weirdest UK MP expense claims

[brigadista]

http://timesbusiness.typepad.com/money_weblog/2009/05/the-10-weirdest-mp-expense-claims.html


sorry i know its the times but
tories are weird

but john reid....

[Dr Mindbender]

Sorry to go off topic, but i couldnt help notice this link.

Perhaps the resident DPRK apologists should read this.

http://timesbusiness.typepad.com/money_weblog/2008/09/the-10-most-dec.html

. Kim Jong-il, "Dear Leader" of North Korea since 1994. The son of the communist state's "Great Leader", Kim Jong-il has super-expensive tastes, with 17 palaces and collections of hundreds of cars and about 20,000 video tapes. On one state visit to Russia, he reportedly had live lobsters airlifted daily to his armoured private train. He is believed to spend around $650,000 a year on Hennessy VSOP cognac and maintains an entourage of young lovelies known as the "Pleasure Brigade"

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

My MP has claimed nearly £200 in lightbulbs since 2004... that's kinda weird.

[Angry Young Man]

I was amazed that the Balmoral guy not only spoke like a Spitting Image Tory, but sounded like one! If you got Rick Mayall to satirise him, it would sound under-done! He is Alan Bstard!

[Module]

I would love a glittery toilet seat.

[Bilan]

Sorry to go off topic, but i couldnt help notice this link.

Perhaps the resident DPRK apologists should read this.

http://timesbusiness.typepad.com/money_weblog/2008/09/the-10-most-dec.html

. Kim Jong-il, "Dear Leader" of North Korea since 1994. The son of the communist state's "Great Leader", Kim Jong-il has super-expensive tastes, with 17 palaces and collections of hundreds of cars and about 20,000 video tapes. On one state visit to Russia, he reportedly had live lobsters airlifted daily to his armoured private train. He is believed to spend around $650,000 a year on Hennessy VSOP cognac and maintains an entourage of young lovelies known as the "Pleasure Brigade"

Each according to his ability, each according to his need.

[Angry Young Man]

I thought they'd be quite cheap - just see-thru plastic filled with glitter. It's probably cheaper than a wooden one.

[brigadista]

i like the toilet seat but it doesnt really go with the posturing of John Reid when he was immigration minister

[Angry Young Man]

If it was a tory, it'd be a reinforced steel seat to take the weight of his fat arse.

[brigadista]

how true!!!!! PMSL

[Dr Mindbender]

Each according to his ability, each according to his need.

Yes, because KJI needs an armoured train and a harem of concubines.

[Angry Young Man]

I need a harem of concubines too, but mine have to be male, 16-18 years old and Spanish, so if I move to NK can I have one?

[Robespierre2.0]

Sorry to go off topic, but i couldnt help notice this link.

Perhaps the resident DPRK apologists should read this.

http://timesbusiness.typepad.com/money_weblog/2008/09/the-10-most-dec.html

. Kim Jong-il, "Dear Leader" of North Korea since 1994. The son of the communist state's "Great Leader", Kim Jong-il has super-expensive tastes, with 17 palaces and collections of hundreds of cars and about 20,000 video tapes. On one state visit to Russia, he reportedly had live lobsters airlifted daily to his armoured private train. He is believed to spend around $650,000 a year on Hennessy VSOP cognac and maintains an entourage of young lovelies known as the "Pleasure Brigade"

Wow, you've shown me the light. Thank you, Ulster Socialist. Now please excuse me while I go read the Miami Herald to get my daily fix of accurate, credible information regarding Cuba.

[brigadista]

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/comment/the_bnp_con_trick

Monday 18 May 2009



If the BNP does make headway at next month's Euro elections, it'll be the result of a giant con trick.

That is, persuading voters that it's a genuine alternative to the greedy, sleazy, elitist mainstream parties, rather than a bunch of thugs, fascists and liars who make the worst of the Westminster shower look like angels.
London BNP Councillor Richard Barnbrook's admission that he lied about murders in his borough is not an isolated bit of bad behaviour.
It's simply the latest in a long line of incidents which proves that the BNP and its election candidates are rotten to the core.
The party has been making great play of the row over MPs' expenses. But its own members have their snouts deep in the public trough.
More than half of its councillors in Barnbrook's borough of Barking and Dagenham have been caught claiming their full £10,000-a-year expenses allowance - even though they hardly ever bother to turn up.
And a BNP member in Tipton, West Midlands, was kicked off the council after failing to show up at all for six months. So much for the party's efforts to look squeaky clean compared to Westminster.
Back in 2006, three councillors in the same borough were taken to court for owing thousands of pounds in council tax and rent.
In West Yorkshire, Richard Mulhall, the BNP group leader on Calderdale Council, was found guilty the same year of falsely claiming over £3,000 in housing benefit. So much for the party's rhetoric about immigrants spongeing off the rest of us.
And just last month, the BNP Yorkshire and Humber candidate for the Euro elections was unmasked as a former leader of the neonazi National Front. So much for the party's claim to have cut its ties with the skinheaded jackboot brigade.
Remember, all of this is just the party's public face - the people it thinks can cope best in the media spotlight. Not handling it so well, are they?
But it's even worse down at the party's grass roots, where the party's mask slips to reveal the snapping, snarling face of pure racist hatred.
In the last couple of months alone, an "aggressive and hostile" mob of BNP members tried to drive off No2EU campaigners in Carlisle.
And leading anti-fascist Alec McFadden - who was stabbed by a racist thug on his doorstep three years ago - was the subject of threatening BNP leaflets in his Liverpool neighbourhood.
Then there's the lengthy list of BNP members convicted of crimes such as sex attacks on schoolgirls, gang rape, drug-dealing, arson, possessing explosives, racially aggravated assault - and mass murder in the case of David Copeland, who killed three and injured nearly 150 with bomb attacks on Brixton, Brick Lane and gay pub the Admiral Duncan not long after leaving the BNP.
So let the message go out loud and clear. Voters have every reason to protest at the sorry, rotten state of their representatives in the Commons - with the honourable exception of those principled MPs who have not been caught on the fiddle.
But voting BNP is no kind of protest, no matter how much the party trots out socialist-sounding policies to win favour with the disaffected working class.
We know what we get with a vote for the BNP. And it's not an end to sleaze and scandal. It's more of the same, with a side order of racist scaremongering.
The task now is to make sure every voter in Britain knows it by the time the polls open on June 4.