The Trough

clipped from www.mirror.co.uk MPs claiming £93m in expenses The taxpayer-funded bonanza – £6million more than last year – works out at an average £144,176 on top of an MP’s basic £63,291 salary. Yet even that is not enough for some and Labour backbencher Eric Joyce topped the list with a mind-blowing £187,334.

On the BBC news, one interviewee said that if you can claim then one should claim.
That is exactly the attitude that allows the proliferation of the Sharon Matthews of this world. I have kept off the subject, but it is the same idolatry of the types of Jade Goody - lest said on this subject the better.
Whilst over 4 million pensioners do not legally claim their entitlements because of the insidious and intrusive nature of 'means testing', all defence of MP's expensive is argumentative pigswill.
When the average decent man on the commuter run has to provide every single docket to provide evidence to Aunty Tax, then our servants should have some moral conscience with regards to the £93 million they deny our sick and old.
It is not their money, it is yours and mine and I think their salaries are
sufficient without expenses. If they cannot live on it, get another job.
So whatever happened to SERVICE? Expenses are not a means to property mogulship. From the Wintertons to the Home Secretary there has to be the 'disinfectant of sunlight' and an immediate criminal charge aganst every MP who has made a false claim, and that includes the ridiculous aspects of Sein Fein collecting salaries for non-attendance of Parliament.

MP's Expenses

MP's expenses

Parliament getting the jitters over expenses

Stung by the continuing scandal of MPs' expenses highlighted by the porn videos paid for by the public purse in the home secretary's entry, the speaker of the House of Commons has released ALL MPs' expenses for the last two years. We now know that the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith claimed £22,948 in 2007/8, which even my abysmal maths tells me is just £135 short of the maximum £23,083 that MPs are allowed to claim in second home allowances per year.

We and others, I'm sure, are now trawling through the detail to see what others titbits await, though the kind of detail we've already seen for the home secretary is not yet available for all her parliamentary colleagues.

There's much talk tonight of who leaked the details of Ms Smith's expenses, prompting her to pay them back. But the PM is sticking by her, despite the attention this has drawn to her decision to claim a second home allowance on the place where her husband and family spend much of their time whilst she lodges with her sister in London in their "main home".

As if that wasn't enough, Ms Smith and other ministers will have their pay frozen this year. Opposition parties have followed suit.
This is the latest Snow blog from Channel 4

Littlejohn on the attack

Not even in the Augean sleaze of the Major years did we have a Home Secretary claiming porn on expenses.

This will not be read by the Labour lovers, true as it is. What is illuminating is that so few English foreign newspapers have given this thunderbolt a column. The looming disaster in North America is more important than the Home Secretaries manwife prefering his own hand to the dopehead!!!!

Jamie Oliveoil with EU Fudge

Is this what Mandelson was cooking up when he was at Brussels?
Or can MP's claim this on expenses.
I have just returned from the shops. Whoever says food prices are coming down must be a Martian or a Labour MP. Food is no longer cheap unless it's on you MP's expense sheet. No wonder Mr Slpiff has to relax with a good blue movie while his husband is sampling the ganja at the sister's.

Is this your friendly Labour MP?

clipped from www.newsoftheworld.co.uk He cheats on wife, cons his voters and is whitewashed by Commons watchdog..then goes to court to stop YOU finding out

And they dare call other Parties?

Is Mr Spliff a private Wa*nk*er?

clipped from www.pressdisplay.com Smith’s fury over husband’s porn shame HOME SECRETARY IN NEW EXPENSES SCANDAL She tells him: Say sorry or you’re fired The outraged Home Secretary said she would fire shame-faced Richard Timney as her £24,000-ayear parliamentary assistant after he was caught watching blue movies at their home – and putting them on her expenses.

The answer is no, you are, for allowing these parasites to dictate to you the depths of your misery whilst they PLUG their own shortcomings through their expense claims. Mr Spliff really has SUNK(sic) it to the electorate, at our expense.
I have seldom heard so much nonesense talked. To kill the expenses debate all there needs is for Westminster to have a travel officer, Black Rod or another, who can issue second class warrents to MP's. Afterall, if a second class warrent is good enough for a soldier, then it must be good enough for an MP.
And most soldiers have second homes for which they often have to pay out of their salaries, wages, incomes!!! They are in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Balkans.

The expression parasite seem too tame from a disabled former regular soldier whose pension was stolen by Labour.
For any MP to argue that these expenses are within the rules indictates a total moral implosion.

Labours good intentions going awry.

clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk Pensioners left stranded as new law means free bus pass could no longer be valid Senior citizens have been accused of free-loading by 'misusing' the services intended for local trips to go on holiday and regular outings to the seaside, with queues of pensioners forming on popular routes.

I was informed that pensioners could not use their passes on National Express routes that were over 50 miles???
The confusion is not of the pensioner’s doing. It is another example of a government not thinking through or even debating fully what a great idea for the aged and disabled it is.
One of the most asked questions is - do I go to Fleetwood on the tram? I either reply, have you been on a tram? Or, have you ever pushed someone in a wheel-chair?
It is then that you are confirmed that you are talking to an idiot.

The Internet

clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk 19,000 UK credit card details posted on the Net...and accessible on Google The credit card details of up to 19,000 British shoppers were published on the internet - where they could be found using a simple search on Google. The list, obtained by the Mail, includes the names, home addresses and full card details of thousands of Visa, Mastercard and American Express customers.

Why do people open their lives up to the world through Facebook and others? Vanity.
If innocent people can have their identiies stolen by crooks, just imagine the problems terrorist can cause? No! Then just carry on in delightful ignorance until your passport is found on a suicide bomber.

Blackpool brainchild against organised crime

clipped from www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk Criminals land to warning posters CRIMELORDS travelling through Blackpool Airport will be met with taunting police posters. The signs are part of a hard-hitting campaign warning Mr Big criminals that police are "hot on their heels". It is the brainchild of Lancashire's Serious and Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) which seized almost £5m of criminal's assets in 2007/08.

The howls of hysterical laughter are rolling across the Pennines. Pink flag over the Town Hall, paper George Dixons at the airport, first class railway for Councillors only. Hehehehe!!!!!
Streets in ruin. Dog muck everywhere. The only thing the police can make stick is the mass of gum on filthy pavements. Room for four, Sir? Welcome to stinkpool!!!