What A Colossal Waste Of Time

[emmie]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42313309

[DTCwordfan]

she should have paid interest on the outstanding.

[emmie]

2.97 was it worth that

[cassa333]

Ha ha just read this and said to oh that she has taken the *** out of the 'always apologise' even when you clearly should just say 'for goodness sake shut the f up'.

[DTCwordfan]

30p perhaps plus fees for late payment and admin - somewhere between £100 and £500, get a fix off Wonga.

[Gromit]

Margaret Hodge repays back £2.97 as a guesture for wasting tax payers money.
Meanwhile the Boris vanity project bridge cost us all £200million.

Surely you are not so thick as to not realise she is making a point about principal and responsiblity. She is owning up to her debt, so Mr Johnson should honor his debt to the public and payback for his mistake. Not often the Labour Party can be accused of being too sutle, but the £2.97 offer clearly went over some peoples’ heads.

[Spicerack]

It wasn't Boris's Bridge and it hasn't cost £200m.
Apart from that old gromit has nailed it.
How goes your campaign to make the Labour Party repay the £10billion it wasted on the abandoned NHS IT scheme, gromit?

[TWR]

It's pity that they don't do an intense enquiry into MP's Expenses.

[cassa333]

Nah, not so thick. Well maybe sometimes.

If the only thing she has ever claimed for or got paid for that she shouldn't have, either legally or ethically or was in any way bit iffy, is £2.97 on stationary then she is a bloody saint and a shining example of humanity.

But I doubt it.

[emmie]

gromit
not thick, thank you very much for suggesting such a thing.
think they have or will shelve the project for the bridge,

[TWR]

That's not very nice Gromit.

[emmie]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/28/garden-bridge-across-thames-scrapped-by-sadiq-khan-london

[jno]

it was indeed Boris's bridge, based on an idea by Joanna Lumley and the usual Johnson lies about how this will be a public space that won't cost the taxpayer a penny. (It was going to be a private space and cost the taxpayer lots.) Fortunately Sadiq dumped it.

[emmie]

it wasn't just Boris, Joanna Lumley was the instigator and others going on a piece i was just reading. I am glad its not going ahead however, i think that it wouldn't work at any rate.

[Gromit]

Lumley popularised it, but Boris was in charge of the finances, and £37 million disappeared for nothing. Even the tendering process was highly corrupt.

And don’t get me started on Boris’ financial malfeasance handing the London Olympic stadium to the dodgy Gold/Sullivan for peanuts.

[ludwig]

// Surely you are not so thick as to not realise she is making a point about principal and responsiblity. //

Except she isn't. She's making a deliberately sarcastic and stroppy gesture to repay a measly amount because she doesn't like being criticised by the inquiry.

To be fair, I'd probably do the same given the circumstances.

[Togo]

Small beer...this is real Labour graft.

//Labour has been plunged into a corruption scandal after a businessman with close ties to the party was secretly recorded demanding a £2m bribe from property developers seeking to build one of Britain’s tallest skyscrapers.
In the recording — obtained by The Sunday Times — the businessman claimed he was acting on behalf of Labour politicians who could guarantee planning permission for the proposed £500m development in the Isle of Dogs, east London.
He was introduced by Shiria Khatun, a deputy mayor of Labour- controlled Tower Hamlets council, as someone who could assist with planning.
He later sent a contract to the developers setting out the illicit deal in which he would “deliver planning approval” from Tower Hamlets at a “premium of £2,000,000”. Four Labour politicians would be given “half a mill” each, he claimed.// Meehh.

[Togo]

//The businessman is Abdul Shukur “Shuks” Khalisadar, a 38-year-old entrepreneur who runs a business centre in Whitechapel, east London.
He played a key role in rallying support among business people for the borough’s current Labour mayor, John Biggs, and has been photographed meeting key national party figures such as Harriet Harman when she was deputy leader.
In the recording, leaked by a whistleblower, Shuks chats in a relaxed manner about how he sought the bribe from John Connolly, UK head of development for the Far East Consortium (FEC) — an international property group based in Hong Kong.//

[Togo]

John Connolly is, UK head of development for the Far East Consortium (FEC)

//Shuks says Khatun introduced him to Connolly at a meeting in October 2015 as someone who could help overcome the company’s planning problems. Connolly says in an internal memo, leaked to this newspaper, that the deputy mayor told him that Shuks “can help get planning consent”.
Shuks then took Connolly to one side and offered a guarantee of planning consent in return for a £2m payment plus a consultancy fee of £15,000 a month. He also offered to secure permission for the second stage of Alpha Square for a further £2m.
He claimed that most of the money would go to “gatekeepers” which he said were Labour politicians who had held power in the area for many years. “To be frank,” he said. “A bulk of the premium’s got to go to these greedy f****** — not me.//

[youngmafbog]

And ..... silence from Gromit.

I think you lost most peoples interest when you started the usual left wing insult throwing needlessly.

I am with Ludwig on this.

[emmie]

i think gromit was calling me thick..