‘Cheating Is Part Of My Culture’
…says “Baroness” Uddin. Ah, the old ‘crime is part of my religion’ defence!
We saw yesterday that ‘peers’ Uddin, Paul and Bhatia face suspension from the House of Lords for varying terms and have been ordered to pay back £125,000, £40,000 and £27,000 respectively.
From the very useful rolling political blog in the Guardian, and in an article strangely devoid of the word Mus…Mus…something or even Lab.. no, lost it – we see:
Only two other peers have ever been suspended before and the penalties are the most stringent ever imposed. There will be a vote on Thursday, which is expected to ratify the sanctions. All three peers were accused of naming properties outside London that they hardly visited as their primary residence in order to designate their London homes as their second property and maximise their expenses.
Each had broken rules to claim the £174 a night allowance for accommodation when they in fact lived within a few miles of Westminster. Uddin and Bhatia were judged to have purposely broken the rules while Paul breached the rules demonstrating “gross irresponsibility and negligence” but did not act in bad faith.
So two, Uddin and Bhatia, were judged to have ‘deliberately’ broken the rules. That m’lord, is intent. Morley and Chaytor will be furious that they are in court for exactly the same thing and these two/three aren’t.
Although managing to sneak the word “Labour” into their main article on the subject later on through gritted teeth, you’ve got to admire the Guardian’s money shot:
“A written statement by Lady McDonagh in defence of Uddin accused the committee of showing “little or no cultural understanding of being a Muslim women born outside of the UK”.”
So being a Muslim woman means you’re naturally going to be cheating the system? You couldn’t make it up. £125,000 is a damn impressive amount of fiddling. Especially as she’s still got a council house in Wapping – an Asian area where surely we’ll soon be told officially that voter fraud is okay because that’s what happens in that culture.
Just be thankful Lord Ashcroft was completely honest with his expenses or the BBC would have opened another channel dedicated just to him.
One of the thieves stated that being from the sub-continent he did not understand what the word “main” meant in the context of his residence, and they make our laws?
Uddin is pleading poverty and Paul is a billionaire, I wonder where the money went, donated to their favourite political party perhaps?
“Cheating is part of my culture” …
Then they wonder why their “culture” is viewed with such suspicion & mistrust in the West ..
And wail “Waycist” whenever they’re accused of being lying, cheating, thieving bastards ..
They should all be declated unfit to hold public office & fucked-off back to their “culture”, where they can cheat, lie, steal etc to their hearts content ..
They certainly won’t be missed here ..
Un.Fuckin.Believeable.
See Paul’s defence here in black and white, away from the Guardian’s editorialising:
See paragraph 19 in particular:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201011/ldselect/ldprivi/37/3703.htm#a3
“given his cultural background, his interpretation was at the time a reasonable one;”
Do these muppets realise the damage they are doing?
You’ve got to be kidding me ! If Groompy the prosecution lawyer had said something along the lines of ‘Yeah the thieving cow is guilty alright. It’ part of their culture, they’re all at it you know’ , well Groompy would of found himself in the dock quicker than he could say ‘piss off back to your own country’. But her defence use the same argument and we’re all meant to understand it. I for one am beyond sick and tired of being told I must try harder to understand their retarded ways.
The best way to treat these criminals is to strip them of their titles and chuck them out in the street. See if their dodgy cultural background enables them to experience shame and humiliation as the baying mob pelts them with rotten eggs. No wonder nobody respects politicians anymore. There is no proper accountability and all they really care about is getting away with it.
Address your insults to House of Frauds, Palace of Wasteminster.
This appears to imply that the HOL should have known this. That this is such an ingrained part of their culture that not to have considered it was a grievious oversight. So by extension this must mean that Trading Standards have also known for years that every muslim business is dishonest. No doubt thay have failed to prosecute them on the grounds that it’s their culture.
Given how endemic the cheating in the Lords and Commons was, it could fairly be said that it was part of their culture too.
The poor lamb is a victim, don’t you see that? First India, then Parliament, what chance did he stand with examples like that, with not even the Fees Office to correct him.
We should be paying him compensation and giving him counselling, so we should.
“Just be thankful Lord Ashcroft was completely honest with his expenses or the BBC would have opened another channel dedicated just to him.”
That line just had me pissing myself laughing……… so close to the truth though……