Comments on Tory Bear - right-wing political gossip: Fallen Saint Teather

What's happened to the Political Scrapbook sit...

2010-01-21T21:47:20.872Z

What's happened to the Political Scrapbook site? Fallen over due to too many TB readers following the link, or closed down by the LibDems' lawyers?

..... and also Teather was dubbed "stilletto...

2010-01-21T06:18:03.003Z

..... and also Teather was dubbed "stilletto queen" by Quentin Letts in the Mail, along with the self-styled Romseyredhead, Sandra Gidley!
Romsey Rapid's touched on it above. Her office expenses are being looked at by Lyon too!
Looks like getting rid of Charley K wasn't the only thing they collaborated on!

You ask for some details from Chris TB. Just look...

2010-01-21T06:09:54.537Z

You ask for some details from Chris TB.

Just look at the Hampshire Lib Dem MPs - all four claimed for stuffing machines - almost impossible to prove what they are used for - but it's too much of a coincidence!

can you email me some details please chris? edito...

2010-01-19T10:52:30.554Z

can you email me some details please chris?

editor@torybear.com

Romsey Rapid and Political Scrapbook are so right....

2010-01-19T10:39:35.598Z

Romsey Rapid and Political Scrapbook are so right. The Lib Dems launder public money into their party coffers - but it's too technical to make good copy so the newspapers don't go there. We have to give the outer London MPs like Teather, Davey, Cable etc some credit for having the political nous not to claim ACA when they live 30 minutes from Westminster (ludicrous that they were even entitled to it) - but they make up for it on the office fiddles.
A couple of instances I came across were Ed Davey (Kingston and Surbiton) who bought a £15,000 mass mailing machine and charged half to the taxpayer. There is no way the machine is used 50/50 for constituency work and political campaigning - but aside from the useage it's wrong to claim half the capital cost because if the Lib Dems lose the seat there is no way the taxpayers half (i.e. the right to use the machine for constituency annual reports) will be passed on to the next MP.
Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth and Cambourne) rents her office, which is also shared with the local Lib Dems, from a property development company owned by her agent and his wife. A very cosy arrangement!
Someone should pull all this together and try to make it easily understandable because it's grossly unfair that Lib Dems are regarded as saintly when in many ways their abuse is more sinister for being so covert.

Political Scrapbook. Of course they got off easy....

2010-01-18T23:49:40.673Z

Political Scrapbook.

Of course they got off easy. Nobody could be bothered to indict them.

They are not substantial enough to even generate the requisite levels of hate to sell the newspapers.

The most quality press the Lib Dems currently receive is on this site.

@OldSlaughter With regard to your comment that TB...

2010-01-18T22:07:05.659Z

@OldSlaughter

With regard to your comment that TB should "pick on people worth picking on", the fact is that the Liberal Democrats have got away scot free on expenses.

On the whole, they've avoided the worst excesses on second homes but they have run a whole range of other scams which leverage benefits of incumbency to the hilt, launder taxpayers money into party coffers and created opaque, unauditable "black box" vehicles that hide levels and sources of donations.

"Duck houses" and "moat cleaning" make for easier copy for journalists but the media have been remiss in not going after the Lib Dems on this.

nice titties though

2010-01-18T19:35:18.770Z

nice titties though

I'll never forget that before Expenses-gate re...

2010-01-18T15:42:32.228Z

I'll never forget that before Expenses-gate really broke Guido reported that LD MPs were on average the most expensive.

"they are in fact dirty cheating leeches"...

2010-01-18T12:24:37.518Z

"they are in fact dirty cheating leeches"

Love the pun! Absolutely brilliant!

John Leech claimed £349.99 for a television and £548 for another television two years later.

TB, this may be a wider problem with those sanctim...

2010-01-18T11:41:30.477Z

TB, this may be a wider problem with those sanctimonious Lib Dem 'saints'.
Sandra Gidley, MP for Romsey and Southampton North has spent over £400,000 on office rent, leases and staffing during a four year period.
The Lib Dem party who share the office have spent about £20,000 and only £2k of that was for rent. WTF!!

I have said before TB and it perhaps bears repeati...

2010-01-18T11:08:22.415Z

I have said before TB and it perhaps bears repeating. Pick on people worth picking on.

This is as unedifying as child abuse. Like knocking the kids for endless 6s in the father/son game.

I am surprised when you join the Lib Dems you don't get issued orange badges for your parking.

pwned.

2010-01-18T10:10:34.626Z

pwned.