Derek Conway Should Repay the £40,000
Tory MP Derek Conway has got caught out and he is being given a slap on the wrist and told not to do it again. He paid some £40,000 over four years to his son to finance his way through university out of your taxes. There is not a scrap of evidence, apart from Conway's say-so, that his son did any work in return. Nobody outside the Conway family is willing to back up the claim that the son did any work.The Select Committee on Standards and Privileges is recommending Conway pay back some £13,000 that it reckons was over-paid. Reading between the lines they suspect, but have been unable to prove, that no work was done whatsoever. Can you think of another profession where if £40,000 was paid to a family member for nothing in return the police would not be called in?
UPDATE : Duncan Borrowman, LibDem candidate for Conway's seat has written to the police demanding an investigation.
125 comments:
Let's hope that his Association have the balls to deselect him for this - but let's not hold our breaths, 'cos we'll be waiting a long, long time.
If the Tories have any wit they'll throw the idiot out of the party - showing clearly that they, at least, have a sense of right and wrong.
This is one case where you may get some help from the worse than useless MSM, Guido. Thieving fucker, should be strung up HMRC-wise alongside any other rule-bending pol who gets caught regardless of party.
If Call me Dave had an ounce of nous he'd take the initiative and throw the cunt to the wolves himself. Not holding my breath though.
Come on out you trolls, Guido's got something for you at last.
It's another one of parliament's secrets that this goes on the whole time. I reckon a good 15 - 30% are at it.
That's why it's righ tthat Govt. are looking at reviewing this system again, and not before time.
DC should try and put some distance between himself and the dithering bottler by taking a strong stance on this
Nice to see Conway pere teaching his son the value of work/earnings whilst at Uni.
Notice the evidence is flimsy and at best non-existant.
If this is the best that NuLab can find in the opposition, against their mendacity and thieving and peculation, which is well evidenced, then they are toast.
Deselect. But birds of a feather etc which is why no party leader ever takes tough action.
Conway you are a bloody disgrace.
Twat.
Cameron should sack the thieving piece of shit today. No ifs, no buts, he is corrupt get rid of the tosser and make him pay it back in full.
If he's guilty, then he should be booted out pdq.
NuLab are gagging to be able to say "See! Everybody's the same!".
Come on Cameron. Action this day.
Come on 'Dave' - an opportunity here...
very bad. Still at least he was paying his 'intern/research assistant' and not breaking the national minimum wage legislation like so so so many other MPs...
Neopotism is only kin deep.
However, how many spouses/offspring are working as researchers/secretaries for MPs?
Perhaps it should be the next list for Ian Dale to compile.
I'm reliably informed of another laughable MP expenses dodge.
Try reconciling the expenses paid to MPs to drive to their consituencies for the weekend with their receipts for meals and other sundries.
Apparently a lot of MPs (mostly of the northern labour type) have identical twins. One part of the MP duo is up north and claiming his/her milage to get there, the other twin is claiming expenses in London at the same time.
Apparently one female northern MP claimed milage when she was on a fact finding mission (i.e. the beach) in Kenya. Again it must have been her twin sister
When will these corrupt, mendacious, perverted, thieving, lying swine that compose our 'Parliament', at our expense of course, realise that we now know them for what they are?
The games' up boys and girls we're on to you!!! BASTARDS!!!
BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID!!
Hello, GCHQ have you got this one? Fuck U 2!
GF wrote - "Can you think of another profession where if £40,000 was paid to a family member for nothing in return ...?" Well, yes actually. Many entrepreneurial types employ their offspring in non-jobs. And why not?
Trouble is this clown seems to have been claiming his lad as an expense and recovering the cost from the public purse. If so, Cameron must sack him, now.
Isn't this just common fraud?
100% sure DC won't get heavy with Conway though.. How many other MP's do the same thing?
Cameron should sack him today.
He should be told to pay back the whole £40K
The conservatives will not gain the moral high ground if they do not get rid of this cheat.
Don't know about snouts in the trough any more it seems like its now head,shoulders and most of the upper torso in the fucking thing
This should be dealt with as follows:
1. Clear guidance set out as to what MPs may or may not claim
2. Supporting evidence to be of the same standard as the average taxpayer - fully receipted meals and log books supporting mileage
3. Independent audits of said expenses on a rotational basis with the aim of covering all 630 odd MPs in the course of a parliament.
4 People working for MPs for which they wish to claim an allowance should have the positions advertised and interviewed in the same way as other Civil Service Jobs (Guardian for Labour, Telegraph for Tories and Indy for Lib Dems). As per normal jobs hiring close relatives or anyone patently not qualified for said work wil lgive rise to the assumption that expenses aren't claimable
Anyone found fiddling the system personally liable for additional tax with penalties as for the normal taxpayer or in the case of employee nepotism appearance before an Employment Tribunal
I'd even contribute public money to help the MPs comply so they have no excuses
I am totally sick of these jokers taking the piss
Surely the police should be called in to investigate this possible illegal use of state monies?
Tory HQ should sack him.
Also if GCHQ are monitoring this site surely then yet another investigation by the police should be called into the use of state funds to pay civil servants to do monitoring and reporting for political purposes of the government.
let's see what david is made of eh?
or to put it more bluntly, is he, like the new labour party, full of shit.
it is imperative that the conservatives get their house in order prior to attaining power.
the country simply cannot afford the price mr.cameron will incur if he merely apes the mistakes of our present corrupt incumbents.
Penfold said...
"Notice the evidence is flimsy and at best non-existant."
There is no evidence that the son actually did any work for the £40,000 he was paid.
A slap is not enough CHOP OFF his wrist and his accountant's.
It's a no-brainer. Cameron must sack him, now -- and promise the same treatment to any other Tory caught for this dodge. If you're going to be clean, be clean. Otherwise, shut the fuck up.
brilliant, the dam has bust
Cameron should sack him.
Where anonymous 2:13 says:
"It's another one of parliament's secrets that this goes on the whole time. I reckon a good 15 - 30% are at it."
Not exactly - many do employ family members but most do get their kid / wifey / etc to at least turn up to the constituency or Westminster office on a regular basis.
They may be hired through nepotism and they may be crap at their job but they aren't usually as disgracefully and blatantly dishonest as this.
Sack him now.
Did the son declare his £40 000 income to the Inland Revenue?
Pro EU Tory Nomenklatura.
Pro EU Labour Nomenklatura.
Pro EU LibDum Nomenklatura.
There is no difference.
They are all corrupt.
Bring on the revolution.
Long live the British Rebel Alliance.
Another act of fraud/theft committed by one of our honourable members of parliament. Why are we surprised anymore?
The trough of despond
Jobs for boys?
Must be deselected
and the poor benighted son of such piss poor parentage should, unless cast iron proof of having worked the necessary hours (at what rate per hour, I wonder), be prosecuted for being in receipt of stolen goods.
Surely, in any other walk of life, this episode would properly be called fraud and police investigation would follow.
Take him down Guido. You must have a taste for it. You've had your first ministerial resignation. Time to cause your first Parliamentary resignation.
give them 10 year prison sentences and it would sort this shit out in an afternoon, give them public funding and they will take that AND the bungs!
Cameron must withdraw the whip from him before the sun goes down today.
No ifs, nor buts, whip withdrawn, and refer him to the Met immediately.
Whilst it is regrettable this has occurred, it does give DC a chance to show he is tough on crime.
Just another cunt in the village of cunts. It does not matter what fools placed him as their representative. The only question is whether the fools will now sack the cunt.
Withdraw the whip Cameron - you do not need dead weight lioke the thief Conway.
De-select the lying shit Old Bexley & Sidcup and get someone decent. It might be helpful if the new candidate was honest.
"Can you think of another profession where if £40,000 was paid to a family member for nothing in return the police would not be called in?"
The House of Windsor springs to mind...
thick as thieves said...
let's see what david is made of eh?
or to put it more bluntly, is he, like the new labour party, full of shit.
- He`s full of shit, you will barely get a wimper out of him.
Dave does not do brave, but he does like photo ops in the snow!
I'm pretty sure that DC was whip at one time? I think he stood for a different constiuency in those days.
And the people looked to the sky and pleaded to the Lord,
'please Lord, save us from these self serving vile hypocrites who live off the back of our hard labour.
save us from those who chastise us, yet make false claims upon their own expense allowances.
and not only that dear Lord, please free us from the labour bloggers who visit us and lie to us about the true nature of their wicked and perverse governance.'
and the Lord replied,
'try and keep your prayers a bit shorter if you can. But on your last point, do not worry my children. these evil nulab bloggers you speak of, they are on flexi time. and though they did not begin work until 10am they are such skivers that they will be leaving some time before 4pm. and then you will be left in peace, free from their molestations.'
and the people said
'thank fuck for that!' Amen.
I believe Conway was one of the self-important little sh1ts that was so keen to jump queues in the commons restaurants etc last year. He should be sacked immediately and handed over to the rozzers. No wonder the scum are so loathed - all the parties are bent.
Whose got me knickers? said...
It's a no-brainer. Cameron must sack him, now -- and promise the same treatment to any other Tory caught for this dodge. If you're going to be clean, be clean. Otherwise, shut the fuck up.
- parliment would be cleared overnight! im all for it!
Trouble is, Cameron can't sack him. MPs are not the employees of a particular party, they are answerable to the electorate of their consituency, who only get the chance every four years or so to kick them out.
What Cameron can, and I think should, do is withdraw the Conservative whip from him.
magnet said...
"Independent audits of said expenses on a rotational basis"
No, on a random basis. Much more likely to catch them at it.
Cameron should sack the thieving scumbag now and put clear distance between himself and that odious, hypocrite Brown and his band of sleazebags.
Not to condone Conway's actions for a moment, we're going to see a lot more of this as the legacy of Blair's totally fucking stupid target of getting 50% of kids into university starts to bite.
They'll all be off to the University of Liverpool Drugside to get their degree in Tattoo and Body Piercing Arts, leaving Ma and Pa (those who actually have an identifiable Pa) with bills they can't afford.
Watch to see if Labour big this one up as an attack on the sleazy Tories.
A drink says they don't.
They are all at it up to their necks. Labour, Tory, Lib Dem, SNP all corrupt, all b*stards.
The sad truth is that they don't think £61,000 enough. So it's added to with allowances and expenses more fitting to their exalted status
Most MPs are taking home in the region of 150-200K in income. Look at the expenses claimed and publised. You'll see the same number over and over against MPs - the maximum allowance in certain categories.
Cant Dave remove Conway from the approved candidate list, effectively deselecting him and forcing him to resign. I recall Howard did that to some cunt who pissed him off before the last election.
Mind you, as has been mentioned, if all MPs paying their relatives to do fuck all were kicked out the commons would be nearly empty. Sounds like a great idea.
Sounds as though guilt has now been admitted for the improper use of funds.
"Sacked on the same day" would set Cameron apart from McBean by a country mile.
A return to morality, a true "no-brainer", and an opportunity not to be missed.
Get on with it Dave!
"Cameron should sack him today" etc.
Sack him from what? Does he hold any front-bench post?
Do you mean "deselect him as a candidate at the next election"? Strictly speaking a matter for Old Bexley and Sidcup Cons Association.
"a slap on the wrist": actually, suspension from the Commons for 10 sitting days without pay is at the high end of slaps.
I'm sure there's a Kinnock or two that fit that description.
Meantime, look forward to the next Kevin Maguire expose on the Labour party.
To: Queen Elizabeth II
From: All true UK citizens, your Armed Forces and Police Service.
Subject: Help.
Your Majesty please help the indigenous people of your nation. We are governed by thieves, despots and corrupt peasants.
We are desperate - please help!!
We beg you rid us of this plague.
Send your opinions to conwayd@parliament.uk
This is a quite appalling incident, far worse than anything Hain did. It's genuine corruption. If he doesn't have the whip withdrawn then no-one will believe the Tories again. I can't believe he has been treated so generously by the committee.
Let's get this in proportion. This is expenses fraud - naughty but not a breach of Electoral Law. Meanwhile, over on the South Bank something really nasty is stirring - Livingslime again
http://www.mayor-of-london.co.uk/blog/
Mayor's Office appears to threaten a whistleblower with an illegal tax payer funded GLA political "investigation" of her past life
The Mayor of London's Office and Press Office appear to have been infiltrated by Personality Cultists, who are bringing the system into disrepute, with their abuse of public resources to conduct personal attacks and to make threats against their political opponents.
The Evening Standard report last Friday, contains an extraordinary threat:
Whistle-blower to sue Mayor over 'bullying' claims
Andrew Gilligan, Evening Standard
25.01.08
The whistleblower who exposed a key part of the City Hall scandal is to sue Ken Livingstone for libel, the Evening Standard can reveal.
The move comes after the Mayor claimed on BBC radio that Brenda Stern was sacked for bullying her staff.
Ms Stern, a former London Development Agency manager, was forced from her £70,000-a-year job after she complained about serious irregularities in a project run by a friend of the Mayor's equality adviser Lee Jasper.
A complaint of bullying was made against her but in a letter seen by the Standard, LDA chief executive Manny Lewis says the allegation was investigated and was "not founded"
[...]
Hopefully Brenda Stern will be awarded a large amount of money and, a public apology from Ken Livingstone personally.
However, more importantly, the article goes on to say:
The Mayor's office hit back, threatening that if Ms Stern sued, the GLA would investigate "other matters" apart from her stint at the LDA, including her past life and previous employment.
Firstly , if there was anything dubious in her previous employment (she is a lawyer who was seconded to the the London Development Agency), it shows GLA incompetence for not checking before employing her in the first place, which seems highly unlikely.
Therefore any such "investigation" must be an attempt to dig up information for a political smear campaign against a whistleblower, thereby abusing the staff and resources paid for by the London taxpayer.
These are the tactics of extremist cults, like the Scientologists or the Moonies etc. and is not how the public employees at City Hall should act, or appear to be acting.
This threat violates even the GLA's own Code of Ethics for Staff (.pdf)
2.3. Proper advice and support
(b) To uphold the political impartiality of the Authority's staff, not to use public
resources for political purposes and not to act in any way which would conflict
with this Code;
The individual(s) who uttered this threat should be named and shamed, and investigated by the Standards Board for England, for bringing the Office of the Mayor of London into disrepute.
If the GLA is somehow manipulated by Livingstone and his cronies into trying to fund, or allow GLA human or technical resources to be abused in such n ""investigation", this would be a violation by a public authority of the European Convention on Human Rights Article 8, the right to privacy, and therefore against the UK Human Rights Act, and therefore against the GLA's own internal Codes of Conduct and Ethics.
If the individual members of Livingstone's inner circle carry out their threat, they should be investigated by the Police and charged with a criminal offence under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 and / or with Malfeasance in Office.
Even if you are a Labour voter, it must be clear that the current Mayor of London and his clique of cronies must not be allowed back into power this coming May.
Penfold, you sack of shit, the Tories are going down!
Bunch of thieveing, murderous fuckers.
He's taking the p*** ! Not only have I had to finance my own kids through uni' it appears I'm financing his too ! He should be made to pay the whole £40k back with interest.
But how many other MPs of ALL parties are "employing" their spouses and kids similarly ? Conway's just been rumbled and of course he doesn't think he's done anything wrong or illegal either. He feels he's entitled as a MP and of course he works "jolly hard" for his constitiuents!
Standards & Privileges Committee: Members
Rt Hon Sir George Young Bt MP (Chairman) North West Hampshire Conservative
Rt Hon Kevin Barron MP Rother Valley Labour
Rt Hon David Curry MP Skipton & Ripon Conservative
Mr Andrew Dismore MP Hendon Labour
Nick Harvey MP North Devon Liberal Democrats
Mr Elfyn Llwyd MP Meirionnydd Nant Conwy Plaid Cymru
Mr Chris Mullin MP Sunderland South Labour
The Hon Nicholas Soames MP Mid Sussex Conservative
Mr Paddy Tipping Sherwood Labour
Dr Alan Whitehead MP Southampton Test Labour
All beyond suspicion, all white than white, purer than pure...
I want to work for Derek - he seems to take care of his employees well.
Does anybody know if Conway voted on the proposal to put MP's expenses outside to scope of the Freedom of Info legislation?
Conway is a very big mate of David Davis's. While this may make DC more inclined to sack him, it may also have the opposite effect.
anon 5.08,
so, embezzling money from the taxpayer is, in your view, naughty.
dear oh dear, what loose moral standards you posess.
it is infact theft and fraud.
anyone guilty of such crimes is clearly not fit for office. and if a person such as yourself attempts to justify such criminal behaviour wouldn't that make them atleast technically a conspirator after the fact? for you seem to be attempting to justify atleast two criminal acts. you are obviously a very clever fellow and I would sincerely like to hear your opinion on this matter.
I think if Cameron sacked him and he was made to repay the £40,000, then the Conservatives would win the next election. Everyone's fed up with people helping themselves when the till is open.
Given that the standards committee said "we are astonished that there appears to be no evidence, independent or otherwise, of any aspect of FC's work for his father." and then Conway paid him a bonus for work for which there was no evidence. Could someone explain to me why Conway should be treated any more leniently than any other suspected thief. The fact that he still has the Tory whip is a complete disgrace - even Hain cleared out quicker than this when there was an official pronouncement.
Isn't this offence roughly on a par with Balls/Cooper married MPs who claim TWO housing allowances for ONE home, robbing taxpayers of 22k a year, yet that is WITHIN MPs RULES? How many other husband/wife MPs are at it too?
It is not unheard of for MP's to employ their wives, children, mistresses or catamites as secretaries or research assistants. Indeed, if they actually perform the tasks for which they are paid then I cannot see any harm in this. However if Mr Conway has been dipping grubby little fingers into the public purse simply to pay for Conway Jnr's university education then the bastard should be booted forthwith.
Pols are always whining about their poor public image and how it's the bloggers and the MSM that are creating it. If he is guilty, Cameron should point out the elephant in the room and make an example of this guy. The buggers feel so secure at the moment that education through pain is the only way they will learn right from wrong.
You'd have thought the Conservatives would have learnt from "The Major Years" regarding this sort of thing notwithstanding the present climate regarding allowances and funding. Conway should be told there's no place for his sort of shennanigans anymore and Cameron should "withdraw the Conservative Whip" and Bexley and Sidcup Association should move to have him de-selected and left in no doubt that by allowing him to continue to represent them in Parliament gives the impression that they are condoning Conway's actions
If there is no record of any work being done, how is it that £27000 is considered to be fair reward?
The MPs said this arrangement was "at the least an improper use of parliamentary allowances" and "at worst, a serious diversion of public funds".
"Our view is that the reality may well be somewhere between the two," they said.
Is that like being somewhere between shoplifting and burglary?
Renumeration to family member + Nil evidence of work done = theft. I see he has apologised. Sorry, chum. Not good enough. Withdraw the whip.
I suppose that as there's no evidence that the sprog actually did any work, then there's no chance of him getting daddy to write him a job reference then.
Bin him.
I enjoyed the footnotes to the Select Committee on Standards and Privileges - Fourth Report on Conduct of Mr Derek Conway
3 FC had been on sick leave from May to the end of his period of employment (see WE 13, para. 29, p. 65). Back
(Would that be from May to 24 August 2007 ie 4 months?)
4 A similar arrangement had existed for his elder son (WE 13, para. 4, p. 63). Back
It's fraud, innit? That's a crime. Another job for Yates of the Yard. Never mind withdrawing the whip and paying back one-third of the loot. Let's have him up before the beak.
Altogether now. Make The Punishment Fit The Crime, The Punishment Fit The Crime.
pay it you shit.
The Tuscan proposal of having individual MPs include their required gross remuneration within their election campaign docs would solve all this once and for all. The constituency would pay for the person directly. If they needed more, a bring and buy sale would be the answer. Can't fault a transparent process.
Oh dear, oh dear. Eeyore Dale should hand his head in shame.
If this had been a Labour MP he would have been all over the story like a bad rash.
But it's a Tory, so better not mention it.
You never know, a safe seat might come up one day.
i think it will be interesting to the see labour mps' reponse and if any of them go on the record. my local labour mp's wife is working for him at westminster, is also a local councillor. their utilities bills must be very low.
I wonder if all our soft-hearted contributors who steadfastly maintained that Tangoman, Harbint, Bendy Wendy, Wee Dougie et al were simply disorganised or incompetent have noted the almost unanimous desire expressed here to hang this cunt by his balls?
Says a lot really; aren't you a teeny bit ashamed of your mindless support for YOUR crooks?
False Accounting - the evidence appears to be all there, and it's the easiest charge to prove under the 1968 Theft Act.
unlovable egotistical europhile and portillista. Cameron should hang him.
Derek Conway's wife, Colette, is also on the payroll and is paid £3,271 a month as another of his registered parliamentary assistants.
David Cameron
This is your chance to proove that you are fit for office.
This is your chance to show you are not tarred with the label of sleazy conservatives.
Conway has undone all the good work you have done over the past year.
Up until tonight the sleaze label was firmly fixed to Brown, Harman,Alexander, Hain, and hovering over Johnson.
I,ve spent the lasy year peruading all and sundry what a corrupt bunch of bastards Labour are, and have convincerd some serious Labour supporters to vote Tory.
Don't mess it all up!
Leave the sleazelabel where it justifiably belongs and withdraw the conservative whip from Conway.
Brownbadger
we've had enough of this shit, haven't we guys.
they are all as thick as thieves.
stealing what is ours.
This is theft. No ifs, no buts, it's theft.
The thing is, as the Committee said, "he also seemed to be oblivious to the broader reputational risks to the House of any perception of personal benefit to his family."
Oblivious. Pig in muck. Wallowing. This is what does the damage, in the eyes of the poor bloody voters who get forced to pay for it.
It applies to all the parties. Once they get their snouts in the trough they're away, no stopping them. When someone does eventually rumble them their attitude is one of astonished injured innocence. Hain, for instance, was "amazed" at any suggestion he could be guilty of any wrongdoing. Amazed.
Um
quite a lot of people up and down the country employ their relatives in their businesses
it is legal
its really up to the employer to decide if they are getting value or not
The Fraud Act 2006
Fraud by false representation (Section 2)
The elements of the offence are that the Defendant made a false representation dishonestly knowing that the representation was or might be true or misleading with intent to make a gain for himself or another, to cause loss to another or to expose another to risk of loss.
The offence is entirely offender focused. It is complete as soon as the Defendant makes a false representation, provided that it is made with the necessary dishonest intent.
The maximum sentence is 10 years imprisonment.
Derek Conway is entirely innocent and the lib-dems are worse.
This makes the case for central funding of parties.
Reflects badly on ALL parties.
This venal liitle twit should not have the whip withdrawn.
He should have the whip applied vigorously to his thieving arse - through which he clearly does most of his thinking.
Odds of any Party sanction? Somewhere between zero and nil.
God, at least the bloody Hamiltons are amusing.
Conway should be charged with theft, made to pay the lot back and sacked very publicly.
Conspiring to obtain a pecuniary advantage by deception might interest the CPS for father and son.He has let his party down badly.Cameron must show his mettle and throw him out of the Party forthwith.
Conway also paid his son three bonuses of £2000, £6300 and £1766.
Given that the lad only worked 17hrs a week, what bonuses were paid to other members of his staff, including Mrs Conway?
Surely this is stealing.
Puts Hain in persepective.
Paid his son some money directly from the TAX PAYER, not a private individual.
If someone wants to give Hain £5000, fine, as long as its declared.
This Conway fella, has taken cash from the tax payer to feather his sons student nest
If this pillock has been so bleeding stupid as to put himself and his family members in the firing line he deserves both barrels. Still he has got up in the House and offered a (carefully crafted) apology.
Then again, we're in new-ish territory here. I'll be entertained to see what happens across all parties as a result of this 'revelation'. White knuckle ride, eh?
Tapestry......more like a working class tory from Gateshead who has never had a proper job
The labour louts would be arguing the toss and spinning over it. He did it for money and not for power, good old fashioned honest corruption.
'James Schneider said...
Take him down Guido'
Good idea!
As a Tory I would be aggrieved if Cameron fails to sack this crook Conway. This is a heaven sent opportunity for Cameron to show he is bigger, straighter, and head-and-shoulders above Brown.
Don't let us down David. Act now!
Majority of MP's are at it ie putting family and friends on payroll.
Each MP should be required to publish, for scrutiny to public, their staff list noting any relationship with an employee.
Westminster is haven for fiddlers. Its the way we have structured their financial package.
This is worse than Hain. This guy was fiddling with taxpayers money. He should be shot not sacked. Saw him on the telly tonight. What a fat greedy bastard. Was he the model for the fat controller in the Thomas the tank?
Why hasn't dithering Cameron acked the father yet?
Why haven't the police hauled in Freddie Conway for questioning yet? Where I come from taking money without providing anything in return is called theft. I suspect he doesn't have any parlimentary protection like his father - and there does seem to be pretty strong case for him to answer.
Here's a little list of MPs who have staff members with the same surname as themselves. Some of these might just be coincidence, quiet at the back, you never know. This list was compiled from the info here.... REGISTER OF INTERESTS OF MEMBERS’ SECRETARIES AND RESEARCH
ASSISTANTS (As at 9 January 2008). Given that Conway is not on it, it seems that some sort of tidy up has happened, I wonder why?
http://tinyurl.com/2swwz3
MP / Staff
Nick Ainger / Sally Ainger
Margaret Beckett / Lionel Beckett
Hilary Benn / Stephen Benn
Lorely Burt / Richard Burt
Dawn Butler / Tennyson Butler
Sir Menzies
Campbell / Elspeth Campbell
David Chaytor / Daniel Chaytor
David Chaytor / Sarah Chaytor
Michael Clapham / Jonathan Clapham
David Clelland / Brenda Clelland
Geoffrey Edward
Clifton-Brown / Clifton-Brown
Ann Coffey / Catherine Coffey
Geoffrey Cox / Charlotte Cox
Ann Cryer / John Cryer
Ian Davidson / Colin Davidson
Jeffrey Ennis / Neil Ennis
Roger Gale / Suzy Gale
Andrew George / Morvah George
Peter Hain / Adelaine Hain
Sir Alan David
Haselhurst / Haselhurst
Oliver Heald / Christine Heald
Eric Illsley / Alexandra Illsley
Piara Khabra / Beulah Khabra
Peter Kilfoyle / Lucy Kilfoyle
Julie Kirkbride / Gordon Kirkbride
Ian Jill
Liddell-Grainger / Liddell-Grainger
Ian Peter
Liddell-Grainger / Liddell-Grainger
Ian Sophie
Liddell-Grainger / Liddell-Grainger
Peter Luff / Oliver Luff
Humfrey Malins / Harry Malins
Humfrey Malins / Katherine Malins
David Marshall / Christina Marshall
Eric Martlew / Elsie Martlew
Martin McGuinness / Anne McGuinness
Rosemary McKenna / Tony McKenna
Patrick McLoughlin / James McLoughlin
Austin Mitchell / Jonathan Mitchell
Malcolm Moss / Sonya Moss
David Mundell / Oliver Mundell
Albert Owen / Fiona Owen
Rev Ian / Ian Paisley
Paisley
Owen Paterson / Rose Paterson
Greg Pope / Samuel Pope
Jim Sheridan / Joanne Sheridan
Anthony Steen / Xanthe Steen
Dr Howard / Deborah Stoate
Stoate
Mark Tami / Sally Tami
Dari Taylor / Philippa Taylor
Rudi Vis / Jacqueline Vis
Betty Williams / Miranda Williams
Alan Williams / Robin Williams
Sir George / Camilla Young
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Whilst we're in full witch-hunt mode there are plenty more anomalies in MP's expenses that are worthy of scrutiny. Sion Simon anyone?
Why hasn't Dale commented on this yet? He isn't normally so hesitant when a Labour politician is involved. Nothing to do with Conway being close to David Davis?
This thieving toe-rag should be sacked immediately(whip withdrawn or whatever step quickest leads to deselection and obscurity) and then turned over to the police and prosecuting authorities. It wasn't his money to give away - it's our hard earned taxes this bastard has thieved! Enough of this 'one law for them another for us' bollocks. Be they Tory, Labour, MP's, councillors, quango chiefs or whatever there can no mercy and no excuses. If Cameron doesnt sack this Conway bloke now and publicly, he'll be just as shite as Brown and the rest of the tossers on the government benches. Take out this tit now so we can concentrate on taking out Ken, Jasper and his thieving crew at City hall !
boring old twat,
I don't like to get personal, so I won't mention the fact that you're losing your hair, your job and your unremarkable reputation as a politician.
But can't you just fuck off now Peter and bore the total arsehole off some other poor cunt. God, weren't you once that buggering annoying interference I used to experience when I tuned in to Any Questions on Radio 4. Shit, you were so miserable you even used to make that that world defyingly morose station look a little lively.
You just don't seem to be able to do anything in your own name, do you?
Oops, small formatting fuck up but i'm sure you can work it out.
@ anonemo
That doesn't even scrape the surface. Never mind same surname, what about all the others, both in Parliament and in the constituencies and local authorities? The list is staggering. Why are we paying these parasites?
Gravy? Yes indeed, they're all Bisto Kids.
A plague on all their houses, it seems! How truly disappointing. This should mean instant police investigation - just as the labour sleaze should have. Surely MP financial shenanigans should be an area of zero tolerance if anything should.
Anon at 6.50 said:quite a lot of people up and down the country employ their relatives in their businesses
This is PUBLIC money thicko. Taxpayer money. Your money (assuming you are employable and pay taxes). My money. Everyone else's money. It matters.
anonemo - staggering, and that leaves out all the others who don't take their partners' names.
What a stinking cesspit.
The Fraud Act 2006
Fraud by false representation (Section 2)
The elements of the offence are that the Defendant made a false representation dishonestly knowing that the representation was or might be true or misleading with intent to make a gain for himself or another, to cause loss to another or to expose another to risk of loss.
The offence is entirely offender focused. It is complete as soon as the Defendant makes a false representation, provided that it is made with the necessary dishonest intent.
The maximum sentence is 10 years imprisonment.
Such as claiming my pri