New Labour; out of touch since 1997
Posted on 05. Feb, 2010 by RK in United Kingdom
Trougher in Chief and Welsh Officer Minister Wayne David has been outed as wrongfully claiming over the average salary of his constituents. Owen Meredith has the story here, and interestingly enough, Mr David’s over claims also amount to nearly £1 for every vote of his 13,743 majority.
Good luck defending that one Mr. David.
Good spot Mr. Meredith.
This is the life: MP for a Week
Posted on 13. Jan, 2010 by OHC in United Kingdom
Parliament has launched a new online game – MP for a Week – dedicated to educating teenagers about the role of MPs. Except we should probably say ‘re-educating’, given how adulatory and sycophantic it is.
Playing the role of the MP, you have five main options as you breeze into Portcullis House on Monday morning: ‘Pick up messages’, ‘Meeting and events’, ‘Attend a debate’, ‘Committe inquiry’, ‘Daily survival report’ (Ed: definitely a priority for Gordo), ‘Parliament video hints’, and ‘Travel to constituency’.
Huh? No ‘Submit expenses receipt’? No ‘Attend lunch with a lobbyist’? No ‘Go to the Sport and Social’? How strange. It’s almost as if Parliament wants… to brainwash kids into respecting their MP.
And the introduction is just as perverting; one character says, “This issue matters to me… my MP voted to pass a law on it.” Teaching kids to respect MPs is ridiculous enough. But teaching kids that the solution to anything that matters to them is to immediate think “Ah, we should have a law” is far worse.
Compared to the private sector, yes, MPs are under-paid for their hours worked – that’s why they grab every penny they can get from expenses. But anyone that thinks that legislation produces wealth is deluding themselves.
You’re gonna need a lot of re-education to persuade kids that that’s worth respecting.
Labour have class after all
Posted on 10. Dec, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
Pity the poor people of Grantham having to put up with defector Quentin Davies. Paul Waugh has revealed that Davies tried to claim on expenses £20,700 to repair his stately home’s clocktower, having claimed £10,000 for repairing windows on the same home, and £1,000 for insuring his fantabulously expensive possessions.
He scurried like a rat to Labour when the Magnificent Broon took over. And they accepted him with open arms, and appointed him as Defence Minister, despite being one of those hated ‘Tory toffs’ that lives in a listed stately home (Ed: and being a twat).
£21k for repairing a bell tower and £10k for repairing windows on his country estate. Who said Labour don’t have any class?
Good day, Gordon?
Posted on 12. Oct, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
All in a day’s work for the Prime Minister.
Ah, just stick it on expenses…
Richard Dannatt for Parliament
Posted on 24. Aug, 2009 by OHC in United Kingdom
The Labour attempts to smear General Sir Richard Dannatt over expenses have seemed to backfire spectacularly:
General Sir Richard Dannatt, the outgoing head of the Army, is reported to have claimed less than £20,000 in expenses, and even bought cheap wine and sausages from Lidl to feed military top brass.
Details of his expenses are said to show that he spent as little as £5 a head when hosting dinners for foreign dignitaries, Armed Services chiefs and politicians.
Perhaps it’s the last place that a man with that integrity, and his well-known honesty, belongs, but we believe that it’s only right for the Conservatives to invite him to stand for Parliament at the earliest opportunity.
There’s a track record of the party tapping up top brass. Colonel Tim Collins toyed with the idea of running for both the Tories and the party leadership of the Ulster Unionists. And, of course, Patrick Mercer was elected to Parliament two years after retiring as a colonel in 1999.
Whilst his political views on issues other than defence aren’t well-known, he is a known conservative and obviously dislikes the present government. If Cameron isn’t talking to Dannatt about the possibility, and sounding out his opinions, he ought to be, because we need more men as honest as Dannatt in Westminster.
Dannatt for Parliament.
Johnny Bravo
Posted on 23. Jun, 2009 by keeprightonline in United Kingdom
John Bercow in front of the Lords
The Commons yesterday appointed John Bercow, known Labour-panderer and socialist-coddler to be the Speaker of the House of Commons. Tory Bear says it best in his snippet from the Standard piece, “New Speaker, New Danger”. The Labour Party have decided to play partisan politics with a real chance to refresh the House of Commons, and for this they will go down as perverters of democracy (even further than they currently will).
*Insert knee-jerk reaction here*
Posted on 19. Jun, 2009 by keeprightonline in United Kingdom
KeepRightOnline don’t mean to be akin to salmon on this issue, but it’s becoming clearer by day that as far as we have stuck our (the public’s) noses into the MP ‘Expenses Scandal’ (for want of a more recognisable term), what on Earth is coming of it?
The main media organisations are blowing things like black marks well out of proportion. I’m not saying there aren’t real stories in this, or that this whole issue is irrelevant (although maybe we wish to consider the outcomes in relation to public sector expenditure on the whole- read: £586.25bn budget in 2008) but the real stories are ones like this, where parties are shown to be clearly fleecing the taxpayers.
The expenses debate may easily have been a stepping stone in evaluating public spending as a whole, and really creating an efficienct government economy, but at the moment, we’re still more concerned about duck houses and magazines.
You're going down, down…
Posted on 06. Jun, 2009 by keeprightonline in United Kingdom
This weekend is only going to get more and more interesting. A quick look at the Beeb’s Council Election Map tells you one hell of a lot about the current state of this government. It’s been a long time since Tories took that many seats, and that many seats in the North, especially. It is a good day.
For all the hoo-hah over the ‘other’ parties, DC and co. have done extremely well in the UK’s local elections this week, and Gordon Brown has shown us yet again why he a sniveling, sorry excuse for a Prime Minister.
KeepRightOnline maintains that this government’s mandate ran out long ago, however for it to keep getting worse, and for them to keep clinging on requires a special kind of selfishness, and a special kind of contempt for the British public. Day after day, and resignation after resignation, the situation worsens for government and for country. Walking through Whitehall yesterday, one couldn’t help but turn to face Parliament Square and sigh. A sigh for the British public, a sigh for the Labour government and a sigh to quell the overwhelming urge to storm the Palace and demand Comrade Brown’s head on a plate.
Sunday will be especially revealing, as if the past few weeks have not been enough. The reason the public did not punish the Tories for the expenses scandal is that the public were indeed not even outraged by the expenses scandal (that’s right, I said it). The public, KeepRightOnline feels, were more concerned with the way they have been governed- backed into a corner, surrounded by databases, stealth taxes and stripped of their liberties. The people know that while the Conservatives were just as guilty regarding the expenses, the party acted swiftly, and were certainly not the ones who have created this god-awful mess over the past twelve years.
Gordon Brown, the people are speaking, and they’re speaking in the most eloquent and respectful manner- through the ballot box. Will you not now listen? Will you not now show one iota of democratic decency in stepping down and calling a General Election? Are you this pathologically incapable of seeing the writing on the wall?
This moment in history is staring you dead in the face, Brown- and all you can do is look at your shoes and hope it goes away. It will not. We will not. You are done.
This man is superb.
Posted on 26. May, 2009 by keeprightonline in United Kingdom
Boris outlines in this Telegraph article what exactly the United Kingdom needs.
What a guy…
Posted on 17. May, 2009 by RK in United Kingdom
This morning on KeepRightOnline, we’ve decided to pay tribute to an already shining, but nonetheless still rising star within The Conservative Party.
It must be outlined, that this Member of Parliament, elected after his predecessor stood down over questionable housing claims in 2005, who subsequently increased the majority for the Conservative Party in Windsor, has not once claimed a Second Homes Allowance, and doesn’t even claim travel costs. This man is a fine example of everything that can and should be right with our Members of Parliament, and we here at KeepRightOnline congratulate him for doing such a bang up job.
This man is Adam Afriyie.
On Adam
- Voted a mixture of for and against a transparent Parliament.
- Voted very strongly against introducing a smoking ban.
- Voted very strongly against introducing ID cards.
- Voted moderately against Labour’s anti-terrorism laws.
- Voted very strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war.
- Voted very strongly for replacing Trident.
- Has answered 118 of 135 questions submitted to him by constituents
Expenses
So thank you Adam, for being so sound. KeepRightOnline salutes you.