The Telegraph continues its series of saintly MPs and three more Lib Dems are included.
Tom Brake, Susan Kramer and Ed Davey are all Greater London MPs with columns of zeroes next to their ACA claims, even though they are strictly speaking entitled to them. They join Sarah Teather, Lynne Featherstone and David Howarth who have already featured in the series.
Here’s an interesting thing: will Vince Cable be included in this holy parade? He too is a Greater London MP who doesn’t claim the ACA he is entitled to. I seem to recall he featured in the Telegraph’s Lib Dem day revelations because he had asked for his London weighting allowance (which is taken instead of the ACA, about a tenth the size) to be backdated. The other Greater London MPs named above, I presume, had been correctly claiming theirs all along. So was this (along with Alan Duncan) just padding for the Telegraph’s Lib Dem page or is it enough to knock our Vince off the canonisation list?
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I’m not sure why the Telegraph consider James Brokenshire ‘a saint’. He represents an outer London seat – yet still claims thousands of punds of public money for a second home?
He doesn’t need a second home to do his job and he can get on the train home like his constituents (and like Ed Davey, Susan Kramer, Tom Brake and Vince Cable among others).
Do the Telegraph even remember there stories now let alone the rest of us.
Well well, five “saints” from Greater London and one from (just about) commuting range who prefers to live at home.
This just shows how shallow the whole thing is.
Of course part of the DT agenda is to have a House of Commons full of rich people and people from the South East.
Tony Greaves
Tony Greaves
If we’re mentioning the saints, we probably also ought to acknowledge that there have been allegations about Phil Willis in the Telegraph today, although it does seem to be a similar thing to the Andrew George case.
*groan*
Oh, not another one. What *is* it with these people?
Page 9 of the Torygraph. More space possibly because of his daughter…shades of Andrew George anybody?
If the DT’s story is anywhere near accurate (and looks to be better researched than Andrew George’s), then Willis ought to stand down and offer himself for reselection. If he’s done no wrong, I’m sure he’ll be re-elected.
DT article: http://bit.ly/7kLr8
@Lord Tony – the public are aware of the DT’s bias but your sniping makes you sound like Labour tossers more interested in shooting the messenger than exposing corruption.
And you really don’t want them as bed-fellows…
Hmm, interesting. He’s standing down at the next GE anyway. (Stephen has blogged this separately now).
Yeah Phil Willis announced ages ago the he was standing down at the next GE, probably a good job now