The political system is rotten to the core and the coming election isn’t going to provide the purge we need to put it right. An investigation by the BBC has found 400 occasions where MPs have broken their own rules on declaring gifts of travel and hospitality.  Four hundred breaches by just 22 MPs, all [...]

So, the wheels are coming off the global warming bandwagon at last and not a moment too soon. With the Copenhagen Climate Summit almost upon us, some enterprising hackers have managed to find their way into the University of East Anglia’s network and copied over 1,000 emails, data files and code from their climate change [...]

My thieving bastard MP, David Wright, has been rewarded for taking a £17k bribe from a property developer with a job as a junior minister in DEFRA and DCLG in No Mandate Brown’s new cabinet of all the talentless on the same day that El Gordo announced tough punishments for MPs that have been doing [...]

My thieving bastard MP, David Wright, clearly has a different view of what’s reasonable to the rest of us. He thought it was reasonable to keep a 17 grand bung from a property developer for changing the tenancy agreement on a flat in Westminster the taxpayer was paying the rent on rather than give it [...]

If Alistair Darling wasn’t an English-hating, thieving bastard Scottish politician I could almost feel sorry for him. He got promoted to the number 2 job (quite literally) in the British government just as El Gordo’s elaborate pyramid scheme collapsed and the economy took a nosedive. He followed through (possibly quite literally) with Liebour’s policy of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

For once the lying, crooked, thieving bastard politicians in the Liebour Party have been eclipsed by an even bigger bunch of lying, crooked, thieving bastard politicians.  Unbelievable, I know, but true. Sinn Féin’s 5 MPs have claimed £21k each for the last 4 years – a total of over £400k – in second home allowances [...]

What a surprise, the Liebour Stazi have suppressed democracy again. A motion was put forward to set up a committee to investigate the arrest of Damian Green MP, the police search of his MPs office without a warrant and the complicity of the Speaker and the Serjeant at Arms in the search.  It would have seven [...]

Well. My first guest-post at Wonkoville. It’d make a change if I was going to say something nice (by way of variety), but I’m not. I’m going to have a little moan about Shropshire Council and a man called Paul Masterman. The following story was in a recent issue of Private Eye: SHROPSHIRE BAD Is [...]

I’ve just had an email from the Number 10 propaganda department telling me about all the wonderful things our Prime Minister has been doing.  One of the things in it was a link to an “EU Summit minisite”. I clicked on the link to see what it was all about and it came up with [...]

Last week the Liebour MP and Speaker of the House, Michael Martin, suggested that MPs should be given a £23k annual grant towards second home expenses so they don’t suffer the embarassment of the taxpayer finding out what they’ve spent our taxes on. Today, a Liebour MEP said that MEPs should publish a full breakdown [...]

Some of the details of what MPs were spending their second home allowances on were certainly an eye-opener.  Why No Mandate Brown needs the taxpayer to pay his Sky TV subscription as well as a £187k a year salary I don’t know, presumably he has an explanation as to why his £187k salary isn’t enough to [...]

Joanne Watson, a Liebour councillor in Sandwell, has attracted the attention of Guido Fawkes after claiming £14,894.20 in expenses for attending 4 meetings. One commentator suggests that she actually attended 7 meetings which, if true, brings the cost per meeting down from £3,723 to £2,127.74. Sandwell is, of course, Councillor Bob Piper‘s patch and he’s [...]

I think my MP, David Wright, has been inspired by the Leader of Scottish Liebour, Wendy “I’m going to expose the dishonesty of the SNP but please don’t mention the fact I got caught taking illegal donations” Alexander. He makes all the right noises, of course – he’ll look at the proposal and make the [...]

Wendy Alexander has addressed the Scottish Liebour spring gathering and told them that she will lead them to victory in the Scottish Parliament. Yeah, right. In a characteristic display of utter hypocrisy, she said that she “will lead by exposing the dishonesty of the SNP”. Dishonesty of the SNP? Sorry Wendy Love, just remind me [...]

We all know that the amount of tax we have to pay is criminal but it turns out that the revenue really are a bunch of crooks. HMRC paid a crook £100,000 for details of 100 British citizens with accounts at Liechtenstein’s biggest private bank. The records were stolen by an employee who also sold [...]

A random audit by anti-fraud investigators at the EU has uncovered £100m of fraud committed by MEPs between 2004 and 2006. £100m of taxpayers money lost to fraud and corruption over and above the latent fraud, corruption and waste that is estimated to account for up to 25% of their budget. How the fuck can [...]

James Purnell, the new Work & Pension Secretary, has said that Liebour’s reputation hasn’t been tainted by all the recent sleaze and corruption amongst senior members of the party and says that they’re doing “hat is right” in reforming their funding arrangements. Reform, reform, reform.  We all know what reform means – take something that [...]

Peter Hain, the lying, corrupt, two-faced, fork-tongued crook, has resigned. He resigned within minutes of the Electoral Commissio announcing that it was referring his case to the police.  Hain still maintains that it was “poor administration” that lead to him commit multiple criminal offences in accepting donations from third parties without their knowledge or consent and [...]

Teflon Hain has got been given the green light over breaking the Ministerial Code of Practice after the Cabinet Secretary, Sir Gus O’Donnell, decided that taking donations off two companies for his leadership campaign and then endorsing both companies was perfectly acceptable. It now falls on the Electoral Commission and the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner to nail [...]

Two Liebour MPs have asked the Electoral Commission to investigate eighty Conswervative MPs over donations from “patrons clubs”. They said that the Conservative MPs will end up paying back thousands of pounds of donations but the Conswervatives reckon that Liebour has received £2m in donations from “patrons clubs” themselves! This is a truly pathetic attempt [...]

Peter Hain is being investigated by the Electoral Commission and the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner over his failure to disclose £103,000 in donations to his deputy leadership campaign. This is 54% of the total donations to his deputy leadership campaign but it was an “innocent mistake” according to Hain. £35,000 of the £103,000 came from the [...]

The West Midlands Conservative MEP group – headed by eurofederalist MEP, Philip Bradbourn – has a picture of Birmingham, ALABAMA on its website rather than Birmingham, England. Tom Watson, the Liebour MP for West Bromwich makes political capital out of it on his blog and ends up in all the papers today being credited with the discovery. [...]

A week ago, No Mandate Brown said that all the sleaze, corruption and gneral criminality of Liebour would all be forgotten soon. Unfortunately for the One Eyed Wonder of Wankistan, the Metropolitan Police are apparently proposing to press criminal charges against Peter Watt. Peter Watt was the General Secretary of the Liebour Party and was [...]

No Mandate Brown thinks that the English are a nation of goldfish who will forget the recent scandals – fraud, sleaze, incompetence, treason – that have marked his first few months in power. He actually had the gall to say “I think people know that when a problem arises we will deal with it” – [...]

About a year ago, Transforming Telford was officially launched for the first time.  I say first time because they’ve been officially launched at least twice under the name Transforming Telford and once under the name Telford First. The company, Transforming Telford, is another one of these taxpayer-funded, unelected quangos put in place to ensure that [...]

Liebour was given £183,000 by the Electoral Commission in 2001-02 to help them train staff to understand funding rules under the new Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000. Despite having full training at considerable expense to the taxpayer, Liebour has continued to accept various illegal donations. So, not only did they break the law [...]