Public trust!!!

London Tory MP gets £100,000 for 'second' home just nine miles from the Commons

Glen Owen and James Mills Last updated at 10:35 PM on 21st June 20

A leading Tory MP has claimed more than £100,000 in ‘second home allowances’ – despite representing a seat just 35 minutes’ drive from Westminster

Jacqui Lait, Shadow Planning Minister,represents Beckenham, Kent, just nine miles from Parliament. But by nominating a £1.5million Sussex farmhouse as her main home she has been able to claim up to £19,000 under MPs’ Additional Costs Allowance

**************************************************************

Wintertons claim thousands to pay for their burglar alarm because of risk from animal rights

Simon Walters
Last updated at 10:35 PM on 21st June 2008. Daily Mail.

Husband and wife Tory MPs Nicholas and Ann Wintertonfaced fresh controversy last night after it was revealed that they have received thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money to run the burglar alarm at their luxury farmhouse home in Cheshire

*****************************************************************



Tory chairman Spelman to face sleaze inquiry into nanny's pay

By Ian Drury
Last updated at 12:52 AM on 18th June 2008 Daily Mail.

Caroline Spelman : 'Exceptional' circumstances mean a full investigation should be carried out, says sleaze watchdog

The career of Tory chairman Caroline Spelman was in jeopardy yesterday after it was announced she would be investigated for paying her nanny using taxpayer-funded allowances Spelman secretary was first to raise concern over nanny

Friday, 27 June 2008
Concerns that the Conservative Party chairman, Caroline Spelman, was using her parliamentary expenses to pay her nanny were first raised by her own secretary, it was reported on BBC2's Newsnight last night. Sally Hammond – who became a part-time secretary to Ms Spelman in 1999 – was shocked to discover how she much paid Tina Hayes. Ms Hayes was employed by Ms Spelman after she became an MP in 1997, to look after her children and do secretarial work. However, according to Newsnight, Ms Hammond found that Ms Hayes performed little or no secretarial duties. Ms Hammond – wife of the Tory MP Stephen Hammond – reported the matter and the practice was stopped. Senior Tories are said to be calling for Ms Spelman's resignation

'Nannygate' Tory sacked secretary who shopped her

By Simon Walters and Brendan Carlin Daily Mail
Last updated at 10:31 PM on 28th June 2008
In the firing line: Caroline Spelman Tory chairman Caroline Spelman sacked the Commons secretary who 'shopped' her to party chiefs for using her parliamentary expenses to pay her nanny. And she also got rid of another Commons secretary who worked for her while she was paying the nanny from public funds.

*********************************************************

Mystery of Euan Blair's £550,000 bachelor flat - bought two weeks before he starts first job ever

By Dennis Rice Last updated at 11:19 PM on 14th June 2008 Daily Mail.

Tony Blair’s son, Euan, was at the centre of a mystery last night over the purchase of a £550,000 ‘bachelor pad’. If he is the buyer, it would take the value of the Blair family property portfolio to
£9million.
Last month, this newspaper revealed that Tony and Cherie had purchased the former country home of Sir John Gielgud in Buckinghamshire

*********************************************************

How No 10 aides shielded Blair from blame over cash for honours

By Jason Lewis Last updated at 11:50 PM on 14th June 2008 Daily Mail.

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Loyal Downing Street officials ensured that Tony Blair could never be held legally responsible for the cash for honours scandal, newly released documents reveal.

*********************************************************

End of the John Lewis list: MPs to be banned from buying televisions and installing new kitchens on expenses

By Ian Drury Last updated at 3:15 PM on 25th June 2008… Daily Mail

Speaker Michael Martin (Leader of the pack) led the committee which has been considering how to restore public trust in MPs' expenses after a series of scandals

MPs will be banned from spending taxpayers' money on new kitchens, televisions, kettles!! or home improvements under a shake-up of their expenses. But they can still pocket nearly £19,600 a year tax-free from the public purse to cover the cost of running a second home near Parliament, a long-awaited report has recommended. And they would be handed £30 a day for subsistence each day - totaling £4,200 in a 140-day working year - without needing to produce receipts. The proposals were unveiled today by the Commons' Members Estimate Committee (MEC) which has carried out a root-and-branch review of MPs' perks The aim has been to restore public trust in politicians following a string of scandals involving misuse of expenses.!!!

Restore Public Trust !
It was also revealed that the publication on a full breakdown of MPs expenses this autumn as a result of a Freedom of Information ruling could cost the taxpayer around £1 million
*********************************************************

The have-yachts and have-nots

Britain richest man buys property on billionaire's row

By Richard Simpson Last updated at 12:06 AM on 24th June 2008.. Daily Mail

After buying an £117million mansion near his London home for his son Aditya, steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal has just splashed out a further £70million on a place thought to be for daughter Vanisha The combined value of the three properties, which are a few hundred yards apart in Kensington Palace Gardens, is said to be an astonishing £440million.

************************************************************

The have-yachts and have-nots:
Labour has 'failed to stop widening gap between rich and poor'

By Becky Barrow
Last updated at 2:12 AM on 26th June 2008 Daily Mail.

David Beckham: Symbolizes the have-yachts culture. Labour has done nothing to reduce the gulf between rich and poor, it was revealed yesterday. In fact, the gap is widening again and is the same now as it was when Labour came to power in 1997, with the disposable income of the richest Britons six times greater than the poorest. On average, the poorest fifth of the population have 'original income' of £4,900 a year and the richest have about 15 times more money, with £72,890.

***************************************************

Wendy Alexander failed to declare funding and is facing a “reprimand !!!” The career of Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander was in the balance today after an inquiry found she had broken the law by failing to declare donations to her leadership campaign. Miss Alexander, the sister of international development secretary Douglas, could be suspended from parliament later today when a committee of Scottish MPs meets to decide her penalty

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Labour's Scottish leader found “guilty” of not declaring election campaign donations

By Daniel Martin
Last updated at 7:31 PM on 25th June 2008 Daily Mail

Labour sleaze came back to haunt Gordon Brown today as the Prime Minister suffered a triple blow to his hopes of political survival. The Government faced the nightmare prospect of another by-election humiliation as it was rocked by three damaging new setbacks: The resignation of Scottish Labour Party leader Wendy Alexander, sister of Mr Brown's Cabinet ally Douglas Alexander, for failing to declare donations to her leadership campaign. The resignation of Glasgow. East Labour MP David Marshall – triggering the potentially embarrassing by-election – amid allegations that he wrongly used his Commons expenses to pay members of his family. Claims by a Labour politician that more than 100 MPs are using their Commons second-home allowance to dodge capital gains tax.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Labour mired in sleaze claims as Scots leader quits and MPs are accused of homes tax-dodge

By Simon Walters and Glen Owen Last updated at 12:22 AM on 29th June 2008 Daily Mail.

The resignation of Glasgow East Labour MP David Marshall – triggering the potentially embarrassing by-election – amid allegations that he wrongly used his Commons expenses to pay members of his family.

'Over 100 MPs' in multi-million tax dodge over second homes

Does Wendy Alexander's fall spell end for the 'McMafia'?

Marshall in shock resignation after rumours over expenses

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Cost of Queen to taxpayer hits £40million (p.a.) as royal family is hit by the credit crunch.

By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 3:54 PM on 27th June 2008

She spent £22,849 hiring a helicopter to watch the Kentucky Derby during her state visit to America last year. The cost of transporting her entourage there is likely to raise eyebrows, however. Although it was classed as an official engagement, the tour was ostensibly organised to mark the 400th anniversary of the first permanent English settlement in the US in Virginia and to meet President Bush in Washington.The entire five-day trip cost more than £414,000, the single most expensive by any member of the Royal Family last year.

The cost to the tax-payer of the Royal Family's travel as a whole went up by £600,000 to £6.2million - close to an 11 per cent rise .Of that £4.8million was spent on chartering planes and helicopters as well as using the Royal Flight, up six per cent on last year.

Prince Andrew's foreign travel bill would certainly be more than most and insisted that his work was 'invaluable'. His most expensive trips were to the US in February where he spent more than £140,000 in flights and a staggering £250,000 in the Far East in March, despite traveling with a relatively minimal entourage.

As revealed last month, Charles and Camilla spent £210,000 hiring a luxury yacht for their official tour of the Caribbean in March and, we now know, spent a further £56,125 flying themselves and their entourage there and back. The cost of sending staff to 'recce' the visit was £19,927 - despite taking scheduled flights. An earlier trip to Uganda and Turkey saw the couple spending £316,061 hiring a private plane for themselves and their staff.

******************************************

Charles and Camilla's newly-renovated Welsh hideaway gets a visit by HRH, the hotel inspector

By Rebecca English Last updated at 10:32 PM on 23rd June 2008. Daily Mail

Charles bought the 100-year-old stone house, which comes complete with a 192-acre estate, for £1.2million two years ago. Nestling next to the Black Mountains, the house is actually owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, the estate which provides the prince with his £14million annual income The Duchy has spent tens of thousands of pound bringing the house up to date, including a “sympathetically-designed extension ??”

******************************************

MET and Orwell

'Sidelined' Police officer in race discrimation claim against Met chief Sir Ian Blair”

By Stephen Wright Last updated at 12:31 AM on 26th June 2008. Daily Mail

Outspoken: Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur Britain’s highest profile Muslim police officer is preparing to sue Met chief Sir Ian Blair for racial discrimination.

Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur will seek compensation at an employment tribunal amid claims that he has been 'sidelined'
Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur will seek compensation at an employment tribunal amid claims that he has been 'sidelined'

Police chief demands £500,000 compensation with race claim over promotion failure :

Stephen Wright Last updated at 11:43 PM on 27th June 2008 Daily Mail:

Commander Shabir Hussain, 45 'It is substantially more than £500,000. Muslim Mr. Hussain is claiming racial discrimination compensation.

Race war at the Met: We reveal what's REALLY going on at Scotland Yard

By Richard Pendlebury and Stephen Wright Last updated at 12:00 AM on 28th June 2008 Daily Mail.

Sir Ian Blair refuses to back down as Scotland Yard 'race war' escalates

By Stephen Wright Last updated at 3:30 AM on 30th June 2008

Sir Ian Blair looked to be on a collision course with Britain's most senior Muslim policeman yesterday as the stakes increased in the Scotland Yard 'race war'. Friends of Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur claimed that he has compiled a dossier of more than 30 allegations of discrimination at the top of Scotland Yard and the Home Office.
******************************************
More potently, in the English, tense, “politically correct” charged atmosphere , the word “black” has been erased from all dictionaries . There now being on the statute books severe penalties for any reference to this colour in any aspect. The result being all public conversations are circumspect. Greater significance now applies to the garish War Time posters…..

“The Walls have Ears” than ever imagined. This is a actual fact, they do.

Orwell, vindicated

Brussels and The Fat Cat Parliament

Brussels 2008.
A heavily fortified citadel of mystery, deceit, avarice, contempt of those unfortunates beyond the walls. Headquarters of the so called “European Union”. .The question could be poised. “A Union for what ??” or more precisely, “ for whom?”

Built on foundations of gold, the city besieged by discontent, greed, disenchantment and new countries eager to join ”in” for their own financial /political reasons, quite clearly seeing a great deal of loose money is to be made if they play their cards right. Turkey, with 70.000.000 Muslims , besides anything else, can see a much firmer foothold in the West for Islam if they could successfully negotiate entry. Should that day come, David Cameron (the shadow English Prime minister ) with other M.P’s of various extraction, will immediately convert to Islam to hedge their bets. Brown, is a Roman Catholic and the current incumbent of Number 10 downing Street. Blair, his predecessor, converted also to Catholicism for the Catholic vote, both men being Scottish

The Fatcat Parliament:

How MEPs pocket a staggering £630,000 a year each, Wife, mistress (s), tropical island trips, both town and rural houses, BMW’s, you name it, they do have it. Paid for by….

By Richard Pendlebury and Ian Drury
Last updated at 1:00 AM on 14th June 2008. Daily Mail

We shall identify them and their excuses later. But the most worrying aspect is how much of this rotten accounting still remains secret. There are few, if any, checks. And the figures are dizzyingly generous. Each MEP can pocket nearly £360,000 - yes, £360,000 - in pay and pensions annually and not have to account for a single penny. On top of their £61,820 salaries - the same as a Westminster MP - they get a daily £229 allowance to pay for hotels and meals (the equivalent of another £41,220 just for clocking on over 40 weeks). MEPs can also claim £700 for each trip back to the UK , whether they drive, go by train or take a low-cost flight. A further £3,194 a year can be claimed for traveling to other parts of the world, including luxury sunshine destinations, if the trips are classed as EU business. There is a £162,000-a-year allowance for secretarial services (sic) and an office allowance of £38,836 a year. This is paid automatically and MEPs do not have to provide a single receipt. Nice work if you can get it. But the no-questions-asked expenses bonanza hit trouble in January when it was revealed that the Westminster Tory MP Derek Conway had paid members of his family £374,401.73 in public money since 2001. On March 4, Gary Titley, the Labour leader in Brussels , stated piously in Section D (Further Information) of his submission: 'I wish to make it clear that I employ my wife as my secretary/PA.' The register also shows Mr. Titley to have the other perks of free tickets to a whole series of major sporting events. Others use different ways to finesse their previously withheld spousal employee relationships. Labour MEP for the North-East Stephen Hughes deploys a unique diversionary tactic on his March 31 submission by listing all the academic qualifications of his researcher wife Cynthia. For the record, the letters following her name are BA, LL.B (Hons), MA, MEd, MPhil.Tory MEP for London John Bowis admitted on May 5 to employing his wife, but argues in the register that she was 'formerly employed as constituency secretary for two other MPs, including a former Prime Minister'.( Ealing Common Kinnock and family, all, also on the Take) The implication being that she is pretty red-hot at the job. On May 27, Glenis Willmott, Labour MEP for East Midlands , declared in the register: 'I employ husband Edward as an integrated member of my staff team.' No doubt she took her husband/integrated member to watch the FA Cup final, as she received two free tickets. , Labour MEP for Yorkshire & The Humber, does not even want to use the word 'wife' in his first declaration that he employs her. On March 13, he submitted to the register that he has a part-time secretary 'related to me by marriage'. On the register, had made a written promise to issue a statement about his staff, but has yet to do so. However, the Tory MEP for the East Midlands admitted to us that his wife, Sara administered the £125,000 a year he spent from his staff allowances. For this, she is paid around £15,000 a year. One other adjustment that has been made this week to the register of interests is by the Scottish MEP John Purvis, who was the subject of critical headlines last week for a £1m 'conflict of interests'. The register shows that in April this year, Mr. Purvis declared he was a partner in Purvis & Co., which provided 'business services'. In December, he had described it as being dedicated to 'business advisory'. In the past week, we learned it received tens of thousands of pounds of his publicly funded allowances, supposedly to handle payments to his staff. This is against the rules. And so last Monday, a new declaration to the register of interests. Mr. Purvis still used Purvis & Co. as his 'service provider'. But now he was no longer listed as a partner in the firm. We asked him about it last night, in the interests of transparency. A spokeswoman for Mr. Purvis confirmed the MEP had withdrawn his name as a partner of Purvis & Co. She said: 'He has got rid of his interest. He has no connection with the company any more. 'Asked whether Purvis & Co. employed the MEP's relatives, she refused to comment. 'He has nothing further to say,' she replied .Long overdue rules changes will eventually close some loopholes exposed here. But what is the root of the prevailing cavalier attitude to accountability and the willful misuse of so much public money? One answer lies 300 miles south of Brussels , in Strasbourg . On the edge of an industrial estate on a ring road outside this Alsatian French town, across the Rhine from Germany , stands the glass and steel European Parliament building. Yes, another European Parliament building. Under the EU Constitution, every fourth week the whole 'circus' has to pack its bags and move from the Belgian capital to sit for four days in Strasbourg. Why? Because it is a symbol of the Franco-German detente. Imagine that our own Parliament was held in Bristol and Carlisle and that every fourth week the whole mechanism had to be transported between the two. When I visited on Tuesday, Strasbourg was absolutely dead. The two security guards on the gate of the Parliament did not speak English. The woman in the Parliament information office didn't, either. Officially, Strasbourg is the headquarters of the European Parliament, senior to Brussels , but it had the air of a national backwater, which is what it is really. The EU gravy train stops here. On Monday, the Strasbourg Express will pull out of Brussels for the journey to Alsace , carrying many of the 3,000 MEPs, staff and other bureaucrats. A fleet of lorries shifts the files. It is hired by the Parliament from the transport giant Thales for £160,000 per round trip. Naturally, it has 'lavish' catering facilities (the normal service has no buffet car) and is supposed to cut down on the Parliament's already bloated carbon footprint. It arrives at Strasbourg 's impressive station, which has been recently redesigned, with EU help, at a cost of £50 million. The hotels built solely because of the Parliament's occasional presence will fill up (they were almost empty this week) and then everyone will return to Brussels on Thursday. These jaunts cost the EU taxpayer £170million a year. Given such institutionalized waste, why should the MEPs cut their costs? Overspending is rife. Our Money is no object to them apparently. Hardly a “going concern” More of a bizarre circus /brothel.

Premiership footballers' Spanish holiday homes face demolition over corruption scandal

By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:59 PM on 27th June 2008

An exclusive Spanish development where up to a dozen British celebrities own properties could be bulldozed after being linked in a corruption scandal, it emerged today. The Valle Romano complex -where leading Premiership stars Paul Robinson, Michael Brown and David Bentley have homes - is being investigated as part of Operation Astapa. The scandal has so far seen the resignation of the Estepona mayor and 40 arrests, including the boss of Valle Romano Luis Linares

MEP pays gay lover £30,000 to be his secretary

“EastEnders” MEP pays gay lover £30,000 to be his secretary.

By Ian Drury Last updated at 12:53 AM on 10th June 2008 Daily Mail

Michael Cashman, the former EastEnders actor turned Labour MEP, pays his gay lover £30,000 of taxpayers' money to be his secretary. Paul Cottingham receives the cash even though he is also the director of a public company.
David Sumberg….. It also emerged that a Tory MEP who has made just just two speeches in four years, pays his wife up to £60,000 a year of taxpayers' money to be his 'secretary/assistant'. uses his parliamentary expenses to pay Carolyn an annual salary, which is almost as much as he earns himself. Since 2004, the North West MEP has spoken only 536 words in the Brussels chamber despite being allowed pay and perks worth about £1.1million - which works out at £2,052 a word. Despite representing the North West constituency, the former solicitor lives 200 miles away in a £2million house in London . In the past four years, he has made only two speeches - one on anti-Semitism and one during a debate which he claimed was biased against Israel - in the European Parliament. He has only tabled two questions. Liberal Democrat MEP Chris Davies - who blew the whistle on a multi-million pound expenses scandal in February - said: 'The people of the North West deserve better from their representatives. I doubt if anyone locally has ever heard of David Sumberg.' But Mr. Sumberg - who will stand down at the Euro elections next year - defended his wife's salary. He said: 'She is a fully qualified secretary with a masters degree in French and she has worked for me all the time I have been in politics since 1983. Beyond a little bit of help, she is doing the whole job and his pay is perfectly justified.' Asked whether his record represented-value for money, he said: 'Making speeches in the European Parliament do not achieve a great deal. ……… There are completely empty chambers with no one listening

the gravy train

Headache for Cameron as more Tories are caught on gravy train

By Ian Drury and Justin Stares
Last updated at 1:15 AM on 09th June 2008 : Daily Mail. The wheels were said to be falling off the Brussels gravy train as more details emerged of expenses claims by Tory Euro MPs.

• Sir Robert Atkins, the former minister who served under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, admitted using £2,500 of taxpayer cash while attending his son's wedding in the U.S. .

• Scotland 's John Purvis was accused of funneling up to £1million, which was meant to pay staff, into his own firm.

• North West MEP Sajjad Karim, who recently defected from the Liberal Democrats, admitted paying his wife £26,000 a year as an office assistant while she was a primary school teacher.

Some suggest that Cameron has calculated that his huge opinion poll lead over Labour, combined with the fact that voters are so desperately fed up with Gordon Brown's Government, mean that the Tories can get away with anything. If so, he is making a disastrous miscalculation. John Major was destroyed when naked greed spread through the ranks of his Government MPs in the 1990s (for example, the cash-for- questions controversy involving MPs Neil Hamilton and Tim Smith. Most worryingly, there are also signs that a sense of entitlement to the rewards of public office has spread into the ranks of the Conservative front bench, although it would be going too far to use the term 'sleaze'. For instance, last month, a powerfully researched report from the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner revealed details about the financial arrangements of the Shadow Cabinet - including the fact that a large number were taking money to run their private offices directly from commercial companies with vested interests in their portfolios. To give one example among many, housing spokesman Grant Schapps has received tens of thousands pounds from an assortment of companies, including mortgage brokers, an estate agent, a commercial property broker and solicitors specializing in conveyancing. The scope for conflict of interest is huge. One of the most intriguing cases involves Alan Duncan, the Shadow Trade and Energy Secretary. He receives significant sums of money from Vitol, a Netherlands-based oil company whose primary business is oil trading. The firm has a shady past and was once fined after owning up to bribing Saddam Hussein's government for Iraqi oil contracts. The company holds a 40 per cent stake in another oil group, Arawak Energy, which announced its intention to list on the Stock Exchange last week, and for whom Alan Duncan is a non- executive director. The real issue is whether a David Cameron government is capable of bringing back decency into British public life after ten sordid years of Tony Blair. At the moment, that looks very doubtful indeed….. Peter Osborne.

***************************************

more fat cats

Tory chief whip in European Parliament is replaced as ANOTHER sleaze scandal is revealed

By Ian Drury, Neil Sears and Nick Mcdermott Last updated at 1:27 AM on 07th June 2008 Daily Mail.

MEP Den Dover has been replaced as Tory chief whip A second Tory MEP was engulfed in an expenses row last night for paying £750,000 of public money to his wife and daughter. Den Dover channeled his Brussels staff allowance to a family firm he set up after joining the European Parliament in 1999

************************************************************************

How Blair built his property portfolio on mortgage expenses payments

By Richard Pendlebury Last updated at 8:04 AM on 06th June 2008 Daily Mail

************************************************************************
Date: Thursday, June 5, 2008, 9:35 PM By Geoff Meade, PA Europe Editor, in Brussels. Independent

Giles Chichester resigned as leader of the Conservative Euro MPs today after breaking European Parliament rules on political expenses

***************************************************
Evening Standard, 28th of May 2008

Health Minister Ann Keen and husband Alan have been nicknamed “Mr. and Mrs. Expenses” They earned the title after using taxpayer’s money to buy a flat near Parliament – despite having a constituency home nine miles away.

The Labour MPs also claimed for £867.57-a-month premiums on life insurance policies worth £430,000

fat-cat MP's

Why we should sack half our fat-cat MPs - and save £180million a year

By David Craig Last updated at 9:55 PM on 28th June 2008. Daily Mail.

I believe that the No vote in Ireland's EU treaty referendum was a people's revolt, sending arrogant, slightly the other way, avaricious, disdainful, corrupt, contemptuous, out-of-touch leaders a message that their days are numbered.. The total cost to us of our MPs is now well over £366million a year. An MP costs taxpayers about £4,000 for each day he or she “works!”

Cheeky boy

Cheeky boy: MP Lembit Opik. with his “bit of the other” Gabriela Irimia.

Imported by him from Romania. …..What a C**T ! Needs work on her teeth, he will probably arrange that on the NHS also.

Yer pays yer money and takes yer choice .

Our money ..their choice.
**************************************************************

“Alo, alo, alo… Wot av we got ere then ?
Is it all over for Legover Lembit and the Cheeky Girl?

By Helen WeathersLast updated at 9:37 AM on 15th July 2008 Daily .Mail..
As Lembit Opik splits from his Cheeky Girl fiancée, her mother launches a blistering tirade, and claims the Lib-Dem MP was only in it for the fame!... (or the other “f” word ) and she was only in it for the money.
Holiday romance: Lembit Opik and Gabriela Irimia in the Canary Islands, this passionate fling, paid quite willingly/eagerly, by the English taxpayer, was, from the start, them being dubbed the 'odd couple', even though they very publicly insisted that their surprise love affair was, in his words, a 'meeting of minds' and, in hers, like 'a mushroom - it can only get bigger'. The large amounts of Viagra Mr Lembit imbibed could only enhance that position. Indeed, shrugging off criticism that the relationship was a 'joke', Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik (dubbed 'Legover Lembit') and his ‘bit of the other’ Cheeky Girl Gabriela Irimia couldn't have chosen a more showily romantic way to prove wrong all those doubters who said it would never last. Spread across the glossy magazine Hello! in April, the Montgomeryshire MP announced their engagement and revealed how he'd proposed to Gabriela with a Tiffany diamond ring beside the Trevi Fountain in Rome. They talked of their love for each other, with Lembit glowing in his praise of his 25-year-old Romanian fiancée who - despite being 18 years his junior and one half of the very hot-pants- singing and dancing act. The Cheeky Girl, who actually is a slag, but his 'intellectual equal'. He described how they played Scrabble and 'enjoyed great conversations about everything from science and philosophy to value structure.' He continued: 'One glorious evening, for instance, after considerable discussion about the English working class, their present plight, immigration, those depressing subjects, we embraced a higher level ….. the concept of a perfect circle, as a geometric challenge.. which of course, one would say, is simply a load of old bollocks, but with some girls, talk is the key”… he went on rather apologetically. 'Yesterday, however, the curse of Hello! appeared to have struck again. Just three months after their Roman holiday, their relationship appears to be as dead as the Latin language. They haven't been in contact for two weeks, so it's fair to say they aren't talking about anything at all, let alone geometric challenges. The young pop singer, who once dedicated a song to Lembit called “Text Me I Love Your Money,” is reportedly ignoring his increasingly frantic text messages as their relationship of almost two years falters.
*********************************************************************************

Cheeky girl Gabriela had secret miscarriage after falling pregnant with Lembit Opik's baby

By Alex Millson D.M.

Cheeky Girl Gabriela Irimia became pregnant with MP Lembit Opik's baby - then suffered a secret miscarriage, the singer has revealed. The 25-year-old also claimed she regretted ever getting engaged to Opik, who is 18 years her senior. And she has ruled out a reunion, saying "I still love him, but he's not for me. "Gabriela told how she fell pregnant in June, at first not realising that a daily recurring illness was in fact morning sickness.
Gabriela Irimia and Lembit Opik: The MP had no idea the Cheeky Girl had fallen pregnant - or that she had a abortion. It was not until she felt stabbing pains, the hard reality and took a test realizing she was several weeks pregnant, however, Gabriela told the News of the World that she took the decision not to tell her MP lover about her common predicament as their relationship had become increasingly volatile.
The odd couple: Lembit is 18 years older than Gabriela She said: "I'll never forget the day, it was June 21, the longest day, in many ways. I just wanted to run away. I felt like I'd let everybody down, including myself." At the end of June we weren't getting on very well. There were lots of arguments over nothing. "One reason was, I kept thinking 'If I am going to keep it, what's going to happen? Would I live with him? "I'd have to give up my “career” totally and to be honest I wasn't prepared for that right now."Gabriela claims her pathetic revelation in the newspaper would be the first Mr. Opik had heard about her carelessness .Recently the MP for Montgomeryshire in Wales revealed how he had wanted to settle down and have children, falling out at the end of June, when the couple had a huge row, they have not spoken. Gabriela said: " I realised how unhappy I'd been over the past few months and decided I needed a complete break from him ."There were a lot of text messages asking for a second chance but I wouldn't reply. "I do still love him but I thought, ”This guy is not for me”.

I would now prefer someone older, less demanding, more mature, with a heavier bank balance, my mother is most emphatic that I should really step up in society, she too having no desire, wish or inclination to return to the squalor we previously lived in Romania, I now having both feet and rather as great deal of leg on the ladder, so to speak.

EU treaty: Furious Sarkozy dumps Mandelson in the merde

EU treaty: Furious Sarkozy dumps Mandelson in the merde

By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 3:51 PM on 20th June 2008

Hilarious...... What with the Irish blatantly telling our friend Mandelson (on £ 630 000 p.a.) "where to stick it" They are so right .

There is no conclusion...

to be reached. Possibly human nature is flawed… deeply devious. Perhaps power, money, disdain, contempt, corruption are synonymous . Clearly this rot, this oppression, now so significantly opened up almost for anyone who is prepared, interested enough in their own well being to see ,even think, could conceivably lead to a revolution of another dimension.

Sunday, June 15, 2008….11:28. .

Cleaning, bodging, cheap (cost nothing) repairs.. keeps me occupied, hardly my incessant thoughts, always about “Life” “Women”, how the whole political / social structure is the greatest charade on Planet Earth, men and women programmed to pursue each other. Women also further endowed with every trick to ensure “it happens”, aided relentlessly with political/legal force if necessary. For what..? simply the procreation process to endlessly repeat itself.? (or) ,

for the economic power of a incessant supply of cheap labour. Regardless?

Unfortunately for the fumbling education system, 21st cent Western women have been just sufficiently educated to see through this fast fading fabric. They are not interested in economics, other than their own, they realize, children are hardly a financial proposition, besides the chronic inconvenience and negative return on such an investment.
Reluctantly, they conceive fewer offspring, if any, at a later age which has caused Europe to freely open it’s borders to anyone young enough to procreate, hoping, with incentives, they will be willing to do so. A desperate scramble for “people”. If they already have children so much more consideration is given generously by way of money, housing. The fact that the host country has also embarked on “cultural and political suicide” as a consequence of this policy is of no concern. The rich, beneficiaries of this process, live in their own guarded enclaves or abroad, what happens in the common streets is not of their interest, unless, as on various, unguarded occasions, they themselves become victims, murdered, robbed, raped , intelligent enough to see they are simply victims of their own greed, however, they are the loudest screamers. A vicious circle. The “Human Race” is fast sinking into the deep mire, there is “Nothing” nothing of consideration other than the pursuit of money. “Care” “Culture” of any kind has disintegrated in the hectic, frenetic scramble for fame and wealth… the deafening clamor.

Footballers, especially their wives, are the new rich to be looked up to, to be emulated.

“ I want three or four children,” reveals Wayne as he and Coleen start planning a family.

Last updated at 1:43 PM on 16th June 2008 By Daily Mail Reporter.

Mr. & Mrs. Rooney flash their his-and-hers rings worth an estimated £250,000 as they head out from their lavish wedding to an Italian airport. (Both these young people come from the backwaters of nowhere, now “catapulted” into the forefront , the spotlight, as a “incentive?” hardly, more, a further insult? What ?.... to the “Working masses…”)

All Governments heavily push this conception of monetary gain, fame and procreation, to accelerate it. The Daily Mail is clearly pressurized to each day carry a front page column of “famous” female personalities ? who have conceived, who are about to conceive, or wish to conceive. Unfortunately, again, the 21st century young woman is mostly disinterested, having only interest in herself, her “disco’s,” her clothes, an independence from the wearying payment of bills, Independent as to her perception of children, her freedom of choice.
Work being a social occasion, all offset by living with parents or a obliging boyfriend who is impervious to “families” .. A deep disruption which will never return to what was “acceptable”

Each government failing to see this dramatic trend… “itself”, more covertly entwined in personal acquisitions, using their unquestionable power remorselessly to silence all opposition to their posturing, greed, incompetence, above all, corruption at every level… in the highest echelons.
There are people who still know no different than the old values, but they quickly deteriorate after absorbing the ultimate weapon of “Television”, its total emphasis on money and “success” the realization of money.. it’s magical ability to be “a release from the drudgery of work” This last, not realized by Governments who pull the puppet strings behind the scenes.
Work / labour, evidently only for immigrants, who initially hold the old conceptions…. But they are crushed by the abuse, seeing their only escape is via money, achieved in any way and by any means.. any. Mostly, their options are relegated to crime, drugs, people trafficking, prostitution, or in extreme cases of frustration, or perhaps having other objectives, resort to exploding bombs indiscriminately in the public arena.

Then, there have been suggestions that many of these “incidents” have been orchestrated by those in politically high places to deflect emphasis off theirselves. The unaccountable, sudden, erratic movements of the stock market a few days before 9/11. Someone must have known something. The protracted, tedious American pilots wage and pension negotiations abruptly ended. All airports were instantly locked down on that day. Pilots, ancillaries and any other detractors were ignominiously thrown out onto the hard pavements.

Another twisted, segment of satisfaction for Nergal, beyond any “ordinary” persons comprehension.

Immigrants quickly become entrepreneurs, specialists in every aspect of crime, other than those quite willing to work for a pittance, in the process depressing wages overall, another piece for the kaleidoscope of immigration and population the process of deterioration accelerated, compounded, almost beyond the control of the “host” country, causing tension, resentment and chaos, beside the deep factor of crushing people together in ever diminishing space.
Looking at the record of all Western Governments, this is part of their deliberate policy of “control” , calling any dissention in the slightest direction, “Terrorism”, (with a capital “T”) a excuse to impose the most draconian laws on the individual since the Middle Ages.

The masses too compressed, stressed, too intimidated, too immersed in the moment by moment struggle for survival, unable to see, care or dare raise a voice of resentment about the ever rising tide of strange people from foreign lands and the vast amounts of money each individual on the “inside” is extracting, quite blatantly, illegally and with complete contempt, from those out side the Citadels of Power….

Which is precisely the way they meant it to be.

“ ‘Nero fiddled while Rome burnt’... he had his reasons.

The masses inexorably, watch football, watch Coronation Street, watch, mesmerized, while this rock, this Realm, this earth, this Eden, this Majesty, this seat of Mars, this green and pleasant land, this England, falls, topples, slides, beneath the excrement of the World’s unwanted.”

(Peter Ridgley – Echoes from Australia, Vol.2, April 2000)