Objective Fulfilled
Now that the Metropolitan Police and CPS have taken out a prosecution against 4 MP’s we feel we’ve achieved our objectives, and await for Justice to be served. In order to ensure we can not be seen as influencing the trial, all comments on this site have now been disabled.
Many thank to the thousands who have visited the site, signed our petitions both here and on facebook and left messages of support. In the mean time we invite you all to wonder over to www.VisitScunthorpe.Com which is our new community project.
Love and Peace
Shooda and Thoades
We’ve tried to be as fair and inclusive as possible, but if any one is missing, do please let us know! As we offer this as a free public service, we’d hate for any MP to feel they were missing out on something they could claim for, and obviously inclusion on the Scammer Scanner should be viewed as a ministerial perk and reward for creative accounting.
On a serious note folks, this map highlights how corruptible the expenses system is, and while claiming over £1,000 for a leather rocking chair is “within the rules” we feel that it just demonstrates the complete lack of moral compass with which the MP’s have navigated their way through the public purse.
We call on all members of the public to join us in a campaign of letter writing, petitioning and public demonstration demanding reform of the parliamentary expenses system, expulsion of those MP’s who are stepping down and legal prosecution in the case of fraud.
Our special Scammer Scanner exists only because of the many long hours of research and reference via the “TheyWorkForYou.com” web site and various other on line resources. There have also been many hours of additional programming and development work, so many thanks to Shooda for programming this feature up, pretty damn good eh? Please, leave him a message of congratulations below.
Please note - all information quoted on this site has been reported by the main stream media or in the case of comments, submitted by members of the public. We openly welcome comments, should any members listed here wish to provide information to counter these claims then we will gladly post it here in the public domain.
Oh how could you forget Eric “Fatty” Pickles from Brentwood and Ongar…
Famous for his Question Time performance where he told how he couldn’t possibly get a train into London each day to be in Parliament for 9am. so had to have a second home.. This is despite living in commuter belt where everyone else seems to manage to get into London without a problem, and generally for an earlier start than MPs manage.
So he’s just as guilty as the Chelmsford MP Simon Burns who is shown, but at least 15 minutes nearer to London on the same train line.
Maybe he’s just too fat to get through the barriers at Shenfield station.
Comment by Steve — June 21, 2009 @ 4:40 am
Also missing in action is Graham Stuart (Con) Beverley & Holderness - his expenses appear relatively modest being mainly for X DELETED X but if I ever go round to his house I know he’s got some nice guest towels.
Comment by Simon — June 26, 2009 @ 11:21 am
James Paice.
Comment by Peter Risdon — June 26, 2009 @ 12:17 pm
How could you omit the three Labour troughers from Bradford - Rooney, Singh & Sutcliffe - it costs us £1,100 a month to feed these three !! As for Rooneys cleaning scam on his house and the office they all share in Bradford (cleaning billed by the owners & Rooney claims more without receipt !
Comment by Dave — June 26, 2009 @ 12:49 pm
What about Rudy Vis? He was MP for Finchley (Labour) and had only one home, in East Finchley, London N2. 40 minutes from home to parliament by tube!
Then he flipped to the Norfolk or Suffolk coast as his wife had breathing difficulties and he had to move her to the coast! That was a Rudy Vis expense, not a tax payers expense.
But no matter, he is leaving at the end of this parliament! Although I am now wondering if there are any other errors on the list?
Ampers
Comment by Andrew Taylor — June 26, 2009 @ 1:13 pm
Louise Ellman (lab -liverpool riverside) claimed repeatedly for the cost of her accountant to complete her self assessment tax return -approx £550 per year
Comment by sim — June 26, 2009 @ 1:42 pm
Michael Fallon, Conservative, Sevenoaks is missing from your list. (He has not taken much more than necessary.)
Comment by Edward Palmer — June 26, 2009 @ 1:46 pm
Might have missed him, but my local trougher, Sir John Butterfill got away with shedloads of CGT,by skillfully flipping homes. £600k was the figure banded about.
Comment by Parisclaims — June 26, 2009 @ 1:48 pm
The statement regarding Bill Wiggin is just not true. Blind can sometimes be seen to be leading the blind. We should not mix those untruths with MPs’ lies and mendaciousness, it de-values any argument.
Comment by oldrightie — June 26, 2009 @ 2:56 pm
Many thanks for your post.
Where ever possible we check all of the links provided on the map, and remove those which are unsubstantiated.
As far as we are aware, this information was posted by the Daily Telegraph in the following article which we used for our source:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5358100/MPs-expenses-Bill-Wiggin-claimed-11000-in-phantom-mortgage-payments.html
If however as you state this is not the case, then we will immediately remove the entry from our database, however as far as we are aware no retraction has been made by the Daily Telegraph with regards to this matter.
If this is not the case and the Daily Telegraph have indeed retracted their statement then please, provide us with a link to this retraction and we will immediately update the database.
If on the other hand you have information that the Daily Telegraph does not have which disproves the telegraph allegation then we’d be very interested to see that, publish it and pass it on to the daily telegraph for comment.
Comment by admin — June 26, 2009 @ 3:03 pm
Update on Bill Wiggin
After speaking to the poster “Oldrightie”, he has agreed to the following dialog being released:
Response from Oldrightie:
“Many thanks for replying. I really did not expect that. I am a local official and have worked for weeks with our local Party on these BW issues. The claims for mortgage expenses related to his second home in London. This information is absolutely clear on his Alliance and Leicester mortgage documents. There is no question whatsoever of a phantom mortgage but that does not sell newspapers. Whilst The Daily Telegraph revelations have done democracy and acountability a service they have also made The Barclay Brothers large sums of money, furthered their political ambitions and damaged some MPs not deserving of that.
I suspect that during a General Election campaign this will be resurrected to , again, harm some good people not deserving of being tarred with the same brush. How about a campaign for the innocent? As for the site, this was a referral from elsewhere amongst my favourites in the blog world!
A final thought for me is why the actual source of the CD has not been hunted down. Probably because of very high connections?”
Response from Admin
“Many thanks for the information.
As of now Bill’s entry has been removed.
Have you approached the Daily Telegraph about this?
Do I have your permission to copy this email to the blog? I belive in democracy above party politics and feel strongly that we should publish this information. ”
Response from Oldrightie
“Yes please, that would be fair, generous and democratic”
Comment by admin — June 26, 2009 @ 6:07 pm
Our MP is missing - Geoffrey Cox: Torridge and West Devon. I believe he is o.k. as far as these scandals go.
Comment by Jeremy Hummerstone — June 26, 2009 @ 10:05 pm
Hi Jeremy,
There are quite a lot of MP’s who are missing this is because they have not been named as abusing the system by the press. As far as we are aware Mr Cox is one of about 300 members who managed to switch their moral compass to the “On” position before setting sail in the sea of public finance. We’ve limited our list of MPs to show just the “Bad Boys” as otherwise it would take just too damn long to populate the map and we’d have to buy another web server!
Comment by admin — June 26, 2009 @ 11:20 pm
You have that Mary Creagh (Labour, Wakefield) “set HIS home…”. Unless there is some other revelation, I think you’ll find Mary is female.
Comment by David Hales — June 28, 2009 @ 3:24 pm
Thanks for that David
Comment by admin — June 28, 2009 @ 3:28 pm
Diane Abbot - you have mi-spelt supplement! At least use the spell-checker that Bill Gates provides!
Errors like this (and the revious one I reported on saying that Mary Creagh had flipped HIS home) brings the website into question as an amateurish attempt at witch hunting - but I do agree with the sentiments behind it, to get rid of all the crooks and liars - but who would take it on, and be squeaky-clean? Not many.
Comment by David Hales — June 28, 2009 @ 3:31 pm
I am now in a position to change my stance on MP W.Wiggin’s expense claims. A very successful spin was made based on a 23 month period of claims arising from a mistaken entry on a claim form. The Telegraph makes the point that from May 2004 a switch of second home nomination from London to Ledbury was made and an INCREASED monthly claim submitted on the Ledbury property plus other allowances for food etcetera. Yet in 2006, when the 23 month period of incorrect address claim forms began, the second home designation was changed to London. During all of this time the MP has duped the Constituency as to his commitment to living there. His children attend school in London and his wife runs business interests and a busy social life there.
It would seem that, not only expenses are claimed conveniently but dedication to The Constituency is every bit as convenient and haphazard as the form filling. People deserve a better return for their vote. It was for this reason I resigned my Deputy Chairmanship of this Association.
Comment by oldrightie — September 12, 2009 @ 9:37 am