Looks like Tory Party Deputy Chairman Bob Neill has been lined up as Cameron’s new attack dog.
Today he blasts John Prescott in the Sunday Express after highlighting departmental expenses totalling £70,000.
He tells the Sunday Express: “What is excessive is that he was allowed to spend taxpayers’ cash so freely when he was in charge of a non-department created to massage his own ego.”
A bit from rich the man they called Three Jobs Bob who was being paid by the tax payer THREE TIMES as MP for Bromley and Chislehurst, London Assembly Member and non exec director of the North East London Strategic Health Authority.
Bob, who refused to calls to step down as an Assembly Member util his term ended in May,also has the brass neck to claim the maximum Additional Costs Allowance available to an MP of £22,110 a year towards his “family home” in Southend, even though its further from the Houses of Parliament than his constituency home in Bromley!
So since getting elected as MP, Bob has taken more than £220,000 from the state.
Wonder if the Taxpayer’s Alliance might be interested in this one?
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Presumably Bob knows he can employ his rellies to make a meagre three salaries stretch that little further?
Chris Paul said this on November 9th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Recycled crap from someone who can’t even spell his victim’s name.
Anon said this on November 11th, 2008 at 9:09 am
This is clearly just bollocks.If you had actually read the article you highlighted it clearly says that he couldn’t be on the SHA and an MP at the same time. He was an Assembly Member and on the board of an SHA at the same time, which is perfectly reasonable. Then he was an Assembly Member and an MP at the same time, which is unusual but not unheard of. There are other MPs who are also elected representatives at a lower level. One of the Lib-Dem MPs in a coastal town (Portsmouth?) is also a Councillor for example.
Stocky Man said this on November 11th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
So Recess what do you think about Clyde Loakes then; Labour leader of Waltham Forest Council, Chair of the LSP, Chair of the North London Waste Authority and now also Labour PPC for Nothampton South.
Or is a multitude of jobs only an issue when it isn’t a Labour apparatchik who has them all?
Mr Angry said this on November 11th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
There’s absolutely no reason why a councillor shouldn’t be on an LSP - in fact, if you look at the membership of the board (http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/board-membership.doc) you can see that many local services are represented. It would be stupid for the council to be excluded. The Waste Authorities are agreements between boroughs to work together and their boards are consequently populated by countillors because they are paid for by the councils. And being a PPC is a voluntary activity, not a job.
you twat
twatbuster said this on November 12th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Now now, the last resort of he who has lost the argument is abuse. So you lose then.
Mr Angry said this on November 15th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
It does show that you’re shockingly ill-informed about local government Mr Angry. Being involved in partnership boards is entirely usual and indeed fairly necessary for councillors who actually want to achieve anything – they are a vital part of the job.
On the other hand, being an MP and and AM is most certainly NOT usual. I doubt if you could find more than two or three similar examples in the whole country.
I suggest you go away and study some politics before attempting your feeble defences again.
Dave H said this on November 18th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
twat
twatbuster said this on November 19th, 2008 at 8:48 am
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