Reply to: MPs expenses - we're being manipulated into hysteria.

[Platypus]

His poor, poor wife. She has to wake up to that.

Hardly - I'm sure she knew the deal when she agreed to marry him.

You surely don't believe it's anything other than a marriage of political convenience do you?

[BrilloPad]

Telegraph: MPs' expenses: Alistair Darling's claim for help with his tax return

Also in this edition:


Oh, FFS!

So the media is whipping you into hysteria......

[HairyArsedBloke]

Telegraph: MPs' expenses: Alistair Darling's claim for help with his tax return

Also in this edition:

Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, bought a £240 Apple iPhone for her husband on expenses.

Oh, FFS!

[HairyArsedBloke]

Linky (Capitalists@Work Blog): Brownadder's Bunker

[BrowneIssue]

These are the people who invended the smiling Gordon (not safe after meals)

Wind that video to the 0:39 seconds mark.

His right eye looks dead. His left eye has wandered off. The rest of his face looks like that Merkin woman who has had a face transplant.

His poor, poor wife. She has to wake up to that.

[PM-Junkie]

It must be damned tricky to master, because they also have to work his jaw at the same time.

Very tricky.....notice how they keep getting it wrong and the jaw keeps slipping so it's lop-sided?

[bogeyman]

It must be damned tricky to master, because they also have to work his jaw at the same time.

And his bladder.

[OwlHoot]

It must be damned tricky to master, because they also have to work his jaw at the same time.

[bogeyman]

Expect loads of 'optimistic' rhetoric from the snot goblin, nuLieBore, BBC, etc.

That is the advise from Obama’s campaign team that is now working there dark arts here.

These are the people who invended the smiling Gordon (not safe after meals)

I've heard that they surgically implanted some kind of electrical probe into Gordon's rectum which, when stimulated by remote control, causes him to grimace in a way that is similar to a human smile, but much madder and creepier.

Watch out for Mandelson or Ali Campbell operating a remote control handset when there are evidently no model helicopters flying in the vicinity.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Expect loads of 'optimistic' rhetoric from the snot goblin, nuLieBore, BBC, etc.

That is the advise from Obama’s campaign team that is now working there dark arts here.

These are the people who invended the smiling Gordon (not safe after meals)

[BlasterBates]

Everyone is angry now, and in 5 weeks?

Doubt that many people will remember it.

Lehman Brothers ...who?

[HairyArsedBloke]

YouTube: Gordon Brown phones a friend

[PM-Junkie]

I believe you infer way too much ability on this government. UK MPs have been feathering their own nests going way back, someone even mentioned a quote from Cromwell about pretty much the same problem. The difference this time is the information has essentially come to the surface because of this current bunch of MPs utter incompetence in keeping it covered up in the first place.

The way they'll try and fix it will be the way they've tried to fix everything since they came to power. Some sudden knee jerk creating a flurry of woefully created legislation depriving you of yet more rights.

Where did I say anything about the government doing it?? It has gone way beyond that.

[threaded]

Bottom line - MPs know they have to fix this, and fix our political system....or there will be riots that will make the race riots and the poll tax riots look like garden parties.

I believe you infer way too much ability on this government. UK MPs have been feathering their own nests going way back, someone even mentioned a quote from Cromwell about pretty much the same problem. The difference this time is the information has essentially come to the surface because of this current bunch of MPs utter incompetence in keeping it covered up in the first place.

The way they'll try and fix it will be the way they've tried to fix everything since they came to power. Some sudden knee jerk creating a flurry of woefully created legislation depriving you of yet more rights.

[PM-Junkie]

agree with Sasguru ...overdone this expenses thing, but I think "outpouring of collective emotion" is the norm these days, makes us all feel better. In a couple of years it´ll have been completely forgotton.

Absolutely totally and completely wrong. This has zip do do with "outpouring of collective emotion" - think back a few weeks and people were hacked off with politicians anyway. They weren seen as lying, scheming two-faced gits who would do and say anything to get and retain power. Think about how the number of people voting has been dropping over recent years. Think about how hacked off people were that we have a PM without a mandate (yes it has happened before, but this time a blatant lie was told to get him into power).

What has changed, and why a huge number of people are moving on this, is that we now know that a sizable portion of MPs are also crooks. Add that to the incompetance of allowing our banking system to collapse and the cost to us of propping it up, to the sleeze when the last lot were in, to the handing over power to the EU when most people have made it clear they don't want that to happen, to the fact that they won't bring back the death penalty for kiddie-rapists when poll after poll shows that more than 70% of people want it, to the illegal war and the lies surrounding that, to the massive waste of public money ....and what you have here is something far more significant.

You must be living on a different planet if you can't see how different the political climate is now, and how bloody angry people are. A few weeks ago, hardly anyone was interested in politics - now you are hard pressed to find anyone who isn't!

Bottom line - MPs know they have to fix this, and fix our political system....or there will be riots that will make the race riots and the poll tax riots look like garden parties.