General Election – Will You Vote For Gordon Brown?

Labour’s latest wheeze to waste your cash is a “hub” on the internet computer game “Second Life”. This piece of spectacular wastage of your money cost £20,000 to set up and a further £12,000 a year to run. The Department of Work [sic] and Pensions is behind this particular wastage.

The clowns at the DWP forgot to promote this online however (probably too embarrassed). They created a 3D “innovation centre” but it is not advertised on the DWP website. Junior minister Jonathan Shaw fessed up to Parliament it cost £20k to build and a further £12k a year to maintain. Whats the betting all that cash went to some web designer that is an MP’s cohort? Maybe it was farmed out to some politically correct group teaching knife wielding Albanians web design as they are pored over by a dozen or so Social Workers.

Another Labour Minister has been caught out in an expenses scandal after effectively admitting he had been wrong to claim £60,000 of taxpayers’ money for a property which is his parents’ main home – not his.

Employment Minister Tony McNulty performed a dramatic U-turn and announced he had stopped claiming the controversial MPs’ second-home allowance after being challenged by The Mail on Sunday.

Even more astonishingly, he said that 133 MPs who, like him, live within 60 miles of Westminster should be banned from getting the £24,000-a-year handout.

Mr McNulty and his wife, chief schools inspector Christine Gilbert, have a combined annual income of a third of a million pounds and between them own two London homes worth £1.2million.

They live together in a house she owns just three miles from Westminster.

The European Parliament has prohibited the use of the terms ”Miss” and ”Mrs” in case they upset female MEPs. According to a new ”Gender-Neutral Language” guidance, the politicians are required to address female members by their full name only.

It has also revealed that ‘’sportsmen” should be called ”athletes”, statesmen should be referred to as ”political leaders”, and terms like ‘’synthetic” or ”artificial” should be used in place of ”man-made”.

The guidance lists has also banned terms for describing professions, including fireman, airhostess, headmaster, policeman, salesman, manageress, cinema usherette and male nurse.

Sir Victor Blank and Gordon Brown have made a bad banking crisis worse by fatally contaminating one of Britain’s few good banks. Mr Brown was the foster parent. People should remember this the next time either of them claims to have acted competently during this crisis. Sir Victor should go now; the electorate can decide on Mr Brown’s fate when he deigns to call an election.

MINISTERS have spent £900m paying off 15,000 civil servants only to recruit an extra 42,020 in new permanent jobs, according to figures released by parliament.

In the past four years government departments have paid £882m in severance packages, worth an average of £60,000, to staff on voluntary and involuntary redundancy programmes.

Over the same period, however, they have recruited nearly three times as many civil servants, with annual salaries totalling £1 billion, despite government commitments to cutting government waste.

“The cost of this will seem very high to hard-pressed families, especially at a time of extreme economic hardship and trillion-pound liabilities. The public will wonder if this is another example of the Government’s legendary inability to get value for money from their taxes.”