In what has come as a surprising development we learn that MPs have abandoned their legal battle to keep secret the details of their expenses.
The Commons Members’ Estimate Committee decided that it would not seek leave to appeal against a ruling by the High Court ordering the publication of the detailed breakdown of their expenses claims.
It follows the Court’s ruling on Friday that the Information Tribunal acted within its powers when it demanded that details of MPs’ additional costs allowances must be provided under the Freedom of Information Act.
A spokesperson for the committee said that they would comply with the court’s order that the details of 14 MPs, including Gordon Brown and David Cameron, named in the original freedom of information (FoI) request should be released by a deadline of 4pm on Friday.
The details of remaining MPs - thought to number around one million individual items - will be published in the autumn, a spokesperson added.
Should we take this at face value or assume that our light-fingered Parliamentary “representatives” have a card or two, yet to play?
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Wouldn’t trust the conniving swine any further than I could throw them.
It’s all been shredded, that’s why!
They don’t have to hide expenses any longer, as they are going to give themselves a massive increase to cover their losses and we the tax payer will end up paying even more than ever. These so-called politicians are nothing but parasites.
Oh you bet they have - only yesterday - Tony Blair’s receipts got ‘accidentally’ shredded!
Our so called representatives have had their noses in the trough for too long now. I think they have something else up their sleeves, we shall soon see.
Thanks to BNP for the magnificent way it has publicised this National disgrace, and kept everyone informed of the sordid details as this scandalous theft of taxpayers money unfolded.
Second home within 10 miles of Westminster £1.5M
Wages for family and friend employees £140,000
Food, drink, hair salon and taxi fees £34,000
Second hand paper shredder off of E-Bay PRICELESS
Shredders…for all of lifes little(and big), lies.
London was brought to a stand still today as hordes of MPs rushed in to high street shops to buy shredding machines. Later the smell of burnt out motors from the aforementioned machines could be smelt all over the capital.
Well, they know it’s all going to be transferred to Brussels, come the Lisbon treaty’s final implementation, so no skin off their snouts, eh?
The thievin’, lyin’ and cheatin’ rabble are finally being rounded up. This goes to prove that we don’t have to import 1,000s of criminals, as we have been doing. We have enough home grown rubbish. This nucleus of a thieves’ den that would shame Fagin. Could this, at last, be one centre of excellence where Brittania waives the rules, once again !!!
The DT report states there has been no criticism of MPs’ claiming an average of £177,000 each per year. Perhaps they don’t read these columns? Yet we know they do, or at least strongly suspect so. Not to read the news and comments on Great Britain’s most popular political website smacks of ignorance (unlikely) or arrogance (possible) or orders “from above” (probable). It may be that this somewhat dead-pan report presages an “open season” on our leaders; I would like to think that the DT at least had the gumption. I would like them to prove me wrong in thinking all British “newspapers” are bought and sold, and their output almost totally untrue or irrelevant.
BTW Congratulations to all at this BNP site on the latest Alexa figures below.
Hmmmmm, I wonder if anyone saw it coming . . . Tony Blair’s expenses shredded ‘by mistake’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-567121/Tony-Blairs-expenses-shredded-mistake–just-public.html
We’ll probably find that the shredders in all the other parasites’ offices will be on overtime too!!
The lethargic British public will probably react with a tut tut isn’t it shocking–put the telly on we’re missing East Enders.
The LibLabCons’ next move will be to pack the Information Tribunal with Common Purpose graduates, so
ensuring that “escapes” of “sensitive” information like this can never occur again, before the “chosen” among them can take refuge - and immunity from accountability - somewhere within the vast Brussels EUSSR machine after 05 May 2010.
Sadly, I fear that until then,
gyukcas’ sentiment (11.04 p.m.) will continue to apply.
gyukas spot on! We need a touch of Billy Cotton WAKEY WAKEY.
“..should be released by a deadline of 4pm on Friday”
That’ll be 3.59pm then and released at a location yet to be advised - now just how do I get to Rockall.
I would imagine that by the autumn a new edict from the ” democratic EU ” will appear allowing MPs of all countries to keep expenses claims a secret. Our beloved leaders will already have been forewarned so they know that they are in the clear.Therefore they agree not to fight the High Court’s decision.
Why can’t we see the details now?
Saw this thought others might be interested!
This is unbelievable, but true!
Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 600 employees and has the following employee statistics:
29 have been accused of spouse abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
9 have been accused of writing bad cheques
17 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
3 have done time for assault
71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
84 have been arrested for drink driving in the last year
Which organisation is this ?
It’s the 635 members of the House of Commons, the same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in-line.