A duck house? I thought the flu was making me hallucinate

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Fuck a duck. This is getting madder by the minute. I almost love the Torygraph for this and it is not often you hear me say that.

I bet the tabloids are lining up to use It's Quackers as their headline tomorrow.

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Just me then? Perhaps I am hallucinating

Oh, holy ker-freaking-MOLY

£1645 for a 'floating duck-island feature'

Could. Not. Make. It. Up.

Oh I am loving the way the little Large Multinational Proprietary Brand of Washing Liquid ducks sail happily across the banner at the top of this thread.

It's almost like MN planned it.

heh heh heh

He should be able to see the sea from where he lives. Not enough birds for him to look at????

That is the best use of tax payers money I've read about so far. Homeless ducks, it's a real social problem that needs addressing.

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.

But, fair's fair, I couldn't live without my duck island - it's a basic necessity of life, no?

They even have MP's expenses as seen on Google Earth. It's still sticking in my throat that I have to be grateful to the Torygraph, but I admit that I am.

surely Ruth Kelly claiming thousands of pounds for flood damage whilst having buildings insurance intimates quite a casual and er, amoral approach to taxpayers' money? I'm quite shocked at this actually. The duck pond and the tory MP I am not so shocked about, funnily enough. Surprised there hasn't been a 'Tory MP claimed for porn dungeon on expenses' headline yet...

Mate of mine who works for the Telegraph says basically there are so many thousands of documents, they have no idea what is still in there. Will take forever to go through them. Could be some real outrageous stuff still buried.

Someone who sits next to her is working on the story - she says he looks extremely harried and has nearly broken his pocket calculator stabbing at the buttons!

the tax payers' dungeon might still be out there then.

Oh yes. Please let there be a dungeon. With nazi uniforms. And dog chains. And Swarfega.

And please, please let it be on the expenses claim of someone like, um, Teresa May.

She has gone very quiet lately hasn't she? So many non-entities having to pop up on news programmes doing the official line instead of all the big guns, at home, swiftly trying to shred papers and nip to B&Q to change all the red lightbulbs.

Or Rosie Winterton, LL; she's been climbing the slippery ladder very quietly since 2001 and I wouldn't trust her further than I could throw her.

That Google Earth shot is fecking hilarious.

I do hope some enterprising hack nicks a real 20-foot red arrow from a car sales pitch and posts it up overnight so it can be seen from the road.

Go on, I double dare you.

So is there going to be a series of bye-elections after people get kicked out for buying red velvet drapes for their dungeons at the taxpayers' expense, or does quit in this context just mean resign their extra role in the party/keep their seat till the next election?

the duck island is horrible. Why couldn't he embezzle something useful. Like a wet bar, or a jacuzzi or something.

I'm disappointed in Bob Marshall Andrews, thought at least HE would be among the good guys

haha, socialists ALWAYS have expensive tastes. Love how he has a multimillion pound house in Richmond as well.

I'd love one of those multi-room MP3 players. Bet he's got a Sonos. A very premium choice. Probably has Bach piped into the shower (which doubtless uses champagne instead of water).

Bet he doesn't have a moat, though! (He's a barrister so I guess will have made some money before going into Parliament, or kept his hand in with the second job.)

nah. that'd make you sticky.

the moat still wins for me.