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Post by ovechkin8 on Apr 16, 2009 19:07:25 GMT -1
Just to remind you all with the upcoming council elections that its not just the sleazebags in the House Of Liars and those in the upper house but also council officials across the land who are raking in the expenses. Just a reminder what our political 'masters' get up to inc. the most incompetent adminstration this country has ever seen since the introduction of universal suffrage. www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1163792/Ministers-60-000-expenses-parents-home-Rumbled-Tony-McNulty-drops-claim--calls-curtailed.htmltimesbusiness.typepad.com/money_weblog/2009/03/mps-10 -most-outrageous-expense-claims.html Our own local MP one of the thickest people I have the misfortune to meet rakes in £110K in expenses and employs dear hubbie as her secretary. And how low will Superman Broon go ? Definitely not the Nieztchean superman this toad . www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/apr/12/damien-mc-bri de-labour-smear www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article607854 2.ece Forget the Hindujas, Mandy, a good day to bury bad news , committingh troops to an illegal war and bollixing up the education , health services, fiddling the figures on immigration and employment , murdering our troops with piss poor equipment. Hurray for New Labour. Mind you Cameron is only the new Blair with people like Spelman in their ranks. Britain is in a sorry state. Broons shabby attempts at a Minitrue like all he has touched have turned to failure. ;D The sole thing to cheer me up was the attack by Daniel Hannan on Broon when he attended that anti democratic fraud of the European Parliament granted more powers by this goverment and the Liberal Democrats to even more remote unelected Eurocrat commissioners. Why bother having a Parliament ? www.youtube.com/watch?The same man has been ostracised by his own party for daring to speak his mind on a variety of issues which shows up the fraud democracy and free speech have become in the field of politics. Which shows slimy touchy feely Cameron Blair up .
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Post by Neko Bazu on Apr 16, 2009 19:29:01 GMT -1
Still true!
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Post by ovechkin8 on May 9, 2009 6:53:19 GMT -1
Listen/read this neko. Not sure if she is your local MP but its Margaret Moron. Her partner has a problem with dry rot in his Southampton holiday home, gets a quote for £25K from dry rot r us, she says - "don't worry darling, the tax payers will pay for it" and proceeds to switch her second home there days before the builders move in using the full allowance given under expenses. Can you imagine using your expenses to buy domestic items, creating a property portfolio as with the scumbag Hoon ? Its an utter disgrace. People should be marching to Parliament and physically getting hold of these so called public servants (who seem to think we are the servants) and giving them what for. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5293 320/MPs-expenses-A-Z.html They are utter scum. And whilst milking tghe public purse for teir private gain they have the nerve and temerity to lecture us on child poverty and third world debt. Did you the minime horror Blears yesterday ? Nice to see she lives in a leafy area of Salford whilst the rest of her constituents no doubt live in a shithole. One rule for one and screw the others. Personally I'd love to give our local MP the so called Right Honorable (nothing right or honorable about the turd) a really good kicking. Claims for a second home whilst living just 25 minutes by train from London. Can't she commute like the rest of us and dont forget she would have her first class tickets paid by the taxpayer. Scum .
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Post by ovechkin8 on May 9, 2009 7:04:27 GMT -1
Another litany: • Barbara Follett, the multi-millionaire Tourism Minister, claimed for private security patrols outside her London home costing more than £25,000. The parliamentary fees office, which is supposed to monitor claims, warned Mrs Follett that her claims may appear "excessive" if made public, but she was not deterred, saying she felt unsafe in Soho after being mugged. • Keith Vaz, the former minister who now chairs the Home Affairs select committee, bought and furnished a flat in central London at taxpayers' expense despite living just 12 miles away with his wife in a £1.15 million property. He claimed more than £75,000 for the flat. Mr Vaz also changed his designated second home for a single year to a property he owns in his Leicester constituency. During this year – 2007-08 – he claimed £1,000 for a table and chairs, £750 on new carpets, and £2,614 for a pair of leather armchairs. He also claimed for 22 cushions, including 17 made from silk costing £15 each. During the course of the year he rented out his London flat. • Margaret Moran, the Labour MP for Luton, spent £22,500 of taxpayers' money treating dry rot at her and her husband's seaside house 100 miles from her constituency – days after switching her "second home" there. The parliamentary authorities were concerned that the work broke the "spirit" of the rules. However, the MP's claim was not blocked. Miss Moran's expenses appear to be among the most questionable of any MP. Over four years she also spent thousands of pounds on three separate properties, switching between Westminster, Luton and Southampton and renovating each home in turn. • Phil Hope, the Care Services Minister, has spent more than £37,000 on refurbishing and furnishing a modest two-bedroom flat in south London. • Ben Bradshaw, the Health Minister, switched the designation of his second home to a property he shares with his partner in west London. Although the couple initially split the mortgage costs, Mr Bradshaw now claims the entire interest bill on the property – despite owning only half the property. • Phil Woolas, the Home Office Minister, claimed for items of women's clothing, tampons and nappies. The parliamentary rules only allow expenses which are "exclusively" for MPs' own use so it is not clear these items were justified. • Greg Barker, the shadow climate change minister, made £320,000 after buying a flat with the help of taxpayers' money, and selling it after only 27 months. He is the first senior Tory to become embroiled in the expenses row, but details of other prominent Conservatives will be disclosed in coming days. • Barry Gardiner, the former environment minister, made a profit of almost £200,000 after buying a Westminster flat and claiming thousands of pounds to renovate the property. Mr Gardiner's main home is only eight miles from Parliament If these are your local MPs vote them out at the next election. Send a message for god's sake.
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Post by Neko Bazu on May 9, 2009 7:10:17 GMT -1
I've never voted for Margaret Moron, and didn't have any intention to even before this. I only wish I could say that surprised me even in the slightest, but she's long shown herself to only be there to toady up to Glorious Leader while sucking all she can out of it for herself.
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Post by ovechkin8 on May 9, 2009 7:16:55 GMT -1
I've never voted for Margaret Moron, and didn't have any intention to even before this. I only wish I could say that surprised me even in the slightest, but she's long shown herself to only be there to toady up to Glorious Leader while sucking all she can out of it for herself. Anyone else you can vote for though Neko ? Our local commisar Claire Wards sole PMQ when Jesus Blair was around was to congratulate him on his leadership no doubt angling for a junior ministers post at the time. I despair. Catch you later sunshine.
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Post by Neko Bazu on May 9, 2009 7:26:11 GMT -1
I've never voted for Margaret Moron, and didn't have any intention to even before this. I only wish I could say that surprised me even in the slightest, but she's long shown herself to only be there to toady up to Glorious Leader while sucking all she can out of it for herself. Anyone else you can vote for though Neko ? Our local commisar Claire Wards sole PMQ when Jesus Blair was around was to congratulate him on his leadership no doubt angling for a junior ministers post at the time. I despair. Catch you later sunshine. There's always the "anyone but" option - close your eyes and point! I've long had enough of her; just about anyone would be preferable even if only to convince Labour to send someone in her place.
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Post by GeoFox on May 9, 2009 13:05:50 GMT -1
Margaret Moran's is shocking. Has to be the the worst so far if the Torygraph has it right?
If a second home is to assist in performing parliamentary duties, how the hell can she get away with designating a holiday home in Southampton to get a load of dry rot repairs done at the taxpayer's expense? Nowhere near Westminster or her Luton constituency. The mind boggles.
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Post by GeoFox on May 9, 2009 13:30:13 GMT -1
she also funds her clearly partisan website from the parliamentary communications allowance - a clear breach of the rules as that money is strictly not allowed to be spent in a partisan way. www.margaretmoran.org.uk/legal.html ...at the bottom...
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Post by Neko Bazu on May 10, 2009 8:41:03 GMT -1
Why yes, there is something that I think should be there...
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Post by HURLOCK on May 10, 2009 10:08:06 GMT -1
I can honestly say I have never fiddled my expenses, as I've always thought that making £5 here and there simply is not worth the risk of losing my job!
Now all of this has come out it really is scandulous and the majority of them are claiming within the rules - why was this not sorted out long before now - it's not as though they're on shit wages either - fuck their their salaries are effectively disposable income.
I'll put my new kitchen on my expenses ;D
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Post by ovechkin8 on May 11, 2009 16:14:31 GMT -1
No wonder the Cons were shy of attacking Broon and his cronies. Scum like Alan Duncan. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5304976/Alan-Duncan-claimed-thousands-for-gardening-MPs-expenses.htmlThey're all at it as well. There should be a police investigation into this as it smacks quite clearly of fraud and dishonesty. Hurls try asking your employer if you can buy a shiny new plasma on of the new HF ones and see if you get it. These people are shameless. It was within the rules. Sorry that is not the point. The point is to have decency as a person supposedly trying to better the public good not your private gain.
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Post by ancientblade on May 15, 2009 21:47:28 GMT -1
I think you have hit the nail on the head. The vast majority of these claims are 'within the rules'. But what is so shocking is the complete lack of any moral conscience among these people.
But it is also important to recognise that they aren't all the same, and MPs do not all deserve to be tarred with the same brush any more than anyone else.
I am lucky to live in a constituency with a thoroughly decent MP. I have met him several times and always got the impression that he had a genuine interest in the area and people he represents. So, I was pleased to see that he has one of the best attendance records in the House of Commons, but has no second home and stays in travel lodges (or similar) when it's necessary for him to stay over in London. He also uses normal class rail travel when going to London, unless carrying confidential papers, and does not make any of the ridiculous claims that we have seen. He really is a 'normal' person, lives in a modest semi, and is always accessible and helpful.
If he stands again at the next election I will vote for him, but it will be a vote for him, not his party. If he doesn't stand, for the first time ever, I shall probably not vote or deliberately spoil my ballot paper.
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Post by ovechkin8 on May 16, 2009 6:14:25 GMT -1
There are a very small number of decent MPs even f I don't agree with their politics who refuse to toe the party line like sheep and do stand up for their constiuents. The likes of Corbyn for instance , Hoey, Skinner . However the vast majority are just disgusting. And this is so far only the tip of the expenses investigation. Why the police are dithering is beyond belief. Have they been so politicized by New Labour they are unwilling to investigate and prosecute leaving it to the general public to do so ? More waste of public monies: www.taxpayersalliance.com/waste/ And yet pensioners die of the cold every year and people with serious illnesses have to chance their arm in a postcode lottery to see if they can get their life saving drugs. Its a disgrace. For the Eurocrats take Neil Kinnock whio has his whole family drinking from the trough at Brussells. The Danish accountant brought to look into the EU finances found huge evidence of fraud and corruption and proposed measures toclamp down on this. What happenend ? Kinnock sacked her. True socialist that he is.
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Post by GresleyRam©®™ on May 16, 2009 9:32:51 GMT -1
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Post by El Morto La Hoja! on May 19, 2009 11:51:15 GMT -1
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Post by Neko Bazu on May 19, 2009 11:57:16 GMT -1
Luton South 'second home' expenses: £22.5k Luton North 'second home' expenses: £1.2k
Says enough about our MPs!
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Post by Neko Bazu on May 19, 2009 15:28:22 GMT -1
Esther Rantzen to stand for Luton South MP?Essentially, Rantzen has said in previous interviews that she was disgusted with the revelations from Westminster, and was thinking about standing against an MP who'd blatantly abused the system to give the people a unified protest vote - she'd stand as an anti-expenses MP. Having looked further into it, she's highlighted Margaret Moran as her most likely target, following her dryrot stunt. This would mean she'd be standing in my constituency! Really not sure what to make of that. The unified protest vote is a good idea; it'd certainly send a clear message if she got in on that ticket, and it saves us from people voting for the likes of the BNP in protest. On the other hand, would she actually be any good as a politician? I can see arguments for and against that point, but really that applies to anyone else standing for Luton South, based on currently-expected names. She's certainly not a vote I'd rule out right off the bat if she does go for it (unlike Ms Moron : - I'd be interested to see if her other views represent mine
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Post by El Morto La Hoja! on May 19, 2009 15:32:18 GMT -1
speaking of which i got 4 leaflets from the bnp today i've only seen leaflets from the BNP... ... i'd rather vote for a duck with only a left wing than the BNP.
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Post by Neko Bazu on May 19, 2009 15:38:50 GMT -1
Actually, looking at some of Rantzen's previous work, she's done quite a lot of good stuff during her career. Her work during 'That's Life' was certainly helpful (for instance, an investigation into a boarding school run by a paedo who also employed two paedo teachers, and a campaign for organ donors), and she was/is a founder of Childline. She also gave us the word 'jobsworth' ;D
All plus points, as far as I'm concerned...
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