1028 [0958] Hrs GMT London Monday 23 March 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That when MPs and ministers are found to be acting as dodgy - now, that word ‘dodgy’ has been used this morning by Alistair Graham about the reported expenses-claiming conduct of Tony McNulty, currently a POVERTY-creation DWP minister {and a Crossrail Scam-peddling Department for [!!!!!] Transport minister in 2004-2005} - then there is no legitimacy in the decisions they make IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE...And as even a Tory, Alan Duncan, could come across as being almost truthful and to the point about Tony McNulty, there is no room for waiting before questioning these ‘ministers’ assumption that they should be trusted.. They should not be trusted. They have shown that they cannot be trusted. “Constant auditing of their behaviour is what is called for”. And since Tony McNulty was involved in the [conceptual as opposed to the physical, the material] cobbling together of the ‘DfT’ ‘case for Crossrail’ in the days before the ‘Crossrail Bill’ was formally put before the UK House of Commons on 22 February 2005 [4 years and a month and a day ago today, Monday 23 March 2009], it is utterly important to cite McNulty’s latest role and conduct as relevant evidence in making the renewed call to scrap the Crossrail scam on the ground that it was got together within the DfT by less than ethically soundly active personnel. As even McNulty himself has been shown to have admitted under pressure from the Mail on Sunday investigation, he has DROPPEd the dodgy claims and has knowledge of many other MPs still engaged in the dodgy practice.….It is so important to ask: with MPs behaving at such a low and morality-free way, what chance was there that ANY Bill, including the Crossrail Bill, would have been treated with the intellectual rigour that they deserved? And we know from the records that the Crossrail Bill [rubber stamped in July 2008 into the ‘Crossrail Act’] was NOT even debated during its passage through the two Houses where selections of stooged parliamentarians were used to give the scam the ‘formal nod’. Except for the ritual debase staged on 19 July 2005 when stooged MP after stooged MP brayed for the Big Business scam...With a single recorded exception. Time now for all the stooges to confess to their collusion and for Gordon Brown to scrap the scam without any further delay... Why? Because when a previously insignificant Tory ‘MP’ like Alan Duncan can begin to make sense when he derides Gordon Brown and credibly describes Gordon Brown as being in a HOLE of debts all of his [Brown] making then there is no room for doubting the oncoming defeat that Brown and Darling are bringing about.…defeat of democracy, sustainability, sense.…..
Brown should quit being desperate... He should behave rationally, ethically, responsibly and accountably. Scrap all crass laws, rules, regulations...and excuses..
.[To be continued]
If he wants any credibility, Tony McNulty should pay the money back
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Unconvincing: Tony McNulty says his £60,000 in expenses for a second-home was 'all within the rules'
Tony McNulty's call for the partial abolition of the MPs' second home allowance would have been infinitely more convincing if he hadn't already milked the system for all it was worth.
The Harrow MP, who is Labour's employment minister, made his proposal - that the allowance should be abolished for all MPs who live within 60 miles of Westminster - shortly after being exposed by the Mail on Sunday as having claimed £60,000 in taxpayers' money to pay the mortgage on a house lived in by his parents.
Like Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, revealed last month to have claimed more than £100,000 in second home expenses - even though she did not have a second home - Mr McNulty sought to mitigate his deception by saying: 'It's all within the rules.'
That might be true but it also smacks of corruption.
The allowance is meant to help MPs whose constituencies are a long way from Parliament to fund a London pied a terre, not to provide a free property investment for London MPs and their families.
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Mr McNulty is one of Labour's more self-important ministers - ubiquitous on TV and radio, he is never slow to tell us how to live our lives.
So if he really wants to do the right thing himself, he should go further than merely suggesting a rule change.
He should give the money back.
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