Margaret Moran Accused
Margaret Moran’s expenses trial got under way this morning, even if the former Labour MP’s mental health means she will not appear in the dock herself.
Moran is alleged to have claimed some £53,000 in false expenses. Here are the nine counts that were read out in court earlier today:
- Count 1: Claiming £575.78 for a washing machine, fridge and kettle for her 2nd home in London, though they were really for her main home in Luton.
- Count 2: Claiming £181.37 for a locksmith at her office. The work was done at her main home in Luton.
- Count 3: Claiming £87.09 for gas fire repair at second home. The work was done at her main home.
- Count 4: Claiming £527.20 for a bed and £2678.76 for carpets for her 2nd home. They were really for her main home.
- Count 5: Claiming £979.84 for an estimate for kitchen work. The work was never done.
- Counts 6 & 7: Using a bogus invoice and claiming £4756.40 for kitchen units that were never installed.
- Counts 8 & 9: Ten claims for utility bills totalling £2424 when the true cost was £286.35.
The trial continues…
About fucking time.
How can she be named and not the peados in the Tory party?
She has been charged; they have not (yet)
What about the double figure pedos at the BBC?
Is William Hague one of the gays Dave was on about? Didn’t he share a hotel room with his aide?
Margaret Moran MP is worse than Audrey Cockburn MP.
This is why we should pay MPs a living London wage and nothing more, after all they are serving the country and they expect us to be grateful for it.
That lot above doesn’t add up to £53k?
Does if Gordon’s Counting
Alleged health issues – just like Labour – claiming off for disability.
Hope she gets hard time.
Hope she gets poverty-striken and has to live in a council flat with her constituants on a sink estate.
I was cooking pork for dinner, but that picture has put off.!
I hope Mcshame gives her moral support!
Nothing about this on the Beeb. What a good day to bury bad piggies
All very BBC. Mrs Moran is not a Tory, is she?
Mmm! Good idea. We’ll see if we can find a link to enable us to run the story.
Brillo did mention moran briefly and quietly.
Not exactly subtle..
I wonder what the going rate for buying a doctor is?
I just hope I’m not paying for it…
You will be !
I am to tired and stressed to attend court. I have taken to resting,,,
On my patio at my Spanish villa
That would be my defence as well Margaret if I wasn’t being looked after by the Grand Master. Boaz.
If she is found guilty she should be remanded to Broadmoor as being criminilly insane
Actually Broadmoor is where us plebs should be for putting up with all this crap, and voting the feckless wankers in.
They were actually booted out in 2010…
Yes I know that, but just the tip of the iceberg (McShane et al)
Yes, Liebore were booted out in 2010, but they were replaced by more of the same.
Give the woman a break! As the photo shows, she is obviously in dire need of a square meal or two!
She should have been put in charge of the Home Office,obvious flair for home improvements.
Did she buy her Watford FC scarf that she used to wear in the HoC on dodgy expenses too? Did Dennis MacShane help her out with her fraudelent claims?
Its aLuton scarf
Not like that, just like that…….
ask little ‘Ern…..
still can’t see the join, up here as well……..
She should just come clean, best all round really.
Moran is a disgrace to the already disgraced members of parliament! Sadly, she probably represents the tip of a very large iceberg. Hopefully an example will be made ooof her and she will not escape by claiming to be “mentally-ill”, although one is tempted to wonder whether this is a pre-requisite for the job!
I was depressed not mentally ill….
I’ll do the Home Office – cash – no questions asked
I am so sorry that I have let my fund manager down.
It’s ok. I invested all your portfolio into Facebook.
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Mc Shane needs to have a mental breakdown quick!
He needs to effing well apologise. Just being a tiny bit humble about his disgraces would do something to alleviate public anger.
Sack all the greedy, robbing bastards and start again with proper expenses rules!
Sacking them gets them a Resettlement Grant so is to expensive in these time of austerity.
Send em all overseas with no passport and a one way ticket. They all like going abroad on paid jollies so it shouldn’t hurt to much
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8726581.stm
Just shoot them all then.
Exactly my thought
Cuba is opening their doors to let their people travel abroad in December, so there will be plenty of room in that country for socialists who don’t like it here when the big exodus begins
The trick is to moan a bit and get your eyes revolving as soon as Plod come down the garden path.
Wait ’til it all blows over and then bounce back miraculously.
Keep dribblin’!
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Once I knew a thing or two,
But now I’m a bufferoo,
Inky dinky parlez, vous vous!
Then put the makeup back on and dye your hair back to black.
Thieving Slapper!
It’s a tough one, if she REALLY is contemplating suicide then I think your childish school drawing of her with a piggy nose is a bit of a cheap shot.
You reckon?
Sure, I mean, you’d think twice before posting a pic of a disabled politician with go-faster stripes added to their wheelchair if they’d allegedly stolen money
What?
Mental health is a disability, just as much as physical
We agree. And not to be claimed lightly, or indeed falsely.
Is stealing a disbility? Is troughing at someone else expense a disability?
errr No I wouldn’t. But I suppose its people like you who the politico like. Oh whats the word yeah thats it – suckers
Haha, I’m actually a massive nasty bastard really, I just felt a bit sorry for her on a human level when I saw the before and after pic of her. I don’t think she’s bluffing. If she is, then I say… burn the witch
“Sure, I mean, you’d think twice before posting a pic of a disabled politician with go-faster stripes added to their wheelchair if they’d allegedly stolen money”
Who would? Think twice?
Don’t need to think twice
Superglue the bastard into the chair then find a steep hill’d be more like it.
haha, well if it’s gonna be that kinda party, I’m gonna stick my dick in the mashed potato
Keep it to yourself, but there are people on here who think she may be faking it to avoid justice.
Ssshhhh!!
What a MP (former) not being truthful.
Get the fuck outa here !!
As Jim Royle would say suicide my arse
Whoa – tough crowd
Time to come home for your pie Michael. And dont forget your pills darling.
thanks mum, I’m on my way, don’t mind if I bring my meat cleaver too honey, ok?
I wonder if she’ll recover after the case is over – using the “Ernest Saunders defence” gambit!
Looks like she been using the Colonel Saunders a bit too much of late.
Phillip Schofield: ‘If any viewer was able to identify anyone, I would like to apologise…there may have been a misjudged camera angle’
Misjudged publicity stunt you mean
This guy in Nigeria says he owes me £250k. Today is certainly getting better!
Good try Phil but it won’t wash. Lawyers are en route to the studio as we pixel.
Thieving cu nt.
Hi,
isn’t Moran derived from the Irish for moron used to identify the village idiot?
Who are the idiots here – as it is we the tax payers who permit these cheats, liars & scoundrels to endlessly get away with their criminal behaviour.
These low lifes make the laws we have to obey – well actually they used to but now they do nothing as the laws are made by the undemocratic EU and imposed. Our MPs no longer have a job or any relevance – they are just a rather odious breed of parasites akin to The BBC & much of the civil service & the ill mannered bullying plebs in the police farce
Regards,
Greg_L-W.
Greg Lance-Watkins, eh? Are you the same Greg Lance-Watkins who claims that the Hollie Greig case is a hoax?
Oink! Oink!
Wow!
Mental health issues my arse. Any old excuse to try and keep out of the slammer. The depths these scumbags go to is beyond belief.
Good, save the expense of a trial, just section the thieving bitch in Broadmoor & let her know after she ‘feels better’ , say 10 years after, she can be considered for release on licence.
Has she been sectioned? if not why not? will she be claiming sickness benefit we should be told
@GLW.
You are proud that you never vote
You boast about it.
Irritating but mostly barking self-harming.
What is David Laws up to these days?
His balls in his boyfriend’s bum?
His b@lls in his boyfriend’s r£ctum?
Fucking hell. Check out the Sky live blog. The woman was a) shameless and b) a total fuckwit thinking any of this could have been seen as anything other than fraud. http://news.sky.com/story/1008656/margaret-moran-expenses-trial-live-blog
“Moran also submitted a claim for “rather a lot of carpet” for a small one bed flat in London, claim the prosecution.
Invoice submitted mentioned 3 bedrooms to be fitted and the square footage was vastly greater than that of her London flat.
The fitter was tracked down. He has never fitted carpets in London. He has however, worked in Luton where Moran has her main home. “
Sorry Guido buy you are full of shit. Anna Soubry had just had 90 grand in donations from companies in Medical industry what was that if not a bribe
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Seeing the picture of Ms Moran reminded me, is the lovely Jacqui Smith, ex Home Secretary, up in court yet?
It’s greedy of all those ex Labour MPs to hog the top spots in the HoC expenses scam, so far 4 have been imprisoned, fatty Moran would be too if she hadn’t been taken poorly & of course Dennis MacShane could soon be behind bars!
What about Morans partner was he complicit ? did he know? and if he didnt why ? giving the list lodged in court it seems inconcievable to me
Of course Moran is f***ing “depressed”. McShane must be “depressed” too. Anyone caught out like that and publicly humiliated would be “depressed”. Doesn’t mean she’s seriously mentally ill and unfit to plead though!
After her expenses scandal broke, while already claiming to be too ill to serve her constituents and to co-operate with the initial investigation, she was well enough to tout herself for lobbying work in the “Dispatches” sting
And why only nine counts for less than £10,000 today? Wasn’t she charged with 21 offences and, as the headline states, false claims of £53k?
She wasn’t depressed when she was fiddling and cashing in. It’s when she got caught that the mental challenge started.
Wasn’t there a lot of work done to a property in Southampton that she claimed for too, although her homes are in Luton and London?
An attack by a PCP addled chimp could only improve that porcine visage.
Moran is unwell? Are there no prison hospitals?
Nevermind her, possibly fictional, mental health issues, what about her troughing greedy fucking bastard thieving arsewhipe issues?
So did Baroness Uddin get away with it…??