You’re a bad MP baby…
And I won’t tell you no more
Get down, get down, get down
You’re a bad MP baby
I don’t want you ’round You give me the creeps
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The Telegraph has made us wise.
To claims which made us stretch our eyes!
Our MPs have a clever way
To supplement their basic pay
And anything their lifestyle lacks,
They’ll simply buy it with our Continue reading →
Catch a pair of errant MPs
Vast expenses hidden from all
In a mercenary coup –
Do not heed their mild surprise –
Having passed the Rubicon
They’re a pair of brazen clips;
Take Continue reading →
Fraud is fraud, is fraud, is fraud……
Bill Wiggin filled in 23 consecutive monthly forms nominating his constituency house as his second home for the purposes of his parliamentary expenses even though he and his wife owned it
Continue reading →Homoeopathic economics.
I’m grateful to Mr Eugenides for pointing me in the direction of this, I’d given up reading ‘ethical blogs’ since the dog days of Derek Draper……….(Mr Eumenides shurly? Far more appropriate.
Continue reading →Cold Turkey on Big Brother.
The Righteous do have a sense of humour……
A Tale of Two Shanty Cities……
Charles Dickens – A Tale of Two
Continue reading →Sublimely Absurd – Police Force apply for Warrant for their Chief Constable!
The Colin Port saga gets better and better.
Matters hotted up last week as, according to one legal source close to these matters: “Last Friday the police applied for
Continue reading →Spawned by Damian McBride no doubt…….
Wikipedia have just admitted that a Labour apparatchik named David Boothroyd, councillor for Westminster’s Westbourne ward, has resigned after being revealed as the person behind the alias ‘Sam Blacketer’
Continue reading →Midsummer Maddieness.
Parliamentarians, Paedophiles and Doctors, at first sight seem to have little in common, in fact would be horrified to find themselves thrown in the same pot, but this week all have been hoist by the buzzing
Continue reading →The Dissolution of Modern Britain.
Polish photographer Maciej Dakowicz’s holiday snaps of sunny Cardiff-by-Sea may have embarrassed us, but came as no surprise to those who have walked Britain’s streets after dark.
We may all
Continue reading →Why France? – part two.
I am always leery of writing of life in France, it sets off an utterly predictable rash of knee jerk comments from fellow bloggers who seem to think that because one lives in Europe one has no
Continue reading →Why France?
Leg-iron penned an interesting report from his local hostelry yesterday. One paragraph in particular caught my eye.
One of the other drinkers had been in for an operation on his hand. General
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Lego Cops in Wonderland…….
Any lingering vestige of faith that you had in the Great British Press should have been dispelled overnight. There are no journalists in the accepted sense of the word – as
Continue reading →There be ‘Ore’ in them thar Irish Hills.
They say if you stand still in Piccadilly Circus for long enough, eventually everyone in the world will pass by. Rummaging in the murky depths of ‘Operation Ore’ is beginning
Continue reading →Old Holborn caught Nappying by Shropshire Lass…….
The United Kingdom – a Failed State.
How fitting, how perfectly in tune…..
First the Speaker, now the Chief Constable…….
It is said of the Law that it is the glue which holds the fabric of society together – if that is so, we are in danger of unravelling fast.
Continue reading →Collusion and the Fees Office.
Following on from Iain Dale’s piece this morning, it would seem that Parliamentary Staff were well aware of the collusion between the Fees Office and MPs on the matter of expenses.
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A Garbled Statement from Gorbals Mick
A Petition to Dissolve Parliament
Foot and ‘Mouth’ disease.
The present outbreak of the disease which threatens to cull all the livestock in the House of Commons can be traced back to 1976 and Michael Foot’s cowardice in the face of a pincer movement –
Continue reading →How to make a viral video…….
The Hierarchy of Discrimination.
The Guardian published this photograph under the title ‘”Gay porn’movie raises ripples on far right” – hmmn, may well have raised a few ‘nipples’, left and right, never mind ‘ripples’.
That was not the only
Continue reading →Re-definitions – Nu-Labour speak; Issue 3.
‘Right you lot, fall in, how do we vote? We vote Labour!’
The Armed Forces will be drafted in to run state schools under plans to drive up discipline and respect in classrooms.
Ministers are in talks with defence chiefs about
Continue reading →Watching us, watching them…….
The less than transparent Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has published its SOCA Annual Report 2008/09 (.pdf) (72 pages)
Telephone intercept intelligence
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