Worth every penny

I see that the London Evening Standard have made a one page spread out of the publication of the chairman of the British National Party Nick Griffin MEP's expenses.  As he promised to do if elected, the BNP chairman has published them on his site here.

With screaming bold headlines the rag Standard shouts to the world that BNP chief Nick Griffin claimed £200,000 in Euro expenses which at first seems to be a lot.  Then when you dive into the article, you see that the expenses were not for porn tapes, duck houses and all the other things that The Establishment parties claim for but wages and office expenses that all MEP's are entitled to.

In fact of the £200,000 mentioned in the article, £175,000 went to pay for eight members of staff required for an MEP to carry out his duties properly.

Like I said.  A pathetic non story.  One wonders why the Standard even bothered running it.  Then of course when you read further you discover that the article most likely originated with the state funded and communist led Searchlight organisation who vomit into cyber space:-

“Griffin talked a good game on expenses before the election, but as soon as he got to Brussels he couldn't wait to jump aboard the euro expenses gravy train.”

Pathetic Gable, even by your slipshod standards.  Why not dig into the real criminal expenses of the likes of the Kinnock's who have really exploited expenses. 

Gerry "Unstable" Gable, the convicted communist criminal boss of Searchlight would of course have much in common with the owner of the London Evening Standard.  Because the owner since 2009 as been the controversial Russian "businessman" and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev who is listed as one of the worlds richest men with a fortune of $3.1 billion who controls a global empire including numerous banks.  Those damn bankers again.

Anyhow there are lots of interesting comments over on the Standard that I am sure some of you will wish to add to and a few Sidewiki comments would be nice also.