Had to happen sooner or later, but today the government coalition is having to weather it’s first sleaze storm. Surprisingly, or not, it’s about expenses.
The Daily Telegraph have today made revelations about David Laws, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Yeovil, resulting in the Liberal Democrat multi-millionaire pledging to immediately pay back more than £40,000 in expenses that were claimed against parliamentary rules. Laws has now referred himself to the Parliamentary Standards Commission.
Read more on Lib Dem rent boy paid £40k expenses to gay lover…
It’s “you couldn’t make it up” time. The three Labour MPs against whom criminal charges have been brought for their expenses fiddling have secured legal aid.
In an audacious slap to the already battle weary taxpayer, David Chaytor, Elliot Morley and Jim Devine could accrue legal fees topping £3million and have it all paid by the very people they ripped off.
Read more on Labour expenses scammers get legal aid…
You can probably imagine how much my eyes lit up when I was reminded about this story in today’s early edition Gasjet. Oh yes. Early in 2009 they published the same story but my site wasn’t really around then, so I’ll take the liberty of highlighting it this time round.
Read more on “First class” Fowler rapped for jollies…
Funny how an MP can come out slagging off BAe Systems for being caught out on dodgy financial practices.
Today Fylde Tory Michael Jack MP spunked a salvo into the face of BAe after they reportedly paid off the US Department of Transport to the tune of £250m for misleading them about payments made in relation to obtaining arms contracts. It sounds like they were trying to cover up their dodgy actions and have settled out of court so that we never find out about what really happened.
Read more on MP Jack’s all over BAe whitewash…
It just gets worse and worse reading for UKIP members these days.
After selling its soul to a group of city traders due to bankruptcy worries, the party that started out with a different fresh outlook from the LibLabCon axis has been plunged deeper into crisis as several of its MEPs are being probed for paying UKIP staff out of their EU expenses. It has been rumoured that the odious Regional Organiser (RO), Dr Fred McGlade, is funded to the tune of £50,000 a year from EU expenses but I couldn’t possibly comment on that!
Read more on EU fraud team close in on Farage…
You know what’s wrong with this parliamentary expenses system?
It’s that once the offending MP gets caught, nothing happens. Their parties don’t disown them, and once they have spewed forth a lame duck apology and perhaps paid back a fraction of the money they have robbed, all is forgotten.
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July-September
“I love this town.” - Phil “The Power” Taylor
The start of July saw Blackpool’s Opera House announced as the 2009 venue for the Royal Variety Performance. The show would be in December. We also saw Labour crushed in the European elections as the British National Party secured two seats in the European Parliament. Their victory rally would be held in Blackpool a few weeks later prompting an invasion of Unite Against Fascism.
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It’s that time of year once again where we all go and spend more than we’ve got, drink more than we should and forget about the trials of our everyday working lives. A bit like what this Labour government has been doing for the last 12 years.
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