Clean up Westminster: today’s victims
6:14 am - May 29th 2009
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Today’s victims
Bill Cash, a senior Conservative MP, claimed more than £15,000 in taxpayer-funded expenses to pay his daughter rent for her London flat – even though he owned a home closer to Westminster.
Nigel Griffiths, the Labour MP, tried to defend his £3,600 claim for electronic equipment in his second home in London by insisting he had to listen to “Scottish radio” and watch “Scottish TV”.
In the news
– PM faces crisis as Labour MPs head for the lifeboats
– MPs’ £1m payoff (and another £12.5m for pensions)
– Tory MP Sir John Butterfill to pay back £60,000
– Celia Barlow claimed £28,000 before switching home
– The day Tory ‘wife and mum’ stopped juggling
Comment
– Martin Kettle: Labour is a barrier to reform
– Steve Richards: We may all be victims of this debacle
– David Aaronovitch: I’ll show you mine if you show me yours
LibDems launch electoral reform site – Take Back Power
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This is shocking: 52 Labour MPs apply to be in the House of Lords, just as the government is about to collapse and Brown’s successors are talking up ditching the Lords. They want to be the last pigs into the pigsty before the door closes.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/may/28/gordon-brown-labour-crisis
I applaud, applaud the LibDems on the take back power site!
Well impressed! And about time, too! Just keep it up! Get on radio, TV, Newspapers – keep it up and there could be a real change!
PS, if you want banners done – just come over to my blog, click contact me, and I will do them for you for free. If Sunny can nick one for his Facebook group you can have them for nothing – I really don’t mind.
The banner at the top of this post is a bit, erm – naff!
@2 Just don’t mention Chris Rennard, the stolen 2.4 mil or the fact that they get massive funding from Tescos. They are no MyBO.
Or the “bar charts of doom” on their leaflets!
Re. Martin Kettle’s article: I’d have more sympathy for his words if: (a) Blair had actually done what the party promised and created a fully-elected Upper House; (b) the ‘full-time pols’ weren’t partially the result of New Labour’s control over the kind of people who got to be MPs; (c) he acknowledged that the current state of the party is as much a creature in Blair’s image which Brown merely continued with (plus the fact that Kettle’s dream of ‘realignment’ never seems to include the Tories).
Re. Nigel Griffiths – who knew an iPlayer was so expensive…
The banner at the top of this post is a bit, erm – naff!
lol, damn you Will! You got better ideas eh?? Ok, will email you.
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