(not satire – it’s Iain Duncan Smith!)
If there were ever any doubts that Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith is a very nasty bully of the highest order – as well as a hypocrite of the highest order – this little anecdote will surely remove them.
Around 10 years ago – when IDS was leader of the opposition – you may remember the ‘Betsygate‘ scandal when it was revealed he’d been using taxpayers’ money to pay his wife a wage for doing nothing.
In October 2003, a senior aide to IDS – Dr Vanessa Gearson – gave written evidence to the House of Commons Select Committee on Standards and Privileges about the scandal.
In her written statement Dr Gearson revealed that she had written an email to Conservative Central Office expressing her concerns about IDS claiming money from the taxpayer for his own personal expenses—for example his lunches, haircuts, food for his own home, a mirror for his flat, his laundry and – his underwear!
Even more revealing than the fact that IDS thinks the taxpayer should pay for his underpants, Dr Gearson also describes how after she sent the email, she was reduced to tears by an “extremely agitated” and “very angry” Duncan Smith after he called her to a meeting to demand that the offending email be “expunged” from the central server:
Mr Duncan Smith did not ask me for an explanation. He did not ask why I was concerned. Indeed, besides my own apology for having formalised the matter in the form of an email I did not utter another word as Mr Duncan Smith spoke without break. I was so distressed by his manner and conduct that I was reduced to tears in the meeting.
You can see the whole written statement from Dr Gearson here:
Select Committee on Standards and Privileges – Written statement by Dr Vanessa Gearson
Yet more irrefutable proof – if any more were needed – of what a very nasty piece of work Duncan Smith really is.
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Anyone who found themselves turning to the DWP for help & support, following illness, redundancy or returning to work following their children starting school will already know what a nasty, spiteful, ignorant, ideologically motivated bully, IDS truly is.
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Waste of tears woman…a swift kick in the right place would have been more appropriate! 🙂
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and don’t forget IDS’s elaborations in his own cv,
From an old press release from the BBC back in 2002 – “Aspects of Iain Duncan Smith’s CV, relating to his education, are inaccurate and misleading, an investigation by BBC Newsnight reveals.” – http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/12_december/19/newsnight_ids_cv.shtml
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Shortly after becoming leader IDS visited Altrincham, he was met off the train by the local MP Graham Brady, walking out of station the first person they met quite by chance was a good friend of mine Elsie a Labour Party activist since 1946, she smiled at him sweetly and said how pleased she was that he had been elected leader. He smiled shook her hand and thanked her. She replied ‘ because the Tories will have no f*****g chance of winning with you in charge. I wish I’d have been there to witness it. It still makes me smile when I see or hear of the horrible little man. Sadly Elsie has dementia now and has forgotten it all, she has still however retained her venom for those who get on the wrong side of her.
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He’s a pathological liar and thief – he should have been throw out of the con party all that time ago – but they knew he would come in useful for something in the end and that’s why he has the job he has now.
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I can’t believe IDS would have anyone who would crumble to tears as a senior aide.
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Perhaps maybe his reputed aphorism: “Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man” should rather more accurately have been quoted as: “Do not underestimate the mean-spirited narcissistic nastiness of a charisma-free Roman Catholic charlatan”….??
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the biggest social killer the biggest tom pepper and most certainly the biggest social scrounger of all time jeff3
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#CorruptPolitician
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What can one say but s**t!
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Attack, attack, attack those weaker than you to feel and appear strong is so wrong…
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“A mirror for his flat”
Oh great, now I have an image of the grand narcissist admiring himself in the mirror wearing nothing but his underwear.
Be back in a bit, going to throw up.
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Incidentally, I’m writing a book, the main villain is based on IDS, hell the entire premise is based on what I think IDS’ perfect world would look like.
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Just like members of the Mafia our politicians prefer to spend other people’s money.
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