The MP Who Only Travels First Class
George Osborne wasn’t giving any answers on camera when Ed Conway asked him if he had ever travelled in standard class yesterday, though he did confirm “of course I have” off the record afterwards. But can the same be said for all Tory MPs? Step forward Daniel Kawczynski, the unpaid intern exploiting tallest man in Parliament. Shameless Kawczynski charged the taxpayer for first class tickets for every single one of the 72 train journeys he made between his Shropshire constituency and London since March 2011.
That adds up to almost £4,000 of our cash helping Kawczynski avoid the plebs over the last year. At the least the Chancellor pays his own way…
Everyone is equal but some are are more equal than others
It is an MP – can t they travel first class? £100 – so what?
Stop this Labour inspired bashing of excellence.
I really dont care if he travels first class or not ! the George Osborne episode was rediculous, he paid. I dont see why they dont travel by car. George Osborne must have had security with him, so a people carrier, or similar would surely have been cheaper for the whole party than train tickets.
It might have been cheaper, but it wouldn’t have been greener! Think of the melting icecaps, the drowning whales, the starving polar bears unable to hunt penguins. Oh woe!
Pay your green taxes, plebs. No complaints.
Toodle pip!
Polar bears live in the North, (That’s Up on the Map) whilst penguins live in the hemisphere (Down near the bottom). Polar Bears do not eat penguins, not even at London Zoo. MPs should not be accessing the subsidised junkie travel funds when traveling to or from their place of work. Public funds should only become available when they have reached/started employment as in the case of carers, nurses, doctors & Local Authority workers. It’s time for democracy to visit England & dump this 16th century embarrassment they call their Mother of all parliaments. I know it as a place that is constantly under police & internal inquiries.
Dave – bears eating penguins? Christonabike, think of all the airfares of the bears flying south for lunch. Doesn’t bear thinking about.
I hate to be an agitprop, but at 6ft 8.5inches tall, could it be leg room that’s the problem here – there is a lot more in first class.
I’m not saying that he isn’t a trougher like all the rest, but there might be an excuse this time.
Couldn’t he stand in the guard’s van like I used to do on the 18.37 from Paddington most evenings?
(Before I emigrated of course)
No wonder you waltzed off, Mat!
I wonder why they pay at all. Subsidies to the tracks and payments from the operators. Why not just put it into the contract, free travel for MPs and security between parliament and constituency. It is not like we want them on planes, or cars, and we would like to see them in the constituency sometimes.
There is no element of competition, MPs exist and they have to travel. Free market does not enter into the equation.
Consider it the same as OAP passes. It encourages them to move about and causes a mix of people on the transport that helps security. So give the MPs passes.
I read that as “give our MPs gasses” and heartily approved!
And what about SpAds travelling with MPs? They are neither MPs, nor security. In fact, they seem to be an additional security risk, considering the number of extra-curricular activies they are involved in.
The biggest issue is not 1st class ticket, the biggest is some MPs claiming as low as £6,000 a year while others are claiming as high as £200,000 a year. I cannot understand how there could be such a difference.
Can someone explain?
No chance.
An MP with a constituency in London and who lives in that constituency would clearly have much less need for expenses than one with a constituency in say northern Scotland.
Can that be £194,000 a year? For that money you can buy a nice flat in London. So do you mean they are buying a flat in London every year?
£194,000 for a nice flat in London? You are seriously tripping, I’m afraid, even in a shit area. You’d be lucky to see change from £250,000 for a piece of crap that used to be a crack den!
@Anon
You can see what each MP claims in expenses here > http://www.parliamentarystandards.org.uk/ (Ipsa website)
Don’t worry we can f_ck off the Scots MPs once they become a Peoples Republic. that should mean the travel bill for the remaining greedy f_cks should come down. If not just get them all a pass for f_cking MegaBus if they want to go anywhere that’s more than a Fiver they can just f_cking pay for it!
Is there anyone called Willy left in Banglatown (formerly Whitechapel) or do the current residents feel that everybody still needs a Willy?
What excellence? He owes his position to privilege and patronage in being selected as a candidate by the party, and then to the local voters, who probably always vote the same way, like so many elsewhere. If there’s any excellence anywhere in the Houses of Parliament, please point it out to us.
Let me smack the c_nt
‘excellence’
mind boggles
I think he is referring to the ex-cell ents like the expenses fiddlers and that…
But that’s OK for a socialist!
He’s a Tory, you retard.
Jesus the blog has gone to f_cking shite
Lol. I saw this post when it claimed Mr Polish-name was a Labour MP. How embarrassing!! I note the tune has been changed quite quickly.
What time does the referendum debate start?
Ill get back to you on that you have my cast iron pledge on it
What a huhne
Troughing Tory Twat. Boaz.
http://therantingkingpenguin.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/handycock-rides-gravy-train.html
Wot no car?
I’m not a diddly duck!
But you are fucked!
It’s his poor sodding constituents who are fucked for choice on the ballot paper. Another fine Parliamentary tradition that screws the voters!
My Eve is fine, thanks, you stupid woman. No wonder we are in a state if the Squeaker’s wife is fucking ducks and being sucked by buses. Time you applied to become a teacher of English perhaps??
Must have been cold on Paddys pikey site last night
You’d fuck a pikey , so why not a diddle duck ?
I need the leg room
And I need the leg-over room
Guido, did you not say other day that MPs were not allowed to claim first class tickets on the taxpayer from IPSA?
Correct. This story is nonsense. If he goes first class he has to pay the difference between the first and standard fares himself.
Non story!
The policy of bashing all sides equally hard can fall prey to the sort of unsatisfactory situation that all-women short-lists are in.
+1
Why do Tories always get the prettiest sheep?
Kawczynsk’s six foot eight, you try travelling in midget class if you’re that tall.
X 100
so let him pay then
Paying is for the little people.
I hope that girlfriend (in the pic) bleats on him…. and they doooo
I think you need a quick trip to specsavers, if you look closely, that is a sheep.
Sheep-rearing – and particularly those that are under-age – is an offence.
Maybe he goes in the”Sheeper” car
He’s been a b-a-a-a-d, b-a-a-a-d boy and he mutton do it again.
Come on Guido, is the hyphen on ration or something? Try “…the unpaid intern-exploiting tallest man in Parliament.”
Standards man, standards!
The poor chap has a look of Tony Blair !!!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4610792/british-exxonmobil-oil-executive-assassinated.html
SHIT ! Must go to Specsavers
Oh dear…He’s a Tory MP, not Labour.
To be fair, if I was 6ft 8 tall, I’d be looking for an upgrade too…
A quarter of all babies born in the UK are the children of imm igrants as mothers from Poland, India and P a k i st an give birth in record numbers.
Wonder why we have a housing shortage
This is also why it’s hard to get your kid into a good school. And exams have been dumbed-down accordingly, as so many kids don’t speak English as a first language.
The situation is worse in London, where 60pc of infants are foreign.
Well done, Labour. You utter spazoid c**ts.
What’s wrong with that? They have paid their taxes. In some cases, as much as £50.
I’m confused! Whenever I see tv footage of Parliamentary debates – the house is very sparsely populated (PMQ’s excepted when they all want to be seen) so why do we need so many of them travelling to London all the time. Surely in this electronic age a lot of business could be carried out remotely. It’s a triple whammy for the tax payer. Fund a constituency house & office, fund Parliament and 2nd homes in London AND the travel between the two.
Do they not have Skype in London?
They’re all taking the piss, they spend all their time working out the latest f_cking fiddle. They all need a good smack the mouth
Daniel Kawczynski…any relation to McShame?
As Jimmy would say, “Bugger me rigid, who would have thought that?”
Good clip, removing the First Class head test covers, that is shameful!
An act of a true National Socialist!
Don’t remember much coverage of this at the time!
headrest even.
‘ey love! How much of a cutie are you, then? Fancy a ride in me two jags?
I would need to see the size of your bollard first, I reckon you’d be a bit of a second stage type of guy!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Second%20stage
£4,000 is the equivalent of about two months of rent swap troughing.
I don’t mind MP’s having first class travel if it helps them work in transit, this issue is trivial compared to the property related scams.
Good luck finding a first class train between Shrewsbury & Birmingham New Street. They don’t exist. So in fact only half of his journey is in 1st Class.
Exactly. They did exist, in the form of the excellent (and good value) Wrexham & Shropshire; Kawczynski was a big supporter. That nice, cuddly free-enterprise Mr. Branson crushed them – through the courts.
One to add to ‘Seen Elsewhere Guido?:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/9633379/Gordon-Browns-secret-army-could-defeat-the-Coalitions-welfare-and-education-reforms.html
Just for a moment there Fraser Nelson had me feeling sorry for One Term Dave, but thankfully the feeling was short-lived.
Sorry, should have been ‘Seen Elsewhere’ Guido….
Don’t worry, apologies improve the stats.
+1
I read that this morning and I, too, almost felt sorry for Dave. Almost. If he’d spent his time in opposition paying attention to what was going on, he might have been a bit better prepared come May 2010. And since then, if he hadn’t distracted himself with hugging huskies, gay marriage and HS2, foreign aid and basically pissing-off most of the people in his own Party, he might have had a moment or two to sit down and deal with Labour’s toxic legacy.
Excellent article, I hope the tits in blue read it……….
Ed Conway appeared pathetic constantly focussing on Osbourne’s 1st Class ticket – for which he paid himself and for the others when we have an economic meltdown. Business reporters should stick to economics and leave the class war to the lefties
But I do both.
‘for which he paid himself’
Who bought the original ticket? Not George.
Who paid on the train for the 1stClass ticket? Not George.
Who pays in the end for the travel? Answers please.
Another Tory who thinks he can pull the wool over his end
To be fair he did start off life in Poland, life must has been tough, like so many of his compatriots he soon discovered the land of milk and honey and more than made up for it!
The English way, trust and be ripped off!
What’s the name of his girlfriend?
Bahbara Kawczynski
If I could afford the difference I would gladly pay for first class than travel with some of the more unpleasant working class dross.
what about first class Farron Lib Dim ar*e H**e
Make them travel on the roof indian
style
His girlfreind is mutton dressed as lamb a bit like sally bercow
I got a rent-a-shrink to tell a court I’m mad and they let me off. Toot toot!
As a fellow tall man, I’m actually OK with this one. Standard class can be a chuffing nightmare if it’s crowded and you’re >6’2″. I sometimes get an upgrade if it’s not too much extra. Ditto leg room on flights. Maybe really tall MPs can get extra allowance for upgraded travel?
I see “Labour MP” has been changed to “MP” rather than to “Tory MP”. Quelle surprise.
http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/guido-fawked-wrong-on-rail-travel-again.html