Lord Rennard got off having to repay expenses he had fiddled by claiming his main London home was his holiday home. He claimed he spent his weekends at his flat in Eastbourne.
Indicative of the truth is that he was spotted by an EyeSpier sweating in Millbank on Saturday night.
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Lord Lamont told ITV News…
“I think the PM is just human and Ed Balls is a pretty irritating person”
General election NOW.
Think Gordon will hang on as long as possible…and is probably trying to think of a way of delaying even the final polling date!!
I need more time to rig the election, Peter said.
We’re all trying to nail the flipper Lord Rennard and the crook Michael Brown together.
The sanctimony of the Lib Dems is rather grating, is it not?
Abolish the unelected Lords. It is high time that there is a root and branch reform of this corrupt system.
It seemed to work fine when the Lords was inhabited by hereditaries backed up by Lords Spiritual and the odd appointee (very odd indeed, some of them). Since it’s been “reformed”, it’s turned into a den of corruption.
There’s a constitutional lesson here – if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.
Another of Labour’s “achievements” is now revealed for what it was – working for narrow party political advantage, and not for the good of the country.
The Labour maxim, if it ain’t bust, keep fixing it till it is!
Oh Eng, how true. It breaks my heart…
Surely this is the best use of Electronic Tags
Each expense-claiming MP / Peer should wear an electronic tag
Equality? You bet!
The tag should locked around the wearer’s neck and be fitted with 500g of high explosive and a lie detector. When stress-levels in the wearer’s voice indicate he/she is lying.. BANG.
Everyone in national and local government should be fitted with one.
So you’re a senior citizen and the government says no health care or pension for you, what do you do? Our plan gives anyone 65 years or older a gun and 4 bullets. You are allowed to shoot 2 MP’s and 2 Senior Government Officials. Of course, this means you will be sent to prison where you will get 3 meals a day, a roof over your head, and all the health care you need! New teeth, no problem. Need glasses, great. New hip, knees, kidney, lungs, heart? All covered. And who will be paying for all of this? The same government that just told you that you are too old for health care. Plus, because you are a prisoner, you don’t have to pay any income taxes anymore.
So Lord Ashcroft wouldn’t get one but Lord Paul would!
Seems right to me!
Here’s a constitutional lesson for you: hereditary priviledge is fundamentally unfair and the antithesis of democracy. That someone can exercise power based merely on birth is a moral outrage.
Too right mate……..what was good for them is good for us.
In theory, perhaps. In practice, the Hereditary Lords were unpaid, in general disinterested (in the old sense of the word) in most legislation passing through the Chamber, and regarded their lot as a Duty (again, in the old sense of the word) to be discharged to the best of their ability. In consequence, it worked very well in practice.
It is now a Chamber in which ammendments to legislation can be bought by outsiders, as exposed by the Sunday Times. It is worse without the Hereditaries, not better.
A true conservative government would restore the House of Lords to its pre 1997 state. No more cash for peerages and rewarding complete tossers just because they have been party lap dogs. Yes in theory the old heriditaries were insupportable but in practise the system worked and we can just about save it if anyone has the honesty to do so!!
Newlabour full of jumped up ‘embittered ‘poor’ boys and girls. They display worse behaviour , when they finally make it, than the toffs who have been used to ‘having it’ all their lives. AND their education is VERY narrow!
If it ain’t fixed broke it
meanwhile at the BBC somebody mentions Lord Pauls tax status….
Both Houses elected.
One for Legislation.
One as the Executive.
I used to think that, but most of the elected politicians from any party have done a fairly shit job. If someone is trained from birth to do a job that they will get without kissing some PMs/selection committees arses and being a complete fucking yes-man, then they certainly be better qualified than the politically appointed Life peers that we have got now. As for those fuckers that got a enobled for giving bribes to political parties….well what do you think.
I am not saying the hereditary principle is fair, egalitarian or politically correct, but it is better than what we have now.
Return to the old hereditary system but with the proviso that no present or former member of the House of Commons, or present or former member or administrative employee of any Council with powers greater than that of a parish council, or any present or former employee or adviser (paid or unpaid) to any political party should be eligible to sit in the Lords.
June 3 beckons ?
You don’t want to hold a fair on a Thursday, you want to hold it on a weekend.
Will there be space-rides at this Future Fair? I’m really looking forward to it. Unless it’s more of a Gordon Brown/Mad Max Future Fair, set in a post-financial apocalypse Britain (circa 2011) where visitors have to pretend to fight each other the death for dwindling food supplies.
Who can ever forget the last Labour extravaganza(fair) put on by Peter Mandelson ….”The Millenium Dome Experience”…… an overpriced collection of boring rubbish supposedly celebrating 2000 years of British endeavour with a particularly “camp” aerial show starring somebody called “Sky Boy”.
God forgive me………….I actually went and took the kids too !!!!!! I retained the leaflet/brochure and when I’m particularly low I take it out of its box and read all the politically correct British achievements listed by Labour and feel even worse………………………..
They just haven’t learnt have they??
Trouble is they still think they can get away with it!! Guido’s stuff needs to be shown on BBC News…but that’s unlikely given the seemingly political bias now being shown by them.
Do they not realise that when Gordon has spent all our money and nobody will lend to us any more that we won’t be able to to fund them???
It’s not a question of “when” Gordon has spent all our money, he has spent it. It’s gone. When the credit rating goes south, and lenders consider the UK too risky, Brown will continue spending like there’s no tomorrow, funding it all with tax rises.
Fancy 30pc basic rate tax and 14% NI? Petrol at £1.50 per litre? Vote Labour.
Good Lord Bad Lord
http://political-graffiti.blogspot.com/
This time I am first for Labour whoooo hooo
Assume the position Martin and pass me my light sabre!
you had your day out yesterday Martin now back to the ward,in the night gardens on you like that don’t you.
Nothing to see here, move along. Has no one told you that Libdems were completely exonerated in the expenses scandal. Leave the chubby fox alone.
I’m going to rig the election. Tee-hee!
I did wonder why you had that ghastly grin on your face.
Gordon will win.
The experiment has worked.
Get half the population dependant on the State for handouts, then tell them they will lose them if the nasty Tories get in.
Too many people have too much to lose.
I recall John Prescott in an interview saying it does not matter how much debt we have because the hospitals and schools will still be there, even if we default.
He does have a point!
BBAAARRFFFFFfff ….bloody bulimia! fetcha cloth!
Even those built via PFI agreements? ‘We’ don’t own those.
He might like to consider the possible consequences of the Government defaulting on loans.
1) The markets will promptly demand far higher coupons on new gilts, thus pushing up the cost of our debt.
2) The markets will push strongly for the IMF to sort things out – and if the IMF arrive and say that hospital and school closures are necessary to save money, hospitals and schools WILL close.
How do you get rid of that wen encrusted face of Brown from our TV screens and also from our lives ? There is not the slightest doubt he has deliberately set out to destroy this nation because in his ravaged mind he is convinced he knows best. I don`t think the limbless soldiers would agree . What shits Blair and his wife were to leave us with this psychopath. There must be another Mac Naughten (?) somewhere who would help
There is a scandal about Brown yet to surface. When it does, it will finish him. Just be patient….
yes I’ve heard the whispers in the bar
My uncle’s in the Lords and he says he once claimed Patricia Hewitt on expenses
You can use her minge as a swipe machine
Snatch and sniff.
You could get a snatch landrover up there.
More people need to write and complain on the BBC websites; we pay for that as well. The greed continues at the Beeb as well as government. Nick Robinson’s website is a good starting point. He has three articles on Ashcroft and none of the issues mentioned here by Guido ie McConnel, Purcell, Lord F.. off Paul. If there are enough people who complain they will have to respond and do something about it.
Go on, write to the Beeb asking why they are not mentioning isues raised in other mediums and why their reporters are not complying with the BBC’s impartial broadcasting policy.
The Daily Politics:
Monday ……Lord Ashcroft (25 minutes) Andrew Rawnsley and Tony McNulty (5 Minutes)
Tuesday……Lord Ashcroft (26 miniutes) then four minute Tory bashing
Wednesday..Lord Ashcroft (27 minutes) then three minute Tory bashing
Thursday…..Lord Ashcroft (28 minutes) then two minute Tory bashing
Friday………Lord Ashcroft (29 minutes) then one minute Tory bashing
Question Time
Thursday….We will only be taking questions about Lord Ashcroft
This Week
Thursday …Itchy and Scratchy discuss Lord Aschroft
Slient Witness……..Team of posh patholigists find Lord Aschroft’s body.
New Tricks……….. Sandra and the team looking for Lord Ashcroft’s killer.But can’t be
arsed and end up in the chinese.
Waking the Dead…..Lord Ashcroft..blah blah blah
Spooks…………….. Lord Ashcrot ..blah blah blah
The public hate absorbing sponge is starting to get full. A few dribbles leaking out here and there but still mopping up the shit.
The end will come when the sponge can absorb no more. Probably not long now.
OT. I wonder how the ARRSE site ( http://www.arrse.co.uk/ ) will take to the news blackout proposed by the MOD?
Bet he’s sweating on this one
I have never trusted cunning old Lord Reynard. I think he’s after my cock.
No, he’s trying it on with Jemima Puddleduck
When will the damn commoners in economy class learn we make laws for them, not us. All we want is their money, they can piss off when it comes to anything else.
He spends his weekends in a flat in Eastbourne.
The poor c*nt.
There are many things that can bring a sweat on, but in his case it’s a safe bet it wasn’t physical exercise of the purely athletic kind, the lard arse twat.
If you want to live long enough to spend obscene amounts of ill gotten gains….you have to stay fit.
We can always pray for cardiac arrest seeing as all other forms of arrest appear to have failed!
Harriet !! You look so svelte !!
So this is the sight that first attracted young Tracy to Prescott.
Due to quality you cannot make out it is in fact Jacqui six bellies Smith
You think we got trouble? Check this out
http://stuartsyvret.blogspot.com/
Unfortunately for Senator Syvret, when they took the Haut de la Garenne children’s home apart it revealed absolutely no evidence of child abuse there. The UK press repeatedely climaxed over the idea of a ‘search for more bodies’, but all they found was a piece of old coconut shell that some chump had mistaken for a child’s skull and a bath that was – well, a bath.
Don’t believe what you read in the tabloids. Consider also that the Labour spinmasters like bad stories about Jersey since it relentlessly pursues conservative, business- and people-oriented policies with small government and low taxes. Coincidentally, no doubt, it has low unemployment, low crime and little poverty but high educational and living standards.
Some readers may also wish to note that Syvret is an anti-smoking extremist.
Well scuppered Sir William ;+)
Let us be clear with our facts.
A very, very substantial amount of evidence of child abuse – occurring in Haute de la Garenne and several other Jersey children’s homes – does exist.
So much so – that convictions have been secured against a former member of staff and a former resident of HDLG.
Further – two more alleged abusers who worked at HDLG have just been returned to Jersey and charged.
As a result of the investigation – other abusers have also been identified. Indeed – one or two of them have even been convicted.
I assume ‘Sir William Waad’ is actually referring to the possibility of child murders having been committed? If so, he isn’t entirely correct in that observation either.
Amongst the various human remains recovered include around 75 children’s’ teeth – many ‘with roots still attached, and that could not have come out naturally’, a variety of human bone fragments – including ‘the femur of a young female’ – and other pieces of bone from a juvenile that ‘showed signs of having been burnt, with a lack of microbial activity indicating that the bone was “fresh and fleshed” at time of burning’.
To be sure – on their own – not enough to definitely identify a recent murder. But, nevertheless – juvenile human remains that were recovered from HDLG. I for one would have been deeply concerned had the police not investigated these issues.
However, the more immediate and fascinating issue, is the fact that around 15 priority suspect for committing child abuse – and a number of other people suspected of perverting the course of justice by concealing the abuse – remain un-charged – notwithstanding highly evidenced cases against them.
Just too, too embarrassing for the Jersey establishment.
And – readers of this blog may be interested to know – the Labour government has actually been shockingly deficient in addressing this obvious breakdown in checks and balances in Jersey. Too much union influence.
Influence that always lobbies on behalf of its members who are accused of abuse, and never shows regard for the victims.
Stuart Syvret.
FLASH FLASH MP’s are crooks
The Lib Dems are slowly buildind a reputation for financial dodginess to rival anything the other main parties are alledged to have done. A £2.5 million donation from non-dom convicted fraudster Michael Brown, which the Electoral Commission asked them to repay, but they haven’t – yet; a less than clean sheet during the MPs expenses saga, something a little whiffy about Sarah Teather’s constituency office funding (if memory serves me right); Lord Reynard’s amazing expanding expenses……
The IMF should demand that the Lib Dems are abolished. The public purse can’t afford them.
Lib dems like to pretend they are ‘whited sepulchres’, where as they are conniving, no talent, weedy, fakes.
AARSE have got wind of McTwat’s Afghan news blackout for the election….
No news is good news ?
It’ll take more than a steam clean to get rid of the stench of hypocrisy around this trougher.
ah michael brown dont you just love em,and they have the front to have a go at benefit swervers- chortle
This web page of Sarah Brown
http://www.number10.gov.uk/sarah-brown
Who is paying for it? I assume it s the taxpayer and if so then it must be stopped. Why should I finance Sarah Brown’s PR on behalf of her husband?
“When the family came back to England, Sarah attended Acland Burghley School and Camden School for Girls before studying at Bristol University, where she gained an honours degree in Psychology.”
So they married McMental off to a psychologist? The dots are beginning to be joined.
I kid you not.
She met Gordon through her work
And I wonder who funds her extremely strong whiff of lavender?
Zoflora I am led to understand
I know how to make my hero’s eyes light up, just shine a torch in his ear!
http://twitpic.com/17bok0 – in Mirror Ed’s office working on International Women’s Day supplement out in the paper today #IWD
Samantha can beat her, hands down!
Jacqui?
O/T..but this is what it’s all about.
I was at a social gathering yesterday,and started to talk to this guy that I didn’t know. The conversation went like this….
Me: So,what do you do for a living?
Guy: Nothing..I’m out of work
Me: Oh..sorry..what happened?
Guy: Made redundant.
Me: That’s bad..are you looking for work?
Guy: Nope..I’m on benefits.
Me:But surely you want to work?
Guy: Yes,but there’s no jobs…..It’s all the fault of the effing Tories.
Me: How’d you work that out?
Guy: Well..they’ve bankrupted the Country.
Me: What?
Guy: Yeah…that Margaret Thatcher left the Country in huge debt.
Me: What???
Guy: Ever since Labour have been in,they’ve been sorting it out.
Me: You’re kidding. The last Tory Government left the Economy in great shape.
Guy: No they didn’t,they spent all our money.
Me: So,what about the £26000 Government debt for every Man,Woman and Child in the Country that Labour have built up..plus your own personal debt?
Guy: Yeah..the Tories did it. They wouldn’t ever help me..that’s why Labour have to get back in.
Me: Errr..you do know how long Labour have been in power,and that your children and grandchildren will be paying for their madness for 25 years.
Guy:Yeah..5 years..Look mate..you don’t understand…Labour have done a great job..it’s the bloody Tories that got us in this mess.
Me:FFS…see you sometime…
Is it me..or are these idiots really from a different planet???
Its the plasma from the tellys doing it,the bigger the worse the effect.
You have to wonder why this guy was selected for redundancy. How much do you think he would contribute to your business, if you had to employ him?
University graduate perchance?
1 soldier killed whilst my hero was there, now another one dies 36 hrs later. My Jonah has made this the most lethal weekend in the ‘stan for months.
http://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/10165534343
It’s the right thing to do.
Two teenagers have been named as the latest British military deaths in Afghanistan.
Rifleman Jonathon Allott, 19, from Bournemouth, and Rifleman Liam Maughan, 18, from Doncaster, were killed in separate incidents on Friday and Saturday. Both men died near Sangin in Helmand province and were members of 3rd Battalion The Rifles.
The Ministry of Defence also announced that a third fatal incident in as many days had claimed the life of a fighter from A Company 4 Rifles. His next of kin has been informed.
The soldier, who was attached to the same battalion as the teenage casualties, was shot on Sunday when his patrol base came under attack from insurgents.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5h5lz8VGQVAMIotvDUlZyBL45Tc6Q
A lovly lad and the friend of my grandaughter.pay your respects here.
http://www.facebook.com/allott2063?hiq=jonny%2Callot&ref=search#!/allott2063?v=wall&ref=search
Where the hell is Steven Purcell?Why aren’t the police acting?
Australia, apparently
Did any of you spot Mark Oaten’s head peeping out of that big fold of skin on her left arse cheek, happy as a sand boy love him.
Is Bannatynes a pick up joint?
Guido is ballls deep in Camoron.
The Liebore trolls, however, are bent over for Lord Madlesson and Camp-bell.
o/t
NuLiebore should take a long hard look at its own website – direct.gov.uk
“Plan your way out of debt” which offers sound advice:-
“FACING UP TO YOUR DEBT PROBLEM”
“MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR MONEY”
“CUTTING YOUR COSTS”.
Plan your way out of debt
Avoiding over-commitment
Managing your money and using credit without getting too deeply into debt
Budgeting
How to work out a budget to make sure that your income is more than the amount of money you spend
Dealing with debt problems
How to deal with debt problems by establishing priorities, setting a personal budget, talking to creditors and getting impartial and independent advice
Which debts to pay off first
Information on prioritising debts and what might happen if you ignore your debts
Ways out of debt
How to get out of debt by increasing your income, reducing your spending and coming to arrangements with creditors
Consolidating debts
Consolidation loans – what they are, when they’re useful and the pros and cons of getting one
Setting up a debt management plan
If you’re struggling to meet repayments on money you owe, you could consider setting up a debt management plan
You could also try:
Borrow more money
Print some money
I see Ken Clarke has hacked our website again.
Move over! Darling!
Yes sound advice on the Governments own site but please bear in mind that this is only for the common herd. The Blatnoy who run this gulag dont adhere to such things!!
Help, Help im in real shit. There is going to be an election soon but all the media boys wont let me play!! I tried talking to call me Dave about it but he just said F*** Off just like the rest of them. They are all ganging up on me!!
I’m on the Telly tonight. CH4 20:00, be there or be square.
Dispatches: Cameron Uncovered
Rather watch the gadget show
Sounds like you all might get a look at my whackydoodler.
Naaah! No Chance!
8 o’c ?
Eastenders BBC1
Lambing Time BBC2
The Lakes ITV
I’ll read the BBC / Guardian Reviews tomorrow – sure to be more accurate and entertaining – in an untrue sort of way !
Sho’nuff Br’er Rennard an’ Br’er Crowe an’ Br’er Dromedary. Who’s I missin’?
He must be on Holiday then?
Perhaps a photo finish to the election