First Class Nandy
Labour’s recently promoted rent-a-quote Lisa Nandy has got into expenses bother before, so Guido is always keen to keep an eye on what she is up to with our money. Contrary to IPSA rules she seems to be openly flouting the ban on First Class travel. Almost every train ticket that she has claimed has been for First Class. Guido wonders what the people of Wigan will make of that…
While there is a loophole that says if a pre-booked First Class ticket is cheaper then that is fine, but Nandy seems to have been buying the tickets at different rates. A pre-booked First Class can be got for £36, yet many of her claims are for £77. The occasional standard ticket has been claimed for £44…
Guido put in a call to one extremely grumpy and rude Nandy staffer who didn’t seem too keen to chat: “We don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t book her travel. What’s you number? I might get her to call you back.” Needless to say the call never came, perhaps Nandy had a train to catch.
Up the workers!
Right up the workers……..!!
Up the Burkas!
Do as I say , not do as I do
What are you, some sort of socialist or something?
What the hell do you think a liebour mong is going to do?
Aha! She’s been flushed out now. She’s on the run.
Will she go into hiding or ask the standards commissioner to investigate these suspicious claims.
There is nothing wrong with MP’s travelling First Class on the Railways or Airlines. I always do it unless of course, I am deliberately economising on behalf of the taxpayer when I will travel in my new Range Rover Evoque or my dear wife in her new Mini Cooper SUV, both bought by the very same taxpayer.
Riding around in my Range Rover Evoque
looking for young girls to pick up and poke.
Boaz.
They’ll never learn because they don’t want to. They like the freely provided taxpayer dosh. It’s what they do…
Wigan and First Class are soul mates. Remember the Pier?
If you live in Wigan you never buy a ticket!
Silly silly Guido.
‘Ee lad, Oop an’under.
If you’re really local it’s not “silly silly”, it’s “daft bugger!”
That face!
Where IS that tractor factory converted to NuLiebor woman cloning factory, scary stuff indeed.
They are out there, claiming unreasonable expenses, with faces of steel!
‘Not the sort of woman you’d want to take a opened wage packet home to’ is an expression that springs to mind…
In Labour Party terms, she’s one of the lookers.
Great norks on her! I sadly live in Wigan…but didn’t vote for the tramp!
That’s what I was thinking. Just goes to show that these things are relative, of course.
Dunno, but until recently (ie some time during the reign of terror, 1997-2009) there was a tractor factory near me.
The EU said the company was a monopoly, as the big red shiny tractors it made were too good, so it had to be broken up. The local factory was sold to an Italian company, who proceeded to close it and move all the machinery to Italy.
The place is now a wasteland.
PS The area also happens to be a Labour stronghold. After all, its the Tories and Thatcher who closed all the factories, innit?
We consider 1979-1997 to be the Reign of Terror.
Nice Twinnings people moved their factory from North Shields to Poland thanks to nice EU grant. I will never drink Twinnings tea. Fookin traitorous fooks.
How odd! That Stephen Twinings bloke was on the telly yesterday telling us Singaporeans how wonderful his tea was and to go out and buy some.
Yes but if you take advice from a puff who’s driving criteria is which shit corporate will pay him to flog a product/service he wouldn’t been seen dead using then that’s what you get.
Actually Twinnings was stripped of its EU grant precisely because it moved to Poland:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-13632135
If he thinks people in Wigan can actually think then Guido must be pretty daft.
I suggest that you retain your anonymity my friend.
Need help finding a handle? Can i suggest a couple
Wigan Wonderer
Wigan Calling
Disappointed fron Wigan
Want some more?
Wigan Peer ?
its a put a red rosette on a steaming fresh pile of dog shit and the proles will vote for it kinda place.
Wig n Candle?
But (s)he’s right! Have you ever been there? I’ve been to some grim places, and it’s one of the grimest. Anything sentient quickly finds the way out and takes it. (But I’m allowed to think that. I’m required to, in fact. Not only am I an Englishman, I’m also a Yorkshireman. Wigan makes Armley seem like the Garden of Eden.)
According to Wikipedia Wigan is 98.5 percent white (it borders Merseyside) which automatically places it as more desirable than most Northern Lancashire towns and West Yorkshire ones.
Except that it’s full of old who born and inbred in Wigginizzadump.
Guido. But what about all the toffee-nosed land-owning Tories that bung red diesel into their chelsea tractors Giudo? When are you gonna chase them up/down? Just asking like.
But you bloody socialist are the ones doing the most shouting, cant have it both ways can you. Fact is you are as bent as the rest of them. All in the trougth.
can you provide some evidence of a tory, lib dem or labour Mp being caught putting red diesel please. if not you are talking complete crap or posting from the labour party.
Also can you ask Jackie Smith to pay back the money she owes the taxpayer please.
If this was Baroness Warsi, a Labour MP would have reported it by now ! strange isnt it ?
And speaking of “that lot”, even the terminally politically-correct worm that is Canada is turning! http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.ca/2012/05/saudis-demand-punishment-for-mcdonalds.html
A man is driving in Wigan looking for a DIY store.
He asks a passer by ‘ is there a B&Q in Wigan?’
‘Nay lad’ comes the reply . ‘ There is a W and a G but there is no B&Q’
That has got to be apocryphal. They can’t spell in Wigginizzadump.
What do you call a girl from Wigan wearing a track suit?
The Bride!
Q.How can you tell a lass is from Wigan?
A.When she has an orgasm, she doesn’t drop her pie and chips!
What does a lass from Wigan put behind here ears to attract men?
Her legs.
And me.
+1 (and I suspect, more)
There’s certainly a lot more saying that you are a pissed up lying dingle tramp with six toes!
TY and GF outclasses the BBC and the Guardian by a country mile.
What do you call a man from Wigan wearing a suit?
The accused!
What do you say to an employed person in Wigan?
Well funny you mention that. The car type, the registration, and where it was when I last saw it.
A detail but …
You’d have to be extremely lucky to get that £36 ticket – ridiculously off pe!ak travel. £77 sounds pretty cheap too. That’s not the slightest bit odd.
£77 would buy a day-pass for London Underground, buses and DLR, but only for zones 1 and 2.
Well you don’t notice what kind of ticket you have when your face is in the trough eating all the VAT paid pasties.
Eeeeeh bah goom Guido m’lad. Be careful old son she’ll be sobbing her hypocritical heart out t’Uncle Tom Watson and making a thin skinned complaint, about being picked on and on!!!
She can stay at my place overnight if she’s stuck.
Thirth Clath return to Dottingham pleathe!!
Peter Cleal will sue!
another no job politician age 32
She graduated from Newcastle University, Tyne and Wear, in 2001 with a degree in politics and obtained a master’s degree in public policy from the University of London. She has worked in the voluntary sector, as a researcher at the homelessness charity Centrepoint from 2003 to 2005, and then as senior policy adviser at The Children’s Society from 2005.
Nandy served as a Labour councillor in the Shepherds Bush Green ward, Hammersmith and Fulham, from 4 May 2006 to 10 May 2010. She was selected as the Labour parliamentary candidate for Wigan in February 2010 from an all-women shortlist.
gawd preserve us from these career Mp who have never run anything in thier lives. No wonder this country is in the shite.
She’s just like her ‘sister’ Jacqui Dromey, chosen on a ‘wimmins only’ list!!
Feckin’ socialist arseholes!
And I bet she wasn’t born and ‘bred’ within 200 miles of Wigan. She probably couldn’t find the word on a Super League fixture list.
Unforunately she is a Northerner brought in Bury so she had probably heard of Wigan before being given the nomination!
Pretty weak stuff Guido….Lisa is MP for Wigan 200 miles from Westminster.
Try this for size.
Tory Token Priti Patel….whose claims include numerous “”car hire”” claims from Home to Westminster
£180 a pop and errrrrrrr Witham to Westminster is only 45 Miles.
Shall we do it off the meter?
well it proves they are all at it, so let makes them all take public transport.
Ps can you ask jackie smith wher our money is.
And then there’s Diane Flabbott claiming £2-3K for taxi fares when she only lives in Dalston. Quite an achievement, considering cabbies always blank you if you’re black. Believe that…
dont care the rosette as you seem to … lock the lot up no matter the party and replace with honest people
i prefer the old way of doing things, which is hand the theives from lampposts around the houses of parliament, so thye can have an idea of what will happen if they are a bunch of thieves, after the first 2 dozen the rest will get the message
What’s the difference between ‘booked’ and ‘pre-booked’? Don’t both imply action in advance? Is this another instance where the meaning of a word is not understood fully?
Possibly that dead cheap tickets need booking many days, if not a week or more in advance. Booking hours or a day ahead gets you a seat.
most ticket can be pre booked up to 12 weeks ahead on trains. Unusually for the train industry the less notice you give (ie walk up on the day) the more expensive it is. This is unlike most industries such as hotels were the reverse is true, so where as the hotel indusrty discount rooms at the last moment the train industry does the opposite, so the train companies would rather have empty seats than fill them at any price and leave them empty!!!
Let me explain.
To satisfy customers, who want a choice, we have:-
1 ) Booking
2 ) Pre-Booking
3 ) Advance Booking. Same as Booking but employing Neuro-Linguistic Programming to make it sound snappier.
4 ) Reserving. Here we charge a premium to save a seat. We increase our profits if we reserve the same seat for several people. (Actual available seat not guaranteed)
5 ) Post-Booking. Buy your ticket on the train.
6 ) Fining. Works best when the train goes to the right destination but the passenger doesn’t realise the route is wrong, which is in fact immaterial.
7 ) Scally Discount. Hide in the Toilet on the train.
Expecting that the inhabitants of Wigan will be able to express any kind of coherent opinion is rather unreasonable. And anyone who has read George Orwell’s “Road to Wigan Pier” or indeed had the misfortune to visit the place will know that it is an utter shithole. That the clueless Wigan electorate voted in this Labour trollope in the first place, what do they expect? She is just behaving according to type. But then, so too, apparently, is the fragrant, dusky skinned Baroness Warsi.
She was parachuted into a all wimmin seat so had an advantage other than being jack dromey.
And The Road to Wigan Pier leads us directly to Animal Farm – and there’s Piggy Nandy, on two legs but with her snout in the trough, and being not quite as equal as others. Slimy creature.
MP caught thieving expense money … make her a Baroness
Typical of the Liebour scum. Nothing changes.
Think you might be wrong here Guido, standard class off-peak return from Wigan to London is £77. I do it regularly. Are you sure she’s been buying first class tickets?
Yup, seems to be a standard fare. Here’s a search for travelling down to London on a Sunday…
http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/service/timesandfares/Wigan/London/030612/1430/arr
Sorry, these are first class advance from £63.50 to £77.
Well, if I was the conductor she could ride for free, provided she let me rub some grease on those lovely buffers of hers.
Then I’d get some steam up in her funnel etc etc
Aah Nandy, perhaps short for Neanderthal and a fair description of most brainless socialists.
Generally speaking, the word “brainless” is superfluous when talking about socialists.
Excellent work Guido. She’s been caught in the act as a troughing first class traveller, all hoity toity aboard a gravy train of privilege and perks.
If you’re going to run interference for Warsi you could at least put a bit of effort into it. This really is piss poor.
Awfully sorry, old chap. As this is a place for tittle-tattle, here’s the tittle:
http://www.maxfarquar.com/2011/04/lisa-nandy-boobs-pmqs-cleavage/
Alternatively, just claim your refund and eff off.
Velly nice merons.
“run interference for Warsi”
Careful Jimmy. I imagine your brief for activity on here is to sound like a casual, salt-of-the-Earth worthy defender of Labour, not some wind-up-and-go rebuttal bot.
And for Christ’s sake, give your fellow party drones a briefing on how-to-not-come-over-like humourless-mindless-tribal-dildos will you?
In between singing The Red Flag of course.
Are the rules the same for M’Luds and Ladies. I was on Hull Trains Service and saw Lord Prescott in First Class. A few weeks later a Conservative North Yorkshire MP was sat in Economy.
Thati is nothing compared with that good old socialist Franky Hollande.
When seeking the Presidency he said that he would save money by taking thr train rather than the plane.
He went to Brussels the other week by train to attend what was euphemistically called a ‘summit’ when the reality was it was a dinner appointment which believe it or not lasted 5 hours and sweet FA was agreed as a consequence.
The last train back to Paris had left so what does this 57 year old bachelor eco warrior do?
He gets someone to drive him back to Paris in a hire car and sends the bill to the taxpayer!
You are so lucky in England.
Thanks to her party’s policies we have reached this point. This week we offered a job to a long term unemployed man who hasn’t worked for over 2 years. He has retrained at Government expense. Whayyyy
But he cannot start for 2 weeks. Why? Because he’s taken his family on a 2 week holiday to Turkey.
That’s your legacy Gordon
Slight problem here; you don’t seem to have quite grasped the rules.
From the IPSA website;
“Reimbursement for rail journeys is limited to the rate of an “anytime standard open” ticket for the same journey prevalent at the time of the claim. If you can supply evidence that a first class ticket was in fact cheaper than an economy class ticket, IPSA will accept the claim.”
http://www.parliamentarystandards.org.uk/FAQs/Pages/Can%20I%20claim%20for%20a%20first%20class%20ticket.aspx
So provided she stays under £141 – the price of an “anytime standard open” – she’s within the rules. There is no “ban on First Class travel” for her to flout.
The other apparent problem is that you don’t seem to appreciate that there isn’t a single “pre-booked first class fare”.
By the way – any progress on finding out what’s wrong with Tom Watson’s comment on p312 of his book? You went strangely silent when challenged on this on LC.