Maude Pours Cold Water on Chief Whip Rumour
Wants to Get On With Reforming Job at Cabinet Office
Francis Maude has kicked back at the speculation he could be moved to replace Andrew Mitchell imminently. Tonight’s Standard reports:
“Senior minister Francis Maude is being tipped to replace disgraced Andrew Mitchell as Chief Whip amid growing pressure on David Cameron to fire the man who allegedly called a police officer a “pleb”. Mr Maude, who served as a junior whip under Margaret Thatcher between 1985 and 1987, is Cabinet Office Minister and Paymaster General with responsibility for making Whitehall more efficient.”
But a Cabinet Office source just told Guido:
“Francis wants to get on with the job of civil service reform and this government’s focus on efficiency and transparency. The Prime Minister made a very clear decision to keep him where he is at the reshuffle.”
It sounds like he could dig in if Cameron fires the trigger on Mitchell, as many are speculating he will tomorrow…
Nah! He’s a gonner.
Bye Mitchell,can’t say it’s been a pleasure.Never mind there’s plenty of African despots to suck up to.I bet it’s a nice little earner.
I’d let Francis whip me into shape!
Francis cannot keep his mouth shut, usually ends up giving stupid advice.
Would only pour petrol on the flames…yikes we have already been there…gives me the vapours!!
This week or all the hard work of the conference is wasted
He calls the Police plebs, and tells them to know there f…ing place and our PM still supports him.
The report below from the Tory Telegraph says it all
£9k for cleaning
£220 gardening
Altogether he ripped off us, the people, to the tune of £19 grand.
Having got away without prosecution and imprisonment the sleazy swine is now the new chief Whip, and wait for it “Parliamentary Secretary to The treasury”. I wonder how they get away with it. No doubt he will be safegiuarding his own treasury well. Slimeball grade one.
MPs’ expenses: Andrew Mitchell claimed over £19,000 on cleaning, decorating and gardening
Andrew Mitchell, a Conservative frontbencher who is in charge of the party’s policy on alleviating world poverty, claimed £19,000 for cleaning, redecorating and furnishing his West Midlands constituency home and garden.
Mr Mitchell also claimed more than £9,000 for cleaning and maintaining the garden at the property, including a £220 bill for “gardening and shrubbery removal”.Commons rules state that MPs cannot claim for “furnishings or fittings which are antique, luxury or premium grade” and spending must be “wholly, exclusively and necessarily” for work as an MP.
Last night, Mr Mitchell said: “The £2,000 monthly rate that I claim is less than the cost that I have incurred maintaining my second home and is less than the amount I would have been entitled to claim.”
He added that the costs for gardening were purely for maintenance and, in the nine years since he bought the house, it had been necessary to carry out “repairs, redecorations and renewals” and to buy “a small amount of furniture”.
All items delivered to London were sent to Sutton Coldfield, he said
He was just doing his bit by giving poor people jobs. Hope the people who had the misfortune to work for him start tilling his story.
Why cannot MPs stay in a bed and breakfast or a pub? If public is paying for these houses public should own it.
Put them in fucking dog kennels
He,s not coming near any dogs of mine,He,d be calling them fucking mongrels and curs and demanding they open the kennel doors so he can get his bike in.
The plod ignoring Jimmy Saville abusing little girls for decades but that’s OK when they can threaten a guy with arrest for wanting to go through the wrong gate, I would call them worse than plebs. I’ve no time for Mitchel, he’s a twat but lets get it in perspective here.
Mad Frankie is just pouring petrol on the flames.
But if only he’d fucked kiddies, he’d have been safe…the BBC wouldn’t have been interested in him.
now then now then
Nice photo – what do you call a collection of cvnts?
There has to be an immediate reformed plebiscite.
Cameron would be mad to move mad Frankie Maude, he scares the bejeezus out of contractors and the civil service. Oops my mistake I assumed sanity in Cameron.
Let’s face it, Maude talks a good game but 2.5 years in and virtually fuck all’s changed.
They are waiting for Jim to Fix It (sorry)
Renamed Screwfix.
Mitchell is history.
Hurrah!
So is the BBC
Fuck them.
The BBC must resign!
What’s all the fuss about?
You’ll never hear that off a Labour
nutterMP Doc.Ed Millionairebad says “Is Mitchell a millionaire, I know I am, whoops”.
Your also a dopey twat Mr Nasel
Not heard anything from Wee Dougie Alexander, since Brillo ripped him to pieces over Ed Millionaireband’s lies over the £40k cheques. Poor Wee Dougie is not a good enough labour liar.
I seem to remember that he comes from an elite Labour family, they were described to me as most unpleasant and dangerous, not nice people.
How suitable for labour.
In one Doc, in one!
Get away! Who would’ve thunk it?
Dave has appalling taste in character judgement.
Mitchell, the pleb hating toff, will survive to humiliate Cameron at a later date.
Mitchell should go for his wasting of billions of “our money” at DFID.
You can see his point. The Paymaster General post has been in the Maude family for generations.
suitable name you chose i’d say
Leave mad Frankie Maud where he is. Anyone who can stop these Union leeches from bleeding the tax payers dry is OK with me. As for the Leiber trolls on this site moaning that he isn’t doing things quickly enough, let me tell them that he’s moving at the speed of light compared to Militw*ts lot, who are owned lock, stock & barrel by the Unions.
Frankie would be better placed reforming the Spineless Wonder’s Cabinet…I can thing of some dead wood that would be most welcome for Bonfire Night…and there is plenty in the shadow too…some woodworm riddled furniture to start with eg.
Villers – wouldn’t put her in charge of a cart (and not a £40 million one!!)
Alexander – sudden death oak syndrome anyone?
Hunt – woodlice already on the case
Grayling – grrrowl baldie… put that pathetic attempt at a truncheon down
Mitchell – woodentop..sort of apt..and surprised not used in his invective
Lansley – a rotten plank has more charisma
Archer oops Shapps I mean – a treasure chest made of veneer
Cleggers – lost in a forest of his own sincerity
Cable – the box is ready
…and that’s without really trying..c’mon down Frankie!!
Did Mitchell know anything about the Jimm’ll fix it era?
Ahhhhha.
Let’s face it, we should all resign.
Hunt must know
Maude. secretly wants to be Scottish prime minister.
Mad frankie goes to Holyrood
Chillax,don,t do it
I want the Chief Whip to keep an eye on Ian Corby. He’s a toe rag.
I want a job where I can get stuck in there and sort the buggers out.
Speaker?
This is the only sensible idea to come out of the Conservative Party in ages .
I heard a rumour that the Transport Secretary might get Mitchell’s job…
Mitch is goin nowhere,he’s got new job lookin for an honest pleb,sorry that should be plod!
They said : Don’t play our music.
We said : Forqu I wont do what you tell me.
Bomb track