weeks” (but don’t worry because it’ll soon be back to 2% and everything will be rosy).

    Hands up here who believes that inflation will drop to 2% and stay there?

    No one?

    Thought not.

    • 68
      George W Osborne says:

      Ummm…..

      Quick, Hammond, what do I say?

    • 112
      Moley says:

      Why are rising house prices (again) good news?

      It’s inflation.

      Why are the media such utter morons, can’t they even remember what happened a year ago?

      Affordability.
      Speculation.
      Asset bubble.
      Homeless workers in the countryside, priced out by second home buyers.
      Mortgage fraud.
      Unemployment.
      Mortgage default.
      Economic crisis.

      • 153
        sockpuppet #4 says:

        Coz the people in the media are over-mortgaged and an increase in prices gets them out of the shit they reversed themselves into.

        As are lots of their readers.

      • 194
        Hugh Janus says:

        Interesting, isn’t it, how the Beeb always reports a rise in house prices as ‘house prices recovering’. For those first-time buyers it is anything but a’ recovery’, more of a disaster I would say.

    • 129
      Mr Ned says:

      An economist on the news this morning said inflation would hit 4%+ before crashing again into deflation next year.

      That seems likely. Massive injections of printed money from last year will inevitably have an inflationary effect. Stopping QE without having a manufacturing lead recovery to sustain the growth will inevitably lead to deflation. Manufacturing output fell by a record breaking amount last year, more than 10%. There is no sign that manufacturing has recovered anywhere near enough to take over from QE.

      However If Brown orders the QE to be continued all bets are off. We could end up in a hyperinflationary slump. Also known as stagflation.

      I wonder what the cure for that would be? Forced entry to the Euro perhaps?

      The recent trouble with Greece and the PIGS countries may yet lead to the collapse of the Euro. I doubt it, but it is possible. IF the Euro survives, I predict a conservative Government WILL take us in before the next decade is out. It is a central part of the New world order agenda after all. They are not going to just give up on it.

      • 196
        Hugh Janus says:

        All I know is that anyone with savings will watch them shrink faster than an ice cream on a hot day.

        Thanks McBust, you really have excelled yourself, even by the Mickey Mouse standards of financial management that we have come to expect from you.

  18. 42
    Lord Snooty says:

    Shut up & continue to pay your taxes you lot! Please remember your betters at all times & be grateful for all that we do on your behalf in the House of Tax Free Benefits.

  19. 44
    David Cameron says:

    To hell with politics

    A nun was walking in the convent when one of the priests noticed she was gaining a little weight. “Gaining a little weight are we sister Susan?” he asked.

    “No, Father. Just a little gas,” Sister Susan explained.

    A month or so later the priest noticed that she had gained even more weight. “Gaining some weight are we Sister Susan?” he asked again.

    “Oh no, Father. Just a little gas,” she replied again.

    A couple of months later the priest noticed Sister Susan pushing a baby carriage around the convent. He leaned over and looked in the carriage and said, “Cute little fart.”

  20. 48
    George Osborne says:

    I came home from work tonight only to walk into my bedroom & discover my wife laying there on our bed with her legs spread wearing a pair of crotchless undies.

    With a horny gasp she asked, “Would you like some of this honey?” As she slowly glided her hand over her newly acquired lingerie.

    I said, “Fuck that! Not after what it’s done to your undies!”

  21. 49
    Anonymous says:

    Seriously guys, if you think MPs are bent you should see the Lords. And if you think the Lords are bent you should see what members of the EUSSR get up to. Just ask he Welsh windbags, sorry, I mean the Welsh moneybags.
    Come the GE does anyone else agree with me that the only possible vote has got to go to the party that must not be named?

    • 67
      Anonymous says:

      Nice try.

      • 141
        Animal says:

        The “party that must not be named” are fascist socialists who want to make Government even bigger, increase the powers of control over the citizen and judge people not on their ability but their colour.

        If you want another one-eyed mentalist in power then you are utterly screwed up in your head.

    • 79
      A Pict says:

      I don’t trust them. Much as they say original population of britain, everyone knows they mean white. They know, we know that they mean white, and they carry on bullshitting like that.

      They’d let all the bloody celts, saxons and danes stay. splitters.

      • 115
        Moley says:

        We have a far greater certainty that labour are lying, and we cannot be sure about Conservative promises either.

    • 84
      albacore says:

      Several million votes, preferably.
      But the parochial question is: would Fawkes then condescend to render them mentionable here?

    • 146
      Mr Ned says:

      No. I want conservative policies, so obviously I shall vote for the only party offering conservative policies.

    • 163
      Nick2 says:

      No thanks – quite apart from the facts that
      1) The B*N*P is entirely controlled by Griffin personally (apart from one committee whose members he appoints)
      2) Griffin has more skeletons in his wardrobe than Angus Deayton – he can always be cut off at the ankles in any debate
      3) The B*N*P’s economic & social policies are antediluvian socialism
      4) However valid his points are about (excess) immigration, Griffin’s supporters seem to be a load of crypto-fascists, or rather crypto-National Socialists. ‘Darkies’ are likely to be merely the first scapegoat on their list.

      • 185
        albacore says:

        Dream on.
        Take a peek at the Unmentionables’ website for a reminder of reality. Then, for a good laugh, visit the Alice In Wonderland domains of the Lib/Lab/Con shysters.

      • 206
        Batty Hattie Harmanescu says:

        All true, but I do like his Gulags for Slags policy. I think Gordon was thinking about stealing this policy. Then he worked out the value of the “slag vote”; canned.

      • 208
        Nick says:

        Mp’s and Lords are first,then darkies

  22. 59
    ABC says:

    The Times: “In December the official rate of inflation reached 2.9%. If inflation moves above 3%, the governor is required to write a letter of explanation to the chancellor.”

    —-
    Dear Chancellor

    There is fuck all left that we can do

    Cordially
    Mervyn
    —-

  23. 66
    David Cameron says:

    “Time to press the panic button?”

  24. 69
    Dave Cameron says:

    I used to sell fags to boys but soon found out it’s more profitable to sell boys to fags.

  25. 71
    ed says:

    Why are these useless parasites being allowed to screw the tax payer like this? This bunch of half dead leeches needs be put out or OUR misery! The whole system of govt. in this country is as rotten as putrefying corpse on dung heap! It STINKS!
    The House of Frauds is stuffed full of crooks, frauds, wasters, social climbing retards like Mandelson and then there’s the Kinnocks ffs! The place is a gravy train for old farts, bonkers bishops and quango leftovers. Get rid of this shit hole before it costs us any more money and don’t pay any of them a penny until they show a receipt for everything!

  26. 76
    Lord Y. Igotawaywithit says:

    We need a real investigation into the lords now – the bastards! Expensegate is still very alive.

  27. 80
    Dave Cameron says:

    So Gordon Brown reportedly eats 9 bananas a day?

    That’s fuck all, Barack Obama eats at least 20. And he can peel them with his feet.

  28. 88
    David Cameron says:

    Why am I not pleased ???

    On her Twitter page, Ms Cash admitted late on Tuesday: “I did resign. Assoc did not accept. CCHQ has resolved specific issue so I am not leaving. It’s official DC [leader David Cameron] has changed the party for the worst !!!!

  29. 89
    Festive Slice says:

    I hear that Ed Ball and his hugely talented department are bringing out a publication to promote music in school, the publication is entitled Jazz Mag

    • 140

      From: The Editor, Fiesta Magazine
      To: Edward ‘Himmler’ Balls

      Dear Ed,

      Thank you for your recent submission of set of photographs for ‘Reader’s Wives’.

      Unfortunately, we were unable to schedule the pictures for publication on the grounds of taste and decency, but may I suggest that you try one of our more specialist publications, such as ‘TV Quickie’, or perhaps the ever popular ‘Men’s Health’?

      Yours,
      ‘Dirty Dick’ Desmond.

    • 167
      Unsworth says:

      Oh, that’s a pity. I thought it was Jizz Mag….

  30. 93
    Anonymous says:

    Meanwhile in the real world 400 jobs gone at Cadbury’s

    Surely this had to be the ‘flakiest’ promise ever from a government who promised to defend those jobs only a week or so ago.

    400 Cadbury’s workers sacked after Kraft confirms factory will close just ONE WEEK after U.S. firm promised to keep it open
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1249728/Cadbury-sacks-400-workers-Kraft-breaks-promise-shut-factory.html?ITO=1708&referrer=yahoo

  31. 94
    Himmler. says:

    We need a Hitler

    • 97
      All Balls says:

      draw a moustache on a picture of Balls and see if you can see the resemblance.

    • 105
      Sweaty Balls says:

      We’ve got Gordon, he’s Liebour’s equivalent.

    • 138
      albacore says:

      Hitler wanted to rule the globe.
      Brown wants to impose globalist rule on the British.

      • 158
        Mr Ned says:

        Hitler’s record:

        Hitler took a nation from financial ruin to become a global powerhouse,
        Hitler roused his nation
        Hitler was far too competent.
        Hitler saw active military service
        Under Hitler’s rule, it took the combined might of the Russians Americans and the Commonwealth to defeat him.
        Hitler was responsible for horrendous war crimes for which his regime was rightly condemned in the Hague

        Brown’s record:

        Brown has taken a nation from financial health and prosperity and threatens to lead it to stagflationary depression.
        Brown is laughed at by his nation.
        Brown is utterly incompetent.
        Brown has never, ever done any real work outside of politics.
        Brown is reducing this nation to an insignificant nonentity on the edge of Europe.
        Brown is responsible for war crimes for which his Government SHOULD be tried in the Hague.

        • 181
          Nick2 says:

          Hitler rebuilt Germany using borrowed money (from the Americans mostly AIR). He had no interest in managing the German economy at all – his only economic gestures were to fund employment for the workers (eg the autobahns) and telling Dr Schacht (the Economics Minister) that providing he provided specific amounts of money to the army, he had a free hand to do anything else. The economy (& the army) was rebuilt using ‘Mefo Bills’.

          The economic good times (for some) lasted up until ’39, when Schacht couldn’t pay the interest any longer & was dismissed. So Hitler looks like a pretty good comparison to Labour in some respects. Except that Brown’s built a client state rather than a well defended one.

          • Jus Saying says:

            Hitler was also a socialist

            Gordon Brown is also a socialist

            Both will be denied as socialists by fellow socialists in the future trying to cover up their self evident incompetence and warped ideology.

  32. 100
    Fuck'em All says:

    lousy troughing scumbag wankers ought to be stamped to a slow painful death

  33. 101
    Anthony Gormless says:

    anyone for a statue?

  34. 102
    David Cameron says:

    BBC News: U.K. parliament dissolves – fucking great stuff this hydrocholric acid

  35. 104
    Ed Balls says:

    I am a punchy egotistical wanker with a bloke for a wife. But I’m fucking over you nobody knobheads in the general public. You can’t touch me or any MP. We set the rules for you to live by – and then set nice easy ones for ourselves. You ugly slovenly scumbags.

    Vote Labour.

  36. 109
  37. 119
    Gordon McTinyTears says:

    Thay also should not steal from the public purse but this certainly puts into prospective the government advert
    “Benefit thieves , its only a matter of time”

    • 137
      Stronghold Barricades says:

      and they might pay a “bounty” to whistle blowers

      Can you imagine the traffic on those phone lines as irate neighbours ring in about their local neighbourhood scumbags?

  38. 120
    allan akhbar says:

    there is only going to be one way to stop them spending-

    chop off their hands!

  39. 121
    Blah Blah Blah says:

    So,what are you all going to do about this and all the others thefts / frauds carried out by this govt and the ruling classes?

    I suppose you will all just carry on gossiping about how bad it is.

    When will you ever get off your lazy arses and march in protest?

    Probably never, cos you are still just too damn comfortable.

    • 162
      Mr Ned says:

      What will marching achieve?

      we marched against the Iraq war, and they kept on lying and went to war anyway.

      The ONLY thing this bunch of criminals listens to is the ballot box. We will have our say…

      … I hope.

      • 179
        BUSTERS COCK child friendy website says:

        No i disagree
        i think they would listen to a machine gun and a few hand grenades
        if anybody out there fancies giving them a taste of whats to come !

      • 204
        Batty Hattie Harmanescu says:

        Sorry, rigged postal votes trump ballot box. We lose.

    • 180
      BUSTERS COCK child friendy website says:

      You organise it then mr blah blah !

  40. 123
    David Cameron says:

    Portsmouth Chief Executive Peter Storrie meets with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs about the clubs outstanding Tax Bill.
    The Officer tells him – I am going to let you off with the £11.5m tax bill you owe as I am a great admirer of Pompy and I think they are a fantastic club.
    Storrie in a startled manner replies – Really?
    To which the Officer says – No, I am winding you up.

  41. 126
    Pink Lord says:

    Hey Pownall leave those Lords alone.
    All in all it’s just another free loading Lord.

  42. 135
    The Brown Death says:

    The Lying Scotsman is attempting the Great Grave Robbery.

    • 210
      ShoutsAtTheTV says:

      Hah.. Very good.

      I just hope he does some “research” (from about 6ft under) very soon..

  43. 142
    gobby logan of the beebeecee says:

    So Prime Minister, how are you today?

    aghh, that’s good

    And have you any new policies to help us all today?

    aghh, yes, I’m sure they will work and be good for all of us

    thany you , you are so kind …….

  44. 148
    Joh Terry I am snide and treacherous says:

    This country has just about had it. Surely sooner or later the masses are going to revolt. Just read of an 84 yr old bloke being prosecuted by Gwent police because he prodded one of a gang of ferel loutish youths with his walking stick after they had taunted and abused him at his home.

    The stupid Scottish copper who gave a man a ticket for blowing nose in a traffic queue whilst behind the wheel was the same fool that gave a man a litter penalty ticket when the guy inadvertly dropped a £10 note!!!!!

    Let me out of this fooking asylum !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  45. 152
    HoC = House of Corruption says:

    Not the kind of thing that happens by accident:

    “Mr Mackay and Ms Kirkbride owned two properties, with each claiming one as their second home so that the couple had no main residence which was not funded by the taxpayer.”

    http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23802360-mp-golden-couple-andrew-mackay-and-julie-kirkbride-to-repay-pound-60000.do

    Nor is this:
    http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/983172/Tory-MP-Andrew-MacKay-join-Burson-Marsteller-lobbying-arm

    In the topsy turvy la-la land of MP’s, corruption and failure offers fantastic rewards.

  46. 155
    I feel sick says:

    No wonder the troughers want to end up there and cherie fancies a place – speakers martin and bercow and his stupid tweeting wife all continuing to benefit from our generosity. happy days x

  47. 174
    His Holiness, Mnsgr. ‘Miranda’ Phoney Bliar, ********, ******, and ***, emoting, + stupid grin, says:

    Hi!, – I’d just like to remind you that I am very, very, very rich!

    And there’s no need for me to give nothing back!!

    No, – I’m not a Lord, – and have no need to be, – although one day they’ll probably plead wiv me to join them.

    The missus done well too.

    • 200
      Hugh Janus says:

      I’m still smiling over the letters BGBC under a picture of Bliar on Mock the Week – Bush’s Grinning Bum Chum.

  48. 176
    BUSTERS COCK child friendy website says:

    With even more troughing acceptable
    its now fair game to rig the elections
    an absolute fucking banana adicted drug addict as a leader
    no more is it required to be elected to be in parliament
    ex troughers found other jobs from which to line their pockets
    we must now surely officially be a Banana Republic ?

  49. 182
    Jus Saying says:

    Super-inflation is on it’s way, the printers are running 247, Europe is in meltdown, possible third world war could erupt because of Greece and tight resource, get out of the country while you still can.

  50. 189
    Summer_Breeze says:

    Surely, it wouldn’t be right, to expect their Lordships to agree to retrospective changes to the rules, would it?
    After all, MP’s don’t think retrospective changes should be allowed. ;-)

  51. 195
    Moley says:

    I suggest that the word “Lord”, is substituted for “shit” and “turd” so that it forever becomes a part of the English language.

    Then we can rub their lordship’s noses in the shit every single day.

    “Excuse me, I’m just going for a lord”.
    “I have dog lord on my shoe”.
    “There is a floating lord in the toilet”

  52. 209
    ShoutsAtTV says:

    For god’s sake!!!

    “All within the rules…” – hated this phrase from the 1st time I heard it – just goes to show that these t*rds are playing a completely different game to the rest of us!!!

    B@ST@RDS!

  53. 212
    goto100 says:

    Sleazy Lord Arschcroft Guido. We’re still waiting for your take on it. Or is he a bridge partner, and are you too a tool of the corrupt establishment?

    Sleazy Lord Arschcroft. Time to say something, or suspicions of your tool status may grow.

  54. 215

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