Expenses of Pat Mcfadens Tory counterpart

[Big Daz]

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[BELIAL]

£25, 000 of taxpayers cash for hoovering up after him and weeding Benefit fraud I think, time to jail all these cheats and scroungers
So ,and we do so love the pro rata stuff If a striking miners wife gets 18 months custodial for half inching a 37p pint of milk ,how much does an MP get for thieving 25 grand of public money(in one year) ????
Feck all ,cos the rules don't apply to his class. An if you disagree show me one of this political elite who have done,or will do time for fraud or corruption,I won't hold my breath, sorry

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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Would-be MP jailed for fraud

Tuesday, 5 November 1996
David Hurst, a would-be Labour MP who siphoned pounds 31,000 from party coffers in Bath to pay for a lavish lifestyle to impress party bosses, was jailed for 15 months for forging cheques.

Hurst, 35, confessed when police confronted him. He admitted four specimen charges of forgery, asking for 38 other offences to be considered. He was made treasurer of the city's Labour Party in 1992 and last July was chosen to fight the Bath seat, won by Liberal Democrat Don Foster from former Tory chairman Chris Patten in 1992. Bristol Crown Court heard he quit as treasurer and prospective candidate in September last year after being exposed for claiming dole and housing benefits for four years while working. An party inquiry found pounds 30,000 missing from constituency coffers.

and this one was a UKIP MEP so not one of the ruling class as such - again probably jailed because he did not know the right people.

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MEP is jailed for benefit fraud

Mote was elected as an MEP in 2004 as a member of UKIP
An MEP for South East England has been jailed for nine months for falsely claiming benefits of more than £65,000.
Former UKIP MEP Ashley Mote, 71, was sentenced at Portsmouth Crown Court after being found guilty of 21 offences following a four-week trial.

Mote will retain his seat in Europe because he would only have been disqualified if he had received a term of imprisonment of more than 12 months.

Hang on wasn't Jonathan Aitken jailed in the 90s for perjury (telling lies in court) guess he forgot they can only make libellous comments within the Houses of Parliament and get away with it, doing it in court and against a newspaper, he could not quite sweep that one under the carpet.

So point taken mate, one they reach parliament and as long as its not too blatant, it seems as though they can and will get away with anything.