March 11th, 2010

Gordon’s Claims No Different to Harry Cohen’s Fiddle

Harry Cohen has benefited from Guido’s attention in the past.   The chippy left-wing MP who disgraces the Leyton parliamentary seat once held by Winston Churchill claimed substantially more for his second home  and expenses than any other MP in London, in fact his annual expense claims of £123,718 are £30,000 higher than neighbouring Walthamstow Labour MP Neil Gerrard’s claim of £92,228 and greater than Chingford Tory MP Iain Duncan Smith’s allowance of £104,222.

He claimed “I am almost certainly the most professional MP Leyton and Wanstead has ever had, and that includes Winston Churchill.”

harry-cohenDespite Leyton being a mere half an hour from Westminster on the Central Line tube, Harry Cohen claimed the maximum tax free second home subsidy of £21,63.  The Metropolitan Police has begun a criminal inquiry into Harry Cohen, who claimed more than £70,000 for a “second home” while renting out his main property.  Perhaps the Met Police might want to investigate other MPs doing the same trick. Guido has asked the question before: where is Gordon’s first home that entitles him to claim a second home allowance?

Gordon lives in grace and favour accomodation in Downing Street, he has use of the grace and favour Chequer’s mansion.  He pays nothing in rent or mortgage for those properties.  When he married he adroitly gave to Sarah the flat he bought cheaply in dubious circumstances from Robert Maxwell’s estate and Guido understands they now rent it out at a profit.  That leaves only his old Fife home.  It is clearly his real home, it is the only one he owns. Yet he designates it as his “second home” for expenses purposes.

See : Gordon Claims for His Second Home: Where is His First Home?


331 Comments

  1. 1
    Hang The Bastards says:

    He is a liar and a thieving bastard. BROWN OUT !

    • 2
      Dave's Claims No Different to Harry Cohen’s Fiddle says:

      David Cameron took out maximum taxpayer-funded mortgage – then paid off own £75k loan four months later

      David Cameron was dragged personally into the expenses row after it was revealed that he paid off a loan on his London home shortly after taking out a £350,000 taxpayer-funded mortgage on his constituency house.
      The disclosure followed a powerful call by the Tory leader yesterday for the ‘full force of the law’ to be deployed against MPs who have abused allowances.
      Following a Mail on Sunday investigation Mr Cameron could now face searching questions about his own expense claims.

      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1189788/Cameron-took-maximum-taxpayer-funded-mortgage–paid-75k-loan-months-later.html#ixzz0hqvWJ8oE

      • 7
        Nigel S says:

        Rapid rebuttal! Up early ready for the election are we?

        • 9
          Pot Kettle whining hypocrites says:

          Dave claimed for expenses on a second home – the mortgage interest, when he only had one mortgage. He was also one of the largest claimers of this expense in the commons for many years.

          • Capture the moment when he loses says:

            £50,000 to the person who captures Brown on video at the moment he is told he has lost the General Election on Friday 7th May.

            The person may need to wear the green helmet and blue flak jacket that the Jonah wore in ‘Stan a while back!

            What a priceless moment that will be.

          • Pot Kettle whining hypocrites says:

            I will be laughing very hard indeed because there is absolutely no way Gordoom can win being as hwe is a useless tosser
            But I’ll also be laughing when call me Dave the wimp has to deal with a hung Parliament because all expenses thieves are all scum and deserve what’s coming to them

          • 70s revivalist says:

            How much for the person who captures Gordon Browns face when told he HAS won the election on 7th May……..

            And therefore has to cut by 20% leaving his reputation in history as the most hated PM ever.

            Margaret Thatcher cut by 3% and is currently most hated PM in history..

            Just think in hung parliament – nice Vince cable could be chancellor

            does anyone really want to win this election – after 5 years of 20% cuts – its the next election thats the one to win – not this one.

          • 1974 and all that says:

            the next election in 74 came only months later
            should be fun

        • 11
          Ed Balls in the bunker says:

          It’s Ed Balls down in the bunker – obviously Cooper boy Balls is still k*nobbing the journalist.

        • 79
          sockpuppet #4 says:

          The DAILY MAIL ? is part of the rapid rebuttal unit?

          • Hang The Bastards says:

            Can someone contact that couple that started an internet petition to knock Simon Cowell of the Christmas Number 1.

            And can we get GORDON IS A MORON to be number 1 for May 6th !

            LETS DO IT !

          • sockpuppet #4 says:

            Do you actually remember the song?

            Its not really gordon that is the moron, its not him that ends up crying all the way to the chip shop.
            He’s apparently cool and trendy, and indeed gets off with the girl.

          • Hang The Bastards says:

            The line GORDON IS A MORON…. says it all !

          • sockpuppet #4 says:

            “ought to smash his face in.
            Yeah, but he’s bigger than me. In’t he?
            I know, I’ll get my mate Barry to hit him. He’d flatten him
            Yeah but Barry’s a mate of Gordon’s in’e?
            Oh well, I don’t care”

            You have to sing it with a fake-gay-manc sort of voice too.

      • 31
        Flipper's Balls says:

        so what?

      • 248
        Anonymous says:

        You are not allowed to mention fiddling by anyone other than Labour members. If you pointed out that the Yorkshire Ripper was standing as a Tory PPC the hoons here would support it. Fucking sheep.

      • 282
        V for Vendetta says:

        Who ‘dragged’ him in apart from you,lickspittle?

        I see your favourite word ‘could’ appears again. Any chance you could comment about something which has actually happened, dullard, rather than uninspired conjecture?

        ‘Could’ Gordon be ‘dragged in’ ?

      • 303
        All Lib Dems are tossers says:

        and your point is……………………….

    • 6
      Brown - not long now says:

      How can this man claim that everyone is always wrong and he is always wrong – he is totally and completely unhinged,a madman in charge of a third class railway compartment heading down a dead end.

      Not long now – less than 2 months and he is GONE

      • 53
        udderly 'orrible says:

        ….while the UK crashes into the rail buffers, out of control and at top speed. No thanks. Let him and NoBalls as his conductor, stay in the cab and perish in the mangled wreck. The Flying Scotsman should fly no more.

      • 55
        Scattered Marbles says:

        Simple. In Gordon’s World, it’s always the right thing to do.

      • 159
        exiled&angry says:

        Don’t count on it…he’ll be back in May to take it away Walking in a Gordon Wonderland… Glad I’m in exile!!

        • 235
          Patriot says:

          You exiles are like the chickens who fled to Eire and the US in 1939.Shut up you smug traitor.

    • 22
      One Law 4 politicians another 4 the plebs says:

      Good post Guido but unless a complaint is made to the plod then the plod will not investigate. Now if Gordon tries to fiddleafew quid when he is on the dole afterMay 6th they will come down on him like a ton of bricks.

      • 88
        Anonymous says:

        If only Brown would be on the dole. Sadly, we’ll be paying him a sod-off great pension (one of the few he hasn’t wrecked during his time in Downing St).

        The Grudian, New Statesman or, the way it’s going, the Telegraph, will be paying him a small fortune to write weekly articles about how everything’s the Tory Party’s fault and if only he was still in charge, we’d have the wealthiest country in all of time and space & everyone in Britain would be a multi-millionaire.

        • 116
          Anonymous says:

          Everyone in Zimbabwe is. We’re falling behind.

          Submit your designs for the million pound note. I suggest some bog roll with Blair’s face on.

        • 130
          Taggart says:

          Wee problem for the Guardian is shortly after the landslide Tory win the BBC and government Ads it gets will start to dry up.Its finding it hard to make ends meet now.The Tories will also allocate some of the licence fee to ITV,Channel 5 and Channel 4 which will be a nice way of thanking the BBC for being impartial.Och aye.

          • David Cameron says:

            Mr Cameron stressed that he supported the BBC

            He said: “The BBC is an important national institution. I want to see it prosper and succeed and be a fantastic cultural asset.”

            He added that he was a “supporter of the licence fee”

          • Uncle Rupert says:

            ‘fantastic cultural asset’ could mean ‘wipe out the leftists’. It won’t. But it could.

          • BBC's low-mo suicide says:

            Some people seem to think that changing one’s mind is impossible. It is indeed impossible in Italian for example (“cambiare la mente” is a nonsense), but in England it is a perfectly well understood metonymy. Indeed we practise it all the time, especially at general elections.

        • 329
          wolvreen says:

          No Brown did wreck the MP’s pensions aswell, leaving a black hole of hundreds of millions. But to fix it he got us tax payers to make the shortfall. I mean it is just free cash.

  2. 3
    The nasty Gordon Brown says:

    Wrong Wrong Wrong!

    Everyone is WRONG

    I am always always always right.

    • 27

      Think the extra home may actually be overseas.

      Why else would he be spending so much time in Helmand recently.

      He visits and we have record deaths in the week(s) after.

      He probably has a Dacha there, donated by the honest by comparison Karzai regime.

  3. 4
    Doc Trough says:

    McLoon and grace? I shudder.

    OT. I have just watched Carla Bruni show Anna Botting ‘the private part’ on Sky.

  4. 5
    Phil says:

    Spot on Guido.
    Talking of character and leadership Brown must have heard the phrase “leading by example”.On troughing he has certainly led and the flock appear to have followed.
    Any news on the 50k continuously topped up bung from the unions for his own personal use?

    • 8
      £50K slush fund - questions need to be asked says:

      This is the subject that should be shouted back at him whenever he and that fat ugly hag bag Harthing scream Ashcroft.

  5. 10
    The Court of Public Opinion says:

    If you find it, there will also be a couple of exercise books under the mattress detailing a secret £50k slush fund.

    • 14
      Gordon Brown - the mistake says:

      Along with photo’s of the boys of Fife.

      Anyone yet traced the bloke who did the eye damage in the famed “rugby match”.

      No – of course not,because the game never existed.

      Welcome to Never Never Land,where everyone else is WRONG and Brown is always RIGHT.

      When asked about mistakes he made,he referred to the fact that no one listened to him when he wanted tighter global controls on finance! And the mistake was?

      • 23
        concrete pump says:

        Brown lost his eye during a vigorous bout of ’69ing’.

      • 45
        Carlos says:

        This is indeed interesting. I would imagine that if a schoolboy had lost sight in an eye during a rugby match in my schooldays, that event would at least have made an entry in the local paper. As far as I know, there has been no such report uncovered and no one seems to know anything about it.

        Did this rugby injury really happen? Is it actually just a way of showing Gay Gordon as a rufty-tufty-real-man-playing-rugger-with-other-real-men and not just being a whining pasty faced pile of lard?

        Has anyone ever done any serious research in to the circumstances of this claimed rugby injury?

        • 57
          Anonymous says:

          Has anyone, anywhere, ever seen a picture of Gordon Brown’s offspring?

          Anyone?

          • Anonymous says:

            Have they been DNA tested to confirm they’re his?

          • Airey Belvoir says:

            Yes, they exist, and surprisingly good-looking kids – thanks to whoever filled the turkey baster.

          • Hitler was a Socialist says:

            Has anyone ever voted for Gordon. Do we really know that he represents a scottish rotten borough. Is he really a member of the Labour party. Questions, Questions and so few answers

        • 68
          outbrothersout says:

          and is there nobody in the land who can recall attending a lecture by him?

        • 72
          udderly 'orrible says:

          No one wants to dig too deeply in Bruin’s La La land, its rank and putrefied.
          Filth and depravity masquerading as a God fearing Prot, just read the Scottish press and blogs for the state of slime that prevails in his fiefdom.

        • 78
          Brown Broadcasting Corporation says:

          Not us mate.

          • You’re doing the same great job diggin’ into 0bamas past.

          • Dave loves Obama says:

            Cameron borrows can-do-better attitude from ‘brilliant Barack’

            The man who could be America’s first black president won ringing praise yesterday from the man who could be Britain’s 19th old Etonian prime minister.
            David Cameron said he hugely admired Barack Obama, the front-running contender for the Democrat nomination, and vowed to bring some of the same spirit to the British political debate.

            “I’m enjoying watching Barack Obama. I think he’s a brilliant speaker, I think his optimism and sense of hope for the future is inspiring a lot of people. It’s great to see. Too often [politics] gets down to hope and fear and I think it’s wonderful when hope wins. I’m enjoying watching him, I must say. I think he’s compelling,” Cameron told Radio 5 Live’s Breakfast programme.

            “What people like is the sense that Obama generates, that we don’t have to be like this, we can do better… I think we need that same sense of possibility here.”

            “He is a very easy person to talk with, to exchange views with. He’s an incredibly impressive politician and leader but he’s also an extremely personable human being and someone it’s easy to get on with and to strike up a relationship with.

            “It’s my second meeting and it’s always enjoyable to meet and discuss with him and also to meet his wife and to meet his very impressive team

          • Obama loves Dave says:

            More than one can say for the little scotch McTroll.

        • 80
          Anonymous says:

          Also have any of those ex-girlfriends he mentioned on the Tears for Piers show been traced yet?

        • 165
          Taggart says:

          I dont suppose theres a wee chance that the Telegraphs Heidi Blake will be asking any of Gordons school chums as she did of Camerons.Something tells me nay.

      • 209
        Auntie Flo' says:

        Doesn’t stop his aggressive play with a Wii though.

        “The Wii is very popular,” Brown revealed. “I have played a game of tennis, but I didn’t succeed… It didn’t leave me out of puff, but that was probably because I was beaten pretty early on by my son and he’s only four.”

        • 216
          The IMF is coming says:

          Spotted Advert on Ebay
          For sale: Wii console with tennis game. Hardly used, slight damage to console and missing one control. Collect from central London

        • 219
          The IMF is coming says:

          Spotted Advert on E bay
          For sale: Wii console with tennis game. Hardly used, slight damage to console and missing one control. Collect from central London

      • 224
        Purpleline says:

        That is a very good point. Why has nobody ever tried to find the other team members to give them medals.

        I am convinced after yesterday PMQ’s that some foreign power is controlling him. Maybe communist China or Russia still via the unite trade union

        • 227
          Carlos says:

          Some reports have it that it was a game against the teachers at the school. If that were true, I can fully understand why one of them would have wanted to kick him in the head!

      • 287
        A Guardian Idiot says:

        All the brothers were bright, Gordon in particular. He was selected for an experimental fast stream at Kirkcaldy Primary School, went to secondary school at 10. Took his O-levels at 14. Highers at 15. At 16 he was awarded a place at Edinburgh University to read history. Brown’s memory of himself at this time is not as a swot but as an all-rounder, “very keen on sports”. Though even here he was precocious, playing in the school rugby team at 15: “Difficult when all the other guys were 17, 18.” It may not look like it now, he says, “but back then I was very, very fit”.

        As Murray Elder describes it, Brown went up to Edinburgh a young man “tremendously good at everything”, unused to setbacks. Within two terms at university he was flat on his back in a hospital bed, both his eyes covered with patches – unable to move or read. The diagnosis was a retinal detachment in his left eye probably caused, or exacerbated, by a rugby injury. Without resting, the prognosis was that the right eye might go in sympathy. Treatment involved a series of three operations, each an attempt to save the left eye, each a failure. “After each operation I’d have to lie, in darkness, for three maybe four weeks at a time.” He recalls just before the third operation his surgeon saying to him: “Well, Gordon, we’ll have another bash.” By the end of the second term of his second year Brown was blind in his left eye.

        This is why there would have been no mention in the press

  6. 12
    mitch says:

    I’m sure he is doing the right thing ™

  7. 13
    50 Calibre says:

    The man wouldn’t recognise the truth if it was a strapping blonde in a gold bikini sat on his lap.

    McTwat doesn’t do the truth. It’s not what he does…

  8. 16
    Red Bellend says:

    Yes but what about Ashcroft? Thats my answer to any questions casting doubt opon the great helmsman. It’s all we have left.

  9. 17
    Koba says:

    I’m sure this will go no where fast as the majority of MPs have been filling their boots by as much as they thought they could get away with. The tax payer has no recource as even the law enforcement agencies of this country have sold their souls to the Devil.

    It would be nice to have a rich list of all the Labour cabinet members past and present and then compare it to their wealth when they came to office in year zero(1997). This would show how the ruling classes have enriched themselves at the taxpayers expense.

    • 28
      Yardarm says:

      It goes back further than `97. For example, has Jack Straw ever had a proper, non teat hanging job since he became Barbara Castle`s SPAD in the seventies ? Like has he ever actually earned, contributed, done a proper fucking job; rather than ponce off the taxpayer ?

    • 123
      Anonymous says:

      I agree. The best (or worst) example would be Holy Tony himself, who’s enriched himself beyond his wildest dreams. In fact he’s so rich, he’s apparently gone into tax exile, so he doesn’t get clobbered by that beastly Labour Party and their parasitic client-base.

  10. 19
    More_Luvley_Labour_Dosh says:

    If I was an MP……………
    Yee haa! bubble, fiddle, bubble fiddle, fiddle bubble gum.

    • 41
      oh what a giveaway says:

      so he’s jewish? well that’s the important thing isn’t it

    • 305
      No_Defense says:

      Tha’s right my boy. No judge will take anything in mitigation.

      The roof leaks anyway! – Some clot failed to fix it while the sun was out!

    • 306
      Dozier says:

      Which house does he park the bulldozer in?

  11. 21
    guy herbert says:

    “Most professional”? Given that one gloss on ‘professional’ is ‘doing it for the money’ that is probably one of the most accurate and perceptive things Cohen has ever said.

    Do voters want professional politicians in that sense? Are they good for the country? I’d suggest we are better off with rank amateurs, who could have a better living some other way but choose not to, and who have substantial personal interests, intellectual and financial, that are not dependent on politics.

  12. 24
    Gordon Cullen says:

    M-O-O-N.

    That spells ‘I will not let you down’.

  13. 26
    Alistair Darling says:

    I like his brother Leonard’s records, they are even more depressing than Gordon is.

  14. 29
    Brown's a Tosser says:

    Harry Cohen is the very epitome of a Champagne socialist, lining his pockets at the taxpayers expense. Appreciate he is not the only one and whether they are red, blue or yellow they need to be exposed and booted out at the next GE. The vast majority of MP’s are sanctimonious hypocrites but of course it was within the rules guv, yeh right!

  15. 30
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    What has never been explained is how, when Brown was Chancellor and had his accommodation in Downing Street and his constituency home in Fife he was able to claim cleaning expenses for a third property in London. Why has this always been ignored? Or is there some prudent explanation?

    • 36
      Ministry of Truth says:

      This is not something that we shall be mentioning anytime soon(if ever)

    • 48
      Brown's a Tosser says:

      There is NO explanation the fact is the Prime Minister of this country is a common thief. Come May 7th he needs to add this to his CV. Having said that who in there right minds would give this twat a job. Maybe he could volunteer to do a turn in Sangin.

  16. 31
    Martin Day says:

    The electorate don’t give a damn about Harry Cohen.

    It’s all about………..

    LORD ASHCROFT LORD ASHCROFT LORD ASHCROFT

    and not Lord Paul

    One Tory-supporting tabloid has referred to him as the “Labour Ashcroft”, yet the differences between them are stark. Ashcroft, unlike Paul, is deputy chairman of his party, and in charge of co-ordinating the Tories’ crucial marginal seats campaign. Ashcroft, unlike Paul, has donated millions of pounds to his party, and is alleged to have avoided millions in tax in recent years. When I asked Paul how much his decision to pay full taxes would cost him, he replied: “Definitely not millions of pounds, or hundreds of thousands.” One source suggests to me that his tax bill might be as low as £10,000. The Liberal Democrats have alleged that Ashcroft has avoided paying £127m in tax over the past decade.

    This cannot be dismissed as a story for the Westminster village. In the wake of the expenses scandal, and in the midst of a recession, the public is fed up with the pernicious influence of money on politics. The idea that voters would not be outraged by a tax-avoiding billionaire donor who wields influence over the would-be party of government itself demonstrates a bubble mentality.

    More than half of the respondents in a YouGov poll said they believe the Ashcroft ­affair has damaged the Conservatives. “Punters might not know who Lord Ashcroft is, but there is a real sense that this row has proved the Tories haven’t changed,” says a Downing Street insider. Ultimately, this story is not about Ash­croft, but about David Cameron (who made him deputy chairman in 2005) and his de facto deputy, William Hague (who pushed for Ash­croft to be ennobled in 2000).

    • 38
      Day Dreaming says:

      Hurry up and get dressed Martin the minibus is due soon to take you to the Day centre(no pun intended).It’s basket-weaving to-day.You know how much you like that

    • 39
      Mr Ned says:

      What kind of hallucinogen are you on Martin?

      • 266
        christy says:

        Is this guy the Martin Day who blogs on the Daily Mail and comes from Huddersfield?.

    • 43
      Tom Logan, Institute for Studies says:

      Bore off

      • 47
        Martin Day says:

        There are more revelations about Lord Ashcroft waiting to be published.

        He will LOSE the General Election for David Cameron’s Conservatives together with the serial liars David Cameron & William Hague

        What a bunch of tossers

        • 65
          cassandra king says:

          Message to labour puppets,

          Nobody gives a flying f**k about the Ashcroft non story desperate smears apart from yourselves, you are talking to yourselves and have been for some time. The boring repetitive droning on and on about a non story while hiding the fact that labour is funded by the same route is BORING.

          If you actually think by repeating smears again and again it will somehow gain traction then really you deserve the utter contempt most people hold you in.

        • 69
          Tom Logan, Institute for Studies says:

          Seriously, bore off

        • 117
          English Liberation Front says:

          “Game changer” eh? You mealy-mouthed, white-suited, Labour stooge tosser.

        • 147
          Steve Expat says:

          Martin, mare interested in Harry Cohen’s expenses, Gordon Brown’s expenses and the three Labour MPs due at Westminster Magistrates shortly…

        • 181
          Mr Ned says:

          Martin…

          Which party’s MPs are in court today charged with criminal offences?

          Answer: LABOURS!

          Now what crime has Ashcroft actually committed?

          Which one of the laws, (which Labour has had almost 13 years to change, by the way), has Ashcroft ACTUALLY broken?

          Until you labour scum can answer the above without showing yourselves to be total tosspot, hypocritical bastards, you can all FUCK OFF!

        • 284
          V for Vendetta says:

          Day,you are a fuckwit. Clearly proven by your abject and sadly regular ramblings. I would cut your losses. You have finished your task and demonstrated very well how tribalist and out of touch Labour are.

          To help you out, the LibDems allegation was made by one Chris Hoon,who took non-dom cash to fund his own leadership campaign. That makes him a hypocrite and you desperate if that’s a main plank of your argument.

          If the public are fed up with the expenses scandal,why would they not give damn about trougher cohen and the other 3 labour MPs who have been charged? Dumb thinking by you.

          As for Paul/ Ashcroft’s unpaid tax

          This would be the same Lord Paul whose expenses are under investigation I presume?So we must believe what he says. Why did you not ask Ashcroft?

          The tax regime is a Broonian nightmare so how can the LibDems or anyone else manage to compute the tax situation of an individual when they do not have access to the right information. Complete unproven shit.

          If you think Ashcroft’s position is wrong, surely you agree that all funding by non doms to all parties must stop? If you believe it’s ok for Labour but no-one else you simply confirm what a tribalist fuckwit you are,which is a further reason for you to give up before you heap further embarrassment upon yourself.

          It’s the right think to do.

    • 46
      Flipper's balls says:

      Thanks Martin, it’s always useful to hear from “a Downing Street insider” when you want an objective view of what the voters think.
      I am sure that Lord Paul’s conversion to fully domiciled status won’t involve him paying loads more tax – tax is for the little people after all. Are you following up this insightful piece with one on the Scott Trust?

    • 49
      Browns part time boys says:

      Martin ,youll be fucked after Dave gets in ,make sure your contract is for 5 years

      • 60
        Martin Day says:

        More than likely that Lord Ashcroft will get 5 years

        HM Revenue & Customs are “on his case”

        On the face of it, Ashcroft did not fit the criteria set out in revenue guidelines newly drafted in 1999. These said that a person of British origins could escape his “UK domicile” only if: “You leave your country of domicile and settle in another country.” Before allowing a Briton to renounce his domicile, the Revenue said it also needed: “strong evidence you intend to live there permanently or indefinitely”.

        • 70
          cassandra king says:

          Blah blah…wibble wibble…blah blah Zzzzzzzzzz

          Change the record comrade.

        • 74
          Tom Logan, Institute for Studies says:

          Bore off, tedious now

        • 121
          Hitler was a Socialist says:

          I think you will find that since signing up to the Lisbon treaty, Britain has left its country of domicile. Who really gives a F*** this is like theolgians arguing over the number of angels on the head of a pin. If Britain was still a Sovereign independent country then the source of political funding might be significant but given that we are not this debate really is the biggest load of W**k in history.

        • 246
          Nan Taylor says:

          MARTIN DAY?

          WHAT A LOAD OF OLD SHIT

        • 286
          V for Vendetta says:

          But fuckwit, HMRC agreed his position(under a Labour government) What’s Blair’s's tax position?

          Who agreed that.

        • 314
          Socialism has murdered 150 million human beings pride says:

          HM revenue couldn’t found their arse with their hands.

          You are a waste of space Day

    • 59
      Madame Defarge says:

      If Lord Paul is so innocuous and without any influence whatsoever WTF is he doing on the Privy Council? Go boil your head will you?

    • 62
      Dangerous Dave says:

      Havnt you got a playground to sweep or a toilet to unblock Damo.
      Whens your mans heart attack booked in for?

    • 67
      Brown's a Tosser says:

      Eight-year-old Martin came home from the playground with a bloody nose and black eye. It was obvious that he’d been in a bad fight and lost.

      While his father was patching him up, he asked his son what happened. “Well, Dad,” said Martin, “I challenged this Bully Gordon to a fight and, well you know, I gave him his choice of weapons.”

      “Uh-huh,” said the father, “that seems fair.” “I know, but I never thought he’d choose his Sister!”

    • 152
      My Other Cars Not A Prius Either! says:

      Well martin if I nad the good fortune to have a foreign income I would be treating it as exactly that,does the UK government help me earn it? NO
      Does the UK government protect me from financial loss while abroad? NO
      Would the UK government waste this money on creating non-jobs for the girls,gays and strays? YES
      Ashcroft is quite correct,within his rights AND within the law!

    • 226
      Anonymous says:

      Why on earth was Ashcroft made to pledge to give up his non dom status while others were free to enjoy it in the Lords?

    • 240
      Purpleline says:

      Martin good show today, I like Heart FM ON 106.2 >FORMERLY eSSEXFM<

      HOW LONG YOU BEEN A DJ and idiot of the Brown propaganda machine

    • 245
      Nan Taylor says:

      WHAT A LOAD OF OLD SHIT!!!

  17. 33

    [...] …" But strange how the 'top dogs' like CMD aren't getting investigated. See Guido at … Gordon’s Claims No Different to Harry Cohen’s Fiddle – Guy Fawkes' blog … for why Flash should be under investigation. Come on Pete. Why should Flash be in the clear [...]

  18. 35
    benedict brogan says:

    Well Gordon may be claiming for his Fife Home but he wiped the floor with Cameron yesterday at PMQ.

    • 44
      Mr Ned says:

      You were watching a totally different PMQ’s to everyone else then.

      What with Brown, refusing to distance himself from slurs on the top military officers, playing amateur student politics with our servicemen’s lives, then lying blatantly about the expenditure and when he had his arse kicked on that he was then whimpering “Ashcroft” to questions he could not answer.

      What a sad, broken twat he looked.

      Cameron slaughtered Brown yesterday!

      • 51
        thick as thieves says:

        David Cameron lost his rag as yesterday’s PMQ’s

        He should realise that leading the Conservative Party is not for a novice.

        Still David Cameron is doing his utmost to lose the General Election and thank heavens for that.

        • 58
          Hamish Macbeth says:

          I think you were watching the redacted bbc version – not the one that actually happened

        • 64
          sockpuppet #4 says:

          Don’t worry. His media advisers probably told him to lose his rag.

          Same kind of blokes that told Brown to smile, and told IDS to laugh on the Today program.

        • 86
          Maladroit Labour Chump says:

          This is no time for a nobhead, Gordoom.

      • 56
        benedict brogan says:

        Read my article i like giving it to the Tories just like Heffer.its easy … just back stab like the BBC and Sky.

        • 156
          Steve Expat says:

          Read the rest of the article: not particularly kind to our PM…

          Truth is, the British electorate is being hoodwinked by the Prime Minister. He and his gang of ruthless operatives will stop at nothing to save themselves from defeat. They will use every dirty trick in the book, and are already doing so, to knock Mr Cameron off his stride and sow doubts in the receptive minds of uncertain voters.

          They have read Andrew Rawnsley’s forensic exposition of the hatreds and deceptions that mark the Prime Minister’s career and cannot fathom why the rest of us cannot see the serial dishonesty, the political opportunism, the dangerous indecisiveness, the directionless moral compass, let alone his serial policy failures. How, they wonder, can we possibly be contemplating giving this guy another five years?

          Winston Smith understood the Orwellian doublethink trick used by Mr Brown: “To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it… and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.”

          Mr Brown’s act of hypnosis is to make us ignore the facts about what will become of Britain should he be left in charge for much longer: economically relegated, permanently crippled with debt, addicted to public spending and big state interference, reliant on ever higher taxes and ruled by the trade unions.

          http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/benedict-brogan/7416590/Gordon-Brown-has-voters-in-a-trance-its-time-for-a-wake-up-call.html

    • 71
      Brown's a Tosser says:

      Your eyesight is as bad as Gordon’s.

    • 102
      What's Benedict on says:

      I think Benedict Brogan has either been spending too much time with Nick Robinson or taking too much medication. I watched a completely different PMQs to him.

      I saw DC in his best form for some time, honest anger and passion at the appalling behaviour of the rabble opposite especially the pasty lump of lying, corrupt, incomptetent lard called a prime minister unelected by party or country.

      I don’t think there is any remote chance of Brown winning in May but if he does the British people will truly deserve him.

  19. 40
    QWERTY says:

    The BBC will not investigate Gordon, he’s a great man, greater than Churchill. Piss off Guido and dig up some dirt on the Tories.

    Luv the BBC

    • 52
      cassandra king says:

      The labour fuckwits are pimping their memes already.

      Churchill..courage..leader..courage..right thing…experience..courage…Churchill..courage ad nauseum. Its a cunning plan aint it? The only slight drawback to this cunning plan is that nobody is listening and nobody believes anything the drooling mong says anymore!

      • 276
        Anonymous says:

        While I agree that reevalutions of Churchill’s actions and legacy have altered our perception of the man, suggesting that ‘nobody believes anything the drooling mong says anymore!’ is going rather too far.

    • 73
      Jeremy Hunt , Conservative MP, Shadow Culture Secretary says:

      “I believe that the BBC is a great national institution. I am proud of the BBC. I think that most British people think that we are very lucky to have a BBC and most people who aren’t British, if they don’t have a BBC, wish they did have one.”

      “I don’t see the BBC as a State broadcaster.”

      “I think people see the BBC as operating at arms length from the government and it’s very important that it should continue to do so and that’s why we’ve said we will protect the BBC charter.”

  20. 42
    cassandra king says:

    I am sure the full weight of the BBC will already be swinging into action to investigate this scandal.
    Nick(toenails)Robinscum is furiously writing on his famous blog about…er…Ashcroft.
    The BBC is waiting untill it gets a counter attack prepared in assciation with labour HQ as it always does in these circumstances.

    The election will be amusing if only to see McMental hiding himself away and visiting the odd primary school/creche/infants school, I dont think we will be seeing the old Major soap box being dusted down by either of the leaders just plenty of soft focus ego massage interviews with greasy daytime third rate non entities.

  21. 50
    Quentin Letts says:

    Cameron’s troops roared approval as their man went on the rampage

    He was trying to speak up for the poor, ruddy infantry, out there in the dust of foreign fields with the flimsy kit they have been given by the Labour Government.
    And how do Labour react? By playing party-political games. Mr Cameron turned on the idiots and – whoompf! – subjected them to a flash of unrehearsed, chastening, adult anger. It was absolutely bloody marvellous.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1257077/QUENTIN-LETTS-Daves-troops-roared-approval.html

  22. 54
    Brenda slag says:

    The story is hidden on the BBC site so you’ll have to be a bit of a poirot to find it,the BBC really are a fucking disgrace.

    • 75
      hang um high says:

      why do the BBC play hide and seek with anything the Tories do which might harm their paymasters the Labour party image……….shut it down,FFS

      • 167
        Anonymous says:

        In 8 weeks, the Conservatives will be looking to pay off the debt with which Gordon’s crippled us. Selling most of the BBC will certainly be on the cards.

    • 103

      This story was prominently displayed on the website (for 11 picoseconds) before being archived in the normal way (Under beware of the leopard, for un-un-truths that might damage the image of Gordon the 1st, on the front page for those who challenge our great leader.)

  23. 61
    Lying Al Campbell, slipping gently into mental illness says:

    Fucking BBC bastards, those fucking scum will pay for fucking running this story.

    If these MP’s were fucking Tory scum the fucking BBC wouldn’t give this story an airing, but as it’s us the Socialists who are fucking wrongly accused, those hoity toity right wing filth bastards are airing it until it’s coming out of their fucking arseholes.

    BBC scum will fucking pay for this.
    Fucking fiddling is the right fucking thing to do if you’re a fucking caring, fucking progressive socialistic hero.

    Nurse

    • 77
      hang um high says:

      Nurse,stop swearing and get me some water ,you can fuck off.

      • 83
        Lying Al Campbell, slipping gently into mental illness says:

        Fucking tell me to stop fucking swearing you fucking Tory scum bastard
        Dont fucking go for walk in the fucking countryside, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

        Nurse I’ve fucking wet myself you fucking whore

  24. 63
    If you want to save the world, ignore Gordon says:

    Last September, the German electorate decided that even Steinbruck was too socialist, and so elected a coalition between Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats and the Free Democrats, a free-market party that is even more opposed to public spending than Merkel. The effect of this has been to push Germany even more firmly into the fiscal-retrenchment camp – the German parliament lopped an extra 5.8 billion euros ($8 billion) off public spending before finalizing the 2010 budget – no pork barrel waste there!

    The result has been a very brisk economic recovery, with no inflation and no significant risk of “crowding out” the private sector with public borrowing. Manufacturing orders were up a strong 4.3% in January, far more than had been expected, and are now 19.6% ahead of where they were a year ago. Unemployment is 8.2%, well below the U.S. level, while Germany’s current-account surplus is a massive 5.2% of GDP.

    With competitive manufacturing, a business-friendly government and plenty of domestic capital, Germany is about as healthy an economy as there is in the world today and is thoroughly underrated by U.S. and British analysts.

    • 190
      Harry Cohen says:

      yeah, yeah, but are they enriched with the cultural diversity of the special ones?

      • 220
        If you want to save the world, ignore Gordon says:

        By the 21st century, the Jewish population of Germany approached 200,000, and Germany had the only growing Jewish community in Europe.

        Welcome home.

      • 274
        Anonymous says:

        Yes indeed they are Harry, as you know. However, they are in no hurry to extend that enrichment to the Greeks. Or the Spaniards.

  25. 65
    Anonymous says:

    I think we cannot see enough of the photo of Brown in his flak jacket and helmet. Also, any confirmation that Balls actually had a stammer?

  26. 76
    MisterE says:

    According to the Guardian…

    “The parliamentary commissioner for standards, John Lyon, found that Cohen was in breach of the rule saying that an MP’s main home should normally be the one where he or she spends the most nights.”

    So, how does this differ from what Mr Balls & Mr Cooper are doing?

    If I remember rightly, these two fellas are claiming their London home is their second home, despite spending more time there than in their constituencies… why are they allowed to get away with it?

    • 81
      sockpuppet #4 says:

      general point: I’m not sure about that rule.

      If an MP has a home they bought before they were an MP, and their wife and kids still live there, and they only have a small flat in london.

    • 84
      MisterF says:

      Tory MP Nadine Dorries admits she only spends weekends and holidays in her ‘main home’

      So, how does this differ from what Mr Balls & Mr Cooper are doing?

      why is she allowed to get away with it?

    • 85
      The IMF is coming says:

      Did you see Blinky v Brainy on Newsnight?
      Classic. Brainy is a actually a bit of a star, Blinky a bullyboy who floundered badly

      • 153
        Billy Goat Gruff says:

        Paxo came out very badly. Cannot chair a discussion. More confirmation that his reputation(along with J Humphrey) is purely a figment of BBC imagineering

  27. 87
    BBC Bias says:

    I notice the BBC saysa 5th MP facing charges while Sky says a 5th Labour MP facing charges.

    • 170
      Steve Expat says:

      It’s actually a 4th MP, and a 4th Labour MP – Hanningfield is not an MP but a peer

  28. 91
    thick as thieves Labour PPC says:

    Mr Cameron claimed that Conservatism had won the Cold War.

    Huge hoots from Labour. Mr Brown said that the Tory leader was at school in the 1980s.

    David Cameron is not fit for purpose and is a upper class twerp

    • 106
      Anonymous says:

      Your twat status is growing by the day

    • 107

      Mrs Thatcher and Ronald Reagan did win the cold war (pushed the Soviet union enough to make it implode).

    • 111
      Mr Plum says:

      If Foot had been in during the 80′s we might have lost the cold war we would now be ruled by an unelected elite. No difference then

    • 128
      Hitler was a Socialist says:

      CMD was in his mid twenties when the Cold War ended. And so what of it. Even if he was in his teens. Is Gordoom slagging of everyone younger than himself for not having his experience etc etc no time for a Novice. That guy really hates the people of this country doesn’t he!!

    • 212
      Johnny says says:

      This is the problem of modern politics – both of them are correct but both comments are completely irrelevant.

      They have handed huge gobs of authority to quangos, ngos, international bodies, the EU and lots of other creepy power-hungry statists which has left the children in Westminster free to play their games.

    • 315
      Max says:

      Except the Cold War is generally deemed to have ended only in 1991 following the collapse of the USSR. By which time Dave had been out of “school” three years (actually Oxford with a first class honours degree).

      McDoom used the phrase “school” in a derogatory sense, either implying that Dave was much younger than he is (doesn’t school end at 16 or 18?) or that coming out of Uni (plus three years) still means you are childish. Well maybe so.

      So McDoom either doesn’t know his modern history, tells outright lies or is dismissive of a university education.

      Or indeed he is a fat useless lying bong-eyed areshole bully.

      You pays your money you takes your choice.

  29. 95
    just saying says:

    o/t nick hogan putting himself forward as a ukip candidate found the link on arrse sorry dont know how to post the link

  30. 96

    Here is how Cameron can win a landslide.

    1. Give the referendum on Europe.
    - in as now
    - out
    - diluted participation

    2. Pull out of the European Human rights act.

    3. Cap all immigration from outside eu for 5 years

    4. Clear the prisons of illegal immigrants and send them back to where they came.

    5. Get long term unemployed back to work within 6 months or stop paying them

    • 104
      Hang The Bastards says:

      Totally agree….

      Oh & grteat performance yesterday Dave… Its about time someone shows anger and contempt for the way those Hunts have ruined Britain.

    • 125
      thick as thieves says:

      The Conservatives will win nothing whilst David Cameron is their leader

    • 126
      TC says:

      Your proposals on immigration are not enough. Third world immigrants are outbreeding the indigenous population by over 7 to 1. Whites will be a minority in the UK within 50 years at curent rates of reproduction. When that happens Britain will be Balkanised beyond the point of no return with Muslims, sikhs, hindus, African tribes, kurds etc etc all running their own parts of the country.

      If you think it’s bad now………..

    • 127
      Cast Iron Heir to Blair says:

      yeah, like any of that’ll happen
      lol

      • 131
        Hitler was a Socialist says:

        I’ve seen it happening for the past twenty years!!

        • 146
          Cast Iron Heir to Blair says:

          I was replying to the first post you moron
          you’ll know you are being replied to because under the word Reply there will be a comment like this

          • Hitler was a Socialist says:

            Cast iron Heir. Calm down dear. All your tecno saviness is obviously a sign of a mispent youth. As for for me I got a few in down the boozer before bothering to point this out to you!! Yes you are right, we are in agreement deal with it!

          • Cast Iron Heir to Blair says:

            what a hilarious fuckwit you are
            do people laugh at you at the boozer too ?

      • 135
        A Calm Dispassionate Englishman says:

        How does an ostrich manage to keep the sand out of its eyes ??

      • 139
        Dave says:

        The British are being ethnically cleansed from their own towns and cities.

        Bradford, Oldham, Burnley, Leicester today,
        Cirencester, York, Truro tomorrow.

        • 193
          white flight says:

          Cirencester’s already being Africanised. Local Tory MP and shadow overseas development secretary, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, is bringing them in by the boatload.

          Even the local Guardian readers are becoming perturbed.

          • Anonymous says:

            Notice how it’s now tacitly admitted by all mainstream parties that ethnic areas should be represented by ethnic candidates.

            But when it comes to predominately white areas, the goal posts are suddenly moved, and it becomes perfectly acceptable to parachute in an ethnic candidate with fuck all in common with the indigenous population, all in the names of ‘diversity’.

        • 223
          Concerned of Sussex says:

          I worked in London 30 years ago, haven’t been there since but I needed to buy some photos to use on a website. All the photos I looked at appear to be of London (the buildings are generally recognisable), but I couldn’t help notice that everyone now appears to be foreign.

          If you hear English spoken on the street here in Brighton, it tends to be with a foreign accent.

          • Hitler was a Socialist says:

            I now no longer view london as being an English city. It just happens to be situated in England thats about as far as it goes. Its so sad when you stop to think about it. Never mind we still play marbles on the marble rings of the pubs in this part of Sussex. We are the last of old England.

          • Ethnic Cleansers says:

            To people like Jackass Straw, Jo Brand and Trevor Philips, the elimination of the English people can’t happen quick enough.

          • Hitler was a Fascist just like Nanziboy Nicky says:

            how is the fat nonce nick ?
            still being fucked till he is bong-eyed by his gay lover of many years martin webster ?
            Hahahahahaha!!

  31. 98
    Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1967) says:

    “I am almost certainly the most professional MP Leyton and Wanstead has ever had, and that includes Winston Churchill.” – ‘professional’ politicians are the problem in this country. Term limits of four years would put a stop to that.

  32. 101
    Hang The Bastards says:

    Can someone contact that couple that started an internet petition to knock Simon Cowell of the Christmas Number 1.

    And can we get GORDON IS A MORON to be number 1 for May 6th !

  33. 109
    JB says:

    With Cohen, there are now five Labour MPs being investigated by the police for expense fiddling but you won’t hear that on the pro-Labour BBC. They are still pushing the line that it is “three Labour MPs and a Tory peer”.

  34. 112
    Technomist says:

    You missed a shot – Cohen’s consistent spuuport and praise for the Castro regime in Cuba.

    • 119
      Ed says:

      Harry Cohen is another cultural marxist. The disciples of the Frankfurt School who are intent on destroying western society, it’s traditions and it’s institutions.

      Unfortunately they are succeeding.

      • 249
        Technomist says:

        The words ‘crook’ and ‘torturer’s friend’ were the ones that sprang to my mind, but ‘cultural marxist’ has a kind of ring to it. I am not quite clear what is wrong with a Frankfurter. I quite like hotdogs myself.

      • 327
        John Prescnut says:

        Nowt wrong with my cocktail sausage lad. She was bloody lucky to get offered that. Where are the pies?

  35. 114
  36. 115
    Jed says:

    Wasn’t it the repulsive Gerald Kaufman who attempted to claim almost nine thousand pounds for a single television set?

    Is he taking the piss?

    • 120
      Gortonian pissed off with Kaufman says:

      It was almost ten thousand pounds in fact. Must have been the dearest telly in the world.

      • 138
        Taggart says:

        Gerald actually wanted a cowboy outfit but Gordon wouldnt sell the Liebour party

        • 279
          Pontius The Pilot says:

          He couldnt have sold it to him anyway.

          The UNITE union bought the fucker years ago!

      • 143
        Anonymous says:

        It must have been one of those big screen jobbies that he could watch from the other end of his 120ft lounge.

      • 180
      • 275
        christy says:

        To Gortonian.
        He put in a claim for £8865 for a 40″ LCD tv made by Bang and Olufsen,the claim was rejected as luxurious but he was given the max allowable for a tv £750.
        The following year he claimed £1461.83 for a secondhand rug to replace a 24 year old carpet also claimed an additional £389.91 for customs duty on the rug which he bought in New York.
        Other claims,
        Cleaning/laundry £980
        Food £4800
        Furniture/electrical £2048
        Two crystal bowls £200
        Other costs £5087
        Repairs/renovation £643
        THe above was reported by the Daily Telegraph.

        • 296
          Someone who knows says:

          Interseting that he claimed the Customs duty. In my experience most Labour MPs forget their Socialist taxpaying credentials when going through Customs. “That sort of thing is only for the little people” The Customs Test is similar to Norman Tebbits Cricket test. Unfortunately for socialists it has tested their theory to destruction. When actually given a chance to voluntarily pay a bit of Tax, they usually flunk it. Couldn;t be anything to do with wanting to decide themselves how to spend their money! I wonder.

    • 140
      Sir William Waad says:

      Which reminds me of the saudi prince who bought his son, for his birthday, a television set – ITV. Also a cowboy outfit – the News of the World.

    • 258
      Purpleline says:

      I am surprised something big has not come out about him, heard rumours for several years. I bet Labour would be finished if they are 1% true, i would not repeat them here, but let just say maybe after he dies the stories / documents will come out. Unless they are locked aways for 100 years.

  37. 122
    Martin Day says:

    And David Cameron’s Conservatives still go on talking down the UK economy

    For now, Britain’s economy is holding up better on some measures than those of other countries. The U.K.’s unemployment rate of 7.8 percent in the fourth quarter compares with 9.7 percent in the U.S. and 10 percent in the euro region. At 2.46 million, the number of jobless is below the 3 million level that former Bank of England policy maker David Blanchflower said in 2008 was possible over the next two years.

    “Labour’s benefiting from the horrendous predictions for the economy that came out a year ago,” Nottingham University’s Fielding said. “The economy’s not doing that well, but it isn’t as bad as people feared.”

    • 129
      Benny Fitz-Clements says:

      Do official statistics say much about the EIGHT MILLION PEOPLE who are economically inactive in this Country, some of whom are professional scroungers ??

      • 141
        Gordon ( SoldGoldAtThe ) BottomBrown says:

        Listen, when the Tories tell you dismal facts about the state of the Nation, they are ‘ talking the country down’.

        When I start spouting, you get lies, damned lies and tractor statistics.

      • 144
        Taggart says:

        What other countries?Chad,Tonga,Haiti

      • 280
        Anonymous says:

        Do official statistics say much about the EIGHT MILLION PEOPLE who are economically inactive in this Country, some of whom are professional scroungers ??

        There’s a woman called Elizabeth Saxe-Coburg who is a peerless professional scrounger. Surely someone should do something about fraud on that scale?

    • 133
      Al says:

      Britain is drowning in debt. We are by far the most indebted country in the G20 and it is getting far worse by the day. The UK govt is running a ponzi scheme which gives the illusion that things are getting better by propping things up with a vast ocean of debt..

      This is unsustainable and the waves are about to come crashing in on us within months if not weeks.

      Brown is just hoping he can keep the illusion going until after the next election by which time we will be facing bankruptcy.

    • 142
      Al says:

      Britain is drowning in debt.. We are by far the most indebted country in the G20 and it is getting far worse by the day. The UK govt is running a ponzi scheme which gives the illusion that things are getting better by propping things up with a vast ocean of debt.
      This is unsustainable and the waves are about to come crashing in on us within months if not weeks.
      Brown is just hoping he can keep the illusion going until after the next election by which time we will be facing bankruptcy.

      • 191
        Steve Expat says:

        £860,000,000,000 total debt
        £178,000,000,000 this year

        That’s:

        c.£500,000,000 a day
        c.£20,000,000 an hour
        c.£330,000 a minute
        c.£5,500 a second

        So Gordon Brown has borrowed half a million pounds in the time it’s taken to write this comment…

        THAT’S HOW FUCKED WE ARE

        55 days and counting…

    • 148
      Ed says:

      Britain is running on massive injections of borrowed money. It’s all a huge con to convince the sheep that everything’s OK. Atfter the election the shit’s going to hit the fan.

      Jobs will be slashed, interest rates up, house prices crash by 30% or more, and general austerity all round for decades to come.

      That’s Brown’s poisoned legacy to us all.

      • 154
        Gordon ( SoldGoldAtThe ) BottomBrown says:

        May I play my ‘It all started in America’ card, please ?

      • 262
        Purpleline says:

        budget will be a 2 bn give away to Labour constituents direct redistribution from wealthy bankers to scumbag labour scum.

    • 290
      V for Vendetta says:

      Interesting but let’s selectively use the same stats another way shall we?

      The number of people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance (the claimant count) increased by 23,500 between December 2009 and January 2010 to reach 1.64 million, the highest figure since April 1997. This monthly increase in the claimant count was preceded by two consecutive monthly falls.

      This is despite various fiddles to count the unemployed as something else.

      It is actually impossible to ‘talk down’ an economy if it’s strong – no-one would listen. The numbers would prove otherwise. If a few words can cause a wobble the economy must be in a total mess. QE time Martin?

  38. 124
    Gordon ( SoldGoldAtThe ) BottomBrown says:

    My father told me to always tell the truth.

    Ha !! I stopped doing that as soon as I joined the Liebour Party !!!

    • 137
      Son of the Manse says:

      I was brought up with the old adage that their are only three people you need to tell the truth too. Your Doctor, your Lawyer and your Priest. The rest you tell them whatever you like. Always worked for me!

    • 175
      Th'Annointed 'n Chosen One, Saviour of the World says:

      Nuth’s ma’ fult ye un’stn!

  39. 134
    Sir William Waad says:

    Gordon’s first home is 10 Downing Street, where he lives most of the time. The facts that it belongs to somebody else and that he doesn’t have to pay rent on it are surely irrelevant to the question of whether it is his first home.

    Of course, it’s irrational and unfair that he shoudl be able to claim the cost of his second home when he doesn’t have to pay for his first home, but, altogether now “It’s within the rules.” So is Lord Ashcroft’s tax status, but we don’t approve of that, do we?

    • 151
      bored with beckham says:

      Maybe Sky will let Brown on to talk about the football now that he’s been knocked back from his cosy chat with his odious mate Adrian Chiles?

    • 185
      Gorgon, the Economically Illiterate Moron says:

      Haem?

      It’s ma bunka, – innit? – ma hidey-hell-hole ‘n arl!

      ‘N nuthn’s ma fult ye un’stn

      Ar sav’d tha wuld!

    • 196
      Time To Go Gordon says:

      Moral Compass

  40. 149

    Ted Heath , son of a carpenter, Captain in the army, then 50 years as an MP.
    Somehow managed to live luxuriously with huge yachts, Albany flat, then a house in Salisbury Cathedral Close……leaving £5 million when he died.

    • 155
      LOL says:

      So if Ted Heath did it that makes it OK for all these Labour scum to enrich themselves at the taxpayers expense does it?

      Try again, Mr Cohen. You’re not fooling anybody. LOL

      • 179
        ROFL says:

        No, it makes it okay when Cameron and his thieving scum do it of course.

        Try again, Mr Duck House Moat. You’re not fooling anybody. LOL

    • 176
      South of the M4 says:

      He was not married and had no kids. Hell, if I was not, and did not, I would have a bloody yacht as well!

  41. 150
    Maladroit Labour Chump says:

    ‘WE ARE THE PARTY OF ASPIRATION’

    No, Liebour is the party of TAXATION

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7056857.ece

  42. 157
    Postal Vote says:

    Gordon is beyond reproach because he has very effectively built a client state and polticians from other persuasion and the media have let him do it.

    The client state:

    -6 millions public sector employees of whom 75% with final salary inflation-proofed pensions paid for by the net taxpayer (and they have relatives as well)

    -millions on means-tested benefits (and they have relatives as well) following the relentless expansion of these benefits while Brown was chancellor

    -a bbc that will always be more lavishly funded by labour than by the conservatives

    -buying content in the guardian through placing all those public sector job adds there (and have you noticed how many guardian reporters contribute to bbc programs?)

    -buying content at ITV through landing an ITV political commentator in a safe seat

    -letting councils develop their own newspapers

    And the list goes on. And compare the numbers mentioned above with the 9.5 million who voted for labour in the last GE.

    If this election yields a positive result for labour, the UK will be in deeper trouble than it was prior to the IMF bail-out in the 1970s, not just economically, but the body politic as well.

    • 163
      Postal Vote says:

      holy !^%^&*^%!^@%, above I menat ads, not adds, in the guardian …

      … sooooorry

      • 166
        Postal Vote says:

        another mistake (menat), and Carla is not even distracting me at the moment

        alors!

      • 194
        Steve Expat says:

        Grauniad will be dead by next year, Cameron has promised that if he wins all state job advertising will be on government websites only :-)

        • 236
          Mr Phil jones CRU. B.A BARACUS,M.E/C.J.D [with hooners] says:

          Thank god for that ! won’t miss all those bloody kids/yoofs/class of 97 luvies wailing about smoking/drinking/i.u.d.s [don't the Taliban use those? ] .

          • streamfisher says:

            Explosive inter uterine device fitted in Polly and co, I like it, maybe then they would take the issues over the use snatch landrovers more seriously.

    • 171
      South of the M4 says:

      And this deep poo will be exacerbated by the deluge of emigrating tax payers and future tax payers.

  43. 158
    Dame Shirley Cohen says:

    will he do a flit to Tel Aviv to avoid prosecution?

  44. 160
    Martin Day says:

    Nice one Lily

    At her O2 concert last nite, Lily Allen dedicated her song ‘F*ck You’ to ‘Mr David Cameron’. Crowd cheered her to rafters.

    • 173
      Sting's Beard says:

      There are no rafters at the O2 New Labour Vanity project arena

    • 207
      Steve Expat says:

      Lily Allen didn’t play at the O2 last night.

      • 221
        The IMF is coming says:

        or ‘nite’

        • 244
          Martin Day says:

          March 7, 2010 London The O2

          Stop spltting hairs

          David Cameron’s Conservatives are losing the plot

          • Steve Expat says:

            Tempting to avoid feeting the troll, but you gave the same comment on here 3 days running.

            Would you let your 6 year old daughter listen to Lily Allen??

          • V for Vendetta says:

            So getting the date wrong is splitting hairs is it? If you can’t manage to get the simple facts right,how could any one have faith in anything you claim?

            Do try and keep up.

          • A Guardian Idiot says:

            3 days late then

          • Sir Barrington Minge says:

            Heh Fuckwit Day, is that your brain or are you just running it in for someone else?

            Twat!

    • 250
      Father Abraham says:

      aaah that well known socialist smurf Lily Allen. Born with a silver spoon in her mouth, brought up in a notting hill mansion. She really is one of ‘the kids’ and knows what it’s like to struggle. In a previous era Pulp’s ‘Common People’ could have been written about her.

    • 316
      Max says:

      It all sounds like it went very well. Or not.

      Lacklustre

  45. 168
    Barrowness Horseface of Private Jet says:

    Like wiv all the others – it’s becos I’m worf it!

    Now get orf my back.

  46. 169
    thick as thieves says:

    What will David Cameron do when he loses the General Election ??

    David Cameron is to replace Tiger Woods as the face of Gillette

  47. 174
    pd off says:

    i would be surprised if the supreme scum was not on the fiddle,fact is it is fast becoming clear that he not blair is responsible for all the deceit and spinning the man is a disgrace and history will show him up for what he really is,patience my friends

  48. 178
    Proud England lays smashed under the Scotch Socialist jackboot says:

    Actually its better to keep the Emperor Broon’s property ‘arrangements’ under wraps, he will only become more popular with his core vote, the hordes of scroungers and fraudsters will recognise a role model when they see one.

    • 186
      Anthony Steen says:

      You’re just jealous. Some people say it wooks wike Balmowal. It does me nicely.

  49. 184
    Young Vandemere says:

    Being of noble stock, I find the erroneous and criminal claims as highlighted here by Harry ‘Snapper Organs’ as being unworthy of a public servant. Behold, four more of the scoundrels are to appear before the courts later as well. What has become of the noblest of institutions? Are they all thieves and leeches. It doth appear so. Hanging is not good enough for these people so rise, people of a once noble country, and tear down these walls of misdemeanour and discredit. No longer stand by and watch as your country crumbles on account of these misdeeds. Why is it that these scumbags create all the problems and we, the noble ones , have to clean up their mess? I am not a turd cleaner. Be away with you foul stenches.

  50. 188
    terrace bar frequenter says:

    Devine the media savvy labour troughing galoot claiming stress with a socialist doctor’s note so not in court on bullying charges from a lady who knows him well for many years. Love to hear her version of events.
    Claims did his memory in. I know NOTHING……..complete bollocks.
    Any more labour people leaving for stress?
    They should be under stress, they are bloody crooks and should be locked up.

  51. 197
    BBC Correspondent says:

    The BBC reports today that Gordon Brown says that you are wrong to think it’s Thursday. It is, according to Brown, Friday afternoon. He now can go away for the weekend to harass some other country.

  52. 200
    DR says:

    What most people still don’t realise is that Gordon Brown is a narcissistic sociopath. As far as he is concerned the whole world revolves around him. Nothing else matters to him.

    He won’t be easy to dislodge. This type of malignant creature never is.

    • 205
      Vin says:

      Half the people in the UK are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. That’s why Brown is closing in on the Tories in the polls.

      • 319
        Max says:

        Mmmm. Interesting but McDoom is definitely displaying Dunning-Kruger and most of the UK suffers from the Downing Effect. I think we need some old fashioned Max Therapy*.

        *No Wiki link unfortunately but involves a slightly worrying degree of physical violence applied to a senior bong-eyed Labour politician coupled with high decibel levels of verbal assault in an extremely stressful clinical environment for the patient. Whilst sometimes leading to death it could catch on.

    • 210
      Harry Cohen V for Victory says:

      so what? you’ve listed his good points.

    • 213
      They're all cunts at the BBC, 'cept Susanna Reid who I wish to bum very much says:

      With the BBC spewing pro Labour propaganda shamelessly and relentlessy the task of ridding England of these filth is nigh on impossible

      Time to join the taxodus, and laugh as the parasites turn on each as the cash runs out

  53. 200
    Harry Cohen says:

    send pizzas.

  54. 202
    Young Vandemere says:

    so what was wrong with that then?

  55. 208
    Gordon Brown pizza boy says:

    Construction is booming – in east Jerusalem. No boom and bust for the chosen ones. Where did the £2 trillion taxpayer money given to the bankers go to?

  56. 217
    geordyboy says:

    Any one read the Guardian’s running commentry on yesterdays PMQs. They gave Gordon a win. Can you effing believe it? They are desperate for a Labour win as the loss of advertising revenue will bankrupt them.

  57. 218
    Anonymous says:

    I have a hard time believing that Rabbi Cohen has done anything wrong. After all, people of the Semitic persuasion are universally famous for their honesty, plain-dealing and financial propriety.

    A Jewish politician who steals from the public purse? It’s just too far-fetched.

    • 241
      Lord Mandelson says:

      outrageous slur!

    • 281
      East Midlander says:

      Does Rabbi Cohen consider that the Babylonians, Egyptians,Spanish,Russians,French,and Germans,were all wrong in their views on the behavior of their Hebrew neighbours ?

  58. 225

    The corrupt tipof the iceberg starts right at the bottom . . . . . . political reform political reform and political reform sweeps the moneychangers out of Westminster . . . . . & Whitehall . . . . .

  59. 229
    Anonymous says:

    Didn’t Blair famously sell his Islington house when elected pm? Did he claim for a second home while living in Downing Street?

    • 243
      Steve Expat says:

      We shall never know, thanks to the only receipt we got from him, from a “secure document destruction” company

  60. 230
    ron Vibentrop says:

    Gordon Brown’s main residence is BROADMOOR which he shares with a number of like minded lunatics, murderers, perverts and the mentally unstable. His grovelling little shack in Fife is clearly his second home.

  61. 231
    Moley says:

    Has anyone noticed that Labour, whilst condemning hereditary peers is pursuing a policy of hereditary Labour MPs.

    Benn
    Gould

    Who else?

  62. 233

    Guido – you are a bastard!
    I can’t believe that you have made me defend Brown1
    You bastard!

    However brown lives, with his family, and works in No10. He is,unfortunately for all of us, always there. it is quite clearly his main residence.
    His second home , in Fife, is his main owned house, but his second residence home.

    {I feel very very dirty now… I need to scour and purge myself by flagelation with a copy of The end of the party.}

    Bastard!

    • 238
      Steve Expat says:

      Bill – which is the home that Brown pays for, out of his salary?

      When he has two grace-and-favour homes – as he does – why should we, rather than he, pay for a third??

  63. 239
    Winstone Churchill says:

    Dave Cameron is a great man and will make a great leader

    • 251
      Anonymous says:

      He he he.

    • 255
      Harold Wilson says:

      I have to agreewith you Winstone. Brown and the labour offerings are a sad bunch of pedos and troughers not like in my day. A Vote for Conservative is a vote for a stable and assured future

    • 256
      Neville Chamberlain says:

      Dave Cameron is like Winstone, unlike myself. Vote Dave. Vote Conservative

  64. 252
    Col Bloodnokk ex M15 says:

    My Tory MP spent £1400 taxpayer’s money on his swimmimg pool.

    The toerag is standing again (N E Hants)

    • 259
      Neville says:

      Toerag? Insensitive twat? Or just a I don’t give a flying fuck about the people of N Hants as they are to stupid to notice I am a twat?

      • 263
        Col Bloodnokk ex M15 says:

        You are James Arbuthnot and I claim my year”s supply of bog roll.

        • 271
          Ice Cube says:

          And three garlic presses, a chainsaw, and having my stable block rebuilt and rewired.

          Thankfully, due to boundary changes, he will no longer be my MP :)

  65. 254
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    Time for a pogrom
    We have plenty of eastern europeans over here, some must be cossacks

  66. 283
    geordieboy says:

    Jack Straw is responsible for the postal votes of our troops serving in Afghanistan and other countries arriving at the ballot box in time. What is the betting they don’t arrive. It happened the last time under Blair.

  67. 298
    David says:

    There are more m’s in accommodation that Guido seems to realise.

  68. 300
    Jimmy says:

    “Gordon Claims for His Second Home: Where is His First Home?”

    In our hearts Guido, in our hearts.

  69. 301
    *JCM says:

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  70. 307
    Texed to the hilt and leaving says:

    If my company gave me a house to live in I would be taxed on the value in kind. Does this apply to Prime Ministers for Number Ten and Chequers?

  71. 308
    Taxed to the hilt and leaving says:

    If my company gave me a house to live in I would be taxed on the value in kind. Does this apply to Prime Ministers for Number Ten and Chequers?

    • 320
      R Sole MP says:

      Because you and the company you work for are wellsprings of revenue.
      Whereas the purpose of Ministers, Prime or otherwise, is to spend.

      Surely, even the most stupid elector can appreciate the difficulties that would arise if the two were in any way confused.

  72. 310
    Harry Cohen says:

    Why me ??

    Why I am being hounded for claiming the expenses I am justly entitled to ?
    And why is the goyim Gordon not hounded for doing the same thing ?
    Anti-Semitism, that’s what !

  73. 321
    John Terry is snide and not to be trusted says:

    The nose have it!



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