Re: Fancy dinner with Sam Cam? A snip at £250k : Mon Mar 26, 2012 3:43 pm  

Dennis Skinner: "Why hasn't the Prime Minister turned up? Is it because they wouldn't pay him enough?"

Re: Fancy dinner with Sam Cam? A snip at £250k : Mon Mar 26, 2012 4:22 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

Dennis Skinner: "Why hasn't the Prime Minister turned up? Is it because they wouldn't pay him enough?"

If only Milliband had the gumption, wherewithal and wit to have come out with that. Classic.

Re: Fancy dinner with Sam Cam? A snip at £250k : Mon Mar 26, 2012 4:35 pm  

When is dinner not dinner and what constitutes "significant donors"? This is another that won't go away in a hurry. For someone who campaigned on cleaning up politics, Cameron appears to be making a pretty poor fist of the job

When is dinner not dinner and what constitutes "significant donors"? This is another that won't go away in a hurry. For someone who campaigned on cleaning up politics, Cameron appears to be making a pretty poor fist of the job

Re: Fancy dinner with Sam Cam? A snip at £250k : Mon Mar 26, 2012 5:02 pm  

Coddy's like a dog wi' two cocks when stories like this break.

Unless it's anyone who's not a Tory.
*cough* cash for honours* *cough* 2006-7 *cough*

Re: Fancy dinner with Sam Cam? A snip at £250k : Mon Mar 26, 2012 5:30 pm  

littlerich wrote:

Coddy's like a dog wi' two cocks when stories like this break.

Unless it's anyone who's not a Tory.
*cough* cash for honours* *cough* 2006-7 *cough*

Want me to go back further? Ooooooooooh, where shall we start?

John Profumo
Jonathan Aitken
Jeffrey Archer
Neil Hamilton & Tim Smith
Westland
Arms to Iraq
Jeremy Thorpe

And don't get me started on the bunch of sleazy fookers who masqueraded as Labour:

Blair
Mandelson
Keith Vaz
Tessa Jowell
Jack Dromey

Re: Fancy dinner with Sam Cam? A snip at £250k : Mon Mar 26, 2012 6:07 pm  

That's better. Let it aaaaaaall out.

Re: Fancy dinner with Sam Cam? A snip at £250k : Mon Mar 26, 2012 6:16 pm  

littlerich wrote:

That's better. Let it aaaaaaall out.

Contrary to what Robinson believes, I am not a blind defender of everything Labour, especially when it comes to Nooooooo Labour. Blair learned well at the feet of his fairy godmother, Thatcher and certainly didn't endear himself to many socialists, even if we thought he was the lesser of two evils

Re: Fancy dinner with Sam Cam? A snip at £250k : Mon Mar 26, 2012 6:23 pm  

It would appear Nick Robinson has had similar ideas to me http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17510020 Still which is worse for the Tory PR machine. Billionaires buying policy or the Granny tax, as Harry Hill would say....

It would appear Nick Robinson has had similar ideas to me http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17510020 Still which is worse for the Tory PR machine. Billionaires buying policy or the Granny tax, as Harry Hill would say....

Re: Fancy dinner with Sam Cam? A snip at £250k : Mon Mar 26, 2012 6:29 pm  

I think most MP's get seduced into the murky shennanigans when they get into power. There are a few like Denis Skinner who don't succumb but by and large they're all as bad as each other. The opportunity to feather one's nest is all too tempting hence the cross party criminal charges filed against the expense fiddlers.

What Cruddas did was plain dumb and I would guess too that he was seduced by the sultry hack with a past record for doing things like this. Bravado and cock-strutting has cost him his job.

Re: Fancy dinner with Sam Cam? A snip at £250k : Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:32 pm  

littlerich wrote:

I think most MP's get seduced into the murky shennanigans when they get into power. There are a few like Denis Skinner who don't succumb but by and large they're all as bad as each other. The opportunity to feather one's nest is all too tempting hence the cross party criminal charges filed against the expense fiddlers.

What Cruddas did was plain dumb and I would guess too that he was seduced by the sultry hack with a past record for doing things like this. Bravado and cock-strutting has cost him his job.

I believe there's a lot more about Cruddas that has yet to be aired, same goes for the likes of David Rowland and Andrew Feldman. One thing Cameron has shown so far is, he's probably not the best picker of men we've seen in politics.