Tag Archives: MPs Expenses

Goldsmith, Huhne and Balls; election expenses investigation started.

By scrubber | Published: July 23, 2010
I received an email today from the excellent Sunlight Centre for Open Politics, an organisation dedicated to transparency in politics. The blog entry behind the email can be found here and the full email including a “donate” button can be found here. I’ve reproduced the email below, but I urge readers to go to the email [...]
Posted in Corruption, Ed Balls, General Election, MPs Expenses | Also tagged , , , , | 3 Comments

Zac Goldsmith: what a twat.

By scrubber | Published: July 20, 2010
I’m in catch-up mode after a couple of weeks working away and quite over-whelmed with the sheer volume of crap falling around our ears worthy of a blog or two. This one stands out, and although a few days old, needs wide dissemination… We’re all well used to politicians not answering questions, their evasion tactics, obfuscation [...]
Posted in David Cameron, General Election, MPs Expenses, Parliament, Political Stupidity, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Andrew Neal ambushes Diane Abbott

By scrubber | Published: June 25, 2010
I happened to catch This Week last night on the Beeb, and noticed that Diane Abbott had re-appeared next to Michael Portillo on the sofa. She’s been off campaigning for the Labour leadership, apparently. Speaking personally, I have no major feelings either way on her, or her chances of winning the leadership. Frankly, I don’t care [...]
Posted in Ed Balls, MPs Expenses, New Labour, Parliament, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , | 3 Comments

Will John Bercow get his comeuppance?

By scrubber | Published: May 18, 2010
The new Parliament sits for the first time today. The first job will be to confirm, or otherwise, John Bercow’s continuing role as the Speaker. The motion proposing this traditional vote, will be laid before the House by Sir Peter Tapsell, the new Father of the House at around 14:30. The members all shout “Aye” [...]
Posted in MPs Expenses, New Labour, Parliament, Uncategorized | Also tagged | 1 Comment

Will Ed Balls have his “Portillo moment”?

By scrubber | Published: May 6, 2010
I stayed up, as I intend to again tonight, watching the election results in 1997. I saw Michael Portillo lose his seat to the odious, and so far ineffective Stephen Twigg. He lost his seat with dignity and honour, and has gone on to better things. He has written of the experience, and of life since [...]
Posted in Ed Balls, General Election, MPs Expenses, New Labour | Also tagged , , | 1 Comment

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

13 years of Labour: how much we have forgotten

By scrubber | Published: May 5, 2010
This film speaks for itself: it should be compulsory viewing for anyone tempted to vote Labour tomorrow. It wasn’t until the end that I realised who’d made it: powerful stuff. I wonder how they kept it so short… Wikio Wikio
Posted in Broken Britain, Corruption, General Election, Gordon Brown, MPs Expenses, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Parliament, Taxpayers' Money, Tony Blair, Uncategorized | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

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