May 21st, 2011

A Second Front Opens Up On Huhne

Another tape has surfaced that could hang Huhne. Two former LibDem councillors from his Eastleigh constituency have recorded Huhne’s agent apparently admitting they overspent above the legal election limits at the last election by £10,000. The Sunlight Centre was working on Huhne’s election expenses last summer, but hit a brick wall when Huhne, and his agent, refused to cooperate with any investigation. Last July Guido wrote:

…there are some serious questions involving interesting invoicing practices, possibly designed to hide the true cost of printing. You can read some of the background to the Sunlight Centre’s investigation here, but essentially the invoices for Huhne’s leaflets are from the “Itchen Valley Printing Society”, who mysteriously share his constituency office. The material produced, however, was in reality printed by Park Communications Limited. Park is an interesting organisation that is very, very close to the Liberal Democrats – their chief exec hosts events with the head of the LibDem campaigns department.

Huhne’s tight re-election spending was dodgy, as was the deafening silence as soon as it was probed. The Sunlight Centre never got a reply to this letter to Anne Winstanley, Huhne’s agent, which is no surprise now, given she was apparently going round telling people they overspent, and this letter had worked out how:

Finally now the Electoral Commission is investigating. Full background for Sunday paper Huhnters can be found here.


84 Comments

  1. 1
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    He is fucked!

    • 6
      Jim Devine says:

      The “Itchen Valley Printing Society”?

      So the Huhne has a “friendly printer” then.

    • 12
      Bobby Mugabe says:

      Day off Billy?

      • 17
        God says:

        Billy never rests

        • 48
          Bowden is a tosser says:

          24 hours a day the illiterate tosser monitors this site and makes ignorant and pathetic comments. It is such a shame because there are some genuinely funny comments on this site, and yet you have to wade through the Bowden shit in order to read them. Please fuck off and die you tosser.

          • Agreed – he is a plant to derail Guido’s quest for truth and justice.

            He has been sent here to ruin this fine blog with his daily fecal dump of pure unadulterated AAA rated 5* shite.

          • Common sense voter says:

            What is it with Lib Dems? They seemingly can’t keep off the fiddle, Lembit, Laws, Huhne etc.

            Now they’re against free speech, particularly if you have the gall to comment on the fiddling.

    • 49
      Rim Chitin ANAGRAM says:

      Just like A Charming Martini was.

      • 72
        Iloathlefties says:

        It’s no surprise that the socialists (LibLab) are constantly on the fiddle. They “believe” they are always right and superior to their fellow man and don’t have to play by the rules. This Huhn needs locking up, the corrupt ba**ard! The Huhner the better!!

        • 77
          Iloathlefties says:

          In case any MP’s are reading the blogg for next Tuesdays bail out debate!!

          There seems to be a common sense block with the majority of our politicians from the main parties on the whole EU monster. £10 billion net contributions, £9 billion administration costs to administer regulations/directives annually, £12.5 billion bailout in direct contravention of the Maastrict treaty, more than twice the savings in our public services from last year, mass migration loosing our young peoples jobs, £42 billion trade deficit last year and £262 billions over the last 10 years, 400,000 fishing jobs lost and an entire industry gone, no renegotiation of the CAP despite Blair giving away our rebate (he wanted the Presendency) resulting in 72% rise in our contributions for the benefit of our European competitors. So the benefits are?????????? Please help us to lobby for a referendum to a straight in/out of this insane project.

  2. 2
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Hang on Guido, He overspent, I dont the rules but overspending surely is not a crime, i mean Labour are still in parliament.

  3. 3
    You Just Got Gamed Son says:

    Reflects badly on Cameron and Clegg now though for letting this reeking turd float around for so long, he should of been flushed as soon as his wife spilled the beans.

  4. 4
    You Just Got Gamed Son says:

    The question is which big businesses have big money invested in Huhne to try and keep him still place for so long when it is clear to everyone he is finished?

    • 5
      You Just Got Gamed Son says:

      *Still in his place

    • 51
      Socialism has murdered 150 million human beings pride says:

      The Carbon trading crooks and the windmill wankers

      • 55

        Precisely – he is their poster boy, but expendable – as soon as he goes an even bigger trougher will be parachuted in to leave us and our kids in penury paying for the CO2 that we dare to breathe.

        • 74
          Iloathlefties says:

          ……….and our country bankrupt and big industry going abroad where they don’t have to pay lefty carbo and windmill tax garbage. All of our stupid politicians are really a bunch of thick buffHuhns.

  5. 7
    What a plonker, Rodders !! says:

    Just listened to “Ed” addressing Labour Party…he told them he was going to tell them preceisely how labour was going to win the election and then proceeded to tell them exactly why they’re not going to win the election…even the usually supportive BBC seemed somewhat underwhelmed by his “cunning plan”..

    • 20
      Flashman says:

      I’ve been very fortunate in my opponents

      I really couldn’t have hand-picked any better

      I still get a warm glow when I think about how kind the unions have been to me

    • 35
      Pre-Op Red Ed says:

      One-th I have had my knows operwation there will be no th-topping uth!

  6. 8
    MB. says:

    Seems odd that everyone who talks to him seems to record the conversation!

  7. 9
    Concrete Pump says:

    Can I still place a huge bet on Chris Huhne to be the next Cabinet Minister to quit ?

    If so what odds are available please ?

  8. 10
    Joss Taskin says:

    Surely all LimpDim campaign material is printed on recycled bog paper ??

    I mean, their ‘policies’ are shite, aren’t they ?

  9. 11
    Cap'n Pugwash says:

    Shiver me Liberals !!
    Huhned, drawn and quartered !!

  10. 13
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    As a Pop star once sang.

    “goin down”

  11. 15
    Too close for comfort. says:

    So Park Communications Limited are into the green environmental stuff. Must be quite useful for them to be close to The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

    http://www.parkcom.co.uk/about.html

    • 23
      Flashman says:

      SHHHH!!!

      Mann made climate change is a right little earner. We’re all entitled to put a bit away for our old age.

      • 24
        God says:

        Man made climate change!!

        Pfft! Your arrogance is matched only by your delusion

        • 67
          Sensible Bloke says:

          Huhne is a denier of natural climate change. He’s a Canute (bad anagram)

  12. 16
    Electoral Commissioner says:

    It is the agent who will be in the frame not Chris Huhne. Election agents spend election money not candidates. Although if a re-run was called for then Huhne might find that difficult to win.

    • 25
      HandsomeDavid says:

      Please be aware that you cannot spend the same money twice.

      This was something that Gordon Brown was not aware of while at number 11. When he moved to number 10 this was pointed out to him so he started to use the term ‘new money’.

      • 37
        The Robert Maxwell Chancelor says:

        Brown spent everything he could get his hands on.

      • 50
        Thin Riming Maraca says:

        Brown was always at 10. What you mean to say was when he moved from Chancellor who found it difficult to say no to any spending to First Lord of the Treasury where he could not say no to anything spending.

    • 44
      Joss Ayinglike says:

      Especially if his scorned wife were to stand against him….

    • 56

      Bring it ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • 68
      Anonymous says:

      I’d say any Lib Dem would find it difficult to win at the moment.

  13. 18
    Officer Crabtree says:

    Looking forward to the by-election. The fool Huhne only won by a thoasand or so if memory serves so we might see the coalition losing a LibDem and gaining a Tory.

  14. 19

    I think the problem with investigating his election expenses is that they all candidates/parties tend to “overspend.”

  15. 21
    Yarnesfromhorsham says:

    OK fine but the MPs are still maxing out on expenses or has everybody forgotten

  16. 26
    goose gander says:

    What on earth are you giong to do when you have caged the Huhniigan, you will be at a total loss Guido what to have a go at next. What about moat cleaning man and duck house man no excuse that they paid back, only mitigating of their sentence.

    • 28
      goose gander says:

      It will go on their police record

    • 30
      Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

      Bill Wiggin and david Laws next, followed by Denis Mcshane.

      • 79
        Late to the party says:

        If the boys in blue read this please sort Laws out as a matter of priority.

        If he’s in the cabinet we’ll be living through the looking glass. ‘Tough on crime, …. oh fuck it I can’t pull it off, it’s a good soundbite though’ says Dave, formerly of the Conservative party.

        Eeuuugh!

    • 31
      I fucked Sally Bercow in the ass, hard. says:

      Then we can go after that cnut BERCOW.

    • 32
      Target Practice says:

      With over 600 MPs and nearly 800 peers. The loss of one huhne isn’t going to make much difference to the sport.

  17. 27
    Chris Hoon says:

    NICK WILL SAVE ME

  18. 33
    Eeu to me says:

    Should the complete green tosspot be told to lay of forcing green taxes on people and businesses otherwise “da lads” will come a knockin ,this itty bitty drip drip of info on the green tosspot will start to get him some lefty sandal wearing green tossers giving him sympathy,something which we don’t want..

  19. 34
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Can we just remeber that he has not been convicted of any crime yet, While it seems that he has done wrong it is intresting that he and the coalition didnot do a Laws (he resigned as sonn as the allegations came out), This maybe because he maybe innocent of the alleged crimes.

    We have to understand that everyone is entitled to a fair trail and we should not let our thirst for revenge get confused with justice.

    Fuck it , just hang him!

    • 41
      A P Herbert says:

      The fact that he hasn’t been convicted doesn’t mean that he’s not guilty.
      Ask Just-as-Seedy.

  20. 36
    I fucked Sally Bercow in the ass, hard. says:

    And I’m betting that the other mistress was even uglier than wizened wifey or his butch strapon mistress.

    This guy has a taste in fugly bints.

    Ought to be a hanging offence.

  21. 38
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Also i doubt i am alone in being disapointed that a MP hasnt tried to top themselves over expenses (as promised when the scandal broke), They cant keep thier word on anything!

    • 40
      Joss Taskin says:

      HAHA !! Well remembered, Billy !! Wonder if Tony B£iar might top himself over WMD ??

      • 42
        Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

        I think TB has about 20 milion reasons not to top himself.

        I mean if one MP had topped themselves over expenses it would have made it all worthwile.

        but the fuckers never get anything right!

    • 60

      Most of the brainless feckers would cock it up.

  22. 43
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    And while i am at it, Why has heather Brooke (Totty that exposed expenses) Not been knighted or made Queen or something?

    She provided a massive public service (In Fact more than any politicon since Baroness Thatcher) and yet she has recived no regonition for the outstanding public service she preformed.

    Bearing in mind since then Presscott and co have been elevated to the Lords.

    • 62
      i'm not a Yorkshire dimwit I aren't says:

      Prescott elevated to the Lords.

      A HUGE crane was necessary for the task if I remember.

      • 76
        Iloathlefties says:

        ……….and we know who ate all the pies. Hypicritical lefty bastard.

  23. 46
    Silly Billy says:

    My Spelling is crap
    Self-opinion high
    My comments are many
    But not worth a penny.

    Oh for a change
    From Silly Billy
    As for the umpire
    His decisions were dire.

  24. 53
    Ratsniffer says:

    Got to laugh at a headline in today’s daily mail:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389327/Anger-erupts-David-Cameron-refuses-Gordon-Brown-IMF-job.html#ixzz1N09y4xvW

    So let’s see now…the man who brought this country to the brink of financial ruin wants to run the IMF? The man who sold our gold at rock bottom prices – despite advice to the contrary? The man who bust a pensions industry which was the envy of the world? The man who left us with a structural deficit when he should have been putting some money away for a rainy day?

    The fact that nulabour nobheads think that he should even be shortlisted shows that these leftie socialist morons have learnt nothing and will be out of office for years.

  25. 61
  26. 63
    Kered Ybretsae says:

    Let us hope this boring tale of Essex folk ends soon.

  27. 64

    We wondered in Woking how the Lib Dems good all their material out within budget. Maybe by the same route ?

    This shows the Lib Dems in their true light.

  28. 65
    A View from Cumbria says:

    Surely expense issues have to be raised within 180 days of the submission of the return. That a Lib Dem submits a return which includes assertions of doubtful validity is hardly new. The practive of renting stakes and posters from themselves has always struck me as the most difficult to justify, not least from the point of logic.

    As has been pointed out, it would be the agent who would go to prison, not the candidate. BUT, it is all out of time

  29. 70
    Robert Mugabe says:

    I support the Lib Dems.

    By Any Means Necessary. Let that be your slogan, it’s mine.

  30. 73
    Common sense voter says:

    On reflection part of me hopes Huhne didn’t do any of it.

    He seems less of a tosser than the rest of them.

  31. 81
    Huhne Fire says:

    Keep the Huhne-fires burning,
    While your hearts are yearning,
    Though your lads are far away
    They dream of Huhne;
    There’s a silver lining
    Through the dark cloud shining,
    Turn the dark cloud inside out,
    Till the boys come Huhne.

  32. 82
    Le nom est Coq, Andycoq says:

    We do the same thing as libDems in Portsmouth. That is why us and Eastleigh did not follow the trend down in the local Elections. We have been reported to the Electoral Commission, about illegal donations, but they will do nothing now the Grand Master, Grand Lodge, has had a word with them. We also get lots more money in Portsmouth, because I am the Head of planning.
    The French accent? I am trying to perfect it, as I am off to Eastern Europe next week for a shagfest on taxpayer’s money. I reckon if I use the accent I will get laid more. C’est la vie!


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