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Bonfire: What were the tableaus and which was best

On 6 Nov 2009 at 5:30pm MC wrote:

I didn't get to bonfire (well I did, but my 8 year old son hated the bangs so I had to take him home) and am wondering what the tableas were like.
The Argus has a photo of cheque for 16k, a pig, Jaquie Smith (apparently) and what looks like Charles Kennedy on the front. Which society did this and what did the others do?

On 6 Nov 2009 at 5:55pm The Webmaster wrote:

On 6 Nov 2009 at 6:07pm MC wrote:

Oh clever, so is that Charles Kennedy (and if so why, he has not been implicated in the recent cash scandal) and is that Jacqui Smith? Which bonfie society did this and what did thr others do?

On 6 Nov 2009 at 6:12pm MC wrote:

Is Charles taking Jacqui from behind?
Urgh... and then there's the pig.
Hmm, the photo seems to have shortened the post subject title [bug alert]

On 6 Nov 2009 at 6:24pm Smiler wrote:

Its Hazel Blears in her leathers with her £16000 cheque for us, Charles Kennedy holding the teddy bear he claimed for and Douglas Hogg with his moat and duck house.

On 6 Nov 2009 at 6:27pm Annette Curtin-Twitcher wrote:

The pig is Douglas Hogg MP, and the boat they are falling out of is called the Gravyboat.
I was also told that the woman is Hazel Blears, but I thought it was Jacqui Smith too. The Charles Kennedy is a very good likeness imo.

On 6 Nov 2009 at 6:48pm Pearlie wrote:

I LOVED the Fat Cat banker, don't know whose it was but it was brilliant.

On 6 Nov 2009 at 9:11pm MC wrote:

WTF is Charles Kennedy doing here? He drank himself out of ther lib dems years before the gravy boat scandal hit. Someone pought to tell the Argus that it's Hazel Blears and not Jaqui Smith (somehow, you'd expect the Argus to get the wrong politician).
So that was Cliffe. What about the others? The bankers gravy train is of particular interest seeing as most of the land around Barcombe up to Newick is now owned by two people who have got rich by stealing the pensions of normal people (look up Keydata and Equitable Life).

On 7 Nov 2009 at 1:24pm The Webmaster wrote:

Has anyone got a photo of the fat cat on the piggy bank, I haven't found one yet.
You can use the 'Upload your Lewes photos' link on the left if you like

On 10 Nov 2009 at 4:34pm spanish4 wrote:

From the Torygraph....
Rt Hon Charles Kennedy
Job: Liberal Democrat MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber
Salary: £64,766
Total second home claims
2004-05: 20,902
2005-06: 20,249
2006-07: 22,110
2007-08: 21,287
Total expenses
2007-08: 174,232
Rate of attendance
at votes: 31 per cent
.......
I presume he was selected for appearance in the tab because of his claim for a Teddy Bear, one of the more stupid claims that kind of sums up the whole farce. Personally i think they should of left the poor old MPs alone and blown up a banker or two, but i guess that story seemed to be dying down when the tab was being planned.