Lobby Hacks Divided on Covering Rent Swapping Scandal
IPSA say MPs renting out property they own “is an issue of their own private financial affairs over which we rightly have no authority”, hinting that they will review the loophole that allows MPs to rent from other MPs. It will be part of a public consultation next month and Guido suspects that the public are not going to like the fact that some 124 MPs have income from renting property they own and 27 of them are renting flats in London despite the fact that they already own property in the capital.
Despite this, Guido hears the more feeble parts of the Lobby are hesitant with hacks divided as to how heavy to go on this taxpayer subsidised property racket. Hacks for the popular press are grumbling that ‘the FT and Bloomberg are behaving like hand-jobs’ for MPs while the Telegraph, Sun and the Mail want to gun for them over the latest expenses scandal. The argument that because IPSA signed this off it must sounds dangerously like the defence employed in 2009. It didn’t last long that time either…
If papers want to soft-soap MPs over this, it’s their business.
They’ll just lose readers to the ones kicking arse.
This must be a problem of quid pro quo.
Cui bono?
I think it’s just a quid problem. Several thousands of them.
At the risk of overusing my schoolboy Latin, it is certainly an iniquum commutationem for the public.
Pussy cat. My old man couldn’t afford to send me to a posh school so I didn’t have Latin or nuffin; gisus a translation willya?
I went to a good school, it was approved.
IPSA and Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards are fucking useless
This is indefensable from a hard pressed tax payers point of view
Fucking lily livered BBC won’t cover it until a Tory is front and central
At the risk of bastardising my French
On y soit qui mal y Pense
Though in this case perhaps not !
No, Bono’s U2. QE is something else altogether. Try to pay attention, Lou!
hey Bud
is that bono the dublin feller who woke up one morning after a night of troubled dreams and found he’d become a mis-spelt dog biscuit?
If M.P.’s are rich enough to afford multiple properties then yes, they shouldn’t be penalised for that. If it’s their own money they’re using.
What is objectionable is that the system allows and even encourages complicated arrangements that are clearly perverse, at taxpayer expense. That should be stopped.
The Goodman Doctrine
Linda Riordan has not fiddled. She is a widow who can’t afford to keep 2 homes unlike the Tory millionaires. Therefore the state should pay for her to live like a millionaire too.
Spot on.
Should the state not make everyone a millionaire in the interests of equality?
Germany ran a good experiment like that in 1921.
If her boss Ed Millionaireband is a multi-millionaire then she is just “trending”.
What happen to Mr. Fox’s and Mr. Cash’s flats? They are also claiming rent?
Yes ….
And how is that any different to the multiple avoidance loopholes in the uk tax regulations ??
Some are renting flats / houses / rooms for even for around £575 a month while for others its even costing 3 times as much (seems what is good for one MP is not good for another).
I don’t know what happened to right wingers like Mr. Fox and Mr. Cash, they they had their own flats in London used to be paid (interest) by the people like us, now they are also renting flats!
Apparently some are still renting boys, also paid for by us…
Lobby hacks need to stay in the Lobby to be able to afford their flats. Catch 22.
I wonder what the Guardian’s position will be on this.
Hand job and a rimming I expect.
its position will be prone
I’m a socialist!
Obviously :
Then raise the scarlet standard high.
Within its shade we’ll live and die,
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
We’ll keep the expenses troughing here
Seems like the right wing pilers like Mr. Fox and Mr. Cash are on it as well.
Yeth, and I hate millionaireth and their un-earned wealth. Dethpicable thcum!
Its all within the rules.
The rules we made! Hahahahah!
Bercow’s silly radical wife Sally of our alley was on QT this evening saying she did not agree with this flat (not wife) swapping etc but her man John was right in that it is an IPSA problem and MP’s addresses should not be made public – what an airhead.
Strangely Bob Crow did not agree and stated he had been stalked, beaten up 11 years ago and his tenure of a council house made public.
I am beginning to think it is time to remove myself from this planet.
The chairman was at his most biased yet and Bob Crow and Bercow brought in their followers as usual. And there was I thinking Shropshire was more civilized.
They should have shot the fucker.
A billionaire Arab prince has been charged with being drunk on an aircraft after being arrested on a passenger jet by police officers armed with Taser guns at Heathrow.
Mubarak Hamad, 29, believed to be a close relative of Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, lives at one of London’s most exclusive residences, Eaton Square, Belgravia.
I wonder what his neighbours think of him. Typical fucking arab fuckwit with lots of money and no sense or good taste. Probably one of those arabs who has everything in his house coloured gold because he think it’s stylish. Dickhead.
The type who wipes his arse on your curtains.
A mussy who aint a mussy when out of mussyland.
Just like 90% of them. I flew from Kuwait to Bahrain – a short hop down the Gulf – and the three Arabs in front of me got through 9 Carlsbergs (to which they had no legal access at home – between them in that 30 minutes.
Just as well he wasn’t a working class white blind Brit, then he would have been tasered for sure, just to be on the safe side.
Screw Reuters, the FT and Bloomberg – irrelevent. This is going Savilesque.
And many more Destructions played
In this ghastly masquerade,
All disguised, even to the eyes,
Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies.
Shelly, “The Mask of Anarchy”
Shelley, int it?
“We’ve got a little list, and none of them’ll be missed” – and it is getting longer by the minute.
Don’t forget us councillors:
Councillor Ayesha Chowdhury a Member of the London Borough of Newham give notice that I have the following financial interests
Do you have land or property in Newham?
Address / description of land Nature of Interest in land
82 Downing, Beckton, E6 Co-Owner
95 Lonsdale Avenue, East Ham, E6 Co-Owner
6 Truesdale Road, E6 Co-Owner
100 Park Avenue, E6 Co-Owner
199 Tollgate Road Co-Owner
10 Harrier Way, Beckton E6 Co-Owner
27 Trader Road, Beckton, E6 Co-Owner
5 Hogarth Close, Beckton, E6 Co-Owner
47 Plymouth Road, E16 Co-Owner
205 Tollgate Road, Beckton Co-Owner
39 Albert Roase Close, E6 Co-Owner
59 Fourth Avenue E6 Co-Owner
16a Forest Side E7 Co-Owner
18 Eric Close E7 Co-Owner
96a Plashet Grove E7 Co-Owner
5 Chelmsford Close E6
Co-Owner
203 Tollgate Road, Beckton Co-Owner
5a Hogarth Close, Beckton, E6 Co-Owner
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023416/It-beggars-belief-Multi-millionaire-owns-massive-property-empire-chain-restaurants-lives-135-week-COUNCIL-HOUSE.html
Bloody hell! They must have great allowances in Newham.
It’s easy to save a deposit for my next BTL empire acquisition when I’m living in a council house.
Stop CROW. ING. About it !
22 years ago I returned to the uk and answered an advert to rent a rather nice house. Next door was a boarded up 3 storey house. The Asian owner escorted me in as it shared the same road entrance, to reveal it as an asian sewing sweatshop.
I asked him if he did not get complaints from the about 30 houses in the street and he replied “No as I own all the houses in the street”.
My first lesson in how UK white working and “lower” middle class have declined in influence, ownership, and education – this certainly explains Millepede’s road to Liebor party “leadership”.
BBC, corrupt MPs, Guardian all roasting slowly over the coals.
They all face being kicked out from under the magic other-peoples-money tree.
I like how this is going.
If Alex Salmond can beat the odds and swing the referendum in England’s favour, getting Scotchland off our backs forever, and the cretins in Downing St finally wake up and pull us out of the EU, I will be a very happy bunny indeed.
One minor detail — that crafty bxstard Salmond will probably con Weakling Dave into the Scots leaving the Union without taking their full share of the National Debt, circa £150bn, with them
Still worth it to be rid of them. They’ll run up another 150bn of debt in no time.
Yes, a generous settlement then no more when they`ve wasted it.
You English under the Union have always reserved banking matters to London . The Bank of Scotland has always been subservient .
Upon independence primary responsibility for debts will rest with the Bank of England in London .
What is the average I .Q; of a lobbyist ?
What has been going on is criminal .
It should be reported to the Police and the public made fully aware .
People have been imprisoned for a lot less .
They certainly have – the nutter who disrupted the boat race has just got 6 months.
Do you know Santorum? Does it make you crusty?
Even if it was not criminal, it still stinks.
MPs try to make the rules such that they can rob us blind, legally.
Goodnight children, everywhere!
Children? Where? Boaz.
Do these crooks pay tax on the rental income or there many other expenses – I cannot imagine that they pay any Tax. Why don’t the Tax authorities investigate this
Don’t forget your admiration for Linda
Write – 2-4 Shaw Lodge House, HALIFAX, HX3 9ET
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Beeboid: Mister Bryant, have you been fiddling expenses?
Underpants: No.
Beeboid: Thank you very much.
The headlines this evening: Labour trimphantly quashes Tory claims of impropriety; the economy remains mired in deep recession…
Effing go for the lot of them…….name and shame! Scum politicians!
how much does the IPSA cost us?
Watch out folks, the dirty mac man is still around.
That should have been a reply to No 22 at 1.34
So now the lobby geezers want to soft glove them, Is this the future of the dead tree press?
You can’t disentangle one part of an MP’s finances from another part, each needs to be assessed as part of the whole.
No sympathy, they can’t trusted, let’s get ‘em.
Guido what an absolute loasd of crap,get to grips as to wish going on in the name of the voter.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100185799/how-hatties-friends-defended-paedophilia/