How Will MPs Cope With 76 Days of Unsubsidised Booze?
As they slip off this afternoon to face a tough 12-weeks holiday in the real world without subsidised drink, Guido wonders how will MPs cope?The House of Commons Refreshment Department operated on a subsidy of £5.5 million of taxpayers’ money in the 2007/08 financial year, which is equivalent to the total annual tax receipts from 35 pubs. The subsidy is equivalent to £8,500 per MP - that is approximately £50 per diem on top of the £30 per diem they voted to award themselves every working day in cash.
The subsidy, which for some inexplicable reason was not published in the House of Commons’ Annual Accounts, was £693,000 higher than in 2006/07 - a 15% increase. No belt tightening for MPs despite the Chancellor's warnings.
It accounted for 43% of the operating costs, meaning that the taxpayer coughs up £4.30 for every £10 spent refreshing our politicians: even before they claim back their outgoings without receipts through the expenses system. These figures don't include the multi-million pound re-fit of the wine cellar.
MPs are members of the best London club with a dozen bars on the parliamentary estate, plenty of dining rooms, brasseries and banqueting suites all operating without a licence and no restrictions on hours - you can even smoke in some.A pint in the Stranger’s Bar costs £2.10, outside parliament in the West End you pay £3.50 to £4.00. An 8-year-old Scotch costs £1.35, while our politicians can enjoy a Pimm’s on the pleasant Thames-side terrace for just £1.65 - which is a third to a half of prices a mile down the road. Do you really think they need to pay politicians more to attract people?
*Not including all the additional expense claims for essential new kitchens, appliances, window cleaning, garden pergolas, plasma TVs....
[Incidentally to all PRs who send Guido press releases - the AMLR press release was the best Guido has seen in years. Clever, on a relevant subject, well aimed and timed.]
97 comments:
Brilliant Guido - well done to AMLR - trouble is the pigs are shameless - they consider it a right that we poor bloody taxpayers are required to pay for - they should be paying the market price for everything they consume in our parliament - the sooner the better and they might begin to understand how the rest of us live
The way to sort this out is for MPs to invite their constituents to an occasional booze up.
And these cunts want to ban happy hour and "cheap booze" for the rest of us. CUNTS! CUNTS! CUNTS!
Understand the losses of £5.5m BUT can the MPs also claim back cost of these meals - if so we seem to be paying twice.
You are missing trick here Guido
http://www.theherald.co.uk/politics/news/display.var.2405907.0.Glasgow_East_Labour_hit_by_Marshall_revelation.php
These troughsnouts are indeed without shame.When all the fiddles and perks are added up it must make what they get worth 3 or 4 times as much as most people think. They are in desperate need of piano-wire and lamposts. And 76 days leave? They are worthless traitorous bastards.
They should meet in a disused, draughty aircraft hanger with folding wooden chairs. The palace of iniqities could then become a hotel or even demolished.h
Hang on a minute, does this mean all these bars are now empty until October?
To Westminster! Bring the barricade-making equipment, an assortment of Molotov cocktails and, please, I beg you, don't forget the bottle openers...
The whole place will be under our control by tea-time!!
(I get first call on the 8-year-old Scotch, mind.)
Pukey Primarolo pontificating on World @ 1 about piss artists - get her Guido - the haggling harridan
It is a shame. How will they cope?
What they need is for a charity that is well-connected with senior politicians to arrange some events where they could quench their thirst at someone else's expense. Where could we find such a charity?
Amused to note one of the signatories to this boozy press release was one "Adam Mellows-Facer".
Crazy name, crazy guy.
So if they're getting £30 per day on us anyhow, well that's 14 pints. Couple that with a respectable 11am start on the occassional days they turn up - 11.45 on a Wednesday, uuuurrrrggghh - i'm gonna stop doing the calculations on this. In the real world we have managers and time sheets and well expensive booze
KPMG done a home office report slating boozers for irresponsible drinking but not their Diagalo clients of the supermarkets - 1 bottle of wine £7, 3 for £10!! WTF??? I'd love to drink in boozers more than me house, plus problem oriented policing clearly demonstrates that boozers are responsible guardians. When yer landlord boots you out because you've got hammered elsewhere then fair enough, if you get hammered there then friendly chap says "Ricky, make that yer last one will you lad - you're talking gibberish".
The same MPs who criticise Tescos for selling Cheapo larger to the prolls?
Do they get subsidised carry outs?
ED Idiot being slayed in the house.
what a cunt
We should pay a reverse incentive.
If tax is kept down to 30% of GDP they get 6 times average wage.
If tax is 40% of GDP 3 times.
If 50% par.
Over 50% zero.
At the moment all the pay-off incentives are rigged the other way, judging by the jobs they get after political retirement when they get payback for handing out state finance on a lavish scale to consultancies, IT companies and other useless organisations that leech on the public purse.
And yet they keep voting to put the booze prices up for the rest of us. Yet more government hypocrisy.
I know what you mean but I'd far rather pay real prices in the Lamb and Flag or The French etc before spending a single minute supping with the unutterable cunts who frequent the commons bars. Wouldn't you? (If anybody wants to arrange my election, I'd split the ripped off expenses no sweat. We'd clean up! See, I'm already hypocritical enough to be an MP.)
DO AS I SAY, not as I do mind (for I am considerably better than you and know more, care more and drink more than you bottom feeders could ever hope to achieve). Cheers for paying for my indolent lifestyle, anyway, must dash, off on holiday for a couple of months and have some plebs in changing my kitchen to reflect 2008/09 styles. TTFN scummers!!!!
Since GF has raised the issue of the lack of laws which MPs apply to themselves, I would like to take this opportunity to bitch about the number of cigarette ends which have appeared in my garden in the last year.
This is attributable to the smoking ban. Where as once people used to have a fag when they got where they were going, they now wander along and chuck their dog-end in my traditional English display of dandelions (yin) and crisp wrappers (yang), completely ruining the Zen balance. As a protest, I intend to enter the new disarrangement at Chelsea next year, under the title: 'If you're so keen on the smoking ban, why don't you ban it in bloody Westminster'.
The design will include a border of pavement sunflowers - you can always tell a lady by the way she goes outside to throw up - and feature a porch-type leaning place where some bastard has sprayed coke'n'rum up the top of the posts. Leastwise, I hope it's rum - it's very high up. The public will be invited to stand in the porch, have a snout in defiance of the smoking ban, and when challenged by stewards, PCSOs etc. will be told that the porch is topologically and spiritually outdoors, even if it is physically inside the Chelsea Flower show. No doubt this will give the PCSOs a chance to engage in the philosophical analysis with their Tasers/pepper sprays etc. If not a Silver medal winner, the fag-garden should be in line for a Turner Prize.
And these fuckwits have the gall to talk about the binge drinking culture in the country.
At least those that indulge are paying through the nose for their drink, unlike those scrounging scumbags in Westminster, who have the brass neck to demand jail for benefit cheats, and are leeches on the back of taxpayers.
Keep exposing the scum Guido.
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Pukey Primarolo pontificating on World @ 1 about piss artists - get her Guido - the haggling harridan
I turned the radio off as soon as the mustachioed old bat started to whine. Spoiled my lunchtime drink!
Do we really need so many mp's?.Most of our laws are being made in Brussels now and yet we're still shelling out a fortune to keep 646 greedy useless cunts in the lap of luxury.
We really should be hanging the fucker's upside down from lamposts.
Cunts!
Good on Guido for regurgitating an unsourced press release without checking any of the facts.
Maths alert - if the subsidy is 43%, then it would be better to say "£4.30 *of* every £10" or, for more shock value "for every £1 MPs spend in the bar, 75p of taxpayers money gets added on top"
Anyway, where's my (unsubsidised) G&T?
@anonymous 2:35 PM
You seem to know a lot - how is that I wonder??
ANON 2:34,
Well getting rid of the ones from scottish constituencies would be a start - a spot of preemptive action !
A side-effect of this is that there isn't a decent pub within a mile of the Palace of Westminster.
Look, you're all being incredibly beastly and myopic. If I want to get absolutely slaughtered at your expense then get a taxi back to the swanky flat you've purchased for me and then take two days to recover by ordering takeaways and having to answer to no one and then have a three day weekend I think that's perfectly justifiable. You don't understand the stress of sitting with me mates talking tosh and keeping my name off Guido Fawkes's dispicable website by doing nothing that is of any note whatsoever. So what if I staff my office with folks whom I can trust to the end, I certainly wouldn't employ anyone minded to act in a responsibly civic way. Now go away you mongs.
I don't see how you make it a dozen bars. I count seven (less Annies which is closed, but add the new press gallery bar) on the Factsheet the AMLR references, plus the Lords bar = 8. MPs can't get served in the Bishops Bar unless they're with a Peer.
Then this number includes the subsidy that the press gallery is getting, which you've blogged about before, so you can't attribute that to MPs as well.
I'm all for companies subsidising food in staff canteens (and remember, all the doorkeepers, attendnats, cleaners etc need to eat somewhere), but I do think that here there is every opportunity to cross-subsidise staff food with receipts from the function rooms - can't see why they don't do that.
St Stephen's Tavern is a decent pub, serves some nice real ale. Dont want to upset your sums Guido but that subsidy is for all staff in the Commons as well as MPs, so its not all going directly down their throats as there are probably over 1000 other employees there (including cleaners, security, admin, MPs staff, interns, etc).
Also, I dont beleive you can smoke in any of the Commons bars anymore, that would be illegal.
76 days holidays ought to soften the pain of no subsidized booze in the member’s bars. Of course, they’ll be expensing much of their vacation coats when they back to the trough as a result of ‘research’ and constituency business.
I am sorry to inform you Anon. at 2.35pm that Guido doesn’t need to do much verification here. Subsidised boozing has long been a traditional perk in the hallowed halls of Westminster. I am reminded by Guido’s raising of this topic of an incident I noted back in 1997.
I was attending a conference at the Royal Geographical Society about the humanitarian impact of landmines around the world, keynote speaker one Diana, Princess of Wales. This was about one month after the Nulabour big win in May 97. During the first recess (after Di had left, of course), Clare Short, the newly installed Minister for International Development at DfID (dumb fuckers in development, as it is known), informed a group of us that she had to leave the conference to attend “A full Cabinet meeting with Tony” and would be back in the afternoon.
Well, she duly returned that afternoon, when the conference had ended. She reeked of booze, was slurring her words and was a tad unsteady on her feet. The cabinet meeting must have been therefore:
(a). A huge piss up.
(b). Not that long or important.
(c). So boring and meaningless, one needed a tankful to get through it.
(d). The meeting never occurred and she was talking bollox and just wanted away for a sesh at the bar.
…two years later I went to another bash on the Terrace and there they all were knocking it back, Ms Short included. The smug self-importance of them was sickening, the irony being that they really don’t get - or care – who is paying for it. I left with a group of colleagues and went to a local pub for a few beers. So in response to an earlier post, yes it is worth paying more to be away from the corruption of it all.
This is one perk I would prefer to see continue. In fact, I think they should get all their alcohol entirely free.
My thinking is, they will all become alcoholics, lose their families, lose their place in society, lose their self-respect and, with a bit of luck, commit suicide.
Am I being particularly unpleasant here? If so, I beg forgiveness.
But I won't change my dreams!
Ampers
Ref East Glasgow, quote from the Labour candidate
Candidate Margaret Curran said: "I will never, ever talk the east end down.
Wonder if she'll be saying the same thing after the by-election results come in?
Also, I dont beleive you can smoke in any of the Commons bars anymore, that would be illegal.
It wouldn't be illegal because the HoC is specifially exempted from the legislation. One constitutional wonk argued that smoking was already illegal in the House and had been since approx 1642, but when asked, Nick Harvey made no reference to this. He said:
While the Act does not formally apply on the parliamentary estate, the Commission, on the advice of the Administration Committee, has decided that the House should comply with the principles of the legislation, as it is not desirable that those who work on or visit the parliamentary estate should be treated differently in this respect than in other workplaces and public places. The Commission recognises, however, that many who work on the estate are unavoidably present for long periods, particularly when the House is sitting. It is therefore desirable to make reasonable provision for those who wish to smoke to do so, provided that the health and safety of other users of the estate is not adversely affected.
The house policy was immediately followed by reports of MPs smoking in the lavs. (Whether they also took to snogging behind the eco-bike sheds isn't mentioned in Hansard).
On 7 July this year, a clip was posted of smoking in the HoC which was not challenged by the area supervisors.
"Do they get subsidised carry outs?"
Sadly not....but then for less than the price of a carry out in Central London they can get a 3 course meal in a silver service restaurant in the House, so who would want to?
These freeloading filth are as pointless as the public sector scum who went on strike last week, except no-one noticed.
Double the size of each cons-tit-chewncee as the one eyed queer says, and chop arf of these utter cunts orf the payroll.
The Labour filth wot r culled can go back into local council, and teaching for retards jobs, the tories can go back into middle management, and the Limp Dems can all fuck right off.
I think Ive made me point
Ampers 3.18 - like the thinking but (trust me, I've tried) you've really gotta want to be an alcoholic and the fact that (random stat, made up on spot) 60% of marriages fail through finance, or the lack thereof, one would suspect this would only hurt the Kali Mountford's of this world.
"Adam Mellows-Facer, Quintus Public Affairs" is at the bottom of the press release.
Presumably, when he worked in the Commons he did not use teh facilities.
Also, i suppose Quintus Public Affairs also doesn't spend money in the bars and restaurants lobbying MPs on their clients' behalf?
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On his fund-raising tour of the Middle East, UK prime minister Gordon ben Brown addressed the Knesset. From The Jerusalem Herald and the Tel Aviv Daily Mirror.(ed. Toilets Maguirestein)
"My fellow Hebes and motherfuckers, as a son of the Scotch synagogue I say to you Shalom and thank you all for inviting me to preach in your parliament and borrow some money.
You have always been most accommodating in this area, especially in the Twelfth century back home in York, although I believe there was a bit of a communication difficulty in the easy repayments plan.
If Labour had been in charge then I would of course have taken the Hebe moneylenders into public ownership and only driven them into the sea as a very last resort - or if they refused a reasonable offer of work, down at the job centre, as we are now proposing to do in our own Final Solution.
The poor and the workshy deny lebensraum to the very hard-working and relatively poorly-paid wealth creators in the banks, the Party and the non tax-paying Russian underworld.
It is my policy, which I am sure you will all support, that we have eine Reich, eine Volk in which the poor, if they can no longer work for the rich or pay taxes, become worthless, so into the sea they must go; it is what we in the Party call compassionate Nazism. A bit like you with the neighbours up in Lebanon.
Y'know, when I was a wee boy my father was a Scotch Rabbi and so I am very much a Hebe motherfucker myself. And proud of it, only not in Palestine of course. Or South America. And I scarcely mention it with Frau Merkel. Not that I have anything to do with Germans.
In Scotland we didn't have the windows broken and the Swastika daubed on the walls thing but apart from that it was all quite Yiddish. Only we call it Presbyterianish. And instead of chicken soup our mommas made us nutritious and tasty chocolate bars fried in batter, a bit like Gefelte Fish. Only quite different
There is no God but God and Mohammed is his prophet, as our Muslim friends say, not that we have any Muslim friends making oil in Saudi Arabia. And yes, my fellow Hebe motherfuckers, I do solemnly commit my armed forces to going in there in Iran or wherever, in their rusty old LandRovers; I mean, of course, trusty old LandRovers just as soon as a) you give me some money, only not through Mr Abrahams this time and b) we borrow some ammunition off Uncle Sam.
This offer of course depends on enough of them surviving the best efforts of the schwartzer goyim untermenschen in Afghanistan and them all not coming home in tastefully flag-draped coffins and sombre music to Brize Norton and giving me an arseache in the fucking coroner's office.
As a way of recognising my own Hebeness and the very great debt we shall all owe you once you give me the money I propose to bring into government, alongside Obedience minister, Mr Jack Torture, the right honourable member for Tel Aviv, Mr Gerald Boys-Kauffman and the noble Lord Janner-Holocaust.
And if it moves the deal along a bit we could have a Holocaust Day not just once a year but once a week, maybe sing: On the Twelve Holocaust Days of Christmas, my true love (Ed) sent to me.....etc or even hold it daily, along with the citizenship obedience prayer.
In fact I could re-name the whole fucking country Holocast Island, make everybody wear skullcaps and eat anchovy sandwiches on that shit famine bread you like so much.
It is the run up to the Olympic Games, just now, and people all over the world ask me about the security implications, might terrorists take hostages and even kill them? Right load of bollocks is what I say, such a thing would never happen. It's like saying there will be a return to Tory boom and bust which there won't be even though there is. And in England, anyway, we can rely upon the Chinese Secret Service, who have allowed me to put them in charge of the Metropolitan police, under, of course, our magnificently uniformed Commissionaire, Sir Iain Bendover and our security minister, Admiral Lord Liberace-West and. Just for once, lets never mind what it says in the Good Book about sodomites and fire and fucking brimstone; if you fucking please, some, even most, perhaps all of my best friends are arse burglars.(Ed)
The former Chief Rabbi of the Northern Ireland Hebes, Archbishop Professor the Right Reverend Lord ben Paisley of Shankill Road ButchersRus, has recently resigned his office; with his many doctorates - all of them properly purchased and invoiced from the University of eBay - and his own private synagogue, his most sticky-fingered Reverence Doctor Iain and his son, Dr Iain the Second, have shown the Ulster Hebes how to do business in a modern plutocracy and we shall not look on his like again, Oi vay, although his fellow architect of Peace Through Torture, Mr Martin Kneecaps does have an engaging twinkle in his roguish eye and I am sure a few of us here wouldn't mind getting tied-up with him.
My prudent stewardship of the UK economy - burning all the money- has set us fair for weathering the shitstorm which I have created. I have instructed the British people to both borrow and spend like there's no tomorrow and to, at the same time. save every penny because there is an all too real tomorrow in which they will all have no pensions, not from the state, because I have aforementionedly, Mr Deputy Rabbi, burned all the money and not from the private sector because the directors have used all that money to pay themselves bonuses in order to attract the right kind of people.
A simple, prudent strategy, inflate the only asset which people have, encourage them to borrow and spend it in the High Street creating a false boom and when the artificially high value of the asset deflates, everybody gets fucked up the Khyber. It's called my no more boom and bust strategy and it has woked very well. Up until now.
My prudence will also have the effect of stimulating the pawnbroking sector of the economy, probably the only sector I have not single-handedly abolished.
What about the future, people ask. Well, my Hebe motherfucking brethren in Christ, as a way of burning any future money that people don't yet have their hands on. I have prudently written massive sums of future PFI debt down in the back of my rough book, where no-one can see them. This means that they won't have to be paid back until long after I am dead and up in Heaven with my father and all the other Rabbis.
It just goes to show that we in the UK have worked out how to deal not only with the economy, which is why I am here with the begging bowl, but also with with the terrorist threat, you just let 'em all out of jail and put them in government, whilst simultaneously prudently burning all the money.
You can still learn a lot from us, even though you have bought the Labour Party outright, just think how much better and more inclusive it would have been if instead of executing Mr Eichmann you had made him deputy prime minister, like we do. Murdering psychobastards can make surprisingly effective political campaigners. As I don't need to remind you.
I look forward to a positive response to our loan application and assure you that your money, like ours, will soon go up in smoke and you will never be troubled by seeing it again. But then you're used to that.
I will close now, my fellow Hebe motherfuckers, with an old Yiddish song we used to sing at Highland Bar Mitvahs:
Al-laaahhh Akhbar, Al-laaahhh Akhbar, Bismillah, No we will not let them go, not for forty-two days, No no no no no no no, All the lassies say Och, Aye, Donald where's yer foreskin ?
Thank you, thank you, no business like showbusiness. Cheques or cash will do. But preferably cash. Thank you. Shalom! Heil Hitler! And have a negilah day."
(Silence.)
Can you spot your MP here?
Tapestry 1.57 - I reckon no more than 10% (what's wrong with tithes?) GDP until they get reduced pay, or rather increases for keeping the tax down. As in £12,0000 at 49% and and above increasing until they get - say - six times NAE at 10%. And Government TOTAL borrowing no more than 25% of GDP. And there would be an independent audit so that Enron style off balance sheet borrowing was included. Only in times of total war or total economic meltdown could these limits be exceeded.
Thank you Stan. Let's go down to Parliament and get shit faced in one of the cheap bars on my giro...
All this drops into insignificance when you look at what the MP's backhanders are for the new runway at Heathrow!
Did someone say Strangers?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aCFDXflShE
Cheers Stan.
There are 646 of these parasites but 85% of our laws are made in Brussels, a situation they voted for.
Strikes me that , at the very least , the British parliament should be reduced in size by 85%
ie to 97 MP's
and no perks of course.
Stanislav is about as polish as I am , I guess .... (I'sa Taff innit..!)
My bet is a UK born, old, frustrated MSM pimper of copy ,his prose castrated by the shackles of his employers ..... and he has worked for several.!.
Comes here for bit of stress relief ...heh ... sort of old hack masturbatory monologue .. methinks.!
urph !
Stanslav ... "What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed".
They can always swill out at Chequers with Alan Sugar and other Minging Mentalists.
One of the very best, thank you Stan !
BTW, some mench doesn't believe your a plumber, very odd.
JCB-driver shot dead in Jerusalem. Apparently out-side Rusty "Jonah" McBean's hotel...!
God is the greatest script-writer known to man (and harperson)...!
We go to war to fight for this country, and kill people for this country, and live in shit for this country, and then spend the rest of our lives with the memories of what we've done, whilst the twats that sent us are having a pint down the office................ I'm...... really..... really.... pissed off.
Could be worst Guido old bean, Ginge McKennedy could still be suppin the hard stuff, that must be worth at least a 100K saving
stanislav "compassionate nazism" says it all !!
so am i right that they claim back what they pay for in the bar , resturant ??
so thats 100% tax subsidised then
perhaps you need a stiff drink after listening to a Labour commons statement , world makes more sense in the glen of tranquilty.
thank you nissan
Off Topic, but did Blinky Balls, the well known housing benefit cheat, lie to Parliament today? In his statement, by which he attempted to absolve himself of all blame for the pathetic standard of marking and the subsequent failure to release the stats results, Balls told Parliament that independent assessors had reported to him that the standard of marking was at least as good as last year.
The spokesperson for the Independant Assessors however has stated publically that the report Balls referred to was a report issued before marking took place, and the reference to standards referred to the standards of the training of the markers.
If this is so, and provided that the Independant Assessors' spokeperson doesn't withdraw her statement, then it would appear that Balls lied to Parliament.
Conveniently, Parliament has risen and so any complaint to the Speaker will of course be ignored
Did he lie? ............we should be told!
Not that anyone will be surprised, since it apparent that lying is institutionalised amongstlabour politicians.
Economique de l'actualite or some such shite for Balls.
His defence will be some repetition of crap like his fellow bum cleaver McBroon, who persistently won't have anything to do with his latest mis-spoke nonsense and keeps referring us back to something he claims to have said in the distant past, VIZ VED...BTW did you know that one of the early signs of General Paralysis of the Insane is megalomania, lack of insight and neologisms?
Confabulation (making it all up to fit the scarce facts) is a sign of terminal alcoholism, Korsakow's Psychosis.
Lots of Pathology there then. Its the Spirochaetes what done it honest!
I'm off for a drink at the Mother of All Bar? Anyone for PIMMS?
Stan, long, but like obsidian, shot through with the snowflakes of genius.
Chakra, mon.
Oh sorry, was it this afternoon the M.P.s were going to slip off? Looks as if they slipped off ages ago, true to form and leaving the Ed ucation Balls mess to be left - in a mess............
So what the fuck can we do about it?
Their stock answer is that we prolls have the ballot box to make our views known.
The older I get the more I despair at our so called democracy in the Mother of all Parliaments.
Perhaps we should go back to being a full time monarchy, at least there would be fewer swine in the herd and once in a while the chief pig would be a decent sort of bloke.
for the sheep -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj2iVgx_VS4&NR=1
strangers is a terrible bar!
O/T but you need to read this on the beeb http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7520401.stm
apparently bogie encrusted hands are super glue resistant
I only wanted to mention that Threshers are selling Tanglefoot at a quid a can... perhaps you could tell your mates in Parliament?
What makes it even worse, if that were possible, is that we would not even know about this utter piss take, so to speak, if it were not for the internet and chaps like Guido.
The BBC simply loves making programs about dishonest plumbers and electricians and various small business people. While deliberately talking up the banksters property bubbles and The Rothschild's beloved CO2=MMGW bulshit. But when it comes to the establishment and their bought and sold MPs, the BBCs silence is deafening.
Democracy can only work in the interests of the people if the ENTIRE main stream media are not controlled by the same people that control our elected political elites.
Which without any shadow of any possible doubt whatsoever is the BRITISH ESTABLISHMENT, heading up by our banking corporations, and the people that OWN them.
Which is a well documented long existent fact that the media will NEVER tell the people under any circumstances. They would rather cut their own balls off with a rusty carving knife. This because doing so is far more then their jobs are worth. FAR FAR more in some cases, as Dr Kelly found out.
Serving the people is now and always has been a low paid hiding to nothing. Whereas serving our masters gets you far more then a cheap drink.
If the despotic bastards play there establishment provided cards correctly they usually end up in a very well paid non job at one of the banksters more prestigious banks, such as JP Morgan.
IMO this is THE most corrupted and therefore dangerous country in the entire world. For no other reasons then the people living on it still believe it is one of the least corrupted. While at the same time this imperialists paradise still retains far more financial might, international influence and therefore potential or otherwise destructive power, then its own common people could possible imagine.
The No1 reason for this is our own media and the BBC especially. Which also IMO has now clearly shown itself to be the most criminally dishonest provider of highly clever fascist establishment propaganda since.........Sorry the very sad fact is there never has been a more criminally dishonest provider of highly clever fascist propaganda in the history of history. Hitler and his bum chums were relatively speaking only playing at it.
Please try to remember; history is written by the winners, not the losers. A Fact that WS Churchill not only admitted to being very well aware of, he actually wrote that history.
Atlas
Do us a favour Stan, fuck off back to Poland, but COME BACK asap with a container packed with knock off AK47s and we can do the only think that's going to rid us of these people, and we all KNOW it to be true, but we turn our faces away, we prevaricate, we say it can't happen here, it won't happen here, there must be another way but folks ... you know... there isn't. There is one way, and one way only we'll get those cunts out of the trough.
You fucking know it.
hate to play devils advocate here, to a degree anyhow, but I can easily buy a pint for £2.10, but then I don't live in london, I suspect there may be a link in there somehow.
incidentally it'll be a pint of something with a decent head on it as well.
Stan - great stuff - made my day.
As frankfisher wants to make the Nu-Liebour cunts' day, I can tell him that there are old mines in CZ that are stuffed to the rafters with top grade WWII kit from all over. Thompsons, Schmeissers, BARs Brens, 45s, 9mms, .303s, 30-06s, .50BMGs, Russian kit, and some useless French crap. Just choose your weapon Sir.
"There is one way, and one way only we'll get those cunts out of the trough.You fucking know it."
Absofuckinglutely Frank.
Interesting line in the story about the bloke who tried to super glue himslef to Brown.
'Mr Glass was invited to Downing Street to receive an award from the Sheila McKechnie Foundation for his protesting work.'
Invited for his protesting work???
Are they taking the piss!!
This from the same people who threw an 80 year old bloke out of the Labour conference for...er protesting.
Since when did they give awards for fucking 'protesting work'
I truely despair!!
Paraplegic tries to stick himself on to to Brown with superglue as the shook hands at a No10 awards ceremony.
The glue didn't Bond as it came into contact with brown's snot-encrusted fingers.
The invalid was given the bum's rush.
A No 10 aide was heard to shout; "Fuck off you lousy cripple".
Bravo Stanislav.
Next, flushed with the successful harrassment of Mr Wolfgang under the Terrorism Act, the police extend the service to boys with cerebral palsy (like Cameron's boy has).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7520598.stm
Top post Atlas.
But when will the sheep take note?
I woke up in the middle of a boiling oriental night in a cold sweat. I had been dreaming this ....... there is a group of citizens who are becoming increasingly disenchanted with their political masters. As each day passes this group becomes more numerous and more vociferous. Many of them are intelligent, some have influence. Most dangerous of all, from the political masters' point of view, is that this burgeoning band of cynical malcontents and potential trouble-makers has access to, and is expert in the use of, a worldwide instantaneous information and communication network. This is 'the threat'.
The question is - how can it be overcome; how can it be defused?
Well, one very, very, very, clever ploy would be to use humour. There's nothing like a bloody good laugh to make you forget your grievances, shrug your shoulders, and move on. It really is extremely difficult to maintain a Dave Spartish revolutionary demeanour when you are pissing yourself with laughter.
So, if government could locate such an engine of mirth, and direct it at the source of criticism and abuse, the bastards would pay a fortune (out of the public purse, of course).
So, what I want to know is this .... precisely how much are they paying you, Stan?
You ever thought of going in for politics Guido? That bar sounds like it could become a home away from home at those prices.
Only problem is which party would join join to become an MP ?
Is there no end to nulab corruption and theft in Glasgow??
AND THE LOCALS LIVE IN UTTER POVERTY AND DESPAIR-LIFE EXPECTANCY LESS THAN GAZA!
SCOTS-WHAT HAVE YOU COME TO UNDER THIS ACCURSED "UNION!"
http://www.theherald.co.uk/politics/news/display.var.2406647.0.Marshall_airbrushed_from_the_campaign.php
A pint in the Stranger’s Bar costs £2.10, outside parliament in the West End you pay £3.50 to £4.00
Having had a relaxing evening in the Crown & Sceptre, Cadoxton, with OSB at £2.40 a pint, I wonder at these prices.
How much is beer in the Red Lion, the MPs' local?
"45govt said...
As frankfisher wants to make the Nu-Liebour cunts' day, I can tell him that there are old mines in CZ that are stuffed to the rafters with top grade WWII kit from all over. Thompsons, Schmeissers, BARs Brens, 45s, 9mms, .303s, 30-06s, .50BMGs, Russian kit, and some useless French crap. Just choose your weapon Sir.
July 22, 2008 10:53 PM"
I'm intrigued with the idea of a .55 anti-tank rifle.
(Probably wouldn't be any good, and would have to settle for 50 cal).
Seoul City:
Do you believe that the Prince of Poland, Stanislav is funny?
I read it as vitriolic satire, sometimes verging on madness, always shot through with rich seams of uncomfortable truth.
I think it is a poetic 'acid attack' on the so-called 'great and good'.
After reading it, I feel more hostile to 'the Powers that Be' rather than inclined to laugh at them.
It may be the way I read things.
Oh, well...
Seoul City
Dream on! Guido is just another branch of internet porn. Private fantasies furtively shared.
When Guidophiles actually get together they argue over who pays for the round, just like real people.
Fantasising about being "a .. burgeoning band ... expert in the use of, a worldwide ... communication network" is part of the fun.
But .. newsflash ... the internet is not that hard to use. That's why we're on it.
Anon. 8.45's link is worth a glim. Quote:
"A spotlight on the expense claims of Labour's old guard of MPs is not what the party wanted in the week of a crucial by-election.
"But that's what a Labour-supporting newspaper delivered yesterday. It revealed that David Marshall, whose sudden resignation as MP for Glasgow East sparked tomorrow's contest, has been claiming for the costs of running his constituency office from his home while his daughter, Christina, has been running two property rental businesses from the same address."
Scheiss ... fan ... after the by-election, naturlich.
Nowt to do with the Union, though, AFAICS. More to do with electing pond-life to high office.
Not for the first time Brown shows he has no style.
Given that he's so fond of aping Tony Blair aping Jonathan Pryce in Evita, when the glue hit his jacket, why didn't he just take it off?
IF MPs think that GPs require an annual MOT to continue practicing, then what applying that thinking to themselves eh? Especially Cabinet Ministers...
I can see it now ... James Purnell gains support within Zanu Lab, ousts Brown in cold blood as the Milipedes watch in horor, party finances recover, Zanu relaunched on a 'Be nasty to people, you know you want to' ticket just in time for the mother of al GEs. Sheep trot into the right pens in the hope that Purnell will be nastier than Cameron. Purnell gains reasonable majority, only 8% down on present position. Liam Byrne - Home Office, Ruth Kelly - Treasury, Hilary Benn - Foreign Office, Hazel Blears - Defence, Balls - Chief Whip, mily Thornberry - Health, Milipede - Northern Ireland -- or some such jumble.Proceeds to run the country as if we are all moonlighting benefit claimants. Private ownership of cars abolished. EU establishes a Muslim integration Centre in every town. Fuel now too expensive to escape. The plebs love it!!
It's a bit of an arms race with NuLab, the Tories and the Lib-Dems vrying to see who can kick the sick the hardest...
Yep, arrest everbody, they must have done something...
Anon 11.01 - yeah, I thought that was out of line too. I'm not in favour of them being, you know, masters of the universe or anything. I dare say to infer comparable stats is rocket science in itself but considering i'm an economist with me A level biology in me back pocket - what the chuff do I know (can bore people with Krebbs cycle). Let the GMC, RCN and BMA do their own analysis and use scrutiny panels of experts not lay people who know serweeeet FA. Good man.
John Prescott has earned £180,000 from book and TV fees last year.
Hardly Bliars £250k for a dull speach.
Still would have been £180 had they not made up the Bullemia story.
Which is still £178 more than the fat waste of space is worth.
Which also shows why Labour MPs are so desperate, cause once out of power they are worhtless.
Somewhat ironic that quite a few of them will be picking up litter for their Giros post 2010.
W.W.
Statement by the prime minister.
"I am pleased to announce that as of January next year all UK troops will be withdrawn from Iraq to resume their job-seeking/community work careers in the by then bankrupt UK. This will reflect the current future security situation in Iraq as outlined by the government of Iraqi prime minister, Mr Ali Baba and his Forty Thieves, their brothers-in-law and cousins. This is not a political gesture, like the last one, I leave that to the party opposite, but is based on hard intelligence and the best advice given me by my commanding general (President Obamalamadingdong)
I am also pleased to announce that as of January next year we will be rolling out a programme of conscription and sending a million men to Iraq to be stationed there for the next hundred years. This will reflect the current future security situation as outlined by the government of Iraq, Mr Dick al Cheney and the directors (Mr G Bush the first and Mr G Bush the second) of HaliburtonWars4Profit Inc. This is not a political gesture, I leave that to the party opposite, but is based on hard intelligence and the best advice given me by my commanding general (President Codger McCain.)
In the matter of our brave, magnificent, professional job-of-work soldiers and soldieresses the country can rely on me, just like my predecessor, the anti-Christ, to not let them shrink from dying for what is in my own best interests and that of my post-retirement earnings, earnings which might, after the Tribesmen win Glasgow East, become a matter for urgent consideration.
So, there it is, my clear, unequivocal, non-dithering position on the deployment of UK troops; I will work night and day to do exactly what the Americans tell me. Can't get much clearer than that. Amen. There will now be a small collection. Only not too small.
Please let me guillotine a few......just a few.........
stan. Hilarious, mate.
Anonymous said...
It's a bit of an arms race with NuLab, the Tories and the Lib-Dems vrying to see who can kick the sick the hardest...
Yep, arrest everbody, they must have done something...
July 23, 2008 11:17 AM
The poor, sick and elderly already pulling their own teeth out through lack of care, Children forced back up chimneys next.
Ain't nutting like the taste o' Yankee first thing in the mornin'
Great stuff Stan - p***ing meself!
dickens @ 12:41
"Children forced back up chimneys next"
Ah, so you've have a sneak preview of the Tory Conference speeches then.
Another 'borrowed' Adam Smith Institute idea by the Tories?
The compassion of 'Call me Dave' can be likened to that of a crocodile - with NuLabour trying desparately to mimic him.
Vote for a free Scotland electors of Glasgow East - vote SNP.
Dear Stan,
I am concerned about who you really are, the information you give on this blog seems so close to the truth, I think the polish plumber thing is a front, because how can you write this stuff on here, when you should be working 6am to 10pm seven days a week to make tax free moneys to send back to your family in Afga-, sorry Poland.
You seem to now so much about our top secret files that we keep on top secret disc’s in lots of top secret places, makes me think you may have been in my back pocket at some time in the past, makes me think you’re a very heavy drinker, probably a Doctor, and a spy for Sky news,
So this is a warning to you to get on the first plane available out of this country and back to where you come from in Scotland, or else your name Stan will be given to MI6, MI5, CIA, YMCA, and the FBI.
Sgt Y, Z, Obleyobleyoski, MBA.MBE.YMN.MP
So what do you want Guido?
MP's running round skint?
Idiot.
Guido, do you know that a gin and tonic costs £1.50 in the House of Lords Terrace Bar? I was flabergasted when that was all I was asked to pay on a visit last week. I bet it's the same in the Commons Bar. Why can Parliamentarians apparently afford only to pay student union prices, at our expense? Are they hard up?
You know what? These people want to remember who they're there to SERVE. They're not our LEADERS, they're our SERVANTS. If they want money, let them get a second job. We should be paying them a modest middle class wage and no more.
All I can say to Magister Cato is :
CARTHAGO EST DELENDA