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Expenses scandal: three face suspension from House of Lords

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Three peers investigated over their expenses claims face suspension from the House of Lords and repayment of tens of thousands of pounds, The Sunday Telegraph has learned

The trio – two Labour peers and a cross-bencher – are expected to be officially recommended for censure in a statement tomorrow by the House of Lords authorities.

Baroness Uddin, a Labour peer and the first Muslim woman to be appointed to the upper house, is set to be suspended from the Lords for between a year and 18 months, and has agreed to pay back £125,000 in wrongly claimed expenses.

Lord Paul, another Labour peer and a major party donor, has been recommended for a suspension of between four and six months and has agreed to pay back £40,000.

Lord Bhatia, who sits as a cross-bencher but has also donated money to Labour, faces a ban of between six and 12 months and is to repay voluntarily £27,000.

All three were investigated by the subcommittee on Lords’ interests, a powerful body in the upper house chaired by Baroness Manningham-Buller, the former head of MI5. Lord Paul and Lady Uddin were referred to the committee after criminal investigations into their cases were dropped.

Last night none of the trio was prepared to comment on the results of the investigation and its recommendations on punishments – which will now be passed to the House of Lords to vote on. However, a source close to the investigation said: “This looks extremely serious for them.”

Read on: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/8068821/Expenses-scandal-three-face-suspension-from-House-of-Lords.html

 

 

(2010) New Labour’s Margaret Moran may be fifth MP to face court

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A fifth Labour MP is likely to face criminal charges over the alleged abuse of taxpayer-funded parliamentary expenses, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

Detectives have spent several months looking into claims made by Margaret Moran, the former MP for Luton South. She is expected to be charged within weeks, according to well-placed Whitehall sources. It is understood that officers suspect Miss Moran of submitting claims for work which was not conducted at the property designated as her second home for parliamentary purposes. Other invoices may have been inflated or the dates altered.

The Labour MP was exposed by The Daily Telegraph for making some of the most controversial claims after it emerged that she had repeatedly “flipped” her designated second home. She made expenses claims for at least three different properties, in London, Luton and Southampton, over a four-year period. Miss Moran claimed more than £20,000 for the treatment of dry rot at the Southampton home – almost 100 miles from either her constituency or Westminster. However, it has not previously been disclosed that she was under police investigation. The former MP, who was forced to step down at the last election, is now set to join four other Labour politicians facing court over their expenses claims. The Metropolitan Police are still understood to be investigating a further two or three MPs, including the former Labour member Harry Cohen.

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(2010) New Labour M.P. Margaret Moran -CASH FOR INFLUENCE SCANDAL

(2009) New labour M.P. Margaret Moran -PARASITE

Newspaper Mounts Campaign to Oust Corrupt New Labour M.P. Margaret Moran

(2010) New Labour’s Denic MacShane -INVESTIGATED BY THE MET.

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“At its meeting on 12 October, the Committee agreed that the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards should report to the Metropolitan Police Service the conduct of the Rt hon Member for Rotherham, Mr Denis MacShane. In accordance with procedures agreed in 2008 between the Committee on Standards and Privileges, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards and the Metropolitan Police, the Commissioner’s inquiry into a complaint against Mr MacShane will be suspended until the question of possible criminal proceedings has been resolved.”  Standards and Privileges Committee:

Denis MacShane claimed £125,000 of taxpayers’ money in office costs for this:

The Telegraph notes that the suspected fraudster “also submitted more than a dozen invoices to the Parliamentary authorities from the “European Policy Institute”. Each bill was for “research and translation”. The EPI was controlled by his brother, Edmund Matyjaszek.  The mysterious European Policy Institute was it seems founded by MacShane in 1992 and he served as its director until 1994. Fancy that.  See below:

Thanks to Guido Fawkes for this information.

It seems ex-police officer Michael Barnbrook was responsible for firstly bringing this to light. Kudos to that man.

(2010) New Labour M.P. Phil Woolas -RACE HATE CHARGES

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  • Former minister accused of stirring up racial hatred by falsely claiming his rival, Lib Dem candidate Elwyn Watkins, was in league with Muslim extremists
  • Pamphlets claimed his opponent supported a Muslim hate campaign which had made death threats against Mr Woolas
  • A mock newspaper also claimed that Mr Watkins was funded by a rich sheikh, that he illegally channelled funds through foreign doors and that he spent £160,000 more than the legal limit on his campaign
  • It was said that Mr Watkins, ‘a single man who lives alone with his mother’, lied about where he lived and broke his promise to move into the constituency
  • Mr Watkins’ photograph was also allegedly ‘doctored’, with him being superimposed on a picture with two police officers in an article suggesting Mr Watkins was paying staff less than the minimum wage

Labour’s former immigration minister attempted to stir up racial hatred and ‘make the white folk angry’ with his opponent in a desperate bid to keep his seat in Parliament, a court heard yesterday.

Phil Woolas is alleged to have orchestrated a dirty tricks campaign during the general election, claiming his rival, Liberal Democrat Elwyn Watkins, was in league with ‘mad Muslim’ extremists to swing the local vote in his favour.

Yesterday High Court judges convened an election court – the first in almost 100 years – to hear explosive claims of how the MP was so fixated on retaining his tightly-fought seat that he devised a ‘s*** or bust’ strategy.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1311491/Labour-MP-Phil-Woolas-accused-stirring-race-hate-win-white-vote.html#ixzz11JrSs7KZ

(2010) Conservative Party M.P. Mark Reckless: ‘too drunk to vote’

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A Kent MP has apologised for being drunk in the House of Commons and missing a vote on the Budget.

Mark Reckless said he did not feel it was appropriate to take part in the vote in the early hours of Wednesday because of the amount he had drunk.

The Conservative MP for Rochester and Strood told BBC Radio Kent: “I made a mistake. I’m really sorry about it.”

Labour MP Hazel Blears said she returned to the library after it became “a bit lively” on the terrace.

The 300th death of a British Youngster Brought about by -LIB-LAB-CON LIES

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In light of this sickening portrayal: http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/asia_pacific/300th+british+soldier+killed+in+afghanistan+war/3686457

…we should all consider this: http://eotp.org/2010/06/15/lib-lab-con-justification-for-afghanistan-war-is-“rubbish”-says-former-uk-counterterrorism-chief/

These warmongers of the Lib-Lab-Con ought to hang their heads in shame. Still, none of these 300 are their innocent children, are they?  Perhaps then these warmongers are beyond reproach.

The Truth is Out: British Army Being Used as Capitalists’ Mercenaries to Secure Profit

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About 25 countries have promised to send more troops to Afghanistan in response to President Obama’s call for extra support from Nato members. But France and Germany, the two European powers who could make a real difference, remain as hesitant as ever.

French and German leaders now face a painful choice. Should they finally embrace Nato’s efforts in Afghanistan more wholeheartedly – which would mean accepting significantly more human and material sacrifices? Or should they or conclude that the war has already been lost, or that “success” does not merit the cost, and abandon the mission altogether?

For their own good, they should choose the first option. They should remember that unlike the war in Iraq, which they strongly opposed from the outset, all Nato member states, including themselves, unanimously and unambiguously sanctioned the war effort in Afghanistan in 2001. But aside from the need to fulfil their alliance duties – and in fact even more important – they have clear national interests at stake in this strategically located central Asian state.

This is not about just about pre-empting future terrorist attacks on European capitals by stopping the Taliban from retaking the country. At stake in Afghanistan is the survival of the transatlantic alliance, Europe’s energy security and independence, and whether the deepening ties between Europe – especially Germany – and Russia, will eventually lead to the western integration of Russia, or instead, to it gaining a stranglehold over European energy security. In Afghanistan all three issues are interlinked. This fact remains largely ignored.

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