Does Winky get to use official stuff for party activity?

[NoNeed]

As the title, does he get to use things provided for primeminister duties such as cars and planes for party canvassing? Only ask because when Gillygate happened he got into a car NOT a labour bus.

If so can we have him arrested for missuse of said items whatever they may be?

Edited by NoNeed on Monday 14th March 18:12

[NoNeed]

As the title, does he get to use things provided for primeminister duties such as cars and planes for party canvassing? Only ask because when Gillygate happened he got into a car NOT a labour bus.

If so can we have him arrested for missuse of sid items whatever they may be?

Edited by NoNeed on Monday 14th March 18:12

[NoNeed]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

What about the others all using ministerial cars too? I do understand the security implications but why do we buy petrol for him to canvass

We also pay him a salery to be prime minister yet this month he has been doing gordon brown work NOT primeminister work.

Edited by NoNeed on Wednesday 5th May 14:52

[NoNeed]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

If that isn't the BEST suggestion for a financial "cut" I don't know what is

[Man-At-Arms]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

what security ?

how many times has someone jumped up on stage and almost apprehended him

[Wyvern971]

NoNeed said:

What about the others all using ministerial cars too? I do understand the security implications but why do we buy petrol for him to canvass

I'm more than happy to buy petrol for him, just not for the purpose he is using it for

[Asterix]

He shouldn't but in true Labour fashion they re-write the rules when they deem it necessary - the manifesto launch at the hospital was a typical example.

[chris_w]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

I unwittingly did this a few years ago when I nipped around the RR on my bike. It accelerated to reduce the gap I was trying to slot into so I gave the driver some verbal... right up until he held his badge up to the window and I clocked his three burly friends staring at me.

[ninja-lewis]

NoNeed said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

What about the others all using ministerial cars too? I do understand the security implications but why do we buy petrol for him to canvass

We also pay him a salery to be prime minister yet this month he has been doing gordon brown work NOT primeminister work.

Edited by NoNeed on Wednesday 5th May 14:52

Peter Watt (former General Secretary of Labour) said in his book that before Brown bottled the snap election in 2007, Labour had a fleet of (privately-booked) limousines circling Parliament Square ready to whisk ministers off to campaign as soon as the election was announced.

Remember though, unlike backbench MPs, ministers remain in their post until the Prime Minister resigns. They may be doing less work in terms of new policies and major decisions but they're still responsible for their department (not just in the event of emergencies but also keeping it ticking over).

[rypt]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Linky?

[rypt]

That guy (the protester) had some restraint!

I would have floored the tt with the glasses that came and grabbed his arms if it were me, we still have a right to protest and free speech in this country after all.

Edited by rypt on Wednesday 5th May 18:05

[FourWheelDrift]

rypt said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Linky?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR2PnGiQBY0

Guy with beard & earpiece on the left being very calm and professional, then the stasi get involved and go all violent.

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Wednesday 5th May 18:08

[rypt]

The ex-army guy seems to be of the mind "Say your bit and be done with it, I'm not going to interfere unless you start to pose a thread to the idiot on stage there."

Mean while the Labour Nazi assaults the guy

[Andy Zarse]

NoNeed said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

What about the others all using ministerial cars too? I do understand the security implications but why do we buy petrol for him to canvass

We also pay him a salery to be prime minister yet this month he has been doing gordon brown work NOT primeminister work.

Edited by NoNeed on Wednesday 5th May 14:52

It's for security reasons. I remember John Major used one of the blast proof Prime Ministerial car fleet to travel around in towards the end of the 1997 election. It was a clapped-out green 1980's XJ40 on sagging springs, the same car I think whisked Mrs Thatcher away from Downing Street when she resigned. I wondered why he hadn't been using the newer X300 that I'd seen him in earlier in the campaign... and found out why when I saw Blair rock up to the door of No10 in it on that infampous morning Talk about jumping the gun!

[FourWheelDrift]

I don't know why he hasn't file assault charges on them, they aren't security so they had no licence to accost him like that.

[rypt]

They use all those cars because they are wimps, and because they know they've pissed off plenty of the population of this country

If I was PM I'd have a priministerial Ferrari
And the Stig to drive it.

[john_p]

hmm

Winky talking on a radio mic in a press conference - all fine

Then, his official car pulls up outside - the radio mic starts cutting out

I wonder...