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(2012) New Labour Cllr. Daniel Munyambu -SUSPENDED FOR VARIOUS COUNTS OF FRAUD AND FORGERY
A Kenyan Councillor in the UK, who was earlier this week charged before the Nairobi Chief Magistrate with various counts of fraud and forgery, has been suspended by his Labour Party pending the outcome of the trial.
Councillor Daniel Munyambu of Vange Ward, Essex, was on Monday charged before theNairobi Principal Magistrate Esther Maina with three counts of fraud and forgery.
He is alleged to have forged receipts and obtained £18,000 (Sh2.37m) under false pretences on various dates in November 2008.
When contacted, Basildon Labour Group Deputy Leader Phil Rackley said: “Daniel Munyambu is suspended as a labour councillor pending the outcome of the trial. If it takes more than six months to go to trial and he is unable to return to the UK, there would have to be a by-election because a councillor cannot miss meetings for that time,” Rackley said.
But Baroness Angela Smith of Basildon, who has worked closely with Munyambu on local issues said: “This is a bolt of the blue, but a great concern, and we will have to wait the outcome of the trial.”
A Basildon council spokesman said they were concerned to hear a member of their council had been arrested and charged with criminal offences in Kenya but were not willing to make further comment.
“However, we will be following this case closely,” he said.
Munyambu, a source told The Standard, will remain a councillor until the outcome of the case despite his suspension by the Labour party.
Read on: http://in2eastafrica.net/kenyan-councillor-in-uk-suspended-by-his-labour-party-over-fraud-case/
VIDEO: The True Face of what David Cameron and his Fellow Warmongers Supported
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How much longer can/will the British Army take orders from this Zionist warmongering commercial “elite” that masquerades as “government”?
Police to question Jack Straw over torture in Libya
Ministers must face ‘serious allegations’ over human rights abuses
Former ministers in Tony Blair’s government are expected to be questioned by police over their alleged role in human rights abuses, in a new Scotland Yard investigation into how dissidents were sent to Libya to be imprisoned and tortured by Muammar Gaddafi’s regime. The focus of the inquiry will be the involvement of MI6 in the arrest and rendition of two men. Jack Straw, Tony Blair’s Foreign Secretary between 2001 and 2006, will be interviewed, police and Whitehall officials pointed out, as he would have had to “sign off” operations by MI6 at the time in question. One senior official stressed: “These [operations] were in line with ministerially authorised government policy.” The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, and the Metropolitan Police Service declared yesterday in a joint statement: “The allegations raised in the two specific cases concerning the alleged rendition of named individuals to Libya and the alleged ill-treatment of them in Libya are so serious that it is in the public interest for them to be investigated now rather than at the conclusion of the Detainee Inquiry.”
Liberal Democrat’s Biggest Donor -Fraudster Michael Brown- Arrested in Caribbean
A fraudster and Lib Dem donor who went on the run has been arrested in the Dominican Republic, police have said.
Michael Brown was sentenced in his absence to seven years in jail in 2008 for stealing £36m from clients including nearly £8m from Manchester United’s ex-chairman Martin Edwards.
He posed as a bond dealer and claimed royal connections to steal the money, Southwark Crown Court heard.
Brown gave some £2.4m to the Lib Dems ahead of the 2005 general election.
City of London Police said they were “pleased” to hear he had been detained and were establishing contact with authorities in the Caribbean country, which has no extradition treaty with Britain.
(Video) Bush, Blair found guilty of war crimes in Malaysia tribunal
Former US president George Bush and his former counterpart Tony Blair were found guilty of war crimes by the The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal which held a four day hearing in the Malaysia.
The five panel tribunal unanimously decided that Bush and Blair committed genocide and crimes against peace and humanity when they invaded Iraq in 2003 in blatant violation of international law.
The judges ruled that war against Iraq by both the former heads of states was a flagrant abuse of law, act of aggression which amounted to a mass murder of the Iraqi people.
In their verdict, the judges said that the United States, under the leadership of Bush, forged documents to claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
They further said the findings of the tribunal be made available to members of the Rome Statute and the names of Bush and Blair be entered into a war crimes register.
Both Bush and Blair repeatedly said the so-called war against terror was targeted at terrorists.
Lawyers and human rights activists present here say the verdict by the tribunal is a landmark decision. And the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Foundation said it would lobby the International Criminal Court to charge former US president George Bush and Former British prime minister Tony Blair for war crimes.
(2011) Liberal Democract M.P. -Chris Huhne and wife to be charged with speeding and perverting the course of justice
Detectives at Essex Police believe they have secured enough evidence for the Crown Prosecution Service to charge Mr Huhne with speeding and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
A file sent to the CPS is reported to say that Vicky Pryce, Mr Huhne’s wife of 26 years whom he left in 2005, should be charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice after allegations that she accepted penalty points on her licence after Mr Huhne was caught by a speed camera while driving on the M11.
The decision over whether to bring charges now rests with lawyers at the CPS, who have asked the police to continue their inquiry.
It is alleged that in 2003 Mr Huhne asked his wife to accept speeding points on his behalf after being caught by a speed camera while travelling home from Stansted Airport after a flight from Strasbourg.
Essex Police have twice interviewed both Mr Huhne and Ms Pryce. They have obtained a production order requiring The Sunday Times to hand over emails between Ms Pryce and the newspaper. The order has been challenged in the High Court, and the CPS is understood to insist they cannot bring charges until that material is released.
Morley Borough Independents Exposed
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The so-called Morley Borough Independents are a party whose leaders are rejects from the mainstream parties. They claim to be ‘independent’ and free from party-political bias, yet they are nothing of the sort.
This party has shown that it is willing to plump any depths in order to keep its privileged position in local politics. The Morley Borough Independents are willing to lie to voters, claim credit for other people’s work, and do their utmost to ruin the lives of dedicated community campaigners who they have fallen out with.
All other political parties are exposed to close scrutiny and examination by rival parties and the electorate, but the Morley Borough Independents have managed to keep themselves from being exposed for what they are – until now.
This site will expose the truth about the so-called ‘Morley Borough Independents’.
Most of the information on this site has appeared in the local press, and where this is the case we have indicated this at the top of the page. With articles written by one of our correspondents, any claims made in the articles have been investigated and their authenticity verified. Where possible we have reproduced all items of supportive evidence on this site.
(2011) New Labour election agent Steve Carnell -CHARGED WITH POSSESSING MORE THAN 10,000 INDECENT IMAGES OF KIDS
A PROMINENT election agent has appeared in court charged with possessing more than 10,000 indecent images of children.
Former Rhondda Cynon Taf Labour councillor Steve Carnell, 57, of Trealaw, near Tonypandy, faces a total of 40 separate charges.
They include making and possessing indecent images of children and possessing extreme images involving animals.
The indecent images alleged to have been found in Carnell’s possession include over 2,000 at level four and around 150 at level five, the two most severe ratings.
Carnell – who acted as Rhondda MP Chris Bryant’s election agent last year and education minister Leighton Andrews’ agent in 2007 – was remanded in custody at Pontypridd Magistrates’ Court.
The charges date back to 2003.
There was no application for bail on his behalf and District Judge Jill Watkins remanded him in custody until his committal date of May 6.
She said: “I am remanding you in custody for fear of further offences.”
(VIDEO) Like a child caught with his pants down AND his hand in the cookie jar with crumbs and chocolate all over his face.
Tory Peer Taylor Says Theft from Taxpayer is “perfectly acceptable”
Peers were routinely fiddling their expenses ‘day in and day out’ in the House of Lords, a court heard yesterday.
It was ‘common practice’ to make bogus claims for second home and mileage allowances – and to boost income by doing so was widely regarded as ‘perfectly acceptable’.
Tory peer Lord Taylor of Warwick was even told he would be ‘crazy’ not to charge for a second home outside London, it was alleged – even though his only home was in Ealing.
So the ex-barrister and one-time Tory Party election candidate filled in forms that purported to show his main home was in Oxfordshire, and that he had to travel to the capital and stay overnight on Parliamentary business.
But he had never stayed at the Oxfordshire address, and had no connection with it beyond the fact it belonged to his half nephew.
The alleged deception meant he was able to claim a total of £11,000 in subsistence and mileage allowances between March 2006 and October 2007.
Later he told a journalist his main home until 2007 was ‘the Taylor family home’ in Solihull, where his elderly mother lived. But she died in 2001 and the house was sold soon afterwards, the court heard.
Lord Taylor, who pleaded not guilty to six counts of false accounting, did not deny he had made the claims – but insisted he had not done so dishonestly.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1347970/Expenses-fiddling-went-time-regarded-perfectly-acceptable-says-Tory-peer.html#ixzz1BQQH9lyi
MP ‘reports six colleagues to police over expenses’
The MPs are thought to include a former Labour cabinet minister, two Labour MPs, two Conservatives and a Liberal Democrat.
The allegations are said to relate to inflated claims for household expenditure such as council tax, maintenance and utility bills.
According to the Sunday Times, the allegations have been made by a Labour MP, who represents a northern constituency, who passed details of alleged wrongdoing to police because he believes he was unfairly singled out for investigation over his own allowances.
If confirmed, it would be the first time since the expenses scandal erupted in 2009 that an MP has made a complaint to police about fellow members of the Commons.
Scotland Yard said on Saturday that “a small number” of parliamentary expenses cases remain under consideration by a panel of detectives and prosecutors, but was unable to say whether any fresh cases had been brought to their attention recently.
How the Unelected Zionist Lobby Shapes U.K. Politics
The wealthy Jewish lobby in Britain working under the title of the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) has been tipped as the Conservative Party’s paymaster.
The CFI as described by British political analysts is beyond doubt the most well- connected and probably the best funded of all Westminster lobbying groups. It works in support of the interests of the Israeli regime.
The CFI’s finances may be legal but they are hardly transparent as the lobbying group is an unincorporated association. This is how the British media report about CFI’s financial transactions.
The register of MPs’ interests shows that CFI board members and their businesses gave the Conservatives over 2 million pounds in the last 8 years.
The reports also say more than 30,000 pound from CFI members went to campaign funds of the members of Prime Minister David Cameron’s team when he was first elected as the party leader in2005.
Also in 2005, Cameron himself had received 15,000 pound from a pro-Israeli lobby facilitator. The facilitator had also donated 50,000 pounds to the Conservative Central Office.
“Donations from all CFI members and their businesses to the Conservative Party of Britain have topped over 10 million pounds over the past 8 years”, according to reliable sources inside the UK.
Here’s an example of how the pro-Israeli lobby works in the UK.
After the 22-day Israeli war on the Gaza Strip a fact-finding team was appointed to conduct an inquiry into the war and identify the culprits.
A few weeks since the UN was to vote on a resolution following judge Goldstone’s report who condemned Israel for abusing human rights in Gaza, the CFI ran up to now foreign secretary William Hague office and after consulting with David Cameron, he gave them this quote:
“Unless the draft resolution is redrafted to reflect the role that Hamas played in starting the conflict we would recommend that the British government vote to reject the resolution”.
But, it was under former Prime Minister Tony Blair that the Israel lobby first acquired real influence in government.
Former chairman of the Labour friends of Israel John Mandelson boasted:
“Zionism is pervasive in new Labour, it’s automatic that Blair will come to Labour friends of Israel’s meetings”.
Shortly before Blair became Labour party leader in 1994 he met Michael Levy the pop music millionaire at a social event arranged by the Israeli embassy. They became friends, played tennis and Levy became Blair’s fundraiser. It’s estimated that he raised almost 15 million pounds for Labour before the row over cash for peerages.
When Tony Blair became prime minister in 1997, he awarded Michael Levy a life peerage and made him his special envoy to the Middle East, but because Levy was unpaid and working directly to the prime minister, what he negotiated between the Israeli entity and Arabs on behalf of Britain was kept secret.
(Video) Diane Abbott MP – A Racist & Champagne Socialist?
Pressing questions from an Andrew Neil who still wears kid gloves.
(Video) M.P.s Expenses Scandal
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(2009) LABOUR FIGURES’ BIZARRE LINK TO PAEDOPHILE GROUPS
Their involvement with an organisation to which two groups campaigning for the legalisation of paedophilia were affiliated has come back to challenge three leading Labour Party figures.
Before she became an MP, Harriet Harman was the legal officer in the late 1970s for the National Council for Civil Liberties. When Miss Harman joined NCCL in 1978, PIE, the Paedophile Information Exchange, had already been affiliated for three years. Another group, Paedophile Action for Liberation, a Gay Liberation Front offshoot, had also been affiliated to NCCL until it was absorbed by PIE. PIE, which campaigned for adults to have sex legally with children, only broke off its relationship with NCCL when it went undercover in 1982, the same year that Harriet Harman left her NCCL post to become Member of Parliament for Peckham.
NCCL people were earlier involved in keeping the name of an NCCL council-member, Jonathan Walters, out of the People newspaper when it ran an exposé of Paedophile Action for Liberation, of which he was secretary, in 1975. The People still ran the story, but Walters was not named.
Even more extraordinary is the fact that a current Cabinet Minister was running the National Council of Civil Liberties at the time all this was going on.
The Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt MP, Secretary of State for Health, became General Secretary of NCCL in 1974. The very next year, 1975, NCCL invited the Paedophile Information Exchange and Paedophile Action for Liberation to affiliate. In the year after, 1976, the now-notorious paedophile Tom O’Carroll was invited to address the NCCL conference, which promptly voted to ‘deplore’ the use of chemical castration treatments for paedophiles.
Also in 1975, Patricia Hewitt joined the Campaign for Homosexual Equality, as a ‘straight’, in the same year that Keith Hose of the Paedophile Information Exchange addressed its second annual conference. Hose moved a motion of censure on the conference organising committee for ‘relegating paedophilia to ancillary status in conference.’ The motion was seconded by Trevor Locke, who just happened to be a member of the Executive Council of the NCCL. ‘An awareness and acceptance of the sexuality of children is an essential part of the liberation of the young homosexual,’ the motion went on. It was duly passed.
Jack Dromey, whom Harriet Harman married in 1982, and who is now Treasurer of the Labour Party, was also involved with the NCCL. He served on its Executive Committee from 1970 to 1979, so he was there when the decision to invite the two paedophile groups to affiliate was made. NCCL also set up a gay rights sub-committee at the same time, members of which included prominent paedophiles Peter Bremner (alias Roger Nash), Michael Burbidge, Keith Hose and Tom O’Carroll. And of course Walters and Locke were on the Executive.
Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, commented: ‘It is timely that the ghosts of the 1970′s past should come back to haunt these three leading Labour Party politicians. Harriet Harman, Jack Dromey and Patricia Hewitt were in their mid- or late-twenties at the time, but that cannot really excuse the way NCCL came to regard paedophiles as an oppressed minority whose civil liberties needed to be fought for.
‘All three of them really need to explain why they were so friendly toward so many out campaigning homosexual paedophiles in their youth. Why did they allow the NCCL gay rights sub-committee to be stuffed with them? Why were they happy to work with paedophilia supporters on the NCCL Executive? It cannot have been sympathy with child-molestation, so was it a complete lack of judgment or was it moral cowardice?
‘NCCL has now been rebranded as ‘Liberty’ and is doing great work standing up to the Government to defend the civil liberties of us all. But thirty years ago some rather peculiar things went on, and I think we should be told why.’
Read on: http://www.christianvoice.org.uk/Press/press041.html
UKIP leader’s insurance company at heart of Costa Rica bribe claims
The insurance business that made the fortune of the new leader of the UK Independence party (Ukip) is embroiled in an international bribery scandal that could lead to criminal charges in the UK, according to documents obtained by the Observer.
A detailed indictment served in Costa Rica this month alleges that a subsidiary of PWS, the insurance brokers which Lord Pearson of Rannoch founded and chaired, grossly overcharged the small central American state for its insurance premiums.
The Serious Fraud Office is investigating, and has arrested a number of PWS executives for questioning.
But the company itself will face no penalty if the prosecution succeeds; it has been disposed of to another insurance broker since the scandal broke, and the rump of PWS which holds the liability for any fine or penalty is in liquidation and without funds.
PWS is alleged to have paid bribes of more than $700,000 (£426,000) into a bank account linked to the then Costa Rican president, Angel Rodríguez, and provided a $1.6m slush fund for workers of the state insurance company.
Friends of Malcolm Pearson, the Thatcherite peer elected on Friday as the leader of the anti-European and anti-Cameron Ukip, said he knew “absolutely nothing about the alleged payments”.
The indictment alleges that Pearson himself, as company chairman, was warned of the existence of the slush fund by a new Costa Rican regime which was probing corruption allegations as long ago as September 2005. The friends said he had never received the letter from the Costa Rican authorities. It had been diverted from his attention by others in the firm he chaired. One said: “He was contacted by the British ambassador in May 2006, which was the first he knew of it.”
Police investigate ballot papers at Glasgow North East by-election
Three people turned up to vote for the election to discover their names had already been crossed off.
A spokesman for the returning officer at the Glasgow North East by-election has confirmed that police are investigating three ballot papers.
In what is known as ‘personation’, the spokesperson confirmed that three voters had turned up to cast their ballot on Thursday to discover that their names had already been crossed off the voting register.
One person turned up at Alexandra Parade Primary School, while a further two turned up to St Dennis’ Primary School, which are both in Dennistoun.
While the police continue to investigative, the spokesman said that the incident was not a “clerical error” and all three votes ballot papers will still be counted.
Police currently have the ballot papers.
Newspaper Mounts Campaign to Oust Corrupt New Labour M.P. Margaret Moran
(2009) New labour M.P. Margaret Moran -PARASITE
We are fed up with people in Luton South being represented by an MP who thinks it is OK to spend thousands of pounds worth of taxpayers’ money on decorating and furnishings.
We are fed up with an MP who cares more about dry rot than Luton.
We are fed up with seeing residents left without a proper voice.
And most of all we are fed up with Margaret Moran.
Luton & Dunstable Express believes the disgraced MP should quit now – not six months and countless payouts down the line.
Luton South needs an MP who will represent the needs of its constituents with honesty and integrity.
It doesn’t need an MP who hasn’t spoken in the House of Commons for months.
It doesn’t need an MP who claimed £22,500 for dry rot treatment at a home 100 miles from Luton.
It doesn’t need an MP who splashed taxpayers’ cash on decorating, repairing and furnishing three homes in Luton, Southampton and Westminster.
She has been castigated by Prime Minister Gordon Brown who called her behaviour ‘totally unacceptable’.
She has been slammed by members of the local Labour party. In May, chairman of Luton South Labour Party Mahmood Hussain told this newspaper: “Ms Moran has made a very bad judgement and she has now realised that she has made a very bad judgement.
“That is regrettable.” But most of all she has been slammed by the people of Luton South.
Following the expenses scandal this newspaper was inundated with letters from residents saying Ms Moran must go.
And yet she has still not taken the time to speak directly to the people of Luton to explain herself.
She has still not apologised to her constituents, instead choosing to blame the House of Commons Fees Office for processing her ridiculous claims.
And all this time the money continues to roll in.
Ms Moran’s annual expenses and allowance since then could reach £160,000 if the General Election is held at its latest possible date in June 2010.
On top of that she is set to pocket a ‘resettlement grant’ of £54,000, a ‘winding up allowance’ of £35,905 and a ‘gold-plated pension’.
Ms Moran has behaved disgracefully. She’s fleeced taxpayers quite enough.
Luton South needs to elect a new MP and it needs to do it now.
That’s why we are saying, ‘Get Moran Out Now’.
Read on
Billionaire donor Lord Ashcroft tipped for top Tory foreign job
Billionaire Tory donor Lord Ashcroft was embroiled in fresh controversy last night after it emerged that he accompanied the shadow foreign secretary to key meetings overseas, amid rumours that he will be given a top foreign policy role in a future Conservative government.
The Observer can reveal that the peer, who pumps millions of pounds into marginal seats but refuses to say whether he pays tax in Britain, is flying William Hague around the world and went with him on his recent trip to the US, during which Hague met Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, and other key US figures.
The Tories last night confirmed that Ashcroft had been on the trip and attended some meetings, but refused to say who he had met, or whether he was being groomed for a high-level foreign policy position either in an advisory or a ministerial capacity in a future Tory government.
Sing a Song of Parliament
Sing a song of Parliament,
Pockets full of cash,
Fraudulently claiming
And adding to their stash.
With their ploy discovered
They said they’d give it back.
If you or I had done the same
We’d promptly get the sack!
Sing a song of freebies,
Snouts all in the trough.
Giving back their ill got gains
Is just not good enough.
Sponging off our earnings
With a likely tale,
If working folk had done the same
They’d soon end up in jail.
Sing a song of fraudsters
Counting out their money.
They smile and look quite unashamed,
As though they think its funny.
Sitting in a secret place,
Counting out their dosh,
On plugs for baths and cleaning moats,
For crisps and orange squash.
Sing a song of MP’s
Who took us for a ride.
It’s up to us election time
Their future to decide.
It’s gone too far to bring back trust
Of anyone in power.
To most of us they’ll always be
A shifty, crooked shower!!
[Author unknown]
Citizens’ Handbook: the Ultimate Tool in our Defence
Citizens’ Handbook
This work is an A5 60-page booklet that charts the criminals and rogues in British politics. In the booklet you will find irrefutable evidence of criminal and roguish M.P.s, councillors and other political party affiliates that is supported by website addresses linking to a national newspaper or media source that carried the story. There are a staggering 341 separate entries charting the criminals and rogues in New Labour, Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, UKIP -and yes, even the Scottish National Party.
This booklet is an absolute must for all those citizens who demand the truth before deciding on whom, or for what party, to vote.
For more information, an introduction to the booklet, and details on how to order your copy, please click on the link below:
Citizens’ Handbook
This work is an A5 60-page booklet that charts the criminals and rogues in British politics. In the booklet you will find irrefutable evidence of criminal and roguish M.P.s, councillors and other political party affiliates that is supported by website addresses linking to a national newspaper or media source that carried the story. There are a staggering 341 separate entries charting the criminals and rogues in New Labour, Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, UKIP -and yes, even the Scottish National Party.
This booklet is an absolute must for all those citizens who demand the truth before deciding on whom, or for what party, to vote.
For more information, an introduction to the booklet, and details on how to order your copy, please click on the link below:
(2000) New Labour M.P. Jack Straw Insults the English
Emir of Qatar’s £1.5m gift to mosque ‘won votes for Jack Straw’
Jack Straw helped to secure a £1.5m donation from the Emir of Qatar to a mosque in his Blackburn constituency.
The justice secretary’s help in fixing the gift was used by the Labour party to woo the Muslim vote, it was claimed this weekend.
MPs, security experts and moderate Islamic leaders said Straw’s role raised serious concerns about the way some foreign states were trying to sway the religious views of British Muslims.
Straw wrote a letter of introduction to help his friend and political ally Lord Patel of Blackburn persuade the emir, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa al-Thani, to part with £1.5m.
Attorney-general Baroness Scotland demands ministerial Jaguar
THE attorney-general, Baroness Scotland, has sparked anger among colleagues by insisting on the use of a chauffeur-driven Jaguar — a privilege usually reserved for a handful of senior cabinet ministers.
A source close to Scotland said officials had approached Paul Jenkins, her permanent secretary, to express concern that she might be in breach of Whitehall rules with her choice of ministerial car.
One senior source said that as a minister outside the cabinet she was entitled only to a lesser vehicle, such as a Rover or Toyota Prius. Some officials expressed consternation that on taking up the job two years ago she rejected the use of a lesser car.
The Department for Transport said last week: “The current rules on car allocation are Jaguar XJ or Prius for members of the cabinet. For everyone else: any car with CO2 emissions less than 130g/km.”
“Lord” Mandelson should face MPs over his ‘empire,’ John Bercow say
Lord Mandelson, the First Secretary of State, should be subjected to regular public interrogations from MPs about his Whitehall “empire”, John Bercow, the Commons Speaker has said.
Mr Bercow said he wanted Lord Mandelson and Lord Adonis, the Transport Secretary, to take part in an “experiment” where peers would appear before the Commons for the first time.
In a speech suggesting to parliamentary procedure, Mr Bercow also suggested that MPs’ long summer recess could be shortened, with the House of Commons sitting in September. “I see no reason why September must be deemed sacred,” he said.
Baroness Scotland faces new inquiry
Baroness Scotland faces further pressure to quit after her former housekeeper claimed that she was not asked to show the government minister a passport.
Tongan Loloahi Tapui-Zivancevic has also claimed she was not asked to produce any immigration documents and that her passport contained a forged visa which was out of date.
Baroness Scotland, however, has insisted that Ms Tapui had shown her a passport, and suggested that there was a mystery “second passport” involved in the scandal.
FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE: John Wick – the man who broke the story
ABOVE: a FRIEND of the People and one who has defended their integrity against the corruption and decadence so evidently in place at Wasteminster.
John Wick, the man who orchestrated the leak of the MPs expenses files to The Daily Telegraph, explains why and how he did it.
In May, the Telegraph started the daily publication of the “Expenses Files” after I gave them a hard drive showing a complete uncensored copy of every expenses claimed by every MP over a four year period.
I had no understanding at that time, how long the Telegraph’s campaign would last or what the final result would be. Although I still do not know the final result we have reached an important point with the publication of No Expenses Spared, the official account of how the expenses campaign started and how it progressed. It makes for fascinating reading.
Labour has ‘coasted’ over anti-social behaviour, admits Home Secretary
Britain is plagued by anti-social behaviour because the Government has been “coasting” over tackling the problem, the Home Secretary has admitted.
Alan Johnson said not enough focus had been put on dealing with the “scourge” as he effectively admitted Labour had failed it’s own flagship drive to restore “Respect” to communities.
He also faced ridicule after suggesting that life was far worse in the 1950s and 60s, despite violent crime hitting record levels under this Government.
Barbara Follett steps down as MP in wake of expenses disclosures
Barbara Follett, the minister who claimed £25,000 on expenses for private security, is stepping down as an MP.
Miss Follett, a junior minister at the Communities department, will leave parliament at the next election.
She held her Stevenage seat in 2005 with a 3,000 majority, making it vulnerable to the Conservatives.
She said had made the decision for family reasons, saying she wanted to spend more time with her children and grand children.
The Daily Telegraph revealed earlier this year that Miss Follett claimed more than £25,000 over four years on parliamentary expenses for security patrols outside her home because she said she did not feel safe in London.
At the time, she said the claims were justified, but after facing public criticism of her use of allowances. She has since agreed to return a total of £32,976 for the security services and other questionable claims.
Postal vote fraud rocks Birmingham by-election in Sparkbrook
Police are investigating the worst outbreak of voter fraud at a Birmingham City Council election for five years.
Almost 400 postal votes cast at Thursday’s Sparkbrook ward by-election – a third of the total issued – were rejected as likely forgeries.
Council officials, backed by the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties, called in the police after saying they suspected an organised plot to influence the result of the by-election, which was won by Respect candidate Shokat Ali.
In 2004, Birmingham was likened to a “banana republic” by Elections Commissioner Richard Mawrey QC, who investigated hundreds of forged ballot papers at that year’s city council elections.
Birmingham Labour leader Sir Albert Bore said those behind the alleged fraud at Sparkbrook had attempted to destroy the electoral process.
Sir Albert added: “Nearly 400 postal vote ballot papers were rejected because of inconsistencies in either the date of birth or the signature of the elector.
UKIP Treasurer Quits in Dispute over Funding Misappropriation
The high-profile Brussels whistleblower who became the treasurer of UKIP has stormed out of her new post and blown the whistle again — over the anti-EU party’s financial decisions.
Marta Andreasen, who achieved notoriety when she was sacked as chief accountant of the European Commission for exposing the appalling state of EU accounts, was appointed treasurer of UKIP in 2007 to “restore faith” in the party’s finances.
Her appointment was seen as a huge coup for the party, but her resignation is likely to unsettle donors, not least Stuart Wheeler the gambling millionaire, who was expelled by the Conservatives for giving UKIP £100,000 for the European elections. He cited Mrs Andreasen as a key reason for his switching allegiance
Donations to political parties soar despite MPs’ expenses scandal
Statistics released by the Electoral Commission show that in the second quarter of the year, a total of £13.2 million was donated, the second largest figure outside of a general election campaign, and the fourth highest ever.
Donations were up by 50 per cent between April and June, at a time when Westminster was in crisis following The Daily Telegraph’s disclosures about widespread abuse of the expenses system, which began in early May.
Donations to political parties post-expenses scandals 2009 siginifes one or two things: either the crooked parties are being rewarded by their paymasters in central banks, or the People, by their donations, endorse and actively support criminal politicians. Either way, it is yet another indication of the arrant flaws so prevalent in this corrupt system.
Words associated with Christianity and British history taken out of children’s dictionary
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The publisher claims the changes have been made to reflect the fact that Britain is a modern, multicultural, multifaith society…
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John Bercow, the Speaker, is backing plans for the Commons to offer a “short-term, short-notice” child-minding service for MPs.
The “core funding” of the new childcare service is to come from public money. Members will also pay a fee for using the service…
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(2009) New Labour Party -RACISTS
The Labour Party has become embroiled in a race row after a prospective female councillor was allegedly told she was ‘too white and Jewish’ to be selected.
Elaina Cohen claims that Labour councillor Mahmood Hussain said he would not support her application for an inner-city ward because ‘my Muslim members don’t want you because you are Jewish’.
Mrs Cohen, 50, has made an official complaint about the alleged remarks made by Mr Hussain, a Muslim and former lord mayor of Birmingham.
She said: ‘I am shocked and upset that a member of the Labour Party in this day and age could even think something like that, let alone say it.
‘People should not be allowed to make racist comments like that. If someone in the party feels I cannot represent them because of my colour or religion, that’s ridiculous.
‘I felt particularly aggrieved because I have worked across all sections of the community, particularly with the Muslim section, and have been on official visits to Pakistan.’
(2009) New Labour M.P. Mark Hendrick -PARASITE
Mark Hendrick, a Labour MP, admitted “estimating” the amount of mortgage interest he paid on his second home when claiming on his taxpayer-funded parliamentary allowances.
Mark Hendrick, the MP for Preston, said he had found it difficult to work out how much the interest element of the mortgage on his London flat came to, and so tried to “work on an average for the year”.
Under parliamentary rules, MPs may claim for the interest on a second home but not the capital repayment.
Mr Hendrick regularly submitted claims for between £900 and £1,015 a month on his London flat, before “flipping” his second home designation to a house in his constituency, where his claims rose to £1,469.
When contacted by The Daily Telegraph, Mr Hendrick insisted that he had always acted in line with the rules but refused to disclose his mortgage documents to confirm his statement. He said he regularly provided the Commons fees office with copies of his mortgage documents. None appears on files seen by The Daily Telegraph.
Asked why his mortgage interest varied from month to month, Mr Hendrick said: “My mortgage was a capital plus interest mortgage. Therefore, payments included both, and I did not know until the end of the year from my statement exactly how much of the payment was interest, therefore I tried to work on an average for the year as a whole.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Anne Keen -PARASITE
A married couple dubbed ‘Mr and Mrs Expenses’ will face a formal sleaze inquiry over their use of Commons second home allowances.
Ann and Alan Keen, both Labour MPs, have come under criticism after it emerged that they were living full time in their designated “second home” near Westminster, while their designated “main” property a short commute away lay empty for up to a year.
The couple face repossession by their local council, and are also battling to evict squatters from the house in Mrs Keen’s constituency of Brentford and Isleworth in west London.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Alan Keen -PARASITE
A married couple dubbed ‘Mr and Mrs Expenses’ will face a formal sleaze inquiry over their use of Commons second home allowances.
Ann and Alan Keen, both Labour MPs, have come under criticism after it emerged that they were living full time in their designated “second home” near Westminster, while their designated “main” property a short commute away lay empty for up to a year.
The couple face repossession by their local council, and are also battling to evict squatters from the house in Mrs Keen’s constituency of Brentford and Isleworth in west London.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Margaret Beckett -PARASITE
Margaret Beckett tried to claim £600 for hanging baskets and pot plants as she lavished tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money on her constituency home whilst living in a grace and favour apartment in London.
The housing and planning minister found herself in trouble with the fees office when she submitted the claim in 2006, which covered “the supply of plants for hanging baskets, tubs, pots, planters, pouches and garden”, and another £711 for “labour and materials for painting of summer house, shed and pergola”.
An official in the department of finance and administration sent her a letter explaining that expenses claims had to be “wholly, exclusively and necessarily incurred to enable you to stay overnight away from your main home”. The official said that in respect of the work in the garden: “I find it difficult to conclude that it meets the requirements set out in the Green Book.”
The official cut £1,311 from Mrs Beckett’s total claim of £15,211.21 for work on her house, which drew this response from the minister: “We live in an old cottage – not the beautiful, strong, stone-built type, but the kind of thing you throw together for the farmworkers from the bricks you had when you knocked down the pigsty – and it requires a good deal of maintenance and repair.”
Mrs Beckett, 66, claimed second home allowances of £72,537 for her constituency home in Derby in the four years between 2004 and 2008, despite having no mortgage or rent to pay on the property.
Mrs Beckett earns £104,050, but during her spells as environment secretary and foreign secretary she earned £141,866.
During much of the time she was making the claims, she was living rent-free in Admiralty House, Whitehall, which enabled her to rent out her London flat.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Phil Hope -PARASITE
Phil Hope, the care services minister, is facing questions over how he spent nearly £10,000 a year refurbishing a small south London flat.
The Government minister claimed more than £37,000 in MPs expenses in just over four years on everything from a new kitchen, seven doors, and wooden flooring.
Mr Hope also claimed for a chest of drawers, a mattress, a television, a sofa, an armchair, a washing machine, three chairs, two bookcases, one coffee table, a wardrobe and a dining room table.
He also charged the taxpayer for a £120 new barbecue and £61 for gardening materials – even though Commons rules say that MPs can only claim for the cost of maintaining a garden.
Land registry plans show that the flat has access to a communal garden, which yesterday was empty with no plants, nor any sign of the barbecue.
Mr Hope bought the flat in Southwark, south London, in 1998, and remortgaged the property with Cheltenham & Gloucester in October 2002.
The Commons Green Book bans MPs from claiming “the capital cost of repairs which go beyond making good dilapidations and enhance the property”.
Mr Hope’s monthly returns for the additional costs allowance between 2004-05 and the middle of last year show that he was able to overhaul the flat completely.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Madeleine Moon -PARASITE
Madeleine Moon, the MP named “Furniture Parliamentarian of the Year”, spent thousands in furniture shops near her Welsh constituency house and claimed the money back on her London designated second home allowance.
Mrs Moon, Labour chairman of the House of Commons Furniture Industry Group, submitted at least 19 receipts totalling more than £4,000 for fixtures and fittings either bought in Wales or delivered to her house there.
MPs may use their Additional Costs Allowance to run a second home if they consider it necessary to perform Parliamentary duties. They are not permitted to make claims for their designated main residence.
After being elected MP for Bridgend, mid Glam in 2005, Mrs Moon bought a small flat in south London and designated it as her second home. But the records show that over the last four years she has regularly submitted claims for items bought in shops in Cardiff, Swansea and Bridgend. She also had furniture delivered to her seafront house in Porthcawl.
Among the furniture which Mrs Moon had delivered there was a £769 coral “triad” sofa from Marks & Spencer, and £683.56 in furnishings, including a bedside table and pillows, from Ikea. Both firms have outlets in London. She also bought a dining table and four chairs from a Swansea shop at a cost of £399, and spent £818.89 on a DVD player and television at Currys in Bridgend in July 2006.
Mrs Moon bought at least four sets of bedding in four years in shops in Wales and London. Mrs Moon said that she went to outlets such as Ikea in Cardiff because as a new MP in 2005 she did not know where to shop in London. Mrs Moon was buying items in Wales as late as May 2008, which she claimed were for her flat in the capital.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Geof Hoon -PARASITE
Geoff Hoon has established a property empire worth £1.7 million after claiming taxpayer-funded expenses for at least two properties.
During his time as Defence Secretary and Leader of the House, Mr Hoon lived in a grace-and-favour apartment in Whitehall yet claimed costs for his home in Derbyshire.
Within months of losing his grace-and-favour apartment in 2006, Mr Hoon bought a new London townhouse. He then claimed that his Derbyshire home was his main property and designated the new house as his “second home”. This allowed him to fund the London property using the expenses system.
He now stands accused of exploiting the system by switching properties on his parliamentary declaration, enabling him to claim close to the maximum allowable amount most years. This is how he took advantage of the system:
At his Derbyshire family home between 2004 and 2006, Mr Hoon claimed thousands of pounds for renovations and refurbishments. In that time he redecorated and re-carpeted the property, which he has owned since 1986, and claimed for regular visits to DIY stores.
In 2005, Mr Hoon attempted to claim £1,199 for an LCD television — only to be told by the parliamentary authorities that he would receive a maximum of £750.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Ian McCartney -PARASITE
Ian McCartney, the former Labour Party chairman, spent £16,000 furnishing and decorating his designated second home but paid the money back two years later.
Mr McCartney’s claim, which was submitted in 2006, included £4,045 on furniture for a bedroom and lounge, £3,300 spent at B&Q, £1,328 on two settees, £817 on towels and kitchen ware, £699 on a mattress, £699 on a dining table and chairs, £662 on bedding and soft furnishings, £399 on a television, £249 on a vacuum cleaner and another £241 on soft furnishings. It also included £1,815.37 on decorating.
The House of Commons fees office informed Mr McCartney that the total claim of £16.274.10 exceeded the John Lewis list limit and it was reduced to £14,914.10. That included reducing a claim of £1,100 for a wardrobe to £600.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Ben Champan -PARASITE
An investigation has been launched by Labour into the Daily Telegraph disclosures that House of Commons officials colluded with MPs to let them make inflated claims on their mortgages.
Parliamentary authorities, overseen by Michael Martin, the Speaker, gave secret permission for some MPs to over-claim for thousands of pounds in home loan interest in deals that led to the systematic abuse of the taxpayer-funded expenses system.
Ben Chapman, a Labour MP, admitted on Sunday night that he was allowed to continue claiming for interest payments on his entire mortgage after repaying £295,000 of the loan in 2002.
Over 10 months the arrangement allowed Mr Chapman to receive £15,000 for the part of the home loan which had been paid off.
He has so far refused to give back the money.
But Labour has now launched an investigation into the claims. The party’s chief whip had spoken to Mr Chapman and wpuld be seeking further clarification from the MP and the Fees Office, a Downing Street spokesman said.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Howard Stoate -PARASITE
Howard Stoate, the Labour MP for Dartford, submitted bills for thousands of pounds worth of DIY materials as he spent years doing up his second home.
The Labour MP for Dartford, whose taxpayer-funded flat in London is only 15 miles from his constituency home, claimed a total of £55,836 in second home allowances in four years, while having no rent or mortgage to pay.
More than £1,000 of the money was spent in B&Q, the DIY retailer, and hundreds more in other home supply stores such as Focus. Dr Stoate spent £4,520 on Everest replacement windows.
Dr Stoate, who worked as a GP before entering politics, is known in Parliament for his practical side. He is also a motoring enthusiast who built his own two-seater kit car.
Since the expenses scandal broke, Dr Stoate has pledged not to claim second home allowances in future and has returned his entire claim for the 2008-09 financial year, amounting to £11,000.
Between 2005 and 2008, Dr Stoate made claims for materials including paint, timber, pipes, shelves, sandpaper, dust sheets and cabling.
Almost all the receipts included in his expense claim are from stores near his constituency home in Dartford, Kent. One B&Q receipt, submitted in 2005, included £5.14 for MDF, £5.96 for stripwood, £24.76 for loft insulation, £8.23 for ready-made plaster, £2.78 for a hinge and £1.30 for a washer.
Two days later, at the same store, Dr Stoate bought a tin of undercoat for £4.98, Dulux gloss paint for £8.28, £4.48 wood stain, a cabinet knob for £2.98 and adhesive for £4.48. Another claim for a B&Q receipt in 2007 included £13.98 for a ball valve, 98p for assorted screws, £4.96 for two tap connectors and £15.78 for three lengths of 15mm tubing.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Paul Goggins -PARASITE
Mr Goggins shares the house in south-east London with Chris Bain, who is the director of the Catholic aid charity Cafod and a friend since university.
They have lived together for the past 11 years. For the past three years, Mr Goggins, the MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East, has designated the property as his “second home” and claimed almost £45,000 in expenses for it. He did not tell the Commons fees office that he shared it.
Mr Goggins claimed for the entire £600 a month mortgage interest, annual council tax and utility bills.
He said Mr Bain, who earned £76,000 a year, had contributed to the costs between 1998 and 2003, when they were not met by taxpayers. After being approached by The Telegraph yesterday, the men said the arrangement was no longer appropriate and they would repay a large amount based on a “thorough assessment” of how many nights Mr Bain stayed there.
In February 2008, Mr Goggins paid Mr Bain £3,829 for the installation of a new kitchen in the house. They said that the money had then been given to Mr Bain’s brother, Don, who carried out the work.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Paddy Tipping -PARASITE
MP Paddy Tipping has claimed £400 – the maximum allowance for food – almost every month for the past five years.
The claims were made throughout the year, including during parliament’s two-month summer holiday.
Speaking to the Evening Post he said: “That was the amount prescribed in the rules and I do go to parliament during the recess, not every day or as regularly when parliament is sitting.”
Other expenses included a £199.98 vacuum cleaner from Currys, £1,175 on external decoration and repairs at his flat in London as well as annual TV licences.
He also pays about £500 on mortgage interest payments on his flat in London.
(2009) New Labour M.P. David Chaytor -THIEF
Labour MP David Chaytor faces a fresh criminal probe after giving £5,000 of expenses to his daughter under an alias.
The Metropolitan Police is already considering whether to investigate the disgraced backbencher after he was caught pocketing £13,000 for a ‘phantom mortgage’
But it was revealed yesterday WED that he paid taxpayers’ money to ‘Sarah Rastrick’ for research work, who he later admitted was actually Sarah Chaytor.
The MP for Bury North, who was forced to announce he was quitting at the next election, claimed the cash under his generous office allowances.
A copy of Miss Chaytor’s birth certificate shows Rastrick as one of her middle names. The address and mobile phone number of ‘Sarah Rastrick’ also match Miss Chaytor.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Barbara Follett -PARASITE
Babrara Follet, one of Parliament’s richest MPs, has claimed more than £25,000 for a private police force to patrol near her four-storey home in London’s Soho.
The Minister for Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism made taxpayers shell out for the extra security when she claimed she felt unsafe after being mugged and followed by a stalker.
She earns £95,000 a year, while her husband, the thriller writer Ken Follett, is said to earn about £13million a year from his bestsellers.
(2009) Lib-Lab-Con-men Investigated by Scotland Yard
A small number of MPs and peers will face criminal investigations into allegations they misused their expenses.
Scotland Yard said a joint assessment panel of senior detectives and prosecutors had decided full inquiries were necessary.
The police inquiries were expected to focus on politicians accused of deliberately misleading the authorities or claiming “phantom mortgages”.
The investigation will be conducted by officers from the Met’s Economic and Specialist Crime Command, overseen by Temporary Assistant Commissioner Janet Williams. It is understood the joint panel of experts will continue to consider a small number of other individuals.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “After consideration by the joint Metropolitan Police and Crown Prosecution Service assessment panel the Met has decided to launch an investigation into the alleged misuse of expenses by a small number of MPs and peers.”
(2009) New Labour M.P. Ian Gibson
Ian GIbson, the senior Labour MP, has offered to stand down at the next election over his expense claims after being approached by the Daily Telegraph.
Full details of questionable expenses he has made on a London flat will be disclosed in the newspaper tomorrow.
The MP had published his expenses on his website, but redacted crucial information which has been uncovered by the Daily Telegraph. The information would not have been released under Parliamentary plans to publish details of MPs expenses.
Dr Gibson’s announcement came within hours of another Labour MP, Ben Chapman, announcing that he will also stand down at the next election.
On Monday, the Telegraph disclosed how Mr Chapman had claimed £15,000 of expenses to which he was not entitled.
He confirmed that he would step down in a statement released on Thursday night.
Between December 2002 and October 2003, Mr Chapman deliberately claimed about £15,000 in expenses for interest on a part of the mortgage on his second home that he had already repaid.
He was given permission to do this by an official in the Commons fees office, in an arrangement that internal correspondence suggested was not unique.
Mr Chapman refused to consider paying back any of the money.
(2009) New Labour M.P. George Mudie -PARASITE
George Mudie, a Labour MP who has been one of Gordon Brown’s key attack dogs over the profligacy of bankers, claimed £62,000 in expenses for his London flat in four years, while having a mortgage of just £26,000.
Mr Mudie, the MP for Leeds East, claimed almost £17,000 from the taxpayer for furniture and renovations, including a dining room set he had delivered to his constituency home before claiming it on expenses for his designated second home in London.
Mr Mudie also bought a bedroom suite, a leather chair, an ironing board and a lavatory seat in Leeds. When the parliamentary fees office questioned why some of the items were delivered to the “wrong” address, he said he had taken them to London himself.
He was also reimbursed for a television set and sofa he bought in Leeds even though he had claimed for a TV and sofa covers he bought in London.
Mr Mudie, whose house in Leeds is up for sale, has been at the forefront of parliament’s attacks on bank bosses and hedge fund managers in recent months through his role as a member of the all-party treasury select committee.
However, the former education minister has repeatedly voted against greater transparency when it comes to MPs’ expenses.
Mr Mudie’s expense files show that between 2004 and 2008 he claimed £62,041 in second homes allowances on his flat in Westminster, where his mortgage interest repayments last year were £105 per month.
Between 2005 and 2006 he spent more than £12,000 on renovations and furniture for the London flat, including almost £7,000 for a Moben kitchen, £650 for carpets, £580 on repainting, £929 on tile work and £50 for a parking ticket incurred by his builder. He also claimed £249 for sofa covers, £299 for an LCD television set and £169.99 for a DVD player, all bought locally.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Jim Devine -PARASITE
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(2009) New Labour M.P. Michael Connarty -PARASITE
Michael Connarty (pictured left), a Labour MP, sold some of the contents of his London home to Jim Devine, a close colleague, before charging the taxpayer thousands of pounds for goods delivered to addresses in Scotland.
Mr Connarty sold his flat in the capital to Mr Devine, an MP from a neighbouring constituency, and left behind some of his furnishings and household items when he moved out.
Mr Devine agreed to pay Mr Connarty £4,000, including £1,000 for a sofa bed. Mr Devine then reclaimed the entire sum as expenses incurred at his designated second home.
Mr Connarty, the MP for Linlithgow and Falkirk East, then claimed thousands of pounds for goods for his new second home in London, including a £250 alarm clock and luxury stereo equipment.
He also claimed back the cost of two beds and two sofas, all purchased in Scotland, which were delivered to his constituency home in Falkirk and an address in Glasgow.
The Green Book, which dictates what is permissible under the Commons second homes allowance, states that MPs must only purchase items necessary for them to perform their duties and forbids anything that could be deemed a luxury.
Less than two weeks before his arrangement with Mr Devine, Mr Connarty submitted an expenses claim for £509.87, including £379.99 for a television and £69.99 for a Freeview box.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Kitty Ussher
Kitty Ussher, a junior minister, wrote a letter asking if she could put a full re-fit of her run-down Victorian house on her House of Commons expenses.
Her two-page note details 12 separate major repairs she hoped to have carried out on the home in South London, including the removal of a “bad taste” Artex ceiling.
Her use of allowances is highlighted on the third day of the Telegraph’s exposé of the lax expenses regime in operation at the House of Commons, which allowed MPs to claim thousands of pounds of tax payers’ money for costs most ordinary people are forced to bear themselves.
The records reveal that Miss Ussher, the MP for Burnley, contacted the Commons fees office within 12 months of being elected, with a detailed programme of work for the property she had already lived in for five years.
She wrote: “I am writing for guidance as to whether a number of essential repairs can be claimed under the Additional Costs Allowance.
“The basic situation is that this house was relatively cheap to purchase but requires quite a lot of work.”
She then listed 12 repairs which she hoped to have carried out on the taxpayer, including a bathroom which did not “function” and “peeling” walls in the shower room.”
(2009) New Labour M.P. Charlotte Atkins -PARASITE
Charlotte Atkins, a Labour MP, claimed more than £35,000 in renovations on her second home allowance including £20,000 for windows, £4,000 for the chimney, £9,000 for the bathroom and nearly £2,000 for the garden.
Over four years, Miss Atkins carried out extensive work on her detached Edwardian red brick constituency house in Leek, Staffordshire.
Her first major application to the fees office came in March 2005 when she claimed £4,000 for pulling down and rebuilding the chimney and £15,000 for window repairs and replacement.
When challenged, the MP said she had not realised the windows were rotten when she bought the property.
Officials agreed that the chimney was essential, but argued that the large scale renovations on the windows went “beyond the definition for allowable work set out in the Green Book”.
Notes of a conversation between the MP and the fees office said: “I think she accepted, but did not necessarily agree with, the idea that there was some benefit to her in the window replacement programme.
“I suggested that a 50/50 sharing of the costs might be appropriate. She neither agreed nor disagreed with this proposition.”
Miss Atkins’s memory of the conversation was slightly different: “We agreed what was acceptable under the Green Book – ie 50 per cent of the window repair – and I was entirely happy with that.”
(2009) New Labour M.P. Hilary Armstrong -PARASITE
A former government chief whip was told by the Commons authorities that allowing the Labour Party to pay for and run a computer at her taxpayer-funded home could make her “politically vulnerable”.
A Commons official added that she should be careful, “particularly in the run-up to an election”.
Hilary Armstrong, the MP for North West Durham, also claimed £3,100 towards the cost of repointing the gables and walls on her constituency home.
The Green Book rules state that MPs must avoid any suggestion “that public money is being diverted for the benefit of a political organisation”.
A note of a conversation with Mrs Armstrong written on fees office notepaper discloses that officials were uneasy about the former Cabinet minister claiming for the computer on her expenses. The official wrote on June 22, 2004: “I said that we were uneasy about her providing a desk and computer for party use in ACA home.
“It conflicted with the ‘wholly, exclusively + necessarily incurred’ requirement. Could make her politically vulnerable. Mrs Armstrong said party had no office in her constituency. What else could they do?”
The pair discussed “redesignating her North East home as her main property” so that she could install the computer at her own expense.
The official added: “Currently she has designated London as her main home. Mortgage on London is in her husband’s name. Change now would mean reallocating the mortgage. The risk was probably not huge, provided that she was careful particularly in the run-up to an election.”
(2009) Labour M.P. Elliot Morely -THIEF
Elliot Morley, the former environment minister, has become the 13th MP to step down in the wake of the expenses scandal.
Mr Morley, who claimed £16,000 over 18 months for a mortgage that did not exist, has confirmed that he will stand down at the next general election.
He had already been suspended by the Labour Party.
Scotland Yard is also considering whether to launch a criminal probe in the wake of his involvement in the MPs’ expenses scandal exposed by The Daily Telegraph.
The Scunthorpe MP made his announcement after arranging a meeting with his local party association.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Roger Godsiff -PARASITE
A backbench Labour MP claimed for bath mats, gardening equipment and more than £7,000 of property repairs on his office expenses.
Roger Godsiff was already claiming his maximum second home allowance to cover the interest on a large mortgage for his home in London when he made dozens of claims for ‘office sundries’ on his office expenses.
Receipts suggest the purchases were in fact for household items including a lawnmower, hedge trimmer, cushion covers and bath mats.
He also used office expenses for extensive roofing work, rewiring, replacement guttering and even clock repair at a property he owns in his Birmingham constituency.
The former bank clerk used the maximum Additional Cost Allowance (ACA) in the four years between 2004/5 and 2007/8 by claiming around £1,900 a month for the mortgage interest and around £400 a month for a secured loan on his detached house in Lewisham, south-east London, which he designated his second home.
The total monthly claims of around £2,300 were so large that the maximum ACA was not enough to cover all his annual repayments.
In total Mr Godsiff claimed £86,919 over four years in second home costs for the house which is in the area in which he grew up and began his political career and where his wife and family are listed on the electoral roll.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Doug Henderson -PARASITE
Doug Henderson, a former government minister, has claimed hundreds of pounds for telephone calls made from his family home which is more than four hours drive away from his constituency.
Doug Henderson, Labour MP for Newcastle North, sought more than £800 for landline calls he made in 2007/08 from the house he shares with his wife Geraldine in the fishing village of Anstruther, where he went to school.
The Scottish house is more than 150 miles away from Newcastle and more than an eight hour drive from his second home in London
When asked about the bills, Mr Henderson said he lived and worked in Anstruther, but was “in Newcastle very regularly, nearly every Friday and some weekends”.
He said his presence in Fife was known about in the constituency because the Liberal Democrats “put leaflets out telling everybody”.
In an analysis by The Sunday Telegraph, which assessed MPs’ value for money based on how much work they did in parliament compared to their overall expenses, Mr Henderson came out as one of the worst for value-for-money.
He attended parliament for about half of all votes, spoke in just eight debates and submitted 23 written questions in 2007/08, but claimed a total of £151,860 in expenses, including travel, home, office and staffing costs.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Glenda Jackson -PARASITE
Glenda Jackson, the Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate, has repaid more than £8,000 in expenses she wrongly claimed towards publication of an annual report.
The former double Oscar winning actress had claimed £8,850 to cover the cost of the publication which was called First Magazine.
Ms Jackson agreed to pay back the money because the publication carried a reference to the Labour Party in breach of the rules
The MP last night said she had not proof read the document properly when the document was first produced and had missed the single reference to the Labour Party at the end of the magazine.
“I failed to proof read a line at the very end of the document which mentioned the party and I have paid back the money.”
Several of Ms Jackson’s other claims relate to payments to the Labour Party.
In March 2006 she claimed £7,500 in office expenses from the taxpayer to pay her local party for the “provision of constituency services during 2006″.
The payment, which was claimed on her Incidental Expenditure Provision (IEP) covered the cost of “constituency contacts, office facilities, member’s surgery support, administration and the downloading of the electoral register”.
(2009) New Labour M.P. John Smith -PARASITE
An MP claimed £57,955 in second home expenses in four years without submitting a single receipt.
John Smith, a Labour backbencher, took advantage of generous allowances to claim an average of £14,488 a year – more than the average salary of a minimum wage worker– without providing evidence of any spending.
When he eventually made a claim backed up by a receipt, it was for home furnishings including a vase, a frying pan, a bath robe, beaded drapes and poster art.
Until April last year, MPs were not required to submit receipts for claims up to £400 a month for groceries, £250 for utility bills, £250 for telephone bills, £250 for cleaning, £250 for service and maintenance and £250 for repairs and insurance.
The MP for Vale of Glamorgan, in south Wales, claimed close to the maximum Additional Costs Allowance (ACA) in the four years between 2004/5 and 2007/8 to cover the expense of renting a small flat in London.
In addition to monthly rent of up to £560, he claimed the full £400 for groceries and several hundred pounds across the other categories every month.
In total the 58-year-old claimed £86,675 in ACA over the four years, of which £57,955 was for costs at his London address below the threshold for which evidence was required.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Denis Skinner -PARASITE
Dennis Skinner, the firebrand Labour MP, claimed more than £1,000 to cover the fees of accountants who helped him prepare his self assessment tax forms.
Mr Skinner, dubbed the beast of Bolsover, first claimed £528.75 to pay the bill of the accountancy firm Brayhaw Morey in July 2004 under the Incidental Expenditure Provision (IEP) designed to cover office expenses.
The invoice submitted along with the claim states: “Professional services in connection with preparation and submission of your ‘self assessment’ tax return for the year ended 5th April 2004 together with calculating all tax liability, corresponding with HM Inspector of Taxes on your behalf and generally advising you accordingly.”
In July 2006 Mr Skinner claimed the same amount for identical services provided by the firm.
He paid the slightly lower sum of £470 in 2005 in return for the same professional service.
The MP on Saturday night said he had checked with the fees office before lodging the claims for the work.
MPs are obliged to pay tax on any reimbursed fees paid to accountants. The Inland Revenue is believe to be investigating whether up to 40 MPs including several Ministers have fulfilled this particular obligation.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Natascha Engel -PARASITE
Natascha Engel, Labour MP for North East Derbyshire, charged the taxpayer for copies of a DVD of her maiden speech to Parliament and a copy of a novel by an acclaimed German writer.
Miss Engel, a Labour backbencher, claimed £117.50 in October 2005 to pay for ten copies of the DVD from the Parliamentary Recording Unit showing her first speech since being elected in that year’s General Election.
Miss Engel, who has said she wants her constituents to judge whether her expenses are justified, also claimed £12 for a copy of Thomas Mann’s Nobel Prize winning novel, The Magic Mountain, set in a tuberculosis clinic in the Swiss Alps before the First World War.
In November 2005 she charged the taxpayer for a set of socialist history posters to decorate her office. Miss Engel claimed £28.95 on her office expenses for the material, bought by mail-order from the People’s History Museum in Manchester.
They included reproductions of historic posters, including “Women vote Labour”, “Labour Clears The Way” and “Women Workers”.
She also claimed for a set of May Day greetings cards to celebrate workers’ day and a set of cards by the 19th century artist Walter Crane, entitled “Solidarity of Labour”.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Frank Cook
An MP used his expenses to claim for a £5 donation he made during a church service to commemorate the Battle of Britain.
Frank Cook, a Labour backbencher, sought reimbursement on his office expenses after the memorial service in his constituency town of Stockton-on-Tees. It was rejected by the parliamentary fees office.
The controversial claim was one of a series made by MPs that can be disclosed today, including reimbursement for carpets bought during a trip to India, chocolates bought by a former party leader and office expenses used for household items such as bath mats.
(2009) New labour M.P. Vera Baird -PARASITE
One of the Government’s chief lawyers tried to claim get taxpayers to foot the bill for her Christmas tree and baubles.
Vera Baird, QC, the Solicitor General, put through a £286 expenses claim for “miscellaneous items” but Commons officials spotted that the receipts were for festive decorations and refused to pay.
Her £4,570 bill for furniture was also cut down because the items were deemed too “luxurious”, and she was told she could not claim £349 for a metal wall sculpture. However she did manage to get tens of thousands of pounds of public money to pay for a new roof, flooring, windows and a porch at her second home.
Mrs Baird, who is the deputy to the Attorney General, the Government’s chief legal adviser, has been the MP for Redcar, North Yorks, since 2001.
In order to claim Additional Costs Allowance she designates a flat in Crouch End, north London, as her main home and nominates a four-bedroom house in her constituency as her second residence.
In 2004-5 she claimed £4,309.20 in mortgage interest payments, but spent £7,916.30 on repairs, decoration and furnishings.
In subsequent years she claimed many thousands of pounds for various repairs and renovations. But in 2007-08, her expenses bill for Christmas decorations was rejected. The receipts show that she spent £29.97 in early December 2006 at her local branch of Woolworths on 24 baubles, 20 “snowflake” lights and an extension lead.
(2009) New Labour M.P. John Austin -PARASITE
A Labour MP claimed more than £10,000 in expenses for the redecoration of his London flat, which was 11 miles from his main home, before selling it for a profit.
John Austin, the MP for Erith and Thamesmead, made £30,000 on the sale. He then bought a new flat 1.5 miles away, claiming £10,000 in stamp duty and charges and £15,000 on a bathroom, kitchen, carpets and appliances. Mr Austin is retiring at the next election. His claims represent one of the clearest cases of an MP profiting by “flipping” their expenses claims to a new second home.
They also highlight the fact that MPs just outside London can claim as much as those in the Scottish highlands.
In 2005, Mr Austin claimed £9,520 for a new bathroom, £1,900 for repainting and £750 for other repairs at the first flat, in Southwark, south-east London, which was designated as his second home. He also claimed up to £535 per month for the interest on his mortgage.
The MP, a member of the socialist Campaign group, then sold the flat for £140,000 in March 2006. He had bought it for £110,000 three years earlier. He then bought a £225,000 replacement about 1.5 miles away, and designated it as his second home. This allowed him to claim about £10,000 in stamp duty and other charges. The two flats are about 11 miles from his constituency house in Belvedere, Kent, which he designates as his main home.
After moving in to his new flat, Mr Austin informed parliamentary authorities that he would need to increase his mortgage — the interest on which is paid by taxpayers — to fund work on his new flat. Remortgaging is only permitted for essential maintenance work. An official agreed to Mr Austin’s remortgage. He began claiming £760 per month in mortgage interest.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Ian Austin -PARASITE
A Labour whip split a claim for stamp duty on buying his second home in London into two payments and tried to claim it back over two financial years.
Ian Austin completed the purchase of the Waterloo flat on March 31 2006 but submitted claims for the stamp duty in two separate amounts: £6,770 on March 28 and £1,344 on April 3.
This allowed him to claim the majority of the money under his second home allowance for the financial year 2005-06. In total, he received £21,559 — £75 below the limit — that year.
His claim for the remaining £1,344 was turned down by the parliamentary fees office.
However, the Dudley North MP was allowed to claim the legal costs associated with the move in his 2006-07 expenses. In that financial year, he went on to claim £22,076 — £34 short of the maximum.
Mr Austin also “flipped” his second home designation weeks before buying the £270,000 flat across the Thames from Westminster.
The assistant whip is one of Gordon Brown’s closest allies and worked for him as an adviser in the Treasury before he was made an MP in 2005.
When Mr Brown became Prime Minister in 2007, Mr Austin was appointed as his parliamentary aide before being moved to the role of Minister for the West Midlands last year. He was closely connected to Damian McBride, the adviser who left Downing Street last month after he sent emails suggesting possible smears for top Conservatives.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Hilary Armstrong -PARASITE
A former government chief whip was told by the Commons authorities that allowing the Labour Party to pay for and run a computer at her taxpayer-funded home could make her “politically vulnerable”.
A Commons official added that she should be careful, “particularly in the run-up to an election”.
Hilary Armstrong, the MP for North West Durham, also claimed £3,100 towards the cost of repointing the gables and walls on her constituency home.
The Green Book rules state that MPs must avoid any suggestion “that public money is being diverted for the benefit of a political organisation”.
A note of a conversation with Mrs Armstrong written on fees office notepaper discloses that officials were uneasy about the former Cabinet minister claiming for the computer on her expenses. The official wrote on June 22, 2004: “I said that we were uneasy about her providing a desk and computer for party use in ACA home.
“It conflicted with the ‘wholly, exclusively + necessarily incurred’ requirement. Could make her politically vulnerable. Mrs Armstrong said party had no office in her constituency. What else could they do?”
The pair discussed “redesignating her North East home as her main property” so that she could install the computer at her own expense.
The official added: “Currently she has designated London as her main home. Mortgage on London is in her husband’s name. Change now would mean reallocating the mortgage. The risk was probably not huge, provided that she was careful particularly in the run-up to an election.”
(2009) New Labour Michael Martin
He had faced resignation calls from MPs of all parties, but in the end the only person who can claim responsibility for the demise of Michael Martin is Michael Martin himself.
His shambolic, undignified and at times bullying performances in the Commons over the past week made him the recipient not only of parody but also of contempt.
By attacking MPs who dared to question his response to the scandal of parliamentary expenses, the Speaker, who held the power to find a solution to the crisis, instead became a large part of the problem.
And after being mauled in the Commons by MPs of all parties on Monday afternoon, he finally accepted he was finished as he spent that night in his office, taking calls from long-standing friends and advisers who urged him to quit while he still had a shred of dignity left.
By the time he made his resignation statement, all the fight had been knocked out of him. The first Speaker to be forced out of the job for 314 years could muster just 76 words to mark the occasion, saying he was quitting to restore the “unity” of the House.
Mr Martin, 63, whose gruff Glaswegian accent and shop steward’s style had earned him the nickname of “Gorbals Mick”, had been a controversial figure from the day of his appointment in 2000, with accusation of bias towards Labour in parliamentary debates.
In recent years he had faced repeated questions over his expense claims, in particular the £1.7 million refurbishment of his official residence in parliament and a series of “official” trips to exotic foreign destinations with his wife Mary.
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(2009) New Labour "Justice" Secretary Shahid Malik -FILTHY PARASITE
“I think this is a bit of a non-story to be honest. I have absolutely nothing to apologise for. I have done nothing wrong. I have not been at the periphery of the rules. I haven’t abused the rules, I have been absolutely at the core of the rules.” -Shahid Malik
Justice Minister Shahid Malik has claimed thousands of pounds in taxpayer allowances on his second home while renting his main home, it has been reported.
The Daily Telegraph said Mr Malik had run up the highest expenses claim of any MP, claiming second home allowances of £66,827 over three years on his house in London.
At the same time the paper claimed that his main home was a three-bedroom house in his Dewsbury constituency which he had secured for a discounted rent of less than £100 a week.
Mr Malik’s second home claims were said to include £2,600 for a home cinema system – which was cut in half by the Commons Fees Office – £730 for a “massage chair”, and £65 for a court summons for the non-payment.
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(2009) New Labour M.P. Andy Burnham -PARASITE
Andy Burnham, the Culture Secretary, was involved in a secret eight-month battle with the fees office after making a single expenses claim for more than £16,500 to buy and renovate a new London flat.
The authorities finally agreed to pay the money — after rejecting the claim on three separate occasions — following a series of increasingly desperate pleas from the minister and his wife.
Shortly before Christmas 2005, Mr Burnham even wrote to the fees office that he “might be in line for a divorce” if reimbursement for his expenses was not forthcoming within days.
In July 2007, Mr Burnham attempted to reclaim the costs of buying a £19.99 bath robe from Ikea.
The purchase was made the fortnight after he joined the Cabinet and the claim was later turned down by the fees office. Mr Burnham said last night that the claim was a “genuine oversight”.
A detailed analysis of Mr Burnham’s complicated claims suggest that he had an unusual arrangement allowing him to use a substantial windfall earned from a previous flat rented for him by the taxpayer — to fund the purchase of a new property.
The case casts light on the previously private dealings between the fees office, which authorises expenses, and MPs. Claims are routinely rejected leading to protracted handwritten correspondence and telephone calls between officials and members of Parliament.
(2009) New Labour Ministers "on Suicide Watch"
Three Labour MPs are said to be terrified that the release of their expenses claims will expose them as adulterers and financial cheats.
Four ministers are also understood to have warned party whips they might have to resign for abusing the system, when MPs’ receipts are published before the summer recess in July.
The three unnamed backbenchers are said to have been placed on ‘suicide watch’ by Labour whips, who fear they might break down when the details of their excesses come out.
Two are understood to have had extra-marital affairs with other members of Parliament.
Not only are they believed to have shared hotel rooms during annual conference get-togethers and party away days but also to have double-claimed for the rooms on their expenses.
If both MPs have claimed for the bill they will be branded frauds as well as love cheats when journalists and freedom of information campaigners sift through their receipts.
(2009) New labour M.P. Margaret Moran -PARASITE
The Labour MP who renovated three properties at taxpayers’ expenses owns a fourth home in Spain, where she attempted to block villagers’ access to their own houses.
Margaret Moran bulldozed a pathway across her holiday property in Granada and put up gates, to the annoyance of her neighbours.
However, a judge said the access was a public right of way and ordered her to reopen it.
Miss Moran was accused of breaching parliamentary rules by pinning a notice to her gatepost using official House of Commons paper.
When the story appeared in the British press, Miss Moran contacted leading media solicitors then claimed their £881.25 bill back on her office expenses.
Her files, seen by The Daily Telegraph as part of its investigation into the MPs’ expenses scandal, also show that she used her office fund to pay for £1,104.34 of furniture for her house.
Miss Moran, the MP for Luton South, has become the focus of public anger at the use of politicians’ allowances after this newspaper disclosed how she used public money to pay for three properties by “flipping” her nominated second home.
First, she spent £7,961 on a kitchen, carpet and bed for her flat near Westminster, then changed her address to her constituency home in Luton and spent £8,585 on her garden, bathroom, bedding and decorating. Finally she switched again to name her second home as her and her husband’s house in Southampton, where she claimed £22,500 on dry rot.
Read on: http://tinyurl.com/qj5mog
(2009) New Labour M.P. Alistair Darling -PARASITE
The taxpayer contributed almost £10,000 to the costs of Alistair Darling buying a new London flat after the Chancellor changed the official designation of his second home.
Mr Darling has changed where he considered his “main home” to be located four times in four years.
This has allowed him to claim thousands of pounds towards the costs of his family’s home in Edinburgh – and buy a flat in London that has been furnished and mortgaged at taxpayers’ expense.
Mr Darling claimed £2,260 on his taxpayer-funded expenses to cover stamp duty when buying the flat. In 2004-05, Mr Darling, the then transport secretary, claimed that his main residence was a small flat in Lambeth – owned by Lewis Moonie, a fellow Labour MP who was later ennobled.
The 1930s flat was previously owned by Gordon Brown, who sold it to Lord Moonie in 1992.
Lord Moonie is under investigation after the “Lords for hire” scandal in January, when an undercover reporter taped him allegedly offering to discuss a piece of legislation with a local government minister for £30,000.
Mr Darling paid rent to Lord Moonie for a bedroom in the Lambeth flat – allowing him to claim that his family house in Edinburgh was his “second home”. However, after the 2005 general election, Mr Darling apparently decided to enter the London property market himself.
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(2009) New Labour M.P. Douglas Alexander -LEECH ON THE TAXPAYER
Douglas Alexander, the International Development Secretary, spent more than £30,000 doing up his constituency home – which then suffered damage in a house fire.
Declaring that he had been “under-insured,” Mr Alexander sought permission from the fees office to kit out a new home at taxpayers’ expense. He stayed there for six months while his 120-year-old house was being repaired.
Not exactly short of a few bob, is he?:
Douglas Alexander
Job: Secretary of State for International Development
Salary: £141,866
Sample expenses for second home in Renfrewshire April 2007 to March 2008
Food: £1,340
Utilities: £1,168
Telephone and communications: £365
Cleaning: £0
Service/maintenance: none
Repairs/insurance: £1,607
Other: (includes) bedding £550, CD player £69, painting £210, carpet £830, chimney relined £928, garage doors £420
Read on: http://tinyurl.com/r2mf7n
(2009) New Labour M.P. Paul Murphy -LEECH ON THE TAXPAYER
Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy claimed over £3,000 on expenses to fit a new boiler because he believed his water was “too hot”, it is reported.
The Westminster cabinet, including Prime Minister Gordon Brown, are facing questions after the Daily Telegraph published their expense claim details.
(2009) New Labour M.P John Prescott -PARASITE
John Prescott had mock Tudor beams attached to the front of his house and put the bill through on his Parliamentary expenses.
He also had his lavatory seat repaired twice in the space of two years at taxpayers’ expense.
The former deputy prime minister, who has admitted suffering from bulimia, claimed the maximum possible amount for food – £4,800 a year.
After it emerged that he was not paying council tax on one of the four properties he stayed in, Mr Prescott rang the fees office to check if he was breaking any rules but they told him not to worry.
It shows how, while sticking to the regulations, MPs are still able to claim generous amounts for groceries and furnishings.
Mr Prescott, a former ship’s steward, named his grace-and-favour flat at Admiralty House as his main residence. It was there that he conducted an affair with Tracey Temple, his assistant private secretary.
He also paid peppercorn rent for a two-bedroom flat in Clapham that was owned by the RMT rail union, and had free use of Dorneywood, the country estate where he was photographed playing croquet while supposedly in charge of the country.
Read on: http://tinyurl.com/poydje
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This buffoon’s video is well worth a watch -not least for the subsequent comments by angry members of the public. Enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jALNiL0IOlc&eurl
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(2009) New Labour M.P. Jack Straw -PARASITE
Firstly, we would do well to recall the crimes of Jack Straw’s family members. Crime is obviously inherent in his family:
His druggie son: http://tinyurl.com/psp7qh
His sex-criminal brother: http://tinyurl.com/pymlk7
Also, Jewish Straw said: “The English are not worth saving as a race.” Evidence (para. 3)
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Jack Straw charged the taxpayer for double the amount of council tax that he was actually paying for four years.
The Justice Secretary claimed between £807 and £943 a year from Commons expenses to cover the levy on his Blackburn constituency home from 2004.
However, shortly after it emerged that the receipts of MPs’ claims were to be made public, Mr Straw contacted the fees office to admit he had made a mistake over his council tax. In correspondence marked “in confidence”, he said: “I have been checking my claims since 04, and I have realised that my claims for council tax have been incorrect.”
The Cabinet minister wrote that because of a “50 per cent zero occupancy discount”, he had paid out far less than claimed and included a cheque for £1,395.88 to cover the difference.
Read on: http://tinyurl.com/c4hjgr
(2009) New Labour M.P. Hazel Blears -PARASITE
Communities Secretary Ms Blears was among several Cabinet ministers who switched around the address they declare to be their “second home” in a way that allowed them to claim for refurbishments of more than one home.
Communities Secretary Ms Blears was among several Cabinet ministers who switched around the address they declare to be their “second home” in a way that allowed them to claim for refurbishments of more than one home.
For an indepth review of this parasite togther with her video response to her immoral crimes, read on: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5293585/MPs-expenses-Hazel-Blears-claims-for-three-different-properties-in-a-year.html
(2009) New Labour -ENTIRE BRANCH INVESTIGATED FOR FRAUD
AN ENTIRE South Yorkshire Labour Party branch has been suspended for over a YEAR – after an astonishing in-house row between its members, the Times can reveal.
At one stage, detectives were even drafted into the investigate fraud allegations, amid claims and counter-claims of “bullying and harassment”.
At one stage, detectives were even drafted into the investigate fraud allegations, amid claims and counter-claims of “bullying and harassment”.
(2009) New Labour Millionaire Shaun Woodward -PARASITE ON THE TAXPAYER
The richest member of the cabinet is claiming every penny of his taxpayer-funded second home expenses – despite having use of a luxurious grace and favour castle. The Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward, who is married to the supermarket heiress Camilla Sainsbury, claimed the maximum £23,083 under the controversial additional cost allowance. Mr Woodwood, who owns a string of luxury properties around the world, has access to Hillsborough Castle, the 18th-century mansion built by the 1st Marquis of Downshire, which is worth £88 million.
(2009) Former New Labour Mayor Jayne Amstrong-Yeomans -THIEF
Jayne Armstrong-Yeomans, 49, resorted to robbing from a social club, where she ran the bar, after becoming addicted to online poker and racking up gambling debts of more than £60,000.
The former Labour party councillor, who was mayor of Carlisle from 1993 until 1994, wept at the city’s Crown Court, where she was sentenced to 12 months for theft.
The court heard how Armstrong-Yeomans, now living in Falkirk, Scotland, stole £38,000 from the South End Constitutional Club, in Carlisle and then lied to club officials in a last-ditch attempt to hide her double life.
(March 2009) Twenty More Outer-London MPs profit from the McNulty Wheeze
At least 20 other MPs have been caught in the ‘McNulty Triangle’ by claiming allowances for running second homes within easy commuting distance of the House of Commons.
The ‘name and shame’ list of MPs with outer-London seats who have claimed thousands of pounds in allowances has provoked outrage among their colleagues, particularly those with inner-city London seats who are barred under the rules from making similar claims.
The list of 20 shows that Tony McNulty is nowhere near the worst expenses claimer, coming a mere 16th in the list. McNulty, the MP for Harrow East, has claimed £52,598 in additional cost allowances on his parents’ house in Harrow, even though he lives with his wife Christine Gilbert in Hammersmith.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Tony McNulty
Employment minister Tony McNulty claimed the money on the house in Harrow even though he moved out in 2002 and lives in Hammersmith, west London, with his wife.
But his spokesman says he still spends two or three days a week at his parents property doing constituency work and so was entitled to the allowance. He stopped claiming the expenses in January.
The Additional Costs Allowance, worth up to £24,000 a year, is paid to MPs from outside inner London to cover the cost of staying overnight away from their main home for the purpose of performing parliamentary duties.
Most MPs use the money to pay for a base in central London near to Westminster, though some, including Mr McNulty, opt to claim for the cost of running a constituency home.
Last month Home Secretary Jacqui Smith came under fire for claiming £116,000 in expenses for a second home while effectively lodging with her sister.
Read on: http://tinyurl.com/d9baqy
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(28th March, 2009): Scandal-hit Employment Minister Tony McNulty has been challenged over whether he had broken electoral roll laws by declaring his address as his parents’ London home just two months ago – the house for which he admits he wrongly claimed Commons expenses.
Mr McNulty provoked outrage last week after The Mail on Sunday disclosed how he had claimed £60,000 in second-home allowances on his parents’ house in Harrow even though he does not stay there and lives elsewhere in the capital with his £225,000-a-year education chief wife.
(2009) New Labour M.P. Dawn Butler
A GOVERNMENT whip was today embroiled in the growing expenses row after claiming thousands of pounds for a second London home despite already having one within 10 miles of Westminster.
Assistant government whip Dawn Butler has claimed £37,245 in taxpayers’ cash in two years to pay for a second property.
The Labour MP for Brent South has a house in Wembley, aboutnine miles or a 32-minute Tube journey to Westminster, and a home in Stratford, about eight miles or a 24-minute Tube ride.
She was today facing questions over why she needed the two homes, which are almost exactly the same distance from the Houses of Parliament. Her office has stressed in the past that she moved into the Wembley house after being elected in 2005 to allow her to serve her constituents.
Ms Butler is the second government member to come under fire this week over second home allowances after it emerged Employment Minister Tony McNulty claimed £60,000 for a house in Harrow where his parents live.
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(2009) New Labour Cllr. "unknown"
POLICE investigating allegations of corruption at Stoke-on-Trent City Council have questioned several councillors.
Up to four members of the council’s 16-strong Labour group are believed to have been interviewed by detectives in the last 24 hours.
None of the councillors was arrested, and all of them agreed to be questioned.
The move follows the arrest of Labour elected mayor Mark Meredith on March 6 on suspicion of misconduct in public office and complicity in corruption in public office.
He was picked up exactly a week after Conservative councillor Roger Ibbs was arrested on suspicion of corruption in public office.
Both men have since been bailed until June, pending further enquiries.
Read on: http://tinyurl.com/ctpbb2
At the time of print the name of one of those arrested is unknown. The other three are below:
(2009) New Labour Cllr. Jean Edwards.
Burslem North councillor Jean Edwards is also expecting to be questioned. She said this morning: “All I can say is that I am going to be interviewed by the police, but I can not talk about the case. “It is in the police’s hands and they are calling a lot of councillors in.” A Labour Party source, who did not wish to be named, said: “The police questioned four of our members. “They weren’t arrested, but they were warned it would not be advisable to refuse to be interviewed. We’ve been told not to be interviewed unless there is a Labour Party lawyer present.
(2009) New Labour Cllr. Joy Garner
“Labour group leader councillor Joy Garner confirmed she was also questioned [by the police] but declined to comment in detail about the interview. ”
(2009) New Labour Cllr. Dave Conway
Interviewed by police in connection with allegations of corruption of Stoke-on-Trent City council.
(2009) New Labour Mayor Mark Meredith
The Labour Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent has been arrested as part of a police inquiry into alleged corruption.
Mark Meredith was detained at dawn yesterday and questioned by detectives from Staffordshire Police. This followed the arrest last week of a senior Conservative councillor, Roger Ibbs, over corruption allegations.
Police are thought to be investigating alleged wrongdoing over a council decision to abandon plans to close a swimming pool. The inquiry began after a complaint by the council itself following an internal investigation. The plans had been scrapped when the council said it could not achieve the £60,000 savings that it had thought the closure would bring.
Watch the video clip HERE.
(2009) New Labour Cllr. John James Jones
A COUNCILLOR has been banned from driving for two years.
John James Jones, 63, of North Ormesby, Middlesbrough, appeared at Teesside Magistrates’ Court last week charged with dangerous driving, having an inappropriate licence and no insurance.
He was convicted and was given a two-year driving ban, fined £1000 and ordered to pay costs of £40.
But under the Local Government Act 1972 he also faces being booted off the council and banned from public office for five years.
(2007) New Labour Vote Rigging
Labour paid drug addicts to vote up to 25 times to rig a tightly fought election, a BBC investigation has alleged. Respect party representative Abdul Aziz claims that Labour spent £10,000 to gain a 666-vote majority and oust him from the ward of Aston in Birmingham. A community leader told Newsnight that he had been offered £20 for every postal vote he rigged and a drug addict claimed he was paid £5 for every vote he cast – netting himself £125. http://tinyurl.com/b3e5ob
(2008) New Labour’s Lord Ahmed
The 51-year-old peer was at the wheel of his gold coloured X Type Jaguar when it ploughed into an Audi A4 that had broken down in the fast lane of the M1 near Rotherham.
Now almost a year after the death Lord Ahmed will appear before Magistrates in Sheffield on a date to be fixed.
As part of the investigation traffic police examined Lord Ahmed’s mobile phone on which he made a 999 call from the scene.
It was alleged that shortly before the emergency call a text message was sent to a journalist.
South Yorkshire Police investigators submitted a detailed file to the CPS who have now decided there is insufficient evidence for a charge of death by dangerous driving.
Instead the peer will face a lesser charge of dangerous driving.
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Previous roguishness:
Labour Peer Lord Ahmed, in another gesture of warmth and solidarity towards Britain’s Al-Qaeda community, invited Islamic terror suspect Mahmoud Abu Rideh into the House of Commons as his personal guest in 2006, where he sat in the Commons public gallery and listened to a debate. Rideh –detained in Belmarsh prison under emergency laws following 9/11 and suspected of being a money-man for groups linked to Osama Bin Laden– said the day “was very interesting”. http://tinyurl.com/2a2e59
(2007) New Labour’s Edward McEvily
(2007) A former deputy leader of Sefton Council has been jailed for 14 years for repeatedly stabbing a love rival. Edward McEvilly, 44, a former Labour councillor, was convicted of attempting to murder Alan Harrison in February at Liverpool Crown Court. McEvilly was a lodger at his ex-partner Elaine Smith’s house on Railton Road in Norris Green at the time of the attack. The court heard he stabbed Miss Smith’s new partner, Mr Harrison, 44, while he was unwell in bed at the house. Judge Mark Brown said he had attacked Mr Harrison “in a vicious and horrific way. http://tinyurl.com/5wnrq9
Blood-sucking London MPs Claim a Staggering 9 MILLION in Benefits
London MPs cost the taxpayer nearly £9 million for their expenses and allowances, a new analysis reveals today. It also shows huge variations in what MPs in the capital are claiming, ranging from £173,691 by former Labour minister Joan Ryan, MP for the key marginal of Enfield North, to £93,238 by Tory whip and Uxbridge MP John Randall. Seventy-three London MPs ran up a bill of £8,885,878 in 2006/07 for allowances and expenses which can be used for a second home, travel, office costs, staff, IT and other purchases – or £121,724 on average each. Overall, the average bill for each politician representing a constituency in the capital is just over £200,000 a year once their £60,675 salary and the average taxpayer contribution of £17,779 for each MPs’ pension last year is taken into account.
(2008) New Labour Cllr. John Holden
(2008) Councillor John Holden will no longer be entitled to attend Labour group meetings or represent the party in any capacity. The decision comes as colleagues moved to defend the councillor, claiming he is one of the hardest-working elected members of Highland Council. The Inverness Courier exclusively revealed on its website yesterday afternoon that Councillor Holden’s home in Drakies was searched on Monday in a joint operation by Northern Constabulary, Highland Council and fraud investigators from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). It is understood various items, including computer equipment and paperwork, were seized during the swoop which is believed to involve benefit fraud.
(2008) New Labour Ivan lewis M.P.
A Government Minister’s career was hanging in the balance last night after he admitted bombarding a young female aide with suggestive phone messages. Ivan Lewis, a 41-year-old Health Minister, issued a statement apologising for sending dozens of mobile phone text messages to Susie Mason, a 24-year-old assistant who worked in his private office in Whitehall. After complaining to her bosses, Ms Mason was moved to a different job before resigning from the Civil Service to join an accountancy firm.
(2007) Labour Party Official Peter Watt
Labour’s former chief official, Peter Watt (pictured left), is likely to face criminal charges over the donorgate scandal. The party, which has shockingly accused of financial impropriety, has already been forced to sack Watt from his post of general secretary when the £670,000 of illicit donations became public.
(2007) New Labour Cllr. David Phythian -RACIST ABUSE
A labour councillor has been handed a three-year football banning order after racially abusing former Latics defender Pascal Chimbonda – David Phythian hurled the sickening insults during Latics’ epic 3-3 draw with Spurs in April. The French international was making his first appearance at the JJB following his acrimonious move to the London club, and was booed throughout the afternoon. But UpHolland ward councillor and Latics fan Phythian, 54, admitted using abusive or insulting words towards Chimbonda that were racially aggravated.
Wigan and Leigh magistrates banned him from attending all football matches in the UK for three years, fined him £250, and ordered him to pay £60 costs
(2008) New Labour Cllr. Chris Ludlow
Chesterfield’s mayor has been arrested in connection with an alleged neighbourhood dispute involving an axe and a baseball bat.
Chris Ludlow, her husband Kevin and a 30-year-old woman have been questioned by police and released on bail following an incident at a property in Poolsbrook
Insp Ian Palfreyman, of Derbyshire Constabulary’s Chesterfield division, said: “We can confirm there was an incident concerning three people involved in an alleged neighbourhood problem and they have been arrested and are subject to an on-going investigation.”
Police state that the alleged incident involved an axe and baseball bat and damage to a door and a window at a property during the early hours of Friday morning.
(2008) New Labour Cllr. Eddie McAtominey
A SENIOR councillor at the centre of a drink-driving investigation was today suspended from the Labour Party.
Coun Eddie McAtominey was arrested after a crash in Victoria Road West, Hebburn.
He is one of the longest-serving members of South Tyneside Council, and the borough’s representative on Northumbria Police Authority.
Labour Cllr. Rob Dix
(2008) A COUNCILLOR has been suspended by Labour Party chiefs after being arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated disorder.
Rob Dix, Labour representative for Harton, South Tyneside, was arrested last Wednesday afternoon by officers in Chapter Row, South Shields, following an alleged incident in the town centre. http://tinyurl.com/5wbqf8
Rob Dix, Labour representative for Harton, South Tyneside, was arrested last Wednesday afternoon by officers in Chapter Row, South Shields, following an alleged incident in the town centre. http://tinyurl.com/5wbqf8
265. Cllr. Chris Chapman
Conservative councillor Chris Chapman has offered to resign after bragging about taking drugs and stealing on a public forum. http://tinyurl.com/3rdlrl
263. Cllr. Eshaq Khan
(2008) A Tory councillor was found guilty of using bogus postal votes to ensure he was voted into office in Slough. Eshaq Khan and his electoral team were found to have created hundreds of false names in the weeks running up to the 3 May election and entered them on the electoral register for the ward, the court heard. http://tinyurl.com/2gqq8y
262. Cllr. Altaf Adalat
A COVENTRY councillor, whose cousin fiddled votes in his election, has rejected demands for his resignation. Tory city councillor Altaf Adalat scraped home in the election in May 2006 by just six votes. His relative, Iftikhar Hussain, was convicted of placing fraudulent votes by using the identities of two other people. http://tinyurl.com/4px7gc
261. Cllr. Gordon Terry
An Ipswich councillor Gordon Terry was suspended and disqualified for a year. An adjudication panel found the Conservative breached the code of conduct by taking part in a committee meeting on the local plan. http://tinyurl.com/3plnl3
260. Cllr. Douglas Pallet
Tory Party Councillor (Colchester, Essex) Douglas Pallet convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm in 1998 after waging an 18-month campaign of stalking and harassment against his former mistress, Lynda Guglielmi. Following the break-up of their relationship, Pallett began his deranged vendetta by painting graffiti all over Colchester calling Mrs Guglielmi a “whore”. He then sent her a stream of obscene, sexually explicit and racist letters made from cutting out letters from newspapers. Not content with this, the Tory nutcase went on to distribute self-made cards in telephone boxes near to Mrs Guglielmi’s house containing her home contact details, offering the sale of illicit drugs and her services as a prostitute (needless to say, the perfectly respectable Mrs Guglielmi, a postmistress, has no involvement in either vice or narcotics of any kind). The court heard how Pallet’s psychotic hate campaign had turned Mrs Gulielmi from being a ”strong, calm, and composed” person into a “despairing neurotic” needing counselling and anti-depressants. Sentence on Pallet was adjourned for psychiatric reports and he was remanded in custody. http://tinyurl.com/4cph5y
259. Cllr. Ian Strong
Tory Councillor Ian Strong of Weymouth, Dorset, pleaded guilty to causing Darren Dougherty actual bodily harm. Mr Strong resigned his seat on Weymouth and Portland Borough Council in August following his election to the Wey Valley Ward in June. http://tinyurl.com/3jmp6l
258. Cllr. David Hart
Tory Councillor (Bradley Stoke, Bristol) David Hart was convicted on 2 counts of theft in 2007 after forging a fellow councillor’s signature to steal almost £9,000 of taxpayers’ money from the council while he was chairman of the Finance Committee on Bradley Stoke Town Council. He was given 180 hours community service and ordered to repay some of the stolen money. Hart also had a previous conviction for forgery from 1998, which apparently did not deter local Tories from appointing him to such an important position of trust
257. Cllr. Iain Catto
Tory Party Councillor (Lothian, Scotland) Iain Catto was convicted of theft and jailed for 27 months in 2006 after ripping off a disabled man to the tune of £70,000 after he had befriended Catto (a solicitor) and trusted him to handle his finances. http://tinyurl.com/4t7vpw
256. Cllr. David Ball
Tory Party Councillor (Winnersh, Berkshire) David Ball was convicted in 2004 of illegal trading involving computer chips and pirated computer games, and contempt of court. Fined £2,000. http://tinyurl.com/3gfwp5
255. Christian Sweeting
Tory Party 2001 Parliamentary Candidate (Torbay) Christian Sweeting was charged with a firearms offence during the 2001 election campaign, which was later dropped. Properties linked to Mr Sweeting and another Conservative member were later raided by Devon and Cornwall Fraud Squad in relation to alleged corruption involving planning matters in Torbay. http://tinyurl.com/4ojpm2
254. Cllr. Riasat Khan
Tory Party councillor (Woking, Surrey) Riasat Khan –Currently the subject of a police ballot-rigging investigation relating to his 2004 election ‘victory’ in the town’s Labour stronghold ward of Maybury and Sheerwater. http://tinyurl.com/46oohl
252. Cllr. John Dainty
Tory Party Councillor (Doncaster) John Dainty OBE was convicted and jailed for 15 months in 2002 for corruption. Dainty, who was the leader of the Tory group on the council, was caught taking a £5,000 bribe from a local landowner to facilitate a planning application for a lucrative housing development in 1994. http://tinyurl.com/4xb6lm
250. Jeffery Archer M.P.
Former Tory Party Chairman and London Mayoral Candidate Jeffrey Archer was convicted and jailed for 4 years in 2001 for Perjury and Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice. http://tinyurl.com/2eqyr6
248. Cllr. Colin Kiddell
Tory Party Councillor (Margate) Colin Kiddell was forced to resign in 2004 after police investigation into his alleged theft and embezzlement of funds from the local Dreamland Amusement Park. http://tinyurl.com/4o3cyk
247. Cllr. Reis Khan
Tory Party Councillor (Bradford, Yorkshire) Reis Khan was arrested in 2005 following long running police investigation into postal vote fraud at the 2005 General Election. Khan is the second Bradford Tory councillor to be held on suspicion of ballot-rigging in 2005, following the previous arrest of Councillor Jamshed Khan, after it emerged that 13 postal vote applications had been received for his home. This case was later dropped. http://tinyurl.com/3f3d8m
153. Cllr. Joginder Saroe
(2008) A FORMER councillor has been handed a 10-month suspended sentence for cheating the council of more than £45,000 in benefits over seven years. Joginder Saroe, 62, of Beaconsfield Road, Southall, admitted eight charges of false accounting over housing benefit, income support and Council Tax at Isleworth Crown Court today, while other fraud charges were left on file. The former British Airways employee was caught using the exclusive David Lloyd gym and driving an expensive Mercedes with a personalised number plate, while claiming disability benefit in 2005. http://tinyurl.com/5wzzyo
152. Cllr. Louise Downham
(2008) A former Cambridge councillor has been tagged and put under curfew for falsely using a disabled parking badge. Louise Downham, 37, represented King’s Hedges and was known as a community-minded councillor. On the Cambridge Labour website, she listed “making life easier for the disabled” as one of her aims
151. Simon Harris
FORMER Hucknall Labour member Simon Harris illegally received benefits after being elected to Ashfield District Council five years ago. The court heard that the total he obtained through benefit fraud was £5,598.52. Will be sentenced on 23 may
150. Cllr. Tommy Williams
(2008) WELL-KNOWN Paisley Councillor Tommy Williams has been charged with fraud. Mr Williams is still entitled to attend council meetings and represent his constituents. He will only stop being a councillor if he gets a criminal conviction, the Standards Commission bars him from office, or he resigns. In December last year the Paisley Daily Express revealed that Mr Williams was sacked from his social work job at Glasgow City Council amid claims of financial irregularities.
149. Cllr. Olive McIntosh-Stedman
New Labour County councillor Olive McIntosh-Stedman has been charged with Council Tax fraud. Ms McIntosh-Stedman was charged with two counts of making false council tax benefit claims in 2002. http://tinyurl.com/4ygnzz
148. Party "Chair" Dorothy Abbot
New Labour Party Chair Dorothy Abbot has appeared in court accused of benefit fraud. She is alleged to have received more than £28,000 in incapacity benefit over a four-year period despite also working for Wigan Council. Abbot is charged with having “dishonestly failed promptly to notify Department of Work and Pensions of a change in circumstance that she knew would affect her entitlement to incapacity benefit, namely that she was working”. The offence is alleged to have been committed between December 12, 2001 and November 7, 2005. She did not enter a plea when she appeared at Wigan Magistrates’ Court. http://tinyurl.com/4n6v88
147. Cllr. Trevor Rogan
A COUNCILLOR was convicted of beating up his Ukrainian-born wife after smearing her face with curry during a drink-fuelled argument. Hartlepool borough councillor Trevor Rogan grabbed his wife by the throat, hit her, twisted her arm and pulled her hair during the attack in the early hours of October 22 last year. His wife, Irina, 33, said she was left frightened by the attack, and may leave the town to start a new life. http://tinyurl.com/5xea5u
142. Clive Betts M.P.
Labour MP (Sheffield, Yorkshire) Clive Betts was suspended from Parliament for 7 days in 2004 after being caught forging immigration papers to extend the stay of his Brazilian rent-boy sodomite lover. http://tinyurl.com/239e5e
136. Parliamentary Candidate Christine Wheatley
Labour prospective Parliamentary candidate (Copeland, Cumbria) Christine Wheatley was dropped as the 2005 General Election candidate following revelations that she used to work as a Paris street hooker. http://tinyurl.com/ypatfv
131. Chris Bryant M.P.
Labour MP (Rhonda Valley, Wales) Chris Bryant poses in his pants on the Internet to advertise himself for casual homosexual sex encounters. Describes himself as “Horny as buggery” and says, “I’d love a good long f**k”. http://tinyurl.com/2hu7qt
New Labour Cllr. Muhammed Javed
Labour Councillor (Redbridge, London) Muhammed Javed was found guilty of misconduct by a Standards Boards tribunal and suspended from the Labour Party in 2005 following remarks made to a female Tory councillor during a break at a council meeting. The dashing, silver-tongued Labour cavalier had approached Councillor Kathy Pepperel and told her: “I must say, Kathy, you look very nice tonight. Nice enough to make me want to rape you”. http://tinyurl.com/22n6ew
112. Cllr. Tony Rowley
Former Walsall councillor Tony Rowley has pleaded guilty to fraudulently claiming more than £13,500 in benefits. Rowley, who admitted nine charges of making dishonest benefit claims before Aldridge magistrates, quit as Labour member for Darlaston South. He also asked for two other offences to be taken into consideration. http://tinyurl.com/24u4lz
111. Cllr. Jack Brown.
Labour Councillor (Barnsley/Yorkshire) Jack Brown –In 2005 he was fined £250 and bound over to keep the peace following an incident at a Mayoral lunch where Brown had attacked another councillor, Roy Miller, and threatened to kill him. http://tinyurl.com/2x9ax2
110. Labour Activist Martin Samways.
ASLEF Union boss and Labour activist Martin Samways –Punched a woman union official in the face during a drunken brawl at a summer barbecue, according to evidence heard at an employment tribunal for fellow ASLEF bigwig Shaun Brady, who was sacked by the union for his part in the fight. Mr Brady told the 2005 hearing: “Julie Atkinson walked past, returning from the toilet. He (Samways) lashed out at her, saying “you c***”, and hit her in the face. I could see blood”. Samways resigned after the incident. http://tinyurl.com/2ebwe6
109. Cllr. Athol Deakin.
Labour Councillor (Bromsgrove/Redditch) Athol Deakin –Convicted of assaulting a neighbour in 2006. Given 100 hours community service and ordered to pay compensation to his victim plus costs. http://tinyurl.com/2gq7bh
108. Lord Watson.
Labour Peer, Member of the Scottish Parliament, former Scottish Sports and Culture Minister and former MP (Glasgow) Lord Watson of Invergowie –Convicted and jailed for 16 months in 2005 for Arson. Watson had been caught on CCTV attempting to burn down the five-star Prestonfield House Hotel in Edinburgh by setting fire to a pair of curtains. The Labour Lord was apparently enraged by hotel staff refusing to serve him wine due to his abusive and threatening behaviour. http://tinyurl.com/2822u3
107. Cllr. Charles Ingle.
Former Labour Councillor (East Lothian/Scotland) Charles Ingle who resigned the Labour Party whip in 2003 to become an Independent was charged with breach of the peace in 2005 following an incident involving Mr Ingle and a council official. http://tinyurl.com/25s4nh
106. Cllr. Lorna Shiels.
Labour Councillor (Edinburgh/Scotland) Lorna Shiels –Arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer in 2005 after allegedly punching a policeman in the face during a fracas outside an Edinburgh nightclub. The incident arose after club doormen concerned, perhaps, that admitting Labour Party councillors might lower the tone of the establishment, refused to allow Ms Sheils entry. The charges were later dropped. http://tinyurl.com/ynshoz
105. Cllr. Paul Mack.
Labour Councillor (Renfrewshire/Scotland) Paul Mack –Another key player in the Gordon McMaster suicide affair. Also has a conviction for assaulting a woman. http://tinyurl.com/25m8wa
104. Tommy Graham M.P.
Labour MP (Renfrew West and Inverclyde/Scotland) Tommy Graham –Expelled from party for his part in a smear campaign (involving allegations of AIDS and a homosexual affair with an underage boy), which drove a rival Labour MP, Gordon McMaster, to commit suicide. http://tinyurl.com/2ac995
103. John Heppell M.P.
Labour MP John Heppell –Sank his teeth into another Labour MP Bob Marshall-Andrews (yes, him again –see above) during a fight in the House of Commons bar in 2005. Mr Heppell is also known as ‘knuckles’ in political circles after having tattoos of the words ‘love’ and ‘hate’ removed from the knuckles of his hands. http://tinyurl.com/yoj82p
102. Jim Dowd M.P.
Labour MP Jim Dowd (Lewisham West) –Had a punch-up in the Members Lobby of the Houses of Parliament in 2005 with Bob Marshall-Andrews M.P. and had to be separated by fellow MPs. The fight reportedly broke out after Mr Marshall-Andrews called Mr Dowd a “faggot”. http://tinyurl.com/2hbyvh
101. Bob Marshall-Andrews MK.P. and Jim Dowd M.P..
Labour MP Bob Marshall-Andrews (Medway) –Had a punch-up in the Members Lobby of the Houses of Parliament in 2005 and had to be separated by fellow MPs. The fight reportedly broke out after Mr Marshall-Andrews called Mr Dowd a “faggot”. http://tinyurl.com/2hbyvh
100. Stephen Hepburn M.P.
Labour MP (Jarrow) Stephen Hepburn –Has a conviction for assault following an incident in South Shields Town Hall a few years ago when Hepburn beat up a Labour councillor.
98. Cllr. Jahangir Akhtar.
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Labour Councillor (Rotherham/Yorkshire) Jahangir Akhtar –Sentenced to community service for helping his son and brother beat up a diner in a restaurant.
97. Keith Dobinson.
Labour Councillor and former Mayor (Stockton/Teeside) Keith Dobinson –Investigated by police for alleged assault on an OAP, which left the old man of 79 hospitalised. http://tinyurl.com/25xbdg
96. Cllr. Robbie Payne.
Labour Councillor (Hartlepool) Robbie Payne – Arrested, held overnight, then cautioned in 2005, for breach of the peace and assaulting a police officer.
94. Cllr. Jodingar Bal.
Labour Councillor (Farnham/Berkshire) Jogindar Bal –Stripped of his taxi driver’s licence in 2004 after repeatedly failing to declare his 1999 assault conviction to the taxi licensing authorities.
93. Chris Pond M.P.
Labour Government Minister (Pensions) Chris Pond –Convicted, cautioned, and fined for criminal damage in 2005 after attacking a neighbour’s house following a dispute over parking spaces. His victim, Nicola Ashton, said in court: “He was like a madman”. http://tinyurl.com/3yg8e5
92. Cllr. Tony Cooper.
Councillor Tony Cooper –Investigated by Police following serious allegations of harassment. http://tinyurl.com/2kfynz
91. Cllr. Brian Cotton.
Labour Councillor (Ilfracombe/Devon) Brian Cotton –Investigated by Police following serious allegations of harassment. http://tinyurl.com/2kfynz
90. Cllr. Denis Jones.
Labour Councillor (Wales) Denis Jones – Convicted and jailed for unlawful wounding after attacking a neighbour with a sledgehammer. http://tinyurl.com/2p3ud6
89. New Labour "Thugs".
In 2001 INNOCENT Labour MP Paul Marsden defected to the Lib Dems after claiming he had been roughed up by Labour whip office “thugs”.
88. Mayor Prentice Howarth.
Labour Mayor (Bolton/Lancashire) Prentice Howarth was investigated by police in 2005 after she was caught on video vandalising a neighbour’s car, causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage. The neighbour had set up CCTV cameras to catch the culprit after repeated attacks upon his brand new £15,000 Citroen Xsara Picasso. Mrs Howarth has admitted responsibility but is somewhat bizarrely claiming the vandalism was an “accident”. http://tinyurl.com/37opqq
87. Cllr. Ken Brookman.
Labour Councillor (Pontypridd/Wales) Ken Brookman –Bit off a man’s ear in front of his victim’s wife and 12 year-old daughter, following a dispute over a seat on a train. Convicted on 2 counts of unlawful wounding and given a fine and suspended 2-year sentence in 1997. http://tinyurl.com/2p3ud6
86. Cllr. Doug Haw.
Labour Councillor (East Staffordshire) Doug Haw –Convicted and jailed for 9 months in 2006 for beating up Mrs Winnifred West –a woman of 83. The 36 year-old Labour thug punched the helpless old lady in the face causing cuts and bleeding, following a trivial dispute over a parking space. http://tinyurl.com/3xkhjk
85. Cllr. Richard Manser.
Labour Councillor (Renfrewshire/Scotland) Richard Manser (pictured left) –Locally notorious Labour thug with convictions for assault. http://tinyurl.com/yo6lut
84. Cllr. Charlie Preston.
Labour Councillor (Kirkby, Merseyside) Charlie Preston –Convicted and jailed for 5 years in 1982 for assault and burglary. Preston broke into the home of a 64 year old man and beat him up in his bed as he slept, before robbing the house. The judge described the case as “A bad a matter of burglary as I can remember”. Preston also held the position on the council of, wait for it…Deputy Cabinet Member for Youth, Citizenship, and Community Safety. http://tinyurl.com/2pshrc
83. Labour Party Secretary Tariq Mahmood.
Labour Party secretary Tariq Mahmood (pictured middle) was jailed for 15 months and ordered to pay £15,000 for vote rigging. http://tinyurl.com/4na7v5
82. Charlie Gordon M.S.P.
The man at the centre of the Labour Party political donations row has said he plans to remain as an MSP. Charlie Gordon said he would stay as the member for Glasgow Cathcart despite his role in the controversy. He has admitted to blunders over a £950 donation from a businessman to the leadership campaign of Wendy Alexander. http://tinyurl.com/6x86qz
81. Wendy Alexander M.S.P.
(2008) Wendy Alexander has been reported to the procurator fiscal for failing to register her leadership campaign donations. Dr Jim Dyer, the standards commissioner, has sent a report to the area fiscal in Lothian and Borders after concluding there was evidence the Labour leader broke the rules on declaring gifts. She now faces a police investigation and possible charges if the fiscal concludes the offence warrants a criminal sanction. The dramatic development will increase the intense pressure on Alexander to resign as Labour leader and comes as she awaits the verdict of the Electoral Commission’s investigation into her campaign team’s acceptance of an illegal £950 donation from Jersey tycoon Paul Green.
78. Cllr. Tony Wright.
Labour Councillor (Basildon), Tony Wright was forced to resign after being caught using his council computer to download porn. http://tinyurl.com/2p3ud6
77. Former Mayor John McGowan.
(2008) A former mayor who was caught playing golf and doing a paper round while claiming £13,000 in benefits for a bad back has escaped a prison sentence. John McGowan, 54, of Clitheroe, Lancashire, received a 36-week jail term, suspended for 12 months. Preston Crown Court heard he was overpaid £13,114 in disability allowance from April 2004 and September 2006. During that time he was secretly filmed by fraud investigators on the fairways at Stoneyhurst Golf Club, near Clitheroe, where he was seen pulling his trolley up steep slopes. Sentencing him, Judge Beverley Lunt said: “These offences were a dishonest detraction of taxpayers’ money. http://tinyurl.com/2y2nul
76. Cllr. David Tomlin.
A COUNCILLOR has narrowly avoided jail for falsely claiming £6,500 in benefits after trying to save money for his retirement. Former Redcar and Cleveland borough councillor David Tomlin, who resigned after his shame was made public, last month, failed to declare he had £14,800 in savings. Tesside magistrates heard how he claimed the benefits despite being given two chances to declare his savings. http://tinyurl.com/23972o
75. Jane Griffiths M.P.
Former Labour MP (Reading East) Jane Griffiths –Arrested in 2005 after failing to appear at a court hearing on charges of £29,000 worth of tax evasion. After her election in 1997 Griffiths went on to become the first Labour MP in a decade to be de-selected by the party in 2004. She was succeeded as Labours 2005 Reading East Parliamentary candidate by convicted pervert Tony Page who features in the sex crimes part of this list. http://tinyurl.com/2fmkg4
74. Cllr. Steve Judge
Labour Councillor (Islington/London) Steve Judge –Led a revolt among the Labour group on Islington Council against a Lib-Dem proposal to lobby the government to outlaw convicted fraudsters from serving as councillors. This resulted in the motion being effectively quashed. Councillor Judge has, surprisingly enough, a conviction for fraud. http://tinyurl.com/2zenmx
73. Dept, Mayor Gideon Bull.
Labour Deputy Mayor (Haringey/London) Gideon Bull –Suspended from office for a month in 2005 after it emerged that council contractors painted his house for free “in error”. Forced to make a grovelling apology and pay the cost of the work. http://tinyurl.com/288r8q
72. Cllr. Garvin Reed.
Labour Councillor (Rotherham/Yorkshire), former Deputy Leader of Rotherham Council, and classic ‘champagne socialist’, Garvin Reed –Convicted and jailed for 3 years in 2002 for stealing £172,000 from a charity (National Local Government Forum Against Poverty), which he spent on high living, lavish hotels and prostitutes. http://tinyurl.com/2afpfc
New Labour Cllr. Fida Hussain -MONEY LAUNDERING
Labour Councillor (Oldham/Lancashire) Fida Hussain –Arrested and charged with money laundering offences in 2007 following a five-month police investigation into his financial affairs. Released on bail pending further enquiries. http://tinyurl.com/27jv3h
70. Mayor John Walker.
Labour Mayor (Sefton/Merseyside) John Walker – Arrested and charged in 2006 with benefit fraud. Walker’s March trial date was then adjourned until April after he claimed he was too desperately ill to attend. However, just 48 hours after dodging his date with the judge the brave Mayor apparently managed to drag himself from his deathbed to cheer Liverpool on to a 5-1 Premiership win over Fulham at Anfield, where he was photographed by the media. http://tinyurl.com/23o9gp
69. Yet MORE Ballot-rigging in Reading?
The 2004 local elections in Reading/Berkshire are currently the subject of a police probe after evidence of postal vote fraud was uncovered. The investigation centres on the towns Redlands ward, and Labours winning candidates, Haji Faraz Khan, Peter Kayes, and Deputy Mayor Riaz Chaudri. All three are refusing to make any comment on their ‘victories’. http://tinyurl.com/2zzxoh
62. Cllr. Ayaz Khan.
…and Ayaz Khan –Convicted in 2005 on ballot-rigging charges relating to postal vote fraud at the local elections of 2004.
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61. Cllr. Kumar Musrshid.
Labour Councillor (Tower Hamlets/London) Kumar Murshid, formerly a top advisor to London’s Mayor Communist Ken Livingstone – On trial in 2006 on theft charges totalling almost £240,000, including £40,000 stolen from the local youth scheme in the aforementioned case. http://tinyurl.com/2ab7xh
60. Cllr. Nasir Uddin.
Former Labour Councillor (Tower Hamlets/ London) Nasir Uddin –Convicted, along with his younger brother, Ain Uddin, in 2006 of stealing £30,000 from a local education authority scheme for underprivileged youngsters during his time in office between 2001 and 2003. Mr Uddin’s tenure as a local councillor was also notable for his failure to turn up to any council meetings for six months, and citing “institutional racists” within the Labour Party, as his reason for non-attendance. http://tinyurl.com/2zq7z8
58. John Stonehouse M.P.
Labour MP (Walsall/West Midlands) and former Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse –Convicted and jailed for 7 years (served 3 years) in 1976 for theft, fraud, and deception. His crimes related to a string of fraudulent business ventures and the theft of money from charities. Before his eventual capture by police in Melbourne, Australia, Stonehouse had famously faked his own suicide in 1974 in order to evade justice, and dumped his wife and daughter to shack up with his mistress. In 2006 newly released documents revealed that as a young MP Stonehouse spent ten years as a paid spy for Warsaw Pact communist regimes during the height of the cold war. Had this come to light while he was in office it may well have brought down the Government of Harold Wilson, who was himself rumoured to have been a KGB agent. It would seem that acts of high treason within the Labour Party are not just a phenomenon of the Blair era. http://tinyurl.com/284nse
57. Cllr. Shelia Howat.
Labour Councillor (Paisley/Scotland) Sheila Howat –Convicted of housing benefit fraud in 1997. Also given a token suspension by the local Labour Party, although they refused to sack her despite her admission she was defrauding the council she was a member of. http://tinyurl.com/26e69a
(2009) New Labour Keith Vaz M.P. -PARASITE
Keith Vaz, the senior Labour backbencher, claimed more than £75,500 in expenses for a flat in Westminster despite his family home being a £1.15 million house just 12 miles from parliament.
His living arrangements will leave him open to the same questions asked of Tony McNulty, the Home Office Minister, who claimed for a house about the same distance away lived in by his parents.
Mr Vaz, the chairman of the home affairs select committee, also switched his designated second home from the £545,000 flat to a house in his Leicester East constituency and back again in the space of a year. Mr Vaz’s main home is a house in Stanmore, north-west London, that he bought with his wife Maria for £1.15 million in November 2005. They live there with their two children. Before then they lived in another house in Stanmore.
Their current house is less than a mile from Stanmore underground station, which takes passengers directly to Westminster on the Jubilee Line. According to Transport for London, the 14-stop journey should take about 37 minutes. Westminster is about 12 miles from the house. A car journey straight down the A5 should take about 40 minutes.
Documents filed with Commons officials showed that between 2004 and April 2007, Mr Vaz claimed more than £69,000 for expenses at the flat in Westminster, which he bought in 2003. He moved in shortly after selling another for £312,000.
His claims included monthly mortgage interest payments of between £1,500 and £1,750, £200 in monthly grocery bills and £50 per month for a cleaner.
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Labour MP (Leicester/Leistershire) and former Cabinet Minister Keith Vaz –Investigated for fraud and corruption before quietly leaving his Europe Minister post with “health problems”. According to his former Secretary Vaz does absolutely nothing in his constituency other than help local Pakistanis with their immigration cases in the city where Whites are a minority. http://tinyurl.com/2fymbs
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In a separate incident he has become embroiled in an investigation by anti-terrorism police after speaking at a rally in which suicide bombers were praised. News of the inquiry has put pressure on Keith Vaz, the former Labour minister who heads the all-party home affairs select committee, to defend his decision to speak at last month’s rally at London’s ExCeL exhibition centre in support of the Sri Lankan breakaway movement, the Tamil Tigers. Mr Vaz, the MP for Leicester East, whose Commons committee is in charge of scrutinising all anti-terrorism legislation, has been contacted by police investigating the event. The Sri Lankan high commissioner, Kshenuka Senewiratne, has written to Gordon Brown to express her “serious concerns” at Mr Vaz’s presence at the rally. http://tinyurl.com/47sp5r
55. Cllr. Shaun Stringer
The former Leader of the Vale of Glamorgan Council has walked free from court after pleading guilty to four charges of deliberately and dishonestly abusing his public office. Shaun Stringer, 33, from Barry, admitted paying for lavish meals with council tax payers’ money. Fourteen similar offences against him were ordered to lie on file. http://tinyurl.com/yqgf5g
54. Cllr. Berniu Callagan
Labour Councillor (Cambridge/Cambridgeshire) Berni Callagan, who was the prospective first black Mayor of the city –Convicted on 4 charges of benefit fraud in 2005. Given a two-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £2000 costs. http://tinyurl.com/2y5y33
50. Cllr. Raymond Stockhill.
Cllr Raymond Stockhill –Jailed for 2 years for taking £30,000 in bribes to exert influence over a local planning application.
49. Cllr and former Mayor Jack Meredith.
Cllr and former Mayor Jack Meredith –Given a 4-month suspended jail sentence after pleading guilty to six counts of expense claim fraud.
48. Cllr. Michale Farrington.
Cllr Michael Farrington –Given a 2-month suspended jail sentence for expense claim fraud.
47. Cllr. Jean Elwick
Cllr Jean Elwick –Given a 2-month suspended jail sentence and ordered to pay £750 in costs for expense claim fraud totalling £200.50.
46. Cllr. Brian Day
Cllr Brian Day –Fined £300 plus costs for expense claim fraud involving hotel accommodation.
45. Cllr. Norman Fisher
Cllr Norman Fisher –Jailed for 9 months for expense claim fraud involving hotel accommodation.
44. Cllr. Gordon Jones
Cllr Gordon Jones was fined £250 plus costs for claiming £140 for a rail ticket, which actually cost him £66.
43. Cllr. Malcolm Glover.
Cllr Malcolm Glover –3-month jail sentence suspended for a year on each of three charges of expense claim fraud and ordered to pay £1000 costs.
42. Cllr. Paul Farley
Cllr Paul Farley –120 hours community service for expense claim fraud involving hotels and train fares totalling £243.
41. Cllr. Michael McAteer
Cllr Michael McAteer –Fined £250 for expense claim fraud involving hotel accommodation
40. Cllr. Roland Cox
Cllr Roland Cox –Given two 6-week jail terms to run concurrently and suspended for a year for expense claim fraud involving rail fares and hotel accommodation.
39. Tony Sellas.
Cllr Tony Sellars –Suspended 3 month jail sentence for expense claim fraud. Ordered to re-pay £664.
38. Cllr Terry Sellars.
Cllr Terry Sellars –Suspended 3 month jail sentence for expense claim fraud. Ordered to re-pay £490.
37. Cllr Steve Judge
Cllr Steve Judge –120 hour’s community service for expense claim fraud.
36. Cllr Pat Mullaney
Cllr Pat Mullaney –200 hour’s community service for expense claim fraud totalling £1,290.
35. Les Dyson
Cllr Les Dyson was jailed for 4 months for expense claim fraud totalling £325.
34. Cllr. Mick Collins
Cllr Mick Collins was jailed for 8 months for expenses fraud totalling £2000. Also accused of stealing almost £2000 from the local Labour Party. The judge ruled this charge would not be proceeded with, but ordered compensation to be paid to the local branch.
33. Cllr. Derek Hughes.
Cllr Derek Hughes –Fined £500 after pleading guilty to one charge of falsifying an expense claim form
32. Cllr. David Jobes
…Cllr David Jobes –Jailed for 6 months for falsifying expense claims totalling £3,700.
31. Cllr. Jack Riley
Labour councillors in Doncaster/Yorkshire – 23 Convicted and 6 jailed for massive fraud, corruption and theft of public funds between 1998 and 2001, in what became known as the ‘Donnygate’ scandal. Investigation also uncovered massive Labour Party corruption in neighbouring Rotherham. After the convictions not a single one of the sleazy Labour crooks was expelled from the Party and 3 of them even managed to continue serving as councillors. http://tinyurl.com/2899a9 Cases included: Cllr Jack Riley –Jailed for 28 days for falsely claiming £214…
30. Cllr Damien O’Connor
Labour Councillor (Manchester/Cheshire) Damien O’Connor –Convicted of housing benefit fraud in 2000. Resigned in disgrace from the Labour Party but refused to step down from his council seat, which he eventually lost to another Labour candidate. He has now joined the UK Independence Party and stood for them at the 2005 General Election. http://tinyurl.com/2dtk3c
29. Cllr. Martin Ward
Labour Councillor (Wakefield/Yorkshire) Martyn Ward –Convicted of defrauding the Child Support Agency in 2004. http://tinyurl.com/22tn9e
28. David Martin M.E.P.
Labour Party Euro MP David Martin is currently being investigated for an alleged expenses fraud involving hundreds of thousands of pounds. http://tinyurl.com/2c62h8
27. Cllr. Alan Sloam
Labour Councillor (Barnet/London) Alan Sloam was forced to resign in 2004 after being convicted of attempted fraud. Sloam tried to deceive Camden Council over four parking fines handed out to his son when he wrote a letter on council notepaper falsely claiming a disabled friend had been using the car when the tickets were issued. http://tinyurl.com/237lc2
26. Cllr. Gary Stagg
Labour Councillor (Sutton/Surrey) Gary Stagg – Convicted on 2 counts of corruption and jailed for 18 months in 1998 after being caught trying to solicit cash backhanders from a local charity in return for supporting a land deal they were pursuing. The Labour sleazebag was caught red-handed attempting to trouser a £60,000 bung from the charity after being secretly filmed and taped by undercover police officers. Stagg was recorded saying: “I have to be careful. Tony’s (Blair) lot would not like this and I could be imprisoned.” http://tinyurl.com/yun9c4
25. Elizabeth Wilson
Labour treasurer Elizabeth Wilson –Convicted on one charge of embezzlement and fined £2,400 after helping herself to £11,000 of funds from the Motherwell and Wilshaw branch of the Labour Party. http://tinyurl.com/2aluzu
24. Cllr. Josephine ohene-Djan
Labour Councillor (Westminister, London) Josephine Ohene-Djan –Convicted and sentenced to 120 hours of community service in 2005 for committing £12,000 worth of housing benefit fraud. Most defendants convicted of fraud on such a large scale would expect to face a short prison sentence. Whether or not Mrs Ohene-Djan’s status as an African Labour councillor played any part in the leniency afforded to her remains open to question… http://tinyurl.com/yqhjpn
22. Cllr. Alan Schofield
Labour Councillor (Barnsley/Yorkshire) Alan Schofield –At the centre of corruption allegations in 2005 after it emerged he had £17,000 worth of home improvements, including decorative double gates, new fencing, tiling, and double-glazing paid for by local taxpayers. Council tradesmen were ordered not to talk about it to anyone and not to wear council uniforms or use council vehicles while carrying out the work on his home. The scandal only emerged after opposition councillors obtained documents under the Freedom of Information Act. One such document was a letter from a council joiner who wrote: “We were told that no one else must know that we were working on that property.” http://tinyurl.com/yv2jj7
23. Cllr. Bernard Price
Labour Councillor (Blaenau Gwent/Wales) Bernard Price –Convicted on 2 charges of false accounting was fined and ordered to do community service in 1999. Price was caught defrauding the taxpayer to line his pockets by fiddling his expenses during an official trip to Brussels. http://tinyurl.com/2238ma
20. Paul Murphy
Labour Party Treasurer (Scarborough and Whitby) Paul Murphy –Convicted of embezzlement in 2004, and jailed for 6 months, after stealing more than £9000 from the party’s accounts to pay for mortgage repayments and a holiday in Jamaica.
19. Cllr. Ataur Rahman
Labour Councillor (Tower Hamlets/London) Ataur Rahman was suspended by the council in 2004 following a police investigation into fraud at the local St Dunstan’s Bangladeshi Community Resource Centre, where Councillor Rahman was the Finance Officer. http://tinyurl.com/3ccfx5
18. Cllr. Tony Giles
Labour Councillor (Merton/London) Tony Giles was convicted and jailed for 10 months in 2005 for stealing £18,000 of public money –money which had been intended for the upkeep, cleaning and maintenance of his own neighbourhood on the West Barnes Lane housing estate, before being embezzled by the Labour crook. http://tinyurl.com/3cns49
17. Fiona Jones M.P.
Labour MP (Newark) Fiona Jones –Convicted in 1999 of knowingly making a false declaration of election expenses and sentenced to community service. http://tinyurl.com/2zw7xk
16. Cllr. Bernard Buckle
Labour Councillor (Cowes/Isle of White) Bernard Buckle resigned his seat in 2004 after being charged with benefit fraud. http://tinyurl.com/3xd5wq
(2009) Mohammed Sarwar M.P. -PARASITE WITH PREVIOUS
A multi-millionaire Labour backbencher claimed almost £100,000 to cover mortgage interest that he paid from an account with a Swiss bank.
Mohammad Sarwar, the MP for Glasgow Central, who has an estimated fortune of £16 million, has claimed close to the maximum under his second homes allowance since 2004.
He claimed almost £2,000 every month for the interest on his mortgage on a £600,000 apartment in an exclusive block in Vauxhall, south London, just over the river from the Houses of Parliament.
Mr Sarwar, the chairman of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee, also claimed more than £3,000 for ground rent and service charges every year as well as around £1,500 for council tax and hundreds of pounds for home phone bills that included calls to Pakistan.
Mr Sarwar claimed a total of £174,882 in expenses last year but turned up for only 55 per cent of votes, spoke in only nine debates and asked 55 parliamentary questions.
Since 2004 he has claimed a total of £86,497 in second homes allowance (Additional Costs Allowance) and a total of £638,640 in other expenses, including office and staff costs.
In June 2006 the Parliamentary Fees Office wrote to Mr Sarwar to ask for repayment of £580.39 after an audit of his claims discovered that he had submitted some claims twice – and therefore had been reimbursed twice.
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Labour MP Mohammed Sarwar (Britain’s first Asian MP, Glasgow) was the subject of a major News of the World investigation in 1997 into bribery and corruption. Despite this, the massive Asian population in his constituency keeps him safely in his seat. http://tinyurl.com/2paunl
14. Cllr. Mohammed Niwaz
Labour Councillor (Sandwell/West Midlands), Mohamed Niwaz – Convicted of illegally obtaining £20,000 in housing grants. http://tinyurl.com/3y8eps
13. Cllr. Miranda Grell
A Labour councillor has been charged in connection with alleged misconduct during last year’s local election. Miranda Grell, 28, who represents Leyton ward, today was charged with four counts of making false statements contrary to Section 106 (1) of the Representation of the People Act 1983. http://tinyurl.com/374tfl
12. Tony Clarke M.P.
Former Labour MP (Northampton) Tony Clarke (lost his seat at the 2005 General Election) denies ever being a member of West Ham’s notorious “Inter-City Firm” of football hooligans. The former Rt Honourable member for Northampton South, however, has yet to provide an innocent explanation for the tattoo on his chest bearing (according to The Sunday Times) the West Ham UTD club badge, below the letters “I.C.F.” http://tinyurl.com/2u7z5h
11. Ken MacDonald
In 2004 Tony Blair appointed his close friend/crony, and colleague of his wife, Ken Macdonald as the new Director of Public Prosecutions, despite the fact he has a drugs conviction. http://tinyurl.com/yphdad
10. James Dunn M.P.
Labour Junior Minister (Northern Ireland) James Dunn –Convicted of shoplifting in 1979. Dunn was caught trying to steal two ties and a sweatshirt from an army & navy store. He later joined the SDP and lost his seat. http://tinyurl.com/2yva2y
8. John Trickett M.P.
Labour MP (Leeds/Yorkshire) Jon Trickett described 7/7 suicide bomber Mohammed Sidique Khan as being “a family friend”. The Islamic terrorist, who took part in the mass-murder of 52 innocent London commuters, had previously been taken on a guided tour of the House of Commons in 2004, as a personal guest of the Labour Member for Hemsworth constituency.
7. Cllr. Hussain Akhtar
Labour Councillor (Blackburn/Lancashire) Hussain Akhtar – Fined £3,500 and ordered to pay costs following 3 court cases in 2 years over public health violations at his shop “Akhtar’s Food Store”. Some of the exotic eastern delights discovered by inspectors at Cllr Akhtar’s shop included cockroaches, a dead mouse, and rodent droppings in the Bombay mix. http://tinyurl.com/2yradq In addition, he ‘pleaded poverty’ in court, overlooking the fact that he owns a £500,000. He was accused by a judge of ‘concocting a story’ to avoid hygiene charges at his food shop, has now been heavily criticised by councillors. http://tinyurl.com/2yradq
Dennis Nilsen (former Socialist Workers’ Party member) -DISMEMBERED 16 YOUNG MEN
Homosexual mass murderer, Dennis Nilsen, who strangled and dismembered 16 young men in the 1980s, was also a highly active member of Labour fringe groups such as the Anti-Nazi League and the Socialist Workers’ Party. That’s when he wasn’t busy boiling peoples heads in a pot, or masturbating over the corpses of his victims. http://tinyurl.com/ys4ll4
5. Stephen Twigg M.P.
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Former Labour Cabinet Minister (Education) Stephen Twigg was arrested and fined £50 in 2005 after being found “drunk and incapable” in the street. http://tinyurl.com/2coxub
4. Cllr. Sean Parker-Perry
Labour Councillor (Longdendale/Manchester), Sean Parker-Perry was arrested on suspicion of stealing a car in November 2004. He was bailed until February 2005. http://tinyurl.com/2g45wk Other interesting activities from this rogue: http://tinyurl.com/3ebaxq
3. Cllr. Rod Hills.
Labour Council Leader (York/Yorkshire) Rod Hills MBE stood trial in 2002 on various charges including blackmail, witness intimidation, perverting the course of justice, soliciting a woman for prostitution, and wasting police time –but was eventually cleared on all charges except one for dangerous driving. The following year he was arrested again –although police refused to say what the latest investigation was in connection with. http://tinyurl.com/2d77xz
2. William Straw (son of Jack Straw M.P.)
Jack Straw’s son of the same name, William Straw, has been cautioned after attending a London police station with his father Monday 12 Jan. The Daily Mirror “honey trap” journalist was also let off for possession of cannabis.
Systemic Swine
The Communist Threat that M.I.5. Allowed to Come to Power
Make Government History: Videos of Our Enemies
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MPs’ Expenses -A Musical
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Misandrous Harriet Harperson Tries to Defend with Utter Contempt for the People the Crooks in Her Gang
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Tory Eric Pickles Offends the People by Condescendingly Trying to Jutify his Gross Consumtpion of the People’s Money
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MPs’ Expenses -A Musical Pt. 2
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MPs’ Daylight Robbery
