Michael Jackson will be surly missed and will be in many hearts and minds God bested you Michael, and now your with Him Michael

What Planet is ASDA living on or in with this rubbish statement, Falling living costs save average family £7 per week
ASDA say the average family was £7 a week better off during May following a fall in mortgage repayments and other living costs, research has showed.

A typical household had £164 a week left for discretionary spending after meeting all of their essential costs, nearly 5 per cent more than they had in May last year, according to Asda.
The supermarket giant said the increase was the biggest year-on-year jump in disposable income since April 2008.

Essential spending, such as housing and transport costs, was £3 a week lower in May than it had been a year earlier.
The fall was largely driven by a drop in mortgage repayments, with these 45 per cent lower than in May 2008 following reductions to the Bank of England base rate to a record low of 0.5 per cent.

Lower transport and electricity costs also left households with more money to spare.
The situation represents a turnaround from a year ago when soaring commodity and fuel prices pushed inflation to a 30-year high.
Charles Davis, an economist at Cebr, which produces the research for Asda, said: "In May the ASDA income tracker showed the largest year-on-year rise since April 2008 as the effect of the Bank of England's quantitative easing and falling inflation came through.

I don’t know where ASAD has got their statistics from but I’m not £7 a week better off, in fact I far worse off now than I was back in 2008 or 1998, and I certainly don’t have anywhere near a disposable income off £164 per week or even a month in fact I’m lucky if I have any, with Gas and Electrical prices having doubled in the past year, petrol and diesel going up by the day with it now being around £1.05 to £1. 08 per liter, when oil by the barrel has come down? Being tax beyond living , job losses doubling home repressions doubling, and taxes have tripled while wage have got lower, so I would love to know just where ASDA got its figurers from, maybe it was from MP’s pay? Its certainly wasn’t from the workers pay?

More clashes broke out between the BNP members and members of ENA in Blackpool last night following clashes at the weekend in South London pub where the police had to be called in to protect the BNP members from the ENA, there was no comments made by the BNP or the ENA over the incidents.

Scotland Yard has now launched criminal investigations in to British MPs' fraudulent expenses clams:

The three main British political parties Labour, Conservative and the Lib-Dems are now being investigated which has been commanded by the Queen, Scotland Yard’s serious criminal investigation unit is heading the investigations along with MI9 with the likely-hood that most of the British MP’s will be facing fraud charges which will bring British politics into a disarray?

With now most of the National Daily Papers also having ago publicly over MP’s Expenses, and the BBC, on how England’s tax payers have been feeding British MP’s life’s of luxury and greed’s and they have all been at it for years, and after all the English voters have seen, still many of the English tax payers voters still vote for corrupted British parties?

There has to be something very seriously wrong with any English Man or Women that still votes British as you have truly lost the plot and your national identity and obviously have no pride in yourselves or your county and should be publicly flog or leave England as you’re a disgrace to all that in decent, honest and right,

As job losses double here in England, and home repossessions double gas and electricity price double, the cost of petrol and diesel is now over £1.05 per liter and the average income is lower, but the average monthly cost of living has doubled, with many small and large high street hope closing with many towns becoming like ghost towns and still some of you for the British parties have you no eyes to see what is going on all around you, or will your eyes only be open when you loss your job and your home, and you can blame know one but you, as its your votes that keep these corrupted British politicians in the power to do what they do, you really want better standard of living with better less tax more jobs a better futures for you and your families than make a stand be English vote English before the damage your country come to irreversible you have a choice make it wise

Blair and Brown yet another grate British conspiracy, as Brown is condemned over secret inquiry into Iraq war cover up

The Clown Prime Minister faced accusations of an “establishment stitch-up” after telling MPs that an investigation into the events leading up to the invasion of Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein would be held behind closed doors.

And we all no why, It was never about weapons of mass destruction?
This war which affected England and its people in may ways, not just costing English tax payers billions of pounds that could have been better spent on the child poverty, abuse,

we have, or better health care for the old, free educations for students, and many more better cause then killing, this should be an open and public investigation, but as normal with the British it will be a cover up to the true reasons Oil?

And there should be an investigation into Afghanistan war, because that what it is a war, man just cant seem learn within his tiny brain in all the history of this world, wars have never been the answer, but not having them doesn’t sell the death and destructions tools that go with them where companies make billion of billions of pounds in killing? Feed my greed’s and government make millions in the old back hander selling the contracts in the old boy net works? And contracts still given to those that make faulty goods like the MK1 SA80 what rubbish that was and now we have the MK2 SA80 which not a lot better, our troops have second grade kit like pick and mix, time for change a time for

England to have its own parliament just the freedoms the Scots and Welsh have in self rule and voting on issues that will affect them? Which is just and right, but is not also just and right that England just as the same rights as others in the so United Kingdom or Britain? That does aren’t include England in threes rights

The BNP could be 'very serious force in England'

St Michael’s says, do we really want this type of British racist rubbish in England?

The answer is “No we don’t.

This is just adding more fuel to the fire which will push England into a civil war, as patriot English that are already anti British are now joining forces in anti British campaigns with the ENA,(English National’s Army) that see the BNP as being anti English and racist towards England and the English people.

Tory Party chairman Eric Pickles has said the BNP is set to become a "very serious force in British politics".

He told a Westminster lunch he did not expect the party to gain MPs but the mainstream parties still had to "get their act together" to take them on.

He also said he believed there could be an October general election.
He still thought the most likely date was May next year but he said Labour could force Mr Brown out before then and go to the country early.
Either that, he argued, or Mr Brown could use Labour's autumn conference to announce a poll.

Under normal circumstances, the clown prime minister would have been forced to step down after disastrous European and local election results, he told the journalists' lunch.
But the results had been "a lot worse than Labour had predicted so he was able to stay on".

Mr Pickles predicted the "numbing effect" of the elections on Labour would wear off and there were still "various circumstances" in which Labour could elect a new leader and be forced to go to the country early.

He also called on politicians of all parties to stop "looking down their noses" at voters and claimed some Labour MPs were ashamed of the places they represented and had an idea of the working classes culled from the pages of George Orwell.

But they all feel very happy to steal taxes and benefits of us the working classes as they put it, and look down on us as something they might have step on in a park a god mighty have left behind
He also accused Labour of using "dog whistle" tactics against the BNP - giving their activists one message about the importance of defeating the "fascist" party and giving voters another - that Labour was the party to be tough on immigration.

He said Labour should stop its "student politics" approach to fighting the BNP and accept that they had been elected.

Seeing BNP leader Nick Griffin walking the corridors of the Houses of Parliament - as he is entitled to do as an MEP - would not be a "comfortable" sight but it might make MPs on all sides wake up to the fact that "we have created the conditions for him to be here".

And when he says we, he means the British politicians as English ones would have outlawed such a party and any other racist party in England.

'Posh houses'

The Conservatives had collaborated with Labour to take on the BNP at the recent elections - by making sure they stood candidates in areas where they were expected to do well and tipping Labour off when it was felt they were gaining support.

But he said he was "not terrifically in favor of all joining hands and marching together against the BNP".

Instead he said he would like to see the BNP defeated on the doorstep and by exposing them as "lousy councilors and lousy attendees" which he said is what they are.

Mr Pickles, speaking at a Westminster Press Gallery lunch, said of the BNP: "They are going to be a very serious force in British politics and the mainstream political parties have got to get their act together and start confronting them.

"We have got to start working in those areas where they have got contact, harder than we have ever worked before.
"That's the way you are going to defeat the BNP - you have got to take the BNP on.

"They have filled that vacuum which Labour retreated from so long ago."
The Tory chairman, who is a former Bradford council leader, said there was "an enormous disconnects between politicians and the electorate" and he had grown up on estates where that disconnect typically occurred.

British Politicians thieve millions in benefits yet a 73 year old pensioner loses his? TV dance man Fred Bowers age 73, loses benefits
A Leicestershire 73-year-old who wowed audiences by break dancing on Britain's Got Talent has had his benefit stopped.

Fred Bowers said the allowance he received for a leg injury has been suspended while the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) investigates.
Mr Bowers, from Loughborough, said: "I'm going to struggle on. They're not going to stop me from dancing."

A DWP spokesman said: "We do investigate and take seriously all accusations of fraudulent claims."

Yet we don’t take MP’s “Fraudulent claims seriously that have run into millions of pounds?

WHAT HAS MAN BECOME?

Three Children murdered and mutilated along with three women and one English men hostage, and two other German men all murdered and mutilated by al-Qaeda in Yemen

An English hostage was among a group of nine hospital workers shot dead in Yemen in an attack blamed on al-Qaeda.

Officials in Yemen said the bodies of the foreign hostages, including “three children” and at least three women, were found murdered in the north of the country. They had been seized last Friday.

God will surely punish all those that commit such crimes, there can be no such thing as just cause for these barbaric acts or know forgiveness.
Some reports said the bodies were found by the son of a tribal leader in el-Nashour, east of the volatile Saada mountainous area.

The bodies of three German women and three children were said to have been "mutilated".
The Foreign Office said it was "urgently investigating" the reports.

The interior ministry in the capital, Sana'a, said the foreigners, who were not identified by name, were kidnapped while on a picnic north of the capital.

Yemeni authorities said the group included an English engineer and his South Korean wife, a teacher, along with a German doctor, his wife and their three children, as well as two other German nationals, thought to be nurses.

They were all working in a hospital in Saada, the state news agency said, where it is thought they belonged to an international relief group that has been involved with the hospital for 35 years.

Local sources said the group was a Christian Baptist organization that also has a medical team in the hospital at Jebla, south of Sana'a.

South Korea's foreign ministry identified their national by her family name, Eom, 34, an aid worker, who had joined members of the relief group for a walk on Thursday evening.

Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country, struggles with a revolt in the north, a secessionist movement in the south and intensified al-Qaeda militancy, which have unsettled Western governments and neighboring Saudi Arabia.

Foreigners are often kidnapped in Yemen for tribesmen to use as bargaining chips with the government over local disputes. More than 200 foreigners have been abducted over the past 15 years.

All have previously been freed unharmed, except for three Britons and an Australian seized by Islamist militants in December 1998 who were killed when security forces stormed the kidnappers' hideout.

One official said el-Nashour is known as a hideout for al-Qaeda militants and a tribal leader leader in the area blamed the group for the murders.

Osama bin Laden's family is from Yemen and the country was the scene of the October 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors.
On Sunday, Yemen arrested a man described as al Qaeda's top financer in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, the Saudi national Hassan Hussein Alwan.
Since 2004, Saada has been at the centre of a Zaidi rebellion led by Shia members of the Houthi clan.

Thousands of people have been killed in the area, which lies close to border with Saudi Arabia but the rebels negotiated a fragile cease-fire with the government last year.

The Yemeni government had accused a rebel group led by Abdel Malik al-Houthi of the kidnappings but the group issued a statement saying it was not involved in the abductions of any foreigners.

A rebel spokesman dismissed the accusation as "baseless," and said the kidnapping took place in an area controlled by security forces in the town of Saada.

Houthi rebels were also blamed for the kidnapping of 28 foreign medical staff from a hospital in Amran, north of the capital Sanaa last Thursday.

The medics, most of whom were Yemenis but also included Egyptians, Indians and Filipinos, were working at a Saudi-backed hospital in the northern Saada region.

They were released on Friday following tribal mediation, according to reports.

"These staged kidnappings that we hear about these days are mere farces that would not fool anyone," said a statement issued by the Houthi media office.
A British tourist, Edwin Dyer, 60, was executed in Mali, West Africa, by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb two weeks ago after negotiations with the group broke down.

A Civil War could become a reality in England, if British rule continues on its path of England’s destruction, as some of the English people wake up to the lies, corruptions, conspiracies and greed’s of what it means to be British not English, recessions, tax after tax, home losses, jobs losses and even more poverty, and those that are suffering the worst are those on low incomes that pay the taxes of the British so they can live in privileges and life’s of luxuries, while English working men and women struggle each day just to pay the cost of rising bills, with petrol and diesel prices rising by the week, Gas and Electricity has doubled in price, while England’s working men and women pay packets stay the same, unrest is becoming apparent by listening to the voices on England’s streets which side will you take English or British?

England’s Children still live in poverty and the numbers are growing under British rule, as British MP’s live life’s of luxury using English taxes to feather their own nests and England’s child starve

Ministers are making it a legal duty for the government, local authorities and other organizations to help to end child poverty across the UK.
The government looks set to miss its own targets on cutting the numbers of children living in poverty.
A new bill being published later will make it a duty to support families so that child poverty is eradicated by 2020, the goal set by Tony Blair.
Campaigners say this means future governments cannot easily drop the aim.
The latest figures available, for 2007/8, put the number of children living in poverty at 2.9 million.
Poverty in this case is measured relatively - those who live in households with an income of less than 60% of the average.
Since Tony Blair set the target of ending child poverty by 2020, the government says it has lifted half a million children out of poverty, down from 3.4 million in 1999.

The English get shafted once more and still stupid enough to vote for British politicians

Calman report urges: ‘Buy Scottish votes with English money’!

Today’s Report from the “Commission on Scottish Devolution” shows the big three, Lib/Lab/Con, Unionist Parties ganging up against Nationalists. Sir Kenneth Calman, the Chancellor of the University of Glasgow urges that yet more English money should be used to bribe Scots to vote Unionist to try to block the Scottish National Party’s call for Scottish Independence.

English Democrats’ Chairman, Robin Tilbrook, said: “The Calman Commission’s Report gives us English a rare glimpse of Unionistic contempt for English interests. It also shows how U.K. politics is changing into a contest between Unionism and Nationalism. The Report confirms that Unionists regard England as just a cash cow to be milked to buy support from Scottish voters! English interests and protests are yet again to be ignored in the scramble for Unionist power in Scotland”.

Robin Tilbrook continued: “The Report’s approach is neither democratic nor
Proper and reflects a much more significant ideological corruption at the heart of Unionism than even its politicians’ expenses claims. Conservative support for this report also goes to prove that a Government under David Cameron would be just as hostile to English interests as Gordon Brown’s has been.”

Mandelson, Browns secret lover?

 

Stop taking shots at PM, MPs told by Homosexual Mandelson

He said voters were being distracted by "noises off" while the government needed to focus on its policy agenda.

But former minister Nick Raynsford said "more of the same" was not good enough when Labour was headed for "disaster".

For the Tories, William Hague said the government was consumed by internal divisions and called for an election.

He said the prime minister and cabinet were "weakened" and people were "crying out" for a general election.

 

Voters Distracted by what Mandelson calls “noises off?”, Know, more like we now all no what a bunch of thieving lying bunch off hypocrites you all are THAT pervert the ways of just and right to suit your own greedy needs

 

'Irresistible pressure'

The delusional Lord Mandelson told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show he believed people thought Labour was on their side and was unimpressed with the Conservatives but doubted whether they could deliver their policies. The Mandelson living in a world of delusion he really thinks that?

"Stop taking shots at the prime minister because you are simply going to make the situation for the party and government even worse," he said.

"The prime minister is a politician, not a pop star. I mean he concentrates on getting his policies right, not on being a showman," he said.

"If we get the policy agenda right, and if it's sufficiently bold and decisive then the public will take a different look at us. Mandelson so out of touch with this country its beggars belief

"At the moment they're being entirely distracted by noises off, by people who are not keeping their nerve, who are not appreciating that what is at the root of the public's concerns about the government are the fears they have as a result of the economic recession we are going through."

He said he could not firm or denies suggestions scores of Labour MPs were prepared to call for Mr Brown to go.

 

Election drubbing

But he said no-one wanted to stand against Mr Brown because the cabinet was "united" behind him. Well Mandelson wants to get behind him?

Having a third leader in one Parliament would mean "irresistible pressure to hold a general election" before Labour had the chance to sort out the economy and implement its plans for public services, he said.

It follows a drubbing for Labour at the local elections on Thursday - when they lost the four councils they controlled and their vote share dipped to an historic low of 23%.

 

Mr Raynsford told the programme the prospects were "even worse" for the European elections, the first results from which are due on Sunday evening.

He said without a change he feared a "disastrous general election" in which Labour were reduced to "an ineffective and very small opposition party".

"I am not part of any organized conspiracy; I'm speaking because I believe it is the right thing to say at a time when the Labour Party is facing a very very serious electoral meltdown which could have profound consequences for the future of the party and the future of the country."

'Negative bullying'

He added there were a number of possible leadership candidates: "If you are looking at the situation of total disaster facing us, it is not good enough to say 'more of the same'. We have to be radical. We have to think of ways in which we can re-engage with the electorate."

Asked about Labour's leadership rumblings, shadow foreign secretary Mr Hague said the Conservatives were happy to "take any of them on".

"All we can see is a government consumed by its own affairs they're not doing any actual governing. This is all about them and not about the country."

He criticized the reshuffle - which saw Lord Adonis and Glenys Kinnock, who will be made a peer, moved into the cabinet.

"He's put so many lords in his cabinet he's drifting back into Victorian times in terms of less accountability and less democratic government."

Meanwhile, newspapers have published details of e-mails sent in 2008 by Lord Mandelson, before returned to cabinet, describing the prime minister as insecure, self-conscious and "angry".

'Madness'

Lord Mandelson said the email had not been hostile to the PM but had simply advised him to be himself and to stop people "trying to glue some artificial persona" to him, in response to questions about his image.

Influential left-wing backbencher John Cruddas joined those backing the PM. He told the Sunday Mirror: "Everyone knows our government is in trouble. Serious trouble

 

"But to suggest that we'll tackle those problems simply by chucking Gordon Brown overboard is madness."

The reports come as Mr Brown faced more flak from Caroline Flint who had walked out of her job as Europe minister, claiming he treated women in his cabinet as "window dressing".

In an interview with the Observer, the Don Valley MP accused the prime minister of "negative bullying" of women and "using" them for his political ends.

Ms Flint's was one of six ministerial resignations during a turbulent week for Labour, capped by a disastrous performance in the English local elections.

Mr Brown has shown no sign of caving in to rebels' demands.

Speaking in France, while visiting to mark the 65th anniversary of the D-day landings, he said he remained focused on dealing with the economic downturn and rebuilding trust in politics after the expenses scandal.

"In these unprecedented times, you are bound to have ups and downs in politics.

"But you have to stick with policies and make sure they come through. We keep on with the task in hand and we are not diverted from it."

He pledged to set out policies on health, education and policing in the coming weeks.

English Democrat wins mayor vote

Earlier this year it was disclosed that serious case reviews were under way into the deaths of seven children known to the social services in the town.

Independent Mayor Martin Winter decided not to run for re-election amid criticism of his handling of the issue.

Peter Davies won the second round of counting to be elected mayor. The Labour and Conservative candidates were knocked out of the contest earlier.

Mr Davies was elected with 25,344 votes, fewer than 400 votes ahead of his closest rival, independent candidate Michael Maye.

He said his victory marked "a new day for Doncaster" and promised "better times" for the town's residents in the future.

Mr Davies and Mr Maye gained the most first preference votes.

They progressed to the second round after no mayoral hopeful managed to win 50% of the vote.

All other candidates, including members of the Labour party, the Conservatives and the British National Party, were eliminated from the vote after the first round.

Labour's Sandra Holland narrowly missed her place in the second round.

Figures from the Doncaster election put turnout at 34.59%. In 2005, the turnout was 50.39%.

 

When will rest off England wake up? There is only one party that will put England and its people at the top of the shopping list, and that’s the English Democrats, know other party has England’s interest at heart first and it’s the only party that has not and will not be corrupted with or by power of greed’s

If your English, there is only one way to vote English Democrats Putting England and the English First as know other party will, lets put an end to British rule there all bent and corrupted

Clown Brown circus is coming to an end as another thief Blears quits

 

Her departure is the second top-level resignation on the eve of the European and English local elections.

It led to stormy Commons scenes as Mr. Brown denied his government was in "meltdown" and rejected calls for an immediate general election.

Health Secretary Alan Johnson has been forced to deny he is ready to take over amid reports of a backbench plot.

 

British politics is coming to its end in England as the English public wake up the fact that British politicians have been thieving of England’s tax payers for years and now the gravy train is coming to its end and those the now fear police prosecutions feel in droves and go into hiding, but those like St Michael’s and some national news papers ant letting them get off or rest until justice is served

BBC backing England)( English 'lose out to rest of UK'

England is missing out on EU funding at the expense of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the chairman of the English Democrats has argued.
Robin Tilbrook said England was paying billions of pounds into the EU, but very little was coming back - which he said made his party "Eurosceptic".
The UK's political system meant the English were not represented, he added.
Mr Tilbrook said: "That's why we say we ought to have a party that is putting England first."
Good reception
The English Democrats are campaigning for a parliament and first minister for England to redress what it says is the democratic imbalance caused by devolution.
Mr Tilbrook said a failure by the UK government to speak up for England meant that English people were being short changed.
"What we're saying is that the politicians that we've got ought to be more answerable to the people for whom they're actually taking decisions," he added.
"Quite a lot of extra money is being spent in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and not in England -- even where the area of England in question might be poorer than most."
Mr Tilbrook said that English Democrats canvassers had had a good reception from voters, and added that the European Parliament campaign had helped the party identify supporters whom it would target at the next general election

BBC NEWS | Politics | English 'lose out to rest of UK'    

BBC Supported St Michael and the English Democrats;

 

\\    England is missing out on EU funding at the expense of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the chairman of the English Democrats has argued.

 

 

Robin Tilbrook said England was paying billions of pounds into the EU, but very little was coming back - which he said made his party "Eurosceptic".

The UK's political system meant the English were not represented, he added.

Mr. Tilbrook said: "That's why we say we ought to have a party that is putting England first."

Good reception

The English Democrats are campaigning for a parliament and first minister for England to redress what it says is the democratic imbalance caused by devolution.

Mr. Tilbrook said a failure by the UK government to speak up for England meant that English people were being short changed.

"What we're saying is that the politicians that we've got ought to be more answerable to the people for whom they're actually taking decisions," he added.

"Quite a lot of extra money is being spent in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and not in England -- even where the area of England in question might be poorer than most."

Mr. Tilbrook said that English Democrats canvassers had had a good reception from voters, and added that the European Parliament campaign had helped the party identify supporters whom it would target at the next general election

 

 

 

 

England is missing out on EU funding at the expense of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the chairman of the English Democrats has argued.

The Britsih the

Robin Tilbrook said England was paying billions of pounds into the EU, but very little was coming back - which he said made his party "Eurosceptic".

The UK's political system meant the English were not represented, he added.

Mr. Tilbrook said: "That's why we say we ought to have a party that is putting England first."

Good reception

The English Democrats are campaigning for a parliament and first minister for England to redress what it says is the democratic imbalance caused by devolution.

Mr. Tilbrook said a failure by the UK government to speak up for England meant that English people were being short changed.

"What we're saying is that the politicians that we've got ought to be more answerable to the people for whom they're actually taking decisions," he added.

"Quite a lot of extra money is being spent in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and not in England -- even where the area of England in question might be poorer than most."

Mr. Tilbrook said that English Democrats canvassers had had a good reception from voters, and added that the European Parliament campaign had helped the party identify supporters whom it would target at the next general election

The Clown minister Brown said he also wanted a clean-up of all public institutions - such as the NHS and the BBC - in the wake of the MPs' expenses allegations. What has the NHS or the BBC got to do with any of the thieving MP’s I have know idea, so why he talks about them, is just to try and take attention of him and the rest of the thieves in the British government

 

And he told the Andrew Marr show the abuses uncovered by the Daily Telegraph had offended his "Presbyterian conscience". Conscience? Dose Brown even know what that word means? As he is just as bent, being caught on the fiddle him self? The man lives in cook coo land.

 

And just as bent also caught on the fiddle Tory leader David Cameron said he wants people to be able to "recall" MPs.

Mr. Cameron is also calling for an immediate general election to give the public an opportunity to get rid of MPs who have been caught up in the scandal which is the only sensible thing he has to say.

'Appalled'

But of course Brown ruled out an early poll, saying: "I think what people want is to clean up the system first." Just goes to show how wrong he is, maybe he should ask us what we want by a vote?

He went on to say "I did not expect to see instances where there are clear cases which maybe have to be answered for fraud yet he did bent dealings with his brother.

 

"And what we've seen means that only the openness which came from the Freedom of Information Act, only that openness, is the means by which you can find out what's happening and then you've got to have proper discipline. I'm appalled. I'm shocked by what happened." The rubbish and lies just roll out of this mans mouth.

 

He said the clean-up would have to include all public institutions "including, I suspect, the BBC".

Asked if some MPs should be investigated for fraud, he said it was a matter for the police but added: "I would not shrink from that."

The new code of conduct would be written into the Constitutional Renewal Bill, due to be brought before Parliament later this year.

 

It is thought likely to include minimum service commitments to constituents, with those who break it facing possible fine or even ejection from their seats.

By-election call

Mr. Brown did not rule out "recall" elections for MPs who misbehave and said he was also setting up a committee to look at wider constitutional reforms, such as a bill of rights, a written constitution and House of Lords reform.

He did not rule out electoral reform but said it was important to retain the link between MPs and their constituencies.

He also said he would reject any moves from within his cabinet to encourage him to stand down as prime minister if, as expected, Labour takes a hammering at Thursday's local and European elections.

 

Asked whether he would stand aside if cabinet members said it would help Labour's chances at a general election, Mr. Brown replied: "No, because I am dealing with the issues at hand. I am dealing with the economy every day." (More like, like Blair filling his pockets£££)

 

According to an ICM opinion poll in the Sunday Telegraph, Labour has dropped to third place for the first time since 1987 on just 22% - three points adrift of the Lib Dems and 18 points behind the Conservatives.

David Cameron has, meanwhile, called for MPs who had claimed for non-existent mortgages to face "the full force of the law".

Speaking on Sky News, the Conservative leader said he was also "prepared to look" at giving voters the power to force their MP to face a by-election.

"I think it has to have a proper trigger so that you've got to have a situation where an MP has been censured by the House of Commons before the recall starts... I think you've got to have a parliamentary system that works," he added.

Darling pressure

Meanwhile another Bent MP, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg is calling for Chancellor Alistair Darling to be sacked over his expenses claims yet Clegg did just the same he put in false claims.
 

Mr. Darling was accused by  St Michael’s and The Daily Telegraph of "flipping" the location of his second home four times in four years, allowing him to claim thousands of pounds.

The Chancellor is also said to have claimed public money for paying accountants to complete his tax return.

Mr. Darling insisted the claims were allowable under House of Commons rules, but Mr. Clegg said that as Chancellor, Mr. Darling had to be beyond reproach.

He told BBC Radio 4: "As Chancellor, Alistair Darling occupies a very special position in government.

"He needs to enjoy the public's trust when it comes to issues of financial probity, of money, of managing our nation's finances."

He added it was impossible for Mr. Darling to continue in that role when major question marks were being raised about his financial affairs.

Mr. Clegg refused to back down or apologies when challenged about his call for Mr. Darling to be sacked, telling the BBC News channel people "at the top of government had to take responsibility for what has gone wrong".

He also urged the chancellor to refer his expenses claims for scrutiny by "someone independent".

The Chancellor said the designation of his second home changed in accordance with the rules when his circumstances changed, and denied it was for personal gain.

In a statement from his office, he insisted he paid for any personal tax advice himself.

The accountancy fees claimed - allowable within the rules - were for preparing his office accounts to ensure the tax paid was correct, he added.

Mr. Darling also paid tax on the benefit of living in Downing Street and the council tax there, the statement said.

 

Time for a new England under a English Government?

 

(Proud to be British) Country life butter TV Ad?

The true meaning of want is means to be BRITISH, lier's, thieving cheats, adulterers, blasphemous, and homosexual sinners,
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The true meaning of want is means to be BRITISH, lier's, thieving cheats, adulterers, blasphemous, and homosexual sinners,
(Proud to be British)

 

Greedy MP even 'claimed for church donation

Greedy Labour MP Frank Cook claimed for a £5 church donation he made at a WWII memorial service, St Michael's Press reports.

 

Greedy Frank Cook MP for Stockton-on-Tees submitted with a handwritten note, but it was later rejected by the Commons Fees Office, But just how mean and Greedy can these MPs be even trying to claim made to a church in honour of the fallen war heroes? Mr Cook said he did not recall the claim and described it as "a mistake" same old story when they get caught “It a mistake yes it is a mistake that your even an MP as like so many other British filth and that the true meaning of want is means to be BRITISH lier's thieving cheats, adulterers, blasphemous, and homosexual sinners, (Proud to be British) News of that claim comes as party leaders make more calls to reform the expenses system for PM's. The government is considering introducing a legally-binding code of conduct for MPs that would cover minimum standards of service to constituents. Tory leader David Cameron has given his backing to St Michael's calls for powers to allow voters force out PM's who break Commons rules and for the Police to take actions where necessary. St Michael's has also suggested a "recall" mechanism that would be triggered if 5% of constituents signed a petition demanding a by-election. It would only apply to someone found guilty of wrongdoing. Meanwhile, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said to St Michael's press office that he has called for a "new approach to politics" in the wake of the MPs' expenses scandal. 'No other claims' In its latest expenses story, St Michael's says the handwritten note attached to Mr Cook's donation claim read: "Battle of Britain church service, Sunday 17.09.06. £5 contribution to offertory on behalf of Frank Cook MP." But Mr Cook told the BBC he could not recall putting in the claim and had no record of it. "I'm assuming that St Michael's and The Daily Telegraph report is accurate. I'm sorry and it was a mistake. It shouldn't have happened," he said. (It funny how the same old line comes out when they all get caught, I'm sorry and it was a big mistake, it shouldn't of happened?)

 

"In the 26-and-a-half years I've been an MP I've been to many memorial and funeral services and I haven't claimed for any other donations or wreaths." (Well that we know off) St Michael's press office and The Telegraph also reports on further claims made by other MPs, including reimbursement for bathmats and carpets bought in India. David Cameron has also been explaining his second home claim. St Michael's press office and also The Mail on Sunday reports he paid off the remaining £75,000 of a mortgage on his London home using his own money, shortly after taking out a £350,000 mortgage on his constituency home in 2001. He used the second homes allowance to pay the interest on the new mortgage. Mr Cameron did not break any rules and his office said the taxpayer had not lost any money. The Telegraph also features an ICM poll which suggests more people intend to vote Liberal Democrat than Labour in the next general election. The survey put Gordon Brown's party in third place for the first time since 1987 on just 22% - three points behind the Lib Dems and 18 behind the Conservatives. 'In a mess' In response to public anger over MPs expenses, Mr Miliband has called for a "new approach to politics". The foreign secretary wrote in the News of the World that British politics was "in a mess" and needed shaking up. An elected House of Lords and greater powers for local communities were essential to make politics "more accountable, more in touch, less elitist", he said. "'Never waste a crisis' is a good guide to getting out of a mess. And British politics has got into a mess," he wrote. "At just the time when our problems need a new approach to politics, the expenses scandal has given people good reason to give up on politics altogether." 'Bread and butter' But it was crucial to turn the anger into real change, he said. "We have to start with expenses. Personally I don't care what system we have so long as it is clear, open and credible with the public - and we have to get it done quickly. "But we can't stop there. Some people have said that constitutional reform is a 'middle-class issue', whatever that is. That's rubbish. "We can't tackle the bread-and-butter issues unless our politics is more accountable, more in touch, less elitist."

REAL CHANGE ENGLAND FOR THE ENGLISH NOT THE BRITISH

 

Police to charge greedy MP's' in fraudulent expenses claims

Phantom mortgage PMs must face fraud charges, says St Michael's and David Cameron

PMs who have used taxpayers’ money to pay for “phantom” mortgages on their expenses should be investigated by the police and prosecuted, David Cameron says in an interview with St Micheal's press officer

Until this month David Cameron was sailing serenely on to a decent majority at the next election.

The Conservative leader’s warning came as Elliot Morley — the former Labour minister exposed for claiming more than £16,000 for a mortgage he had already paid off — announced he was standing down as an MP.

Mr Morley said he had made the decision with “regret” and insisted that he had done nothing wrong?...... its funny how they have all said that they have done nothing wrong, yet when someone on normal benefits gets caught working a few hours a week to help in there costs of living, and says the same, I have done nothing wrong, they get charge with benefit fraud and end up in a magistrates court and a criminal record? Yet all these MP's seem to think its OK to steal hundreds off thousands of pounds, not just the odd £10, or £20 part time work, and think its OK, well now they know how it feels to be the little man in the street as police start to bring charges together, and watch them run and hide like the thieving rats they all are British scum

In the interview with St Michael's, Mr Cameron agreed with St Michael's and said that Scotland Yard detectives should investigate any suspect expense claims “without fear or favor”.

He admitted being “ashamed” at MP's’ behavior.

The comments will increase pressure on the police to take swift action against MPs who have admitted serious errors – and open fraud.

At least three other MPs – David Chaytor, Ben Chapman and former Conservative frontbencher Bill Wiggin – have also made phantom claims for interest on mortgages.

Lawyers believe that such claims may breach the 2007 Fraud Act and the 1968 Theft Act – and might therefore constitute criminal offences that could result in Ms being imprisoned.

In today’s interview, Mr Cameron said: “If people have broken the law in claiming expenses, like mortgage payments for mortgages that don’t exist, should they be subject to the full force of the law? Yes of course they should.

“I’ve said it’s not for me to call in the police but the police know what the law is and if they feel it’s been broken they should be able to look at that without fear or favour.”

Mr Cameron’s call comes on Day 33 of St Michael's press office reports and day 23 of The Daily Telegraph’s investigation into MPs’ expenses. So far the claims of more than 460 MPs have been published. And today it can be disclosed that:

More than 40 MPs lived in the Dolphin Square estate in Westminster when they were offered a controversial deal to sacrifice their right to cheap rent in return for a substantial windfall in 2006. English taxpayers are now funding higher rent or mortgage interest claims for many of the MPs as a result.

MP's who have pocketed the windfall include the Labour MPs Tony Wright (Great Yarmouth), Joan Humble and David Wright. David Lidington, a shadow foreign minister, agreed to repay the money.

Mr Morley’s decision to wait until the next general election to step down means he will qualify for a pay-off equivalent to a year’s salary — presently £64,766. How this can be is beyond me, the mans a thief and should be give the boot right now, and not be able to collect any pay-off's this is just taking the the piss, (Apologizes for the phrase, but I just couldn't think of another word to express my anger)

He will qualify for the maximum “resettlement grant” as he has been an MP for more than 15 years and is aged between 55 and 64 ,,,,,and just how much has he fiddled in this time? Rather than getting a pay-off he should be paying it back.

A Conservative MP who serves as a Crown Court judge has claimed £58,000 in taxpayer-funded expenses for a flat in which his children have stayed rent-free.

Humfrey Malins said that, when

Parliament was sitting, he spent two nights a week at the flat in Westminster that he designates as his second home, at an average cost to the taxpayer of £240 a day. His main home is in Dorking, just 45 minutes on the train from London Victoria or Waterloo – both close to Parliament.

Eleanor Laing, a shadow justice minister, has not paid £180,000 in capital gains tax after making a profit of £1 million on her taxpayer-funded property. She told the parliamentary authorities the flat was her “second home” but told the tax authorities it was her “principal residence”.

Mr Cameron’s call for police action was also backed last night by Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader.

He said: “I travel around the country all the time, people say to me the same thing, 'If we did this at work we’d either be sent to the police or we’d be out on our ear’.

“And so I think people quite rightly want to see the police involved if there is real criminal fraud and real intent to defraud the taxpayer.”

Scotland Yard has announced that it has launched a preliminary inquiry, in conjunction with the Crown Prosecution Service, into complaints it has received about MP's.

Mr Morley and other MP's with “phantom” mortgages are expected to be the focus of police interest.

It is understood that Sir Paul Stephenson, the Scotland Yard Commissioner, wants detectives to announce as soon as possible whether a criminal investigation will be instigated.

Insiders indicated that a decision will be made within a fortnight regarding 10 MP's whose cases are under consideration.

Since The Daily Telegraph began its investigation into MP's’ expense claims 12 back-bench MP's have announced they will stand down at the next election and Michael Martin, the Speaker, has also said he will quit.

Dozens of MP's have also repaid questionable expense claims.

Bill Cash, a Conservative MP, said yesterday that he was prepared to repay more than £15,000 he claimed for rent payments to his daughter.

The main political parties are growing increasingly concerned over the impact of the expenses scandal on next week’s local and European elections as I'm sure it will show the chaos the British are now in, maybe I might get to see an English government rule England in my life? These election next week will be the telling s I really hope all those that have an English Democrat candidate standing will vote for them, and hope more people will take the time to see there web page, and see this is the only party in England that will put England and its people first.

 

 

St Micheal's gives its full support to all the English Muslims that did the Job this British government should have, which should have been to order the police to do it?

But instead this Government told the police not to take any action against the Extremists Muslims that want to try and cause unrest within the English Muslim and other English communities here in England

Giving the British government it thinks? time to hide its own crimes but it back-fired on the when English Muslims stood their ground and run the extremists behind anti-war protest driven off the streets putting England and its people first well done to involved

Muslim extremists behind a protest against soldiers on a homecoming parade have been driven off the streets today by members of their own community.

Fights broke out and traffic ground to a halt when moderate Muslims confronted a group of about 12 men who regularly preach from a stall in Bury Park - the heart of Luton's Muslim community.

After Friday prayers, more than 200 members of local mosques turned on the group who sparked outrage in March when they disrupted a parade by the Royal Anglian Regiment through the town centre.

They shouted 'baby killers' and 'butchers of Basra' at the returning soldiers as well as brandishing placards against the Iraq war.

But today the extremists were surrounded by a crowd as they began to set up their stall, shouting 'We don't want you here' and 'move on, move on'.

Angry words were exchanged and scuffles broke out between members of both groups, with the extremists shouting 'Shame on you' and 'Get back to your synagogue'

Farasat Latif, of the Islamic Center in Luton, which was firebombed after the protest against the soldiers, said moderate members of his community took action because police had failed to move the group on.

He said the extremists, who follow the militant group led by Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammed, had fuelled feelings against the Muslim community which led to a march last Sunday in Luton which was disrupted by white, right-wing extremists

Mr Latif said: 'We have been fighting these Muslim extremists for you. They represent nobody but themselves.

'The community decided to move them on because the police won't. We have asked them, but they did nothing.

'I don't know if they will be back. We have been the victims twice over - from the stupidity of Muslim extremists who metaphorically pour petrol and fan the flames of the right wing extremists.

'This was a peaceful demonstration and we hope they get the message that the law-abiding English The English Muslims community is sick and tired of them.' No one was arrested during the incident.

A spokeswoman for Bedfordshire Police said: 'We attended the incident, calmed people down and moved them on.

No one was arrested and there were no injuries we are under orders by government procedures to allow the Extremist to cause trouble.' with English Muslims and so called British Muslims which just by three actions is in fact most blasphemous under the words within the true Qur'an

 

British corruption-MP's in all the major parties are found guilty of thieving as British-ness falls into chaos

St Micheal's Press Office

Supports the Telegraph, the links below are the lists of all the British political parties and their thieving's off English tax payers cash,

 

Labour, Conservative and the Liberal Democrats have all been guilty in fraudulent claims

 

MPs' expenses in depth

Full list of MPs investigated

MPs' expenses in pictures

The political casualties

MPs' expenses: Labour MPs

MPs' expenses: Conservative MPs

MPs' expenses: Liberal Democrat MPs

 

Thieving MPs' go into hiding over expenses: Elliot Morley to stand down over 'phantom mortgage' the police will be hold investigations over Elliot's fraud and thefts of English tax payers money.

Elliot Morley, the former environment minister, has become the 13th MP to step down in the wake of the expenses scandal. Mr Morley, who claimed £16,000 over 18 months for a mortgage that did not exist, has confirmed that he will stand down at the next general election. He had already been suspended by the Labour Party. 13 down and more to come as police step up their investigations from files giving to them by St Micheal's press office and the Telegraph, MP's are going into hiding hoping that if they go they wont get prosecuted?

Police to grill Commons officials over expenses claims St Michael’s Press office can reveal, As British Politics goes into Chaos, 7 Tories MPs out and now,
Tory Julie Kirkbride bowed to public anger over her expenses claims today and announced she will stand down at the next election 8 down.
No: 9 on the way MP Fraser poised to leave Commons because he’s bent and been found out
Feed my greed Bromsgrove Julie Kirkbride MP had vowed to fight for her job but gave in amid yet more revelations about her thieving of public money.
It emerged that she paid the local Tory chairman's wife to be her secretary and also employed the couple's daughter as a full-time nanny a full report is going to be sent into the police investigating the current bent MPs claims.
Earlier today, she had admitted using taxpayers' money to help fund a £50,000 extension to her second home

The Bromsgrove MP had vowed to fight for her job but gave in amid yet more revelations about her use of public money.
It emerged this morning that she paid the local Tory chairman's wife to be her secretary and also employed the couple's daughter as a full-time nanny.
Earlier today, she had admitted using taxpayers' money to help fund a £50,000 extension to her second home

Baby Peters, British Justice Disgusting

 

Baroness Scotland will examine the case papers to see if they should be referred to the Court of Appeal.

Last week Baby Peter's mother, her boyfriend and their lodger were jailed for causing or allowing Peter's death.

Peter's mother must serve at least five years and the lodger at least three years. The boyfriend was given life for rape, with a 10-year minimum term.

He had been convicted of raping a two-year-old girl.

He was given an additional 12-year jail term, to run concurrently, for his "major role" in Peter's death.

Lodger Jason Owen, 37, of Bromley, south-east London, was jailed for allowing or causing the boy's death.

Peter suffered more than 50 injuries including a broken back and broken ribs at a property in north London.

The injuries were inflicted despite Peter being on an at-risk register and receiving 60 visits from social workers, doctors and police over eight months. He died in August 2007.

Old Bailey Judge Stephen Kramer said in sentencing that his mother and Owens would be jailed indefinitely until "deemed no longer to be a risk to the public and in particular to small children".

He added: "Any decent person who heard the catalogue of medical conditions and non-accidental injuries suffered by Peter cannot fail to have been appalled."

Protect the public

A spokesman for the attorney general's office said: "We have called for the papers in this case since the attorney general has the power to refer certain sentences to the Court of Appeal for review if, after looking at all the facts, she thinks the sentence was unduly lenient.

"Within this power, the attorney general can look at minimum tariffs imposed on life and indeterminate sentence prisoners.

"However, it is important to understand that such prisoners are not released automatically after the minimum term has been served - they are only released when the independent Parole Board is satisfied that their continued detention is no longer necessary to protect the public."

Speaking after the sentencing, NSPCC chief executive Andrew Flanagan said: "We are disappointed that the minimum tariff was so low.

"It raises the question of how bad the abuse has to be before offenders get a longer minimum time in prison."

The attorney general has 28 days from the sentence date to refer the case to the court.

His sons Hamza Kamel, 22, and Mohamed Mostafa, 27, ran the two-year fraud with his stepson Mohssin Ghailam, 28.

Southwark Crown Court heard they targeted cars in long-stay car parks, fraudulently obtaining their log books and keys before selling the cars on.

Four other London men also admitted their involvement.

'Sophisticated' fraud

Radical Muslim preacher Abu Hamza was jailed in 2006 for inciting murder and hate in speeches he made at Finsbury Park Mosque in north London.

On Wednesday the court heard that his sons were arrested in November last year, following a police investigation into the organized theft and resale of luxury cars in London.

Prosecutor Martyn Bowyer told the hearing: "This was a sophisticated, well-planned and professionally executed enterprise."

 

The gang identified luxury cars such as Mercedes, BMWs and Range Rovers left in long-stay car parks in London and applied to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) to change the address.

If the DVLA did not receive a reply from the original address within 14 days, a new log book would be sent out to an address supplied by the gang.

The defendants would then inform the DVLA that the name of the registered keeper had also changed, enabling them to obtain keys for the vehicle.

The gang then stole the cars, selling them to unsuspecting buyers or using them as collateral to take out loans which they never repaid.

Mr. Bowyer said: "This was the defendants seeking to exploit a loophole in the system at the DVLA."

 

Police identified 32 vehicles that were used in the fraud, valued at more than £1m.

Kamel, from Acton, west London, admitted five counts of handling stolen goods and laundering more than £14,000 of money in relation to the scam.

Mostafa, also from Acton, pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud by using false ID to secure a £12,000 loan and to obtain keys for a BMW.

Ghailam, from Shepherd's Bush, west London, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud.

Mohammed Chiadmi, 31, from Maida Vale, his brother Abdul Chiadmi, 22, from Ladbroke Grove, Khalid Jebari, 22, from Pimlico, and Hamza Mrimou, 27, from Fulham, admitted fraud, handling stolen goods and money laundering.

All the defendants are due to be sentenced on Thursday.

£36m cannabis case, Jury considers

As far as I see it, their no worse than the British Government, at least their not thieving off English tax payers?

The four Serbian, two Israeli and two Ukrainian men were arrested six days after the ocean-going tug Abbira berthed in Southampton last year.

A search by customs and police teams found 12.5 tones of the Class B drug.

The eight men deny drug smuggling at Winchester Crown Court. Four other men have already pleaded guilty.

The defendants are - Serbian nationals Goran Otovic, 54, Dragan Stankovic, 54, Dusan Mileusnic, 49, and Negovan Jovanovic, 58.

Also appearing are Israeli nationals Moshe Kedar, 81, and Mordechai Hersh, 67, and Ukrainian nationals Yaroslav Ksenzovets, 35, and Sergiy Khodos, 26.

The four men who have already pleaded guilty are Mohinder Rai, 35, Baljinder Rai, 31, Anjum Nazir, 39, all from Leicester, and Israeli national Yehezkel Srebro, 57.

They will be sentenced at a later date.

The jury was sent home on Wednesday and will resume deliberations on Thursday.

Feed My Greed, MP Julie Kirkbride admits claiming for £50,000 second home extension for her brother, it just gets better every single day under British rule? all the British political parties are just as bad as each other all on the take and thieving what ever they think they can get away with,

 

Time for English Rule

 

Tory MP Julie Kirkbride was mired in fresh controversy tonight after it emerged that she got English taxpayers to part-fund a £50,000 extension to her second home.

The embattled Bromsgrove MP admitted she decided to build an extra bedroom on the Worcestershire flat for her brother, who has lived rent free at the property for the last five years.

She admitted using public cash to fund a £50,000 remortgage, at a cost to taxpayers of an extra £1,632 a year.

MPs are banned from claiming the costs of childcare and Miss Kirkbride recruited her brother Ian, a 59-year-old bachelor, to help care for her eight-year-old son Angus.

 

Miss Kirkbride claimed the arrangement was necessary because it ‘was inappropriate’ for her son and brother to share a room.

But if she had hired a babysitter, there would have been no need for the extension, sparking new claims that she has milked the expenses system to line the pockets of her family.

She also employs her sister as a £12,000-a-year secretary.

Miss Kirkbride insisted the arrangement was above board and ‘fully complied with the rules’ on MPs' allowances and had been signed off by officials in the House of Commons fees office.

But the revelations were a near fatal blow to her credibility, coming just hours after she had defiantly refused to stand down despite a growing chorus of public outrage.

A study of her expenses shows that Miss Kirkbride claimed £12,420 in mortgage interest payments in 2007-8 at the rate of £1,035 a month.

But after she took out the new mortgage, her monthly claims on the home loan increased to £1,171, a rise of £136 a month or £1,632 a year.

Earlier, Miss Kirkbride said she hoped to defend her seat at the next election but accepted that the decision was out of her hands.

'I can understand why people are

Miss Kirkbride stressed that Tory leader David Cameron had accepted that her arrangements were 'quite separate and quite different' from her husband Andrew MacKay.

But she admitted that she knew Mr MacKay had been claiming second home expenses of £23,000 a year on the couple's London address, despite not having a property in his Bracknell constituency.

Asked whether she had known how her husband was structuring his expenses claims, Miss Kirkbride replied: 'I was aware that he had that advice, and at the time I was a new MP.'

She said at that stage she was 'taking advice' from Mr MacKay, who had already been an MP for some years, over many issues to do with her job.

She accepted he had made an 'error of judgment' by making the claims.

Pushed on her decision to pay her sister, Karen Leadley, a £12,000 salary from allowances for part-time secretarial work, Ms Kirkbride replied that she did an 'absolutely fantastic job'.

'My secretary has been my sister for about 12 years,' she added.

'It has been quite open, everyone has known that my sister worked for me.'

And Miss Kirkbride insisted that she still hoped to stand again at the next election, although she acknowledged that her prospects depended on the support of her local constituency party.

'I would dearly love to be re-elected to the job that I simply adore and which has been very fulfilling and personally very satisfying for me over the last 12 years, but that is not my decision,' she said.

Miss Kirkbride said Mr MacKay had paid a 'big price' for his error of judgment in claiming £23,000 a year against the couple's second home in London when he had no property in Bracknell.

'He was told to do that by the Fees Office shortly after we got married, and he took that advice,' she said.

'I was aware that he had that advice, and at the time I was a new MP, taking lots of advice from him on a whole series of issues.

'I did not question it. We both regret that now because Andrew has given up the career that he loves because he made an error of judgment.'

Mrs Leadley works from her own home in Dorset - 141 miles from her sister's Bromsgrove constituency and 107 miles from Westminster

A new poll by the Conservative Home website today shows a massive 81 per cent of Tory voters think she should resign.

Miss Kirkbride could be in breach of parliamentary rules state office costs should only be for work in the Commons or at an MP's constituency office.

She is also under fire for letting her brother live at her second home in Bromsgrove rent free for five years while running an IT business from the flat.

And it emerged yesterday that he bought £1,000 of electronic gadgets on her office expenses. 

The MP had already been attacked for claiming under the second home allowance on the Bromsgrove property while Mr MacKay, who is also a Tory MP, claimed on their joint home in London

Senior Tory officials are frustrated at Miss Kirkbride's failure to explain her behaviour to voters in her Worcestershire seat.

Party chiefs called for her to hold a public meeting with her constituents - 4,000 of whom have signed a petition calling on her to resign.

Campaigners have also demanded she attends a public meeting this weekend, where they will insist she falls on her sword.

In an open letter to activists, the MP has apologised for dragging them into the furore but insisted she did not expect any problems over her second home claims.

'Having spoken with senior officers, it is my intention to try to work my way out of these difficulties by facing my critics, working doubly hard to seek to restore my reputation and by being out and about around Bromsgrove as usual,' she said.

Leader David Cameron has not ordered her to go but stressed again today that she had 'questions to answer' and did not give her his explicit backing.

He admitted the MP was 'very effective' but added: 'She does have some questions to answer, as many, many MPs have questions to answer.

'She is answering those questions and she will do so both in front of my scrutiny panel in Westminster and also to her own constituency party. She will be having meetings with them later on and that is the right thing to do.'

Tory donor and former party treasurer Lord Kalms refused to comment on her case directly but stressed the six MPs already forced out were 'just a starting point'.

Anyone who had seriously breached the rules or acted unethically or immorally should not be an MP, he declared.

A 'Julie Must Go' rally will take place on Sunday and the MP will be presented with a petition telling her to go.

Campaigners hope to have 10,000 backers by the time of the meeting.

This would be the same as the majority Miss Kirkbride received at the last election in 2005, when she won with 24,387 votes to 14,307.

Chair of the 'Julie Must Go' group, Louise Marnell, said: 'What we want is simple - we want Julie to resign and for an immediate by-election.

'If Julie is convince she has done nothing wrong and still has the support of the majority of her constituents, then let the people decide.'

Miss Kirkbride and her husband outraged many when it emerged he had been claiming second-home allowance on their London home, while she collected it on the Bromsgrove flat.

Mr MacKay met with his outraged constituents on Friday and was called a 'thieving toad'. The next day he announced he would stand down at the next election.

Tories David Cameron says; here now relies on the English Democrats, Message’ in 'people power' pledge,

Cameron another one of Scottish-reject’s was full of lies and the whole England, all knows just how bent they all are we cant   trust any of the deceiver now in this British Government

It's still goes Pig's in the pen make your votes count 4th June England under English rule

 

Police boss might defy High Court

St Michael’s supports Chief Constable

The Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset Police Colin Port says he is prepared to go to jail rather than return suspected child pornography.

Officers investigating an alleged paedophilia case in Bristol raided the Leicestershire home of discredited computer expert Terence Bates, 68.

If Mr Bates, has nothing to hide?

Then why is he really bothered about the police having a look on his hard-drives? Surely this would go in his favour if innocent, giving him the charnce to prove that is the case? Or dose he have something to hide, these types of serious charges, the police just don’t pick out of a had they always had good evidences to back up there suspicions when it cone to child porn

They seized images of suspected child pornography and computer hard drives.

But before the items could be examined, the High Court ruled the raid unlawful and said they should be returned.

Bates obtained notice of a judicial review at the High Court after police investigating a possible paedophile conspiracy carried out the raid, in which 87 hard drives were taken.

'Serious matter'

Two senior judges at the court ordered police to hand back the hard drives and forbade any examination of the seized material.

Mr Port said: "Common sense dictates to me that we should not be returning indecent images to anyone - and yet I am prevented from even examining the material."

He said that defying the court was a "serious matter" and that the decision would not be taken lightly.

Mr Port added that he was taking legal advice and considering his position over the matter.

An Avon and Somerset Police spokesman said: "We are discussing the findings of the judicial review and any learning opportunities it presents to the organisation.

"Throughout this matter, our officers believed that they were acting with good intentions and in the interests of public safety and protection."

In April last year, Bates from Neville Holt, Leicestershire, was given a six-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, after it was revealed he had lied in court about his qualifications.

Bates, who was convicted of making false written statements and perjury, had given expert evidence in a number of cases involving child pornography.

 

Police prepared to begin criminal inquiries in MPs' expenses

Sir Paul Stephenson, Britain's most senior police officer, said he is prepared to begin criminal inquiries into alleged misuse of MPs' expenses

Sir Paul, head of the Metropolitan Police, denied speculation that senior members of his force are reluctant to become embroiled in another political inquiry.

He told St Michael’s press office that some MPs may be best dealt with by the authorities in the House of Commons over the MPs' expenses.

Which means the old boy net work, meaning that they will all get off Scot Free?

 

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· MPs' expenses: Police to set up panel to assess allegations against MPs

But then Sir Paul added: "We will not back down where there is an obvious and clear need to investigate and people can be confident about that."

His comments came as senior officers prepared to meet colleagues at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to decide what action to take.

Sir Paul held talks with Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer last week to assess whether criminal inquiries may be necessary.

"I do not want to get drawn into party political battles," he added.

"But if there are matters that are brought to my attention that warrant investigation then rest assured we will investigate.

"We will not back away from our responsibilities."

Sir Paul said any police investigation must balance the cost to the taxpayer and competing demands of other high-profile crime threats.

St Michael’s says; well you can’t get anymore “High Profile” than a bent and corrupted government or can you? in the Police’s eyes? And as for the cost, you can take it out of MP’s expenses, it’s their mess, or why not just let the good old English tax payers pay it? We pay for everything else? might as well pay for this?

Previous political probes including cash-for-honours, donor gate and lords-for-hire have not led to criminal prosecutions? I wonder why!

The senior officer called for a shake-up of how police are called upon to probe political matters.

Sir Paul suggested an "independent gateway process" could be introduced to avoid the police being used in any "party political game".

It is likely that any initial police inquiry will centre on the disclosures of St Michael’s and The Daily Telegraph that two Labour MPs claimed for mortgages that they had already settled.

Lord Falconer has warned that that fall-out from the Daily Telegraph's disclosures could stretch well beyond the next general election as police carry out exhaustive investigations into MPs who might have broken the law.

It came as a senior police officer said that he would investigate any MPs in his area who are thought to have stolen "from the public purse".

Richard Brunstrom, the chief constable of North Wales, warned that there would "be blood" because of the magnitude of what MPs had done.

He said that he will look at MPs who he thinks might have broken the law.

He said: "We cannot forgive the temerity of people who steal from the public purse and then have the gall to believe that if they hand it back, that makes it all right.

"They have no respect for the process and these revelations, I believe, warrant criminal investigation."

Hundreds of members of the public are understood to have made complaints to Scotland Yard as the expenses scandal has been revealed by the Telegraph over the last 11 days.

Campaign groups have threatened to launch private prosecutions if the Metropolitan Police will not investigate.

Among those in the spotlight are Cabinet ministers Alistair Darling, Geoff Hoon and employment minister Tony McNulty.

Former environment minister Elliot Morley and backbencher David Chaytor have been suspended by the Parliamentary Labour Party.

Mr Chaytor was axed after he admitted an "unforgivable error" in receiving £13,000 to cover interest payments for a loan already paid off.

Scunthorpe MP Mr Morley has also been suspended for a similar £16,000 claim and has already said he may resign.

Any Met inquiry would be undertaken by detectives from the force's specialist crime directorate, led by Acting Assistant Commissioner Janet Williams.

Lord Falconer, the former Lord Chancellor, has warned a police inquiry could last more than two years, potentially overshadowing the next general election.

One voice, One vote, England putting England first, English Democrats

 

As dozens of MPs have claimed for phantom mortgages 'with help from Commons officials

Dozens of MPs claimed thousands of pounds in 'phantom mortgages' which were secretly agreed by Commons officials.

Labour MP Ben Chapman said he was given permission to claim £15,000 in expenses for a loan which he had paid off.

Mr Chapman is now facing the prospect of suspension from the Labour party while his claims are being investigated by the party.

The Labour MP, who has refused to hand back the money, said he was told that his case was 'not unique'.

His comments have confirmed that House of Commons officials colluded in the systematic abuse of English taxpayer-funded expenses system.

The scandal is set to increase pressure on the Speaker Michael Martin, who has been responsible for the expenses system since 2000.

Mr Chapman said he told the Fees Office he was paying off a £295,000 sum on his second home in south London.

That move cut his monthly interest payments, which can be claimed back under the controversial second home allowance, from £1,900 to £400, lucky for some it would seem, while 60,000 English families lose their one home.

But Mr Chapman told the Fees Office: 'By paying off capital I am forgoing interest and investment opportunities elsewhere.'

Officials agreed to let him continue claiming at the original amount, which allowed him to pocket £15,000 over a ten month period.

According to documents, the fees office allowed dozens of MPs to benefit from a similar arrangement before 2004.

The 'phantom mortgage' scam was eventually stopped after the rules were tightened but MP’s found new ways to thieving from England’s tax payers.

A Commons spokeswoman said: 'In October 2003, there was a tightening of the rules for claiming allowances. This was reflected in the 2004 Green Book.' And this was only done because MP’s new that soon the freedom of information act would soon lead to just how bent they all are and just how much thieving been going on for years behind our backs?

 

Daily Mail now backs St Michael’s and the Telegraph

• Home loan 'error' by Labour's golden couple Mr & Mrs Balls
• Key Cameron ally spent £2,000 at shop owned by leader's mother-in-law
• Ex-Labour chief Ian McCartney's champagne-flute bill
• MELANIE PHILLIPS: No wonder our MPs turned to crime. They gave up their real job long ago
• Jack Straw blocked expenses inquiry, claims watchdog
• Esther Rantzen to stand against MP who claimed £22,500 to treat dry rot at her partner's home
• Mr Speaker's last stand: Isolated Martin makes desperate attempt to keep his job as clamour grows for him to go
• Labour MP the most likely to face police over his bogus mortgage claim

Mr Chapman yesterday said he was 'extremely distressed' and insisted he had followed the advice of the authorities.

He said: 'I'm obviously extremely distressed. I haven't yet seen the Telegraph, but I've heard about the allegations. Whatever I've done, I've been entirely open and above board with the authorities and Parliament and I'm distressed that this has occurred.'

He added: 'I do not believe I have done anything wrong.

Labour's Chief Whip Nick Brown, who is investigating the claims, yesterday held a meeting with officials in the fees office and has asked them to come up with an explanation.

None of the other MPs who have benefited from the phantom mortgage deal have been publicly named yet.

But Labour MPs Elliot Morley and David Chaytor who over claimed for mortgages have been suspended by the Labour party and are now facing a criminal investigation.

Business Secretary Lord Mandelson called for an investigation to establish the facts about how the claim was made and approved.

'Obviously, the facts have got to be established and if there is any action that needs to flow from it, I am sure it will,' he said on GMTV this morning.

He admitted people had every right to be 'appalled' by the recent revelations but also called for people to be fair to those MPs who had not made excessive claims.

'I understand only too well why the public are just so angry and so appalled by these disclosures, anyone would be, seeing what is coming out of the woodwork as a result of these disclosures,' he said.

'It is completely fair for the public to feel angry about the system which has been operating all these years in which you have seen expenses and allowances being used to top up MPs' salary because the salary itself hasn't been treated properly over time.

'But at the same time, I have to say, people should be fair also to Members of Parliament who do, do a very hard day's work for their constituents.'

Voters in Mr Chapman's Wirral South constituency yesterday expressed concern about the revelations.

Clothes shop owner Roger Hall, 47, said: 'It's all very well these MPs saying they acted within the rules but, it seems to me, they should have been aware of how the public would view their claims and used restraint.

I'm self-employed and I have to account to the Inland Revenue for every penny I have. It's one rule for the MPs and another rule for the rest of us.'

Retired nurse Grace Carlisle, 72, said: 'I don't know the ins and outs of Mr Chapman's expenses but some of his colleagues in Parliament, a lot of them in fact, have been very greedy and it is just not on.

'Nobody spotted that this system was wrong or open to abuse and for that reason I think the lot of them need to go, not just the Speaker.

Teacher Nick McLoughlin, 32, said: 'I voted for Ben Chapman and I think he is a good MP so I will give him the benefit of the doubt until the full facts are known.

'The expense claims of each MP should be sent to voters in their constituency so we can judge for ourselves if they have done wrong and then make an informed decision on how to vote at the next election.'

I only hope that England watch the English Democrats party broadcast on the BBC this evening, and sat there nodding heads in agreement, and I wish our press would back them up rather than leading people towards the likes of rubbish that would do our country more harm than good, like BNP or UKIP, and it’s a real pity the message doesn’t get out to more on these blogs, does England and its people really want idiots like the BNP? Or the UKIP, United Kingdom? Since when?

WASHINGTON TODAY

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is signalling he may resist President Barack Obama's pressure to support Palestinian statehood as the two leaders try to tackle an array of Middle East issues today on which they disagree,

What is wrong with these people? There is enough land for both the Palestinians to live and the Israelis to live, and live in peace if they so wished? And rather than fighting with each other where both side know there is no win, try helping each other and build something specials together a new Israel and a new Palestine.

A senior aide to Netanyahu, national security adviser Uzi Arad, suggested the Israeli leader might not yield to pressure from Obama for a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict. He also seemed to hint that Israel might consider military action against Iran when he said there was a "sense of urgency" in Israel over the Iranian nuclear threat.

Such rhetoric suggests diplomatic high stakes as the two men hold their first White House meeting against a backdrop of disagreement over several key issues: U.S. overtures to once-shunned Iran and Syria and pressure on Israel to support a Palestinian state.

The Obama administration is trying to promote dialogue with Iran and Syria, Israel's arch foes. Israel fears such efforts could lead to greater tolerance for Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Prior to Netanyahu's trip, confidant Zalman Shoval, a former ambassador to the United States, said the Israeli leader would ask the Americans to give Iran a deadline of "a very few months" to comply with international demands to halt its enrichment of uranium — a process that can be used to build nuclear bombs.

"If by then we have not reached an agreement with you, all other options are still on the table," Shoval added in a clear allusion to a military strike.

Before his Feb. 10 election, Netanyahu derided the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which stalled late last year, as a waste of time.

Jewish settlement activity is another source of potential conflict with the United States.

In Israel on Monday, settlers announced that government officials have begun taking bids to build infrastructure for a fledgling Jewish community deep in the West Bank. The timing of the announcement could cause friction at the Obama-Netanyahu meeting.

Palestinians want Obama to tell the Israelis that they have obligations under an existing U.S.-backed peace plan to accept the two-state solution and stop settlement construction, said Saeb Erekat, a top aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and long-time negotiator.

While not opposing the Obama administration's efforts to promote dialogue with Iran and Syria, Israel is sceptical. Like Washington, it dismisses Tehran's claims that its nuclear program is peaceful and fears the U.S. outreach could lead to greater tolerance for Iran's nuclear ambitions. The Israelis are also worried by the recent diplomatic shuttles to Syria for fear they reward Damascus even as it maintains close ties to Tehran and harbours Iranian proxies that have warred with Israel, Lebanon's Hezbollah and Gaza's Hamas.

Still, there have been mixed signals from the Israelis on the Middle East peace process ahead of the Obama-Netanyahu meeting.

Israel's president, Shimon Peres, said Sunday in Jordan that Netanyahu would abide by agreements signed by his predecessors, including the U.S.-backed Middle East peace plan calling for a two-state solution to the conflict with Palestinians. Peres said progress depended on an end to attacks by Hamas militants and greater Palestinian efforts to ensure Israel's security.

Netanyahu has tried to persuade the Americans that Iran, with its nuclear ambitions and anti-Israel proxies in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon must be reined in before peacemaking with the Palestinians can progress. Israel's security services see the Netanyahu-Obama meeting as crucial in this regard, and the military chief of staff, the head of military intelligence and the Mossad chief all held lengthy meetings with the prime minister ahead of the trip, defence officials said.

The meetings focused on what Israel sees as Iran's attempt to develop nuclear weapons and on the effect that would have in strengthening Iran's allies in Hamas and Hezbollah and undermining the stability of Western-allied Arab countries.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the meetings were not made public.

There Always be an England, as there will always be a God,

St Michael's says

Time for change  and a new way forward, Hope for all, make your votes count, vote putting England first

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mI8678VyRM

 

To old at 66 to be a mother, Yes/No?

St Michael’s says Yes

I no my comments are going to maybe sound what we now call these days as being un-politically correct, but at 66 years of age having a child is rather selfish, and not thinking of the bigger picture or of the child well being?

This woman already a pensioner at 66 years old, when the child is 10 years of age she will be 76 years old? And when he/she is 15 years old this women will be 81? Younger parents have a hard time being up children half this woman age, how is an 81 year going to cope with a teenager?

A BUSINESSWOMAN set to become Britain’s oldest mother at 66 has left it too late to be giving birth, according to the medical world’s leading advocate for motherhood in old age.

When she gives birth next month, Elizabeth Munro will beat the previous British record for having a baby, held by Patricia Rashbrook, who became a mother at the age of 62. It is is thought that Munro became pregnant by undergoing IVF with donor eggs, like Rashbrook before her.

The news of Munro’s pregnancy reignited medical debate on the issue of the maximum age at which it is ethical to have a child.

Yesterday the man considered one of the fiercest proponents of a woman’s right to have a baby at any age spoke out against the pregnancy. Professor Severino Antinori, who treated Rashbrook and has pioneered the IVF techniques involved in impregnating older women, said Munro, who will be 67 in July, was too old.

“I am shocked by the idea of a 66-year-old woman giving birth,” he said. “I respect the choice medically but I think anything over 63 is risky because you cannot guarantee the child will have a loving mother or family.

“It is possible to give a child to the mother up to the age of 83 but it is medically criminal to do this because the likelihood is that after a year or two the child will lose his mum and suffer from psychological problems.”

Munro, who is understood never to have given birth before, is set to have her baby by caesarean section at an NHS hospital next month. She was given her IVF treatment at a clinic in Ukraine.

Antinori, who claims to have treated 3,000 women aged from 49 to 63 with IVF, said: “Ukraine is one of the worst places; they don’t do tests there. They’re pretty adventurous, to say the least.”

Laurence Shaw, a consultant in reproductive medicine, said a mother’s life expectancy could be cut short for reasons that had nothing to do with old age: “The truth is anybody might not survive to raise their children.

“Now life expectancy is 80, so is it not reasonable for someone to go through a process of fitness screening to decide whether they should have a child?”

 

MPs accused in expenses secrecy and cover up’s as if we didn’t know?

MPs that backed a bill that would have blocked public release of parliamentary expense claims under the freedom of information act; are among the latest accused of thieving from English tax payers.

Tory MP David Maclean, who led the secrecy bid, rejected St Michael’s and the Sunday Telegraph claims he used public money to renovate a house and avoid capital gains tax.

Labour MPs David Clelland and Fraser Kemp and Tories Julian Lewis and David Ruffley are also accused of thieving tax payer’s cash.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has vowed to stamp out "unacceptable behaviour" has no room to talk as he’s just as bent but had a slightly better accountant?

The latest in a string of allegations published by St Michael’s and the Telegraph Media Group which focuses on MPs who backed an unsuccessful bill, introduced by Mr Maclean, to exempt MPs from the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act so they could hide their bent dealings.

 

St Michael’s and the newspaper claims that after using £20,000 of taxpayer's money to renovate a property before selling it, Mr Maclean, who represents Penarth and The Border, avoided paying capital gains tax on the sale by telling the taxman it was his main home.

But in a statement issued to the BBC, the MP said he utterly refuted the allegation. He said that when he became opposition chief whip he was told it was compulsory to make London his main home how the lies just roll out of the holes they have in their faces.

(.Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their rebellion and to the house of Jacob their sins. For day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken the commands of its God. They ask me for just decisions and seem eager for God to come near them. 'Why have we fasted,' they say, 'and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?’ Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers. Your fasting ends in quarrelling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high. Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for a man to humble himself? Is it only for bowing one's head like a reed and for lying on sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the LORD? Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter — when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard. Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I)

He went on to say; "I have never 'flipped' my property or sought to refurbish it at taxpayer’s expense," he said.

Meanwhile, Tyne Bridge MP David Clelland "bought out" his partner's share of a joint mortgage on a flat in London at a cost of thousands of pounds to the tax payer’s in higher claims for interest payments as well as legal fees.

'Nothing illegal' isn’t that what criminals say?

The Telegraph backs St Michael’s and says that after the deal, approved by the Commons fees office, mortgage interest payments - funded by expenses - increased by almost £200 a month.

However, the Labour backbench MP has said there was "nothing illegal or improper" in the claims he had made.

Referring to the London property, he said: "I don't regard it as a home - [it] is what I have to have to do my work as a member of parliament. And that's why the costs fall on the taxpayer."

Other claims include:

• Former Labour whip Fraser Kemp is said to have apologised for repeat claims for items for his second home. The MP for Houghton and Washington East is reported to have claimed for 16 bed sheets, two televisions and two DVD players for a one-bedroom flat. Mr Kemp told the Telegraph he would pay money back for his "error".
• New Forest East MP Julian Lewis, who reportedly claimed more than £7,000 from the taxpayer for redecorating his second home and installing new kitchen appliances, has denied any wrongdoing. The Conservative MP said the Westminster expenses system was "rotten" but insisted he had only used it to carry out essential maintenance and had not abused the system.
• Reports suggested Tory shadow minister for police reform David Ruffley had "flipped" his second home from London to his Bury St Edmunds constituency before claiming back thousands for furniture and fittings, including a £1,674 sofa.

Mr Ruffley said he had saved the taxpayer cash by designating his London property as his main home, while renting an unfurnished constituency property.

He had asked the Fees Office what an appropriate reimbursement would be and as a result paid for two-thirds of the cost of a £2,175 Harrods TV and £6,765 in bedroom furniture himself.

Amid signs of rising public anger about some MP expense and allowance claims, the prime minister wrote he was under "no illusions that repayment will not necessarily be sufficient sanction".

Mr Brown's comments came after a week in which former Labour minister Elliot Morley and Labour MP David Chaytor were suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party after admitting claiming for mortgages that had already been cleared.

Labour's Shahid Malik also stood down from ministerial post pending an inquiry into his expenses while Tory MP Andrew MacKay quit as parliamentary aide to David Cameron over an expenses claim.

The BBC's political correspondent Carole Walker said the prime minister had a number of disciplinary options at his disposal, including expelling individuals from the Labour Party or the government itself.

David Cameron has already stated that Conservative MPs must repay any "excessive" expenses claims or face expulsion from the party.

The Metropolitan Police Service and Crown Prosecution Service are due to meet next week to discuss whether a criminal investigation should be launched into some of the Telegraph's allegations about MPs.

Opinion polls published in some Sunday's newspapers appeared to indicate the extent to which the expenses row has damaged Labour in the run up to the Euro and local elections, due to be held on 4 June.

Its time we had a Government that puts the country and its people first, not their own greed’s, and its also time our Queen made a real stand for the people of England rather than hiding in the back grounds, but I do understand why she dose, as the Queen once said her self, there are powers to be that even she has know knowledge off?

 

Monday 18th May - Historic Moment - first English nationalist broadcast to all of England

Monday 18th May - sees the first English nationalist broadcast to all of England!

Don't miss the English Democrats' party election broadcast:-

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MP defends 'mansion' work claim dose he take us for fool's

Anthony Steen, the Conservative MP for Totnes in Devon, says he did nothing wrong in claiming tens of thousands of pounds for work on a "country mansion".

 

When the corrupt become so corrupted anything seem ok to their own minds, but dose he take us all for fools? And the rest of the British political parties do they really think the people of England are just going to let this go? I think not,

 

One comment re; Nick Bent Clegg (Comment: He has and he did. That's democracy for you)

Well let’s hope it’s not how we all feel about Democracy here in England, England now has a choice in having a party that will put England first not expenses or anyone else but the English and there interest, let hope in the local elections and the 2010 general elections England votes with hearts and minds English Democrats putting England first.

 

 

Clegg has no room to talk, as he calls on Speaker to resign

Nick Clegg has become the first party leader to call for the Commons speaker to resign in the midst of the expenses crisis gripping Parliament.

The Lib Dem leader said Michael Martin should make way as he was not the "right man" to lead much-needed reform.

But senior Labour MP Sir Stuart Bell said he expected the Speaker to say on Monday that he will stay in the post until the next general election.

Nick Clegg is a fine one to talk, when he himself got caught out fiddles his own expenses climes?

If anything Brown, Cameron and Clegg should all go, as none of them are fit to run a Government which has only been show to well in all their and there parties bent expenses claims

The Queen finally tells Gordon Brown she is 'deeply troubled' over MPs' thieving in their expenses

The Queen has told Gordon Brown she is worried that the scandalous revelations about MPs' expenses could damage Parliament, wake up Queen the damage is done where have you been for the past 6/7 weeks?

After St Michael’s had a made a personal representations to the Queen, she finally discussed the explosion of public outrage over the scandal in what is understood to have been a candid exchange of views when she met the Prime Minister for their weekly audience at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday.

Details of their conversation - which covered the vital need to restore trust in Parliament - came to light as:

The identities of the shadowy figures who leaked the MPs' expenses were revealed as Knights in the order of St Michel’s.

Speaker Michael Martin told friends he is ready to quit.

A shock new poll put the anti-EU UKIP on course to overtake Labour in next month's European elections.

Public demands for criminal charges against at least five expenses-cheat MPs grew.

Labour's overall poll rating fell to yet another all-time historic low - just 20 per cent.

A Labour MP was discovered to have claimed £125,000 expenses for a run-down garage via his 'office' expenses.

Another Labour MP was suspended for claiming £13,000 for a mortgage that had been paid off.

 

Tony Blair's faith in his new mission

As prime minister, "didn't do God" “But the Devil” but, having left office, Tony Blair is travelling the world to launch his new Devil’s Faith Foundation.

On a cold winter's day in New Haven, Connecticut, Tony Blair is preparing for a new challenge teaching.

His new inter-faith foundation has linked with Yale University and launched a new course, on Faith and Globalisation, taking them all in as he once did as politician.

As we walk to the seminar, surrounded by photographers and tight security, the former prime minister tells me why he has entered the classroom:

"If globalisation is a force pushing people together, does religion become a force pulling people apart?

My answer is, No it’s those evil man that are behind those religions that do that? Are you as blind now as you where when you where a prim minister to be able to see what is so plan to see?

"In the light of what's going on in the world, they are important themes to explore."

In front of 25 handpicked students from diverse religious backgrounds, Mr Blair leads discussions about the complex dilemmas politicians face when taking account of religious belief.

He gives examples of controversial incidents during his premiership – including debates over euthanasia, gay adoption and abortion.

The questions from the students are tough, but many questions are for Blair, but tries clearly to the open debate free of a party line which must be defended.

At one point, he says with a laugh: "I think I kind of got my whole life the wrong way round. I should have started with the conceptual debate first and then gone on to the practice."

The academic course is just one part of the planned work of the Foundation.

It has other educational programmes planned, including the production of impartial religious education materials, and the development of a new inter-faith centre in London Blair worship.

What makes the foundation's work distinctive is its emphasis on uniting people of different religious traditions in practical action – with the eradication of malaria a key priority says Blair reading from a pre written script bogusly not his own work of spin?

'Committed'

Young people are being brain washed and recruited to work for the foundation as "Faiths Act Fellows", promoting the fight against malaria across religious divides.

So what has motivated Mr Blair to devote much of his time to a cause that could hardly be described as fashionable? Yes you guess it money?

The concept of an inter-faith foundation pre-dates him becoming leader of the Labour Party or prime minister, he says.

And the launch of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation is a response to him being "really, really committed to finding a way of making religious faith relevant to the modern world" he says.

Maybe Blair now thinks he’s has become one of Gods messengers, but he doesn’t convince me of his faith, as a prime minister the only faith Blair had, was how much money could he make for him self, looking at the multi millions of pounds he now had just in properties not bad all from a man who nothing when he went into politics a man with his new found faith?

 

Mr Blair says the secular world needs to understand religion, and religions need to understand each other he says, seems as if Mr Blair been reading some of my sermons as he goes on to say.

"I believe this whole issue to do with inter-faith is absolutely where the 21st Century needs to be in social and cultural terms," he says.

"So I've got a very clear strategic sense of it as well. A powerful sense of mission on it. Every bit as powerful as I felt when in politics and if that’s his mission,

“God help us all." As he didn’t do a very good job when he was in politics, “As when the going got tough? and he had made his cash? He did a runner, leaving a complete and utter imbecile in his place to try and clean up half the mess that Blair left behind him? I say let the Americans keep him over there, best place for him, Blair could be the man to start a real Holy War, medalling in religions he has very little knowledge off or about, only what he’s now starting to read out of books?

Many churches and religions are unconvinced by Blair’s transformation from politician to religious campaigner, St Michael’s, England, the Church of Rome and many other churches in England and other parts of the world, no Blair for the liar he is, a man always with his own agenda, who can not be trusted.

Huda Jawad, director of the Muslim charity Forward Thinking, says she has doubts about levels of support from Muslims, given Tony Blair's foreign policy record while prime minister.

She says it is difficult to reconcile Blair the prime minister and Blair the leader of a faith foundation.

He is keen to point out to his critics that whatever early problems he may encounter, this is not a short-term project.

"This is not for me a 'this year and next year' project. This is a rest of my life project. So over time people will be able to see you in a different light," he says.

Once liar and a cheat? Dose a leopard change its spots? The Fox and the Scorpion?

Blair is going to have to go, a very, very long way to convince me that if I carried him on my back across a river he wouldn’t sting me?

Brown promises expenses sanctions Joke?

All these MP’s have been at theses fiddles for years and now they just want to say sorry and that’s it?

Everything back as normal all is forgiven? Just how stupid do they take the English public to be?

The Gravy Train Is Over

As over 60,000 tax payers lose their homes, and more tax payers likely in losing homes, The Joke, most of theses MP’s have two, three, four, five, six homes and some have even more? All paid for by those tax payers that have or likely to lose their one home.

No British politicians can ever be trusted ever again

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he "does not rule out any sanction", as he pledges to restore trust after the expenses revelations.

Writing in the News of the World newspaper, Mr Brown said he was "under no illusions that repayment will not necessarily be sufficient sanction".

"Unacceptable behaviour will be investigated and disciplined," he said.

Disciplined? What dose Brown think there all still in or at School? We no that’s how they act? Illusions this government and all the other British parties have been under this for years? And anyone that votes for any off them are under this same illusion

The prime minister's comments came after a second Labour MP was suspended over alleged expenses irregularities.

The Daily Telegraph alleged that Bury North MP David Chaytor claimed nearly £13,000 in mortgage interest on his London flat after the mortgage had been paid off.

It was the latest in a string of claims published by the newspaper about MPs of all parties.

Earlier in the week, Labour MP Elliot Morley was suspended after he admitted claiming for a mortgage that had already been cleared.

Justice Minister Shahid Malik stood down from his post pending an inquiry into his expenses.

'Possible fraud'

In an article written for the News of the World, Mr Brown said he was "appalled and angered" at the revelations.

"I want to assure every citizen of my commitment to a complete clean up of the system," he added. "That wherever and whenever immediate disciplinary action is required I will take it."

The BBC's political correspondent Carole Walker said the prime minister had a number of disciplinary options at his disposal, including expelling individuals from the Labour party or the government itself.

Earlier, Peter Kenyon, a member of Labour's national executive committee, said MPs who had abused the system could find themselves deselected by the party.

He said it was a matter of deciding which claims were "dodgy".

Three types of transgression - possible fraud, MPs playing the property market for personal gain, and extravagant and unjustifiable claims for goods and services - had been identified, he said.

"What we would expect is that the NEC, at its meeting on Tuesday, will clarify the rules that would apply in the cases that would appear to us and to the general public to be incontrovertible and where decisive action has got to be taken," he added.

Support plummeting

David Cameron has already stated that Conservative MPs must repay any "excessive" expenses claims or face expulsion from the party.

The Tory leader has also banned the practice of second home "flipping" and ordered that all expenses claims be published online.

On Thursday, Andrew MacKay, a parliamentary aide to Mr Cameron, resigned over what were branded "unacceptable" expenses claims.

The Metropolitan Police Service and Crown Prosecution Service are due to meet next week to discuss whether a criminal investigation should be launched into some of the Telegraph's allegations about MPs.

Meanwhile, a BPIX poll of 2,300 people for the Mail on Sunday newspaper found 17% of voters planned to vote Labour at the European elections next month - the same percentage which pledged to vote for the UK Independence Party.

A second poll by ComRes for the Independent on Sunday revealed Labour gained 21% of the projected vote, compared with 40% for the Tories, 18% for the Lib Dems and 21% for "other parties", such as Green and UKIP. England has nothing to lose but everything to gain under an English Government

PUTTING ENGLAND FIRST

JUNE ELECTIONS

 

England’s Home repossessions jump as downturn on home buying continues to put pressure on borrowers

Home repossessions jumped by more than 50 per cent between January and March as the recession continued to take a heavy toll of borrowers.

Nearly 66,000 families have lost their homes since the credit crunch began and that could rise to more than 100,000 by the end of the year. The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) said yesterday that its forecast that 75,000 homes in England would be repossessed this year, which would take the total since July 2007 to more than 125,000, now looked pessimistic and would be revised down.

But economists gave warning that as house prices fell and unemployment continued to surge, increasing numbers of people would be vulnerable to losing their homes.

Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist for IHS Global Insight, said: “Home repossessions still seem likely to rise significantly further. Sharply higher unemployment, heightened debt levels, substantially lower house prices and more and more people being trapped in negative equity will all continue to impact.”

 

House prices have gone up more than wage’s affordable to buy?

That was echoed by Shelter, the housing charity, which said: “We fear a second; more devastating tidal wave of repossessions is coming as unemployment continues to rise, the recession continues and at some point interest rates begin to climb again.”

About 12,800 English homeowners lost their properties because they could not keep up with repayments in the first three months of the year, up from 8,500 in the same period last year, CML figures show. The CML said that government efforts to reduce repossessions by expanding homeowners’ support schemes and falling interest rates had helped to keep more struggling families in their properties in Scotland and Wales.

New rules requiring lenders to prove that they have examined all alternatives to keep borrowers in their homes before seeking a court order to repossess a property have also had a significant effect. Figures published yesterday by the Ministry of Justice showed that mortgage possession claims declined to 22,609 between January and March, down 42 per cent from the same period last year. The number of possession orders granted also fell by 43 per cent to 17,054.

In spite of the drop in possession orders, increasing numbers of homeowners are struggling with the burden of their mortgage. About 265,000 borrowers had missed three or more monthly payments between January and March, up from 135,800 in the first quarter of last year, the CML said. The number of homeowners in arrears of more than 2.5 per cent of their mortgage balance rose by 12 per cent in the final three months of last year from 182,600 to 205,300 in the first three months of this year.

Sam Younger, chief executive of Shelter, the housing charity, said: “These figures paint a very depressing picture of thousands of homeowners across England struggling to keep up with their mortgage repayments, with many more losing the roof over their head.”

Michael Coogan, director-general of the CML, said: “Lenders are demonstrably increasing the forbearance they are offering, while many struggling borrowers have gained breathing space through lower interest rates.”

Homeowner mortgage support

Allows borrowers facing temporary drop in income to reduce mortgage repayments and roll up deferred payments. The Government guarantees to cover deferred payment if the borrower defaults

Income support for mortgage interest

Scheme extended. After 13 weeks people on income support, jobseeker’s allowance or pension credit can claim help to cover interest payments on mortgages; up to £175,000

Mortgage rescue scheme

Borrowers in difficulty can take out loan with a registered social landlord (RSL) in exchange for equity in property; or RSL will clear debts and tenant pays rent

Repossession prevention fund

£20 million fund to allow councils to make small loans to families at risk of losing home. Only elderly, disabled or families with young children eligible

St Michael’s says it’s only the greed of lenders and builders that have put many out of their homes, and the price of homes out of many peoples reach, feed thy greed”

I f you buy say a car on finance? £5000 pounds for the car you’ll pay maybe £700 on the £5000, giving you a total of £5700, yet when you buy a home say £100,000 but the time you would have finished paying it of it would have cosy you say 25 years at £1200 per month

Would have cost you over £360,000, that’s over £260,000 pounds just in interest?

It’s no wonder people can’t afford to buy or their losing their homes when we live in a world of feed my greed’s

 

Cheap Build Homes rejected for social housing

Thousands of developers' surplus new build homes in England are being rejected by housing associations as they are not of a high enough standard.

This is the result of employing cheap European labour, yes they work for much lower wages, but they also work to a much lower standards, which if you have ever been to Europe, and seen any building sites you can clearly see the standards of “Workmanship not good at all?

And all houses are well over priced for what you get? By greedy builders and under government’s rules most don’t come with any parking, or half a car space per home?

It is estimated there could be as many as 100,000 unsold new-build homes in the UK.

With about 4.5m people on housing waiting lists, the government has set up the Clearing House Fund to help housing associations in England buy some of the surplus housing stock that private developers fail to sell.

Associations across England have already used the fund to buy about 5,000 homes and have funding to buy the same again.

Gavin Smart, of the National Housing Federation said: "It's very hard to put a number on homes we are rejecting.

"But it would be a significant proportion because private developers simply do not have to build to the same standards as housing associations.

"Many of the homes that we are being offered would not meet those standards and quite sensibly housing associations looking at those homes are saying they are not of a suitable quality for them to purchase."

Multiple flaws

Independent building inspector Steve Nancarrow told the BBC he had found 90 flaws in just one new-build flat valued at £210,000.

Faulty electrics, no hot water, and leaking windows are just some of the problems he discovered.

"It's my job every day to go around people's houses and look at the quality of the units, and it's getting worse and worse.

"They are fobbing them off with rubbish," he said.

In order to be accepted by housing associations, developments have to meet high environmental standards, as well as being built to high specifications and to a minimum size.

In the private sector the specifications are lower and there is no minimum size.

The UK builds the smallest homes in the developed world.

In Holland the average size of a new build dwelling is 115 sq m and in Japan it is 92.5 sq m, while in the UK it is just 76 sq m.

Private developers say there is nothing wrong with their properties, pointing out they are built for a different market and that private homes do not yet have to meet the same standards as those built for social housing.

John Stewart of the Home Builders Federation said: "There is no evidence at all that quality is poor.

"Customer survey results suggest there are very high levels of satisfaction with homes people have bought.

"Space and affordability go together - house builders have to build what house buyers can afford to buy."

Higher standards

Both the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Chartered Institute of Housing believe the government should force all builds to have higher minimum standards.

Richard Capie from the Chartered Institute of Housing said: "We have got to say to ourselves the homes we are building today will be here for generations.

"If we make them too small or if we don't for instance have enough storage and they are not going to meet the needs of families and individuals, then we are going to pay the price for that later on."

A Communities and Local Government spokesman said: "The government is committed to very high standards for all homes, whether privately or publicly funded, and we have been improving standards continuously.

"For instance we have made all new homes 40% more energy efficient since 2002, which saves people money on their energy bills and cuts carbon emissions.

"Any new development also has to go through the planning process, whereby local authorities ensure that only proposals with good design, layout and density can be built."

 

FEED MY GREED

Andrew George, Lib Dem MP

Andrew George claimed expenses on £300,000 flat 'used as a bolt-hole by his model daughter'

And tells a 15 year old homeless youth who asked for his help to get lost? As he was to busy doing his expenses

COMMENT

• Pink Pasty (Visitor)
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• 16.05.2009 @ 09:34:05

 

Andrew George Liberal Democrat MP for St.Ives & Helston in Cornwall is so dis-connected; he just does NOT understand how very ANGRY the British people are over the MP's expenses claim scandal!

Especially some people, like the former 15yr old homeless gay youth, who lived rough on the streets of Helston, Cornwall, but would Andrew George MP help when the lad wrote to Andrew George BEGGING for help....NO!

Andrew George MP was too busy filling in his own expense claims form it would seem!

Search youtube for the video "NO HELP for homeless gay teenage boy"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKRJjFOeKMA

VOTE ENGLISH DEMOCRATS PUTTING ENGLAND FIRST NOT EXPENSES

 

Feed My Greed David Chaytor and the phantom £13,000 mortgage claim: MPs' expenses

A Labour backbencher has admitted that he had claimed almost £13,000 in interest payments for a mortgage that he had already repaid.

David Chaytor, the second MP to be named as having made illegitimate mortgage claims, said that he had made an “unforgivable error”.

He now faces a criminal inquiry into his expenses and is likely to be suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party. Mr Chaytor’s statement is the frankest admission of wrongdoing by an MP since St Michael’s and The Daily Telegraph’s started there investigation into the parliamentary expenses system began. The scandal continued to have serious ramifications in Westminster.

Shahid Malik, the Justice Minister, was forced to step down and the Metropolitan Police began initial inquiries into questionable claims by several MPs.

St Michael’s and The Telegraph have both established that between September, 2005, and August. 2006, Mr Chaytor claimed £1,175 a month for mortgage interest on a Westminster flat. However, Land Registry records show that the mortgage on the flat had already been paid off in January 2004.

When asked about the claim, Mr Chaytor apologised “unreservedly” and that makes thing all ok? Every single one of these MPs all new they where doing wrong, yet they all still put in there clams s for their own greed’s if this had been any other normal tax payer fiddling their benefit claims would have all ready be arrested and taken to court .

(All use the same lines they must rehearse)

“In respect of mortgage interest payments, there has been an unforgivable error in my accounting procedures for which I apologise unreservedly,” he said in a statement. “I will act immediately to ensure repayment is made to the fees office.” Lawyers said that his claims, which were similar to those made by Elliot Morley, the former environment minister, could constitute a criminal offence under the 2006 Fraud Act and the 1968 Theft Act.

The MP for Bury North has some of the most controversial arrangements of any parliamentarian examined by St Michael’s and the Telegraph over the past nine days. Since 2004, he has claimed for five different properties, “flipping” his designated second home between London, Yorkshire and Bury. He claimed for one home where his son was the named occupant on council tax bills.

Mr Chaytor is abroad on a taxpayer-funded trip to America with the Children, Schools and Families select committee, but he is expected to return to Britain on Saturday to face Labour Party officials and his constituents after checking out of his Washington DC hotel late on Friday.

In a statement, he said: “Changing and complex family circumstances have required me to live in different places during the last five years. During this time, I should have ensured that my mortgage had been switched to the flat in which I was temporarily living. Stupidly and inexplicably, and at a time of great personal and family stress, I failed to ensure that this was done.” (THE RUBBISH THET CAN COME WITH)

His prompt admission of wrongdoing underlined the growing concern in Westminster that there were serious abuses of the expenses system that MPs failed to disclose to their party leaders or parliamentary whips to feed their every growing greed’s.

A Downing Street spokesman said of Mr Chaytor’s expenses: “This is a very serious matter. The Chief Whip will be urgently discussing the matter with the Member of Parliament before further action is taken.”

Chief Whip now there’s a JOKE….they all need publicly whipping and sacking?

And he declined to make any father comment to St Michael’s press office.

The Labour MP’s wife said she was “flabbergasted” to be told of the expenses claim and that’s not she going the flabbergasted about when she finds out, Just what else he’s not been telling her?

Sheena Chaytor appealed to voters to believe that it had been a genuine mistake of course it was lalalalalalala.

“He was very shocked when he heard, he was flabbergasted, he could not believe it,” she said

“He has made a really stupid mistake - it was a mistake but I do not suppose anybody will believe that. I hope so though.”

Meanwhile, David Cameron ordered his MPs to return to their constituencies and justify their behaviour.

THE TELEGRAPH’S SUPPOTING FINDING’S WITH St MICHAEL’S

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The Telegraph’s Expenses Files can disclose more details of “excessive” claims, with MPs switching between different properties or buying expensive items for their homes. Although there is no suggestion of illegality, the MPs’ claims push the limits of acceptability.

It can be disclosed that:

Sir Gerald Kaufman, the former Labour environment minister, charged £1,851 for a rug he imported from a New York antiques centre and tried to claim £8,865 for a television. He also put in a claim for £28,834 — of which £15,329 was paid — for improvements to his London flat, telling officials that he was “living in a slum”.

Chris Bryant, the deputy leader of the House of Commons, “flipped” his second home twice in two years, allowing him to claim almost £20,000 from expenses.

Anthony Steen, a long-standing Conservative MP, claimed tens of thousands of pounds for his country mansion, including expenses for looking after 500 trees.

Tam Dalyell, the former father of the House of Commons, attempted to claim £18,000 for bookcases two months before he retired as an MP in 2005.

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, the shadow minister for international development, claims for a mortgage on a £2.75 million Cotswolds house.

 

LARGE BOMB FOUND NEAR IRISH BORDER

When are theses mad men ever going to get the message are they really just that thick or just like killing innocent people?

The message is easy, killing is never going to be the answer, in all the year they been killing each other, has it really made any differences! NO, and it never will the only answer has always been in peace, and will be the only answer

A 100lb roadside bomb has been found in Northern Ireland countryside near the border with the Irish Republic.

The explosives were discovered in a beer keg by a man working in a field in south Fermanagh. It was just outside an area where police carried out a series of searches, six weeks after terrorists claimed to have left the device somewhere along a 10-mile stretch between the villages of Rosslea and Donagh.

The bomb was close to a hedge three miles outside Rosslea, not far from where two police officers escaped when a bomb under a bridge failed to detonate properly last June.

Two soldiers and an RUC officer were shot dead by dissident republicans at Craigavon, Co Armagh, and at Massereene, Co Antrim, in March and police believe more lives could have been lost if this bomb had gone off.

Several families had to be evacuated from their homes when Army explosives experts were called in to check the device. It is not known what state it was in, but police confirmed that component parts for an substantial explosive device had been recovered.

The disruption to people's lives was massive, according to Chief Inspector Alywin Barton, the area commander for Fermanagh.

 

The Two faces of two Worthing MPs who now call for expenses reform after years having been in benefit of it?

It’s funny how its only now MP’s have been caught out being on the fiddle with there expenses, those that are trying to make names for themselves come out with the rubbish they do?

WORTHING MPs Tim Loughton and Peter Bottomley have called for an urgent reform in Parliament's system of expenses and allowances.

Mr Loughton received a claims total of £145,975 for the year 2007/08 plus his 64,766 pay cheque on top of that? £210,740, on the most recent figures available,

 

While Mr Bottomley's total claim for that year was £126,603 plus his £64,766 £191,369.

In the full list of 645 MPs, their approved claims were listed in value as, respectively, 337th and 561st.

MPs have an annual salary of £64,766. Plus as many fiddles on top they can get away with? £100,000 £300,000?

 

Average English working tax payers annual salary £10,000 to £15,000 less all their expenses

Mr Loughton, who represents East Worthing and Shoreham in West Sussex, said : "The public is understandably outraged about the recent revelations about the way the MPs' expenses system works or clearly doesn't work, “yet he’s been on it for years? So it must work for him? Other wise, why hasn’t he spoke up before?

"The system has been brought into disrepute by the excesses of a few, not helped by the broad and lax criteria under which allowances are granted and the fact that, uniquely, the job of an MP requires us to operate from three different work places – Westminster, the constituency office and our homes.

 

MP’s aren’t the only people that have to work in many other places, the normal working tax payers dose as well, and told its part of the Job? And don’t get two or three times their salaries in expenses? And luck if they get any at all.

"It is vital that the system is now urgently reformed to start to restore confidence in the whole political process and in the important jobs that our constituents sent us to Parliament to do." And how he can come out with this statement is beyond me? When he and other MP’s have known for years just how to milk it???? Always the same old spin when any election is on its way, most of them would sell there sole to the devil for coin? And the only time you ever he from these to sherbets is when they might get the names in the press self-righteousness in its self

 

Scotland Yard Senior officers to examine expenses evidence after,
St Michael’s submits its report/findings,  with many findings that are still unknown to the English public

Labour, Tories, and the Liberal Democrats are all in this report and all have corrupted MP’s

A panel of senior Scotland Yard officers and prosecutors will meet next week to decide what action to take over claims that MPs misused parliamentary expenses.

Officials will assess whether criminal inquiries are necessary in the wake of not only St Michael’s report, but also a surge in the number of complaints from members of the English public.

Met Chief Sir Paul Stephenson and the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, decided to establish the panel following several days of speculation over whether any criminal inquiries would be launched.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Metropolitan Police issued a joint statement, which said: "Before the recent media exposure about alleged misuse of parliamentary expenses, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner instigated meetings between the Metropolitan Police and CPS in relation to a number of allegations made to police.

"Due to the increase in subsequent allegations received by the Metropolitan Police, the Commissioner and Director of Public Prosecutions have jointly decided to convene a panel to assess allegations in order to decide whether criminal investigations should be started.

"A panel, comprising officers and a senior CPS lawyer, will commence a series of meetings next week."

 

MPs’ expenses: Shahid Malik resigns as Justice Minister over rental arrangement’s

Shahid Malik has stepped down as Justice Minister following the St Michael’s and the Telegraph’s disclosures over his expense claim.

The Labour MP for Dewsbury resigned from his post amid suspicions that his rental arrangements may have breached the Ministerial Code of Conduct.

St Michael’s and The Telegraph both revealed today that Mr Malik was paying well below the market rate for his constituency home in West Yorkshire, which he rents from a landlord who has a conviction for letting an uninhabitable property.

The Ministerial Code of Conduct states that members of the Government must not use their position to gain any financial advantage. (St Michael’s says what code of conduct, Conduct they all make up as they go along to suite themselves)

Also today St Michael’s spoke directly with the Telegraph, asking them to give voter’s more options on who to vote for in the June local elections rather than the BNP or UKIP, which would be drastic to say the most One a racist party the other Europeans benders? We asked them to Give the English democrats some publicity as a third option for voters, and all said, take a look at there web site and is there anything on there they couldn’t agree with? And if there was then print it, but if there wasn’t then print that two?

Clown Gordon Brown has asked Sir Philip Mawer, the independent adviser on the ministerial code, to investigate whether Mr Malik’s arrangement with his landlord, Tahir Zaman, constitutes a breach of the code.

Mr Zaman told the Telegraph that Mr Malik paid him less than £100 per week in rent, saying that he charged more for another nearby property which was half the size.

Mr Malik is the first Government minister to resign in the wake of the Telegraph’s week-long investigation into MPs’….. Telegraph link……. expenses.

Speaking earlier in the day from his home in Dewsbury, West York’s, he insisted he was "as straight as they come" and blamed the controversy on the system of allowances being "in complete tatters".

Since being elected in 2005, Mr Malik has claimed the maximum amount allowable for a second home, amounting to £66,827 over three years. Last year, he claimed £23,083 from the taxpayer for his London town house, equivalent to £443 per week. The Telegraph disclosed that the “main home” for which Mr Malik pays out of his own pocket - a three-bedroom house in his constituency of Dewsbury - has been secured at a discounted rent from Mr Zaman.

Mr Malik also rents a constituency office from Mr Zaman, who was fined for letting an “uninhabitable” house.

In an interview on Sky News Mr Malik pledged to donate £1,050 he claimed for a television to worthy local causes in his constituency, and he’s another one that thinks, that its all alright now because he’s been caught out and make some donation?.

"I will not be giving it to the authorities in Parliament because it is legitimately mine," he said. "But as a gesture I am giving that to good causes in my constituency, and I think it will be appreciated by those who receive it."

Asked why he needed to spend £730 on a massage chair, Mr Malik said it was a "legitimate expenditure" that he was allowed to make.

He said he went "one million per cent by the book" when he designated the house he rents in Dewsbury as his main home.

But he added: "The one thing I am clear about is that the rules are in complete tatters. I was a new MP. Everything I did, I asked before I did it because I didn't want to be doing anything that was against the rules."

But Mr Malik admitted that the stories about MPs' expenses have had a negative impact on the UK's democracy and politics.

"With hindsight, I think every MP in this country would have done things differently," he said. "And for that collectively, on behalf of all MPs, of course I apologise."

Mr Malik’s arrangement with his landlord means he pays below market rent for his main home while billing taxpayers thousands for his second home in London. His second home claims have included £2,600 for a home cinema system — which was cut in half by officials — and £65 for a court summons for not paying council tax.

Neither Mr Malik nor Mr Zaman would say last night whether they had signed a formal agreement for the lease of the constituency house, although Mr Zaman said the rent was below the market rate. The landlord’s wife said the house appeared to be occupied by a constituency worker during the week.

The case of Mr Malik’s expenses illustrates the potential problems of an MP being able to nominate what appears to be the family home as his second home, enabling him to claim tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money.

Gordon Brown's spokesman stressed the expectation would be that Mr Malik would return to office if he was cleared and said no replacement was being appointed in the meantime. Sir Philip could report back within days.

Mr Brown's spokesman said: "There have been accusations made in the past 24 hours against Shahid Malik, in particular that he received preferential rent on his main residence.

"Because that allegation would represent a potential financial benefit and that potential and alleged financial benefit was not declared as part of his ministerial declaration, this could represent a breach of the ministerial code.

"In the light of these accusations that have been made against Shahid Malik and the need for them to be properly investigated, the Prime Minister has asked the independent adviser, Sir Philip Mawer, to establish the facts of the matter as a matter of urgency and advise accordingly.”

Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, faced similar allegations after she was shown to have claimed her family home in Redditch as her second house.

However, the Home Secretary said she had always paid rent to her sister at a commercial rate.

As a minister, she also said she spent the majority of her time in London.

Mr Malik’s arrangements relating to his constituency home will also raise questions as to whether a minister could be beholden to a businessman who offers him discounted rent. Mr Zaman lives next door to Mr Malik’s home in Dewsbury. Mr Zaman and Mr Malik also have a rental agreement relating to the constituency office in a nearby shopping parade. Mr Malik claims for the cost of renting his office from parliamentary office allowances.

Yesterday, following a week of disclosures about MPs’ expenses by The Daily Telegraph, Elliot Morley, the former minister, was suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party and Andrew Mackay lost his job as David Cameron’s aide.

Today, details of claims made by married MPs are disclosed. A former Cabinet minister is also exposed for over-claiming more than £8,000 on her mortgage.

Mr Malik bought a home in Peckham in 2001 for £85,000 — four years before he became an MP. After being elected to Parliament in 2005, he nominated the property as his “second home” and began claiming the maximum amount available in parliamentary expenses.

During the first year as an MP, he made 13 separate claims for different items of furniture or electrical appliances totalling more than £7,000. The fees office blocked several items and he eventually received £6,147. He also regularly claimed the maximum allowable £400 a month for food.

The most contentious item was a £2,600 home cinema system including a 40in flat-screen television. The fees office paid half, after initially rejecting the claim.

It blocked claims for a portable DVD player and an iPod during the same year.

The spending on the Peckham house continued during 2007-08, with 24 separate claims for furniture, decorating and electrical goods. These included a £671 fireplace, a leather daybed sofa and a £510 fitted wardrobe.

Mr Malik was also reimbursed for a £730 “massage chair”. Last night, the MP said he had a “back problem”.

The Justice Minister said he would repay the £65 he claimed for his non-payment of council tax courts summons.

In total, in three years, Mr Malik claimed £66,827 for the property - £18,173 less than the original cost of the house.

However, the spending on his “second” London home stands in stark contrast to the cut-price arrangements for his constituency property.

Mr Malik’s landlord last night told The Daily Telegraph: “He is definitely paying well under the market value rent.”

When asked if Mr Malik paid £100 a week, Mr Zaman said: “I’m renting [out] the next door [property], [it’s] half the size

Of his property, they pay me more rent than what he’s paying me.”

In 2005 Mr Zaman pleaded guilty to letting a house to a family of five despite a council enforcement order classing building as “uninhabitable”.

He was fined £450 and ordered to pay £200 costs.

Mr Zaman receives more than £4,000 annually from Mr Malik in office rent. The money is funded from a separate system of parliamentary expenses.

The landlord’s wife who lives in a neighbouring property said that Mr Malik only used the property at weekends and a member of his staff stayed there during the week.

“He [Mr Malik] is a good friend and neighbour,” she said. “He comes here just at the weekends... Usually he comes here alone.”

Mrs Zaman said a constituency worker she knew only as Paul occupied the house during the week.

Yesterday, when asked whether someone stayed in the property during the week, Mr Malik would only say: “I am happy to confirm that I do not rent it out or derive any income from it.”

In a statement, Mr Malik said: “I spoke with the Prime Minister this morning and we agreed that the best way forward in the face of this specific allegation was for me to step to one side as an interim measure and allow Sir Philip Mawer to look into the matter. I'm pleased to have this opportunity to clear my name.

"I would like to make it clear that this inquiry has nothing whatsoever to do with my expense claims but relates to an allegation regarding my rent which, if true, would breach the ministerial code.

"I am confident that there has been no such breach and look forward to the findings of the inquiry so that I can continue to serve my constituents as their MP and the country as a minister with my head held high.

"The media will be well aware that I'm only too happy to engage, as indeed I have yesterday and today. They will also appreciate that, given that an inquiry is now under way, it would be inappropriate to comment further and I thank them for their co-operation."

Shahid Malik

Job: Junior minister at the Ministry of Justice

Salary: £95,617

Total second

Home claim’s 2005-06: £21,634 2006-07: £22,110 2007-08: £23,083

 

England waking up to the corruptions of power and privileges held by the few, “That St Michaels has been saying for years,

I wonder just what our Queen has been doing, while all this has been going on within her parliament.

Is she still alive? Or has she been abducted by Aliens?