Guido catching out TUC National Organiser Carl Roper and his misleading Pilgrim spinning has certainly upset the union cheerleaders today. Roper has gone AWOL, and as of yet the TUC have refused to comment.* It seems they unwilling to defend him…
Others are not staying so quiet though. The TaxPayers’ Alliance’s Matthew Sinclair confirms that Roper was wrong:
“The TUC undermine their own credibility with this shoddy and dishonest attack on our research. The careful and systematic TaxPayers’ Alliance investigation of trade union subsidies is an invaluable source providing a detailed picture of how unions are receiving subsidies across the public sector at the expense of taxpayers and frontline services. However because of organised attempts by the unions to frustrate that research, and the poor record keeping of many public bodies, we have always made it clear that the overall estimate that research provides will be much lower than the true figure. The new figures in the consultation document support that and suggest the true total could be much higher.”
Chairman of the Trade Union Reform Campaign Aidan Burley emails Guido to say:
“Just four days into the consultation and Carl Roper and his Union cronies are already reverting to misleading the public with false statistics – £36m is just the cost of Whitehall Pilgrims, not across the whole the public sector. TURC estimates the true cost nationally to be well over £100m, especially when free office rents and free collection of union dues are taken into account. Mr Roper should try to explain why his comrades need to immorally divert all this public money to fund their left-wing propaganda - which should be spent on nurses and teachers – rather than mislead the public with dodgy statistics that deliberately try to minimise the extent of their taxpayer-funded largess.”
It’s going to be a very long consultation at this rate…
*Guido would happily have given the TUC a chance to respond. He is fascinated to see how they might spin this one.
The Trade unions are like Labour, full of spin!
It’s a shambles !
Dis you spell that four letter word ” spin ” correctly Madam ??
The milky bars are on me.
Equal pilgrim rights for wimmin!
Equal? Shuperior, shurely.
shut up harbottie
is this a good day to bury bad news?
Bit unfair to wait for a TUC reply over lunch isn’t it. Even unions like a 4 bottle lunch, give it time and I am certain they will reply
You are Bob Crow’s third-line commis waiter and I claim my 5 bottles of Krug.
Bob loves a nice glass vintage Beaujolais nouveau. He knows posh allright
Have Labour sme-red that 14-year old boy yet?
Turns out he is actually a 38 year old, disqualified doctor from Iran
Iran?! I told them to leak that he’s a 38 year old disqualified gynecologist from Afghanistan with convictions for rape! If you want something done right…
I wonder what he actually thinks “the government” should do about youth unemployment. “investing money to help young people” suitably vague.
Strikes me that he’s just a bit of a publicity hungry little wannabe PM. Biggest smear I’d do is photoshop him into a picture next to William Hague.
Here’s a couple of clues, stop punishing with employment taxes, employers who employ people and stop importing millions of people into a free for all welfare state.
Are you saying he actually believes that?
He should have told that to William Hague.
Is there a “D” notice on the census figures? I barely caught amention of it on the BBC and certainly not in conjunction with increased immigration.
I agree, do you think it possible that the BBC has a bias against the truth?
Local papers in London have them, but without the online facility to comment turn on.
Is Issac Duffy the new Owen Jones of the right?
Hopefully, though, when he is 27, he will LOOK 27.
And will be attracted to the female of the species.
And have a working knowledge of financial concepts.
And never be on the Bbbc
The directors at G4S should resign!
Just look at him. The vulgarian face of modern Britain.
God help us.
Wot no PMQ’s for the next eight weeks ??
I’m out of a job again !!
Wot about me!
I’ve been on a roll. I’ve been licking bottom at PMQs
My first avowed intent was to be a pilgrim.
Amen to that !
We have full confidence in Buckles. We are as clueless and arrogant as he is!
I thought that your bloggers would like to be the first to know that I intend to take the refund and fuck off.
I have no further comment to make at this stage !
You are ‘arry Potter aged 45 and I claim my free broomstick
I’m certain he is Des Kay
I like your style. You have provided the grand vision for the provision of public services in this country.
Yours in clover,
Dave x
What I can not understand is why you took all that shite from Vaz and his grandstanding cronies.
The truth is hard to conceal.
Hi as you know Parliament is closed for the next 8 weeks. I will be doing a research study during this time looking at the economy in Finland. I will come back with loads of tips which I will apply just as soon as I can.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2148493/First-official-Angry-Birds-theme-park-opens-games-creators-look-big-Disney.html
Unions provide a great service at a cost to the public purse of only sixpence a year.
Yet each Tory backbench millionaire steals food from the very mouths of babies.
This independent research bought to you by me, as I waste all day making up drivel instead of teaching.
So G4S are claiming the £57m management fee and can only guarantee 4,200 ‘guards’
Bargain only works out at 13.5 grand per guard which is the same as paying them to do 1600 hrs work
My government did not sign this contract
Wesign! Wesign! Someone must Wesign for this tewibble cwock up!
He just doesn’t get it..beggar’s belief..too far, too fast etc…
{sent from my Ipad in the Seychelles}
We should have a public inquiry into Choc Ices, G4S and the rain.
I have a vision of a Socialist Utopia
dystopia
diarrhoea
You’ve never had any vision. That’s been both your misfortune and your excuse for decades.
Oi! Leave my saucepans out of it.
Some beans and some beans are four beans.
There is a bad smell and its not Baldrick
Did anyone else see the Private Eye jubilee special with Polly Toynbee as the queen?
No
And exactly when did you not see the special?
COME ON COME ON
Shall I invoice the beeb for that question Paxo?
I didn’t see it next week
We WILL be rewarded for failure, we WILL trouser the £57m management fee.
Money is king. Call me Dave agrees with me.
Well G4S could always walk away and not pay any of the 4000+ guards they have recruited. Or does the idiot Vaz expect the company to pay all their wages and get NOTHING back in return?
This gives me the strong impression that Vaz is a complete clown who has no idea about running a business. A lot like all his fellow Labour MPs.
We’ll be getting the bung whatever happens! We don’t care about delivery. Our moral compass broke years ago. We’re in it for the money, nothing else. Cheers UK taxpayers.
Did you all enjoy our show trial Stalin style in which we buckled Buckles to grovel at our feet much as Stalin did to doctors, academics and scientists in the 1930′s and 40′s?
We want to take the spotlight off Leveson’s show trial and put some music to our own trial starting with our new song “The Bullying Red Flag Schadenfreude Moment”
I don’t agree with same sex marriage. I see no reason however why a man can not get married in church to a goat for which he has strong feelings provided the said goat is an adult female. So why am I being discriminated against?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01jyzvg/The_Bottom_Line_Series_11_Episode_2/
That will be the day when our corrupt politicians go after their even more corrupt elite eurofatcats on the continent.
Now, now, there’s no need for any of that investigating the EU accounts nonsense. The last one who tried it was slung out on her ear and if anyone else tries looking too deep, they’ll get the same treatment too boyo.
Unfortunately they will be outclassed by the European crooks. Our home grown venal Liebor MP’s have absolutely no style or language skills worth a bent copper.
All they understand is shouting and screaming insults at people. Only have to look at the MP inquiries today and last week to see this in action.
This is why I wanted to be EU President to reduce the odds of our Liebor failure by bringing some class to Europe. Ho Hum
There is a 0% increase in my appearances at that Parliament thingy
Sent from my iPadded Cell
O/T – Amused me, anyway.
Scotland missed CO2 emissions target because it was too cold:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-18871679
The Arctic Monkeys would not have let us down like G2B have
Haven’t the Artic Monkeys melted yet?
HGV Monkeys?
Keep ripping the windscreen wipers off.
Its all “Fatcher’s” fault since she made us lose so much of our funds and we were forced to put thousands of our union activists into the public sector at taxpayer expense so we could finance our brilliant senior management and Ed Milliband’s Labour Party.
I flink you are silly bint
It’s a shame ‘those bloody tourists’ don’t ‘stave’ your fucking head in…..!
They’re here spending money.
What exactly do you do again..?
She tweets incomprehensible rubbish.
Shut up Sal. The people of Buckingham keep you in the manner that you have become accustomed.
Not for much fcuking longer they won’t….thats guaranteed…. you vertically challenged fcuking Pimping Parasite & your open gobb no ‘nickers slapper…….
Shame the constituents didn’t know the contempt you have for them when I was competing against your Dwarf of a husband!
If she believes she is in any way welcome at any time at Buckingham Palace then she is truly a sad and deluded woman.
My ancestors would have known exactly what to do with her.
You mean taught her to make a decent sauerkraut and chips?
I find the term dwarf offensive, would be much obliged if you could refer to him as the short arsed c.unt in future.
“You elected me and sent me to the House of Commons to represent the people of Buckingham. My election as Spe@ker is the greatest honour of my professional life and I am very conscious of the responsibility which it has vested in me. I shall strive every day to justify Members’ confidence and to help to restore the reputation of Parliament”
http://www.johnbercow.co.uk/
Fail
Mr Speaker, I’m hard at work on my next speech about political courage. In the afternoon I will be saving the world. Amen.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/332520/332520
I hate this country now. It has become totally fucked up. The tories have proved to be useless.
I had to check the calendar as I thought it was April 1st.
This should trigger a referendum maybe?
I see Ed Miliband is ‘reaching out’ to business leaders to become future Labour MP’s.
He could try executives that worked for Adams, Cruise, Oddbins, Focus DIY chain Haldanes, Habitat, Blacks Leisure, Peacocks, Acquascutum, Clinton Cards,Julian Graves – they would have the necessary qualifications for Labour
It will not work. They have relevant industrial experience, which is at odds with anybody else in Labour.
Last time they did that they got that fucking awful Alan Sugar!
Woolworths Pick ‘N’ Mix.
Wot..!! all these nasty Tory type companies went bust you mean ?????
can’t see the point we are very gifted in achieving the complete total bankruptcy of
UK plc this time with all of the talent we have at present ….
so cant see the need
Tony is back & Gordon is still here with the 2 Ed’s we don’t need anymore for when
we are back in control AGAIN……the IMF know that !!
I saved boom and bust and ended the world.
That’s right isn’t it Teddy?
Oh,
I ended the world and saved boom and bust, that’s better.
I read that the working class hero Euan Blair is looking for a safe seat.
Another clintonesque / wedgwood-benn socialist troughing dynasty emerges from the shit.
Can you stand for parliament in the UK while holding an Irish passport?
Why not? We have people from all over the world in our parliament at the moment whose basic loyalties lie elsewhere. So what’s another Mick in the mix?
Come on Matt answer your fcuking BBC supplied Apple iphone 4S
I need to get out of here fast……I can still drive…..just
Some big old lags are keen to impress there extra large shimmering Golden Rivets right up my Portuguese kakie Harris……
something about a Double Glazing scam “YOU” exposed…..
answer fcuk you Matt !! answer the fcuking mobile…….
its ringing now………
Oops Just been told to have a very long shower……on my own…..
Who the fuck is Keith Vaz ?
My Dishonourable friend raised a very useful point there !
You should have lamped him Nick. No person should be lectured to by that smarmy pompous prick.
Keith Vaz…. liked a cut-glass bowl so much, he bought TWO on expenses. He also likes lots of silk cushions, and claimed for them on his expenses too.
When questioned why he had bought two very expensive cut-glass bowls, he said he liked symmetry! I suppose he likes lots of very expensive silk too!
Funnily enough, the BBC didn’t really cover this horrible man’s predilictions – wonder why?
Oh yes we did we spent a very long 5 secs on the subject !!
Kindly retract you unfounded comments
Zo zorry, vat Vaz ze qveshtyun?
Well done the london cabbies. Total nonsense to not let them use the Zil Lanesa
+100
Help! My mouth is getting smaller again. Soon I won’t be able to spout bullshit in that really annoying weazily fashion.
Could soon start to look grim for Pilgrims. Always look on the grim side of life.
TA should keep digging-we’re talking about an iceberg effect here.