Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Receipts for Sale! Going once... going twice...

Someone's trying to sell those pesky MPs' receipts. What a cad, what a bounder that person must be! Fortunately, Labour MP Sir Stuart Bell is on the case:
"All of the receipts of 650-odd MPs, redacted and un-redacted, are for sale at a price of 300,000, so I am told. The price is going up because of the interest in the subject."
£300k? Fuck me, I wish I had access to them! That figure would set me up for life. Let's just hope there is someone as brave and as gallant as Sir Stuart Bell to find the cockadoodie receipt thief:
"Well we have a pretty good idea of not the person, but the source, and that is a subject of a House of Commons investigation."
I wonder whether Bell has an idea whatsoever of the reason why these receipts are the subject of so much interest? Oh, wait, it is because the members of the House of Commons have been ripping the fucking piss out of this expenses system for so long. Had they been a little less outrageous with their attempts to enhance their very generous salaries, then there would be no need for someone to sell the details, no need for the investigation and no fucking need for bell to know the person or the source of this leak.
"It's probably a breach of the Official Secrets Act," Sir Stuart said. "It may be a theft, but we will get to the bottom of it. In the public interest, by the way."
"Probably", "maybe" - this amazing tool of a man hasn't even bothered to do his fucking research before opening his misshapen cake hole. But he has no idea what is in the public interest; no idea at all. The leaking of the exact details of what he and his MP chums have spunked our cash away on is in the public interest; his Nixon-esque witch hunt to find the source is completely detrimental to the public interest that Bell should be trying to enhance.

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1 Comments:

At 10:20 am , Blogger Letters From A Tory said...

A big sunday paper exclusive is probably worth at least £300,000 but I somehow doubt that the Parliamentary authorities will be very lenient on those trying to sell the info.

 

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