Stuart Wheeler wheels out his Trust Party

So Stuart Wheeler is spreading his bets by hoping to be elected as Trust Party MP for Bexhill & Battle. Did he pick this seat because he wants a battle on his hands? Surely Greg Barker is not the best target to complain about politicians with a past. I would have thought he might have picked an opponent with a "bit of previous".

And why start a new party? He gave money to UKIP. He knows Nigel Farage is trying his level best to get rid of the Squeaker in Buckingham. This just divides the anti-sleaze brigade's forces. And if UKIP is now not to his fancy why not sidle up to the Jury Team boss, Sir Paul Judge? I get the impression that the minor parties like to think the forthcoming general election is a bit like the Grand National. A mad rush over the jumps and the possibility that the favourites will fall. It's wishful thinking.

I wish Stuart Wheeler well in his campaign. But that's as far as it goes. However, if he wins, then his own battle will enter the electoral history books.

Tony Blair's oily Iraq War

So the Iraq war was nothing to do with oil? How come the dodgiest prime minister ever ends up being an adviser to an oil company with interests in, guess where, Iraq? It has emerged that Blair has been paid for advising the UI Energy Corporation, a South Korean oil firm with interests in Iraq and the US. Douglas Carswell MP says, "It stinks".

Tony Blair has been a chancer all his life. Everyone knows that and if they don't they must either be mad or extremely naive. Or possibly from another planet or a parallel universe. There is an outfit called the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments which is supposed to delve into such things as former prime ministers living off former political decisions. As Carsell says, "It seems that the former prime minister of the United Kingdom has been in the pay of a very big foreign oil corporation and we have been kept in the dark about it. Even now we do not know what he was paid or what the company got out of it. We need that information now. This is revolving door politics at its worst. It's not as if Mr Blair has even stepped back from politics, because he is still politically active in the Middle East. I'm afraid I have no confidence at all in the committee that vets these appointments. It's no good telling us these deals may be commercially sensitive - we are talking about the appointment of our former prime minister and the public interest, rather than any commercial interests, must come first."

Exactly right! However no amount of "political vetting" will hide the fact that Blair is, and probably always will be, a dodgy dealer. The South Koreans just hired Arthur Daley's posh protege.

Morley suspended! What the people think

I'm wondering if anyone is going to vote for one of the major parties at the Euro Elections. It's a bit like the minnow football clubs thrashing the premier clubs in the FA Cup! Gordon Brown says of Morley's suspension, "Where there is irregularity now it has got to be dealt with immediately. Where standards have been transgressed and the evidence has been shown to be there, action has got to be taken. Where disciplinary action is necessary, it will and will immediately be taken." Pity he didn't think like that with the bankers!

Hazel hands over £13,332 to salvage her Salford hopes!

Hazel Blears has decided to hand over to the HMRC the amount she would have paid in Capital Gains tax on her flipped homes, had she been liable. She has given an interview to the TV media about why she has decided to do this. No mention of sorry, rather that the system or the fees office made her flip her home. Maybe it did, but she still appears to have profited from the episode.

She now realises that the public are up in arms and rightly so. Gordon Brown has been like a sloth descending a tree to see what's going on in the jungle. I bet he's not best pleased, to put it mildly, that she has taken the tip from David Cameron to put houses in order (no pun intended!). Brown has been very peculiar in the whole affair.

I find it very odd that the politicians caught out kept on about the system. Communists after the fall of the Berlin Wall said the very same thing. It was the system that told them, etc, etc.

Gradually things are coming together. We cannot allow as a nation our parliament to be brought into disrepute. Things have to change fast. However, it's going to be shown up as a red card at the Euro elections. Norman Tebbitt has only amplified what I hear in the post office and local shops. It's a plague on all your houses talk. At least Hazel Blears is coming to the realisation that the game's up. And she's dispensed with the grin. All sombre and serious, mindful of the mire the ones who have taken advantage are in.

Gordon Brown begins to see the light

Gordon Brown has been addressing the Royal College of Nursing conference in Harrogate. He has said sorry in a certain way for the MPs expenses fiasco. I also think he has grasped the public mood, a mood that thinks politicians are corrupted by greed and personal gain. This perception is not wholly accurate, as there are plenty of MPs who have NOT been on the fiddle. Why Alan Johnson is now dubbed the "Sainted Alan Johnson" I do not know. It is a perverse set of morals where someone who has been abusing the trust of the nation whines and opines that it was "all within the rules" and someone who has not abused that trust is personally denigrated.

I thought it a bit rich of Peter Mandelson to give a definition of smearing! "A lot of innuendo....you take a germ of truth, you distort it, in order to turn it into something it isn't..." Wow! Talk of pot calling the kettle black! Mandelson has been the biggest twister of the truth since New Labour was invented. Not just one germ distorted but whole whole swine flu load of the pesky critters! Mandelson's unbelievable, he really is.

Back to Brown. He's been saying sorry of a sort. "We must show that, where mistakes have been made and errors have been discovered, where wrongs have to be righted, that it is done so immediately." Interesting that he equated nursing with political life. The Midwifery Council has just struck off a nurse for revealing horrendous goings on in a hospital. 40,000 people have supported her appeal so far. Is this a wrong that the PM thinks should be righted?

We have a long way to go to get these people into some kind of denial treatment. But the green shoots of moral recovery are starting to be seen.

Hazel Blears can't say sorry!

Hazel Blears says she understands why the public is so enraged. No she doesn't. She hasn't a clue. If she just admitted that she made a misjudgement in claiming expenses to the maximum by going on spending sprees each March the electorate may forgive her. But by saying she has done nothing wrong and complied with the regulations she takes the electorate's views with contempt.

I'm glad to see, though, that she has given the Cheshire Cat's grin back!

Geoff Hoon made a million whilst soldiers died!

The most distasteful self-enrichment is that of Geoffrey (Geoff) Hoon. This cabinet minister has been using the parliamentary allowance system to build himself a property empire. All "within the rules" no doubt. As soldiers died over the years in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hoon was not only going around defending his dodgy dealings in the run-up to the War, but he was getting rich on manipulating the system. As Defence Secretary he lived in a grace-and-favour apartment in Whitehall, yet he claimed costs for his home in Derbyshire. Those soldiers lucky enough to survive without wounds were, on their return, given the most appalling housing in some circumstances. This hypocrite always got the MoD to rabbit on about how well the refurbishment programme was coming along. But the soldiers didn't get the same allowances!

There's more about Hoon's taxpayer-funded property development business from the Daily Telegraph. All stuff he wanted us not to know. It is little wonder creeps like him tried to get rid of Elizabeth Filkin. She'd spotted their corruption but they had the brass neck to rubbish her, so she went!

Why would anyone want to vote Labour?

Shaun Woodward has more front than Sainsbury's

Shaun Woodward is a cheesy hypocrite. He used to be the Conservative MP for Witney and he became disillusioned with the Tories and saw his chances with the New Labour gang. One of his reasons for leaving the Conservatives was that he thought they were sleazy, both politically and morally.

So this pompous prat got himself a safe Labour seat at St.Helens, a house small enough to exclude his butler, and proceeded to climb the greasy New Labour pole. He's currently Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which is a sinecure these days considering the Province is run quite ably by the New Chuckle Brothers.

Woodward is no slouch when it comes to money. He managed to get himself into the Sainsbury family's coffers and make himself a very rich man. Now there's nothing wrong with being rich, or making money. It's how you do it that matters. Woodward has a silver tongue in his head which he uses to great advantage. The Tories are well shot of the man. Witney is represented by a better person altogether, David Cameron.

Now we find out that Woodward claimed £100,000 over four years to help pay his mortgage interest, according to leaked details of his expenses in the Daily Telegraph. He probably thought he should get the full whack. Get his expenses maxed out! The honourable thing would be for him to have said he didn't need this money, considering he already has wads of it. I bet the good folk of St.Helens wish they could be on such expenses and allowances, especially with job losses all around them and money being tight. Instead, true to his shoddy credentials, Woodward took the cash to its full allowance.

Why would anyone want to vote Labour?

MPs in cover-up cop sensation!

You have to hand it to these parliamentarians, or at least the ones with their snouts in the trough. They have the brass neck to call in the police to investigate the leak of expenses to the Daily Telegraph. Hold on, you tea leaves! Shouldn't the police be investigating you?

This is a bit like a householder being questioned about the motives of the burgler who just rifled his house. The whole thing is a distasteful waste of police time.

The crooks have already been identified. Take their DNA and get the duty sergeant down at the nick to put them behind bars. Good riddance to bad rubbish!

Harriet Harman - BNP recruiting sergeant!

It is now a tragedy rather than farce. The Daily Telegraph has done us a service by publishing leaked details of the expenses of Cabinet members. Details they wanted to keep secret. Harriet Harman has been on the radio and television this morning "defending" her Cabinet colleagues over these expenses. She is still trying to say that it was all within the rules. This woman has gone from toff to twat in a political generation. She claims the expenses were made in "good faith". Come off it! Just because the rules may suggest you can claim for mock tudor beams in your second home doesn't mean you have the absolute right to milk the system dry. Has she lost her marbles?

All this craven support for the morally corrupt behaviour of politicians gives daily ammunition to the BNP. As Harriet Harman waffles on, protecting the unrepentant sleaze merchants from their own failings, the BNP is proudly parading a dumper truck round Manchester with some fat pigs in it. All to show the electorate how sleazy the politicians in Westminster are. Harman might as well drive the truck herself. She's given them more publicity material than they could ever hope for.

Whilst sticking to her mantra that all claims were within the rules, she feebly admits "I know this looks bad and people are angry." Too true! It's gone from casual sleaze to gratuitous fraud. These people are no longer accidentally making accounting errors, they are systematically defrauding the system.

Jack Straw claimed his entire council tax bill for his second home despite already enjoying a substantial discount from his local authority, worth a reported £1,500 a year. Now don't tell me that was an oversight. It's fraud and it's against the law!

So Harriet Harman has no defence for her chiselling cronies. All she is is one big recruiting sergeant for the BNP!

Weasel McBride!

You have to hand it to these toerags in the New Labour coterie. Instead of a fullsome apology this half-witted apparatchik starts his resignation statement by attacking Paul Staines. Why on earth? Because his grubby little plans were found out? Come off it, McBride! Are you not man enough to make a proper statement?

His first words are, "I am shocked and appalled that, however they were obtained, these e-mails have been put into the public domain by Paul Staines."

No, no, NO!! We are shocked and appalled that you see fit to write such a set of weasel words and think for one minute that this is enough. It is not!

McBride's resignation statement.

e-muck on the web!

Gordon Brown must be wondering what politics can do to him next. I get the impression that he hasn't got the right kind of control over these No.10 apparatchiks. He goes about now expressing "much regret" and says he is calling for a tighter aides' code of conduct. My goodness, has the man seen this code? It's as tight as it should be.

The Easter break was a time of self-imposed restriction for me. No blogging over the festivities. But it's a hell of strain when we've got such a Jekyll and Hyde prime minister. So I'm back in harness, raring to go. Lance Price, a former BBC reporter turned New Labour spin doctor who spun himself out of a job, thinks there are too many bloggers like me. Those on the right, that is.

We are only here to carp at the Government. Well, yes, but also no. I don't see this as an attack blog, more of one that highlights palpable corruption, spin and deceit. The very fact that these made-up stories, that the creepy Damian McBride thought was good stuff, were being hatched inside No.10 is something we should all be concerned about.

Gordon Brown sounds like a man who is like a startled rabbit in the headlights of McBride's car. All something he knew nothing about until it suddenly came round the corner. But I can't take that on face value. People like McBride don't act like this unless they think or assume that their boss will be pleased as punch with the outcome.

What is wrong here is that the seedy corruption that is New Labour (oh, for the Old Labour decency of men like Eric Heffer!) is all below the belt stuff. Frances Osborne, the shadow chancellor's wife, should never have had such digusting stuff made up about her. Have a go, politically, at her husband if you want, but keep out of the gutter, please!

The leery face of Derek Draper rises out of all this. I imagine Mr.Draper has a very good side to him, otherwise he would or could not possibly get past Kate Galloway. But this episode shows up the unattractive side of the New Labour machine. I hardly dare suggest there is an attractive side. In fact, if I racked my brains all night, I'd be hard pressed to come up with anything decent this shower has done.

Far from being criticised, those of us who blog from the right should be given some credit. In this, the credit goes to Guido Fawkes for uncovering this scandal. It's his sort of reporting that puts him at the top of the bloggers' list (No.2, I think). We've had no words of regret from Draper or McBride. Gordon Brown is trying to distance himself from the stormdrains.

The Conservatives are right to demand a fullsome apology from the prime minister. This time he just has to say sorry.

I am a mole and I live in a Westminster hole!

Sir Stuart Bell, member of the Speaker's Commons Estimates Committee as well as being the parliamentary spokesman for all matters relating to the Church of England, is out trying to hunt down the mole who is allegedly selling details of the receipts of MPs' expenses for up to £300,000. Sir Suart is now the head mole-catcher. He's temporarily leaving the church mice alone!

Sir Stuart tells us, "All 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. We have a pretty good idea of not the person, but the source, and that is a subject of a House of Commons investigation. It may be a theft, but we will get to the bottom of it. In the public interest, by the way."

Public interest? Surely he's had 12 years to sort this out. Tony Blair sounded like a charismatic preacher in a brand new glass-windowed temple when he denounced sleaze and all is menaces in 1997. The truth is Sir Stuart is wasting his time going after moles. These creatures are notoriously short-sighted and couldn't tell a porno film from computer disk. No, he needs to be going after a totally different animal. A RAT!!!!

It's the rats in this sinking ship that are running around grabbing at any free lunch or free movie or free house that's going. A rat catcher is needed desperately. Especially one that can bait and trap in seconds. The sooner this government is put out of its miserable existence the better it will be for all of us.

Media find out that there's no Virgin on Jacqui Smith's TV!

Jacqui Smith has been caught out again. I wonder what it is with this woman that she can't fill in an expense form properly. She's in hot water again because her husband has been caught out watching "adult" movies on TV at home whilst she was out trying to count up illegal immigrants and check on absconding rapists. Now I'm not bothered about what hubby gets up to whilst she's out of the house. That's not the point. The point is that she is already up her neck in trouble over a second home scam. You'd think she'd have the wit to tell whoever was filling in these forms to read the wretched details first. Yes, she can claim for an internet connection - No, she can't claim for the movies that 'Im in Doors is watching.

Virgin Media is quite open about what you pay for. If you rent two films, then two films come up on the statement. Didn't it occur to the form filler to check if watching these films was covered by expenses? Or to query it, at least?

We can't keep on with this "Oh, I was tired!", Oh, I forgot!" or "Oh, I overlooked it!" rubbish. The "I've done nothing wrong" bit does not wash anymore. Everyone is clamouring for change. Cloth-eared Brown is moving like an intoxicated snail towards some sort of "inquiry". We need it sorted - NOW!

All that has happened because of Jacqui Smith's incompetence is that she and her husband find themselves in an embarrassing fix. If she'd bothered to shape up, we'd never know her husband watches porno flicks!

Tony McNulty in the "second homes" home for the bewildered!

Tony McNulty is the type of politician that drives those with opposing views to distraction. He is a very good dissembler, a weaver of truth and misinformaton, making a verbal cloth of believable rhetoric that eventually leaves the listener thinking that it was all a load of hogwash.

As with the Home Secretary, McNulty is in a second homes expenses row. He has been using his parents home in Harrow to kip at whilst doing constituency work. He lives in Hammersmith. Rather than get home, he had been claiming expenses for the use of the Harrow "home". Apparently he pocketed £60,000 until in January, when he got all funny about it and claimed it was not quite right, so he stopped taking the cash. My guess is that he realised he was pulling the same fast trick that Jacqui Smith was doing, so he thought he could just drop it and it would all fade away.

He says there are "anomalies" in the expenses system and they do need to be looked at. Not in so much detail that he hands back the £60,000! It's all very shoddy. MPs need to have proper expenses for doing a proper job. The trouble is that they all get to vote on their own expense limits and conditions.

They have proved to be incapable of probity, integrity or any sense of decency in this regard. There are some honourable exceptions, but most are playing the system.

I resent this, because the perpetual seediness of it all is just like having a big fat recruiting sergeant sitting in Westminster handing out gullible voters to the BNP. That is the party of protest now. Have a look at their website. All about sleaze and the shoddiness of MPs, councillors, bankers and others. You can't have pert little prigs like Hazel Blears rabitting on about the dangers of having BNP MEPs in June when they are feeding them with this sort of fodder.

It's an own goal in the self-destruction stakes. Every day we get some withering remark, some reasoning of the insane to say that it is all OK. Well, it's not!

McNulty is just one more in a long line of greedy self-servers whose actions cause a devastating reaction. We need this nonsense to stop. Let someone take charge of giving these parliamentarians a proper expense programme. We need change - NOW!

Home Secretary in homes row!

Jacqui Smith is a right one to be in charge of those trying to keep law and order when she's running a racket on the side herself! She's been caught out claiming her sister's house as her own main residence and pocketing £116,000 in Commons expenses into the bargain. New Labour, Old Sleaze.

More about it here from the Daily Mail.

Googling does it!

Looking around the web tonight I came across this. "Try Googling 'Fanny Mae top political contributions' - I dare you!".

I have just done that. It certainly shows how money sloshes about the system. The internet is the only way to keep tabs on these guys!

Brown dismisses Levy's Blair claims

In the "Well he would say that" department of political life, Gordon Brown brushes aside assertions made by Lord Levy. When something like this is revealed, it is either true, partly true or a fabrication. I've said that I feel it is true, or at least as true as Lord Levy remembers it. These kinds of remarks are not normally forgotten.

Either Lord Levy is a liar or Tony Blair is a liar. Lord Levy writes in his memoirs that "He (Blair) kept saying that he had never realised how duplicitous Gordon was, and what 'a liar' ". So Tony Blair thought Gordon Brown was a liar. There's a lot of them about in New Labour, that's for sure.

Gordon Brown told the BBC in an interview that Blair's office "has made it clear that this in not an accurate reflection of what Mr Blair has said". Not an accurate reflection. But are we to deduce from that that it did reflect some truth. In all this we will all have to make up our own minds. However, the facts of this leave one thing very plainly true. There is at least one liar amongst them.

MPs get it all on the cheap!

You'd have thought that MPs would have stopped wanting to see their dirty laundry washed in public. Perhaps not. The sorry story goes on. Figures have been released to show what the leading lights got up to with their expenses. TV licences paid for, as in Blair's case! Gordon Brown got £2,380 for cleaning his house. As a part-time MP job-sharing with an MSP couldn't he find the time for a once-over with Henry?

David Cameron apparently 'used the system' to claim £21,000 in a year to pay his mortgage. Now I wish I could tap into such a system. Perhaps my bank could assist? The big question is, will he stop this practice now, or will it continue. I'm beginning to feel I may want the Conservatives back in power, but, please Mr. Cameron, let it all be on a proper, decent basis. No more sleaze, spin, and deception. Give us a cast iron guarantee that you are going to clean up this tawdry mess once and for all. If not, then how can you blame the bogus bonus gatherers in the City, the gravy train merchants in the quangos, and those billionaires paying less tax than their cleaners (maybe the same cleaners as used by Gordon Brown)?

The one shocker on the list was that greedy Prescott! He used £4,000 for his grocery bills in one year! Taxpayers money for his trips to the supermarket. Nearly £80 a week on Tesco's Finest! It's an outrage.

The rot must stop now.

EU to probe Northern Rock lifeline!

Those snout-nosed number-crunchers from Brussels have been drawn into sniffing around the emergency government funding given to Northern Rock last year, after it was hard hit by the credit crunch. Some Danish bankers have complained to these bureaucrats that the British government is not playing fair.

All I'd say is that before these guys pick up their pens they start to look at the appalling accounting system within the confines of the Brussels Bureaucracy. Otherwise they'll look a bit like Robert Mugabe probing the London Mayoral election results, should there be a complaint.

The EU is in a mess financially, no accounts signed off for 13 years, and a simpering President, Jose Manuel Barroso, who no doubt knows how the brown envelope culture works, in complete denial.

Whatever the Northern Rock fiasco has created, it pales into insignificance compared to the collossal corruption emanating from Brussels!