Husband and wife Tory MPs the Wintertons have been claiming their mortgage for a second home on expenses. When they finished paying the mortgage that meant no-more expenses. However, the Wintertons came up with a little wheeze – why not transfer the property to the family trust and then claim the rent instead – greedy bastards or what? Luckily, for us, albeit better late than never the standards committee concluded that the arrangement broke the rules.
Still we should not really expect much else Ann Winterton is a particularly nasty piece of work. She was sacked as Shadow Rural Affairs minister in 2001 for telling this joke.
An Englishman, a Cuban, a Japanese man and a Pakistani were all on a train.
The Cuban threw a fine Havana cigar out the window. When he was asked why, he replied: “They are ten a penny in my country.”
The Japanese man threw an expensive Nikon camera out of the carriage, adding: “These are ten a penny in my country.”
The Englishman then picked up the Pakistani and threw him out of the train window.
When the other travellers asked him to account for his actions, he said: “They are ten a penny in my country”.
Still she did not learn in 2004 she had the Tory whip removed until she apologised a month later for this joke (which alluded to the recent death of several dozen illegal immigrant Chinese cockle pickers in Morecambe Bay).
One shark turned to the other to say he was fed up chasing tuna and the other said, ‘Why don’t we go to Morecambe Bay and get some Chinese?’
Still they’re just jokes (sic) in 2005 she said
Crime is out of control … and where thousands of illegal immigrants are waved in with no checks on whether they are criminals or potential terrorists. [...] We live in times of tremendous change, but the United Kingdom is still, thankfully, a predominantly white, Christian country. [...] Some might say we are now paying the price for the so-called “benefits” of the multicultural society, the product of almost uncontrolled immigration and the abuse of asylum.
Why on earth anyone thinks the Tories have changed under Cameron, mystifies me, they are still the same self satisfied, xenophobic racists that they have always been, do not believe anything different.