Jet-Setting Former PMs Funded By Taxpayer
Mad Frankie Maude has released the figures showing how much former Prime Ministers have been claiming in allowances over the last year. Both Tony Blair and John Major asked the taxpayer for the maximum £115,000 in order to “meet the costs of public duties“, while Margaret Thatcher claimed £109,191. Former Prime Mentalist Gordon Brown made sure no one can say that he’s worse value than Tony, undercutting him by a crafty £1.83. Guido doesn’t quite understand why Blair, Brown and Major need a hundred grand each from the taxpayer each year while they make millions swanning around the world…
Hang em!
Imagine how much more it would cost if we had Presidents as well? Not just these expenses but pensions for each sordid one of them on top. Then there are all the pensions and dosh that our beloved European Presidents and their hangers-on get. Look at Kinnock!
Don’t look at me and my family boyo, there’s nothing to see. We made our millions fair and square and anyone who says otherwise, doesn’t know me, or my my saintly wife, or my completely honest son either.
Aye Kinnochio, I’ve just seen how the EU commission makes sure you pay no more than 8% tax on your €150,000 Euro-salary.
There’s yuckyda for you boyo.
Quite agree! Kinnock: the falling man on Brighton beach who was voted against and yet ended up with more power over our transport policy than No.10 as an unelected commissioner on mega money + even more mega expenses Then it gets better with his even more untalented spouse in the same trough and then his son marries the Danish PM (who is a girl – which is a bit of a surprise) – happy days – isn’t politics wonderful.
“the falling man on Brighton beach who was voted against and yet ended up with more power over our transport policy than No.10 as an unelected commissioner on mega money + even more mega expenses”
Looks like Farage can look forward to a very bright future indeed with the EUSSR, as he climbs up the abolition ladder, firmly withdrawing it behind himself, whilst gripping the expenses piglet tightly under his other arm…
Yes bloody expensive Pressies, not at all like them cheap Qeens and family.
I have no problem with people getting filthy rich, as long as they
take it from their taxpayerspay their taxes.……and how much does is the highly expensive security for Mr Blair. What is its geograhical remit.
It is not in the public interest to keep them alive. Why are we paying for it? Paying to have these traitors and troughers executed would make more sense!
Blair’s not all bad – he’s fucking awful!
He’s slipperier than Call Me Dave & co.
and how much do former squaddies get?
£500..per month..after 22 years service, dependant on rank.
Bit of a one sided headline picture that , could you not find any pictures of Major or Thatcher to accompany a labour picture ?
Blair and Brown are evil filth. Thatcher and Major were much better.
Isn’t Thatcher dead already?
I wuv her!
Can we still blame her for everything ?
No, you sound a broken record!
Thatcher is still on £100,000 per year. How much incontinence-wear does one woman need ffs?
It’s probably for the heavies, security protection, former PM’s have probably made many enemies who might try to assasinate them. Fair do’s that is all part of the privilege of being an exPM it is part of the cost of the heavies pay
No, security is provided at additional expense to the taxpayer.
Why is Mrs T claiming all that money she never leaves the house
does she have a crack habbit ?
..or a rampant rabbit that needs feeding?
I thought rampant rabbits worked off a couple of AAA batteries….?
Why does a woman with Alzheimers need 100,000 for her public duties?
At least she can find her way to the House of Commons.
I am afraid she cannot. It was announced only a few weeks ago that Lady Thatcher is too frail to attend a lunch hosted by the Queen.
She has been diagnosed with dementia.
Again, a woman who has dementia and rarely leaves her home, somehow spends 100 grand on her official duties, which are probably 3 trips a year.
Sounds like “someone” is spending it “for” her…
You don’t seem to understand how very expensive it is as a ARCP founder member , all my investments are in these worth while projects. Mummy helps with my day to day living expenses where she can but I still live a very frugal lifestyle to achieve my aims.
ARCP = Active Regime Change Patron
Maggie would probably have to take a nurse/carer with her if she attends one of her official duties but not on the NHS she liked private, plus any requisites that might be needed, then the heavies tag along.
Have you seen the cost of Tena Nappies?
Ah, lefties, classy as ever.
Keep it up boys, so everyone can see the inner poisonous bile, of the self professed, caring, compassionate and inclusive leftard hypocrites.
Tribal tosser! You are welcome to each other.
Yeah it’s only the left who are nasty. I’ve certainly NEVER seen an insulting comment about Gordon Brown’s health problems (eyesight) on this website’s comment section….
Get a grip.
Having a glass eye is not a health problem.
Being a bully and completely fucking mental may be.
But ask yourself just how many ex-Labour PMs are still alive…Hmm…
Its the same claim for £1000 repeated 100 times. Guess she forgot.
Indeed.
A big fan of St Margaret myself, but this is really taking the piss.
Probably to fund a small office of spin-wankers and assorted hangers-on.
She is probably not even aware (of anything).
Brown need lots of underpants
C£U£N£T
The correct term is pads, not nappies I was told, so I wrote diapers in my notes, nobody quibbled. The people that wear them have to have them, that is if Social Services can get the size right, they might supply smaller ones because they are cheaper.
FFS who writes notes about incontinence pads? You need to get out more.
On the bright side, your comments add a new dimension to the term ‘taking the piss’
I’m sure Dave will earn every penny of his.
Just as John Major does, no doubt. Useless bastards, the lot of them
Didn’t Major also get a million pound a year job for life with some globalist corporation, for delivering Maastricht?
yes he still does & he used to, in my day, a have constant supply of curry takeaways on the side as well
£1.83 would be serious overpayment for Brown.
I’m value for money
What extra official duties fall to a former PM who is still on the payroll as an MP? Its not as if he had to attend the royal wedding.
Look, none of them have managed to waltz into EU sinecures so it is perfectly fair that they take four times the average wage for doing approximately fuck all.
Otherwise they might have to, you know, work. Ugh.
I think you’re almost there.
They get paid 115k to keep away from us.
Money well spent.
There are cheaper methods of achieving that result.
The EU: a new trough to snuffle in. Thank God we don’t have that in Canada.
If Quebec ever gets its Independence the first thing it will do is apply to join the EU (just like Scotchland)
They got so used to the idea of being thieving bastards while in office that they find it difficult to stop screwing the public!
Scandalous. Do you think there is anyway I can make Prime Minister now? Boaz.
Robbing bastards. Malfeasance and continuing on the public teat after ‘office’ should be capital offences.HANG THE MONEY GRUBBING BASTARDS!>
If I recall correctly this was set up by John Major. Amazing how you can make up a law that allows you to still be paid for doing a job that you no longer do!
Quite why former PM’s who command millions for lectures and speeches need extra funding is beyond me. Perhaps it’s a bit of “walking about money”
Still, good to see my tax money being well spent helping the needy!
It’s what I deserve for setting up the Cones Hotline.
Hows yer shareholding in Halliburton doing these days?
Ker-ching.
I am a great believer in maintaining our traditions in this day & age There is no desire to change them during this very difficult time as I intend to squeeze as much as possible out of you all.
Come on now little people. Unless they are private companies they must be worth every single penny.
To be fair, at least Gordon was returned by his electorate as an MP.
But, on the other hand, there should be a condition that only proper human beings can vote in parliamentary elections.
So surely he won’t need this extra bung as he still ‘works’ as an MP?
Well, when I say ‘works’…
The mongs in Jockland ought to pay for this twat’s upkeep if they are so stupid as to continue to vote for someone who only manages to turn up at the workplace around twice a year.
Yes, but that lot in Kirkaldy would vote for a poo if it had a red rosette stuck in it
Sir B, but wasn’t Gordon (allegedly according to this Blog) famous for poo
Was he? Or was it the amazing power of the postal vote that elected him? Presumably some Labour voting vermin supported him – but they don’t have to pay for him; that’s left to real people, robbery of whom keeps the socialist kleptocracy going.
Thatcher should use that money to pay for her own bloody funeral
That’s right Ukipling, pick on an old lady who can’t defend herself! She obviously can’t be filling in the forms herself, and probably has no idea she’s getting this money, so some-one should ask her ‘staff’ who is claiming this money on her behalf and why.
Pick on an old lady who can’t defend herself?
Like, I dunno, a coal miner’s widow on state pension?
You see how emotive arguments are not particularly effective now, don’t you?
FFS, the coal miner’s widow must get free coal, and surely the Miners Union are bunging her a few quid. By the way, how far back are we going with this coal miner’s widow? Are you Ed Milibandwagon by any chance?
Straight over your head, wasn’t it?
No, Eddy is southern panda
Well there’s a lot less coal mining widows now there’s a lot less taxpayer-mining members of the NUM.
Thatcher (PBUH) offered to sell the mines to the NUM for one pound. They wouldn’t take it as they knew the mines only really mined the wallets of taxpayers (and the hearts of those families above ground).
Nice to see an example of the infinite monkey theorem put into practice
“Guido doesn’t quite understand why Blair and Brown need a hundred grand each from the taxpayer each year…”
Implicitly, then, Guido does understand why Thatcher (who is basically incapable of performing any public duties) and Major do. Perhaps he could enlighten the rest of us.
Oh do fuck off, anonymong – Thatcher deserves it for saving the country from the unions, while Major at least didn’t totally fuck up the public finances.
To see the ruiners of our country still grabbing all they can get from the public purse is just wrong – for 115K we could lock them in the Tower and generate some income from throwing vegetables at the bastards.
Those people, whether you think they deserved respect or not for their achievements were already rewarded when in office. PMs are paid in our country. Once out of office there is no reason to pay them huge sums of money on top of any pention entitlements they also have.
Careful.
You’ll have the Don’t Be Unkind To Vegetables brigade onto you like a flash…
That sort of shaky logic would suggest that every man and woman who helped save our country from the Nazis also deserves a decent stipend.
That might not be £109k for sitting around dribbling, but a bloody sight more than the pitiful money and appalling treatment meted out to them by your gaga heroine.
Well they deserve a lot more than the third world immigrants who displaced them.
How much do former deputy Prime Ministers take us for?
Plus ca change…….Britain is institutionally corrupt. Democracy is a fiction invented by elites to keep themselves in power. There is only one answer : Madame Guillotine.
Robby, I have said that many times, and Madame Guillotine did give a remarkable shave
J’attends toujours (avec une grande carton de popcorn dans mon sac).
Who the fuck pays Gordon Brown millions?
He keeps us in business.
His crooked bankster friends.
Have you seen the cost of professionally dry cleaning white baptism cloth?
Tony Reminds me of L Ron Hubbard.
I’ll tell you all about my spiritual services (for only twice my normal fee).
Fuck, we’ve been found out. We really are utter c’unts and deserve stringing up. The dominoes have started to fall. No senior banker should feel safe at night.
They don’t need it but they are peculating Hunts, like all Lefties.
Disgusting especially knowing that Tin Cam will get it also.
I hope Deputy PM’s get fuck all though at least that will put half a smile on my face
Its a consolation prize for having no morals.
Thatcher deserves a place in history as one of the most devisive, spiteful, selfish and meglamanaical leaders this country has ever had the misfortune to suffer.
It is totally unjustifiable that a multi-millionaire should receive one single penny from the public purse, especially when the millions they have came from that same purse in the first place.
The above was supposed to be a reply to 23.
Doesn’t stand up to scrutiny anyway. Her millions (if that is what you are referring to) came from a succesful husband.
Sadly she didn’t reform the education system which might have improved your understanding of what she did.
SOME of her millions came from her husband, others came from milking her reputation after she left office, at least 2 million has come from this insane scheme Major instituted, I dare say a fair bit came from becoming a Baroness.
Let’s not forget all the taxpayer dosh she has raked in, year after every year, since 1959.
That’s right, over 50 years of taxpayer sponging and scrounging, from someone you admit was already a multi-millionaire before taking office.
Blair and the jock mong and Major and Heath and the whole fecking lot of them are just as bad, I just do not understand why people cannot see what a thieving bitch she is, just because she defeated über-twat Scargill.
If you haven’t got much of an argument, you could just say that I was thick, if you like.
I quite agree the political classes are all grasping types sans parentage; howevre your argument is somewhat floored. She did rake in cash but for much of that time she was a serving MP. On that basis you should be raging against every MP elected since 1959?
Ditto for membership of the Lords -especially since Tony and Gordon’s ‘expansion’ of the ermine wearing brigade. Why no complaint about them?
Whether it is Thatcher,Brown,Blair, Major or anyone else is irrelevant. The real question is why our political classes think they can do this and think it is right.
Tribalising the issue actually diverts attention from it.
floored or flawed? Still, I suppose either will do in this instance.
I haven’t tribalised it. Read it again and you will see that I have the utmost contempt for the lot of them, regardless of the colour of rosette.
Strange that some worship the bitch for ‘removing scroungers from the teat of the public purse’ when she has been busily sucking away at the very same teat for over 50 years.
I haven’t got the time or space here to list all the bastards I will hang when I am king, but yes, it would include any other tossers who have lived the life of Riley courtesy of extracting money with menaces from the average Joe for the last few decades.
Yeah, most of the fools in this column love the old witch. Yet, it was Thatcher’s policy to liberalise the banking/money sectors which lead to the sorry state we’re in today.
would that be “Glass Steagall” removed under the Clinton regime??
She didn’t make them greedy. They did that themselves. It was Blair/Brown who encouraged them to fill their boots – for deferred kickbacks probably, and neutered any regulation or oversight of their behavior.
Er cutting unionist leeches off the taxpayers teat was selfish????
There only one thing worse than a Leech, and that’s a Leech that complains it’s not getting enough.
Thatcher (PBUH) SAVED this economy from the left-wing leeches.
Don’t go tribal on me, just because I can see what a horrible bitch she is doesn’t make me a lefty.
Dealing with the unions did not need to involve wrecking the mining industry, nor the lives of those associated with it. She went too far, motivated by pride and arrogance.
The privatization of utilities has, largely, proven to be an utter disaster. Energy bills have quadrupled in real terms since her day, partly because of expensive shareholders and bosses, partly because we closed most of the coal-burning power stations, because buying expensive oil from Arabs, even when we have our own supply, makes so much more sense, eh?
It is reported that Wedgie Benn closed more pits that the Blessed Margaret.
Just saying…
I’d hang him too. And his quarter-wit son with the gay name.
I am a lying c’unt.
Salute the lucre!
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LOL & ROFLMFHO twice……..
Keep it up …..its better than whats on the Box…….
Where’s that fcuking Sue !!! this is all down to her…….
They make up faces and stories simultaneously. Who said lefties could not multi-task?
This Rampant Rabbit is excellent!
Given that Attila the Hen can’t leave the house without weeing herself that’s some pretty impressive troughing.
Factually wrong but don’t let that get in the way of a good lefty rant.
Bizarre that given the obsession with expenses, the one politician whose claims put everyone else in the shade appears to be off limits. What is it with you people? It’s like you were a meeting of Outrage and I’d just said something rude about Judy Garland.
Bitch
Sorry to dampen the flames of outrage, but I suspect that the cost is actually for their close protection teams. All ex-PM’s are entitled to it, as are former NI Secretaries of State and others.
Any person suspected at risk through previous Crown Service is entitled to it
I think you are wrong. Protection is not paid for out of their allowance.
Well then take them outside and …
you know the rest
I heard some one say this is one of the Security Contracts G4S is very keen to get !!
as there bid is 45% below anybody else…….
St Tony, who now glides across Water, will be very pleased at this breaking news………
If they get this contract there will be daily reports of missing VIPs.
We can but hope.
Wrong.
Just how far do you think 115k would go with Special Branch?
They have MP’s wives to entertain they have expensive tastes.
In fact let me tell you a story *tthhup* ………….
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eh? I thought Mrs T was practically confined to barracks these days.
They are all just taking the absolute piss out of the country.Trouble is these arse hole MP’s just treat this country as a free drinking/gentlemans club for life and no one does a thing about it.
Here here, Quite right to….its part of our traditions !! we can’t change that can we..?
Hear! Hear!
Dont forget we are all in it together.
I am currently, oh yes, travelling the world to educate all right-thinking people about the dangers of mediocrity.
Perhaps you’ve read my book? Two hundred and fifty thousand shades of grey.
I’d like to stop this blatant abuse, but I’m worried I might jeopardise the gravy train for par moi même, de mon propre chef, as it were.
Am I right in thinking that they and their freeloading wives also get free accommodation in British Embassies worldwide?
MP Pilgrims
Most politicians are just a more successful variety of the crooks who come to your door, or send scamming emails and telephone calls. They promise to make life better for you, but you end up paying to make life better for them. Politicians should be recognized as members of the criminal classes.
Hang em all, build a scaffold in Parliament Square and put the Army in to shut Parliament. They are after all now only down the River.
It costs money to travel to Planet Zorg to negotiate a peace treaty don’t you know ?
Politicians should be means-tested. MP and ministerial salary: means-tested down to the minimum wage. No second jobs allowed while in office. All expenses publicised within 30 days of the claim. A five-year ban on consultancy activity and directorships following retirement. A means-tested pension deducted for income above and beyond a certain threshold.
For those who say it will deter the most talented people, just take a look at the bunch of idiots on the green leather benches nowadays. They are useless greasy-pole climbing silver-spoon PPEs, activists and wonks with no experience of the real world and without an iota of integrity in their bodies.