City Labour Group leader tries for new job

It seems that Councillor Andrew Burns, the leader of the Labour group on the City Council is getting fed up with his job and is going to have a go at freelancing as a sit down comedian – is Tommy Shepherd standing by at The Stand?
In today’s Evening Chip Paper, Councillor Burns gives us what [...]

Shagging Nigel Griffiths has snout in trough for the SECOND TIME!

The fees office who are so lax, they have paid out for cleaning of moats, houses for ducks, servants quarters, helipads, porn films, dry rot on almost another planet, drew the line when Nigel “Does my willy look big in this camera” Griffiths tried to take the piss and hump the taxpayer for a [...]

Edinburgh’s Labour leader defends the indefensible

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 [...]

the treatment of rental expenses against income UPDATED

The man that is running UK Plc’s expenses, Chancellor Alistair Darling, has problems working out how he can fiddle enough money from his rental expenses so that he doesn’t pay the taxes on that expense – whilst living in a free house in Downing Street. Then he has the huge great magic chukkies to [...]

Darling, I love your expense fiddles

Salary as Chancellor £141,866 – From the Daily Mail.
Four times in four years, the Chancellor has changed the location of his ‘main home,’
This manoeuvring has allowed him to claim thousands of pounds towards the costs of his family home in Edinburgh – and to buy a London flat furnished and mortgages at taxpayers’ expense.
In [...]

Troughing bastard polticians expenses uncovered by Telegraph

So has the leaker got the money up front? The rumoured expense data that has been circulating for a few weeks now is to be released by the Telegraph including:

Gordon Brown paid Andrew Brown (his brother) an executive, more than £6,000 for “cleaning services” over the course of two years, and reclaimed the money [...]