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(2014) Labour and Green Party-Affiliated Facebook Group calls for UKIP Shop to be Burned Down
Hat tip: http://nopenothope.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/calls-to-burn-down-ukip-shop-by-members.html
A Facebook group run by a Green Parliamentary Candidate, a Welsh Scottish Nationalist and a Labour councillor has members who advocated burning down the UKIP shop in Merthyr Tydfil.
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| Elspeth Parris, Green Party ‘watermelon’ who is happy to associate her group with instigators of political violence and intimidation |
The group – Merthyr says NO to UKIP – was founded by Elspeth Parris, Green PPC for Merthyr Tydfil. Other admins were David Davies, a Labour councillor in Merthyr and Harriet Protheroe-Davis, a student activist who will apparently join any campaign so long as it features a red star.
Also members of the group are two other Labour councillors from Merthyr, Darren Roberts and Rhonda Braithwaite, a Plaid Cymru PPC, Freddy Greaves, and UNISON managers Dawn Bowden and Dan Beard.
The member we are interested in though is part time musician Malik Furreed. Furreed was so incensed by the operation of democracy that he called for volunteers to ‘fuck up’ the UKIP shop in Merthyr which was due to open a couple of days later.
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| Malik Furreed’s barely literate call to violence |
His friend Jake Morgan was quite enthusiastic about it, suggesting that they ‘burn whatever cunt goes in there as well’, an idea that Malik was quite happy with. Similar comments appeared on his Facebook page. Clearly someone has been in touch, as young Malik has deleted the comments. Luckily we have the screen grabs (right).
Had it been a UKIP supporter who’d said such things about a political opponent, UKIP would have expelled them and/or cut all links to them. No such scruples in ‘Merthyr says NO to UKIP’ though. Although the tweets and Facebook posts have been deleted, Malik remains a member. As do the Labour councillors, the Green PPC, the Welsh Scottish Nationalist and the Plaid PPC.
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| Perpetrators of the violent attack on the UKIP shop in Penarth |
That they would put up with such threatening behaviour is hardly surprising. On the 14th December, a group of youths – one of whom does not look dissimilar to Malik – attacked the UKIP shop in Penarth, a short distance away from Merthyr. On that occasion, a gang of 6 – 5 youths and one older man who stayed safely out of range of the CCTV cameras – urinated in the shop doorway and threw beer glasses and bottles at the shop frontage. This was just 4 days before Malik was appealing for volunteers to do the same to the UKIP shop in Merthyr Tydfil.
Such behaviour in this part of South Wales is hardly new, although it has stepped up a notch since UKIP finished a narrow second behind Labour in this year’s European Elections. In July last year, we reported how a UKIP candidate in Llansamlet was forced to withdraw after his wife’s UNISON rep at work warned her that if her husband stood as a UKIP candidate, her career would be at an end. It is not surprise then to see two UNISON reps as members of the ‘Merthyr says NO to UKIP’ group – UNISON’s regional manager Dawn Bowden and University of Wales UNISON secretary Dan Beard.
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| Protheroe-Davis and Merthyr’s homeless with a rather confusing sign |
There’s plenty of other hate around in the group. David Davies, group admin and the Labour councillor for Town ward on Merthyr council is a Hope not Hate activist who ‘likes’ Socialist Worker, UAF and In Defence of Marxism among other hard left groups. Double-barrelled class warrior Harriet Protheroe-Davis, another admin, belongs to a veritable smorgasbord of radical, hard left groups including Radical Independence Campaign, the violent Scottish Nationalist group, although her only link to Scotland appears to be as a student at Edinburgh University.
To date, actions directed against the Merthyr shop have amounted to little more than a poorly thought out sign held briefly outside the door by Protheroe-Davis and a number of Merthyr’s homeless to judge by their appearance. Some speeches were made, and a lot of people who pretended to be local turned up ‘spontaneously’, although a significant number went to some lengths to show their affiliation with the hard left of the Socialist Workers Party by staying out of camera shot and covering their faces. A number of ‘Stand up to UKIP’ signs were also present: the campaign is a strange mish-mash of activists which receives funding from both the trade unions and big business through the ‘British Influence’ group, but is run by the SWP front UAF. As we have seen elsewhere in the country, how long will it be before they tire of their tactics of intimidation in the face of UKIPs continued rise and resort to the sort of violence advocated by Furreed and seen elsewhere in the country?
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(2014) New Labour’s Tax Evasion -AGAIN
Yet again the “party of the worker” doesn’t practice what it preaches. But then, what else should we expect from parasites? Here is New Labour’s last tax evasion: http://eotp.org/tag/tax-evasion/
A property company run by the Labour Party has paid no tax in eight years, despite earning millions of pounds in rental revenues, the Daily Telegraph can reveal.
Labour Party Properties Limited (LPPL), which owns a £6.3m portfolio of properties, has paid no corporation tax since 2003.
In those eight years the company has received a total of £8.7m in rents but declared losses of £279,000.
A Labour Party spokesman said the firm had done nothing to intentionally cut its tax bill.
Ed Miliband has repeatedly accused multi-national companies such as Starbucks and Google of failing to pay their full share of tax.
The latest accounts show LPPL, which is wholly owned by the Labour Party and whose directors include Iain McNicol, the Labour Party general secretary, received £1,189,000 in rent from 21 properties in 2011. Around forty per cent of the portfolio, worth £2.5m, is rented on the open market, while the other buildings are leased to local parties as offices and social clubs.
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NEW LABOUR PARTY: Police raid offices in parliament of Labour peer Lord Janner as part of inquiry in historic child sex abuse claims
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- Leicestershire police carry out search of office in Houses of Parliament
- It was part of an ongoing inquiry into non-recent child sexual abuse
- Greville Janner was a Leicestershire Labour MP from 1970 to 1997
The move came after police spent several days searching the 85-year-old politician’s home in Golders Green, north-west London, in December.
The widowed father of three, a Labour MP in Leicester from 1970 to 1997, has not been arrested in connection with the allegations and police have yet to send a full file of evidence to the CPS.
But preliminary papers have been served to prosecutors who are advising detectives on the progress of the investigation which started last year after a man came forward claiming he was abused as a teenager in the 1970s by Lord Janner.
The probe has been linked to pervert Frank Beck, who was found guilty of abusing more than 100 children in the 1970s and 1980s.
Beck, who ran three children’s homes in Leicestershire, was given five life sentences and died behind bars. Two hundred children complained they had been abused by him over 13 years to 1986.
In Beck’s 1991 trial, a 30-year-old man said he had been abused by Lord Janner, who was still an MP at the time, while he was in care aged 13. Lord Janner was not prosecuted and received cross-party support in the Commons when he said there was ‘not a shred of truth’ in the claims. Police rarely enter the Houses of Parliament because of the age-old principle of parliamentary privilege intended to guarantee politicians’ freedom of speech.
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Two Hull City Councillors See the Light and Reject the Labour Party By Becoming Independents
TWO city councillors have quit the ruling Labour group at the Guildhall.
Dean Kirk and Gill Kennett have formed their own Independent Labour group on the authority.
The move follows a decision by the Labour group to hand the pair indefinite suspensions for refusing to support its annual budget.
Councillor Kennett voted against the Labour group budget, while Councillor Kirk abstained.
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VIDEO: How the Lib-Lab-Con is Destroying Britain
A five-minute synopsis of the threat you and your family face from the criminal, corrupt and decadent regime that the fools keep voting for. (See first 6 minutes.):
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(2014) New Labour Leader Willie Smith -ANOTHER LABOUR PAEDO CAUGHT MAKING CHILD RAPE IMAGES
A Labour Party Leader for the Corby Council of England has been caught downloading images of children being raped by paedophiles on the internet. Willie Smith was arrested by police after his Child Pornography ‘Stash’ was discovered which was so large it took up the space of Two computers.
Parents in the Kingswood area of Corby are said to be horrified, One parent claimed that she had voted for Labour Councillor Willie Smith and was horrified that she had voted for a man who enjoyed watching and making images of children being sexualy abused by pedophiles.
Police applied for a search warrant for Willie Smith’s home address on the Lloyds Estate where many families live with children. Parents Against paedophiles (PAP) representative for Northampton Angela Clarke commented, ”This takes the Labour paedophile list to 45 now. We aim to push the issue with every school and nursery about Labour party paedophile activities (PIE) by more than Ten previous Labour school governors, to keep them off school councils, organisations and other governing bodies. We informed schools in One area, of paedophile boy scout leader and child rapist Timothy Edmeades upon his release, within Three months, he was arrested for filming boys under Ten years old in the same area as before.”
Hat tip: Labour25: http://labour25.com/2014/01/23/labour-leader-willie-smith-caught-making-child-rape-images/
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(2014) VIDEO: New Labour Mayor John Murray -ANOTHER NEW LABOUR PAEDOPHILE JAILED FOR RAPING A CHILD
Paedophilia is widespread in the Establishment: Judges, police, and especially politicians are involved. See here for evidence. Those who are courageous and honourable in defending our children are silenced by political persecution. One would think that whistleblowers would be celebrated instead of harassed and imprisoned without charge or trial. But no, not in this sick society headed by a criminal “elite” who are kept in power by fools and their votes.
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Video: Former Lord Mayor of Cork John Murray is jailed
A Labour lord mayor has been remanded in custody for sentence after a jury today convicted him of raping a child two years after he served as the city’s first citizen. John Murray (83) had pleaded not guilty in Court to sexually assaulting the child at four locations in the city on various dates between March 1996 and October 1998. Following six hours of deliberations spread over two days, the jury of seven men and five women found John Murray, guilty of raping the child after hearing evidence from 17 witnesses. A longstanding member of the Labour Party, Murray was first elected to the City Council in the 1985 local elections and re-elected in 1991. Two years later he was elected Labour lord mayor. There were emotional scenes outside Court after the verdicts as the complainant and her parents and other family members hugged each other before thanking the investigating police for all they had done. The woman told the court that the reason she didn’t come forward until adulthood was that she was afraid that she wouldn’t be believed. “He intimidated me – he was a very high profile man, he had been the Labour lord mayor.”
Hat tip: http://labour25.com/2014/02/20/the-chain-the-mayor-forged/
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ARTICLE: Ex-Top Cop Calls on CURRENT Labour Party Paedophile Monsters to Apologise
Are you the fool still going to vote for these monsters? Think it is only the Labour Party? Wrong. Paedophilia is widespread in the whole System –Tory, Labour, Lib-Dem. EVIDENCE: http://eotp.org/tag/paedophilia/Do not encourage the Enemies of the People. Withhold your vote at the next election.They are laughing at YOU and YOUR family and are a danger to YOUR children.
- The left-wing human rights organisation built extraordinary links with the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange
- The trio refuse to comment on the NCCL’s activities or apologise for them
- Mike Hames, former head of Scotland Yard’s Paedophile Squad, said they made a huge mistake
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Article: Vote Labour -Get a Paedo for a Neighbour
Why now? Why after all this time –after patriots, nationalists, and the alternative media have been exposing this for years– does the Daily Mail suddenly cover the outrage?
Enemies of the People posted this story over 4 (FOUR) years ago: (2009) LABOUR FIGURES’ BIZARRE LINK TO PAEDOPHILE GROUPS:
Will there be a public enquiry or a national cover-up? Will Harriet Harperson and her husband, Jack Dromey, be resigning as an M.P.s in disgrace?
How three of the party’s most senior figures campaigned for a vile paedophile group now being probed by police for ‘abusing children on an industrial scale’
- Documents found by Mail show link between Left-wing and paedophiles
- Harriet Harman, Jack Dromey and Patricia Hewitt held senior positions at National Council for Civil Liberties before rising to top of the Labour party
- The NCCL was an ‘affiliate’ of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), whose members may have abused children on an ‘industrial scale’
- Paperwork reveals NCCL helped lobby Parliament for the age of sexual consent to be cut to as low as ten and called for incest to be legalised
ABOVE: “We’re all in this together.”
Appearing in the pages of a Left-wing magazine called Rights, it was, by any account, an extraordinary letter.
Written by one Mike Morten, who lived in London and described himself as ‘both a paedophile and gay’, the letter complained that laws forbidding him from having sex with children ‘interfere with my life and civil liberties’.
‘Consensual sex between adults and children is simply people of different age groups being nice to each other,’ it argued.
Morten then criticised recent newspaper articles which had described perpetrators of child sex offences as ‘molesters’.
‘This is a loaded and pejorative term,’ he declared. ‘It’s a totally inaccurate description of us, and a put-down, in much the same way that “pansy” is a put-down of gays and “n*****” a put-down of blacks.’
The letter was dated October 1982, and today his words seem so bizarre, so appalling, that a casual reader could be forgiven for wondering if they are a grotesque spoof.
No magazine, of any political persuasion, would dare to carry material that attempted to portray paedophiles as some sort of oppressed minority.
Neither would the oxygen of publicity be given to a self-confessed sexual predator who, like Morten, wanted to convince readers that small children might somehow ‘enjoy’ being abused by adults.
The publisher of a printed title which advanced such morally repugnant views, apparently in the name of political correctness, would surely be committing career suicide.
Yet Rights was no knockabout spoof. And the people behind its publication certainly didn’t sink without trace.
Quite the reverse, in fact.
The now dog-eared 1982 magazine, which I have unearthed in archives, was the quarterly journal of the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), the well-known lobby group which is now called Liberty.
Known as a radical campaigning organisation, the NCCL was that year being run by three tub-thumping young Left-wingers who would rise to extremely senior positions in the Labour Party.
One was Patricia Hewitt, who as general secretary of the NCCL from 1974 to 1983 was at the helm of the organisation. She went on to become Tony Blair’s Health Secretary, and nowadays has a lucrative seat as a non-executive director on the board of BT earning £160,000 a year for a part-time job.
Another was Harriet Harman, the current Labour Deputy Leader. She served as its legal officer from 1978 until October 28, 1982, when she won a by-election and entered Parliament as the MP for Camberwell and Peckham.
A third was Jack Dromey, Harman’s husband, who sat on the NCCL’s executive committee for more than a decade.
Please read on for much, much more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2562555/Labours-child-sex-apologists-How-three-partys-senior-figures-campaigned-vile-
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(1950-1966) Then-Labour Cllr. Cyril Smith -HOMOSEXUAL PAEDOPHILE
Homosexual Paedophile Cyril Smith molested and tortured children during his 16 years as a school teacher and Labour Councillor.
Although we have heard Constantly by the Labour affiliated media that Cyril Smith was aligned to the liberal Democrats, hidden evidence has shown his dirty deeds attacking boarding school children go way back into the 1960′s.
One of the Seven children who were attacked at the ‘Cambridge Boys Hostel’ which was funded by Freemasons, said that Cyril Smith who was employed by the hostel, pulled him into a secluded 
room and told the child he was to be punished. The child was made to pull down his pants and was made to bend over Cyril Smith’s knee while he had his bottom spanked and fondled. Another child was subjected to the homosexual paedophile’s torture because he had taken money from another boy. Labour councillor Cyril Smith made the second child remove his pants so he could fondle and squeeze the boys testicles.
Labour Councillor Cyril Smith attacked and raped at least 7 male children while at the Cambridge Boys Hostel. Cyril Smith was the local Labour councillor from 1950 to 1966. The Cambridge Boys Hostel was closed down in 1965.
Hat tip: http://labour25.com/2013/03/21/a-glutton-for-boys/
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(2013) New Labour Mayor Graham Pearson – arrested for possessing child rape photographs
A Labour Party mayor and primary school teacher has been arrested for possessing child rape photographs.
Graham Pearson, 54, was arrested at his Cherry Crescent home in Balladen, Rawtenstall, for having a stash of violent rape photographs of very young children.
He was bailed to return to Rawtenstall police station while officers considered whether charges should be brought against him.
But Mr Pearson, who is a Labour party council leader, was formally cautioned when he attended one of his council appointments.
A Lancashire Police spokesman said: “Lancashire Constabulary have given an adult caution to a 54-year-old man from the Rossendale area for possession of indecent photographs of children.
“We arrested Mr Pearson at his home address.”
When asked about the caution, Mr Pearson said: “I have no comment to make.”
Mr Pearson went missing from his home, and police issued an appeal for his return. His silver Chevrolet car was also said to be missing. But he was later discovered hiding in the Cumbria area.
He was a Hareholme ward councillor and also served as Mayor of Rossendale.
Hat tip: http://labour25.com/2013/01/16/mayor-on-the-run/
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VIDEO: Labour’s Cyril Smith -PAEDOPHILIA BEFORE HIS TIME IN THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS WITH THE FULL BACKING OF THE ESTABLISHMENT
In the video Chris Marshall, one of many victims of Cyril Smith, makes the following uncomfortable points and asks some serious questions of the Establishment that is directly involved with your children.
…people knew about what he was doing, people that worked close to him. Why didn’t they come forward…why didn’t they open their mouths? They knew what he was doing. They were quite happy to go and watch him get knighted; they were quite happy for him to be an MP, a mayor or something… People knew what he was doing; why didn’t anyone say anything.
The answer is obvious and simple: because the Establishment is riddled with paedophiles, degenerates, criminals, traitors… who look after each other and who are a direct threat to you and your family.
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2013 New Labour Lord Janner -HIS HOME RAIDED BY POLICE REGARDING SEX ABUSE
- Officers raided the home of Lord Greville Janner of Braunstone, Leicester
- Leicestershire Police spent two days searching his flat in Barnet
- The force refused to comment on what was seized at the property
- Spokesman said no arrests have been made in connection with the raid
- Neighbour describes seeing police ‘coming and going’ for days
- Lawyers for the peer say he is helping police with their inquiries
Police officers have raided the London home of Labour Lord Greville Janner, as part of an ‘on-going criminal investigation’ in to historic sex abuse allegations, it has emerged.
Officers from Leicestershire Police spent two days searching the peer’s £600,000 apartment in Barnet, north London.
The force refused to give details of what was seized at the 85-year-old’s home but confirmed it is part of an on-going probe.
It is understood the investigation is into allegations of historic sex abuse.
A police spokesman said: ‘Leicestershire Police can confirm its officers executed a search warrant of a property in Barnet, London as part of an ongoing criminal inquiry.
‘No arrests have been made at this stage.’
The former barrister was named Baron Janner of Braunstone, Leicester in 1997.
The peer’s lawyers WilmerHale said in a statement, that Lord Janner is helping police officers with their inquiries.
The statement said: ‘Lord Janner has not been arrested but has been assisting the police with their inquiries. We are not able to make any further comment at this time.’
Builders working on a renovation next door to Janner’s home saw a number of police cars and officers at the address on Monday and Tuesday.
One said: ‘There were loads of police cars here on Monday and Tuesday. They were coming and going all day.
‘I don’t know what happened, but they’ve been back quite often ever since.
‘I think the old man that lived there was arrested, but I’m not sure.
‘They were here on Tuesday and came back on Wednesday.’
The huge white-fronted property in posh West Hampstead contains six luxury flats.
Janner was at home on Thursday afternoon but refused to answer the door.
A young man, who identified himself as ‘Jameson’, claimed he was the Lord’s personal spiritual healer.
He said: ‘The Lord won’t come to the door. He is exhausted with all the stress of dealing with the police.
‘He’s old and needs his rest. I don’t want to say any more.’
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(2013) New Labour Cllr. Balbir Sandhu -POLICE RAID HIS PREMISES LOOKING FOR ILLEGALS
BORDER police raided a clothing factory owned by a leading city politician yesterday, leading to the arrest of five illegal immigrants.
The officers were acting on a tip-off when they targeted the A Star clothing factory belonging to Normanton ward councillor Balbir Sandhu.
All 40 staff were questioned while the UK Border Agency officers checked their immigration status with fingerprint scanners.
Labour councillor Mr Sandhu said he was “shocked” when the officers burst into his factory in Stanhope Street at about 10.30am.
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ARTICLE AND AUDIO: The Revd Paul Flowers ticked all the right ‘progressive’ boxes — that’s why he could get away with anything
Sustainability. Tick! Inclusivity. Tick! Fairtrade. Tick! All that mattered to Labour was the Crystal Methodist’s show of liberal piety.
Yet again, one particular question has formed on lips up and down the land. How in heaven’s name could so many people have failed to spot such a spectacular abuse of a public position?
We heard it first in the Jimmy Savile scandal, when the posthumous discovery of half a century of predation left people incredulous that so many had known about but done nothing to stop his serial depravities. Now a similar question needs to be asked about the Revd Paul Flowers, the disgraced Methodist minister and former chairman of the Co-op Bank who was filmed apparently handing over £300 to buy a stash of cocaine and crystal meth and also boasted of using ketamine, cannabis and a club drug, GHB.
The real scandal, though, is not just that he was a staggeringly incompetent bank chief who knew next to nothing about banking and presided over a bank that somehow fell into a £1.5 billion black hole. It is not even his predilection for cocaine, crystal meth and the occasional ‘two-day, drug-fuelled gay orgy’ (to use his words). The scandal is that no one spotted that he was spectacularly unsuited to the jobs he was given — or if they did, they chose to do nothing about it. Yet again, a public figure with his ethics pinned to his sleeve somehow existed beyond proper scrutiny.
In the frame alongside the deeply un-fragrant Flowers are various institutions which now have questions to answer. The Co-op Bank, which elected him chairman. The Labour party, which banked his donations. Ed Miliband, who dined with him and appointed him to Labour’s financial and industrial advisory board. And the Methodist Church, which appointed him a ‘superintendent’ minister and designated him a trustee for its investment funds and property — even though he had next to no expertise in business.
Oh — and he has also been a member of the Advertising Standards Authority, vice-chairman of the National Association of Citizens’ Advice Bureaux and chairman of Manchester Camerata, the city’s chamber orchestra, not to mention chairman of the drug abuse charity Lifeline and the Terrence Higgins Trust. He is an icon of our time.
So how come none of these bodies ever spotted his spectacular unsuitability to be a member of the Great and the Good?
His striking unfitness to advise anyone on economic matters was demonstrated at the Treasury select committee earlier this month. Asked to state the Co-op Bank’s total assets, he guessed £3 billion; it was actually £47 billion. His performance may well have caused onlookers to scratch their heads and ask themselves: just what exotic substances is he on?
Read on and listen to the audio: http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9082571/an-icon-of-our-time/
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(2013) New Labour Cllr. Josie Channer -STEPS DOWN IN DISGRACE OVER £2,000 PARKING FINES
LABOUR’S parliamentary candidate for the seat of Kingswood has stepped down over parking fines, the BBC reports.
Josie Channer owes more than £2,000 in parking and late payment fees to the Borough of Barking and Dagenham, where she also sits as a councillor.
She also chairs the local authority committee which scrutinises parking.
Read on: http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Labour-parliamentary-candidate-Kingswood-steps/story-19887684-detail/story.html
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(2013) New Labour Cllr. Jahangir Akhtar -STEPS DOWN OVER CLAIMS
Deputy leader of Rotherham Council Coun Jahangir Akhtar stepped down last night amid claims the authority failed to protect four women as children from sexual abuse by ‘predatory men’.
In a statement yesterday evening the borough council said: “The council can confirm Coun Jahangir Akhtar has stepped down from his role as Deputy Leader of Rotherham Council, and as Vice Chair of the Police and Crime Panel.
“The council has referred allegations made in a national newspaper relating to Coun Akhtar to South Yorkshire Police, to consider if any criminal offence has been committed and to undertake any appropriate criminal investigation.”
Mr Akhtar said his resignation was ‘temporary’.
“I am standing down temporarily as Deputy Leader of the council and as Vice-Chairman of the Police and Crime Panel as a matter of courtesy to those agencies to resolve any enquiry as quickly as possible,” he said.
Four women have said they may take legal action against Rotherham Council – on the same day a national newspaper printed allegations a 14-year-old girl was allowed extensive contact with a violent adult offender suspected of grooming young girls for sex while she was in the care of Rotherham social services.
The offender is a relative of 52-year-old Mr Akhtar.
South Yorkshire solicitors Switalskis said a number of women had instructed its lawyers to sue Rotherham Council for ‘systemic failures to protect them from sexual abuse by predatory men when they were children’.
South Yorkshire Police said the force would not be commenting on the allegations in the national press which were the subject of an ‘active investigation’.
South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Shaun Wright said: “The allegations made about the way in which various agencies failed to adequately combat child sexual exploitation and protect vulnerable victims 14 years ago concern me deeply.
“The approach taken today is vastly improved and my determination is to ensure the approach now being taken in responding to allegations of such crimes is consummately professional. I will be seeking assurances that all allegations are thoroughly investigated, victims fully supported, and this process underpinned by the most robust and thorough processes.”
Read on: http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/local/rotherham-councillor-steps-down-as-deputy-1-5983790
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(2013) New Labour Party: GUILTY OF TAX EVASION
Watch the videos: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10102190/Donor-John-Millss-gift-to-Labour-avoided-tax-bill-of-1.5m.html
Tax evasion is a crime that if committed by me or you would result in imprisonment for several years. But there are two laws in the country: one law for us –the mere mortals, the innocent funding our enemies– and one for them –the “elite”, the Enemies of the People, those who live in luxury due to the exploitation of the People. In light of this reality, why give your permission to this criminal, corrupt system by voting for it? It is illegitimate –do not afford it any notion of legitimacy by giving it your vote.
The Labour Party has helped its biggest financial backer avoid tax worth up to £1.5 million on its largest donation so far this year.
John Mills gave the party shares in his shopping channel company, JML, valued at £1.65 million in January. In an interview with The Telegraph, Mr Mills said that the donation was made in shares rather than cash so the tax on the deal would be significantly reduced.
Describing the donation as “tax efficient”, he said the form of the donation was agreed with figures in Labour’s fund-raising team.
Mr Mills said that if he had given £1.65 million from his own income he would have had to pay nearly half of that sum to the taxman.
Asked why he made the donations in shares, Mr Mills said: “To be honest with you, it is the most tax efficient way of doing this.
“Because, otherwise, you get no tax relief on donations to political parties for understandable reasons.
“If you donate to a political party out of a tax paid income, up until April it was 50 per cent and now it is 45 [per cent].
“That means if it is £100,000, the Labour party gets £55,000 and the Government gets £45,000.”
Labour donor John Mills (JULIAN SIMMONDS)
Mr Mills, a former councillor in Camden, suggested that the idea of donating in shares came following discussions with the Labour Party.
He said: “It emerged … came out of a discussion I had with them about the best way of doing it.
“It is quite a good model [of donating]. Labour has got people who deal with compliance and the legal side of all this. They are very sensitive nowadays.”
Mr Mills’s donation, the biggest from an individual so far this year, is the only gift to a major political party to have been made in shares. Accountants said Mr Mills is likely to have avoided up to £1.5 million in tax on the value of the stock he gave to the party.
The news will embarrass Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, who has repeatedly criticised tax avoidance. He said only last month that it was “wrong” that Google had gone “to extraordinary lengths to avoid paying its taxes”.
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Article: Paedophile ring link to No10 to be investigated
Not forgetting our extensive documentation of paedophilia within the SYSTEM, not just Number 10…
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Scotland Yard has launched an investigation into historic claims of child abuse after an MP alleged a “senior aide of a former prime minister” had links to a member of a paedophile ring.
The Metropolitan Police announced last night that an inquiry, called Operation Fernbridge, was under way into allegations of child abuse in the early 1980s at a guesthouse in Barnes, London.
This follows claims in October last year from Tom Watson MP, who said that a file of evidence used to convict a man, Peter Righton, of importing child pornography in 1992 contained “clear intelligence” of a sex abuse gang.
Speaking at Westminster, he alleged a member of the group had bragged about links with a senior aide to a former PM.
Raising the issue during Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr Watson said: “The evidence file used to convict paedophile Peter Righton, if it still exists, contains clear intelligence of a widespread paedophile ring.
“One of its members boasts of his links to a senior aide of a former prime minister.
“The leads were not followed up, but if the file still exists. I want to ensure that the Metropolitan Police secure the evidence, re-examine it and investigate clear intelligence suggesting a powerful paedophile network linked to parliament and Number 10.”
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(2013) New Labour Ministers esp. Jack Straw -FACILITATED TORTURE
Abdel Hakim Belhadj was put on a CIA “rendition” flight to Tripoli, where he says he was repeatedly tortured, after British intelligence officers provided information on his movements.
Mr Belhadj, who is now a leader of the rebel forces that have ousted Gaddafi, has demanded an apology from Britain for its part in the “illegal” 2004 operation and has suggested he might sue the Government.
Jack Straw, the foreign secretary at the time, denied any knowledge of the incident, and tried to shift the blame on to MI6 saying: “No foreign secretary can know all the details of what its intelligence agencies are doing.”
But Whitehall sources responded by saying the involvement of MI6 in tipping off the Libyans had “ministerial approval”.
David Cameron said the “significant accusations” would be investigated as part of the inquiry into the alleged torture of detainees, which is being carried out by Sir Peter Gibson, a retired judge. The Prime Minister also acknowledged concerns that the British and Libyan security services had become “too close” and suggested Tony Blair was too “credulous” with regards to the Gaddafi regime.
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(2013) The New Labour Party –helps its donators avoid paying tax/kicks the people in the teeth
New Labour -the “party of the workers, of the people”? In avoiding paying tax, which everyone (the people) have to pay, then clearly not they are not. Those who still slavishly cling to the misty-eyed notion that this party, this one head of the tri-partite hydra, serve their interests are nothing more than misinformed fools.
The Lib-Lab-Con machine serves the interests of no one but its financial backers and controllers.
Britain’s Labour party has helped one of its financial supporters, avoiding tax worth up to £1.65 million.
The party’s biggest donor, John Mills, admitted the donation was given in the form of shares in January in attempts to reduce the amount of tax he would have to pay.
If he had given £1.65?million from his own income he would have had to pay almost half of that sum to the taxman, Mills told the Daily Telegraph.
This comes as the donation in the form of shares would increase the income to the Labour party and reduce the amount of money given to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
Mills, a former councillor in Camden, said that the idea of donating in shares came following discussions with the Labour, adding that the decision “came out of a discussion” he had with them “about the best way of doing it”.
In a letter to Labour leader Ed Miliband, British Chancellor George Osborne said the move appeared “directly at odds” with Miliband’s previous remarks about tax paid by giant corporations.
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(2011) New Labour’s Tony Blair -fined £500 for indecent conduct with a male in public toilets
This information is scattered all over the internet. War criminal Tony Blair has thus far not denied it.
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (Tony Blair, former PM of the UK)
He was charged and appeared in court at Bow Street magistrates court for importunity in a public toilet with another male. He tried to get sexual favour from the other man, little did he know that the toilet was being watched by police. Blair was fined £500, and walked away with nobody knowing who he really was as he used his middle names to cover who he was. Charles Lynton is the name used, and his friends in court got him off with a fine, because he is one of them.
http://operationorethegambleconnection.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/anthony-charles-lynton-blairtony.html
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(2013) New Labour Cllr. Eleanor Jackson –ANTI-ENGLISH Traitor
New Labour Cllr. Eleanor Jackson –Traitor
Don’t like and English flag flying in England? Then leave. We don’t need any more traitors.
Contrary to popular belief, the Crusades were not a campaign to spread faith by the sword, but a defense of Catholics and their holy places against Muslim aggression as well as an answer to a desperate plea from the Orthodox Church. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLVXRrzm0kc
The flag of St George will not be flying over Radstock any time soon after town councillors decided it was inappropriate.
The town council decided not to buy a St George’s flag after a discussion about repairs to the civic flagpole to ensure a Union Flag could be flown on Armistice Day.
Among the concerns expressed were the offence that could be taken by Muslims.
Councillor Eleanor Jackson (Lab, Radstock), a university lecturer and teacher, said its use during the Crusades of the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries could mean the English national flag could be seen by some as offensive.
She added: “My big problem is that it is offensive to some Muslims but even more so that it has been hijacked by the far right. My thoughts are we ought to drop it for 20 years.”
She suggested the Union flag was a more inclusive and suitable way of displaying national pride.
The council will also be flying the In Bloom flag at the Miners’ Memorial Garden to celebrate the town’s achievements in the gardening competition and the rainbow flag, the symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender pride movement, at “appropriate” times of the year.
There are also plans for a flag to be designed specially for Radstock.
Town council chairwoman councillor Lesley Mansell said the main reasons for not buying the flag were practical ones: “We do not have a Union Jack and the discussion was mainly about purchasing one to fly mainly for Armistice Day.
“The list we saw at council included a number of other flags which councils are allowed to display which includes those for the patron saints for England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
“The council confirmed its original decision to purchase a Union Jack, to fly the In Bloom one and the rainbow flag at appropriate times. We are working on a new logo and when that is sorted we hope to have our own flag for Radstock.”
John Clements, vice-president of national patriotic group the Royal Society of St George, branded the decision “nonsense” and said “censoring” of the national flag played into the hands of the far right.
A spokeswoman for the Muslim Council of Britain, said it encouraged the flying of the St George’s flag.
She said: “St George needs to take his rightful place as a national symbol of inclusivity rather than a symbol of hatred. St George actually lived before the birth of Islam and should not be associated with any hatred of Muslims.”
In a further statement, the town council said reports that it had “banned” the flag were wide of the mark.
“Radstock Town Council is sorry about reports in the media and wishes to clarify that at no point has a decision been taken to lower the St George’s flag. At our April meeting, the council was informed that it does not have a Union Jack and a vote was taken and agreed by all to purchase one.
“The council did not vote to ban the St George’s flag nor any other flag.
“The decision taken was made in line with the resources and staffing that we have as a small town council.
“The mechanism on the flagpole is currently broken and we are seeking to have this repaired as soon as possible. The council is proud to fly the Union Jack as part of our heritage.”
Read more: http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Radstock-St-George-s-flag-dumped-avoid-offending/story-19003959-
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(2012) New Labour M.P. John Cruddas -BANNED FROM DRIVING AND FINED £300 FOR HAVING NO M.O.T. OR INSURANCE
A senior Labour MP has been banned from driving for eight weeks after police stopped his car and found he had no insurance and an expired MOT certificate.
Jon Cruddas, 50, was driving a Land Rover Freelander near Hyde Park in central London on July 6 when he was pulled over by officers who noticed what appeared to be a defective brake light.
The MP for Dagenham and Rainham, who is chairing Labour’s policy review, was banned from driving for eight weeks for not having any insurance and fined £300 for an expired MOT.
Dressed in a dark suit and red tie, sheepish-looking Cruddas pleaded guilty to both charge when he appeared in the dock at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday.
Daniel Irving, prosecuting, said: “At 9am on July 6, police saw a grey Land Rover Freelander with a brake light that wasn’t aligned.
“Checks revealed a test certificate had expired in June and no insurance was held. Land Rover had sent a letter saying the insurance expired some ten days before the event.
“When he was pulled over, he said ‘sorry I don’t have insurance'”.
The court heard that Cruddas already had six points on his license for speeding, so a further six points would have meant a compulsory driving ban.
Mark McDonald, mitigating for the MP, said Cruddas put paying for everything on a “to-do” list, but simply forgot about it.
He added: “He thought he had two weeks to pay and simply didn’t read the letter properly. He wrongly assumed and didn’t check and didn’t read the letter basically.
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ARTICLE: Newport market traders ban Labour councillors in parking protest
market traders parking protest
A group of traders in Newport have banned Labour council members from their businesses in protest over free parking being stopped.
Steve Reynolds, owner of Toy Army in Newport Market, launched the campaign after councillors voted against a motion which would have saved the city’s two-hour free parking.
Other businesses in the market have followed.
Newport Labour councillor Debbie Harvey said the move was “outrageous”.
Mr Reynolds said: “I had just had enough. It’s been one thing after another.
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Considering they’re crying out for trade, banning 30-odd councillors is ridiculous”
Councillor Debbie Harvey
“We’ve been asking the council for help and relief.”
The motion was brought by opposition leader Matthew Evans urging the council to reverse its decision to axe the scheme, which allows shoppers to park for free for the first two hours in all its city centre car parks.
The motion was defeated with 10 councillors voting for it, 32 against and one abstaining.
Other businesses who have joined the campaign include Sys Barbers, Turner’s Butchers, Mr Fruit, City Fashions, Kriminal records, Negative Zone comic store and Chillis sweet shop.
Mr Reynolds said: “We’re really struggling as it is here. Myself and other traders are round about 60 to 70% down on last Christmas already.
“There’s no draw to this town as it is and this is going to do more damage. People just aren’t going to pay.”‘Absolutely outrageous’
But Labour councillor Debbie Harvey, of Alway ward, said the current administration had been left with millions of pounds of debt by the previous Conservative-Liberal Democrat administration so cutbacks had to be made.
“I think it’s absolutely outrageous. Considering they’re crying out for trade, banning 30-odd councillors is ridiculous. This definitely isn’t the way to tackle it,” she said.
“If you ask people on the street if they would rather pay 33p an hour to park or for people to lose their jobs, I’m sure 99.9% would say they would rather pay.
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I proposed an alternative plan which is a voucher scheme, but it fell on deaf ears”
Councillor Chris Evans
“What they haven’t factored in is the five hours free parking between now and February.
“I feel for them but I feel for every business not just the market traders. There’s the whole of town as well but unfortunately with the debt we have got, it’s got to be tackled.
“In the current climate everyone has to tighten their belts.”
Councillor for Rogerstone Chris Evans said that he was the only Labour councillor not banned because he had abstained on the parking issue.
“The entire Labour group with the exception of myself voted to withdraw free parking. I proposed an alternative plan which is a voucher scheme, but it fell on deaf ears,” he said.
Mr Evans said the market is a council building and he had heard that some Labour councillors were disgruntled by the traders’ decision.
“But this is the consequence. The traders are at the end of their tether. They feel this potentially could be the last straw. This is make or break time for many businesses,” he said.
Ringland councillor Emma Corten told her followers on Twitter: “So I’ve just been told that as a Labour Councillor I’ve been banned from shopping in Newport Market. That’ll help, I’m sure.”
Read on: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-20810302
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(2012) STATE CRIME: New Labour-controlled Rotherham Council -SUPPORTS CHILD SNATCHING AND DISPLACEMENT OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN
YET AGAIN we see that tired old meaningless cliche (“racism”) wheeled out and employed this time to facilitate the trafficking of children. Clearly, New Labour-controlled Rotherham Council does not believe in democracy –in persons having an opinion other than the sanitised orthodoxy– and thus wishes to separate families in order to impose universal conformity to a totalitarian and effete belief system.
We’re all “racists” now.
ABOVE: Supporter of child snatching, Joyce Thacker, Rotherham Borough Council’s head of children’s services
A council has refused to back down over its decision to remove three children from their foster parents because their membership of the UK Independence Party meant that they supported “racist” policies.
The husband and wife, who have been fostering for nearly seven years, said they were made to feel like criminals when a social worker told them their views on immigration made them unsuitable carers.
The decision by Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council has provoked widespread criticism, with campaigners representing foster parents describing the decision as “ridiculous” and warning that it could deter other prospective foster parents from volunteering.
But Joyce Thacker, the council’s Director of Children and Young People’s Services, today said the three ethnic minority children had been placed with the couple as an emergency and the arrangement was never going to be long-term.
She told the BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “We always try to place children in a sensible cultural placement. These children are not UK children and we were not aware of the foster parents having strong political views.
“There are some strong views in the Ukip party and we have to think of the future of the children.”
“Also the fact of the matter is I have to look at the children’s cultural and ethnic needs. The children have been in care proceedings before and the judge had previously criticised us for not looking after the children’s cultural and ethnic needs, and we have had to really take that into consideration with the placement that they were in.”
Asked what the specific problem was with the couple being Ukip members, Mrs Thacker told the BBC: “We have to think about the clear statements on ending multi-culturalism for example.
“These children are from EU migrant backgrounds and Ukip has very clear statements on ending multiculturalism, not having that going forward, and I have to think about how sensitive I am being to those children.”
She added that there was no issue about the quality of care the couple provided and said she would co-operate with any investigation.
The Labour Party, which runs Rotherham, today tried to distance itself from the council’s decision.
Read on: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/9700321/Council-defends-taking-foster-children-away-from-UKIP-members.html
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(2012) New Labour Cllr. Paul Greenaway -DRINK DRIVER
A PORT Talbot councillor has been disqualified from driving after he was caught behind the wheel while under the influence of alcohol.
Labour councillor Paul Greenaway, 61, who represents the Baglan ward, has been disqualified from driving for 20 months.
He could now face disciplinary action by his party.
A Welsh Labour spokesman said they were aware of Greenaway’s court appearance and it was up to the Neath Port Talbot Labour Group to decide on any action.
“The Neath Port Talbot Labour Group will decide appropriate disciplinary action to take at their next meeting,” said the spokesman.
It is unknown when the next meeting is being held, and what disciplinary action, if any, Greenaway could face.
Greenaway appeared at Neath Magistrates’ Court on Thursday and pleaded guilty to the charge of drink-driving, which police confirmed happened on October 2 in Heol y Nant, Baglan.
He had a breath test reading of 80 micrograms in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35.
As well as imposing a driving ban, magistrates ordered Greenaway to pay a total of £470, which included fines, costs and a victim surcharge.
Greenaway, of Rowan Tree Avenue, was elected as a councillor for the ward of Baglan in May.
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(2012) New Labour Cllr. Imdad Hussain -SUSPENDED FOR TWO YEARS FOR FAILING TO DISCLOSE HIS BAN AS COMPANY DIRECTOR
Bradford Councillor Imdad Hussain has been suspended for two years by the Labour Party after it found he failed to disclose he had been banned as a company director.
An investigation by the party at a national level has concluded he breached party rules.
Coun Hussain will not now be allowed to stand as a Labour candidate when his seat on Bradford Council comes up for re-election in 2014. The 42-year-old councillor continues to sit as an independent in the Heaton ward.
Coun Hussain was disqualified as a company director for seven years after his company went into liquidation last year. Earlier this year he was suspended by the Labour Party while national party officials began an investigation into his business dealings.
Yesterday a Labour Party spokeman said: “Following a detailed investigation, a Labour Party panel has concluded that Mr Hussain did breach party rules by failing to disclose information about his business activities when he stood for selection to become a Labour candidate.
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(2012) New Labour Cllr. Abid Hussain -ARRESTED AFTER STREET BRAWL
A Bradford councillor has been arrested in connection with a street brawl in Keighley.
Councillor Abid Hussain (Lab, Keighley Central) was one of six men arrested over the weekend following the torching of a car in Devonshire Street where he lives and where a brawl broke out on August 8 this year.
The 53-year-old councillor, who is vice-president of the Keighley Muslim Association, was arrested on suspicion of violent disorder on August 8 then released on police bail.
Three other Keighley men aged 18, 19 and 34 were arrested in connection with same matter.
Two others, aged 27 and 30 were also arrested for alleged violent disorder on the same date, and also on suspicion of arson relating to the car fires which happened in the early hours of Saturday.
A BMW 5 series car was set on fire in Devonshire Street at 1am and three hours later a BMW X5 was ablaze in Malsis Road.
A West Yorkshire Police spokesman last night confirmed six Keighley men had been arrested in an ongoing investigation into the street violence and recent arson attacks on cars .
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(2012) New Labour Cllr. Chris Vobe (Son of Helen Jones M.P.) -SUSPENDED FOR COMPUTER HACKING
HE son of Warrington MP Helen Jones, Clr Chris Vobe, has been suspended by Labour party bosses.
Clr Vobe, who was elected in May, was informed of the decision on Tuesday.
He is now the second member of the town’s Labour councillors to be suspended by his own party after frontbencher Clr Hitesh Patel was suspended last month.
The Warrington Guardian understands the allegations surround the potential hacking of computer accounts.
A letter sent to Clr Vobe, seen by the Warrington Guardian, from Labour bosses says the decision was taken due to ‘serious allegations’ against him.
It reads: “It follows the receipt of serious allegations against you, which are now the subject of police inquiries.
“Subject to the outcome of police inquiries, the general secretary will appoint an officer to arrange conduct of the party’s own investigation into this matter.”
A spokesman for Labour North West said: “Chris Vobe has been suspended from the Labour Party while an investigation takes place.
Read on: http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/9976163.Clr_Chris_Vobe_suspended_by_Labour_party/
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(2012) New Labour M.P. (Malevolent Parasite) Denis MacShane -PARASITICAL RENT-SWAPPER
Let us remind ourselves of the definition of a parasite:
“PARASITE: (Chambers English Dictionary) A creature which obtains food and physical protection from a host which never benefits from its presence.”
The original expenses scandal cost dozens of corrupt MPs their jobs, the worst offenders ended up behind bars. Now the rent-swapping sleaze that John Bercow is trying to cover up has been blown wide open. This morning Guido is listing the most shameless rent-swappers…
The usual suspects kept cropping up when Guido started digging around last week. Top of the pile was surprise, surprise Denis MacShane, outed in the Times this weekend. In addition to his property back in Rotherham – remember he rented his garage to himself on expenses for £125,000 – MacShame owns a £700,000 house in Pimlico just a few minutes walk from Parliament, which he rents out under the IPSA rules and then claims £1,450-a-month expenses to rent another home in London. Making cash off the back of the taxpayers when he has no reason to exploit the IPSA loophole except to enrich himself…
When The Times confronted him he claimed he had stopped doing it – convenient. We have some further questions for him, when did he stop the fiddle? Why can’t MacShame live in his posh Pimlico pad right next to Westminster? Why does millionaire MacShane have to bill the taxpayer rent for a house he doesn’t need to rent?
Because he is taking us for a ride. Again…
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(2012) New Labour M.P. (Malevolent Parasite) Steals from the Taxpayer then Cowardly Cancels Her Surgery
“PARASITE: (Chambers English Dictionary) A creature which obtains food and physical protection from a host which never benefits from its presence.”
Rioradan is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group Evidence (para. 6)
After the Expenses Scandal of 2009 on would have thought that the People would have recognised their enemies and not again given their permission (vote) for said enemies to continue. But no –and so the people of Halifax of voted for this parasite, and the general public who voted for the tri-partite hydra, deserve everything they get.
How much more of this are YOU willing to take?
Halifax MP Linda Riordan is renting out her second home to a fellow Labour MP while claiming thousands in expenses to rent a third property herself.
Mrs Riordan is thought to getting £19,000 a year from the controversial practice.
It is technically permitted under MP guidelines but Mrs Riordan has come under fire from from critics.
She rents out her £400,000 London flat to MP Iain McKenzie.
Mr McKenzie pays her £1,560 a month in rent – £18,720 a year – which he claims back from the taxpayer.
At the same time, Mrs Riordan claims £1,473 a month – £17,676 a year – from the taxpayer for renting a seperate flat in London for herself.
She also has a home in Northowram which she has owned outright for more than 20 years.
Mrs Riordan was due to hold one of her regular surgeries at Halifax Town Hall this afternoon but it has been cancelled.
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(2012) New Labour M.P. Luciana Berger -CASH FOR QUESTIONS?
Luciana Berger is shocked that Guido would possibly see a link between her pushing for property development tax cuts in the Commons and taking money from property developers:
“It is clearly defamatory to suggest there is any link between the donation to my constituency party and my question in parliament. My question in the Commons was motivated by a constituent’s concern about the availability of private rented accommodation. It was completely unconnected to any donation to me or Liverpool Wavertree Constituency Party.”
The notion that it’s all hunky-dory because the donation was to her local party and not directly to her bank account is laughable. And note that she only mentions one donation – we raised two. Now, while we have your attention Luciana, perhaps you could explain another donation that has caught our eye…
According the Electoral Commission in April 2011, Berger’s Liverpool Wavertree CLP received £5,000 from a company called ‘Purple Apple Facilities Management’. According to Companies House, as of 31 March 2010 Purple Apple was “dormant” and it was later dissolved. HMRC say“dormant” is a term for “any company or organisation that is not active, trading or carrying on business activity”. Now the problem for Luciana lies in Section 54 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000. A company is only permissible as a donor if it is a company which “is carrying on business in the United Kingdom”. Purple Apple were not however carrying out any business in the UK. So why was Luciana’s team accepting donations from them?
Hat tip: http://order-order.com/2012/10/18/luciana-bergers-dodgy-dormant-donation/
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(2012) New Labour Cllr. Brian Gate -QUITS AFTER HIS ARREST FOR CHILD POROGRAPHY
The councillor in charge of the borough’s children has resigned after being arrested on suspicion of having indecent images of children.
Councillor Brian Gate, cabinet member for children, schools and families, was arrested at his Harrow home on September 24 by detectives from the Metropolitan Police and has been bailed until early November pending further enquiries, the Harrow Times can reveal.
Harrow Council will formally announce his resignation at tomorrow night’s cabinet meeting, but councillors and senior headteachers from across the borough have already been informed of his arrest.
Cllr Gate, who is married to Harrow on the Hill councillor Ann Gate, has been in his post as portfolio holder for children since May, but has been responsible for schools and families since Labour took control of the council after the 2010 General Election.
In a statement, the Met said: “We can confirm that a 57-year-old man was arrested on September 24 at a residential address in the Harrow area on suspicion of the possession of indecent images of children.
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(2012) New Labour Cllr. Matt Fry -SUSPENDED AMID INVESTIGATION FOR FRAUD
A LABOUR councillor has been suspended amid allegations of fraud.
Matt Fry, Stoke-on-Trent City Council member for Weston Coyney has been suspended from his post with immediate effect after a police investigation began.
The Sentinel understands the inquiry is focussing on Mr Fry’s handling of public money.
A spokesman for Staffordshire Police said: “We have received an allegation of fraud which we are currently investigating.
“No one has been arrested at this stage.”
Mr Fry, aged 31, who has sat on various council committees including the Staffordshire Fire Authority, was not available for comment last night.
The Stoke-on-Trent Labour Group refused to comment on the nature of the allegations, releasing a statement only to confirm Mr Fry had been suspended.
A spokesman for the group said: “We can confirm that Councillor Matt Fry has been suspended from holding office and representing the Labour Party at any level until the investigation is complete and the matter resolved.
“Suspension of a councillor is normal in these circumstances and it is not a comment on this investigation.”
The news has come as a surprise to colleagues and associates of Mr Fry, many of whom have praised his fund-raising for various good causes, including the Staffordshire Special Olympics.
Councillor Lee Wanger, who sat on the fire authority with Mr Fry, said he was surprised by the development.
The independent councillor said: “I don’t want to speculate about exactly what this could be about.
“He is a bit of a loner but a really nice bloke.
“He’s in an awkward position now where people are going to be asking questions and wondering. That’s going to be hard to live with.
“And if there’s anything I can help with then I will.”
Harry Pointon, an athletics coach who knew Mr Fry through their association with the Staffordshire Special Olympics, said: “He is full of enthusiasm and has done some great stuff as a fund-raiser.
“It wasn’t an official position but he did raise money.
“I believe councillors have money at their disposal to use.”
Sue Bourne, secretary of Weston Coyney Residents’ Association, said: “I have to say I have only met him once through my dealings with the residents’ association.
“I thought he was very young. He’s obviously inexperienced.
“He’s given the association some money from his grant.
“We got £300 which went towards setting up a fete.
“He was one of the members of the residents’ association but he didn’t come to meetings.
“I’ve communicated with him via email a bit more often.”
A spokesman for Stoke-on-Trent City Council said: “City council officers are aware of this issue.
“We understand there is an on-going police investigation and it is not appropriate for us to comment any further at this stage.”
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(2012) VIDEO: New Labour M.P. Jack Straw -FACING LEGAL ACTION OVER TORTURE
The lengthy rap sheet of Jack Straw and his family: http://eotp.org/?s=jack+straw&x=0&y=0
A Libyan military commander is taking legal action against Jack Straw, to find out if the ex-foreign secretary signed papers allowing his rendition.
Abdel Hakim Belhadj claims CIA agents took him from Thailand to Gaddafi-led Libya, via UK-controlled Diego Garcia.
His lawyers have served papers on Mr Straw after the Sunday Times reported claims that he allowed this to happen.
UK ministers have denied any complicity in rendition or torture and Mr Straw did not comment further.
He said he could not do so because of the ongoing police investigation into the UK’s alleged role in illegal rendition.
Earlier this month, the BBC revealed that the UK government had approved the rendition of Mr Belhadj and his wife – Fatima Bouchar – to Col Muammar Gaddafi’s regime, though it was unclear at what level.
On 15 April, the Sunday Times published an article, which quoted sources as alleging Mr Straw had personally authorised Mr Belhadj’s rendition to Libya.
On Tuesday, Mr Belhadj’s lawyers – Leigh Day & Co – served papers on Mr Straw, referencing the article and seeking his response to allegations that he was complicit in torture and misfeasance in public office.
The civil action is against Mr Straw personally – Mr Belhadj’s lawyers believe it is the first time legal action of this kind has been taken against a former foreign secretary.
Mr Belhadj and his wife allege Mr Straw was complicit in the “torture, inhuman and degrading treatment, batteries and assaults” which they say were perpetrated on them by Thai and US agents, as well as the Libyan authorities.
They are seeking damages from Mr Straw for the trauma involved.
Read on: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17746561
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‘Politicians keep British soldiers in Afghanistan as human shields for their reputations’ -SAYS PAUL FLYNN M.P.
Question of the day: Why don’t we see essential ground-breaking news like this from Western mainstream media? Why do we have to look to Russia to lift the lid on the crooks in office?
This interview MUST be viewed.
British MP Paul Flynn, who was suspended from the House of Commons for voicing his opposition to the war in Afghanistan, told RT there is absolutely no reason to keep UK soldiers in the warzone any longer, other than to save ministers’ reputations.
A British Labour Party politician, Flynn was recently suspended from the House of Commons after he accused ministers of lying over military policy in Afghanistan. Below is an extract from his speech:
“The role of our brave soldiers at the moment is to act as human shields for ministers’ reputations. The danger to our soldiers is being prolonged by those on that bench who have the power to stop it. Other countries have removed their soldiers from this dangerous area where they’re not doing what we are doing, which is arming and training our future enemy. Isn’t this very similar to the end of the First World War, when it was said the politicians lied and soldiers died and the reality was as it is now – that our brave soldier lions are being led by ministerial donkeys!”
Speaking with RT, Paul Flynn has said that politicians have been making the wrong decisions concerning the Afghan war for many years. What’s more, the current war has not changed things in Afghanistan. It even made them worse, while Britain has wasted lives and huge sums of money – and continues to do so.
RT: Paul Flynn, after that you were disciplined by the speaker and barred from parliament for five days. Presumably, you knew that would happen, but you thought it was worth it.
Paul Flynn: Oh, it’s very well worthwhile. It’s a very rare event and the result is being that my words have been seen almost all over the world. There’s been an extraordinary effect. And I believe this may well be a turning point in public opinion. I believe 80 per cent of public opinion would like to see [the] boys home by Christmas, and the government have their heads in the sands, and they are ignoring it.
RT: You’ve been a long-standing critic of the war in Afghanistan. So what brought on this specific outburst?
PF: This one was about the futility of the deaths in the last few days and the utter imbecile lying ministers who come before us and made idiotic excuses for continuing the war. There is only one reason why the war is continuing and that is to protect the reputations of politicians. Our soldiers are there as human shields for ministers’ reputations. What they are trying to do is to keep the war going on to the best moment that would reflect on the reputations of politicians.
Absolutely no reasons why we shouldn’t bring our troops home now. The only reason is that we are tied in with the politics of the United States. We are an independent state. We have to remind us of that. We can take our own decisions and what we are going to see in the future is deepening the trouble. There will be more slaughter. Because of this whole of these fictitious aims of the war we seem to collapse. And what’s happening now there is no possibility that we can train the Afghan people and army and their police that will fight their own people that will kill brother-Afghans, for what? For a corrupt election-rigging depraved president or to defend the interest of a foreign country? It can’t happen.
RT: You say that ministers are keeping soldiers in Afghanistan to protect their own reputation. But how does the death of more soldiers protect anyone’s reputation?
PF: The official attitude is we must protect our reputations against our previous mistakes and in the war so that history will judge the politicians made the right decisions. In fact, we’ve been making the wrong decisions for many years.
RT:You maintain that what Britain is doing is arming and training its future enemies. And I suppose there is a historical precedent for that.
PF: There is a very powerful precedent that the Americans trained and armed the Mujahideen. And the Mujahideen are the worst government that Afghanistan has had in a hundred years. And the Taliban were a great reforming improvement in a Mujahideen. But we’ve done this in the past and we are going to do it again. There is no way that a Taliban army or police are going to risk their lives, kill their brother-Afghans in the service of a foreign country when we’ve gone over the service of a corrupt president. They are going back to their tribal loyalties, the Uzbeks and the Pashtuns will be divided as they always have been divided. And the likelihood is that there will be disorder when we leave. We went there, civil war was going on, and the country was bitterly divided. After we’ve left, a few years, the situation will be very similar. There’ll be more civil war and the likely future rulers will be the Taliban.
RT:What lessons, then, should have been learnt from both Britain’s own colonial past and the Soviet Union’s experience in Afghanistan?
PF: In 2001 in Strasbourg a very ebullient member of the Duma tapped me on the back and said: “You British have gone into Afghanistan and you captured it in a few days. I’m saying that we Russians did that. And we were there for 10 years. We killed a million Afghans, we spent billions of rubles. And we lost 16,000 of our own soldiers. And when we came out, we left a puppet government there, but there were 300,000 Mujahideen in the hills who eventually took over.” And he said to me: “It will happen to you.” And he was absolutely precisely right.
We deluded ourselves. We told ourselves fairy stories about what was going to happen. But we could change things and we couldn’t. There was a benign cause that the Russians would have been taken up in Afghanistan of taking people at a bottom life, giving them a chance to improve materially. I mean, nothing really happened in the end. And we went in, we were going to get rid of the drugs trade, we were ending corruption, we were going to give women a better deal. And nothing has changed.
The corruption is exactly the same, possibly worse. Drugs’ trade is… 90 per cent of the drugs in Britain come from Afghanistan, Tony Blair told the House. 90 per cent! Twelve years later 90 per cent of the drugs still come from Afghanistan. There is a difference. There is more of them now and they are cheaper on the streets. And more people corrupted.
In 2001 Afghanistan was the second-worst place in the world for a woman to live. Now it’s the second-worst place in the world of a woman to live. But the objectives of the war were hopeless, were utopian. And we’ve wasted lives and huge sums of money and we’ll end up in two or three years’ time with a situation just as bad as the one that was there before we invaded.
RT: Let’s talk a bit about the logistics and message that pulling out now would send. What about the soldiers who are serving in Afghanistan at the moment, those, who’ve already served and the families of the soldiers who’ve died. Wouldn’t pulling out now send the message that everything they’ve done has been essentially for nothing?
PF: It’s certainly a tragedy that those families must go through this trauma, have realized that this was a war in which nothing has been achieved. But certainly they have to face that eventually. What would be immoral and cruel is to tell other people the same lies and that more lives should be lost. In order to comfort the bereaved or to comfort politicians that they made the right decisions, at the moment now there’s no conceivable reason why we shouldn’t start telling the truth to people and say that there isn’t this mythical threat of terrorism in Britain that we somehow are ending by being in Afghanistan. If we say to the Taliban “Why are you killing our soldiers?” would they say “When we’ve killed all your soldiers, we are coming over to Newport and to Cardiff and London and we’re going to blow up your streets?” They’ve got no interest in that.
The reason the Taliban are killing British soldiers is because we are the foreigners, we are the infidels. And we occupy, by force of arms, their country. It’s their sacred religious duty to kill us. If we are not there, they don’t kill us. It’s a fairly simple argument to understand.
RT:So what you are saying is that pulling out of Afghanistan right now wouldn’t affect the security situation in the rest of the world?
PF: No, not in the slightest. There are security threats. They come from Pakistan. They come from Yemen. They come from Somalia. They come from Bradford. We had an attack by Al-Qaeda that was from English people brought up in England.
RT: Is it not the better to have the US as friends rather than enemies? What kind of message would leaving now send to America which at the moment is supposedly a trusted friend and ally?
PF: We have a claim that we are an independent country and we spend billions on an independent nuclear weapon. We should be independent as far as Afghanistan is concerned. We’ve already seen countries that we greatly respect and admire assembling themselves pulling out of the conflict. Quite rightly, honorably they’ve given huge contributions in blood and treasure. We should take our own decision. We know that at least 80 per cent of the population is saying: “For Goodness sake, bring our boys home by Christmas!”
RT:Paul Flynn, thank you.
PF: My pleasure.
Hat tip: http://rt.com/news/war-afghanistan-flynn-opposition-740/
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(2012) New Labour’s Keith Vaz & Wife -POLICE TO INVESTIGATE THEIR ACCOUNTS
Keith Vaz’s wife, who works under her maiden name of Maria Fernandes, is the principal of the law firm Fernandes Vaz, which was established in 1995.
Despite the name, the practice has no connection to the home affairs committee chairman.
Ms Fernandes, 53, has specialised exclusively in immigration and nationality law for more than 20 years.
A former barrister, she began her career in immigration in 1986, working for the UK Immigration Advisory Service, before moving to the City where she spent eight years in corporate immigration law.
On her company’s website, she writes that she has “developed a particular following of restaurateurs with whom she has worked for several years to provide recognition of the shortage of skilled staff in this industry”.
Earlier this summer, Mr Vaz held a party at the Red Fort in Soho, which was attended by Tony Blair and Theresa May, the Home Secretary.
Mrs Vaz has previously advised a company in which the owner of the Red Fort is a shareholder.
She is now a part-time judge with the Mental Health Review Tribunal. The couple, who live in Stanmore, north London, have two children, Luke and Anjali.
In 2008, she accompanied Liam Byrne, the then immigration minister, on a trade trip to India. She serves on several panels established by the Home Office and Foreign Office.
She is linked to the Scotland Yard inquiry into Mr Vaz, as production orders were also sought for her bank accounts.
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(2012) New Labour Ex-Deputy Mayor of Peterborough John Johnson -“EXTREME” CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES
A former deputy mayor of Peterborough has appeared in court accused of downloading a large amount of “extreme” child pornography.
John Johnson (62), of Deerleap, Bretton, who was deputy mayor between 1999 and 2000 appeared at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
Johnson, who was a Labour councillor for North Bretton between May 1995 and January 2001, has been charged with making 714 indecent images of children.
He is accused of downloading six level-five images of a child, which is the most extreme level of pornography in legal classification terms.
Johnson, who made his name as a determined anti-hunt campaigner, is also accused of downloading 546 indecent images at level one, 15 at level two, 82 at level three and 65 at level four.
Dressed in a grey suit with a tie and wearing glasses, Johnson spoke only to confirm his name and details during the five-minute court hearing.
He listened intently as the charge against him was read out and did not enter a plea.
Prosecutor Giles Beaumont said: “This charge relates to some extreme level pornography. Some images involve adult males with various animals.”
Magistrate Michael Flanagan said: “I am going to decline jurisdiction in this instance.
“This case will be heard before a crown court.”
Johnson was released on unconditional bail to return to Peterborough Magistrates’ Court on November 6.
He gained publicity as a councillor in 1998 for taking part in pioneering “roving surgeries”.
Read on: http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/local/ex-deputy-mayor-in-court-on-porn-charge-1-4253975
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Expenses Scandal Mark 2? New Labour Parasites Margaret Hodge and John Cruddas Suck Even More from the Taxpayer
The MP for Barking defended her expenses claims today after figures showed they exceeded the average in the House of Commons.
Margaret Hodge spent £151,279, up from £128,646 last year, compared to around £137,000 on average in Westminster.
The Labour MP chairs the Commons public accounts committee, which scrutinises government expenditure.
She said: “We do need resources to support our work – my office receives more than 100 letters and emails a week from people who need my help.
“The vast majority of my money goes on employing the staff I need to provide a good service.
“MPs are funded by the taxpayer and we have a duty to use that money responsibly – particularly at a time when our constituents are having to be careful with every penny they spend.
“People should feel they get value for money out of us. I work as hard as possible to make sure that people in the borough feel they get value from the work I do.”
Figures published by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority yesterday showed the 650 MPs in Westminster had collectively claimed £89.4million or £137,538 per parliamentarian in 2011/12.
Meanwhile Jon Cruddas, the Labour MP Dagenham & Rainham, claimed £125,134 compared to about £104,370 last year.
Mr Cruddas said his claims had increased after moving from an office in Church Elm Lane, Dagenham, to a more prominent location in New Road.
He said: “People want to know where money goes. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has a good system.
“The expenses relate to running a large office in Dagenham, dealing with local residents’ concerns.
“We are based on New Road and rent is about £12,000 a year and the rest of the expenses cover postage, phones, stationary etc.”
Read on: http://www.bdpost.co.uk/news/mp_for_barking_claimed_more_than_commons_average_1_1509308
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New Labour Party Candidate Peter Thatchell -PAEDOPHILE?
Note: this picture is genuine and has not been “photoshopped”. The involvement in and support of the Pedophile Information Exchage (P.I.E.) by this danger to our children is evidenced here and here.
Ex Labour party MP candidate Peter Tatchell believes and preaches that “Not all Sex involving children is unwanted”.
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The REAL migrant scandal? Politicians still pretend we control our borders – when the truth is Brussels won’t let us
Yesterday, yet again, we saw headline news being made by a shocking tale of incompetence and mismanagement by the UK Border Agency, the body set up in 2008 to control immigration to this country.
The backlog of cases piled up in the agency’s labyrinthine system, we are told, amounts to 276,000, equivalent to the population of Newcastle. Most of the migrants are here illegally and should have been sent home years ago.
They include 150,000 foreign workers and students still in Britain even though they were refused extensions to their visas; 101,000 untraced ‘asylum seekers’ left over from when 450,000 ‘forgotten files’ were discovered in 2005; and 3,900 foreign offenders released by the courts to protect their human rights.
Shambles: The UK Border Agency was established in 2008 to control immigration to this country
Keith Vaz MP, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, calls the Border Agency ‘a Bermuda triangle’ for immigrants who find it easy enough to get into Britain from anywhere in the world, but then vanish off the radar because there is no way of tracing them, let alone deporting them because they entered illegally or have broken our laws.
Scandals surrounding our immigration policy are so commonplace that we all accept it is completely out of control.
MPs like Mr Vaz — whose committee is so exasperated it is now reporting on the Border Agency’s performance every three months — regularly jump up and down asking for something to be done.
But even though it is officially predicted that within eight years Britain’s population will have increased by another five million, nothing ever happens.
Keith Vaz has called the Border Agency ‘a Bermuda triangle’ for immigrants
Home Secretaries from Labour’s John Reid and Charles Clarke to the Coalition’s Theresa May have faced a torrent of criticism — to which they reply with limp bureaucratic statements, promising action.
But things just go from bad to worse.
Behind this dismal picture, however, lies a much bigger story and one we are simply not being told about. The reason why our immigration policy is in such a shambles is that we do not have any control over it.
The real explanation for almost everything we find so horrifying about this mess is that virtually every aspect of our policy is no longer decided here in Britain at all, but is dictated by a morass of international rules and, above all, by those emanating from the EU.
We are familiar with the fact that, since ten more countries joined the EU in 2004, including Poland and those of formerly Communist eastern Europe, we have had to admit anyone from the 28 countries of the EU, giving them the right to live and work here and to enjoy a wide range of benefits such as our NHS and schools.
But if you examine the section of the EU’s ‘Europa’ website headed ‘Free movement of persons, asylum and immigration’, you will see three pages of headings covering every conceivable aspect of immigration policy, from visa rules to our duties to asylum seekers.
As these headings make clear, the rules, many based on UN and other international agreements, cover not just the way we must treat EU citizens but how we deal with immigrants from the rest of the world.
The scandal of this is twofold. It is not just that successive governments have handed over to the EU the power to dictate every aspect of who we must admit to live and work in Britain, it is also the extent to which politicians such as Mrs May will not honestly and openly admit this.
Ministers and MPs continue to pretend that we at least have some control over immigration by what they slyly call ‘non-EU citizens’.
Benefits: Since ten more countries joined the European Union in 2004, we have had to admit anyone from the 28 countries of the EU – giving them the right to work and live
But the truth is that we have signed up to a vast system of international rules about how we must treat migrants, no matter where they come from — which mean that our politicians and officials, like those of the UK Border Agency, no longer have any choice but to obey them.
The reason why the Border Agency is faced with this horrifying backlog of cases involving immigrants, most of whom should no longer be here, is that in everything it does the agency tries to follow more zealously than any other country in Europe the procedures of the system we signed up to, a system so tortuously complex that it is unworkable.
And on top of this we have all the absurdities piled on us by the Human Rights Act, which enshrines the European Convention on Human Rights, into British law.
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New Labour Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson -TIPPED OFF FELLOW COUNCILOR THAT POLICE WERE ONTO HIM
Firstly, in emboldened text, the “Labour 25+” website poses some interesting and valid questions regarding Joe Anderson in this issue:
The link above confirms the truth… Joe Anderson is a Paedophile supporter… but who was it from King George V school that informed the Police, and who was the police officer who informed Joe Anderson? Who allowed a second trial without convicting Ben Williams? The smoke was there but the fire was well put out. If Ben Williams was ‘not guilty’ then why did Joe Anderson not give him his job back? Why did King George V school not give Ben Williams his old job back?
Joe ‘207’ Anderson should have been arrested immediately when this report came to the Labour25 website. He should be tried for obstructing the course of justice and his Mayoral title removed. The paedophile filth of the Labour Party continues but more and more are being hunted down including other paedophile supporters that supported muslim grooming gangs in Liverpool who were members of the state set up… UAF communist movement for the Labour Party.
Read on: http://labour25.com/2012/07/07/liverpools-labour-party-lord-mayor-joe-anderson-rooting-for-pie/
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A FORMER councillor accused of downloading child porn deleted hundreds of files off his computer the day after his party leader revealed he was under investigation.
One-time Clubmoor councillor Benjamin Williams, 35, admitted he had removed 207 files from his computer’s memory the day after speaking to Liverpool Labour leader Cllr Joe Anderson in December 2007.
He was arrested two days later on suspicion of making indecent images. But Williams, of Townsend Avenue, Norris Green, yesterday insisted he had deleted the files to simply make his computer work more quickly.
History and politics teacher Williams had originally fallen under suspicion in October 2006 after the IT manager at Southport’s King George V (KGV) college discovered he had been putting explicit terms such as “Lolita” and “child porn” into school computers.
During his second day of evidence yesterday, Williams confirmed Cllr Anderson had told him a section 47 enquiry was underway. A section 47 enquiry is a joint social services and police investigation into child protection issues.
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(2012) New Labour Cllr. Daniel Sutherland -SUSPENDED FOR ALLEGEDLY ASSAULTING A WOMAN
A Labour councillor has been suspended by his party after allegations that he assaulted a woman emerged last month.
Councillor Daniel Sutherland (Lab, Illingworth and Mixenden) appeared at Calderdale Magistrates Court on July 10 to face a charge of assault by beating against the woman.
The 23-year-old councillor, of Valley View, Halifax, spoke only to confirm his name, age and address during the initial hearing at Calderdale Magistrates Court.
He pleaded not guilty to the incident that is alleged to have taken place after a party on June 24.
The case was adjourned for a trial at Bradford Magistrates Court on November 1, 2012.
A Calderdale Labour spokesperson said: “As soon as these serious allegations against Daniel Sutherland came to light his membership was suspended by the Labour Party with immediate effect.
“As a trial is now pending it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.”
Councillor Sutherland represents Illingworth and Mixenden ward and chairs the council’s planning committee.
He is also a member of the council’s governance and business committee and the social care for children review group.
Councillor Sutherland has played rugby for Ovenden Rugby League Football Club for six years.
He is a member of the management board at Illingworth Centre Committee, Mixenden Parent’s Committee and the North Halifax Partnership.
His mother, Lisa Lambert, who accompanied him to court, was elected to the council in May.
Read on: http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/local/councillor-is-suspended-1-4736475
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(2012) New Labour Former Mayor -APOLOGISES FOR GIVING CHARACTER REFERENCE TO PAEDOPHILE RAPIST
A former Mayor of Rochdale admitted to a “silly mistake” in his decision to give evidence during the recent child sex grooming trial in Liverpool that saw nine local men being jailed for between four and nineteen years.
Zulfiquar Ali, who held the mayoral office in 2010, told Rochdale Online that he had been approached by one of the accused, Abdul Qayyum around Christmas time last year and was asked to appear as a character witness.
He went on to say that Qayyum, who was jailed for five years for conspiracy to engage in sexual activities with a child, was one of his constituents who he had previously helped to obtain a taxi-licence. As far as he then knew, Quayyum was a hard working family man and hence he agreed to appear as a witness in order to say this.
Mr Ali went on to say: “In fourteen years as a councillor, my decision to do this is my biggest regret. I made a silly mistake.”
Speaking about the sentences, Mr Ali said that he was satisfied said that “justice had been served”. He said that it sent out “a clear message that this sort of crime was intolerable”. He added that he was “very sorry for the victims and their families” and that this case was “of wider concern to the community and that lessons needed to be learned”.
Mr Ali, who lives in Huddersfield, was a prominent politician in Rochdale until he retired. He was a Liberal Democrat councillor in Central Ward and Cabinet member for Children, Schools and Families.
Another councillor who gave similar evidence, Aftab Hussain, who sits as a Labour councillor in Firgrove and Smallbridge ward, refused to comment and instead referred Rochdale Online to the Leader of the Council, Colin Lambert.
Councillor Lambert said that he would comment when he had spoken with Councillor Hussain. In the meantime he issued the following statement: “While individual councillors have been reported in the media making statements regarding individuals in this case, they do not reflect the views of Rochdale Borough Council.”
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ARTICLE: Why Traitor Gordon Brown Sold Britain’s Gold at a Knock-down Price
A great deal of Gordon Brown’s economic strategy would strike a sane man as troubling. Not a great deal was mysterious. The orgy of consumption spending, frequent extensions of the cycle over which he would “borrow to invest”, proclamations of the “end of boom and bust”: these are part of the armoury of modern politicians, of all political hues.
One decision stands out as downright bizarre, however: the sale of the majority of Britain’s gold reserves for prices between $256 and $296 an ounce, only to watch it soar so far as $1,615 per ounce today.
When Brown decided to dispose of almost 400 tonnes of gold between 1999 and 2002, he did two distinctly odd things.
First, he broke with convention and announced the sale well in advance, giving the market notice that it was shortly to be flooded and forcing down the spot price. This was apparently done in the interests of “open government”, but had the effect of sending the spot price of gold to a 20-year low, as implied by basic supply and demand theory.
Second, the Treasury elected to sell its gold via auction. Again, this broke with the standard model. The price of gold was usually determined at a morning and afternoon “fix” between representatives of big banks whose network of smaller bank clients and private orders allowed them to determine the exact price at which demand met with supply.
The auction system again frequently achieved a lower price than the equivalent fix price. The first auction saw an auction price of $10c less per ounce than was achieved at the morning fix. It also acted to depress the price of the afternoon fix which fell by nearly $4.
It seemed almost as if the Treasury was trying to achieve the lowest price possible for the public’s gold. It was.
One of the most popular trading plays of the late 1990s was the carry trade, particularly the gold carry trade.
In this a bank would borrow gold from another financial institution for a set period, and pay a token sum relative to the overall value of that gold for the privilege.
Once control of the gold had been passed over, the bank would then immediately sell it for its full market value. The proceeds would be invested in an alternative product which was predicted to generate a better return over the period than gold which was enduring a spell of relative price stability, even decline.
At the end of the allotted period, the bank would sell its investment and use the proceeds to buy back the amount of gold it had originally borrowed. This gold would be returned to the lender. The borrowing bank would trouser the difference between the two prices.
This plan worked brilliantly when gold fell and the other asset – for the bank at the heart of this case, yen-backed securities – rose. When the prices moved the other way, the banks were in trouble.
This is what had happened on an enormous scale by early 1999. One globally significant US bank in particular is understood to have been heavily short on two tonnes of gold, enough to call into question its solvency if redemption occurred at the prevailing price.
Goldman Sachs, which is not understood to have been significantly short on gold itself, is rumoured to have approached the Treasury to explain the situation through its then head of commodities Gavyn Davies, later chairman of the BBC and married to Sue Nye who ran Brown’s private office.
Faced with the prospect of a global collapse in the banking system, the Chancellor took the decision to bail out the banks by dumping Britain’s gold, forcing the price down and allowing the banks to buy back gold at a profit, thus meeting their borrowing obligations.
I spoke with Peter Hambro, chairman of Petroplavosk and a leading figure in the London gold market, late last year and asked him about the rumours above.
“I think that Mr Brown found himself in a terrible position,” he said.
“He was facing a problem that was a world scale problem where a number of financial institutions had become voluntarily short of gold to the extent that it was threatening the stability of the financial system and it was obvious that something had to be done.”
While the market manipulation which occurred when the gold reserves were sold was not illegal as the abuse at Barclays may have been, the moral atmosphere in which it took place was identical.
The crash which began in 2007 and endures still was the result of an abdication of responsibility across the financial sector. This abdication ranged from the consumer whose thirst for goods pushed him beyond into grave debt to a government whose lust for popularity encouraged it to do the same.
Responsibility is evaded by all bar those on whose shoulders it ought to rest. The gold panic of 1999 was expensively paid for by the British public. The one thing politicians ought to have bought with that money was a lesson in the structural restraints which needed to be placed on banks now that the principle that they were ultimately public liabilities had been established.
It was a lesson which could have acted to restrain all players in the credit market boom of the 2000s. It was a lesson which nobody learnt.
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ARTICLE AND VIDEO: Fraud, Corruption, Labour-run Sheffield City Council, and Sir Bob Kerslake -INSTITUTIONAL FRAUD
A major city with a £1.8 billion budget, fraud within Sheffield has affected both national and European funding streams.
Yesterday’s UK Column Live investigated allegations of institutional and financial corruption within Sheffield City Council that has swallowed £millions of public money and defrauded ordinary taxpayers.
OLAF, the European Fraud Office, not only failed to tackle financial abuses, but also assisted in the cover-up.
It was alleged Sheffield Chief Executive Bob Kerslake, now head of the Civil Service, assisted this dirty process.
Not only has the Audit Commission failed to clean up the city, they have acted with a common purpose to protect the Council and key people – including implicated Common Purpose graduates.
Whistleblowers exposing the crimes report that they have been seriously harassed and threatened over many years to shut them up. One of these brave people agreed to speak out on UK Column live.
Hat tip: http://www.ukcolumn.org/article/fraud-corruption-sheffield-city-council-and-sir-bob-kerslake
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(2012) David Taylor-Smith -SUSPENDED FROM WIRRAL COUNCIL
THREE of Wirral Council’s most senior officers have been suspended from work.
Acting chief executive and director of finance Ian Coleman, director of law, HR and asset management Bill Norman and deputy director of finance David Taylor-Smith have been told to stay at home.
It follows criticism in an investigation into the authority over its awarding of a £40m highways and engineering services contract in 2008.
The inquiry was carried out in 2011 by local government watchdog the Audit Commission and published earlier this month.
Among criticisms concerning poor corporate govenance, the review found that the director of highways and technical services, David Green, “had probably” broken EU laws over the way the outsourced contract had been handled.
The move means an astonishing FOUR members of the council’s senior officer group are now suspended from work with Mr Green having been told to stay at home pending an inquiry earlier this year.
The council’s chief executive Jim Wilkie took early retirement on June 8 after an extended period of sick leave.
David Armstrong, interim director of children’s services, will assume chief executive responsibilities until an interim chief is in post.
The town hall says “arrangements have been put in place to ensure services will remain unaffected.”
A statement from the council says in order to “properly investigate and address the findings of the report,” three members of staff, who have both statutory and line management responsibilities for corporate governance functions where failings were identified, have been suspended.
It says suspension is a “neutral act” and an investigation will be undertaken to determine whether there is a case to answer.
Leader of Wirral Council Cllr Phil Davies said: “When becoming leader, I made it clear that in order to move the council forward it was necessary to address honestly and openly where failings had occurred in the past.
“That is why I make this announcement today in partnership with my fellow party leaders.
“Together with them, I will ensure that this investigation takes place both robustly and speedily.
“My clear priority is to ensure that the residents of Wirral have a council delivering the excellent services that they both need and deserve.”
Leader of the Conservative group, Cllr Jeff Green, said: “I have made it clear for some time that Wirral Council must be open and transparent and hold people to account where necessary.
“The needs of residents and businesses must be our over-riding priority.
“The culture of the council has damaged their interests and I have always made it clear that it is important for all politicians to work together to deliver real change.
“I will work with Phil Davies to ensure all necessary actions are taken and that together we build a council with a culture and approach to difficult issues that the public can have confidence in.”
Liberal Democrat group leader Cllr Tom Harney said: “The improvements we must make to the manner in which Wirral Council operates require the full support and efforts of all political parties and I pledge to be a part of that.
“We will not make progress unless we face up to some of the things that have gone wrong and put in place a new culture and a better way of working together.”
Wallasey Labour Angela Eagle MP said: “The leader of the council is right to have made these suspensions so that a thorough investigation can take place.
“My concern is that my constituents do not suffer as a result and I am seeking assurances council services will not be affected.
“I’ll be in regular contact with the council leadership during this process and I hope they get to the bottom of what has happened quickly.”
Late last year a report by investigating consultant Anna Klonowski also discovered severe failings in Wirral’s corporate governance.
The inquiry was ordered by the then-council leader Cllr Green following revelations in the Wiral Globe by former social services manager turned whistle-blower Martin Morton.
The probe said that in Wirral, practices most other authorities would view as abnormal had become commonplace.
Mr Wilkie said at the time the findings represented “the most serious challenge this authority faces.”
Birkenhead MP Frank Field said: “It’s superb that the new leadership is following through properly the Audit Commission report, and I couldn’t be more pleased with its response.”
Read on: http://mobile.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/9789743.Senior_Wirral_Council_officers_suspended/
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(2012) New Labour (?) Cllr, Bill Norman -SUSPENDED FROM WIRRAL COUNCIL
THREE of Wirral Council’s most senior officers have been suspended from work.
Acting chief executive and director of finance Ian Coleman, director of law, HR and asset management Bill Norman and deputy director of finance David Taylor-Smith have been told to stay at home.
It follows criticism in an investigation into the authority over its awarding of a £40m highways and engineering services contract in 2008.
The inquiry was carried out in 2011 by local government watchdog the Audit Commission and published earlier this month.
Among criticisms concerning poor corporate govenance, the review found that the director of highways and technical services, David Green, “had probably” broken EU laws over the way the outsourced contract had been handled.
The move means an astonishing FOUR members of the council’s senior officer group are now suspended from work with Mr Green having been told to stay at home pending an inquiry earlier this year.
The council’s chief executive Jim Wilkie took early retirement on June 8 after an extended period of sick leave.
David Armstrong, interim director of children’s services, will assume chief executive responsibilities until an interim chief is in post.
The town hall says “arrangements have been put in place to ensure services will remain unaffected.”
A statement from the council says in order to “properly investigate and address the findings of the report,” three members of staff, who have both statutory and line management responsibilities for corporate governance functions where failings were identified, have been suspended.
It says suspension is a “neutral act” and an investigation will be undertaken to determine whether there is a case to answer.
Leader of Wirral Council Cllr Phil Davies said: “When becoming leader, I made it clear that in order to move the council forward it was necessary to address honestly and openly where failings had occurred in the past.
“That is why I make this announcement today in partnership with my fellow party leaders.
“Together with them, I will ensure that this investigation takes place both robustly and speedily.
“My clear priority is to ensure that the residents of Wirral have a council delivering the excellent services that they both need and deserve.”
Leader of the Conservative group, Cllr Jeff Green, said: “I have made it clear for some time that Wirral Council must be open and transparent and hold people to account where necessary.
“The needs of residents and businesses must be our over-riding priority.
“The culture of the council has damaged their interests and I have always made it clear that it is important for all politicians to work together to deliver real change.
“I will work with Phil Davies to ensure all necessary actions are taken and that together we build a council with a culture and approach to difficult issues that the public can have confidence in.”
Liberal Democrat group leader Cllr Tom Harney said: “The improvements we must make to the manner in which Wirral Council operates require the full support and efforts of all political parties and I pledge to be a part of that.
“We will not make progress unless we face up to some of the things that have gone wrong and put in place a new culture and a better way of working together.”
Wallasey Labour Angela Eagle MP said: “The leader of the council is right to have made these suspensions so that a thorough investigation can take place.
“My concern is that my constituents do not suffer as a result and I am seeking assurances council services will not be affected.
“I’ll be in regular contact with the council leadership during this process and I hope they get to the bottom of what has happened quickly.”
Late last year a report by investigating consultant Anna Klonowski also discovered severe failings in Wirral’s corporate governance.
The inquiry was ordered by the then-council leader Cllr Green following revelations in the Wiral Globe by former social services manager turned whistle-blower Martin Morton.
The probe said that in Wirral, practices most other authorities would view as abnormal had become commonplace.
Mr Wilkie said at the time the findings represented “the most serious challenge this authority faces.”
Birkenhead MP Frank Field said: “It’s superb that the new leadership is following through properly the Audit Commission report, and I couldn’t be more pleased with its response.”
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(2012) New Labour Cllr. Ian Coleman -SUSPENDED FROM WIRRAL COUNCIL
THREE of Wirral Council’s most senior officers have been suspended from work.
Acting chief executive and director of finance Ian Coleman, director of law, HR and asset management Bill Norman and deputy director of finance David Taylor-Smith have been told to stay at home.
It follows criticism in an investigation into the authority over its awarding of a £40m highways and engineering services contract in 2008.
The inquiry was carried out in 2011 by local government watchdog the Audit Commission and published earlier this month.
Among criticisms concerning poor corporate govenance, the review found that the director of highways and technical services, David Green, “had probably” broken EU laws over the way the outsourced contract had been handled.
The move means an astonishing FOUR members of the council’s senior officer group are now suspended from work with Mr Green having been told to stay at home pending an inquiry earlier this year.
The council’s chief executive Jim Wilkie took early retirement on June 8 after an extended period of sick leave.
David Armstrong, interim director of children’s services, will assume chief executive responsibilities until an interim chief is in post.
The town hall says “arrangements have been put in place to ensure services will remain unaffected.”
A statement from the council says in order to “properly investigate and address the findings of the report,” three members of staff, who have both statutory and line management responsibilities for corporate governance functions where failings were identified, have been suspended.
It says suspension is a “neutral act” and an investigation will be undertaken to determine whether there is a case to answer.
Leader of Wirral Council Cllr Phil Davies said: “When becoming leader, I made it clear that in order to move the council forward it was necessary to address honestly and openly where failings had occurred in the past.
“That is why I make this announcement today in partnership with my fellow party leaders.
“Together with them, I will ensure that this investigation takes place both robustly and speedily.
“My clear priority is to ensure that the residents of Wirral have a council delivering the excellent services that they both need and deserve.”
Leader of the Conservative group, Cllr Jeff Green, said: “I have made it clear for some time that Wirral Council must be open and transparent and hold people to account where necessary.
“The needs of residents and businesses must be our over-riding priority.
“The culture of the council has damaged their interests and I have always made it clear that it is important for all politicians to work together to deliver real change.
“I will work with Phil Davies to ensure all necessary actions are taken and that together we build a council with a culture and approach to difficult issues that the public can have confidence in.”
Liberal Democrat group leader Cllr Tom Harney said: “The improvements we must make to the manner in which Wirral Council operates require the full support and efforts of all political parties and I pledge to be a part of that.
“We will not make progress unless we face up to some of the things that have gone wrong and put in place a new culture and a better way of working together.”
Wallasey Labour Angela Eagle MP said: “The leader of the council is right to have made these suspensions so that a thorough investigation can take place.
“My concern is that my constituents do not suffer as a result and I am seeking assurances council services will not be affected.
“I’ll be in regular contact with the council leadership during this process and I hope they get to the bottom of what has happened quickly.”
Late last year a report by investigating consultant Anna Klonowski also discovered severe failings in Wirral’s corporate governance.
The inquiry was ordered by the then-council leader Cllr Green following revelations in the Wiral Globe by former social services manager turned whistle-blower Martin Morton.
The probe said that in Wirral, practices most other authorities would view as abnormal had become commonplace.
Mr Wilkie said at the time the findings represented “the most serious challenge this authority faces.”
Birkenhead MP Frank Field said: “It’s superb that the new leadership is following through properly the Audit Commission report, and I couldn’t be more pleased with its response.”
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(2012) New Labour Party Advises its Donors on How to Avoid Tax
The Labour Party offers an almost identical scheme to help its supporters dodge inheritance tax as well. Labour’s “Leave a Legacy” programme offers advice on three different methods of leaving money to the party, even going as far as to suggest clever a legalistic wording of donors’ wills in order to minimise tax liability:
Labour have led the way on bashing tax dodgers, with everyone from the shadow cabinet to the backbenches queuing up to stick the boot in. Starting with trigger-happy tweeter Steve McCabe, Guido wonders what they have to say about their own party being directly involved in a tax avoidance scheme. They call that red-handed…
Hat tip: http://order-order.com/2012/07/03/labour-tell-donors-how-to-dodge-tax-too/
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ARTICLE: M.P.s Demands Free Food
PAMPERED MPs want free meals after complaining of MICE and “stinking” cut-price grub in the Commons.
They want taxpayers to pick up the entire bill for all they scoff.
Many complain of “weird” menus served up in “Soviet-style” restaurants INFESTED with mice — and say the food is not worth paying for. But taxpayers fork out£5.8MILLION a year to subsidise their meals.
One MP wrote: “I saw a mouse in the Members’ Tea Room about which I made comment to a member of staff. The member of staff was pretty matter of fact — to the point that I got the impression that the sight of a rodent was par for the course!”
Scores moaned about the standard of their heavily-subsidised food in a survey of politicians and their staff.
They whinged about the wine waiters and complained that coffee bar staff did not know the difference between a cappuccino and a latte.
The complaints about the cheap meals and wine at Westminster come in a survey of MPs and their staff conducted by private pollsters — costing taxpayers another £27,790.
Details obtained under Freedom of Information laws lay bare the full extent of the dissatisfaction. A typical meal — rib-eye steak with hand-cut chips and Béarnaise sauce — costs two quid — £7.80, less a taxpayers’ subsidy of £5.92.
But one MP whinged: “The restaurants are Soviet-style. Vegetables are horrendously overcooked, meat is often raw.
“Sandwiches taste like they have been frozen for three months. It’s a shocker.”
Another blasted: “The food is really starting to stink.”
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/article4391212.ece
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(2009) New Labour Cllr. Jonathan Phillips -PAEDOPHILE
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A disgraced former Walsall councillor who left a computer memory stick containing child porn behind after a town hall meeting was today fined £443.
Jonathan Phillips was placed on the sex offenders register for two years.
The discovery was made after a council worker found the equipment belonging to Phillips in a meeting room at the Lichfield Street site.
After loading the stick into the computer, they discovered the indecent images and was able to link the computer to Phillips.
At Walsall Magistrates Court today the 53-year-old admitted two offences of making an indecent photo or pseudo-photo of a child.
Phillips, of Eastbourne Street, Walsall, resigned from his position as a Labour councillor for the Birchills and Leamore ward after he was arrested by police last October. He was suspended from his work at Wolverhampton City Council.
Miss Siobhan Wilkins, prosecuting, said Phillips received texts on his mobile phone but had accessed them by downloading from a website which he then copied onto a USB stick. This stick was found in September last year.
Mr Mahmood Hussain, defending, said: “My client has never had any court record. This is totally out of character. When the police searched his home they found nothing untoward.
“The charges relate to two images found on a computer memory stick given to him by someone else.
“He looked at them and when he realised what they were he was going to report them to the police himself.”
Along with the fine he was ordered to pay costs of £60 and a £15 victim surcharge.
Read more: http://www.expressandstar.com/latest/2009/05/18/child-porn-find-at-town-hall/#ixzz1xzSDQwo4
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VIDEO: Paedophilia, Child Abuse, and Child Kidnapping by the State and Government -MUST SEE
A young lady by the name of Hollie Greig has key evidence against leading figures in the British Establishment.
The Establishment wants to separate mother and daughter by putting daughter into “care” so it will shut her up. Then the evidence against the paedophiles in the Establishment is silenced.
A gagging order of 70 years has been put on the evidence found by U.S police in Operation Ore. They unearthed evidence of 350-400 paedophiles at high levels of British society.
The Establishment and Social Services are actively involved in child trafficking.
(13 mins in) “Sarah Tether [Lib Dem] minister for Families and Children won’t reply to [simple questions] nor answer Freedom of Information requests…because the British government is stealing, abusing, and trafficking children”.
Neutrality is complicity.
(13 mins,17 secs in) “…politicians condone [child abuse] by the fact they will not take action.”
“Every MP has been informed about [child abuse]”
(13 mins, 19 secs) “David Cameron condones the abuse of children because he has done nothing.”
(13 mins, 20 secs) “[Ed] Miliband is the same” and “Clegg has got a big foot in the camp becase…Sarah Tether [fellow Liberal] is now covering up the trafficking of children through this system”.
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Further reading:
At a Glance: A Snippet of the Many Paedophiles and Perverts in Power
Blast from the Past: Are Paedophiles Running Tony Blair’s War Machine?
Link to all recorded entries on this site of paedophilia
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(2012) New Labour Cllr. Kosru Uddin -ARRESTED AND DETAINED FOR THREATS TO KILL
Kosru Uddin, 45, was alleged to have made threats to kill to Rania Khan, a supporter of Independent mayor Lutfur Rahman.
It was reported that screams were heard coming from the town hall as a “violent fracas” erupted on Wednesday night.
One source told a newspaper: “There was violence. It was just chaos.”
It is the latest crisis to hit Tower Hamlets, which is facing a police investigation into claims of electoral fraud at a council bye-election while there have been claims that Mr Rahman is linked to groups supporting extremism.
Trouble erupted at 11.35pm as people left the chamber at the end of the meeting.
Read on: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9273047/Councillor-held-over-town-hall-kill-threats.html
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(2012) New Labour Cllr. Michael Mills -BENEFIT FRAUD
A town councillor fraudulently claimed more than £20,000 of benefits in his wife’s name for nearly two years after she died, magistrates have heard.
Michael Mills, 64, a member of Holywell town council in Flintshire at the time, was caught following a tip-off.
Investigators found that his wife Brenda died in January 2010 but kept observations as he went to the Post Office to claim her benefits.
Mills admitted 14 fraud charges and will be sentenced at a later date.
Flintshire magistrates heard that the couple had been married 44 years but that Mrs Mills had been extremely ill for the last five years of her life, ending her days in hospital.
The court heard that the retired miner from Greenfield felt guilty at agreeing to switch off his wife’s life support machine.
Unable to come to terms with the loss, he carried on life as normal, claiming benefits and paying the household bills.
Prosecutor Henry Hills said that the Department of Work and Pensions received anonymous information that he was continuing to claim his dead wife’s benefits.
Checks showed that retirement benefits of £40 a week were still being paid out in her name together with £402 a month disability living allowance – but checks with the registrar showed that she died on 23 January 2010.
Observations showed that he was attending the Greenfield sub post office weekly, and post office records showed he was still claiming benefits as a married man caring for a disabled wife, as well as her benefits.
After Mills was arrested in January this year, it also emerged that he had failed to disclose his miner’s pension.
‘Genuinely remorseful’
Mr Hills said that the defendant had been overpaid £21,357 – made up of £2,089 pension credit, £5,239 carer’s allowance, £4,066 state retirement pension and £9,962 disability living allowance.
Brian Cross, defending, said Mills had served his local community for 20 years, helping many people in need, and felt guilt for the death of his wife.
“He faced that decision of whether or not the machine should be switched off,” said Mr Cross.
“He felt very guilty about that and went into a state of shock.
“In his own words he was in a trance like state.
“He is genuinely remorseful and wishes to apologise for his behaviour.”
Mills was granted unconditional bail pending sentence.
Read on: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-18074904
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(2012) New Labour Cllr. David Gawn -THEFT
A COUNCILLOR accused of trying to steal money will face a judge next month after prosecutors decided to pursue the case.
David Gawn, of Lankers Drive, South Harrow, appeared afresh at Hendon Magistrates’ Court on Monday on a charge of the attempted theft of £7,000 belong to Dennis O’Brien on or before August 5 last year.
His case was committed to Harrow Crown Court and the Labour ward councillor for Harrow on the Hill was granted unconditional bail to appear for a plea hearing there on June 22.
Gawn previously appeared on the same charge twice before at the same magistrates’ court, on January 5 and on February 23, before the court discharged the committal of the case to the crown court, on March 15.
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New Labour M.P. Margaret Moran -“UNFIT TO PLEAD” HER DEFENCE IN THE MASS THEFT FROM THE PEOPLE/EXPENSES SCANDAL 2009
Margaret Moran, the former Labour MP accused of falsely claiming £80,000 in expenses, has been found ‘unfit to plead’ after a court heard she felt ‘suicidal’ after being ‘abandoned’ by the Labour party.
Mr Justice Saunders admitted his judgement may be viewed with ‘scepticism’ but concluded that Moran, 56, of Southampton, Hampshire, is unfit to plead.
Moran did not attend the hour long hearing at Lewes Crown Court.
It was found she is suffering from “a depressive illness with associated anxiety” to a “moderate severity” and that she will be unable to enter a plea to her 21-count indictment.
The court heard the shame and “villification” she had suffered after being accused of fiddling her expenses had left her a “broken woman.”
Her illness becomes much worse whenever the case was mentioned, Dr Philip Joseph, a consultant forensic psychiatrist, told the court.
Dr Joseph, called by Moran’s defence lawyer Jim Sturman, said: “She has feelings of abandonment from the Labour party.
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(2012) New Labour Peer Lord Ahmed -suspended after ‘offering £10m bounty on Barack Obama and George Bush’
A controversial peer has been suspended from the Labour Party amid reports that he offered a £10 million bounty for the capture of President Barack Obama and his predecessor President George W Bush.
Lord Ahmed, 53, who in 1998 became the first Muslim life peer, was reported to have made the comments at a conference in Haripur in Pakistan.
A Labour Party spokesman said: “We have suspended Lord Ahmed pending investigation. If these comments are accurate we utterly condemn these remarks which are totally unacceptable.”
According to Pakistan’s Express Tribune newspaper Lord Ahmed offered the bounty in response to a US action a week ago.
The US issued a $10 million reward for the capture of Pakistani militant leader Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba group, who it suspects of orchestrating the 2008 Mumbai attacks in which 166 people died as terrorists stormed hotels and a train station.
The British peer reportedly said: “‘If the US can announce a reward of $10 million for the (capture) of Hafiz Saeed, I can announce a bounty of £10 million (for the capture of) President Obama and his predecessor, George Bush.”
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(2012) New Labour Cllr Stephanie Brookfield -DRUNK AND DISORDERLY
A PROSPECTIVE borough councillor has apologised after being arrested at a Rovers match.
Blackburn Rovers fan Stephanie Brookfield, who is standing for Labour in the Earcroft ward of Darwen in May’s elections, was arrested at Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Molineux stadium on Saturday.
A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: “We can confirm a 50-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly at Molineux football ground on Saturday.
“She was arrested after complaints from ground staff.
“She was taken to Wolverhampton Police Station, where she was given a caution and released.”
Miss Brookfield, who is active among Rovers fans who have been protesting against owners Venky’s, said: “During the match, a large number of people were protesting against Venky’s.
“Unfortunately, some of them were arrested.
“I am a passionate and vocal Rovers supporter and always have been.
“The police kept me at the station before throwing me out after a couple of hours.
“I missed my coach home as a result.”
Miss Brookfield will still be standing at the forthcoming elections.
Labour councillor for Earcroft Trevor Maxfield said: “Stephanie is a passionate Blackburn Rovers fan and is down at Ewood week in week out. We are fully behind her.”
A Lancashire Labour Party spokesman said: “The incident was totally out of character and Stephanie apologises for any offence caused.”
The list of candidates for the council elections will be finalised at the end of March.
Miss Brookfield is standing for both Darwen Town Council and Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council.
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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/
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VIDEO: M.P.s: Our Drunk “Representatives”
They are there to solve the UK’s pressing problems, but it seems MPs need some help too. The recent arrest of a Labour MP after a late-night brawl in the House of Commons bar, is just the latest in a string of alcohol fuelled scandals. RT’s Laura Smith reports on how some Parliamentarians are said to be drinking their way through life at Westminster.
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(2012) New Labour Cllr. Kyle-Noel Taylor -JAILED FOR BEATING 19-YEAR-OLD GIRLFRIEND
A COUNCILLOR has been jailed and kicked out of public office after losing an appeal against his conviction for beating his ex-girlfriend.
Kyle-Noel Taylor was convicted in December of four counts of assault by beating 19-year-old Rebecca Jackson following a trial at North Staffordshire Magistrates’ Court.
The 20-year-old is today starting a six-month jail term after a judge yesterday threw out his appeal, ruling that Taylor had not been truthful.
Earlier, a magistrate who had sat in Taylor’s previous trial was told to leave the court’s public gallery by the judge because the defendant argued he would not get a fair hearing.
Following the verdict, Taylor, who has always denied the charges, was axed from his position as Kidsgrove ward councillor on Newcastle Borough Council with immediate effect.
Sentencing Taylor, of Victoria Avenue, Kidsgrove, Judge Robert Trevor-Jones said: “We are of the view that the claimant has told the truth to the court and has been the victim of repeated assaults at the hands of the appellant.”
Taylor first met Miss Jackson when the pair were at high school together and they were in an “on and off” and “volatile” relationship for around three-and-a-half years, Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard yesterday.
The attacks related to incidents on January 6, January 22, January 25 and March 24 last year.
One of the attacks took place just hours after Taylor, who had no previous convictions, returned home from a Newcastle Borough Council meeting.
On January 6, Taylor butted and struck Miss Jackson in the face following an argument over ex-partners, which left Miss Jackson with a chipped front tooth.
Then on January 22, Taylor attacked Miss Jackson by punching her in the head, grabbing her round the neck and banging her head on a kitchen counter.
In an incident on January 25, Taylor bit Miss Jackson’s finger when she confronted him about cheating on her and punched her in the stomach when she told him she might be pregnant.
And on March 24, Taylor butted Miss Jackson three times, punched her in the face and bit her on the cheek.
Police took photographs of Miss Jackson’s injuries, which included bruises to her face and body.
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(2012) New Labour M.P. Eric Joyce -FINED £3,000, ORDERED TO PAY £1,400, AND BANNED FROM PUBS
- Eric Joyce admitted four charges of assault
- MP shouted ‘You can’t touch me, I’m an MP!’ as he was arrested
- Fined £3,000 and ordered to pay £1,400 to victims at Westminster Magistrates’ Court
- Also receives twelve-month community order, is banned from entering pubs for three months, and given a weekend curfew
- Will not resign as an MP before next election in 2015
A Labour MP who head-butted fellow politicians in a House of Commons bar brawl was spared jail yesterday.
Eric Joyce, 51, threw punches and ‘nutted’ two Conservatives after a late-night drinking session, snarling: ‘There are too many ******* Tories in here.’
Witnesses said the glazed eyes of the former Army major, who had to be restrained by eight police officers, made it ‘look like nobody was home’.
As the officers dragged him to the cells, Joyce yelled: ‘You can’t touch me, I am an MP.’
Details of the extraordinary incident were revealed for the first time yesterday, as the Falkirk MP admitted carrying out the assault at Westminster Magistrates Court.
Joyce now faces expulsion from the Labour Party, but vowed to continue serving as an independent.
The brawl broke out in the Commons Strangers’ Bar, which is reserved for MPs and their guests, at about 10.30pm on February 22. One of Joyce’s friends, Stuart Niven – an amateur opera singer – started to sing loudly, provoking startled glances from a neighbouring table of Conservatives.
Joyce, who had drunk a bottle of red wine, stood to warn Tory MP Alec Shelbrooke: ‘Don’t ever look at my guests in that way again’.
When another Conservative MP, Andrew Percy, asked him to sit down, Joyce shoved him up against the wall, shouting: ‘This bar is full of ******* Tories.’
When Mr Shelbrooke said: ‘You can’t treat an MP like that in a place like this,’ Joyce swung for the Tory, who ducked the blow. Joyce then punched Conservative councillor Luke Mackenzie, splitting his lip, before head-butting another, Ben Maney.
Labour whip Phillip Wilson then put a hand on Joyce’s shoulder and said: ‘Calm down Eric – what’s going on?’ Joyce responded by punching him in the face.
Police arrived to find Joyce smelling ‘strongly of alcohol’ with ‘glazed’ eyes. He continued his assault as the officers tried to restrain him, swearing at them before head-butting Tory MP Stuart Andrew, giving him a bloody nose and concussion.
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(2012) New Labour Cllr. Manish Sood -INDECENT ASSAULT/PESTERING SCHOOL GIRLS FOR SEX
A former Leicester city councillor who caused a political storm by describing Gordon Brown as “the worst Prime Minister in history”, pestered two schoolgirls for sex and indecently assaulted a young woman.
Manish Sood kissed a 22-year-old on her bottom in the guise of “therapy” and offered to pay two girls, aged 14 and 15, to visit his home for “massages”.
Divorced Sood (40), of Roundhill Road, Leicester, appeared at the city’s Crown Court to be sentenced for the offences, which he admitted.
Sood was Labour councillor for Leicester’s Fosse Ward and Parliamentary candidate for Norfolk North West when he criticised Gordon Brown two years ago, making national headlines and damaging Labour’s 2010 election campaign.
He was suspended from the party but readmitted in January last year. He remained Fosse councillor until the local elections last May, when he did not seek re-election.
The Crown Court hearing was told that on February 6 last year that Sood phoned one of the teenage victims after she posted an advert on the Gumtree website seeking a part-time job.
Prosecutor Sian Cutter said Sood offered to pay her £20 to lie down on a couch and have a massage, which she refused.
He continued to contact her, urging her to meet him at his home. Sood rang her 27 times and sent 15 texts.
The girl complained to a 15-year-old friend at school, who rang Sood and told him to leave her friend alone.
But Sood then directed his attention to the friend, asking if she was interested in “therapy”, and sending 26 texts and phoning 152 times in three days, suggesting she visit for “physical tantra”.
He told her to bring “toe rings and condoms”, the court heard.
Sood suggested picking her up from school, which worried her as she had not told him where it was.
In front of a teacher, she told Sood to stop bothering her on the phone, to which he replied: “Even for £200? Let me know if you change her mind.”
He was then reported to the police. When arrested, he accepted he had “sexual motives” towards the schoolgirls and claimed his medication made him “forgetful”.
Ms Cutter told the court that Sood had met the 22-year-old woman through Gumtree in January last year, and she went to his home genuinely believing he was a therapist.
Sood took her to his bedroom to demonstrate relief of “aroma and tantra”.
He massaged over her clothes, touching her inappropriately and kissing her stomach, causing her to freeze in fear.
Sood massaged her back, pulled down her leggings and underwear and kissed her bottom. She was too scared and uncomfortable to say anything and left, the court heard.
Sood admitted causing or inciting the two teenagers to engage in sexual activity, and to sexually assaulting the 22-year-old.
Judge Michael Pert QC said: “It’s conduct of a dirty old man, and you’re not even old.”
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(2012) New Labour Cllr. Peter Richards -PROTECTING CHILD ABUSERS?
Below is the second email sent to Councillor Richards by a long standing supporter of the Lewis family sent out of frustration.
He has deliberately refused to reply to the first email.
You can see Cllr Richards position within this discredited Council it has already been highlighted by our friend.
Councillor Richards is not a man to be trusted.
At the last Council Election up until the close of voting he was a candidate for the Ratepayers of Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council.
As soon as the polls closed he betrayed the electorate of Baglan Ward as did his fellow Ratepayer Candidate Mrs Juliet Hopkins and defected to the Labour Party.
Read on for hard, irrefutable evidence: http://cllrkevinedwards.blogspot.com/2012/02/councillor-peter-richards-of-labour.html
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(2012) New Labour Cllr. Florence Anderson -SUSPENDED FOR SUPPORTING BOMBING TORY CONFERENCE
A LABOUR councillor has been suspended after provoking outrage on Facebook.
Sunderland City Councillor Florence Anderson “liked” a comment that called for an IRA bomb at the next Conservative conference.
The comment was posted on the Facebook Group titled “Margaret Thatcher doesn’t have to be dead before we give her a funeral” – of which Miss Anderson is a member.
A Labour party spokesman confirmed that Miss Anderson had been suspended from the party in light of the comments.
They said: “These comments are disgraceful. Florence Anderson has been suspended from the Labour Party with immediate effect in light of this information.”
Crash Bang Wallace blogger Mark Wallace was the first to highlight that Ms Anderson had “liked” the comment: “We are appealing to the IRA to find it in their hearts to bomb the next tory conference(sic)” on the facebook group wall.
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(2012) New Labour M.P. Eric Joyce -ARRESTED AND SUSPENDED FROM PARTY FOR EXTREME VIOLENCE IN COMMONS BAR
- Eric Joyce allegedly attacked Tory MP Stuart Andrew in the Strangers Bar
- The MP for Falkirk was arrested after the late night incident
- Police confirm a man remains in custody today
A Labour MP has been suspended from the party after was arrested following an alleged brawl in a House of Commons bar last night.
Eric Joyce is said to have punched several Tory MPs in the fracas just before 11pm last night. It is reported he also hit a Labour MP.
Stuart Andrew, MP for Pudsey, was reportedly headbutted and punched in the Strangers Bar, a Commons bar reserved for MPs and their guests.
An eyewitness told the Politics Home website that Mr Joyce, a former Army officer who represents Falkirk, pushed a Tory MP and then started punching other Conservative members seated at the back of the bar. Drinks were also allegedly thrown over some bar patrons.
The MP has now been suspended from the Labour Party until the completion of a police investigation into an alleged assault, a party spokesman said this morning.
It is reported on the website Mr Joyce, 51, complained the bar, popular with MPs from both parties, was ‘full of Tories’.
Compare: Chris Bryant, Labour MP, Says Parliamentary Watering-Hole ‘Virtually A Gay Bar Now’: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/01/13/chris-bryant-labour-mp-parliament-gay-bar_n_1203761.html?ref=uk-politics
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(2012) New Labour Cllr Mark Burton -PAEDOPHILE JAILED FOR CHILD ABUSE
A North East councillor, who was chairman of a committee responsible for children’s welfare, has been jailed for 22 months for sexually assaulting a girl and hiding pictures of child abuse on his computer.
Mark Burton, 43, preyed on his victim after a party to celebrate his re-election to Darlington Counc
il last May, and police found horrific images on his laptop.
He has spent 171 days in custody prior to sentence at Teesside Crown Court, yet has managed to claim almost £6,700 in allowances from the council. Burton has faced calls from the council leader for the cash to be repaid.
The married father of three was chairman of the council’s children and young persons’ scrutiny committee – a role the court heard he took to promote his political career.
Joanne Kidd, prosecuting, said Burton took advantage of the schoolgirl following a drunken party to celebrate his re-election to the Harrowgate Hill ward.
The girl later complained to police and officers found 16 images of child abuse in a computer folder named ZNROP -“pornz” backwards – and discovered he had searched the internet thousands of times for phrases linked to paedophilia. Specialist officers also found a file-wiping piece of software which digitally shredded documents he had held on his computer.
At first he denied attacking the girl and downloading the child porn, telling police his sons and their friends also had access to his laptop, the court heard. But earlier this month, he pleaded guilty to sexual assault and making indecent images of children.
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(2012) New Labour Cllr Hassan Ahmed -SHADY EXTERNAL INFLUENCE
SENIOR Labour city councillor Hassan Ahmed took part in a decision to award a contract worth £500,000 of public money to a company where he was director and chairman, the District Auditor has concluded.
An investigation into Nottingham City Council’s Future Jobs Fund by the auditor, Sue Sunderland, has concluded Hassan Ahmed, the councillor responsible for the scheme, should have told officers about his links with the company, the First Enterprise Business Agency (FEBA).
He should also not have participated in discussions about its funding.
Mr Ahmed has denied he was involved in any decision to give money to FEBA, but the auditor Sue Sunderland believes he “was actively involved in that decision”.
She said his participation in discussions may have left him in breach of the council’s code of conduct.
Members of the council’s Standards Committee are now considering whether they should investigate.
Read on: http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Conflict-concerns-Nottingham-jobs-fund-contracts/story-15291664-detail/story.html
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(Article) Labour MP Sian James and Her Thugs Try to Hide Causes of South Wales Suicides
ABOVE: Swansea Labour MP Sian James
Written by Mr. Brian Gerrish from the splendid UK Column
Labour MP Sian James employed an intimidating mob to try and frighten off those attending my Swansea talk on causes of suicides in young people in South Wales. Police and Swansea Local Council attempted to close the venue. Why?
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012, with Swansea Labour MP Sian James and her howling, intimidating mob outside, I gave a presentation entitled “Are our Children Safe – An investigation of Politics and Suicide Risks”. Helped by detailed research by local South Wales residents, who are extremely concerned at suicide risks to their children, my talk investigated causes of suicides in young people in Bridgend and South Wales. At times, the audience, which included men and women, white and black, of faith and none, was visibly shocked as I exposed over 40 suicides, political and press reaction, the hidden dangers of conflicting Neuro Linguistic Programming NLP sources affecting children and young people, dark and disturbing dance and drama concerning abuse and suicides backed by the National Theatre Wales, dark ‘creative drama’ for youngsters in Community Halls, perverted film making for 14 yr olds covering suicide backed by the Lottery, Creative Visualisation, risks to the mental health of children by early, excessive sex education, risks from Cameron’s ‘Behavioural Change Units’ and more. Topics also included rising police suicides and the complex shadowy network of funded organisations claiming to help prevent suicides, of which Oxford’s Mindfulness Centre raises many questions.
So desperate were the Local Authorities to stop the talk that Swansea Council and the police tried to bully the venue, Samlet Social club into pulling out. Bravely they did not. Ms James’ thugs did however cause sufficient alarm and distress to intimidate and stop some people from entering the building. Betraying true old Labour supporters. Ms James MP teamed up with rapid Tory student activist Zahid Raja who blogged “..Brian, a well-known proponent of fascism, [speaking] on faux-issues that underpin Islamaphobic propaganda…”
Like many political novices rabid Raja failed to check his facts and dismisses over 40 suicides as a non-issue. I have given over 200 talks to audiences of all colours, creeds, faiths and political views. In addition, both the British Constitution Group and Lawful Rebellion welcome all truthful, honest and caring people of all backgrounds. I have spoken in Birmingham Central mosque and have an invitation to speak again. I will speak to any group who asks me, and I never judge individual people by label – political, organisation or other. As my web article on the Leveson Inquiry warns – the loss of free speech is the most dangerous attack on us all.
Forgive me Ms James and Zahid Raja, isn’t it the Labour, Tory and Lib Dem parties under Blair, Brown, Cameron and Clegg that have killed hundreds of thousands of Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, and are now attacking Syria and Iran – at a cost of the lives of hundreds of British military – black, white, christian, muslim and of no faith. You are both disgusting in your hypocrisy. The usual cowardly MP, Ms James refused to explain her conduct when I called her press team. She is clearly not interested in the South Wales suicides and their causes.
But why should Ms James resort to this gutter mob politics? Because her Swansea Council, other Local Authorities and the Welsh Assembly are terrified of the scale and true nature of these suicides coming out. It is the LibLabCon’s psycho socio economic political attack which is now destroying young lives, and suicide clusters are appearing across UK and Northern Ireland. Please research Gramsci and Alinsky ideology in Labour and the LibCon politics, to see and understand the blatant psycho political attack on our families, society and Nation state.
Full article: http://www.ukcolumn.org/blogs/labour-mp-sian-james-and-her-thugs-try-hide-causes-south-wales-suicides
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(2012) New labour Cllr. John Holden -JAILED FOR £43,000 BENEFIT FRAUD
A LABOUR councillor has been expelled from his party after being jailed for benefit fraud.
John Holden, 62, who represented Inverness South in the Highlands, was sentenced at the city’s sheriff court today to a year in prison for defrauding £43,000-worth of benefits.
He was found guilty last month after a 12-day trial.
Holden was convicted of committing the fraud over nine years, between January 1999 and August 2008.
On sentencing, Sheriff Abercrombie told him: “By deliberately making false claims for benefit and by deliberately failing to notify your true financial circumstances, you together with all other cheats who try to beat the system for personal gain have undermined that social contract. You have shown cold contempt for it.”
After Holden was imprisoned, Inverness district procurator fiscal Emma Knox said: “John Holden was in a position of trust which he flagrantly abused. For a period of over nine years he lied about his circumstances to claim in excess of £43,000 in benefits, to which he was not entitled.
“Mr Holden in effect stole money from the public purse which was intended for those who most needed it.
“The fact that he has been sentenced to the maximum term of imprisonment allowed for such offences demonstrates the serious view that has been taken of these disgraceful crimes.”
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(2012) New Labour Cllr. John Friary -JAILED FOR ATTEMPTING TO GROOM A CHILD
A Labour councillor with close links to Harriet Harman and Tessa Jowell has been jailed for attempting grooming an underage girl for sex.
A 52-year-old Londoner has been jailed for 15 months after he was caught attempting to sexually groom a child online.
Scotland Yard said that John Friary, of Camberwell Road, SE5, was sentenced last Friday at Isleworth Crown Court.
Friary, a former Labour councillor, was snared by a blackmailer posing as a 15-year-old girl on internet chat rooms.
Officers from Hertfordshire Police had been investigating Peter Simms, who pleaded guilty to blackmail at St Albans Crown Court and was subsequently jailed for 21 months in May this year.
They flagged Friary – a blackmail victim of Simms – to the Met’s Paedophile Unit.
“Inquiries revealed that Friary was one of the individuals Simms had been in contact with,” said the Yard.
“Conversations between the pair involved Friary’s attempts to make arrangements to meet the individual – believing him to be a 15-year-old girl – with the intention of committing a sexual offence.”
Read on: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/14/online_grooming_man_jailed/
Previously: http://eotp.org/2011/08/13/2011-new-labour-cllr-john-friary-arrested-on-suspicion-of-grooming-underage-girl/
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(2012) New Labour Cllr. Milan Radulovic -IN COURT FOR BENEFIT FRAUD
A COUNCIL leader accused of a £45,000 benefit fraud is today set to step down, the Post can reveal.
Milan Radulovic, Labour leader of Broxtowe Borough Council, is accused of receiving an overpayment in his incapacity benefit of £45,511.
The Post understands this relates to allowances he is said to have claimed as a councillor, but did not declare as earnings.
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(2012) Ex-New Labour Cllr. Shelina Akhtar -3 COUNTS OF BENEFIT FRAUD
The disgraced Tower Hamlets councillor who admitted in court dishonestly claiming housing and council tax benefit continues to defy calls for her resignation.
Cllr Shelina Akhtar didn’t turn up for last night’s key council meeting—but sent apologies instead.
Mayor Lutfur Rahman had been the latest to call for her to step down, after demands from both the Labour Group leader and Tory Group leader for her to go.
She pleaded guilty on January 9 to three charges of failing to notify a change of circumstance and continued claiming benefits and will be sentenced on February 6.
Akhtar won her seat on the council in 2010, representing Spitalfields for Labour, but then defected to become an independent working alongside Mayor Rahman.
The mayor said earlier this month that council procedures had to be followed and the authority was waiting for the outcome of the court sentencing before deciding any further steps.
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(2010) New labour Cllr. Noel O’Brien (crime #3) -CONDITIONAL DISCHARGE & £85 FINE FOR ABUSIVE BEHAVIOUR
A FORMER councillor and college lecturer had to be wrestled to the floor by security staff when he tried to enter Blackburn College in breach of an order banning him from all campus buildings.
Blackburn magistrates heard Noel William O’Brien, a former Haslingden councillor, claimed he was attending a pre-arranged appointment and became abusive.
And when a police community support officer arrived and asked him to calm down he said she wasn’t a ‘proper copper’ and couldn’t tell him what to do.
O’Brien, 59, of Mercer Crescent, Haslingden, pleaded guilty to threatening behaviour.
He was given a conditional discharge for 12 months and ordered to pay £85 costs.
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New Labour Cllr. Noel O’Brien (crime #2) -ARRESTED
A FORMER councillor who dialled 999 claiming he was attacked in a wheelclamping row says police refused to respond – then arrested HIM when he called one of them a homosexual.
Noel O’Brien, 58, a former Labour councillor, rang police after going to reclaim his clamped car.
He claims he was assaulted by staff at the compound in Ardwick who hit him on the head with an extendable baton. The claim is denied by bosses at the company, NCP Services.
After he left the pound, Mr O’Brien made a number of calls to police and admits he became frustrated when they did not respond immediately and that he called one police operator `a homosexual’.
Noel O’Brien, from Haslingden, Rossendale, said he made the comment in frustration. He said the person who answered the phone sounded like the late Charles Hawtrey, the actor who played camp characters in the Carry On films.
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(2012) Farooq Ahmed -SUSPENDED FROM LABOUR PARTY AMID DRUG ALLEGATIONS
(2012) (Videos) New Labour M.P. Dianne Abbott -PUT A VILE RACIST MESSAGE ON THE INTERNET
Labour frontbencher Diane Abbott was threatened with the sack yesterday after she was accused of making racist comments.
The Shadow Minister for Public Health dived disastrously into the Stephen Lawrence debate – claiming that ‘white people love playing divide and rule’ with the black population.
Miss Abbott, the first black woman MP, was later forced to apologise for the comments posted on Twitter.
She then accused white people of peddling a ‘tactic as old as colonialism’.
Miss Abbott immediately faced calls to resign. Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi said if a white politician had made similar comments about blacks they would have had to quit.
Read on for the full story, pictures, and videos: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2082527/Diane-Abbott-Twitter-race-row-MP-faces-calls-resign-racist-tweet.html
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2011 New Labour’s Chris Baron -ABUSIVE AND THREATENING IN TRYING TO HIDE THE COUNCIL’S ACTION FROM THE PUBLIC
Labour Councillor Chris Baron, who represents Hucknall West on Ashfield Council, thinks that public servants, paid for by the taxpayer, should work out of sight of the public taxpayer.
In the video shown below, a person called Rebel Radius asks: “Who was that bastard at the end who INSISTED that public servant councillors have the right to conduct council work under privacy? That is not only totally corrupt it is also HIDING the potential for corruption.” Well that particular “bastard” was Chris Baron.
The background to the story is as follows, a patriotic YouTube blogger 61shirley had the temerity to attempt to record a public meeting of Ashfield District Council responding to two questions put to them by a gentleman called Tony Ellis who first asked if the council accepted the European Union had “no lawful jurisdiction over the Ashfield community and its representative council?’.
The second question was why was the European flag flying is outside the council offices “when you have all been made aware that this is unlawful in accordance with your oaths of office and current Parliamentary legislation?”
The council, after much waffling, finally admits that there is no legal requirement for them to fly the hated flag of our slavery – in the video you will hear the rat traitor Baron, when asked if he would now lower the hated flag say, that No he would not.
As you will see in the video Baron then loses the plot completely and reveals his real self by becoming abusive and threatening. The traitor Baron’s contact details can be found on his council web page here if you wish to email and politely point out the law to him.
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(Video) New Labour’s John Charles Taylor -INTERVIEWED BY POLICE FOR ASSAULT AND CRIMINAL DAMAGE
John Charles Taylor Interviewed under police caution after this incident. For assault, and criminal damage to the phone. 4.bp.blogspot.com Explanation to this video. I was walking past Councillor John Taylor, when I asked him to stop his wife from knocking on my door and giving me abuse. He told me to Fuck off, and I just wanted him to repeat what he had shouted at me. He then went into a mad rage, grabbed hold of my wrist and broke the phone Keeping up the high standards of Tameside Council. Deputy Leader Councillor John Charles Taylor Tameside Council Council Offices Wellington Road Tameside 0L6 6DL
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Court finds Bush and Blair guilty of war crimes
Those who lobbied to have George W. Bush and Tony Blair tried for their role in the Iraq War have finally got their wish. Though the verdict of the court carries no legal weight, its supporters believe its symbolic value is beyond doubt.
The court in Malaysia where the trial took place may not have the power to convict, but the verdict against the former British and American leaders was unanimous.
“War criminals have to be dealt with – convict Bush and Blair as charged. A guilty verdict will serve as a notice to the world that war criminals may run but can never ultimately hide from truth and justice,” the statement from the Perdana Global Peace Foundation read.
The foundation was set up by former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed, who was always a staunch opponent of the war against the regime of Saddam Hussain in 2003. He previously branded Blair and Bush “child-killers”.
The tribunal, which consisted of a former federal judge and several academics, paid particular attention to the failure of the Western military to find a single weapon of mass destruction in Iraq. WMDs were cited by the Western coalition as a major reason for their military intervention. It also declared the war to be in contravention of the will of the United Nations.
“The evidence showed that the drums of war were being beaten long before the invasion. The accused in their own memoirs have admitted their intention to invade Iraq regardless of international law,” said the tribunal.
The tribunal has no powers of enforcement, and as yet there has been no response from Bush or Blair. But the Perdana Peace Foundation says it hopes to maintain pressure from the international community on the two leaders, both of whom have now retired from domestic politics.
Meanwhile, Donald Rumsfeld, the US Secretary of Defence during the Iraq War, is next on the list to have his case heard by the mock court.
Read on: http://rt.com/news/court-bush-blair-iraq-043/
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(2011) Agent for New Labour’s Chris Bryant M.P. Stephen Carnell -JAILED FOR SERIOUS CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
Agent of Labour MP Chris Bryant is jailed for collecting 12,000 pictures of ‘the most serious child pornography police have seen’
Stephen Carnell was chairman of governors at a primary school in Mr Bryant’s constituency
Five laptops contained images of sadism, bestiality and child porn
He was also swapping images with other paedophiles
The agent of Labour MP Chris Bryant has been imprisoned after he was caught with a huge stash of ‘the most serious child pornography police have ever seen’.
Stephen Carnell, who was a chairman on a primary school board of governors in Mr Bryant’s south Wales constituency, was sentenced to three years in jail.
The 58-year-old was found with 12,130 pornographic images, as well as material showing sadism and bestiality, Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court was told.
A spokesman for Chris Bryant, above, said that any comment would come from Welsh Labour, who said: ‘Steve Carnell was expelled from the Labour Party immediately following his conviction’
When police visited his home, Carnell let them in, saying: ‘The child pornography is on my laptops. I’ve been stupid.’
Police saw the disturbing images on five laptops and storage equipment at his home, said David Pugh, prosecuting.
Mr Pugh said: ‘He was also distributing the images through internet file-sharing to swap with other paedophiles.’
The prosecutor said many of the images were of the most serious category, level four and five, showing ‘sexual activity with children, sadism and bestiality’.
He said Carnell had admitted to being ‘sexually interested in both male and female images on his computer’.
But he added: ‘Carnell denied being sexually attracted to children in real life.’
The election agent admitted a total of 47 charges, consisting of 35 counts of making indecent images, seven counts of possessing and four counts of distributing indecent photographs of children between May 2003 and March 2011.
There were 12,130 images and 453 films of paedophilia – showing the abuse of babies as young as 12 months as well as boys and girls up to the age of 11.
Stephen Jury, defending, said Carnell had a ‘good character’ and had been a ‘hard-working man’ for 39 years.
This is not a victimless crime – small children are subjected to the most appalling abuse for these photos and videos to be made. Anyone who is twisted enough to take part in this activity is going to be severely dealt with. This has been one of the largest number of images and movies I’ve ever had to deal with.
– JUDGE JOHN CURRAN
He said: ‘He has operated at a high professional level but he has lost his employment.
‘From the time he was arrested, he has co-operated and done what he can to assist police.
‘He appreciates the need to join a sex offenders’ treatment programme.’
A reference was handed to Judge John Curran but the author was not identified.
Judge Curran said: ‘This is not a victimless crime – small children are subjected to the most appalling abuse for these photos and videos to be made.
‘Anyone who is twisted enough to take part in this activity is going to be severely dealt with especially as there is an element of distribution.
‘This has been one of the largest number of images and movies I’ve ever had to deal with.’
Carnell was ordered to register as a sex offender for life and banned from ever working with children.
A spokesman for Mr Bryant said that any comment would come from Welsh Labour, who said: ‘Steve Carnell was expelled from the Labour Party immediately following his conviction.’
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(2011) New Labour Cllr. William O’Rourke -SAID OF 9-YEAR-OLD FEMALE RAPE VICTIM “WAS SHE ASKING FOR IT?”
A Glasgow councillor has been sacked from several council positions over inappropriate comments about a nine-year-old girl who said she was raped.
Councillor William O’Rourke is said to have asked if the child “wanted it to happen” during a disciplinary panel into the sacking of a care worker.
He has now been sacked from Strathclyde Police Authority, the personnel appeals committee and two other boards.
Councillor O’Rourke, 72, has also been suspended from the Labour Party.
It is understood his comments were made during a recent personnel appeals committee, which he was chairing.
A former care assistant was appealing against dismissal after being accused of raping the child.
The former employee was never charged and continues to deny the allegations.
Councillor O’Rourke’s comments to the personnel appeals committee were disgraceful”
A female police officer, who investigated the case, gave evidence before the personnel appeals committee last month.
She is believed to have made a complaint against Councillor O’Rourke over comments he made about the case.
It is understood that Councillor O’Rourke asked if force was used during the alleged rape and when she told him it was not, he is alleged to have asked: “So she wanted it to happen?”
Councillor O’Rourke is then alleged to have made other comments about the girl which prompted the complaint.
Council leader Gordon Matheson said: “Councillor O’Rourke’s behaviour falls way short of the standard I and the public expect of Glasgow councillors.
“Councillor O’Rourke’s comments to the personnel appeals committee were disgraceful. We are elected by the public to protect the vulnerable people of our city.
‘Corporate parents’
“Councillor O’Rourke not only failed in his duty to do this but he also made highly offensive and inappropriate statements about a vulnerable young person.
“Councillors are by law the corporate parents of those in our care. It is the single most important responsibility we hold and I will ensure that every member of this council lives up to that responsibility.”
Councillor O’Rourke has been removed from Strathclyde Police Authority, the personnel appeals committee and the boards of council-owned companies City Parking and Glasgow City Markets.
He has also been suspended by the Labour Party pending Standards Commission and party investigations.
According to Labour 25, The Police Woman made report of what Labour Party paedophile protector Councillor William O’Rouke was saying and all hell broke 
loose. Another Labour Councillor Johann Lamont who made her comments on a rape case from a Councillor from another party, kept silent on her own party on this bigger Paedophile issue, as the whole sex crime episode had just gone full circle and bit her on the arse.
Labour Party paedophile protector William O’Rouke then added that because the childs mother was a prostitute, it meant that the child also knew what she was doing.. his words were ”she is not a typical innocent 9 year old girl.” Then he added.. ” she was older sexually than here age” and he explained that it was not bad for a child of a prostute mother and poor background to see that it was not a crime to ‘have’ a child of her background.
Two more Labour Councillors Jim Scanlon 
and Jim Todd were at the meeting in which Labour Councillor William O’Rouke was ‘Ranting’… And said NOTHING !
This is disgracefull behaviour. If you are in the Labour Party you are Either a Paedophile or a Paedophile protector… and that means if you speak out aloud to protect paedophiles like William O’Rouke did… or you stay silent like Labour Party Councillors Johann Lamont, Jim Scanlon & Jim Todd..
Shame on all Four of you !
Read on: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-12664554
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(2011) New Labour Mayor -RACIAL SLUR
PADIHAM Mayor Bob Clark has avoided suspension from duty over a racial slur he made against a Burnley call centre worker.
Coun. Clark was hauled before the Standards Committee after he was caught on tape making the remark against a Calico Homes employee during a telephone conversation.
The popular community figure admitted he was “totally ashamed” of his behaviour, which the Burnley town hall hearing was told left complainant Mr Hafiz Rehman feeling shocked and confused.
Coun. Clark, who has an “exemplary” record for charity and community work in his hometown, was found to have breached the Code of Conduct for Members on two counts – failing to treat other with respect and bringing his office into disrepute.
However, he was not found to have caused the local authority to breach the Equality Act 2010.
The Standards Committee panel took the decision to censure Coun. Clark as well as sending the serving Mayor of Padiham on diversity training.
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(2011) New Labour Cllr, Darren Pedley -CHARGED WITH DOWNLOADING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
A former Rochdale Councillor has appeared before magistrates accused of downloading child pornography.
Thirty-nine year-old Darren Pedley, who was a Labour Councillor for Balderstone and Kirkholt between 2004-2007, has been charged with 12 counts of making indecent images of children. The charges relate to incidents in October 2010.
Mr Pedley, of Daventry Road, Kirkholt, appeared at Rochdale Magistrates court on Monday (19 September). He was bailed until Monday 14 November.
Laura Jeffrey, aged 30, also of Daventry Road, Kirkholt, has been charged with 12 counts of possessing and making indecent images of children. She too has been bailed until November 14.
The pair are banned from unsupervised contact with children under 16, banned from the internet and must reside at their Daventry Road address, under conditions of bail.
According to Labour 25+
Labour Party Darren Pedley also saught a job around Toddlers and Children as young as 4 years old Sandbrook Primary School. Labour25 Darren Pedley took it upon himslef to be the School Governor.
Once again…. A Labour Councillor gets the job of being near little children and goes home to his computer with the intentions of downloading sickening images of children because he has been near children all day and it has aroused him sexually.
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(2011) New Labour’s Margaret Moran -FACING 21 CHARGES FOR EXPENSES SCANDAL
Miss Moran, one of the last politicians investigated over the MPs’ expenses scandal, will appear before magistrates facing 21 charges relating to her parliamentary claims.
The former MP for Luton South, will appear before City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court on September 19, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
The Director of Public Prosecutions said there were no more parliamentary expenses fraud cases awaiting review.
Keir Starmer QC said “there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest” to bring criminal charges against Moran.
Miss Moran, who has been suspended by her party, claimed more than £20,000 for the treatment of dry rot at her Southampton home.
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New Labour Cllr. Michael Barnes -7 DIFFERENT CHARGES RELATING TO CHILD PORN
Labour Councillor (Stoke/Staffordshire), Michael Barnes, the civic-minded and virtuous Councillor Barnes appeared at North Staffordshire Magistrates Court, to face seven different charges relating to child pornography
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(2011) New Labour Cllr. Toren Smith -PAEDOPHILE WHO IS SPARED JAIL
Above: this paedophile danger to your children is still on the streets thanks to the corrupt judiciary and government.
A former south London councillor who admitted making indecent images of children has been spared a jail term.
Toren Smith, 42, resigned as a Labour councillor in Lambeth after his arrest in May last year.
At Southwark Crown Court he pleaded guilty to 24 counts of possessing or making indecent images of children.
Smith, of Lilford Road, Camberwell, was given a 12-month suspended sentence and ordered to sign the sex offenders register for at least five years.
He was also made subject to a sex offender prevention order for five years.
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(2011) New Labour Cllr. John Friary -ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF GROOMING UNDERAGE GIRL
A Labour councillor with close links to Harriet Harman and Tessa Jowell has been arrested on suspicion of grooming an underage girl for sex.
John Friary, 51, was questioned by Scotland Yard’s paedophile unit and has been sacked from his position on a council.
He has frequently canvassed at elections with Ms Harman and Ms Jowell who are both members of Ed Miliband’s shadow cabinet.
For more details on John Friary and his associates, and Harriet Harman and the PAEDOPHILE INFORMATION EXCHANGE, please click here
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(2011) New labour Cllr. Mark Burton -CHARGED WITH TWO SEX OFFENCES; ONE AGAINST A CHILD.
A COUNCILLOR has been remanded in custody and suspended by his party after being charged with two sexual offences.
Mark Burton was arrested only days after this month’s council elections and was charged with two offences, one against a child.
Councillor Burton was re-elected to serve the Harrowgate Hill ward on Darlington Borough Council for a second four-year term on May 5.
The 42-year-old Labour councillor was arrested three days later and charged with an offence of sexual assault and a second for sexual touching of a child.
He later appeared in front of magistrates inNewton Aycliffe, where he was remanded in custody until his next hearing on June 15. No pleas have yet been entered.
He has been suspended by his party pending the outcome of the investigation.
New council leader Bill Dixon referred The Northern Echo to the party’s regional group yesterday.
A Labour North spokesman said: “Coun Mark Burton has been placed on an administrative suspension from the Labour Party and Darlington Labour Group pending the outcome of police inquiries.
“He is unable to hold any position with, or represent, the Labour Party during his suspension.
“It would be inappropriate to comment further until police investigations are complete.”
A spokeswoman at Darlington Borough Council said: “Coun Mark Burton has been charged with two offences of a sexual nature.
“The case is still being investigated by the police and the usual child protection procedures are being followed.
“We understand that he is currently remanded in custody.
“The councillor has been suspended from the Labour group and has therefore not been put forward for seats on any of the committees.
“At this stage, the council does not have powers to take any action to suspend him.”
She added that ward matters in Harrowgate Hill would be dealt with by the two other Labour councillors – John Vasey and Marjory Knowles.
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(2011) New Labour’s Eliot Morely -JAILED FOR “FALSE ACCOUNTING”/THEFT FROM TAXPAYER
Morley, a former Labour environment minister, pleaded guilty last month to claiming more than £30,000 in bogus mortgage payments.
He entered two guilty pleas for false accounting relating to his home in Winterton, near Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, between 2004 and 2007.
Morley was sentenced at London’s Southwark Crown Court.
A Labour Party spokesman said: “Elliot Morley had already been suspended from the Labour Party and following his custodial sentence he has now been excluded from the party.”
Morley, who appeared flushed throughout the hearing, showed no emotion as the sentence was delivered.
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(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.”
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(2011) New Labour M.P. Jim Devine -GUILTY OF THEFT FROM TAXPAYER/”EXPENSES FRAUD”
Ex-Labour MP Jim Devine has been found guilty of dishonestly claiming £8,385 of expenses by using false invoices for cleaning and printing work.
The ex-MP for Livingston, 57, was found guilty on two counts, but cleared of a third count, relating to £360.
Devine nodded as the verdicts were delivered. Sentencing is in four weeks. The maximum jail term is seven years.
He was the first MP to stand trial in the wake of the revelations about Parliamentary expenses claims.
The jury took two hours and 45 minutes to agree their verdicts on the three counts.
Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, said the case against Devine was “very straightforward”, saying Devine made the fraudulent claims “with a view to gain for himself, or with an intent to cause loss to another – the public purse”.
He said the Green Book guide for MPs made clear that when claiming expenses MPs should be guided by the principles of “selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership”.
‘Plainly dishonest’
Read on http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12403945
Jim Devine’s account ‘incredible’, jurors told
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New Labour Parasite Quietly Repays £5,000 of £2,500,000 Sucked from Taxpayer and is Let Off
A Labour peer who claimed £250,000 in parliamentary expenses on a flat she visited only occasionally was spared punishment after quietly repaying £5,000.
Baroness Goudie, a friend of Gordon and Sarah Brown, admitted that she did not spend the majority of her time at the £200,000 flat in Glasgow, despite designating it as her main home for the purposes of her House of Lords allowances.
This enabled her to claim overnight expenses on the £1.5 million mews house in Belgravia, central London, she shared with her barrister husband, James.
Lady Goudie, who grew up in the capital and raised a family there, also admitted that she usually spent parliamentary recesses at a holiday home in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Following a year-long investigation, the Clerk of the Parliaments, Michael Pownall, said he had “doubts” about the designation of the flat as a main residence. But no further action was taken after Lady Goudie apologised in writing.
She also repaid £5,130.50 voluntarily which she had claimed for a three-month period when she had not visited the Glasgow flat at all because of ill-health.
In total, Lady Goudie claimed about £168,000 in overnight expenses and £82,000 for travel to and from the property over a nine-year period.
Three months ago, she sold the flat for a profit of £50,000, and now designates her London address as her main home.
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Blast from the past: Wirral Mayor Andrew Hodson’s firm in illegal workers investigation
‘Blast from the past’ is past news that suddenly falls on our desk.
WIRRAL’S Mayor has defended his company after it was revealed the firm provided work for alleged illegal immigrants.
Cllr Andrew Hodson is a director and part-owner of Birkenhead-based Entire Facility Management Services, which gave cleaning work to seven suspected illegal workers.
But he said his company had complied with all Government regulations and had taken correct documentation from the workers.
The UK Border Agency said on Monday it was still investigating whether any action would be taken against the company, but Cllr Hodson said he had been told they had done everything properly.
He said: “They were using false passports. The company went through all the proper procedures of employing people, taking copies of passports, National Insurance numbers and they were paid through bank accounts.
“The Borders Agency people said they had done everything they should have and the company was not at fault.”
Cllr Hodson said he had “taken a back seat” in the company since he became Mayor last year, but insisted the firm had done everything it should, and this had helped the UKBA track down the illegal staff.
He said: “The question is how are these people getting into the country on false passports and how are they getting bank accounts?”
One man, who was subsequently arrested in Manchester, has been removed from the country, according to UKBA.
Three others – two women, one from the Democratic Republic of Congo and one from Brazzaville, Congo, and a man from the Ivory Coast, who were arrested in Liverpool, have been remanded in custody, awaiting court appearances.
A spokeswoman for the UKBA said: “Enquiries are ongoing in relation to the other illegal workers arrested”.
Jo Liddy, Regional Director of the UK Border Agency in the North West, said the arrests “are part of an ongoing clampdown on illegal working in Merseyside.”
She said: “Anyone in Merseyside who takes on a foreign national without permission to work in the UK is breaking the law, undermining law abiding businesses and faces a big fine.
“There are strict rules about which foreign nationals can get a job in the UK, and businesses have a clear responsibility to carry out the right checks.”
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(2011) New Labour M.P. Eric Illsley -ADMITS TO STEALING MONEY FROM TAXPAYER
Eric Illsley went from Honourable Member to criminal in the half second it took to plead guilty. Three times he was forced to declare his guilt, admitting three counts of claiming parliamentary expenses dishonestly.
Separated from the outside world by the toughened glass of the dock at Southwark Crown Court, the still-serving member for Barnsley Central stared ahead impassively as a tawdry list of fiddles amounting to some £14,500 was read out. Council tax and telephone charges over-claimed from the taxpayer; utilities bills, too.
The bluff Yorkshireman, keen on caravanning and known to down the odd pint, should enjoy a drink while he can. In a few weeks’ time he can expect to follow that other ex-Labour MP, David Chaytor, to prison. Chaytor got 18 months; Illsley, who has admitted stealing less, can hope for a shorter term.
William Coker QC, his brief, served notice that he would attempt to secure a shorter stay behind bars for his client due to the ill-health of his wife.
Illsley, 55, who proudly proclaims his council house birth on his website, was one of those unspectacular backbenchers supposedly destined for a long and comfortable parliamentary career by virtue of a safe seat. Grammar school and university educated (in law), he worked as an administrator in the National Union of Mineworkers before succeeding Roy Mason in Barnsley, where Labour votes are weighed rather than counted. They weigh rather less nowadays, but Illsley’s majority was still more than 10,000 last year when, due to the lateness of the decision to prosecute him, he was allowed to stand for Labour in the general election.
The whip was withdrawn only in May when he was charged.
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(2011) New Labour M.P. David Chaytor -JAILED FOR “FALSE ACCOUNTING” (THEFT FROM TAXPAYER)
The first entry for 2011 is welcome news. Let us hope he is the first of many to realise in prison that he is not above the law.
Chaytor, 61, became the first politician to be convicted and sentenced over the MPs’ expenses scandal revealed by the Daily Telegraph.
The judge said the scandal had angered the public and “shaken public confidence in the legislature”.
Chaytor submitted bogus invoices to support claims totalling £22,650 for IT services and renting homes in London and his Bury North constituency.
He was convicted last month at the Old Bailey of three counts of theft by false accounting under section 17 of the Theft Act 1968.
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(2010) New Labour’s Kerry McCarthy MP -cautioned for illegal post of election results
The Labour frontbencher Kerry McCarthy has been given a police caution after illegally revealing election results on Twitter. The Bristol East MP, who was installed as the party’s “Twitter tsar” by the former leader Gordon Brown, used the social networking site to give details of postal votes in April. She boasted to thousands of followers that an early batch showed Labour receiving far more support in her constituency than the Conservatives or the Liberal Democrats – providing figures to back up her claim.
Credit where credit’s due: McCarthy was reported by the Sunlight Centre for Open Politics
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Expenses scandal: three face suspension from House of Lords
Three peers investigated over their expenses claims face suspension from the House of Lords and repayment of tens of thousands of pounds, The Sunday Telegraph has learned
The trio – two Labour peers and a cross-bencher – are expected to be officially recommended for censure in a statement tomorrow by the House of Lords authorities.
Baroness Uddin, a Labour peer and the first Muslim woman to be appointed to the upper house, is set to be suspended from the Lords for between a year and 18 months, and has agreed to pay back £125,000 in wrongly claimed expenses.
Lord Paul, another Labour peer and a major party donor, has been recommended for a suspension of between four and six months and has agreed to pay back £40,000.
Lord Bhatia, who sits as a cross-bencher but has also donated money to Labour, faces a ban of between six and 12 months and is to repay voluntarily £27,000.
All three were investigated by the subcommittee on Lords’ interests, a powerful body in the upper house chaired by Baroness Manningham-Buller, the former head of MI5. Lord Paul and Lady Uddin were referred to the committee after criminal investigations into their cases were dropped.
Last night none of the trio was prepared to comment on the results of the investigation and its recommendations on punishments – which will now be passed to the House of Lords to vote on. However, a source close to the investigation said: “This looks extremely serious for them.”
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(2010) New Labour Eric Illsey -CHARGED WITH FALSE ACCOUNTING
Eric Illsley the Labour MP for Barnsley Central has been summoned to Westminister Magistrates for three charges of false accounting in his expenses.
Oink.
UPDATE: Seems there was some discrepancy in council tax claims. Illsley claimed £10,000 over four years for a Lambeth Band C property.
Thanks, Guido
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(2010) New Labour’s Margaret Moran may be fifth MP to face court
A fifth Labour MP is likely to face criminal charges over the alleged abuse of taxpayer-funded parliamentary expenses, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
Detectives have spent several months looking into claims made by Margaret Moran, the former MP for Luton South. She is expected to be charged within weeks, according to well-placed Whitehall sources. It is understood that officers suspect Miss Moran of submitting claims for work which was not conducted at the property designated as her second home for parliamentary purposes. Other invoices may have been inflated or the dates altered.
The Labour MP was exposed by The Daily Telegraph for making some of the most controversial claims after it emerged that she had repeatedly “flipped” her designated second home. She made expenses claims for at least three different properties, in London, Luton and Southampton, over a four-year period. Miss Moran claimed more than £20,000 for the treatment of dry rot at the Southampton home – almost 100 miles from either her constituency or Westminster. However, it has not previously been disclosed that she was under police investigation. The former MP, who was forced to step down at the last election, is now set to join four other Labour politicians facing court over their expenses claims. The Metropolitan Police are still understood to be investigating a further two or three MPs, including the former Labour member Harry Cohen.
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(2010) New Labour M.P. Margaret Moran -CASH FOR INFLUENCE SCANDAL
(2009) New labour M.P. Margaret Moran -PARASITE
Newspaper Mounts Campaign to Oust Corrupt New Labour M.P. Margaret Moran
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(2010) New Labour’s Denic MacShane -INVESTIGATED BY THE MET.
“At its meeting on 12 October, the Committee agreed that the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards should report to the Metropolitan Police Service the conduct of the Rt hon Member for Rotherham, Mr Denis MacShane. In accordance with procedures agreed in 2008 between the Committee on Standards and Privileges, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards and the Metropolitan Police, the Commissioner’s inquiry into a complaint against Mr MacShane will be suspended until the question of possible criminal proceedings has been resolved.” Standards and Privileges Committee:
Denis MacShane claimed £125,000 of taxpayers’ money in office costs for this:
The Telegraph notes that the suspected fraudster “also submitted more than a dozen invoices to the Parliamentary authorities from the “European Policy Institute”. Each bill was for “research and translation”. The EPI was controlled by his brother, Edmund Matyjaszek. The mysterious European Policy Institute was it seems founded by MacShane in 1992 and he served as its director until 1994. Fancy that. See below:
Thanks to Guido Fawkes for this information.
It seems ex-police officer Michael Barnbrook was responsible for firstly bringing this to light. Kudos to that man.
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(2010) New Labour M.P. Phil Woolas -RACE HATE CHARGES
- Former minister accused of stirring up racial hatred by falsely claiming his rival, Lib Dem candidate Elwyn Watkins, was in league with Muslim extremists
- Pamphlets claimed his opponent supported a Muslim hate campaign which had made death threats against Mr Woolas
- A mock newspaper also claimed that Mr Watkins was funded by a rich sheikh, that he illegally channelled funds through foreign doors and that he spent £160,000 more than the legal limit on his campaign
- It was said that Mr Watkins, ‘a single man who lives alone with his mother’, lied about where he lived and broke his promise to move into the constituency
- Mr Watkins’ photograph was also allegedly ‘doctored’, with him being superimposed on a picture with two police officers in an article suggesting Mr Watkins was paying staff less than the minimum wage
Labour’s former immigration minister attempted to stir up racial hatred and ‘make the white folk angry’ with his opponent in a desperate bid to keep his seat in Parliament, a court heard yesterday.
Phil Woolas is alleged to have orchestrated a dirty tricks campaign during the general election, claiming his rival, Liberal Democrat Elwyn Watkins, was in league with ‘mad Muslim’ extremists to swing the local vote in his favour.
Yesterday High Court judges convened an election court – the first in almost 100 years – to hear explosive claims of how the MP was so fixated on retaining his tightly-fought seat that he devised a ‘s*** or bust’ strategy.
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Kettle and the Pot: Tory Chairman Warsi Accuses Labour’s Asians of Vote Rigging
This will be explosive. Mehdi Hassan of the New Statesman has an interview with Baroness Warsi in which the Tory chairman accuses the Asian community of electoral fraud. Specifically, she claims the Tories lost three seats because of ballot irregularities. Here’s the extract:
“At least three seats where we lost, where we didn’t gain the seat, based on electoral fraud. Now, could we have planned for that in the campaign? Absolutely not.”
This is the first time a senior minister has made such a blunt and specific allegation about the impact of electoral fraud on the general election result. Can she reveal the names of those seats? “I think it would be wrong to start identifying them,” she says, but adds: “It is predominantly within the Asian community. I have to look back and say we didn’t do well in those communities, but was there something over and above that we could have done? Well, actually not, if there is going to be voter fraud.”
The rest of the vote riggers, including many Tories, can be found here: http://eotp.org/tag/vote-rigging/
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(2010) New Labour Cllr. Gilbert Davidson -SEXUAL HARASSMENT
A MARRIED city councillor has been arrested over claims he acted inappropriately towards a female colleague.
Gilbert Davidson – who represents Glasgow’s North East ward – was charged by police after allegedly leaving a suggestive voicemail on former Lord Provost Liz Cameron’s mobile phone.
Glasgow’s North East ward – was charged by police after allegedly leaving a suggestive voicemail on former Lord Provost Liz Cameron’s mobile phone.
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(2010) New Labour Cllr. John Holden -CHARGED WITH BENEFIT FRAUD
A Highland councillor has been charged following an investigation into alleged benefit fraud.
John Holden, who represents the Inverness South ward, was investigated by police, Highland Council and the Department of Work and Pensions in 2008.
The Crown Office confirmed Mr Holden has been charged, but declined to give any further details.
The case against him is due to call at Inverness Sheriff Court next month.
Mr Holden has said he would rigorously defend the case.
The Labour councillor has been suspended from the party’s group on the council.
A Scottish Labour spokesman added: “As a police investigation is ongoing it would be inappropriate to comment further.”
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(2010) New Labour Cllr Rizwan Malik -FINED FOR RENTING OUT RAT-INFESTED SLUM HOUSING
A MASSIVE fine landed on a company which rented out “rat-infested” properties in Liverpool lead to the resignation of a housing committee chief – in Bradford.
Premier Housing, based in the West Yorkshire city, was hit with penalties and costs totalling £39,180 over the state of houses in Laburnum Road and Holt Road, Kensington.
A director of the company, Cllr Rizwan Malik resigned his role as chairman of the Bradford’s housing committee and is under investigation by his own Labour party leaders.
The flats above a shop in Holt Road housed Eastern European immigrants who spoke little English. The properties were found to be infested with rats.
The walls were daubed with graffiti, the fire alarms did not work, and kitchen and bathroom fittings were in disrepair.
The company’s website claims it is “committed to providing quality rental properties that are fully maintained at all times”.
When contacted by the ECHO, Cllr Malik, 32, said: “I’ve been advised by the leadership team that I’m still under further investigation and questioning so I can’t really make any comment at this stage.”
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The British “Democratic” System: Does this damage the Morale of British Troops, General?
Failing to vote in the general election would damage the morale of British troops, according to the former head of the Army.
General Sir Richard Dannatt has spoken of his concern that the abuse of MPs expenses will lead to voter apathy and warned that this is not what men and women “risking life and limb in the national interest” in Afghanistan would want.
He said it was important that every member of the electorate should cast a vote and show that the sacrifices made in Afghanistan are supported by everyone at home.
Perhaps general Dannat would care to look at the system he so whimsically champions?
Are you and the British Army glad to be defending this grotesque monstrosity that masquerades as “democracy”?
“most shambolic, incompetent and fraudulent elections Britain has ever witnessed.”
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The Parasite is not so Easily Removed from the Back of the People…
Above: M.P.s are not so tolerant of interlopers (those appointed to give the taxpayer justice) muscling in on their patch.
A senior official tasked with cleaning up the Westminster’s expenses system, has said he left the post “for the sake of my health and sanity” amid a backlash from some MPs.
Nigel Gooding has left his job as operations director of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) following a series of rows with MPs, some of whom have been left up to £20,000 worse off under new stricter rules.
The 46-year-old civil servant was employed on a six-month contract to launch IPSA and implement cuts including an end to public subsidies on lavish second homes and first-class train trips
However, he has stood down from his role, telling the Mail on Sunday: “I have left the job for the sake of my health and sanity.”
IPSA was forced to erect a sign at its Commons offices warning MPs: ‘We will not tolerate abuse of staff.’
Many MPs have complained about IPSA’s handling of their expenses and the implementation of the new rules.
Paul Farrelly, a Labour MP, sent a complaint to Mr Gooding and said the new system was “prehistoric, amateurish, self-defeating and bureaucracy gone mad”.
He wrote: “I have been asked for a copy of my passport or birth certificate to prove my date of birth. Why that is necessary, I do not know. More importantly, as I have used my overdraft limit, my mortgage payment will bounce, causing me embarrassment and further charges You could easily have saved us all this aggravation.”
Mr Gooding’s previous jobs included launching the National Rail Enquiries service and the flu pandemic hot line.
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(2010) New Labour MP Eric Illsley -CHARGED UNDER THE THEFT ACT.
A Labour MP who was only returned to the Commons in the general election earlier this month is to face a criminal prosecution over his Parliamentary expenses.
Eric Illsley faces three charges under the Theft Act on suspicion of dishonestly claiming £20,000 in council tax and other domestic charges over three years.
He will appear at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court on June 17.
Mr Illsley is the fifth politician to be charged over the expenses scandal. However, he is the only serving MP to have to face charges, after three others quit at the last election.
Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, said after reviewing the evidence “we concluded that there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest to bring criminal charges against Eric Illsley MP”.
The charges allege that “Mr Illsley dishonestly claimed expenses in relation to council tax, service and maintenance charges, repairs and insurance charges, and utilities and communications charges for his second home in Renfrew Road, London”.
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(Video) New Labour M.P. Ed Balls
Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper, the husband and wife Cabinet ministers, “flipped” the designation of their second home to three different properties within the space of two years.
After being elected to Parliament for the first time in 1997, Miss Cooper, now the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, designated a modest property in her constituency of Castleford, west Yorkshire, as her second home, and began claiming mortgage interest payments on her parliamentary allowances.
In May 2005, after Mr Balls was elected MP for Normanton, Miss Cooper “flipped” her second home to the family house she shared with her husband and their three children in south London. The couple both began claiming a half share of the £1,466 mortgage interest, a sum of £733 each compared with the £530 she had been paying in Yorkshire.
Ed Balls “flipped” his house three times;
He claimed for a remembrance poppy wreath (even though he and his wife, Yvette Cooper, have an income of a staggering £300,000;
He took an £89,000 payment for producing two pamphlets for the Smith Institute in 9 months. The Smith Institute charity was a front for Gordon Brown and was criticised by the Charity Commission for supporting Brownite political projects. Gordon Brown’s allies Lord Myners and Wilf Stevenson resigned from the Smith Institute following the report and it was widely perceived to be a slush fund for Brown’s leadership ambitions;
He also thinks it is acceptable to teach innocent 4-year-old children –children who are still coming to terms with shapes, words and colours– sex education including HOMOSEXUAL SEX. (One might credibly ask, “When is paedophilia not paedophilia?”)
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(Video) Disaster: 13 years of Labour
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(2009) New Labour MP Denis MacShane -PARASITE
Labour MP Denis MacShane has claimed nearly £20,000 a year in expenses for an office based in the garage of his South Yorkshire home.
The former Europe Minister has claimed £125,000 over the past seven years to cover the costs of running his official constituency base from the shabby-looking garage of his semi-detached home in Rotherham.
His most recent claim was for £18,400.
Last night, one fellow Labour MP privately said he was ‘very surprised’ at the scale of Mr MacShane’s claims given that he does not have to pay to rent an office.
‘I pay £6,000 a year in rent so if he doesn’t have to pay that, it sounds like a lot of money,’ said the MP.
MPs normally spend most of their ‘Incidental Expenses Provision’ on their constituency base, as Commons’ offices are provided free of charge – including telephone and heating bills – while staff salaries are paid separately.
There was little sign yesterday of the office costs spent at Mr MacShane’s home.
The windows of the garage were covered with black plastic, ensuring that no one could peer inside, while a black wheelie-bin guarded the wooden doors. Paint was peeling from the garage doors.
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Labour MP Denis MacShane claims expenses for eight laptops… in just three years
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(2010) New Labour Candidate -ARRESTED AFTER CAR CRASH
A Labour general election candidate was arrested after crashing her car into a roundabout, says her agent.
Kathryn Smith, standing in Gravesham, is understood to have been breathalysed at the scene. Her agent said she had asked to provide a blood sample.
She was taken to hospital after the incident at University Way, Dartford, on Monday but was not seriously hurt.
Kent police said a 49-year-old woman had been arrested and bailed to 10 July, pending further inquiries.
She is understood to have been cut from the car by firefighters after crashing into a roundabout at about 10pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8650411.stm
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(Video) New Labour’s Leader Turns his Anger on the People
EVEN the Labour Party faithful ought to be in despair at this refreshing honesty from the leader of a party that once could be said to support the people.
The two faces of the Labour regime are most apparent: the concerned, understanding and empathetic side that wants to retain a grip on its illegitimate power -at all cost; and the more characteristic, haughty, and malevolent side that is concerned, understanding and empathetic to only its own cause.
Actions speak louder than words: watch the leader of the Labour Party in his truest form; in his most billious contempt for everyday people who question the corrupt status quo. One of many warnings -of that much is certain.
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(2010) New Labour Council Leader Richard Leese -CAUTIONED FOR ASSAULT
Richard Leese, the Labour leader of Manchester city council, has stepped down temporarily with immediate effect after being arrested and cautioned for assaulting his stepdaughter.
He said in a statement today: “I’ve asked the Labour group and party to allow me a necessary period of time out, as long as is needed, to resolve serious family issues.
“This request has been agreed and the deputy leaders will be taking on my responsibilities. My wife Joanne and I and our family would appreciate it if we could be left in peace during this period.”
A spokesman for the council insisted his resignation was temporary.
Leese was arrested on Monday night and spent nearly 20 hours in custody after police were called to his home in Crumpsall to deal with a claim that a 16-year-old girl had been assaulted.
He was taken to Pendleton police station, in Salford, where he spent the night before being questioned by officers.
The 58-year-old was released just before 7pm yesterday after accepting a caution, which is an admission of guilt.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/14/richard-leese-resigns-stepdaughter-assault-manchester
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(2010) New Labour Cllr. Simon Crew -IN COURT OVER BENEFIT FRAUD
A Bristol city councillor has appeared in court over a £3,000 benefits fraud.
Labour councillor Simon Crew, who represents Brislington East, appeared at North Somerset Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
Crew, 34, is accused of receiving carers allowance benefit that he was not entitled to totalling £3,554.
He pleaded not guilty to failing to notify the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) of a change in circumstances which would affect his entitlement to benefits or other payments.
Crew also pleaded not guilty to receiving earnings in excess of the prescribed limits while in receipt of benefit.
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(2010) New Labour M.P. Richard Caborn -CASH FOR INFLUENCE
Mr Caborn is thought to have told the fake firm, created as part of a sting operation by Channel 4’s Dispatches, that he preferred to work for niche nuclear companies who paid him much more money than big nuclear firms.
The MP for Sheffield Central is a director of Nuclear Management Partners and a consultant to AMEC, a construction firm in the nuclear industry. The former sports minister is also a consultant to the Fitness Industry Association. Both former ministers deny any wrongdoing.
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(2010) New Labour M.P. Adam Ingram -CASH FOR INFLUENCE
Mr Ingram, the MP for East Kilbride, is understood to have cited work he does for a defence firm in Libya as evidence of his experience in the field of business. He already makes up to £170,000 a year from consultancy work and non-executive directorships while also drawing his MP’s salary of £63,291.
One of his five outside jobs includes providing consultancy services to Argus Libya UK LLP, a firm that explores commercial opportunities in Colonel Gaddafi’s country. Mr Ingram also makes up to £55,000 advising Electronic Data Services Ltd, a Ministry of Defence contractor; about £50,000 from SignPoint Secure Ltd, and up to £25,000 from Argus Scotland Ltd.
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Yet MORE Corruption: MPs’ foreign visit rules breached
Hundreds of breaches of parliamentary rules by MPs who accepted free overseas trips from foreign governments have been uncovered by a BBC investigation.
More than 20 MPs broke rules on declaring hospitality in questions or debates after visiting locations such as the Maldives, Cyprus and Gibraltar.
The MPs – from Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems – breached parliamentary regulations on more than 400 occasions.
One former standards watchdog says it shows MPs cannot regulate themselves.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8580183.stm
The Conservative Party MPs named by the BBC are: David Amess (Southend West), Crispin Blunt (Reigate), Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West), David Burrowes (Enfield Southgate), Alan Duncan (Rutland and Melton), Liam Fox (Woodspring), Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead), Andrew Rosindell (Romford), Richard Spring (West Suffolk) and Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet).
The Liberal Democrat MPs named by the BBC are: Norman Baker (Lewes), Colin Breed (South East Cornwall), Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South) and Paul Keetch (Hereford).
The Labour MPs named by the BBC are: Andrew Dismore (Hendon), Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton), Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley), Bob Laxton (Derby North), David Lepper (Brighton Pavilion), Andrew Love (Edmonton), Madeleine Moon (Bridgend) and Rudi Vis (Finchley and Golders Green).
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(2010) New Labour M.P. Margaret Moran -CASH FOR INFLUENCE SCANDAL
Miss Moran, the disgraced Luton MP who was forced to pay back £22,500 in expenses, boasted she could telephone a “girls’ gang” of colleagues to help clients, including Jacqui Smith, the former home secretary, Hazel Blears, the former communities secretary, and Harriet Harman, the deputy leader of the Labour party.
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(2010) New Labour Geoff Hoon -CASH FOR INFLUENCE SCANDAL
Mr Hoon, the former defence secretary, offered to lead delegations to ministers and said he was looking to turn his knowledge and contacts into “something that frankly makes money”, and added he charged £3,000 a day.
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(2010) New Labour M.P. Patricia Hewitt -CASH FOR INFLUENCE SCANDAL
Hewitt, a former health secretary, claimed she was paid £3,000 a day to help a client obtain a key seat on a Government advisory group.
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VIDEO (2010) New Labour M.P. Stephen Byers -CASH FOR INFLUENCE SCANDAL
A FORMER Labour cabinet minister has boasted about how he used his government contacts to change policies in favour of businesses.
Stephen Byers, former trade and transport secretary, was secretly recorded offering himself “like a sort of cab for hire” for up £5,000 a day. He also suggested bringing Tony Blair to meet clients.
Mr Byers allegedly said he had brokered a secret deal with Lord Adonis, the current transport secretary, on behalf of National Express, which he said was seeking to abandon the loss-making East Coast rail franchise without incurring financial penalties.
According to the investigation Mr Byers said: “We agreed with Andrew (Adonis) … he would be publicly very critical of National Express” as long as terms which favoured the company were agreed.
Mr Byers also claimed clients would benefit from the “trump card” of his friendship with Lord Mandelson, the business secretary.
It is alleged he once telephoned Lord Mandelson to put a stop to “massively bureaucratic” food labelling regulations after he was contacted by Tesco. Tesco has denied the claim.
After the allegations emerged Mr Byers issued a statement saying he had “exaggerated” his claims, and that he had retracted them the day after the meeting in an email.
Lord Adonis and National Express have also denied the accusations. Lord Mandelson said he had “no recollection” of talking to Mr Byers about the issue
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7068820.ece
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‘Thieves’ who think they’re above the law: Three Labour MPs charged with expenses fraud argue a court has no right to put them on trial
Three Labour MPs at the centre of the expenses scandal tried to wriggle out of a criminal trial yesterday.
Although charged at Westminster magistrates’ court with claiming a combined total of almost £60,000 in fraudulent expenses, they insisted the courts had no jurisdiction over them.
Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine argued that, under the 321-year-old Bill of Rights, they could be judged only by the House of Commons.
At first, they declined even to stand in the dock – until told in no uncertain terms by the judge that they must.
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Labour donor Willie Haughey linked to cocaine city councillor
A BIG Labour donor faces allegations of “cash for favours” over his links to a disgraced council leader who confessed to using cocaine.
Willie Haughey, who has given £1m to Labour, is alleged to have benefited financially from a series of decisions involving the former leader of Glasgow city council. The allegations raise serious questions about the far-reaching influence of a party donor.
Haughey, a former director at Celtic football club, is one of Scotland’s most influential businessmen. Last year, he attended a private dinner in Glasgow where the guests included the prime minister and Jim Murphy, the Scottish secretary. In February, he donated a two-week holiday at his villa in Florida for a Labour fundraising dinner at the Glasgow Hilton, which Gordon Brown also attended.
Read on: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7061170.ece
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(2010) New Labour’s Lord Paul -PARASITE REPAYS CONTROVERSIAL £38,000 to TAXPAYER
Lord Paul, a major party donor, was told by Scotland Yard last week that he will not face charges over his expenses claims.
However, he now faces a House of Lords investigation into his conduct by a subcommittee chaired by Baroness Manningham-Buller, the former head of MI5.
Political sources have revealed that Lord Paul – who is one of the country’s richest men and worth an estimated £500 million – has quietly and voluntarily repaid the £38,000.
The peer has admitted that he never spent a single night at an Oxfordshire flat that he registered as his main home while claiming money in overnight expenses for a London property.
Opposition MPs seized on the move last night as an admission that the expenses were not justified.
Graham Stuart, the Conservative MP for Beverley and Holderness, said: “Lord Paul has been shamed into returning the money he should never have claimed in the first place.”
Mr Stuart has written to Downing Street seeking answers to four questions about Lord Paul, including what led to the Labour peer being appointed to the Privy Council last year – a status which entitles the peer to use the words “the Right Honourable” in front of his name.
Read on: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/7436499/Lord-Paul-repays-38000-expenses.html
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Three MPs and one peer to be charged over expenses
Three Labour MPs and one Tory peer will face criminal charges over their expenses, Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer has said.
MPs Elliot Morley, Jim Devine, David Chaytor and Lord Hanningfield will be charged under the Theft Act.
All four have said they denied any charges and would defend their positions robustly.
Revelations about MPs’ expenses emerged in May last year with the police going on to investigate a handful of cases.
Mr Starmer said there was “insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of a conviction” in the case of Labour peer Lord Clarke but said a sixth case remains under police investigation.
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All About Margaret Hodge
“This site is dedicated to informing the public about Margaret Hodge MP and her many failings.” http://margarethodge.net/
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(1999) New Labour Party -REPRIMANDS ITS MEMBERS FOR PORNOGRAPHY
LABOUR’S 10,400 local councillors are being warned not to misuse their personal computers after incidents of accessing pornographic material.
The party’s ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) is expected to decide today to lift suspensions but reprimand two members of Shropshire County Council after a police investigation into porn on the Internet. Four Shropshire councillors were charged under the Computer Misuse Act but the Crown Prosecution Service later dropped the charges.
A confidential report into the Shropshire affair, obtained by The Independent, reveals the Labour’s inquiry panel found that Peter Taylor and Derek Woodvine were “not impressive” as witnesses and were “less than frank with their answers.”
Read on: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/porn-reprimand-for-councillors-1082441.html
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(1999) New Labour Cllr. Derek Woodvine -ARRESTED IN ANTI-PORN OPERATION
(A blast from the past: we’ll get you in the end.)
Labour Councillor (Shropshire), Derek Woodvine – Arrested by Police in anti-porn operation.
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(2010) New Labour Cllr. Frank McGrath -DRUG TRAFFICKER AND MONEY LAUNDERER
Frank McGrath is a deceitful man who told a pack of lies, according to the judge who jailed him for money laundering.
The former deputy leader of Preston Council was today beginning a four-and-a-half year prison sentence after being convicted of laundering the cash for a drug trafficker.
But in an exclusive interview he told the Evening Post before the hearing he was “not nervous” of going to jail.
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(2010) New Labour Vote Rigging Again? Time to call in the British Army to Referee?
Vote rigging, electoral fraud, gerrymandering… call it what you will. Its perverse crime is the same what ever its moniker. It is a direct attack not only on the People but on everything we hold dear. It is a complete betrayal of trust and a devious, callous act that equates to tyranny. Welcome to fascist Britain, People.
This not an isolated incident. See here for much more evidence.
It has now come the time to ask: are we playing a game where the opposition is cheating? Evidently, and frighteningly so, the proof suggests we are. What now, then? Do we stop playing the game called “democracy” and let the opposition not only win but also rub our noses in their victory? Do we continue playing, foolishly expecting the opposition to suddenly be fair and play by the rules?
This is a tough decision because this game called “democracy” is not simply a game to pass the time: this game is a game of life –OUR LIFE.
With that in mind we the People need to call upon a referee. We need a body to oversee elections and ensure the rules are adhered to and fair play is thus maintained. We the People need the British Army to monitor elections. Please vote on this proposition and pass it all to all your contacts:
In light of the weighty evidence confirming vote-rigging by the old-gang parties, should the British Army be called upon to monitor elections? http://polldaddy.com/community/poll/1837752/?view=results
Commission says unusually high number of last minute postal vote applications were made during byelection last year.
The Labour party has been warned by the Electoral Commission over its handling of postal vote applications after it investigated alleged irregularities in last year’s Glasgow North East byelection.
The commission said an unusually high number of last minute postal vote applications were made in Glasgow North East, with 1,800 forms submitted less than three days before the registration deadline – more than a quarter of the total number received.
A spot check of 300 of those forms by the returning officer’s staff found that in at least 100 cases these applications had been dated more than a week and in some cases over a month earlier.
Nearly half of the last-minute registrations came from Labour supporters, sparking allegations from the Scottish National party – first reported by The Guardian – that Labour had been deliberately hoarding postal votes to help its campaign.
In the event, Labour won by a landslide 8,111 votes, securing a 60% share of the vote and demolishing SNP hopes of a second victory in Labour’s Glasgow heartland.
The commission said Labour “did not comply” with a code of conduct that requires political parties to hand in every postal vote application within two days of receiving them, and had been asked to honour those rules in future.
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Labour Utilise the “Racist” Cliché to Avert the People’s Opposition
Ministers were accused today of drawing up secret plans to increase immigration – and branding opponents of the controversial scheme ‘racist’.
A previously unseen joint Cabinet Office and Home Office report called for increases in foreign workers to meet the Government’s ‘economic and social objectives’.
But it also stated that the public would be opposed to the shift because of ‘racism’ and urged ministers to try to alter public attitudes towards immigrants.
The document, which was written in July 2000 and released under the Freedom of Information Act, outlined plans for a step change in the number of both high and low skilled migrants.
A draft version of the report emerged last week, but the full copy was finally released today.
In it, the authors warned: ‘Policy development is constrained by public opinion and the current tone of public debate.’
‘It is correct that public opinion favours relatively restrictive policies on immigration.’
Sections advising ministers to adopt a ‘clear strategy for public opinion and public debate’ to change views were removed from the published version.
Critics said the document showed ministers ‘deliberately rode roughshod’ over the public.
There was outrage last year after Andrew Neather, a former Labour speechwriter, revealed in a newspaper column that the loosening of controls in the early 2000s was part of a deliberate political agenda.
The ‘immigration boom’ of the last decade was engineered in part to change society by making it more multicultural, he said.
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(2010) New Labour Cllr. Keith Potts -CHARGED WITH CHILD PORNOGRAPHY OFFENCES
A FORMER Labour Party councillor who was the chairman of a board of primary school governors has appeared in court charged with child pornography offences.
Keith Potts is accused of having 24 indecent pictures of youngsters on his home computer.
“We can confirm the chair of governors has resigned”
Council spokesman
The 60-year-old, from Edenfield, West Pelton, Chester-le- Street, appeared at Consett Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
He entered no pleas to the 13 counts of making indecent images of children on or before November 12, 2008.
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(2010) (Video) New Labour M.P. Jim Devine Pitifully Tries to Absolve his Actions
Like a child caught with his pants down AND his hand in the cookie jar with crumbs and chocolate all over his face.
Guilty or not guilty?
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(2010) New Labour M.P. Rosie Cooper -BEHEMOTH PARASITE
THE full range of MP Rosie Cooper’s naughty nibbles paid for by taxpayers was revealed last night.
Her Commons expense claims include a mouth-watering array of sweets, crisps, cakes, ice creams and doughnuts.
Items as small as a 29p bag of Hula Hoops and a white chocolate cookie costing 30p are meticulously listed with receipts.
Labour MP for West Lancashire Rosie, 58 – believed to be a size 16 – once lent her name to a campaign for healthy eating.
She said: “Fighting obesity is one of today’s key public health challenges.”
Keep track of developments, at Guido Fawkes
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(2010) New Labour M.P. Harry Cohen -PARASITE
The Labour MP Harry Cohen was today ordered to forfeit his £65,000 resettlement grant for a “particularly serious breach” of parliamentary rules.
The Commons Standards and Privileges Committee ruled that he designated a house in Colchester, Essex, as his main home even though he was not living there for long periods and rented it out.
“Mr Cohen’s breach was particularly serious and it involved a large sum of public money,” the committee said.
“Withholding of the resettlement grant is a severe sanction, which will effectively recover from Mr Cohen a similarly large sum of public money.”
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(2009) New Labour “Lord” Haworth -PARASITE
A LABOUR peer has earned more than £100,000 from taxpayers by claiming that a small Ross-shire village is his home, it has emerged.
Lord Haworth, who owns two properties in London, switched his main residence from the UK capital to a cottage 575 miles away in Avoch on the Black Isle, making him eligible for travel and overnight expenses to attend the House of Lords.
Since being made a peer by the then prime minister Tony Blair in 2004, Lord Haworth has claimed over £100,000 in night subsistence and a further £20,000 in travel, by designating the Avoch property which he owns as “home”.
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(2009) New Labour M.P. Harriet Harman -WANTS TO LEGALISE CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
Harriet Harman’s political judgement has been called into question after it emerged that she once advocated the watering down of child pornography laws.
The Leader of the House of Commons and Minister for Women and Equality, who also sits on a Cabinet committee on young people’s welfare, is being touted as a possible successor to Gordon Brown, .
But she faces fresh criticism from Opposition MPs and campaign groups after The Daily Telegraph obtained documents showing that she called on ministers to make sexually explicit photographs or films of children legal unless there was evidence that the subject had been harmed.
At the time she made the official submission, she was a senior figure in a civil liberties organisation that wanted the age of consent to be lowered to 14 and incest decriminalised. It also defended self-confessed paedophiles in the press and allowed them to attend its meetings.
Last night Tim Loughton, the Shadow Children’s Minister, said: “Clearly there is a serious conflict of interest with the committees she sits on, who might want urgently to clarify her position on the exploitation of children for the sexual gratification of adults.
“It’s a shame that Miss Harman’s zeal for positive discrimination and all things politically correct among adults does not extend to the exploitation of children. Any child who is used for the sexual gratification of adults counts as an abused child and needs protecting.”
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Blair’s think tank airbrushed link between crime and immigrants
links between mass immigration and some crimes were censored from a keynote government report, the Standard can reveal.
The report originally contained passages highlighting the risk that organised criminals had exploited higher migration.
But they were taken out of the published version, a milestone study that shifted Labour policy towards encouraging economic migrants.
Published by the Home Office in 2001, the 80-page report – Migration, A Social and Economic Analysis – has been criticised for painting too a rosy picture of the impact of immigration. The draft shown to the Evening Standard reveals it went through several changes that removed paragraphs that could have been seized upon by critics.
The most striking was the removal of the section headed “Criminal behaviour”, written as part of a chapter on the impact of migration.
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(2009) New Labour M.P. Nigel Griffiths -SEX IN TAXPAYER-FUNDED OFFICE
A SENIOR Labour MP cheated on his wife in a midnight sex romp INSIDE the House of Commons.
Former minister Nigel Griffiths, a close friend of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, cavorted with a naked brunette in his Parliamentary office on Remembrance Day.
Then the shamed MP, 53, LIED about the shock breach of Commons Rules of Conduct, branding our story “outrageous.” Now he stands accused of bringing the House into disrepute.
Griffiths could not have chosen a more shameful date for his sordid House of Commons sex romp- Remembrance Day.
On the very day Britain was honouring its fallen heroes, Griffiths-a former Deputy Leader of the House-dishonoured the Mother of Parliaments and disgraced his privileged position.
The married MP, for whom the PM was best man, smuggled a brunette into his oak-panelled study and cavorted with the naked woman on his sofa.
The pair even recorded their hour-long encounter on camera.
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(2009) New Labour M.P. Mazher Iqbal -DRUG OFFENCES
A WELL-KNOWN councillor and former leader in Sheffield’s war on crime has been arrested on suspicion of possessing drugs.
Sheffield councillor Mazher Iqbal, a prominent member of the city council’s Labour shadow cabinet, was one of two men arrested in the Handsworth area on suspicion of possessing a controlled drug.
He has been released on police bail while officers carry out further investigations.
As an advisor for community safety before his party lost control of the council last May, Coun Iqbal was responsible for formulating the council’s approach to problems with drugs, violence and other crime.
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Gordon Claims for His Second Home: Where is His First Home?
There has been a lot of tut-tutting about Gordon belatedly paying back £500 for the “questionable” painting of a summerhouse in the garden of his Fife home. So there should be, how did Gordon imagine it was that the summerhouse expenses claimed had been incurred “wholly, necessarily, and exclusively” in the performance of parliamentary duties?
He was able to do that using his second home allowance, but hang on a second, where is his first home? He lives in grace and favour accomodation in Downing Street, he has use of the grace and favour Chequer’s mansion. He pays nothing in rent or mortgage for those properties. When he married he adroitly gave to Sarah the flat he bought cheaply in dubious circumstances from Robert Maxwell’s estate and Guido understands it is now rented out at a profit. That leaves only his old Fife home. It is clearly his real home, it is the only one he owns. Yet he designates it as his “second home” for expenses purposes.
That is just quite simply a dishonest and false claim made only to maximise the amount he can milk from the expenses system. It allows him to live without paying for accommodation anywhere – if only he was so frugal with government expenditure – all at the expense of the taxpayer. He taxes the shirts off our backs to pay for the ironing of the shirt on his back.
Taken from Guido Fawkes
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(2009) New Labour M.P. Quentin Davies -Champagne “Socialist” and PARASITE
This is the best exes revelation so far, on a par with Viggers’ Duck House.
Former Tory Quentin Davies – now a Labour defence minister – submitted a £20k invoice for renovations including a new roof on the ‘bell tower’ of his 18th century manor house.
The authorities didn’t pay the bill in full in the end. But he wrote a letter – after the exes scandal broke – saying he “emphatically” hadn’t intended to claim the money back.
Amazing.
UPDATE: The world and his wife are trying to get decent TV/camera footage of Frampton Hall, Davies’ mansion in Lincolnshire.
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(2009) New Labour M.P. Graham Allen -PARASITE
Nottingham MP Graham Allen has a bit of a thing for dry cleaning. One receipt he put in was for £258. This of course would have nothing to do with his wife Allyson Stewart-Allen and her frequent TV appearances as a business commentator on CNN’s World Report. It’s not just the dry cleaning that Mrs Allen is benefiting from, according to Allen’s 08/09 ACA we have been paying for his newspapers every month. While it is understandable that our elected representatives need to be on top of the news, perhaps Mr Allen can explain why he is putting his wife’s Financial Times and Wall Street Journals on his expenses:
Taken from Guido Fawkes splendid website here
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A few things I have noticed – Kevin Barron’s Parliamentary Expenses
I’ve not had time to study the expenses for Kevin Barron MP extensively yet, and as so much of them are blacked out it’s hard to get much information from them. For a start there are no addresses on any of the documentation, so it’s hard to see which invoices relate to his office, which to his Westminster flat, and which to his Maltby home.
A few things have caught my eye though. Take this invoice. And this one. Both for preparing his tax return. As a ‘normal’ memeber of society I have to pay an accountant myself to prepare my tax return, and I can’t even claim the VAT back. If you’re an MP though it’s different, and you can claim the whole thing as an ‘expense.’ Quite a big expense, as it happens.
This receipt for furniture is quite surprisingly large. It’s for £7109.79. That is a heck of a lot of furniture. I think is is ostensibly for his Dinnington office, but as the address is blacked out it’s hard to tell. If it is for the office it is obviously something of a TARDIS. It looks like a normal retail unit, but it must be much bigger, because £7k is enough to buy 46 decent desks and chairs at Ikea. Actually now I’ve looked further that £7k on furniture in March 2006 is especially startling as he also claimed £227 for office furniture in May 2004. I can’t locate the receipt for that furniture, but I understand that receipts for items under £250 are not needed. You’ll note on the claim form listing the furniture Kevin Barron’s common habit of claiming £200 in petty cash. This appears on a lot of his forms, and is un-receipted. In fact Kevin claimed £200 in ‘petty cash’ without receipts in April 2004, May 2004, June 2004, July 2004, October 2004, November 2004, December 2004, and in January to March 2005 (£650). That’s every month he could have claimed it, and the maximum amount each time – apart from January to March where he claimed £50 more. It all adds up to £2050 of tax free cash with no receipts to back it up in one year. He seems to do much the same every year.
This one is even stranger. It’s not even an invoice, it’s just a letter from Dinnington Operatic Society asking Kevin Barron MP for a fee of £32. I’ve no idea what it is for as he has obliterated all the other information. It’s something he has claimed as necessary as part of his work as an MP, whatever it is.
Next we have this invoice from a computer company called K&R Consultants. I can find no record of a computer company called K&R Consultants on the internet, and sadly Kevin Barron has blacked out all the bits of the invoice that might help identify them. There is a K & R Systems listed in Yell as being in Skegness, so perhaps they’ve changed name slightly since then. I understand Kevin has a son called Robbie. Anyway, the interesting thing about this invoice is that it includes £39 for ‘changes and updates to website‘ As Kevin Barron doesn’t have a website I’m baffled as to what this might mean. The plot thickens though, because there is another invoice from the mysterious K&R Consultants in Match 2007, this time for the rather more substantial amount of £953. This breaks down as £125 for the purchase of a domain and webspace, and £414 for the migration of ‘the old website’ to a new webserver and £414 for changes to the website. Sadly there is no mention as to which website this might be. I’ve never seen a website for Kevin Barron – can someone who has been around longer than me let me know if to their knowledge he has ever had one?
On the subject of websites – and remember Kevin Barron MP doesn’t have a website – this invoice from December 2004 also caught my eye. It says it is for ‘combined renewal of domain name registration fees and web/email hosting services for” and then the rest is blacked out – including the cost. However, we can tell from the form Kevin Barron MP has filled in that the cost was £88.12.
Taken from the superb investigative site Politics in the Rother Valley and Maltby
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(2009) New Labour Baroness Sally Morgan PARASITICAL THIEF
Sally Morgan, the former aide to Tony Blair, claimed £40,000 in expenses for her £1.1m London house by telling Parliament that her weekend country retreat was her main home.
Baroness Morgan of Huyton tells officials she stays at the house in Wandsworth, south-west London, “for the purpose of attending sittings of the House”.
The Labour peer, who is paid £135,000 a year for jobs outside politics, says her “main home” is an £845,000 cottage in Petersfield, Hants, one hour away from central London by train.
This has enabled her to claim £38,370 since 2005 for running the semi-detached London town house, which she bought for £1.1m in September 2003.
Peers whose “main residence” is outside London can claim £174 a night to pay for a second home or hotel room in the capital, with no need for receipts.
Yet Lady Morgan has repeatedly stated in official company documents that the London property is her “usual residential address”.
She shares it with her husband, John Lyons, who works full-time in London as a barrister and also cites it as his “usual residential address”.
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(2009) New Labour Barry Gardiner MP – Disgraced aide called for the shooting of Zionists.
Gosh bearded Barry is at it again, over at Tory Bear’s place is the story about Barry’s aide.
You read it here first, but Barry Gardiner’s local paper – the Wembley & Kingsbury Times have picked up on the outrageous behaviour of his newly appointed staff member Joseph “Seph” Brown who caused outrage when he advocated the shooting of Zionists.
Particuarly damning are the quotes from people within Gardiner’s constituency and beyond:
“The appointment drew huge criticism from Jewish groups who immediately called for Mr Gardiner,who is a former chairman of Labour Friends of Israel, to sack him. Ken Sinclair, who is Jewish and chairman of Northwick Park Residents’ Association, said:
“Shooting Zionists, which reflects on all Jewish people, is disgusting and what respect I had for Barry Gardiner has gone. People should think very carefully when they utter words like these as at the moment with the BNP we do have a common enemy and we need to make an effort not to throw racist comments at each other.”
Keith Fraser, spokesman for Zionists Federation of Great Britain and Ireland, said: “I think it is pretty sad to have someone like him (Mr Brown) assisting one of our elected leaders. It is disgusting. I think by the time the next election comes around a lot of people will have forgotten but it should lose him (Mr Gardiner)votes from anyone with a modicum of reasonableness. “Anyone who wants to see an end to extremism and racism should not vote for him and it does not matter if you are Jewish, Muslim, Christian or anything else.””
Taken from here
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(2009) New Labour Apparatchick Baroness Amos – another face of corruption
Valerie Amos was Britain’s first black woman Cabinet Minister when she was appointed Secretary of State for International Development in 2003. She left the Cabinet when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister and was appointed as the EU’s representative to the African Union. She also wasted little time in picking up a nice little earner, according to a new book published today by Craig Murray, Britain’s former Ambassador to Uzbekistan. Nothing wrong with that, is there? Make up your own mind when you read this exclusive extract from Craig Murray’s book…
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(2009) New Labour Council Leader Bill Thomas -CHARGED WITH THEFT
Former Sandwell Council leader Bill Thomas today admitted a charge of theft as he appeared in court.
Magistrates were told three cheques worth a total of £1,300 had been paid out from a NatWest bank account belonging to the 69-year-old to close friend Gareth Hall between April 21 and 24 last year .
Thomas later reported to the bank that he did not know Hall and the cash was reimbursed, but following his arrest Thomas admitted to police he had known Hall for six years.
The Labour councillor and former headteacher, who was arrested last month and resigned immediately as council leader, had originally vowed to fight the charges before pleading guilty today.
He was handed a conditional discharge for 12 months and ordered to pay back the £1,300 in compensation and costs of £145.
The court was also told Thomas, of Viking Rise, Rowley Regis, was stepping down from his role as councillor for the Rowley ward.
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(2009) New Labour Cllr. Marcia Watson -ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT
A CITY councillor has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting a woman in her front garden.
Coun Marcia Watson, of Bilborough ward, has been accused of assaulting Fiona Kirlew, 28, who is the mother of Coun Watson’s grandson.
Police arrested Jorael and Shimone Thomas at the same time. The Evening Post understands they are Coun Watson’s children and the arrests followed a conversation about Coun Watson’s grandchild’s comfort blanket.
It is the second arrest of a city councillor to be revealed by the Evening Post this week. The other was Councillor Hassan Ahmed.
The allegations against Coun Watson relate to an incident which took place at about 9.30pm on October 28 outside her home in Nuthall Road.
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(2009) New Labour Cllr. Hassan Ahmed -ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF SEXUAL ASSAULT
A LEADING city councillor[Labour] has been arrested on suspicion of assault and sexual assault.
Coun Hassan Ahmed, 58, who is the council’s portfolio holder for employment and skills, is accused of assaulting a 47-year-old woman who was a teacher at a college in the Notts area.
The offence is alleged to have occurred late at night in July.
Coun Ahmed has denied the allegation.
A spokesman for Notts Police said: “Nottinghamshire Police arrested a 58-year-old man on suspicion of committing common assault and sexual assault on July 29.
“The man was released on bail pending further inquiries and the matter is still very much under investigation.”
Coun Ahmed took up his position as portfolio holder in May. He has been bailed to report to the police on November 19.
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(2009) New Labour “Justice” ministry had illegal staff as civil servants
The Ministry of Justice has been employing illegal foreign workers as civil servants despite previous warnings about its shambolic employment checks.
In February an employee at the ministry’s London headquarters was found to be working in Britain illegally. He was working in the same building as ministers despite not having a visa entitling him to work.
The official was an administrator in the Access to Justice department, which routinely handles sensitive data concerning legal aid funding. He was hired through an agency that should have carried out background checks.
The revelation will prove particularly embarrassing after the discovery earlier this year that Baroness Scotland, the attorney-general, had broken the law by employing an illegal immigrant as a housekeeper at her home. She, too, had used the services of an agency.
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(2009) New Labour Party -GERRYMANDERING
Labour ministers deliberately encouraged mass immigration to diversify Britain over the past decade, a former Downing Street adviser has claimed.
Andrew Neather said the mass influx of migrant workers seen in recent years was not the result of a mistake or miscalculation but rather a policy the party preferred not to reveal to its core voters.
He said the strategy was intended to fill gaps in the labour market and make the UK more multicultural, at the same time as scoring political points against the Opposition.
Mr Neather worked as a speechwriter for Tony Blair and in the Home Office for Jack Straw and David Blunkett.
“Mass migration was the way that the Government was going to make the UK truly multicultural,” he wrote in in the London Evening Standard.
“I remember coming away from some discussions with the clear sense that the policy was intended – even if it wasn’t its main purpose – to rub the Right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date.”
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(2009) New Labour Baroness Goudie’s £230,000 expenses bill -PARASITE
A close friend of the prime minister who lives with her husband in a £1.5m house in London has claimed £230,000 in expenses by saying a flat in Glasgow is her main home.
Baroness Goudie, a Labour donor and fundraiser, has lived since childhood in London where her two sons grew up and her husband works as a leading barrister.
However, the baroness tells the Lords her main address is 400 miles away in a Glasgow apartment block. A close neighbour said she had not seen Goudie there for some time.
This has allowed Goudie to claim subsistence allowances intended as payments for peers who are based outside the capital and need help to meet the cost of accommodation in London.
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Ex-minister Tony McNulty faces suspension after claiming £14,000-a-year expenses for parents’ home
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A former Labour Minister who used £60,000 of taxpayers’ money to pay for his parents’ home faces public disgrace after an official inquiry found him guilty of abusing his Commons expenses.
A report into Labour MP Tony McNulty’s conduct by Parliament’s sleaze watchdog, due to be published this week, criticises him for claiming £14,000 a year for a ‘second home’ which was in fact his parents’ main home.
Insiders say he is likely to be forced to make a grovelling apology to the Commons. Some say his offence is so grave he may be suspended from Parliament and could even be ordered to pay back some or all of the cash.
He will also come under pressure by Labour chiefs to resign as MP for Harrow East in the hope that the party can hold on to the seat at the next General Election. Mr McNulty secured a 4,730 majority in 2005.
The former Employment Minister claimed the expenses under rules intended to help MPs fund a second home if they have to travel a long way to Westminster from their constituency. Yet the semi-detached home in Harrow, where Mr McNulty’s parents James and Eileen live, is just 11 miles from Westminster.
Mr McNulty lives with his wife Christine Gilbert, the £225,0000-a-year head of the schools’ inspectorate Ofsted, at their ‘main home’ in Hammersmith, West London, itself only three miles from the Commons. The couple have a combined income of more than £300,000 a year.
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(2008) New Labour M.P. Ivan Lewis -HARASSMENT
A TOP government minister bombarded a pretty civil servant with personal text messages, driving her out of her job.
The News of the World can reveal Health Minister Ivan Lewis PURSUED 25-year-old Susie Mason after misinterpreting her friendly banter.
He is understood to have sent a string of texts and, as the messages became more intimate, Susie was forced to make a tearful complaint to her bosses.
She asked to be moved to another job and was transferred to a new post within the Department.
Susie confirmed: “He wasn’t the nicest man to work for.”
And last night the Department of Health issued a statement saying the minister “apologises unreservedly” for his behaviour.
The incident happened in 2007, a year after Lewis, 41, walked out on his wife Juliette for a councillor, 50- year-old Margaret Gibb.
The father-of-two’s behaviour after 16 years of marriage worried Susie, described by colleagues as “a real high flier”. She worked in Lewis’s private office as an assistant private secretary and the pair are understood to have hit it off at a drinks party.
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Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser
Labour threw open Britain’s borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer a “truly multicultural” country, a former Government adviser has revealed.
The huge increases in migrants over the last decade were partly due to a politically motivated attempt by ministers to radically change the country and “rub the Right’s nose in diversity”, according to Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett.
He said Labour’s relaxation of controls was a deliberate plan to “open up the UK to mass migration” but that ministers were nervous and reluctant to discuss such a move publicly for fear it would alienate its “core working class vote”.
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(2004) New Labour -REPORTED FOR OFFENSIVE LEAFLET
Call for police investigation of Cardiff Labour Party election leaflet
Civil liberties pressure group Liberty and Law has reported to South Wales Police Chief Constable Barbara Wilding the distribution of a Labour Party election leaflet distributed during June’s local election campaign in Cardiff on the grounds that the action may have been in breach of the Race Relations Act.
The action follows an investigation by the Commission for Racial Equality [CRE] and a subsequent apology announced today by Welsh Labour stating that the leaflet pandered to prejudice and was likely to cause offence to the Travelling community and to residents in Llanedeym and Pentwyn [the Cardiff Ward in which the distribution took place].
Liberty and Law director Gerald Hartup said: “It is unacceptable that it took over three months for Welsh Labour to make an apology for the leaflet that appeared in its name.
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(2003) New Labour Party -GUILTY OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
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(2009) New Labour M.P. Jim Fitzpatrick -ACCUSED OF MISUSING TAXPAYERS MONEY
A Government minister was today accused of misusing taxpayers’ money – allegedly spending thousands on invitations to Saturday coffee mornings.
Farming Minister Jim Fitzpatrick broke Parliamentary rules, the Conservatives claim, by sending thousands of unsolicited letters using Commons notepaper and envelopes.
Mr Fitzpatrick, the MP for Poplar and Canning Town, is already embroiled in a row with Muslim constituents after he and his wife Sheila left a wedding last month because male and female guests were segregated.
Today he said the Tories were using smear tactics. “They are stretching to find something improper, some mud to throw at me in the run-up to the election, because they know my expenses claims are squeaky clean.
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Gordon Brown’s millionaire and £38,000 expenses
A multi-millionaire ally of Gordon Brown pretended that a small flat occupied by one of his employees was his main home so he could claim £38,000 in expenses from the Lords.
Lord Paul, one of Labour’s biggest donors and a friend of the prime minister, has admitted he never even slept in the flat, despite stating it was his main residence.
The one-bedroom flat was occupied by a manager from one of Paul’s hotels who confirmed last week that the peer had never lived there while claiming the expenses.
Paul, who has a family fortune of £500m, was actually based in London, where he has lived for more than 40 years.
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(2003) New Labour M.P. Harriet Harman -FINED £400 FOR SPEEDING
In 2003, Harman was fined £400 and banned from driving for seven days after being convicted of driving at 99 mph (159 km/h) on a motorway, 29 mph (47 km/h) above the speed limit. The sentence was criticised by some given that Harman’s salary at the time was £115,989 plus full parliamentary pay.
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(2007) New Labour M.P. Harriet Harman Harman -in dock for failing to pay speed fine
Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman has been summonsed to appear in court on Tuesday for failing to pay a speeding fine, it has been revealed.
Ms Harman, who until recently was Solicitor General and is a lawyer by profession, failed to pay the fine on time after she was charged by Suffolk Police.
The case will be dealt with on Tuesday by Ipswich magistrates who could impose an additional fine for not meeting the deadline.
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How the Baroness flouted tax law on cleaner
HOUSEKEEPER’S NEW CLAIMS:
She had no written contract
Tax wasn’t taken for 10 weeks
She wasn’t given any wage slips
Attorney General Baroness Scotland was last night facing fresh questions over employing an illegal immigrant as her housekeeper.
A Mail on Sunday investigation has discovered that Britain’s most senior lawyer flouted a series of basic regulations.
We can reveal that she failed to deduct income tax from Loloahi Tapui’s wages for the first ten weeks of employment. And Ms Tapui claims the Peer did not give her payslips or a formal employment contract.
The Baroness first faced calls to resign after it was disclosed that she had employed Ms Tapui, 27, without correctly checking her immigration status. She avoided the sack but was fined £5,000 by the UK Border Agency.
Now our inquiries have prompted fresh questions about her judgment.
Baroness Scotland wrote Ms Tapui’s weekly pay cheques to the housekeeper’s husband, solicitor Alexander Zivancevic, from her Coutts bank account.
Ms Tapui asked her to do this, saying she did not have a bank account, which should have made the Peer suspicious of her employee’s immigration status.
Ms Tapui also claims she was never given a written contract or wage slips, contravening the Employment Rights Act 1996.
She adds that the Peer only clarified her tax position after the MPs’ expenses scandal broke in May.
Official records show Ms Tapui had not had any tax deducted from her wages at the end of the financial year in April.
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(2009) New Labour HATE CRIMINAL Harriet Harman(person) -accused of crashing car while on mobile phone
Harriet Harman, the Labour deputy leader, is being investigated by police over allegations she left the scene of an accident after hitting a parked car while talking on her mobile phone.
According to witnesses, Miss Harman, who is Leader of the House of Commons and Minister for Women and Equality, stopped initially but then drove off without giving her insurance or registration details. The offence carries a possible sentence of six months in prison.
However aides said she “strongly refutes” the allegations, but added that she was “co-operating fully” with the police.
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(2009) New Labour M.P. Patricia Hewitt -SON FINED FOR COCAINE
Nicholas Hewitt Birtles, the son of former health secretary Patricia Hewitt, has been fined £250 after pleading guilty to possessing cocaine.
The 21 year-old apologised through his solicitor to his family and said he was ”deeply distressed” about the consequences of his actions for them.
He was also ordered to pay £85 in costs and a £15 victim surcharge.
Birtles, a retail sales representative, was sitting in the passenger seat of a parked car in Camden Square in north London when it was approached by police on September 19, Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court heard.
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(2009) New Labour M.P. Barbara Follett -MILLIONAIRESS PARASITE
Barbara Follett: Millionaire MP’s £25,000 expenses on security over safety fears
Barbara Follett, the Tourism Minister, claimed more than £25,000 on expenses for security patrols outside her home because she said she did not feel safe in London.
The Minister, who is responsible for encouraging holidaymakers to visit Britain, demanded that the public pay for her extra protection because she had been mugged and followed by a stalker.
Her claims, disclosed by The Daily Telegraph as part of a wider investigation into allowances received by MPs from all parties, highlight serious flaws in Britain’s system of cost reimbursements and the true scale of ministers’ claims.
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Baroness Scotland also facing questions over £170,000 in Parliamentary expenses
Baroness Scotland is also facing an investigation into claims that she was wrongly paid £170,000 in Parliamentary allowances.
The Attorney General – who has been fined £5,000 for employing an illegal immigrant as her housekeeper – receives a £38,280-a-year “night subsistence allowance” given to Government ministers who sit in the House of Lords.
But the money is widely understood to be for ministers whose primary residence is outside London – and Lady Scotland owns a large house in the capital.
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(2009) New Labour Attorney General, Baroness Scotland -GUILTY OF EMPLOYING AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT
Immigration officials have launched an investigation into disclosures that the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland, employed an illegal migrant, as Downing Street said it had “full confidence” in her.
The minister, who is the Government’s chief legal adviser, has insisted that she believed the Tongan national was in the country legally and entitled to work.
She has now sacked Loloahi Tapui, 27, who had been looking after her family home in west London for the past six months.
Immigrants employing illegal immigrants? How nice that chain of succession.
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Labour use taxpayers’ money to fund trade union placemen
Labour is spending millions of pounds of public money employing more than 100 union activists across Whitehall.
Government departments are paying the salaries of dozens of union officials who act as shop stewards and do no work for the taxpayer. Some are earning more than £60,000 a year.
The Tories last night accused the Government of ‘bankrolling’ the trade unions – which, in turn, are the biggest funders of the Labour party.
Research by The Times has found that the Home Office alone employs 83 full-time and part-time union officials.
A total of ten departments have revealed that they employ 46 full-time and 87 parttime officials to work exclusively for the unions at taxpayers’ expense.
Their salaries cost between £150,000 and £4.5million per department. They are also given access to office facilities worth an estimated £1.2million each year.
Whitehall sources claim that the union officials also spend time working on ‘far-left political campaigns and making false claims about the Conservative Party’, although civil servants are bound by a strict code of impartiality.
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New Labour M.P. Emily Thornberry -GUILTY OF DOCTORING OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS
Crime 1:
In 2006 she was also investigated and found guilty by the Standards Committee when it was discovered she had edited an official press release by the Electoral Commission and added an extra paragraph attacking political rivals.
Crime 2:
Emily Thornberry, MP for Islington South and Finsbury, was criticised this week for using taxpayers’ money to send out unsolicited letters to residents. She is being forced to pay back the money she illegitimately spent during 2007 by the Serjeant-at-Arms.
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MPs’ expenses: how they milked the system
MPs are required by Parliamentary rules to be “above reproach” when claiming expenses. But many found a way round the system, leading to widespread abuse.
Below we look at what they can legitimately claim and how some managed to maximise their income at the taxpayer’s expense.
What they can legitimately claim:
Under the additional costs allowance (ACA), MPs can claim expenses for the cost of running a second home for the purpose of fulfilling their parliamentary duties. In 2007/8, the last year for which complete figures are available, this stood at a maximum of £23,083.
The money can be spent on rent or mortgage interest payments. MPs who do not have a second home can claim for hotel rooms, for which they must submit a receipt.
Within the maximum ACA, MPs are allowed to claim up to £400 per month for food without the need for receipts and, until last year, up to £250 per claim in other categories without receipts.
This has since been lowered to £25. MPs can claim for utility bills, council tax, telephone bills, decorating, employing a cleaner, and even the purchase of furniture and electrical and household goods for their second homes.
The amount which MPs can claim for individual items is governed by the so-called ‘John Lewis List’. Personal items, such as toiletries and electric razors, cannot be claimed for.
The rules state that all ACA claims must be “above reproach” and there must be “no suggestion of misuse of public money”.
How they exploited the system:
A number of MPs used the allowance to pay for furniture and refurbishments for one property, before ‘flipping’ their second home designation to another property and claiming for improvements on that one.
Having used their taxpayer-funded expenses for renovations and repairs, some MPs then sold their homes at a profit. Some with constituencies in outer London bought second homes just a few miles from their main residence.
Others avoided paying Capital Gains Tax on the profit of the sale of their second home by telling the taxman it was their main residence.
A few MPs continued to claim expenses for mortgage interest on their second home even when the mortgage had been paid off.
Many MPs regularly claimed the maximum allowed for food. Others put in claims for utility bills, cleaning and repairs whilst avoiding the need to submit receipts by ensuring that the sums claimed were just below the £250 limit.
Others went on spending sprees towards the end of the financial year on order to reach their maximum ACA. Some bought furniture for their second homes but had it delivered to their main residence.
Among the frivolous and arguably unnecessary items claimed by MPs were radiator covers, pet food, manure and a duck house.
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MPs’ expenses: MPs who milked the expenses system now complain about attempts to reform it
MPs whose controversial claims for accommodation costs, food and furniture were exposed during the expenses scandal are claiming the status of victims instead of offenders.
Members of Parliament whose controversial claims for accommodation costs, food and furniture were exposed during the expenses scandal are using an official inquiry to claim they were victims rather than offenders.
Several politicians revealed by The Telegraph to be taking advantage of their parliamentary remuneration have attempted to justify their behaviour to the Committee on Standards in Public Life.
Welcome to the sick joke that is Parliamentary “democracy”. How much longer can the People have trust in crooked, corrupt and EVIDENTLY CRIMINAL system?
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MPs’ submissions relating to family members made to the Kelly Committee
Here is a selection of edited submissions made by MPs to the Committee on Standards in Public Life on the issue of the employment of family members.
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(2009) Labour Former Mayor Stewart Brown -PAEDOPHILE
**UPDATE** 25/8/09
A former mayor escaped jail today after being convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography.
Stewart Brown, 60, admitted 21 offences of possessing indecent images of children and one of distributing pictures.
At Leeds Crown Court today he was given a nine-month prison sentence which was suspended for two years.
In 2006 he was mayor of Hebden Royd in West Yorkshire and was also a Labour councillor on Calderdale Council, the court heard.
At a hearing in July, Brown, of Nutclough, Hebden Bridge, admitted all the charges, some of which were said to relate to images of girls as young as three.
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A FORMER Mayor of Hebden Royd has been arrested on suspicion of child porn offences.
Stewart Brown, 59, was a Labour candidate for the Elland ward in next month’s council elections.But he has now been suspended from the Labour Party. Officers from the West Yorkshire Police Child Protection Unit arrested Mr Brown on Tuesday. He was questioned by detectives before he was bailed, pending further investigation. http://tinyurl.com/5jy7zu
Stewart Brown, 59, was a Labour candidate for the Elland ward in next month’s council elections.But he has now been suspended from the Labour Party. Officers from the West Yorkshire Police Child Protection Unit arrested Mr Brown on Tuesday. He was questioned by detectives before he was bailed, pending further investigation. http://tinyurl.com/5jy7zu
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(2009) New Labour Cllr. Marc Scaife -“FOUL AND ABUSIVE”
WELSH Labour confirmed last night it was investigating a councillor and brass band chairman in connection with a “foul and abusive” phone message that has been posted on YouTube.
Carmarthen Labour councillor Marc Scaife, who has put his name forward for selection as the party’s parliamentary candidate in Carmarthen East & Dinefwr, left on Wednesday for a controversial tour of Libya with Burry Port Town Band.
The band have been criticised for continuing with the tour – part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi coming to power – after the release last week of the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing.
In the phone message, a man who identifies himself as Marc Scaife, uses highly offensive language to berate a 19-year-old member of the band who pulled out of the Libyan tour at a late stage, creating a perceived security problem.
The caller is heard saying: “Listen very f****** carefully. You are a f****** idiot…There’s a massive security risk because of you. Do you realise what’s actually going on? Is anything going on in your tiny little mind?
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(2009). New Labour Cllr. Noel O’Brien -RACIST VIOLENCE
A FORMER Labour councillor is facing jail for assaulting a young woman traffic warden.
Noel O’Brien shoved Joanne Subocz and threw her hat on the road after she caught him parking illegally in Manchester city centre.
O’Brien, 58, shouted a torrent of racist abuse at Polish-born Miss Subocz , telling her ‘go back to your own country, we don’t want you here’.
Miss Subocz said the incident left her shocked and for weeks she was afraid to go back on the streets.
District judge Paul Richardson, sitting at Manchester magistrates’ court, convicted O’Brien of racially aggravated assault and bailed him for reports.
He told O’Brien: “This was an unpleasant piece of behaviour on a woman from another country doing her public duty. She was assaulted and bullied in a nasty fashion.
“If I don’t get a favourable report on you I will have no option but to impose a custodial sentence.”
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(March 2009) Twenty More Outer-London M.P.s 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.
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‘Blair covering up paedophile scandal?’
While British Prime Minister Tony Blair is under criminal suspicion in the “honours-for-cash” scandal that has rocked his Labour government, we have been told that there is an even more explosive scandal that Blair, up to now, has managed to hide behind the draconian British policy of issuing “D-Notices,” government orders that prohibit the British media from reporting on certain “national security” cases.
In 1999, an international investigation of child pornographers and paedophiles run by Britain’s National Criminal Intelligence Service, code named Operation Ore, resulted in 7,250 suspects being identified in the United Kingdom alone. Some 1850 people were criminally charged in the case and there were 1451 convictions. Almost 500 people were interviewed “under caution” by police, meaning they were suspects. Some 900 individuals remain under investigation. In early 2003, British police began to close in on some top suspects in the Operation Ore investigation, including senior members of Blair’s government.
However, Blair issued a D-Notice, resulting in a gag order on the press from publishing any details of the investigation. Blair cited the impending war in Iraq as a reason for the D-Notice. Police also discovered links between British Labour government paedophile suspects and the trafficking of children for purposes of prostitution from Belgium and Portugal (including young boys from the Casa Pia orphanage in Portugal).
Tony Blair: stifling investigations of paedophiles in his Labour government…
Read on at the magnificent The People’s United Community
Landmark guilty verdict against Scottish paedophile gang
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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.’
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(2009) New Labour M.P. Barry Gardiner -PARASITE
Barry Gardiner, a former environment minister, made £198,500 profit from a flat funded and refurbished at taxpayers’ expense.
The Labour MP for Brent North bought a flat in Pimlico for £246,500 in 2003 and spent more than £11,000 renovating it – and claiming mortgage interest – before selling it for £445,000 in 2007, according to the Land Registry.
He spent £2,000 on decorators and a kitchen was installed. Other receipts covered plumbing and rewiring.
Although the rules say that “extravagant or luxurious” items should be avoided, the MP claimed £235 on bed linen from Harrods and £248 for a Christopher Wray light.
His council tax and mortgage interest costs of around £1,000 a month were also covered by expenses.
Cheaper items included a £65 “mixer tap” and an £80 gas hob. Parliamentary rules state that the additional costs allowance should not be spent on enhancing the property.
During the four financial years that he owned the flat, Mr Gardiner claimed £81,935 – £14 short of the maximum allowance.
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(2010) James Purnell -PARASITE
James Purnell, the Work and Pensions Secretary, avoided paying capital gains tax on the sale of his London flat after claiming taxpayer-funded expenses for advice from an accountant, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
The Cabinet minister saved thousands of pounds after informing the parliamentary authorities that Manchester was his “main” home while the tax authorities considered London to be his “primary” residence. Mr Purnell claimed for a £395 accountant’s bill that included “tax advice provided in October 2004 regarding sale of flat” on parliamentary expenses which are intended to cover the costs of running an MP’s office.
It can also be disclosed that Geoff Hoon, the Transport Secretary, did not pay capital gains tax on the sale of his London home in 2006. Earlier this week, Gordon Brown criticised Hazel Blears’s similar failure to pay capital gains tax as “totally unacceptable”. Miss Blears, the Communities Secretary, wrote a cheque for £13,000 to cover the tax last week. She said yesterday that acting within the rules “doesn’t cut it with the public”.
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(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.
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(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.
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(2009) New Labour M.P. Gerald Kaufman -PARASITE
Gerald Kaufman charged the taxpayer £1,851 for a rug he imported from a New York antiques centre and tried to claim £8,865 for a television.
The former environment minister was asked to attend a meeting with officials from the parliamentary fees office to discuss details of another claim relating to £28,834 of work on the kitchen and bathroom at his London flat.
He told them that the work was necessary because he was “living in a slum”, though his second home, off Regent’s Park, is in one of the most fashionable areas of the capital. He was eventually reimbursed for £15,329.
On one occasion he asked a civil servant “why are you querying these expenses?” and on another threatened to make a complaint unless a dispute was settled by noon on the day in question. In one document, an official in the fees office noted that invoices Sir Gerald had submitted took him to “within 6p” of his annual limit. He also claimed £1,262 for a gas bill that was £1,055 in credit.
Between 2001 and 2008 the Manchester Gorton MP, one of the Labour party’s longest-serving members, claimed a total of £115,109 in additional costs allowances on his London flat, which he owns outright. In June 2006, he submitted a claim for three months’ expenses totalling £14,301.60, which included £8,865 for a Bang & Olufsen Beovision 40in LCD television. The maximum amount MPs are allowed to claim for TVs is £750.
On July 7, 2006 the fees office wrote to Sir Gerald to say: “I regret to inform you that this item falls within the not allowable category of luxurious furnishings, and as such has been rejected.”
He was paid £750.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(2009) Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg -PARASITE
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has revealed he claimed more than £7,000 on expenses to renovate his constituency home.
He used the cash to pay for carpets, curtains, light fittings, garden maintenance and plastering work.
He also received over £12,000 for his mortgage on the property in Sheffield, nearly £1,700 for his council tax and £600 for his telephone bill.
MPs can claim up to £23,000 a year on expenses for costs associated with running a second home.
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(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.”
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.”
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(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.”
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(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.”
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(2007) New Labour Former Mayor Lawrence Bailey
CRIME 1: A former leader of Swansea Council has been banned from becoming a councillor for two-and-a-half years after indecent images were found on his computers.
Lawrence Bailey, 52, was found to have breached codes of conduct by the Adjudication Panel for Wales.
It also found he had broken rules by writing to a local newspaper using false names.
At least 70,000 “graphic” images were found on one computer.
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CRIME 2: But the panel also found it contained 253 documents, mostly letters to the Swansea Evening Post.
“Although the police examination showed Mr Bailey as being the author, the documents purported to have originated from various residents of Swansea,” stated the report.
“In some cases the addresses did not exist or the postcodes did not match them, or the true residents had no knowledge of the letters.”
“Widespread practice”
In his own submission to the panel, Mr Bailey claimed that writing letters to the press under pseudonyms “was widespread practice in political life in Wales”.
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(2009) Labour Cllr. Mohammed Najib -WANTED FOR ELECTORAL FRAUD
A FORMER councillor is wanted by police investigating election fraud.
Mohammed Najib was arrested last May after the local elections, it emerged yesterday.
But he failed to answer bail in September and is now believed to be abroad.
Calderdale’s first Asian councillor lost his Labour seat in Park ward last year after a 22-year stint.
It is believed Mr Najib is now living in Pakistan and inquiries are being made to trace him there.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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”.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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”.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.”
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(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.
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(2009) New Labour "Lord" Peter Mandleson -PARASITE
Less than a week after announcing he was standing down as an MP, Peter Mandelson billed taxpayers £3,000 for work on his constituency home in Hartlepool.
He renovated the terrace house in 2004 and sold it the following year, making a profit of around £136,000.
Parliamentary rules state that MPs can carry out ‘necessary repairs to make good dilapidations’ but cannot claim for anything that will ‘enhance the property’ and increase its value.
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Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson of Foy in the county of Herefordshire and Hartlepool in the county of Durham, Privy Councillor (born 21 October 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who is the current UK First Secretary of State, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and Lord President of the Council.
Mandelson served as Member of Parliament for Hartlepool for twelve years, a seat he vacated in order to become a European Commissioner. When he returned to the Cabinet in 2008, he was created a life peer.
In 1971 left the Labour Party Young Socialists (LPYS) to join the Young Communist League, then the youth wing of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
He was a delegate in 1978 to the Soviet-organised World Festival of Youth and Students in Havana, Cuba, with Arthur Scargill and several future Labour cabinet colleagues.
He worked as a television producer at London Weekend Television on Weekend World, forming an enduring friendship with John Birt, then LWT’s Director of Programmes, before being appointed as the Labour Party’s Director of Communications in 1985. Mandelson was able to secure close friendships within the Labour Party due to uncle Alexander Butler who had worked alongside many important Labour politicians during the 1960s.
He ceased being a Labour Party official in 1990, when he was selected as Labour candidate for the safe seat of Hartlepool. He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1992 general election.
After the election, Blair appointed him as a Minister without Portfolio in the Cabinet Office, where his job was to co-ordinate within government. A few months later, he also acquired responsibility for the Millennium Dome, after Blair decided to go ahead with the project despite the opposition of most of the Cabinet (including the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport who had been running it). Jennie Page, the Dome Chief Executive was abruptly sacked after a farcical opening night.
In December 1998, it was revealed Mandelson had bought a home in Notting Hill in 1996 with the assistance of an interest-free loan of £373,000 from Geoffrey Robinson, a millionaire Labour MP who was also in the Government, but was subject to an inquiry into his business dealings by Mandelson’s department. Although Mandelson alleged he had deliberately not taken part in any decisions relating to Robinson, he knew he should have declared the loan as an interest, and he resigned on 23 December 1998. Mandelson had also not declared the loan to his building society (the Britannia) although they decided not to take any action, with the CEO stating “I am satisfied that the information given to us at the time of the mortgage application was accurate.”
In January 2001, it was revealed Mandelson had phoned Home Office minister Mike O’Brien on behalf of Srichand Hinduja, an Indian businessman who was seeking British citizenship, and whose family firm was to become the main sponsor of the “Faith Zone” in the Millennium Dome. At the time, Hinduja and his brothers were under investigation by the Indian government for alleged involvement in the Bofors scandal. On 24 January 2001, Mandelson resigned from the Government for a second time,insisting he had done nothing wrong.
On 22 November 2004, Mandelson became Britain’s European Commissioner for Trade. On 22 April 2005, The Times revealed that Mandelson had spent the previous New Year’s Eve on the yacht of Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, which is at the centre of a major EU investigation, although it did not allege impropriety.
On 3 October 2008, as part of Gordon Brown’s cabinet reshuffle, it was announced that Mandelson would return to government in the re-drawn post of Business Secretary, and would be made a life peer, entitling him to a seat in the House of Lords. On 13 October 2008 he was created Baron Mandelson, of Foy in the county of Herefordshire and Hartlepool in the county of Durham.
In October 2008 Mandelson was reported by the press to have maintained private contacts over several years with Russia oligarch Oleg Deripaska, most recently on holiday in August 2008 on Deripaska’s yacht at Taverna Agni on the Greek island of Corfu. News of the contacts sparked criticism because, as European Union trade commissioner, Mandelson had been responsible for two decisions to cut aluminium tariffs that had benefited Deripaska’s United Company RusAl.Mandelson denied that there had been a conflict of interest and insisted that he had never discussed aluminium tariffs with Deripaska
On 14 January 2009 the Mail on Sunday asked how he had financed the purchase of a villa in London. Public records showed that he had paid £2.5 million for the property in 2006: almost 16 times his then salary as an EU commissioner. Reports at the time said that he had sold his shares in an advertising agency and received a large legacy from his mother, but Companies House records showed that the shares were not sold until 2007, while a copy of his mother’s will revealed that he had been left only £452,000.
In a reshuffle on 5 June 2009, Lord Mandelson was appointed to the honorific office of First Secretary of State, making him Deputy Prime Minister in all but name, a controversial position for an un-elected politician. Mandelson was also appointed to the position of Lord President of the Council. It was also announced that he would continue in his role as Business Secretary, with much expanded powers.
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(2009) New Labour David Miliband M.P. -PARASITE AND SUPPORTER OF TERRORISM
David Miliband’s defence of terrorism is a disgrace
The Foreign Secretary’s remarks to the BBC Radio 4 Great Lives programme condoning terrorism in some circusmstances are an absolute disgrace, and should be disowned by the Prime Minister. The Radio 4 interview focused on the life of South African Marxist Joe Slovo, a leading member of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC). The ANC’s bombing campaign included the targeting and killing of civilians.
As The Daily Mail reports, when asked by presenter Matthew Parris whether terrorism can ever be justified, Miliband stated:
“Yes, there are circumstances in which it is justifiable, and yes, there are circumstances in which it is effective.”
“The importance for me is that the South African example proved something remarkable: it looked like a regime that would last forever, and it was blown down.”
“It is hard to argue that, on its own, a political struggle would have delivered. The striking at the heart of a regime’s claim on a monopoly of power, which the ANC’s armed wing represented, was very significant.”
Perhaps this is what Mr. Miliband supports?
…surely it is this what Mr. Miliband sees as “justifiable”?
Miliband and the Establishment’s hero: convicted Communist terrorist Nelson Mandela
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David Miliband’s spending on his constituency home was so extensive that even his gardener questioned whether some of the costs were strictly necessary.
Over five years, Mr Miliband spent just under £30,000 on repairs, decoration and furnishings for his £120,000 home in South Shields.
On at least one occasion, he exceeded the maximum allowable amount and had his claim cut back. Mr Miliband, the current Foreign Secretary, spent up to £180 every three months on his garden, prompting his own gardener at one point to ask whether all the work was required.
In April 2008, on the bottom of a receipt for £132.96, the gardener wrote: “Please let me know if you would like pots making up at front and back this year, given the relatively short time you’ll be here and their labour-intensive nature.”
Under the rules, MPs may claim for basic garden maintenance, but not: “plants, shrubs, flowers, hanging baskets or other decorations”.
In 2005, Mr Miliband fell foul of rules which prohibit MPs from claiming any costs relating to their children. His application for reimbursement for a £199 pram and £80 in “baby essentials” were both rejected.
In another breach of the guidelines, Mr Miliband regularly claimed about £89 for undisclosed “household items”. In 2006, the then-environment secretary was told that he needed to provide details of his claims, and that part of his payment would be held back until he did. He wrote back withdrawing the claims, saying: “I am afraid I have not been able to lay my hands on the receipts for the items so we had better leave the payment as you have made it. I will keep a closer guard of the receipts in future.” Mr Miliband failed to resubmit his claim, even when the fees office wrote back advising that he did not need to provide receipts, but just to supply details of the items. He was not asked to repay his previous claims over several months, or provide information about the items that he had bought at taxpayers’ expense.
During the five years covered by the receipts, Mr Miliband successfully claimed for a £412 hand-crafted chair, a goose-down duvet and chenille throw from Marks & Spencer, a £450 “Gatsby” John Lewis sofa, and a washing machine and tumble dryer, some of which were ordered in the name of his American wife, Louise, a concert violinist.
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(2009) New Labour Blood-suckers
(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.
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(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
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(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
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(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.
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(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
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(2009) New Labour ILLIGITIMATE “P.M.” Gordon Brown -PARASITE
Gordon Brown paid Andrew Brown more than £6,000 for “cleaning services” over the course of two years, and reclaimed the money from the taxpayer. He insisted tonight he had done nothing wrong.
The Prime Minister also claimed twice for the same £153 plumber’s bill – money which he paid back today after the Telegraph pointed out the discrepancy to Downing Street.
Jack Straw, Hazel Blears and Paul Murphy are among 13 members of the Government who have been dragged into the growing row over taxpayer-funded allowances by the Telegraph investigation.
The disclosures show the full extent to which MPs have exploited the expenses system to subsidise their lifestyles.
Details of MPs’ expenses claims are due to be made public in July, when 1.5 million receipts will be published by parliament under the Freedom of Information Act, covering five years’ worth of claims.
But crucial details such as the identity of people to whom money was paid and the location of homes which MPs claimed on will be deleted from the receipts when they are published, meaning many of the worst apparent abuses of the system may never have been uncovered.
Read on: http://tinyurl.com/c4hjgr
The evidence of Gordon Brown’s receipt for sucking the blood of hard-up taxpayers: http://tinyurl.com/qyuff9
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Well, recent evidence has come to light that Gordon Brown’s brother, Mr. Andrew Brown, is a senior executive of EDF Energy – the French state-owned company which “somehow” won the contract to buy British Energy in September 2008. Very interesting, wouldn’t you say?
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(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
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(2009) New Labour Cllr.Joseph Shaw -PAEDOPHILE AND OWNER OF ILLEGAL GUN
A former Wigan councillor who downloaded child porn and had a gun and ammunition in his safe was today (Thur) jailed for six years.
A court heard that Joseph Shaw’s offending came to light after his daughter found the indecent images on his computer.
She was so shocked she did not initially tell anyone but after she found he had continued visiting child porn sites and also discovered texts on his phone apparently making obscene references to her she told a counsellor who alerted police.
JaIling 42-year-old Shaw, Judge David Swift said, “At the time you were in a possession of public responsibility, a man to whom others might look for an example.”
Read on: http://www.rockfm.co.uk/Article.asp?id=1277629&spid=11191
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(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”.
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(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.
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(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.
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How the Parasites in Westminster Waste YOUR Taxes.
Quad bikes, window cleaning, beds, life insurance and mock Tudor fireplaces – these are just some of the things that the criminal pirates masquerading as Tory, Labour and Lib-Dem MPs at Westminster have claimed from your tax money as “benefits.”
Tory MP David Maclean claimed £3,300 for a quad bike which he claimed was necessary to get around his constituency in Cumbria. Not too surprisingly, Mr Maclean was also behind a failed bid to exempt MPs and peers from Freedom of Information laws that require public figures to reveal their expenses.
His fellow Tory MEP Giles Chichester sucked £500,000 into “office services” for a business – staffed by his own family and of which he was director. At the time, Mr Chichester had been appointed by Conservative leader David Cameron to ensure that Tory MEPs did not swindle the taxpayers.
Tory MP Derek Conway paid his sons, Henry and Freddie, £80,000 for being his “researchers.” Mr Conway was then exposed by the BNP’s spokesman on law and order, Mr Michael Barnbrook. Mr Conway was ordered to pay back a mere £13,160 after an enquiry found no evidence that Freddie did any research work for his father. He was ordered to cough up around £3,700 for Henry. Further investigations showed that the Conservative MP had spent more than £260,000 of taxpayer’s money in “salaries” to members of his immediate family over a six-year period.
Labour Party MP and former foreign secretary Margaret Beckett claimed more than £6,500 in allowances for gardening expenses at her home in Derby. This included bills for pruning shrubs, trimming the hedges and for dismantling and rebuilding a rockery. In 2006 she also tried to claim £600 in costs for her garden plants.
She was joined in this never-ending swindle by fellow Labour MP Barbara Follet who claimed £1,600 for window cleaning. To make matters worse, the invoices for the window cleaning were made out to her husband, well known fiction author Ken Follett.
Possibly the most outrageous swindler yet is Labour Minister Tony McNulty who claimed more than £60,000 for a “second home” which in fact is where his parents live. There is no excuse whatsoever for this blatant theft from the public purses, as Mr McNulty’s actual residence was only nine miles away from his parents’ house. Mr McNulty would have been arrested and charged with fraud under any normal financial regime.
Not to be outdone in the outrageous stakes was Liberal Democrat MP Mark Oaten. After he was forced to resign over a sex scandal involving male prostitutes, it transpired that he had claimed bedroom furniture and other household items from his Parliamentary allowance.
Labour’s former deputy Prime Minister John Prescott felt the need to redecorate his house in mock Tudor style, putting up reproduction panels and a beautiful fireplace. All very nice one might say — except that the taxpayer paid for all of it.
Labour husband and wife MP duo Alan and Ann Keen spent a mere £175,000 on a “second home” allowance to buy an apartment on the South Bank of the Thames — despite owning a home in Brentford, West London, which is only 30 minutes away by car. Mrs Keen also took out a joint life insurance policy worth £430,000 and claimed back the £867.57 a month premium on her expenses.
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(2009) New Labour’s Jacqui Smith’s "Husband" -TAXPAYER-FUNDED PORN
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s husband was forced to make a humiliating apology this afternoon for causing her embarrassment over an expenses claim which included adult films he watched.
Speaking outside the couple’s home in Redditch, Worcestershire, Richard Timney told reporters: ‘I am really sorry for any embarrassment I have caused Jacqui.
‘I can fully understand why people might be angry and offended by this,
‘Quite obviously a claim should never have been made for these films, and as you know that money is being paid back.’
Mr Timney’s apology follows a statement earlier by Ms Smith who promised to pay back the money she wrongly claimed for the television package.
She had ‘mistakenly’ submitted the expenses claim which included five pay-per-view films, including the two adult movies which were viewed at her family home in her Redditch constituency.
The £67 bill was submitted last June as part of Ms Smith’s expenses.
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Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, claimed £240 in taxpayer-funded expenses to buy an Apple iPhone for her husband.
Miss Smith bought the top-of-the-range mobile phone for Richard Timney, her husband of 22 years, who is paid to work as her constituency office manager in Redditch.
Documents appear to show she then began claiming expenses to cover the cost of both their monthly mobile telephone bills.
Mr Timney embarrassed his wife earlier this year, when it emerged that the cost of two pornographic films he watched at their home had been included on one of her expenses claims.
Miss Smith billed taxpayers for 90 per cent of the cost of the phone, on the basis that 90 per cent of the calls made by Mr Timney would be related to her work as an MP.
As well as working as a regular phone, the iPhone handset allows users to surf the internet, listen to their music collection and play computer games.
In a letter sent to the Commons fees office in January last year, Miss Smith wrote: “Until now I have not claimed for the use of my mobile phone, nor that of Richard Timney… I should like to claim for both phones from now on and backdate the claim to the start of this financial year. “I would estimate that 90 per cent of the costs are related to my work as an MP… I hope that this estimation is acceptable.”
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(2009) New Labour M.P. Harry Cohen
Harry Cohen’s response to this public outrage: “When MP’s were given this allowance they were told, ‘Go and spend it boys’ and this is what I have done. It is my right.”
The Labour politician with the highest expenses claim of any London MP has denied that he was cheating taxpayers by claiming a second-home allowance while maintaining that his main home is a single-bedroom schoolhouse and seaside caravan 70 miles from his constituency.
Defiant Left-winger Harry Cohen said: ‘When MPs were given this allowance they were told “Go and spend it, boys” and that is what I have done. It is my right.’
His comments come as The Mail on Sunday launches a petition to demand a full enquiry into MPs’ expenses, to report within three months and NOT after the general election as is currently suggested.
Mr Cohen has claimed every single penny of the maximum £104,701 in Commons expenses in the past five years for his £375,000 property in his Leyton and Wanstead constituency in East London, on the basis that it is his ‘second home’.
Astonishingly, he says he has claimed the full second-home allowance since 1990.
It means he has pocketed a staggering £310,714 in total – believed to be the largest amount ever claimed by any MP.
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(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.
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(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.
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At the time of print the name of one of those arrested is unknown. The other three are below:
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(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.
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(2009) New Labour Cllr. Dave Conway
Interviewed by police in connection with allegations of corruption of Stoke-on-Trent City council.
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(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.
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(2009) New Labour Cllr. Sean Holby
OPPOSITION leaders have called for the chairman of Bolton’s planning committee to consider his position after he admitted to operating an illegal taxi.
Labour councillor Sean Hornby has received a “simple caution” after admitting using his car as a taxi without a licence, acting as a taxi driver without a licence, operating a car as a taxi without an operator licence and using his car as a taxi without the correct insurance.
Yesterday, Bolton Council withdrew the case at Bolton Magistrates’ Court as Cllr Hornby accepted the caution — which means he admitted the offences.
His previous “not guilty” pleas were “vacated” — removed from the court.
The case has been ongoing since last August and has cost Bolton taxpayers thousands of pounds.
The Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats leaders have called on Cllr Hornby, who represents Little Lever and Darcy Lever, to consider his position.
Tory leader Cllr John Walsh said: “Anyone in public life is accountable. I hope Cllr Hornby will consider his position.”
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NOTE: now consider the disparity with the outcome of Mr. Holby crime with the crime of the ordinary man on the street. Are councillors, M.P.s and other government figures above the law?
In Northern Ireland an illegal Taxi driver was banned for two years and fined £1500 pounds. And, more recently, South Wales Police, working with the local Council’s licensing officers and acting on demands from taxi drivers who work within the law, brought a succesful prosecution against a man who committed an identical offence to the Labour Councillor.
The illegal driver, clearly not a councillor, was fined a total of £715 with a 12 months driving disqualification.
The illegal driver, clearly not a councillor, was fined a total of £715 with a 12 months driving disqualification.
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(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.
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(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
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New Labour’s Peter Hain M.P.
Former Cabinet minister Peter Hain was guilty of “serious and substantial” failings in not registering more than £100,000 of donations to his Labour deputy leadership campaign, according to Westminster’s sleaze watchdog. http://tinyurl.com/aple7bHis history:
1) The Guardian newspaper, on 10 January 2008, noted that Hain was being accused of not reporting £100,000 in contributions. It later emerged that a large part of these funds were channeled through a non-operating think tank, the Progressive Policies Forum. http://tinyurl.com/3cwjje
2) On 24 January 2008, he resigned from several posts including his position as Work and Pensions secretary, after the Electoral Commission referred the failure to report donations to Metropolitan Police.
3) Peter Hain’s campaign failed to declare £103,156 of donations, contrary to electoral law. http://tinyurl.com/b24yxz As the police investigation continued, further dubious financial practices surfaced including employing his 80-year-old mother on a Commons salary of £5,400 a year http://tinyurl.com/create.php
4) In 1976 Hain was tried for, and acquitted of, a 1974 bank robbery, allegedly having been framed by South African intelligence agents. Two schoolboys positively identified him. Despite modern DNA techniques and mass fingerprinting now being available no further investigation of this unsolved case is known to have taken place.
5) In 1972 Peter Hain was found guilty of criminal conspiracy and fined £200.
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(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
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(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
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(2009) Labour council leader David Roy Cartwright -GUILTY OF FRAUD
A former Worcestershire council leader has pleaded guilty to stealing tens of thousands of pounds from a charity.
Ex-leader of Redditch Borough Council David Roy Cartwright, 52, admitted stealing at least £24,695 from local homeless charity Step Out Drop In.
He also admitted making false claims for the charity totalling £63,467 between June 1997 and April 2001.
Cartwright, of Donnington Close, Redditch, will return to Hereford Crown Court for sentencing on 27 February.
The Step Out Drop In charity has since collapsed.
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(2009) New Labour -MONEY LAUNDERING
The first entry of the New Year goes to (who else, of course) New Labour…
The Labour Party is well known for providing a host of services for rewarding those who “donate” to their Party. Honours, Titles, Jobs and backhanders are just some of the “services” this prostitute of an organisation provides to keep its rotten self alive.
However taking money that was donated by well wishers to a charity and also funds paid by taxpayers to assist disadvantaged children reveals just how uncaring and corrupt the Labour Party of today is.
In a “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” deal with the children’s charity, the Catz Club, which runs after school clubs for disadvantaged children of usually ethnic origins, their shady dealings and method of operation have been revealed for all to see.
The Charity received a “loan” of £1.3 million pounds of taxpayers money from Futurebuilders and £200,000 from the National Lottery (Tax) of which at least £30,000 was swiftly channeled to the Labour Party in a way that certainly seems illegal to me.
Shortly afterwards, showing the one hand washing the other, £842,000 of the “loan” made by Furturebuilders was written off.
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(2008) New Labour Former Cllr. Ben Williams
A FORMER Liverpool councillor today appeared in court charged with downloading indecent images of children – some said to be of the worst type.
Ben Williams, 34, of Norris Green appeared at South Sefton Magistrates Court and spoke only to confirm his address.
The history tutor, who was supported by family and friends at the hearing, did not enter a plea to the 12 counts of making indecent images over a year-long period.
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(2008) New Labour Cllr. Jonathan Phillips -PAEDOPHILE
A disgraced former Walsall councillor who left a computer memory stick containing child porn behind after a town hall meeting was today fined £443. Jonathan Phillips was placed on the sex offenders register for two years. The discovery was made after a council worker found the equipment belonging to Phillips in a meeting room at the Lichfield Street site. After loading the stick into the computer, they discovered the indecent images and was able to link the computer to Phillips. At Walsall Magistrates Court today the 53-year-old admitted two offences of making an indecent photo or pseudo-photo of a child. Phillips, of Eastbourne Street, Walsall, resigned from his position as a Labour councillor for the Birchills and Leamore ward after he was arrested by police last October. He was suspended from his work at Wolverhampton City Council. Miss Siobhan Wilkins, prosecuting, said Phillips received texts on his mobile phone but had accessed them by downloading from a website which he then copied onto a USB stick. This stick was found in September last year.
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(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.
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(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.
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(2008) New Labour Cllr. Liam Smith -“HOMOPHOBIC” REMARKS
A senior councillor who hurled a ‘homophobic’ insult at a political rival’s mother has been cautioned by police. Deputy leader of Barking and Dagenham council Liam Smith is said to have told the 60-year-old ‘shut up you f***ing fat dyke’ and ‘go back to the farmyard’ after a trivial argument in the council chamber. The Labour councillor lost his temper after watching the Conservatives snatch a seat in a by-election last month.
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(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.
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(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
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(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.
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(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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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New Labour Cllr. John Whiteman
Labour Councillor and Deputy Council Leader (Northumberland) John Whiteman, who was also a senior member of the local police authority, was convicted and fined in 2002 for soliciting a prostitute in the red light district of Middlesbrough. The court heard Whiteman was arrested in his car as police discovered him in a “state of undress” with a lady of the night he had just paid £35 for sex. He subsequently resigned from the council. http://tinyurl.com/26xfz6
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New Labour Cllr. and Former Mayor Liam Temple -PAEDOPHILE
Labour Councillor and former Mayor (Halton, Cheshire) Liam Temple was convicted in 2004 of “Inciting a child under 16 to commit an act of gross indecency” after the 58-year-old Labour pervert had attempted to molest a 12-year-old girl. During the case the brave youngster told the court via a video link: “He said if I let him touch me he would give me money”. http://tinyurl.com/2bbmej
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New Labour Cllr. Les Sheppard -PAEDOPHILE SEX ATTACKER
Labour Councillor (Coxhoe, Durham) Les Sheppard was convicted in 2004 on ten counts of indecent assault on young girls. Jailed for 2 years and placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register for 10 years. Teeside Crown Court heard how 71 year-old Cllr Sheppard lured his victims into his gold Porsche before driving them to remote spots, where he would submit them to sickening sex attacks. After his arrest the Labour nonce told police: “I love women, but you do things which you regret”. The “women” Sheppard refers to were victims aged between 9 and 13 years old. http://tinyurl.com/yqtdzo
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Two "Cabinet Ministers" Paedophiles
According to media reports the names of 2 former Labour Cabinet Ministers said to be “household names” appear on the Operation Ore list of subscribers to hard-core child pornography. This was part of a FBI investigation. So who are they? http://tinyurl.com/ytdcow
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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
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New Labour’s Yusef Azad
Yusef Azad –one of Ken Livingston’s overpaid Left-wing cronies on the London Assembly gravy train– resigned from his £60,000-plus a year job ‘assisting’ Assembly members, after being arrested and bailed on suspicion of downloading child porn in 2003. http://tinyurl.com/29x5q5
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New Labour Joe Ashton M.P.
Labour MP (Sheffield, Yorkshire) Joe Ashton was caught up in a police raid while frequenting a brothel in 1999. He tried to lie his way out of the scandal. http://tinyurl.com/24yyjk
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New Labour Cllr. George Harding -PAEDOPHILIA
Labour Councillor (Manchester, Cheshire) George Harding was charged with indecent assault on a girl of 12. http://tinyurl.com/yt7u75
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Cllr. Raymond Coates -PAEDOPHILIA, RAPE AND BESTIALITY
Former Labour Councillor (North Yorkshire) Raymond Coates was charged along with his son, Philip Coats, in 2003 with child rape, using threats to procure a woman for sex and, wait for it…inciting a woman to have sex with an animal. Coats junior was sentenced to 13 years in prison for his part in the father & son rape and bestiality double-act, although the trial of 76 year-old Raymond Coats was abandoned after the court ruled he was too ill to stand trial. Agreeing to the indefinite postponement, Judge Paul Hoffman said: “With enormous reluctance, and I emphasise that enormous reluctance because it is unsatisfactory that these very serious and nasty charges should remain unresolved, I am going to order a stay on this basis. If the evidence were to demonstrate a recovery, the stay can be revoked”. http://tinyurl.com/2x3zqu
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