The Liar Byers.
When an MP’s lying is lauded and reeled out as a rebuttal of corruption, you know we are in deep doo-doo.
We have fallen down a deep rabbit hole overnight, and at the bottom is Labour’s spin machine growing like topsy.
Stephen Byers, former trade and transport secretary, was secretly recorded offering himself “like a sort of cab for hire” for up £5,000 a day. He also suggested bringing Tony Blair to meet clients.
You might expect the Labour whips to be horrified at this evidence of the corruption at the heart of Nu-Labour, no chance!
After conferring with the whips, his ‘friends’ came out with this statement.
“he had effectively lied throughout his meeting.”
A Labour source said last night: There is no suggestion that they have broken the rules in any way, and they would rebut any such suggestion.
“There is no suggestion that they have broken the rules in any way……” if lying in order to earn extra money from your position as an ex-Minister is not against the rules, then it should be.
Even Tescos have pitched in. It said Byers had told them his claims to the TV crew were ‘complete fiction’.
The fact that the whips calmly accept an MP was lying, I find even more soul destroying than the idea of one or two MPs being bent. (Or six or seven)
There is worse to come though.
Margaret Moran was another MP caught offering influence for cash – and the excuse this time can be paraphrased as ‘Margaret is as mad as a box of frogs’.
‘Moran has been very unwell with stress, and so should not be given any credibility.
‘Should not be given any credibility’ – but you haven’t suspended her, haven’t sent her home unpaid as ‘unfit for purpose’, haven’t warned her constituents that she ‘shouldn’t be given any credibility’, haven’t relieved the tax payer of the onerous duty of paying for her every whim – how many other MPs are we paying for that ‘shouldn’t be given any credibility’? (Don’t bother answering that, rhetorical question)
Part of the problem is that Michael Martin granted the freedom of the venerable House of Corruption to every bent MP to roam the corridors, offering their lying and non credible words and influence for sale to any chancer with a couple of grand in their pocket. Jim Devine, Eliot Morley, David Chaytor, are still holding forth in the tea rooms, still referred to as ‘The Honourable’ by the House of Commons staff. The Labour Party’s official solicitor Gerald Shame Shamash is telling the magistrates that they should not be held in the dock as common criminals.
What price the ‘character witnesses’ that will inevitably be called from amongst the illuminati of New Labour now that we officially know that being ‘a liar’ or ‘not credible’ is acceptable behaviour for a Nu-Labour MP.
I was going to write today of the simpering outrage from the leftie Dave Semple at the news in yesterday’s Telegraph that £18 million in state funds has gone to UNITE.
I was outraged; unions are not there to be funded by the State, and taking such funding compromises unions.
No Dave, and the state is not there to be funded by the unions – taking such funding compromises democracy, but that doesn’t seem to concern you.
Dave’s objection is that: ‘Their bureaucracies could thence rely on State aid as insulation from having to fight for and fight to keep members’ dues.’
Did it occur to you Dave, that the state bureaucracy could thence rely on Union aid as insulation from having to fight for and keep their voters?
No, of course not, for you don’t really believe that the precise same pound notes were handed from taxpayer to Union to Government, do you?
You think that because the Tax Payers money was channeled into Partnership at Work, the Union Modernisation Fund and the Union Learning Fund, and the law says it must be ringfenced, that there is no connection with political donations.
So the Tax Payers pound goes into fund ‘a’, and the Union is relieved of the liability to fund training projects…
Even you admit that ‘Union Learning Fund projects, for example, seem open only to union members.’
Which leaves the Union in a good financial position to use its own (b) funds to bribe the Labour party to keep on channeling money to it.
But because the money is not going directly from one fund to another (so you say, but we have not yet seen the audit have we?) then it is not acceptable for Iain Dale to engage in ‘high pitched screaming’ before any facts are known…but it is acceptable for you to dismiss ‘the near hysterical comments in the Right-blogosphere’ before any facts are known?
The trouble with the non-credible lying Labour Party and all its members is that the really cannot see what they have done to our political system.
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March 21, 2010 at 11:56 -
The fact that the whips calmly accept an MP was lying, I find even more soul destroying than the idea of one or two MPs being bent. (Or six or seven)
Neither the Byers excuse nor the slur on Moran (and I’m pinching myself for saying *that*) by the whips are credible. Perhaps Byers was lying to them too, or they are lying to us now.
Didn’t one of the Lords who were stung last year claim something similar to the Byers excuse, claiming they knew it was all shifty and were only trying to discover what was going on?
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March 21, 2010 at 12:25 -
Was he lying when he said he was lying?
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March 21, 2010 at 12:59 -
So when the piggies are caught with their noses in one trough they just move onto another one. This little piggy went to the Commons, this little piggy went to the Lords, this little piggy went to the Lobby, no little piggy had none and all the little piggies went money, money, money all the way home.
Unitegate, has a catchy sound to it? The shenanigans going on here are so blatantly obvious I know where I would end up if I pulled that kind of stunt. I give you money you ring fence it for a particular expenditure. This means the money you would have spent for that particular expenditure (name it so it looks like it would not be money you would have spent anyway and lob in lots of items you did have to spend money on under that label ) you can then dish me back a load of it into different account. How does it work, Labour government to Unite to Labour party, wow who ever thought this one up needs a pat on the back and a prize, how about many years in the poky.
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March 21, 2010 at 13:14 -
It’s hard to imagine anything that these unscrupulous, cheating, lying, corrupt bastards won’t do. Even weeks away froma so called election this stuff still dribbles out. Isn’t it time Brown resigned along with every other troughing pig, left the stage and let those of us who want a decent place to live in begin to get on with the job. Jsut how much more is ther to come and how much more are we expected to take???
WAKE UP BRITAIN
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March 21, 2010 at 13:29 -
“There is also the question as to whether or not the unions like Unite have been feeding this money back into the Labour Party. If that could be proved to be the case…”
What planet is he on/from? It’s common knowledge that unions like Unite have made substantial donations to Labour.
His cot must have had lead paint.
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March 21, 2010 at 13:39 -
anna. they know what they are doing…….the trouble is that their is NOBODY willing to stand up and deliver justice.the police are bent,the lords,the mps,the cps,the bbc,quangos etc…..all stuffing their pockets with everyone elses money…………….so why would any of them rock the boat?
they won’t………..nice fat salaries and pensions take precedence in the ‘socialist’ world…………
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March 21, 2010 at 16:10 -
I don’t think that the scum that is this government and
all the politicions even really care about covering up any more there corruption .
They are untouchable !
They made the rules !
They are so corrupted by there own lies , that they genually do not know what is true.Truth and honesty are dead in politics .
They are now a foreign country.All we, the proles ,have is a choice of one bunch
of useless liars or another bunch with different ties on.How I dispair at the state we are in.
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March 21, 2010 at 22:19
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March 21, 2010 at 16:54 -
” lying in order to earn extra money ”
Not only is it against the rules, it’s against the law: attempting to obtain a pecuniary advantage by deception; similar to Mandy’s mortgage fraud, ‘cept that was no mere “attempt”.
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March 21, 2010 at 16:57
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March 21, 2010 at 17:22 -
This lot should be prosecuted for Attempting to Obtain a Pecuniary Advantage by Deception contrary to the Theft Act 1968. Make your contribution to the debate by reporting these felonies under the “Theft” category online to the Met at:
The more complaints the Met receives, the more likely they are to do something about all this. The maximum sentence is 5 years.
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March 21, 2010 at 19:01 -
I HAVE TO PROTEST… against your offensive and gratuitous remarks on the sanity of frogs. To compare the average box of these admirable amphibians to a Labour MP shows a lack of knowledge beyond understanding!
Recent research suggests that the IQ levels of frogs and indeed toads, are 50% or more higher than the average entrant to Parliament. In fact, no self-respecting frog would associate with such dishonest and depraved individuals.
I believe an apology is in order, Miss Raccoon.
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March 21, 2010 at 19:06 -
AND ALSO…
I know your article is about the spin, but I’m wondering if Mandelson is going to wriggle his way out of this one scot-free. Oh — and Adonis too. I’ve often thought that Mandy was the evil Vicar of politics, and that Adonis was his curate. Looks like I was right, and THAT doesn’t happen too often.
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