Dispatches: Rent-Swappers Revealed Tonight
This evening’s Dispatches will blow the lid on five more troughing rent-swapper MPs. Throughout October Guido revealed names of several of the MPs who were billing the taxpayer for the rent for their London accommodation despite owning properties in the capital that they themselves were renting out. Tonight’s programme alleges:
- John Denham has the nerve to charge the taxpayer for rent even though he has receives income from a London property he rents out. When Guido asked greedy expenses-guzzler Denham why he had decided to become a rent-swapper at the height of the scandal he sobbed that: “I was forced to vacate the property (and rent a flat) directly and solely as a consequence of changes in IPSA rules. For the avoidance of doubt, I would strongly prefer to be living in this property and not a rented flat”.
- Tory DCMS select committee chairman and rent-swapper John Whittingdale has started claiming rent for a considerably more expensive property than the London flat the he owns, used to live in and now receives rental income for.
- Mark Pritchard is billing the taxpayer for the rent for a London property despite the fact that he also owns a flat in the capital.
- Labour’s Michael Meacher has pulled the same trick in Oldham.
- While Pat McFadden has done the same in Wolverhampton.
Here is the list of MPs claiming for rent in full:
There are some very interesting names on that list. It would seem that Peter Luff is renting off a Frank Lampard. According to the chants, there is only one Frank Lampard, so it must be the Chelsea footballer. Keith Simpson rents off Tory peer Howard Flight. Stephen Williams rents off disgraced LibDem peer Jenny Tonge while Julian Huppert rents from Channel Four’s much loved old political editor Elinor Goodman. Jessica Morden rents off Madeleine Moon. They’re both Labour MPs.
Every single one of these MPs is relaying the same old sob story word for word to try to excuse their rent-swap troughing.
They can blame the rules all they like, the fact is they are profiting thanks to the taxpayer…
UPDATE:
Michael Dugher MP, in charge of Labour's defence procurement review, rents off a Defence lobbyist.—
Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) November 19, 2012
Watch it, or i will send round John Terry to sort out everyones wife!
People accuse me of being racist. Rubbish some of my best friends wives are black.
Why can’t MPs have ‘buy to lets’ in the same city that they rent accommodation for their own parliamentary purposes? Are they not allowed to have private business interests?
I don’t see how this can be denied them unless we deny all MPs ANY financial interests outside their Westminster salary. And if we did that, we’d probably end up having to vastly increase the salary to make up for their losses.
These are simple, taxable, accommodation arrangements than everyone in temporary jobs would need to avail themselves of. (An MPs job is quite plainly temporary since it goes away every time there’s a general election and isn’t guaranteed afterwards)
I simply cannot get worked up about this.
Bang on NF – the media and ‘order order’ are really scraping the bottom of the barrell here. In a nutshell they are having a go at MPs who are working within rules laid down by an independent body?!? This is not a story.
So if IPSA are an independent body, how come John Bercow is telling them what to do?
IPSA are about as independent as the IPCC.
Imogen Thomas, ey Frank Lampard?
OK Frank, so I shagged her as well, behind a bus shelter in Hendy, so? We were also picked up on cctv having things down the canned friut aisle in Tescos Fforestfach, but the management agreed to wipe the tape. Coluld sell for lots now. But I am sure Imogen won’t do that to me.
Which Constituency is yours then?
Your fucked mister
FGS its you’er you freaking illitearate immbearseal
Stop dribbling: you’re sidestepping this serious snout- in – trough creaming-off the hapless taxpayer issue which should concern you as it does the rest of us
Chants are wrong-his father was also Frank and played for West Ham and England.
Frakk Lampard senior’s dad was also Frank. So that’s three.
Frank. Doh!
His mum’s also called ‘frank’
But where does Harry Redknapp fit in ?
And his sisters called Frank
“[H]is father was also Frank…”
And still is! I’m not bloody dead, you know!
Sorry!
Redknapp is relevant because he is Lampard senior’s brother in law or something .
But didn’t Michael Dugher have some dealings with Dr Kelly – while Dugher was Buff Hoons second Special Adviser and wasn’t he of a want to do anything to get himself elected – as his former uni colleagues stated from Warwick Uni on that red-star website – which has disappeared?
Proof please….
What Andrew Pierce failed to mention in his article today about Dugher was
That Dugher was the PR frontman for Sir Ken Kackson [The AEEU - now Mclusky's Unite] Jackson of course was Blairs ‘favourite’ Union nabob. However and all the same time Blair was in thrall to Murdoch.
Blair was to have sung Ken Jacksons praises at the TUC conference in Brighton on 9/11 – save other matters took over that day.
Dugher disappeared quietly out of the AEEU when Ken Jackson was booted out amidst a ‘vote rigging scandal’ then he resurfaced at Millbank towers – ‘threatening’ civil servants > The Telegraph know all about that.
Richard Taylor was Hoons other spad over at the MOD. Taylor and Dugher took the rap for a Hoon Gaff Re Bush > The D Mail know all about that.
ducking and diving mate
Yawn.
Yeah, can we have some more SpAd stories?
I like the wrestling stories.
Keep at ‘em Guido.
STFU
No! Not over there! Look over there!
She’s a cow, a prize cow.
Not more of same old bollocks
”Your letter was only the start of it…” No shit!
Oh No
I’m playing with myself again.
Bloodsucking leeches.
They have no more civic duty in them than my old calculator.
Meacher! The Old Labour property millionaire – how many houses does that troughing socialist now own?
I’ve lost count but I would like to thank the British taxpayer for giving me the opportunity to own such a large portfolio.
How many of these
(a) have online pron as standard?
(b) are the front bedrooms of relatives’?
The primary goal is to fleece the taxpayer. Who needs reform? The rules are there to be worked around. Vote them out ffs!!
Look if I applied for and was offered a job in London I would have to find somewhere to rent and pay for it myself…
1. Who forced any of you hunts to work as an MP?
2. Why are you any different than any other employed person?
No wonder the electorate hate your fucking guts
Amen to that.
The whining, excuse ridden ‘culture of entitlement’ starts right here.
If they don’t get it now, they never will, Time to flush the drains clean.
Get off the bandwagon your both talking nonsense. How can democracy in the UK work if only the independently wealthy can afford to stand for election to parliament? If it was done that way we would be back to the old days of the local squire being the only person able to afford to stand for office. You must accept that they need to kip down somewhere and the taxpayer has to foot the bill (within reason). That’s how it works in every democracy on the planet.
I liked it back in the old days,lived in a tied cottage,walked to work,no rent,plenty of fuel,and eviction.The mp,s are very strange,still, every ill man has his ill day.!
The point is that you can ‘easily’ afford to live in your own property. However, by doing it this way you can make more profit. ‘According to the rules’, as though that makes a difference.
Who do you swap with Mr Mitchell?
I guess you took the usual advice that your union comrades are given – don’t forget to claim ALL of your expenses. After all those years as the MP for the safe seat – or should it be the rotten borough – of Great Grimsby I guess you just can’t help yourself!
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Is the Donald Macintyre that rents to Macshane THE Donald Macintyre from the Indie?
Good to see this resurrected. As there has been little mention of it recently, i thought the bastards had dodged the bullets.
When are the free press going to get around to exposing all the Local Councillors around the country – who have been ‘havin it away’ with the taxpayers money as well?
Off. Rents off, for God’s sake. Where did your intern go to school? Eton?
Tax Payer
A simple organism designed to be extorted by greasy pole climbers
What are the “rules” that prevent them living in a house they own?
Perhaps what is really meant is “I can’t claim for it anymore!”
What I do find staggering is the number who live with easy commuting distance yet are still claiming thousands!
Messrs Cameron, Clegg and Brown done such a good job of covering MPs’ arses last time round that it was bound to continue. Expenses fiddling for politicians is a win-win – no penalty if you are caught, big profits whither you are caught or not.
Will you please remove your hands from my pockets , kind gentlemen .
*push*…. *splash*…
He’s fallen in the water…
How can Esther McVey rent a flat from Glover Industries Ltd when that company has been dissolved and the management company doesn’t even exist! . . . . .
As a constituent of Wirral West, I’am sure we have an MP of that name, I forgot about her, still 2015 is not too far away and she won’t be voted back in, but I think like all scousers who end up in Londonistan they forget where the originate from and don’t return .
Yes McVey is the halfwit we were lumbered with for Wirral West
Now seemingly caught red handed with her fingers in the till and P Davies fingers in her
They still don’t get it, do they? Piano wire may be the only solution.
I can get them shot all in one go, just say the word.
“The word”.
Don’t believe football chants, there has been births of seventeen Frank Lampard registered since 1940. Some might have died but there must be a few others around.
(I presume there must be a footballer with that name from the comment in the item?)
Relax and have a choc ice
I hear that certain Members like a “Magnum”.
I only rent swap with boys.
Why are so many redacted?
I thought Michael Meacher owned loads of properties?
It’s the socialist way….
He is an old Trot and should be shot (and his family sent to some northern shit hole). As for the rest of these rent swappers I follow Lenin’s example take the 10 most extreme cases and shoot them. If this does not work shoot them all and take all their property into state ownership. In fact your corrupt Peoples Congress serves no use at all why not just shoot them all?
Actually charge them a CGT on any gain when sold.
Tomorrow I will pre announce that I will pre announce a speech on something that noone will give a toss about.
Tomorrow I will announce that I am the ghost of Margaret Thatcher.
Ed have you been bloody cross dressing again
Deviant and Trot shoot him.
Send him to Mexico – they do a nice range of axes out there.
Margaret Millionaireband is for gurning. You can gurn if you want………..
It is interesting how Ester Mcvey and Philip Davis have the same landlord?
Ester McVey! Now that is a blast from the past from telly. Totally pushy she is.
Any relation to Ester Mc Oy Vey?
Can’t see what’s wrong with this. Granted it was misguided to allow expenses to be used to buy rather than rent. It is not allowed anymore.
So MPs who took out a mortage under the old system can now claim only if they rent or stay in a hotel — even if that costs the taxpayer more.
I am glad I am not working as a lawyer in the CPS .
sensible answers only please……why are some redacted?
2out of the three MPS in my city r redacted I would like to know as well,
yes, rather interesting to note that the Northern Irish MPs details are redacted too.
I suggest some digging there, Guido!
Dis is clearly a cover up
When the EU dam finally bursts there will be a terrible price to pay and politicians are a natural target for angry revolters.
.. along with their Common Purpose stooges in the various departments of state who have tirelessly pushed this agenda. Sharpen your pitchforks mes amis.
ducking and diving mate
money for ol’ rope pal
money for old rope pal
Rules are like pie crusts, made to be broken. But these dishonorable renteratis or RENT Rats really know how to bend the rules without breaking them.
Mrs Hodge and the rest of the select committee attack Google, Starbucks etc for not paying corporation tax on the grounds that even though their “avoidance” tax structures complied fully with UK tax law (and as an ex Tax Inspector dealing with similar structures on a daily basis I know of what I speak) they should pay on the basis of what the MPs consider as MORALLY RIGHT regardless of what was legally due under the UK tax legislation.
It seems to me that the rent claiming MPs who also own London properties are also using the letter of the rules re expenses rather than what is MORALLY RIGHT.
Why am I not surprised.
It’s the same old story do as I say not as I do.
And behind every dirty filshing expenses cheating MP – there are rank and file lawyers – who ‘make it all happen for them’.
Too many Lawyers seem to … no – are running this country and the legal chicanery [Tax evasion or tax avoidance] that allows the few to rob and thieve from the masses 27/7.
When enough people develope the ability to be able to tear the weasel words of lawyers to shreds – then we can get them lamposts swinging.
As Mark Twain once said (to the best of my recollection)
“The mere mention of the word lawyer is enough to deprive a man of any public confidence”.
As for Mark Lewis – giving it largesse about libel laws on CH4 News about the McAlpine (who strikes me as being almost dead from the neck up guided by Andrew Reids fee gathering hand) – Lewis is only promoting his own 5hit trade.
Then there’s the High Priestess her lickspittalness Mad Mel Phillips spinning it up in the Blackmail today oooh all them nasty tweeters! add some more adjectives Mel it wasn’t scary enough – Huh and her hubby Joshua Rusenberg in cahoots with Carl Gradner – fuck the lot of em. And they damned well know who I am.
it is a shame that you don’t do research before you write. If you did then you would see that I spent two years at the risk of no pay to defend all the sheffield wednesday fans who were sued by their club and three years defending Peter Wilmshurst a NHS cardiologist being sued by an American company for libel. Maybe you should look at the libel reform campaign. The point is that bullies should not be able to use libel to silence proper dissent whilst at the same time lack of funds should not prevent you from pursuing a claim. My conscience is clear. I gave up a well paid job to act honestly – earning £10,000 in 2009/10 and £30,000 in 2010/11. As for being dead from the neck up – maybe you are confusing my disability – I am dead on the right side from MS. Please check your facts.
Reread the comment I made the ‘Dead from …’ applied to MacAlp.
So knickers in a twist there. Please don’t ‘use’ the hillsborough issue – to mix up others as a weasel excuse.
BTW – and Mr loophole is a saint – well for getting the ‘loaded guilty’ – off of their transgressions; while minor transgressions by the ordinary man are ‘overlooked’ by the coruts administrators to nick them regardless.
Quite so, but Marge accidentally forgot to mention that she and her ‘business interests’ are up to their ears in the same scam. Lovely people this fair land has representing the ordinary folk.
Why are these people sending me all these bills ?
Lilian Greenwood Labour MP rents of Ms Gillian Merron ,wasnt she the former MP for Lincoln who got booted out last time,so we are still paying for her mortgage
Postscript to #82 Merron was ordered to pay back 6and half grnd by Sir Thomas Legg after the 2009 scandal,things never change!
Amber Rudd on the list. She has more money than most people could ever dream about.
This should settle a proper and legal way.
Build a hostel on the banks of the Thames offer them 1 room each at DBB rates. Tax payer pays a flat accomodation fee. That will sort out the committed political types from the troughers.
Could move them all into St Tom’s hospital as they all seem to be suffering from something nasty and incurable.
Saw a low countries film, where blocks of flats one bedroomed were bulit for post war fucked up sons and daughters were allowed easily to say in safe, and swop stories. Can’t for the life of me remember the film’s name, was it The Sex Life of the Belgians? Glory be, I think it twas.