OK then.....MPs expensives....

[HoreTore]

So.......

Is it time for you to accept viking rule now?

[FactionHeir]

Please invade, I'll let you use my home

[InsaneApache]

Guess where this is from?

QUESTION TIME AUDIENCE MARCHES ON LONDON

THE audience from BBC1's Question Time was marching on London last night, parading the severed head of housing minister Margaret Beckett on a pike, like some kind of ghoulish mascot.

Amid growing signs that things might be about to kick off, the audience spilled out of the Grimsby Institute at 11.20pm and immediately headed for Market Rasen via the A46.

They then carried on for about 15 miles before taking the Lincoln bypass and finally joining up with the A1 just south of Newark.

Earlier they had stormed the stage, grabbing presenter David Dimbleby and locking him in the ladies' toilet before beheading Mrs Beckett and firing senior Tory MP Teresa May through a stained glass window using a makeshift catapult.

Their fellow panellist, the former Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell, has been stripped naked and is being transported to London in a tiny cage made from bamboo.

As of 8am this morning the Question Time audience had stopped at a service station near Biggleswade for refreshments, a toilet break and a chance to wipe some of the gunk from Mrs Beckett's head.

The audience is being led by Grimsby loud-mouth Roy Hobbs, mainly because it's his pike.

Mr Hobbs said: "I went to the trouble of bringing a pike to Question Time so I think it's only fair. And obviously when we get to London they are going to want to talk to whoever's carrying the severed head."

[Ja'chyra]

So politicians have been caught defrauding us, what will happen?

Not a thing, some may resign but they'll be back in a year when their boss thinks the uproar has died down.

I'm a civil servant and I know for a fact that if I done anything like this, and yes I do have all my receipts for expenses claims, I'd be sacked within the week.

[FactionHeir]

So politicians have been caught defrauding us, what will happen?

Not a thing, some may resign but they'll be back in a year when their boss thinks the uproar has died down.

I'm a civil servant and I know for a fact that if I done anything like this, and yes I do have all my receipts for expenses claims, I'd be sacked within the week.

So uh, would you like to disclose your expenses to your fellow Orgahs before the papers do?

[InsaneApache]

I'm speechless. I really am. Talk about 'not getting it'.

A Devon MP standing down at the next election after a row about his expenses says the public should not have been allowed to see what he claimed.

Totnes Conservative MP Anthony Steen was alleged by the Daily Telegraph to have claimed more than £87,000 over four years for his country home.

Mr Steen said the public had no right to interfere with his private life.

He insisted his behaviour had been "impeccable" and that all his claims had been transparent.



Former barrister Mr Steen, 69, claimed ministers had "mucked up the system" by introducing the Freedom of Information Act.

He also suggested his critics were "jealous" because he lived in a large house that resembled Royal residence Balmoral, and had trees in the grounds that needed lopping.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/8062284.stm

My flabbers been ghasted no end these last couple of weeks. But this one really takes the biscuit*.



*On expenses naturally.

[Scurvy]

"We have a wretched government here which has completely mucked up the system and caused the resignation of me and many others, because it was this government that introduced the Freedom of Information Act, and it is this government that insisted on the things which caught me on the wrong foot."

"As far as I am concerned, and as of this day, I don't know what the fuss is about."

[rory_20_uk]

Slightly Alice through the Looking Glass...

Criminals having a go at the police for collecting evidence and the Judge for wasting his time...

Possibly dementia settling in early for this poor confused parasite.

The abscess has been lanced, but I hope they do a proper job of draining and irrigating, else it'll just reform over time.

[Fragony]

I'm speechless. I really am. Talk about 'not getting it'.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/8062284.stm

My flabbers been ghasted no end these last couple of weeks. But this one really takes the biscuit*.



*On expenses naturally.

Be a little bit more like the French, storm the Bastille. Right yesterday.

[Pannonian]

Louis, how high does this chap rate in terms of French politics?

[InsaneApache]

Louis, how high does this chap rate in terms of French politics?

Blimey if it carries on like this there will only be a choice of the greens or the BNP. Neither of which is palatable. So who is there left to vote for on the 4th? I want to exercise my civic duty but all these rascals have effectively taken away my vote. I'm seriosly beginning to despise the lot of them.

[Fragony]

oops nvm, so is ukip

disgusting

[Louis VI the Fat]

Blimey if it carries on like this there will only be a choice of the greens or the BNP. Neither of which is palatable. So who is there left to vote for on the 4th? I want to exercise my civic duty but all these rascals have effectively taken away my vote. I'm seriously beginning to despise the lot of them.

If I were the Spirit of Britain, I'd do two things:

Simplify and limit the expenses system for MP's.

Get a new British press. Enough of this continual whipping the public into frenzied hysteria. Into mass outrages. What does it all lead to? To nine-year old boys being tried like adults. To beatification of kindergarten teachers with all the public merits of Paris Hilton if they marry right and die young in a car accident in Paris. To the widely held misconception that Britain's entire political clas is composed of liars, cheats and scum.

Once the UK was admired for its capacity for sober reflection. For moderation in public debate.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Louis, how high does this chap rate in terms of French politics?

EDIT: Let's rephrase: is it legitimate for him to be using the money to fund his campaign? If he doesn't keep it for himself, is it OK?

[rory_20_uk]

EDIT: Let's rephrase: is it legitimate for him to be using the money to fund his campaign? If he doesn't keep it for himself, is it OK?

What were the grounds for getting the money?

The EU spends vast amounts trying to get their message out that contrary to all evidence and the wishes of most it would work if only we give up all sovereign powers, democratic rights and wait 100 years...

[Louis VI the Fat]

Louis, how high does this chap rate in terms of French politics?

Bloody amateur, mate. Two million pounds? That's mayor of a small town stuff.

Incompetent plonkers your politicians, says I. When you manage to elbow your way up front for your turn at the through, get a snout full, sheesh.

Let's rephrase: is it legitimate for him to be using the money to fund his campaign? If he doesn't keep it for himself, is it OK?

Legitimate can mean two things here:

Legally allowed? If I'm not mistaken, most of the claimed expenses of the current scandal were perfectly legal.

Morally justified? Is that even a serious consideration for you? Me, I don't care whether a politician frauds to fund either a pro or a contra EU message. I only care about the fraud. He can not steal my money and then be smug about it too. Insufferable boor, our Nigel, representative of the standards of the UKIP:

Nigel Farage, who is calling on voters to punish "greedy Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem MPs" at the European elections on 4 June, boasted of his personal expenses haul at a meeting with foreign journalists in London last week.

[Fragony]

Nigel Farage, who is calling on voters to punish "greedy Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem MPs" at the European elections on 4 June, boasted of his personal expenses haul at a meeting with foreign journalists in London last week.

Could just as easily be that he was pointing out how easy it is to get a lot of money from the EU and that this story gets an Orwellian spin. The word 'boasting' is a bit suspect to say the least, he's no idiot. Full transcript or it didn't happen.

[FactionHeir]

Guess where this is from?

Dunno, the onion maybe?