Next! You really couldn’t make it up if you tried. Now Danny Alexander, bad (very bad) choice of replacement for trougher David Laws at the Treasury, has been caught avoiding Capital Gains Tax – you know, the tax he’ll be responsible for ramping up as part of his new job. Sorry, but Cameron has set [...]
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Alexander Avoided Capital Gains Tax
Posted in expenses, government, libdems, scandal, treasury on 30/05/2010 | 11 Comments »
Who Will Fire David Laws?
Posted in cameron, clegg, coalition, conservative, expenses, liberal democrats, resignation, scandal on 28/05/2010 | 4 Comments »
Shaping up as a half-decent, expensively-educated, millionaire Chief Treasury Secretary though he might have been, I’m awfully sorry, but David Laws’ political arse is grass. He can’t argue the case for public spending cuts when he, apparently, has been pretty happy to sponge off the state on behalf of his partner for the longest time. [...]
Troughers To The Bitter End
Posted in corruption, expenses, Labour, parliament, scandal, sleaze on 20/03/2010 | 2 Comments »
In tomorrow’s Mail on Sunday and Sunday Times, two stories reveal just how venal former Labour ministers are. It simply beggars belief that these four, Geoff Hoon, Patricia Hewitt, Margaret Moron (sic) and Stephen Byers will almost certainly escape at the very least some form of criminal investigation for corruption. One other thing is certain, [...]
How Do You Suspend A Suspended MP?
Posted in Brown, dithering, expenses, general election, Labour, lies, spectator, spin on 08/02/2010 | Leave a Comment »
David Blackburn has just put an excellent question in his Speccy blog, concerning the case of Elliot Morley, one of three Labourist MPs (so far) now charged with stealing from the British taxpayer. Sky’s Jon Craig’s asks one of those questions you wished you had posed: wasn’t Elliot Morley suspended already? Yes, he was, on [...]
I Agree With Guido
Posted in Brown, expenses, guido, parliament, politics on 05/02/2010 | 2 Comments »
I agree with Guido insofar as, if I understand him right, parliamentarians should be forced to make a choice upon their election: you’re either an MP (and therefore a public servent) or a corporate type on a promise (and therefore something else) – and never the twain shall meet. You must not, in other words, [...]
Bercow Would Be No Great Loss
Posted in bercow, expenses, scandal, speaker on 14/11/2009 | 4 Comments »
After the revelation that little Johnny Bercow’s beanpole wife (relatively speaking) is standing in local council elections for the Labourists in Westminster, today the Telegraph reports that he has spent a small fortune redecorating the Speaker’s grace and favour apartments. Cost to you and me? A cool £45,000. So the story goes, it was wifey [...]
MPs Need To Earn Our Money
Posted in Brown, cameron, conservatives, expenses, fudge, Labour, parliament, reform, scandal on 11/11/2009 | Leave a Comment »
A new take on the expenses scandal by Andrew Alexander in the Daily Mail this morning certainly interested me. Briefly, from what he says, the majority of MPs are basically under-worked idlers leading cushy daily lives at the taxpayers’ expense – and that’s before their profiting from the long-abused old system of extra remuneration, particularly [...]
Expenses Reform Backtracking: The Cambell Connection
Posted in campbell, expenses, parliament, reform, scandal on 07/11/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just been listening to Radio 4′s news on the way back from a little trip and was surprised (or, perhaps, wasn’t surprised one little bit) to hear that Sir Ian Kennedy, friend of Alastair “David Kelly’s Death Made Me Depressed” Campbell, no less, and appointed head of the flash, new independent committee charged with monitoring [...]
Harman Causes Fresh Expenses Stink
Posted in Brown, cameron, conservatives, expenses, general election, harman, Labour, lies, mps, scandal on 02/11/2009 | 7 Comments »
The front page of this morning’s Telegraph will be worth a once over. In an extraordinary outburst Harriet Harman has threatened to block the new Kelly rules on expenses – or, in her slippery terms, has “warned” that “MPs” will block them. Whatever she hopes she means, she has already been slapped down by the [...]
Cameron Shows Brown How To Lead
Posted in Brown, cameron, expenses, scandal on 15/10/2009 | 2 Comments »
To the Daily Telegraph’s credit, it has once again forced the broadcast media into doing its job and report on the biggest political scandal in this country probably ever. To David Cameron’s credit, he has demonstrated the kind of leadership that the country is demanding, and shown Gordon Brown up for what he really is: [...]
