Minister’s Murky Missile Mate
Further to yesterday’s exposure of the cosy relationship the Parliamentary Under Secretary for Defence Gerald Howarth has with the arms lobbying industry, it seems things get even murkier. Howarth gave Michael Wood of lobbyists Whitehall Advisers (whose clients included BAE Systems and Airbus) free reign of the Parliamentary estate in 2004. However it seems Mr Wood was not the only pass-holder sponsored by Howarth to be end up in defence lobbying:
Jefferson Communications spin for missile makers MBDA. So Gerald, when did you last talk to Clark?
Who was lobbying during the Iraq war? This could run & run. Wonder what pathetic excuses they will come up with on this. Nothing based on fact, no doubt!
Can’t see where you are trying to take this one Guido. Under Secretary for Defence has links to arms lobby, at least he knows his brief.
And knows how to fill the pockets in his briefs, no doubt.
just out of interest, if Khalid Mahmood (Lab) was too ill to pay his £8200 bar bill, why the fuck did we pay £175 a night for him to shag his girlfriend?
http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/sundaymercuryexclusives/2009/06/21/expenses-scandal-midland-mp-list-of-shame-66331-23934816/
This statement is both racist and sexist. The real issue here is ARMS dealing. KILL the dealers of death. KILL THEM.
It’s not a statement, it is a question.
10 Deal death to the dealers of death! Then deal death to those who dealth death to the dealers of death! Then deal death to those who dealt death to those who dealt death to the dealers of death!
20 GOTO 10
Khalid Mahmood and Elaina Cohen an interesting story
http://londonmuslims.blogspot.com/2009/04/elaina-cohen_30.html
That is not what Guido has said.
War is a racket.
Yeah. All that 105 landing on Allah’s finest has certainly made my ears ring.
Is the phrase ‘conflict of interest’ utterly foreign to you?
this will convince everyone you aren’t Dave’s shill and mouthpiece and just another Government propaganda blog
not
Action Man is well known around these parts (Aldershot) for his close relationship with various Farnborough outfits that span off the MOD research arm.
Still, at least he knows the ropes, even if those ropes are tied firmly to the aprons of the arms industry.
Mind you, they’d elect a fucking monkey here if it wore a blue rosette – I voted English Democrat, because I’m Welsh.
Round these parts, we elected a monkey in a red rosette.
I also voted English Democrat, along with 800 other saddo’s
We need more missiles!
Or we need less.. no one’s told me which way to vote on this yet.
Is Trident on or off?..bollocks to it ..its almost Friday. That’s enough of the HOC for me. Home while there are still Taxis.
These newbies MPs will probably still be wandering around here at 10 pm tomorrow night.
Amateurs.
The problem being that a successful defence policy results in a lack of war and therefore massive cutbacks in defence until a war occurs.
For a start Is anyone actually threatening to Nuke Grand Britannia and Grand Britannia only?
Second thing, the whole idea of basing a nuclear deterrent in nuclear powered Submarines was because the platform was undetectable and independent of the mother country. That is no longer the case.
Third thing, it may be best that Nuclear deterrent programs should be very expensive, as the alternative is a proliferation of them, we would not want every rogue state and his dog packing them in planes, trains, boats, automobiles and persons.
An international law making Nuclear deterrents only available to the richest nations and a ban on the poorest nations possessing them is our intent.
The Trident platform, like the Polaris before it, was never independent – the Yanks held the key, and we couldn’t use it without their permission.
If (and it is a big if) we posess the capability to create suitable warheads, then air or submarine launched cruise missiles would provide a far better and cheaper deterrent than Trident – or we should just do what the Israelis have done, and use the diplomatic bag…
Can’t blame the yanks. Their sponsorship of the UK deterrent is their conduit to have a very large say in the future of Europe.
If ever Europe turns commie again the yanks can zap it and blame the Brits. Nope, can’t blame them.
You get what you pay for usually applies.
In this case we paid through the nose, gave the Yanks the two-finger salute, and built a massive, truly independent nuclear capability, well over half a century ago.
Then the Lib/Lab/Con killed it stone dead and smashed the jigs.
South Africa had nuclear bombs but destroyed them prior to the black takeover.
You might find parallels there with a little lateral thought.
I always appreciate a love rocket or a guided trouser missile.
Sussed.
Hurrah! Mandy’s gone! Hurrah Hurrah Hurrah!
Gone where?
Sewer..
He’s mine!
To Nat Rothschild’s alpine chalet, according to the Telegraph
linky linky.
Resigned from the shadow cabinet, along with Adonis. On BBC news at 5.50 So I assume he’ll go back to Europe.
Exxxxxxxxxellent (clasps hands).
He’s waiting for Ed to get the leadership. Then he can come back and scare him with..”Ed..I am your father!”
Baron Mandelson of Foye is paid some of your money every time he decides to show up at the House of Lords.
But you have to balance that with how much he loses by not being at the other place. Mandy doesn’t come cheap to the extent that he requires remuneration even to get out of the bath to take a piss.
Where’s he gone!, to the dark side no doubt,don’t worry he will return just keep your bottom to the wall.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Be that as it may, the pressing issue is whether our Olympic mascots, Wenlock and Mandeville, are actually Clegg and Cameron moonlighting. Note how they are nearly identical (not the models, the live charcters later in the video) except that one is blue and opne orange.
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/7517167/19923337
Why are those children being made to do the nazi salute?
Arseholes
You can run and run with this one Guido. Nasty power games.
This only reinforces the necessity of regulating lobbying firms better. And banning Parliamentarians from employment/consultancy work for them or their ‘research organisations’.
I believe that the USA was planning to pass some rather tough laws? Maybe we could get some ideas from them.
There are 41,000 registered lobbyists in Washington..
It is a major INDUSTRY
Like in the UK…
Where to start demolishing influence peddling is the real question ?
Especially when your have most Labour Cabinet Minsister already prostituting themselves “like cabs”…
How about we tear up 95% of the fucking Law and insist the introduction of a new one requires the repeal of an old one? What the fuck is wrong with limiting the majority of legislation to punishing murder, assult, rape and the theft of one’s property? Oh wait, the more legislation Parliament vomits over the people, the greater the scope for MPs to ‘advise’ lobbying firms and their clients on the intracacies of their latest legal masterpiece. Corrupt fuckers should be given 4 years max in in the HoC then out on their arse to earn a real living.
And don’t get me started on the corrupt fuckers passing legislation to hobble SME for the benefit of their crypo-fascist pals in big business.
I’ve currently got some bunch of c’unts chasing me for an 80 quid penalty because I couldn’t be arsed taxing a couple of cars that I took off the road, and couldn’t be bothered with the mithering letters that they sent me.
Funny thing is, the latest threatening letter claimed to have consulted three sources to tie me down to my address, none of which I am on – and neither is my wife, to whom the second car was registered.
The idea that the state can fine you for an admimistrative inconvenience, and threaten you with a £1000 penalty if you don’t follow orders, is totally abhorrent to me – this type of law (and all of Labour’s on the spot fines, ASBOs, and meddling Stasi legislation) should be repealed immediately.
Otherwise, they can pay for me to go to prison, where I will be more of a nightmare than they can possibly imagine…
I quite agree with you that all these non-crimes that appeared to be hastened onto the statute book to ensure that 1. everyone who was previously considered law abiding now became criminals in the interest of levelling down and 2. in order to raise more revenue from those that they could “get at” rather than those who could simply ignore the summonses as they had no means of payment because they spent it all as they went along.
Whilst I salute your efforts to stand up to it (it does seem rather like a reverse poll tax strike), I found it simply much less aggravation to emigrate and found that my life became much more positively focused as a result. However I did not forget that the previous government helped to force this change in my life, however pleasant, upon me and I have regarded the last few months as pay-back time.
I receieved a fine from TFL (Transport against London) for entering a yellow box. Problem was I wasn’t in the box, my front wheels were and my exit would have been clear as I crossed. The photo showed two cars who were in the box and they were bang to rights. I wrote explaining this and the appeal was rejected! To continue the process I receieve a letter to say that I must get a sworn statement from a solicitor….WTF is that all about? I am now getting baliff’s letters for £190.00 fines and costs.
Councils and Local Authorities are very efficient at extorting money from the general public as they view as as easy targets not citizens.
Sorry mate, but if your two front wheels were in the box then you had entered it. And if you say your exit “would have” been clear (even if you have the benefit of second sight) that means it was not. The rule is simple. You are not allowed to enter the box until your exit is clear.
Appeal dismissed. Cough up and stop whining.
‘Judge Judy’
Unless he was turning right where his exit was clear and only prevented from turning by the oncoming traffic?
Although they may have altered the Highway Code since I last looked at it?
Why isn’t this thread swamped with gleeful bloggers?
Mandy’s gone. Hurrah!
Don’t you believe it. That feline has only had three of his nine political lives yet.
Cos like any bad penny we all know the buggers (& I pick that word advisably) gonna turn up somewhere where he cause damage to us all
Don’t get complacent……if we know anything, Mandy will be plotting nulabias return to power as we speak(from his offices in the sewer ) aidied of course by the beeb.Its not the last we’ve seen of the cnut.Trust me.
Have you seen the corpse? Does it have a stake or a silver bullet in it?
More bloody lives than a cat.
Since David Cameron became PM the FTSE has plunged
“The market is in a vortex of horrific uncertainty,” David Buik, a London-based market analyst at BGC Partners, wrote in an e-mail to clients. “Every single asset class has fallen.”
Black Friday anyone ??
What do you mean Mandy’s gone?
resigned from shadow cabinet
If he resigned from life then great otherwise we will just have to wait for his next reencarnation.
Dear Guido. I’m not absolutely sure that a PUS could devolve Sovereignty to a lobbyist. He might give him the run of the place, however.
Off on holiday with Nat Rothschild……very fitting for a Socialist.
Says it all…
Considering the offers from various “hedgies”
Question is : WIll he also go offshore like Grinning Ape Blair the Disgrace…?
Mandy will turn up in the tax-free EU commission as Commissioner for Fucking Up The UK Recovery. You read it here first.
You are probably right to go after the arms trade Guido
For many yearsn it has been the heart of government corruption and scams
We remember Tony Blair’s “quashing” the investigation of BAe
There are numberous other examples under both parties
One of the problems internationally is that the international arms dealers are even worse than this lot….kick-backs, extorion, theft etc are the NORM…
Always covered up by “national security” excuses…
My wfi’s intermittently on the blink. I’ll try again. Mandy and Adonis have resigned from the shadow cabinet on the grounds that they can’t represent the party from the House of Lords. It was breaking news on news 24 at 5.50 but curiously not on the 6 0′clock news. I think he’ll snitch Baroness Ashton’s job
If they can’t “represent the party from the House of Lords” now, how come they represented the Party is very high profile positions during the General Election and in the negotiations with the Lib Dems…
They are contradicting themselves (as usual)
Look out for lucrative “other jobs” they will land…peddling their “influence”… (as usual)…
He’s off to BP (Bent Perverts), to help them clean up the Gulf spill.
Apparently, he’s going to take Oaten out there and tell him it’s floating shit.
Lord Browne was into deep drilling for the brown stuff. That was his downfall an’ all.
Alliteration-tastic.
I googled and nothing on Mandy! He is a Lord ffs. He is just shapeshifting his way around the parties.
Perhaps I’m cracking up. Delusions Delusions
Ot A Burnham on North West tonight,my mrs says whilst watching him on tv he can’t tell the truth even when he’s telling lies.
I suppose the Defence Secretary needs to know something about weapons and the people who flog them?
P.S. Shouldn’t be have an Attack Secretary as well?
Off Topic, but WTH.
Labour accused of “fixing” the leadership contest, by one of the contenders.
Wonder who could be fixing things behind the scenes?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8690259.stm
Labour couldn’t be seen to be shooing in another party leader without an election, so they came up with the none too clever idea of an election containing two Milibands (along with a few no-hope deadbeats like Balls).
Gerrymandering is part of their DNA you know. I bet Miliband has a large postal vote count.
MincingScum? – the foxy fixer ?
As long as the arms I used to nuke the middle east, who gives a shit?
Who would miss Hunts like this?
D’oh. Arms ARE used.
Just so long as you include Israel, I’m all in favour of nuking the ME.
Yes bird you are delusional. Have a holiday.
I think you’ll find I’m right……………………… type Peter Mandelson into Google and you’ll find it
I see the BBC website is finally catching up with the election result by phasing out their red banners and suchlike, replacing them with black. I bet they did that through gritted socialist teeth.
It’s time for those socialist red TV sofas and blatantly party political red tickers went too. They could follow that with mass sackings of Labour placemen and biased reporters.
Gordon has not gone! He did NOT sink the Ship of State.
He WILL RULE for ever!
In our hearts and in our minds – HE WILL RULE FOR EVER!!!!
We are programmed. Nothing can change our well trained minds.
O h darhlings . . . . I’m still near to tears . . . what of my cushy non-job ? . . . . my pension ? . . . . my position ? . . . . gone . . gone . . . gone!
Life is SOOO unfair!
Play martial music.
And as for that Socialist fuckwit “Red” Rosso Kemp, what a turd he must be feeling right now.
Black Green & Gold are the victory colours of Islam.
Well done Gerald. Keep up the good work. Yours at least is genuine national interest unlike your leaders or his croney Clegg.
So, Gerald Howarth Under Secretary for Defence knows people in the arms industry. What is so odd about that?
yawn bloody yawn.
Lobbyists exist. Have you got anything to actually say? 2004?? Two thousand and bleedin’ four??
Howarth knows lobbyists in his own sphere of interest. Shock horror.
Grow up Guido — Labour lost and their sleaze went with them.
Is Howarth going to be a good minister? If not then he should be fired.
No remind me before I go, who was it who made guilt by association popuular? well Senator McCarthy for one. Stalin? You are in good company.
Vee hav von ze var, and you just mit der payment make!
Vee shall punish you for zer caput ov zer Gorgon, meinen Hero.
He vas also zer hero ov zer twit voman.
Unt vee vant all zer money from zer missiles.
Well dave and nick said they are going to reform government. So what are they going to do about the lobbyists??!!
cameron said, didn’t he, that lobbyists were the next big scandal waiting to happen?
I appreciate he hasn’t had a lot of time in office yet but nothing he’s said or done since he’s become PM suggests that he and his coalition government are intending to address the problem, especially since he has surprisingly given howarth and spelman ministerial jobs, does it?
Kin L Nell. Dave is working his arse off at the moment, I doubt he has touched ground in the last two weeks, cut him some slack. So far he has well impressed this die hard Tory.
Not good enough!! He said before he took office that lobbyists were the next big scandal in government waiting to happen and then he goes and appoints howarth and spelman both closely associated/related to lobbyists to influential positions!!
He and/or cleggie need, fairly urgently,to make clear what they are going to do about this issue and guido is right to keep highlighting it.
Perhaps (and this is only a passing thought) he has appointed these people precisely because of their known connections to lobbyists?
They will be under extreme scrutiny, and both departments will have to implement massive cuts, so the influence of the lobbyists will be tempered by the ‘objective reality’ that their ministers can’t possibly be seen to be indulging the interests of either the arms trade or the agribusiness cartels.
I’d give Dave some credit for subtlety here – he’s playing the long game, and knows that the best way to neutralise the pressure to subsidise either arms or farms is to hobble the respective ministers.
Well I’ll admit I’m impressed with the way he handled the 1922 Committee.
All the same I’d be happier to hear cameron or cleggie talk openly about the way they propose to neuter lobbyists and we haven’t heard anything yet!!!
“La-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la”
That’s the intro to “Busy doing nothing”.
It’s best performed while sticking one’s fingers in one’s ears; but doubtless an old hand like Dave needs no guidance there.
Self righteous Monty’s ConservativeHome after really hating the Brown Premiership, now really hate the Cameron Premiership. If you are bitter and twisted there is a home for you at ConservativeHome.
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/
Conservative home has lost the plot. The mood of the nation (including die hard consevatives I know) is to give the coalition a chance. Both politcal sides are full of goodwill and it is sheer folly to piss on their fire.
Lord Ashcroft owns a controlling stake of 57.5% in ConservativeHome. The bile on that website is surely a sign that the sleaze from Belize wants to piss on the Coalition and PM Cameron.
No one cares about Lord Ashcloud.
But Dave needs to find him a job. A bit like Blair did with Prescott.
As Jeremy Hardy said of Prezza
“Give him an office at the end of a very long corridor with a telephone that isn’t connected to anything and tell him he’s in very important.”
That might have worked with Presclott, but Lord Ashcloud has braincells that work. Dave might have to think a little harder….
I am not sure you are right. A lot of non-right wing, non ranting people, just reasonable, ordinary people I know are saying….we voted conservative why have we got a liberal democrat prime minister and government?
Mandy resigns again!
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jameskirkup/100040479/goodbye-peter-mandelson-or-perhaps-just-au-revoir/
vindication!
And little Adonis.
mandy didn’t have a choice. hattieharpic is in charge of the shadow cabinet now.
After the way he treated her during the election ‘Shut Up. I don’t want to hear another word from you!!’ – she’s having her revenge and consigning him to the trash bin!!!
+++laugh+++
What are the odds that someone who is so lustful for power has not already approached Dave and offered his dark services? And what are the odds that Dave has told him to fork orfff? ……… Or not?
Apologies Bird, twitter are awash with news of Adonis & Mandy’s resignation. They will still be creeping about corridors scheming and scamming.
Thanks – always willing to consider that I may be nuts. Once asked my GP how I’d know if I was deluded. She said other people would tell me.
No surprise there then.
What a vilness that slime of a person Mandleson is. He’ll soon to discover his Tory roots no doubt.
What a state of affairs “twitter are awash with news of Adonis & Mandy’s resignation”,
Have you fucked up again BBC chief political commentator Nick Robinson? or were the tweets just too hard to bare, better make an appointment to see the chiropodist.
We won the election!
Has Gordon resigned yet?
Well, yes, you did – in 1997. However, in 2010…
Strange the BBC have nothing on Mandy & Adonis resignations. Disgraceful bias.
Oh, it’s on there all right. But under the heading ‘Labour announces shadow cabinet’, just to make sure no-one can be arsed to read it. I would have thought Mandelson’s departure would be front page news, but it seems the BBC people are still determined not to embarrass their New Labour friends.
I was just musing about Alan Clark & Matrix Churchill.
Seems nothing much changes in politics, despite fine retoric.
Economy with ‘la verite’ is, however, eternal. as is shagging a South African judge’s wife and both daughters.
Alan Clark – a scholar and a gentleman (he also drove a convertible Citroen DS), and sorely missed.
Besides, the ‘supergun’ was only pointed at Tel Aviv, so who cares?
Let’s hope some lecherous old politician slips your missus and daughters a length. We’ll look forward to reading all about it in the News of the Screws.
No need for nasty talk like that, soft lad.
so mandy ‘sacked’ (he’s saying he resigned) from the shadow cabinet by hattieharpic.
And the coalition government are saying they are going to make the HoL an elected body so he won’t even have that to fall back to in the long term!!!
Not much hope of mandy getting elected anywhere really is there? Mind that also applies to sugar, uddin, gorbalsmick, prezza (if gordon makes him a lord) plus a few hundred others!!!
I do hope we are going to see an HoL reforming bill turning them into an elected senate. It’s going to be great fun watching these mammoth troughers slope off into the murk with no prospect of any more of our money!!!
Mandy will be down to his last pennies and resorting to selling his arse on the streets of Norwich within a fortnight.
And then Mandy woke up….
Lard Prescott…..does have a certain ring to it…
Pratt Preston on HIGNIFY, dick.
Hislop bigging up Limp Dems and his idol Cable. Are they lovers?
New Labour is dead!
Yes of course it is because dave militwit says when he wins the leadership election in September he’s going to re-christian it Next Labour.
If you say so nell.
Mandelson has died of a heart attack!!!
Oh sorry, I was daydreaming there for a second.
You must have been. Come off it – Mandelson – a heart???
I’ve just voided my bowels!
Eye
Gordon Brown is the 2012 Olympic Mascot:
http://www.ourlondon2012.com/mascots/pictures/me-1/
Eye, eye.
So Vasey worked for Howarth and then decided to go into defence lobbying? Surely after he’s left that’s his choice.
Have a day off.
Anyone reading Ellie Balls’s article in todays Guardian will have come to the conclusion that Ed is indeed the “Lord of The Flies” now that he has a silly wee girl doing his cheerleading for him
edballs for leader of the ‘welfarebenefit party’, formerly known as labour, but since it no longer represents hard working people ed decided to change its name!!!
Obersturmbarnfuhrer Edvin Eier, von der Sozialhilfe Partei, reporting for duty, Nell!
The thought of Balls as Labour leader is so laughable – I sincerely hope he wins, as nobody could ever be stupid enough to let him take power…
With Diane Abbott as his number two – a dream ticket indeed.
It’s the way I tell ‘em.
Doncaster Milf Alert on QT!!
At least one thing in life is constant.
The Question time Audience is a lefty stooge. Always has been and probably always will be.
QT audience stuffed to the gills with Lib Dums and Lie-bor twits.
SHIT F++K++g Shit.
I have Not seen question time in a Donkey’s age.
It was a nice and placid evening until I heard so called Consevative Theresa May advocating homosexual adoptions
We’re now the nasty practices party
I agree with Nick.
I I adopt anyone I’ll make sure they’re not homosexuals. Kids cost a fortune to bring up anyway but fancy having to fork out for all that designer kidswear, makeup and vaseline.
Another constant is the persecution complex that most rabid tory trolls suffer from.
Fuck off you pinko commie bastard.
You forgot the benefit scrounging, stella swilling, granny mugging, piss through your letterbox, Labour voting insult.
The odd thing is that in “normal life” there is hardly a lefty to be seen.
Your “life” is normal?
Just watching Caroline Flint on Question Time.
She talks complete shit, but it’s better watching her than one of Jaqui Smith’s old man’s porno films.
Pass the tissues please !!!!!!
Flint down below while May sits up top.
That’s what i call a coalition.
And Sarah Teather on your face?
That’d do me…
Now you’re drifting into the realms of fantasy.
Yes, but it is my favourite fantasy…
Can i join in?
Simon, this is a fantasy not a fucking nightmare.
I’ve heard that May is a Mae West but they swing South!
Who the fuck is Douglas Murray?
Centre for Social Cohesion, my arse.
His first argument, that we should deport people to suffer torture or death, was ludicrous – surely the mark of a civilised society is that we can accept differences, and work to control those who wish to harm us?
Caroline Flint is showing herself to be a stupid Liebour slag, so no surprise there.
Shami Chakrabati is, as always, gorgeous – I would, but I’m not a button flicker…
Lefties already foaming at the mouth over the Tory government on QT. Excellent.
You must be creaming.
It’s a dirty job but somebody has to do it.
A clause 28 question.? I don’t remember there being a discussion on nationalisation of industry on the last Q/T. Maybe next week the panel can discuss the liberals intensifying the arms race of 1911 by commissioning eight new dreadnoughts.
Ming was a young minister at the admiralty I believe.
What Tory government might that be?
Ben Eltons’ Tory Thatch government of course.
When’s tat coming back? This is no fun.
Tat said Dave would never be PM, and Osbourne, Chancellor. He can never show his ugly mug on here again.
But he foresaw a hung Parliament while you all laughed.
Now you know how Jesus suffered.
1 out of 3 = massive fail.
He’ll never show his original moniker again but he keeps coming back nastier and nastier. Like Herpes, dontcha Judas?
TaT is not actually a person. He is a state of mind. Discuss.
This Week coming up – I can’t wait for Abbot to tackle Brillo about him saying on ITV news that she’s got zero chance of the leadership
Abbot. Tackle. Brillo.
If only.
She should cut the crotches out of all of his best suits. It would not be the first time a swarthy maiden has treated him thus.
Can I come back, please?
You can come over my back lover.
Are you suggesting that an MP shouldn’t speak to a former member of their staff if that person works in a field they are a Minister in? If so you’re an idiot. There’s nothing wrong here…
Sixteen reasons why I love you DC.
Hurdy Gurdy Man vid …… wot a load of crap!
Come back Donovan … all is forgiven.
Eric.
Who’s Donovan?
If I sell T Shirts …….. that gives me a Vested interest too.
Isn’t this a bit too Major Barbara?
Lembit Opik explains his new career as a stand-up comedian:
“All I’m trying to do is attempt to spread joy and felicity around the world.
Are Joy and Felicity the two Cheeky Girls that Lem-sip was porking ?
that miserable, over-rated cow Jacqui Smith still doesn’t get it
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/176332/Jacqui-Smith-attacks-over-the-top-taunts
isn’t it time she just shut up and either paid all the money back or went to gaol?
She’s only doing what’s in her Liebore DNA and what’s in all politicians DNA is to shout foul and keep shouting foul whilst keeping their ill gotten taxpayers money in their bank accounts.
Worried re this artificial life thing. When the scientist was interviewed I definitely saw David Cameron in the background
http://www.andybarefoot.com/politics/poster.php?line1=I+PROMISED++TO+CLEAN+UP+MY+PA
While the unite union are running around causing grief for BA its share price is collapsing, These are the lovely shares the BA staff are allowed in options and cheap stock purchase, so these dumb flight attendants are to thick to realise the value of their holding free falls. Meanwhile the union leaders are collecting their film star wages and perks.
Come on guys n’ gals look whats going on outside in the real world, how about taking a pay cut then and working for Virgin Airways if you can find a job that is.
Talking of overpaid staff, Guido, any chance of a follow up on the outrageous cost of administering the new Parliamentary expenses regime. Its a classic case of public sector waste – probably 50 times more expensive than a similar function would cost a private company
I’m not sure what your point is on this one, Paul. Are lobbyists meant to hire only people who have no interest or experience in the field in which they will be working? Perhaps defence lobbyists should only hire librarians?
I’m sure Clark Kent or whatever his name is has contacts. I’m sure, though, that he also has a knowledge of the policy area and experience working on the issues he’s handling now. What’s the problem in that?
Unless you can demonstrate wrongdoing, of course…?
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