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Alistair Darling

Edinburgh’s Labour leader defends the indefensible

By The Basa ⋅ May 26, 2009 ⋅

Readers of today’s Hootsmon will will be shocked to hear that Councillor Andrew Burns, Edinburgh’s Labour leader is right behind the thieving, robbing, lying, bent, scandal-ridden fcuk that we call Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has for years been finding every loophole to steal more of our money as his Fifer predecessor has also done.

Andrew Burns tells us he would not hesitate in backing the swindler again. “Alistair is an extremely popular and hardworking local MP, and has a very high profile in Edinburgh both because of his tireless work in the constituency â€“ I know, I go out campaigning with him regularly.” It’s obvious Burns hasn’t been round the constituency lately, because all the emails we get want to take Darling’s balls, stuff them in his mouth and throw him to the lions.

What is even more strange is that on his blog, Councillor Burns quite rightly defended the Constituents Contract which we published on this site last week, saying “in principle I wouldn’t have a problem with any of it as applied to any level of Government — with the exception of responding to letters/e-mails within 24-hours.” This means if that contract applied then Darling would have to resign, below are just some of the articles Darling has broken:

I will remain a fiercely loyal representative for my constituents. I will not put any party before my constituents. If I do, I will resign
I will not claim one penny in expenses that is not absolutely required for me to carry out my job as an MEP. If I do not keep this pledge, I will resign.
I will publish my expenses, in full, monthly or possibly weekly on my website. If I do not keep this pledge, I will resign.
I will have no problems being a whistleblower against anyone. In this, I will not be anonymous and I will use the press. If I am caught knowing about illegality or sleaze and not whistle blowing, I will resign.
I will never promise what I know I cannot deliver.

It is a shame that party politicians of all colours will just defend, defend, defend the indefensible of their colleagues.

Darling’s fate is of course sealed. When Lord For Foulkes Sake has to come to your aid, you are toast!

On the flip side it was nice to see the Labour MP for Newport West on Panorama last night. Paul Flynn was not so apologetic when he said in the opening to the programme “It was the Mother of parliaments, it’s now the whore of Parliaments.” How right you are Mr. Flynn. Thanks for being so truthful, can you get on the blower to your Edinburgh colleagues?