Baroness Scotland To Be Questioned About £170,000 Expenses

Posted on Sep 21, 2009 in blog, Uncategorized We all know that the attorney-general is facing questions about the employment of her overstaying housekeeper who she sacked on Wednesday last week and we subsequently reported to the UKBA as an employer of an overstayer/illegal immigrant.  However there were further developements in the Times yesterday, it has come to light that for years she has been claiming an allowance intended for...
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New Expenses Reform Will Identify MPs Who Flip Homes

Posted on Sep 18, 2009 in blog, Uncategorized It has been reported by the Daily Telegraph today that expenses claims for the forthcoming financial year will go into far greater detail than previous years. The newly elected speaker John Bercow said the electorate would be able to find out if their MP had changed the property on which they claimed second home expenses on order to maximise expense payments.  This practice was know as...
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Baroness Scotland Reported to UKBA

Posted on Sep 17, 2009 in blog, Uncategorized After contacting Baroness Scotland this morning and due to the lack of response from her we feel that it is in the public interest to report this incident to the proper authorities.  This is the letter that we sent to Lin Homer the Chief Executive of the UKBA putting forward our case against Baroness Scotland. Lin Homer Letter-1...
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Lord Taylor Of Warwick To Face Fraud Inquiry

Posted on Sep 14, 2009 in blog, Uncategorized Lord Taylor of Warwick the Conservative Peer that the Sunlight Centre for Open Politics reported to the House of Lords authorities on the 6th August 2009 is according to the Daily Telegraph now facing a fraud inquiry from Scotland Yard.  Lord Taylor is the fourth peer to face an investigation by the police along with Baroness Uddin, Lord Hanningfield and Lord Clarke of Hampstead over their...
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Tory MP Agrees With Public Anger Over Funded Mortgages

Posted on Sep 10, 2009 in blog, Uncategorized It has been reported in the Daily Mail today that Sir John Stanley the senior Tory MP for Tonbridge and Maling in Kent is in agreement with the vast majority of the electorate over the issue relating to MPs expenses and the purchase of their property.  In a letter to the Committee on Standards in Public Life, which is reviewing the expenses system, he claimed the availability of...
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CSPL Redacts Comments From FOI Expert

Posted on Sep 9, 2009 in blog, Uncategorized Heather Brooke from the Citizen’s Guide to the FOI gave evidence to the Committee on Standards in Public Life regarding MP’s expenses but recieved a letter from the same committee which has been censored considerably.  According to Ms Brooke all the requested ‘redactions’ are already in the public domain: Keith Vaz’s wheelie bin bill and train tickets are...
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