Yvette and Hazel’s Multi-Million Furniture Shopping Spree
Eric Pickles has been getting under the skin of his shadow John Denham with digs about the £2.78 million spending spree on furniture, redecoration and suchlike that his former Dept. of Communities and Local Government splurged before Labour was booted out. Pickles had a heydey in the press and parliament with tales of Harriet Harman’s multi-million pound “Serene Green Tranquillity Room” at the Equalities Office. Denham wasn’t going to let that happen to him.
Denham’s SpAd, Jake Sumner, knew where the bodies were buried and in a spirit of comradeship FoI’d confirmation that it was Yvette Cooper, the former chief secretary to the Treasury, who approved the spending in a letter of 2 June 2008 to the then Secretary of State, Hazel Blears, Denham’s predecessor at the Dept. of Communities and Local Government. So it was Yvette, not Denham, who authorised the purchase by Hazel of £134,503 of red sofas. Presumably chosen to match Hazel’s hair…
Labour are corrupt to the very core.
And well done Dave for telling the Pak1s a few home truths.
And the Israelis
Oh yeah, i bet the Israeli’s REALLY gave 2 fucking hoots to what Dave said.
about as much as P-stan and they can expect over £ 1/2 Billion windfall in aid from Cameron as a ‘reward’ for funding and training the Taliban
I reckon the Israelis are shitting themselves – it only takes one or two European countries to start to assess the Gaza issue rationally, and the fiction that Israel is somehow protecting herself will be seen for what it is.
Israel currently has highly favourable trading terms with the EU – a tightening of these in reaction to the treatment of the Gaza residents would damage Israel far more than they care to admit.
As for those idiots in Islamabad – if ever there was a country ripe for abolition it’s their corrupt terrorist-supporting shithole.
“it only takes one or two European countries to start to assess the Gaza issue rationally”
If that happened there would immediately be a new European Crusade to liberate the Middle East from all Islamic influence. We should get Constantiople back at the same time. All sounds good to me. Can’t wait.
And the little englanders who want to stop 20 million turks comng to enrich our diversity.
they do a mean kebab
Do you mean kebap?
But not regrettably – yet anyway – to the 5th columnists operating the monopoly broadcasting racket.
Think you will find that Labour ordered the red Sofas as practice props for their multitudinous appearances on GMTV.
Come on you Reds!
Up the workers!
Right up ‘em….
When the Coalition government have them re-upholstered, will they be blue, yellow, green, blue-and-yellow stripy or what?
June 23rd, 2010
ISLAMABAD – Britain will increase its development aid to Pak*st*n to 665 million pounds (about $989 million)
Quite right too! This should help them to speed up their attacks on the wahabi terrorists in their midst. A few drones from the US might be helpful as well, to send those b’stards to join their virgins.
the P-stan government SIS train and fund the taliban terrorists
which is part of what Cameron was complaining about if you were paying attention
though if he was paying attention Cameron would cease aid immediately instead of funding the Taliban via the P-stan government to kill our own troops
It’s quite simple really, the P’stan government only act against AQ or the Talib if they pose a domestic threat against the P’stan government. At all other times they are tolerated and / or encouraged to act as third party agents against those who the P’stan government see as their enemies ( principly, though not exclusively India ). P’stans part in the “war on terror” is at best half hearted, as many within the ruling elite and country, harbour a deep sympathy with the aims and ambitions of the militant m*sl*m groups.
Cameron said it as it is regarding Pakistan, good on him.
The Pakistani government know full well what’s going on..
134 fucking grand!!
Just how many red fucking sofas did she get for that?
pickles could eat them all
I am reporting you to Harperson for this blatant prejudice against the gravitationally challenged
More to the point, how much more the culture of Sofa Politics?
Who started that?
BLAIR?
you called? Any shekels in it?
fucking poof.
there’s a lot of it about ducky
They should have just got her a new hamster wheel.
Should have gone to DFS, they’re half price there (all of the time)
When you are spending other peoples money, who cares?
FFS DFS It’s the right thing to so
Sofa so good.
At least Dali could claim it was art.
.. and the Lama?
They should have gone to DFS there’s always a sale on.
I’m up to chapter 4302 of my memoirs. This chapter is “Equity and Investment Part IX Section C: Advancing New Formulas For Macro Objectives – October 2005″.
you still a poof?
what if I am you war-criminal nutter
Not on his definition of the term. Just as his wife falls outside the definition of the term, adjusted to the seasonal norm and in line with international indicators.
As A Statician, I need to ask if your Deviation is standard?
That’s all crystal clear; perhaps needs a bit of expanded explanation of its’ relationship with endogenous growth theory and the macro effects of high level expense fiddling.
We do not want to lose this opportunity to show it was not you but the Americans, who caused all of the UK’s economic problems
That’s all crystal clear; perhaps needs a bit of expanded explanation of its’ relationship with endogenous growth theory and the macro effects of high level expense fiddling.
That’s all crystal clear; perhaps needs a bit of expanded explanation of its’ relationship with endogenous growth theory and macro effects of high level expense fiddling.
I shall be most interested to read that part of this apparently self-penned hagiological mythology of how you single-handedly saved the world from that band of tight-knit, highly motivated, and totally incorrigible terrorists the Icelanders.
We’re fucking well all in this together
Hey Guido, I use am iPhone to read your blog and would be very grateful if you’d turn off the automatic switching to your mobile version. I like the original format, even on my phone! Thanks!
Be careful how you hold it or you’ll loose the signal.
Never happened to me.
Try changing your user agent string in the browser, you trendy twat!
Yes, darling.
I don’t regret anything. I’m a person of integrity and honesty. Like my husband.
What’s to like about him?
Fucking hell, if that isn’t a communist hair cut off the barber for Yvette Cooper, I don’t know what is. Just think, she loves sweaty Balls (I bet she’s a proper dirty little scamp in the sack and with your sack). Call her Ed Cooper, and she looks a bit like Balls’s younger sister – is there something we should be told?
Michael Crick, the excellent Newsnight political editor, does anyone think he sounds like Rigsby (Rising Damp). Watch him the next time he stops a bloke on his bike for a bit of local political gossip, and you will see it is he – RIGSBY.
Er, now, now, now Jeremy.
Sounds like Rigsby, looks like Hammy Hamster and
shops in Oxfam.
Yvette is a sexless skank, and has the sexual prowess of a salted peanut found down the back of a sofa.
Grimey, I’ll suck your cock better than anyone. Give me your cock, you bastard. Fist me in both holes, any minute of any day. Can you smell that? I’ve just pooed…on my cornflakes.
I never really trust women with boys hair or women that try to act like guys. They always look like they have somewhere else to go, or have an agenda. Long hair tells men that you are all woman, or a real woman, short hair makes children ask — usually at the school-yard — “Are you a boy or girl?”.
Still possible to look elegant, but nevertheless androgynous and unfinished.
I confess: I broke a lot of the sofas when I sat on them, which is why they had to buy so many. It wasn’t even my department but I liked to go round there when my department ran out of donuts and pastries. And when Tracy and I wanted some private time together and I insisted on being on top.
Pass the mind bleach, please…..
Presumably Hazel got them from one of those weekend firms with the endless sales. The first year is free and then only the remainder to be picked up by the incoming administration. Genius.
Most of the money went on chopping the legs off so Hazel could climb up safely.
That wouldn’t be the socialist way…
If you are spending someone else’s money, you always pay top dollar, up front, and who gives a shit if you don’t get what you ordered….
They probably only had a couple of sofas delivered and couldn’t be bothered to chase it up!
Hazel probably had some Red Sofas shipped to Salford Quays for when the BBC moves onto her patch, make her feel she’s still got power under her, when she gets off her motorbike.
I thought MFI had gone bust!
Guido
Here is more, open Labour corruption…
Buy Parliamentary sats like the Rotten Boroughs in the 18the century..
HomeAboutContacts (Michael Meacher article)
Labour, like Caesar’s wife, should be above reproach
October 10th, 2009 The disclosure by Peter Watt, the former General Secretary of the Labour Party, that Jack Dromey, deputy general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, was to be offered a safe Parliamentary seat just before the general election expected in autumn 2007, in exchange for a £1 million contribution from his union, is deeply disturbing. It confirms the worst suspicions that many have that political parties are sometimes corrupt in their internal procedures and that the internal democracy, to which they all like to make claim, is sometimes a sham. What gives the disclosure such force in this case is not only the impeccability of the source, but also the fact that it is reinforced by widespread allegations of similar shenanigans in other parliamentary selections and in financial management and the handling of the annual conference. This matters not only because such practices, if true, are clearly dishonest and improper and bring any political party into disrepute, but also because they fundamentally undermine the the morality and integrity on which public confidence depends. And, most worryingly of all, the commercialisation of politics over the last 2-3 decades is intensifying such corrupt behaviour
So Dromey subsequently bought his seat for £ 1 million of his members money…
From an all women short list…
And Mad Hattie in all this…
She did not know ??!!
She knew alright, but it really doesn’t concern her as it’s only womens issues thet she’s interested in, like making sure that there are all womens short lists so that corupt men don’t get into parliment.
You called ?
All wimmin shortlist?
Dromey a crook? Perish the thought.
Hazel and Yvette: both have faces you couldn’t tire of slapping.
Hazel has a face like a welder’s bench and Yvette has a face like a plasterer’s radio….
Or as we say up here in the shipyard, like a rivet catcher’s glove
Oi Adrian, when was the last time you saw a ship being rivetted? Anyway, hot rivets were caught in metal cones and put in the holes with tongs. It would take a very brave bloke to catch a hot rivet in a gloved hand.
ME?
Must be a Mackem – we’re much harder on the Tyne
Hi Guido
We are the Zanu girls…
Thanks for giving us 15 minutes of fame…
We pissed as much money of your money up against the wall as we could before the baby eating Tories arrived…
We are so proud of our female contribution to the scorthed earth policy instituted b ythe famous Testicules and the Gurning Goon…
So long…
Zanu Yvette and Zanu Hazel
Bastards
Send the slag the bill, then send around the old bill to collect.
Just popping in to remind you that I got £116,000 by telling the House of Commons that my sister’s spare bedroom was my main residence. I was within the rules.
I don’t know who you are, but let me remind you that impersonating Very Important Labour Wimmin is an offence against fairness (and it’s associated future for all, as evangelised by dear Gordon).
In our day, this crime might have/of lead to your 366 day detention without eh … whatever it was that gave us the right to detain you for whatever it was that you might be detained or 366 days for.
It is because of people like you that we in New Labour conjured up an extra 14,094 new laws, for no good reason, during our last entitlement to power. And it is entitlement, believe you me.
So watch it, matey.
strengthens my argument why women should stay at home, limits the damage thay can do
All good Socialistical bints know a quality pair of tax payer funded sofas when they see them.
Authorising the purchase of these sofas was the right thing to do:
A to help the economy, and B because Ed’s piles are a right bugger and these beauties offered the correct level of comfort to his arse berries when he came round to the department with the latest smear stories about Darling, which was more or less every day.
In fact we couldn’t get shot of the hate filled twat, and his mate Damian McFilth.
So it was the right thing to do, and the horrid Tories want to pull help for the luxury furnishings market in this country out of pure idealogical hatred.
They actually believe in the fantasy that purchasing a pair of sofas costing less than £3500 is the sensible way to conduct the Government’s furnishings procurement policy.
Alistair Campbell was brought in to write a dossier on the dangers to Government of purchasing cheap ‘ordinary people’s’ sofas, but he had gone mad by this point, and was wearing a nappy.
I’ll be back. We’ll all be back!
Your processor chip is on the blink.
Oh the ghost of politicical past.
I do hope the current lot don’t just look at this with smugness, it’ll be them, in the future.
(if they don’t “watch it” … which they won’t, I can be optimistic enough to say it’ll take more than a couple of years)
PS: quote of the day its worse/better than that.
I’ve seen 40-1 odds for Balls winning.
“..The Tories have been keen to downplay how prepared they were for hung Parliament negotiations. However, on the day after the polls closed, Letwin appeared to know more about Lib Dem policy than any of Nick Clegg’s negotiators. The Tories arrived at talks with a string of policy concessions to woo their potential coalition partners…”
You know I’m mad, I’m bad, chamone!
nobody gives a fuck
Perfect replacement symbol for the Labour Party.
The Red Rose is no more.
The wearing of Red Sofa lapel badges are from hereon required at all New Labour gatherings.
No Party Apparatchik should be seen without one.
The ghastly Blears wanted red carpet to match the Kit-Kats she put on her expenses. What a thieving trougher.
Apparently, 93% of men masturbate in the shower.
The other 7% wash themselves
I do both
We’d have a shower with you Ellie, but your arse takes up the whole cubicle…
I’m ambidextrous
I was in the restaurant when I suddenly realized I desperately needed to fart. The music was really, really loud, so I timed my gas to the beat of music.
After a couple of songs, I started to feel better. I finished my coffee, and noticed that everyone was staring at me…
Then i suddenly remembered I was listening to my ipod.
Our ‘Azel and the young lad Yves. Swine of the Times.
Whats £139,000 anyway? Was it their money? Do these two Dishonourable Delgirls givathought….do they my arse? Will it happen again? Yes! Will we all get grumpy again? Yes. Will anybody learn from it? Will they….my arse!!!
The sofas were needed by Prescot in to “entertain” Tracey.
Hoons!!!
How can I couch this?
Sofa so good?
No not the IMF, MFI
Good job it wasn’t Boris – he’d have bought Ottomans!
Turks?
The current government is embarking on a plan to make politics more acceptable. The aim is to re-engage people all over the country in politics and the political system. Maybe they could start by stopping the lying, cheating, abuse by all MPs of whatever it is they get their grubby little hands on! The above example is one where the MPs responsible should be disciplined and the public money paid back by them. There is no room for excess by these people – the ones, along with the banks, who got us in the fucking mess we are in!!
The People’s Sofa, deepest red,
Where Yvette rests her sleepy head,
And ere her limbs grow stiff and cold,
Her latte’s stain its every fold.
Then raise the scarlet sofa high.
Its cushions with your tax she’ll buy,
The poor folk flinch, taxpayers sneer,
But sofas she’ll be keeping here
Thankfully we have been spared having to view these two muppets since the election, and now you go and spoil it. Kindly desist, it upsets the dog.
Damn, no apostrophe in ‘Lattes’. Apologies to the grammar police.
p.s. keep up the good work!!
…or even the punctuation police.
We should have a look down the back of these sofas just incase there is any small change
Sorry – there’s no money left.
Maybe Hazel is stuck down one, I haven’t seen her for a while.
Nay, Nay… says Mr Wilkes. It’s the flood of certain displaced ‘travelers’ who will be moved on’ by Mr Sarkee-ozie and the french Gubb’munts from their illegal sites all over France. They will be ‘moved on’ to Calais and then Dover Port for free hands-outs, plasmas, houses, cash, official sites.
The UKeys ‘Uming Rites’ Lobby will make sure of that…. Bleating and whining their way down to Dover Port to ‘Welcome the Whole World and His Wife’ and no I’m not a xenophobe……
I just want my country back after it was wrecked by those nasty Kommie Marxist-Leninist-Trots of the ZaNu-Lab Party when they were in Gubber’munts…
I am sick and tired of being taken for a fool by our greedy, fornicating, spineless, yellow-bellied Politicians of all Party who have sold the UK down the ‘Political Swanee’ for Honors, Titles, Awards and for “30 Pieces of Eurine-land Silver!”
(No doubt my name will once again be added to a Leetle List by some howling bureaucratic Ex-Stazi Numpity in Brussells)
Who the fuck is Mr Wilkes?
What did happen to prudence ?
O/T morning windowlickers
Tell us who put the vertically challenged Blears up on the sofas.
I just hope the silly girly, politically correct, furniture wankers are out of power for the next twenty years not just the next five. They squandered millions just before and during the election in the hope of bribing the electorate. And if the black hypocrite Abbott is elected as their leader they might never get back into power for the next thirty years.
But we’re in power ducky
What a funny coincidence. That sofa looks very like the one that has been out to the bin. I noticed it yesterday when I was putting the rubbish out. I did not look to see if Our ‘Azel or Vet was hiding behind it.
I got dem sofaz for 50 quid at de Boxing day sale. Dey rags stuffed wiv used tampans and stapelled togever like payper.
Dem rilly cheep shit, and I got £5,380 for each of dem from dat tarded dwarf cu-nt bleerz.
Deez cu-nt palitishans can be fleeced coz dey spending taxpayers muney and don’t get a fook bart taxpayers.
£134,503 spent on red sofas authorised by the awful Mrs Bollox.
Well, so bloody what. It’s not a lot of money is it? It’s certainly a lot less that the combined expenses of her and the next leader of the Liebour Party.
Things need to be put into context…
Looking at that picture of Yvette you can just about hear the sound of thousands of Lesbians gently sighing to themselves and getting all damp.
Can’t you Sarah ?
I’m so fed up all these fucking politicians are as bad as each other, ripping off the country for their own benefits. When are some of these dodgy fuckers being prosecuted for crimes against the tax-payer. God, if the boot was on the other foot then each individual member of the minions would know all about corruption and fraud. They would be harassed to the grave by the state.
Oh, what the hell just hang the fucking lot of them, giving them all a fair and balanced trial with no right to appeal, the full proceedings to last no longer than ½ an hour.
As for Blears well words just fail me!!
Girls like to make a place a home.