The Conservative with the £8,000 taxi bill

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By Mark Pack | Fri 18th July 2008 - 10:57 am

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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.

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Neale Upstone 18th Jul '08 - 11:26am

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.
Hywel Morgan 18th Jul '08 - 12:11pm

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.”
Cheltenham Robin 18th Jul '08 - 1:02pm

Vote Blue – Go by Taxi
Anonymous 18th Jul '08 - 2:13pm

And his expenses from Barnet Council, LFEEPA and the North London Waste Authority
Mark Wright 18th Jul '08 - 5:11pm

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.
Duncan Borrowman 18th Jul '08 - 11:28pm

http://bromleylibdems.org.uk/news/000056/local_assembly_member_tops_london_expenses_bill.html
Alix 19th Jul '08 - 6:52pm

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