Cameron tells rebel: 'One more squeak and you're out'
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David Cameron yesterday rounded on two Tory backbenchers who made outspoken remarks about the controversy over MPs' expenses, writes Andrew Grice.
The Tory leader issued a final warning to Anthony Steen, the maverick MP who told the BBC this week that criticism of his expenses was motivated by jealousy among the public about his large house.
Mr Cameron said: "One more squeak like that and he will have the whip taken away from him so fast his feet won't touch the ground. It was a completely unacceptable interview."
Mr Cameron also rebuked Nadine Dorries after she said MPs were victims of a "McCarthy-style witch-hunt". She said there were fears that an MP could commit suicide and that the atmosphere at Westminster was "completely unbearable."
Mr Cameron replied: "Of course MPs are concerned, but frankly MPs ought to be concerned about what their constituents think and ought to be worrying about the people who put us where we are." A senior Tory said her remarks were "completely wacky."
Mr Cameron, looking ahead to next month's European and local elections, admitted: "The public are very angry, they have every right to be. I think they will give the major parties a kicking."
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Nobody had compared his home to Balmoral, but his pretentious attempt to link himself to the Royal Family was made worse by his assertion that the public were jealous rather than seeking to hold him to account for unacceptable behaviour.
His continued presence is a stain on the Conservative Party and an affront to his constituents.
Septimus Grunge
Yet they have put unbearable pressure on the people, with their policies of Stasi-style total surveillance, constant monitoring, zero-tolerance policing, inspection of everything. They have brought downright misery to ordinary people
Let's take an example - OFSTED, with teacher having to give endless accounts of themselves, with their jobs on the line. That has driven Headteachers to suicide
Suicides have actually happened rather than been just threatened.
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Does Nadine Dorries feel sorry about this? I doubt it. If she does, she hasn't mentioned it
Nadine's self-pity is a truly disgusting spectacle
If you don't like the public treating you the way you treat them Nadine, you can always resign immediately, if you think your working conditions are so unbearable, that you feel suicidal.
It might be better that you remove Anthony Steen now.
So he can admire his estate he claims we are all jealous of.
He needs the time to prune the 500 trees we bought for him and control rabbits, now that you have stopped his rabbit control expenses bills.
He would then have the time to paint a painting of Duck Island?
However if Anthony thinks we are jealous. My answer to Anthony is that he has not got a moat.
""It's not a requirement that you provide so much for the handicapped and comparatively insufficient for the un-handicapped."
So he is jealous that handicapped people have parking bays reserved for them at railway stations!
He was fined two years ago for parking in a parking space reserved for disabled people at Newton Abbot railway station. His response was;
""It's not a requirement that you provide so much for the handicapped and comparatively insufficient for the un-handicapped.
So do not despair, poor people who cannot afford a large house like him and are jealous, you are not alone, he also despises disabled people as well!