From Traquair:
Hmm, the latest exposed Westminster Pig Trough from the unelected (great to live in a British Democracy) House of Lords, which is basically little more of a Pig Trough in any case. Apparently the vast sums of money paid to these unelected generally untalented sycophants is not enough for them so they have built themselves an additional Pig Trough:
From the Sunday Times we have
"Revealed: Labour lords change laws for cash" "Four peers – including two former ministers – offered to help undercover reporters posing as lobbyists obtain an amendment in return for cash. "
"Lord Taylor, a former BAE consultant, said he would not table the amendment himself but offered to conduct a “behind the scenes” campaign to persuade ministers and officials. After agreeing a one-year retainer for £120,000"
"Lord Truscott, his Labour colleague, was also keen to help “behind the scenes” – for a fee of up to £72,000: “I can work with you identifying people and following it meeting people, talking to people to facilitate the amendment and making sure the thing is granted.”
"Lord Moonie offered to help for a fee of £30,000 a year and Lord Snape indicated that he would charge £24,000
http://tinyurl.com/ak3q4pBy coincidence all four peers are Labour, funny that. Obviously exercising their deeply held Socialist principals.
How long does Scotland need to keep supporting this British State with their tweedle-dum/tweedle-dee Tory/Labour offering where they take turns an ennobling each other with their unelected cretins and sycophants. Unionists made be proud of the British State, to me it makes me sick to the stomach.
Some more on the latest Fraud from the British State.
"Whispered over tea and cake: price for a peer to fix the law"
"BARON TRUSCOTT of St James’s took a bite of his teacake before explaining to the two lobbyists in front of him just how much it would cost to hire a peer of the realm.
“Rates vary between £1,000 and £5,000 a day,” he said quietly, his voice almost drowned by the chatter in the House of the Lords dining room. It was a question, he agreed, of getting the right person rather than haggling over the money. "
"In the course of their short tea-time conversation he agreed to help them amend a government bill that was harmful to their client, in return for cash."
"He charged £2,000 a day, which would have added up to £72,000 for the three-day-a-month one-year contract he later proposed."
http://tinyurl.com/aekd3sYep the British State Fraudulent from the very tip to toe. Time for the British Experiment to be euthanized and we can all move on. Also on topic of Fraud I see that the Quisling Scotsman Labour Party Paper has missed the latest Labour Fraud Story -
"Charlie Gordon pays son £13,000 from expenses"
"has been directing more than £1000 a month to GMG Solutions, a company run by his son, Gavin.
Mr Gordon's entry of £12,822 for "website costs" pushed the total he claimed to £36,760, more than double a typical claim by other Glasgow MSPs."
"out of the monthly total, only about 20% went on maintaining his personal website, while the rest was charged as "call handling"
http://tinyurl.com/bxznhj"MSP’s son is paid £26,000 in expenses for Holyrood work"
"Payments have been made to Gavin Gordon for the past three years after invoices from his enterprise, GMG Solutions, run from his home in the Whiteinch area of Glasgow, were sent to Holyrood. He received £9747 in 2006-07, and £1400 in 2005-06."
"But the website address given for GMG Solutions on the invoices does not exist, with the domain name not registered and a search on the internet does not throw up any trace of the sole trader."
http://tinyurl.com/dnh5l9Hmm so massive costs on a website (despite it being quite a tatty website), even more massive costs on something named "call handling", and all of it billed to the Son of a Labour MSP in the name of company that apparently does not exist and has not even registered its own domain name that appears on the official invoices, and also despite being a "successful" website company has no online presence whatsoever.
Hmm, Fraud and Labour appears to go hand and hand.
Socialist indeed.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Scotland deserves so much better than Labour - the quicker they implode into the cess-pit of their own making the better.