Blunkett Sues, He Should Lose
Blunkett is suing the Sunday Times and The Times over their reporting of his expenses fiddle [as linked]. Steven Swinford wrote the articles about the disgraceful fiddle whereby MPs claim off the taxpayer for interest and furnishing costs even if they don't have a mortgage (or new furniture). It is, they always say when challenged, "within the rules".But it is not honourable or justifiable, it is a blatant fiddle ripping off the taxpayer for non-existent expenses.
The article in question identified David Blunkett, Jack Straw, John Prescott, Geoff Hoon, Ruth Kelly and Margaret Beckett as fiddling between them hundreds of thousands of pounds in unjustified expenses. It is a joke at the taxpayers expense that they are allowed to get away with this.
Guido hopes the Sunday Times & The Times stick to their guns. It is not as if Blunkett has much of a reputation to defend - he is a proven liar who has been caught fiddling his expenses before and has had to resign from office in disgrace twice. Blunkett is feeling a bit cocky having won a couple of court cases recently. This one he deserves to lose.
Here is something of interest, of the mortgage fiddling men named in Swinford's article - Blunkett, Prescott, Straw and Hoon - the first two have been exposed in the press for having illicit affairs, the latter two have not as yet.
See also :
Hoon Fiddles Expenses "In Accordance With The Rules"
Four Lords A-Fiddling
17 comments:
"...the latter two have not as yet."
You're excluding Straw's glutinous promenades with the lovely Dr. Rice, one presumes?
Oh dear. High profile politician sues newspaper for libel.
Late '80s parallels, anyone?
Libel cases by politicians are a desperate act of hubris, brought on by egos that have for far too long been massaged by the trappings of high office, and point to a moribund government long since past it's sell-by date.
I suspected he'd completely lost it the last time he was sacked. Now a libel case. QED.
Does Blunkett still have a column (no pun intended) in the Sun?
If so, what do you think News Intl think about him suing their stable-mates?
Everytime a politician is caught out in what in any other employee would be regarded as fraud, they always say it is "within the Rules". What do these Rules actually say? Who wrote these convenient Rules - could it be the politicans themselves, I wonder?
A while ago, incensed at what looked like fraud to me, I emailed the Parliamentary official named on the website, asking what an MP had to produce in order to claim the "Additional Costs Allowance". The speedy reply was that they had to produce a mortgage deed, or a rent book/rental agreement/lease, and/or receipts for expenditure. So in the light of that, how can the Blunkett/Hoon/Beckett etc. claims be justified?
Dear Senor Guido
In my mis-spent youth (before you were born) I well remember the days of Good Queen Bess, when we had a Government that actually cared about the Well-being of our Beloved Country and when the Law-Schools taught that the purpose of the Laws of Libel was then to prevent lies being bruited abroad
Now, in these enlightened times Maxwell & other corrupt businessmen/politicians have for years been using defamation writs to ensure that the Truth is suppressed and all this with the Blessing of Judges who have in this (as in so many other areas) "lost the Plot"
Why should a corrupt Politician have every expectation that he (or in these days of progress, she) will be able to secure massive libel damages when the truth is being told about them, while "little people" (who have no money but pay taxes) have no effective redress against the Press when defamed
Surely we should be renaming the Human Rights Convention as the Criminals' Charter & replacing it with the Defamation Laws of our Colonial Cousins across the Pond, who are allowed to tell the Truth about their Public Figures without Court Molestation
The legal establishment may suggest that "criticism" of the Judges undermines the Rule of Law
However, it is entirely justified criticism of Milord Justices which is undermining the Rule of Law
Meanwhile, can anyone explain why Mr Blunkett was not prosecuted for arranging for his travel pass (paid for by the taxpayer) to be used by a lady to whom he was not married ??
Does anyone know how Lord ...... [deleted for legal reasons] is spending his time, now that he has served his jail sentence ?
I remain your obedient servant and
yours ever
G Eagle
re Richards says
Are you referring to a "forceful local politician" from the Midlands of the 1990's who (like Voldemort) we do not name (for fear of the legal repercussions)
Sue and be damned!!
Yes, Blunkett does still have a column in The Sun, and gets two bags a week for it. Yet it's buried well back in the 'paper, left-hand side, up by the gutter, and in a typeface alien to the rest of The Sun.
It is almost as if they don't want to run his stuff, know that nobody wants to read it, but feel under some obligation.
Poor Blunket. He no longer has a team of civil servants to read the papers to him or to translate them into Braille, so he doesn't realise how unpopular he is. If someone wrote 'Blunkett is a Bastard' in 6-foot high letters across the street from him, who would be tactless enough to read it out.
Good job Blunkett does not go on Jonathan Ross - Can you imagine the question "So Mr Blunkett how did you lose your sight"!!!!!
Given Ross's Chronic masturbation obsession you can only guess where that interview would go.
presumably Mr Blunkett has few sources of income so has alighted on the Laws of Libel as a likely fountain of cash.
Blunkett obviously has dreams of being a British Lee Kwan Yue.
Id love to fuck that Ooona King.
I just state that as a matter of fact and hint at nothing more.
Jack Straw seems to have jungle fever, maybe he caught it in sierra leone?
I feel sorry for his dog. Really. Out of all the miserable, tragic and deeply unfair fates, can you imagine being landed with that one?
I think Blunkett should have to serve his dog and especially wear a lead. How do ****ers like this get so far?
Where is justice, where is punishment...
I am of the opinion that 'people get the government they deserve'. So what are we going to do?
Clearly there aren't enough of us to vote sensibly. I say bring on the gun powder Guido.
I'd fuck Ooona King - that's nice do you think she takes it up the shitter?
Blunkett isn't blind. Open any Home Office publication from the early naughties and you'll see him staring directly into the camera lens. Cunt.
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