We MUST Be Real Suckers!
COUNTY MP Anne Moffat has been left red-faced after it was revealed she tried to charge the public nearly £100 for an AIRBED. And East Lothian’s recently-married Westminster representative also tried to get the taxpayer to foot the bill for airbed insurance.
Critics have slammed Ms Moffat for her “absurd” expenses which they say are “totally out of touch with the real world”.
Moffat’s claims include;
- The claim for the £99.99 airbed and airbed insurance worth £14.99 per month.*
- £89.99 claim for an Argos coffee table.
- £100 per month for cleaning.
- Up to £57 for a monthly subscription to Sky digital – all relating to her London flat.
- £2,395 for a new laminate kitchen floor, also at her London residence.
- £697.95 for a whole host of bedding.
- £1,182 for a new wash basin and wall tiles.
- Included in the list of items Ms Moffat bought in January 2009, and then paid for through taxpayers’ cash, were duvet covers, pillow cases, an alarm clock and pair of salt and pepper mills.
- She also claimed the maximum £400 allowed for food expenses for almost every month of the year.
- £15.90 for a red and yellow leather glasses case.*
*These items were refused by the Commons Office.
Matthew Elliott, chief executive at the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “Anne Moffat is totally out of touch with the real world. After being sent a clear and unequivocal message by her constituents this summer, she has continued to claim for items great and small in this latest batch of expenses.”
Dickiebo; The greedy pigs just don’t give a damn about those of us who have to pay their bills! They’ll continue to take our money until the bitter end.
One Law For Peasants – Another For NuLabour M.Ps.
Solicitor-General Vera Baird embroiled in row after ‘failing to pick up her dog’s mess at railway station’
Dog lover: Vera Baird (with her old pet Zack). She allegedly reduced a woman to tears following a row about not cleaning up dog mess.
At the House of Commons, she is known as ‘the Towering Inferno’ because of her 6ft height, red hair and fiery character.
And Solicitor-General Vera Baird lived up to the nickname when a woman complained about her puppy allegedly fouling a railway platform.
A furious row developed which left the other woman close to tears and prompted a police investigation into the minister’s behaviour.
British Transport Police even seized CCTV footage of the row. Six weeks later, the investigation has finally been closed and Mrs Baird will not now face prosecution, but the affair is a big embarrassment for the senior MP.
The drama started when Mrs Baird, 58, was walking her puppy in King’s Cross train station in Central London in October.
A mother with her young child confronted the minister after allegedly seeing her fail to pick up the dog’s mess after it fouled the platform.
It is an offence if an owner does not clean up immediately after their dog has fouled land to which the public has access.
The fine is usually a £50 fixed penalty notice. According to sources, Mrs Baird took great offence at being challenged by the woman and gave her a ‘complete mouthful’.
When a police community support officer turned up to deal with the altercation, a by-now furious Mrs Baird made it clear she felt she was being humiliated and allegedly said ‘don’t you know who I am?’.
Eventually, the PCSO took Mrs Baird’s details and submitted a report suggesting the minister be investigated for a low level public order offence for causing ‘harassment, alarm or distress’ – which carries a maximum fine of £1,000.
The incident was officially logged as a crime.
According to sources, a number of officers thought charges would be brought. But, after reviewing the evidence, senior transport police officers ruled that the case be dropped.
One source claimed they ‘lost their bottle’ because of Mrs Baird’s position.
‘Whatever the rights and wrongs of what happened, it was clear the mother and child were very upset by the altercation,’ said a source.
‘By all accounts the mother got a right dressing down.’
Mrs Baird is one of Parliament’s most passionate dog lovers. In October 2004, her dog Zack – then ten years old – won the annual Westminster Dog of the Year competition. Though almost totally blind, Zack beat 11 rivals.
She is also no stranger to controversy. Three years ago, as a junior minister, she was forced to withdraw highly critical remarks about a judge who she thought had given a lenient sentence to a paedophile who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a three-year-old girl.
Following discussions with her boss Lord Falconer, the Lord Chancellor, she said she was wrong to make such comments.
Born in Oldham, Mrs Baird went to grammar school, graduated in law at Newcastle Polytechnic and was called to the Bar in 1975.
She was widowed in 1979 and has two step-sons. As a key member of left-wing barrister Michael Mansfield’s chambers since 1986, Mrs Baird took part in key civil liberties cases.
Widely respected for her fierce intellect, she was elected MP for Redcar in 2001 and quickly rose through Government ranks.
In 2007, Gordon Brown appointed her Solicitor General in his new government. She is deputy to Attorney General Baroness Scotland, who was recently fined £5,000 for hiring an illegal immigrant as her housekeeper.
A British Transport Police (BTP) spokesman said: ‘BTP was called to King’s Cross rail station around 5.15pm on Sunday October 25 after a report of an altercation between two women near to one of the station’s platforms.
‘A passenger complained to another passenger, whose dog had fouled on a platform. This led to an altercation, which BTP subsequently investigated. Following this investigation, a decision was taken not to proceed further.’
Last night Mrs Baird said the mess, caused by a new puppy, was later removed by a station cleaner.
She said: ‘My new puppy was unwell and made a mess on the platform at King’s Cross some weeks ago. A member of the public complained to me and she and I had an argument.
‘As it ended, a PCSO arrived and spoke to me. I complained to the BTP about his attitude.
‘I have received an apology from the BTP and as far as I am concerned the matter is closed.’
She added: ‘I asked for, and got, help from the station cleaner as it was not possible to pick up the mess.’
Dickiebo; Let’s be clear about this;
- Her dog shat on the station.
- She refused to clear up the mess.
- She reduced the public-spirited person who challenged her, to tears.
- She complained about the attitude of the P.C.S.O.
- SHE WAS ALLOWED TO GET AWAY WITH IT!
- YOU try it – and see what happens!
Thief M.P.!
Government minister paid more than £40,000 in expenses to sister
A government minister secretly paid more than £40,000 in taxpayer-funded expenses to his sister, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.
By Jon Swaine, and Robert Winnett
Junior culture minister Sion Simon secretly paid more than £40,000 in taxpayer-funded expenses to his sister Photo: DAVID BURGES
Sion Simon, a Culture minister, told Parliamentary officials that a rented north London property, was his “second home” for expenses purposes.
It can now be disclosed that the flat was owned by his sister Ceri Erskine, a management consultant.
MPs have been explicitly banned since April 2006 from renting properties from family members at taxpayers’ expense and the practice is now considered to have been unacceptable since 2004.
However, Mr Simon continued to improperly make claims of £1,000 a month until 2008. Read more »
Nuisance Phone Calls!
Please use the following if contacted by a telemarketer.
- Use a husky, dirty phone sex voice but ask normal questions about the proposed offer.
“Is it a low interest rate? mmmmm…I like low interest rates…really low…” - In an outrageously excited tone: “Thank god you called!!!” Explain that an online psychic told you that your future lover would randomly call disguised as an asshole.
- Say you are hard of hearing and see how loud they will shout into the phone.
- Allow the telemarketer to fully explain his offer. When he is finished explain that his company hired you to randomly spot check telemarketers on their performance. Tell him that he did a good job overall, but that he is a bit monotone and needs to fluctuate his tone of voice more to sound convincing.
- “Congratulations! You’re the 100th caller on the (insert local radio station) Sweet Vacation Giveaway Blast Marathon. You’ve just won a pair of tickets to Negril, Jamaica and the use of Sean Paul’s celebrity vacation house.” Take down her address.
- Flirt.
- Keep repeating, “I knew you were going to say that…”
- Stutter on a syllable of an obvious word in a sentence… see how long it takes before he completes the phrase. When he does, get upset, and say “That really hurts my fee…fee… fee… fee…feel…fee… fee… fee…” ad infinitum.
- Mid pitch, stop him and complement him on his wonderful voice. Explain that you are a voiceover scout and might have a breakthrough commercial job for him. Ask if he wouldn’t mind doing a quick test. Ask him to say in a deep husky voice “May cause dizziness, diarrhea, vomiting and shortness of breath. A small number of participants in a recent clinical trial experienced weight loss, irregular clotting, abnormally frequent and/or painful urination and hair loss. Results may vary”
- Tie obscure facts about Barbara Streisand to everything thing he says,, “2.3% interest rate? oh my…did you know Barbara was 23 when she filmed Funny Girl…”
- Every few minutes repeat, “You’re going to have to bear with me, I have a slight short term memory loss problem…who is this again?”
- Regardless of the offer tell him you’ll take 7. If he asks what you mean say he drives a hard bargain and you’ll take 9, but that’s as far as you’ll go.
- Every half-minute ask him to hold and pretend to scream at your invalid mother. “You want to use the bathroom??? Well stop whining and get up out of the wheelchair for a change. You just sit there and think about that for a while, mother. Can’t you see I’m on the damn phone?”
- Forgive him. Tell him you did. Over and over again, until he hangs up. Then secretly take it back.
Don’t You Dare Speak!
Conviction rates for hate crimes have increased tenfold in recent years, Government evidence has claimed.
Successful prosecutions for racist, religious, homophobic and disability-related crimes have gone up from 8% to 82% in four years, according to the Crown Prosecution Service’s second annual Hate Crime Report.
Keir Starmer QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, said there was still “more to do” however.
He said: “This report shows how seriously we take all types of hate crimes.
“Being targeted because of your race, religion, sexuality or disability is a profoundly isolating experience and one we will prosecute wherever possible. People from all communities have a legitimate right to expect protection from the prejudice and discrimination that are at the root of hate crime.
“We are doing a lot of really good work – particularly at a local level with the Hate Crime Scrutiny Panels, but there is still more to do, such as improving our service to victims and witnesses to increase their confidence in the system and to ensure our communities feel properly protected.”
Attorney General Baroness Scotland* added: “In its second year, the CPS report of all such crimes sends a clear message: that there is no hierarchy of hate crime – they are all equally corrosive to society and to victims.”
Dickiebo; Utter crap! This is purely Political Correctness (PC) gone mad. Decent people are being persecuted for saying things that we have always said, merely as a sop to PC cretins – e.g. the iniquitous Equalities Commission and the ‘Hate Police’. Let’s face it – we all know what is meant to be ‘hatred’ and quite rightly we decry anybody indulging. It doesn’t take a genius to know that we do not use the ‘n’ word without being liable to cause great offence. That is as close as it comes to being arrested for using race-hate words without overstepping into the absurd. To accuse people of race-hate for using such expressions as ‘a black mark’ and suchlike, is ridiculous, pathetic, and absurd! Indeed, we should, just to be safe, abolish the use of the word ‘black’ from the English language! But, do you know what is the really sad thing about this PC crap? It is that the sheer nonsense of it gets the backs-up of decent people to the extent that when real race-hate rears it’s ugly head, we are now less likely to be concerned! And that, is a tragedy. Well done, Trevor Phillips et al.
* We remember this wonderful woman, don’t we? Employed an alien illegally in her home!
Freedom of Speech
In response to Constantly Furious.
I Love Germany!
Destruction Of England
The TaxPayers’ Alliance
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Soldiers Off The Streets
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