Shapps Tie Was No Lie
Guido called BS on Grant Shapps’ claim yesterday on the Daily Politics that his tie cost £4, but low and behold the new Tory Chairman has published the receipt:
This sartorial butchery shows just how much the party has changed.
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Ah! Monika says:
Google-eyed-Dave
£4 for tie.
Is it on expenses tho?
Bloody hell! Fifteen quid on on a basic white shirt and four quid for a tie. Has this toff got money to burn?
It was a three pack. I am very proud of my children.
i could get those for two quid the lot at iceland — or a one pound remaindered job lot at SAMS 99 p in Tooting !!
Just a quick reminder. This year there will be hundreds of thousands of immigrants coming to Britain. And this will be repeated every year. Statistics show they will have much larger families than indigenous British families. This will result in millions of outsiders every decade. I am intensely relaxed about this.
I’m not so intensely relaxed about Balls’ plan to introduce a Wealth Tax unless, of course, former Liebour apparatchiks are exempt.
I mean, my £ 8million mansion and Tony’s portfolio of 10 houses wouldn’t be involved in Ed’s State appropriation of wealth, would it ?
You just need some “charities” to funnel it through old boy. Of course anyone representing a charity today needs first class travel, 5* hotels, huge speaking fees -it’s the life we deserve for modernising Britain and moving forward the ethnic cleansing of the British.
Only last week I trousered £150,000 from some African charity. Should help in the battle against Cherie’s mastercard spending sprees.
The Office of the National Censor in conjunction with the BBC has banned discussion on this subject. Oh and Labour Debt.
Dave’s stuff is probably handmade in England. Grant’s is almost certainly China sweatshopped.
Shapps at the Shops – whatever will the next scoop be…?
Laws in the loos ?
Breaking news:
Read all about it
Tory spad buys a toilet roll.
No news yet from our highly paid investigative reporters on where the product was purchased, the price or the purpose of said purchase but, have no fear, we will get to the bottom of it.
Interesting that Shapps has the time to dig a receipt out and publish it online, but not the time to do his job, learn about the industry he was paid to be minister of and find out how much it costs to build a house? (see http://www.ipinglobal.com/ipin-live/406510/holy-housing-shapps-man-it-should-be-possible )
Little wonder the country is in the state it is!
Affordable housing AKA shithole crime ghetto.
Right. so you want to jugde the conservative party by how much they pay for ties. Doesn’t sound very butch worrying about the quality of a man’s tie.
Get knotted
I distinctly overheard the Duke muttering about the bounder using a Windsor knot.
How far have we have fallen as a country that a wealthy person has to pretend that he’s “down with the people” by buying a cheap tie. Would have more respect if he’d just bought a nice silk tie from M&S for £20.
Why are they all ashamed that they’ve got money? We should be aspiring to better ourselves not make ourselves poorer!
You would respect someone more if they had a nice silk tie? That’s pretty frightening. I suppose you’ll be voting Labour if Miliband appears in a Hugo Boss suit with a crushed lilac silk tie.
Sounds butchissimo – I love the whiff of lilac.
A Hugo Boss suit… A subscription to Chap magazine is in order for you squire!
Grant’s Chaps?
Fascist
How far have we fallen as country when we dissect every single sentence politicians says and their every boring act, even down to their choice, cost and purchase of ties?
How utterly pathetic.
This also appears to a backhanded apology from Neo-Guido
On the other hand he might be a tight git who doesn’t give a shit about poncy ties.
Did he do a PPE ? Nope, an HND at Manchester poly.
(NB : joke for pedants in there).
Oh please what a load of tosh. Will claim it as expenses anyway. MP buys a tie for £4 and this is an indicator of how the Tory party has change….LOL
Errrrr quick look at ipsa shows that Grant Shapps made following claim.
Welwyn Garden City to Woodhall Community Centre by Taxi = less than one mile.
Why didn’t he walk !!!!!!
Claim Ref. No. 0000173895
MP Grant Shapps
Financial Year 2012-13
Expense Category Travel
Expense Type Taxi MP Staff
Amount Claimed £4.50
Amount Paid £4.50
Amount Not Paid £0.00
Amount Repaid N/A
Status Paid
Date 27/04/2012
Journey – Welwyn Garden City Station to Woodhall Community Centre
Details – Taxi was taken as no other means of transport was available
Errrrr and he also claims travel, parking and lunch expenses for his intern…every day !!!!!!!
£25 A DAY, EVERY WORKING DAY !!!!
How much less than a mile. Let’s say it is 9/10ths of a mile and would take him 15 to 20 minutes to get there, assuming he knows the way. Assuming he is paid more than £13.50 an hour, spending that time stolling about is probably dead time, unless this is his first visit to a garden city and needs to see what one looks like, whereas a two minute cab ride gets him to where he needs to be and he can get on wih his job.
On the other hand, if it is only about 100 yards away, then taking a taxi is a bit lazy.
I live one mile from my own town centre and when it’s peeing down, snowing, or I am short for time, will often get a cab into town. So what?
LOL……..Did you pay for the Taxi “Really”…or did you get the rest of all to pay for it.
I suggest you look at Mr Shapps Expenses, very fond of Taxi’s.
errrrrrr “Straws – Clutching – at”
Mr Shapps. in common with all other MP’s, takes taxis on short trips to avoid being accosted by foot-scrapings with a grudge, MK. When an MP is subject to attempted murder or pelted with eggs by any moron who wants 15 seconds of fame on the Telly, it’s a matter of making yourself a hard target..
Snob
How times have changed.
Four years ago we were talking about how Gordon was going to squander another squillion pounds on his client voters.
Today we are talking about how the Conservative Party Co-Chairman spent £4 on a tie, and managed to recall the fact on live TV.
Wheras Gordon Brown always dressed as scruffily as if he only ever spent £4 on his entire outfit and Dave Cameron is still wasting a £squillion.
Gordon Brown is dressed by MIND.
I am more surprised that whoever wrote this piece does not know the difference between LOW AND BEHOLD AND LO AND BEHOLD
Good God – it’s “Lo & behold”, NOT “Low and behold.
Ignoramus.
Not if it’s a low-cut dress, not that I ever think about such things, oh no.
LOL Day Break Dave on Day Break again. You couldnt make it up.
LOL You’re watching Day Break ??!! You couldn’t make it up.
Oops – sorry @ Jan: our posts crossed.
Great. He has now given me the last 4 digits of his credit card number so I can steal his identity and defraud him
Where would we criminals be without twats like this
Not for nothing is he known as Grant 1234 Shapps.
He claimed that someone had hacked into his website and posted scurrilous statements in his name.
He admitted that his password was 1234.
He was an IT security consultant at the time.
Grant. A man after my own heart. Probably wears the junk tie for the public’s benefit and uses the silk ones to hold up his strides when ploughing the property in his Rolls.
Tough at the top to appear normal these days.
Let us all hope and pray that whilst he is party chairman there is the same openness and attention to detail with regard to all accounts .
His £200 tie was bought under Michael Green.
Using a pseudonym to conduct business. Well Dodgy.
Well, he is Jewish. Careful with his (our?) money.
So shouldn’t Guido apoogise? Be honourable…
Shapps bought his tie from M&S, made in China, so glad that he is helping our economy, why could’nt he have bought one made in this Country ? he is a disgrace, just like his boss and virtually all of the other idiot selfish politicians.
“low and behold”
The GCSE problem is worse than I thought.
Spelling doesn’t matter. Research by educationalists has proved that they just learn the word shapes and the spellings emerge organically in their heads when they want to write a word.
Just the way that Gordon managed the economy
Wonder does Bryant buy his Y fronts there as well? Soooo sexy