Goodbye Elliot Morley

Minister of being an Ugly Cunt...

~£16,000 claims for a non-existent mortgage, was not such a little mistake! Thank god he is leaving.

What is really surprising me about all of this is how far MPs are from real life in the U.K. It is how they look at £16,000 as a little mistake on their expenses (as an example, a lot of them have been doing it!) which is ridiculus. a £16,000 mistake? in reality there are people trying to scrape by earning around that same amount, I bet they don't see that much money as something that could be an accident.

Imagine that, getting a five figure sum of money that your not meant to be getting! I'd be chuffed!

MPs need a massive injection of reality directly into their penny grabbing arms.

Jacqui Smith is headed to court!

That's right, they're fucking on to you!

Hoorah!

We should all raise our glasses to Anthony Weaver for filling out the relevant paper work to make the thief account for what she has done!

BBC: "Mr Weaver, 62, said he wanted to prosecute Ms Smith under Section 2 (1) of the Fraud Act 2006."

Good Times.

John Wicks

All there is to say:

Good job fine sir :-)

MPs appear to be Siderodromophobic (scared of trains)

There should be a rule about second home allowances that if an MPs first home is near a tube station, HE SHOULD FUCKING USE IT. Are MPs to good for the tube? This is the second or third story i've read where an MP, in this case John Austin, has claimed thousands of pounds to save 30 minutes of sitting on the tube. A large majority of the public use the tube, why can't MPs?

I can see why they wouldn't want to use it right now during all of this, but if they weren't theiving bastards, then they wouldn't feel like they might get attacked on the underground.

The nice point about John Austin's story is how he used expenses to refurbish it then sell it on for profit.

Cunt.

Watch Them Squirm

Question Time 14/5 ->BBC iplayer

This is a great watch. Recommended.

Shahid Malik has stepped down - Not so sure you have done nothing wrong now, are you?

Just to remind you, he has done nothing wrong




Why have you stepped down then, Mr MAlik??

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8051091.stm

The Daily Mail did something interesting for once

"We [The Daily Mail] are joining forces with the Tax-Payers' Alliance to launch a campaign for the private prosecutions of backbenchers and ministers who have pocketed thousands of pounds through dishonest claims."

Well that is rather interesting, hopefully some of the greedy bastards (fingers crossed it's Jacqui Smith and Hazel Blears) will get the fucking book thrown at them.

UPDATE: Just read about Ed Balls & Yvette Cooper, I hope they get fucked by the long dick of the law over this. and not to mention Shahid Malik the delusional prick, I don't think ANYONE living in Britain today would claim a £730 massage chair to be something essential to doing their job. everyone else seems to fucking manage without one?!

UPDATE 2: Shahid Malik has stepped down pending further investigation. Only another ~643 to go!

Swine Flu? Fuck Off.

How has Swine Flu become a world pandemic? The World Health Organisation have gone crazy over swine flu classing it a 'Phase 5' pandemic (Phase 6 is their top level pandemic, so surely Phase 5 should be killing a good few thousand?); 6,500 people have been infected by the virus, of which 65 have died... so that's 1% of the 6,500!?

Now let's look at these figures on the grand scale of human life on earth:

Swine Flu: 0.00000000095%

(65 deaths of 6,790,062,216 world population)

Normal Flu: 0.000007%

(500,000 deaths of 6,790,062,216 world population)

I'm not trying to dispute the fact there's a new virus that's killing people, i'm pissed off by the media band wagon about the whole situation. 65 people die from swine flu its on every front page, but half a million die every year and its unlikely to be on the back page of a selection of papers with nothing better to report.

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The media write so much bollocks to sell a few paper, I can't believe how long they've been sponging off Madelaine Mccan's kidnapping, THOUSANDS of children get kidnapped but somehow they're not worthy of the headlines? Why? If I had a child that had been kidnapped I'd be fucking annoyed that the Sun hasn't printed out posters on their middle page to help the search when Madelaine is still making headlines two years on.
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People in the United Kingdom are going on the tube with masks on and being really twitchy if someone pulls that face people pull just before they sneeze. Newspapers blow pretty much everything out of proportion. Swine Flu especially. Get the fuck over it, letting something stupid like this affect your everyday life is just ridiculous.

I give it another 2 to 3 months before the next cancer causing food or killer disease is out, I predict C4T strain of cat flu...

Are MPs just con artists now?

Sneaky Bastard much?

"Mr Mackay, the MP for Bracknell in Berkshire, is the first person to lose his job over the MPs’ expenses scandal.

He is married to Julie Kirkbride, who represents Bromsgrove in Worcestershire.

Mr Mackay has used his second homes allowance to claim more than £1,000 a month in mortgage interest payments on their joint flat near Westminster.

However, his wife used her Additional Costs Allowance to claim over £900 a month on paying off the home loan for their family home near her constituency.

This means they effectively had no main home but two second homes – and were using public funds to pay for both of them."

-Telegraph.co.uk

I bet they thought that was a real clever scam they had going. Thank fuck he has resigned.

Cunt.

Update: Relating this to my other post about how everything they've done are just silly little mistakes; Morley has referred to this as an 'anomaly'. If you say so...

MP's Expenses: "Mistakes"

Does the pig remind anyone else of a certain unelected prime minister?

What is really taking the piss with this expenses bullshit is the "mistakes" that all of the MP's are making. The one that is really making me laugh is Elliot Fucking Morley... Mr Morley was claiming £800 a month for mortgage payments for his house in Scunthorpe. The "mistake" in this instance is that the mortgage was fully repaid in March 2006?!
Claiming a mistake of £16,000?!

If anyone else had mistakenly swindled their employer out of £16,000 he would be fired on the spot for being an incompetent fucking idiot!!

Anything regarding Phil Woolas just pisses me off, claiming for £210.31 of reciepts which include women's shoes, bibs and nail polish. AND THEN his defense is that "well I could have claimed £400 but I didn't". How does that make his claim just or right? It doesn't, end of. Even if the women's shoes were for him, I still don't see how dressing up as a fugly woman is imperitive to his job at home or in his constituency.

At the end of the day, if anyone who was not an MP 'mistakenly' claimed THOUSANDS of £££s from their employer they would be forced to pay it back and have their employment swiftly terminated.

Paying back the expenses?

This expenses thing is a funny one... I am finding it is angering me more and more as each day goes on. Strangely, it's not quite for the obvious reasons...
It's not the blatentness of the fraud and lies that gets to me, I expect nothing less from the 646. There has only ever been one honest, good intentioned man to walk onto the premises of Parliament, and that was in the 1600's. His name was Guy.
It's not the actual things that these MP's have claimed for that gets to me. In fact, we knew all along it would come to this when the information was released. It has ben building up. Jacqui's porn claims were but a warning, the tip of the iceberg.

It's the continued blatant hypocrisy from all MP's and parties which makes me sick. The MP's going on TV, on the radio spouting off about how they have done nothing wrong, how they have not mis-used the money, about how they are ok, and in the right, and have not broken the rules.

Well, it's all well and good to say that, and they might not have broken the letter of the rules, but they have ALL broken the spirit of them.

But it's when they turn around and say that it doesn't matter what they did, it's ok, we can forget it, because they are paying it back. That is what gets to me. No-one should fall in for this. No-one.

"Don't worry tax payers, I'm innocent."
"Oh, and parliment, you can have the money back anyway. I'm innocent, but it's the right thing to do"

OF COURSE IT'S THE RIGHT FUCKING THING, YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE SPENT THE MONEY IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU CUNT.

It's disgusting. I would have no problem with it if the MP's were apoligising, and then paying back the money, grovelling a bit more and actually being honest, but no. That's not what they are doing. It makes me sick.