Thread: Major Eric Joyce MP

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...gains-tax.html

nuff said

Trotsky

how do you forget if you own a house or not? I'm pretty sure I'd remember if I'd paid out forty-odd grand in tax on it as well.

cnut.

A million in expenses... That's how many families entire tax bill over the same period?

And MPs still don't understand why they're unpopular?

Be careful what you lot say, you might drive him to suicide.

Surely this must be fraud , a visit to the cells must be in order

MAJOR ERIC JOYCE, who publicly condemned the Army leadership as a clique of white, out-of-touch elitists, has been ordered to resign his commission or be sacked.

The outspoken Black Watch major hopes to stand as a Labour candidate in elections for the Scottish Parliament and critics privately regard his attack on the "officer class" as an exercise in self-promotion.

Major Joyce was told at a meeting with his commanding officer in Aldershot that he would automatically be discharged if he did not resign his commission within two months. Unbowed, he reiterated afterwards he intends to take his case for freedom of speech within the Army to the European Court of Human Rights.

Major Joyce breached Queen's Regulations by writing a pamphlet for the Labour- affiliated Fabian Society and has appeared before the Army Board, accused of speaking about the Army without its permission. In the pamphlet he alleged the Army was racist, snobbish and outdated.

Major Joyce rose through the ranks in the Black Watch and is on the staff of the Adjutant General's Corps, the Army's administrative branch. He said yesterday it was "terribly important" soldiers should be allowed to speak freely and he condemned the "obsession" of the Army top brass with an "officer class". He said Queen's Regulations were "a convention" and not legally enforceable.

Major Joyce is being dealt with under a procedure allowing unsuitable personnel to leave the Army.

The Ministry of Defence said attitudes in the Army were evolving. "We are a meritocracy. If you are not good enough, you don't get on. We're not interested in a person's background, class or school."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/de...t-1046912.html

A quick trawl, I'm sure there is better material out there.

Who's out of touch now? Hoefully the constituents of Falkirk will shunt this cnut back into obscurity. Even better if the SFO decide to have a little peek, too.

Originally Posted by nigegilb

I did mention to Hackle that Eric Joyce was not highly regarded on arrse

Probably because he branded all of the posters on here as racist, misogynistic, homophobes in a TV appearance. A statement that sweeping tends not to make him at all popular (or bright).

Although his general being a tool-ness may also play a part along with the money grabbing.

Originally Posted by nigegilb

Erm, Conservative gain??

In Falkirk?

Not a hope in hell - they would vote for an Octupus as long as it was a Labour Octupus!

"When first approached, Mr Joyce said he could not recall whether he or his wife owned the Croydon house. Nor could he recall whether he had paid capital gains tax on it."

I often make the same mistake - "I'm sure I had a flat around here!"

He is a Grade A cnut - oh and I like this " I may have shafted myself". That is Labour speak for " I am a thieving cnut who has just been caught".

Originally Posted by Argee2007

How exactly can you represent the people if you're not part of that community, let alone just up there for flying visits, this is one thing i'm hoping gets changed, if you represent an area of the UK, then you live there and you are accessable to the people of that area, i used to be up in that area and it's not an affluent area either, how the hell they could vote in someone like this is beyond me, well maybe not as usual people seem to vote for the party (labour) without even caring about the person they're putting into parliament.

Both R_M above and myself know the constituency fairly well: Joyce was inflicted on them thus:

Dennis Canavan was the previous MP for Falkirk West (as was) and campaigned for his entire political life for a Scottish Parliament. When one came about, he put his name forward but was deemed not sufficiently loyal (read Blairite) to be a candidate, so he thought about it for precisely three seconds and stood as an independent.

Unfortunately for New Labour, he went on to secure the highest majority in Scotland and beat the official Labour candidate. D’oh!

The result was that he stood down from Westminster and the toady Joyce (with no constituency connections whatsoever) was parachuted in and the aforementioned ‘Octopus’ tendency mentioned up there ^ kicked in and et voila; a perfect lobby sheep was in place rather than the more independently minded Canavan (who was a local teacher and lived in Denny).

New Labour in action!

Joyce has always been a queue jumper. I have the dubious honour of putting him to the back of the school dinner queue when he tried to jump it!