Labour MP’s Rent-Swapping Amnesia
When Guido was doing his own digging into rent-swappers last week one potential name that cropped up was that of Labour MP Meg Munn. Sheffield Heeley’s finest is a well-known trougher, employing both her husband as her researcher and her sister-in-law as an assistant in her constituency. When Guido asked Meg if she was a rent-swapper on Thursday she denied it outright:
@Wickham_A no—
Meg Munn (@MegMunnMP) October 18, 2012
It seems Munn is suffering from a convenient case of amnesia. It turns out she did use a rent-swapping arrangement up until April of this year, with the Register of Members’ Interests revealing her little trick ended just six months ago. She claimed for over £16,000 in rent-swapping expenses over the last financial year alone. Now Munn is quickly rowing back, suddenly recalling – that’s right – that the rules are to blame:
“When in London I now live in a rented flat. I would have preferred to continue to live in the flat I owned, but IPSA’s rules do not allow this.”
Funny how she forgot to mention all this when Guido first came calling…
I’ll still vote for her because the tories steal money off of the working man and only look after themseleves.
It’s what they came into politics for
What did Chuka come into politics for?
Don’t know but a look at Wiki shows he’s done a lot more with his life than George Osborne.
I was thinking of he may have fancied a Berger.
Flipping Bergers.
Thank you, gramma! I posted above without seeing yours.
You getting at me.
Good joke Labour voter. That’ll keep me amused for the rest of the day.
It was rather funny. Living proof that Labour voters are intellectuals.
Wow! I thought I’d got away with my troughing, just shows that my Labour training in theft from the people is inadequate.
Troughing Bitch! Boaz.
Where’s the piggy nose gone – c’mon don’t let standards slip in your eagerness to start new threads!
He can’t get the staff nowadays.
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Typicall head in the sand Labour supporter.Doesn’t matter the politics of the MP,it is wrong.It’s a crossparty problem that needs to be sorted.
In case you’ve forgotton, the last Labour Government were experts at stealing money off the working man & giving it to the rich ie. Blair, Mandelson etc!
And she isn’t stealing money off the working man?
And she isn’t stealing money off the working man?
And you think the racist Labour Nazis don’t steal from the working man? It’s thanks to people like you that Labour politicians are in Wastemonster, instead of working for a living.
She’s keeping Munn on this one!!
I met her sister at an OU study weekend. MUCH prettier than Smeg…
Yep this one is a “munn-ter”
Munn-ey makes the world go round, tra la.
I loved how Labour’s Helen Goodman claimed sexism motivated the thread on Linda Riordan, only for it to be followed by several threads about male Tory MP troughers.
Any apology forthcoming, Helen?
Her surname breaches Trades Descriptions on more than one count.
And it’s sexist. Goodperson or Good in future Helen. And why shackle yourself to a patronym when you could go Icelandic and add the dottir suffix to your mum’s name?
‘Twas on a Monday morning
The MP claimed her monthly rent
She claimed it every day
Because she was so bent.
Twas on the Tuesday morning
Guido found out more
‘It wasn’t me, twas within the rules,’
Fatty piggy did implore.
what sort of 2 bedroom apartment would £1500 a month get you in London..
a dump or somewhere rather nice?
Ay oop! You wouldn’t even get a garage for that in Rotherham.
Three very nice ones overlooking the sea here in Rhyl.
The whole of the city in Bradford.
That reminds me NFNF – is this odious woman going to be prosecuted, or has her timely ‘breakdown’ saved her?
IPSA’s rules do allow this, you just have to pay your own mortgage!
So its perfectly acceptable to take the money whilst going on about landlords, rent caps, living wages and so on?
Its not a tad hypocritical?
Not a shade immoral?
Not a little..in light of the recent expenses indignation, completely unfucking believable?
Why can’t MPs pay for their flats by accepting donations from property developers?
Why can t she sponsor. Herself. By. Having.
I,m. virgin. Atlantic. — Fuck. me
On the back of her skirt ??
That. Should bring in a. Few. Scheckels
down. Brewer. Street ,
Lying and financial dishonesty – looks like Munn has the two core skills for the modern politician
Makes me so proud, it brings a tear to my eye.
sounds like a Peabody Buildings flat
This is the 21st Century – most British towns and all cities have a significant underclass.
Our grandparents fought and died to allow us to drink cider to excess?
In some of those neighbourhoods, the 1940 generation is more like great- and great-great-grandparents.
on churchill’s sunlit uplands they’re beginning to suspect
surely this can’t be the freedom we fought so hard tp protect
You’re not allowed to live in your own flat? Seems draconian.
Perhaps she means she is able to live in her own flat, but would have to herself pay for doing so, and wouldn’t be able to make an annual 5 figure profit?
See what happens when you let women ot of the house.
If property is theft then renting is grand larceny.
Needs a fookin slap. Ugly biatch.
This woman is a serious trougher has been for years you wonder how these constituency parties select year after year it seems its worst with Labour lets get out all the names I want to know if any of the 3 sisters in Sunderland are troughing
We don’t like Munn days
What a bunch of chancers.
And now she has remembered.
Not sure what story Guido is contriving here.
Now let’s see if I have this straight: You’re not allowed to pay off a home loan and claim the expense. So you have to find someone to let the apartment to, in order to pay the loan. They pay the amount of your loan payment as their rent. You then have to lease an apartment, for which the rent you pay is able to be claimed as an expense. So if you have two MP’s with roughly equivalent loan payments cross-letting/leasing their apartments, all you’ve done is added a layer to the subsidy of the mortgage loan, but you’re still pretty much where you started, just in a different location– is that right?
Who came up with these rules– Bud Abbott? I know it probably wasn’t Diane!
Fuck just shat myself. No problem it’s flipped on the grill
4 times and charge the taxpayer.
Another Dishonourable whatsinnitforme trougher hopefully to bite the dust soon. Or she will find a new expenses fiddle. Close one door and the next door opens.
Love the way she tries to imply that rotten old IPSA won’t let her live in her own flat.
Boo hoo, poor me, feel sorry for me – what a victim I am, even though it’s me that’s been doing the troughing.
They just can’t help themselves, can they?
Now then, now then, let’s have a bit of fair play, if you don’t mind.
The question was “are you a rent-swapper?”. She answered correctly – “No”.
If the question had been “were you a rent-swapper?” she would have then been correctly admonished.
I believe that you now owe the trough snouting rat-faced old slag a profound and abject apology.
Trougher Munn noticeably absent from the Hillsborough debate in the House of Shame absolutely no bottle
The answer was entirely accurate. The question was poor.
fuck off jimmy