http://www.noaccountability.co.uk Can honesty, integrity, professionalism and trust exist in our elected representatives Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:29:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Former Bury North Labour MP David Chaytor has lost a challenge to have his 18 month sentence reduced for fiddling his parliamentary expenses. David Chaytor was jailed on the 7th January 2011 for 18 months for falsely claiming £22,000 of taxpayers' money with forged documents in his expenses. He was attempting to ... http://www.noaccountability.co.uk/2011/david-chaytor-loses-appeal-to-have-jail-sentence-reduced/ I guess I've been somewhat remiss in not writing any posts for ages. The truth is I've been very busy and working on other projects, and NoAccountability has suffered for that. My current workload has eased slightly, and I'll be posting again in the coming days and weeks. http://www.noaccountability.co.uk/2011/long-time-no-blog/ Hand in hand with Gordon Brown, Ed balls seems to forget what he says from one week to another, let alone one year to the next. It was only a year ago that Ed balls was caught out over his " light touch approach to regulation " by George Osborne ... http://www.noaccountability.co.uk/2009/ed-balls-approach-to-light-touch-regulation/ It was only in November 2005 that Gordon Brown made a speech to the CBI regarding amongst other things the regulatory challenges within all business sectors. He stated: " We all agree that at the heart of the modern enterprise challenge is minimising regulatory concerns and I want to say something about ... http://www.noaccountability.co.uk/2009/gordon-brown-and-his-approach-to-light-touch-regulation/ I am no longer surprised to read that a former Home Secretary and the current MP for Norwich South, Charles Clarke,  wants to have a vote in the commons over the Kelly Report despite everything that's happened this year! Even now, humiliated, shamed, dishonoured and hated by the general public, MPs ... http://www.noaccountability.co.uk/2009/charles-clarke-still-wants-a-vote-on-the-kelly-report-recommendations/ Gordon Brown has spent the last 13 years, both as chancellor and now prime minister, giving away everything we have of value. I'm not just talking about blindly throwing money at the banks recently ( £1.3 trillion in the last 2 years ), I'm also talking about our rights as individuals ... http://www.noaccountability.co.uk/2009/is-there-anything-gordon-brown-hasnt-given-away/ It was all kept very quiet when Lloyds sold the loss-making Halifax Estate Agency group for £1 to LSL Property Services ( the owners of Your Move ) recently. The fact that the " public " own a 43% stake in Lloyds made no difference, and no one seemed bothered to ... http://www.noaccountability.co.uk/2009/lloyds-sells-halifax-estate-agency-for-1/ Alistair Darling completely forgot to mention the fact that he would be forced to plough at least another £40 billion into RBS, Lloyds and Northern Rock in order to create 3 new banks, whilst singing his own praises on the politics show on Sunday morning. Nothing like transparency and openness!!! Mind ... http://www.noaccountability.co.uk/2009/labour-adds-another-40-billion-burden-for-the-british-tax-payer/ This week has seen Mervyn King give a Churchillian speech to the bankers in which he stated " never in the field of human endeavour has so much money been owed by so few to so many. And, one might add, so far with little real reform. " He is still ... http://www.noaccountability.co.uk/2009/mervyn-king-bank-reform-and-6bn-bonuses/ It was interesting watching Question Time this evening for many reasons. The hype behind Nick Griffin's appearance was nothing more or nothing less than was expected really. Jack Straw started the evening off talking about MPs having a moral compass!! ( Yes Jack, but it's stuck at magnetic North! ) The programme ... http://www.noaccountability.co.uk/2009/nick-griffin-on-question-time-with-jack-straw-chris-huhne-sayeeda-warsi-and-bonnie-greer/