Paul Flynn is a bellend: The Rt Hon Paul Flynn MP for Royston Vasey

Monday 6 February 2012

The Rt Hon Paul Flynn MP for Royston Vasey – on Channel 4 program Bouncers

Well the local MP has been having a good old rant again, all duly reported by the BBC(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-16895253) and nothing seems to make this MP happier than a good old rant and a spot of media coverage. Facts be damned, its Paul Flynn rant time again.

Yes be it the gassing of badgers, farmers suicides or libel cases and indeed I have covered elsewhere his rant that led to him being sued and cost us taxpayers £10,000 quid in legal costs. Sadly like then, his reporting of this program and fact checking has never been Paul Flynn's strong point.

He seems to think that a rather tongue in cheek “documentary” on hard working door staff and the often rather tired and emotional folk they have to deal with is “"exaggerated pessimism”, in his words and claims that people are "grossly under-informed on the city" he claims.

Hardly, as an ex-doorman myself – pre SIA days – I found myself laughing and agreeing with many of the comments. Such stories could be told of any town or city in the land of folk having a shandy or 6 to many. Dare I say it, many of the Rt Hon. Members in the House of Commons have been known to over indulge in the bottle on occasions.

Flynn huffs and puffs and describes Channel 4 and the program in this term "one malicious TV programme on a minority channel".... Right, that would be the same Channel 4 that one Paul Flynn MP, praised to the skies only a few months before for in depth reporting. Its always nice to see MP's being consistent in their views on a subject.

Maybe Flynn only wants positive fluff stories about his city, or stories where he can pass the blame onto evil Tories? Channel 4 pointed out that Newport had been hit hard by the recession, is that wrong? Is it wrong to show the underside of city life and those who work hard to control it?

Anyway for those not in know, said program(http://www.channel4.com/programmes/bouncers) covered a few doorstaff – I hate the term bouncers myself – their lives and showed a few fine examples of piss heads, er tired and emotional folk being helped and helped on their way.

Far from being a montage of drunks being tossed out of pubs/clubs, it also focused on one chap who was getting married and also the security company that he worked for. I would go further and state that rather than doing down the town as Mr Flynn puts it, it showed them as helpful and professional folk doing a rather unpleasant job in order to earn a crust.

Sadly unlike our MP, they have not got the privilege sit about on £65K+ a year and a £100+ in expenses each and every year.

He might have focused some of his comments on the fact that one of the clubs was a gay club – not sure if that's been frequented by certain Welsh Assembly members but I digress – and providing a safe environment for them, thats customers not Assembly Members. Yet nothing positive from Flynn on that.

At no point does Flynn point out the good work by security staff in areas like drug prevention where they actively work with the police, something any MP should be promoting. Neither does he point out the instances in the program where trouble was calmed down, something security staff are skilled at doing. That is something that leads to less arrests, less work for the police and the courts and less cost to the taxpayers and that, if nothing else should have been praised by him.

Flynn shows another out of touch MP, one who has rarely -if ever - has been seen in Newport's fine hard working pubs and clubs. An MP who spends all his time enforcing taxes and regulations to force them into bankruptcy. One that from the looks of his expenses, would appear to enjoy his tipple like he does his socialism, with a large dose of champagne.

Getting back to the rather bizarre title of this piece, years ago the League of Gentlemen comedy group created a town of dysfunctional misfit characters called Royston Vasey. They never created a character for the MP of that fictional town, but if they had Paul Flynn would have been absolutely perfect for the role.

Newport deserves so much better than Paul Flynn MP.

Finally over to the GLC!
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Some bits on Paul Flynn

My local MP the Rt Hon. Paul Flynn MP, is an expenses fiddler who claimed £10,000 pounds in legal defense costs off the taxpayer for a libel case he lost, a libel case he could have avoided in the first place.

He has stolen on expenses a cool £7,052 for new kitchen, as well as work back in 2006 on his kitchen coming to £1580. He has also stolen from the taxpayers £1,153 on carpets and £1,200 decoration for his London property in 2005. A property later sold, sadly the taxpayers did not get their money returned to them.

He also claimed £9,629 in stamp duty and fees, yet more money off of you and me.

Then we have £1000 deposit on kitchen equipment, and back in 2006 he charged the taxpayers £1201.90 on decorating his humble abode.

Plus he has claimed back mortgage interest as well, nice work if you can get it.

He also doesn't like paying his bills, he gets you to pay them instead: water, electricity, council Tax and even his television license all paid for by you.

Other perks include: £1745 on a sofa and a chair. £189 on a bathroom cabinet.

One ravel small sofa bed beige, costing £750 quid and a vanilla pluto chair costing £995 quid.

Then we have one tv table £150, one side table £90, a dining table & four chairs both £150 quid.

One leather look manager chair coming to £64.98. Oh and £424 on a bed.

His legal expenses can be seen here and his additional cost allowance found here.

Worst of all was this smug self congratulating vomit inducing statement from this odious MP:
The published figures demonstrate my modest claims and reassert the accolade given to me by the Daily Telegraph as an 'Expenses Angel.'

Moving on, he also doesn't like farmers very much.

Paul Flynn has also "flipped" his home as this spreadsheet

shows. Flipping a home does not imply wrongdoing, but often the MP's use the power to bill the taxpayer for furnishing more than one property.

Newport deserves better than Paul Flynn.

The missing libel apology

Recently Paul Flynn was involved in a libel case where he made comments about an endowment pensions company, the result of which he had to pay out damages.

The apology has since "vanished" from his website and has been taken down mysteriously from his Wikipedia page on several occasions.

And so here is his apology on a site that Flynn can not remove it from. Sadly despite losing his case he has not chosen to repay the hard working taxpayers the 10 grand of their money he used in defending his case.

He was sued after he posted an attack on such companies on his website, claiming they were out to "re-rob" the victims of endowment mis-selling by dishonestly over-charging them for their services.

But he made the mistake of referring to well-regarded company Endowment Justice Ltd, which represents mis-selling victims on a "no-win, no-fee" basis.

The company and its directors sued and at London's High Court Mr Flynn made a public apology for the "unjustified attack" on the claimants' integrity.

The MP as part of the settlement put the following statement on his website: On this website in February this year, I made certain statements referring to Endowment Justice Limited, one of the companies which offers assistance in obtaining compensation for those people who were mis-sold endowment policies.

I have been campaigning against companies providing professional services in relation to endowment policy compensation claims, but my facts about Endowment Justice were incorrect.

As a result, I wrongly accused the company and its directors Nick Keca, Marianne Fitzjohn and Graeme Webber of having previously mis-sold endowment policies and now dishonestly overcharging those self-same victims to help them obtain compensation.

I am happy to clarify that neither Endowment Justice Ltd or any of its directors were ever involved in any aspect of endowment policy selling. It was therefore false and unfair to suggest that they had profited from the historic mis-selling of endowment policies.

I was also incorrect in stating that Endowment Justice, which offers its services in recovering compensation on a “no-win, no-fee” basis, could charge its customers up to 40% of any compensation gained. Endowment Justice in fact charge customers 17.5% plus VAT or 22.5% plus VAT of any compensation gained.

I was wrong to give the unintended impression that the company or its directors acts in any way improperly or unlawfully in providing services to those seeking compensation for endowment policy mis-selling.

I would like to apologise to Endowment Justice for my allegations, and to Mr. Keca, Ms. Fitzjohn and Mr. Webber for any embarrassment or distress caused by my false remarks.

Gordonomics the true cost

Gordonomics is the economic theory behind New Labour, that has resulted in an over complicated tax structure that costs billions to administer.

A system that pours money taken in taxes from the private sector to fund a bloated public sector that produces not a penny.

A system that has left us the last G7 nation still in recession. Led by a mono eye'd pill popping, Nokia throwing, staff bullying, nose picking former PM who has broken his own golden rules on borrowing, leading to a national debt rising at over £6000 pounds a second.

Using government figures we all owe £1.1 trillion by as of 2010. As of March 2009 the debt was £796 billions or 55.5% of our gross domestic product.

Thanks to Gordonomics we all owe £13,678 and rising. The interest on Gordon's spending will cost us over £42 billion a year, and to pay for it all the only plan Gordon and the socialists had was more tax rises.

If a company ran its books in that manner it would either remove the chairman and put matters right, or be closed down due to going broke.

See here for more details on the UK's debt bombshell.

Gordon the man who had the plan of clearing the UK's overdraft by sticking all on the nations credit card, an any day now the shaven headed bailiffs will knocking on the nations door; all thanks to this window licking hoon.

Even the head of the US Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke said that the UK was ill-prepared to deal with the crisis in the wake of decisions made by Mr Brown when he was chancellor.

Never ever let the socialists back into power, they will spend yet more money that we don't have on lesbian diversity eco outreach advisors for Somali illegal migrants.