Yvette's First Class Package
A Labour party press release arrives in Guido's inbox from Mrs Balls, headlined "Next Steps for Social Housing"
"Labour’s Housing Minister, Yvette Cooper, has announced a package of measures and extra investment to make social housing fairer and more effective. The plans will re-focus social housing around the needs of the tenants and will make it easier for young families to move to larger homes when they need to."
Fairer and more effective packages?
Mr and Mrs Balls are paid by the taxpayers quarter-of-a-million a year between them, yet so hard done by are they that they still claim a package worth tens of thousands extra in mortgage subsidy on top. They own two homes and with the CGT reforms dreamt up on the back of an envelope after George Osborne promised to slash IHT, they will be voting themselves a handy reduction from 40% to 18% on property capital gains. So the constituency and London home owners who already benefit from a tax-free allowance worth £40,000 annually to pay their mortgages, will vote themselves a nice little bonus tax cut. They will then be able to sell their taxpayer funded second home and only pay the reduced capital gains - a 55% tax cut for MPs.
Somehow Guido doubts that kind of package will be offered to ordinary young families who don't vote themselves the nomenklatura benefits available to the political class. Fairer and more effective packages? They are having a laugh...
Somehow Guido doubts that kind of package will be offered to ordinary young families who don't vote themselves the nomenklatura benefits available to the political class. Fairer and more effective packages? They are having a laugh...
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Filthy, grubby, hypocritical, self serving, self righteous pigs.
What a couple of bloodsucking leeches! Typical labourites with their noses in the trough.
Yvette says she wants the disadvantaged to have more space - but in Lambeth, Labour cllrs vote through social housing that is below draft minimum standards for floor space and outdoor areas.
(That way, they get more housing units, and meet some target or other no doubt....)
They can talk it, but can't walk it.
"The plans will re-focus social housing around the needs of the tenants and will make it easier for young families to move to larger homes when they need to."
By kicking old people out of their homes to make way for them.
Perhaps this aspect of the scheme should be given due prominence when the election comes.
Guido,Will you be continuing to take the advertising shilling from those shifty charlatans at 'Policy Exchange', now that Newsnight have exposed them for being a first class shower of shite ????
We should be told...
The Senior Salary Review Body recommendations on M.P.'s pay have still not been published even though the government have had them for weeks and have been saying they will be published 'shortly'.
The minister responsible? Harriet Harman.
Fuck me - what a tasty bit of totty - I'd give her a good hard fucking!
Married to Blinky must be so dull.
He probly has a 10 year plan/review for under the duvet activity.
I reckon he has a dinky dick anyway - hence the constant blinking and faraway blank look.
Anon 12.00. What has Policy Exchange got to do with Blinky and Football-Head? NOTHING.
Another bottle of champagne for the table on the left....
I think Newsnight ended up looking rather bad after the interview.
Policy Exchange are considering legal action.
Labour ministers with their noses in the trough. Really? Shocking!
There was me thinking they were all upstanding wonderful people trying to make my life better.
To be honest people have given up caring about any of this. They just expect it. Corruption is rife in our political system, but the majority of voters don't really give a flying shit because they can't see how it directly affects them. Its not going to get much any time soon.
The next few years will be quite entertaining, as Labour fuck up again and again and again. At least it would be if they weren't dragging the rest of us down with them.
LBS - It is a diversionary tactic. I find Cooper is a very apt name for someone who is scraping the barrel of decency.
thats a fancy word.
Where is the separate Policy Exchange story then LBS? With GuF being a fearless fighter of racism and all? There is of course a connection as GuF has targeted the Sith and it would be hypocritical not to draw attention to the travails of a similar charity but (a) of the right and (b) utterly useless and prejudiced.
And on the story in hand can we have a list of all the Tory MPs now and Ministers in previous govts who have NOT claimed the exes to which they are entitled under the rules.
Obviously they're all as good/bad as each other and so this is malice.
Guido the above simply must be another nomenklatura couple altogether!!!
Cabinet husband-and-wife team Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper have been accused of exploiting Commons expenses rules to buy a £655,000 home and get their children into a top state school.
The pair, who were both promoted by Gordon Brown, have registered their four-bedroom North London house as a 'second home' under parliamentary rules, which entitles them to allowances of up to £44,000 a year to subsidise their £438,000 mortgage.
They also have a 'weekend' property in Yorkshire, which they used to call their second home. But by instead declaring their more expensive London house to be their secondary residence, they can claim more money from taxpayers.
The couple recently moved from inner-city Lambeth to a smart Edwardian townhouse in a more fashionable area of London, close to better schools.
Out of interest do any children of politicians go to state schools???
Yet another vote-winning policy from Fuckwits Unlimited.
No doubt at the same time the responsibility for council housing will be put out to tender just as MoD housing was. It saves our money being spent on us (much better if it goes to useless waste like politicians or the pending Olympics disaster) and thereafter all the blame for council housing cock-ups can be assigned to nasty profiteers who have no social conscience.
I'm not a violent person, but lately I've been having dreams of smashing sickeningly smug faces with a pick-axe handle.
Perhaps my unconscious is trying to tell me something.
chris paul - You say they are as good/bad as each other, the reason that burning coals are being heaped all over Labour now is that they came over all hysterical in the 1990's and then said they would be 'whiter than white'. Now it is being gleefully pointed out that they are crooked and in some instances open to criminal charges.
Ah, but Chris, The Fearless Fighter of Racism isn't like Superman, he cannot just fly to the scene of a crime.
I have a feeling that The Fearless Fighter of Racism will be along in an hour or two, just as soon Guido has thrown off his hat, put on his tights and put on a pair of Y-Fronts on top of them and grabbed his cape and put some fuel in the Fearless-Fighter-Of-Racismobile..
Dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner FearlessFighterOfRacismMan !!!!
Do you suppose Jeremy Paxman might, in a fit of Christmas charity, buy some media training for both Guido and Dean Godson ? He might even get a good 'two-for-one' deal...
"Policy Exchange are considering legal action.."
Bring it on, baby !!
How about this for an idea: if you can't afford a bigger house, don't have any fucking kids.
Do they have kids? They must be fucking ugly!
I hope my planning is alright, or I will be difficult.
Mitch 12.03 - I expect Harbint is waiting for a bad day to bury our political elite's good news before publishing the Senior Salary Review Body's recommendations. After all, one penny more for these thieving cunts will be a penny too much for the average voter to stomach.
If they have kids I feel sorry for the kids having to listen to the virtues of neo-classical endogenous growth theory.
Am I being too alarmist or does the fuckwit Balls actually believe what he says?
Nigel Griffiths MP introduced Yvette Cooper-Balls to Jabbaring
Balls and Cooper - disgusting pigs with snouts on the trough. They deserve far more then being beaten during the next election.
As to the obvious NuLab hacks attempting to change thread to Policy Exchange/Newsnight. (A badly executed appeal to motive.) You dozy fuckwits, islam is body of ideas, not a race. So you can't use your tired, one-size fits all insult. But hey when did truth or the actual meaning of words ever bother you?
I'm glad they've moved from Lambeth - brings the area up a notch or two.
Jack The Lad still knocks about unfortunately even though he is far from his North London roots.
Al Beeb: "Great Britain, the exception, signing off on the treaty in staggered fashion...the symbolism is obvious..." no kidding!
Al Beeb careful to use avoid use of the "c" word....
GRAND BRETAGNE, NULL POINTS!
Today Gordon Clown will sign away all our rights to the European Union,he has refused us the referendum we were all promised by Labour.
Today the communist unelected scottish traitor will sign away all our rights by signing the EU treaty ,we will have no say at all on who can live in our country(but saying that we lost that right a long time ago)along with 1000`s of various other rules with which we will have no say on we have been betrayed ,shat on from a great height
Today beckons the early death of the UK,today we and all our children will be slaves to Europe with no hope of freedom ever,George Orwell`s prediction 1984 starts today
While Newsnight quibbles about a few receipts, radical Islam are laughing their socks off at how easy it is to create a diversionary smoke screen for their activities. I wonder if they will send Peter Barron a Christmas card?
What sort of miserable twat wears a dark suit, shirt and tie to his own wedding?
And the bride wore black. Says it all really.......
Aha.. the ruling elite have started treating taxpayers and voters with blatant contempt. The writing is on the wall for this bunch of shysters. It's just all so predictable, like a car crash in slow motion.
Brown will never have his mandate.
438/655x100 = 69%.
Oooo I do hope the property market does what it did before - it'll prpbably be worse this time. So a nice dose of negative equity would teach cooper balls a thing or two.
Hey, wait a minute? You don't think they would dream up a state funded negative equity scheme to help 'hard pressed home buyers and working families do you'? No, of course not. It's just my cynical mind.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2226533,00.html
interesting - Gordo to be banged up
Guido, you'll know I'm a big fan of this site, but I'm baffled and a bit disappointed there hasn't been a post about that circus last night on Newsnight.
Not least because the policy exchange guy managed to give a worse newsnight performance than yourself.
Come on - if we're going to be genuine smartarses we need to do it without fear or favour.
"The plans will re-focus social housing around the needs of the tenants ..."
Re-focus around. Around. The fucking silly bitch can't even produce English, never mind a housing policy.
The preposition "around", as used in the dismal jargon now spouted by public sector fuckwits, is intended, consciously or otherwise, to indicate an absence of judgmentalism (as indeed it indicates an absence of judgement). They say: "He has issues around X," meaning, in English, "He has a problem with X". The second construction would be far too direct -- oh dear me, of course it would, suggesting that the "issues" might somehow be the fault of "he" rather than "X". This of course is born of the socialist idea that no one is ever to blame for anything. To understand all is to forgive all (provided someone else is paying).
Thus Gordon Brown has issues around autism; Alistair Darling has issues around bankrupting the Treasury by underwriting the losses of a criminally reckless bank; Ed Balls has issues around being a swivel-eyed git who believes the answer to all problems is state control; and we all have issues around our sovereignty, this very day, being handed on a plate to a bunch of foreigners who loathe and despise us, and will suck us before you can say "Hitler" into a totalitarian nightmare such as even dear old George Orwell never dreamed up.
Where I live the council has come up this wheeze. Give council houses to criminals in order to encourage them to stop stealing. You couldn't make it up!
http://www.northantset.co.uk/kettering/Council-houses-for-excriminals.3578570.jp
and will make it easier for young families to move to larger homes when they need to."
This, to me, is THE PRIME REASON we have such a problem with Welfarism. People can just ride along getting more and more without having to pay for it.
Everyone else has to think really hard, save, do without, juggle location (and thus school) vs space, whereas Yvette Cooper is going out of her way to further impoverish the taxpayer so others can do what they cannot.
Outrageous.
mark 1:29 - oh f*ck off, sunshine. That nob-end Mark Thomas tried this on R4 the other day. Face it. Thomas is NOT Lenny Bruce; he IS a twat.
The EU may now think they have us. They have said "better to be inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in", but they forget the worst of all scenarios, to be inside the tent and still pissing inside (which is what the French have been doing since 1956). Let's copy the French, agree to everything and obey nothing!
I remember reading a MSM piece about how poor Ed Balls has all this hassle in running two houses and once his on-line order for groceries was sent to his London home while he sat hungry with his family in his northern home waiting for a delivery that never arrived.
You'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at that.
PS: Don't you think that with that long neck Mrs. Balls looks like a character in Cluedo?
Who murdered Dr. Brown (Phd. Edinburgh University in labour history) in the lobby with lead balloon policy?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7142436.stm
Can La Smith micro manage a drinking sesssion in a micro-brewery?
So much for studying the problem and offering a solution...
Well, enough is enough. I'm gannin to quit payin' tax and gan on the dole and sign up for a cooncil hoose. Wi' me missus and six bairns, I reckon we should get Dorney Wood or Chequers or somm'it.
I think we still have one guarentee of our sovereignty left... our Nukes!!
Nulab=
Serially Incompetent
Criminally Corrupt
Just seen an advert for DAB radios on the BBC - give someone a DAB radio for Christmas...call ....
Makes a change from the 'trailers' for programes maskarading as 'News' items.
If he's Ed 'Go' Balls then she must be Mrs. 'No' Balls....
Shows that NuLab are in touch with the common people and want to be like the common people.
Change of subject (but with balls in common).
A group of eminent scientists is out to sabotage Al Bore and his fucking climate change conference in Bali.
Said one: "Climate change is a non-problem. The right answer to a non problem is to have the courage to do nothing.
"The UN conference is a complete waste of our time and your money and we should no longer pay the slightest attention to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)"
Another: "This is the most lavish conference I have ever been to, but I am only a scientist" he said, noting the luxury of the tropical resort.
(Note: An analysis by Bloomberg News on December 6 found: "Government officials and activists flying to Bali, Indonesia, for the United Nations meeting on climate change will cause as much pollution as 20,000 cars in a year."
This global warming shit is beginning to stink. At last a group of boffins prepared to wield the poop scoop...
Highly recommended:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=c9554887-802a-23ad-4303-68f67ebd151c&Issue_id=
Mr Brown, the prime minister said it was "essential" for citizens to be involved in discussions with the government about the major issues of the day.
Well said Mr Brown.
The following is this citizen's view on the major issues of the day.
I am sickened by the way you are ruining the country. You are not and never will be a leader. You are a coward and a bully, yet you had the audacity to have a book (ghost-written) about courage. You break laws with impunity (ie. race relations - money laundering) yet feel that you and your Government are above the law. Good governance is being accountable, effective and efficient, participatory, transparent, responsive, consensus-oriented, and equitable.
Neither you nor your party is any of these things.
Please Gordon - go and go now.
Wee Wendy's listing on the MSP Register of interets is odd.
"Until 31 December 2006 I was a Visiting Professor at the Business School, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. I was paid an honorarium of between £10,001 and £15,000 per annum.
Between January 2006 and 10 January 2007 I wrote a weekly column in the Daily Record newspaper which is based at 1 Central Quay, Glasgow. I received remuneration of between £5,001 and £10,000 per annum.
Related Undertaking: NONE
Election Expenses: NONE
Sponsorship:
NONE
Gifts:
I received a donation of between £501 and £1000 on 28 December 2006 from the Transport and General Workers Union towards local campaign work.
I received a donation of between £501 and £1000 on 13 March 2007 from the Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians towards local campaign work.
Overseas Visits:
NONE
Heritable Property: NONE
Interest In Shares: NONE
Voluntary: I am a Visiting Professor at the Business School, University of Strathclyde (unremunerated).
I received donations in November/December 2006 towards to production and posting of a 2007 calendar from the following:
Reid Kerr College (£500),
Chivas (£500),
Braehead CSC Retail (£200), Capital Shopping Centres UK Property Group (£300),
Abbotsinch Properties (£300), Phoenix Car Company (£300),
CK Heating (£200)
WK Malcolm (£200)."
How is the work at The Business School unrenumerated and yet she then receives a sum up to £10,000 for this?
A couple of property companies are listed.
Is it usual for a visiting Prof in Business to own no shares?
What is the wee Beesom's business expertise, ethics and speadsheet design?
Commnets on the Herald's politcs pages infer that McPlod is moving rather slowly, and a couple of posters seem to think that the FOI Act applies to the Electoral Commission.
I didn't know he'd married a giraffe.
Yvette's First Class Package
Guido, are you saying that Ed's got a fine set of Balls?
Yep - Mark Thomas is a nob-end!
robbierotton -
I'd put it in slightly stronger terms than that.
This isn't a government, it's a gang of criminally inclined, like-minded despoilers sucking on the public tit for all they are worth; a coterie of lickspittles and fraudsters attracted by the prospect of power like blow-flies to vomit; an actively anti-democratic brood of malign self-serving hypocrites lacking the slightest vestige of morality or honour.
And the likes of Robinson, Paxman, White, Toynbee and their ilk are the piss-stained, skid-marked underpants flourished in the face of the public in a vain attempt to provide an illusion of a covering of decency to the rotting corpse of Parliamentary government. The stench of partiality, corruption and decay makes one gag.
Over all is the one-eyed bag of pustular excrescence, a gutless (appointed) apparatchik who hasn't the courage of his convictions but when controversy causes objections to voiced, hides in the dark like a diseased, malformed cockroach.
I despise them. All of them.
When the reckoning finally comes, I hope it is merciless.
Balls Griffiths & Cooper spotted eating out.
http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/Ed%20Balls%20and%20Yvette%20Cooper.jpg
Dennis said...
"The plans will re-focus social housing around the needs of the tenants ..."
Re-focus around. Around. The fucking silly bitch can't even produce English, never mind a housing policy.
Cracking post Dennis.
The language of bureaucracy and mediocrity is what gives these shite hawks away every time.
They can seem to express any ideas in simple, lucid language.
So the NuLiebour scum want to throw elderly British couples out of their homes to give those houses to fake asylum seekers/immigrants with large families?
Now thats what I call a real vote winner(for the BNP)!
Shall we do a quick recap? 80% of new jobs go to immigrants.
Most new large council houses now reserved for immigrant families.
And now NuLiebour want to steal the native peoples houses to give them away to foreigners?
You couldnt make it up could you?
I dont suppose any NuLab commisars will get thrown out of their 2nd or 3rd homes to make way for the millions of eastern european gipsies that are heading our way?
@cassandra: Thing is the daft bint is too dim to realise that what you have predicted is exactly what will happen.
They are all so depressingly stupid.
Don't forget ALL MPs can gain from this and it's old news -
'...I watched the Channel Four Dispatches program about the emergence of a 'Political Class'. The part dedicated to MP's accommodation expenses was an eye-opener. It brought back some recent memories of several years spent residing in central London.
I ended up in a residential estate in the 'City' where MP's are 'two-a-penny'. I was always amazed that they never used to live there permanently and one of my nearest neighbours, a Conservative economic spokesperson, was seen by me over a period of two years on less than the fingers on one hand! It could not have been a coincidence since I was at home most days as well as nights and I would have expected to see them often in the lifts and the stairwells. No, they just did not appear very often.
I came to the conclusion they had 'a lover' somewhere else in central London and therefore did not spend any time 'at home'. Well, now Osborne has exposed this scam of expenses against 'second homes' I would not mind betting this MPs second home is the one in the south of England and not the one in London. Either way, it is a tragedy if they are left to get on with milking the system in such a manner.
The MP concerned is
Andrew Tyrie MP Chichester (Conservative).
According to theyworkforyou.com:
In 2005/06 Mr Tyrie claimed nothing for London Supplement and £21,634 for Additional Costs Allowance.
Of course Mr Tyrie is entitled to these expenses but how many of these Conservatives are doing the same thing as the ones exposed on Dispatches (Monday 24th Sept. 2007, 8.00pm...')
From:
http://myblog.harpmandoodle.com/blog/_archives/2007/9/24/3250628.html
Yeah, she's got some neck, alright.
What an excellent post!
Yes, a neck ideal for the guillotine.
Bring out the tumbrils.
@ Anon 3:44
I despise them. All of them.
When the reckoning finally comes, I hope it is merciless.
Me too, but I still haven't had my daily dose of phencyclidine.
“What a shame is this, that neither hope of reward, nor fear of reproach could anything move him, neither the persuasion of his friends, nor the love of his country."
When are the MSM going to give these issues the coverage they deserve?
The sheeple in this country are being fucked over big stylee but are too stupid and uninformed to realise it.
The 'political class' is a vile, inevitable phenomenon resulting from the workings of 'politics' in this country since Thatcher's era.
These useless cunts are all the same: grammar -> uni -> think-tank/quango -> govt.
How can we get rid of these vile leaches?
Don't forget that Stalinist bitch Yvette Cooper has threatened to turf middle aged and elderly British people out of 2 and 3 bed council houses where they have lived for years in order to house "young families" (code for immigrants)
The Ceaucescus got the firing squad for simliar.
How can someone with Borderline Aspergers like Cooper has be suitable to work as a government minister? She is mentally disabled for fucks sake!
Schadenfreude:
A German word meaning 'pleasure taken from someone else's misfortune'.
Well, by fuck, I'll be getting some really high-quality Schadenfreude when I move to Italy in the new year.
Britain is a hopeless, damp, depressing, drunken, violent, vomit-stianed shit hole.
The people are ugly, dim, agressive, pasty, potato-faced, welfare-dependent morons with more congenital diseases than you could shake a stick at.
And all ruled over by the most corrupt and incompetent government in 200 years.
If you can possibly get out of the NuLab UK police state, then do it now!
Ref: The Bollocks Family wealth creation project
"No representation without taxation!!"
How on earth did you get a picture of our prototype Sithius 10 androids? The male one proved a complete balls/cock up.The female one needed a major rejig.Programmed to be utterly loyal to their master they malfunctioned on a daily basis.As to the question of how they reproduce.Same way as a Ford Transit.
I bet Imelda and ferdinand markos started out just like those testicles in the picture.
This government needs castrating.
Is this the same Mr. Balls who was in a secret meeting with one Lord Philip Gould during 2003?
Organisation: Builderburger Group
What were they discussing then?
Balls was senior economic advisor to G Brown at the time. Ooo err missus, it's getting sexy.
I do not wish to be thought a know all but, unless Mr and Mrs Balls are hopelessly badly advised, there will be no CGT payable on either of these two properties since they will merely judiciously make the appropriate PPR elections and vary ownership.
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Its interesting isn't it. Balls has proved so crap at working the details of Broon to Bust's big ideas for the economy, but so efficient with his personal economic management. The only consistentcy here is that the tax-payer is getting screwed both ways.
I'd shag Yvette up the arse, but then I always did like rich birds.
Brown's Loans for Lordships.
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