Health Minister Phil Hope gets owned

Kapitan_Phillips · 05-13-09, 06:11 AM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8047410.stm

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Health minister Phil Hope is to repay £41,709 in second home allowances following media revelations.
The Corby MP said he had kept to the rules but stories about his expenses had caused a "massive blow" to his integrity and standing with voters.

Aye. However, last time I checked, embezzlement was a criminal offence, so why has this guy still got a job?

Tchocky · 05-13-09, 06:28 AM

What makes me angry about this is the "we kept withing the rules" defence.

Not. the. point.

Konovalov · 05-13-09, 06:49 AM

What irks me is that interview after interview that I have seen on tv, these pollies keep saying sorry but not about their own conduct. Rather "sorry that we worked in such a bad system". Again zero personal accountability by MP's. And the Speaker of the House is just a total embarrassment. It's just stuff up after stuff up with him. Totally out of touch.

Kapitan_Phillips · 05-13-09, 08:01 AM

Frankly, I think people should have seen the iceberg when MPs declared that they could create the rules regarding their own expenses

Jimbuna · 05-13-09, 02:37 PM

It's quite worrying when you consider this is only the tip of the iceberg.

There are many more like him out there

jumpy · 05-14-09, 10:21 AM

Hehe, well what do you know?

All of this crap my be within the rules, but it is surely not in the spirit of the rules, a point which none of these self serving gravy-boaters seems capable of grasping.

Still, have a laugh with the daily mash:

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politi...-200902191590/

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politi...-200905121754/

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politi...-200905111751/

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politi...-200905131757/

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politi...-200905141760/

05-13-09, 06:28 AM	#2
Tchocky Navy Seal Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,874 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	What makes me angry about this is the "we kept withing the rules" defence. Not. the. point. __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

05-13-09, 06:49 AM	#3
Konovalov Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: High Wycombe, Bucks, UK Posts: 2,811 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	What irks me is that interview after interview that I have seen on tv, these pollies keep saying sorry but not about their own conduct. Rather "sorry that we worked in such a bad system". Again zero personal accountability by MP's. And the Speaker of the House is just a total embarrassment. It's just stuff up after stuff up with him. Totally out of touch. __________________ "In a Christian context, sexuality is traditionally seen as a consequence of the Fall, but for Muslims, it is an anticipation of paradise. So I can say, I think, that I was validly converted to Islam by a teenage French Jewish nudist." Sheikh Abdul-Hakim Murad (Timothy Winter)

05-13-09, 08:01 AM	#4
Kapitan_Phillips Silent Hunter Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Swansea Posts: 3,903 Downloads: 204 Uploads: 0	Frankly, I think people should have seen the iceberg when MPs declared that they could create the rules regarding their own expenses __________________ Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into.

05-13-09, 02:37 PM	#5
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,473 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	It's quite worrying when you consider this is only the tip of the iceberg. There are many more like him out there __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

05-14-09, 10:21 AM	#6
jumpy Admiral Join Date: May 2003 Location: Midlands, UK Posts: 2,139 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	Hehe, well what do you know? All of this crap my be within the rules, but it is surely not in the spirit of the rules, a point which none of these self serving gravy-boaters seems capable of grasping. Still, have a laugh with the daily mash: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politi...-200902191590/ http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politi...-200905121754/ http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politi...-200905111751/ http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politi...-200905131757/ http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politi...-200905141760/ __________________ when you’ve been so long in the desert, any water, no matter how brackish, looks like life