Comments on Tory Bear - right-wing political gossip: Who is Backing #KerryOut?

At last!! Other people have finally noticed. Here ...

2010-01-05T16:20:54.785Z

At last!! Other people have finally noticed. Here is a post written at the start of the Labour Party conference (Sept 09) which tracked Twitter activity by Labour MPs and Party Members; namely Kerry McCarthy, who took the time to add a comment to the post. She didn't really understand. I would hope you do. It is astounding.
Amazing Tweets coming out of the Labour Party Conference

@Those suggesting the net be widened to include a ...

2010-01-05T00:40:54.779Z

@Those suggesting the net be widened to include a cross-party range of spongers and swindlers:

Do bear in mind that a great many are stepping down, and a great many will be swept from office at any rate.
Focusing on individual cases won't let anyone else off the hook.

@Anoymous "I could list a great number of To...

2010-01-04T14:54:25.067Z

@Anoymous

"I could list a great number of Tory MPs who claim on a lot more frivolous things than food, and statements from many of them honestly claiming they don't understand what the problem is. But you can find all this yourself by googling."

"...I think all the people with questionable expenses and questionable morals not just Kerry McCarthy should be booted out of Parliament"

I'm not sure how I could of made it any clearer that I think all MPs that have dodgy expenses should go, no matter what party they are from, I wish there was #kerryout style campaigns for every single MP involved in the expenses situ.

"For me it’s not that she blocks people on tw...

2010-01-04T14:39:24.226Z

"For me it’s not that she blocks people on twitter"

Thats good, otherwise I'm sure whoever starts a #NadineOut campaign would be expecting your support.

"Do we really need an MP in Parliament who knows something is completely wrong but goes along with it anyway"

I could list a great number of Tory MPs who claim on a lot more frivolous things than food, and statements from many of them honestly claiming they don't understand what the problem is. But you can find all this yourself by googling.

Although I have to admit, I know I've been trolled. No such "labour supporter" contacted you. This entire post has as much credibility as if I were to say "A conservative supporter emailed me yesterday saying Tory Bear was a closet Labour voter". I'd expect most people wouldn't be stupid enough to believe me.

@Conrad I admit bad choice of words on that front...

2010-01-04T13:48:08.892Z

@Conrad

I admit bad choice of words on that front, but at the time when I was writing it couldn't think of a better way to describe the "oh be they told me to defence"

@Duncan Stott
For me it's not the fact that she claimed more or less then anyone else, more the fact that she admitted she knew it was wrong but continued to do it regardless
+ I mentioned in the post that I felt we had to go after all questionable MPs not just Kerry McCarthy.

"Nuremberg defence" ?? I find it rathe...

2010-01-04T13:14:17.727Z

"Nuremberg defence" ??

I find it rather hard to believe that Kerry and the other troughers (of all parties) were going to be shot by the SS if they didn't claim the Luxury Food Vouchers paid for by the sweat of the workers and soldiers.

On the basic tenets of the post I do agree with the friendly lefty.
I am firmly of the opinion that political activists across the spectrum should beast their politicians on the issues of troughing and general arsity.

If it is the top food allowance claimers you are a...

2010-01-04T12:01:07.640Z

If it is the top food allowance claimers you are after, there are bigger fish to fry.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5561988/MPs-expenses-more-than-30-MPs-charged-the-taxpayer-4800-annually-for-food.html

I still don't know why you have picked out Kerry McCarthy for this campaign.

Any MP who thought that taking £400 a month from t...

2010-01-04T11:55:58.385Z

Any MP who thought that taking £400 a month from the lowest paid in society to spend on their food bills, does not merit the description honourable.

Taking the food out of the mouths of pensioners and cleaners, simply to gorge yourself at La Gavroche (or Le Manoir, or Ask, or Pret, or Waitrose, does it really matter where?).

Utterly, utterly shameful.

Mr and Mrs Balls take note.

As for the "others egged me on" defence, well, if you see someone rolling in shit it doesn't necessarily mean you have to join them.