tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421913838337434.post3959582328446765596..comments2023-11-05T07:37:16.624+00:00Comments on The Drayton Bird Blog: What the hell is going on?Drayton Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06871107998046212949noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421913838337434.post-38945195632289568092009-02-10T14:42:00.000+00:002009-02-10T14:42:00.000+00:00From Jacqui Snout in Trough’s own website (www.jac...From Jacqui Snout in Trough’s own website (www.jacquismithmp.labour.co.uk/biography):<BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/>Piano wire sales are set to leap as the people get ready for the Downing Street lynching that must surely be soon. Well, at least that should help our desperate steel industry.<BR/><BR/>The rage is pumping through the electorate’s veins regarding the expense fiddles by politicians, particularly fiddles on the monstrous scale practiced by this unqualified ex sixth form lecturer. The Michael Trend precedent is not encouraging for this piglet, nor is the precedent established by Mr & Mrs Balls.<BR/><BR/>You may wonder why especially as Ed and Yvette Piggy got away with their fiddle. They huffed and puffed and argued that their constituency home was their main residence. They claimed that they spent more time at the constituency home and therefore that was their primary residence, allowing them to claim TAX FREE expenses for their more expensive London home. That argument was accepted by the authorities. <BR/><BR/>Jacqui Snout in Trough wants us to accept the opposite. She snorts that her main home is her sister's London hovelet where she lodges, so she can claim for her expensive constituency home. She will have to show that she spends more time at the London flat than seeing her own kids. The Balls' argued successfully that in the recess and school holidays they spent the majority of their time away from London. Do you really believe that Jacqui piglet would stay in London when parliament is in recess and remain away from her family?<BR/><BR/>That recent Balls precedent is going to be a tricky one to get around. However the Michael Trend precedent is even more worrying for this crook. In 2003 the Tory MP was found guilty of abusing the allowances system and ordered to repay £90,277, he was also suspended from parliament and stood down in disgrace at the following election. His crime was to claim the same allowance as the appropriately named ‘Home’ Secretary has when he was staying with a friend in London. Trend claimed he "believed that I could properly continue to designate London as 'home' for the purposes of ACA, even though, in domestic terms, Windsor had become my "main residence"." It was not accepted. There was no doubt in the Standard's Committee's minds that there was no "real scope for doubt that the words "main residence" was intended to have other than their natural meaning."<BR/><BR/>The Committee ruled that "Mr Trend should have recognised that, by claiming Additional Costs Allowance in relation to his Windsor home, the taxpayer was meeting some of the core running costs of what was in reality his main residence. He should have realised that this was wrong. Accordingly, we agree with the Commissioner that Mr Trend was negligent and has breached the Code of Conduct by making improper use of the Additional Costs Allowance and by failing strictly to observe the administrative rules relating to the Allowance."<BR/><BR/>It is hard to see how, in these parallel circumstances, Browns lick spittle should not suffer the same fate. This snout in trough red should also be prosecuted for fraud and ordered to repay the fiddled £116,000 and suspended from parliament. This might be the only way to get her to resign as Home Secretary. Alternatively, shoot the bitch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com