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Dithering Brown withdraws whip from charged MPs

Gordon Brown has finally withdrawn the whip from Morley, Chaytor and Devine who are facing charges under the Theft Act following abuses of the parliamentary expenses system.
The contrast between David Cameron and Gordon Brown could not be starker.
Within minutes of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, announcing that Lord Hanningfield was also facing [...]

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Labour SpAd’s used Civil Service to attack Conservatives.

Following a series of Freedom of Information requests, the Conservatives have unearthed evidence of how Labour Special Advisers have used Civil Service resources to make party political attacks, in breach of Whitehall rules.
The new documents show how civil servants have been instructed by Special Advisers to produce attack material to be used in the media [...]

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Emotions get the better of Alastair Campbell [VIDEO]

During his time at the heart of Number 10 Alastair Campbell gained a reputation in and around Westminster as being an aggressive, short tempered spinner. As the ultimate fixer few saw hm as emotional, but today, in what some will see as classic media manipulation, he became so emotional whilst being interviewed by Andrew Marr [...]

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How to deal with the golden goodbye for accused MPs

TThis mornings papers have dedicated a substantial number of column inches to the prospect that the three Labour MPs charged with theft from the public purse; Jim Devine, David Chaytor and Elliot Morley, will receive a substantial ‘golden goodbye’ when they stand down.
The amount of money a MP can receive is dependent on their length [...]

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Lord Hanningfield resignes as Tory business spokesman

Lord Hanningfield has resigns from Tory Frontbench after been charged with SIX offenses under the Theft Act for false accounting, he has also had the party whip.
In a statement announcing the charges against Paul White, aka Lord Hanningfield the Director of Public prosecutions, Keir Starmer said: “The charges allege that between March 2006 [...]

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Elliot Morley, David Chaytor, Jim Devine and Lord Hanningfield charged over expenses fraud

The charges are as follows:
Elliot Morley faces two charges under the Theft Act for false accounting, both are in relation to claims he made for mortgage interest payments on a property in Winterton between 2004 to 2007. This allowed him to pocket more than £16,000 thanks to the taxpayer.
The charges alleges he made [...]

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Guido and Yeo go head to head

Well well well, no sooner have MPs tried to rule a line under the expenses scandal, which has engulfed Westminster for the last 9 months, a new can of worms is opened.
It is a little known fact that our MP’s are allowed to book Parliamentary banqueting rooms for outside interests, in many cases outside interest [...]

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Big media try to shutdown Tory Politico

Earlier this week I received a letter from a law firm, at first I thought Kerry McCarthy may have finally followed through on her threat to sue me for calling her a disgraceful MP. But no it was in fact from Dow Lohnes, a Washington DC firm acting as counsel for Capital News Company.
Who, [...]

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Osborne: hold me to account

After the last couple of days, in which CCHQ have done their best to to muddy the waters when it comes to Conservative economy policy, George Osborne today got onto the front foot.
The Shadow Chancellor has published eight benchmarks that he want the general public to judge him and his team by, if they win [...]

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Tories may extend BBC levy to fund broadband

If elected, The Conservatives are promising to deliver super-fast 100mb broadband by 2017, challenging both BT and BBC in the process.
The party said it is confident that the UK can become the first major European country to have internet speeds of up to 100 megabits per second by 2017.
The Conservatives have said they intend to [...]