Tag Archives: MPs Expenses

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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Fraud MPs on trial still just don’t get it

By DiamondGeezer | Published: March 12, 2010
As has been widely reported, three MPs went on criminal trial yesterday, after claiming a combined total of £60,000 in fraudulent expenses. While this figure may seem low in comparison to the enormous figures that have been ‘legally’ claimed, the acts by which they received this money warrant being looked at again. Elliot Morley (Labour, [...]
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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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Is this man too stupid to be an MP? (or what!)

By scrubber | Published: February 6, 2010
I am indebted, again, to Guido Fawkes for this gem. Readers are heartily recommended to go and look at the video of an interview with Jim Devine. It is utterly, utterly staggering. The interviewer is sometimes stuck for words, he is so taken aback… Wikipedia says of Devine: Wikio Wikio
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William Hague performs well in PMQs

By scrubber | Published: January 27, 2010
William Hague destroyed Harridan Harperson today in PMQs (link to BBC iPlayer) where she was deputising for the Prime Mentalist. Vince Cable did a fair job as well. Watching HH was interesting, in a watching-paint-dry kind of way. She was poorly-prepared, wooden, perfunctory and lightweight. I’ve long been frustrated watching the Prime Mentalist blatantly not answering [...]
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MPs’ expenses; the latest returns

By scrubber | Published: December 10, 2009
Just so you don’t miss them, you’ll find your MP’s latest troughing return here. Enjoy… Wikio Wikio
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The CRU scandal raises concerns over funding

By scrubber | Published: November 25, 2009
We’ve avoided comment on this thus far as it’s been more than covered elsewhere. However, prompted by an article on Guido Fawkes’ excellent blog order-order, I took a look at the list of grants received by CRU. Since March 2003, it’s a total of £2,994,102 from various sources, the vast majority from the taxpayer. Heaven [...]
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Another expenses watchdog MP caught with his fingers in the till.

By scrubber | Published: November 23, 2009
Hot on the heels of last week’s revelation about David Curry MP’s alleged expenses fiddles, today’s report from the “They just don’t get it, do they?” department is the news reported in the Telegraph, Daily Mail, and various other sources that Andrew “Dismal” Dismore has be caught out ‘flipping‘ houses in order to maximise his [...]
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Tory sleaze chief David Curry’s expenses scandal

By scrubber | Published: November 20, 2009
David Curry MP (who?) of Skipton and Ripon in Yorkshire since 1987, chairman of the Parliamentary Standards and Privileges Committee (appointed by whom, I wonder) has resigned amid scandal regarding his expense claims, according to the Telegraph, Daily Mail and others. Apparently, he has claimed almost £30,000 for a second home  in his Yorkshire constituency where he used to [...]
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