Labour Blows £150,000 of Taxpayers’ Cash to Help Out Pals
Even in opposition, Ed Balls is still finding ways to waste taxpayers’ money. New figures show a group of senior Labour MPs have claimed £151,474 on expenses paid to Gordon and Badley Communications, a PR firm run by two party acolytes. Fiona Gordon is the partner of Labour MP Steve McCabe and was the Prime Mentalist’s political secretary, Caroline Badley was a party press officer. Guido wonders how many other non-Labour affiliated PR firms were considered.
The 16 senior Labour MPs using taxpayer cash to help out their old pals include Balls, Yvette Cooper, Liam Byrne, Jon Cruddas, Tom Watson, Bridget Phillipson, Diana Johnson, Emma Reynolds, Gisela Stuart, Ian Austin, Jack Dromey, Julie Hilling, Khalid Mahmood, Lyn Brown, Robert Flello and Shabana Mahmood. Cronyism plain and simple…
The lady Boy looks a bit tasty in that photo
I would
Stealing money isn’t wrong so long as you say you’re a socialist. That’s a basic tenet of the EU and all its affiliates.
Actually you don’t have to say that it is wrong, socialism by definition is “everything you own is mine and everything I own is mine” At least at the top that is true! The other one is of course “do as I say not as I do!” Which in Balls case and et al his compatriots clearly the case!
Bugger me! Someone just accidentally got knobbed to death!
Balls, it’s All Balls.
Can we have some regulation to stop Owen Jones from writing SHITE
Jones must stick his finger up his arse and daube shite on the wall and then ask memebers of the Caravan club to interpret his writings
Hockney might offer him a job in that case
What have memebers of the caravan club got to do with it? I’m overlooking your spelin mistake.
humpipumpituntrik.
the world is upside down.
nandi was the bull that stuck close to lord shiva.
the one to who drank poison protect earth.
bulls of today.
deciept. shite.gweed.
let.s nt talk about the dog.
the world is humpipumpirumpi,
it is god’s night.
enja.
I always DID wonder if Ed B was secretly a “Garland”-er…
No one gives me money for doing nothing … oh wait..they do.
Euros don’t count.
I hope they don’t use the money to help out Lord Ahmed also
Stay tuned for more stories from last week’s Daily Hitler.
You’re either…how does it go again?
There is a small difference in our story, see if you can spot it.
Nope. You got me there.
Daily Hitler? What have you got against socialists, Jimmy?
Sod off Jimmy & up your medication.
Up yours
Will no one think of the poor multi-billionaire Chosen bankers, and their need for plebs’ accounts?
Their hypocrisy know no bounds. Surely there must be a conflict of interest that can be persued to prosecution?
Harriet, how about giving your new leader a blow job?
What services exactly, was the money spent, obtaining?
Do we have accounts on Gordon & Badley, that show this income and how it was deployed, i.e. was there anything tangible to show?
The bigger the lei, the easier it is to believe.
Leis, leis nothing but leis … 24/7
Leis, damned leis and liebore.
Is Balls-Up having a mental one here and supporting Romanian immigration to the UK in coded language……………………
I think we should be told…………… and quicky.
O/T
The hacker hacked
http://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/02/06/rupert-murdoch-claims-chinese-hackers-are-still-attacking-the-wall-street-journal/
Do you think the Chinese will provide the British police with all the inside dirt?
Taste of his own medicine for Uncle Rupie?
Rupee – should remind everyone who hacked Canal+’s encoding strings and then put them out all over the net via a canadian hacker?
And interesting to note that leading QC acting against Murdoch hacking and winning millions for his clients comes from Cherie Blair’s Matrix Chambers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Tomlinson
Wheels within wheels…
zoom in.
connect the wheels.
iwnwteresting though is what yu will will do when you reach point zero.
that may well be an impossibility as nun are prrfect.
so cyclically speaking either we are going to get to -0.5 (i.e 9.5) or +0.2
all the dingdong is in that zone.
hump and pump
hump and pump.
the poor zero in between.
but abundance is everwhere. wyes wide shut? do not forget the umbilical cord which connects us. humo and pump.
Are you Mwister Magoo by any chance?
So what?
I’m suing.
We’re just doing in opposition what we did in power. Giving your money to our friends.
Exactly! You see, Labour thinks it knows how to spend your money better than you do!
Where I, on the other hand, think I know how to spend your money better than you do, which is why I take £11billion of your wages away from you every year and spend it more wisely than you ever would. On vital things, like India’s space programme, African windfarms and Iceland tourist information offices. Smahing!
Toodle pip!
If this was the Tories lining the pockets of their rich friends, we’d be all over this story, and our favoured in-house “comedians” would be writing this into their next hysterically funny monologue.
But as it’s Labour, there is nothing to see here.
The £151k is simply resting in the account of the PR firm, and at some point will be turned into shopping.
My members are making so much through out of court sttlements of their hacking claims that they no longer need expenses handouts
Their pensions are covered by Murdoch and his shareholders
This new publishing accuracy law. Does it mean we can sue Gordon for his written speech that he had ended boom and bust?
Or Dave’s cast Iron Guarantee on an EU referendum if he became PM?
Or the sequel, “Cast Iron Guarantee II: The New Beginning”
Coming (or not) to a polling booth near you, 2017.
You touch on a very very important point: this law will apparently cover newspapers, newsletters, blogs, and so on. Will it also cover the regular newsletters that are printed and distributed by political parties?
or the BBC ?
The final reason we must have a vote is trust. Gordon Brown talks about “new” politics. But there’s nothing “new” about breaking your promises to the British public. It’s classic Labour. And it is the cancer that is eating away at trust in politics. Small wonder that so many people don’t believe a word politicians ever say if they break their promises so casually. If you really want to signal you’re a break from the past, Prime Minister, do the right thing – give the people the referendum you promised.
Today, I will give this cast-iron guarantee: If I become PM a Conservative government will hold a referendum on any EU treaty that emerges from these negotiations. No treaty should be ratified without consulting the British people in a referendum.
Do not bother with a referendum,get the United Kingdom , out now,and start again…OUT,OUT,OUT……Stuff Europe,its broken and we cant fix it so get shot of it…
Don’t miss the unveiling of our brand new news studio at 1pm. After all, you paid for it!
A structure, but no fucking news again!.
Shut down the free press and then carry on partying, got to get ones priorities right.
A serious bank run would destroy the ECB:
A good thing ? For Germany, who is on the line for all the unfunded liabilities, yes.
Spa!n / !taly are keeping a close eye on Cyprus.
The EU did pass a new regulation which compels bailouts onto member states.
This has so far only been reported in the Span!sh: El Econom!sta, available in English via Google Translate here:
h**p://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eleconomista.es%2Feconomia%2Fnoticias%2F4667738%2F03%2F13%2FBruselas-tendra-mas-poderes-para-controlar-los-presupuestos-nacionales-.html
So, joining dots: Brussels can confiscate your bank deposits. It is not hyperbole, but EU regulation / law.
German media was talking about 15% in !taly next after Cyprus.
Time is running out.
The move above, particularly the language about removing freedom of fiscal management from member states is VERY significant.
This is going against the 1950 Schuman declaration upon which post war European cooperation is broadly based.
It should also be read as: Fiscal union by decree.
Even though the wording appears to apply only to countries who have adopted the Euro, one suspects that it would apply to all EU member states.
This would be a trojan for usurping fiscal control of the UK / Norway / Switzerland by Brussels.
Removal of freedom of states to manage their affairs as laid out in Schuman is a necessary step for federalization.
desire.e.u
what do we desire.
be that.
freedum is all we have.
in our iumbilkul curd. use the acid of duti 2 split open the milk 2 movon.
opun the tuntrickbag.
So if there’s the slightest chance of me becoming Chancellor, you’d better withdraw your savings and buy gold ASAP.
Frightening.
So who signed up to this Dave or Gordon and why was the British public NOT informed?
Most of Europe not informed.
Only Spa!n it would appear, who also had their property law regarding evictions changed by the EU at about the same time.
UK Press does not cover much of what goes on in Europe, that is done by the online publishers. Hence reason EU wants to regulate blogosphere.
Here’s a taste of what Spanish citizens think.
http://tinyurl.com/cmwpwft
That revised agreement is already out of date.
What they do not get is that the Junior bond holders in Cyprus are still going to get a 100% haircut and interest on savings will be subject to 25% levy.
Cypriot pensioners were encouraged to put money into bank bonds a few years back when interest rates were cut down to 1%. The revised deal does not change that problem.
Also: The Greek archbishop is advocating exit euro. Significant as church is a major force on the island, and controls one of the banks which is not in trouble.
Nothing happens until Cypriot parliament votes, and Gazpr0m are likely to come back with a better counter offer.
The Parliamentary breakdown:
Anastasiades (President) party ΔΗΣΥ: 20 seats
ΔΗΚΟ (DIKO) (coalition party): 8
ΑΚΕΛ (AKEL): 19
ΕΔΕΚ (EDEK): 5
Greens: 1
ΕΥΡΩΚΟ (EUROKO): 2
Independent: 1
Coalition only has 28 seats, 29 required for majority in house of 56.
Coalition was voted in on manifesto pledge that tax on deposits would not even be discussed, let alone haggled over with the Troika.
!taly has been openly discussed as next in line.
For GDP reduction, !reland will have largest exposure if 30% reduction on Cyprus successful, so would logically be next.
Spa!n should not have much to worry about, but with the change to property law forced their the problems they experienced a few years back could return in force. Span!sh bonds are already yielding ~6%
High profile French lawyer who represented heavyweight clients found dead in apparent suicide. Not suspicious at all. Is there a Harrowden Hills in France too?
Fuck me! They’re going down like flies!
Anybody checked on Maxy Cliff lately?
Gone very quiet on the Lord Ren ard enquiry.
Usual LabLibCon corruption and waste. Nothing new here. Move along.
fruck balls and his shit wife
Now CP want to charge us for using the NHS this will only be a start, Note Mike Farrat pushing these charges is Common Purpose.
They have kicked the Hornet’s nest, no stopping considered but consistent mass withdrawels now.
The slow drawn out death of the EU monster continues …
Is there enough sticking plaster in Europe?
Shock horror! Ms. Dromey was there without Harpy? Here’s hoping he didn’t infect any poor bunga bunga girls at the shagathon.
Gordon & Bradley’s company status is “Dissolved” and seems to have become Gordon and Phillips Words & Pictures Company Ltd
So what did they spend it on?
Our closing down party, followed by our inaugural party.
Spending others hard earned cash..its the Socialist way
Breaking the Next Taboo
And now comes the partial expropriation of bank customers. The move is little more than a symbolic contribution to solving the Cyprus crisis, but it sends an important message: For Europe’s taxpayers, it is a question of fairness that they not be left alone to bear the burdens of the costs of the crisis. And it is the only way to prevent the euro crisis from further fomenting anti-EU sentiment in the member states. (UK)
For the people of Europe it is a question of fairness. For the politicians seeking to end the crisis, it is one of pragmatism. Taxpayers alone will not be able to buy Europe out of its debt trap. And those who want to solve the problems in the euro zone need to access the money where it can be found: through bondholders, through the ECB, through banking customers and, hopefully, as a next step through the owners of troubled banks, as well as wealthy people living in Southern Europe.
The next taboo-breaking measures are already taking shape on the horizon. Spain is soon expected to use billions in guarantees from the long-term euro rescue fund, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), to rescue its flagging banks. It will be crucial that the shareholders and creditors of these banks also be drawn into the bailout. Italy could also relieve some of its debt problems if the government finally took the step of implementing a wealth tax that would require the country’s richest to contribute to solving the crisis.
Fearing that tapping any of these potential sources of money could have disastrous consequences on the financial markets, many in the past have argued they should be categorically ruled out. But each time that position has proven untenable.
So git yer cash out while you can!
How can what is proposed be legal? Where will it stop? Could the state take all of your savings and property?
All ‘Legals’ are and have been complicit in the living lie that is the EU.
Our latest poll shows that the people in Cyprus are happy to pay this tax.
Allso our poll shows that Cathy Ashton causes more wet dreams amongst EU males.
Our labour party’s expenses aren’t flat lining.
would this story be publishable under the new regulation? would MPs’ expenses have ever made it into a paper?
Maybe MP’s are using the Dowler’s etc. to gain revenge against the press over the expenses scandal.
Strictly Ed Balls
A fine , well dressed and brave man (with rythm) unlike Ed Scrotum or that lithping illegal immigrant Marxthist who leads (excuse me while I laugh) National thocialist party
How much for a bareback blowjob?
Say nice things about me or I’ll Nokia a baby.
I am not, on this occasion, demanding a judge led inquiry.
We wanted to get pissed and eat tapas. You can’t seriously expect us to look after our kids all the time in a foreign country.
There really is something dark & dirty in their wood shed.
The Social Services – weren’t “very quick to grab” the 2 remaining children of the MCanns – were they …. whereas they will grab anyone elses at the merest muttering of child abuse … worth looking at that angel?
You are sick !
Have you ever considered consulting a Doctor?
Its potentially worse than that if they’re all using the same company
How much money flows back the other way out of the PR company.
How much of a laundry is it?
Tonight I’m watching BUKKAKE PARTY 2: COLLEGE FACIALS.
Its on the house !
Or face
Ed’s got a policy..A real one! Its all about pre-distribrepry-preadatoring.
I’m just going to phone Hugh Grant to make sure he approves before we announce it to the commons.
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high gub……………………………………………………_ slaw
h.g well………………………………………………………..-talk
high gobinawell……………………………………………..|suck
let the clock tick slawly whilst others run…………./sitie.
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the greatest drama is 4 the greatest souls.
slaw dwn and c. it is all in the imbilcal cord.
Guido
Mad Harriet hairpin also used these dodgers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/cabinet-expenses/7157857/MPs-expenses-Equality-minister-Harriet-Harman-claimed-800-for-equality-consultant.html
Years ago…
This firm seems to have taken over from the PR firm Sarah Brown set up to siphon public funds remember?
This is interesting background of the dodgy income of Sarah Brown as well
http://powerbase.info/index.php/Sarah_Brown#Brunswick_links
There’s an aura of the ceascescus about those two in the picture. And why are socialists always so bizarrely facially and bodily challenged?
£150K?
I wish that was all Labour wasted!
The trouble with Socialists is that they’re all a bunch of Hunts.