Thus David Hughes in the Telegraph on Gordon's big Euro launch today.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the British Labour Government.
Gordon Brown stood up and was forced to tell an expectant audience that he was withdrawing the party whip from a senior member of the party who had "inadvertently" claimed £16,000 in taxpayer's cash to pay for a mortgage that did not exist.
Then up pops Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, [Secretary of State for Finance] who we now know "flipped" his residence four times in four years to maximise the amount he could claim in allowances. As I've noted before, if only Darling had shown such enterprise in his handling of the public finances.
Then we had Ed Balls, [Secretary of State for Education and Children] whose claims were subject to an investigation by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner, who cleared him of wrong doing.
Following Ed was Jacqui Smith, [Secretary of State for Home Affairs] whose decision to designate a spare room in her sister's London home as her main residence set this latest sleaze ball rolling.
And then we had Hazel Blears [Secretary of State for Communities] in her first public outing since writing out a cheque for £13,000 in capital gains tax owing on her taxpayer-funded property transactions.
Every single one of them has had their fingers in the till -- and got caught. Every one of them.
Oh - except Gordon. I am told. Of course. He was too busy looking after Gorbals Mick and overseeing the perdition of the United Kingdom in pursuit of his place in history, to have time for...
Oh, fuck 'em.
Not long now.
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