Tag Archives: Corruption

Sunlight Centre roasts Ed Balls

By scrubber | Published: May 5, 2010
The Sunlight Centre for Open Politics sent out an email last night drawing our attention to their new video, dubbed an “attack ad” about Ed Balls. The Centre is “committed to helping voters, bloggers, and journalists be their own watchdogs, by improving access to existing information and digitising new information, and by using new website [...]
Posted in Corruption, Ed Balls, General Election, Gordon Brown, MPs Expenses, New Labour, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

MPs sleaze, greed, incompetence and fraud: a timely reminder

By scrubber | Published: May 5, 2010
Before you cast your vote tomorrow, take a look at these two films and remind yourself what and whom you are voting for… These films courtesy of Gary Walker, the Independent Parliamentary Candidate for Lincoln, are extremely well-made and powerful. In these days of high-paced media-action, we forget so much so fast. MPs expenses, the scandal and [...]
Posted in Broken Britain, General Election, MPs Expenses, Ministerial incompetence, NHS, New Labour, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

Suffering from election fatigue?

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 28, 2010
I think I probably am, but not in the ways you might immediately think. In this era of media- and spin-led politics, we are seemingly interminably subjected to a constant barrage of soundbites, ‘news’, glad-handing, palm-pressing, baby-kissing and any other inconsequential drivel that our political classes and their sycophants in the media care to inflict upon [...]
Posted in Big Brother, Broken Britain, Climate Change, Corruption, David Cameron, Economy, European Union, Eurozone, General Election, Gordon Brown, Immigration, Legal lunacy, MPs Expenses, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Nigel Farage, Parliament, Taxation, Taxpayers' Money, Tony Blair, Tories, UKIP | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Cause a political earthquake; oust the troughing Squeaker!

By scrubber | Published: April 22, 2010
Hat-tip to Guido for this, which needs to be shared far and wide… Donate to Nigel Farage’s campaign to oust expenses-fiddling John Bercow from Parliament. Yes, the allegedly Tory, now allegedly neutral one with the wife who’s a Labour candidate for Westminster Council in the forthcoming elections… As Nigel says: “If I can topple the Speaker, I [...]
Posted in Corruption, General Election, MPs Expenses, Ministerial incompetence, Nigel Farage, Parliament, Taxpayers' Money, UKIP, Uncategorized | Also tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Lord Sugar gives £400,000 to Labour’s election campaign

By scrubber | Published: April 14, 2010
For a man who’s allegedly worth £800m, Alan Sugar appears to have very little nous. It’s hard to understand why a man who had an apparently hard start in life followed by what is by anyone’s criteria, a highly successful business career, would throw away the best part of half-a-mill of his hard-earned on a [...]
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Google Hollie Greig

By DiamondGeezer | Published: March 26, 2010
I hadn’t heard anything about this, in part for reasons that will become clear as you read on, so I thank Elizabeth Robillard, a Facebook fan of ours, for bringing it to my attention. Old Holborn (of Nick Hogan fame) has covered this extensively and excellently, so I am also hanging on to his coat-tails to [...]
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MPs for hire! £3000-£5000 a day. Grab yours now!

By scrubber | Published: March 22, 2010
This scandal has already been covered all over the ‘net, so we won’t re-invent the wheel here. Suffice to say that the Times article is well worth a read. Our old friend Guido has an interesting slant on this, regarding Stephen Byers’ membership of the Privy Council. It is clear that his continued membership of the [...]
Posted in Corruption, MPs Expenses, Ministerial incompetence, New Labour, Parliament, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , , , | 4 Comments

Head of ‘Climategate’ research unit admits withholding data about global temperatures

By scrubber | Published: March 2, 2010
Today’s Daily Mail, a long-time champion of transparency in the self-inflicted CRU’s Global Warming furore, has reported on Professor Phil Jones’ appearance before the Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee inquiry yesterday. Described as pale and shaky, Prof. Jones, erstwhile Head of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit which was at the centre of the [...]
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Fancy £100Kpa and a £2m house in Maida Vale? Come on down!

By scrubber | Published: February 16, 2010
Proof, as if proof were ever needed, that the incompetence of this Government knows no bounds. This article in the Daily Mail yesterday is a shocker… “A single mother-of-six is getting more than £80,000 a year from the taxpayer to live in a £2million mansion in an exclusive London suburb. Essma Marjam, 34, is given almost £7,000 [...]
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Shahid Malik; more front than Blackpool…

By scrubber | Published: February 9, 2010
I really don’t know where to start with this one. For those of you who don’t know who Shahid Malik is, he’s been the Labour MP for Dewsbury since 2005. He is also a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Communities and Local Government, having been quietly re-instated by Gordon Brown after [...]
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