0215 [0205] Hrs GMT
London
Saturday
29 May 2010
Editor © Muhammad Haque
KHOODEELAAR! Told the London EVENING STANDARD so! Now, it attempts to admit part of it. More to follow this "Laws expenses blow rocks coalition”.
We reiterate the truth: the CONDEM Collusion is based on the premiss of fundamental fakery and fraud. It is based on the cheap marketing ploys touted and touted for by Nick Clegg via that TV Debases! They were not 'debates'. They were DEBASES. Debasing the ordinary, universally understood good faith of the residually alert members of the UK electorate and watching, viewing public.
They were taken for a ride. A ride made almost exciting in context by the totally barren, empty regime that the remnants of the Bliared regime represented from their political bunkers behind No 10 Downing Street London SW1.
We were not impressed at the charade that was on.
We have not been impressed by the post-nupital exhibition of vulgarity and dishonesty.
We reiterate the unplugged Vince Cable's unsuitability as 'the star' [the fraudulently conceived phrase that UK CON D Cameron used to flatter the confused Vince Cable seriously deflated before any real work is done on the OTT-hyped deficit reduction with any credibility whatever].
Cable will not be a start for much longer.
In fact he will be entering the career and power equipment of the star chambers soon.
Unless he shows any metal and exits out of the Collusion fast. Now.
Vince Cable has shown his loss of direction by distancing himself from his Party role this week. Not very good omens at all…
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- Peerage for Prescott and Paisley
- Postman admits child sex offences
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- Downing Street in Question Time row
- Hips' demise boosts property market
- Afghan blast Marine 'perfectionist'
- Cameron sets out economic strategy
- Iraq inquiry quiz for US officials
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The new coalition Government is engulfed in its first crisis after Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws was forced to apologise over parliamentary expenses running into tens of thousands of pounds.
The Liberal Democrat Cabinet minister's job looked to be hanging in the balance after it emerged he channelled more than £40,000 of taxpayers' money to his long-term partner.
He claimed up to £950 a month in expenses for five years to rent rooms in two properties owned by lobbyist James Lundie. Parliamentary rules ban MPs from "leasing accommodation from a partner".
On Friday night Mr Laws - who this week promised public spending curbs that would send "shockwaves" through Whitehall - apologised and announced that he would "immediately" pay back the money in the wake of the Daily Telegraph's disclosures, as well as referring himself to the parliamentary standards commissioner.
The Yeovil MP also chose to 'out' himself as gay - although the newspaper stressed it had not intended to reveal his sexuality. "James and I are intensely private people," he said in a statement. "We made the decision to keep our relationship private and believed that was our right. Clearly that cannot now remain the case. My motivation throughout has not been to maximise profit but to simply protect our privacy and my wish not to reveal my sexuality."
Since 2006, Parliamentary rules have banned MPs from "leasing accommodation from a partner.
Mr Laws - a millionaire former City banker - insisted: "At no point did I consider myself to be in breach of the rules which in 2009 defined partner as 'one of a couple... who, although not married to each-other or civil partners, are living together and treat each other as spouses'. However, I now accept that this was open to interpretation and will immediately pay back the costs of the rent and other housing costs I claimed from the time the rules changed until August 2009."
He added: "I regret this situation deeply, accept that I should not have claimed my expenses in this way and apologise fully."
Mr Cameron has previously made a point of taking a hard line on expenses abuses among his own ranks, while Lib Dem leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has boasted that his party emerged unscathed from the scandal.
The episode will also be the first test of how Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg co-operate over man management. Under the coalition protocol that has been hammered out, Mr Clegg must be "fully consulted" before any Lib Dem minister is removed from a government post.
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