We recently explained to readers our belief that the real reason that the issue of MPs expenses disclosure was being referred to the High Court was that of creating a further substantial delay – thereby “buying time” for the many dishonest MPs, past and present, involved to cover their tracks!
We today learn from the Guardian that this is almost certainly the case as MPs are clearly exploiting the High Court’s casework log jam in what many consider to be a “red herring” of a case. We use the phrase “red herring” because, in our opinion, this case is not being brought because it stands the slightest chance of succeeding, but merely to abuse legal process – at our expense – to delay publication of MPs expenses!
One further point is that the only bone of contention is that of the publication of MPs second homes addresses. Even if this was a genuine concern – which it is not – then there is absolutely no reason why MPs should not disclose details of their expenses claiming activities right now! Perhaps the likes of Dave “hug-a-hoodie” Cameron and Gordon Brown would like to lead by example and publish theirs into the public domain? No! We can’t imagine why not!
We quote from the Guardian:
“The decision whether to reveal the details of 14 MPs’ expenses will not be resolved for months because of a backlog at the high court, it emerged today.
The court’s administrative office has said that the case – involving the second-home expenses claimed by Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and 12 other high-profile figures - is “unlikely” to be heard for at least another eight weeks. Judgment is then expected to be reserved, delaying the process even further.”
Read the full story: here .
Meanwhile two London Labour MPs, that your news team have firmly in their sights, are husband and wife Alan and Ann Keen - who represent the adjacent West London constituencies of Feltham & Heston and Brentford & Isleworth respectively. Between them the pair have claimed around £200,000 in ACA alone between Q1 2001 and Q1 2006 - allegedly for a flat in Covent Garden – despite having their main residence only nine miles from The House in Brentford! Incidentally, their total combined expenses and allowances, claimed under all Parlaimentary categories for the same period, comes to around £1.3 million! This £1.3 million, of course, does NOT include salary, pension and other perks!
A local newspaper this week reported thus:
“The Keens stayed silent this week amid the escalating row over the Speaker of the House’s bid to keep details of MPs expenses secret. . . . . However a spokesperson for Hounslow’s MPs, Ann and Alan Keen, said the pair would not be commenting until the appeal is settled.
The Keens have long been under fire for using the second home allowance available to MPs for their second home in Westminster - despite having a home in Brentford, which is just nine miles from the Commons.”
Read the full story: here .
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I see there are no comments yet. Perhaps comment is superfluous?
The truth will have to come out eventually, thanks to the BNP.
This is just a delaying tactic as elections are looming and they dont want to face the uproar/backlash.
It was the same when Nick exposed “Grooming”. The penny is dropping,with the electorate, and the silence is deafening from Westminster.
Its all been said about the lying, thieving **** that are supposed to represent the people of our Country.
My thanks go to the BNP for the brilliant campaign to expose it, …. tremendous!
VOTE BNP
Some of these greedy swine are going to come a cropper over this expenses business.
Oink.
Ain’t it funny, huh, how the one party with three names is upset about elected BNP members of the GLC being able to have a vote on the City’s budget…
I’m sorry if I upset any of the readers with what I’m about to say. But after reading the above I would put these parasite vermin MP’s in the same bracket as the filth from the “religion of peace” that I saw on the film from Geert Wilders “FITNA” video.
Michael Martin the vermin speaker of the commons I’ve learned this morning spent £900,000 of tax payers money doing up his garden. This while most people throughout the country cannot afford to feed their families.
MPs get £60,000 pa which is fair enough but any expenses should be issued as in any private company. You claim them back at month end and show ALL receipts.
If an MP has to have a place in London as a second residence this should be paid for by the Government but remain on the Government books as an asset.Then no-one makes any money out of a future sale but the taxpayer.
The current system is just a free for all for corruption and greed.
Absolutely true, esselliott, this is how it should be, it’s no more than plain common sense. Salary £60K, allowable expenses to be paid on production of receipts, appropriate standard of furnished accommodation to be provided–for their term of office only–to those MP’s who genuinely need a London residence, and researchers’ salaries to be paid only to persons recruited through officially-administered procedures. This is how it is in the real world in which the rest of us live. And rightly so.
It would be interesting to know if any of our MP’s ever had the integrity to question the parliamentary expenses system? It’s clearly elitist and open to massive abuse. Did anyone, be they an MP, or from the Speaker’s office, Cabinet Office or anywhere else with any say in the matter ever point this out and attempt to substitute a proper system based on integrity and fairness? If not, why not? This looks like official corruption, pure and simple.
it is made far worse by the despicable attempts by the Speaker, aided and abetted by other ‘Honourable Members’ who have something to hide, to keep information on their allowances and expenses from public scrutiny.
How could anyone vote for the lib/lab/con after everything that’s happening is beyond me!
Darkmatter said that the odious Michael Martin spent £900,000 on his garden. That’s a hell of a lot of plastic gnomes! Where has he put them all?
If this was a company, like they keep saying it is (GT BRITAIN PLC), then the majority in Parliament would all be in jail for fraud and corruption. Fortunately for them the courts, judges, magistrates, higher-ups in the police force and some high-ranking services officers all pay homage to this disgraceful treachery that passes itself as upright servants of the people of Britain. Isn’t there anyone left of sufficient rank and power unaffected by this den of thieves and traitors willing to bring them to justice and reinstate Britain back to its rightful owners? Or is all lost to greed, corruption and treason?
Come on, did we expect anything different? If the ACA claims were above board then they would have been shown immediately. They are not, so we have to fight to get them. All this does is tell us all that some or all of these claims are fraudulent. I agree totally with everything everyone has said to date on this board.
Well I’m speechless!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7319972.stm
The Brussels Broadcasting Corporation reveals that Labourite Speaker Michael Martin has spent over £700,000 of public money.
Is his motto ‘a little of what you fancy does you good and sod the poor’?
To answer the question, News Team, you are 100% right. Well done to all involved in uncovering this ongoing scandal of liblabcon MP’s who are vigorously selling their own people and country down the river while stealing their money. Keep this information coming. I see it’s even breaking into the lefty Guardian — what a pity they do not have the honesty to acknowledge that the source of their information is the BNP. I hope this, and many other aspects of the rottenness of our “leaders” will be remembered by the voting public come polling day. I further hope that, come a BNP government, these people will be brought up to publically answer for their crimes against us.
I have just learned that pensioners have marched through Birmingham to demand an increase in the state pension as they can’t afford to live.
VOTE BNP!
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Remember, folks, the other parties have little interest in the needs of our elderly. We need to encourage our older citizens to vote for us-Ed
No end to EU/LibLabCon/Islam party lies, fraud and corruption -
http://isupporttheresistance.blogspot.com/2008/03/bnp-fail-in-bid-to-stop-postal-ballot.html
For goodness sake people, wake up! Go to the polling station in May and vote them out - vote BNP!
Just a thought, if all these politicians are busy covering their backsides, who is actually doing any work for our country?
Dave NE
DaveNE,
The answer is, they are all working for the EU.
Whistle, you give them more credit than they are worth. How can they fiddle their expenses, try to hide the truth, fend off enquiries from constituents and still worm there way into the EU gravy train? All that effort, what a shame it’s not put to good use running the country. Dave NE
Mr. Speaker, there is nothing quite as wonderful as money, nothing quite as beautiful as cash; some people say it’s folly, but I’d rather have the lolly; with money you can make a stash. I’ve got ninety thousand pounds in my pyjamas, fifty thousand French francs in my fridge; I’ve got lots of lovely Lira now the Deutchmark’s getting dearer, and my dollar bills could fill the Brooklyn bridge.
Have you finished with the shredder yet? Blimey, how long does it take to trash a few documents? This is like waiting for a court case to come up. (Sorry about nicking your poem and probably getting it a bit wrong, Mr. Python.) ‘Order, order!’ Yep I’ll have another! On the House, I take it? Cheers.
These whiter-than-white, self righteous, self-opinionated, bunch of evil, selfish, scumbags are doing everything possible to drag our country down. They will stop at nothing until they have bankrupted us. Do they realise that the cash they are squandering without a care, has been ripped out of someone’s wage packet, or through a dirty rip-off stealth tax that they have imposed upon us. We are the victims here. They are making this lovely country of ours a worse place to live by the minute. Just wait until they realise that they are going to get their overfed, fat little bums kicked at the next election. Their evil, wicked treason will know no bounds. We must make their tyrannic rule a bad memory in our country’s history. As I go about, people everywhere are sick to death of what they are doing to us, and I would say to members when you are in conversation while going about your daily business, bring up the BNP and try to make converts.
It has been reported that the official residence of the Speaker, Michael Martin, has received improvements costing over £700,000 since he took office. That works out at over £100,000 a year; the money being spent on furniture, art and air conditioning. It is already known that he has received £75000 in second homes allowances for a property in Glasgow on which he has no mortgage, and that his wife ran up thousands in taxi bills to do the shopping! Oh, and lets not forget the £25,000 in air miles for foreign as well as domestic trips. He reportedly gets £135,000 a year in wages on top of all this money from the taxpayer. The political clique, however, have all closed ranks in support of him, probably because they too are all grabbing what they can. It just shows how rotten and corrupt our politicians are.