Another Labour minister caught fiddling house expenses

[Puggit]

Sky News

Seems he was claiming for 6 years on a property in Harrow belonging to his parents, while living in Central London.

He is the MP for Harrow - just a few miles, and 20 mins on the train from Central London, where he lived with his wife after moving out of his parents' home (just proves how out of touch he is...).


Edited: cos it was Sky, not Times!

Edited by Puggit on Sunday 22 March 09:42

[Adrian W]

nothing will happen, they can do what they like, they are immune, labour the party to line your pockets with.

[hornetrider]

fks sake. We need a revolution.

[Morningside]

I expect this will be ignored due to the other big 'news' story of the day.

[thinfourth2]

Adrian W said:

nothing will happen, they can do what they like, they are immune, labour the party to line your pockets with.

Yeah and none of the torys ever do this kind of thing

Hence the protests from the opposition will deafening in their silence

[Adrian W]

thinfourth2 said:

Adrian W said:

nothing will happen, they can do what they like, they are immune, labour the party to line your pockets with.

Yeah and none of the torys ever do this kind of thing

Hence the protests from the opposition will deafening in their silence

Didn't Labour get in on a card of being squeaky clean and the Tories the scheming greedy money grabbing liars.

On the news he has just put out a statement saying he has done nothing wrong and has acted within the rules.

[V8mate]

How can anyone who lives/has a constituency within the M25 possibly need a second home for parliamentary work? Surely there should be a massive FAIL stamped on this guy's forehead?

[Puggit]

Adrian W said:

On the news he has just put out a statement saying he has done nothing wrong and has acted within the rules.

This is the bit that really winds me up...

He may have well acted within the rules, but not within morality. This is a 'better than you' mentality.

[thinfourth2]

Adrian W said:

thinfourth2 said:

Adrian W said:

nothing will happen, they can do what they like, they are immune, labour the party to line your pockets with.

Yeah and none of the torys ever do this kind of thing

Hence the protests from the opposition will deafening in their silence

Didn't Labour get in on a card of being squeaky clean and the Tories the scheming greedy money grabbing liars.

On the news he has just put out a statement saying he has done nothing wrong and has acted within the rules.

If you are thinking that i support the labour party then you are very wrong

Both major partys have their heads firmly jammed in the feeding trough

[10 Pence Short]

If this behaviour is in the rules, then you need to look at who made the rules, not those who follow them.

[Jasandjules]

Whiter than white? Not quite...................

Still, good old socialists, stealing as much from the trough as they can before they head to the election slaughterhouse.

[The Hypno-Toad]

Morningside said:

I expect this will be ignored due to the other big 'news' story of the day.

The way that this government works I wouldn't be surprised if one of her nurses was actually on MI5's payroll and slipped something into her drip to ensure this was the case.

If you think I'm being too tinfoil hat remember; a walk in the woods with not enough drugs to kill yourself can make you want to slit your wrists in way that doesn't make you bleed to death.....

[bluetone]

So this guy can't commute the 11 miles from Harrow to Parliament? FFS that has got to be wrong; do these people have NO principles? Even if it's 'within the (obviously shyte) rules' - where's the self-respect, the moral decency, the leading by example? No wonder the country is in the toilet, it's like living under some corrupt South American police state these days.

Unfortunately there are no real alternatives; they're all the fookin' same. Lib Dems = joke. Tories = as a child of the Thatcher years, it is difficult in principle to consider voting blue..

[juansolo]

bluetone said:

...FFS that has got to be wrong; do these people have NO principles? Even if it's 'within the (obviously shyte) rules' - where's the self-respect, the moral decency, the leading by example?.

Politicians, it's always been this way. See also, estate agents, journalist, etc, etc. Everyone is a selfish bd deep down. It's just they're at the top of the pile and better at it than most of us. Shame they have to rub our noses in it though.

[trumpet600]

So he claims that with the recent interest rate drops, he can now afford his mortgage on his Parliamentary salary..


Is this part of the reason for the current shyte we are in?

If they can't get it right, what hope do us lower scum stand.

Sack the sly fecker, make him pay back what he has wrongfully claimed, and a fine or prison for fraud

[Jasandjules]

Benefit Cheats? We're on to you.....

[Puggit]

trumpet600 said:

So he claims that with the recent interest rate drops, he can now afford his mortgage on his Parliamentary salary..


Is this part of the reason for the current shyte we are in?

If they can't get it right, what hope do us lower scum stand.

Sack the sly fecker, make him pay back what he has wrongfully claimed, and a fine or prison for fraud

Was it the interest rate drops, or Jacqui Smith getting splashed all over the press which changed his mind

[TankRizzo]

Anything which puts another nail in Labour's coffin for the election is welcome.

I think all the Cabinet should fiddle their expenses, and perhaps kick a few nuns in the face whilst they're at it.

[ianash]

12 years in office, of course you've got endemic corruption within the ruling "elite".

Roll on May 2010 - let’s get rid of these thieving scoundrels.

[rjsalpha]

Noel Coward put it well in the Italian Job - "The whole world is bent"