You'll love this one (well most of you will).
Suffolk Tories apparently accepted an illegal donation of £3,000 during the last election. There's no question about it. They owned up. The person who donated the money was not on the electoral register at the time the money was given.
The electoral commission ruled that they should be fined the sum of £1,100, but should not be required to return the donation.
If my arithmetic is right, they get a donation of £3,000, they are fined £1,100, so their net gain is £1,900. Not much of a punishment; not much of a disincentive to repeat the crime next time round.
Still, it's the Tories. They appear do whatever they want and walk off laughing.
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Erm, has Harriet joined the Tory party? We all know she is aristocratic and it wouldn't be stretching the imagination much to guess that she loathes Mr Corbyn, but what's this about. Don't tell us they just banged into each other.
Waitrose I might just about swallow, but ASDA? Please!
Dodgy Dave down with people again, innit? Top button undone, not singing God Save the Queen (tut tut, what would your mother say Dodge?), but wearing a suit that cost more that the bloke he's talking to earns in a year.
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A few months ago, the gross old duke of York was unhappy that he couldn't get through the gates at Windsor Great Park, where he has one of his houses...well, one of OUR houses. Apparently the mechanism for automatic opening had failed. So the fat boy decided that, as he had a great big 2.5 tonne, £80,000 Range Rover, he'd just smash the gates down...as you would, if a £5,000 repair to your car were of no interest.
The alternative would have been a 1 mile... yes a whole mile...detour. How utterly ghastly!
Well obviously a royal highness couldn't be expected to put up with that kind of inconvenience, so he broke the gates down. OUR gates that WE paid for.
If you lived in your own home and you decided that you would trash your gates to save yourself a little inconvenience, that would be your business. If you lived in a council house, or one owned by a housing association or the state, then it becomes their business.
Most people would call it criminal damage and charges would be brought.
Needless to say Air Miles is getting off Scot free.
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The same goes for tax pounds.
Every so often David Cameron reminds us we are a Christian country. I can't imagine why he would do that unless he was trying to stir up bad feeling with Muslims or Jews or some other religious groups: Ya know, make them feel ill at ease, not at home?
But the very people who might be considered to know a little bit more about Christian values than Dodgy Dave, that is to say the bishops of the State Church, are rather less than enthusiastic about his policies.
Not that Church of England bishops are the only ones to criticise. The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has also laid into the Tories for their heartlessness in welfare reforms. Odd given what a devout Catholic Iain Duncan Smith is.
And even odder that his replacement is one of these OTT Christians that tells us prayer can cure anything... and apparently people with Parkinson's should just get out there and get a job.
Every year some of us (admittedly a dwindling number) listen to Her Majesty's Christmas message. It's a mixture of her family news, the stuff some folk write in long tedious letters at Christmas, but she gets to put on the BBC (ya know, Andrew losing his rag with a gate; the number of holidays that the blood princesses have taken; how little work William and Kate have done; how much money they screwed out of the people of Cornwall to keep Mrs Parker Bowles in diamond tiaras, etc) together with a religious message.
She invariably talks about how she has tried to follow the teachings of Christ all of her life in everything she does. Clearly she misses out the bit about the rich man and the eye of the needle, given her immense wealth, and the "suffer the little children" bit of these teachings.
Probably feeding the 5000 passes her by, as within a few miles of Buckingham Palace some of her loyal subjects are sleeping in cardboard boxes and eating out of soup kitchens. Children subjects of hers have little or noting to eat due to the policies that she reads out from her gold throne with her multi million pound hat on her head, having stepped out of a gold coach.
It's a long time since I was forced, in this Christian country, to read the bible as part of my core curriculum, but I can recall all of those things even if I maybe don't always live up to them. It's strange that the queen has such problems with them, having dedicated her life to following such teachings.
Suffolk Tories apparently accepted an illegal donation of £3,000 during the last election. There's no question about it. They owned up. The person who donated the money was not on the electoral register at the time the money was given.
The electoral commission ruled that they should be fined the sum of £1,100, but should not be required to return the donation.
If my arithmetic is right, they get a donation of £3,000, they are fined £1,100, so their net gain is £1,900. Not much of a punishment; not much of a disincentive to repeat the crime next time round.
Still, it's the Tories. They appear do whatever they want and walk off laughing.
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Erm, has Harriet joined the Tory party? We all know she is aristocratic and it wouldn't be stretching the imagination much to guess that she loathes Mr Corbyn, but what's this about. Don't tell us they just banged into each other.
Waitrose I might just about swallow, but ASDA? Please!
Dodgy Dave down with people again, innit? Top button undone, not singing God Save the Queen (tut tut, what would your mother say Dodge?), but wearing a suit that cost more that the bloke he's talking to earns in a year.
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The alternative would have been a 1 mile... yes a whole mile...detour. How utterly ghastly!
Well obviously a royal highness couldn't be expected to put up with that kind of inconvenience, so he broke the gates down. OUR gates that WE paid for.
If you lived in your own home and you decided that you would trash your gates to save yourself a little inconvenience, that would be your business. If you lived in a council house, or one owned by a housing association or the state, then it becomes their business.
Most people would call it criminal damage and charges would be brought.
Needless to say Air Miles is getting off Scot free.
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Every so often David Cameron reminds us we are a Christian country. I can't imagine why he would do that unless he was trying to stir up bad feeling with Muslims or Jews or some other religious groups: Ya know, make them feel ill at ease, not at home?
But the very people who might be considered to know a little bit more about Christian values than Dodgy Dave, that is to say the bishops of the State Church, are rather less than enthusiastic about his policies.
Not that Church of England bishops are the only ones to criticise. The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has also laid into the Tories for their heartlessness in welfare reforms. Odd given what a devout Catholic Iain Duncan Smith is.
Every year some of us (admittedly a dwindling number) listen to Her Majesty's Christmas message. It's a mixture of her family news, the stuff some folk write in long tedious letters at Christmas, but she gets to put on the BBC (ya know, Andrew losing his rag with a gate; the number of holidays that the blood princesses have taken; how little work William and Kate have done; how much money they screwed out of the people of Cornwall to keep Mrs Parker Bowles in diamond tiaras, etc) together with a religious message.
She invariably talks about how she has tried to follow the teachings of Christ all of her life in everything she does. Clearly she misses out the bit about the rich man and the eye of the needle, given her immense wealth, and the "suffer the little children" bit of these teachings.
Probably feeding the 5000 passes her by, as within a few miles of Buckingham Palace some of her loyal subjects are sleeping in cardboard boxes and eating out of soup kitchens. Children subjects of hers have little or noting to eat due to the policies that she reads out from her gold throne with her multi million pound hat on her head, having stepped out of a gold coach.
It's a long time since I was forced, in this Christian country, to read the bible as part of my core curriculum, but I can recall all of those things even if I maybe don't always live up to them. It's strange that the queen has such problems with them, having dedicated her life to following such teachings.
The sooner we are the Poblachd na h-Alba, the better.
ReplyDeleteHear Hear.
DeleteJust heard that Mr Skinner's been taken to hospital.
I hope he makes a speedy recovery from what ails him. We need him around a bit...well, a lot... longer.
Absolutely. Westminster needs as many voices of integrity as it can get.
DeleteApparently back at home now.
DeleteI hear Police Scotland are also trying to ascertain the ownership of several hundred red,white and blue rattles that appear to have been thrown from prams around the same period.
ReplyDeleteI image they will be all over the place.
DeleteThe ruling elite have nothing but thinly veiled contempt for everyone except themselves.
ReplyDeleteI imagine it is all but impossible for the likes of price Andrew or the political elite to commit a crime.
DeleteBut the woman with a baby who depends on public transport only needs to be 5 minutes late for an appointment with the job centre...
Westminster doesn't even play by its own rules so why should it expect Scotland to play by Westminster rules. Time for action: don't pay the bbc tax.
ReplyDeleteStopped that here a long time ago.
DeleteWhistle for it BBC.
My mate served with Windsor on HMS Invincible in the eighties. He was a spoilt bastard then too.
ReplyDeleteI image he's probably the worst of the lot. Mummy's favourites always are.
DeleteThey are all spoilt rotten, and he was spoilt even more.
tris
ReplyDeletesee u found it give it back now its mine..
Gerry
for you I have nothing but thinly veiled contempt
(runs away laughing again)
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Don't worry Niko. Munguin's bought you a new one.
DeleteAre you Hibs man?
SNP lead the way?
ReplyDeleteWell, they're certainly 'leading the way' with the sex scandals and dodgy financial arrangements! '#The56 is now a sad looking 54 amid whip resignations, scandals and dodgy conflicting interests. So frankly, you Nats have an epic cheek to point fingers at the Tories!!
1. MP Phil Boswell, alleged to have breached the rules on the registration of MPs' financial interests. Not declaring directorships! Naughty boy! Oh, and then there's the £18k 'interest free loan' shadow...
2. Next up is Michelle Thomson MP. She was the first to quit the Nat whip. The member for Edinburgh West is linked to property deals that saw her former solicitor struck off by the Law Society of Scotland. Dirty shadows there too.
So give us a break about 'evil tory' this and 'corrupt gits' that. The SNP garden is full of snakes.
I forgot to also include 3. the sex triangle consuming the Nat deputy leader Hosie, and another Nat MP.
DeleteSo no doubt #the54 is set to drop to a paltry #the52...
None of the SNP members has been charged with any offence. Unlike the members of for instance the conservatives Aitken or Archer, or Libdem Huhne, or Labour members Chator, Devine or Morley. All of whom have in common that they were jailed.
DeleteAnd that's just the ones they caught.
I know its fashionable to denigrate all politicians with a "they are all the same" meme. But until one of ours if jailed, we are not in the same league as the traditional yoons.
I wouldn't go throwing rocks when you are living in a glass house sir.
S.A.
That's that answered then, Dean.
DeleteWe await any charges to be brought against any of the people you mention.
We know that members of the establishment can often be 'excused' charges, on the basis that it's "not in the public interest" to pursue them, but I very much that the SNP count for much in the matter of the establishment.
As for Stewart and Angus, adultery with adults is hardly a crime.
When we get into the realms of adultery with under-age girls or boys, then we're in a different ball game.
I've no time for criminals in any party, be they petty thieves or serious offenders. So far though we await after a VERY long time and weeks of lurid headlines, no one appears to have been charged with anything.
If adultery (with adults of course), is a reason to lose your job then how about Charles Windsor Saxe Coburg and Mrs Parker Bowles?
DeleteAs I posted on Bruce's blog, why didn't Cameron not poke fun at them at the state opening?
Unintended double negative alert!
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DeleteClassic deflection, Dean.
DeleteOh yeah, and there was Andy and all the girls (including at least one who would have been of legal age in England, but wasn't in New York State; and then his ex-wife that he live with had a toe sucking interlude, if I'm not mistaken.
ReplyDeleteI heard prince Philip had an affair with princess Margaret too. That would have been a corker of a dig at Queens speech.
I'm sure though that he will soon be telling us that if we come out of Europe the cost of having an affair will double!! Meanwhile probably Govey the House Elf will tell us that it will triple if we stay in.
Of course, what that post was actually about was the fact that the SNP turn up at parliament and do their jobs, no matter what other distractions they may have.
DeleteSo often so much of the rest of the place is a sea of Green benches and no bottoms on them.
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