Blessed are those being robbed of their money

Head to the polls on June 4 but don't vote for the BNP, pleads Archbishop
By Jonathan Petre
We do not need a black man and a weirdo to tell us what too do . The archbishop should to stick to the Muslims and Sharia law which he loves so much.. besides counting his money from ripping off people with the religion racket......... Blessed are the poor.....

'This conversation may have cost me £160,000'... First MP to claim £1m admits he failed to pay capital gains tax on two homes
By Simon Walters

Eric Joyce admitted he had claimed more than £120,000 from his second-home allowance on a house in London where he lived for eight years with his wife and children.
He also agreed he may have blundered by not paying £40,000 in capital gains tax when the property was sold for a £130,000 profit.

I can hardly believe the number of thieves, liars and tax fiddlers still in post. We must clear up this mess
By Ann Widdecombe

Cameron orders 'thieving toad' aide to resign... and pressure mounts for Andrew MacKay's MP wife to quit too
By Glen Owen
Last updated at 10:11 PM on 23rd May 2009

Ex-South Korean president in bribes probe leaps to his death
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 1:23 AM on 24th May 2009

May be a few of those thieves who have infiltrated Whitehall will do likewise..somehow, hardly feel they will put themselves to such a inconvenience

Opik finds a cheeky little earner

The Mid-Wales MP, already under fire for claiming £40 for the cost of a summons for non-payment of council tax, insisted that by taking a tenant he had SAVED taxpayers cash.
Yet he claimed more than £14,000 a year in second home allowance for four years - demanding a total of £68,031.
Opik, best known for his stormy relationship with Cheeky Girls . Paid for by you know who.

Double dipping MPs in another dodgy deal
THE husband and wife Tory MPs who have been "double-dipping" expenses so the taxpayer funds BOTH their homes were last night caught up in a new scandal.
Julie Kirkbride and Andrew Mackay are letting her brother live rent-free in their mansion flat that WE pay for, the News of the World can reveal.

Tory rakes in a right shed-load
TORY MP Peter Atkinson claimed for a garden shed on his expenses -then had the cheek to charge for the TOOLS to build it as well.

A LABOUR MP claimed a massive £169 for a TOASTER as part of the taxpayer-funded £15,000 refurbishment of his two- bedroom second home.

Yet Roger Berry- whose Kingswood constituency is in one of the least prosperous areas of Bristol-could have picked one up from Tesco for a budget £4.47.

I'm silly ducker
THE Tory MP who claimed £1,645 for a floating duck island for his pond yesterday said he felt "ashamed and humiliated".
Sir Peter Viggers described his decision to include the feature in his taxpayer-funded second home expenses as a "ridiculous and grave error of judgment."
And the MP-who claimed £30,000 towards gardening costs including £500 for manure-said the ducks had never liked the island anyway.
Pity Stalin is not about,

Meanwhile, Labour MP Howard Stoate,
who claimed £17,883 for his one-bed London flat, yesterday said he would now be giving up his second home allowance.
But Mr Stoate, whose constituency is close to London in Dartford, Kent, will continue his lucrative second job working as a GP.

Everything in the Corridors of power, more so those in the vast halls of the EU is "Lucrative".. Mafia style.

The darkest day for shell-shocked Parliament as expenses scandal claims two scalps

By James Chapman
Last updated at 7:02 AM on 15th May 2009

Parliament suffered its blackest day in memory yesterday.
The Commons expenses scandal claimed a Labour and a Tory scalp - and two Labour peers faced the shame of being the first members of the Lords to be suspended since the dark days of the English Civil War.
Parliament has become the least popular institution in the land and is now less well-regarded by voters than the European Union according to a shocking poll for the PoliticsHome website.
Until yesterday Labour, Tory and Liberal Democrat MPs accused of having made dubious claims had simply written out cheques, with £129,000 in refunds to the taxpayer pledged to date. But now some are beginning to pay with their jobs

Millionaire Tory MP who owns 24 homes claimed £100,000 in expenses... even though he doesn't have a mortgage

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 3:23 PM on 15th May 2009

A millionaire Tory MP who owns 24 homes claimed more than £100,000 in expenses even though he does not have a mortgage.
Taxpayers' cash was mainly used for gardening and redecoration.
James Clappison, a work and pensions spokesman, bought petunias, geraniums and busy lizzies with public funds for his £375,000 semi in St Albans.
The MP for Hertsmere rents out 22 properties in North Humberside where he also owns a cricket pitch and 27 acres of land inherited from his father.
Since 2001, Mr Clappison has claimed a total of £102,241 in second homes allowances, including claims for maintenance, groceries, utility bills, a cleaner and a TV licence.
Between 2004 and 2005 he claimed £628 for gardening. He also claimed £20 for a kitchen blender in July 2004.
From 2005 to 2006 he claimed £578 for a washing machine and £719 for a new bed.
Between 2006 and 2007, he he claimed £892 on renovations and window cleaning. The work included a new lavatory seat and £297 for a video recorder.
The following year, he claimed £3,541 for roof repairs and £1,990 for redecoration. He also claimed £686 for gardening and £298 for television and DVD player.
Mr Clappison told the Daily Telegraph that all his claims were in order except for £38.50 for bedding plants which was immediately repaid.
'This was an honest mistake on my part,' he said.

Justice Minister axed just minutes after refusing to hand back lavish expenses claims

By Michael Lea
Last updated at 11:28 PM on 15th May 2009

A minister was humiliatingly suspended by Gordon Brown yesterday minutes after defying public anger over MPs' expenses to insist that he was 'as straight as they come'.
Shahid Malik became the biggest scalp claimed so far by the scandal engulfing MPs.
The Justice Minister had embarked on a series of bullish TV interviews claiming that allegations against him were a 'non-story' and predicting that he would keep his job.
In the extraordinary performances, which at times bordered on the hysterical, he defended claiming £2,600 for a home cinema system and £730 for a massage chair.

Fortunately, he did not have time to implement the Sharia Law, with help from his mates at the BBC, or they might have chopped his right hand off.

MPs' EXPENSES: Ex-minister banned for claiming £16,000 on 'ghost' mortgage he had already paid off

By Ian Drury and Tim Shipman
Last updated at 9:08 AM on 15th May 2009

another caught crook....

Mr Morley, the former government minister, who claimed more than £16,000 for mortgage interest on his second home in Scunthorpe

Sacked, Cameron's Commons aide who claimed double mortgage payments with Tory MP wife

By James Chapman

One of David Cameron's closest aides is to be forced to repay up to £141,000 after admitting systematically abusing his second home expenses.
Andrew MacKay stood down as the Tory leader's Parliamentary adviser after Mr Cameron ruled that his claims were ' unacceptable'.
For years, he claimed the full second home allowance on his London address, while his wife, fellow Tory MP Julie Kirkbride, said their other home was her second property and claimed the full allowance on that.

Blushing couple of crooks

So why DO they call me the Minister for Sexy Skirts?... You tell us, Caroline Flint

By Natalie Clarke

Never heard of you, then until the last last twelve months , no one in the street knew anything about anyone in the Citadels of Power, we do know now that you are a bunch of crooks and if a Muslim or Roman Catholic, more so.

As always with the Mail, they lay it on thick, realize the article is slanted against you, adding that I feel also that you are just another creature on the gravy train , especially as you have "connections", especially with the den of conniving dead beats in Brussels.

In your case it is easy to see your rise to power, how it came about, the others have "other" connections.

What will you be "claiming" for in the very near future? three more houses to keep up with Darling and his "sexy" wife?

Looking at the Mail's shots of you.. my reaction is that you are a bit of a pratt, on the make, naturally.

Perhaps that was their aim.

The Queen tells Gordon Brown she is 'deeply troubled' over MPs' expenses, Muslims and Roman Catholics

MPs' EXPENSES: Tory MP David Willetts claimed £115 for 25 light bulbs

He's seen the light!

MPs' EXPENSES: Pools, helipads, moats... the Tory squirearchy welcome you to their lavish country homes

I am just jealous!

... And his mistake was to get caught

MPs' EXPENSES: Blears writes £13,332 cheque to Inland Revenue for Capital Gains Tax avoided on 'second home'

Faintly impressive you having a Ducati... Unfortunate you have become embroiled with the easy money from the public purse syndrome. Paying back is hardly going to make your problem go away (Probably about the same you paid for the bike)

As one biker to another.. my confidential words to you are. ....The mistake you made was to be caught....


Watch out for diesel spills.. and Gordon .

They're all sorry now

I'm sorry: Gordon Brown tells the Royal College of Nursing annual conference today that it was essential that MPs of all parties came together to 'clean up' politics and reform the allowances system

What a poser! And what a two-faced Scotch git he is!

"who's sorry now? / I have a feeling somehow" (with appologies to my mother, her favourite drinking song)

David Cameron on his new (borrowed) bike yesterday - leading to workmen asking if he put it on expenses

His face is paying the price of politics

Don't blame us! As expenses scandal rocks Westminster, the all-too predictable response from our rulers

MPs' expenses: Tricks of the trade

A bewildering array of methods used by ministers and MPs to play the system and maximise their taxpayer-funded expenses have been uncovered by a Daily Telegraph investigation.

Some of the ruses push the rules on parliamentary allowances to the absolute limit, while others appear to ride roughshod over both the spirit and the letter of the strict guidelines — bordering on fraud.

Many of the apparent abuses would have remained secret because crucial information is to be deleted from five years’ worth of expenses receipts before they are published by Parliament in July. But uncensored copies of some receipts, that have been leaked to The Daily Telegraph, leave no doubt that many greedy MPs regard expenses as a perk to be exploited to the limit.

The most widespread abuses relate to the Additional Costs Allowance, which exists to reimburse MPs for the cost of running a second home, either in their constituency or in London.

Dozens of MPs switch their “second” home from London to their constituency, and sometimes back again, to enable them to carry out extensive renovations or buy household goods for both properties.

Although parliamentary rules state that a second home should be the one where an MP spends the least time, officials in the department that signs off expenses appear powerless to prevent members arbitrarily nominating different addresses at different times. Because all addresses are to be censored when the expenses claims are published, there would have been no way of knowing that such apparent abuses were going on.

Several ministers who have moved into grace-and-favour apartments in London — and who had previously claimed on private London homes — have suddenly decided that their “second” home is in their constituency, so that virtually all of their housing costs are met by the taxpayer. They include Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling and Geoff Hoon.

Darling's four 'second homes'

Nicholas Cecil
08.05.09

Chancellor Alistair Darling changed his "second home" four times while claiming tens of thousands of pounds in housing expenses.

MPs can bill the taxpayer for just over £24,000 a year to fund a "second home". Mr Darling originally declared his main residence as a small flat in Lambeth which he shared with Labour MP Lewis Moonie - who was later ennobled and is now one of the peers under investigation over claims of being willing to accept payments to facilitate changes in legislation.

Mr Darling rented a room from Lord Moonie and was able to claim the second home allowance on his Edinburgh constituency family property. But, in September 2005, he told the Commons authorities that his Edinburgh house was his main home and used the second home allowance to meet the costs of a flat near the Oval cricket ground. These included £2,260 on stamp duty; £1,238 for legal fees; £2,074 for furniture, including a £768 bed from M&S and purchases totalling £765 from Ikea; and £2,339 on carpeting

Jack Straw’s council tax dodge ... and Two Loos Prescott

Nicholas Cecil
08.05.09

Jack Straw charged the taxpayer for double the amount of council tax that he was actually paying for four years.

MPs' expenses: Jack Straw's confused claim:'Sorry for that ... accountancy does not appear to be my strongest suit,' wrote Mr Straw.


John Prescott's lavatory seat repairs, mock Tudor beams and £4,800pa for food
Nicholas Cecil
08.05.09

JOHN Prescott claimed thousands of pounds a year for food and had his lavatory seat repaired twice by the taxpayer.

The former deputy prime minister, who has revealed that he suffers from bulimia, put in a food bill for two years at the maximum annual level of £4,800.

He also used public funds to have mock Tudor beams attached to his eight-bedroom, turreted constituency home in Hull.

He declared this property as his second home as he lived in a grace-and-favour residence in Admiralty House - where he conducted his affair with his diary secretary Tracey Temple.

Mr Prescott claimed £4,800 for food in 2004/05 and 2006/07.

He put in a food bill for £3,200 for each of 2005/06 and 2007/08, but the amount paid out in the earlier year was cut back by Parliament being dissolved for the general election.

In December 2004, a plumber charged £210.79 to "refix WC seat" and for repairs to pipework and taps. Another bill was for £22.50 to "replace linkage between siphon and handle to WC".

The MP for Hull East appears to have had another problem with a lavatory at the constituency home, where he lives with his wife Pauline, about two years later. He claimed £112.52 for a repair bill which included "refit WC seat".

Other bills include £6,772.27 for repairs such as replacing sash windows and £312 to "supply and fix mock Tudor boards to apex of front gable", £2,076.83 for redecorating, partly for a downstairs lavatory, £658 for drain repairs, £580 for a saffron-coloured carpet and £2,479 for rewiring an extension/office area.

The taxpayer also paid £1,187 for the exterior of his house to be repainted in 2004/05, and £609.92 for white goods including an LG washing machine.

As deputy prime minister, Mr Prescott also had the use of the Dorneywood country residence. He paid a "peppercorn" rent for a two-bedroom flat in Clapham, owned by the RMT union.

After losing his grace-and-favour residence in 2007/08, Mr Prescott changed his "second home" to a flat on Albert Embankment that he purchased with a mortgage of £667,737.

He subsequently claimed £19,225 in mortgage interest payments, an expense he had not been charging on his Hull property.

Mr Prescott said: "Every expense was entirely consistent within the rules of the House of Commons."



Unfortunately, he did forget to mention the expenses of his alternate sex life i.e. secretaries looking for higher positions, being wined and dined at discreet, lavish hotels and cruises on the

Queen Mary where he was not only drunk and disorderly but chasing women when he was sober or slightly so.

Other times he could be found asleep and snoring in the lounge (first class)

Mandelson blasts press for smearing MPs with ‘stolen’ files

Joe Murphy, The Telegraph
08.05.09

Lord Mandelson today led senior Labour figures in blaming the press for “smearing” politicians.

The Business Secretary, whose career has been dogged by rows over his personal finances, claimed that revelations in the Daily Telegraph today “besmirched” parliamentarians by portraying innocent claims for necessary expenses as greed.

He said: “When you see something like this in a paper like the Telegraph you can react with sort of boiling anger at the attempt to smear or traduce half the Cabinet, and you should rail at what motivates a Tory-supporting paper to mount an operation like this.

“Or you take it more philosophically, you accept that this is what passes for modern journalism — you don't allow yourself to be diverted from it as a minister and you get on with your day job, and that's what I intend to do.”

Lord Mandelson claimed there was not a “scintilla of evidence” to show any Cabinet ministers had done anything wrong. He added: “They are besmirching politicians.”

Former home secretary Charles Clarke accused the newspaper of using “stolen information to attack and discredit Parliament”. However, freedom of information campaigners pointed out that many details would never have come to light had the Telegraph not obtained the unedited files.

Among the issues that would have been kept secret were the payments totalling £6,577 from Gordon Brown to his brother Andrew for a cleaner.

The leaked records show that Andrew Brown's name was to have been blacked out in the officially published version, concealing the financial relationship from the public.

Sir Stuart Bell, who sits on the House of Commons Commission, called the newspaper's revelations chequebook journalism. He said: “It undermines the very basis of our democracy and is against all the rules of fair play, and rewards thieves or leakers.”

He continued: “If this was received by unauthorised means, it is disgraceful that a national newspaper should stoop so low as to buy information which will be in the public domain in July.” The Telegraph refused to discuss its source but The Times recently confirmed that it was offered computer discs containing scanned receipts and full expenses records over five years for £300,000.

Several media organisations appear to have rejected the disc but it is likely to have been the source of the recent revelations about Jacqui Smith claiming for her husband's television viewing, which included adult movies.

Suspicions at Westminster are that an individual at an outside company employed by the Commons to process the receipts took the opportunity to make an illicit copy. Andrew Porter, the Telegraph's political editor, insisted: “There's an element to this that is most definitely in the public interest.”

He was backed by the Taxpayers Alliance pressure group which said the revelations were important and illuminating.

The Times account said the discs were being hawked by a City-based businessman. It added: “When he made clear that he was expecting money, The Times turned down the offer.”

The so-called Lord Mandelson has forgotten his property manipulations and other devious maneuvers. He is now whiter than white (we are aware this is not politically correct) the man is a crook, probably one of the top in the hierarchy and is naive enough to think that the beaten, ostracized remnants of the white English are going to forget by the pressure of existence under people such as him and his cohorts, for him to resort to criticizing The Telegraph for daring to speak the truth tells a lot about the philandering corrupt deviates in control of the country

MPs' expenses: Pay for my flat or I'm facing divorce, pleaded Andy Burnham

By Ian Drury and Tom Kelly,Daily Mail
Last updated at 1:50 AM on 09th May 2009

Andy Burnham spent eight months pleading with officials to be granted a disputed expenses claim for £16,500 spent buying and decorating a new London flat.

The Culture Secretary even joked in 2005 that he 'might be in line for a divorce' unless the Commons authorities paid him the money within a few days.

The Fees Office finally agreed to hand over the cash after rejecting the claim three times.

What a lovely couple (of crooks) ! I would be afraid to wake up next to her, as Tony Bair and the other idiot, Darling!

Cameron's ally Greg Barker rakes in £320,000 in two years

Ian Drury, Daily Mail
Last updated at 9:45 AM on 09th May 2009

One of David Cameron's most trusted allies was last night embroiled in the MPs' expenses scandal.
Greg Barker, Conservative climate change minister, made £320,000 in two years by exploiting his generous taxpayer-funded allowances.
The multi-millionaire, who made the money buying and selling a flat in one of London's most prestigious streets, is the first senior Tory to become caught up in the allowances scandal