Danny Alexander’s SpAd Ordered to Pay Back Expenses
The former LibDem MP for Dunfermline, Willie Rennie, abused his constituency expenses and has been ordered to pay back £2,647 wrongly claimed from his Incidental Expenses Provision after the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner John Lyon found he had over- claimed for office costs.
Despite this Danny “Beaker” Alexander (pictured) the newly appointed Chief-Secretary to the Treasury, has given Rennie a job as his SpAd after he lost his seat to Labour in the general election. Willie Rennie was using a scam widespread amongst LibDem MPs, renting his constituency office off his local LibDem constituency party and shifting his campaign costs onto his parliamentary expenses. It is usually difficult to prove, Rennie was unlucky to get caught, it was only that his campaign team made canvassing telephone calls to Labour activists from a phone number paid for out of parliamentary funds that also appeared on his party letterhead that did for him.
Willie Rennie (pictured here after his famous 2006 by-election victory) was according to a report by Campbell Gunn in the Scottish Sunday Post (not online) renting the office space off his party, which meant that Commons expenses cash was going directly into the local LibDem coffers. Effectively the local LibDem party was his landlord and taxpayers’ money was being used for LibDem campaigning. Not a frugal sign from the right-hand-man of a Chief Secretary charged with cutting public expenditure.
This scam is widespread among LibDem MPs and unofficially it is Cowley Street’s policy to manipulate the Commons expenses regime in this way. When Guy News reported that Sarah Teather abused the system in the same way she sent lawyer’s letters demanding a retraction and threatening legal action.
Guido refused to back off and still stands by the story…
As much as I hate to agree with you this is a Lib Dem strategy. When they were well away from the levers of power no-one paid them much attention, now I wonder how many more will be waiting for the knock at the door?
See this for practices in Bristol West
http://bristolwestpaul.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/born-slippy/
There speaks a man who might have just learned the first rule of dealing with Government SpAds
When they say their Minister isn’t going to have to resign it’s not exciting ‘insider information’ and reason to rush out and put £500 quid on the minister staying
It’s what they call in the trade “spin”
And when a Minister is under fire they ALL do it
Danny Alexander claimed £2,000 for work on kitchen and £2,000 for sofa and chairs. Also received £1,140 for the cost of alcoves, shelving and a desk for flat
Why all the work?
Did they really take that much of a bashing?
What is he – a contract chef or summat?
But that doesn’t go with the ‘work’ on the sofa ‘n chairs.
Or does it?
£1000 was for “The kitchen completed party”
He charged expenses for furnishing his second home to the second homes allowance? Call the cops!
Is he supposed to commute from Inverness? If you have a second homes allowance system in place it’s not unreasonable for people to use it for the purpose it was intended. It is unreasonable however if they then flip which home they consider to be their second home (effectively using expenses provision in place to allow those who have constituencies outside London to do their job without being additionally out of pocket to furnish their own home).
“Is he supposed to commute from Inverness?”
Four and twenty virgins did.
it’s only taxpayers money
let the piggies spend it like water on stuff they should be easily able to buy on an extremely generous salary and pension
that’s only fair
Not the point. If you have a 2nd homes allowance you can’t complain when people use it. If your argument is against the 2nd homes allowance on principle then what’s the point in enumerating the details of how Alexander used the allowance for the intended purpose of furnishing a 2nd home?
I agree, Duncan.
Let’s keep this “abuse of taxpayer money”, or not, in perspective.
I continue to be perplexed that the use of an alloawnce – is just that, an allowance to be used as the recipient feels appropriate. It’s their choice and in these cases we can question the allowance or the amount given, but not what it may be used for.
In addition, the constant whining on tax “efficiencies” that may be used to reduce, say, CGT exposure is, in my mind, perfecly legal and resonable.
For everyone who questions this, please ask yourself, if you personally pay for the services of a tax accountant to ensure you pay no more taxation than necessary, then the accountant legally advises you to use allowances, taper relief et etc … is that wrong ???
Let’s not lose focus and constantly claim “abuse” at every turn.
Yeah but its a good way to get rich quick.
How come the papers are mostly ignoring the real BIG news?
BP have failed to stop the oil leak into the Gulf of Mexico.
Because it’s in the Gulf of Mexico and most British people won’t buy papers to read about that.
But most British people depend on BP to either directly fund their private pension or pay tax to fund their state pension, health service and schools.
That is probably true, but it’s the answer to an entirely different question to the one Purple Rain asked.
and because the papers finally have some red meat to chew on
which they will dine out on for days as will all the news networks
Interesting related article in the Grauniad (!) :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/30/oil-spills-nigeria-niger-delta-shell
Cos most of us don’t live in the gulf of mexico and don’t give a f*** you green tosser
easy! Dave didn’t mean it
he’s just preparing for when he goes out there for a photoshoot cleaning Oil off some jellyfish on the beaches
he’ll then ride across the Oil Slick towards the source on a husky drawn sled carrying BP’s ultimate weapon to block the pipe
it is then he will deploy Eric Pickles to block the pipe once and for all to the awed amazement of our American friends
Pickles has blocked up many a toilet in his time but he will show his true potential in the Gulf of Mexico
Re-education re-education re-education for infantilized watermelons.
I can’t wait to see the greens’ faces when their hero Obama nukes it. Start shorting BP and go long on oil.
Having run out of platitudes and stock phrases, – I need to put a cap on my speech making and let the pressure build up again.
And the oil leak?
Big enough to care for itself my friend.
If labour throw Prescot in we will lower the price of petrol.
Mr Cameron said:
“If you want to understand climate change, go and see Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth.”
“Today, I want to tell the British people some uncomfortable truths. There is a price for progress in tackling climate change.”
Mr Gore praised the role Mr Cameron had played in promoting environmental issues.
“The fact that both your political parties are competing vigorously to offer solutions is very important,” he told Tory frontbenchers.
“I can assure you that people around the world really are watching and are appreciating the quality of this debate.”
A lot of the insurance is covered by British companies inc one owned by a chum of mine, and his isn’t the only one. Such major catastrophes impact on many people over several countries. Idiotic to take such a parochial view.
The real story continues to be missed here: because of the date, and who was on the rig that day, there is real reason to suggest the ‘accident’ may have been caused by eco-terrorism, as posted by M Sher on James Delingpole’s DT blog:
” Apparently on the day of the BP oil rig explosion, there were BP executives on the rig, celebrating with the crew their 7th year on the rig or the 7th year the rig had been in operation, or some such thing. I already don’t like that at the time cap and trade was meant to be going through the U.S. Senate there was an explosion with fatalities at a coal facility, an explosion with fatalities at a gas facility, and an explosion with fatalities at an oil rig – and then a couple of days after commentators were emphasizing that on-shore oil drilling is safer than off shore, there was an explosion at an on-shore oil facility (a refinery.)
… And then add to it that the BP oil rig explosion was on a day where an anniversary was being celebrated and BP mangers/executives were aboard … Eco-terrorism exists. [but...] The media was within hours speculating about all the ways BP and the oil industry don’t meet safety standards. Why isn’t it equally valid to examine – carefully, and without hysteria – whether eco-terrorism might be involved? ”
It will be imo a long time – a generation perhaps – before the truth of these matters is revealed. Anyone who follows the AGW debate and ‘green politics’ should know how ruthless these people are prepared to be, and ‘big oil’ is there main target along with nuclear.
These green ninja commandos certainly did a good job of diving over a mile undersea sabotaging the blowout protector all the back up systems and infiltrating the rigs safety inspection regime months beforehand.
Can they turn invisible as well as survive at incredible pressure underwater?
Fiendishly cunning that they also managed to frame BP for the other disasters like Texas City and Prudhoe Bay. The more gullible sheeple might think that all pointed to an obvious pattern of systemic safety failures and an insufficient regulatory framework going back years.
Hello Snotty.
let me get this right. The greeny’s are a vicious bunch of terrorists who to prevent the dire consequences of oil spillage etc have gone out and blew up a rig to make it pollute to make their point? let us hope they do not have a nuke as the obvious next move for them is –well obvious.
BP are “self-insured”. They are so cash flush they insure their own projects rather shell (hehe) out on ludricous premiums to rich bastards who own insurance companies.
Eco-terrorism – no chance mate. More likely it was the dolphins nibbling at the cement cap.
OMG,,,I hope they don’t turn their attention to Sellafield!!!! We’ll all be glowing like the ready brek kid’s!
How much carbon did it take for Cameron to fly to the artic to be filmed on a dog sledge to illustrate how phoney his green credentials are?
The ‘junk shot’ and pumping mud into the pipeline were not all that likely to succeed but still had to be tried. It’s been a handy distraction for BP though. While all that has been going on they are drilling two relief wells aiming to intercept the leaky one thousands of feet into the seabed. This option was always the most likely to succeed but it takes time (and could still fail) and BP couldn’t be seen to be sat twiddling their thumbs.
I would advise against a ‘junk shot’
Wrong. BP have stopped the drilling of one relief well in order to free up the BOP incase it is needed to be placed on top of the faulty BOP.
Correct. The top kill was a distraction to make it look as if BP are doing something. Even if they manage to fit a top hat and then a riser to the surface that well will not be in a safe state until the relief wells are complete and the well sealed.
There is a real fear that come the hurricane season the oil dispersant will cause toxic rain
Why did the BOP fail? They are not supposed to do that.
Hurricane season officially starts on 1st June – Tuesday.
All predictions are for 2010 to be one of he worst.
The BOP was known by BP and the regulators to be faulty, periodic testing was relaxed and when restarted was only done at 6,500 psi and not the 10,000 psi that was used before the fault was found.
There is much more and it reads like a right shambles.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/us/30rig.html?pagewanted=1&hp
DRILL BABY DRILL!
I hope the natural lab called nature has the crack for diesel and the weather brings it my way,could do with some free fuel raining down.
it was only a matter of time before the yanks reverted to their cure for all,shoot it or bomb it.
here’s the livelink
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html
link here aswell just in case the BP feed mysteriously fails …
http://globalwarming.house.gov/spillcam
Whats the diameter of that pipe spewing out the black cloud?
I can’t believe that little Sarah Teather is a crook. I’ve seen her on the telly and she looks so innocent.
innocent in that bet she swallows kind of way?
Don’t worry – we’ve got that bitch on our list…
As most Lberals are either Homosexuals or Lesbians, why haven’t they become extinct?
because they are the only thing keeping Dave in Downing Street
The ‘rise’ is largely due to being ‘encouraged’ by HaPerson and other ‘progressives’.
But they will be extinct at the end of the next breeding cycle.
It’s yer Darwin factor innit?
That’s why, to preserve the ‘genre’, the kids get taught to take and give it up the bum at an early age.
‘n yer wimmin – well, – kno wot oi mean?
Presumably if we’re going to revisit all old expenses claims, we’re going to bring all the Labour ones back up too… since theirs were the worst
Don’t look at me, duckie. I did use that money to clean the flat, honest. And I needed all that grocery money cos I’m a growing lad.
Has anyone mentioned, because I’ve yet to see it in any commentary, that the telegraph have obviously, cynically been keeping some expenses up their sleeve? Why did they not reveal this before, when Laws would just have been another MP who had to pay back some expenses, and could carry on with his career?
And why on is nobody questioning the logic that if you get caught before you’re in a job, it’s OK to carry on, if it comes out after, it’s not. So long as the offence isn’t committed IN office, what difference does it make?
And what else are the Telegraph sitting on? This hasn’t just been found out this week
CGT?
some always said they were ‘presuaded’ to sit on some of the expenses stories in the run up to an election when they would be most damaging
whatever the harrumphing now the telegraph have supported the conservatives in every general election going back to 1945 and they supported them in may
but the election is over and newspapers have to make a profit in crushing times
that’s the bottom line
Or perhaps the Telegraph want the coalition to fail, expecting a majority Tory government come the next election? As I’ve said before, Cameron and Clegg better get their skates on and put some serious distance between themselves and the last political generation.
no, they really do just want to sell newspapers
if they find a scandal they will splash on it now
doesn’t matter who, doesn’t matter what the long term ramifications
they can’t afford a machiavellian strategy in a cut-throat market
How about that the Lib Dems were an irrelevance before the election but have now popped up on the radar. Couple that with a cosy omerta in the media not to mention that Laws’ “partner” was in fact of the male persuasion. Nothing sinister – who in their right mind would have foreseen the Lib Dems running the country!
Clear from those in the know posting on the comments under some of the Telegraph pieces, that many in the RedTop media had been itching to out Laws and his friend since he took office, and were close to doing so… so the Telegraph who had all the detail jumped in first (it was their scoop after all) whilst trying to keep the sex side out of it.
Impossible of course as this was the heart of the story. Disgraceful how so many inc Laws himself have tried to claim ‘homo victimhood’ in all this. Laws and his partner were in effect if not officially co-owners of the flat, which was part paid for by Laws putting up the deposit, with the mortgage then being paid by the taxpayer via ‘rent’ to his partner obtained courtesy of Laws’ job. The expenses of running it were also paid from public funds. The whole thing stinks, and that has nothing to do with sex.
There were doubtless two reasons the DT sat on the story:
One is that Laws was until now not of much consequence and his pecadillos may have escaped notice, or an editorial decision taken to pass over them. The other is the degree of opprobium the DT would receive for ‘outing’ Laws and his partner – and so it has proved.
But I think a man who will lie about something so fundamental as his sexuality will lie about anything. Concealing the relationship also concealed Laws’ intimate relationship with a Parliamentary lobbyist ffs!
Yes, I agree dear – I simply cannot imagine what prompted the Daily Telegraph to print this story…
who knows ?
I wonder….
That’ll teach the bastard to get a Ministerial role instead of me.
Simon Hughes – The Straight Choice!…
he edits the Telegraph now does he ?
Will you lot all please focus on Hazel Blears ?
Bristolwest is of course a Labour man and blind to Blears who has taken 600k since 2004 .
bristolwestpaul is right – and the link to his blog is interesting with the local LibDem councillors screaming ‘foul’ at him for raising it – suggesting it is unfounded smearing but failing to address any of the questions asked. This is widespread in the Lib Dems – they launder the office costs allowances for party political use. Potentially, it’s just as big a scandal as ACA but because it requires forensic accounting to unravel it simply doesn’t have as the media appeal of moat cleaning, duck houses or gay lovers. Can anyone think of a way of changing that? I think this abuse is actually worse because it corrupts the political process in a way that individuals maximising their income does not. Ever wondered why sitting Lib Dem MPs are so hard to unseat? ‘Ah’ they say, ‘it’s because were such wonderful constituency MPs’. Or is it because they use public money to fund continuous campaigning and political activity?
Is there such a thing as an honest politician? What is it with all the ‘recylcing’ of ministers, MPs & SpAds? Surely there must be some rule that can be brought in to prevent people like Mandy the prince of darkness resigning 3 times and then getting back into the cabinet?
If the new government want any credibility they will not take this disgraced MP as a SpAd
Only the will of the committed will dissuade them…
Oh gosh I’m first – What odds on an October election Guido? Hague for the new leader? St. Vince to lose his seat? Laws to do a Dark Lord and return, as if by magic, within months? Huntsworth and/or Bell Pottinger crisis management to clean up the mess or just clean up?
This Honeymoon period didn’t last long did it?
It would be good if the DT could dish some dirt on the smug, much over rated, ex-Labour member Vince Cable. Maybe the DT are doing it to upset the coalition. Dave Cam should then call another election and hopefully all thos UKIP voters will see how their votes were a waste of time and vote Tory instead thus giving us the majority we were denied because of our biased voting system. That way AV would not have to be put to a vote to please the Lib Dems, instead the Tories could just equalise the boundaries for next time. Also, they could bring back those promises they’ve had to give up to please the Lib-Dems such as raising Inheritance Tax and taking powers back from Brusses.
But the only way Cast-Iron Dave gets the UKIP votes back is to give us the referendum. Simples.
After that, he can have whatever majority he wants.
But no referendum, no votes – that’s the deal.
so cons you have been ukippered
My point is UKIP didn’t win one seat but their votes made the difference between a Conservative majority and a coalition with the Lib Dems – the most Europhile party there is. It’s ironic that it was UKIP who put them there. Most Tories are Eurosceptic and are our only chance of pulling back from European dominance. A vote for any other party, including UKIP, will lead to further integration with Europe.
If Europe lasts the Summer of Discontent that is.
If Spain goes tits up how long before the German voters are on the streets? Do you think a German government would openly fight it is own electorate to keep the Latin countries (especially the French) living in the style they have become accustomed?
Remember we have had a stable system (ok with tweaks) for the last 350 years or so. The Continentals are incapable of keeping the same system for more than a couple of decades. Heck they can’t even keep the same ruddy borders.
Look on the bright side, but for UKIP Labour would have been denied the opportunity to commit political suicide by electing blinky as party leader
You forget, Blue Lady, that UKIP offered Cast-Iron Dave a deal – give us a referendum and we won’t stand in any potential Tory seats.
Arrogant Dave thought he could hack it – he couldn’t and he can’t – so the only deal in town is, Give Us A Referendum, and then you get your majority.
And that’s the way it will stay until we get one – however long it takes and however many cobbled-together coalitions it takes before he gets it.
How many seats did they win then?
Yes – and Tories would one candidate up in each and every Scottish seat.
DC then declares a vote for Tory = vote for Scotland to remain in the UK.
A no-lose proposition, Scotland then ditches all it’s 40+ Socialist MPs (Labour and SNP) and returns the same number of Conservatives (Net almost 100 seats!!) or……… they return the Socialist MPs and therefore that’s the last time the Socialist scum in Scotland can ruin our country.
Oh, and I’m Scots.
Oh, and I can only dream !
I always rated David Laws he seemed to be one of the few that was actually worth the time of the day, if he ever returns to polatics he would be an asset I am sure.
Sadly the same cannot be said for SPelman and co.
Seems like the worst offenders always try to bully bluster and bull shite their way out of their wrong doings…aka Sarah Teather!
There are many like them this one is a LibDem Crook!
“David was the lowest-claiming MP across Somerset and Dorset, while some Tory MPs had to repay money for moat clearances and duck houses. He is an MP we can be proud of.”
From Mr Laws Election Leaflet
Not too impressive that.
I know we all make ‘errors of judgement’ in life, but why is it that our politicians only make errors which end up with money in their own pockets?
Rather like menopausal shoplifters…they always nick the tinned salmon never the tuna.
I made an error yesterday. I went out to a big electronics store without any cash and came home with a van load of gadgets which somehow got under my jacket whilst persusing the goods on sale. The Police came round but Ive offered to pay for them all so thats alright then . It was a mistake Gov innit !!!!
The reason Technomist is, they are not “errors of judgement”.Because there is money involved they are deliberate acts of wrongdoing.
Does anyone know which companies Luscious Lundie lobbies for? Please let there be a huge conflict of interest.
only 9 tweets
http://twitter.com/junders/lists/memberships
more cheese lad
the resignation scandal is fucking wall to wall on the sunday papers
they really can’t get enough of this
it’s always the same once they have scented blood and profits
Perhaps Guido has finally remembered scandal always sells and is back to exposing it himself
there’s no room for Party favourites in the political gossip and rumour game
if you’re not fast you’re last
if you don’t expose it you’ve lost it
“if you don’t expose it you’ve lost it”
Not quite – the Telegraph didn’t expose it for some time, eh?
he wasn’t even a minister till 18 days ago
researching their records, solidifying their sources and sending out a team of paps to confirm who stayed there and was in and out of the flat is actually fairly fast work for the street of shame
they probably even had it well before saturday but saturday is scoop day
So how long has he been an MP, then? Or are you suggesting that the Telegraph is solely interested in the affairs (in every sense) of Ministers – that individual transgressions are only of interest if the perpetrators reach high offices of State? If so, that says a great deal about the Telegraph.
See, in my book wrongdoing is wrongdoing, no matter who is doing the wrongdoing. And Laws has been around for a while – as has the information that the Telegraph has chosen to publish recently.
finding out some obscure spad or undersecretary for paperclips is up to no good is hardly that important, isn’t going to sell many papers so isn’t going to get the same time and treatment
nor before the election was much about the LibDems if we’re being brutally honest
finding out a new treasury minister and one of the most important figures in the coalition was involved in an expenses scandal was
“now that’s a story” as the copy desk no doubt said
the expenses disk was just raw data which needed investigating
at no point was there a big boldtyped expenses slip that read “£40k being paid to Mr Laws lover and partner”, lifes not that simple
what there was was names and addresses that could be followed up
so when the libs the public eye a scant few weeks ago the telegraph no doubt said lets have another look at our data and rechecked all the Lib Dems but this time with a bit more scrutiny and they hit the jackpot
besides, it’s irrelevant that this upsets some liberals and government spinners now because the telegraph has revealed more mp wrongdoing over the last few years than anyone else has in the last few decades
ministers and lowly backbenchers
so if it’s uncomfortable now for those who want to pretend they only just started with Laws or they didn’t hammer labour mps into submission and court too, then in my book, tough shit
They were ALL at in in the last Parliament – obviously the DT had to make editorial decisions which MPs to go after, and stuck mainly with those either holding office or in shadow posts. Besides, the nitty gritty of the matter (ie Laws’ relationship with Lundie) may not have been obvious immediately in which case the investigating team would not have spotted any irregularity.
It’s possible that they have checked back over their records in the light of the new govt taking office, and some sharp-eyed person spotted the relationship – or that it may only have recently become public knowledge due to ‘Fleet St’ or lobby gossip
So the really important aspect of the article is that it should sell newspapers. Yes indeed, absolutely right.
From your views I take it that you have inside knowledge as to exactly what happened at the Telegraph – and presumably therefore can explain the rationale behind the decision to write and publish. What is it – apart from temporarily boosting circulation, that is?
same as with all the other expenses scandal stories of course
public interest
it was £40k of taxpayers money involved
if you still don’t understand why that sells papers you need to have a look at the sundays which needed no prompting to splash huge on this
4 of the past 18 days were weekends so it’s 14 in all,not bad for a coaltion lets see if it can last less time than 1974
18 days after he was made minister isn’t bad
and nobody else came close, this time
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It seems he good ship “coalition” has sprung a few leaks on her maiden voyage.
Some Rats grimly hanging on for dear life, others leaving before being made to walk the plank, and, this lumpen vessel has hardly cleared the harbour bar.
Methinks this ships company will be striking the a jolly roger any time soon!
Laws was one of the few who could have helped get us out of this mess…that 40K would have been money well spent especially as he put the fear of god into useless labour idiots becuase he did know what he was talking about and he knew exactly how much labour had screwed up the economy. It’s a sad loss but he did the honourable thing….not like labour scum who hang on with their claws like the bloodsuckers they are…
There is nothing ‘honourable’ about fleecing the taxpayer for 40 thousand pounds.
He could have done the right thing before the election, paid it back, got re-elected and a line would have been drawn. Instead he chose not to, taking his constituents and the general public for mugs.
He did not fleece the tax payer. The arrangement saved the taxpayer money.
Thick tosspots everywhere are just setting their country up for a fall.
‘beaker’ ? well that should get guido a pullitzer. well clever, wot a brain the
thick oirshman has begorra.
The LDs are weakened by this – not bad news for the tories long term.
And really is Mr Guido so pleased to unleash homophobia from his twatish readership. ‘rentboy’? the man was clearly not that but lets continue to see the nasty bile squeeze out.
I know you’re close to tears but you’ll need to find someone else to pay your rent Mr Lundie. No more free rides from the taxpayer. Or anyone else.
What’s honourable about being a multimillionaire and then ripping off the taxpayers? Can’t a double first from Cambridge follow the fucking rules or are they only for the little people.
And so the spin begins…
Not so clever are we Trevor?
not only that he pontificated about how good he was,not a troughfer like the rest,double bad that is.
if you’re so happy about the £40,000 next time you pay his rentboy it
He didn’t do anything honourable,he took public money that could have been used elsewhere,he got caught out,by whatever foul or fair means,he confessed,he is not all sweetness and light ,he’s on the same level as the scum who stole public money and are still digging deep into the public trough or just got away with it ,time will catch up to each and every one of these troughers and deal a nasty blow.
Trouble is, so many of these politician ‘confused’ expenses for allowances… They treated the money as if there was an allowance of up to £x sitting waiting for collection, earmarked for their accommodation and other claimables, rather than a system of reimbursement of necessessary expenses incurred in the conducting of their roles. I can well see how it happened. That was the culture, and even decent people went along with it. Doesn’t make it excusable. Some managed to keep clean as clean over it.
That’s also the culture of the entire public sector – a budget is there to be spent. We need to get the Auditors in and prosecute some of the fraudsters.
Exactly,
Why is every road in my neighbourhood dug up and relaid around the last 2 weeks in March every year ?
“Spend it or lose it” – now there’s an efficiency that will deliver tens of £billions per year.
bandersnatch – you’ve put your finger on a point which has escaped almost everyone about this scandal. In fact it WAS an allowance and NOT expenses. That’s why it’s called the Additional Costs ALLOWANCE or ACA. It was exactly as you describe – an amount of up to £22K per year (or whatever the precise figure was) earmarked to compensate them for the need to run two homes. That’s how some of the Tory grandees got caught out. Those huge country piles cost far more than £22K pa to run – so they just submitted whatever receipts came to hand up to the limit. That is why Douglas Hogg (moat man) said something like “I didn’t claim specifically for the moat cleaning but neither was it excluded.” That sounds like nonsense – but what he means is that he was not claiming moat cleaning as an expense – it just happened to be one of the receipts in the pile submitted to back up his drawing of the Allowance for maintenance of his second home. It did not suit the DT to explain any of this – so this scandal was always called “MPs expenses” when the reality is that the payment was originally designed as an allowance. As you say – some MPs minimised their claims against the allowance while others did the opposite. I have no sympathy for MPs. They have only themselves to blame for all this. They should have reformed the system. Either it should be a flat rate allowance (like London weighting for example) in which case no receipts are required. OR it should be an expense system in which properly incurred expenses are reimbursed on production of valid receipts. This whole saga has come about because it was neither one nor the other.
The fact is Laws got himself into a mess of his own making.Personally I don’t really care if he’s gay or whom he’s living with providing he’s above board about what he’s claiming. As regards him agonising about the possible effect on his parents or family if they knew he was gay I would suggest they probably already suspected and quite frankly didn’t really care.He was still their son/brother etc and as long as he was happy so what ? In fact I suspect that they had been feeling stressed by trying to keep their suspicions from him whenever he contacted them or when they ran into his partner if they visited. Sons and daughters spend a lot of time agonising about whether their parents would be shocked if they came “out”. I would suggest as a parent of adult children that we are probably more unshockable than they think we are AND more understanding. Laws tragedy was that he didn’t think that his parents,colleagues ,voters or friends would be and so tried to live a lie and everything else resulted from that failure in judgement by him
What are civil servants for? You don’t need Watt, Henry, Ohm and Volta to show you how to pull a plug.
Nick’n'Dave know what has to be done. So does anybody who lives within his means and within the law.
Delegation’s a wonderful thief of time.
It’s YOU and people like YOU that are steering the good ship Britannica to its doom.
THEFT IS THEFT! HE WAS CAUGHT STEALING MY MONEY AND GIVING IT TO HIS BOYFRIEND; where’s the ‘old bill ‘when you need them?
Get some backbone!!
Apply that principle to all the labour scum who did it too…and let’s see them resign, eh?
Did he ” fast track ” a passport for his partner’s nanny?
Did he pay for a new handbag with our money?
Did he hit a member of the public?
Did he take cash for questions?
Why did this lot get their job’s back?- three times in mandy’s case!
Make him pay the money back, say sorry, then let him get on with his job!
God knows, someone has to keep an eye on George!
Oh… and Hello Peter, we know your still there!!! What next? Vince screws chickens on the weekend?
Its not theft dipshit. It was a below market rent.
It doesn’t matter the landlord was his lover. If he lived elsewhere
the claim would have been far higher and legit.
Cannot understand why he resigned.
No, it’s worse than that – and it matters very much that he has a personal relationship with his landlord.
In any normal business he would have been fired for gross misconduct and prosecuted for the fraud/deception.
As a younger man staying in a northern B&B the landlady came into my room one night. I was was given the “Full English” free of charge.
Was I wrong to have paid the rent on company exes the next morning?
So Laws is gay. No problem there. Laws claimed £40k that he was not entitled to from the taxpayer. Big problem, but where’s the link he’s making. Quite how stealing £950 month after month, regardless of what he did with it, equates to ‘protecting my sexuality’ is beyond my ken.
If Laws cannot see the huge chasm in his ‘defence’, then he’s not as bright or as principled as he thought to be, notwithstanding his qualification for the job he just resigned from.
What a pity…
I second that. Laws is one of the few decent politicians out of a useless bunch (the Lib Dems that is). Apparently if he had claimed as a couple, he could have claimed twice as much but as he didn’t want to declare his homosexuality, this was his way of getting half the living costs back. He hasn’t done anything worse than the rest of them, just went about it the wrong way. Look at Brown and Darling charging the taxpayer thousands for their ‘second homes’ in Scotland when the Taxpayer was already funding not one but two homes already – Downing St and their Ministerial mansions in the country.
Yes.
Hopefully his position will be reviewed – the powrs will agree with this sentiment and he’ll be given a very minor rap on the knuckles and be available to bounce straight back into his Cabinet position.
Hope that all happens before Danny Alexander or the new Scottish secretary are taken apart at the despatchbox every time they stand up.
The Lib-Dem team squad is not strong or impressive, and by requiring to offer them so many cabinet positions that weakness will be mecilessly exposed.
Not that Labour has many potentially impressive shaddow cabinet interrogators but Alexander’s position needs an impressive and combative operator.
I think he’s lamb to the slaughter and the whole Government will stand or fall on tacling the national debt.
How Nick Clegg pushed expenses claims to the limit
Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader who has championed the reform of MPs’ expenses, claimed the maximum allowed under his parliamentary second home allowance.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5314418/How-Nick-Clegg-pushed-expenses-claims-to-the-limit-MPs-expenses.html
Amongst the gems in there…
“he had his expenses docked after exceeding the £23,083 maximum by more than £100″
“Within six months of being elected to Parliament in 2005, Mr Clegg bought a house in his constituency and began charging monthly interest repayments of £1,018 on the £279,000 mortgage on his expenses”
He also submitted the stamp duty, land registry and legal costs, totalling £9,244.50.
“Over the following months, he fitted the house with a £2,600 kitchen, and had £5,857.63 worth of decorating done.
He claimed for carpets, a laminate floor, tiling and sanding, curtains, blinds, curtain rails and repairs to a garage door.
After a shopping spree at IKEA in 2006, he submitted claims for items including cushions costing £4.99, a £2.49 cake pan and £1.50 paper napkins.
The following July, Mr Clegg had £680 worth of gardening carried out, including work to “build small wall in rose garden”, followed by £760 for the repair of his garden path.”
“The claims also include two bills for the Liberal Democrat leader’s home phone in Sheffield, one for £105.88 and the other for £121.56. These detailed four calls to Colombia, including two mobile phones, three to Vietnam, including two mobiles, and 21 calls to Belgium, including six mobiles.”
New Politics indeed.
£2.49 for a cake pan is not bad. They cost a bit more than that in John Lewis.
Colombia , vietnam and belgium?
So thats cocaine and child sex?
Say ello to my leetle fren young man
Typical Libdem
Bum, sodomy and the cash
That’s Daves bestest friend you’re talking about I hope you know.
Colombia – bypassing the local marching powder dealership and buying in bulk?
Belgum – getting his orders from the Commision?
Vietnam? No idea, other than that the Vietnamese do grow most of the skunk in the UK, sp perhaps he’s thinking of starting a range of coffee shops…
Anyway, 100-odd quid for a phone bill is nothing compared to what my missus used to rack up just talking to her mates…
Oh Paragnostic! You really must impose some very strict discipline on that Sarah Teather ………
Oh we will, we will…
I’ll teach that munchkin fag-hag to get a Ministerial job instead of me.
Simon Hughes – The Straight Choice!
Hughes and Oaten even look similar.
Cheap kitchen, we just put one in £13,000 paid for it ourselves too.
Mine cost a bloody fortune too. I wonder where he got anything for his kitchen for as little as £2.6k…
all in cash again is it sir ? I’ll write you up one of your ‘special’ reciepts
and you’ll see about those planning matters and the carpark will you sir?
Could it be that it was for his doll’s house?
It’s disgusting see. I only get £19,000 a year in benefits and I have to look after two brats and keep lying that I live apart from my husband see. I deserve at least £40,000 boyo.
You’re right. I’m in exactly the same boat. It’s about time the benefits system was sorted out so we get what we deserve.
You’re going about it the wrong way. Me and the missus have put our whole family on the public payroll. We’ve made millions. Awwwright.
My thoughts exactly!
Of course you do my dear,speak to your local Liebour group after all they have been in power for 13 years and must have loads of money left over from the free trips to Cuba and North Korea,friends luxury boats in the South of France,after having gone to see how a workers paradise works.
Did you hear about James Lundie, his posh flat in Kensington and the taypayer picking up the bill?
Apparently, it was a hole in the Laws that allowed him to get away with it.
Not Kensington, Kennington – you pillock
If you want to be a clever dick, get your facts right first
Was it an Oval hole, then?
Better than a holey Brasilian, which is the other thing that Kennington is famous for…
What about the new Lib Dem peer Mike German who used his former employer’s corporate credit card to purchase wine and other interesting artifacts? He even used it to buy petrol when he was travelling to his holiday home in the South of France. On his elevation to the Lords ,he has resigned his seat in the Welsh Assembly. His replacement will be the second on the Lib Dem list Surprise ,surprise she is no other than Mike German’s wife. Nice work if you can get it.
BARF
And they wonder why people are fucked off with politicians, and politics in general. Which of course leaves them all a clear field
Anyone check out Conservative home.
Peter Tatchell or someone put out the word and it was crawling with abuse of the Telegraph – for exposing the fraud – and calling an embezzler of £40,000 taxpayer’s money an ‘honourable’ man who ‘must come back’.
Interesting to note who is calling a fraud and cheat ‘honourable’, Cameron, Clegg …
We get some idea of their real values here.
What is a ‘dishonourable man in their view?
Perhaps I can answer that . A Tory right winger?!
Or a straight Labour MP helping himself to £400.?
Absolutely right. A perfect summary of current attitudes at the top of the Tory Party. An apalling situation.
So a totaly dishonest society. Lets see how that works. The government are bent in both the legal and moral sence,honesty and sexually. That means the cops are too, which we all knew. So those in prison are realy employers and they should be given full rights and a top wage and pension,the more serious the crime the greater the numbers of police and civilian support employed,follow on the legal and courts.Perhaps it is time we made a prisoner prime minister,he could hardly make a worse job of it than the last and present government.
Shit stinks…
Yet to meet a poof who wasn’t a shrill diva so not surprised that Tatchell has tried to mobilise the gay brigade to whitewash one of their own. Dale, Parris and Duncan are also circling the wagons to keep their daisy chain intact. Expect to see the Beeb and other media outlets fall into line and start spinning the story of a poor, talented man who was unable to confront his true self in modern homophobic Britain. Sympathy votes all round.
Auntie Dale is banging on about dark forces and conspiracies to hound Laws out because he was… gay (that shocked you!)
he’s been hanging about with Mad Nads again I fear
They’re all troughing together.
STOP PRESCOTT’S PEERAGE – Sign the petition below – let’s have some people power!!!
http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/36675.html
IT’S A FUCKING OUTRAGE!
Now look my friend what i say to you is this I am entitled as a working class bloke who has served his country in the meritoclassy that Tony created to take my place in the upper house and besides which notwithstanding my little flirtation with my secretary which put my missis through a lot of trouble now it is only fair that she gets to be called Lady i mean that has got me quite a few brownie points let me tell you pal plus the fact that I can continue the good fight from the lords and not let these two public school ponces get away with using the rest of the country as their personal fags now it’s black pudding from bury market for lunch with chips and bread and butter pudding
LOL…for fuck’s sake do you actually believe we live in a Democracy.. ??? nobody takes any notice of petitions..you may as well collect millions of signatures and hand them personally into No10 with all the media watching and flanked by Celebrities ……they go straight in the Out Basket which looks curiously like a skip at the back of No10 and then it’s business as usual…Prezza is no worse or better than any previous nomination…let’s face it Pauline deserves to be “Lady Prescott” after decades of being married to this curmudgeon who has a chip on his shoulder the size of Everest
Pauline can really be ‘Lady Muck’ now.
Shes acted the part for years.
“Deserves”? ffs!! That now meaningless cant word
Used now for eg dogs who ‘deserve’ a good home and ex-racehorses who ‘deserve’ a decent life after racing. So they do, in a sense, but the word is now divested of all moral implication. So spare us your ‘deserves’… lest we demand the just deserts for these political types, and their greedy wives
(who did nothing to ‘deserve’ the perks to which they seem to have felt entitled – opening your legs for a minister whom you married forty years ago doesn’t entitle you to anything. least of all a peerage by proxy)
ALEXANDER MUST RESIGN TOO!
This Government is contaminated. Cameron`s weakness, and his love affair with the LibDems, in combination will ensure further scandals.
Iain Duncan Smith has just announced that he is deeply saddened by the Laws affair. A bad omen! No doubt he will be deeply saddened by the removal of benefits on a mass scale as he is pretending. It won`t happen – just watch! This government is weak.
David Alexander should resign because of his association and staff appointments (if nothing else)
Posting several times, anonaprick propaganda weasel
David Alexander should resign because of his association and staff appointments (if nothing else).
They are all as bad as each other.
Do shut up you wizened tool.
I extend my wholehearted sympahy to the wonderful Derek Laws. The Tekegraph has done the Nation a great disservice by this vindictive and immoral act of journalism. I have advised David Cameron, who is simply simply marvellous in all this, that he musr stand firm and weed out all the nasty nasty MPs in his own party who are being so vindictive and unhelpful thereby undermining his brilliant strategy, which is the only way forward for all of us.
I blame the Barc. Bros.
They were spying on me with a robot dog the other day.
I farted on it’s face to disable it’s cameras.
Who’s this Derek? The plot thickens.
Thank you Julie, you are marvellous.
Typical nonsense.
Guido’s Seen Elsewhere link about Yvette Cooper is well worth a glim.
Yvette Cooper: Why I’m not standing for Labour leader – this time
(Many of the replies have been modded. Here’s a taste of what remains)
1. erm….same reason I’m not going in for young bassoonist of the year?
2. The business is not what it was?
3. How are all your house prices looking on Rightmove this month, comrade?
4. Because you’d struggle to get 33 nominations maybe?
5. Go for it Yvette!!
The Labour party needs you as leader.
Steepen its terminal decline please.
6. Eh. …it’s not a question I was asking, anyway…?
Who are you? What have you ever done?
7. Well I for one am very grateful that someone as odious as you Mrs Balls is not standing for the leadership.
8. I was really pissed about the way you and your husband triple flipped your private properties by using public money, public money meant for real public office expenses.
9. One hand house flips, one foot kicks the sick out of their deathbeds.
New Labour in a nutshell.
8: x2
Its the absolute, unashamed sense of entitlement that exudes from these awful Labour people that gets me. The headline says it all.
Did anyone even ask you Vetty dear?
No. You’re more deranged than Hattie Harpic, crawl away.
The great Stink of London part 2……..
our parliament stinks more than in 1858….
only this time the shit is on the inside-
when will the cps/police do something?
400+ criminals in a safe house……
the only answer must be that they are all bought and paid for.
Er…..funny you should say that.
One day they were the all powerful.The next headless necks
How come Lyon’s didn’t catch Laws for his £40k?
Because he didn’t mention that his London landlord was his lover…
And Lyons does not assume that all Libdems are raving homos and bang their landlords…..a bit naive…
He should have …!
This questions how deep did Lyon’s go with his investigations.
I thought he was being thorough.
What else is under stones left untouched so far?
A cover-up for some, but not others.
Get busy, Telegraph reporters. You are the nation`s voice.
No need to energise the Telegraph reporters. Still lots of info locked away in the safe & yet to be revealed.
when are they gonna disclose where Mandleson’s bodies are hidden?
Is it a matter of policy for David Cameron that spending cuts have to made by ginger Liberals? I suppose he has to choose the country’s future hate figures carefully.
Osborne is a bit of a woolly Liberal isn’t he ?
He should lay down the Law! Ooer missus! titter ye not.
New Parliament – New Sleaze.
BTW, why have we got a Harkonnen as Chief Secretary to the Treasury?
The Spice!
Looks like the Lib Dems are going to be taking it up the arse from here on in.
(metaphorically of course)
His Mum and I want to know is he a giver or a taker and how about Mandy???
Ask Osborne, he’ll know
Ooh ‘ello Gideon. It’s lovely here on Olegs yacht. Glad you’re not here.
To be fair even though I have slated him, present company on Guidos blog excluded the rest of the UK voters are a bunch of thick twats that deserve to be robbed blind.
I mean these people still do not realise the extent of trouble this country is actually in but hey the world cup is on so everything is fine………
Didn’t Dave do that during the debates ?
Yep, that should do it.
“China does have the world by the balls” my friend
Just look at last Thursday evening
The market “heard” a “rumour” that China would no longer invest in European soverign bonds
And fell 2% !
What is going to happen when they really start throwing their $2 trillion of reserves around…??
You seem to be the only one on here that has our number.
Are we EVER going to get clean MPs and Minsiters FFS
The whole Libdem party seems to have been on the fiddle as well FFS
Wake up MI5 ! What do you think anybody goes into politics for other than the opportunities it provides to fill their boots?
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html
Who’s next? Bet there are a few more twisted twats finding it hard to sleep this weekend.
Caroline Spelman
Did anyone see Christopher Hitchens on Sky at the Hay festival this morning, hosted by Adam Boulton? Doesn’t the Hitch look like a ready-to-pop boil with an abnormal comb-over. Perhaps he rather looks like a mature lesbian.
I once met him at a book signing some years ago, not long after he became a dual citizen of the USA with here. I congratulated him as, having read his books and essays, I knew it meant a lot to him. But for this I was told off – I didn’t do it to be congratulated, he huffe (and something else was also said but unfortunately I couldn’t hear it). Earlier, as I waited in line to have my intentionally left blank page at the front of the book scribbled on, I watched as a young female assistant helped him with something from his bag. As she rose, he followed her all the way up with his eyes, and smoothly said ‘appreciated’ – holding the moment with the experience gained over the years. I wonder if his wife has got used to this by now? Any road, about a month later on from the book signing, what did I see on youtube? Two separate instances where Hitchy is filmed behind an interviewers desk telling the audience ‘I’ve waited a long time to do this’ then gleefully announcing to them his new status as ‘a citizen of the USA’.
Not only is he a hypocrite and a hypocritic (geddit?) but he looks ridiculous too. He must have been given the comb-over by his wife to stop him appearing nice in front of the eyes of other women. That said, I certainly have nothing against his writings, which continue in the same elegant and accurate way
http://mmabbasi.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/christopherhitchens.jpg
HAHAHA – Class. Cheers, Ops. I wonder if they put some paint stripper on his teeth? All the best.
And your point is?
What about?
There is nothing worse than a thief who try’s to use the law as a weapon to threaten those who catch them. Guido you should get the kid gloves off and go after the bitch Teather with a vengeance.
Yup, time to tether the Teather.
….in leather.
Thats the DUP tactic.
Guido, dear chap – I think it is about time we had a little chat about ‘Saint Sarah’ and the funding of her Constituency office in Brent.
I think I may have some information for you…
Any ideas about how the Lib dem office in Cheadle Hulme is funded?
Just contact Sarah Teather for more information – she’s got this little funding scam down to a tee…
Simon Hughes – The Straight Choice!
Guido publishes this with the throw away comment that it is rife within the Libdems. And the bottom line of what this actually is is fraud, an offence under the theft act.There is no middle of the road for honesty in any walk of life let alone politics. We are either honest all the way or not at all. It will never change. We are stuck with dishonest MP’s.The Telegraph may be up to something witholding the information like they did but if it forces low life cheating fucks who consider themselves honourable to act honourable then all power to the Telegraph.perhaps corruption is now so rife it would be an immpossible task to clean it up.If that is so then things are going to get much worse
If the Telegraph has information & chooses not to publicise it until it becomes more valuable, who can blame them?
They paid for it and are not obligated to disclose it all at once – that should be the responsibility of the Fees Office.
And I don’t care which party a humiliated MP belongs to – the longer they fail to confess, the greater their culpability.
David Alexander should resign for having ginger hair
Personally I think he should be hanged for the crime.
Ah, but do we know if the ‘collar and cuffs’ match?…
Simon Hughes – The Straight Choice!
Do you seriously think I would dye my hair this colour?
Ginger pubes are a serious turn-off
seriously
The Libs nobbled their own
http://nbyslog.blogspot.com/
Charles Kennedy and Paddy Ashdown suspected according to THe Slog.
Kennedy, Campbell and Ashdown are a triumvirate of sad, impotent old men whose lives have been wasted, and who should stop trying to meddle in affairs above their pay/pension grade.
Honestly, can’t somebody just put them out to grass? Or send them to the glue factory?
Hooray for Cleggy, Huhne and Ming!
We’re are all in this together as Dave will now sing
GO Limpservatives!!
Jeez, we’ve got 5 years of this crap.
oh no you haven’t!
Oh yeah, and we’ve got new boundary changes and reform of the postal voting system to get through, to make sure Labour never get in government again.
how’s it going so far ?
Dave’s undoubted skill in handling all matters gay was in evidence even before the Election
“A safe pair of hands” as David laws would say
It’s going like this…..”we’ve got new boundary changes and reform of the postal voting system to get through, to make sure Labour never get in government again.”
Nope.
Here’s exactly how it’s going to go.
Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King has said whoever wins this election will be out of power for a whole generation because of how tough the fiscal austerity will have to be.
And I don’t give a flying fuck what happens to Labour but I do enjoy watching a good comedy and political farce like the current one.
What with gormless drones like yourself providing the unwitting comedy.
Er….doesn’t quite add up fuckwit does it? If Labour are gonna be back in a year, who exactly will be taking the flak over the subsequent five years? Haven’t thought this through really have you, lamebrain?
What part of “I don’t give a flying fuck what happens to Labour” was too hard for you to understand retard ?
Do you need it spelled out phonetically ?
Eerrrrrr…. Duuuurrrr……. Stop dribbling all over your keyboard dumbo.
You really are one of the most stupid twats I’ve ever seen on this blog and that includes all the cretins who thought David Laws had a ghost in hells chance of surviving this.
Tell you what, get back to me when you stop babbling utter fucking nonsense like a braindead chimp eating his own shit.
Fuckity bye stupid!
£40,000???!?? did you say £40,000?!?!??
was that £40,000?!?!?
David Laws will never resign because I say so
£40,000!!!
what about £40,000?!?!?
was that £40,000
£40,000 ?
Put your money where your mouth is….. How much do you bet he won’t resign…… eh ? eh ? eh ? eh ? eh ? eh ? eh ? eh ? eh ? eh ? eh ? eh ?
As I was saying. Jeez, we’ve got 5 years of this crap.
First decent thing I have known them do.
Circumstantial maybe, but sounds pretty convincing.
oh FFS
seriously ???
as flimsy a house of cards as you’re likely to see
what part of, it was widely known in westminster circles that Laws was gay, didn’t this guy get ?
of course Ashdown and Kennedy would out their Liberal friend and humiliate and shame him and their former press secretary because…. ????
well they must be blind with rage and fury at seeing the lib dems in power
that must be it
as the guy helpfully puts at the top of his blog
bollocks
Quite so – absolute bolleaux, dear.
The thought that we Liberal Democrats would want this Coalition to fail (coupled with my own personal anger at David Laws getting a Ministerial job and not me) is wholly without foundation.
I know I speak for messrs. Campbell (M), Kennedy and Ashdown as well…
did Hughes shit in your cornflakes, slap you, call you a bitch or what ?
or do all Libs prance about having a hissy fit when the rent is due ?
take your hilarious Liberal ‘Fued’ (bitchfest) with you to Liberalhome or wherever it is you hippy queens congregate
nobody cares and nobody believes this fucking nonsense about the Liberals destroying one of their own most promising Ministers
you madam are a fruitcake
“Of course, they wouldn’t pull the trigger. But they must’ve sanctioned it.” You stick to your definition, I’ll stick to mine.
The Treasury?
MAKE IT HELL FOR TEATHER! The ugly fucking munchkin. She is a ball. She hasn’t got tits, it’s just the way the straps underneath her top squeeze the blubber into lumps here and there.
I know this might sound odd, but I fancy her…
Must be the blubber in lumps
Bum! bum bum bummity bum. Bum Bum! Bum. Bum, bum bum bum. Bum?
Bum! bum bummity bum. Bum Bum! Bum. Bum, bum bum bummity Bum.
Bum, bum bum bummity Bum.
Bum, bum bum bummity Bum.
Bum Bum! Bum. Bum, bum bum bum. Bum?
Well she is no Jacqui Smith
That explains the moniker then
What another? And I am not talking about myself. You always talked a lot of sense in the past, Mr Ratsniffer, but I am now beginning to wonder….
It seems I have competition – pistols at dawn, Mr Ratsniffer?
That’s what I challenged Mad Frankie Haddock with over another, rather less buxom young lady, allegedly with no mates. Unfortunately I have not seen him here recently. Hope he is OK. (Strange – I would have shot him on College Green – but don’t want him to become unwell of his own accord!)
I’d pop a cock in her ass.
I thought we were going to clean up politics?
Thought it was an end of sleaze.
In that case Laws should go the whole hog as he has shown himself to be.
Why should we tolerate a liar and embezzler sitting in the House.
By election please.
He can feel free to stand if he wants.
Lets really clean out the putridity and filth infesting parliament – not just hose it down, tap on wrist and when the mugs have forgotten your £40,000 rip off you can come back into the old boys fold again and make the plebs lives a misery.
We need a thorough clean out.
ZERO TOLERANCE.
By election.
Serve a double purpose.
Lets see who really wants a lib/con/con led by leaders who regard downright theft – theft which had to be based on greed as the man is a multi-millionaire – as honourable.
You start to understand why countries turn into dictatorships when living under the constant stentch and paralysis of corruption and abuse in our so called free society.
I voted for Nick Clegg and I feel stupid now.
I voted for that nice Mr Atlee
I noted for lord Palmerston.
But he went into coalition with the whigs when offered Secretary of State in 1809.
I feel so cheated.
Clegg was always a greasy snake-oil salesman and I cannot understand how anyone could have fallen for him, not even on the forcourt of a second hand car dealers.
Dave did
after failing to win a majority against the most useless fucking tosser ever
he’s just THAT good
He did get a majority. remind me who’s PM.
It’s a coalition Government stupid
Look it up
Exactly why did you think there’s all this fuss about a Liberal Democrat Expenses thief ?
Seriously. Do you even know what website you’re on ?
Do you even know what a Lib Dem is ? No ? They are the ones giving Dave what’s called a m-a-j-o-r-i-t-y so he can pass complicated things called L-e-g-i-s-l-a-t-i-o-n because without them he’d be f-u-c-k-e-d
Now run along to mummy and ask her to buy you a pop up book explaining all this. That’s it. Buh Bye!
Less of the greasy you oik
HHHHhrrrrrnnnnn! HHHHrrrrrrnnnnn! (twitch)
I didn’t vote for anyone who was in the last Parliament and it’s beyond my comprehension why the electorate put back so many of the immoral troughers this time, given what we now know.
We have – once again – the Govt we collectively deserve
David Laws is not dead. But you wouldn’t think that coming from all the fluff spouted by the politicians would you. Take George Osborne’s remark about him being put on earth to do the job. Huh? Better still, what about that fucking weirdo twat Lumpit O’ Prick who says Laws is the victim of a witch-hunt. No he is not. Someone knife that O’ Prick, like they did to Ste Timms.
David Laws is a millionaire. If he really was wanting to protect his privacy then he should have paid for it with his own money, that way there would be no comeback from the expenses claims. Ben Summerskill, the calm and intelligent guy from Stonewall, has said Laws is not a victim because of his sexual orient but for the fact of his claims alone. Exactly. The politicians are using these crooked tears to keep the story away from the expenses issue, as I’m sure everyone can see.
Wait till you see the return of Laws to the cabinet, it will be unbearable to watch the news.
I knew Ben Summerskill’s dad, he was Old Labour aristocracy. Ben’s gran Dame Edith would be proud of him. It must be galling to watch all they worked for being dragged through the dirt by these monied types, using the gay label as a fig leaf for their wrongdoing.
it’s ironic that Laws and Lundie who have hidden their homosexuality for whatever reason, have once more put back the cause of gay equality by many years by using it as an excuse to fleece the taxpayer
Cameron-Clegg is as corrupt as Cameron’s stunt to be seen on a dog drawn sledge to convince us he cared.
My auntie peeped through the blinds of a Liberal Democrat once. She said they were all bumming each other on the desks.
Your auntie is a very dirty old lady.
Put her in touch with The News of The World.
she’s the copy writer
Were they in a daisy-chain, giving reach-arounds too?
but enough about Dave and Nick
Fuck off Mandy.
Fuck off Laws and pay your own rent
Oleg, take your cock out of Petes arse, he’s talking nonsense.
Oooh Peter! It’s in my arse again. Naughty naughty.
Right Mandy you bitch, remind me who’s the fucking daddy now eh?
Meanwhile, what did Iain Duncan Cυnt have to say this morning about continuing the treasonous liblabcon cυnts’ war against the English working class?
?
I think he meant the SHIRKING class
Sorry, I thought it was the NON working class he was after? You know, those lazy idle parasites who could work, but choose to sit on their arses watching Sky all day while the rest of us pay for them. The ones who claim disability allowances, but the second it’s mentioned that they may have to have a medical, suddenly, magically “get better” again, and stop claiming. As we are currently paying out all the money raised through PAYE taxes on benefit claimants, there’s little wonder that the whole thing needs reforming.
You barely thought at all. If the liblabcon cυnts did not want mass unemployment they would not have spent three decades (and counting) running the country for the benefit of their rich, often foreign, friends. Hiding squillions of unemployed on sickness benefits was the choice made by the liblabcon traitors, so blame them not their victims.
We are still totally on course for regime change in a few years. I’m looking forward to watching the bloody executions on colour TV.
The liblabcons are all treasonous cυnts.
Just the English working class? Not the Welsh or Scots or Irish then?
We really had better get our own parliament.
Perhaps he means the middle classes who Gordon Bruin has been ripping off for years.
Kudos for getting 2 x c*nts in.
I know. How does he do that? is it the capitol C in Hunt?
I am surprised that you have not noticed that Jimmy Young, the Sunday Express, and Conservative Home, by endorsing Young’s article in relation to torture, have committed the criminal offence of incitement to violence.
Young said
“Frankly, and I’d be surprised if many of you disagree with me, I don’t lie awake at night worrying whether someone whose aim is to blow us all off the face of the earth will get tortured if we deport him to his homeland.”
I personally don’t think that falls within the Religious & Race Hatred Act or anything else. Why do you?
Cooper’s diary
Took Ed to the doctors. The bee sting in his throat is going to make him do that funny, middle of a sentence, jaw drop, breathing thing for a while. Poor love.
The doc also noticed an inflammation in his eye and has suggested a patch. Ed refused, “I can’t walk around like a sodding pirate while I’m campaigning!”.
The doc put a special contact in instead, but Ed can’t see out of that side at all.
The doc doc gave him some pain killers and Ed was so relaxed that I asked him to let me have some extras…promised him some extra lobbying against GP hours extensions.
“Don’t let him have more than two a day or his hands will start shaking and he will suffer severe mood swings and temper loss.Plus they prevent sleep.”
but Ed was so whiny in the car about his eye and his throat I gave him another one.
And then when he was on line and saw how well the Miliband’s were doing he got all grumpy and agitated, so I gave him a couple more.
While I’m in the states next week i’ll see if I can pick up some more of these mentalophen pills. Just to get him through the election.
I’d get a second opinion, it could be the high pollen count this year, a few drops of WD 40 on the inside of the Ball sockets usually does the trick followed by a large Calpol suppository and definitely no lemonade, crisps or sweeties for the time being (the E-numbers send them hyper).
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I suspect time will demonstrate that Danny reached the height of his achievements when he was Director of Communications for the Cairngorm National Pary in 2004
Why oh why do we allow these Scotch hoons to come down to England?
I prefer my Muzzie and black neighbours over the shower of midge infested inbred shite that inhabit Scotchland, and if that shithole is so nice why do the f*****s keep moving down here like cockroaches?
What really wories me is just where do the British Chinese live?
I see lots of them on the streets of london but have yet to see one of them either leave or enter a dwelling place
Sinister f*****s
One day , a Chinese historian will gloat over the destruction of the Anglo Germanic empire by an army of i Pod manufacturing worker ants
Yellow ones!
“WORRIES”
F,uck I’m Bladdered
If anybody has any information as to Vince Cables connections to Apples “suicide factory” in Shenzhen Cplease let me know
I use a USB plug
Universal Socialist Butt
You are Vince Flex, and I claim my £5 pounds.
KEEP ENGLAND PURE AND FULL OF ENGLISH PEOPLES!!
nic
Shhh!
I’ve noticed that. Hordes of little Chinese/Asian boys/girls in groups, walking and giggling in the street everywhere I go. Not that I’m complaining, but where the fuck do they all live? It makes it even more weird that they are the least intrusive and non vocal (in the whiny sense) of all the incomers.
I think that you will find that they all live under the tables of restaurants or in the kitchen
you think that I jest?
That really is where this invasive army camps out, just observe any oriental restaurant when shut,
Torches flashing, candles burning
If you as I do crawl along the roof tops of China town peering through the cracks in the roof tiles it will also soon be come very obvioous that the yellow peril has also taken over our attic space
Mr Cameron probably thinks this to be a “progressive” measure
You may also note that he is also a supporter of sodomy, illegal immigration and legalised theft
I don’t mind, as I collect pretty oriental girls and boys. They are very useful at garden parties.
Mostly students I think, and a fairly easy pick up. The only problem is shortly after finishing one you want another.
Hint: Check out London School of Economics
80-90% of students from Asia.
In my son’s year (Mathematics and Economics) only TWO students – including he – have English names.
Our top universities are earning the nation considerable sums by educating our competition.
Oh, and noting our currency devaluation under New labour, we are an inexpensive destination for a stag or hen weekend trip from Shanghai !
ENGLAND FOR THE ENGLISHERS!!
Well yeah I wouldn’t wish the hordes of English chavs and druggies on anyone so it is best to keep them trapped in England.
Hey – this guy can really sing!
Both beautiful and moving at the same time.
Oh yeah, we all know about China’s relaxed attitude to immigration, don’t we you pirrock?
My ignorant friend, the Chinese welcome white visitors
As long as you have no desire to suck upon the public teat you will be made most welcome, be able to walk the streets without fear, pay income tax at a rate of 16% know that should a person rape or kill one of your family they will be put to death pretty sharpish
Not a perfect system, however it isn’t a slave to the pernicious liberalism that has destroyed Great Britain.
You are what I believe folk here would refer to as a Hoon
I’m talking about the sort of immigration we have, you daft cuпt.
wot about tinternet. banned innit ?
Am I correct in thinking that the police have just had their pay frozen for three years? Maybe by David Laws??
Are they going to investigate and prosecute?
I fucking well think so!
or not
Vince will be clinging to the last straw floating
Well folks things as you know are not running as smoothly as we would like but,
lets just turn back the clock and refresh our memories as to the way we were.
Gordon who? Is this a new reality show about mongs? Who is this retard?
so that’s how Dave got his Landslide!
all those years ago…
well 3 weeks, but hey! who would have believed we’d lose a Minster through an expenses scandal by now ?
if you had said that before the election they would have called you insane
This twat won’t last the course if he’s already having orgasms this far in. Remind me fucktard, how many Labour ministers had to retire in disgrace (and came back) before we got rid of the fuckers?
calm down dear! Dave’s only the heir to Blair
Hmmm…..that really answers my question……you’re a twat of the highest order.
Calm down dear! you’re only making me laugh all the harder
Where’s the blog tat?
What a sad tedious little shit.
Always preferred the Anti-Nowhere League’s version, myself. And I’m sure John did, behind Yoko’s back…
Last in Eurovision again last – these Europeans hate us – even Germany more popular than us. Short memories indeed for some of them.
They know which side their bread is buttered alright.
We’ll have the last laugh next time a war breaks out we won’t save them next time.
You vish to trade vit der nazi’s next time ja?
Bring back Dame Vera
Surely a metaphor for the UK’s standing within the EEC? (better ask Graham Norton).
It doesn’t look like Europe and the rest of the World will be forgiving us for the world economic crisis or the global war for terror any time soon. Nul points.
I could imagine Terry Wogan saying something like that hosting the Eurovision Song Contest in days gone by, and even getting away with it… but Graham Norton.. Nil Points!
did you see the singer? and the fucking song was like some thing from 1980,shit and cheesy,the backing singers could n’t hold a note and sounded like cats strangled
All true but never mind as we pay a shed load of euros to eurovision each year to help stage it we won’t be seeing the last of it for some while
The things we’ll do just to get the votes of the Israeli jury……..
Well has the Germans are paying the lion’s share to bail out the euro the rest of Europe felt they may as well pay for next years Eurovision Song Contest too
heh heh
Unfortunately it seems that Danny Alexander is just yet another serial
expenses abuser.
During May 2005-March 2009 he claimed £13,975 in “food” expenses, at up to
£400/month, without supporting receipts.
When the new system came in, he regularly claimed the similarly abusive sum of £25/day for “subsistence”, again without providing receipts.
As you can see from the analysis below, Alexander made large “food” expenses claims, including for periods when Parliament was not sitting. For example, in 2008 Parliament was in recess from 22 July 2008 to 6 October 2008, yet he still claimed for food during that period. Likewise in previous years.
He also claimed for several “big ticket” items, which are shown below.
Danny Alexander – Period 2005-2006 – “Food” claims
6 May 2005 – 1 June 2005: £300.00
5 Jun 2005 – 4 Jul 2005: £350.00
5 Jul 2005 – 1 Aug 2005: £125.00
2 Aug 2005 – 5 Sep 2005: £125.00
6 Sep 2005 – 3 Oct 2005: £150.00
4 Oct 2005 – 1 Nov 2005: £350.00
1 Nov 2005 – 1 Dec 2005: £350.00
1 Dec 2005 – 1 Jan 2006: £300.00
1 Jan 2006 – 1 Feb 2006: £300.00
1 Feb 2006 – 1 Mar 2006: £300.00
1 Mar 2006 – 31 Mar 2006: £300.00
Total for “food”, without receipts: £2950.00
Other items in this period:
Sofa and armchairs: £2000.00
Boiler replacement: £2143.25
Source:
http://mpsallowances.parliament.uk/mpslordsandoffices/hocallowances/allowances-by-mp/danny-g-alexander/Danny_G_Alexander_0506_ACA.pdf
Danny Alexander – Period 2006-2007 – “Food” claims
1 Apr 2006 – 30 Apr 2006: £225.00
1 May 2006 – 31 May 2006: £375.00
1 Jun 2006 – 30 Jun 2006: £375.00
1 Jul 2006 – 31 Jul 2006: £350.00
1 Aug 2006 – 31 Aug 2006: £150.00
1 Sep 2006 – 30 Sep 2006: £150.00
1 Oct 2006 – 31 Oct 2006: £375.00
1 Nov 2006 – 30 Nov 2006: £375.00
1 Dec 2006 – 31 Dec 2006: £375.00
1 Jan 2007 – 31 Jan 2007: £375.00
1 Feb 2007 – 28 Feb 2007: £300.00
1 Mar 2007 – 31 Mar 2007: £375.00
Total for “food”, without receipts: £3800.00
Source for 2006-2007:
http://mpsallowances.parliament.uk/mpslordsandoffices/hocallowances/allowances-by-mp/danny-g-alexander/Danny_G_Alexander_0607_ACA.pdf
Danny Alexander – Period 2007-2008 – “Food” claims
1 Apr 2007 – 30 Apr 2007: £300.00
1 May 2007 – 31 May 2007: £400.00
1 Jun 2007 – 30 Jun 2007: £375.00
1 Jul 2007 – 31 Jul 2007: £300.00
1 Aug 2007 – 31 Aug 2007: £75.00
1 Sep 2007 – 30 Sep 2007: £50.00
1 Oct 2007 – 31 Oct 2007: £275.00
1 Nov 2007 – 30 Nov 2007: £300.00
1 Dec 2007 – 31 Dec 2007: £300.00
1 Jan 2008 – 31 Jan 2008: £325.00
1 Feb 2008 – 28 Feb 2008: £325.00
1 Mar 2008 – 31 Mar 2008: £375.00
Total for “food”, without receipts: £3400.00
Other items in this period:
Two alcoves: £1140.00
Removals: £1438.87
Source for 2007-2008:
http://mpsallowances.parliament.uk/mpslordsandoffices/hocallowances/allowances-by-mp/danny-g-alexander/Danny_G_Alexander_0708_ACA.pdf
Danny Alexander – Period 2008-2009 – “Food” claims
1 Apr 2008 – 30 Apr 2008: £225.00
1 May 2008 – 31 May 2008: £300.00
1 Jun 2008 – 30 Jun 2008: £400.00
1 Jul 2008 – 31 Jul 2008: £375.00
1 Aug 2008 – 31 Aug 2008: £75.00
1 Sep 2008 – 30 Sep 2008: £200.00
1 Oct 2008 – 31 Oct 2008: £400.00
1 Nov 2008 – 30 Nov 2008: £400.00
1 Dec 2008 – 31 Dec 2008: £350.00
1 Jan 2009 – 31 Jan 2009: £350.00
1 Feb 2009 – 28 Feb 2009: £350.00
1 Mar 2009 – 31 Mar 2009: £400.00
Total for “food”, without receipts: £3825.00
Source for 2008-2009:
http://mpsallowances.parliament.uk/mpslordsandoffices/hocallowances/allowances-by-mp/danny-g-alexander/Danny_G_Alexander_0809_ACA.pdf
Danny Alexander – Period 2009-2010 – “Subsistence” claims
1 Apr 2009 – 30 Apr 2009: £225.00 (9 nights)
1 May 2009 – 31 May 2009: £275.00 (11 nights)
1 Jun 2009 – 30 Jun 2009: £400.00 (16 nights)
Source for 2009-2010:
http://mpsallowances.parliament.uk/mpslordsandoffices/hocallowances/allowances-by-mp/danny-g-alexander/Danny_G_Alexander_0910_PAAE.pdf
All very round numbers. How convenient for adding up.
Yep, he has only been an MP for five years but he is one quick learner.
Vince cable in the chancellors debate said of the Torys ” they just want another chance to get their snouts in the trough.” He must have known about Cleggs kitchen. Laws £40,000 and Alexanders flipping but chose to ignore thes swindles.
Goes on a diet each Aug-Sept then ?
Thought the Commons restaurant was heavily subsidised so wouldn’t his food costs escalate when govt isn’t sitting ?
Or am I confusing reality with honestyy ?
3 weeks after the election. Hahahahahahahahahaha!!
What a sad, tedious little shit.
AWwwww… he’s going to cwy.
da poor widdle baby
A sad case of Cameroonitis. Still in denial that DC is the Prime Minister, he’s obviously cracked.
Fuck off TaT you schizo freak
Er, that wasn’t TaT, you schizoid freak.
What a spastic.
Yep, found the cowardly little shit
as usual he ‘magically’ appears when you realise it’s him and call him out
Now Fuck Off TaT
s a u s a g e s
Clotheared spastics.
At least the minister resigned in a timely manner rather than a huff like JJ Smith and will be paying back the ill-gotten gains.
None of this makes any sense to me.
When my Grandmother Florence Miggins Turpin sat me on her lap and told me: “they’re all at it you know, little Richard,” I didn’t for one moment think that she meant expenses.
Are you sure it wasn’t your grandad?
I wouldn’t know. They both had beards
I had a good wank thinking about David Laws and his rentboy
You had a good wank thinking about me, you dirty little c*nt.
he’s having another ‘episode’
Referring to yourself in the third person.
What a schizo.
S-A-U-S-A-G-E-S
You are definitely a schizo.
See a doctor.
or perhaps a vet.
Where’s the blog tat ?
Whoever taught tat html and how to post videos, should be fucking shot.
lol
WAAAAAAAHHH!!!! WAAAAAHHH!!!
it amuses top boy that all these cripples try to impersonate him.
imitation is the highest form of flattery I suppose.
Where’s the blog Tat you coward ?
SKAAA-EEEERRRWWKK!!! KRIPPLEKRIPPLE!! (ting) THANKYEWESTHER!!! (click)
same idiot, different persona
If I hear that hypocrite Simon Hughes on the radio or telly again I will vomit.
He and his team screwed Peter Tatchell’s chances at the Bermondsey seat by spreading stuff about Tatchell’s personal life.
Fuck off Hughes you hypocrite and a bigot! I have never voted for you and never will.
Hughes screwed Peter Tatchells seat?
Yes I had heard the same rumour
Tutchall is a far better man than Hughes, he is brave and honest
No wonder he isnt an MP
Ooh ‘ello.
Rubbish. There was a smear campaign against Tatchell and people identified it as being of LibDem origin given the use of the (common!) LibDem slogan “It’s a straight choice” on the leaflets. Simon Hughes has said this wasn’t the case, he has apologised to Tatchell and Tatchell has accepted.
“Which Queen will you vote for?” was the message on the anonymous posters that appeared depicting Tatchell and Hughes. Hughes denied being gay and pointed the finger at the Tories who insisted they had no involvement in the slur.
Ah, the good old days of sexual smearing. Will they ever return?
I am waiting for the first felon to come before me and say he did it because if it’s ok for the governement to steal then it’s ok for him. I intend to dismiss the charge.
Do a spot of shoplifting, its legal these days
Dunfermlin eh? You would not get that in nearby Kirkcaldy
the live cam is being hauled up.
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html
looks like a giant butt plug they are lowering now
I would like it known that I have a bag of Bentonite in the barn, a (non alcoholic) hangover from my happy aluminium hat-sporting days on a rig. I am happy to make this precious commodity available to BP via an advantageously priced* buy it now deal on eBay.
*for me.
Byrne pretending he was being flippent over no money letter.what a shit,he was telling the truth and now decides to lie.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/10194014.stm
I’m having a hard time figuring out how this is a scandal. If he’s going to have an office he has to rent space from somewhere, and if the local party owns one which shouldn’t they rent it to him. The amounts and kind of monies spent on campaigning are unchanged so this claim that ‘taxpayer money is funding LibDem campaigns’ is at best misleading. You’d rather he spent more taxpayers money renting property commercially?
Alan, give it a rest mate.
I’d rather politicians would just use their salaries to fund their lifestyle choices like everybody else has to and not put their hands into the pockets of the taxpayer for everything they do. Oh, and stop telling us all lies.
Spot on, Alan. Damn sight cheaper than renting another flat in London. I can’t see the scandal either. This has done more damage to the Lieboregraph (scumbags), than Laws.
Paying someone to sleep with them. There’s a word for that.
The oldest profession in the world… being a politician!
next time you pay his rentboy £40,000 you piggy apologist twat
You’d rather he was open about his relationship, had co-signed the mortgage and paid him and his ‘rentboy’ £80,000 over the same period? Or would you prefer he had lived separately from him and charged around £50,000 – £60,000 to rent somewhere else in London?
@Technomist – There might be an argument for that, though the idea of doing it based on expenses rather than salary is to be fairer on MPs who e.g. live outside of London, have bigger (geographically) constituencies or do more constituency work so they don’t ending up paying more than their colleagues. But that’s not the issue, the issue is that given we have the system of paying for second omes that we have, did Laws do anything wrong? The answer is ‘no’. He saved the taxpayer on what he could have been claiming had he not been a closeted homosexual;
So you’re a sick senior citizen and the government says there is no nursing home available for you – what do you do?
Our plan gives anyone 65 years or older a gun and 4 bullets. You are allowed to shoot 2 MP’s and 2 Ministers
Of course, this means you will be sent to prison where you will get 3 meals a day, a roof over your head, central heating, and all the health care you need!
New teeth – no problem. Need glasses, great. New hip, knees, kidney, lungs, heart? All covered….And your kids can come and visit you as often as they do now
And who will be paying for all of this? The same government that just told you that they cannot afford for you to go into a home. Plus, because you are a prisoner, you don’t have to pay any taxes anymore.
Or vote.
Hang on…how do you know that prisoners won’t be getting their voting rights restored in our electoral reform legislation ?
That sounds like a very good deal, but if you shoot the prime minister and the queen you can have your own private block like Robert Mawdsley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maudsley
I spent some time in Wakefield in 1981 to 1988 and some time in solitary for smashing a tv set.I got to talk to Mawrdsley.He is not as isolated as they make him out to be.His cell window opens up onto the exercise yard and the screws are quite happy to allow him to open his window and chat to anyone in the yard. I asked him about what he did to get in the cage and he told me he was being bullied by another con who he stabbed with a broken brush pole. The story about the killing of the two nonces is true and he did go into the wing office and say”Two off boss”.Personally I think he should have been given a medal and made nonce executioner.
If you’re a sick senior citizen in another country you get an even better deal. Just come to the UK where they will mysteriously find that place for you, all for free. You’ll get a bed next to someone who’s worked hard all their life in the UK, paid their taxes and paid off their home. Which they are now forced to sell off in order to pay for the same care you’re getting, even though you can’t even speak English. The logical thing to do is say “aha! – 2 can play at that game”. So you in turn look for another country where you can just turn up too old to work, not need to even speak their language, pay nothing and get all the care you need. Good luck with that.
Did Liam Byrne stitch David Laws up?
Chauffeur quits in row over lost wallet with the Minister dubbed Baldemort
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1259472/Chauffeur-quits-row-lost-wallet-Minister-dubbed-Baldemort.html
No.
I fancy spreading my legs for some cock up my arse
Evening Tristram: good new for you – Mandy will be over shortly with the poppers and KY.
Sorry Mandy Ducky but I’m the daddy now, now spread them first time voter
Get your own lines you plagiarist cuпt.
Fuck off TaT and use your own moniker you cowardly little shitbag
Evening Tristram: good news for you – Mandy will be over shortly with the poppers and KY.
Seeing double Tony?
The curse of the unretractable comment, Mr (Ms?) Hen.
Should be retractable with KY, so I have heard…..
Thought for the day folks
Women keep a box Kleenex tissues close at hand when watching a movie, because they tend to cry during sad scenes.
Men keep a box of Kleenex tissues close at hand when watching a movie, for other reasons.
Which category does “Yvette” fall into, Ed?
She has a box of kleenex, but they’re for Ed.
I charged those to the Taxpayer as well.
Those of us not on expenses have to satisfy ourselves with Tesco’s mansize twin pack. Ooops.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/30/miliband-labour-leadership-tv-debate-gamble
O/T sorry. I see davemilitwit is calling for a tv debate of the potential leaders of the labour party.
Why??!! Who cares what the labour party does, it’s out of power and of very little interest to most of us. Does he think anyone is going to watch it??
No doubt he thinks it will give labour a higher profile at this low point in it’s life!!
I wonder if Sky / ITV / BBC are minded to offer such a venture airtime?!
The BBC would be delighted.
ITV would host it.
Guess it wouldn’t cost the party any more than, say, £1.2M to finance it.
YES PLEASE
I hope the beeb does too!!
Their ratings will go through the floorboards!!!
SKWAAAAAARRKK!!! ‘AVABANANA! ‘AVABANANA! (flutter)
(skittle) AAAWRK!! OOS A PRETTY RENTBOY DEN (whistle) OW MUCH? OW MUCH? (stare)
My God, I must be drunk. I think I’m hearing two of the old fellah at the same time! Such wonderful music…
The children of ze night, what beautiful musick zey make.
MWAHAHAHAHAAAA!!! (cuttle)
With the Millipedes dead ringers for Beaker and Balls for the Swedish Chef, it has the makings of a grand Muppet Show.
I’m all for it so long as they have a chairman this time, to keep it sensible – Miss Piggy, obviously.
A cage fight would be better. The last man standing gets to be leader of the Labour Party or gets to fuck Jordan.
I’m sure MiliMossad would choose the latter, although he might be disappointed when he realises it’s not the Jordan he was thinking of…
We all know you want to fuck Esther the horsefaced witch TaT
shut the fuck up titfer
I think that’s a great idea – it will be NOTHING like the leaders debates. We’ll see ‘em trying to dodge the elephant in the room deficit they created – a bizarre in-denial combination of blaming each other mixed up with more crackpot wheezes to fix it. Can you imagine the Millipedes ripping into each other whilst blinky stammers “I agree with Diane”? This will be pure slapstick – bring it on!
I want David Laws’ babies
That’ll be £40,000.
Could person or persons unknown please stop calling me Christopher Itching?
There is nothing humorous nor literary about dropping an H
Only my brother Peter, who is neither literary nor humorous, is allowed to call me Itching.
I also object to the homo-erotic connoitations.
I’m going to take my old banger to Bradford. See if I can get some new body parts.
too late he ate em
EVIL TORIES EEK EEK EEK
Lets hope this Right Honourable millionaire who promised to always act in the best interest of the people, pretending to care deeply about their troubles whilst fleecing them in secret, is back where he belongs in the House of Corruption as quickly as possible.
Is it cos i’s a battyboy?
the right honorable millionaire???
Are you talking about bliar who hoovers up money in America, bit like an anteater after ants? Or about alastairc who’s just about to launch another new trash book that will make him loadsa£.
Or perhaps you meant mandy who makes his £millions from his billionaire ‘friends’
Or maybe you meant macavity the cat ‘gordonb’ who has just been offered a contract for speaking on the american circuit that will make him a million over a decade or so!!!
Watch old Mcmong leave out his ‘IT ALL STARTED IN AMERICA’ corkers he told us from his speeches he gives in America.
DON’T TALK ABOUT LAWS LIKE THAT BECAUSE I LOVE HIM
and his Rentboy
Yesterday’s people. We’ve had an election since then, and now a new herd of squealing piggies have the spotlight upon them.
Who’s next for the abattoir?
u tell dem babe init
much cheapness
only £40,000
That chiselling greedy little faggot David Laws has ruined the spotless reputation of our once great party. None of this would ever have happened if I had become the leader. I know that I once had a few problems of my own caused by the stress of my premature baldness but I overcame them to the great admiration of my party and the British public at large. As one of the great figures of modern liberalism I am truly appalled by this dirty sordid mess.
What a load of shit.
My hands are clean. The insinuation that i would employ cheap, reprehensible smear tactics to destroy the career of such a competent minister, is both dispicable and in keeping with Conservative tactics of old. I’m far removed from such mundane issues as political point scoring, i’ll leave that to the minnows in Westminster.
Why are you a baron of two places? Most Barons make do with only one. Have you been taking greed lessons from lardy Pressgut?
You might think that………I could’nt possibly comment!
Mandy made me do it. He forced my cock right up that £40,000
Filthy little fudgers like Laws are going to have to be got if we are going to stand a chance of nobbling this squalid coalition before it finds its feet.
The natural progressive alliance is still possible. Ming, Charles and myself are still talking to those fine, bright-eyed progressives, Alistair and Peter. Don’t worry, Britain: we are keeping the dream alive. We will keep the Tories out.
Paddy made me do it. He forced my cock right up that £40,000
Glad to see that corruption is back in the news.
The practice of claiming office costs in favour of the local party associations seems to have been ongoing for some years. Even when the MP has an otherwise unused house in the constituency, £9,00+ pa appears to be acceptable to Parliament.
Unspecified office services were charged by her party constituency party for Eleanor Laing MP (solicitor, Conservative Epping Forest). Mrs Laing has a house a few miles away which seems to be rarely used.
Is there no limit to the sleaze which is ongoing in parliament.
Hope not.
David’s feeling very sad he got caught. So I’ll sing him his favourite lullaby.
(Again… Again… Again… Ooooh
(Again… Again… Again… Again… …)
You dress me up, I’m your puppet
You buy me things, I love it
You bring me food, I need it
You give me love, I feed it
And look at the two of us in sympathy
With everything we see
I never want anything, it’s easy
You buy whatever I need
But look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency we’ve spent
(Ooooh) I love you, oh, you pay my rent
(Ooooh) I love you, oh, you pay my rent
You phone me in the evening on hearsay
And bought me caviar
You took me to a restaurant off Broadway
To tell me who you are
We never-ever argue, we never calculate
The currency we’ve spent
(Ooooh) I love you, oh, you pay my rent
(Ooooh) I love you, you pay my rent
(Ooooh) I love you, oh, you pay my rent
(It’s easy, it’s so easy)
(It’s easy, it’s so easy)
Banal art “challenges banality”
So art that appears poor, vacuous or banal is simply ‘expressing dissatisfaction with what art can achieve’, and should therefore be applauded. Provided, of course, that the artist has been duly accredited by the mediocratic elite. Banality created by a nobody would not do at all.
Fabian Tassano
Art: less arseholes, more Dix.
Excellent. Though Dix was regarded by the ‘authorities’ as a degenerate.
anal arseholes “wallow in anality”
David Laws
David Laws walks into a bar and asks the barman, ‘Can you recommend me your finest port’. To which the barman replies, ‘Yes, Dover now fuck off’.
Ben Dover?
David Cameron is `deeply saddened` by the Laws affair and wants him back in Government `as soon as possible` – BBC today.
And we akk thought Brown was bad! This `coalition` is getting worse by the day.
By the hour! Cameron is in strong competition with Heath to be the worst Tory PM of all time, and overtaking him fast!
Jeez, a talking sphincter!
Well we have no one but ourselves to blame….we,the electorate,voted for this state of affairs by not giving any one party an overall majority so it’s no use whining about it.We made our bed and we have to lie on it …for better or worse…
Danny Alexander, new Treasury chief, avoided capital gains tax on house
The new Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, avoided paying capital gains tax when he sold his taxpayer-funded second home at a profit, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/liberal-democrat-mps-expenses/7787519/Danny-Alexander-new-Treasury-chief-avoided-capital-gains-tax-on-house.html
Mr Alexander, who was appointed on Saturday after the resignation of fellow Liberal Democrat David Laws, designated the property as his second home for the purpose of claiming parliamentary expenses but described it to HM Revenue and Customs as his main home.
Last night Mr Alexander admitted that he took advantage of a loophole to legally avoid paying CGT on the sale of the south London property for £300,000 in June 2007
The disclosure that he failed to pay CGT comes at a particularly sensitive time because the Coalition is planning to increase the rate of the tax for owners of second homes and buy-to-let properties in an emergency budget next month.
When Mr Alexander sold his flat, the top rate of CGT was 40 per cent. It has since dropped to 18 per cent but the Lib Dems are now pushing for it to be increased to 40 or even 50 per cent.
The Daily Telegraph is running a campaign calling on the Government to protect the savings of small investors and ordinary second-home owners from any rise in CGT.
The fact that Mr Alexander has become the second Lib Dem to face questions about his finances within three days has focused attention on whether the party leadership has properly audited the financial activities of its senior figures.
Aye, he got Teuchter relief on the CGT…
We “akk” still think Mr Brown was pretty hopeless, darling.
I’m afraid you really won’t be able to create a moral equivalence between David Laws and the Prescotts, Mandelsons, Blunketts, Vazs and Byers’ of the previous management, no matter how hard you try or how cross you get.
A pigs a pig, dahling.
And I’m afraid no amount of weasel words changes that no matter how low you stoop to try to excuse them or how desperate you get.
but he’s a nice gay pig who said sorry!
surely that makes it worth £40,000 of taxpayers money and flouting the rules?
Danny Alexander seems to have more expenses skeletons in his closet, than Laws.
I’m no fan of the LimpDems, but the DT is trying to destabalize a new Gov’t when UK doesn’t need it. There’s an urgency to sort out Labour’s mess. The DT should F off for a few weeks.
s223(1)b of the Capital Gains Act (1992) clearly states that he isn’t obliged to pay CGT on something which was a main home less than 36 months ago. He didn’t pay tax he was explicitly not required to. SCANDAL!
Out of interest, when’s the last time you’ve called up the Inland Revenue to pay additional taxes?
Oink! Oink!
Thank Goodness he isn’t going to change CGT then or he would look like a massive hypocrite.
Would turkey’s vote for Christmas?
My point is that the DT has dragged this up at a point when the Gov’t have to take big decisions rapidly, due to Labour’s mess. If the DT knew about these expense wrongdoings, why didn’t they publish it earlier? Profit?
Britain’s in a serious situation and it doesn’t help having the DT or any other paper destabalizing a new Gov’t.
Interesting that the Telegraph omits one key fact. Until 2006, his constituency home in Scotland was rented. Meaning that, as far as the Revenue was concerned, the London flat was his only home for CGT purposes. If you go out and buy another home before selling your old one (in this case he bought a house in Scotland to replace the rented property), your old home is exempt from CGT for three years. Same rule for everyone, not just Duracell-coloured Lib Dem MPs.
In other words, the Telegraph ‘story’ is bollocks. It couldn’t be more bollocks if it was suspended between the hind legs of a bull. Alexander hasn’t done anything wrong. He hasn’t even done something that is technically correct but morally dodgy. And I can’t believe I’m defending a Lib Dem, but we gingers must stick together.
Is everyone who voted ‘tory’ at the election pleased with their new ‘social democrat’ government?
Honest Dave has wasted no time in cleansing his new party of the last vestiges of tory policies and he is more than happy to betray those supporters who gave him the ‘benefit of the doubt’.
So we know have a high tax,high regulation,corrupted and crooked regime that looks more like a minor eurotrash region under a social democrat regime and Dave must be pissing himself at the bovine stupidity of the tory right and the traditional tory voter, he has betrayed and fucked over those cretins who just could not bring themselves to open their eyes and see the reality.
To all those who voted ‘tory’ enjoy your new social democrat regime, you voted for it and you deserve everything thats coming your way.
Better than having Brown and Labour still in charge. By a country mile.
Ha. just wait and see. The school building program is already being curtailed
What a lad!
His latest priority is – wait for it – opening up bureaucracy to even more public scrutiny. The BBC reckons somebody or other figures that’ll generate £6 billion of new income.
£6 billion here, £6 billion there (as already trumpeted as swingeing cuts) – it all adds up.
Why, at that rate, and before you can say “Open Sesame”, he won’t even have to borrow the odd few quid he’s ring-fenced to give away abroad.
Not too sure about the rest of the deficit, though.
Who do you vote for Cassie?
oink! oink!
Stop Thief!
The fact is that as soon as the ” MPs Expenses Scandal” broke Cameron called all his front bench in and told them to divulge their expenses and if there were problems to sort it out or they would not remain on the front bench.It appears that Clegg didn’t…….. preferring to moralise and preach that his party was not tainted by the scandal It would seem that that was a vain boast.The fact is the LibDems are now the weakest link in the coalition.They never expected to be in government and be scutinised like the the Conservatives and Labour.If they had remained as a “focus group” they would have probably got away with it but once in government they had the full glare of the media placed upon them and this is the result
I fear that they may well have more skeletons in their closet which will further damage the “Coalition”.
You are probably right, but at least exposure of their Lib Dem colleagues prevents cries of “Tory sleaze” being leveled at the Conservatives by the other side of the house- or the BBC.
This little mincer was charging us £40,000 to rent a room
but was sharing the bed in the other room
thus wasting the whole £40,000
or are we led to believe that after getting his butt rogered he went back to his own bed ?
the tories were bulling this guy up as a very clever banker who knew accounting inside out
so he can’t possibly have made a mistake this is clear fraud committed by a man who thought he could get away with it
Cameron is mental if he even think’s of bringing this git back into government as Brown did with Mandelscum
Labour will have a field day along with all his other dodgey appointments
prosecute the fucker and live up to what you said !
How do you know which room the rodgering was performed in? Maybe they took it in turns.
Perhaps you are just jealous, TAT?
Is it me imaging things – or does there seem to be a disproportionate number of gays in parliament. The balance needs redressing.
It is time for “all straight” sort lists.
All white!
What sanctimonious rubbish on this blog. Unless every one of you, who have exceeded the speed limit near a school and only by luck not killed a child, hand in your driving licence and give up driving for good, then you are hypocrites of the first order. Read Matthew Parris in today’s Times.
I say reinstate David Laws as soon as the Standards Commisioner report is completed.
And don’t bother to hurtle obscenities at me – I’m off to more rational sites.
Unless every one of you, who have exceeded the speed limit near a school and only by luck not killed a child, hand in your driving licence and give up driving for good, then you are hypocrites of the first order.
I, for one, welcome this call from our new stop driving hattie harman overlords!
Mps expenses as I understand it were meant to compensate for out of pocket expenses involved in doing the job as an MP all well and good. They were never intended to put money into the pocket as so many have done. Danny Alexander milked the system and grew rich on his swindles of the taxpayers. He did what Hazel Blears did.
He is a close friend of Nick Clegg and all the time Nick Clegg was condemning the system which allowed the buying and selling of houses funded by taxpayers his friend was doing just that. Nick Clegg also admired Mr. Laws for his integrity while he was breaking the cohabitation rule to swindle the taxpayers of £40,000. Clearly Cleggs judgment is corrupt and as he has said so much about cleaning up politics it would be a very good start if he and his two close colleagues quit public office.
“…according to a report by Campbell Gunn in the Scottish Sunday Post (not online)…”
The last time I looked it was and Mr Gunn has had a few scoops in his time which bypassed the Nationals!