See You Next Tuesday : Sleazy Levy's £6,000 Leaving Party
Next Tuesday the Foreign Office will be hosting a party for the twice arrested, out-on-bail, under investigation for corruption, Sleazemaster General himself - Lord Levy. The SNP's tenacious Mike Weir got Geoff Hoon to admit that the party is being paid for by the taxpayer - "the estimated cost is £6,000, which will be met by the Foreign Secretary's entertainment budget."The LibDem's Lord Oakeshott asks: "Why should the taxpayer put his card behind the bar for Lord Levy's leaving party?" Guido would be happy to see the taxpayer pick-up the tab for levy's food and drink - porridge and prison tea...
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Especially as his "envoy" job was supposedly funded by his own purse. He should be taking the taxpayer out for drinks, not the other way round!
Nice to see how the other half lives.
I could pay for my kids to have extra tuition with this money or maybe buy a dental insurance plan because there's no chance of NHS dentist where I live.
But Levy has to blow it on a party. No doubt Blair's personal envoy to the Middle-East has been a great success. Gaza's on fire, Iraq's in chaos and Iran's got a nutty regime. And the oil price has doubled. Levy should be repaying us...
Geoff Hoon's a disgrace already. How can he sink even lower?
£6 grand eh, more than an annual dole payment.
Its certainly wrong for the state to finance this geasy little oiks leaving bash. He came with Blair he goes with Blair, so why the beano.
Oakeshott needs to get tougher on this abuse of taxpayers monies for a suspect crim.
Hopefully PC Plod will be providing the entertainment. Would gladly pay the bill myself if he were to get arrested mid way through his leaving bash speech!
Huh, what does a Lib Dem know. He's probably a GAY, eh lads?!
Innocent until proven ... innocent Guido? Don't you lot believe in that.
Guido - would this be the same FCO Summer Party on Tue 19th June in Durbar Court at the Foreign Office?
If it is I'm sorry to disappoint you, but it was called off a couple of days ago.
Heh clever way to call him a cunt Guido...!
oh but it has been proven, beyond all reasonable doubt, that the Labour Government is full of cheating, theiving, lying bastards
Utterly fucking shameless!
Its obscene that any public servant has a £6000 leaving bash. This money should be used for public services or to reduce my tax bill.
Why should we pay for these useless tossers to have a piss-up?
The fact that Levy has contributed nothing of substance to public life makes it 10 times worse.
Imagine the scintillating conversation between Margaret Beckett and Michael Levy over which is the best caravan to travel to HMP Wandsworth in (Group 4 one with small black windows I think). I should think many Foreign Office types will also be able to give Levy some good advice on how to recover the soap in the showers without seeming to be inviting a lifer to exercise his conjugal rights.
Probably worth £6000 to see the panic as Levy realises he is no longer welcome in Westminster now.
Yes,I object to my money being spent in this way.He has many rich friends who can give him a party.This is in poor taste and seems almost calculating in its contempt.Chris Paul,even you must recognize that this sort of cock-a-snookery to the electorate is what is opening Labour's veins?
With the dodgy Downing Street 2nd email systems, perhaps he should be called a computer user (non technical)
hope he chokes to death on a peanut
Levy is not merely a cunt, he is a fucking prick of the highest order.
Up here in Glasgow one would term him an utter fucking trumpet, or indeed a bovril.
How that cunt has eluded gaol so far is beyond me. He obviously has a photocopy of Gordo's rocking horse incident locked away in some swiss bank
Guido, I have a feeling you won't be invited...
At least this crook is leaving for 6 grand. Look at the bigger crook that runs this country, his extended leaving do has cost us millions...
Good riddance to the paid of them. If this was a honest country both of them would already doing a stretch at HM's pleasure and avoiding the showers...
What time does the piss-up kick off? I might just drop in and recover some of my taxes.
Don't suppose there'll be many around though. Most of his former 'friends' are moving rapidly in the opposite direction. Wonder what he'll get as a 'leaving present'? Room for a bit of speculation there, eh?
Is Red Tamarin right?
He's spending £6000 on a bash at our expense when he's a millionaire?
No wonder he's a millionaire...
Isn't there some sort of watchdog or guidelines to prevent abuse like this?
And where's Gordon "sparkling wine" Brown? Or maybe he's the one who leaked this, in an attempt to humiliate the Blair camp once again?
Hope they have a couple of strippograms dressed as coppers at the party. That would certainly piss all over this little chancer's parade.
On the basis of paying the piper and calling the tune, I presume there's an open invite to all UK taxpayers for Levy's little soiree.
What a gross waste of public money.
I hope this is taken into account when the cunt goes down with the rest of the new labour scum machine.
scum fuck shit nulab cuntfuck.
I work for a charity that is funded by government funds (via local government) and we can't even get an increase to cover the cost of inflation (approx £3K), budgets tight and all that. And they wonder why we are so cynical! Bastards, the lot of them!
After 10 years of New Labour this country is drowning in sleaze from top to bottom.
A work colleague on £22k gross pa ran up debts of £98k living the "Beckham lifestyle": loads of exotic foreign holidays, designer clothes, flash cars, champagne at top London clubs etc.
When the creditors started demanding payment he went to one of these "debt agencies" who arranged to write off most of the debt with an agreement that he pays £25 pm off the rest.
He's laughing his arse off, has got himself a load of new credit cards and is going to repeat the exercise with no let up in his spending.
There's a few million more like him, running up debts of millions then having them wiped out. And it's all perfectly legal.
What a way to run a country.
solvent brit 105pm
..that "work" colleague is none other than Gordon Brown presumably.
Red Tamarin,
No. It will be hosted by the foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett, at Lancaster House, an opulent mansion in central London.
Is Margaret Thatcher still alive?
Fair enough mate. I was simply aware that a Foreign Office event hosted by Kim Howells (Middle East Minister after all) on the very same day had been cancelled.
Surprising that there would be two on the same evening.
Mr Tuscan can you really see the cyclops leading a "Beckham lifestyle"?
David Beckham and his monkey faced stick insect wife are far more astute than Gordon.
Nor can I see Gordon being sponsored to promote mens grooming products , unles it was swarfeega
Hitch, I am 100% certain that Charisma-Bypass has an alter ego, gets home, sheds the ill-fitting brown sacking suit, dons the glad rags and heads on out. No-one can be that unhygienic, dull and sartorially challenged without there being some " balance". Thinking about our chancellor I imagine the balance would resemble John Belushi (RIP).
Dear Guido,
All gone rather quiet on the 'Loans for Lordships Front' don't you think? Is this Goldsmith's doing or do you suspect the 'dark forces' who feed all the 'rumours' and 'scandals' to the blogosphere.
'Pole The Mole' seeems to have scarpered (just as I said he would).
Sorry Guido, but I must go the lav. Remember mine's a 'Snail Porridge' to start!
Pip! Pip!
Spook Buster
What a shame he won't share the same fate as Fagin; http://www.bl.uk/collections/early/victorian/images/illus/dex290.jpg
Red Tamarind said:
"Surprising that there would be two on the same evening."
Why? It's not as if modesty or sensibility with other peoples' money is the forte of these scumbags.
This should be a high-profile scandal, but there's no chance of it getting anywhere near the coverage it deserves. Maybe Nick Robinson and Jeremy Paxman can lecture us all on why they've got this whole political coverage thing nailed...
I would swear Tony Blair is turning into a doppleganger of Lord Levy. Pinched - grey and hunted look they both have.
What is going on? Do they plan to swop places when goal time is nigh? Lord Levy becoming a Roman Catholic possibly? Will Pope Bendedict be fooled by the wrong tennis partner turning up at the Vatican?
New balls please!
As I said to my daughter only yesterday (re post exam celebrations), I am reluctant to pay for a party to which I am not invited.
I take the same view of Lord Sleaze's "leaving do".
JfC
Give him a bacon sandwich in a cell with Lubbock's killers. They don't like it up 'em. Then again ... he probablevy does.
Alvin Dart-thrust rulez
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