Posts Tagged ‘riot’
If Two Boys Get Four Years For “Attempting” To Organise a Riot On Facebook,
How Long Does Gerald Kaufman Get For “Attempting” To Claim £8000 For A TV?
The Daily Telegraph
By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter
7:00AM BST 16 May 2009
The former environment minister was asked to attend a meeting with officials from the parliamentary fees office to discuss details of another claim relating to £28,834 of work on the kitchen and bathroom at his London flat.
He told them that the work was necessary because he was “living in a slum”, though his second home, off Regent’s Park, is in one of the most fashionable areas of the capital. He was eventually reimbursed for £15,329.
On one occasion he asked a civil servant “why are you querying these expenses?” and on another threatened to make a complaint unless a dispute was settled by noon on the day in question. In one document, an official in the fees office noted that invoices Sir Gerald had submitted took him to “within 6p” of his annual limit. He also claimed £1,262 for a gas bill that was £1,055 in credit.
Between 2001 and 2008 the Manchester Gorton MP, one of the Labour party’s longest-serving members, claimed a total of £115,109 in additional costs allowances on his London flat, which he owns outright. In June 2006, he submitted a claim for three months’ expenses totalling £14,301.60, which included £8,865 for a Bang & Olufsen Beovision 40in LCD television.
The Poodle Is Stupid
“It is simply ridiculous to say that people have been smashing windows, rioting and looting because of government policy“
Deranged, deluded and not fit for office.
The Warning That Cameron And The Feral Elite Ignored
“The price of this financial crisis is being borne by people who absolutely did not cause it. Now is the period when the cost is being paid, I’m surprised that the degree of public anger has not been greater than it has.”
Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, March 2011
Britain Needs Leadership
I know the junction in Clapham by Debenhams like the back of my hand. I have queued for hours in the post office that the armoured police vehicles were rolling by last night. It was my home and it makes it feel very close, very real. Two, three mornings every week I used to go through that door at Debenhams and buy myself a pasty from their snack bar for breakfast. I couldn’t help but weep just a little as I watched events unfold.
The scumbags need to be rounded up, caged, sent to bootcamp for six months, then two years enforced community service, 40 hours per week, cleaning toilets, real hard work.
Our politicians are responsible. They have denied our youth a future and deserve disgrace, condemnation and loss of office.
On Mark Duggan, he had a gun so he should have expected to be shot.
We desperately, desperately need leadership. Cameron falls so far short that it is embarrassing.
Britain Is Burning
The police are taking backhanders
Our MPs are fiddling their expenses
The media break the law without compunction
The bankers have looted our economy
Our politicians are sunning themselves in luxury
How do you expect young people to behave?
Peter Reynolds 