Expense Claims...

[Barman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF3KSywoSaU&feature=player_embedded

 

[Barman]

MPs plan 'wife swap' to get round new expenses rules

MPs determined to get round new rules banning family members from working for them in the wake of the expenses scandal are considering ?swapping wives? with other MPs.

Source

They just don't freaking get it do they??? 

[Snoopy]

TBF some MPs have employed their wives as highly efficient secretaries for 25 years and more. They have proper contracts of employment, pay NI and PAYE as every other employee. It would certainly not be right to sack such people on a retrospective change of law. I see these families as similar to the old fashioned GP whose wife frequently acted as his nurse/receptionist and was remunerated accordingly. Certainly I would welcome a return to such local doctors but polyclinics are what suits Nulabour's vision of the future NHS ~ places where you will just be a number and a dataset of computerised notes that are completely impersonal. In the days when one could respect the doctor, the MP, the local teacher life was without question better.
Now ~ see my NHS rant elsewhere.

[Grumpmeister]

I see thar gobshite McNulty pulled a fast one by making his apology to the house earlier than stated. Bastard even tried to blame the advice he was given before apologising for blindly following it. You were happy to use a system that a child would have seen was corrupt so either you are another official out to bilk the taxpayerr for all youcan get or you are too feckin' thick to be an MP. Which is it?

[Snoopy]

And so the campaign starts

Harriet Harman: Kelly expenses report may be watered down

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6898436.ece

[Snoopy]

Well we finally have the "Kelly report" and there is nothing in it that hadn't been leaked over the previous weeks. At heart it is still only a set of "recommendations" and there is a way to go before it becomes law. Next, apparently, there is to be a "consultation" period where alterations can be made and then it will pass onto being a set of guidelines for the new "Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority" (YES another bloody quango and at what cost?), which I gather doesn't actually exist other than on paper although its new Chairperson was appointed yesterday.


In case you missed it as they slipped it out yesterday:

Prof Sir Ian Kennedy will chair the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, the Speaker of the House announced today.

[Barman]

yes, the report will be analysed and implemented by the fraudsters themselves... 

[Grumpmeister]

And surprise surprise, Ian Kennedy has stated that he feels no obligation to implement everything in the Kelley report. 

[Nick]

First court cases this afternoon. Slapped wrists all round?

I see that Cohen is being investigated and hope that frightful Baroness Uddin is too 

[Nick]

http://order-order.com/2010/03/12/baroness-uddin-no-charges/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+guidofawkes+(Guy+Fawkes'+blog+of+parliamentary+plots,+rumours+and+conspiracy)
 

[Grumpmeister]

http://order-order.com/2010/03/12/baroness-uddin-no-charges/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+guidofawkes+(Guy+Fawkes'+blog+of+parliamentary+plots,+rumours+and+conspiracy)
 

Surprise surfuckingprise. 

[Nick]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pola_Uddin,_Baroness_Uddin
 

[Barman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pola_Uddin,_Baroness_Uddin
 

Excellent! 

[Grumpmeister]

FUCKING LEGAL AID!!!!!!!!!!  

These unashamed bastards screw the taxpayer for everything they can in expenses and then are awarded legal aid to fight their cases with???

Unfuckingbelievable. Havent they had enough of our money already? I'd ask how they could have the gall to even apply for it but that's an obvious answer. 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8616261.stm

[Just One More]

These bastards are laughing in our faces