‘Waiting for Gordo’ is West End smash
The drama depicts two down-at-heel political parties who spend the whole play waiting for the mysterious ‘Gordo’ to resign.
Posted: May 16th, 2009
More from Politics
Posts Tagged ‘MPs expenses’
Expenses row latest; MP ‘claimed for trough’
Senior backbencher Sir Peregrine Hawker has defended his expenses claim for £3400 to have a diamond-encrusted trough installed in the garden of his second home. ‘I have to have something to stick my nose in,’ he told reporters; ‘It is an essential part of an MP’s work.’
The Speaker of the House of Commons confirmed that, under the present rules the claim for the top-of-the-range trough from Harrods was within the rules, as was Sir Peregrine’s claim for £560 travel expenses relating to an actual train made of gravy. ‘How else am I expected to visit my constituency from my London flat in Easy Street?’ fumed the irate MP.
Posted: May 13th, 2009
More from Politics
Expenses latest; ‘Queen claimed for bejewelled hat’
Her Majesty the Queen has become the latest public figure to become embroiled in the expenses row, after a leak to the Daily Telegraph revealed that Elizabeth II has been passing on the cost of a diamond encrusted crown which she claimed was somehow essential for her to do her job as monarch. Other bizarre items on the Queen’s expenses claims included something called a ‘sceptre’, valued at hundreds of millions of pounds, several ‘orbs’ and a number of ceremonial swords, none of which the Queen paid for out of her own money.
Posted: May 11th, 2009
More from Politics
Campaigners call for national register of MPs
Research suggests at least 646 MPs are operating in the UK, causing many to worry that political activity could be happening on their doorsteps.
Posted: May 3rd, 2009
More from Politics
Parliament launches Register of MPs’ Sexual Interests
‘An official record of MP’s erotic preferences, sexual persuasion and extra-marital relationships.’
Posted: May 15th, 2007
More from Politics
Loading...