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But he blagged £40K to pay his "partner" for "renting" a room

does that make him a rent boy?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10191524.stm

The gay part is a convienient cover up for his crooked behaviour.

When was the last time anyone was shocked when an MP, or anyone else for that matter, came out as gay? 1976? 1980?

Just another theiving scumbag who pocketed £40k of our money.

He should resign in shame, or go to prison, preferably both.

seems his successor has previous as well

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... house.html

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My heart is heavy, but my consience clear,
I voted Yes, without any fear.

Hard to disagree. The evidence would suggest that the same people who scream about people abusing state benefits, are often "stealing" many, many times more themselves, but using parliamentary privelege to escape justice. It's a disgrace.

It just couldn't get any better could it? How long have they been in power??

well what did you expect the main reason for most politicians wanting to become an MP is money nothing will chamge except that they will get caught with fingers in the till more often

a local woman failed to declare she was living with a new partner and blagged £30K in housing benefits, she just avoided a custodial sentence...

1 rule for them?...........

What I find difficult to fathom is how on earth did this one get past the recent inquiry into MPs expenses. Presumably it was looked at when all 650 MPs expenses claims were scrutinised in that very expensive review.

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This might be why..............

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... f-MPs.html

Article includes the information that............



kinda sad that a newspaper had to find it out, rather than the parliamentary commission given the task of doing so.

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My heart is heavy, but my consience clear,
I voted Yes, without any fear.

This guy sucks, he's bent in every sense of the word and yet he pontificates to the rest of us about openess and transparity involving government expenses and on the needs to reign in MPs fiddling....£40,000 quid he's paid his boyfriend in rent whilst living with him!!!

Now the Slime Ball plays his trump card that He's Gay and is being victimised because of it!!, Well i hope he and his little Fiddling friend gets jailed for his cheating and usage of public money...and once he's in jail that he gets some renovation and extension work carried out for free on his back passage courtesy of the other publicly funded HM prisoners...yes...a real Home Improvement that would be... and better still paid for by the public purse.

hed be OK locked up, picking the soap up in the showers...............

I think he is ok.

Agreed he shouldn't have taken the money, but he wanted desperately to avoid his parents discovering his sexuality, and that's something I know nothing about.

Thus as he has paid the money back, I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Everyone makes mistakes.

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of course if he hadn't wanted to keep his sexuality a secret he would have been able to claim hundreds of thousands of pounds to pay the mortgage on a second home he and partner could have lived in.

That way he would have made ten times the amount of money (and cost us more) than he did by not declaring his personal situation when the rules changed in 2006. Before that he was completely correct.

I resent the way the Torygraph is carrying out this witch hunt. They had this information 12 months agobut keptit up their sleeve to maximise impact. If they really cared about 'bent MP's' they would have put this guy's information in the public domain a year ago.

But the right wing of the tory party had to keep its ammunition dry until this very able politician was dangerously showing them a coalition could work.

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and im the next pope

paying back what youve STOLEN does NOT mean you didnt steal it in the first place

You must be going soft in your old age sussex.

A very well respected and very highly educated economist should be able to understand what are clearly defined rules.

Whilst it is dangerous to take what the newspapers say for granted, as they are usually full of biased B/S, it is claimed that he actually lived with his partner in these "rented" homes for much of the time concerned. That's vastly different than just bending the rules and "quietly" renting a house from him in a different area.

After all, if someone living on a modest estate in any of our towns and cities was doing the same and receiving, say, council tax benefit whilst a partner stayed over "too many times" a week than the benefits agency thought ideal...well, they'd end up in court and possibly prison.

Also, whilst some would say it is not relevant that both he and his partner are millionaires, others might say that this shows just how bloody greedy they are!




There's no witch hunt...I think that the public has pretty much worked out that they are all as bad as each other. Also, at £700-£950pm rental, going directly to his partner, he has hardly saved us any money!

As regards our new parliament, a cynic might say..."Same old, same old..."