Legg Report Live Updates
£1.3 million in fiddles repaid. Average fiddle was for £4,000.
Link to report [PDF] here.
Post info in the comments…
UPDATE : John Redwood MP had to repay £112 for the cost of re-seeding his lawn, uncharacteristically he wanted us to pay for the green shoots of recovery.
Bob Ainsworth to payback £1,526.50 for antique dresser and brand new gate-gate.
Dr Julian Lewis MP double claimed £829.85 for mortgage interest and over-claimed for a £789 for a washer/drier.
Balls for overpaid mortgage repayments £1,363.44.
Phil Hope to pay back a whopping £42,674.13.
Rt Hon David Heathcoat-Amory MP overshot the gardening allowance by £26,696.58.
Douglas “Moat Cleaning” Hogg paying back £20,639. Elliot Morley ‘has no issues’. We know he is guilty.
Bercow has repaid £978.51 for mortgage overpayments.
Margaret Beckett still owes for illegitimate claims for gardening. She has still not repaid the £2,539.75 Legg asked for.
Keith Vaz, £414 for a foot-stool.
Iris Robinson £1,614 for a bed. No further comment.
John Baron MP cashed in by re-mortgaging his house to the tune of £8,821.10. Re-mortgaging is specifically against the Green Book rules.
Gordon has repaid £13,723.04 for his cleaning claims despite being asked for “only” £12,888.03. A shame he wasn’t so diligent with our deficit.
Ed Vaizey paying back £2,449.45 for amongst other things, a dining table. How did he break the old one?
Jeremy Richard Browne appealed a demand to repay £17,894.24 for re-mortgaging his home, which is specifically disallowed in the Green Book rules. He has successfully appealed this down to £0.
CCHQ: Total cabinet repayments since 1 April 2009 = £35,036. Brown’s £13,723 represents 40% of total
George Galloway to pay back £3,187.28 of mobile phone bills. Calling the Middle East is expensive!
Julie Kirkbride had to repay £29,243 scammed. Oink.
Yvette Cooper was overpaid by £1,363.21 in mortgage interest for the home she shares with Blinky.
Nick Clegg has had to repay £910.00 for gardening costs.
Jonathan Djanogly was ordered to repay £17,364.76 for gardening and cleaning costs. The limit was £1000.
Parmjit Dhanda had to repay £2,208.28 for overpayments of mortgage interest.
Quentin “Belltower” Davies claims were at least so outrageous that most of them didn’t even get past the placid Fees Office. He did, however, manage to over-claim for cleaning to the tune of £658.00.
Wayne David was ordered to repay £12,959.69 for a combination of insurance and mortgage fiddles (switching to a higher rate on the taxpayer’s dime) as well as £430 for a bedroom chair.
Alistair Darling claimed more than double the recommended amount for a chest of drawers and has been ordered to repay £554.00.
Anthony Steen claimed for “a flagpole rope and binding” for his very nice house.
CCHQ: Ed Balls paid Brown’s former press officer – Fiona Gordon – £4,000 in exes in 08/09
Vaizey appealed to Legg over £30.
Michael Spicer failed in his appeal to avoid paying back £15,109.37 for gardening, cleaning and a dishwasher. £10k of this is therefore still owed.
And we get done if we forget to pay a simple tax bill for £100.
Hang them all.
“The root of the problem of the old system was that because of the way it grew up – party leaders refusing independently recommended pay increases but sanctioning instead absurdly generous allowances – MPs began to treat the allowances as their own money rather than the public’s money. So they spent it on things they would have spent their own money on. This should never have happened, and nobody regrets it more than I do”
So that’s okay then.
Oh by the way,this is the moron who claimed for three garlic presses – he bought a £1.9M house without taking out a mortgage.
And they were so absurdly generous,that I just had to claim them…….
By God,if only we could rid ourselves of these scum.
Vote them all – refuse to vote.
BROWN – IN THE TOP 5% OF WORST FIDDLERS !
Phil Hope £114 for a fucking razor
Ha ha
Douglas Hogg claimed for a housekeeper and a gardener as well as his moat to be cleaned, the fat fuck
ENOUGH OF THIS BOLLOCKS!
CROMWELL YOUR MP
http://www.youve-been-cromwelled.org/
Ann Widdecombe has said that Sir Thomas’s review was “lazy, incompetent and illogical.”
Widdi was whinging.
Its apparently illogical to retrospectively cap some things, and not others.
Its apparently lazy to ask people standard questions like “how much XXXX did you apply for” when the answer is clearly zero.
Leave her alone! Widdy is wonderful
The Legg fellow is clearly a rotter
If he’s not careful MP’s will commit suicide over these baseless smears
never mind that-WHAT ABOUT THE 50K SLUSH FUND???
Shameless Piggy thieving bastards, here’s a couple we all know
Ms Nadine V Dorries MP Mid Bedfordshire
Ms Dorries was paid £882.31 twice for hotel expenses in January 2007.
She was also paid £161.04 twice for internet service in April 2007.
She was further paid £271.02 twice for a telephone bill in 2008-09.
Total repayment recommended: £1,314.37
Total repayments received since 1 April 2009: £0.00
Balance recommended to be repaid: £1,314.37
Rt Hon Geoffrey Hoon MP Ashfield
Mr Hoon was overpaid by £1,013.13 for mortgage interest in 2008-09.
He was also paid £138.29 twice for a gas bill, also in 2008-09.
Total repayment recommended: £1,151.42
Total repayments received since 1 April 2009: £383.76
Balance recommended to be repaid: £767.66
Hoon
And he also managed to build up a very tidy capital sum by playing the second home system. And the Labour Party is supposed to represent ordinary working people.
Imagine popping his privates in to a garlic press and giving it a good squeeze.
“Dear employer (choose Factory Owner/Telesales Centre/Retail Shop etc etc);
You are not paying me enough so I shall start stealing from you
Good day.”
Interesting logic from your MP.
My customers are not paying quite as much for my services as I’d like, and therefore I’ve decided to treat my neighbours’ property and possessions as if they were my own. Tonight I shall break in and take them. Including their 19 year-old daughter. She’s hot. And mine.
Please forward any concerns you may have about this to your MP, who’ll confirm it’s all above board. You know where to find him/her/whatever.
Ta.
His name is James Arbuthnot.
Ther reply you recieved echoes very much excuses offered The Anne Widecome and Shirley Williams; “it’s the system”. Presumably MP from all sides got together to come up with this rediculously lame excuse.
No, you scumbags, the “root” of the problem is that MPs are crooks. Even those not implicated (if there are any) must have know this troughing was going on, and kept quiet.
Now is also the time to chop the number of MPs from 650 down to 199. That would be real savings.
All 52% of the troughers should go. The rtest given a gold star for covering up their tracks so well. Enterprising!
AH (C)
Good plan. I’ll pop down to Robert Dyas and get an axe.
But you can’t even buy a bloody quiche from Tesco nowadays – how will you get an axe from RB?
Tesco sold me a cheese and chive quiche yesterday, and didn’t even ask for prooof of I.D, mind you I didn’t have me school uniform on….I just walked straight out of the door with it..ha ha, mugs.
“The Prime Minister was paid a total of £21,189.53 for cleaning costs between April 2004 and March 2009, exceeding the maximum allowable by £11,189.53.
He was also paid £1,396 twice in April and July 2006 for internal redecoration.
He was further paid £1,302.50 in 2007-08 for garden maintenance, exceeding the allowable maximum by £302.50.
Total repayment recommended: £12,888.03 Total repayments received since 1 April 2009: £13,723.04
He was one of the worst offenders. He was in the TOP 5% PIGGY CLUB !
So the pillock cannot even do basic arithmetic.
what a twat
you won’t catch me fiddling my expenses
oh wait..
“She was also paid a total of £8,908.36 for six telephone lines at her second home between April 2004 and November 2008. The number of lines and the amount claimed are excessive, and half the allowance, i.e. £4,454.18, should be repaid”
The bitch was running some telephone sex chat line
Boke! How do I get puke out of my laptop? Apart from claiming the cleaning on expenses…
We have a product called the ‘Dyson micro puke vac’. So small it fits in your top pocket, not only will it remove puke from your lappy, it will also make small change of those nasty bits of lamb that get stuck between your teeth, after a bhuna.
The wife of a friend of mine is being done by the Revenue for underpayment by 42 pence – that’s PENCE – on last year’s tax return. Her husband is also being subject to the forensic thumb-screws. The worst aspect of this for me is that almost NO-ONE gives a shit about MPs troughing.
Tell the tax office to go and fuck themselves.
Anarchy in the UK following this shambles!
Mr (Ms?) Tax Expert – the forensic Revenue investigation is most unappealing. It also happened to a GP friend, one of whose partners wrongly valued a car being traded in by £125. All the practice partners were taken to the cleaners, as well as every one their spouses, none of whom had ANYTHING to do with the alleged discrepancy.
I agree with every word in your post. If enough of us don’t get off our backsides before the election and explain to the 30% who don’t give a fuck and who barely know what’s going in in their own country just what another five years of the one-eyed c’nut and his mob will mean, then we’re all doomed.
I think people do care, and the pressure needs to be kept up.
Guido could have a wall of shame, with portraits of our esteemed MPs (available from their websites) made out like police mugshots, except instead of police numbers at the bottom, they’ve got the sum of money they stole from us.
You could even turn this into an Adobe Flash game, like an online Trivial Pursuit, in which one is presented with a list of stolen items which one has to link to each ‘Honourable’ thief.
Trouble is, it will take a while to code and by the time the project’s completed, half of these fuckers will be unemployed.
GBSMP – only a small minority give a damn. I work occasionally in Prescott-land and talk to dozens of locals, both bright and sub-normal. I doubt if 1% care what’s going on in Beverley, never mind London. The capital might as well be on Uranus as far as Hull is concerned. I assume that huge swathes of Birmingham, Liverpool, Leicester and other cities with massive benefit-dependent populations feel the same. They have their ciggies, their tellies, their junk food and their old bangers and that’s all that matters. MPs troughing? Who gives a shit? Change of government? What for? Dame Shirley Bassey – I mean Williams – has a lot to answer for. The dumbing down of Britain has been carried out with the utmost thoroughness.
I think we need to create a breakdown report of the amount per party per head, with a split into how much was officially against the rules, and how much was just extravagant, which is also against the rules but subjective.
Then if needs be find a way to split it to ensure that labour worse (although probably not needed)
Then kill gordon brown.
£1.3mn in fiddles? You could buy a bloody Stradivarius for that…
I wonder if this Stradivarius complies with the new emissions standards.
When will Clarkson get to road test it?
The trouble with a Stradivarius is that it might be finely tuned, unlike the cheaper Japanese models, but they still come with strings attached.
There’s enough ‘fiddling’ going on without you lot starting.
I did a test drive on the Strad Cello recently for a one-off special for the BBC Concert Orchestra who were filing in Vienna but spent the next day pulling splinters and wire out of the radiator.
The tone and timbre is absolutely incredible! Its not often that something this good gets used around the Top Trumpet Test Track.
Now we have to hand it over to our tame concert virtuoso.
Some say he can print money just by staring at a laser printer, and that the fees office have had to REPAY him for expenses.
We just know he’s the STIG!
No you can’t matey. Stads are much more expensive and a lot more useful.
Stradewhovious?
Who was “Top Trougher” ?
Barbara Follett one of them.
What about 5 bellies and the capital gains?
Well we know what to do. Sack the lot of them and start afresh!
Keith Vaz, £414 for a fucking footstool
David Simpson, £800 in food in May 2007
Ha ha
Iris Robinson £1614 for a bed
Yes she wore the other one out !
Gerald Kaufman £240 for two grapefruit bowls
Yes he wore the other ones out !
and ‘service charges’
I know were he can stick his satsumas
Memsahib Vaz will have you know that the Raj is not dead. His punkawallah actually wants a raise, so expect more on his expense claims.
Long live Piggy Trotter.
(and while we are on a Raj what news on the udderly orrible Baroness?)
SSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!
Have you seen the size of his feet? He’s not just associated with a greasy toad for no reason.
Why not cut his head off and use that for a footBALL?
These men of the East are prone to gout. Have some sympathy.
I have just spoken (anonymously) to the intolerance, hate crime and ‘we will know your secrets whether you like it or fucking not’ police, of your racist remark.
You will be re educated.
If you educated them properly (or at all) the first time you could save a whole lot of time and money! O, I see
Keith Vaz is a stool.
It’s part of the Health and Safety Guide on how to take a crap succesfully.
Cheaper than using his wife.
Andrew Rosindell
£1.31 for jellied eels.
What a report! Apparently Elliot Morley ‘has no issues’ (other than about to be very very careful when he bends over in the shower).
Legg spent a million producing this report? I want the fucker investigated!
Spend a million to save a million (OK, it creates jobs).
Spend £200 billion to save how much exactly?
Fabian Hamilton to pay back 6 grand, 5 of which were to do with dodgy mortgage payments
Fabian-fucking-Hamilton if you please.
okay
Fabian-fucking-Hamilton to pay back 6 grand, 5 of which related to with dodgy mortgage payments
That’s the ticket. And it’s Sion-fucking-Simon from now until he crashes and burns as Birmingham mayor too the fucking oxygen thief.
Sion-c.unting-Simon surely sounds better?
yeah – lived rent free at his Mum’s house in London and had his family home in Pudsey done up at our expense. Then bought an allegedly rundown flat in London and refurbed that at our expense.
Thieving twat.
Douglas “Moat Cleaning” Hogg paying back £20,639.
He claimed 1/12 of the full amount allowed every month, on the basis that the costs of running his house was higher than allowed, producing little in the way of receipts in the process!!
Looks like Nadine got away without having a “Main Home”, her name’s not in the report at all!
with those legs she could get away with anything!
oh yes it is
You’re right – £1,000 for double claimed hotel bill and telephone bill – still no reference to the main home issue though!
I was looking at the HTML version rather than the PDF, seems to have a few names missing – changing to the PDF now for more troughing pigs!
Ian Gibson (ex labour MP for Norwich North) has yet to repay £16.025 after his accommodation scam – can anyone beat this? (page 161 refers)
I can.
Bitch!
I thought your husband was “beating it’ so to speak.
This is why we need PR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m struggling to see why changing the way we elect MPs is going to change their behaviour once elected.
If anything it will reinforce the longevity of certain politicos.
…so we can be more like Italy. Real crooks in that neck of the woods. None of this petty pilfering, full on colusion with organised crime. Bodies, birds (and boys) smack… the lot. bring in on.
sure, if you don’t mind paying for it
HOC will forever be known as the House of Corruption.
Well done our Right Honourable servants – you totally betrayed the trust we put in you when you promised to act in our best interests.
Protecting the public purse? We’d be on porridge if we defrauded HMRC for half that.
And they want our vote in May?
All six of your postal votes have already been filled in and filed.
Thank you for voting Labour.
John Lyons has done a bunk (page 165).
Mr Gerry Adams MP
Belfast West
Windsor
Mr Adams has no issues.
What the f………..!!!!
you get what you want with a gun
Tip from the media: look carefully at the section on entertaining in the H o C by members.
Iris Robinsons must repay £1,974.89, including £1,644.90 for the cost of – wait for it – a new bed!
Was that published in the “Legg Over” report ?
I think you are being very unfair to the lady!
She probably provides a better service than most members do.
Julie Kirkbride paying back £29k and Andrew McKay paying back £31k – they are married to each other and had two homes, one of which was the “first” and the other the “second” for each of them!
Troughing little fucking pigs!
“Had they made different designations, each MP might reasonably have claimed up to two-thirds of the full allowance on a shared second home.”
So let me get this right, if you share a house with another MP, together you can claim 4/3rds of the allowance for owning it?
Thats GCSE Maths the Ed balls way
That sounds like an Alistair Eyebrows Darling calculation to me, no wonder the economy is quadzillions in debt.
it’s easy with the gordon brown calculator
http://www.tpadata.com/browncalculator/
my calculations on expenses are impeccable and above reproach
whats that? fiddled ?
crumbs I’m in a bit of a pickle now
How vulgar!
all this lot should be in the dock
ffs we would be
Ruth Kelly having to cough up over £ 1,700 +
Serves her right for swallowing it.
reofl just sprayed my monitor with JD & coke, you owe me one monitor (and some JD & coke)
May I ask why there are no UNDER claims?
Not one of these shits have actually underclaimed for anything – what a surprise!
shit, my knickers
Barbara Follett has already repaid £ 29, 243…
This little piggy thinks living in London is dangerous!
Ms Follett was paid a total of £34,776.30 from April 2004 to November 2008 for
mobile security patrols at her second home. This went beyond the Green Book
provisions limiting claims to ‘basic security measures’.
She was also paid a total of £8,908.36 for six telephone lines at her second home
between April 2004 and November 2008. The number of lines and the amount
claimed are excessive, and half the allowance, i.e. £4,454.18, should be repaid.
Ms Follett was further overpaid by an estimated £2,812.95 in 2004-05 – 2006-07 for
an additional household insurance premium for fine art, which is not allowable.
She was also paid £221 twice for boiler insurance in June 2004 and again in August
2004.
She was also paid £193.78 for pest control in April-June 2006 for an address other
than her second home.
Total repayment recommended: £42,458.21
Total repayments received since 1 April 2009: £32,976.17
Balance recommended to be repaid: £9,482.04
It is a bit unfair to never mention why she might be more sensitive than most about security — her ex-husband was murdered for political reasons at home while their young children were in the house (in South Africa).
Fair enough if she wants security – but WHY SHOULD WE PAY FOR IT?
Mandelson forced to repay £800 in gardening costs. Doesn’t say if it was uphill gardening or not.
Seems a fair price for having his hedge trimmed…
And all his holes filled in.
Good deal on the prickly pear hanging by the back passage, though.
Alan Duncan was paid £5,281 over 5 years for his very much uphil gardening!
OOPs seem to have lost my paperwork
Ms Diana Organ _ex Labour MP)
Forest of Dean
In default of evidence to support payments for mortgage interest of £15,964.01 for
the period April 2004 to May 2005, I must regard these payments as having been
invalid. Accordingly my recommendation is that Ms Organ should repay the whole
of this sum.
Balance recommended to be repaid: £15,964.01
can that be counted as an organ donation
Denis McShane is worth looking at..
An average of £57.90 claimed PER WEEK,EVERY WEEK for dry cleaning in 2004 – 2005.
“In September and October 2008, he was paid £153.39 for gas without providing sufficient evidence to show that this was a cost incurred at his second home, since the only address on the bill related to his main home.
He should also provide mortgage interest statements to support payments totalling £6,001.34 for the period April 2004 to January 2006.
I recommend that he should be allowed until 1 March 2010 to do this.
If he does not do so, then in the absence of any special or exceptional reasons to the contrary, he should repay the whole amount of the allowance involved”
you anti-semitic Hunts!
Dennis Mac~~ If you are unable to make pertinent or relevent comments please don’t add to the numerous contributor comments that are rapidly making this website lose its value & interest.
Peter “Duck House” Viggers paying back £13,245 for overclaimed council tax and employing a gardener
Anthony “I like in a big house” Steen, paying back £11k for excessive gardening and house repairs
And you shall hang from an extra big scaffold you c*unt.
They should hang him (and a few others) from one of those mobile cranes -”Iran style”
Anthony “Big House” Steen;
“£184.89 in May 2004 for skip hire, 23 garden plants, and a flagpole rope and binding. The plants (£39.39), it is said, were not allowable under the Green Book rules, and the skip hire (£117) and the flagpole rope and binding (£28.50) were claimed without evidence as to their necessity.”
You have to pay Council Tax for a Duck House ?
I wonder what band it was in
“Mr Blair has no issues”
And he doesn’t have any sodding expenses records because he shredded them!
Why not give Adolf Hitler a Victoria Cross while you are about it?
Mr Blair will most certainly have no issues when Tariq the Tikrit Tallier of Testicles gets hold of his diabolic bollocks.
Now that IS funny !!
Surely Blair remortgaged his Sedgefiekd gaff to help him buy his Marylebone place? Sedgefield cost £30,000 to buy but was later mortgaged for £300,000. Has Sir Thommy actually looked at this, or is it ignored becuase, as we all now, Blair is such a “straight kinda guy”?
Don’t compare me with Blair,I’m not that bad.
Adolf, at least you did win an Iron Cross, except for courage you 3 are very alike
Sod this I’m off to invade Iran.
Surely an Eye-ron Cross?
If he (Blair) claimed then there MUST be accounts. Are were they really so incompetent in the handling of PUBLIC money?
I can’t believe it.
If he claimed then the amounts paid must be recorded.
If he can’t justify the claims from his records then it must be assumed that the claims are invalid.
I keep ALL records going back five years.
Why didn’t he?
Shredding expenses paperwork is no excuse – if you can’t provide the evidence, then you should repay! It’s so simple! That’s how it works with the Inland Revenue! Why should these “Porkers” be treated differently?
(Brown’s face and body language at yesterday’s PMQ’s was a real picture! You’re on your way out matey…and who would employ you with your misplaced morals and principles…?)
Thing is I’m sure he actually believes he can walk into any one of a number of cushy jobs after this. If there was any justice in this world he’d be shovelling shit til he drops. Which would hopefully be many pain-filled years later.
I am sure you’re right, what I can’t quite understand, is why people are paying thousands to her him speak. Even if we ignore his being a scumbag war monger, the sale of peerages etc. He was a massive FAILURE, just about everything he touched turned eventually to shite. Why pay to listen to a failure?
‘Mr Younger-Ross was paid £1,475 for a five-drawer chest and £725 for a mirror in August 2004…’
Mirror Mirror on the wall… you greedy chunt.
AH (C)
Denis McShane is worth looking a
“You are also asked to provide mortgage interest statements for the period April 2004 to January 2006 to support payments totaling £6,001.34. “
Another mortgage thief there??? Could be one for the Met to dig a little deeper…
Just mention once more I’m a thieving cocksucker and I’ll have you for anti-semitic thought crime, you Hunt!
http://jewishquarterly.org/2009/05/why-anti-semitism-matters/
I see you are attempting to hide your ancestry Mr Wankstein. Or is it Wankberg?
What a fucking shambles the whole process has been – from start to finish. I have no doubt this has been deliberate with a different referee introduced every time a decision went the wrong way. I mean who is the ultimate arbiter – the one who lets the hoons off with most?
A ‘culture of deference’ – what does that mean? It means that that hoon Martin, and his cronies, bullied the shit out of the fees office staff – when will one of them stand up and say so? It is so obvious. Did you see that a member of the fees office has resigned over a fraud issue and is being investigated by the police? Why is this not being looked at more closely in the press?
What no one should forget is that these snivelling whining hard done by ‘only followed the rules’ HOONS went to unimaginable lengths to stop all of this coming out – led by that Harman woman. That says all you need to know about how they viewed what they had done.
Should have added a link to the article re fees office issues
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7102865/MPs-expenses-police-investiage-fraud-in-Commons-fees-office.html
John Selwyn Gummer – £ 29k + !!!!!
Kitty Ussher spend £16k doing up her kitchen – didn’t she then flip to avoid CGT when she sold the place?
“Mr Cameron was overpaid by £237.07 for mortgage interest in April to November 2006.
Total repayment recommended: £237.07
Total repayments received since 1 April 2009: £965.45
Balance recommended to be repaid: £0.00″
—————————————————-
Well no fucking wonder the recommendation is to repay £0.00. He has overpaid what he took by more than a factor of three!
WTF??? There must be more to this. Why repay £965.45 IF he only over claimed by£237.07? This does NOT add up…
So why Has Cameron repaid too much?
Is he that bad at maths?
Has he over claimed for something else that we do not know about?
Old news. His wisteria for one.
old Wisteria is a beastly bore to get rid of in the chimney
send up a cockney urchin at once!
Get the wretch to come round and attend to my Bell Tower directly afterwards.
we can house the little fellow in my Duck House
I shall demand rent of course
I think you’ll find that’s MY Duck House Steen old boy
And it doesn’t look like Balmoral
He repaid voluntarily some house maintainance (removal of wisteria from his wall), from memory this was about £600.
Ah, OK. I had forgotten about the Wisteria.
Mike Hall MP – Balance to be repaid £ 12, 639
And the rest Anon:
‘..Mr Hall was paid a total of £10,364.28 during the period 2004-05 to 2007-08 for
cleaning, laundry, dry cleaning and ironing. This exceeds £2,000 per year by
£2,364.28.
He was paid £250 per month for petty cash from April to August 2004. This is not
allowable under Green Book rules.
He was also paid £250 per month for incidental expenses in September and October
2004. Incidental expenses are not allowed under the Green Book rules.
He was also paid a total of £8,789 for household sundries (variable amounts up to
£250 per month during the period November 2004 to March 2008, and £24 a month
for 11 months in 2008-09). No receipts were provided….’
Greedy chunt
AH (C)
So. incidentall expenese are not allowed, but apparently £400 per month, unsubstantiated, for additional food beciause you’ve got two houses is perfectly OK on Planet MP.
Douglas Hogg QC repayments received £20k ++
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGGGG!!!
‘Mr Tyrie was overpaid by a total of £1,638.99 for mortgage interest in 2008-09…’
He claimed mortgage relief for his home, second home being in the Barbican. He’s never there! We know, Dermott was his neighbour.
AH (C)
Phil Hope MP repayments received £ 42,, 674
Michael Howard QC repaid £ 7k +
“Gordon has repaid £13,723.04 for his cleaning claims despite being asked for “only” £12,888.03.”
I expect he forgot it was HIS money he was giving away.
He will get it back via his £50K fund he managed with the exercise book that of course he knows not what you are talking about……
even though the Parliamentary Standards commission is investigating and he has had a letter about the matter.
And then there is the book
and the newspaper articles.
So Gordon is safe
He just has to admit he can’t read and write
He certainly can’t do sums.
He seems to have lost his lined exercise book with some maths workings
But it isn’t HIS money, that’s the whole point.
Given the response from MPs and Kennedy, I think that Legg should have suggested two payback amounts per MP.
One would be for outright abuse (double dipping mortgages…etc), which would be mandatory, and the other would be a “goodwill gesture” where it was outwith the accepted norm for the population (£400 each and every month for food…etc).
I would then publish who pays the “goodwill” ones, so that they can be held accountable to their electorate.
the whole point about saying sorry and paybacks is defended these bastards and letting them off. In any other world this would be seen as theft and fraudulent abuse of public money. they should all have their day in court and answer to the system that each of us would have to. parliamentary privilge should be removed from each of them and they should stand alone in the dock
Sean @ 300: The general public do see it as “theft & fraudulent abuse of public money”.The bastards will not appear in court, & even if they do it will be in front of carefully selected judges.(Look at the various results from the “suicide” of Kelly through to Chilcot when that reports, not to mention “you know where you can find me”.)
The only judges available are the general public at the next general election & even they won’t be able to deal with the bastards who are standing down.
And how many of you will vote them back in?
Unfortunately far too many.
I can guarantee that I will not be voting for the over-claiming MP in my constituency because (A) he is standing down and (B) if I ever voted labour, I would have to remove my own heart with a rusty spoon.
Mr Mike Hall MP
Weaver Vale
Mr Hall was paid a total of £10,364.28 during the period 2004-05 to 2007-08 for cleaning, laundry, dry cleaning and ironing. This exceeds £2,000 per year by £2,364.28.
He was paid £250 per month for petty cash from April to August 2004. This is not allowable under Green Book rules.
He was also paid £250 per month for incidental expenses in September and October 2004. Incidental expenses are not allowed under the Green Book rules.
He was also paid a total of £8,789 for household sundries (variable amounts up to £250 per month during the period November 2004 to March 2008, and £24 a month for 11 months in 2008-09). No receipts were provided.
Total repayment recommended: £12,639.28
Total repayments received since 1 April 2009: £0.00
Balance recommended to be repaid: £12,639.28
Rt Hon David Heathcoat-Amory MP
Wells
Mr Heathcoat-Amory was paid cleaning costs of £12,995.35 over the five years of the review period. That exceeded £2,000 a year by a total of £2,995.35.
He was also paid a total of £30,696.58 for gardening during the four years 2004-05 to 2007-08. This exceeded £1,000 a year by £26,696.58.
Total repayment recommended: £29,691.93
Total repayments received since 1 April 2009: £6,122.24
Balance recommended to be repaid: £23,569.69
‘Mr George was paid £1,397.34 twice for hotel costs for May 2005.
He was overpaid by a total of £159.44 for food during 2004-05 and 2005-06.
He was also overpaid by £233.83 for hotel costs for June 2006.
He was further overpaid by £694.44 for council tax in 2008-09, the amount of a
rebate which should have been claimed.
He was also overpaid by a total of £1,695.12 for mortgage interest in 2008-09, as a
result of two monthly claims being duplicated.
He was overpaid by a total of £168.08 in 2008-09, through duplicate payments of
telephone and electricity costs.
Total repayment recommended: £4,348.25
Total repayments received since 1 April 2009: £3,160.41
Balance recommended to be repaid: £1,187.84…’
This chunt has double vision methinks.
‘Bob Ainsworth to payback £1,526.50 for antique dresser and brand new gate-gate.’
If he wanted someone to tie his shoes in the morning I’d have done it for less than the minimum wage!
Why pay back more than requested? Something ahead that may come and bite them in the arse!
Margaret Moran, of Southampton, Spain, Timbuctu and MP for Luton south.
Moran was also paid a net total of £527.20 TWICE in 2005-06 for a mattress. Could have been a double claim, but with Mo it is quite likely to have been two mattresses. You know how she wears ‘em out.
She was paid a total of £3,140.42 for gardening costs. This exceeded the allowable maximum by a total of £1,140.42. Why are we allowing them any gardening costs? I don’t get gardening costs from the public or even allowable against tax. Do you?
She was further paid £2,282.65 for repairs after a front room roof collapse in April 2007. Home insurance should have covered a substantial part of this cost, but the cover had run out two months previously. Does your employer pay out when you let your insurance lapse?
She has paid back £6k She’s going to walk with the severance package and the guaranteed pension.
P.S. does anybody know if the Legg report means they HAVE paid back the money or just that they’ve agreed to, but it has been listed as if it was paid. I’m fed up with that trick where they appear on camera saying “I have in my hand a piece of paper”.
For some reason the £22k she spent on the dry rot at her partner’s house in Southampton (100 miles from her Luton constituency, and further away from Westminster) is not mentioned. Any ideas why??
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5298395/Margaret-Moran-Second-home-flip-paid-22500-dry-rot-bill.html is the story, for anyone who forgot about this fat pig
I’m hoping the omission is because the police are investigating.
There’s ‘within the rules’ and outright fraud becaise she claimed to be resident where it could be proved she was definitely not. Even the HoC rules won’t stretch round that. Her local party attacked a Tory candidate for not living in Luton, then her long-term friend and party co-worker wrote to the paper confirming that she lived in the Luton and that’s why she should be re-elected.
This fact of the whereabouts of her dwelling could be verified by her partner who was a director of a small charity she helped set up. He gave his residence as the Luton house, not the Southampton one, on documents at Companies House. This would indicate that in no sense was the Southampton property a second home, let alone one for the purposes of facilitating her travel to Westminster, on account of Southampton being even further away from the HoC than Luton is. Pull the other Legg, it’s got bells on.
Another mystery is that the cost claimed of treating the dry-rot in a modest dwelling seems to be unusually high, an extension to the house has appeared, and it isn’t clear where the money came from to do work on the Spanish holiday properties. All things which are possibly beyond Legg’s scope.
Apologies – a small social enterprise company, not a charity.
(She did, however, help a separate charity on a completely different subject, about which no query is raised.)
Jail
It might be sub judicae, as might Morley, Chaytor etc. Legg saying nothing because the courts will in due course. I hope.
Engineer 195 @ 11:34 a.m. The C.P.S. giving verdict tomorrow morning on the
6 m.p’s under investigation.
Maggie Moron’s not on the CPS list though – surely she hasn’t got away with it?
Seems to me we have been take to the ‘cleaners’ by many of them
Also that stupid arse Morgan is giving Brown the chance of an hours free electioneering courtesy of ITV.
Christ which one do I hate more. Tricky but Brown every time.
Kelly being interviewed by standards committee here –
http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/house_of_commons/newsid_8167000/8167512.stm
Oops – being interviewed by public administration committe
Nadine V Dorries…
Ms Dorries was paid £882.31 twice for hotel expenses in January 2007.
She was also paid £161.04 twice for internet service in April 2007.
She was further paid £271.02 twice for a telephone bill in 2008-09.
Total repayment recommended: £1,314.37
Total repayments received since 1 April 2009: £0.00
Balance recommended to be repaid: £1,314.37
She was paid TWICE for fex sake, no queries or questions….!!!! Get her to pay now or go to jail. Theiving scum
I’ve done some expert researching on this and these are all vindictive lies designed to upset mummy.
Dear People,
Things are never as bad as they seem. After all the entire bill does not equal one reasonable bankers bonus. And as many of these politicians will shortly leave politics for a place on the Board of major banks, where they will be paid much more money and therefore more taxes, we may ultimately make a slight bonus on the deal. And after all, this theft has been done in the most discreet and polite manner and not in a ‘populous’ way at all. Would that all all crime could be dealt with in such a delicate and understanding manner and that we could follow this extraordinarily successful example of expropriation of other people’s money with so little conscience or fuss.
As with all things political, everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
Bunch of thieving troughers.
I like the fact that they can’t even work out what the new system should be – they’re all just arguing about it.
I can’t even understand why they need all these expenses anyway – they should be paid a normal, adequate salary, like everyone else. And taxed until their tits turn purple, like everyone else. Maybe then they’d be less inclined to inflict their so-called ‘policies’ on us.
Only four hundred quid for the stool otherwise known as ‘ Slippery Vaz’ surely must be more!!!!
I’ll pay twice that amount
Look into those that paid back more than they had to.They paid more back for a reason.
I do wonder with most of these claims how these MPs “didn’t notice” that they were getting the same money for claims twice or how some “forgot” that their mortgage had been paid up and carried on claiming. You couldn’t make it up.
I would like to point out that although Phil Hope repaid £42k, he was only required to pay back £4k. Bernard Jenkin is a big story there, £63k reduced on appeal to £37k. That is a monstrous “oversight”.
Children, children – expenses outrage is soooooo 2009.
Catch up with the cool kids and lets discuss those do nothing Tories and how we can screw the Armed Forces some more.
Isn’t expenses fiddling some sort of gross misconduct, and therefore should it not lead to dismissal without transition allowances etc? Just a thought.
Ms Anne Snelgrove MP – South Swindon
Ms Snelgrove has no issues.
Now this I find curious. I happen to know that she claimed very frequently for flowers for her second home – certainly not “essential to carry out her duties”. I wonder how many others have slipped through the net.
Pigs eat flowers so she claimed it under the food allowance
If only…
The fat cow still claimed her full food allowance too!
I did’nt see the hospitality part in the report?
Top 6 ‘blaggers’ – 1 Lab and 5 Cons – says it all.
The Legg report cost £1M and they must repay £1.1M – fivebellies alone stole more than what’s left over so as usual the taxpayer gets shafted.
Did Mark Oaten follow Vaz’ example and put a stool on expenses too, I wonder?
Nice one. LOL.
leaving aside the MPs…
This whole process has been a complete shambles. How much has it cost and who is paying for it? Is there going to be any contribution from the offenders? – you even get a victims surcharge on a speeding ticket.
Has Legg been paid? Do we have a figure on how much has been successfully appealed?
What has happened the the boss of the fees office for his complete mismanagement?
But then what should we expect from a process set up by Gordon involving money- certainly nothing that would be mathematically sound.
Revolution anybody?
£130,000 was appealed sucessfully
details of alll the appeals at
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmmemest/348/34807.htm
Total to pay back of £1.3m, of which £1.1m was Legg’s team’s cost of the investigation!!
they should divide that between every MP investigated and upheld and add it on top as an administrative surcharge
The system of claiming ‘expenses’ in lieu of pay was established by the Blessed Margaret. That’s when the rot set in.
Hurray. It’s all Maggie Thatcher’s fault!!!!
BINGO!
That’s the one I was waiting for.
Yep, it never fails. Somebody has to bring in it was all Maggie Thatcher’s fault. She also caused climate change and the Battle of Culloden did you know?
More than that she was directly culpable for Crimea.
factually correct though
doesn’t mean it was her fault, that’s simple minded hyperbole, but it does mean that’s when the timebomb started
everyone seems to forget the expenses claims that have caused such outrage and chaos are the cleaned up ones
those pre-dating the reforms which weren’t leaked were said to have been jawdropping and if they had been leaked would have caused mass resignations on the spot
Margaret came from a world in which pilfering was not ‘imaginable’ for respectable folk.
O tempora, o mores
Thatcher was the worst trougher of them all.
She refused to draw the full prime ministerial salary to which she was entitled – a criminal waste of tax-payers’ money.
Irresponsible witch.
Expenses were started by Harold Wilson in 1970.
If you want to lie, don’t say something that can be checked in a minute, it is an insult to our intelligence
The set-up of this report just clouds the issue – lots of cases where the expenses were claimed under the wrong heading (ACA instead of Incidental expenses) or filed in the wrong year, plus the application of retrospective limits on the cost of cleaning and gardening, which distracts attention from the outright cheats. Putting in a claim for mobile ‘phone bills under ACA is mere administrative incompetence not troughing.
This whole report only looks at one part of MPs expense claims – so misses a lot of troughing. What do you see for Jacqui Smith – just a claim for garden furniture and an overclaim for cleaning – none of the stuff that hit the headlines
What we need is a junior accountant (not a judge who costs more than he saves) to go through every expense claim, not just ACA, for the last twelve years since NewLabour brought in this system and reclaim ALL double charges and ALL charges that aren’t necessary
The system started back in the early 80′s when Thatch wouldn’t give them a pay rise.
there were REAL criminal claims then – no receipts, no rules. This stuff over the last few years is trivial compared to then.
The system started under Wilson in 1970, with allowances for secretarial and research assistants, but it has been vastly expanded since then and the current is vastly more expensive than under any previous government.
New Labour has vastly increased the range and size of allowances: a graph sourced to the House of Commons Library shows MPs allowances more than trebling since Thatcher resigned and close to doubling since 1997 in a report from the LSE which is hardly going to show a pro-Thatcher bias http://personal.lse.ac.uk/lodgemc/ukrewards-final.pdf
Claims over the last few years are more than three times as high but the cost of living has not trebled, so the rip-offs must be a lot more than three times as much. I don’t call more than trebling trivial.
Well, the situation is nicely confused by adding extra people through applying caps retrospectively to those who stayed within the rules.
Have you noticed anything strange about which items were capped? Where do you find bigger gardens and bigger houses? Oddly enough, in the country — in rural constituencies which are more likely to be held by Conservatives or Lib Dems.
Would Legg make a deliberate attempt to bury Labour overclaims in a manufactured heap of fud?
When are Morley. Chaytor and Uddin in court?
send the Bailiffs round to the Pigs who haven’t repaid all their cash yet
It’s the only way they might learn
Who would pay for them?
The MPs of course
a surcharge for their tardy indolent Piggy ways
Still no word from our Dear Leader on the subject this morning.
Cameron and Clegg both got ‘doorstepped’ on their way to work, why has Flash not chosen to add his own voice to the debate?
MAYBE IT’S BECAUSE HE’S ONE OF THE WORST OFFENDERS???
Mr Brown is an admiral man getting on with the job. It was worse under the Tories
Brown is an Admiral? Has anybody told the Navy?
Brown is a Red Admiral Osborne is a Rear Admiral and Cleggy is a petty seamen
Let’s make him walk the plank.
Another New Labour troll who can’t spell!
god this blog is turning into one long Libral swearing WAH.
while some of the expenses are unjustified most are acceptable given the climate at the time, ffs people have know for YEARS that MPs get to claim this kind of crap, and quite frankly its a pittance compared to the shit that is wasted by MPs overseeing departmental spending.. THATS what people should be holding them accountable for.
mind you, the troughing by those champagne socialists is by far the worst as its greedy and deliberate
rearange these words
OFF FUCK DO
It’s thievery and the public wouldn’t get a slap on the wrist they would get a court summons and jail time if guilty of fraud
I have to pay back for the silver letter opener! What does he think i do with it. I use it to open letters from constituents you dick!
£53.00 to pay back!
I would appeal but he appears to have missed the £33,098 on crack whores,
so its probably best to leave it.
The bastards owe me grands
Derek Wyatt LIED to the Review:
“Unfortunately, as you know, your recollection of what took place in July 2009 differs from the recollection of the Fees Office staff.”
No double standards there then. Had this been Joe Public under investigation by the benefits office or the tax man, the above sentence would have been quickly followed by an arrest.
The Fees Office staff member in question having been arrested by the SFO and forced to resign this week………
spineless twat
Yep, the man’s a dissembling prat. He’s stepping down now – hardly surprising with a majority below 100. Still gets the payoff, of course, together with the various other ‘benefits’.
I wrote to him when this whole thing blew up. He, of course, denied that there was anything wrong at all, and in particular that he’d done nothing wrong. Nice to see that Legg thinks otherwise.
Oink. Roll on election day.
call me Dave said he wanted to reduce the number of MPs
that’s 390 the public won’t miss at a stroke
I’ve done some quick analysis: http://bit.ly/bJcnmo
Tory and Lab are both 60% troughing bastards, but Tories steal more on average (£3,400 vs £2,100) despite Gordon helping Labour with his £13k!
Angry Walrus
I am a self employed gardener.
Can anyone point me in the direction of obtaining contact details for all MP’s?
I’m sure i can offer a more cost effective service which i am sure will be more favourable to the tax payer and also provide me with plenty of work as MP’s gardens appear to be a gold mine for people in my game.
Does Alan Titchmarsh currently have the gig as resident MP gardener? might explain the crazy sums involved…..
Such innocence. The handy thing about grass is it grows and it is impossible to tell if Titchmarsh has been round or not.
From the political correspondent at The Mash
Choff! Choff! Choff!
Anyone want a secret slush fund?
Guido do you have any info on Labour MP Jim Fitzpatrick?
he’s a cnut?
Is he definitely an MP? That name doesn’t appear on any of the lists…
POPLAR AND CANNING TOWN (ALLEGEDLY).
HE’S ON my LIST.
someones claimed for a swimming pool boiler ?!?!
how in the name of fuck could that possibly be ‘essential to carry out their duties’
That applies to most of the claims being made!
Second kick in the bollocks for the taxpayer :
Cost of the enquiry : £ 1.13 Million.
So not only have none of the troughers had their collars felt by plod, all in all, we, the taxpayers haven’t actually seen any money back from this.
simple solution
they should divide that between every MP investigated and upheld and added it on top as an administrative surcharge
it’s what the Banks and other companies do after all
Good idea.
yes, charge them interest and a fine.
and a victims surcharge, double if they are Liebour cause its a NuLiebour law.
most plod are on the take too.ask any chav who’s had their weed taxed
I’d be quite happy watching them all hang from lamp posts – all over london of course
so how do we prosecute them?
the establishment are all bought and paid for!
private prosecutions?
or a more traditional east end solution?
pie and mash em
Bob Ainsworth should be worrying about the unholy mess in the middle east – instead he wants an antique dressing table – it must be an antique because when he looks in the mirror he must still think he is in fashion.
They should all be made to stand up and apologise starting with Brown.
How can Balls and Cooper both be allowed to claim for a mortgage?
makes me sick.
Technically it was a Welsh Dresser, and given that Bob is such a divot it could easily be a modern pine effort which had been bashed about, worth at most £150. Ironically, he’d have probably been allowed to claim for it if he hadn’t insisted on writing the word ‘antique’. Wonder who sold it to him? That could be a more interesting question than it sounds if he knows them on a personal basis.
Wee wee wee wee weeee! Squeal!! Groffle snort grunt! Squeeeeeeal!
Barbara Follet the millionairess is the biggest trougher of them all. What a greedy cuunt she is, not content with all her and her husband’s immense wealth she still tries to con the taxpayers of over £42,000. Sometimes I wonder if was worth winning WW2!
Labour innit!
And 30% still want to vote for their champagne socialist overlords…unbelievable
Early Money Is Like Yeast was responsible for a lot of blair’s Berkshires (eg Five Bellies) being elected. And it was etup by ?
Troughing MP’s wet dream is that the voting public will draw a line under under the exes scandle after they were forced “kicking and screaming” to pay back a few quid the pinched in the first place via the dodgy rules they made for themselves.
Dream on….
There are a lot of people in jug or at least with a criminal record that would have liked the opportunity to get away with rewinding the tape for a clean sheet..
How about M P’s misappropriation of taxpayers cash then!
Where are the criminal proceedings against these scum!
Look, this has been gone over before. its old news. Can i just say..
Only a handful of MPs were guilty..all within the rules..the system needs to be changed…all work together for reform..the rules were unclear..green book..MPs are considerably undervalued for the work we do..have to a second home..changes would mean poor people couldn’t be in parliament..time to move on..draw a line..get on with the real job of politics which is..legitimate expenses in most cases..lessons have learned…open up the whole system to an independant body of MPs to run the fees office in future..bad Mps are stepping down anyway..won’t happen again..
Move on Move ob move on Move on move on Move on..Ohhh look proles! Jordans got a new shag! That’s much m,ore interesting than boring old politics..ITV 2.That’s what you want to be watching.Not this Legg Crap.
Any news on the Shadow cabinet….apart from being fucking useless. I,ve heard Foxy has been hit for £24K?
Indeed so – he has already repaid £24,900 – he overclaimed mortgage interest at about £5k a year for 5 years
Ed Balls asked to repay £1349.73 plus £13.44. Ed Balls pays back £1363.44. And this is the guy who wishes to be Chancellor ffs.
Anyone know why are some MP’s not mentioned in the list? E.g. Joan Ruddock, Bridgette Prentice.
Paul Clark MP Gillingham
Couldn’t provide documents to support his claim for mortgage interest payments of £11,750.35
Legg recommends that he repay the entire amount.
£55 million paid in second home allowance between 2004 and 2008.
Jesus wept. These pigs can’t get their snouts far enough into that trough, can they?
That’s an average of £22,700 per MP per year. What the fuck can you find to spend a midgie’s dick under £100k on over 4 years in your SECOND HOME??
Bastards all.
Well roger me with a splintery gate-post, Pravda have *changed* their article and announced that no, it isn’t a Tory MP that has the biggest snout, it’s one of the Heroes Of Communism: -
“The highest amount recommended for repayment, following the appeals process, is £42,458 for junior minister Barbara Follett.”
I looked at this earlier and they were stating Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin was the piggy owing the mostest.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8496729.stm
Amazing – some truth from Labour’s press wing ?
On the other hand, they’ve removed the MP’s names from the sidebar and replaced it with an amorphous “amounts to be repaid”. Earlier this showed 6 or 7 Labour MP’s and what they owed, a couple of LibDems and a couple of Tories.
So blatantly being instructed from the bunker. The Beeb must be dissolved. Cnuts.
True to form, the local Pravda outlet here is only reporting on Tory MPs who’ve been forced to pay back.
So . . . . !!!! ?????
We’re in power mate – and it’s gonna stay that way.
All Hail to our Glorious ‘n Beloved Leader, The Telly Tax, our lovely moolah, and my pension.
Now crawl away – scum!
Looks like Barbara Follett MP (honourable) is not looking to get far at the next election:
“Barbara has urged local people in Stevenage to take advantage of the Labour Government’s boiler scrappage scheme”.
Nice, very nice.
Coming soon an MPs scrappage scheme, one big bonfire lit by Mr F. and cheered by millions
Barbara Follett MP
Still owes £9482 from the £42458.
£34776 of which was for “Security Patrols”
£4454 of which was for phones and comms
£2813 was for Insurance for fine art
£221 for a second claim on boiler repairs
£194 for pest control at a home that was not her registered second home.
Theiving bitch. Send her down!
complete her enquiry form – and ask her:
http://www.barbara-follett.org.uk/contact/index.html
The man charged with overseeing MPs’ allowances under a new Whitehall regime claimed more than £15,000 of taxpayer-funded taxi fares in his previous job.
Offtopic
Interest rates held at 0.5%
Printing Money held at £200,000,000,000
Gotta keep the interest rates low.
HM Treasury leaning heavily on BoE to keep them down.
If interest rates go up, the treasury will not be able to service its own debts.
The only way that HMT can see out of this mess is to inflate the debt out of existence.
Any one know if Treasury £billions are million millions or thousand millions?
they’re definitely thousand millions –
the old British billion of a million million and the old British trillion of a billion billion are now obsolete
1 million = 1,000 thousand
1 billion = 1,000 million
1 trillion = 1,000 billion
are now the SI divisible units used in all official stats
Kevan Jones, Labour, Durham North: no issues.
Nice one Kev, managing to be consistently one of the biggest claimaints out there and still keeping below the radar.
That takes skill, mate. Well done.
Contrast and compare…
Paragraph 97: At this final stage, a total of just over £1.3m. has been recommended for repayment by
390 MPs.
Paragraph 103: The total cost of this review from its commencement to the submission of this report has
been approximately £1.16m.
OT – Cherie spares violent thug from jail sentence because he is a ‘religious man’.
Is that ‘religious’ in a similar manner as the paedo priests that lurk in her particular fairy tale faith?
uhm…. if the weird witchy woman wiv the big gob were go east to some place-names ending in ‘stan she might find more religious thugs who would love to have her try them.
I’m sure they’ll repay her clemency(?) in bucketfuls.
Religion is a wonderful thing. Ask the peedo preests of Blair’s religion.
Yes, religious conviction allows you to lie in order to send your country off to war resulting in massive bloodshed – and still sleep at night!
Why are we waiting until May for the election? I wish the Scottish mong would just get on with it right away so we can get shut of these pigs. They really are disgusting and to call themselves Honourable is the biggest laugh of all.
You and 60,999,999 others…
Remember the assurance by Brown, Cameron, Clegg et al of “transparency”? Wel, wait until you see the “new MP expenses reporting system.” It is impossible to see who claimed what. It is disgusting.
How long will the British people tolerate these lying, cheating, sleazy charlatans?
United Kingdom: The best democracy money can buy
ad infinitum matey.they are thick, stupid telly watching idiots
And thats why we will get away with it, again and again.
Over 22k troughed by Moran. Repayment amount? 4k
Sickening.
Just trying to find out what caused “awaiting moderation” – was it the word religous?
Ahh, that’s it. It was peedo you know what that caused “Awaaiting Moderation”. How strange.
Robert Key, Salisbury:
Mr Key was paid for a replacement microwave and oven in March 2008. The total
cost was £1,400, plus £250 for installation (including rewiring). The guideline price
for a gas cooker is £770. £100 would seem a reasonable cost for a microwave. This
leaves an excess of £530.
This kind of thing can only exist within a conspiracy. 1600 for a microwave. Theft anyone?
Looks like it’ll never happen in my life time
BBC NEWS – Quantitative Easing ‘paused not stopped’..
Yikes..
They’ve probably run out of paper – or ink.
Well the bastards have certainly run out of our money.
They don’t need us when they can print their own cash.
I just can’t think why we didn’t print all this money years ago so we could have been ‘idle rich’ instead of working.
This is Ten Zillion times worse than the piggy MPs. This is an attempt to destroy the UK and its society.
Arseholes !
Should I shift more money into Dollars, Euros or Swiss Francs, or what ?
Economists must be even lower shits than Bankers. They should all be shot.
If they’d studied just O level Economics they might have been OK, but then Keynes invented all this pseudo scientific shit. He has a lot to answer for.
Come leave OUT the HON bit in MP please.
I am pure as the driven snow.
You can’t catch me. Ask Eric Joyce-Prat.
It’s coz we’re worth it.
innit.
Mark Oaten MP only overcharged for mortgage repayments. He did well, nothing for the rent boys. I’m proud of him.
I don’t know what you lot are complaing about. I’ve got rid of boom and bust! Well, okay definitely the ‘boom’ bit.
Christ – Liam Fox has appealed his £24K – so much for taking a hard stance Cam the Sham.
Ignore 262 it was in reference to Cherie (does my mouth look big) Blair giving a light sentence to a thug because he was religious. Off topic anyway.
Jeez … 262 is now 263. Guido your site needs attention.
Nice big entry from Alan Meale of Mansfield. Here are the gags, on top of the obscenities they should never have been allowed in the first place:
He was paid £390 TWICE, (£780) for a radiator cover. He was paid £1,900 for furniture which does not appear to have been necessary. He was paid £700 for garden furniture.
He was paid TWICE for intruder alarm annual service charges of £210.33. He was also paid £1,367.76 for stairs and landing carpet at a cost of £56.99 per square metre. This exceeded the guideline price of £35 per square metre by a total of £527.76.
He was further paid gardening costs of £11,355.78 over the five year period, which exceeds the maximum allowable of £1,000 a year by a total of £6,355.78.
Note to burglars: be sure to go for the radiator cover, it’s worth more than you think. I’ve no idea how people manage to work for the public without adequate radiator covers.
Is there a website listing MPs excesses in Constituency AND surname order? We need one so we can publicise it for the election.
If there is such a website in clear English can someone post a reply to this with a link?
Thanks.
Ampers.
Is this any use?
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmmemest/348/34805.htm
try akso looking at JC Strategy and links with Labour parliamentarians especially Lord George Robertson, the Fabians, and other organisations.
Interesting!!!
What a total fucking whitewash. I see Jacqui Smith has been asked to pay a trivial sum relating to cleaning and garden furniture, and they’ve totally overlooked her thoroughly dishonest designation of her sister’s spare bedroom as her second home.
I wonder how many others have been asked to repay trivial amounts just to make it look like something is being done when they’ve been allowed to get away with all the serious troughing scot-free?
And I also note that this only seems to relate to the ACA. What about the other ways in which MPs have been abusing the system? My own MP didn’t claim the ACA (because she lives in London), but has blatantly abused her communications expenses for party political purposes. Why is she allowed to get away with it?
Totally agree, Disgusted, she should be fucking hanged for her second home misclaim, £116,000 I seem to remember.
Meanwhile on planet BBC Scabby Logan on Radio 5 only seemed interesting in the expenses of Tory MPs, I wonder why?
Andrew MacKay repays nothing and continues to `advise` David Cameron. Julie Kirkbride asked to repay 29k amd appeals = real figure should be at least 290k and a prison sentence!
I WILL be back, just mark my words, you low-achievers!
Julie Kirkbride and husband remain the biggest scandal of the lot, and with low-profile low-publicity they are getting away with it.
They still influence their clique in the Bromsgrove Tories and the new candidate selection through their cronies the Dent family. Another rigged tory selection with their chum Charles Barwell collecting his inheritance from them.
Those who want to restore integrity to the Tory Party should monitor this situation very closely indeed. The seeds of yet another scam and scandal are beginning to take root.
MacKay was asked to repay £31k, according to the document linked at the start of the article.
Yes, but 31K is a trivial amount in comparison to the total of the abuse, he has appealed, and has let it be known that he does not intend to pay. Even if he did repay he would have got off lightly. Just add up akk the figures on this one over the past 5 years to see just how outrageously trivial 31k actually is.
Figures are deceptive and bear little relevance to reality. This saga needs watching and analysing very closely indeed, and its impact on the general election will be interesting to say the least. Come on, Cameron, clean it all up publicly and openly.
I have decided that Charles Barwell will be my successor in Bromsgrove. Like me he is an important politician of the utmost integrity and he will do exactly as he is told.
The Kirkbride-Dent-Barlow trio will lose the election then.
How very predictable it all is.
This is all very dangerous for the Cpnservative Party and iys electoral prospects both nationally and locally.
This would be one step of many to help fix our rotten system. It’s good that so many MPs have had to swallow Legg’s medicine, but we still need drastic surgery to help restore the patient to full health.
MPs that are thinking this is end of it, and that the public are no longer angry shouldn’t be. This was but one aspect of a rotting political system.
What we now need is a system whereby voters set the rules and not the politicians.
It is about time we had a ‘None of the Above’ option in the ballot sheet. This would clarify once and for all the true protest vote out there, as distinct from non-attendance (protest or chav-inspired laziness) or spoiling of ballot papers (protest or chav-inspired fuckwittery). That would be the only effective way of providing us disenfranchised voters with a way of saying “we fucking hate you”.
Other cures of mine would include:
Proportional representation
the scrapping of ID cards and DNA databases
A written constitution like the US constitution / Bill of Rights
Strictly fixed term parliaments
Greatly expanding of the freedom of Information Act
The right to recall rogue MPs (I can think of a few)
Holding of elections on the weekend
A referendum on the Euro
Replacing the television licence fee with a subscription based system
Directly elected mayors
There. Lunchtime soapbox rant over.
Add an end to the Roya Family, the House of Lords, and privilege by birth and you’re getting warmer.
How do you propose to end people who are privileged passing on their affluence?
And another thing: why did this inquiry cost £1.16 million? Where did all that money go?
“Phil Hope to pay back a whopping £42,674.13.”
His website Phil Hope to pay back a whopping £42,674.13. says “Rules set by Parliament require that as this website is funded by parliamentary allowances it ‘must not be updated or amended in any way’ from 1st January 2010. ”
What’s that about?
Quite clearly there have been massive pisstakes from all three parties – Julie Kirkbride should never show her face in public again, let alone stand for election.
However I do find it interesting that the Conservative and Libdem leaders’ scams totalled less than a grand each whereas Gordon the Moron tried to cheat his way to £12k.
Clearly they’re all thieving scum, but the glorious leader leaves his rivals in the traps when it comes to being an all round dishonest, grasping piece of shit.
Stick him in the stocks for a week outside Parliament during the next recess. Rotten fruit £5 a throw, with all proceeds going towards better equipment for the armed forces ot any number of other good causes that wouldn’t be an issue if we had a half competent person running things.
Just sorted the troughers list on the BBC by party, very amusing where they put Bercow:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8493634.stm?table=party&order=asc#mprepayments
Wayne David’s claim has been added up wrong.
The total he was asked to repay is £40 more than the sum of the itemised list of repayments.
£40 backhander for Legg?
Not one of Bill Rammell’s 48 consecutive claims 2004/5 – 2007/8 was fully-allowed or not-in-part clawed back.
Is this a record.