The Conway Farts and Tarts Incorporated (CFTI) ...

If being avaricious and conceited are the hallmarks

of today British Members of Parliament, then

Derek Conway is the modern poster boy for them.

An elected Tory hobnob from his low class origins of

Gateshead, the greedy son-of-bitch has represented

Sidcup and Old Bexley for years as a Conservative

MP in the Houses of Commons. While there, old

Derek figured out how to "milk" the system to gratify

himself and his happy family and political lifestyle

at the expense, of course, of the abused taxpayer.

He got his two Harrovian sons, Henry and Freddie,

and his daring wife Colette, all enrolled on the

parliamentary payroll costing the public almost

£400.000 (or nearly $800.000) to satisfy

Derek's desire to keep all the money in the family

and the family all together in their nouveau riche

status and cynical behaviour ... In the meantime,

the good folkz at Old Bexley and Sidcup kept re-

electing Derek Conway, age 54, to represent them

while being kept in the dark of the "legal" shinnangins

and unpublicised financial featherings of his. The late

Tory Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath held the seat

before shabby Conway ...

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And if you take a quick look at his two Harrovian

sons, they're typical of spoilt bratz, spongers, and

university divas that reek of unearned privilege and

self-entitlement. His eldest son Henry Conway, 25,

seems to be nothing more than a gay fart and tart.

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So then, is dad Derek Conway the new breed

of mainstream British MPs? You bet. Take a look

also at Anthony Blair, our ex-Labour Prime

Minister and MP, and see the greed that he now

flaunts without a pause as he exploits every

cranny he can to get more dough in his open-

ended pockets. The real tragedy, aside from his

pathological greed, is that he was ever allowed

to bed down at 10 Downing Street for 10 whole

years of his wretched and destructive leadership

that was Anthony Blair at his worst and a terrible

nightmare for the British people. He's the greediest

ex-Prime Minister to scar the face of England with

millions of quids and bucks being harvested by

him for his autobiography, et al. Why would anybody

want to read what Blair has done and what he says?

We know enough about him already, so why read

any more about him? I certainly, don't. And, we're

still in the New Labour nightmare after Blair with

Gordon Brown, the unelected brickhead.

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Back now to old Derek Conway ... It

doesn't matter what the political stripe is

of the person - be they Tory, New Labour,

Lib-Dem, Independent, etc. - when it comes

to free money at the expense and exploitation

of the system. Rather, it's the position that

he/she holds that leads to temptation, moral

breakdown and corruption to then grab

whatever can be gotten to get away with.

Innate honesty and public service means

little to them. Only money and preferably

lots of it by any which way they can get

their filthy hands on such. I believe many

of those elected to represent us are already

pre-disposed to grabbing whatever they

can and seek to be elected so that they

can precisely do that ... Some are already

so corrupt before they get to Parliament

they simply go to an higher level once

they get there. The only time they care

is when they get caught - like Derek

Conway - for fear of their skin then

coming off their own tender hides.

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As for family and siblings being employed by

MPs, such should be absolutely ban without

any further ado. Especially, in light of the

Derek Conway public exposure. One wonders

who else among other MPs are financially

showering their relatives and next of kin

right today, or have already done so, at

the expense of the public purse? It is like

they've turned parliament into a "mom

and pop" business, while the business of

truly representing the people has been

pre-empted by many of the MPs them-

selves. We elect MPs, not their families

don't we?

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Derek Conway should be facing a term in

jail and/or complete removal from office, if

the truth be known. But instead they kicked

him out of the Commons for a token of only

ten days. On top of that, he could be payrolled

to get at least another £120.000 before he steps

down at the next general election, when hope-

fully will also bring about the total demise

of New Labour and their hideous henchmen.

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In the meantime, son Henry Conway is off here.

there and everywhere to splash out with his own

sickening brand of conciet and arrogrance by

jet setting off to the New York Fashion Show.

In a short and tight frock, he'd look pretty good.

He seems, does Henry, to be the proud door

boy of his own homosexual debauchery, too.

He likes to monkeyfy for sure.

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But more importantly, the 'gaybo' should now

be thinking first about his mom and dad and his

brother Freddie as the family enters their dire

and poor financial straits with the public purse

now shut off to daddy Derek Conway. I might

suggest that Henry register an unlimited

entertainment company appropriately called:

"The Conway Farts and Tarts Incorporated."

That should help their future earnings after

The Conway Debacle of their's has brought

shame to the country, to parliament, and

above all to themselves at the Palace

of Westminster ...

Honestly, Alex Albion.

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:: SO SAM WAS IN SOME SORT OF

"ACCIDENT" OR WAS SHE, REALLY? ::

Sam has been with The Big Issue forover

ten years. She's a fixture at the Covent

Garden distribution spot where

many of the vendors have been abuzz all
week long about Sam having suffered what
appears to be facial bruising and black
eyes and some disfigurement. Sam is noted
for having been chosen to rough sleep with
then Dame Anita Roddick, who wanted to
experience abit of homelessness for her-
self. But for Sam, married now with one
little kid, the reality of being homeless
and a pregnant woman then on the streets
was not make believe. It was all too real
for her. So Sam is a pretty tough person.
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Yet, the fact that she was showing the
scars and wounds of whatever happened to

her last week was what got many of the

vendors' attention and tongues wagging
knowing that Sam isn't the kind of person
to just stand there and take it.

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So what really happened to Sam? Nobody
at The Big Issue or Sam or her friends
are telling any of the vendors despite
the amazing stories going around of what
many believe may have happened to her.
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First I heard that she'd gotten beaten up in

a domestic dispute, then that she and another
woman had been in a fight over something, then
the story by mid-week was that Sam had been
attacked and robbed of the magazine takings
or money collected from vendors who had
paid for their mags to sell, and the stories
just wouldn't go away. I was asked if I had
seen Sam and I said "no" that I hadn't seen
her since the story first broke.
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So finally, I asked Big Issue staffer Steve
Farrell whether Sam had been robbed or what?

He said, "It was an accident." I almost
asked him what kind of "accident," but he
wasn't in a very talkative mood nor very
warm toward me since Steve is basically
a moody type at which you never know
whether he'll be cold or warm or something
in between. He is usually something in be-
tween for the most part. I shouldn't have
expected him to tell me much anyway. Since
Big Issue staffers are generally a clique
unto themselves and also protective and
defensive of each other first and foremost.
They oftentimes view vendors as somehow
inferior to them, but the fact of the
matter is they come from the same ranks

of the homeless themselves. So I cannot see

how they believe they are somehow more im-

portant than those vendors they oftentimes

begrudgely and mechanically "serve." Steve

was, as some of you know, the same guy they
photographed in The Big Issue for its
fundraising appeal about a year ago.
They dressed him up to the nines, too.

He also represented The Big Issue at

the 2oo7 Commemoration Service for

the Homeless Dead and at where he

fell asleep on the front pew - in full

view of the packed congregation of 350

interfaith people - during the solemn

service held at St. Martin-in-the-Fields

come last November. I was there, also,

as an invited speaker and spoke some of

the names of the 127 homeless dead.
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So, if they simply told everybody

upfront of what had really happened

to Sam - unless some kind of court

case is forthcoming out of it - then

that would help bond staffers and

vendors alot more together. Although,

I don't think they give a damn or a

hoot about "bonding" anyway outside

their little clique, which over the

past couple of years has become more

pronounced I think.
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I am, nevertheless, very disturbed

to hear the various stories this week,
especially if Sam for some reason was
in fact beaten-up or attacked physically
for some reason by somebody that obviously
knew her to begin with. Steve didn't even
share a personal thought with me about Sam.
He just refused to say more other than
Sam "was in an accident." As I then
walked back on Saturday morning to my
pitch, I bumped into yet another vendor
who immediately told me, without me even
asking, that another vendor had had some-
kind of altercation with Sam. When I
asked him if he knew anything else, he
carried on with yet another story on the
tale he began with. He said the matter
was being "hushed-up" by The Big Issue
at the order of it co-founder John Bird.
No matter what, nobody has the right
to bang-up on a woman or to do her
an "accident." Period ....
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Sincerely, Monty.
+CANDLEMAS, 2oo8.
:: UPDATE ::
Now a few days later, another
vendor told me that he asked
Sam what had happened to her.
She told him she'd "fallen down"
and hurt herself. He accepted
that was what had happened.He
also said that many of the
vendors were "drama queens"
and would say anything to get
the attention of others. But

later, yet another vendor,
perhaps the 7th or 8th, told me
that he'd seen her and she had
her "eyes popping out of her face"
and damage all under her nose and
lips. He said Sam had been beaten-
up without a doubt. Yes, she
probably did fall as she claimed
but it was no accident, he
thought, in the sense of what
we mean by "an accident." So the
saga of what really did or didn't
happen to Sam continues unabated
among The Big Issue vendors who know
her and the Covent Garden distribution
clique. In the meanwhile, she is hopefully
on the mend presumably and no doubt,
sooner or later, the true story of what
really happened will slip out or be given
away despite all the stonewalling ...
Whatever, the American quip says it
all regarding Sam: "PAST GRIEF,
IS PAST HELP."

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Now the very latest story goes like
this: Sam was approached by two or
three rough characters and banged
up by them late at night at her
abode ... Really? I guess any
story is possible with those

drama queens, yes?