Councils are hoarding billions of pounds of taxpayers money, equivalent to £430 for every British family, despite making cuts to public services.
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Telegraph on 29th Dec 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
Hundreds of millions of pounds of British taxpayers money has been spent trying to get foreign countries to tackle climate change in the past five years, according to official figures.
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Telegraph on 3rd Dec 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
Some MPs in Yorkshire and the North East have accepted free first class travel passes from Grand Central Railway, but they say they're breaking no parliamentary rules and are saving taxpayers money.
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BBCPolitics on 22nd Jul 2011 (via bbc.co.uk)
Efforts to crack down on councils using taxpayers money for party political ends could flout the coalition's "localism" agenda, MPs say.
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BBCPolitics on 27th Jan 2011 (via bbc.co.uk)
MORE than £1 million of taxpayers money has been spent as a result of compensation cases raised by prisoners.
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Scotsman on 23rd Sep 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
A ROW has broken out over the way MPs claimed more than £2.5 million of taxpayers money to promote themselves in the run-up to the election.
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Scotsman on 24th Jun 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
David Laws has expressed relief that his sexuality has been exposed as part of revelations over his use of taxpayers money to pay more than £40,000 in rent to his long-term gay partner.
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Telegraph on 29th May 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
I've been very critical if not downright rude about Paul Flynn MP but here's a post which he can take as a compliment. Essentially, I want him to know that despite my criticisms of his politics, his idiotic worldview and use of taxpayers money I can safely say that he is an intellectual giant in comparison to the commentariat at his blog. Here's an example, someone by the name of To...
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TheCynicalDragon on 8th Apr 2010 (via cynicaldragon.com)