Monday, July 2, 2007

Miliblogger to Persevere

Guido has received a tip-off that the Miliblog will not die, it will be re-incarnated at the FCO. What a waste of taxpayers money. Shouldn’t he really be concentrating on foreign relations rather than his personal spin blog?

Shouldn’t the Labour party rather than the taxpayer pay the bill?

See previous stories.

Monday, March 26, 2007

Miliband’s Blog Assistant Costs £62,400 a Year

Further to the stories about the Miliblogger’s taxpayer funded blog, Tory Radio has calculated that since Miliband says
…he has an official effectively acting as his blogging assistant who does about 10 hours work a month at a cost of £300. Now if that was equated to a full time equivalent that would be say 40 hours a week at £30 an hour for 52 weeks which is a whopping £62,400 salary.

£62,400 a year is more than an MP’s salary. The blog should be hosted by the Labour party and the asssistant’s salary should be paid by the Labour party. Miliband should concentrate on sorting out Defra’s serious problems rather than profile raising, partisan propanda blogging.






Parliamentary Standards Commissioner John Lyon said of LibDem MPs…

“The effect of members not making over these payments to the House was to put their private interest above their public interest, contrary to the Code of Conduct for Members of Parliament.”



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