I received this in my inbox yesterday and I thought I would share it. Doubtless some of you also got it and therefore have already seen it. It’s Paul Maynard’s first letter from Westminster, with a bit of a weekly diary thing going on.
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.
I picked up an old copy of The Sun at work earlier and noticed a story that somehow had avoided my attention last week. It’s one that will rile and repulse the electorate just as cash for questions did so many years ago. Except I think this is worse.
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MPs get medals for visiting war zones. MPs get medals for visiting war zones. MPs get medals for visiting war zones.
No, no matter how many times I say it, I still can’t believe it.
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.
Just thought I would bring you up to date with the latest progress, or lack of, in relation to Blackpool South railway station.
I’m certainly not a railway man by any stretch of the imagination but what I am is someone that doesn’t like watching Blackpool Council living in it’s Teflon-lined bubble doing whatever it likes with little regard to the damage to local services, infrastructure and it’s own reputation.
Dec 282009
Ok, I admit, I just wanted to write the headline that the tabloids weren’t allowed to. But yesterday it was revealed that the Fylde MP – who will not be standing at the next election – had claimed 75p toilet rolls on expenses.
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