l just love the way MPs spend our money.

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• chaff Posts: 985

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  14/01/14 - 16:51 #2

  I hope they got a refund for Diane Abbott's portrait

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• imrightok Posts: 8,492

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  14/01/14 - 17:17 #3

  chaff wrote: »

  I hope they got a refund for Diane Abbott's portrait

  
  I don't think her's was too bad; whereas I thought and one or two people on the radio who commented on Blair's portrait, said he looked like John McEnroe.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 5,692

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  14/01/14 - 17:20 #4

  I don't know why David Blunkett has a portrait.
  
  It's not like he's going to be able to, y'know...

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• Uffa Posts: 1,910

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  14/01/14 - 17:24 #5

  GeoBa92 wrote: »

  I don't know why David Blunkett has a portrait.
  
  It's not like he's going to be able to, y'know...

  
  Maybe his dog can describe it to him?

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• Voynich Posts: 14,481

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  14/01/14 - 17:30 #6

  Jacob Rees-Mogg reckons 10 grand on a painting is ”chicken feed”.

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• Cryolemon Posts: 8,670

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  14/01/14 - 18:08 #7

  A lot of the portraits are shite anyway.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 4,138

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  14/01/14 - 18:16 #8

  Diane Abbott's looks like a detail from full size nude
  
  and Tony Blair looks like Charles Saatchi

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• kippeh Posts: 6,655

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  14/01/14 - 18:49 #9

  Diane Abbott, or Lennox Lewis?

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• exlordlucan Posts: 35,375

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  14/01/14 - 18:54 #10

  Charles Kennedy? lol - did he have a bottle in his hand?

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• imrightok Posts: 8,492

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  14/01/14 - 19:57 #11

  kippeh wrote: »

  Diane Abbott, or Lennox Lewis?

  
  No...

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• kitty86 Posts: 7,034

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  14/01/14 - 20:00 #12

  kippeh wrote: »

  Diane Abbott, or Lennox Lewis?

  
  
  That did make me giggle :-D
  
  Her portrait is awful!

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• swingaleg Posts: 103,095

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  14/01/14 - 20:05 #13

  The one of Michael Howard is fantastic......I thought it was a photo !

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  14/01/14 - 20:18 #14

  Diane Abbott's is very good but it does her no favours. It looks like a forensic reconstruction from a skull
  
  They captured Tony Blair perfectly. He looks just like he's just not apologised for something

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• cessna Posts: 6,747

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  14/01/14 - 20:31 #15

  If thats anything like the Abbott woman then the one thing she would surely wish to avoid was having her portrait painted. And if true we are trousering the expenses then its a double dead loss !

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  14/01/14 - 20:33 #16

  on the plus side, they sawed Gordon Brown in half, and dropped him in a tank of formaldehyde

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• imrightok Posts: 8,492

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  14/01/14 - 20:36 #17

  bugloss wrote: »

  Diane Abbott's is very good but it does her no favours. It looks like a forensic reconstruction from a skull
  
  They captured Tony Blair perfectly. He looks just like he's just not apologised for something

  
  
  
  
  The gulf war!

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• kippeh Posts: 6,655

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  14/01/14 - 20:45 #18

  imrightok wrote: »

  No...

  
  You don't appreciate fine art.

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• Bermondseybrick Posts: 1,256

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  14/01/14 - 20:47 #19

  if I was Diane Abbot id ask for my (our) money back

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• Gary_LandyFan Posts: 3,824

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  14/01/14 - 20:53 #20

  Thats the MP scum for you. Constantly going on about how we can't afford to pay for services that the public use as a country, but we have enough money to be able to afford to pay for things like this, on top of their generous expenses and their recent pay rise.
  
  For a government that constantly complains about the unemployed, classing them all as lazy, work-shy scroungers, they have no problem in scrounging money for themselves.

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• PencilBreath Posts: 3,643

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  14/01/14 - 20:58 #21

  chaff wrote: »

  I hope they got a refund for Diane Abbott's portrait

  
  I've got the bottom half of that one.

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• exlordlucan Posts: 35,375

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  14/01/14 - 21:00 #22

  imrightok wrote: »

  
  
  
  The gulf war!

  
  Can't say I blame him because that was during John Major's watch.

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• zx50 Posts: 91,267

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  14/01/14 - 21:21 #23

  chaff wrote: »

  I hope they got a refund for Diane Abbott's portrait

  
  I know. It looks nothing like her. In fact, It looks as if someone's had a joke at her expense.

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• zx50 Posts: 91,267

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  14/01/14 - 21:26 #24

  I could laugh at the financial situation that some people are in these days and yet, they use hundreds of thousands of pounds getting their portraits done. Unbelievable.

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• Bungitin Posts: 5,356

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  14/01/14 - 21:28 #25

  Wasn't enough whitewash in the UK for Tony Blair.

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• Bungitin Posts: 5,356

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  14/01/14 - 21:32 #26

  How come IDS's nasty penny pinching doesn't apply when it comes to having his portrait taken.

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