Fire the Liar : Strip Byers of “Right Honourable”
Membership of the Privy Council is what entitles one to be addressed as “the Right Honourable”. When Stephen Byers was made a member of the Privy Council he swore “by Almighty God to be a true and faithful Servant unto The Queen’s Majesty as one of Her Majesty’s Privy Council … And generally in all things you will do as a faithful and true Servant ought to do to Her Majesty.“ Surely whoring yourself out to change Her Majesty’s Government’s legislation “like a taxi cab for hire” falls outside the terms of this Oath?
Being a member of the Privy Council is a great honour, it is the oldest political institution in the land after the monarchy itself, tracing its history back to the Norman monarchs. Byers’ continuing presence on the Council sullies the institution, so given he is unlikely to resign himself he will have to be removed. It is still possible to petition the Queen to have him removed and Guido has set up an online petition to do just that:
“We, the undersigned, call on Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, to strip Stephen Byers MP of his membership of the Privy Council due to his involvement in offering to sell access to the British Government for personal profit.”
Click here to sign the petition.
UPDATE : 318 signatures in less than an hour. 756 in less than two…
He’s a very expensive cab
Aye. You could hire a Learjet for that kind of money. Fly Ashton to Brussels on a daily basis the better to make an incompetent arse of herself.
Will he have to pay it back? And go to prison?
Don’t think the Queen is stupid enough to get embroiled in Party Politics somehow.
Maybe Charlie or Phil would.
Lords still remain Lords after even more egregious stuff after all.
By queen, I presume you mean Mandy.
Nope.
Nor do I mean any of the shadow cabinet.
I mean the rich old woman with the dysfunctional family and the corgis.
Where’s Nick Robinson on all this?????
Surprisingly his blog still has an Ashcroft story. Hasn’t he had enough time to toe the line yet????
Useless shower
Sawd awf all of you.
Toenails still looking at his last blog and wondering is there anyway it could be retracted or could he blame someone else for writing it and maliciously signing his name to it.
Nick Robinson – what a clueless waste of fucking Labour-biased space.
I never listen to a word that twat says. He is always off message or worse spinning some labour fed bollocks.
He needs to be sacked.
We do, as a new Government, have to be extremely careful after 18 years in opposition. A lot of people who worked for us, they then go on and work for the lobby firms.
I think we have to be very careful with people fluttering around the new Government, trying to make all sorts of claims of influence, that we are purer than pure, that people understand that we will not have any truck with anything that is improper in any shape or form at all. – Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
Ah well, nice thought hey Tone!
Guido – I wholly agree with the sentiment, but Queenie won’t go for setting the precedent.
When people like Jeremy Thorpe are still on the Privy Council (for life!), you can see how this would open a whole can of worms.
Best way to take this is to call the old Bill and make a point- by-point complaint listing all the laws you think he’s broken…
shit it’s Thorpe!!!
run for it!
The precedent is set in history
Am I right or am I wrong but I seem to remember something way back in the mist of history some connection with a hit involving Thorpe and a certain jock gangster.
The Code of Conduct for Members of Parliament
V. Rules of Conduct
15. Members shall at all times conduct themselves in a manner which will tend to maintain and strengthen the public’s trust and confidence in the integrity of Parliament and never undertake any action which would bring the House of Commons, or its Members generally, into disrepute.
Apparently the books had to be consulted after the Profumo affair on this point but he did the decent thing and resigned voluntarily.Don’t expect Byers would do the same.
I also see that Toenails still leads on Ashcroft.The line to take from the bunker must be late today.
No I doubt it.
A future taxi fare for all (MPs, that is).
Shadow minister arrested because of a possible govt leak. Govt Ministers/senior politicans caught red handed acting like petty thieves and Gordon decides no further action needed. Rule Britania… What a pile of shit this nation has turned into.
£5000 taxi fares. It soon will be once hyper-inflation sets in.
How come Gordon has not withdrawn the party whip from Hoon, Hewitt, Byers and Moran?
because they’ve done nothing wrong.
there is no need for an enquiry.
it started in america.
it would not be the right thing to do.
that would mean a labour cut and labour aren’t making cuts, only the tories.
er – any tips how i can duck out of pmq’s on weds?
No need to duck PMQs. Just answer every question with ‘Ashcroft’… In McRuin world it works every time.
He never answer a question anyway so what is the point. GB answer to everything is blame America or it started in America. And as we all know Gordon is ALWAYS right.
“you wont ‘ave to, your mate Darlink is delivering ‘is budget.”
- Bob Helicopters Aintworthit
yea shoot your fucking self
The Prime Minister has already conducted a full and thorough investigation and has found no evidence of impropiety. All Ministers have conducted themselves with impeccable probity and diligence in putting the public’s interest above any other considerations.
Now, about Lord Ashcroft………..
What about McBroon’s bloody slush fund? What about someone discussing THIS outrage? Someone like Toenails, perhaps? Thought not.
Over the moon
Did you mean Hoon?
How come its only these three who have had the spotlight put on them – all vehemently anti broon – were the other labour ~MPs who tried their luck on the new gravy train ‘warned off’ after approaching the dodgy lobbyists? surely they were as guilty of nest feathering?
This has the smell of mandlepoof all over it, which is why broon and the others are so desperate to avoid an enquiry, save the truth should bubble to the surface.
Dave needs to push a lot harder and expose the whole fecking lot of them as self centred, money grubbing tick-turds!
Smart thinking Batman,
The less we can see of Mandleson, the more likely it is that he’s at the bottom of it all (pun intended)
Signed and sealed. uaf uaf
Ghastly Piece of Filth.
Signed the petition but why can’t I see the comments? Isn’t that in the configuration where you choose what columns to display? Please add that in….
Bloody good idea Guido, and while you are at it I think we should also submit these two:
“We, the undersigned, call on Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, to strip David Cameron of his position as Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition due to him being a Housing Benefit cheat who falsely made entirely unnecessary claims from the public purse to pay interest payments on his very large mortgage for personal profit.”
and this one:
“We, the undersigned, call on Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, to stro[ Lord Ashcroft of his peerge due to his involvement in deceiving you, our dear Queen, into proferring a peerage upon him under false pretences and for being a tax evading liar.”
Thanks.
Ditto Cohen and Paul.
Agreed.
udders and scotchland
Ditto:
Adonis, Lady Mandy, Truscott, Moonie, Lord Gorbals, Snape, Taylor etc.
Also agreed.
Why?
Hope Dispatches is being made aware of the petition & the response it’s getting?
We will keep them updated but hopefully David Cameron the housing benefit cheat kicked out by tea-time and replaced with David Davis.
Then the Conservatives will have more of a chance of winning a working majority.
Anyone want a bung, top-up or union donation whilst I’ve got the taxpayer’s cheque book open?
yeah right, Even with left of Blair Cameron heading the Tories, the BBC are still making out that the tories are somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan
With a real conservative in charge they would be apoplectic.
Look you lot, Her Maj is having a nap, leave her cabbage-ness alone.
I’ve done a calculation to work out where you could travel to in a cab for £5,000.
Is the answer:
A. Glasgow
B. Paris
C. Valencia
D. Napoli
Give yoursevles a pat on the back if you got the right answer.
Ah but would He ever arrive Billy?
If it takes longer than a day to get there He’s already earned another £5000 so He can just keep going, forever.
Labour, crap at politics, crap at law, crap at the economy…
…bloody brilliant at spinning, lying, covering up and lining their own pockets.
Can’t we just shoot him instead?
Byers was member of Militant Tendency in the 80s.He must be made an example of.
CROSSHAIRS for Byers.
Hang him – rope is re-useable!
Sorry, health and safety decrees that a new rope be used for all executions, as an old rope provides a cross-infection risk. Remember to fill-in the extensive risk assessment and hazard awareness booklets, and make sure that a qualified Health and Safety officer is present with three other H&S representatives. One to hold the pen, another to hold the clipboard and a third to keep the unemployment figures looking like showing signs of improvement.
And you could sack that cnut Lord P*** at the same time.
Lord Paul is a Privy Councillor, too.
At least Byers was democratically elected.
http://www.eursoc.com/eursoc_news_and_comment_f/2010/03/parliament-of-whores.html
Lord Paul is a Privy Councillor fair and square. He paid for his posh and privileged position with his very own worker’s pension funds and I am sure that this is exactly what these workers would have wanted. and finally in response:
Lord Ashcroft!
Lord Ashcroft!
Lord Ashcroft!
Lord Ashcroft!
Lord Ashcroft!
Lord Ashcroft!
Lord Ashcroft!
Lord Ashcroft!
Lord Ashcroft!
Lord Ashcroft!
Lord Ashcroft!
Lord Ashcroft!
Lord Ashcroft!
Lord Ashcroft!
Lord Ashcroft!
Can I work for the BBC now?
We would like to announce that Lord Ashcroft must have something to do with either the BA strike or Stephen Byers, as soon as we can find a link, no matter how small, we shall announce it via our official website http://www.toenailsblog.com
Wonder if Mandy has a daily rate ?
10p for blow job
10p for full sex
5p for rimming
etc
Oh shit to the last one.
Is that what he charges or what he’s prepared to pay?
That looks like a fuck menu nailed to the front door of a house in Manor Park, Slough.
Obviously a friend told me about it.
Now we know where Mc Broon has spent all our tax billions…..
If you have to ask the price you cannot afford me
If you have to ask the price then you’re absolutely crackers!
Can’t believe I’ve wasted 13 years on the opposition benches just claiming a few 100k a year for expenses.
Can’t wait to get into office where the real money is being made.
I’m looking forward to heading the quango that cuts down on quango’s, there’s definately money to be made on a results basis.
I never make any cash!!!!!!!!
On £65,000 per year, you do all right. So do all the others.
Skinner to stupid to make a living doing anything other than using his arse to clean the green leather benches.
**applause**
I resemble that remark!
Agreed
Tesco and National Express seem to be absent from Byers’ entry in the Register of Members’ Interests. Hmmm.
Light the blue touch paper, stand well back.
I believe the universal caution used to be “light blue touch-paper and retire”.
The whole Lib/Lab/Con menagerie will have to be forcibly retired before we’ll see real justice exacted on their toxic hides.
In the 19th century Byers would be called a – scoundrel.
It’s terrible how our language has deteriorated over 2 centuries, I mean now he is just called a scabby fucker!
As always red inked in by my English teacher: “Why be using two words when one will do?”
Sadly, I suspect the only forcible retirement likely to work with these parasites would be a salvo of 120 mm projectiles into the Palace of Westminster. No doubt another good reason for keeping so many of our military units outside the UK. I suppose we wouldn’t like the consequences given the character of miltary juntas elsewhere.
I am and always will be a Right
HonourableHonourable Genitalman.I think you meant ‘Hoonarable’.
Damn – beat me to it by a minute.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoon
“anti-hooning legislation also targets hooning behavior wherever it occurs”
Sadly not in force in the UK.
Hmm.. Interesting idea, but I suspect about as useful as petitioning Her Maj the Queen to announce that the Pope is head of the Roman Catholic Church and that she can confirm that bears do indeed shit in the woods…
Do Blears shit in the woods?
I’ve signed the petition.
Byers has to go. We are not a banana republic. (Although Labour clearly would like us to be one).
I’m on nine ‘nanas a day now !!
More proof that you can’t count to ten!
Financial markets seem to think we are.
So do Milibanana and his likkle bruvva
Right Hoonerable?
Not bad.
Can I have an each way double on Byers and Paul?
So is Lord Paul a Privy Councillor, he is a non dom and does not pay full U.K. taxes. Why not include him in the petition?
Guido can we do more of these petitions for Lord Paul?
do it yourself.
http://www.gopetition.co.uk/how-to-start-a-petition.php
cheers
Have signed. However ineffective it may be in deposing Byers, it’s another way for us angry voters to express our disapproval of these swine.
Thanks for the opportunity, Guido.
Steady-on. As you like to say, qui bono?
Don’t do Brown’s dirty work for him.
Stop taking things at face-value and you might have a better product.
Regards,
Tom
Could it be? that you have turned over a new leaf Tom?
“Cui bono”, if you please. ‘Cui’, dative case of ‘qui’.
Well, Sir WW – what should one expect from a slave?
Crucify them – it’s the only language they understand!
GB doesn’t think anyone has done anything wrong ‘no need for government inquiry’ – what a complete pratt.
Bear in mind that these are the only ones who have been caught – I would love to know who else engages in this lobbying.
May explain all the millions for mps who have had no other way of getting it.
Stephen Liars, Margaret Moron, Patricia Blewitt and Geoff C/unt should all be in prison. Bunch of fucking criminals. This is hands down THE worst government in British history. The Thatcher and Major governments had their share of scandal but they were rank amateurs compared to this rabble. New Labour has been systematically corrupt for the last 13 years and they deserve to be wiped out at the election.
it is the pompous way they think they are worth that amount of money and the way in which big business are aving to court this bunch of morally bankrupt nutters to think they can get anything done.
the whole system is rotten to the core and the expenses was just the beginning. It will not sit right with me until a lot of Mp’s are made to pay back cash, not get huge payoffs etc – any of them donating to charity etc….?
They are truly vile. they couldn’t give a stuff what the law was as long as they got money for it.
if this was any other country we’d be sending the troops in. the whole ‘girls gand’ should be investigated – was moran just guessing when she said that?
yep. the difference was a few then and the whole gubberment now
I have signed. It’s not a complete waste of time. Not only does this (with enough signatures) send a strong signal to the slime-ball and his fellow troughers, but it is also one of the dwindling number of freedoms left to us, and deserves to be exercised.
I have signed too, and for the same reasons.
It may not be ultra-effective but it in fact one the last channels left for ‘us’, the proles, to get our voice heard.
Well done Guido.
Ditto, it will not achieve anything, but as above stated. It’s a way of expressing ourselves.
I also suck for £20 a go.
You forgot to mention that you give change of £19.99p
Lest one forget – Byers was involved in the ‘Phoenix Five’ deal that ‘saved’ MG Rover.You remember, the one where MG was asset stripped by the owners and sold to a Chinese company with huge jobs losses and 5 huge settlements.
While those with good contacts are trying to find linkages with Byers and sensitive contracts, might want to see any linkages between Blair, Metronet and appointments and contacts with financial companies that financed Metronet.
Remember the Labour gov forced through this contract against all advice.
Gordon says no impropriety so no investigation. Go get him Dave
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!
Thank you, I needed that.
I’m so proud of Stevie, Patsy, Maggie and the Hoonster. Of course, the money they make is peanuts compared to all the lovely moolah I’ve raked in since leaving office. £20m blood money from Iraqi oil. THAT’S real dosh! Real readies! I owe a big thank you to all the dead soldiers and dead Iraqis. They’ve made me and my family wonderfully rich and we couldn’t have done it without them.
You’re forgetting the dead children Tony. Nothing like a bit of mass murder, we are socialists after all! VOTE LABOUR!
O/T slightly
Much as I can do without Rich and Mark’s cartoons none of the other photo’s now show on my screen. Can anyone offer a technical hint to sort this out
get flash from adobe
Hit the computer with a hammer, whilst shouting and swearing. Works every time.
Genius – sorted
shit and I thought it was flash,must get a hammer
Take it out on the secretary, her Nokia and the photocopier. It’s the right thing to do. Works for me every time.
By the way, today is a BOGOF day. Buy one, get one free.
Is this the same Byers who shafted Railtrack?
That be the same “Bozo” Byers, indeed.
Brown envelopes?
I’m still here. Because it’s the right thing to do. Just like bullying and shoving my secretary out of her chair. It was the right thing to do.
New Labour’s legacy:-
Corruption
Nepotism
Lies
Deceit
Intimidation
Smears
It’s the right thing to do
Because we say it is
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1643509.stm
http://www.labour-watch.com/sleaze.htm
Sadly it reflects badly on all politicians of all colours. As we thought – all as rotton as carrots. Bin the lot of ‘em.
Labour’s election slogan:
Vote Labour. We want Loadsamoney! For ourselves, that is.
A Future Fair For All!
Except if you’re poor.
Or English.
Hi. I’m Stephen Byers. Hire me like cab. Or ride me like a cab. Either way, just pay me. You can also bugger me for a buck.
Does anyone know where Labour’s moral compass has got to? It was last seen shoved up Margaret Moron’s fat chubby arse.
Its beside his fanny magnet.
And its got reverse polarity.
Saw it on a stall at Petticoat Lane yesterday. Must have been a fake (like the original.)
Oh it’s the Right Honourable (_:_)rsehole . . . . I stand corrected . . . . .
Possibly overlooked in the byers, byers, pants on fires, excitement , is Southamptons’ very own Margret moran and her confirmation that the wimmin are more than just window dressing, they are an organised corruption cartel.
Don’t mention Madge Moron and immigration lobbying. That’s for the next episode.
Spin
Lies
Smears
Deceit
Intimidation
Nepotism
Corruption.
It’s the right thing to do
Because we say it is
http://www.labour-watch.com/sleaze.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1643509.stm
I strongly deny the scurrilous allegations that I’m a liar and unworthy of being a member of the Privy Council. And if anyone wishes to argue with me about this, they can get me at byerss@parliament.uk
I’d prefer to get you at home.
Cash for questions
Mps expenses
Al Megrahi still strolling about
economy absolutely screwed
another brave serviceman killed today
iran still looking to cause mayhem
relationship with usa at all time low
huge unemployment
immigration out of control
schools, hospitals on their knees with presumably out of control
and where’s gb?
giving a talk about free internet access – that’s where.
But theres nothing wrong LaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLa. Now about Aschcroft……
It’s time for the daily 2 minute hate against that arch traitor Ashcroft.
Now drink your victory gin you prole scum and all hale Big Brother Brown.
You’ll enjoy this one: http://waugh.standard.co.uk/2010/03/byers-boasts.html
The News of the World (who else could do it so well?) ran a classic story about 8 years ago, detailing how Byers cheated on his long-term partner by having a one-night stand with a blonde Labour councillor.
Read on…
Black Cab Tart… very funny.
“I must have been groaning too loudly because he put his hand over my mouth so the people in the next rooms wouldn’t hear.
“Then, in his throes of passion, the things he began saying got stronger. Some women might like their men to talk dirty but this was obscene filth. He was, in effect, calling me a tart and getting a kick out of it. He said that he wondered how many other men I had been with and that’s what he was getting off on.
“It wasn’t just what he said or what he was implying but it was the language he used to express it. It was the most disgusting thing I’ve ever had a man say to me in my life.
“I had to stop straight away. It just killed all the passion dead. “He asked, ‘What? What did I do?’ He had no idea how cruel he’d been. “I said “What do you think I am? A prostitute or something?’ “
Brilliant.
Of course Brown would be trying to strangle the bloke he was in Cardiff with,or perhaps asking him to sit in a chair so he could throw him out of it,or ramming a Nokia up his *****…and on and on….
“At a local government conference. In Cardiff.”
In other words another Newlabia shagfest on expenses.
“What do you think I am? A prostitute or something?’ “
That was plan B love.
What did Prezza shout when he shagged Tracy ?
Was it equally urbane ?
Not really he was too busy reading the menu on the side of the bed
Prezza said
Uh My Gorballs…
Do you mean with that half-inch of bell-end that protuded from his ‘lard-belly’, pull the other, he’s a fantasist!! He would have growled for another ‘growler’!!
Do you think Byers does funny things with the Chief Whip then ?
Alan Partridge really couldn’t have fucked up better.
Hmm. Classy.
List of declarations made with respect to treaty No. 173
Criminal Law Convention on Corruption
Status as of: 22/3/2010
Article 12 – Trading in influence
Each Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish as criminal offences under its domestic law, when committed intentionally, the promising, giving or offering, directly or indirectly, of any undue advantage to anyone who asserts or confirms that he or she is able to exert an improper influence over the decision-making of any person referred to in Articles 2, 4 to 6 and 9 to 11 in consideration thereof, whether the undue advantage is for himself or herself or for anyone else, as well as the request, receipt or the acceptance of the offer or the promise of such an advantage, in consideration of that influence, whether or not the influence is exerted or whether or not the supposed influence leads to the intended result.
British government response:
The United Kingdom also wishes to maintain its reservation made in accordance with Article 37, paragraph 1, not to establish as a criminal offence all of the conduct referred to in Article 12. The law of the United Kingdom covers much of the conduct referred to in Article 12 but only in so far as an agent relationship exists between the “influence seller” and the person influenced.
WELL I NEVER!
So NuLabour have made influence peddling LEGAL
NULABOUR = PURE FRAUD ON THE BRITSH PEOPLE
Brown claiming Byers has done nothing wrong…
‘Gordon Brown is “satisfied” there has been no impropriety on the part of transport and business ministers, so there is no need for an internal investigation, his spokesman said.’ (Source; Sky News).
If admitting on camera that you have influenced ministers in secret deals and advised companies how to get around price fixing somehow demonstrates no impropriety than what the fuck does?
This is an open goal for the Tories. PM claims Byers has done nothing wrong. Byers has openly admitted on camera to being a fraudulent piece of left wing labour shit. Played correctly, this could do for Labour what cash for questions did for the Tories in 1996.
And don’t forget, it’s not just Byers. the lying whore Margaret Moran is a culpable…
‘Luton South MP Margaret Moran, off sick since the expenses scandal broke last year, has found herself embroiled in another political storm.
The MP is accused of offering to influence high-profile Labour colleagues, including the former home secretary, Jacqui Smith, on behalf of a fake company set up by the Channel 4 programme Dispatches.
Also caught out in the investigation were the former transport secretary Stephen Byers, who offered his services for £5,000 a day, and the former health secretary Patricia Hewitt, who said she had been paid £3,000 a day for such services.
Margaret Moran has been off sick since last May, when it was discovered she had claimed more than £22,000 of taxpayers’ money to repair dry rot at a house in Southampton, which she had designated as her second home.
Her spokesman Allan Davies said this morning: “I have been trying to get hold of her to find out what’s happening.”
Dispatches airs tonight (Monday, March 22) at 8pm on Channel 4.’ (Source; Bedford Today)
Labour, the party of the criminal, the immigrant and the Chav. A party so fucking corrupt that it now allows it’s MP’s to break the law and not even hold an enquiry. A bunch of fucking scum.
she didn’t look very sick on the clip i saw – able to go to that meeting. her constituents must be absolutely bloody furious.
imagine if you had a really major issue you wanted to speak to your mp, were told she was sick and then saw her all sprightly on tv talking about ‘nibbles’ – yuck.
Sick enough not to represent the people that elected her, but not so sick that she can’t turn up to meet someone who wants to feed this greedy pig with money.
Also not sick enough to resign, lest she lose out on the £10k a month income and expenses, and the £40k redundancy payment on May 7th. Filthy fat piggy.
I have a carrot that looks just like a Hoon.
At the General Election I promise to bring back Odd Oders if you vote for me.
Unless, of course, you know something different.
Lance Price on Jeremy Vine show, Radio 2, defending Byers et al against Tory sleaze from twilight days of Major’s government. Partisan or what?
But he has said some useful things for his bread voucher…
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/davidhughes/100025800/gordon-browns-cage-is-rattled-by-lance-price/
Consolation is .. he was really shit.
If anything he moved a few undecided away from Labour.
What the fuck do you expect from the BBC? They have been acting like a party political broadcast for Labour on a daily basis for the past 30 years. Left wing climate change supporting gay loving Tory hating EU shagging bastards to a man. If the Tories have any sense they will fuck the BBC over good style once they are in power.
Money Money Money, We love money, In New Labour’s world. Money Money Money, Always sunny, In New Labour’s world.
I offered my consultancy services to McDonalds but they told me that a fat greasy c/unt is not the kind of person they want associated with their brand. Cheeky sods. But I do love their Big Macs. I have one in bed every night before I go to sleep. Pauline hates it when I say “This is better than sex” in between mouthfuls. But it is. I can’t lie.
Ha ha. Your son didn’t get selected as a Labour candidate. Thank fuck. Just shows that even in the Labour Party nepotism isn’t guaranteed to win. Obviously, even the fuckwits in the Weaver Vale Labour group can see what a useless fat prick you were and didn’t fancy your offspring as their election loser.
‘LABOUR members put their faith in Halton Brook councillor John Stockton in the battle for the Weaver Vale constituency on Friday night.
After weeks of uncertainty, following MP Mike Hall’s decision to stand down before the general election, Cllr Stockton secured his place as Labour’s candidate.
“It was over and done with after the first ballot,” said Mr Stockton, of Norton, Runcorn, Labour constituency secretary.
“I was the local candidate and that was reflected in the ballot, I know I have the full backing of the constituency.”
All four shortlisted candidates, including former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott’s son David, ex-Ellesmere Port and Neston council leader Justin Madders, and Labour party policy officer Ben Johnson, found out their fates at a meeting in Frodsham Community Centre, Fluin Lane, on Friday night after a week long postal vote.
“There were 143 eligible voters, I won the first ballot with 77 votes, 56%, David Prescott was second and the other two shared 20% of the votes”, added Mr Stockton.’ (Source; Runcorn Weekly News)
Stephen Byers has done nothing wrong. And that’s all I have to say on this matter. Now, can we get back to talking about Tory sleaze from the 90′s? That’s much more relevant.
Don’t you think Byers looks like an estate agent? Present company excepted and all that.
Matthew Taylor on the Daily Politics saying that ex ministers were naive to talk to lobbyists.Ni….blooody …..aive?? Spin spin spin spin.What did Neil say ??Naff all. The Daily Politics has a new set.Should include fireside chairs,cocoa and slippers.This ‘show’ is light entertainment.It is NOT a serious political show. Neil and Coburn are far too cosy with the people they chat to. There is no interviewing. Neil is becoming more like David Frost every day.I suppose when Frost pops his clogs Neil will be able to take over on Through The Keyhole.That’s just about his standard. He really is the pits now.
“I’m like a cab for hire – at £5,000 a day.”
That sounds about as naive as a crack whore in need of a fix.
ZaNuMafia are desperate now, they know in a few short weeks they will be done and dusted. It`s fill your pockets until the fat lady starts singing time and to hell with everything else.
If they give politicians a hard time, they’ll have no guests.
It’s a media version of soixante neuf.
Neil is a fat old passed it Hunt and needs to be put out to pasture, knackers yard even
Don’t you think I’ve got enough to do without signing a fucking useless online petition?
like holding your sagging balls
Why does Labour attract so many immoral, corrupt, unpleasant and thoroughly odious politicians; or is it the same in all the other parties?
Are there any politicians anywhere who faithfully and honestly represent the interests of the people who elected them and no-one else?
Probably because Labour attracts so many immoral, corrupt, unpleasant and thoroughly odious people as supporters.
Q1. That’s a definition.
Q2. No.
I’d suggest they’re all like that, but Labour have the power, for now.
The ghost of conservative past was on the radio this morning suggesting that more money should go into scrappage. He sells cars. (Tim Yeo).
There might be one or two well intentioned MP’s but their colleages probably point at them and snigger.
It’s a relief to have the attention off me for a bit. Now I can sneak into No10 and have my meeting with Gordon. I’ve got another smear campaign lined up I want to run by him and Damien.
Byers does actually look like an estate agent, don’t you think? I bet he drives some big flashy black object with four-wheel drive and non-functional bits of chrome-plated tubing, called the Daihatsu Devastator or some such nonsense. Looks the sort.
his wife likes a big black flashy object too
No. 452.
I just *love* how Labour’s best defence is “Oh, I was just lying. I was making it up, to fleece money out of these fools by pretending I was a crook, when really I’m just a fucking liar”. And according to Broon, this is okay!!!
Worst government ever, worst PM ever, worst fucking anythings, ever.
A shameful blight upon this country.
And what does Call Me Dave do? Fuck all.
Another day when i will have to tell my kids that Brown’s definition of propriety is not the definition i want them to adopt. At 16 and 14 they may not be politically astute, but they sure can see anomalies in what goes for acceptance in public life, against that which they could get away with. Piss poor government, piss poor PM and piss poor role models.
an idiot robot
Wow you did well to stop at B, I am already at Z and have now started on the Greek alphabet.
C) A sociopath
A Robot in socialist england
Been like that since he was kid, stealing from Rev Pa Bruin’s collection plate to buy Mars bars for a fry up.
Just got a call from Byers asking for an injunction on dispatches, told him to fuck off
When is the TV pprogramme due to be broadcast ? It will pprobably be even more damaging than we think…
They are bound to have kept some juicy pieces for the broadcast….
8pm channel 4 tonight
Skyplussed.
nonplussed
Plusstered as a newt. As usual.
I hope that doesn’t mean you’re going out
this evening. Monday night’s dull enough.
Nice to see “Pravda” lead item on 1pm news is Obama’s Health Plan getting through Senate. What relevance has this got to ANYONE in Britain ? It’s not as if “Pravda” hasn’t been leading with this since the early morning 6am bulletins and continuously on their News Channel with “live feeds” from their hacks in Washington every 30 minutes
This is indeed the political story of the century.
Socialized heathcare in the USA.
For anyone who understands America and Americans, the significance of this for freedom and the rights of the individual are insuperable.
Having lived and worked in the States, I cannot understand how this day has come about. I’m dazed and confused.
I truly fret for my children’s future.
Regards,
Tom
Thanks
The way I got it The Times got the bones of it and Dispatches have the meat.
Whats with Channel 4 dishing the dirt on Labour and the muslims all of a sudden?
They’ve got to balance Jon Snow somehow.
Probably their last gasp of editorial independence before they’re merged with BBC.
they got a whiff of which way the wind is blowing
Credit where it`s due Channel 4 were the first to show a programme debunking AGW too. Somewhere in the MSM there are still real investigative journalist`s, who are prepared to rock the boat sometimes. Maybe it is just to give the impression of impartiallity, given that 95% of their output is leftist fearmongering about the “evil” right.
A future fair for all??
Surely with Mr Byers still a sitting Labour MP with a whip the Labour slogan shoud be ………………A future fare for all!
having the Labour Whip = License to thieve
It’s not theft, silly, it’s redistribution.
A future farce for all, except that we’re already there.
“A future fucked for all.”
Fucked for all except the few piggies at the top of the tree.
Can someone please tell Labour that Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four was not an instruction manual!
That’s a future Animal Farm for all.
Cab = Smash and Grab
Byers = Billy Hunt
Oops should have spelt it differently or been less obvious. Might go and get some lessons from Byers.
Bog off you sad little people. As if.
OT
Another corrupt, lying, incompetent Scottish Nu Labour jackass belatedly gets called out as a corrupt, lying, incompetent jackass….
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8580014.stm
Fucking beetroot faced thieving fucker.
Mr Martin now Lord Gorbals Muck of Shitbum
Possibly another petition, asking Brenda to ‘request’ baron sprigfield that he voluntarily relinquish his title ?
“The Home Office was criticised for allowing an “exaggerated impression” of the damage caused by the leaks, which were by an official at the department to Mr Green.”
….that would be the boss-eyed, two-bellied, double-chinned, over-promoted domestic-science-teaching, 85p bath-plugging porn merchant who lived in her sister’s box room cupboard, unless I be much mistaken.
Jackarse, your voters are coming to get ya with tar and feathers, you frightful feckless schmuck.
It was all within the rules.
Stephen Byers looks like THIS
Ideal for his boss, Captain Banana and Banana Boy!
The public has a right to know how public institutions and public officials made their decisions, including, where appropriate, who lobbied on relevant issues. Countries should consider using information and communication technologies, such as the Internet, to make information accessible to the public in a cost-effective manner. A vibrant civil society that includes observers, ‘watchdogs’, representative citizens groups and independent media is key to ensuring proper scrutiny of lobbying activities. Government should also consider facilitating public scrutiny by indicating who has sought to influence legislative or policy-making processes, for example by disclosing a ‘legislative footprint’ that indicates the lobbyists consulted in the development of legislative initiatives. Ensuring timely access to such information enables the inclusion of diverse views of society and business to provide balanced information in the development and implementation of public decisions.
Stephen Byers – £3k-5k a day?! “Roman, when did we sign him; was he on the bench at Ewood?”
can someone help?
If the lobbying saved the companies money (for eg the £500 million for national express) – where would that money have gone? would we have benefitted from the tax?
VFM
Who is to know whether the 500 million was the ‘right’ money. It could have been 525 million.
Buyer saved 25 million and outwitted competition by means of ‘influence’ possibly.
That would be corruption even if no money exchanged hands ie COD, but enabling the ‘revolving door’ after the office holder, or his ‘intermediary’ leave public office.
The internationally accepted test is the ‘before and after’ audit.
Measure the office holders assets by declaration before and, at an unspecified point up to five years after office, usually flushes out the crooks.
AND ACTS AS A DETERRENT.
NO NO NO NO NO
You have it all wrong. Byers was LYING to his potential client about all his lobbying activities.
LYING!!! Phew thats ok then
Signed!
The was once an MP called Byers
who claimed to be king of the liars
its ok to be bent
when you’re in Parliament
if your constituents believe your all your flyers
The stinking reptile.
Well done Guido – I’ve posted this on my Facebook page too.
Do you mean the traitor that signed away our sovereign independence without so much as a murmer? I wouldn’t hold out much hope for anything other than a condescending letter to the plebs telling them to mind their own business.
Isn’t Herman Van Rumpey now our head of state? Write to him.
No, he’s the head of a non-country called Belgium I’m told
Why can’t I upload the links to the wolverhampton university webpages that explain that Sarah Brown got an honorary degree there while nondom donor lord Paul was university chancellor? Paul is now on the privy council, he’s done a reverse Byers!
Anyway, it can all be found on the WWW …
Bring the house of commons into disrepute. They are all lord Haw Haws
He knew it was a stitch up from the start,thats why it was only £5000 a day instead of the going rate.
You will all be assimilated
The lying spiv Byers belongs in one of HM’s prisons, not her Privy Council.
Haiku # 200
Brussels,
Scatter of states shepherded,
Objections,
Crows calling in the wind
Lisbon
Silence
Mine
We would be delighted to petiton the Queen.
Hazel
Jacqui
Harriet
Caroline
c/o Margaret
How long has it being going on ?
http://www.labour-watch.com/sleaze.htm
It’s the right thing to do.
Nice to see an updated price list…..5K a day to buy a Minister . Works out at about a million a year as the lazy c’unts would not work at weekends.
So if it cost Unite 11 million to buy the Labour Party,what does a peerage cost then? Sir E is thinking of mortgaging his and valuations are difficult.
Of course I think the price would be discounted because of the shiity company one would be forced to keep.
I must admit having a peerage attached to my name has become a little embarrasing, I think I’ll change it to Sir Tony Benn MP
Stick a pony in me pocket,
I’ll fetch the suitcase from the van.
Cos if you want the best ‘uns,
But you don’t ask questions,
Then brother, I’m your man.
Cos where it all comes from is a mystery,
It’s like the changin’ of the seasons,
And the tides of the sea.
But here’s the one that’s drivin’ me beserk,
Why do only fools and horses work?
La-la-la
La-lala-la
La-la-la
La-lala-la.
Shall we do a duet?
Get your mortgage paid for free
when your claim’s not necessary
If you’ve got loads of money
then it’s rather funny
making interest claims like me
Why the hell I’m claiming is a mystery
I am taking the piss
but you just can’t see
Here’s the one that will drive you berserk
I’ve got so much dough I don’t need to work!
La la la la la la la la la la la la la (to fade)
Vis time next year Gideon, we’ll be millionaires.
Oh, hold on, we already are millionaires!
So remind me again Georgie, why are we claiming housing benefits?
Oi.
Hang on, scroll through. This place was troll central over the last few days, when gordons’ Unite problem was unfolding. Today, when blairite plotters are getting the shit kicked out of them, not a single one of the fuckers !
We all hate them together.
Wait a minute mate, I’m here.
Lessons have been learnt; Stephen made an honest mistake and wants to own up.
Let’s just draw a line in the sand and move on.
Its the right thing to do.
half of them are tat using different names but he got a good ass kicking the other day and has run off to lick his wounds.
steve you silly bugger you don’t know when to quit smoking the crack cocaine do you steve.
1…2…3…. awwww.
Nah, TaT has never posted under the pseudonym martin day.
That’s a fact.
Tough luck losers.
TAXI for Byers.!!
(P.S. Byers – what an apt name for a corrupt sleeze bag)
BYERS USED TO BE A CABBIE NET MINISTER…..
And I was the Cabbie
HAND HINT FOR PROFESSIONAL LYERS (sic)
When caught in a classic sting, simply claim that you were’ exaggerating your own importance’………….
Done. Nearly on #1000 aready.
1000 it is…
How long has this been going on ?
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Over 1,000 now. How big would it have to get before HM was forced to act?
Sadly, even if it had 60 million signatures, she wouldn’t be forced to act. That’s the thing about monarchies.
As per Bagehot the Monarch is personally unable to act .She must take advice from her current Prime Minister…so the petition is a sheer waste of time for all practical purposes as Brown is unlikely to recommend such action. I think that a Privy Counsellor would probably only be removed if they are sentenced to prison or committed treason etc.Neither of which is relevant to Byers
Not even. Jeremy Thorpe MP PC!
knew there was something about Thorpe
Just to set the scene: in 1979, Jeremy Thorpe, former leader of the UK’s Liberal Party, went on trial for attempted murder. It was claimed that he had arranged for one Andrew ‘Gino’ Newton – an airline pilot – to shoot his (Thorpe’s) alleged former lover Norman Scott. Newton shot the Great Dane which Scott was walking on the moors, but the gun apparently jammed before he could follow up on the intended target.
There were other matters involved as well, particularly involving financial donations from wealthy businessmen.
One of the most remarkable aspects of the court case was the summing-up by the trial judge, Joseph Cantley. It was so obviously dismissive – contemptuous, even – of the testimony given by the prosecution witnesses, and so obviously partial to Thorpe that an acquittal was almost a foregone conclusion. Despite this, the jury initially deadlocked at 6-6 before finally coming down on Thorpe’s side. Thorpe’s career was, however, ruined (he had lost his parliamentary seat a matter of days before the trial opened), and he never held public office again.
The evening of the acquittal, the first of Amnesty International’s Secret Policeman’s Ball productions was being staged in London. The reviews for the first night were less than effusive, with more than one citing a lack of new satirical material in the show. This prompted Peter Cook (whose fortunes were at quite a low ebb by that time) to compose a one-man sketch for the second night’s performance based on Cantley’s extraordinary performance the day before.
Bear in mind that the sketch was written in scarcely twenty four hours, and was still being amended right up to the time that Cook took to the stage in wig and gown to deliver it.
What followed was almost certainly the zenith of Peter Cook’s career as a satirist, and one of British comedy’s greatest moments. There is scarcely a superfluous word in its seven and a half minutes, and almost every line contains a veritable dagger.
Below the clip, there is a short explanation of the names Cook uses.
* Bex Bissell = Peter Bessell, former Liberal MP and failed businessman, who gave evidence against Thorpe in return for immunity from prosecution. ‘Bex Bissell’ was the name of a model of mechanical carpet sweeper.
* Norma St John Scott = Norman Scott, Thorpe’s alleged ex-lover. The extra joke is the oblique reference to Norman St John Stevas, a particularly camp Conservative MP.
* Olivia Newton John = Andrew ‘Gino’ Newton, previously convicted of shooting the dog.
* Jack Haywire = Jack Hayward, millionaire businessman and major donor to the Liberal Party.
* Nadir Rickshaw = Nadir Dinshaw, businessman, philanthropist and friend of Thorpe.
* Miriam = Marian Thorpe, Jeremy Thorpe’s second wife.
http://www.thejudge.me.uk/Raves/Raves_archive_09.htm
and heres a later one
In a 1987 libel case, that lying rodent, Jeffrey Archer, falsely denied that he had resorted to a dwarfish prostitute, Monica Coghlan (seen here). Summing-up, Justice Sir Bernard Caulfield seemed entranced by the icy charm of Mrs Mary Archer:
“Has she elegance? Has she fragrance? Would she have, without the strain of this trial, radiance? Has she been able to enjoy rather than endure her husband Jeffrey? Is she right when she says to you – you may think with delicacy – Jeffrey and I lead a full life? Is he in need of cold, unloving, rubber-insulated sex in a seedy hotel?”
The jury gave Archer 500,000, and Bernie added on costs of 700,000. In 2001, Lord (as he now was) Archer got four years for perjury at the trial.
http://www.justinian.com.au/183-article
opps have to wait for Guido to allow the modded 1st one before this one makes sense.
it also spawned one of the worst singles from -Rex Barker and The Richoets-Jeremy Is Innocent.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/REX-BARKER-RICOCHETS-JEREMY-IS-INNOCENT-IVOR-BIGGUN-7%22_W0QQitemZ310207164698QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxq20100317?IMSfp=TL100317117002r15040
you must be the seller or you would have used this link.
This government is such a fucking criminal disgrace. At least they’re only here for another 6 weeks. In the meantime, all we can do is try and have a laugh.
That is only Stephen being Stephen
What else would you expect from a fromer supporter of the Trotskyist Militant tendency?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Byers
500,000th??
Arse!
Well done Guido on half a million comments!!
I’ll get the millionth!
I’m dooomed! I should have called the election much earlier when I still had a chance! But this new scandal is going to be the final nail in the coffin! I’ll be fucked at the election! What can I do?! The whole “dead baby sympathy interview” didn’t do me any good in the polls! Looks like I’ll have to just cancel the election and implement martial law.
your not getting a coffin Hunt
Push thunder thighs down the stairs and see how that plays with Piers.
I’ve got nothing to hide. And if you dare to question my integrity, then drop me a line at byerss@parliament.uk
‘Cabbieat emptor’ is all I can say…….
LOL excellent.
Too kind – glad to see the classics remain appreciated!
Anyone want special access to my Girls Gang? For a price of course. They also give great blowjobs.
How many Byers does it take to make a Mandelson ?
Well if a Byers is 1/3 of a Smith, which in turn is a Blears x 4 and a Hoon + Hewitt = a Cohen + 1/3 of a McNulty ( taking into account that a Mandelson is 70% of a Blair + 10 Morleys ) well the answer must be…
Oh bugger, maths was never my strong point.
Stephen_ Byers.cab
This looks increasingly like a cover up at the heart of government.”
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/leftwatch/
Brown, buffoon extraordinaire dismisses investigation before he hears the charges. I cannot wait for 8pm. I hope it wipes the floor with him and Byers.
Margaret Moran would still like to attend events. I sent an email to her and I got this automated reply:
Thank you for your email.
Emails are treated in the same manner and with the same level of importance as other constituency communications by post, telephone and fax. My office receives a considerable number of letters and emails every day, so please accept that this has to be prioritised and you will be sent a full reply as soon as possible.
If you are sending an invitation to your event, please email beagled@parliament.uk.
Please note that I am not permitted under parliamentary protocol to take up issues on behalf of non-constituents, so if you are writing as one of my constituents could you please ensure that you have included your name and full postal address. Please also ensure you are a registered elector (check at http://www.luton.gov.uk).
Yours sincerely,
Margaret Moran MP.
For up to date news, photos and videos of what Margaret is doing in your area, visit http://www.margaretmoran.org.uk
So, if MPs are not allowed to take up matters on behalf of non constituents, doesn’t that make any lobbying involving sitting MPs illegal?
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/m01.pdf
There is no statutory job description for MPs.5
The Code of Conduct for Members of Parliament, the
latest version of which was agreed to by the House of Commons on 13 July 2005,6 is the nearest
approximation. The purpose of the Code is “to assist Members in the discharge of their obligations
to the House, their constituents and the public at large”. You can view the Code on the Parliament
website or purchase a hard copy from the Stationery Office.
And further, Mr Sixsmith was not, in Mr Byers’s view, “a suitable person to remain in government”. And even further, that when the House learnt of what Mr Sixsmith “was involved in”, it would be bound to agree.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3573613/Byers-shows-how-ruthlessly-Labour-represses-argument.html
Of course i’m not going to sign the petition.
I always look after my own.
Its ok I’ll sign it for you.
I notice the BBC have decided how to spin this story. The BBC are blaming the Tories for being worse and making it political (no!) and the lobbyists who keep wanting to work with brilliant Liebour people.
Don’t you just love the way the BBC works. NOT!
I wish you luck,David
David Cameron calls for investigation into Martin Day’s influence scandal
David Cameron has called for a full investigation into claims that Martin Day may have influenced policy on behalf of companies.
Surely Byers is simply engaging in a venerable, centuries old tradition of using power over others for personal gain? Why should he be fired for doing what the political process is all about? Firing him only makes the others look good when they are just as corrupt but haven’t been caught (or their corruption is seen as ‘service’ by the dominant doctrines of servitude to power)
And so what if its an ancient institution – doesn’t make it any more important – its still just another institution of control over individuals which any libertarian would oppose as yet another use of force by the state against the majority of individuals.
£5000 to use a privvy? That’s about what it costs to use the bogs at most London rail stations these days.
Margaret Moran has been absent from Westminster suffering from stress since May last year.
Surely she should have been be forced to stand down months ago as that stress was brought about by herself.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1259676/Stephen-Byers-faces-investigation-cash-access-lobbying-scandal.html
Anyone else notice the fact that 98%+ of those who have signed have distinctly
Anglo Saxon surnames? I noticed one Asian name, a couple of Welsh names and a few possible Europeans. Anyone surprised that no-one else gives a shit about democracy?
Dont forget the Irish. they still care its just that they dont live in a democracy anymore, bit like Britain really. rest of your comment is bang on!
Nothing wrong with buying in a privy ,thats where I got Reinaldo.
[...] old friend Guido has an interesting slant on this, regarding Stephen Byers’ membership of the Privy Council. It is clear that his [...]
A genuine question! If I were a constituent of the said mr Byers and offered him £5k a day to represent my individual opinions in Parliament and the whitehall Quangocracy. Would I have committed an offence.?
Im going long on shorts and down on Peter Mandelson
Man arrested and prosecuted for taking the Biscuit
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1259722/Call-centre-worker-helped-colleagues-biscuits-sentenced-theft.html
An anagram of ‘Stephen Byers’ is ‘Hey! Press Bent’ and almost ‘He Resents BNP’, its also almost ‘Dirty Lying fucking Labour scumbag cun.t’ but not quite…
Close enough.
Small Beer, but corruption is always a problem in public service.
Prosecutors in Wuppertal said that around 200 police officers and 50 officials searched British army premises in the towns of Moenchengladbach, Elmpt, Paderborn and Herford. Eight local companies were also examined.
German authorities suspect that some 21 civilian British military employees (Ministry of Defence Civil Servants) may have taken bribe money in return for contracts for work such as renovating and supplying army buildings.
A statement from the Wuppertal prosecutors’ office said that payments may have also been made to non-existent shell companies for fake contracts, “costing the British government millions of euros.”
The statement said British authorities were cooperating fully with German investigators, and that British military police had assisted with the raids.
I wouldn’t be surprised of Margaret Moran MP didn’t commit hari-kari before the end of the week.
She’s d claim for the sword first.
and the mess her guts (not much of those) will make on the carpet (already paid by us).
One of the evil doers, Patricia Hewitt was also instrumental in the flood of IT staff from India that has cause so much damage to the prospects of UK IT professionals, especially the on-shoring where staff are ship over to replace British people. She has in the past worked for what is now known as Accenture which by a strange coincidence is also a major outsourcing provider.
Would any journalist care to dig a bit deeper into this woman’s activities and the destruction she has wrought?
http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/382d17f6a0c112185a5beb5ba32d350e/compdetails
and straight to ? you got it in one Scotland.
http://www.accenture.com/Countries/UK/About_Accenture/Company_Overview/UKOfficeLocations.htm
I wonder how long it will take Nick Robinsom from Al Jabeeba to put this sory of sleaze on his blog? And will he repeat it for the next week or so?
Answers on a postcard pse…………………
We do various packages.
Now now. Stephen’s said he didn’t do anything wrong. And Gordon’s taken him at his word. I think we need to respect the players involved here. And and…ASHCROFT! ASHCROFT! BELIZE! ASHCROFT! CASHLOFT!
Do you think this has damaged David Cameron, Nick?
I think it has, Evan. I think it has.
Oh, and Evan, one more thing:
Think of how depressing it is for the Tories, to once again find Lord Ashcroft the top news stroy. As I said before, this really does hurt the Tories, and the story just won’t go away.
And back to you Evan…..
This Lord Ashcroft thing is getting to be serious. I mean nobody bigs me up anymore.
[...] Guido Fawkes has launched a petition for Byers to be stripped of membership of the Privy Council. It reads: “We, the undersigned, [...]
[...] the Commons this afternoon that he “does not know why he would say such a thing” pressure is mounting for Byers to be expelled from the Privy [...]
[...] Guido Fawkes has launched a petition for Byers to be stripped of membership of the Privy Council. It reads: “We, the undersigned, [...]
I sense its payback time for the failed ousting of Brown, i wonder where the sting idea actually emanated from ???
More anagrams for the ‘honourable’ Stephen Byers
By Herpes Nest
Be Shyster Pen
Beers Then Spy
Herbs Teen Spy
By Peters Hens
He By Serpents
and my favourite
Bent Sheer Spy
http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=Stephen+Byers
Good work Dave, but I still prefer (with the addition / subtraction of a letter or 2 or so) ‘Dirty Lying fucking Labour scumbag cun.t’
I ‘ad a lobbyist in the back o’ my cab the other day. Charged him £5000. Luverly Jubliee.
About half the current list of Privy Counsellors should be sacked.
Take your pick:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_members_of_the_British_Privy_Council
A part of the oath that, for example, Fondlebum seems to have not noticed:
“and will assist and defend all Jurisdictions, Pre-eminences, and Authorities, granted to Her Majesty, and annexed to the Crown by Acts of Parliament, or otherwise, against all Foreign Princes, Persons, Prelates, States, or Potentates”
We have a whole generation of politicians dedicated to using their position to enrich themselves – it seems most of them members of the Labour Party. What is happening in Glasgow with the corruption involving Labour city councilors and shady businessmen is appalling. Labour Party corruption has been a feature of life in this country for the last fifty years and nothing has been done about it.
Drastic action is needed to stamp out corruption in this country. Britain needs an anti-corruption body similar to the Independent Commission Against Corruption that was set up in Hong Kong in the late 1970s to tackle corruption in the police force, civil service and business. The ICAC is independent of the police and political parties, has ferocious powers, and is as unrelenting as a terrier when it detects the odour of corruption. Cash for honours and cash for questions would find politicians in jail in Hong Kong. Taking cash for allowing outsiders to use Parliament for business meetings would also be a criminal act.
It is disgusting and disgraceful that we have to look to one of our former colonies to learn about how to run clean government.
For more than a year, City Building has refused to release details of the City Refrigeration contracts following Freedom of Information (FoI) requests from The Herald.
It claims the method used to award them was so novel and unique it constitutes a trade secret and is therefore exempt from FoI.
Is that an executive explanation or a legal one?
An Elliot Ness would be better
Like that equally preposterous, and also retiring, old Trot, Alan Milburn, Stephen Byers has repeatedly been the subject of extravagant praise from Michael Gove. Byers and the rest of those caught whoring themselves may in fact have no influence to sell under Brown. But they certainly would have under the Heirs to Blair.
I am No 2422 on the list at1750.
Labour=pocket lining crooked filth.
You know why we were rationed for nine years after world war two ended? Because of the Labour troughers hogging it all. It took Winny two years to build up food stocks and production to get rid of rationing. Don’t allow them back in or they will eat every thing.
LABOUR TROUGHING THEN TROUGHING NOW
Untersea boot kapitan Gunther Bruin of the P45 has put us all on rationing for the next 30 years this time.
Too damp.
Petition the queen to set fire to him.
Or nail the fukker to a tree or something.
“You’ll never guess who I had in the back of my Cab the other day..”
Gonna have to take on more nightsoil men at this rate, just can’t shovel the shit fast enough, Taxi! Taxi!, to the Airport for another freeby in Antigua.