FAQ |
Members List |
Calendar |
Search |
Today's Posts |
|
Serious Debates & News Debate and discussion about political, moral, philosophical, celebrity and news topics. |
Reply |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
02-11-2012, 01:10 PM | #1 | |||
|
||||
Senior Member
|
"Ex-Labour minister Denis MacShane to be suspended from the Commons for ONE YEAR after claiming expenses on 19 fake invoices
For three years the Rotheram MP created invoices from the European Policy Institute worth £12,900 to pay for him to travel around Europe Bills were signed with a 'nom de plume' purporting to come from a General Manager who did not in fact exist He also claimed for eight computers, including a laptop which he let an intern keep when they stopped working for him Committee on Standards and Privileges delivers damning verdict: 'This is so far from what would be acceptable in any walk of life' MP also criticised for failing to co-operate with parliamentary inquiry Labour says the 64-year-old's career is 'effectively over' " Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2B4fcn5nH I thought he was a good bloke but fiddling the money - not good |
|||
Reply With Quote |
02-11-2012, 01:14 PM | #2 | ||
|
|||
0_o
|
If a benefits claimant had defrauded the system of 12k, they might be locked up for it. If nothing else they would be made to pay it back and would have a criminal record for life.
This tit gets a 12 month suspension from work. All in this together, yeah right
__________________
Quote:
|
||
Reply With Quote |
02-11-2012, 01:18 PM | #3 | ||
|
|||
Remembering Kerry
|
Good to see quick action but I find it amazing this wasn't dealt with properly at the original expenses investigations before.
I'd go further than suspend him from Parliament for 12 months,(likely on his salary still too), it should be that these issues are dealt with by removing the offending MP from Parliament altogether. Having said that though, certain MPs,like Lib Dem David Laws for example, can be not only welcomed back to Parliament after fiddling expenses but can be promoted to a Junior Ministerial position. Unbelievable or at least it should be. Last edited by joeysteele; 02-11-2012 at 02:02 PM. |
||
Reply With Quote |
02-11-2012, 01:53 PM | #4 | |||
|
||||
Likes cars that go boom
|
It makes me sick... I should maybe stop being surprised by these things?
__________________
|
|||
Reply With Quote |
02-11-2012, 01:59 PM | #5 | |||
|
||||
This Witch doesn't burn
|
I couldnt agree more, this is theft, he should be sacked at the very least.
__________________
'put a bit of lippy on and run a brush through your hair, we are alcoholics, not savages' |
|||
Reply With Quote |
02-11-2012, 02:39 PM | #6 | ||
|
|||
Senior Member
|
Bang 'im up .....
|
||
Reply With Quote |
02-11-2012, 02:52 PM | #7 | |||
|
||||
IntoxiKated
|
One rule for us, another entirely for them. Stinks. Will never change sadly.
__________________
|
|||
Reply With Quote |
02-11-2012, 03:35 PM | #8 | |||
|
||||
Senior Member
|
MacShane has just said he has Resigned as a MP
Live on all Media http://news.sky.com/story/1006228/mp...minister-quits Last edited by arista; 02-11-2012 at 03:48 PM. |
|||
Reply With Quote |
02-11-2012, 04:15 PM | #9 | ||
|
|||
Senior Member
|
He should fall on his sword .....
|
||
Reply With Quote |
02-11-2012, 08:14 PM | #10 | ||
|
|||
Remembering Kerry
|
Glad he is gone, that is how any of them should go if found to be fiddling expenses.
|
||
Reply With Quote |
Reply |
|
|