Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 9:36 am Post subject: MP's expenses
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Matthew Bell: The IoS Diary
Sunday, 17 May 2009
One squeaky-clean MP who has been left unscathed by the expenses scandal is Dai Davies, the Welsh independent member for Blaenau Gwent. He will be tabling an Early Day Motion tomorrow, calling for all wrongly claimed expenses to be repaid and funnelled into a Windfall Fund. "This fund should be used as a matter of urgency to assist the poorest communities in the country," he writes, "to assist small businesses and voluntary organisations to survive during the extremely difficult economic conditions." And he calls upon the "appropriate authorities to put such assistance into action at the earliest date". Good for him.
I see that some Labour lackey made a half-hearted attempt to rubbish Dai Davies on the Gazette letters page this week. Nice try but no cigar. _________________ The compliments pass when the quality meet.
Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 4:55 pm Post subject: Tory MP claimed for floating "duck island"
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THE MPs expenses scandal claimed another victim tonight when Tory Sir Peter Viggers announced he would quit at the next election over a massive taxpayer-funded gardening bill.
Sir Peter, the MP for Gosport, was told to retire or be thrown out of the party by leader David Cameron after his claims - including one for a £1,645 floating duck island for his pond - were published by The Daily Telegraph.
Tory sources said Sir Peter, the third Tory MP to say he will step down over expenses claims, would also repay a sum - believed to be in five figures.
A senior Tory source said Mr Cameron was "absolutely furious" about Sir Peter's expenses and presented him with an ultimatum: do not stand again or be stripped of the party whip.
The former minister joins Douglas Hogg and Anthony Steen, who announced his decision to quit earlier this evening, in leaving Westminster over similar claims.
Meanwhile Tory whip Bill Wiggin blamed an administrative error for "11,000 in claims for mortgage interest on the wrong home - insisting he had not benefited financially.
The newspaper said he had declared his constituency home as his second home but claimed mortgage payments that matched his London property.
In a statement, Mr Wiggin said: "For a period I filled in the accompanying forms incorrectly, but this mistake made no difference at all to the claim.
It was purely an administrative error, and it was of absolutely no financial advantage to me. I claimed the correct amount to the last penny.
"Anybody checking these documents could - and can - see that it was an error. As it was, nobody spotted the error until 2006 when I immediately started filling in the forms correctly."
Totnes MP Mr Steen, who claimed more than £80,000 from the taxpayer over four years for work at his £1m Devon mansion, said he did not want to distract the party from its fight against Labour.
"The real issue in Britain today is who can fix the country. The real debate - the real choice - is Brown or Cameron," he said in a statement.
"The real focus for all Conservatives should be on winning the next election. For that reason, and because I dont want to distract from the real story here, I have decided not to stand at the next election."
Mr Hogg announced last week that he would step down following controversy over the inclusion of a bill for the cleaning of his moat in submissions to the Fees Office.
Not looking good for either party _________________ My life is no rehearsal There'll be no curtain call encore, so I've thrown my screwed up script away to ad lib my life once more!
THE MP’S TOOK AT OUR EXPENSE, THEY SAY THEY’LL GIVE US RECOMPENSE
ARE WE SO THICK WE COULD’NT SEE, THEM WALLOW IN OUR INNOCENCE.
IS THAT ENOUGH I HEAR YOU SAY, WERE THEY NOT HAPPY WITH THEIR PAY.
IF THEY NEEDED SOMETHING DAY TO DAY, JUST FILL A FORM IN THAT’S OK
MORTGAGE’S, LIGHT BULBS, SILK CUSHION’S AND TOILET SEAT’S.
EVEN FLOATING DUCK ISLAND’S, THERE’S NO END TO THIS LIST OF TREAT’S.
NOT ONE’S BATTING AN EYELID, THEY’RE NOT LOSING THERE SLEEP.
BUT WE ALL KNOW THE SCORE, THEY ARE IN IT REAL DEEP.
YOU CAN’T GET A PAY RISE, THE MONEY’S SIMPLY NOT THERE.
IT WAS POSSIBLY SPENT, ON A JOHN LEWIS CHAIR.
COUNCIL TAX RISES WATER RATE’S TOO, GAS AND ELECTRIC TO NAME BUT A FEW.
RED BILL’S THROUGH THE POSTBOX, PAYMENT IS LONG OVERDUE.
HOW THE HELL WILL YOU PAY THEM NO EXPENSES FOR YOU.
SO WHO DO WE VOTE FOR, THEY’RE MOST ALL JUST THE SAME.
I THINK THIS POLITICS LARK, IS A DIRTY OLD GAME.
SO INSTEAD OF EXPENSES, THEY SHOULD GET JUST REWARD.
AND THE ONE’S THAT ARE GUILTY, SHOULD GET DONE FOR FRAUD.
Your wife's name isn't Pam by any chance ? _________________ Rocke
Mrs Monks publicity stunts are a logical absurdity, a series of deductions from a premise that has been denied. Speaking of absurdities, in a rather infamous speech, Mrs Monk exclaimed that her claque is looking out for our best interests. (I edited out the rest of what she said because, well, it didn't really say anything.) _________________ 'Unqualified Jedi Knight'. Are Dildo Baginses Hobbit Forming? Is Muffing the Mule a Crime? Makers of Flabbers to be Ghasted!
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Too busy claiming for expences hanging around down the bay _________________ 'Unqualified Jedi Knight'. Are Dildo Baginses Hobbit Forming? Is Muffing the Mule a Crime? Makers of Flabbers to be Ghasted!
WATCHA MORRIS, I HOPE THAT OLD BANGER IS ROAD WORTHY.
COS WITH ALL THE SPEED BUMPS AND POTHOLES AROUND ABERTILLERY IT'S LIKELY TO FALL APART.
A BIT LIKE THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT AT THE MOMENT. _________________ "Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault".
It's a classic not riding the gravey train so I have no worries _________________ 'Unqualified Jedi Knight'. Are Dildo Baginses Hobbit Forming? Is Muffing the Mule a Crime? Makers of Flabbers to be Ghasted!
Ah yes the gravy train, would that be the METAPHORICAL, one.
Or the one that goes from CARDIFF to UTOPIA, OOP's I mean EBBW VALE.
Unless you live in or have family in ABERTILLERY one would have very little or no reason to visit here.
For many years people have jokingly said they should build a dam across the abertillery valley at aberbeeg.
(ANYTHING WE SHOULD KNOW). _________________ "Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault".
Astonishing, so if we take the case of the 21,000, miles per annum.
That would be 477 round trips with one trip of 18 miles.
How many days of the year are the houses gathered?
It does'nt leave much time for(other business does it)
and although they readily admit mp's are not good at accounting, surely the finance's committee or what ever their given name, possess a calculator.
and further more in the case of the 18 miles one can only assume he/she ran out of petrol 4miles from home or parliament.
And in the other case they must work for N.A.S.A. _________________ "Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault".
They are entitled to claim for travelling between their homes, constituencies and Westminster.
Apparently the MP living 9 miles from Westminster has a family home in er.. Suffolk.
In the same vein, another MP used the excuse that he did 3 trips a day because he liked to get 'out and about'. _________________ Rocke
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