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69 comments:
note to the thieving bastards yvette cooper and ed balls: return what you have stolen from the public purse.
"SO WHAT"
Pope ... catholic
Bears ... woods
ad infinitum ....
But still good that you report it Guido ... we must never allow these gravy-slurping tossers to avoid the blinding light of blog-exposure.
A lot has been made of the Wintertons - but this lot are in government, and even, potentially (aaaaaaarrrgggghhhhhhh), leaders of the liebour party! Still, I suppose they have insanity as a justifiable plea.
Two cabinet ministers found guilty of theft - too much to ask for them both to be out of a job??
The (pretend) woman piggy is due on QT tomorrow night... hopefully she'll get a proper barracking.
I note that Madame Testicles is on QT tomorrow.
May be wise for her to 'have a word in the green room' with Dimbleby beforehand, to ensure the proles and other guests don't raise this complicated matter.
That's a real shame and unfortunately it might upset he anniversary of Gorgon's coronation.
....and the BBC haven't reported it for some reason. I wonder why
>Two cabinet ministers found guilty of theft - too much to ask for them both to be out of a job??
Socialism is another word for theft. They were fulfilling a manifesto commitment.
"Its complicated"
anticitizone,
er, new labour don't honour manifesto promises.
they are common thieves, no more, no less.
Come on Guido, spill the beans.
So when will the whitewash be published?
Odds on the Member of Parliament for Pontefract, Castleford & Knottingley has family affairs to attend to for tomorrow's scheduled QT.
Gagging for the next installment on this. Smug, thieving bastards! Looking forward to QT - if she has the balls to show up.
Common thieves, return the money, cunts, thieving bastards .....
Wait a minute ... I just had an original thought but its gone now. Oh yeah, this was it .. and fuck off too!
You don't post here without my comments to follow.
They can use the Tessa "olympic crook" Jowell defense..
"Despite me being married to my wife / husband I don't know what I signed, I just signed it. I do my ministerial business the same way!"
"...that the balance of probabilities suggests that there is no reasonable prospect of securing a conviction and that therefore no further action will be taken...."
Ed says that usually does it, and Wendy's people are going with the same words.
If Ed Balls gets the sac(k) does that mean he becomes Edward Scrotum?
3.25,
hey, new labour cunts like you taught me everything I know.
know thine enemy.
I know you cunts inside out, I know how you operate, and I operate better than you.
therefore you are fucked.
geddit?
He probably spent it on Viagra and she on home tuition for the kids.
Nothing will happen. They will have their knuckles rapped, as the wintertons, told to sort it out and be allowed to keep what they have thieved.
This rotten administration with nose bandit in charge have reduced this once great country with a thousand years of (almost) glorious history to a banana republik!
Welcome to Broons Britain.
Where thieves flourish, wide boys and girls make millions and honest men and women are taxed until they bleed.
How long before we all wake up and Revolt?
Check out the Bloomberg photo - are there any normal looking people in the labour party ?
ps, any chance of a refund ?
I cannot guarantee a revolution, but I can recommend a "sightseeing trip" to Parliament this Saturday.
28th June, 1pm onwards, Parliament Square.
they'll get away with it, then ed will get promoted to chancellor. fiddling the books is a prerequisite for chancellor's nowadays
Still no mention of this on Pravdas website
TaT - can you read? Good grief man - you're an embarrasment to yourself. The guy was agreeing with you, moron. If you want to be a parody of a sham of a parody then can you sod off elsewhere. It's worse than watching Big Brother.
That's it - i'll never respond to it again folks but his incessant runtishness just finally got to me.
Yes, i'll f*** off. How imaginitive.
as an act of reparation perhaps they will hand over the 'excess' to labour party funds to help reduce the deficit - or perhaps not !
"Parliamentary Standards Commissioner John Lyon's office confirmed that it has been investigating Children's Secretary Ed Balls and Chief Secretary to the Treasury Yvette Cooper since February."
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aLOQTd1lqcrI&refer=uk
Four months to investigate a very narrow allegation of wrong-doing. There's definitely smoke, and that usually suggests fire.
'Bring it on'
hat-tip to WA in Edinburgh
S'all done proper cos Ed took advice an' we followd vat advice innit jew fink we're stewpid or sumfing we acted wivvin ve rools and everyfing snotfair why's it always us annive gotta go on Newsnight and look like a twat fucking brilliant an' fanksalo'.
Mrs Ed Balls - her absurd HIPS Packs are shoving the Housing Market into imminent collapse
WHILE Ruth Kelly bears the blame, as an alternative to the Outer Darkness reserved for Catholic Members of a Cabinet which criminalized Catholic Adoption Agencies
The BBC will not "break" or even mention this story because (a) the Balls are NuLabour "elite" and are therefore untouchable and (b) it is "sub judice" or not in the "public interest" which the Beeb use all the time as an excuse to justify censoring all news which is unhelpful to Labour although it seems they don't feel the same constraints on reporting Conservative expenses investigations which must by the same rule also be "sub judice"
anon@4.37:
how do you explain this, then?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7473853.stm
No no, I heard the joyous news on Al-Bebeera's 4 p.m. broadcast, just after today's R4 instalment of Heather Couper's Cosmic Quest (VG -- can highly recommend!)
I had just finished my Earl Grey & lemon, + 2 Rich Tea biccies, and rubbed my hands with glee.
Two lots of expenses to pay for a single home where they don't fucking live for most of the time. Oink fucking oink. God I hate this pair.
Piano Wire
The investigation started in Februrary(!).
Whats taken so long?
Maybe it has taken time to get the surveillance in place?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1584713/Poole-council-spies-on-family-over-school-claim.html
They were subject to surveillance just like the rest of us would (aparantly be) aren't they?
Socialism is another word for theft. They were fulfilling a manifesto commitment.
Exactly. The two principles of Labour:
1. What's yours is mine and what's mine's me own.
2. If I can't have it why the hell should you ?
...and you lot call me and all my fellow african leaders a bunch of self-serving, corrupt, incompetent and thieving bastards. Look no futher at us. I was right all the time about Blair and Brown. It's all coming out now.
They're deep in the trough said ...
"...and the BBC haven't reported it for some reason. I wonder why"
I've heard four BBC news broadcasts this afternoon and the Balls/Cooper scam has been entioned in all of them.
Malcolm Moss MP, take a bow.
Old Holborn - bitter and twisted said...
"Still no mention of this on Pravdas website"
At 4.00 p.m. both stories (Alexander and the Balls) were on the BBC Politics website and also on the Radio 4 News.
should be "No ifs No buts " you're nicked!!
2 gangstas and 1 pair of hancuffs = VALUE FOR MONEY.
Gordo is pleased.
We are waiting Mr Crick do your stuff wearing your copy of the Jeffrey Archer linen suit as you did for the Spelman kicking
HH
dick the prick,
you are new here, aren't you?
very gobby for a new boy.
interesting.
ps. mind your own business you nosey cunt.
anticitezone 2.59
"Socialism is another word for theft. They were fulfilling a manifesto commitment."
They must have a quota of those, and it ran out before they got to any promised to the electorate.
This is the best news I've heard in weeks - Bollox 'n titsinerarse being investigated. Yeah, I know it won't be in the public interest, but, so what, better than nothing, eh. I'd like to complicate that fat greasy thieving fuck's life a lot more.
I reckon Boris should take the matter of this industrial scale thieving up with the Bendover Blair waste of space, and make a prosecution of some of these larcenous cunts a condition for not getting sacked.
Very gentle reporting on this from the BBC:
Cabinet duo face expenses probe
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7473853.stm
"It refers to the fact that Schools Secretary Mr Balls and Chief Secretary to the Treasury Ms Cooper, who both represent constituencies in West Yorkshire, describe their London home as their second home - for which they can claim the allowance"
Sky's Adam Bolton highlights why this might be strange - their children attend the local London school.
Balls & Cooper Probed
http://adamboulton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/06/balls-cooper-pr.html
"Rob Hutton at Bloomberg says that Standards Commissioner John Lyon began investigating the Schools Secretary and Treasury minister over their use of the Additional Costs Allowance back in February, following a complaint from a Tory MP.
The controversy centres on the designation of their London property as a second home (and therefore eligible for the ACA) despite the fact it appears to be their primary residence and their children attend local schools."
2nd home? My ar*e!
Make the bastards pay it all back
A pretty picture of them both there too. He is a fat lardy bastard isn't he? Neck & jowls spilling over his collar. Too much time spent at the trough for young Master Oink I think.
Anon 6.19 pm
Bang on!
And now they're appearing in an advert for a well-known snack company
Have they no shame?
you are digging your own graves guys, davis davis realized and will be quite happy watching the guillotine fall as he will b pardoned.
all your expenses will come out, all your crimes will be revealed & all the crazy powers you hav developed 4 ur pathetic political objectives will be used against you.
if not, well, there's allways a nailbomb.
TwAT works for Millbank - he's a closet BNP supporter who wants Gordon to share his rocking horse with him.
Balls & Cooper Probed
You saw it first on this site: and I hope its with red hot pokers straight up the Jack Sea!
Milliwank? Another coconut head! What the fuck is that hair all about then? If thats the best they have to offer as a replacement nodding donkey to spew out tractor production lies...at least he followed the QT demand from two weeks ago to drop Moggabee from the list of the belted. (but only because the Afro's approved of him so there would be no local difficulties!)
So two down some in abayance, and the rest to go...death by slow strangulation fulfils the piano wire optimist above.
LOL from Planet Mad
This sort of problem is dealt with all the time by the Tax Commissioners (look on the BAILI site). They would examine in forensic and tedious detail all diary entries, receipts for travel, food etc to establish the facts.
Hope the Parliamentary Commissioner is as thorough. If Stoke Newington is not the primary residence then it will be used for holidays and Yorkshire will be where the family spend most of their time.
Wonder if we will see the evidence either way?
Where is the up-date Guido? If only something could be done about all this nonsense but, at heart, we know nothing can be achieved. We are ruled by people who can't even speak English for heaven's sake.
Fuck Labour for their tax & waste policies, fuck the Tories for harbouring Edward Heath. And just fuck the LibDems for old time's sake.
We won't lie doon, Broon & Cameroon.
Good assault on that prize wanker Ken Purchase Order btw Guido. Read what the cunt says about Basher on his site here, namely I'm on the side of the decent, law abiding majority who play by the rules and want their community to be safe. They want the police and the authorities to come down hard on law breakers and CCTV puts these criminals where they belong - in jail.
Hey ed I can call you ed can I.I hear you read this blog so I would like you to know something important you know that cool,suave,ladykiller you see in the mirror well the rest of the world see a cunt! the speccy kid at school who's head gets pushed down the bog.
Even if you get to lead your party the bowl of history awaits,Oh and your a thief If benifit fraud is a crime how is what you do different? is it complicated? no its theft!! you are a criminal and the world knows it.
Mitch - you forgot to mention that that Bollox (oh hi there Ed - you with us you twat?) not only sees something in the mirror that we don't, he fails to see what we do -that he is a third-rate thieving pie-glutton shacked up with a she-man with her tits on her arse. Way to go you deluded fat cunt, you're not only bent, you have revolting taste - that's Bollox of course, not you Mitch.
Oh, BALLS!
Lakelander - very good!
Why doesn't Yvette Cooper take on Mr. Balls name? Is it because it would sound something along the lines of "You've Eat Balls"?
I saw that odious fat greedy cunt Nicholas Winterton at the tube station (amazing I know) and I yelled a bit of pointless abuse at him. The dumb tourists who were on the platform obviously thought I was some kind of nutter. I didn't care because both me and the cunty Winterton knew exactly what I was talking about, he shuffled on a little quicker with his head bowed.
I like to think I made his day just a little bit shitter.
More, more. A plea from me, not them over their exies....
betsy 7.20,
oh dear.
the weakest contribution of the week A ward goes to.........betsy!
groan.
why do you bnp morons keep slagging off your own party?
oh yeah, it's because you are a bunch of fucking wankers!
and you are trying to detract from the fact that the bnp leader, nick griffin, is a nonce.
So what's the guessing that they'll charge the gallons of whitewash paint to the taxpayer - - as usual?
Her giraffe neck looks very suitable for the axe.
Thieving bastards.
Their 3rd home should be a prison cell, shared with Spelman and Alexander. Northern Crocks.
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