This morning it’s David Cameron’s Tories who are being outed for expenses fiddles (”all fully within the rules, Mr Speaker!”), led by shadow education secretary Michael Gove who flips his mortgage more often than a combo of flour and water on Pancake Day.
But what about Torygraph columnist Boris Johnson, now London mayor of course but prior to that the MP for Henley and lively shadow higher education spokesman?
Boris has well-known acquisitive instincts, staying on as Spectator editor (and Telegraph columnist) in the shadow cabinet. He maintains his Telegraph column to this day, indeed negotiated an even higher package, reckoned to be some £300,000 a year, in return for a vague and so far unfulfilled promise to write it twice a week.
If there was ever an MP who shouldn’t have needed ‘allowances’ it was Boris. But will his paper spill the beans?
As for Gove, he’s a former Times hack so well-schooled in the art of filling in an expenses sheet.
Times journalists are supposed to live like gentlemen although salaries on the posh but heavily loss-making paper are not high. So exes are their version of a tax credit, much like MPs.
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Any Taxpayer has the right to take out a Private Prosecution against an MP under the 2006 FRAUD ACT ,sections 2&4.
If you are on low income apply for free legal aid.
……..The crooks won’t bother to stand for re-election.