MacShame Still in Parliament
Denis MacShane is yet to take the Chiltern Hundreds and resign officially as an MP. It seems he dragging his feet on his promise to quit and still loitering around the Commons- taking full advantage of the perks afforded to Members:
Shameless MacShane just left the Members' section of HoC Terrace with two guests. Just go.—
Eye Spy MP (@eyespymp) November 05, 2012
The Standards and Privileges committee need to get a move on and put MacShane’s suspension to a vote in the House. If he goes before then he is likely to be entitled to his absurd MPs resettlement grant. This one payment of month’s salary for every year an MP has has worked, up to a maximum of six months, works out at almost £33,000.
Which will pay for plenty of ‘translation services’…
UPDATE: And like that he was gone:
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has this day appointed Denis MacShane to be
Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern.—
Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) November 05, 2012
No word yet on whether he will take the grant. He remains a privy councillor too…
UPDATE II: Seems the suspension was coming tomorrow morning – MacShane has jumped before it to keep the money.
Just make Parliament a prison.
Might as well by the look of things.
I love how MacShame describes his predicament as “being in breach of House Rules”.
You are not only “in breach of House Rules” – you swine, you committed fraud – a criminal offence.
The hubris of this man knows no bounds.
Why doesnt George send them all to Chiltern
As a resident of the Chilterns I can assure you that we don’t want them! The Beach trees have mostly gone, we have no highway men and we do not need them
“BEACH” trees? What do they grow on them coconuts? Or do they get sand on the roots.
Pillock! The name is Beech.
Who is the MP that resigned over mistakenly claiming a first class rail ticket that cost £5?
Early 50s I believe.
Quite different to the modern mob.
If one of us plebs commits fraud we don’t get a resettlement package or get offered another job!
So George Osborne effectively fired MacShane.
Nice one.
If it’s that easy to get rid of Labour MPs then Osborne should appoint the whole fucking useless lot of them to the Chiltern Hundreds.
Just rename it the Chiltern Six Hundred and Forty Eight and jobs a good un.
I wholly endorse this comment.
And for the archives here is a link to The full report of the Standards and Privileges Committee investigation into Mr Denis MacShane
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmstnprv/635/635.pdf
He could send the cheque to charity .
Only if I can invoice it as expenses.
You really are loopy if think that is likely.
W.W.
socialism in action
I’m surprised you’re surprised……
Thieving fucking bastard…not to put too fine a point on it!
He’s going to milk his MP’s privilleges for every penny, for as long as he can.
Thieving creep.
It’s the only thing to do in the fight against fascism.
But I paid it all back.
Is it the Chiltern Hundreds or the Manor of Nothstead this time?
Fuck the Chiltern Hundreds, the P of Forty-Five is what he needs.
You are perfectly correct Mr Fawkes, it is the Chiltern Hundreds for Mr McShane should care to apply for the Steward and Baillif Post.
He’ll fit in quite well with all the other thieving politicians in this neck of the woods.
Free the Chiltern Hundred! Tories out!
He has been appointed to the Chiltern Hundreds:
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/press_107_12.htm
And BTW, it’s the Government which decides when Standards and Privileges motions are debated in the House, not the Committee.
Whew! For a minute there, I thought he might nick my pitch.
M’lud in mitigation you see this broken man before you. For many years Mr Mcshane worked for the BBC during this time he was abused in a manner most foul by Sir Jimmy Saville This has caused him to have lapses of memory when it comes to expenses.
I hereby sentence Mr McShame to 2 weeks detention in Jamaica learning to roll ganja one handed
wot u mean it ain’t facher’s fault, chek again mate
can’t believe that, it must be fatcher’s fault, who else but fatcher
wot’s the world coming to…..
33K buys a lot of translation services………………and ass lube coz I hope the robbing bastard is buggered to within an inch of life by “Big Vern” in the showers when he goes down for a stretch.
Just call me Mr D-Notice
Bollocks mutters Watson I was going to use the buggered by saville defense back to plan b, Vaz told me to do it
You have to laugh..you really do.
Somebody once coined the phrase “Broken Britain” when in reality its our political class that’s broken…
You don’t have to look very hard at all to see it….
Expenses cheats playing the Parliamentary Privilege get out of jail free card or we have the well documented Parliamentary Perverts and their “friends with benefits” and now ever louder whispers concerning a long standing awareness of Pedo’s in high places….despite the frantic “fastest its ever moved “ establishment whitewash and hurried carpet sweeping job its not so very hard to sniff out who these sick individuals might be, and just how damaging its likely to be for Westminster when it all gets out…which it will of course.
Indeed one might say its harder to name those not involved in something dodgy be it porn on expenses to employing your fancy woman/dog/card board cut-out to run your office/garage and mind your children while you are off out horse riding with your admiring floosie on your police pony…
Despite subsidised food, booze and copper bottomed pensions most of my countrymen/women can only dream of, these leeches, lechers and loonies continue to hide behind a wall of “all in it together criminality” bolstered by a be-cobwebbed establishment judiciary and enforced by an increasingly politicized and long standing collusive police authority, who, one might quite reasonably conclude could profitably spend a bit more time cleaning up its it own act before worrying about the rest of the long suffering population and what its likely to be up too or getting away with.
One can’t help feeling a sad old bungling British Establishment is on the ropes, it has that yellowed monochrome Ealing Studio feel about it, all that’s required now is for Dick Barton and Margaret Rutherford (before your time) to run away with the takings in a decrepit Morris Minor, hotly pursued by a plod on a bicycle trailing a string of freebie sausages from his saddlebag in turn chased by a pack of yapping dogs….
Sadly tho, this comedy is costing me more than 1s 9p to watch…..
Comment of the year !
Roll on Death Democracy too far away!
I wish it did have the “Ealing studio/Morris Minor” feel about it. Instead It has the Soviet dockyard/Idi Amin’s STD clinic blood transfusion unit feel about it.
We’re being fucked over, but gooood…..
What do you mean the “get out of jail free” card? The bastards don’t go to jail in the first place. Apart from that, I agree with your sentiments entirely.
Bollocks mutters vaz i was going to use the buggered by saville defense back to plan b, fatty Watson told me to do it
Shouldn that be the barsteward of the Chilterns,and once he is convicted he will lose the Rt Hon monniker just like that other thief Elliott Morley
Over to Switzerland, where star-crossed public figures retreat.
Two weeks ago both Vicky Pryce and Denis MacShane headed out to the five-star Grand Resort Bad Ragaz to address clients of global management consultancy A T Kearney on a timely topic, Beyond the Crisis.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/beating-a-swiss-retreat-8282385.html
You couldnt make it up
How old is Pryce? Is she in fact Keith Richards in drag?
If my dog looked like that I would shave its arse and teach it to walk backwards, no matter how wealthy it is.
Fee of £3,405.45 received for speaking at CEO retreat, December 2011, for AT Kearney, 1300 Wilson Boulevard Suite 1550. Arlington, Virginia: 1 hr. (Registered 22 December 2011)
Received honorarium of $5000 (£3003.54) for giving a speech at CEO Retreat in Switzerland. Address of payer: AT Kearney Inc, 8100 Boone Boulevard, Suite 400, Vienna, Virginia 22182, USA. Hours: 3 hrs. (Registered 9 December 2009)
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem.htm
From Guido’s tweets…
‘Labour source tells me Tom Watson is poised to attack William Hague – who set-up the Waterhouse Inquiry into Child Abuse in Wales’
And there were some here claiming that Watson’s sudden interest in things p*a*e*d*o was because he had a deep-rooted concern for abused children and wasn’t just a cynical partisan opportunist.
Is the term ‘deep-rooted’ like Ugandan discussions?
Its a smoke screen fatty Watson hopes this will deflect any scrutiny over his peccadilloes
Is it true someone is trying to kill him ?
Too much to hope for.
So yesterday Cameron was not for having an Inquiry and today it is on the urgent agenda .
Dave is getting so fast with his u turns he is going to get in trouble with the traffic police .
So that is Woolas Joyce and Mcshane drummed out completely .
Huhne accused of perverting Justice .
Fox resigning for reasons he has never fully explained .
Spelman failing with a very expensive injunction .
Question marks over Vaz
Laws being unable to follow expenses rules .
Reckless being allowed to vote whilst drunk .
Cameron insulting the octogenarion Skinner
Berger facing questions about funding
ORiordan Burnham and Amess expenses
May sacking Brodie Clark for gross misconduct and then paying him out with taxpayers money
Adam Mitchell !
Halfway through this Parliament that is 16 out of the 650 whose behavior in public life has left something to be desired .
I think about 90% of ‘em vote while drunk.
Or at least I hope they’re drunk. At least it’s some kind of excuse for the constant stream of idiocy that gets rubber-stamped.
The whole fcuking lot of them are bent
You appear to have forgotten about Mr Cruddas and his MOT problems.
He would be number 17 .
http://www.thisissussex.co.uk/Mid-Sussex-MP-Nicholas-Soames-banned-driving/story-17177960-detail/story.html
Will this affect the insurance premium he pays?
If so it is a disgrace as Harriet Harman’s never changed despite a driving ban and gaining 9 points on her license after the driving ban she was still charged less than Jack Dromey.
Are the Police going to act on this? All this nonsense about Parliamentary Privilege. As for the Privy Council, when are they going to kick him out?
Getting ahead of myself here, but wouldn’t it just be too good to be true if MacShane and Huhne end up in the same cell. Awkward for Vicky, but amusing for the rest of us.
McShane acting to maximise his financial handout from we taxpayers. No surprise there then!
I hope he dies and we the money back.
It is such a shame as he was a good all round egg and a real snappy dresser
I aint COFFIN the job
It s not the cough you re coughin…
Its. …wait for it ……..
The coffin they carry you off in ….!!!
Well ….. Y e e e e s
Meanwhile our “esteemed” State Broadcaster is ignoring all this and concentrating its “faux anger” at Cameron for NOT releasing all his text messages to Rebekkah……(a High Crime and Misdemeanour obviously in their eyes !!!)and on the Tory yes that’s TORY viewers in case you missed THAT …… Welsh Children Home Scandal…..Now then ! Now then ! Nothing to see at the Corporation move along now please…it was all the TORIES fault…. Jimmy ? Jimmy who ? Never heard of him ?
The Three Hundreds of Chiltern must be the crime capital of Buckinghamshire. It’s like the Moss Side of the Home Counties.
42 round trips to the Chilterns at say £50 a go, that’s £4,500, rent on my office in Northstead, say £16,000, relocation costs £10,000, intern’s salary £25,000, that’s £75,000 to you squire, if you pay me in cash I won’t have to charge VAT know what I mean?
Can someone please tell me what the point is of MPs?
They do not represent the people who elected them.
They do not represent the interests of the country as a whole.
They do not hold the government to account.
They do not hold the European Union to account.
Perhaps MPs have become corrupt and venal because they know they are useless. The great UK and EU bureaucracies are in charge, overstaffed, incompetent, mightily pleased with themselves and all-powerful. A pipsqueak Parliament worries them not at all. Like the Russian aristocracy in 1914 they have become a vast, sprawling, hideously expensive and bungling endoparasite within society.
Europe as a whole needs to do to its political classes what the Russians did to their aristocrats in 1917.
Are you volunteering to be our Rasputin, Norman Stanley Fletcher?
If so, you lucky bugger – I would like to have a bit of skinney Kate too. Like my ladies slimline.
Rasputin as here, from 1917 – heard he was killed about half a dozen times before he actually died. SPOOKY!
pass the blue vodka dear, ziaranovitch
The latest Expense Scheme all but abolished resettlement grants unless the electorate boot you out:
MPs who lose their seat in a general election held before the next scheduled general election (under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011) will be eligible to receive a resettlement payment in accordance with IPSA’s published resettlement payment policy.
King of Whatsinnitforme MuckShame knows no shame.
Why are Vicki Thessaloniki
And chris loon
Not in. Chokey. right now rather than. awaiting a show trial in january. .?
Is it coz they wat. to give them a last good christmas ???
MacShame seems an inappropriate nickname, as he doesn’t seem to have any.
Maccy, Maccy, Maccy… Out, Out, Out.
We all know when the returning officer says you are the winner, you have entered an exclusive club, and even if you shoot the Queen on opening of Parliament, you will coin it on leaving it with severence pay, before your head is severed, if you did actually shoot the Queen on the opening of Parliament.
Not that I can actually see that ever happenning, but with some of those in Westminster these days, you never know.
Didn’t David Laws take a lot more than Mc Shane? And where is he now?
Ahh but you’re forgetting, You can’t get anywhere in politics if you steal without sucking the cock…
Surely he should pay back the money he de-frauded from the tax payer, I wouldn’t of thought that much would be left from the the 33K.
We don’t want the bent twat.
Mc Shane tweeting about the size of the Chinese internal security budget being bigger than the defence budget.Its a good job for hime he doesnt live there !