Sex scandal MP expenses football game? News
News by Oli Welsh
It was bound to happen sooner or later. The furore over the expenses of UK Members of Parliament has extended to encompass our noble hobby, with reports that one MP claimed for a PlayStation game.
According to a list of the stranger expense claims published by The Guardian, Nigel Griffiths, Labour MP for Edinburgh South and former deputy leader of the House of Commons, expensed "GBP 29.99 for a PlayStation computer game, Premiership Arsenal".
Griffiths disputes the report, however, telling The Sun that the Dixons receipt in question is misleading. "It's not a game, it's a branded memory stick," said the beleaguered MP. "I'm well past playing video games."
We certainly don't recall a game called Premiership Arsenal and can't find any reference to one, either, although it's possible the title refers to Codemasters' PS2 offering, Club Football: Arsenal 2005.
Either way, an ambiguous claim for electronic goods is the least of Griffiths' public relations concerns. In March this year, Sunday tabloid The News of the World caught the MP cheating on his wife in his Parliamentary office on Remembrance Day, and published photos of him cavorting with a woman helpfully identified as "a brunette".
Don't bother Googling, we can't find the pictures either.
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Bigglesworth
19/06/09 @ 09:59
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And presumably your expenses aren't drawn from my money, like the abovementioned knobstrangler?
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LosCapitan
19/06/09 @ 10:02
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"Sex scandal MP expenses football game?"
I thought this was a design concept: I was on my way to pre-order this AMAZING game. |
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@El-Dev
Fair play to the MPs I say. How many of you can honestly say you wouldn't milk it for all it's worth if you had the chance? Yes, fair play to the MPs for ripping off the people they're supposed to represent. Fair play to burglars and other thieves too. I can honestly say that were I elected I wouldn't milk it for all it's worth, then again I'm too honest to be elected; I'd never be able to look people in the eye and bullshit them about how I'd get that factory reopened or that bypass built/halted (depending on the person you're talking to, obviously). |
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we need a good dictator for a few years, shake the system up, remind people that politics is a fucking privilege, not a right
a damn good maniac at the helm, with a well armed military force behind for a few years would get people interested in politics sadly, the only people interested in it anymore, or unemployable twats, never exposed to the real world. Politics is like a computer system rubbish in. rubbish out. |
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Funny hehehe
Lets face it we'd all do it if we could. Who hasn't stolen stuff from where they work. Given a massive expenses budget I would rinse the hell out of it. MP's are all bastards we knew that already!!!!! Cheating on your wife however is beyond contempt and he should be birched
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YourMessageHere
19/06/09 @ 15:02
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Dear Britain, get some damn perspective. This is the least of his problems compared to sex scandals? Bullshit. Think for a second - marital infidelity or fraud: which of these is a less desirable quality in a politician?
Hint 1: honesty in public is more important than honesty in private. Hint 2: it's not marital infidelity. |
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"I'm well past playing video games."
He'd fit in well with a lot of 'mainstream' journos who like to point out whenever possible that they're "too old" to play videogames. Which is presumably the reason for the BBC Money Program edition about the launch of the 360 in which they interviewed mothers of toddlers about it. :/ |
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LaundroMat
21/06/09 @ 08:45
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@El-Dev: Don't project your own lack of standards on everyone around you.
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Climhazzard
21/06/09 @ 10:26
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amazing............the fact that he bought such a bad game, and for that price!!
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