I’ve been patiently waiting for the Daily Telegraph to get round to my MP, David Wright.  I was confident he’d be getting a mention based on the fact that he’s usually the local rent-a-quote for the Shropshire Star but we’ve not heard a peak from him since the expenses fraud stories started.
So what has my [...]

I got my 100th Twitter follower yesterday – @Mallarybc, an English ex-pat living in France.

I don’t normally plug blogs other than by adding them to the sidebar, especially when they’ve only been set up today, but as she’s my 100th follower I’ll make an exception: Mallary’s blog.
It’s not always possible to blog but I can [...]

David Camoron is making some vague noises about constitutional reform (that us proles aren’t allowed to express an opinion on of course) with a suggestion that he might look at fixed term parliaments.
Whoop-de-fucking-do.  Fixed term parliaments are generally a good idea but is it enough to re-engage a disaffected electorate and restore trust in thieving [...]

Lib Dim Welsh Assembly member, Kirsty Williams AM, has set up a Welsh Lib Dim Diversity Fund and her colleague, Peter Black AM, is soliciting £100 donations for the fund.
The “Diversity Fund” has been set up to raise money to fund election campaigns for female, ethnic minority, disabled and disadvantaged Lib Dim candidates in Wales.
I [...]

Michael Martin – aka Gorbals Mick – has finally resigned as Speaker of the British Parliament after being the first Speaker in over 300 years to be forced out of the job by his colleagues.
This is good news because Gorbals is, to be brutally honest, a tosser.  Even better news is that he will also [...]

We decided to go for lunch today at my sister’s pub, the Plume of Feathers at Harley (website, map).
The mushrooms with beef tomato and brie was fabulous, the garlic bread was THE best garlic bread on the face of the planet, the burger was … epic … and the chips weren’t cut, they were hewn [...]

Erith & Thamesmead Liebour Party have chosen a tax investigator as their PPC, according to the BBC.  I’m assuming she’s a former tax investigator as it would be incompatible with being a civil servant.
Teresa Pearce’s website is an interesting read …
Only Labour would have introduced the NMW and its up to Labour to defend it. [...]

Another thieving bastard MP has been suspended from the Liebour Party for expenses fraud.
David Chaytor, the thieving bastard MP for Bury North, has been fraudulently claiming mortgage payments on his expenses even though the mortgage was paid off by the taxpayer in 2004.  In total he has fraudulently claimed nearly £13k.
Chaytor said it was an [...]

Shaid Malik MP, ironically a Minister in the Ministry of Justice, has resigned from his ministerial post after claiming nearly £67k over three years in second home allowances whilst paying just £100 per week in rent on his main home thanks to an undeclared subsidy he had negotiated with the landlord.  The landlord has allegedly rented [...]

Andrew MacKay, David Camoron’s thieving bastard aide, has resigned from his job with Camoron after it emerged that he and his thieving bastard MP wife, Julie Kirkbride, have been claiming second home allowances on two different homes for 8 or 9 years.
Elliot Morley, the thieving bastard MP who claimed £16k in expenses for a mortgage [...]

A couple of months back a civil servant lost his job for releasing information on MPs expenses. He narrowly escaped a prosecution and during the police investigation, Damian Green MPs office was raided by police.
A few days ago, the Telegraph started publishing leaked details of MPs fraudulent expenses and the Speaker, Michael Martin, has [...]

The Ministry for Inequality really is a bottomless pit of hypocrisy.  I sent the following Freedom of Information request the other day:
1.  What proportion of the Ministry’s employees are:
a. Male
b. Female
2.  What proportion of the Ministry’s employees are:
a. White English (or British if you don’t record English nationality)
b. White non-English (or British if you don’t [...]

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The British government has unveiled plans to install gas and electricity smart meters in every house at the customer’s expense. Installation of the smart meters will be mandatory.
According to the British government, the meters will save consumers money and reduce CO2 emissions. The meters don’t make electricity or gas cheaper and they don’t reduce the [...]

Guido is beside himself at the moment and understandably so.  As an individual, he has done more than most – perhaps more than anyone – to expose and bring down the hypocritical, corrupt, thieving bastard politicians that make up the British government.
But as much as he deserves to enjoy himself at their expense, I have [...]

Hazel Blears is so far off the moral compass it’s fucking unbelievable.
Having been exposed for abusing the expenses system by designating a flat she owned as her second home so she could claim £850 per month in mortgage payments on her expenses and then avoid paying capital gains tax when she sold it for a [...]

The Telegraph has details of our thieving bastard MPs’ thieving bastard expenses and come to the conclusion that they’re thieving bastards.

The thieving bastard Prime Minister paid his brother over £6k for cleaning his flat.
The thieving bastard Justice Secretary, Jackboot Straw, claimed back the full council tax bill for his second home even though he had [...]

Mrs Sane went out and bought a new printer today – a nice Kodak ESP 7 all-in-one wireless device.
The printer installs fine on my laptop and Mrs Sane’s laptop but the desktop is having none of it.  I’ve tried to contact Kodak’s 24/7 customer support live chat for about 2 hours now and keep getting [...]

A Welsh man has had £67k confiscated by the police because he couldn’t prove it was legitimate.
Police were called to his house following a report of an attempted break-in and found £67k in cash.  The man said the money came from savings and selling German military memorabilia but couldn’t prove it so they got a [...]

Harriet Harperson’s announcement the other day of a new Equality Bill that would legalise discrimination against men and force companies to publish reports on their gender pay gap gave me a great excuse to indulge in some devilment.
First their was my enquiry to the Ministry for Equality, so far unacknowledged, asking if they will be [...]

The Number 10 petitions team have obviously got bored of trying to filter out the joke names from the Support the PM petition.
After the list got to about 170 signatures, most of which I saved for prosperity, they took out all the spam and were left with … 7 names.  Oh dear.
There have been a [...]

Harriet Harperson says she doesn’t want to be Prime Minister. Thank god for that, the last thing we need is to lose a one-eyed Scottish dictator and gain a man-hating fascist bitch.
She says she’s staying loyal to El Gordo …
My ambition is to remain his loyal and supportive deputy 
And if you believe that the [...]

I had this letter in the Shropshire Star the other night …

Equality for men?
David Wright MP has endorsed Harriet Harman’s proposed new equalities bill (Shropshire Star, April 28).
His endorsement would be more convincing if half of it hadn’t been copied word for word from Harriet Harman’s own speech on the bill.
Equality is obviously very important [...]

The mighty Shrews have beaten Dagenham & Redbridge to enter the League 2 play-offs.
All that stands between Shrewsbury Town and a return to League 2 is a couple of games.

At the start of the season it looked like they had promotion in the bag, then it all went a bit iffy before finally scraping back [...]

Last night we went to watch Scott May’s Daredevil Stunt Show in the Arena in Telford Town Park.
For a tenner for adults and a fiver for kids, they had motorbikes, cars, an ATV, three monster trucks, a human cannonball, a clown and lots of fire!
It’ll be a real shame if Telford & Wrekin Council manage [...]