Malcolm Moss the conservative MP for North East Cambs (which covers Wisbech) was in the local paper bemoaning the fact that MP sleaze has left him “on a downer” as he will be standing down at the next election.
Mr Moss has published his own expenses for the previous three years and is about to publish this years details.
“I have never brought furniture or televisions on expenses, I have only claimed for mortgage interest, rent , utilities and council tax.”
All well and good you may think, an honest MP at last. Mr Moss has always struck me as a decent sort of bloke even though we disagree about politics, so I can’t say I’m surprised that he hasn’t been tempted into deliberate fraud in the way that some have.
However, as an MP he gets an allowance of about £100,000 a year for staffing costs paid for by the taxpayer.
A lot of MPs use some of this money to employ their husband or wife or even their children. Loadmouthed fat oaf Home Sec, Jaqcui Smith (of the £10 porn film expenses claim) employs her husband as a “political advisor”. Derek Conway was stripped of the conservative whip after “employing” his two sons whilst they where away at university etc.
Mr Moss employs his wife as a “secretary” at £40,000 a year. Does she really do a proper secretarial job for her husband or are they both fiddling the taxpayer to increase the family budget. Indeed, do secretaries usually earn £40,000 a year.
The public don’t know and simply can’t tell, which is why the Libertarian Party have a rather unlibertarian policy on this important matter here.
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Imprint – as required by electoral law. Printed and promoted by Andrew Peter Hunt of 73 Camargue Place, Wisbech, Cambs, PE13 2SX
