Mark Pack

Money, money, money (UPDATED)

By | Sat 17th May 2008 - 1:49 pm

A variety of political financial stories this week, including:

  1. The Speaker and Parliamentary authorities lose their fight to try to keep details of MPs’ expenses secret.
  2. Nick Clegg publishes details of his Parliamentary expenses and announces that all the Liberal Democrat frontbenchers will follow suit from July.
  3. More bad financial news for the Labour Party with further tales of it being on the verge of bankrupcy (though I find it hard to believe the unions would actually let the party go under; it’s more a matter of how these financial problems could give them more power within the party in future in return for them continuing to bail out the party).
  4. Over at The Times, Anatole Kaletsky compares Gordon Brown’s record with that of Enron. Ouch.
  5. UPDATE: Waltham Forest Conservative Councillor Graham Sinclair (who is himself a magistrate) has been charged with benefit fruad. The trial is set for September.
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One Comment

  • Paul L 17th May '08 - 4:30pm

    How about the other financial stories of the week emerging around BOJO:

    1. BOJO’s other income – I see he’s restrated working at the Torygraph – earned £250,000 per annum – he’s still MP for Henley, other incomes? I would think a few London voters might be surprised as they probably thought teh Mayor’s job was full time….

    2. The appointments of advisors and key post holders – their remuneration and the apparent circumventing of rules / controls.

    Not sure BOJO hasn’t already started off on a weak tack… Hope that London Lib Dems realise that the fight back should be starting now.

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