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.

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.

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!

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.