1125 [1110] [1100] Hrs GMT LOndon Sunday 17 May 2009: KHOODEELAAR! challenges David Miliband to produce one single example of an ordinary member of the public being allowed to say what he, Miliband has just told Jon Sopel, on the POLITICS SHAW that is being broadcast right now. He says he will pay the money back. it is NOT about MPs paying any money back. It is about their morality. Miliband is now another one who doe snot get it....Any member of the public who is not a paid politico, would be asked to answer some serious criminal charges [this stated in a contextual way here, not in reference to any particular case such as the conduct of Miliband himself] in a similar situation....[Earlier this morning we said]
KHOODEELAAR! The constitutional movement against Big Business Crossrail agenda is among the first to comment on UK Liberal Democratic Party leader Nick Clegg's comments about the state of the UK Parliament... Clegg may not want to acknowledge it but his statements, as made this morning to the BBC, only, merely partially recognised the unique and the comprehensive archive of constitutional law comment about the state of the DEAD parliament that KHOODEELAAR! had made up to yesterday and in the previous 5 years and 5 months...KHOODEELAAR! evidentially and for the records welcomes Clegg's 'conversion’. Belated but still a positive move. However, before Clegg can expect to be given or can be given any genuine and lasting credibility on this, he has a long way to go. Here is KHOODEELAAR! Organiser and constitutional law analyst and commentator Muhammad Haque's first comment, [as posted already on the Times online this morning] to Clegg's statements as broadcast on the BBC and as reported so far [at time of writing and publishing THIS] by the Times:
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Item taken below from today's Daily Telegraph web site:
MPs' expenses: the great gravy train quiz - the answers
The answers to the questions on the MPs' expenses scandal.
Last Updated: 12:49AM BST 17 May 2009
1. The moles. Mr Gummer claimed more than £100 a year for mole control. Mr Hogg submitted a claim for £31 for the bees.
2. Mr Reid’s. He claimed £685.84 for two visits from Rentokil. Mr Brown’s Rentokil claim was £352. Mr Heathcoat-Amory claimed £2 for mouse poison.
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3. The RAC club, in Pall Mall.
4. Mr Darling. He switched the location of his second home four times in four years. Miss Blears claimed for three different properties in a single
year.
5. The portico, which cost £5,700 to build. Mrs Beckett claimed £711 for painting a summer house, shed and pergola.
6, Former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell.
7. Culture Secretary Andy Burnham.
8. A bath robe.
9. Vera Baird, the solicitor general. The claims were rejected.
10. £115 plus VAT.
11. Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who has claimed up to £180 every three months on his garden in South Shields.
12. John Reid.
13. Katherine, by Anya Seton.
14. Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell.
15. Two.
16. A bargain £312.
17. Accountancy.
18. Phil Woolas.
19. Ten per cent.
20. Paul Murphy, the Welsh Secretary.
21. Don’t be silly - all of them. They were claimed by Sir Michael Spicer (a & b), Oliver Letwin (c.) and Douglas Hogg (d.)
22. All of them.
23. a, b and c - including £22,500 treating dry rot at her partner’s home on the south coast. She
has a fourth property in Spain.
24. Replacing an Artex plaster ceiling.
25. Chocolate Hobnobs.
26. Each bag cost 70p, meaning that more than 550 were used.
27. A £3.69 bag of Iams Senior Chicken dry meal and two 39p cans of Cesar chicken and turkey meat.
28. Phil Hope, the Health Minister, who is returning £41,709 after fitting out his small flat over-enthusiastically.
29. Seven.
30. He has claimed the money on a Westminster flat, even though his family home is just 12 miles away, in Stanmore, West London. He also changed his designated second home in a single year to a property in his Leicester constituency,
before claiming more
than £4,000 on furnishings.