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Original poster

To have distinct feelings of hatred towards that MP on telly in Hull atm

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Alambil · 08/02/2010 21:08

the one who had to have his own council flat instead of staying with someone in a flat like all the others...

bemoaning that he can't live on JSA for a week because it's not enough

No shit, sherlock - but WE have to (well, not me personally) so why can't YOU, you wally.

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BelleDeChocolateFluffyBunny · 08/02/2010 21:43

Sorry but:

£42 a week on cigarettes!!

Single bits of veg is alot cheaper then pre-prepared bags of mixed veg.

Sorry, I'm annoyed.

lockets · 08/02/2010 21:44

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havoc · 08/02/2010 21:44

OMG Spiders! I loved that place! Glad to hear that The Adelphi is still going strong.

I'm not surprised Austin Mitchell is acting like a tosser, he is a tosser! I met him once and he was a smug bastard.

MmeLindt · 08/02/2010 21:45

32 year old.

Jeez, he looks much older.

Lilyloo · 08/02/2010 21:45

Mavis i think they are all out of touch tbh

Love her justifying the £50 'extra' she brought for the kids

Lilyloo · 08/02/2010 21:46

Lockets i thought that as well!!

MavisEnderby · 08/02/2010 21:47

Ha ha this thread is so funny.If any of you were around circa 1991-1995 in Hull I may have -fallen- -over- -you- -in- -an- -inebriated- -state- met you in Spiders.

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Alambil · 08/02/2010 21:47

£150 a week for food was shocking.. reusable nappies would save a mound of money

Am a little disconcerted that because her shop came under budget, she spent it on fags ... why not save it for a day out? (yes, I realise she's addicted... but she must usually factor in fags - she just seemed to get extra because she had it)

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McDreamy · 08/02/2010 21:48

Austin is winding me up - he just doesn't get this does he?

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Alambil · 08/02/2010 21:48

he's on it to get his name out there, that's all ... not doing the programme at all properly

I wonder why the production team let him begin if he's flouting all the rules

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McDreamy · 08/02/2010 21:49

She bought the most expensive ones too! Pampers active fit?

MavisEnderby · 08/02/2010 21:49

Sorry.Will get back to original point.No Austin Mitchell is doing himself no favours at all.

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Alambil · 08/02/2010 21:49

yeah! I found tesco own were more absorbant and £3 for a big bag

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McDreamy · 08/02/2010 21:50

But surely this is doing his name no good at all or do you think any attention is good attention - I sound like bloody Supernanny now

lockets · 08/02/2010 21:50

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JaneS · 08/02/2010 21:51

Austin is such a twat.

But, the woman MP (Nadine?) has a blog - google it. I promise you, she comes across like such an idiot, justifying why and how she kept the 50 quid, as if it's not incredibly obvious.

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Alambil · 08/02/2010 21:52

Lordy, I don't think I want to read it...

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Alambil · 08/02/2010 21:59

HA! She's another dense one...

God, I wish they'd get REAL people in parliament

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mateykatie · 08/02/2010 22:17

I just posted this in Politics, but it seems almost nobody goes there, so here it is again, in all its glory:

I think tonight's episode proves that political parties have very little to do with the worth of an MP.

Tim Loughton and Mark Oaten are both excellent, they both actually care.

Nadine Dorries and Austin Mitchell are both jawdroppingly crap. Dorries is as thick as two short planks, and Mitchell is generally horrifying.

I was when Austin Mitchell refused to change the nappy, because it was "woman's work". And Nadine Dorries pulling £50 out of her bra!!

At the same time, I was even more impressed with Tim Loughton than I was last week. I think I am developing a bit of a crush on him

MavisEnderby · 08/02/2010 22:22

Agree mateykatie.Have usually voted lib dem/labour on principle but am very disiilusioned with main parties.

My LOCAL mp is David Davis,actually a very good local mp but unfortunately a Tory.

I have no idea who to vote for in next election.?My good local mp even though it goes agasinst all of my principles.

I may vote Green (AGAIN) a cop out but i am so lost as to who to vote for this time.

Is pants.

mateykatie · 08/02/2010 22:29

MavisEnderby

I have no problem this time.

I am a floating voter, slightly right of centre but was happy to vote for Blair before Iraq.

My local MP was an expenses fiddling Labourite, and I really hate Gordon Brown.

I think good local MPs like Oaten and Loughton are the best case against proportional representation. If you go for PR, then MPs are just legislators, without any of the constituency/social work - which would be a disaster. They would be even more out of touch than the ones on TBOC.

A bit of a shame, really. Maybe we should have a mixed system, with the Commons elected by First Past the Post, and the Lords, whose only job is to scrutinize legislation, elected by Proportional Representation every 10 years or so.

campocaro · 08/02/2010 22:30

Austin Mitchell should be sacked for his comments on the programme tonight. His wife is awful too. I am shocked that after so many years in the Labour party he is so smug and complacent about equality issues etc.

thousandsplendidsuns · 08/02/2010 22:31

If he says 'woman's work' again I might drive over to Grimsby and chin him. hHe obviously thinks he is being oh-so-amusing but his hideous wife isn't any better... leaving that kid with a dirty nappy in the play pen and feeding him over the top of it. And I don't wamr to Mark Oaten either - criticising someone for spending £42 on fags but claiming for FOUR irons! No one does that much ironing and I've got 11 kids.

thousandsplendidsuns · 08/02/2010 22:33

wamr obviously being WARM ... ironic really as I was talking about irons (pardon the pun)

mateykatie · 08/02/2010 22:43

thousandsplendidsuns,

The difference was, Mark Oaten mildly took the piss out of a really lax expenses system.

Yes, all taxpayers have the right to be a bit miffed at that, but at least he isn't harming his own family with his expenses abuse.

The woman who spend £42 on cigarettes is denying that money to her kids.

Also, I know it's not a valid excuse in any way, but his expenses shenanigans seem pretty minor in comparison with a lot of other MPs. Some MPs actually made up invoices to claim false expenses. There were MPs who claimed for moat cleaning, £9000 plasma screen TVs, and flipping. Gordon Brown himself had to pay back tens of thousands of pounds. Next to all of that, a couple of flashy irons is fairly small-fry.