The following has been released today by LPUK. The revelations which we read about this morning in the Daily Telegraph with regards to Ministers expenses has long been expected. It is now clear why for so long MP's have attempted time and again to find legal avenues to hide this shameful abuse of taxpayers funds, which in many instances go beyond merely acting within the rules, as several minister...
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LPUK on 8th May 2009 (via lpuk.blogspot.com)
From the Daily Telegraph website this evening: Like MPs from all parties, Liberal Democrats have used their expenses to carry out lavish decorating work and refurbishment of their second homes, often putting the stamp duty and legal costs associated with buying their houses on their expenses. Expenses claims submitted by 12 Liberal Democrats, from senior spokesmen to a number of backbenchers, will...
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LiberalEngland on 12th May 2009 (via liberalengland.blogspot.com)
Daily Telegraph, 12 December 2008: “Recession pulls hemlines down“. Daily Telegraph, 6 March 2009: “Hemlines rise during economic downturns”. But perhaps it is neither up nor down? Daily Telegraph, 5 February 2009: “the relationship between fashion and the economy is often more subtly complex than that”. Never let it be said the Daily Telegraph doesn’t cov...
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 23rd Mar 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
There is a flurry of legal action in the wake of the Daily Telegraph's publication of MPs' expenses.
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TheHerald on 10th May 2009 (via theherald.co.uk)
Let me see. The Telegraph fingers Andrew George, Nick Clegg, Menzies Campbell, Chris Huhne, Lembit Opik and Julia Goldsworthy. Lembit, it seems: charged taxpayers for a £40 court summons he received for the non-payment of his council tax. He will refund it.Bless.
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LiberalEngland on 12th May 2009 (via liberalengland.blogspot.com)
According to the Daily Telegraph "Mark Lazarowicz, the Labour MP for Edinburgh North and Leith, who has not yet been named in the Telegraph investigation, agreed to repay £2,675 of fees related to a "protracted legal dispute" over his second home in London". With all the focus on expenses it seems the local MP has gone back through his claims, decided that this one wasn`t right and is going ...
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NorthToLeith on 14th May 2009 (via northtoleith.com)
Why on earth would the Daily Telegraph’s owners, the Barclay brothers, shut down Tory MP Nadine Dorries’ blog just because she questioned their motives in exposing the Parliamentary expenses scandal? Ms Dorries has warned that some of the targets of the Telegraph witch-hunt are on the verge of suicide. I can well believe it. That doesn’t invalidate the investigation but there is ...
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NigelHastilow on 26th May 2009 (via nigelhastilow.blogspot.com)
Daily Telegraph broke story of MPs' allowances with special investigation The Expenses Files.
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Telegraph on 8th May 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Was the serialising of MP’s expenses by the Daily Telegraph an act to expose those honourable servants of the House of Parliament or was it to undermine the European elections in an attempt to increase the votes of UKIP and UKIP MEP's? Some say this could have been issued after the European election, when all the expenses would have been sorted.
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AndrewNutt on 5th Jun 2009 (via andrewnutt.blogspot.com)
Sunday and Daily Telegraph sales gain has continued over month of MPs' expenses exclusives, industry indicators suggest The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph newspapers have sold an additional 1m copies since they began running MPs' expenses exclusives nearly a month ago. According to newspaper industry indicators ahead of the official Audit Bureau of Circulations figures for May, rel...
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Guardian on 4th Jun 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)