McMillan-Scott Defects to LibDems
Most Tories will be glad to see the back of the pompous europhile Edward McMillan-Scott. He is whinging that “People are controlled within the Conservative party, as I was.” He’ll be happier with the free and easy Libdems, who have a party culture which is definitely less controlling. His euro-fanaticism will be more in tune with the LibDems as well. In truth he was for a long time an obstacle to a more robust Tory approach to Brussels. So happy news for both sides…
I wonder if McMillan-Scott had anything to do with Hague’s recent u-turn on Europe. Perhaps a more robust approach will follow.
We live in hope
Clearly, we in the Labour party are disappointed that McMillan-Scott should choose to defect to the Lib Dems, anyone would think that the Labour party was unpopular or something. However, this baby-eating Tory was obviously embarrassed by the Ashcroft affair, as anybody would be, and this must have adversely affected his decision.
Still, it’s not all bad news. The Lib Dems are Labour plan B, should we fail to gain the 400-seat majority we truly deserve after 13 years of glorious government. Brown will go marching on and on, and I, his most trustworthy lieutenant, will brief against anyone who says otherwise.
Labour’s Plan A, knowing full well that they won’t be re-elected, is David Cameron. Labour knows that Cameron will continue the same ruinous policies but just a bit more slowly.
will he now call a by election and stand as a Limp dummy?
He is my best secret weapon
We’re all being timid about cutting the deficit together.
You have the CCHQ line down to a tea old boy
On message bloggers get lots aof sweeties
Yup, Tory voters – as tribalist as the statist Zanu faction dupes – all dutifully voted for McSporran-Snot just because he was labelled Tory.
How did you get him to stand where he did?
You’d have thought he’d have spotted such an obvious set-up a mile away
too busy keeping that ugly old bat of a wife out of the image, and failing
whorepresents.com
just one that springs to mind
I’d be happy if we could get him to stand where Saddam Hussein last stood, before the floor, or should I say trapdoor, stopped supporting his weight. Oh, and I’ld like hime to have the same neckwear too.
Genius picture….
Its almost as if someone had photoshopped the word “Finish”. But of course Guido would never publish fake images
Oh yes, Mes Enfants. Another Defector to the Limp-Duck Party. I’m waiting to read about Paw Gollums McBean-Broone, Teflon B’Liar and Lord Peter defecting to G Galloway’s ‘Respect Party’. Now that would be worth of a few lines in the ‘Daily Wail’ ….. Oh Yes!!
Nice PENIS tablecloth just to explain there is one nearby………….
I wonder if it is ever going to be made public how MacMillan-Snott behaved during the MEP Selections? He got his secretary/mistress to use her contacts in Yorkshire to ensure he was ranked number 1 and Kirkhope was demoted to number 2. Amusingly she worked for Kirkhope as well and not surprisingly he sacked her for gross disloyalty. His wife now does HIS diary.
Ermin vermin
The announcement that Baroness Uddin will not face prosecution for fiddling her expenses means a string of peers will escape censure for their own claims.
Here listed ten whose claims will face no further police investigation
Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe, LABOUR
Pocketed more than £140,000 of overnight subsistence allowance in seven years by claiming for his mortgage-free house in Brighton instead of his £700,000 townhouse in Battersea, South London.
Viscount Falkland, LIB DEM
Hereditary peer registered a two-bed house owned by his wife’s aunt near Maidstone in Kent as his main residence, paid no rent but spends most of his time at £500,000 townhouse in Clapham, South London.
Lord Rosser, LABOUR
Received £50,000 in overnight subsistence allowances since buying a flat in Chippenham, Wiltshire, in 2007 and ‘flipping’ his main residence from £750,000 four-bedroom home in Uxbridge, West London.
Baroness Neuberger, LABOUR
Claimed £80,000 overnight subsistence allowances in five years by designating £237,000 flat in Leamington Spa instead of family’s £2.3million townhouse in Regent’s Park, central London.
Lord Taylor of Warwick, TORY
The peer claimed £70,000 over six years by saying his main residence was his dead mother’s house in Solihull – which had been sold – then his nephew’s friend’s house in Oxford, all while living in family home in Ealing, West London.
Baroness Goudie of Roundwood, LABOUR
Claimed £150,000 over eight years by saying her main residence is a Glasgow flat she bought for £200,000 in 2001, not the £1.5million mews house in Belgravia she shares with her husband.
Lord Paul, LABOUR
Claimed £38,000 in less than two years by telling the Lords his main residence was the one-bed manager’s flat attached to a hotel owned by one of his companies in Chesterton, Oxfordshire, not his central London family home.
Lord Sheldon, LABOUR
Claimed £130,000 over six years. Despite living in a mortgage-free £1.3million flat in central London, he told authorities his main residence was a house in Manchester, which he in fact gave to his son in 2003.
Lord Bhatia, LABOUR
Claimed more than £20,000 in two years by flipping main residence from £1.5million family home in south London to a two-bed rented flat in Reigate, Surrey, occupied by his brother.
Lord Clarke of Hampstead, LABOUR
Admitted he had claimed up to £18,000 a year despite often staying with friends for free or going back to his home in St Albans, Hertfordshire.
ALL IN IT TOGETHER….
Liebour seem to be streets ahead of the Troughers in the Upper Chamber….
If you add these to the Commons troughers up before the bench, then I make it 13-2 in favour of the Labour party. A very impressive victory to the socialists, and yet I cannot recall anyone in the media suggesting that troughing is a socialist disease.
The keens get away with it too
Married MPs Alan and Ann Keen broke expenses rules by claiming for a second home when their other house was boarded up, a committee of MPs has ruled.
The couple did not live in their “main” home in Brentford, west London, for 11 months while it was being refurbished.
They must repay £1,500 and were accused of “a serious misjudgement” by standards commissioner John Lyon.
But MPs on the standards committee said they were victims of “bad luck” and had got approval from the Fees Office.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8562157.stm
The Keens are a pair of thieving scumbags.
Will they ever be prosecuted?
Never…
All 3 party leaders have waxed eloquent about the need to clean up the HoC & HoL expenses & allowances arrangements. Can we look forward to early implementation of a new system after the imminent GE or have the general public been fed another dose of pre-election waffle?
Why ask?
Sling that lot out and bring back the hereditory’s
Dont’ forget Baroness Hayman as well
Claimed her sisters house in Dorset was her main residence !!
And she is Chairperson of the f’ing House of Lords “House Committee”‘ that changes the rules to get them off the criminal hook…
Yes, Labour have a clear lead in the troughing stakes. In both houses.
Um!. Do the libdems really want him?
I mean is he likely to be an asset to anybody?
To be fair it’s gotta be one of the easist jobs available to humanity. If this lad wasn’t such a penis – who’d have a clue who on earth he was? No power, no responsibility, no recognition, no scrutiny – hell, it’s even easier than being a local Cllr as no bugger phones them up about bins or grit etc.
And you get to trouser 200K PA. Where are the application forms?
And that’s just the shit we know about. If they moonlight aswell, fanny about with staffing allowances, couple of brown envelopes here or there and 1 term is enough to happily retire on.
Dan Hannan for example must be fooking minted with his err..hackery for the Labourgraph.
He might work with Anna Arrowsmith?
Never heard of her
Ooh you bitch
He does look like a Sandalista
Is that his beard?
Good riddance to very bad rubbish. He will, of course, be resigning his seat. After all the EU Parliament is elected by PR and the people did not vote for a LibDem, but a Conservative.
Hmm….very much doubt that somehow; an honourable fellow?
I can’t believe he didn’t read the banner before posing for the phto
Go back to your constituencies and prepare for oblivion
I can’t believe he didn’t read the manifesto before standing for election.
Oh drat, I brought up the manifesto again. Look, Gordon is working on it. He wrote fourteen pages on tractor production last week, and we currently have a crack team of expert cryptologists trying to decipher his handwriting so we can use some of it. Miliband got out his best crayons and drew us a picture of a duck, although to my eyes it looks more like a bottle, and ‘bad’ Al Campbell has promised a couple of pages outlining our policy on bullying in the workplace. I can assure you, we will have a manifesto that will match anything those do-nothing Tories can produce. It will be full of new ideas, as we’re still fresh and full of inspiration. No really, we are. We don’t need to copy their ideas, we have plenty of our own.
Incidentally, has anybody seen a sneak preview of what the Tories are planning? I mean, not that we intend to copy it or anything. Just as a matter of interest, you understand…
What makes you think he can read?
Yeah, fuck off.
Does he bat for the other side?
Even the other side wouldn’t have him.
Why is Margaret Rutherford standing next to a hands-on plonker? Miss Marple should investigate.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. The bloke’s an utter hoon.
Not only that, but he’s wearing a double breasted suit jacket.
Only poo touching fucking spack holes wear them, people like prince Charles for instance.
Mcmillan-Scott looks like a sex offender, a fucking ugly sex offender.
lots of normal people wear double breasted suits Conkers but absolutely agree looks like a twat is a twat and best gone to the limpdems
Indeed. I’d never heard of him until now. He does look a pounce.
Be fair Mr Concrete , most double breasted suits come with a flap on the back of the coat
Very handy for a LubeDem
Well, he’s still screwing the electors of Yorkshire and the Humber.
*ahem* – I have a wardrobe stuffed full of DB suits and have never once* been involved in man–on-man fudgery I’ll have you know.
*or more than once.
You tories and labour are finished.
It will start at this election you will big time start losing votes to the small parties until you replaced and are only remembered as a irrelevant relic of history.
You’re writing came off the fucking wall mate.
Apologises English is not my first language
It’s OK, ‘You’re’ should have been, ‘Your’, so what do I know?
Then you’re welcome to colonise England as a full translation and interpretation service is provided at the locals’ expense.
Yeah?
well fuck off back to where you came from
I didnt invite you to pollute my country with YOUR arrival ,carrying a cardboard suitcase and a bunch of bananas.
Hoo hoo hoo ahhh hoo hoo
Is that Mitch the small green engine?
Nonsense! Labour is on course to win 700 seats at the election.
Our agents only started the smaller parties to split our opponents’ vote, and when the results come in, the immortal Gordon Brown will be Prime Minister for evermore!
Though just in case Gordon should croak in the next fifty years, we’ll be training up Ed Balls as a replacement. Ed’s first task as chancellor will be to borrow trillions more from gullible investors which we will burn to heat the homes of ordinary working-class folk, like Lord Paul.
http://gal.darkervision.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/6a00d83451586c69e200e5522a55c78833-800wi-400×381.jpg
bullyballs as chancellor and battybrown as PM.
What a combination!!
No, Camoron as Chancellor, Bruin as Foreign secretary and Cloggs as PM. Or something.
It is entirely appropriate that, in the week that Clegg declared himself the heir to the Prime Minister who signed the Single European Act, he should welcome Edward McMillan-Scott. Most Tories are Eurosceptics? Pull the other one!
McMillan-Scott did not even oppose the Iraq War, but the Lib Dems will take anyone, from the polling booth to Strasbourg. They are defined by what they are not, rather than by what they are. McMillan-Scott has left the Tories because of their association with Michal Kaminski, who like all their new associates at Strasbourg is far too good for them anyway. Look at the things for which those parties stand. The Tories are no more in agreement with such positions than are the Lib Dems. But the Lib Dems will not even sit next to people who hold such views.
The Tories do not support generous welfare provisions, public services in the public sector, universal healthcare provided by the State, workers’ rights, or the public ownership of important companies. But they will at least sit next to people who do. Edward McMillan-Scott and the rest of the Lib Dems will not even do that. So, if you believe in generous welfare provisions, public services in the public sector, universal healthcare provided by the State, workers’ rights, or the public ownership of important companies, then you cannot and must not vote Lib Dem. You do not need to take my word for this. Just ask Edward McMillan-Scott.
The Tories do not support the safeguarding or restoration of family life in general and paternal authority in particular by the safeguarding or restoration of high-wage, high-skilled, high-status employment such as coal-mining. But they will at least sit next to people who do. Edward McMillan-Scott and the rest of the Lib Dems will not even do that. So, if you believe in the safeguarding or restoration of family life in general and paternal authority in particular by the safeguarding or restoration of high-wage, high-skilled, high-status employment such as coal-mining, then you cannot and must not vote Lib Dem. You do not need to take my word for this. Just ask Edward McMillan-Scott.
The Tories do not support measures for the payment of mothers to stay at home with their children, for adoption and against abortion, for palliative care and against the euthanasia opposed by Gordon Brown, for the traditional marriage supported by Barack Obama (or, at the very least, against compelling anyone to conduct deviations from it), against sex and violence in the media, against State toleration of drugs and prostitution, against unrestricted Sunday trading, or against supermarkets opening on what are supposed to be public holidays for everyone including shop workers. But they will at least sit next to people who do. Edward McMillan-Scott and the rest of the Lib Dems will not even do that. So, if you believe in the payment of mothers to stay at home with their children, in adoption rather than abortion, in palliative care rather than the euthanasia opposed by Gordon Brown, in the traditional marriage supported by Barack Obama (or, at the very least, against compelling anyone to conduct deviations from it), in action against sex and violence in the media, in action against drugs and prostitution, in restrictions on Sunday trading, or in public holidays for everyone including shop workers, then you cannot and must not vote Lib Dem. You do not need to take my word for this. Just ask Edward McMillan-Scott.
I read the litany David but you don’t suggest who you should vote for ? you clearly don’t rate the Tories but in honesty I don’t see the reality of the things you say they don’t support.
Quote ‘The Tories do not support generous welfare provisions, public services in the public sector, universal healthcare provided by the State, workers’ rights, or the public ownership of important companies. But they will at least sit next to people who do.’
I haven’t seen anything from the Tories that suggests they are likely to savage any of the above mentioned sectors all of which are here to stay although publicly owned companies are fewer and fewer.
It is pointless running through the rest of your list as you make the same broad brush statements in a similar vein.
I quite agree with you this man leaving the Tories is no loss and equally a vote for the Limpdems is a waste but in the light of the current shower Ido believe the Tories are the wisest option.
I’m standing as an Independent here in North West Durham.
By accepting McMillan-Scott on the terms that he has set out, the Lib Dems have declared definitively that they offer no home to those, some of whom may once have been attracted to the premature and thus fatally flawed SDP, who stand in the tradition of the Labour MPs who mostly voted against Heath’s Treaty of Rome. Who all voted against Thatcher’s Single European Act. Who voted against Major’s Maastricht Treaty in far greater numbers than the Tories, including the only resignation from either front bench in order to do so. And who all, together with every Lib Dem MP, voted against the Common Agricultural and Fisheries Policies every year between 1979 and 1997.
By accepting McMillan-Scott on the terms that he has set out, the Lib Dems have declared definitively that they offer no home to those, some of whom may once have been attracted to the premature and thus fatally flawed SDP, who stand in the tradition of the trade unionists who have spent decades defending the secure, high-waged, high-skilled, high-status jobs of the working class.
By accepting McMillan-Scott on the terms that he has set out, the Lib Dems have declared definitively that they offer no home to those, some of whom may once have been attracted to the premature and thus fatally flawed SDP, who today will not allow climate change to be used as an excuse to destroy or prevent secure employment, to drive down wages or working conditions, to arrest economic development around the world, to forbid the working classes and non-white people from having children, to inflate the fuel prices that always hit the poor hardest, or to restrict either travel opportunities or a full diet to the rich.
By accepting McMillan-Scott on the terms that he has set out, the Lib Dems have declared definitively that they offer no home to those, some of whom may once have been attracted to the premature and thus fatally flawed SDP, who today recognise that we cannot deliver the welfare provisions and the other public services that our people have rightly come to expect unless we know how many people there are in this country, unless we control immigration properly, and unless we insist that everyone use spoken and written English to the necessary level.
By accepting McMillan-Scott on the terms that he has set out, the Lib Dems have declared definitively that they offer no home to those, some of whom may once have been attracted to the premature and thus fatally flawed SDP, who stand in the tradition of the Catholic and other Labour MPs, including John Smith, who fought tooth and nail against abortion and easier divorce. Like the Methodist and other Labour MPs, including John Smith, who fought tooth and nail against deregulated drinking and gambling. Like those, including John Smith, who successfully organised (especially through USDAW) against Thatcher’s and Major’s attempts to destroy the special character of Sunday and of Christmas Day, delivering the only Commons defeat of Thatcher’s Premiership. And like the trade unionists who battled to secure paternal authority in families and communities by securing its economic base in high-waged, high-skilled, high-status male employment, frequently marching behind banners that depicted Biblical scenes and characters.
And by accepting McMillan-Scott on the terms that he has set out, the Lib Dems have declared definitively that they offer no home to those, some of whom may once have been attracted to the premature and thus fatally flawed SDP, whose deep roots in the former mining communities, in the women’s suffrage movement, in the 1945 General Election victory, and elsewhere, make us unsullied by the weird cult of Winston Churchill, so that instead we can and do condemn his carve-up of Europe with Stalin, just as we condemn genocidal terrorism against Slavs and Balts no less than genocidal terrorism against Arabs, or the blowing up of British Jews going about their business as civil servants, or the photographed hanging of teenage British conscripts with barbed wire.
You are boring.
Where exactly are these LibDem “homes”?
‘McMillan-Scott’: just a thought -could this be someone ultra-proud of presumed/pretended Scotch Ancestry? The sort of person who would celebrate ‘Burns’ Night’ with the utmost attention to all the detail of ritual, flaunting the plaid of the McMillans and of the Scotts, elaborately explaining his genealogy… in a way that someone who was not, in reality a ‘parvenu’, would not feel either necessary or appropriate?
Besides, hyphenated surnames always raise suspicions – so much so, that families long-accustomed to having hyphens, have decided to drop them (Lord de Lisle-and- Dudley? Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes?
Perhaps, after all, he is just Mr. Edward Which-way-is-the Wind-Blowing, Mr. Edward Halcyon-Kingfisher, Mr. Edward I’m-First-to-the Lifeboats, Mr. Edward Sauve-qui-peut, Mr. Edward Devil-take-the-hindmost…
Pughe-Morgan
Aren’t you the David Lindsay who used to write endless boring diatribes on the ‘Throne Out’ blog?
Even then, nobody bothered to try to understand what you were saying, because you just went on, and on and on, sounding like a dirge from hell and becoming more and more confused with whatever argument you were trying to place! Eventually, you were thumped by Spandex and co, and even Luke made it clear that you had a serious problem with being understood!
If you really want to be an MP, wouldn’t it be a good idea if you spent a couple of years in the real world, like in a job, before you come along here and try spouting the same old twaddle?
You really are a tiresome little twerp.
I was just about to ask who is this long winded fucking great bore of our time
The Tory party is full of fucking lefties like him.
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I bet that wanker was shitting himself that he might be in an accountable government after the election.
The Lib Dem’s are like the parliamentary cat.
Live there,go out for the occasional piss,have the odd scrap, then return to home comforts without having to justify their fucking existence.
Where do I sign?
Help help my young nubile wife has run away with the gardener
plant him
“Now Adam was a Gardener,
And God, who made him see
That half a proper Gardener’s work
Is done upon his knees…”
LARF
I am the gardener!
LORD ASHCROFT
LORD ASHCROFT
LORD ASHCROFT
LORD ASHCROFT
Let’s see – udd+in, n+oon,p+aul, mitt+al………………
How much did each of them take out of the Taxpayer for HoL expenses? And how much did ashcroft take?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7424976/Image-of-Jesus-appears-in-a-frying-pan.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinkpicturegalleries/7428320/More-incredible-edible-cakes-by-Debbie-Goard.html
At least the tory group won’t have to put up with any of that anti-fascist malarkey any more.
Bad loss for the Conservatives, he was the only one uglier than Brown
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/05/09/article-1179911-04DB8FF6000005DC-492_468x454.jpg
I don’t think even mcmillan-scott could match the photogenic gordon in the ugly stakes.
Oh no – it’s that photo again.
The final nail in the coffin for that upper class twerp, David Cameron
HEADLINES
David Cameron been ordered to use “common sense” during the General Election campaign
fuckwit
Martin, it’s well known you have a very common sense for grubby little rent boys, you fuck.
In the good old days Labour trolls like Baiter + Hardwodge actually tried to defend Labour policies.
Nowadays they just make stupid comments about the Tories.
Yet another jug eared Jockish sexual deviant ,although in this case he seems to be a gerontophile rather than yet another type of “phile” so prevalent in Scotchland.
Couldnt we sell the whole festering pile of sheeps bladder munching , wife beating work shy Hoons to the Chinese or Koreans ?
Not as a slave Labour ( They dont work) but rather as a cheap alternative to dog and cat meat
The LibDems are like a peeping tom who’s watching a LabCon married couple fuck.
That would be the Camerons
OK by me, -
Can we tone down the sexually explicit references please? This is a blog for hardworkingfamilies.
today I got a letter from Cas Iron Dave, which is nice because we move in different circles and I don’t normally hear from him. “What ever does he want?” I mused.
After a bit of whinge about Labour’s built in majority thanks to the boundary commission he got down to it. “Spare a denarius, for a poor ex leper” he moaned.
By the same post I heard from the local Conservative party candidate, Shaun Bailey, explaining that all sensible people realise the “yookay” should be at the heart of europe and anyway the latest poll showed only 21.5% wanted out. If
I could have bothered to reply to such drivel I would have said “Shaun, forget the polls. What do you personally believe? I’m trying to elect someone with honour and opinions, not yet another opinion poll reflection.”
But what can we expect in a party lead by the heir to Blair?
Rubbish! Gordon is the true heir to Blair, building upon the foundations laid down by Tony. Our beloved leader has put an end to the era of spin and simple twisting of the truth to advance an agenda, and instead begun a new age of not bothering with the truth at all. Why bother twisting something into shape, when you can fabricate something else into whatever shape you wish! It is a refreshing change. Unlike those baby-eating Tories or that other lot whose name I forget but obligingly always vote as Gordon says, the genius that is Gordon has realised that the electorate want us to whisper sweet untruths into their grotty little shell-likes, and that is what we intend to do.
As last time, we might promise a referendum or two – which we obviously won’t hold. We shall promise no further tax rises (then put another 5p on NI), and tell everyone we shall halve the deficit. That’s the deficit, not the debt itself – but voters will not know the difference. We will ride a new wave of popularity back to Downing Street, with a mandate to give more power to Brussels (and, I hope, there could be another role in it for yours truly over there) and to burn more of those rich middle-class taxes for fuel when the gas runs out.
Come on everybody, vote Labour. You know resistance is futile.
Few-tul.
Actually Marcus I have huge respect for Shaun Bailey.You only have to read about his early life to see how far he has come from where he started.I have worked with hundreds of young black people in the area that he is the Conservative parliamentary candidate. None of the youths I worked with has achieved what he has, in fact I dread to think where they have ended up. I come from this area myself,it’s a hard place to live.It is a testament to his character that he has not chosen the easy path like so many of his fellow Afro-Caribbeans. I mean he could have ended up like Trevor Phillips making huge wads of cash being a professional victim,seeing racism where there is none. Instead he runs a charity helping the local community.
David Cameron is toast !!!!!!
Saturday, 13 March 2010
A message from David Cameron: Our country needs to re-elect a Labour Government with a working majority
If you drop a David Cameron from the table will it end up butter side down?
Why does the sign say “Penis” when it should clearly read “Prick”?
It’s very complicated, but, given time, I could show that ‘Penis’ is abbreviated from ‘The Pen IS mightier’ (etc).
Thus, pages of total EU bullshit are interpreted by each person as s/he wishes to understand them.
Rather like the Limpid Dimwits and their meandering machinations.
See also : ‘I can make any word mean what I like’ – or somesuch.
Equally I can prove without a scintilla of doubt that the original text in fact said “OPEN SESAME” and that a post-facto deconstructionist then interposed a hermeneutic exegesis on the text, inserting the letter I, as in I Claudius, except of course that in this instance we may be sure his (or her) name was definitely not Claudius (Claudia).
Help my wife has run off in the VW camper with the campsite Gardener and left me homeless and penniless
Ze know the feeling…..
durk spunk techie splat..or whatever that silly phrase is…face it Old Nick you’re fucked be a man and get a goat.
Well I have been busy on here this afternoon!
It was a Mercedes, not a VW!
Clearly hit somebodies nerve where it hurts a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tonto, would you personally recommend goats?
no have to admit prefer the fairer sex kemosabi..and trigger of course
I heard slap head Cable talking bollocks today (lapped up by the drug addicts at the BBC of course). So St Vince’s ‘plan’ to get rid of the debt is to ;
1. No public sector pay rises or bonuses or was it a max of £8 a week? Whatever that will make not a dent on the national debt, not to mention the unions won’t go for it.
2. Cutting this child trust fund, don’t know how much that would save, I suspect not a great deal of money in terms of the debt.
3. Cutting defence. Good idea Vince, just as we’re in the middle of a major war. Scrap the Euro Fighter, good idea, except that the costs for cancelling will probably exceed those of buying the remaining aircraft, not to mention you’d be pissing off your friends in Germany and Spain. Oh and how does scrapping the Trident replacement cut the current debt Vince? We haven’t spent the money yet so all that does is stop the debt getting worse.
So overall I can’t actually find ONE policy from the slaphead mong that actually cuts public spending by anything like the amount it needs to. Or did I miss something?
you’re spot on cable and cleggie are vacuous…but because they have learnt to speak in meaningless platitudes are a danger at the ballot box if only to give the ‘give them a chance’ nerds something to vote for.
Just heard him on PM… levy on banks…yawn…waffle waffle…15 billion savings nets out at 10 billion…half of what they say is needed…a process will be gone through to get more….. waste of airtime. BBC at it’s best as usual.
Lord Mandy says he’s behind me all the way, and my seat is safe in his hands.
“TV historian Tristram Hunt is embroiled in a cronyism row after launching himself as a would-be MP in one of London’s most secure Labour seats.
Party members in Leyton and Wanstead claim the academic, a friend of Lord Mandelson, is being backed by Labour’s leadership to be a candidate in the constituency.”
they derive from every lump of nosh the vile hypocrite shoves in his lying gob
The LubeDems are welcome to him
And just look, the elderly lesbian that he is hugging is wearing her watch on her left hand, a sure sign of perversion in a woman.
Thanks for the tip.
She may also be saying ‘Watch my lips – not around the lips’
Actually I may ‘of’ I got that wrong.
LYING BROWN DEMOLISHED
“Brown is a compulsive liar, he has no truth in his soul.”
His accompanying comments about “character” appeared to have been scripted by a comedian in need of some fresh material.
“For better or worse, with me what you see is what you get,” said Mr Brown. It is a line so at odds with reality, so manifestly untrue, so utterly ridiculous that one barely knows where to start challenging it.
Was this the same Mr Brown whose shameless evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry was dismissed by Army chiefs as “disingenuous”? The same Mr Brown who unleashed the “forces of hell” on his own chancellor? The same Mr Brown who cannot walk past a national statistic without rebasing its measurement for narrow political advantage (crime, inflation, growth)?
When events defy the Prime Minister’s preferred view of the world, he has a remarkable capacity for applying the Tipp-Ex. History doesn’t haunt him because he either ignores or rewrites it. No British leader in my lifetime has embraced the technique of veracity evasion with greater enthusiasm.
Mr Brown’s most egregious abuse of our credulity, “no more boom and bust”, has been expunged from the script. In its place is a claim that his genius saved us from the ravages of an American-inspired crash. Rather than expiate his sins of profligacy, he seeks to exploit them. Financial disaster is repackaged as a tactical triumph: his triumph.
“I won’t let you down,” Mr Brown promises. Too late, old son, you already have.
You may enjoy this letter
Dear Guido
My little Dave said he is going to be PM one day.
Maybe I said but the PM picks up all his clothes and doesn’t keep flicking channels on the TV.
He looked crestfallen but then he brightened up.OK he said I will be an engine driver then.
Aren’t kids cute?
From
Samantha
a compulsive liar, he has no truth in his soul. He’s a liar”
“Brown is a compulsive liar, he has no truth in his soul.He’s a liar”
Now look here, you asked for an end to the culture of spin, and our beloved Labour leader delivered it. Dispensing entirely with the truth is a vast improvement, and allows us to show what a horrid bunch of baby-eaters those do-nothing Tories really are. I mean, if we had to tell it like it is, people would be far too shocked about the state of the economy and the country’s debts, and some might even blame us for it – imagine that!
But surely Gordon Brown’s moral high compass would ensure that he would not be following in the footsteps of the chancellor in this sleight-of-hand money grabbing stuff. Gordon has told us all of his hatred of all those tax loopholes and tax avoidance schemes, hasn’t he?
When chancellor himself, he had a grace and favour apartment in Downing Street. He also had a bolt hole flat nearby, bought from the estate of the late Robert Maxwell. Shortly before he became PM, Gordon designated his bolt hole flat as his second home. This allowed him to claim allowances for it, which included paying his brother six thousand pounds for cleaning services. He also spread the cost of a nine thousand pound kitchen from Ikea, over 2 financial years. This allowed him to stay just within the maximum second home allowance limit.
But Gordon became PM as we all know and just like a very shrewd business man looking to keep things all for himself and not to give anything to the taxman, HE PUT HIS FLAT IN HIS WIFE’S NAME! As you do if you are a capitalist. This means of course that if he sells the flat, no capital gains tax is liable.
Hang on though, I’m not finished yet.
This of course left him free to now nominate his home in Scotland as his second home. This has allowed him to extensively renovate it at the taxpayer’s expenses. The taxpayer also forks out for the cost of the cleaner and the gardener.
All this AND he lives virtually cost-free in Downing Street for the past 12 years. So why has he charged anything to the taxpayer? Just because you can, doesn’t mean you have to does it? What about his moral compass? He also earns £194250 as PM and an MP. In addition, he has a 6 figure index linked pension to look forward to. The tax payer even pays for a sky sports subscription.
Seems to me you miss out an important piece of the puzzle. gordon gave the flat to his wife and then designated the kirkcaldy house as his second home – well where the devil is his first home then? Because he can’t claim drowning street or chequers as his homes since he does not own them!!
O/T sorry.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1257625/AMANDA-PLATELL-The-week-Mr-Brown-lost-mums-vote.html
It’s Mother’s Day tomorrow in case anybody has forgotten.
Talking of which, spare a thought for all those Mum’s who will be thinking about the sons they’ve lost in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I see gordon is still spinning, ‘don’t blame me, I gave the troops everything they ever asked for’ Lying toad!
I wonder how many of those sons that died in Iraq died in snatch landrovers or from lack of ody armour? And how many of those sons who have died in Afghanistan died from IED’s or for want of a medivac helicopter?
Whatever that figure is, that’s about how much blood gordon has on his hands.
Happy Mother’s Day folks!
nell, I need a bit of mummy love.
Thanks Nell. Spot on as usual.
And, – wishing you a day that brings peace and some joy.
I saw her first, so back off.
I would, of course, say ‘Mothering Sunday’, rather than ‘Mothers’ Day, but, in our little village Church we have, for months now been asked to pray for “the Queen’s Forces, serving abroad, for their protection and guidance; and for Forces families who have suffered loss by reason of the Wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq”.
People constantly say that they have been aware of being buoyed up by prayers: I hope that they will be borne up tomorrow – and in the ensuing days.
Times
June 24, 2009
Gordon Brown’s 10 worst financial gaffes
In 2006, an eloquent Gordon Brown, then Chancellor of the Exchequer said that he was “ready to make the decisions for people and to work with other people to make this country the great country it is at all times.” A year later he became Prime Minister, and the rest is history. Here is a list of Gordon’s worst financial blunders, the screw-ups which have cost us all dearly and left economists, accountants and the rest of us scratching our heads in disbelief. Vote for Gordon’s worst gaffe in the e-Poll below or make your own suggestions in the comment box.
1. Taxing dividend payments
Before 1997, dividends issued by UK companies and paid to pension funds were tax-free – that is, the tax could be claimed back via a system of tax credits. Not any more, decided Brown. Tax relief was scrapped, reducing the amount collected by pension funds by around £5 billion a year. Pension funds holding the cash that you, me and almost everyone else in the country plan to use for our retirement have lost around £100 billion over the last 12 years. That’s one hell of a stealth tax.
2. Selling our gold
In May 1999 Gordon Brown had a plan to sell some gold. There were two problems with this, which concerned his economic advisers deeply. The price of gold had slumped after a decade of stagnation, but was likely to increase in the proceeding years. Added to this, the announcement of a major sell-off would drive the price down further. Little of this worried Gordon. Experts believe that the poorly timed decision to flog our national treasure has cost us all around £3 billion. Granted, that doesn’t seem much nowadays, but more of that later.
3. Tripartite financial regulation
The system of financial regulation dividing powers between the Treasury, the Bank of England and the Financial Services Authority, established by Brown as Chancellor in 2000, missed what amounted to the biggest financial crisis of our lifetime. Whoops. This has led some glass-half-empty commentators to conclude that the system set up by Brown failed and should be replaced. The Commons Treasury Select Committee’s report on the collapse of Northern Rock said that the Financial Services Authority had “systematically failed in its duty” to oversee the troubled bank’s activities. Little did it realise at the time that Northern Rock was the over-leveraged tip of the securitised iceberg.
4. Tax credits
“Gordon Brown claims the tax credits system lifts children out of poverty,” says Simon Blackmore, 38, who was pursued for £6,057 in over-paid tax credits. “Maybe it does, but only to plunge them and their families into debt two years later.” Millions of low-income families have had to pay back the Treasury after receiving too much money in tax credits, putting them under huge financial and emotional strain. Meanwhile, 40 per cent of workers and families who deserved tax credits left billions of pounds unclaimed in the 2008-09 tax year for fear of being chased for the cash later on. Introduced in 1999, reformed in 2000, tax credits have been “a complete disaster zone”, according to tax experts.
5. The £10,000 corporation tax threshold
In 2002, Gordon Brown introduced a new tax regime to help small businesses. He announced a new zero per cent rate of corporation tax on profits below £10,000. It was designed to boost the ability of small businesses to grow and prosper. It didn’t quite work out this way. It became advantageous for sole traders such as taxi drivers or plumbers to turn themselves into limited companies to take advantage of the new rules. A Treasury Minister later commented that “the Government did not realise how many people would engage in abusive tax avoidance”, despite the fact that it was “blindingly obvious” to tax experts “within 5 seconds” of the budget announcement that this would happen. Gordon scrapped the rules a few years later, raising the rate from 0 per cent to 19 per cent when he released how much money was being lost.
6. Abolition of the 10p tax rate
Mr Brown rarely apologises. In fact, he never apologises. But occasionally he acknowledges “mistakes”, albeit begrudgingly. Over the abolition of the 10p tax rate in 2007, Mr Brown told Radio 4′s Today programme that “we made two mistakes. We didn’t cover as well as we should that group of low-paid workers who don’t get the working tax credits and we weren’t able to help the 60 to 64-year-olds who didn’t get the pensioner’s tax allowance.” Experts use stronger language to describe the Budget of 2007, which was designed to produce positive headlines for the 2p cut in income tax. Accountants calculated that the scrapping of the 10 per cent tax rate, coupled with the increase in the proportion of tax credits withdrawn from higher earners, would leave 1.8 million workers earning between £6,500 and £15,000 paying an effective tax rate of up to 70 per cent.
7. Failing to spot the housing bubble
Gordon Brown said he ended boom and bust, and in those innocent days before the collapse of the global finance system we believed him. In 1997, he outlined his plans. “Stability is necessary for our future economic success”, he wisely informed an audience at the CBI. “The British economy of the future must be built not on the shifting sands of boom and bust, but on the bedrock of prudent and wise economic management.” The other components of that bedrock including a trillion-pound debt mountain and a decade of unchecked and unparalleled house price inflation presumably slipped his mind. In 2003 a mild-mannered Liberal Democrat MP by the name of Vince Cable dared to question the mantra of “the end of boom and bust”. He asked Gordon Brown: “Is it not true that…the growth of the British economy is sustained by consumer spending pinned against record levels of personal debt, which is secured, if at all, against house prices that the Bank of England describes as well above equilibrium level?” Gordon replied: “The Honourable Gentleman has been writing articles in the newspapers, as reflected in his contribution, that spread alarm, without substance, about the state of the economy…” We all know what happened next.
8. 50 per cent tax rate
Robert Chote, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, has said the tax hike which heralded the end the new Labour may actually end up losing the Government money. “If you look at what happened when higher rates were last changed in the 1980s, that might lead you to suggest that such a move might actually lose you revenue, rather than gain it, as people actually declare less income for tax,” he said.
9. Cutting VAT
“It would be funny if it wasn’t so serious,” said a tax accountant when asked about the Brown-Darling brainwave to cut VAT by 2.5 percentage points. As a nation of shoppers, rather than shopkeepers, a chopped down sales tax sounds like a good idea, providing a vital boost to hard-pressed families at a time of financial hardship. There were two problems. It costs £12.5 billion a year and it has made little discernable difference to those hard-pressed families because it is shopkeepers, rather than shoppers, who have pocketed much of the benefit.
10. Public-sector borrowing
If Gordon had only saved a little more in the good times, we might have had a little more to fall back on in the bad, economists sigh. Last month saw public-sector net borrowing hit £19.9 billion, the highest on record, according to the Office for National Statistics. The chancellor of the exchequer, Alistair Darling, has forecast that Government borrowing will reach £175 billion this year. It is forecast that total government debt will double to 79 per cent of GDP by 2013, the highest level since World War 2. Mr Chote recently warned that “the scale of the underlying problem that the Treasury’s detailed forecasts identify will require two full parliaments of mounting austerity to repair.”
Even after he leaves office in 2010, as is almost certain, it seems that we will all be paying for Gordon’s gaffes for many years to come.
“9. Cutting VAT”
THREE problems. They never dropped the prices after the fall, it cost too much, and then used the restoration to increase the prices.
Never play with VAT, currencies or weights/measures, unless you want inflation.
They should have just made a NI holiday. But then they want unemployment as those people will move on to the tax credit handout scheme, and will be addicts to the Labour way.
http://www.usagold.com/gold-price.html
It was falling before he sold. Then it rose. At least the euro he bought with it has increased in value. But not as much.
Good (or, indeed, bad) list. The Brown debt has to the one – it will be with us for 20 years.
Actually it’s what everyone in politics does where I come from.
It’s the only way to make a little on the side.
It lubricates the wheels of Government dontchakno
Liebour just love to do favours for their biggest donors.
JACK DROMEY, HEAD OF THE BULLY MAFIA UNION, UNITE, AND HARRIET, (RANK HYPOCRITE), HARPERSONS HUSBAND (DON’T LAUGH, MINISTER FOR WOMEN AND EQUALITY, LEADER OF THE HOUSE, DEPUTY LEADER OF THE LIEBOUR PARTY),
PARACHUTED INTO A SAFE LIEBOUR SEAT, DESPITE IT BEING RECOGNISED AS NEEDING ALL WOMEN AND ETHNIC SHORTLISTS.
THIS DECISION WAS TAKEN BY LIEBOUR’S DECISION MAKING BODY, THE NEC.
UNITE IS THE BIGGEST SINGLE DONOR TO THE LIEBOUR PARTY, THEY OWN IT SO IT’S NATURAL THEY WANT SOMETHING IN RETURN.
ANOTHER HOFC MARRIED COUPLE WHO HAVE NEVER HAD A PROPER JOB IN THEIR LIVES, JUST LIVING OFF PEOPLE WHO REALLY EARN MONEY.
JUST PARASITES, PURE PARASITES.
“Brown is a compulsive liar, he has no truth in his soul. He’s a Liar”
IT’S NOT ONLY BROWN WHO HAS NO TRUTH IN HIS SOUL, IT’S THE WHOLE OF LIEBOUR.
Compared to a back bench LibDem MP I was a hive of industry at Parliament.
Considering I had my thumb up my arse half the time says a lot about them wankers then.
The sign next to him says PENIS.
Obviously the organisers wanted to call him a PRICK but were too polite.
LIEBOUR’S NON DOM DONOR, LORD PAUL, TAKES THE STEEELWORKERS PENSION FUND MONEY AND DONATES IT TO LIEBOUR.
This week’s Guy News interviewed Sam Dunkerley, a pensioner who worked at an engineering firm taken over by Gordon’s non-domiciled financial backer, Lord Swraj Paul. Emily reports on what happened to the firm’s pension fund and how bitter Mr Dunkerley feels about Lord Paul’s donations to the Labour Party: “Lord Paul has been bank-rolling the Labour Party with our money”.
His head looks like a savoy cabbage that has gone to seed. Just a thought.
He looks like a practicing Lib Dem.
Defection- root is defect; synonyms;
absence, blemish, bug, deficiency, error, failing, fault, flaw, frailty, imperfection, inadequacy, lack, mistake, shortcoming, spot, taint, weakness.
That’s him.
Which is the correct pic, the one above or the one in the Telegraph?
http://tinyurl.com/yavws76
Hmm tis a co nun drum
VOTE LIB DEM
GET
BROWN BALLS
LIB DEM ARE JUST LIEBOUR MARK 2
Sarko
“Monsewer Gordon
Just ow do you manage to keep a beautiful wummun appy?
Mine keep running off wid udder men”
Gordon
“Nick its simple , marry a lesbian as I have
It was the right thing to do and statistics show that 87.3% of lavender marriages last longer than normal marriages, now give me a kiss and a photo opp little boy”
can’t really work out why sarkozy was so generous in his praise of Brown…no mileage for him when browns booted out and he has to deal with Cameron. have always quite liked sarco but any more of this lip and hes a midget froggy shitbag.
Paddy was walking along the beach when he sees a head sticking out of the sand , on closer inspection he realises that its Mick who says “Get us out will you Paddy, i’m buried up to me neck in sand” , “I’ll go and get me shovel” replies paddy , and Mick says “You’ll need a fucking big shovel Paddy, I’m sitting on a donkey”!
“Brown is a compulsive liar, he has no truth in his soul. He’s a liar.”
Brown’s latest confidence trick
Fraser Nelson 10:01am
One of the Brownie’s we’ve been hearing recently from the Dear Leader is that it is in some way ambitious to “halve the deficit by 2014″. It’s a Brownie because it is technically accurate, yet designed to mislead the voter. Two years ago, he forecast no deficit at all by 2014. Now he’s projecting one of 5 percent of GDP – simply mammoth – and still makes out that this is something to be proud of. It’s a confidence trick: the voter is supposed to think ‘I don’t know about the figures, but if he’s boasting about it then it must be good’. When Brown told the Economist that his deficit reduction plans were the most aggressive of any major economy, I went rushing for my spreadsheets to disprove it – but, alas, no one has collated the medium-term projections of other countries to test this against. Until now. God bless Michael Saunders at Citibank, who has published the below chart showing that even Italy (a G7 member) will have wiped out its deficit by the time Britain will – under Brown – have halved it.
more here
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/5838918/browns-latest-confidence-trick.thtml
Martin, it’s the BBC and simpletons who need convincing, not us.
But the size of the deficit is also a lie. He claims £178 billion repeatedly. Yet revenues were down by £40 billion on projection by the end of January, and spending is ahead of target if the truth be told. But the truth is not being told on spending either. The spending figures were massaged into unrecognisability in December in the Treasury spending outturn report.
Osborne is saying he will appoint a specialist toi analyse the true state of the accounts as soon as he wins power. He knows the £178 billion borrowing figure is a lie. Probably nearer £250 billion or 18% GDP. Greece is far less.
Curry house owner foils burglary… and then HE’S thrown in cell when yobs
When a restaurant owner found two teenage yobs raiding his beer cellar, he chased them and held them while his staff dialled 999.
Sal Miah assumed police would commend him for catching the young criminals.
But when officers arrived, they arrested 35-year-old Mr Miah on suspicion of assault and battery.
Held: Sal Miah spent five hours in a police cell after he chased down two youths who had broken into his cellar
The married father-of-five spent five hours in a police cell and had his DNA, fingerprints and police mugshot taken.
Mr Miah, who has run the Raj Poot restaurant in Crowborough, East Sussex, for 14 years, was finally released at 4am after receiving a caution for assault and battery, which will stay on his record for five years.
He said: ‘The system is a joke. How can a man who tries to prevent a crime in progress end up being the criminal?
‘People are living in fear of these kind of yobs but when you do take a stand and try and defend your home or your business you end up in trouble.
‘It’s the wrong way round. These boys told the police I had punched them and they believed them.
‘This country is getting worse. You see these gangs tormenting people and they are just getting away with it. But who was looking out for my interests?
‘This has been an unbelievable stress and strain on my family. The uncle of one of the boys even came to the restaurant making threats that he was going to smash it up and burn it down.
‘But when I reported that the police said they couldn’t find him.’
Mr Miah’s ordeal began a fortnight ago when he heard the teenagers trying to smash their way into the beer cellar.
They fled, but Mr Miah pursued them and managed to grab them and bring them back to the restaurant, where he sat them down by the bar.
He told his diners not to worry and instructed staff to call the police.
But as he did so a large group of the teenagers’ friends assembled outside and started to kick the door in.
What about the simple rule that if attacked on your own land/property you and your employees/family never get arrested. As long as the injury alleged is less than the attackers weapons COULD inflict. If a charge is brought, and you seem to have vanished, then they take the property.
So all you need to prove is your identity and the site owners support.
Also any detention of an attacker for twice the time of the police response is valid in all circumstances. Obviously the person must report the detention every 30 minutes for those in Nottingham police areas.
more fool him for accepting the caution.
I note that McMillan-Scott announced his defection to the Lib-Dems around the same time as Anna Arrowsmith/Anna Span was elected as the Lib-Dem candidate for Gravesham.
Is there a connection between these two events? Did McMillan-Scott submit an expense claim for any of Ms Arrowsmith/Span’s videos?
I think we should be told
CW thinks lib dems are just stressing the problems in the hope of making votes , no policy just pre amble , Phillip Hammond did a reminder of cleggs drastic cuts speech . I dont think libs know what to do with a lib/con alliance let alone even address the real budget problem , as for defector they are welcome to him , hes hardly put his hand up and said hold on its not working out in eurotopia .
Enjoyed Frank Fields article , may all backfire on ruins little game yet .
Apparently this guy’s autobiography is due out soon, no doubt published by the family firm McMillan.
The working title is Thank F*** For Grandpapa (and I don’t mean Bob Boothby) Or I’d Have Been an Even Bigger Nobody.
“I was born, and then I croaked it.”
You want copper-bottomed, Stalin-Goebbels-type lies?
Vote LABOUR.
You want slightly less blatant lies?
Vote CONSERVATIVE.
you want nothing?
vote liB dem
and u get Brown Balls
Picture of a twat.
http://www.denofgeek.com/siteimage/scale/800/600/14462.png
and another one here
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/05_04/PeirsBrownLIVE_468x425.jpg
and another
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/01_02/piersMOS1201_468x417.jpg
That’s 3 twats for the price of 2.
Peter Hain Bank robber ! will make you smile guido
Instead of being called the LDs, they should be renamed the RLDs – the Red Light District Party, where porn, promiscuous sex and exhibitionism are seemingly encouraged.
Phwooaarr, not half!
Contain yourself, Clagg, or whatever your name is. Listen, “Bad” Al has written a draft text for Gordon to use in the leader’s debates and we want you singing from the same hymn sheet. I’ll fax you over a copy so you can learn your lines. Just try and stay off the skirt until then, will you?
That would be far better than the current Neo-Puritan parties.
Shortly before he became PM, Gordon invited me to Downing Street for a drink. As he opened a bottle of champagne, he told a funny story involving Cabinet colleague Hilary Benn, the son of Tony Benn, who had recently met Nelson Mandela.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-507953/The-day-I-sat-Tony-Blairs-chair-sacked-Gordon-Brown-Piers-Morgan.html#ixzz0i56ITPri
Maybe an anti-corruption party with a single policy?
They will ban the previous candidates from standing and call another election if they win.
Make the political Gravy Train terminate here.
Great Photo! Says it all really! Slip the phtographer a twenty for that Guido!
He is still listed as an Honorary Life Member of the Tory Reform Group (President: Ken Clarke).
In light of muslims being the only people stupid enough to vote for me, I will be changing my name to Mohammed Brown.
Yours Sincerely
Mohammed Brown PM
Caption Compo.
“Martin Days mum always did like to get her hands on a massive cock.”
I thought he’d defected ages ago. Oh well, guess we’d all have missed this if you hadn’t run it, Guido. A very minor piece of news, about a very minor person.
No you misread it. It actually said he was defective ages ago.
Quite why he was in the Conservative Party in the first place might be debated but he did he stand as a Conservative candidate – on a list system – so how come he regards this as a personal mandate to continue if he switched sides? Why should the Liberals now have 2 MEP’s in that region when their 13% share of the vote didn’t justify that? The Conservatives voters – 24.5% – have been deprived of half their representation.
Why did McMillan-Scott not have the honour to resign? Could it be linked to the gravy train? Other people who obtain a job by deception get prosecuted when found out.
That he does not have to resign his seat is as good an argument against party lists as you could possibly want, and the arguments against them are all very good indeed. The Edmund Burke quotation usually trotted out when MPs change parties was of course uttered before party names appeared on ballot papers, but if anything that is an argument for party names not to appear on ballot papers, as they did not do until very recently.
As with party lists, the argument is essentially the same: we do not vote for parties in this country, we vote for candidates. If the party label is your reason for voting for a particular candidate, then people never had any difficulty finding it out. If you feel betrayed over this or anything else in the course of a Parliament, then that is what the following General Election is for.
Why was he in the party of the Treaty of Rome, the Single European Act and the Maastricht Treaty? Why not?
Another defection that increases the average talent levels of both parties.
At least he’s pulled.
Says it all really.
on message
What’s that first letter on the tablecoth – it couldn’t be ‘P’, could it?
Good riddance to McMillian-Scott. He wants a federal europe so join a party that wants it – the Lib Dems! He joins those other two Euro federalists from the Tories Emma Nicholson and Bill Newton-Dunn!
Clarke’s TRG has now removed McMillan-Scott from the list of Honorary Life Members on its website. That need not, however, mean that it has revoked his Honorary Life Membership itself. Only today, Clarke described Nick Clegg as “a Conservative, with views very similar to mine”.
‘penis’ tablecloth anyone? did the old lady make it with him in mind? did he bring it himself? or is this standard issue Tory tableware?