Success for Cameron

Slim Jim

Brown's judgement 'staggeringly naive'? More like partisan, incompetent and reckless.

toco

Well done David Cameron!You have forced the cowardly and snivelling Brown out of his bunker for once.The next question is are the Labour Party's lawyers acting for the three accused and if so will they desist?

JohnOfEnfield

Brown is shown, once again, to be part of he problem.

Bob Dixon

What does withdrawing the whip mean when you are facing court action. I want to see suspension of redundacy pay & pension until the court's judgement. If found guilty no redundacy or pension.

Nash

Maybe Gordon Brown should now withdraw the "whip" from himself.

toco

It is good to see that when Cameron the organ grinder commands Brown the monkey jumps!

Gawain

T'would seem that ad hominem attacks on the PM have the desired effect. Couldn't happen to a nicer chap !

denis cooper

Back in the old days if an MP was whipped it was usually because he'd behaved very badly and had to be punished. (Or so we used to read in some of the more lurid Sunday newspapers, although as I recall the reporter would normally make an excuse and leave before it was his turn.) Now if an MP behaves very badly his punishment is that he'll no longer be whipped. Just shows how social mores can change over time.

bigmacsub

The point of order has worked for Cameron but the ad hominme isn't going down too well in the MSM.

The narrative will return to the Nasty Tories on the back of this. Mandy sharpening his tounge now.

Heads I win Tails you lose.

hmmm

Well done Cameron.

Now we can all laugh at the nauseating sight of Labour in a full-blooded, humiliating, ignomious retreat.

AAE

Cameron hasn't a leg to stand on concerning the expenses issue. Why are we paying for his and Osborne's country piles, designated as second homes so we pay for them, when it would seem more reasonable for them to have a small flat from which to conduct constituency business. Osborne repaid about £1,700 recently because he was claiming for a mortgage which was 5% more than the price of the house, (shouldn't our future Chancellor be a bit more fastidious with numbers?) but has still claimed, so far, more than £100,000 doing the place up! I hope at least he was getting the wallpaper at cost price.

toni

AAE is right, but there's mileage in this expenses scandal and yet more to be revealed. It's dangerous territory for Cameron to lacerate GB over this, and his ad hominem comments will just hark back to Tory malice. Why, there's even a thread on that very subject on ConHome just to remind us of it!

Labour will exploit high living Cameron and Osborne at taxpayers expense, nearer to the GE, be assured of that.

As for Cameron’s dash to be first to suspend his greedy Lord, that too should be exploited as hasty, potentially to be u-turned later like much of his policy.
The PM will be portrayed ‘thoughtfully thinking things through properly’ in consultation with appropriate ministers, the correct behaviour for a PM.

General Zod

If you believe that Gordon governs by consensus, you probably believe in fairies at the bottom of your garden too.

TrevorsDen

AAE is talking a load of Horlicks.

The main houses of both Osborne and Cameron are in London. Osborne's constituency is in Cheshire and Cameron's in West Oxfordshire. They are both entitled like most MPs to an allowance to cover a home in their constituency. The limit I believe is £25k per year.

So there is no funding of their actual home as you imply.

The fact is that the highest profile MP who receives money for funding his own home is Gordon Brown, who despite having 2 grace and favour homes and a London flat let out to rent, still manages to claim for his real home in Fife.

So keep a cap on it AAE.

TrevorsDen

toni - you should be on the London Palladium. Give Bernard Delfont a ring.

Victor Southern

Is this the same Brown that referred to David Cameron as a "second-hand car salesman" and as "dodgy" and "economically incompetent"?

Surely such a paragon of politeness and honesty should be protected against ad hominem attacks by that nasty Mr. Cameron.

Unfair to Brown!

Rhuarc

personae non gratae, surely?

dvj

what I want to know is this: why is the number of MP's being prosecuted only four?

David Lindsay

Character? Is this the same David Cameron who took out probably the first mortgage in his family's history because he knew that, although himself worth thirty million pounds and already the outright owner of two houses, he could have it paid by the rest of us?

Is this the same David Cameron who wants the position of Chancellor the Exchequer to be occupied by George Osborne?

Holly ......

OMG!!!!
CAMERON HAS GOT A COAT ON AND HIS HANDS ARE IN HIS POCKETS!!!!
My mum would NEVER let us do that.
Never did find out why putting your hands in your pockets was a mortal sin.

quadratus

Game,set & match to 'Trevors Den'!