Labour Caves To ASLEF With 15% Pay Hike

 

Labour has added another inflation busting pay rise to its list, with the 15% offered to ASLEF.

How much this will directly cost the taxpayers is not mentioned.

What is clear is that it will negatively impact inflation, and will encourage other unions to demand inflation busting pay rises for no increases in productivity.

Swineshead Simmonds

Mark Simmonds, the foreign office minister who resigned from the Government after claiming his expenses were too meagre, used the profit from the sale of his taxpayer funded home to buy a £1 million former abbey in his constituency.

Simmonds sold his home in Putney, South London, for £1.2 million in 2010, making a profit of more than £500,000.

He used his expenses to claim the mortgage interest payments on the property for almost the entire time he owned it.

He and his wife then bought Swineshead Abbey in Lincolnshire for £900,000, a Grade II listed 17th century building with seven bedrooms, stables, a heated outdoor swimming pool, a tennis court and 15 acres of parkland.

Result!

Having made a nice little pile from being an MP Swineshead Simmonds can now turn his attention to making even more money in the real world.

Class act!

Nad's Out

Nadine Dorries has been evicted from I'm a Celebrity Get Me out of Here, no great loss there.

As she packs her bags it emerged that despite previous claims that she had been given permission to appear on the show by Andrew Mitchell when he was chief whip, it transpires that Dorries was being a tad economical with the truth.

The reality was that she had been given permission to take a month off, but had not told the chief whip that she taking time off to appear on the show.

A politician lying?

Surely not!

David Gauke's Hypocrisy

I see that Gauke, who bemoans the "morals" of others, has decided to keep some of the profits made on his taxpayer funded London flat that he sold in August.

That's the spirit eh David?

Nads, Anus and Camel Toes

Nadine Dorries continues her descent from MP to Z list "celebrity"; as she feasted on camel toe, ostrich anus and a variety of other delicacies during another episode of "I'm A Celebrity Get Me out Of Here!".

She claims that her appearance on this show will bring politics to the masses.

I assume that must be the reason, other than the money that it will bring in, that she has signed up with an entertainment management company in the hope of securing further television work.

Nadine Dorries Loses Her Whip

Poor old Nadine Dorries has had the Conservative whip withdrawn from her, as a result of her decision to self serve her ego and her bank balance by going to Australia to appear on "I'm a Celebrity Get Out of Here".

However, all is not lost, I dare say that the £40K that she stands to earn for appearing will go some way to assuaging her heartbreak at losing the whip.

Question For Ipsa

I thought that being an MP was a public service, not a small business?

Advice To Tory MPs

Don't criticise British workers for being "the worst idlers in the world", when you are on a 47 day summer holiday!

Advice To The House of Lords

If you don't like to eat taxpayer subsidised food then use your own money to buy what you do like; ie the world doesn't owe you a living, pay your own way!.