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I’m aghast. I never imagined that even Griffin and Brons would fall at the first, and eminently negotiable, jump. The Telegraph reports that Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons have given insufficient detail of their expenses, worth nearly £500,000. All other parties provided detailed returns. Griffin stood on an anti-sleaze ticket last June, and successfully exploited the widespread contempt...
submitted by Spectator on 12th Mar 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)



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Nick Griffin, the British National Party leader and MEP, has not published details of his own expenses despite campaigning on an anti-sleaze platform during European elections.
submitted by Telegraph on 12th Mar 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
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In response to last week’s ruling by the European Court of Justice, the Sunday Times has published the internal expenses report that the European Parliament has refused to make public. Abuses include MEPs claiming up to £180,000 in annual staff allowances without receipts, MEPs awarding themselves bonuses of up to 1½ times their salaries and diverting public money into front com...
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Outspoken Tory MP investigated by the parliamentary sleaze watchdog over her use of expenses, the Telegraph can disclose.
submitted by Telegraph on 15th Jan 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
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It is a promising sign. The European Parliament has reacted to reports on wide-spread sleaze. But the statement is an almost blanket denial. The issues are serious enough to merit space. First, let the EP speak. Then we try to evaluate the measures and trust of the European Parliament. *** European Parliament press statement On 24 February 2009 the European Parliament issued the following press re...
submitted by Grahnlaw on 26th Feb 2009 (via grahnlaw.blogspot.com)
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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.
submitted by AndrewNutt on 5th Jun 2009 (via andrewnutt.blogspot.com)
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Brown, Blears and Straw are among cabinet members who will be revealed by the Telegraph tomorrow as having scammed their expenses. It appears that Jacqui Smith was the tip of the iceberg.
submitted by TheWiltedRose on 7th May 2009 (via thewiltedrose.wordpress.com)
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After the appalling sleaze that should see each and every thieving bastard kicked out of Parliament, investigated by the Revenue and jailed, I think we need to have a film like this now made about the abuse of our own Parliament's expenses.
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THE Scottish peer embroiled in allegations of sleaze has claimed more than £500 a day in expenses since he joined the House of Lords, The Scotsman can reveal.
submitted by Scotsman on 28th Jan 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
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From the Telegraph: Sir Nicholas and Ann Winterton, the Conservative MPs, are to resign from parliament at the next election. The couple will not run for re-election as the MPs for Macclesfield and Congleton. … Their decision comes after the Telegraph disclosed that they claimed more than £80,000 in rent for a small London flat that was
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The BNP’s first ever MEPs – party leader Nick Griffin and his colleague Andrew Brons – yesterday took their seats in the European Parliament, a month after the European elections delivered a drubbing to socialists across Europe.
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