Good news! Conservative London Assembly member Brian Coleman has cut his taxi bill by a fifth.
Bad news! He’s still racking up over £8,000 a year in taxi fares that Londoners then have to pay for.
P.S. He also gets a free travelcard.
P.P.S. Average taxi bill run up by other London Assembly members in the same period: £685.
Follow @libdemvoice.org on Bluesky
Like us on Facebook
Subscribe to our feed
Sign-up for our daily email digest
A Federal Britain: 1. Renewing democracy through fair representation (Iain Donaldson)
A roadmap to Queer Equality (Tara Foster)
A strange but welcome feeling (Jennie Rigg)
Fifteen years ago today…… (Caron Lindsay)
Mathew on Monday: Pluralism Means More Than a Slogan (Mathew Hulbert)
paul barker 
Peter Chambers 
Mark Valladares 
Mark Smulian 
Geoff Reid 
Michael Meadowcroft: A Liberal of Intellectual Rigour and Uncommon Integrity
Debt-ridden graduates claim they are seen as cash cows
Why non-fiction books need their indexes
Changes in status: Local Elections wrap up
7 Comments
Mmm… I think there must be something very special about Conservatives; something truly amazing, because it beats me how anyone can have at least two £10 taxi fares every single day of the YEAR, and to be able to justify it.
If that were a LibDem, I’d be calling for them to be ejected from the party.
The BBC report includes this!:
“His expense claim included a taxi bill of £656 in just one day last December, during which kept a cab waiting two-and-a-half hours.”
Vote Blue – Go by Taxi
And his expenses from Barnet Council, LFEEPA and the North London Waste Authority
This is totally outrageous – really big news. I hope the London party are preparing standard template attacking this for distribution to all the London Boroughs…
If I was Cameron I would tell this geezer to publicly announce he was paying back £7,500 of it.
http://bromleylibdems.org.uk/news/000056/local_assembly_member_tops_london_expenses_bill.html
Brian Coleman has to take taxis everywhere. He is scared of London.
http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2007/09/brian-coleman-puts-his-foot-in-it.htm