MPs' expenses

Alan Duncan claimed thousands for gardening: MPs' expenses
Alan Duncan, the senior Conservative MP who oversees the party’s policy on MPs’ expenses, claimed thousands of pounds for his garden – but stopped after agreeing with the fees office that his expenditure “could be considered excessive”.

By Holly Watt8:17PM BST 10 May 2009
Mr Duncan’s gardening claims raise serious questions about whether expenses by some MPs can be justified as entirely necessary for their parliamentary work. In a three-year period, he recouped more than £4,000. He has not been asked to repay the money despite later concerns over the garden claims.
The bill for £3,194 for gardening in March 2007 was not paid by the fees office, which wrote to Mr Duncan suggesting that the claim might not be “within the spirit” of the rules.
However, by then the multi-millionaire MP for Rutland and Melton had claimed £4,000 of gardening costs that were approved. In a letter to the MP, the office said that it expected gardening costs “to cover only basic essentials such as grass cutting”. Mr Duncan submitted receipts showing that his gardener was being paid £6 an hour for up to 16 hours a week in grounds of less than an acre.
In March 2007, Mr Duncan claimed £598 to overhaul a ride-on lawn-mower and then a further £41 to fix a puncture a month later.


Mr Duncan also claimed £1,400 a month for his mortgage interest on his home in Rutland. He bought the large detached house without taking out a mortgage on the property itself in January 1992, shortly before he was elected to parliament.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5304976/Alan-Duncan-claimed-thousands-for-gardening-MPs-expenses.html

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Dozens of MPs rent out their London homes - while claiming more than £1.3million in expenses from taxpayers for hotel rooms
46 MPs used expenses loophole, which is not against parliamentary rules
Allowed to claim £20,600 a year in London rent and £150 a night for hotels
Mortgage claim ban forced them to let out second homes, MPs said
By JOHN STEVENS POLITICAL REPORTER FOR THE DAILY MAIL

Dozens of MPs are claiming taxpayer-funded expenses to rent homes or stay in hotel rooms in London while letting out property they own nearby, it emerged last night.
The 46 MPs have claimed more than £1.3million for rent or hotel rooms at the same time as receiving rent from properties that were often purchased and refurbished from taxpayers’ money.
An investigation by Channel 4 News found 25 Conservatives, 14 Labour and four Liberal Democrats had benefited from the expenses loophole, which is not against parliamentary rules.
Many of the MPs bought their London properties with the help of the taxpayer under the previous expenses system that allowed claims for mortgage payments.
46 MPs - including Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy (above) - have claimed more than £1.3million for rent or hotel rooms at the same time as receiving rent from properties +5
Andrew Lansley, the former Tory health secretary, has claimed more than £7,440 since 2013 to stay in London hotels, despite owning a flat with his wife in upmarket Pimlico +5
46 MPs - including Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy (left) and former Conservative health secretary Andrew Lansley (right) - have claimed more than £1.3million for rent or hotel rooms at the same time as receiving rent from properties
But since the claims were banned by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) following the expenses scandal, the MPs have switched to renting out the properties they own and instead claimed expenses for rent and hotels.
Under the current system, MPs are allowed to claim £20,600 a year in London rent and £150 a night for hotels.
Labour’s shadow culture minister Chris Bryant has claimed £35,350 in the past two years to rent a property in London despite already owning a penthouse.


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Cameron must resign: He put £2 million in an offshore account not the £30,000
April 14, 2016

David Cameron

British Prime Minister David Cameron is in the limelight because of accusations of money laundering. According to reports, he put 2 million pounds in an offshore account.

British Prime Minister David Cameron tried to fend off criticism of an offshore trust maintained in the Bahamas by his father Ian Cameron and which he inherited upon his father’s death in 2010. The details of the trust were contained in the massive tranche of documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which were leaked to the media by the dubious International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), an operation funded by George Soros, the CIA-connected U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Ford Foundation.

In defending his connection to the tax-avoidance trust, Blairmore Holdings Inc., for which his father was a director, Cameron said, “We owned 5,000 units in Blairmore Investment Trust, which we sold in January 2010. That was worth something like 30,000 pounds.” By “we,” Cameron was referring to himself and wife Samantha, who jointly held the Bahamas trust. In related news, WMR has learned that the financial scandal involving both Blairmore Holdings, Inc. and the JR Central £2 million pay-off to Cameron has resulted in significant marital problems between David and Samantha Cameron and that a divorce is imminent.


However, according to senior British Conservative Party sources who spoke on background to WMR, Cameron had at least £2 million in offshore accounts. The money was paid to Cameron, according to the sources, as part of a deal by JR Central, a subsidiary of Japan Railways, to secure a lucrative contract to lay new rails for HS2, the new high-speed British rail system. When completed, the rail system was designed to be faster than the French TGV high-speed railway.

In order to ensure that JR Central received the contract for laying the rails for HS2, the firm spread the largesse of its bribes across the British political spectrum in 2015. In addition to Cameron’s £2 million; £1 million to Sir Jeremy Heywood, Britain’s Cabinet Secretary and senior civil servant; £1 million to Nick Clegg, the former leader of the Liberal Democratic Party and Cameron’s deputy prime minister in the ill-fated Tory-Lib Dem coalition that survived until 2015; and £1 million to Ed Miliband, the former leader of the Labor Party.

In addition to the individual pay-offs, WMR has been informed that JR Central arranged what were described as “bungs,” English slang for “bribes,” to the major political parties. The Conservative Party received £25 million, Labor £10 million, and the Liberal Democrats £10 million.


The entire £50 million bribery package was paid through Nomura Bank in Tokyo. However, British intelligence sources told WMR that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency detected the movement of the money. Based on a tip-off by CIA officers in London, Tory political leaders, who are in favor of a British exit from the European Union, discovered the Japanese money in Conservative Party accounts. These anti-EU Conservative politicians also discovered that Cameron arranged for the JR Central pay-off when, after his Liberal Democratic and pro-EU coalition partners were decimated in the 2015 election, Cameron was forced to commit to a referendum to approve continued EU membership for the United Kingdom. Before the election, Cameron and Heywood secretly agreed that there would be no referendum on continued EU membership for Britain.

The multi-billion pound railway contract for JR Central was contingent on Britain remaining inside the European Union. Cameron and the Japanese had every reason to keep Britain inside the EU and promote the “yes to Europe” vote in the referendum.

Cameron is facing calls for his resignation as a result of the £30,000 offshore trust in the Bahamas. The real scandal, WMR is told by authoritative sources inside the Conservative Party and MI-6 is that Cameron has siphoned into offshore accounts more than £2 million.

(Waynemadsenreport.com)


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This is big

Cameron must resign: He put £2 million in an offshore account not the £30,000
April 14, 2016

David Cameron

British Prime Minister David Cameron is in the limelight because of accusations of money laundering. According to reports, he put 2 million pounds in an offshore account.

That is big, but is it true & will it go "main stream" ???

On the balance of probabilities I will hedge a bet that it is true, the site it's on doesn't seem fake, & Wayne Madsen seems legit if "out there" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Madsen