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mine 'forgot' to report £400,000 of additional income but managed to remember to claim for 49p of milk in a same period. Easy mistake to make...
My local MP is ace, a former surgeon who specialized in Breast cancer, She's a genuine good egg.
Mine sold out the country for personal gain.
Boris Johnson.
Mine is Greg Clark. One of the safest Tory seats in the Country.
Apparently he is as honest as a Tory can be. He only claims for the interest on the mortgage for his flat in London.
I secretly hope he gets found out in some coke/hookers/rent boy/bondage scandal.
Graham Jones here. "Eighth hardest working MP in the country" apparently.
Mine is Liam Fox. Make your own mind up.
I should add that that £400,000 was for 1935 hours of outside work, ~37 hours a week, 52 weeks of the year. its a wonder he has any time to be an mp at all..
ours seems pretty un-corrupt as they go. He's apparently the richest MP and worth £110m. And his private chapel is being by used by Her Royal Bottomness to get married in a couple of weeks, so he's already got influence.
To be fair, he's not bad. Stands up in parliament, asks vaguely searching questions, and campaigned to stay in the EU.
Michael Gove, he is a ****.
Craig Whittaker - on the recent naughty list for 2105 election expenses
Desmond "safeseat" Swayne
Not the most corrupt from what I can find
As a result of the expenses scandal, Swayne repaid £6,131 he claimed for a new kitchen in 2006 on his second-home flat in North Kensington, and £60.66 over claimed for a water
[url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Main ]Got caught red handed diddling her expenses[/url] and is a Brexiteer who's voted against gay equality at every turn.
Really hope we can get rid of her next month.
Mines not to bad for a Tory... seen him on his bike a number of times, but then again i've not got much choice, only the Conservatives and UKIP stood in our local election!!
Ruth Cadbury - only elected in '15, and she co-chaired the just published [url= http://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/02/police-courts-fail-cyclists-road-safety-cross-party-inquiry ]cyclist/ road safety inquiry[/url]
My local MP is Tim Loughton, who receives £1,833.33 per month for 3 hours consultancy work from National Fostering Agency (NFA)
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10371/tim_loughton/east_worthing_and_shoreham
NFA is owned by Private Equity firm [url= http://www.stirlingsquare.com/Portfolio%20Companies ]Stirling Squire[/url]
Seems a strange setup?
According to
https://corporatewatch.org/news/2015/dec/15/foster-care-business
[i]The firm appears to have made a tidy sum from its involvement with the NFA. According to accounts filed at Companies House, when Graphite bought the NFA in 2012, instead of putting all its money into shares, it made most of its investment in the form of ‘shareholder loans’. Over the years, £14.4m in interest has been racked up on these loans, which was all paid out in 2014.[/i]
So...
Donate money to Tory MP
Ensure private company gets public funds
Use private company as tax dodging investment opportunity at taxpayers expense
Repeat
So it's the usual privatising public services to Tory donor companies money merry go-round.
MP Natalie McGarry.
May or may not have been doing some creative accounting with a charity she ran.
Will not be standing in June.
We used to have Shahid Malik before we were re-zoned. I think I'm on winner for the most corrupt and slimy MP.
After re-zoning we had Jo Cox but unfortunately after her murder we ended up with Tracy Brabin. The same Tracy Brabin that used to be in Coronation Street, that was the highlight of her career as she went onto do Sainsburys and then flogging life insurance in adverts. After a failing in showbiz she is now in politics 🙄 I expect her to achieve nothing, anything she does manage will be a welcome surprise. Moving into more expensive constituency office within a designer goods shopping complex away from the town centre where Jo Cox had her office wasn't one of those surprises.
Craig Whittaker - on the recent naughty list for 2105 election expenses
+1
A complete and utter c***! Has no interest in the local area outside of how much money he and his landed mates can make, rarely promotes local issues in parliament, and is never anywhere to be seen when needed. He's so bad in fact even our local tory councillor openly slags him off on social media.
Grant Shapps aka Michael Green aka Sebastian Fox.
A fine track record under all his aliases.
Chris Failing Grayling.
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Hunting Jeremy Hunt.
Write a list of qualifying attributes and actions of a corrupt [s]politician[/s] person, and Jezzer has a lot of them ticked.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/jos-bell/admiral-jeremy-is-not-so-admirable
I know little about mine (Craig Williams) other than its quite vain it seems, our last MP just had a little office with a plaque outside, whereas Craig has quite a big one over a super market and likes large colour photos of himself on lots of things.
He's fairly spineless, he was Pro-EU in the referendum, but "consistently votes in line with the party whip".
Not sure if mine is corrupt but she 'Luciana Berger' was parachuted in from London as one of its rising stars into a safe Labour seat. She knew next to nothing about Liverpool, let alone the areas she were to be representing. It would matter not if she were corrupt or not, my issue is with the system that allows this to happen. I would expect as my MP, If not someone who was born here, at least someone who was educated here or has at least lived in the city out of choice for a decent length of time and got to know it inside out first.
MP Natalie McGarry.May or may not have been doing some creative accounting with a charity she ran.
<father ted> But the money was just resting in my account</father ted>
I'm not sure that SNP Glasgow Regional Association and Women for Independence count as charities...
My MP is a QC so should be pretty straight...
Not very.
Unless you include the moral corruption of being a Corbynite....
In my previous constituency, MP Mark Garnier got (not directly) £5000 from Offshore Group Newcastle Ltd.(Oil, gas possibly wind).
OGN has had various government incentives, grants wafted in their direction (not all were realized).
As Wyre Forest really isn't a major oil and gas producer and the wind farms of the area are notable only by their absence, it is legit but smells unpleasant.
I like our Labour MP, Julie Cooper.
Decent woman, ex teacher, husband runs a chemists, seems to get stuck in.
The Lib Dem candidate, Gordon Birtwistle was MP during the alliance years and has done an awful lot for the area.
I don't agree with him on some of his opinions or voting choices but he's extremely well thought of.
I'd be happy to see either of them elected, but I'll vote for Julie.
Allegedly ours is one of the 30 potentially to be tried for fraud, so probably right about average on the swindling stakes
Mine's an expense diddler who can't argue a debate on medical grounds, and employs his previous partner as an aide and her lover as his campaign advisor.
Voted out of EU and in for invading sandy places.
Andrew Turner on the IoW.
Despite the Libs previously doing well, they were trounced by everyone at the last election. Consequently I expect him to win. 😥
(Although we do have a very good Green candidate - one can live in hope)
Edit: Seems he's standing down, although doing so in the [url= http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/Renewed-calls-for-Andrew-Turner-apology-314982.aspx ]same style he has been an MP[/url].
Mine has been banned from entering my property as he traditionally visits before an election - he voted against EU nationals having their rights guaranteed recently which is fair enough - but if I am not welcome in his country, he is not welcome near my property. I can be as British as the next man when needed.
Also, he calls anyone who happen to disagree with him a "remoaner" on FB.
I have no idea how people of such low critical thinking ability can end up with any power at all, quite scary.
Mine is Liam Fox
Sorry to hear that.
David Crausby, local fella, toes the labour party line mostly but voted against brexit and iraq war 🙂 but against same sex marriage 🙄 only turns up for 52% of votes tho "well below average"
dunno about corruption
Not very i believe.
She was born in the area, grew up here, voted against triggering A50, and her grandad wrote "in my Liverpool home".
[url= https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_McGovern ]Alison McGovern[/url]
Also, he calls anyone who happen to disagree with him a "remoaner" on FB.
😆
Classy.
I bet he gets all the UKIP votes now the party has lost the only piece of its agenda.
Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
She likes the camera.
Probably not very - Dr Tania Matthews has only been in the job a couple of years and has done a lot of work for UNRWA.
Fairly strong chance Old Vince will get back in this time around though.
[quote=jam bo ]I should add that that £400,000 was for 1935 hours of outside work, ~37 hours a week, 52 weeks of the year. its a wonder he has any time to be an mp at all..
Well to be fair, that's part time for a lawyer, and those are the hours he billed rather than what he actually worked!
Caroline Ansell, or better known as Absent Ansell the Stealth MP. I've seen her three times on the TV since she was elected and two of those were to talk about the nutter stalking her on FB.
During the election she either blatantly lied or was hideously misinformed regarding a piece of railway that she was fighting to stop being reinstated as it would damage the Eastbourne train service. IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN, ITS GOT A HOUSING ESTATE AND INDUSTRIAL UNIT COMPLEX on some of the old track bed.
She also voted for fracking under the South Downs.
Some of her FB posts regarding the state of the local hospital and education system must be concerning a parallel universe Eastbourne as they bear no resemblance as too what's really happening.
The old lib dem MP, even though I disagreed a lot with him, was always on the telly fighting Eastbournes corner.
Shall we play "Who's Who?"
Ineffectual, Mistakenly Filled in the Wrong Address on His Expenses Form Tory MP Jessie Norman:
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Previous one was a Labour rebel.
Next was a Tory that defected to the kippers, but at least did have the decency to force a by-election. Got defeated in 2015 in favour of a local tory girl (judging by what she tweets/blogs etc. seems alright, considering).
Local Tory girl that stood against UKIP defector seems to have gone straight in supporting TM on getting out though, from what I can tell (but then so did the official opposition).
And the kipper defector somehow ended up in Welsh Assembly, who quit UKIP, and started to vote with the Tories again, but not rejoined the party afaict.
TLDR... they were elected, therefore corrupt, and expert at pulling political stunts at our expense.
Ours is John Hayes, MP for South Holland & The Deepings.....
I think he's been the elected MP there since '97 when that seat was newly formed.
Don't think there's any corruption stuff around on him, but not sure whether he's any good or not.
Apparently, the area is a massively safe tory seat.
Calum kerr, he seems a decent spud.
Donated 10%payrise to charity and doesn't like trump.
He ousted Michael moore, which can only be a good thing but it was close with John lamont last time.
Ed Vaizey. Minor expenses fiddling and Cameron chum.
£50k a year for 1 day a week with an investment bank which specialises in media and tech mergers & acquisitions. At least he had the good grace to wait until May moved him on from his junior minister role in culture, communications & creative industries. Number of meetings with them while still in position though.
Happy to turn up for a photo opportunity, but otherwise does little that I can see.
Mines a safeseated tory called andrew jones (neither even worthy of capital letters)
I wrote to him a while ago asking how he'd vote regarding fox hunting, if it came to it. In typical politicians style he swerved the question all together, so I still don't know.
Don't know how corrupt he is though.
Mid Devon - Mel Stride.
Seems relatively clean, other than claiming £3223 for heating (Honiton MP claimed £151 in the same year).
HOWEVER
Holy shit he doesn't half vote like a moron. Every vote was the opposite to how I would expect a normal person to vote. Gay rights? No no no. Lower tax on the poor? Nope. Mansion tax? Are you silly?
I will not be voting for him. Ridiculous.
Check www.theyworkforyou.com to check yours.
Do you mean corrupt as in proven to have broken the law or just does something you don't like. The latter is what I suspect most of the above is about.
Most are in one way. They always back the party before the constituency. The labour ones tend to be the worst at that as the principles tend to be inherently dishonest. Is let's be fair to all by treating some people differently to others Fiat?. Equally our Tory mp was dishonest when he became a minister for a bit. The time spent doing that was time not spent listening to his constituents. He didn't ask us first.
Overall though methinks the OP is ****stiring a little 😆
Gisella Stuart - I don't particularly think her corrupt, but voting for war in Iraq/against an investigation into the Iraq war/being a leading Brexit campaigner rather puts her off me. In all fairness, she's always replied when I've emailed.
The labour ones tend to be the worst at that as the principles tend to be inherently dishonest.
Please, go on?
Genuine question.
Is let's be fair to all by treating some people differently to others Fiat?
Yes, it's Fiat.
We treat people differently depending on their circumstances.
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Mine (Paul Flynn) has been in the seat since before I was born... 1987.
He seems alright, consistently voted against the iraq war when the the majority of labour backed it and has also voted against trident more recently.
He will certainly have my vote again.
Mines Liz Truss... Need I say any more?
he got paid twenty pounds every three minutes.
Not bad work if you can get it 🙄 , £20 would take me 3 hours at minimum wage (or thereabouts) to earn, which funnily enough is about the limit of my working day give or take an hr before my legs go into spasm, stop moving and supporting my body weight so it's then home time.
[url= https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/25351/richard_arkless/dumfries_and_galloway ]Richard Arkless SNP [/url] is my MP, he's good - I like his voting record and he's helped out a few people i know and then followed up with personal visits to see how they were getting on.
Hope he gets back in, [url= http://www.dng24.co.uk/farmer-selected-as-tory-candidate/ ]our tory candidate for the coming election is Alister Jack[/url] - surprise...... surprise he's a farmer - i know of him and his views - needless to say he's a dick.
Probably not very - Dr Tania Matthews has only been in the job a couple of years and has done a lot of work for UNRWA.Fairly strong chance Old Vince will get back in this time around though.
(Howdy neighbour!)
Maybe not corrupt, but certainly spineless. Campaigned against Brexit and the constituency had one of the largest remain votes in England, yet still voted for triggering Article 50 in the Commons. Party before people, always.
Not exactly a safe Tory seat, despite the demographics,so hopefully it comes back to haunt her this time around. Vince was alarmingly quick to get the campaign going!
Not at all, mine is a decent bloke it seems. Also he seems pretty astute. They aren't all complete wronguns.
Pretty depressing reading, this thread
Whilst I realise this thread is 'self selecting' so many of them just appear to be 'on the make'
As you may have guessed, I'm pretty disillusioned with the lot of them.
Mine is David Lidington (Leader of the House). Seems a pretty standard tory; Cambridge educated, given a CBE by Cameron when he left.
Standard expenses scandal - claimed £1300 for dry cleaning, also for shower gel and toothpaste. Apparently quoted as saying 'many people would see this as over generous'. Personally I'd see it more like p*ss taking theft. Claimed £116K in expenses one year (no idea if he's aware this is 4.5x the average UK salary).
No doubt not the worst but he doesn't represent me
Only good thing I can say about him is he kept UKIP out.
No idea who I'll vote for in a few weeks. I can't vote for a tory, especially not him ^^^. Obviously not UKIP. My natural (slightly left of centre ground) currently doesn't exist; I can't vote for Corbyn. Which leaves the Lib Dems and Green parties ❓
Mine is Karen Lumley, the biggest oxygen thief ever to walk the earth, has done nothing for her constituency other than get her mugshot in the paper at every opportunity, thankfully she is not standing this time due to ill health, something she will probably blame on the local hospital she has gradually dismantled during her tenure.
Neighbouring three constituencies have mp's who have been (Plymouth moor view) or still are implicated in the election expenses stuff, as is our own PCC Alison Hernandez 😯
MP for my own constituency is not corrupt in any financial sense at all. Voting record often suggestive of putting Jesus over constituents (far more 'outspoken' Christian than Farron and is on record a few times speaking about having his gammy arm healed in church a few years ago). He doesn't need to play fast and loose with expenses or have the battlebus visit -in fact compared to shuttling back and forth to London, he is having a nice rest till June, as if he did bother with much campaigning he could do it naked and lay a turd on each doorstep and still get in as long as he had a blue tie on.
Iain Stewart, doesnt seem too bad for a Tory!
Was pro brexit- Appears to be a complete intelligence vacuum- recently produced a leaflet to say as part of a brexit committee after a whole 9 moths hed (paid a contractor to) made a website about exporting stuff
He'll probably win as MK has an ageing and increasingly senile population
Patrick Grady. He's a good egg, and looks a bit like an egg too, so all good.
Come on who's got Vaz? That's the winner right there!
No idea where Fiat came from.
I meant that leftist policies usually mean sharing things out which isn't naturally fair.
Fair means we treat all the same, not give some more than others. Needs do not go with fairness.
I am aware that we need a touch of common sense here, bodies in the streets are not a good idea. I also note that those who shout loudest about sharing are those without as much and they are not that keen to start the ball rolling by sharing their own goods etc.
I see the church in the same way. Give us money they say whilst living in Ivory towers. Not just moaning at socialists.
I also see that its mainly the socialists that are so unpleasant when having a go at the opposition. lots of slagging of "fat cats" with rude words yet you rarely see the abuse flow the other way. Extreme versions of everything aside of course.
Don't get me wrong, I am not some raving money grabber, I am for example a believer in nationalising many things but do not like the nasty assumption that everything left is good and right is bad. This forum puzzles me at times as its so modern and self indulgent in many ways yet so socialist in others. they are so opposite.
Aggh I have broken my own rule of going off topic. Sorry.
Socialists rarely practice what they preach in my experience.
Craigxxl - I had to google who Tracy Brabin is, which suggests you are probably doing her acting and writing career a little dis-service although I only vaguely recognise her. BUT which career paths are acceptable to become MPs then?
I meant that leftist policies usually mean sharing things out which isn't naturally fair.
I think it is.
Fair means we treat all the same, not give some more than others. Needs do not go with fairness.
Hmm.
If people need more, we ensure they get it.
We help those less fortunate than ourselves, because that is the right thing to do, the human, decent thing to do.
So, if someone is disabled, they may need help to access the services we've all contributed to, to keep as well as possible, to receive the education they want, to enable them to contribute as much to our society as they can.
It seem perfectly reasonable that some people need more of certain things than others, in order that they can function in society.
I also note that those who shout loudest about sharing are those without as much and they are not that keen to start the ball rolling by sharing their own goods etc.
Well, I'm on minimum wage.
I've worked all my life and never claimed a penny of benefit.
I've earned a higher wage in the past yet always voted for higher taxation.
I'd be happy to contribute a bit more via tax, even though I'm struggling a bit at the mo.
I know a lot of people of all political tastes who volunteer round here.
The socialists seem to pick up as much litter as the Tories.
I honestly don't recognise this stereotype.
do not like the nasty assumption that everything left is good and right is bad.
Honestly, neither do I.
It's ignorant and counterproductive.
My MP has the safest Tory seat by majority or the second safest seat by percentage. Either way he will be elected regardless of whatever he does. The fact that he grew up the area, is very active, gets on well, etc just seals it. I may not like his voting record, but nothing I can do. In fact I suspect he will do better this year because UKIP vote will go blue.
Which leaves the Lib Dems and Green parties
Serious question - which is the better party tactically?
Here on the IoW the tories have been in since 2001, but it's traditionally been tit-for-tat with the Libs. Unfortunately they were utterly trounced at the last election and lost 25% of their votes from the previous election, but we now have a very good Green candidate. This site suggests Libs or Greens too - despite traditionally being a Lib voter, at this moment I'm erring Green.
those who shout loudest about sharing are those without as much and they are not that keen to start the ball rolling by sharing their own goods etc.
Nonsense imo.
Whenever someone with money says we should share more they get labeled a champagne socialist, and vilified in the right wing press
e.g.
http://www.****/news/article-3045303/We-luvvie-rude-Tories-Richard-Wilson-Martin-Freeman-Champagne-Socialists-support-Labour.html
http://www.****/news/article-2823470/Russell-Brand-hobnobs-celebrities-freebie-theatre-joining-protestors.html
http://www.****/news/article-2844806/Champagne-socialist-s-property-empire-Emily-Thornberry-lives-lives-wildest-dreams-working-class-voters-purports-represent.html
Seems like most (if not all) of the complaints on this thread are with regard to arsehole MP's in England.......... Just saying like (runs back across the border) 😉
*waves to flashinthepan*
We're in the same constituency and have the same problem.
Hilary Benn.
I like him; generally gets it right IMO based on his voting record - yes, I know how he voted on Iraq; he stands for what was good about labour.
Claimed £116K in expenses one year (no idea if he's aware this is 4.5x the average UK salary).
The amount and multiple of average salary is irrelevant. It may be robbery or completely legitimate. It's a poor argument to just tell about the amount with no details.
The amount and multiple of average salary is irrelevant. It may be robbery or completely legitimate. It's a poor argument to just tell about the amount with no details.
How is it irrelevant?
Mine claimed £22k last year, just for accommodation, office and staff costs. No "miscellaneous" claims for duck houses or whatever?.
So even if "legitimate" it would still be a piss take for someone else to claim 5x as much for doing the same job... Presumably their accommodation is much less modest etc
Mine's SNP, and like all SNP MPs has been thoroughly scrutinised by a very hostile media.
So not corrupt.
My MP is John Woodcock. He seems to be about the only politician who is not corrupt in our area. All the rest, from Parish to District to County to National Park are either corrupt or are knowingly covering up corruption.
To avoid the local election fiasco how do we find out who are the prospective mp's ?
Mine is Liz McInnes, who seems honest.
200m to the east, however, is the land of Danzcuk.
Our MP is Nigel Evans who supported Brexit. The day after the disaster we spotted him in Booths in Clitheroe where three constituents had cornered him by the fruit and veg and were absolutely berating him. His face was red, he was stammering and looking as if he wished he wasn't there.
How is it irrelevant?
Because they could be justified. I don't know. The fact that another MP needed much less is only relavent if they do the exact same job including travel. Note I am not saying that the expenses are right or wrong but that a number without details is useless. Expensesess miss use is a ligitimate concern but it is important to raise arguments in robust manor. Screaming that's a lot of money without details is not a good argument.
[quote=globalti said]Our MP is Nigel Evans who supported Brexit. The day after the disaster we spotted him in Booths in Clitheroe where three constituents had cornered him by the fruit and veg and were absolutely berating him. His face was red, he was stammering and looking as if he wished he wasn't there.
Clitheroe is in the Ribble Valley constituency isn't it ?
Which voted "leave", he should be congratulated for representing the majority of his voting constituents 🙂
Which voted "leave", he should be congratulated for representing the majority of his voting constituents
Aye. Unlike our dear PM who's constituents voted to Remain.