Man in a Shed: Can you see anything wrong with this ?

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Can you see anything wrong with this ?

See Suz Blog here about a Lib Dem councillor still claiming his GBP700/month councillors allowance whilst studying in Arizona !!!

If you can't see anything wrong with this then your probably a Lib Dem !

11 comments:

Simon Fawthrop said...: Or a civil servant, MP or other state dependent.; 3:46 pm
AloneMan said...: The Lasy Boy cour ha a similar story from across the river. some of our supposed public servants really do extract the Michael.; 11:33 pm
AloneMan said...: ..that was supposed to say..."The Last Boy Scout...
with a link
http://www.lastboyscoutblog.net/2008/09/anything-kentish-town-councillor-can-do.html; 11:34 pm
Anonymous said...: Then there was the Labour councillor in Spain, and the Tory who moved 400 miles away and tried to claim the travel expences. So just about evry party has had one.; 5:00 pm
Man in a Shed said...: Anon - a fair comment.; 6:56 pm
Anonymous said...: Not to mention that this Lib Dem resigned anyway.

Non story.; 12:35 am
Man in a Shed said...: Anon - sorry that's not true as the link I have to the Lib Dem leaning blog points out.

He resigned when he was caught out, otherwise there would have been no talk about doing his work by email or phone from Arizona.; 9:52 am
Anonymous said...: Assuming you believe the Evening Standard over the BBC then yes he resigned when he was caught out.; 9:51 pm
Man in a Shed said...: Well I was going on Suz's blog, she seems well informed.; 10:31 am
Anonymous said...: Noticed the comments here.

Philip has resigned since the story broke. See my later post on Sunday 14th.

Yes I do know Philip very well. I helped him get elected. He lived just across the road from me and before he 'disappeared' I saw him most days. Many people are disappointed at his behavour.

There is no date for the by-election yet.; 8:57 am
Man in a Shed said...: Your comment shows why I occasionally drop by your blog Suz - you show a high degree of integrity - even when the news isn't what you'd want.; 9:37 am

The pound in your pocket

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"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens ... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of over-turning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." John Maynard Keynes, 1920.

"To preserve [the people's] independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America,1801-1809.

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