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Title: The all new troughing MPs thread
Post by: Nick on September 06, 2012, 05:12:42 PM
http://order-order.com/2012/09/06/labours-absent-earners-expenses-bills/
 (http://order-order.com/2012/09/06/labours-absent-earners-expenses-bills/) Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead Banghead
Title: Re: The all new troughing MPs thread
Post by: Pastis on September 06, 2012, 05:15:46 PM
Bad link. Launches email client here  noooo:
Title: Re: The all new troughing MPs thread
Post by: Nick on September 06, 2012, 05:21:00 PM
Bad link. Launches email client here  noooo:
redface:
Title: Re: The all new troughing MPs thread
Post by: Pastis on September 06, 2012, 05:24:43 PM
That's betterer ...  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: The all new troughing MPs thread
Post by: Nick on September 06, 2012, 05:26:29 PM
Worserer when you read it  cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing:
Title: Re: The all new troughing MPs thread
Post by: Just One More on September 06, 2012, 06:00:36 PM
I really should know better than to click on links like that  Explode:


BASTARDS!
Title: Re: The all new troughing MPs thread
Post by: Snoopy on September 07, 2012, 07:15:37 AM
The most surprising thing about that report is that anyone should be surprised.  evil:
Title: Re: The all new troughing MPs thread
Post by: GROWLER on September 08, 2012, 07:44:14 AM
...and meanwhile I'm being badgered relentlessly and threatened with legal action for being 4 weeks oberdue in me corpy tax payment.

Must be gotting low on some random vintage wines, utter filth and bastards
Title: Re: The all new troughing MPs thread
Post by: Baldy on November 03, 2012, 12:37:27 AM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/9651978/MPs-expenses-scandal-Denis-MacShane-resigns.html (ftp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/9651978/MPs-expenses-scandal-Denis-MacShane-resigns.html)

The investigation began after it emerged that Mr MacShane had claimed nearly £20,000 a year in expenses for an office based in the garage of his South Yorkshire home.

The former Minister claimed £125,000 in seven years to cover the costs of running his official constituency base from the garage of his semi-detached home in Rotherham.

 cussing:
Title: Re: The all new troughing MPs thread
Post by: Barman on November 03, 2012, 06:45:29 AM
And the bastard gets to resign and keep his pension....  ::)
Title: Re: The all new troughing MPs thread
Post by: Grumpmeister on November 06, 2012, 06:28:41 PM
Wonder what claims this will lead to  rubschin:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9659321/Nadine-Dorries-suspended-as-Conservative-MP-over-Im-a-Celebrity-appearance.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9659321/Nadine-Dorries-suspended-as-Conservative-MP-over-Im-a-Celebrity-appearance.html)

Title: Re: The all new troughing MPs thread
Post by: Pastis on November 08, 2012, 06:14:07 PM
The details come out in court ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9663701/Labour-MP-Margaret-Moran-claimed-53000-in-false-expenses.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9663701/Labour-MP-Margaret-Moran-claimed-53000-in-false-expenses.html)

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Mr Justice Saunders told the jury that they were to hear “an unusual form of trial” in which they would not be asked to decide whether or not Mrs Moran was guilty, but only whether “the prosecution has proved that she did the acts alleged”.
He added: “She is not fit mentally to defend herself against the charges that she faces. It would therefore be unfair for her to be found guilty.”
He said that if the jury decided the prosecution case was proven: “That will not result in punishment as such, but will ensure that the court makes sure Mrs Moran gets appropriate treatment.”

WTF?   eeek:

At what point did she become mentally unfit?  When she was found out?   ::)
Title: Re: The all new troughing MPs thread
Post by: Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits) on November 08, 2012, 06:21:43 PM
The details come out in court ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9663701/Labour-MP-Margaret-Moran-claimed-53000-in-false-expenses.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9663701/Labour-MP-Margaret-Moran-claimed-53000-in-false-expenses.html)

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Mr Justice Saunders told the jury that they were to hear “an unusual form of trial” in which they would not be asked to decide whether or not Mrs Moran was guilty, but only whether “the prosecution has proved that she did the acts alleged”.
He added: “She is not fit mentally to defend herself against the charges that she faces. It would therefore be unfair for her to be found guilty.”
He said that if the jury decided the prosecution case was proven: “That will not result in punishment as such, but will ensure that the court makes sure Mrs Moran gets appropriate treatment.”

WTF?   eeek:

At what point did she become mentally unfit?  When she was found out?   ::)

The minute she became a politician at a guess - mentally unfit as well as morally unfit . . . .
Title: Re: The all new troughing MPs thread
Post by: Snoopy on November 09, 2012, 08:48:25 AM
Ah! The old Ernest Saunders defence eh.  ::)
Title: Re: The all new troughing MPs thread
Post by: Baldy on November 09, 2012, 09:07:39 AM
Ah! The old Ernest Saunders defence eh.  ::)

An amazing recovery from Alzheimer's......the only person to achieve it so far.  noooo: