Speaker Chooses Three MPs to Investigate MP Expenses
It beggars belief that as popular disgust with MPs is now near universal they decide to appoint three of their own to investigate themselves. When you find out which three MPs the Speaker has chosen to do the investigating you can only laugh or else you will cry. Guess what the result will be?Monkey #1, Nick Harvey, a LibDem MP and former spinner for lobbyists Citigate Dewe Rogerson who still keeps his hand in as a consultant to parliamentary lobbyists Trimedia. Clearly the perfect choice to assess the shadowy influence of lobbyists given the tens of thousands he makes from the industry whilst a serving MP.
Monkey #2, David Maclean, the Conservative MP who tried to stop the Freedom of Information Act applying to MPs by using some very shifty parliamentary tactics. This provoked uproar and disgust leading to defeat after a few underhand shenanigans. Just the person to investigate calls for more transparency.
Monkey #3, Sir Stuart Bell, a Labour MP who hired his son Malcolm as a researcher. But unlike Derek Conway's sons, Malcolm definitely used to turn up at Parliament. In fact, it was while working in Portcullis House that Malcolm broke into George Galloway's office, stole his chequebook and made off with £2,000 from Galloway's bank acocunt. Which must have been the first time Galloway was the victim of a fraud. Young Malcolm Bell got 60 days in a young offender's institute. So his father is just the person to look into whether MPs hiring members of their family can lead to fraud.
They must be laughing at us in the subsidised bars of parliament. Gunpowder is too good for 'em.
81 comments:
This is an un-fucking-believable finger up to the electorate. Where do these cunts get off believing that they have some sort of fucking divine right to whatever's not nailed down, and sometimes what is?
Thieving, lying whoring gabshites, almost without exception, and with an arrogance that defies description: up against the wall - there IS NO OTHER ANSWER for these utter, utter cunts.
Is this a competition to name the blind one, the deaf one & the dumb one?
Will there be a T-shirt?
Do you know anyone offering Jihad courses, these lot are getting worse.
P.S. Greedy politicians hope this does not pricks your conscience when you take ill:
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A Yorkshire Nurse having served over 40 years in the NHS has been informed that her pension entitlement from her contributions totals just TWENTY ONE PENCE (40 CENTS) per week.
The Nurse, whose identity we have chosen not to reveal, recently injured herself at work and like many other female Nurses was given the option to pay just 50% National Insurance contributions, known in Britain as the stamp, no mention was made of the future consequences of taking such an opt-out and despite the years of service the Nurse has been informed she will not receive any disability payments or similar benefits due to failing to pay enough National Insurance contributions.
Now that's a scandal:
Source: www.news-365.com
Not so much poachers turned game-keepers.
More like leopards promising to change spots.
I find this hard to believe, as they never mentioned this on Newsnight when they ran a story on this very topic. Strange.
And the three chimps were appointed by the sleazemaster himself - Gorbals Mick.
The chap who phoned in to "Any Answers" on Saturday was absolutely right when he said we need to overthrow the fucking lot of them.
Anyone fancy joining me on a march on parliament about this shit? I just want to do something and my guess is plenty of people feel the same.
Are these three likely to take their snouts out of the trough long enough for such a job. Exactly the kind of crew expected from that sponger/speaker.
Anyone heard anything on that basket Hoyle's secret wrist-slap ?
an FoI request on how the decision was taken?
a request on Lord Hoyle's "punishment"?
Tory philanderer David Maclean, One wife, two mistresses... and a quad bike on Commons expenses.
Gorbals Mick is taking the piss
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Anonymous said...
Anyone fancy joining me on a march on parliament about this shit? I just want to do something and my guess is plenty of people feel the same.
What about St. Georges Day (but can I bring powder?)
Bill of Rights 1689 Still in force:
That it is the right of the subjects to petition the King, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal.
Also applicable to the Queen, a big march to the palace to petition HM to remove this sitting Parliament, constitutional crisis perhaps but the Treason Act 1848 focuses on depriving Her Majesty or the Crown taking sides with the Crown against Parliament is the last option left, the Act of Treason by Parliament will be the EU Treaty.
I'm all for joining the Monarchy on this one (never thought the day would come as a staunch Cromwellian / Parliamentarian)
calm down you pitchfork tories guido has the right idea - lift the lid on the slugs below. once the truth is out they are wide open to legitimate questions.
by slitting their own throats like this they are making our attacks on them too easy.
I don't know about you guys but I like an intellectual challenge and these dullards make it feel as if we are lynching spastics. oh well, I'll soon shrug that off and get the rope out.
it really is like a murderer being the judge at his own trial, a completely preposterous and surreal notion. it also proves without doubt that they are frightened and have much to hide if they need to set up such a biased oversight procedure stuffed with such questionable patsies. this is just fuel to the fire and I say let the fuckers burn. we can always toast marshmallows on their pyre, atleast that will make these cunts useful for something.
clochoderic said...
calm down you pitchfork tories guido has the right idea - lift the lid on the slugs below. once the truth is out they are wide open to legitimate questions.
If it was good enough for peasants of 1640 and Transylvania its good enough for me, I resent the accusation of Tory, fortune favours no man if they are crooks
Guido get with the real world.
Did you really think anything was going to change?
How much do they get as a salary? £60,000. Not even enough to buy a semi in London, especially with Gordon's NI hike which about 3 people know about.
They need their fiddles to make ends meet.
The Queen should call in the army.
treason and corruption trials with immidiate lynchings is called for.
trea·son (trzn)
n.
1. Violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one's country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.
2. A betrayal of trust or confidence.
Noun 1. treason - a crime that undermines the offender's government
high treason, lese majesty
crime, criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking, offense, offence - (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act; "a long record of crimes"
2. treason - disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior
subversiveness, traitorousness
disloyalty - the quality of being disloyal
betrayal - the quality of aiding an enemy
3. treason - an act of deliberate betrayal
betrayal, perfidy, treachery
knavery, dishonesty - lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing
double cross, double-crossing - an act of betrayal; "he gave us the old double cross"; "I could no longer tolerate his impudent double-crossing"
sellout - an act of betrayal
What is the Queen waiting for? the evidence is clear - the EU and corrupt subversive goverment.
does someone have to report them to the police to start the investigation and trials?
lets do it!
This is truly unbeliveable. They are insulting our intelligence, its almost as if Gorbals mick has deliberately chosen these deeply inadequate MP`s to put two fingers up to the rest of us. I`m sure that i must be wrong!!!!
Mick the Prick probably thinks he's been very clever ! Just shows how thick he really is ! Parasitic, arselicking bastards the lot of them !!
Why am I not surprised that the bunch of glasgie shit masquerading as the speaker of the house of commons should make such a selection from the dregs of parliament to 'investigate', spelt whitewash, MP's expenses.
Trouble is that this one just might not go away by using the time honoured Westminster tradition of using long grass and the passage of time to solve problems they would rather not have to deal with.
Read this piece by Rachel Sylvester in the Torygraph and weep, or cry with laughter, as is your wont.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/02/05/do0501.xml
How naive can you get?
They will need "hutton" strength whitewash for this to work.How the fuck did we ever come to this?
what next prisoners doing the own parole hearings,
will they share a taxi with the speakers sow?
Yes well what do you expect from Gorbals Mike - the worst Speaker in living memory.
They should have asked that SNP loon Angus MacNeil - the one who cheated on his wife - to head the inquiry.
These fools don't get it. They can start checking out their pension entitlements ASAP, as the Guido cull rolls on.
Either this is a case of you use a crook to catch a crook or this is the best three they could find from the massed ranks of troughers that composes this parliament under Gordon Brown.
I think my MP expenses dream team would be Blair, Conway and Levy. Can anyone top that?
I was most enamoured by the suggestion in one of the papers that the NAO should be responsible for vetting MP's expenses - given the troughing the previous head of the NAO indulged in at our expense.
There's nothing like spending taxpayers money on themselves...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3308659.ece
Westminster authorities spent £100,000 on a lavish redecoration of the grace-and-favour house for the officer who oversees MPs’ expenses, The Times has discovered.
The property at 3 Parliament Street used by the Clerk, the Commons chief executive, received a top-of-the range makeover, with a £39,000 kitchen, bespoke furniture, including a “butler’s tray”, and granite work surfaces. The same inventory also lists two Ionic columns costing £963.
Why has Gordon Brown not reported the donation from Lord Robertson of Port Ellen to the Electoral Commission?
Is it a secret that dare not speak it's name.
Time for a bit of perspective - we get the legislators we deserve and if we want to pay peanuts we will get fucking monkeys. We have a choice, either pay MPs the proper rate for the job (and that will probably be in six figures) and take away most of their allowances, apart from essential travel, to a central control and authority, or pay them nothing at all and get only the independently wealthy as MPs. In the current typical British fudge where their pay is inadequate but they get generous allowances with little scrutiny (nudge, nudge) is it any wonder they find dodgy ways to compensate themselves and their nearest and dearest. In this regard. I shall not forget the words to me of a wealthy Eastern European who had served as a government minister and had been recently elected mayor of his capital city. He told me he was the best person to hold the office of mayor as "I am so rich I do not need to be corrupt".
I gather that the three stooges will then be appointed to the Electoral Commission, so that there is more practical expertise available for investigations...
I love it when Westminster has its back to the wall its so enlightening to even the most uninterested thicko's in the country.
How many quangomen or ex-quangomen have been involved in 'donations' to Labour?
I'm not sure if this is quite above board, and feel that it ought to be discouraged.
It looks like is another way of recycling taxpayers' funds to a deserving cause. Not!
@Bill of Rights 1689 Still in force:
Someone talking sense! We have hundreds of groups fighting individual battles against this corrupt treasonous bunch of scum. Until we all march as one, millions of us, they will continue to destroy our country and its people.
The Bill of Rights 1689 is still law. We should have these cunts for treason. We are NOT in Europe! Come on Britain, wake up!
Laughable. And contemptible!
Keep it up Guido! Perhaps you'll be able to add one of these heads to your collection.
PS You are not being fair to chimps though!
PAy them what they are worth geordie? I thought we were over paying the sleeze ridden cheats already. What exactly are they doing to earn 60K a year let alone the other perks? They have abrogated the responsibility for making law and much of government to the EU, so what exactly are they for? Spending 4 weeks waffling about the Lisbon ConstiTreaty while changing not a word within it? What are they for?
They should be paid a pittance and given bonuses based on performance as measured by their constituents. its time this corrupt bunch of wasters were forced to reconnect with the people they represent.
Guido,
You demean yourself and the strength of your site with this item. For instance, I cannot see any objection on personal grounds to Sir Stuart Bell. It is silly to suggest that because his son behaved stupidly that he himself is excluded from this work.
Surely, your better point, which you have rather obscured, is that MP's should not check MP's as regards expenses.
Simon Cawkwell
It's difficult to believe that even those sleazy blighters would consider it reasonable for MPs to investigate themselves.
But it is stunningly unbelieveable that even the dim Gorbals Mick should choose those three particular clowns to get the whitewash out.
C'mon Guido, we need a bit of co-ordination here. An online petition? A letter campaign to the Standards Committee? What should we do?
I heard that one of these three "honourable gentlemen" was one of those responsible for getting rid of Elizabeth Filkin when she was getting uncomfortably close to unearthing sleaze and corruption within the government and Parliament.
Sounds like he may not be terribly suited to his current role unless it's a whitewash they're after.
Im surprised he didn't pick Parliament's Sleazebuster In-Chief Norman Baker.
Oh I forgot, Baker was caught fiddling his parliamentary allowances just before Christmas too!
Remember that Harvey is the only the MP they always drag out to defend the present expense arrnagements.
In a press release, Lib Dem MP Nick Harvey, the spokesman for the Members Estimate Committee, said this:
"Compared to parliamentarians in other countries this represents excellent value for money."
Pablo the scot - I think you missed the point of "pay peanuts get monkeys". If they were paid the rate for the job then hopefully a better quality of person would be attracted to political life and replace the current lot of venal wasters over time. I realise that £60K is a lot of giros to the average scot, or geordie for that matter, but in reality it is the pay of a middle-level pen-pusher in industry and commerce. No wonder we get the large crop of failed lawyers, trade union jobsworths and the generally unemployable as our current representatives.
Yet another dark day for democracy.
This whole investigation should be run by Frank Field I know he's a bit of a weirdo but he did get to the heart of it when he put the boot into Conway let him "think the unthinkable" on this one they would all shit themselves
And the speaker of course has a clean record and has not been involved in any shenanigins concerning taxi bills and wifely excess.
What a bunch of cunts, almost on a kin with Hans-Gert Pottering and his attempt to stifle opposition in the EU Parliament. Are they taking lessons of each other, corruption in Euroland is not only endemic its rife and inbuilt.
Did George EVER get his £2000 back from Bell minor?
Anonymous said...
Yes well what do you expect from Gorbals Mike - the worst Speaker in living memory.
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No Sir or Madam,
The worst speaker EVER.
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The good news is that all MPs will be "colour coded" as to the legitimacy of their expenses in line with this colour chart
These dorksw make C4's 'City of Vice' look like a fairy tale with a happy ending. Bless!
Yes let's march on the Royals, I expect they'd love the attention right now! Get your jack boots shined Phil we is on our way.
AH(C)
Worse than Gorbals Mick is that pompous, over-promoted wine waiter Ed Miliband.
Wasn't it young Ed who said that Charities should be allowed to be political?
So the Charity Commish is prevaricating over The Smith Institute, and when the law is changed it will be "Time to move on. Not in the public interest to take action blah blah."
But the public disgust over Hain, Wee Wendy et al means that not even the shameless Snot Gobbler dare change the law at the moment.
So come on Chairty Commish - do you have ANYTHING to say about the SI or not??!!
Let them get on with it. These idiots fail to realise that the stone has been lifted, exposing their dark and slimy hiding places for all to see. Their corrupt actions do them no favours, and simply drop them further in the shit.
The day of reckoning will come, sooner rather than later.
Asking 'Sir' Stuart Bell-End to investigate MPs is a mickey-take of the highest order,
This man has been fiddling expenses for years by claiming that an answering machine constitutes a constituency office!
Gorbals Prick should be strung up for this suggestion. It just gets worse and you really couldn't make it up
If you want to know more about Sir Stuart Bell-end, speak to Ray "Robo-ex-cop" Mallon, mayor of Middlesbrough.
This is all very well but one wonders if Mr THC Soduko has suffered any further horrific injury to his self-esteem; perhaps a parking ticket, or maybe someone asked him to pay for something unsubsidised. There is a site: TheyDon’tWorkForYou. YouWorkForThem.co.uk, at which slights and offences against the politburo may be recorded and members of the public are there invited to complain on behalf of their betters.
Mr THC (That Horrible Cunt) Soduko, the UK’s second most senior and second oiliest muslim legislator - Mr THC Oily Vaz being the supreme parliamentary oilslick - seems to have taken grave offence at being treated like a citizen, in the way that honourable HCs do; his amour propre is not, currently, what it might be. If he doesn’t get a cabinet job, he may well stamp his pretty little feet on Radio 4s NewLabour Today programme. Anyone, incidentally, missing the flagship news programme can read it the next day, reprinted as news in the Jock Herald by Scotland’s greatest living journalist, Mr Iain Jock McWhirter - he sometimes recycles Guardianalia but it’s mostly Radio 4. The Herald, yesterdays news, today. Fuck me, you couldn’t invent Scotland without the assistance of some devastatingly powerful pharmaceutical products.
By way of remedy for Mr Sadiqi’s ills, however, there is a nocturnal gentleman of the press who looks, unfortunately, as though he should have been hanged at Nuremberg and who is at the command of the prime minister. It might be possible for the PM to deploy Scoop Kneepads White in ministering to the singed feelings of Mr THC Sadiqi in the way that onlyLobby-quality kneepads properly permit; as the sensational Scot, Mr Alex Harvey, used to sing: There ain’t nothing like Sir Michael, to blow away the blues.
Scotland’s Polish contingent, meanwhile, harmonises to a more strident anthem: The Wall Up Against, Innit, Motherfuckers.
Re: Bell.
It should also be noted that this odious man hires his wife as a secretary (no doubt looking after the answering machine is a complex task in itself!). Furthermore it might be worth checking when he last held a constituency surgery.
This man is the ultimate example of the 'porcine politicians' you were talking about a couple of days ago, Guido. You really should dig a little further, if you are able to find the time, to investigate this poor excuse for an MP.
the reason we have an idiot speaker and a rotten parliament is because we have not voted in significant enough numbers.
parties have used this fact to further their interests and not the public's. indeed now all the cunts have to do is concentrate on playing the marginals game.
their party supporters are like neanderthal football thugs.
they are either nulab trolls or torydroids screaming for victory for their team. after winning elections these self interested parties have both just lined their own pockets, given our sovereignty away and generally fucked things up. but the country must be doing well they claim, because we do so well, things can't be all that bad. these greedy, useless cunts can't see the end of their own noses, let alone the true interests of this country. and now is the time to worry because these bastard party politicians are breeding their spawn to take over their position in society. they are attempting to return us to a feudal system of government.
these cunts will destroy democracy, have no doubt of that, look at what's happening in brussells- anti democracy that's what's fucking happening. and what are our party politicians do, well, they are giving the shop away. traitors. fuck the country, what's in it for us, that is their number one policy.
so, it is not to the barricade dear reader, it is to the voting booth. vote out every sitting MP and every sitting councillor and choose instead a reasonable independent candidate. maybe even become one. forget petty victories and allegiances for they are self defeating and your loyalty is misplaced.
What a lot of racists you are-how dare you criticise the speaker -hes from Glasgow-so what!
Lets be clear about this!
YOU lot voted them in 3 TIMES IN A ROW!
Now they have got their feet under the table, its going to be IMPOSSIBLE
TO DISLODGE THEM FOR THE FORSEEABLE FUTURE-ESPECIALLY WITH THE NICE LIBDEMS IN TOW!
So-get used to it, my sassenach friends-now go back to your serfs quarters and prepare to take whats coming to you!
(And dont even THINK about taking to the streets-our good friends at the Met won't let you within sniffing distance of the powerhouse!)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Looks like the Spanish Inquisition...
why an investigation?they all know whats going on.The only thing they want to know is how to cover thier arses, thats whats expected of these three honourable men.
to perry neeham @9.19 - you think Gorbals Prick came up with these three clowns all by his own? Perhaps he had a wee worrd with his boss Gorrrgon just to make sure he didn't pick anyone of integrity. He certainly wouldn't recognise it if it kicked him in the snout. Thieving Scotch cunt.
Guido, we need a campaign to get Gorbals replaced with... anyone really.
Do you seriously expect Gorbals Mick to appoint anyone to look closely at expenses when his whole family benefits from the current system?
@ Anonymous (11.21am)
Do you mean Ray 'I supply smack for information' Mallon, the wonderfully 'independent' Mayor of Middlesbrough?
Middlesbrough is FULL of corruption and the good people of that town deserve much better.
So he stole money from that Malodourous pile of human dung 'Gorgeous' George Galloway?
I am begining to like the sound of Malcolm Bell!
Rachel Sylvester.
What a fucking brilliant laugh!
Am REALLY enjoying catching up on your splendid articles.
I buried a hamster yesterday with more guile and worldly experience.
These three MP's tossers every one.
Well it is Pancake Day after all.
@ Anonymous 1:04 AM, February 05, 2008:
Anyone fancy joining me on a march on parliament about this shit?
I'm afraid it's too late for that: marches on Parliament have already been banned. Reading aloud the names of Iraq war dead at the Cenotaph, for instance, gets you an encounter with the SS, and a criminal record.
Things can only get better...
person of no fixed abode,
careful, your slip is showing!
no fixed abode my arse.
condoning theft and a hatred of galloway. as the tories couldn't give a damn about him that means you are definitely a troll.
time for a new name eh?
I heard that the new oversight committee is already pushing through it's own private member's bill to move the house of commons to a tax haven during the renovations.
Chris Paul Nulab Turd is trolling away. you only have to look at his pathetic site to understand this prick. Ha, no one posts on his site cos its boring like him. Tit.
The Septic Isle.
As an ex-Labour voter (could not stomach New Labour, so stayed away) this is indeed a very sad day for democracy.
The lemmings are really taking over the asylum. Blair and Brown have behaved like classic dictators. Encouraged by getting away with inquiries (Hutton, and all the others) this lot believe they can do anything, and get away with it. Defining the rules and choosing the judging panel - Wendy Alexander could win Miss World on this basis.
A resounding NO is required. Let's see what mud Paxman and co can stir up (please) later on TV.
trollocks,
I went on a little infiltration mission into labourbloggers4war land and fucked their heads up real good!
that's what I call 'mission accomplished.'
you do what you can and as hain would say,
'every little helps.'
There is always a silver lining - Martin has kindly identified himself and his band as first targets once decision on revealing MP's expenses has been ratified. go get 'em Guido :)
Anyone fancy joining me on a march on parliament about this shit?
How about erecting a Guillotine in Parliament Square, storming the bastards and having a few heads off?
The trolls can do the knitting.
11:38 AM
Vrooom! Vroooooom!
Killemallletgodsortemout:
OK!
That sounds like the only way we're going to restore any semblance of democracy in this country.
Count me in!
NO!....SERIOUSLY!
I REALLY THINK WE SHOULD DO THIS!
No-one has yet mentioned that many of these crooks have second jobs!
How about we boycott the next polls? Or, we could all ruin the ballot papers telling them exactly what we think of them. We have enough CCTVs watching us, but who watches them?
Write to your MP telling s/he eexactly what you intend to do, come the next general election and see what response you get.
Come back Guy Fawkes, all is forgiven.
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