(2009) Conservative M.P. Bill Cash -PARASITE

Bill Cash, a senior Conservative MP, claimed more than £15,000 in taxpayer-funded expenses to pay his daughter rent for her London flat – even though he owned a home closer to Westminster.

Mr Cash designated a west London flat owned by his daughter, Laetitia, as his “second home” for parliamentary expenses during 2004 and 2005.

During the period he was renting the flat, Mr Cash owned a flat in Pimlico — a short walk from Parliament.

He said on Thursday that he was not living in the Pimlico property nor renting it out at the time. It was not clear why he did not live in this flat — although he has designated it as his second home since 2005. His main home is a country house in Shropshire.

Shortly after the MP stopped claiming money for his daughter’s flat, Miss Cash, 35, who is hoping to become a Conservative MP and is on David Cameron’s “A list” of preferred candidates, sold the property for a £48,000 profit.

She had owned the apartment for less than a year and a half, and for more than 12 months of that period her father had paid her £1,200 a month in rent from taxpayer funds.

Following the move, Mr Cash, a leading Eurosceptic who has regularly rebelled against the Conservative leadership, nominated two private members’ clubs as his “second home” for a three-month period.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. Anthony Steen

Anthony Steen, a Tory grandee, spent tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money on his million-pound country home, including paying a forestry expert to inspect 500 trees in the grounds, according to a claim he submitted.

Mr Steen, the MP for Totnes in Devon, designated his constituency property as his second home and then claimed the maximum available amount under the Additional Costs Allowance.

Over four years he claimed £87,729, including payments for tree surgery, guarding his shrubs against rabbits, maintaining a separate cottage and overhauling his private sewage system. In January 2005, items on Mr Steen’s claim for £13,742 included £2,858.94 for leaking pipes, £1,755.89 for fixing the water supply from the “spring and bore hole”, £1,318 for a wrought iron fireplace and £597.14 for lights.

There was also a £459 charge from a woodland consultant to come and inspect new plantings on Mr Steen’s lands. The consultant tagged shrubs and assessed whether there was a need for “additional guarding” against rabbits.

Another £120 was for “fencing on two fields to the right of the drive leading down to the stables”. A fees officer scrawled on that bill: “I’ve paid this, should I have?”

Another invoice detailed how a chartered forester, who was a member of the International Dendrology Society, had been employed to carry out a survey of the laurels and rhododendrons. The forester was also hired to “carry out annual maintenance programme to approx 500 trees within the grounds and inspect said trees.”

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(2009) Conservative Party M.P. Eleanor Laing -PARASITE

Eleanor Laing, a Conservative front bencher, has admitted that she did not pay capital gains tax when she made £1 million profit on a second home bought with the help of taxpayers’ money.

Mrs Laing, the shadow junior justice minister, claimed more than £80,000 from the public purse towards mortgage interest and service payments on two adjacent flats she bought in Westminster, even though her constituency home is less than an hour’s journey away by Tube.

She was able to claim parliamentary expenses on the flats because she nominated them as her second home, and she reiterated last night that she had “always regarded” the flats as her second home. When she sold the flats last year for £1.8 million, she made at least £1 million profit, which would have left her with a £180,000 capital gains tax bill if she had declared the flats as her second home to HM Revenue & Customs.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. Chris Grayling -PARASITE

Chris Grayling, the shadow home secretary claimed thousands of pounds to renovate a flat in central London – bought with a mortgage funded at taxpayers’ expense, even though his constituency home is less than 17 miles from the House of Commons.

Mr Grayling, who represents Epsom and Ewell, lives in a large house in Ashtead, Surrey, but also claims expenses for a flat in Pimlico, near the House of Commons. Mr Grayling also owns other buy-to-let flats and now has four properties within the M25.

The disclosure is particularly embarrassing for the Conservatives as Mr Grayling is the party’s “attack dog” who has criticised a series of Labour ministers implicated in sleaze scandals.

Within weeks of first being elected in 2001, he bought a flat in a six-storey block for £127,000. In 2002, he set up an unusual arrangement with the Parliamentary Fees Office, claiming £625 a month for mortgages on two separate properties, both the main home and the new flat in Pimlico. This is usually against the rules, but Mr Grayling negotiated an agreement because he was unable to obtain a 100% mortgage on the London flat that he had bought.

This arrangement ended in May 2006.

Over the summer of 2005, Mr Grayling undertook a complete refurbishment of the flat. Shortly after the general election in May, Mr Grayling claimed £4,250 for redecorating and £1,561 for a new bathroom.

The next month, he claimed £1,341 for new kitchen units and in July, he claimed a further £1,527 for plumbing and £1,950 for work that included rewiring the flat throughout. It is thought to have risen substantially in value since then.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. Michael Gove -PARASITE

Michael Gove, a front-bench ally of David Cameron, spent thousands on furnishing his London home before “flipping” his Commons allowance to a new property in his Surrey constituency, and claiming £13,000 in moving costs.

Shortly after being elected MP for Surrey Heath in 2005, Mr Gove furnished a house in north Kensington, west London, for which he claimed the Additional Costs Allowance.

Over a five-month period between December 2005, and April 2006, he spent more than £7,000 on the semi-detached house, which Mr Gove, 41, and his wife Sarah Vine, a journalist, bought for £430,000 in 2002. Around a third of the money was spent at Oka, an upmarket interior design company established by Lady Annabel Astor, Mr Cameron’s mother-in-law.

Mr Gove bought a £331 Chinon armchair from there, as well as a Manchu cabinet for £493 and a pair of elephant lamps for £134,50.

He also claimed for a £750 Loire table – although the Commons’ authorities only allowed him to claim £600 – a birch Camargue chair worth £432 and a birdcage coffee table for £238.50. Other claims in the five-month period included Egyptian cotton sheets from the White Company, a £454 dishwasher, a £639 range cooker, a £702 fridge freezer and a £19.99 Kenwood toaster.

Mr Gove even claimed for a £34.99 foam cot mattress in Feb 2006 from Toys ‘R’ Us – despite children’s equipment being banned under Commons rules. He also charged the taxpayer for eight coffee spoons and cake forks, worth £5.95 each, four breakfast knives and a woven door mat worth £30. A claim for new patio furniture worth £219, including a four-seater bistro dining set, was turned down by Commons officials.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. Francis Maude -PARASITE

Francis Maude claimed almost £35,000 in two years for mortgage interest payments on a London flat when he owned a house just a few hundred yards away.

The shadow minister for the Cabinet Office owned the house outright but in 2006 took out a £345,000 mortgage on the flat about one minute’s walk away. He then rented out the house and began claiming mortgage interest payments on the flat which is in a grade II listed building with a gym and 24-hour concierge.

Labour ministers Alistair Darling and Hazel Blears have previously claimed for second homes in the same building.

Mr Maude also claimed, and was paid, £387.50 for the cost of moving his effects down the road from the house to the flat.

He claimed £18,112.50 in mortgage interest payments for the year 2006-07, £1,790 for council tax, £2,237 for a service charge and £820 for cleaning.

A further £9,801.78 was claimed for mortgage interest payments from April 1 to Aug 31, 2007.

The senior Tory MP then submitted a claim for the mortgage interest payments for the remainder of the 2007-08 financial year, which came to £13,070.96.

In a note to the House of Commons fees office he said he knew there was not enough left in his ACA account to cover the payments.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. Alan Duncan -PARASITE

Alan Duncan, the senior Conservative MP who oversees the party’s policy on MPs’ expenses, claimed thousands of pounds for his garden – but stopped after agreeing with the fees office that his expenditure “could be considered excessive”.

Mr Duncan’s gardening claims raise serious questions about whether expenses by some MPs can be justified as entirely necessary for their parliamentary work. In a three-year period, he recouped more than £4,000. He has not been asked to repay the money despite later concerns over the garden claims.

The bill for £3,194 for gardening in March 2007 was not paid by the fees office, which wrote to Mr Duncan suggesting that the claim might not be “within the spirit” of the rules.

However, by then the multi-millionaire MP for Rutland and Melton had claimed £4,000 of gardening costs that were approved. In a letter to the MP, the office said that it expected gardening costs “to cover only basic essentials such as grass cutting”. Mr Duncan submitted receipts showing that his gardener was being paid £6 an hour for up to 16 hours a week in grounds of less than an acre.

In March 2007, Mr Duncan claimed £598 to overhaul a ride-on lawn-mower and then a further £41 to fix a puncture a month later.

Mr Duncan also claimed £1,400 a month for his mortgage interest on his home in Rutland. He bought the large detached house without taking out a mortgage on the property itself in January 1992, shortly before he was elected to parliament.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. John Gummer -PARASITE

John Gummer, the former Conservative Cabinet minister had moles removed from his country estate at taxpayers’ expense.

John Gummer, the former environment secretary, used the parliamentary expenses system to claim more than £9,000 a year for gardening.

Mr Gummer also received hundreds of pounds to meet the costs of “treating” moles, removing jackdaw nests, tackling insect infestations and an annual “rodent service” contract. He claimed more than £100 a year for the mole treatment alone.

Only costs essential for an MP to carry out his or her parliamentary duties are supposed to be recouped. It is not clear why Mr Gummer’s claims were authorised by House of Commons officials.

The former Cabinet minister, who famously allowed his daughter to be pictured with a hamburger during the BSE crisis in 1990, lives in a grange in Suffolk. He has a £60,000 mortgage on the property and initially claimed around £200 a month towards the interest on the loan.

However, he still claimed close to the maximum allowance of more than £20,000 annually during most years once his other expenses were added.

Letters seen by this newspaper show that officials in the House of Commons fees office were concerned that Mr Gummer was not producing receipts to justify many of his claims.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. John Butterfill -PARASITE

Sir John Butterfill built a servants’ wing at his country home in Surrey for the gardener and his wife with taxpayers’ money.

In the beginning there was the viscount’s moat. Then, as the expenses saga developed, there was a floating duck island funded by the taxpayer on behalf of a knight of the shire.

And now, just as the nation was beginning to tire of the great 2009 expenses scandal, we have servants’ quarters paid for out of the public purse.

Sir John Butterfill, a Conservative grandee hoping to serve out his last year as the MP for Bournemouth West, Dorset, in some style, was last night having to embark on the rather vulgar business of explaining how the taxpayer paid for an extension which housed the gardener and the gardener’s wife.

To the horror of the Tory leadership, which believes the expenses claims of grandees are reviving old stereo-types, Butterfill appeared slightly confused as he explained that today’s Daily Telegraph had mistakenly claimed that he had servants. “It is a gross misrepresentation of what I said to the young lady at the Telegraph,” he told the BBC Newsnight programme as he denied having built servants’ quarters from his parliamentary allowance.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. Bill Wiggins -PARASITE

Bill Wiggin, a Conservative whip, has admitted claiming interest payments for a property with no mortgage for two years, but claims it was a mistake and that he is only “human”.

The MP for Leominster, a contemporary of David Cameron at Eton, received more than £11,000 in parliamentary expenses after declaring his constituency property was his second home.

But he and his wife owned outright the £480,000 home near Ledbury in Herefordshire, where he has gone on to breed chickens and prize-winning cattle, and had not taken out a home loan on it.

Mr Wiggin denies that he intended to claim a “phantom mortgage”, however, and says he meant to put his £900,000 house in Fulham, west London, as his second home.

But, The Daily Telegraph has disclosed, he submitted expenses claims forms to the Commons fees office for 23 consecutive months on which he had written the Herefordshire address, before officials queried his living arrangements and he changed his designated residence back to London.

In a round of interviews today, Mr Wiggin was forced to admit that he had claimed on the wrong property but said it was an honest mistake. David Cameron, the Conservative leader, agreed but said it was a “bad mistake”.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. Peter Viggers -PARASITE

Sir Peter Viggers, a Tory grandee, included with his expense claims the £1,645 cost of a floating duck house in the garden pond at his Hampshire home.

Sir Peter, the MP for Gosport, submitted an invoice for a “Stockholm” duck house to the Commons fees office.

The floating structure, which is almost 5ft high and is designed to provide protection for the birds, is based on an 18th-century building in Sweden. The receipt, from a firm specialising in bird pavilions, said: “Price includes three anchor blocks, duck house and island.”

It was announced last night that following The Daily Telegraph’s disclosures, Sir Peter will retire at the next election.

Sir Peter, a qualified jet pilot, lawyer and banker, has been an MP for 25 years and is a member of the Treasury select committee. He lists his recreations in Who’s Who as opera, travel and trees.

His expenses files reveal that he was paid more than £30,000 of taxpayers’ money for “gardening” over three years, including nearly £500 for 28 tons of manure.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. Jonathan Djanogly -PARASITE

Jonathan Djanogly, the multi-millionaire shadow business minister, claimed almost £5,000 to have automatic gates installed at his large home in his Huntingdon constituency.

The Conservative MP also claimed £13,962 for cleaning and £12,951 for gardening at his second home, which did not have a mortgage, in just four years.

The scale of the claims, which are likely to be regarded as excessive by ordinary taxpayers, is certain to infuriate David Cameron.

The Conservative leader has spent much of the past 10 days attempting to crack down on wealthy Tory MPs who have lavished money on their country homes.

Mr Djanogly is repaying £25,000 to the fees office following discussions earlier this week. In most of his claims, Mr Djanogly charged £65 a week for a cleaner, submitting receipts showing that his monthly staffing bill was up to £1,600 for three staff.

The large wooden gates – which cost £4,936 for installation and maintenance — can be opened automatically by an electronic touchpad from a car.

The MP installed the gates following security fears after he helped constituents threatened by animal rights activists over their links to the animal-testing company Huntingdon Life Sciences.

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(2009) Lib-Lab-Con-men Investigated by Scotland Yard

A small number of MPs and peers will face criminal investigations into allegations they misused their expenses.

Scotland Yard said a joint assessment panel of senior detectives and prosecutors had decided full inquiries were necessary.

The police inquiries were expected to focus on politicians accused of deliberately misleading the authorities or claiming “phantom mortgages”.

The investigation will be conducted by officers from the Met’s Economic and Specialist Crime Command, overseen by Temporary Assistant Commissioner Janet Williams. It is understood the joint panel of experts will continue to consider a small number of other individuals.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “After consideration by the joint Metropolitan Police and Crown Prosecution Service assessment panel the Met has decided to launch an investigation into the alleged misuse of expenses by a small number of MPs and peers.”

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(2009) Conservative M.P. Anne Main

The daughter of Anne Main, a Tory MP, has been living rent-free at a flat paid for by her mother’s taxpayer-funded second home allowances.

Mrs Main, the MP for St Albans, has claimed a 10 per cent second home discount on her council tax for the apartment in her constituency even though her 27-year-old daughter, Claire Tonks, has lived there for up to three years.

This discount can only be claimed if no one lives at the property full-time.

Mrs Main’s principal home is a large detached house in Beaconsfield, Bucks, 25 miles from St Albans. The house is roughly six miles further from Westminster than the St Albans flat. Mrs Main has no regular accommodation in the capital.

The MP charged the taxpayer £1,095.68 a month in mortgage interest payments for the flat, along with service charges, utility bills and furnishing costs. She has claimed a 10 per cent discount on council tax since 2004 — amounting to £171.09 last year — and submitted the bill on her expenses.

Two neighbours who in live in other flats in the building — who the Telegraph spoke to alongside the MP yesterday — both said that it was the first time they had met her.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. Peter Luff THIEF

Peter Luff, a Conservative MP, bought three lavatory seats, three food mixers, two microwaves and 10 sets of bed linen while kitting out his country house and London flat at taxpayers’ expense.

During a four-year period, Peter Luff, the MP for Mid-Worcestershire, spent £17,000 on various items including four beds and mattresses, five tables, two ironing boards, two vacuum cleaners, five sets of towels and three kettles.

In the months before he switched the designation of his second home from Worcester to the capital, he paid for more than £5,000 of decorating and repairs, including the £53.71 cost of having his Aga cooker fixed.

Six months later, he switched his designation to a small flat in south London, where he spent more than £3,000 decorating the bathroom, kitchen, sitting room and hall.

Records seen by The Daily Telegraph show that Mr Luff submitted receipts for furniture and furnishings or decorating bills virtually every month over a four-year period.

Under the rules governing second home expenses, MPs are not allowed to make purchases which would be deemed “extravagant or luxurious”. On virtually each occasion, the House of Commons fees office signed off Mr Luff’s expenses without question, although he did have an £809.91 claim for a television reduced to £750.

In March 2005, he attended a meeting with fees office staff, who told him that his claim for a £1,583 dining room table and chairs was considered excessive. He was paid £750.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. Robert Syms -PARASITE

Robert Syms, a Conservative MP, claimed more than £2,000 worth of furniture on expenses for his designated second home in London, but had it all delivered to his parents’ address in Wiltshire.

Mr Syms, the MP for Poole in Dorset, chose to send a bed, mattress, bedroom furniture, sofa and chair to their home, which is just five miles from his designated main residence in his constituency.

In January 2007, he submitted an expense claim to the fees office that included a £1,379.75 receipt from Beds Direct in Chippenham, and a £677 receipt from DFS in Swindon.

Yesterday, the 52-year-old, who has two children and is divorced, insisted that his actions were above board.

He said: “The reason is that I was a director of a building company in Chippenham and the easiest thing was to get the items shipped to my parents’ address.

“It was stored there and then taken up in a van.

“If I had had it delivered to London, I would have had to spend all the day waiting for a delivery, when obviously I am busy in parliament.

“My parents took delivery and then I took it up to London a week or two later to my second address – I drove the van myself.” Mr Syms was elected as an MP in 1997 and became a frontbench spokesman for environment, transport and the regions in 1999.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. Ed Vaizey -PARASITE

Ed Vaizey, a key ally of David Cameron, had £2,000 worth of furniture delivered to his London home when he was claiming his Commons allowance on a second home in Oxfordshire.

Mr Vaizey also charged more than £10,000 in stamp duty and legal fees to the taxpayer when he moved from rented accommodation to a house he bought in his constituency. Claims submitted by Mr Vaizey, a Conservative culture spokesman, show that his wife Alexandra ordered furniture worth £1,968.45 from the upmarket online retailer Oka in 2007.

Oka was co-founded up 1999 by Lady Annabel Astor, Mr Cameron’s mother-in-law. The shop says on its website that its “extensive furniture range includes painted, rattan, bamboo, sofas, beds, tables, chairs and armoires”.

Receipts submitted by Mr Vaizey show that he ordered a £467 two seat “Hurlingham” sofa and Carmargue chair, worth £544, an “ebony/brown” low table, worth £280.50 and a £671 Dordogne table in February 2007.

The Commons fees office knocked back the claim because the receipt said that the furniture was due to be delivered to the Vaizeys’ home address in west London. An official told Mr Vaizey that his claim was turned down because it “included an invoice from Oka in relation to an address which is different from that nominated as your home”.

The bill was later paid when Mr Vaizey, who entered the House of Commons in 2005, told the fees office that the furniture was intended for his designated second home in his Wantage constituency. He wrote: “I re-attach my claim for furniture as this furniture has been bought for my second home in Wantage.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. James Arbuthnot -PARASITE

James Arbuthnot MP claimed from the public finances for cleaning his swimming pool at a country residence.

The claims by James Arbuthnot were among a series of payments made to maintain a home in Hampshire that he rented before buying a £2 million home without a mortgage two years ago.

Last night, the chairman of the defence select committee said that claiming for the swimming pool maintenance was an error of judgment and that he would return the money.

He was unable to calculate the sum he would repay the fees office. One handwritten invoice for a three-month period, for “grass, strim, pool, fuel” came to £776. Another bill for two months came to £594. The bill for the whole of the 2006-07 financial year for these services was £1,471.

In a letter to the fees office, Mr Arbuthnot acknowledged that his new house was unusually costly to run. He was “well aware” that he quickly spent the additional costs allowance, he wrote, but that was because “[his home] is an expensive house to run”. In June 2007, it took four hours to mow the “main lawn and swimming pool lawn” at a cost of £44.

Email exchanges between the MP and the fees office at this time illustrate the laxity of the fees office in enforcing the rules. Mr Arbuthnot rented a house in a village in Hampshire.

(2009) Conservative M.P. Michael Ancram

Michael Ancram, the former Conservative deputy leader, put the cost of having his swimming pool boiler serviced on his taxpayer-funded parliamentary allowances.

The MP, who is the Marquess of Lothian, submitted claims running to thousands of pounds for gardening and cleaning at his country house, also charging for maintenance at a cottage set in the grounds used by his housekeeper.

After being asked by The Daily Telegraph over the claims, he agreed to repay the £98.58 cost of his swimming pool boiler repair, but insisted that all his other claims were necessary for maintaining his property, saying: “None of the other items were extravagant or luxurious.”

Among the receipts submitted by the MP, who retired to the backbenches after losing the leadership contest to David Cameron in 2005, were payments for “rodent control”, moss removal and the servicing of his Aga oven.

One receipt, issued by a local heating engineer in May 2006, shows that Mr Ancram claimed £90.17 for a boiler service at his “main house,” another £98.58 for the swimming pool boiler, and £72.50 for a third boiler at “Honeysuckle Cottage”.

He converted the cottage for the use of a couple who look after the house when he and his wife are away.

The same month, Mr Ancram asked for reimbursement of £1,117.43 for a gardening bill which included “cleaning up moss etc” on the house in the Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire.

(2009) Conservative M.P. Brian Binley -PARASITE

A millionaire Conservative MP broke parliamentary rules by claiming more than £50,000 in taxpayer-funded expenses to rent a flat from his own company.

Brian Binley claimed £1,500 a month to rent the flat for more than three years, despite House of Commons rules forbidding MPs from renting properties from themselves or their companies.

The Daily Telegraph can disclose that Mr Binley’s rental claims were first flagged up by parliamentary officials in April 2006, but the payments were not stopped until April of this year.

In 2006, he was told that the claims were not allowed. But he was permitted to continue claiming after appealing to Michael Martin, the Speaker of the House of Commons. Mr Martin only ruled in April 2009 that the claims must stop but Mr Binley has not had to repay the £57,000 he improperly received while the Speaker deliberated.

The latest disclosure concerning MPs’ expenses will cast further serious doubts over the policing of the system by the parliamentary authorities.

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Brian Binley Liquor Letter

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Binley’s Previous Crime:

An MP, who tried to get a driving ban overturned by claiming it would harm his constituents, has lost his appeal.

Brian Binley, MP for Northampton South, totted up 12 points on his licence when caught doing 37mph in a 30mph zone

in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. The 65-year-old MP, with nine points already, was given three more and a ban in

March, by Towcester magistrates. Judge Richard Bray at Northampton Crown Court confirmed the six-month ban

because he had the resources to cope. Mr Binley, caught speeding in August last year, claimed he needed his car to reach

constituents in his rural seat.

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(2007) Conservative Former Mayor Raja Akhtar -VOTE RIGGING

CHARGED: Former Mayor of Peterborough Raja Akhtar and, inset, Mohammed Choudhary, who are both now facing charges relating to alleged vote rigging.

A SERVING city councillor and a former Peterborough mayor have been charged with vote rigging.

Cllr Abdul Razaq, of Alexandra Road, Millfield, and former mayor Raja Akhtar, who lost his Central Ward seat in the May elections this year, have both been charged with forgery.

(2009) Conservative Newly Elected Mayor Tom Wilson -ELECTION FRAUD THAT COST TAXPAYERS £20,000

A BREACH of election rules by mayor Tom Wilson could cost Nuneaton and Bedworth taxpayers £20,000.

That is the estimated bill for staging a Warwickshire County Council by-election in Arbury-Stockingford, forced by Mr Wilson’s shock resignation, as reported in yesterday’s Telegraph.

After finishing first in last week’s poll, to win a place at Shire Hall, the 63-year-old Tory candidate will have to face the voters again because of an illegal nomination paper.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. David Wilshire -PARASITE

David Wilshire, a former Conservative whip, claimed thousands of pounds of taxpayers money for monthly payments towards the cost of replacing curtains and carpets at some point in the future.

David Wilshire, MP for Spelthorne, had an arrangement with the Parliamentary Fees Office which allowed him to claim £66.66 a month for what he called the “share of renewal of carpets/curtains every 10 years” at his second home.

There is no documentation in his claims between 2004 and 2007 to show that he actually bought a replacement carpet or curtains during that period.

It suggests that Mr Wilshire was effectively being paid in advance by the fees office for items he would not have to buy for years to come.

His expenses claims show that he estimated he would have to spend £8,000 every decade replacing curtains and carpets. He then calculated what this would cost if the bill was spread over 120 months and claimed £66.66 a month.

Between April 2004 and December 2007 – when he stops them claims – the fees office paid Mr Wilshire £2,200 through the arrangement, even though no receipt for carpets or curtains were submitted.

Mr Wilshire used the same technique to claim for the cost of redecorating his apartment, which is just yards from Conservative Central Office and the Palace of Westminster.

Every month the MP claimed £83.33 for the “share of redecoration” – 1/60th of the £5,000 he estimated he would have to pay for redecoration every five years.

(2009) Conservative M.P. Peter Ainsworth -PARASITE

Peter Ainsworth, a Tory MP and former shadow environment secretary who tried to charge nearly £1,000 for a “pewter finish” radiator cover on his expenses, was warned by the fees office that it could be excessive.

Mr Ainsworth submitted a receipt for £957 and tried to secure a £1,461 dining room table on the public purse. His submissions were refused and he was told: “Our concern is that your claim may be considered excessive within the spirit of the proviso ‘wholly, necessarily and exclusively on parliamentary duties’ as outlined in the Green Book.”

Mr Ainsworth, who claimed for a second home in London even though his Surrey constituency was 22 miles from Westminster, looked into claiming more than £8,000 for work to his garden in May 2007 but was again turned down by the fees office.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. David Mundell

Shadow Scottish Secretary David Mundell has claimed more than £3,000 on MPs’ expenses for cameras, photographers and photo-editing computer software to take hundreds of pictures of himself.

The “Out and About” section of his website displays more than 700 pictures, mostly of Mr Mundell in various different parts of his Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale constituency.

Mr Mundell appears to have set himself the task of visiting as many places in his constituency as he can and getting his picture taken beside the road sign as proof.

His tour has so far taken him to Bankend, Beattock, Boreland, Cardrona, Clarencefield, Durisdeermill, Ecclefechan, Gretna and Hightae, to name but a few.

He is also pictured taking overseas trips overseas to places such as Israel and Rwanda.

His passion for photography got him into trouble in August 2006, according to details contained in his expense claims.

A picture of “David Mundell and Family at Biggar Bonfire” was used on the MP’s website and in a parliamentary report, without authorisation from the photographer.

As a result, Mr Mundell was sent an invoice for £175 for its use on the website with another £175 added on top as a penalty for failing to seek his permission.

The other reproduction was also charged at a “double rate” of £180, bringing the total bill to more than £620 with the inclusion of VAT.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. Bob Walter -PARASITE

Bob Walter, the Conservative MP for north Dorset, attempted to claim £1,008 for handmade carpets he bought while on a trip to India.

Bob Walter bought the carpets to furnish his home in his constituency while on an all expenses paid visit to the country with fellow Tories. Although the fees office knocked him back for the full amount, they agreed to pay him £600.

He made the carpets claim as part of £85,000 in second homes allowance he has claimed in four years for his home in Dorset after switching his second home designation from a property in London.

The total claimed on his Additional Costs Allowance (ACA) includes £16,790 in removal bills, solicitors’ fees, stamp duty and estate agency commission when he moved five miles from his home in Gillingham to his new £395,000 home in Shaftesbury in 2004.

In addition to a £1200 monthly mortgage interest bill for his Shaftesbury home, Mr Walter also claimed for gardening, pot plants, cleaning, gas, electricity and water supplies.

His claims under the Incidental Expenses Provision (IEP), which is designed to cover office costs, included receipts for two Marks & Spencer’s Choc Sundaes, an “Exquisite Sundae” from Morrisons and a Creme Egg bar costing 47p, along with other purchases during November and December 2007, which he said had been consumed by “unpaid post graduate interns who work on my staff”.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. Tim Yeo -PARASITE

A former Conservative minister used his MPs’ expenses to pay for a pink laptop computer from John Lewis in the weeks leading up to Christmas.

House of Commons officials prevaricated over querying the £905.95 purchase for the Sony Vaio laptop by Tim Yeo on 29 November 2007 – eventually deciding against doing so because they could not see a “basis” for the query.

Mr Yeo, the MP for South Suffolk, put the bill for the item through under the Incidental Expenses Provision (IEP) which covers MPs’ office costs.

Marginal notes on the expenses documents by Fees Office staff first suggest: “Query pink laptop?” but another addition states: “No basis to question member etc.”

In 2007-8 Mr Yeo claimed a total of £153,358 in expenses, including travel, home, office and staffing costs. In the same year, he turned up for only 42 per cent of votes and spoke in four debates and asked 13 parliamentary questions.

Mr Yeo, the environment minister in John Major’s government, claimed the maximum possible amount under the Additional Cost Allowance (ACA) between 2004 and 2008 on his designated second home, a flat in a sought-after Thames-side tower block near Westminster.

The bulk of his claims under the ACA went on mortgage interest payments and service charges for the property but he also charged the taxpayer £1,790.20 on dry cleaning between 2004 and 2006.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. Ann Winterton -SCUM PARASITE

Sir Nicholas and Ann Winterton, the Conservative MPs, are to resign from parliament at the next election.

Expenses submitted by Sir Nicholas Winterton show he claimed for £41,508 in rent and his wife, Ann, claimed £41,584.

The couple will not run for re-election as the MPs for Macclesfield and Congleton.

In a letter to David Cameron, the Tory leader, the couple said that they could no longer “maintain the hectic pace” of political life and wanted to step down in order to spend more time with their family.

Their decision comes after the Telegraph disclosed that they claimed more than £80,000 in rent for a small London flat that was owned by a trust controlled by their children.

Expenses submitted by Sir Nicholas show he claimed for £41,508 in rent. His wife’s claims amounted to £41,584.

Since 2002 the Wintertons’ flat in Westminster has been owned by a trust which is controlled by their children.

The decision to pass the property into a family trust was reportedly designed to save hundreds of thousands of pounds in death duties.

The trustees are Sir Nicholas and Lady Winterton, together with the family’s lawyer. For four years the pair submitted rental claims of £900 a month each.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. Nicholas Winterton -PARASITE

Sir Nicholas and Ann Winterton, the Conservative MPs, are to resign from parliament at the next election.

Expenses submitted by Sir Nicholas Winterton show he claimed for £41,508 in rent and his wife, Ann, claimed £41,584.

The couple will not run for re-election as the MPs for Macclesfield and Congleton.

In a letter to David Cameron, the Tory leader, the couple said that they could no longer “maintain the hectic pace” of political life and wanted to step down in order to spend more time with their family.

Their decision comes after the Telegraph disclosed that they claimed more than £80,000 in rent for a small London flat that was owned by a trust controlled by their children.

Expenses submitted by Sir Nicholas show he claimed for £41,508 in rent. His wife’s claims amounted to £41,584.

Since 2002 the Wintertons’ flat in Westminster has been owned by a trust which is controlled by their children.

The decision to pass the property into a family trust was reportedly designed to save hundreds of thousands of pounds in death duties.

The trustees are Sir Nicholas and Lady Winterton, together with the family’s lawyer. For four years the pair submitted rental claims of £900 a month each.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. Julie Kirkbride -PARASITE

Andrew MacKay and Julie Kirkbride, the husband-and-wife Tory couple, claimed nearly £2,000 of taxpayers’ money in spouses’ allowances despite them both being MPs.

Despite them being married to each other, the couple both submitted claims under the spouses’ travel allowance.

Neither MP responded to calls yesterday, but spokesman for the House of Commons said that she assumed that the claims had been made to pay for the couple to attend official functions in their spouse’s constituency.

Mr McKay, a Parliamentary aide to David Cameron, the Conservative leader, represents Bracknell in Berkshire, while his wife is MP for Bromsgrove in Worcestershire.

Miss Kirkbride received £1,392 from the taxpayer to pay for Mr MacKay’s travel costs, while he claimed £408 on her behalf.

The couple are the only husband and wife couple to take advantage of the perk. Fellow Tories Sir Nicholas and Ann Winterton did not use it, and neither did Labour’s Alan and Ann Keen, or the Cabinet spouses, Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper.

(2009) Conservative M.P. Andrew Mackay -PARASITE

An aide to David Cameron has resigned after he and his fellow MP wife, Julie Kirkbride, claimed on their parliamentary expenses for both their homes.

Andrew Mackay became the first person to lose his job over the expenses scandal exposed by The Daily Telegraph.

He used his second home allowance to pay almost £12,000 a year in mortgage interest payments on their joint flat near Westminster.

Meanwhile his wife, Julie Kirkbride, the Tory MP for Bromsgrove, has used hers to pay off a similar amount on the loan for their family home in her constituency.

They were able to use public funds to pay for both as “second homes” for at least eight years, after Commons authorities agreed he could name the family home as his main residence while she named the London flat as hers.

This week Mr Mackay, who represents Bracknell in Berkshire, claimed there was “nothing unreasonable” in his expense claims, while Miss Kirkbride has previously said she wanted her address kept secret from admirers or people with a grievance against her.

Mr Mackay’s files were examined by Conservative party officials, who ruled that they were “unacceptable”.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. Peter Luff -PARASITE

A Conservative MP spent £17,000 of taxpayers’ money on furniture and other items for his two homes during a four-year period.

Peter Luff, MP for Mid-Worcestershire, made expenses claims for three lavatory seats, three food mixers, two microwaves, four beds, five tables, two ironing boards, three kettles and 10 sets of bed linen, the Daily Telegraph has reported.

He twice claimed for china dinner services, buying a £625 set in 2005 for his flat, before purchasing another for £367 less than three years late.

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(2009) Conservative Altaf Khan -GUILTY OF IMPERSONATION

Altaf Khan, 32, of Knolton Way, was found guilty of impersonation but not guilty of conspiracy to defraud the returning officer. He was jailed for four months.

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(2009) Conservative Arshad Raja -CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD

Arshad Raja, 53, of Broadmark Road, was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the returning officer. He was given an 18-month prison sentence.

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(2009) Conservative Gul Nawaz Khan -PERJURY

Gul Nawaz Khan, 58, of Richmond Crescent, pleaded guilty to perjury and was jailed for eight months.

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(2009) Conservative Party M.P. Raja Khan -FRAUD

Raja Khan, 52, of Oban Court, Montem Lane, was jailed for three and a half years after admitting conspiracy to defraud the returning officer and perjury.

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(2009) Conservative Party M.P. James Clappison -PARASITE

A shadow minister who owns 24 houses claimed more than £100,000 in expenses, including thousands for gardening and redecoration.

James Clappison, a work and pensions spokesman, used taxpayers’ money to buy petunias, geraniums and busy lizzies for his “second home”, part of a property portfolio that includes a farm and a cricket club.

Mr Clappison, the MP for Hertsmere, claimed the expenses for a semi-detached house worth about £375,000 in St Albans, Herts, where he lives with his wife Helen. He also spends time at a house in Leeds, which is worth about £360,000 and is registered to his wife. Neither property is mortgaged.

As well as his homes, he rents out 22 houses in North Humberside, five of which are registered jointly with his wife.

The properties are spread around the villages of Withernsea and Patrington, where Mr Clappison owns a farm and 75 acres of surrounding land inherited from his father, who was a farmer.

He also owns the ground of Patrington village cricket club. He sits on the

club’s committee as “president and proprietor”. He has built up his property interests steadily since being elected in 1992, when he took over the safe Tory seat from Cecil Parkinson, the former cabinet minister and close ally of Lady Thatcher.

According to the Commons register of members’ interests, he had five houses by 1998 and 14 four years later.

Since 2001, Mr Clappison has claimed a total of £102,241 in second home expenses. Because he owned the house in St Albans outright, he was unable to claim interest charges on mortgage repayments, as many MPs do on their second homes.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. Michael Spicer -GREEDY PARASITE

Sir Michael Spicer, the Conservatives’ most senior backbench MP, claimed £5,650 in nine months for his gardening bills – and maintaining a ‘helipad’.

The Conservative grandee submitted a detailed invoice in December 2006 which included ‘hedge cutting … helipad’, although he claimed last night that the latter element was a ‘family joke’. 

Sir Michael, 66, also successfully claimed for the costs of hanging a chandelier in his main manor house.

According to figures published by the Daily Telegraph, Sir Michael claimed £620 for the light fitting installation.

He also billed the taxpayer for £1,000 spent servicing an oven. 

The MP for West Worcestershire also put in claims for council tax on hiscountry home and the next door cottage. 

The total bill was almost £4,000. He has claimed a total of £106,141 on his main  constituency home, even though there is no mortgage on the property. 

The bills include £300 a month for a cleaner and a gardener who received £8 per hour for up to 55 hours a month. 

Another receipt for £609 included time spent cutting the hedge around the so-called ‘helipad’.

(2009) Conservative M.P. Stewart Jackson -LEECH ON THE BACK OF THE TAXPAYER

Stewart Jackson, a shadow minister, has claimed more than £66,000 for his family home, including hundreds of pounds on refurbishing his swimming pool.

The Tory communities spokesman switched his second home allowance to the £470,000 property in his constituency of Peterborough when he bought it in November 2005.

Mr Jackson, who was elected to Parliament only six months before he moved in, claimed £304 for work on the pool. After being approached by The Daily Telegraph he conceded that the claim “could be construed as excessive” and agreed to repay the money. He also billed the taxpayer for more than £11,000 in professional fees and costs incurred during the move. He went on to claim thousands more in new furniture, carpets and appliances for the new house.

The MP had previously rented a £168,000 terraced house in the constituency for about £475 per month. Since moving into the larger house he has claimed interest charges on its mortgage of between £1,500 and £1,700 per month.

While he has designated the property as his second home for expenses purposes, his profile on the Conservative Party website says that he and his wife Sarah O’Grady, a journalist for a national newspaper, “live in central Peterborough with their baby daughter Isabel”.

The couple also own a house in Ealing, west London, which they bought in 1998. It is unclear how much they paid. The house next door was sold in 2003 for £481,125.

Mr Jackson claimed for a long list of professional services when the family moved into their new house in Peterborough. He paid £1,336 in mortgage fees, £705 for a survey, £435 for insurance and £600 to his building society.

He also claimed for £1,836 in mortgage broker fees, £2,545 solicitors’ fees, £1,145.63 solicitors’ conveyancing costs and a £2,412 initial mortgage charge.

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(2009) Conservative M.P. Alan Hazelhurst -FILTHY PARASITE

Sir Alan Haselhurst, the Commons Deputy Speaker since 1997, has claimed £142,119 on his country home over the last seven years, despite having no mortgage.

The Saffron Walden MP charged the taxpayer almost £12,000 in five years for gardening bills at the Essex farmhouse.

According to the MP, he claimed £2,988 for gardening at the country mansion in 2007-08. 

Sir Alan claimed exactly £249 every month, just £1 below the limit for which receipts must be submitted.

That means the 71-year-old did not have to include invoices for the work. 

IN the four years until, the Deputy Speaker billed the taxpayer £11,771 for gardening at the house. 

According to the Telegraph, he charged £202 for shingle for his driveway, £638.91 for patio repairs, £2,199.60 for a replacement oil tank and £193 for having his chimney swept. 

Sir Alan also claimed for food at what is listed as his main family home. He also charges £2,677 in council tax for the property. 

Sir Alan said: ‘When I became Deputy Speaker in 1997 I was instructed by the fees office that I was now considered to be a quasi-minister based in London and so I had to claim my ACA on my constituency home, which is my family home.

(2009) Conservative Party M.P. Douglas Hogg PARASITE ON THE WORKER

Douglas Hogg, the former Conservative Cabinet Minister, has denied claiming the cost of clearing the moat at his country estate from taxpayers despite including the item on a list of expenses submitted to the authorities.

Mr Hogg wrote to the House of Commons authorities in 2003 that his expenses were so high that he could not submit receipts for every individual item as other MPs were required to do.

To justify his assertion, he sent a list – published by the Telegraph today – of all the costs involved in maintaining his country property to the parliamentary fees office, including “about £2,000” for cleaning the moat.

However, Mr Hogg insists he never meant for the public purse to pick up this cost.

Along with his claim he also included a 10 page submission for work including piano tuning and repairs to his stable lights.

On a detailed three page letter to officials, he wrote: “Whilst some items may be disputable as to whether they do or do not fall within the allowance, I would suggest that it is certain that allowable expenditure exceeds the allowance by a sizeable margin and consequently we need not spent too much time on debate.”

The fees office, which is supposed to be responsible for policing the second home allowance, permitted the Tory grandee to claim automatically 1/12 of his annual maximum allowance without submitting receipts for a number of years.

As public outrage grew over his claims, Mr Hogg defended his actions, saying: “It is true the system is clearly flawed.

Read on and watch the video of him try and explain himself: http://tinyurl.com/r8dn27 

Take a look at his mansion: http://tinyurl.com/oqxh2b

(2009) Conservative M.P. David Heathcoat-Amory -PARASITE

MPs’ expenses: David Heathcoat-Amory dumps 550 sacks of manure on taxpayer.

There were a total of 19 claims over a three-year period between 2004 and 2007, totalling £388.80. The highest single bill was for £45. The fees office did not query them.

According to one receipt, each bag cost 70p, which would mean more than 550 would have been used.

The MP also submitted gardening bills, listing £6 for the use of a chainsaw, £2 for mouse poison, £1.95 for sunflower seeds, £15 for moving rubbish and £5 for a wheelbarrow puncture.

Since 2004, Mr Heathcoat-Amory, the MP for Wells, Somerset, has claimed thousands of pounds to maintain his garden, including services like mowing and watering.

A receipt from October 2005 for “gardening services” showed he had paid for a total of 67-and-a-half hours’ work that month at a cost of £605.25

Between July and September 2007 he claimed £1,792.50 worth of invoices from a gardening business.

The same gardening business was paid £2,371.86 for the April to June quarter of 2008. On June 30 2008, the MP employed it for 13.75 hours in one day at a cost of £144.37

Mr Heathcoat-Amory also submitted a £986.17 bill for heating oil in January 2008. An earlier claim for heating oil totalled £858.

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(2009) The Whole Conservative Party

The corruption which infests Westminster is endemic at all levels of the Conservative Party, as evidenced by the jailing of yet another Tory councillor for stealing £36,000 to fund his trips to the Carlton Club and the Savoy Hotel in the hope it would help boost his career prospects.

Dorset Conservative councillor Daniel Smy, 35, racked up huge bills by enjoying chauffeur-driven trips to expensive restaurants and the exclusive Conservative gentleman’s club. According to court evidence, Mr Smy had dreams of becoming an MP and used the money to ingratiate himself with the upper echelons of the Tory party.

He claimed the exorbitant trips on expenses and forged cheques from a building society staff association he was in charge of to pay into his back account.

But his double life was exposed when the association treasurer checked the books and realised Mr Smy had racked up thousands of pounds in expenses.

He pleaded guilty to 10 counts of theft and forgery and was jailed for 12 months at Bournemouth Crown Court.

The hearing heard Smy was a councillor for West Dorset, the deputy chairman of the South Dorset Conservative Association and chairman of a parish council at the time. His day job was as the chairman of the Portman Building Society’s staff association, which was funded by workers’ subscriptions.

Realising the finance checking procedures were “lax” he started to claim back money for his jaunts to London. Alison England, prosecuting, said he enjoyed stays at the Savoy and Royal Horseguards hotels, a shopping excursion to Selfridges and a trip to the Carlton Club.

She said: “He was in a position of trust and he had the opportunity to claim expenses for travel, accommodation and food and the like. The treasurer became aware that the expenses being claimed weren’t of an appropriate level. Smy led a life of fine dining and expensive living by drinking and staying in hotels.”

Councillor Peter Reed, a former colleague of shamed Smy, said he had got carried away with his political ambitions. He said: “The Carlton Club is used by the upper echelons of the Tory party and Daniel Smy harboured ambitions of playing a role in national politics and was currying favour at the Carlton Club to try and improve his chances of a career in politics.

“When he was a councillor here it was obvious his ambitions lay beyond local politics. But he was leading this double life of trips to the light fantastic of London at weekends but doing it on the back of his fellow workers’ money.”

Smy carried out the 10 offences between 2003 and 2006. He asked for a further 86 offences to be taken into consideration by the court. The Reverend Jaqueline Birdseye, of Smy’s local parish church, said he had been involved with community projects and deserved another chance.

(2009) Conservative Cllr. Huw Elystan Davies -CHARGED WITH RAPE AND DRUG OFFENCES

A TEACHER appears before magistrates charged with rape and drugs offences.
Huw Elystan Davies, of Ewenny Road, Bridgend, also a town councillor in the area, had his case committed to Crown Court for trial.
The 37-year-old faces charges of rape, possessing cocaine and supplying cocaine at his home between November 16 and 17 last year.
He was released on conditional bail until his appearance at Cardiff Crown Court tomorrow.
Davies is head of Welsh at Brynteg Comprehensive School, Bridgend.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/04/19/wales-in-60-seconds-91466-23416441/

(2009) Conservative Cllr. Daneil Smy -THIEF

A FORMER Tory councillor has been jailed after spending £35,864 on “fine dining and expensive living” and claiming it back on expenses.

Daniel Smy visited London hotels and shops including the Savoy, Royal Horseguards and Selfridges, and claimed for a chauffeur-driven journey from Dorset to the Carlton Club, a court was told.

The former deputy chairman of South Dorset Conservative Association was sentenced to 12 months in prison at Bournemouth Crown Court yesterday. He pleaded guilty to 10 charges of theft and forgery as chairman of the Portman Building Society’s group staff association.

Smy, 35, of Mount Skippet Way, Crossways, was a West Dorset District Councillor when the 10 offences took place between 2003 and 2006.
Smy – who asked the court to take 86 further offences into consideration – is also ex-chairman of Crossways Parish Council.

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How the Parasites in Westminster Waste YOUR Taxes.

Quad bikes, window cleaning, beds, life insurance and mock Tudor fireplaces – these are just some of the things that the criminal pirates masquerading as Tory, Labour and Lib-Dem MPs at Westminster have claimed from your tax money as “benefits.”

Tory MP David Maclean claimed £3,300 for a quad bike which he claimed was necessary to get around his constituency in Cumbria. Not too surprisingly, Mr Maclean was also behind a failed bid to exempt MPs and peers from Freedom of Information laws that require public figures to reveal their expenses.

His fellow Tory MEP Giles Chichester sucked £500,000 into “office services” for a business – staffed by his own family and of which he was director. At the time, Mr Chichester had been appointed by Conservative leader David Cameron to ensure that Tory MEPs did not swindle the taxpayers.

Tory MP Derek Conway paid his sons, Henry and Freddie, £80,000 for being his “researchers.” Mr Conway was then exposed by the BNP’s spokesman on law and order, Mr Michael Barnbrook. Mr Conway was ordered to pay back a mere £13,160 after an enquiry found no evidence that Freddie did any research work for his father. He was ordered to cough up around £3,700 for Henry. Further investigations showed that the Conservative MP had spent more than £260,000 of taxpayer’s money in “salaries” to members of his immediate family over a six-year period.

Labour Party MP and former foreign secretary Margaret Beckett claimed more than £6,500 in allowances for gardening expenses at her home in Derby. This included bills for pruning shrubs, trimming the hedges and for dismantling and rebuilding a rockery. In 2006 she also tried to claim £600 in costs for her garden plants.

She was joined in this never-ending swindle by fellow Labour MP Barbara Follet who claimed £1,600 for window cleaning. To make matters worse, the invoices for the window cleaning were made out to her husband, well known fiction author Ken Follett.

Possibly the most outrageous swindler yet is Labour Minister Tony McNulty who claimed more than £60,000 for a “second home” which in fact is where his parents live. There is no excuse whatsoever for this blatant theft from the public purses, as Mr McNulty’s actual residence was only nine miles away from his parents’ house. Mr McNulty would have been arrested and charged with fraud under any normal financial regime.

Not to be outdone in the outrageous stakes was Liberal Democrat MP Mark Oaten. After he was forced to resign over a sex scandal involving male prostitutes, it transpired that he had claimed bedroom furniture and other household items from his Parliamentary allowance.

Labour’s former deputy Prime Minister John Prescott felt the need to redecorate his house in mock Tudor style, putting up reproduction panels and a beautiful fireplace. All very nice one might say — except that the taxpayer paid for all of it.

Labour husband and wife MP duo Alan and Ann Keen spent a mere £175,000 on a “second home” allowance to buy an apartment on the South Bank of the Thames — despite owning a home in Brentford, West London, which is only 30 minutes away by car. Mrs Keen also took out a joint life insurance policy worth £430,000 and claimed back the £867.57 a month premium on her expenses.

(2009) Conservative M.P. William Hague

William Hague claimed £61,995 in taxpayers’ cash to help pay for a £1million second home in London – while pocketing around £800,000 a year from part-time jobs.

The millionaire Shadow Foreign Secretary, who David Cameron refers to as his “deputy in all but name”, bought the penthouse in 2003 for £685,000.

Despite earning hundreds of thousands of pounds through lucrative book deals, after-dinner speeches and directorships, Mr Hague – who also owns a £1million apartment in Yorkshire – used his MP’s living allowance to pay his mortgage interest and £4,000-a-year service charge, including use of a gym.

Last week he boasted of not having a mortgage on either property.

In fact, the canny former Tory leader cleared the mortgage on the fourth-floor London penthouse in October …just as MPs realised they faced being forced to publish details of all their expenses.

His claim of £61,995 between April 2004 and March 2007 is close to the maximum of £64,646.

In 2006 alone Mr Hague, 48, claimed £13,626 in mortgage interest and £4,083 towards the service and maintenance costs of the apartment he shares with wife Ffion.

He is able to pocket the cash under the Additional Cost Allowance (ACA) given to MPs to help them with the interest on their mortgage, or their rent or hotel bills “when staying overnight away from their main home for the purpose of performing Parliamentary duties”.

The figures up to October 2008 are yet to be published, but it is believed he could have claimed another £35,000.

The complex where Mr Hague has his penthouse is home to celebrities, businessmen and City bankers. It has underground car-parking, a gym and 24-hour security.

Read on for more details and photographs of this crime against the People: http://tinyurl.com/d8mt2k

(2009) Conservative Cllr. Geraint Jones

A Tory councillor allegedly punched his neighbour in a longstanding feud.

Geraint Jones lost his temper and stormed up to the man “screaming and shouting”, before punching him in the head, a court heard.

Hinckley Magistrates’ Court was told the men had been arguing for years about neighbour Anthony Harrison having access to his home across Jones’s property.

The argument flared when Mr Harrison walked across Jones’s property to unload bags of granite chippings outside his home.

He said Jones hurled verbal abuse, then traced him to a nearby house where he was working and hit him.

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(2009) Conservative Cllr. Roger Ibbs

A senior city councillor has tonight been bailed after earlier being arrested in connection with a police inquiry into political corruption.

Officers from the Staffordshire Police Major Investigations Department arrested councillor Roger Ibbs this morning.

It is understood that police were called in by senior officers at Stoke-on-Trent City Council following a lengthy internal inquiry.

Police questioned a 61-year-old man on suspicion of corruption in public office before bailing him tonight.

Mr Ibbs, of Kingsway, Stoke, is the leader of the Conservative and Independent Alliance group on the city council and the portfolio holder for children and young people’s services.

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(2009) David Charles -PAEDOPHILE

A PAEDOPHILE councillor admitted a string of child pornography charges – two-and-a-half years after being arrested.

David Charles, 60, from Cranham, pleaded guilty to 16 counts of possessing vile images of youngsters, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.

Charles, a councillor in the St Andrew’s ward in Hornchurch, quit the Conservative Party following his arrest at home by officers from the Havering child abuse investigation team in June 2006. Since then he has been an independent councillor.

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(2009) Conservative Lord Laidlaw

An announcement was made from Monaco about a tax exile peer who has stopped bankrolling the Tories to “spare David Cameron embarrassment.”

Lord Laidlaw of Rothiemay has lent or donated around £5 million to the party, even though he is based in Monaco to avoid paying tax in Britain. Now the 66-year-old peer — caught taking part in an orgy with prostitutes last year — has decided to end his financial backing “until he has sorted out his tax issues.”

The multi-millionaire tycoon has been rebuked by the watchdog Lords Appointments Commission for failing to keep his promise when he was ennobled in 2004 to register as a UK resident. Faced with an estimated tax bill of £50 million, he chose to suspend his membership of the Lords in 2007.

The affair has been a running sore for the Tories because Lord Laidlaw, who almost single-handedly bankrolled the party in Scotland, was seen as having been given a peerage because of his financial support.

Electoral Commission figures show the Tories continued to accept donations from him last year, including £25,000 to Boris Johnson’s campaign to become London mayor.

The financial arrangements of members of the Lords were already in the spotlight after four Labour peers were accused of offering to change laws in return for cash. 

(2008) Conservative Cllr. Mohammed Aziz -ELECTION FRAUD

THE DEPUTY Mayor of Slough, who was charged in connection with election fraud this week, has been suspended with immediate effect by the local Conservative party. 

The Slough Conservative Councillor Group and the Slough Conservative Association announced this morning (Thursday) the suspension of Cllr Mohammed Aziz pending the outcome of the criminal proceedings being brought against him.

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(2009) Conservative Cllr. Alan Winkworth

A mayor has stood down after a series of claims that he turned up drunk to civic events – and even had to be carried out of a council meeting. 

Residents’ Association councillor Alan Winkworth, mayor of Epsom and Ewell, announced he was standing down for a month after two formal complaints were made of his being drunk in public office.

Onlookers called his behaviour ’embarrassing’. 

He was said to have turned up drunk to a full council meeting and an official party to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Playhouse theatre in Epsom last Friday – when his speeech was said by guests to be ‘incoherent’.

(2009) Conservative Cllr. Jez Baker

***UPDATE***

(2009) A former Portsmouth councillor was filmed taking two bribes in return for helping planning applications, a court has heard.

Jezz Baker, 47, of Cosham, denies two charges of corruption relating to his time on the city’s planning committee.

He was filmed taking £250 and a bottle of wine and £500, jurors were told.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7865888.stm 

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Conservative councillor Jezz Baker has been arrested by police over allegations of corruption, it has been revealed. Jezz Baker, who is a member of the city’s planning committee, was arrested on Tuesday by detectives investigating a complaint by a member of the public. Mr Baker, of East Cosham, is the Conservative councillor for Hilsea. Police would only confirm that a 45-year-old man had been arrested by police investigating an allegation of corruption in public office. http://tinyurl.com/3lho2d

(2008) Conservative Cllr. David Elderton

A CONSERVATIVE councillor has paid a former colleague £6,000 after he was hit with a libel action.

David Elderton, who represents Wirral’s West Kirby and Thurstaston Ward, made allegations via email about Margaret Kalil in September 2006.

His allegations of financial impropriety and gross incompetence about the former chairwoman of West Wirral Tories came to light after a bitterly fought re-selection process for local elections.

In the out-of-court settlement the councillor issued an unreserved apology and now faces paying Mrs Kalil’s legal costs after admitting the allegations were unfounded.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2008/03/26/tory-councillor-i-m-sorry-for-my-email-libel-100252-20675427/

(2009) Conservative Cllr. Ian McKellar

A FORMER Conservative councillor has admitted downloading more than 1,700 indecent images of children.

Ian McKellar, of Sandy Lane, West Kirby, pleaded guilty to eight offences of making indecent images before May 11, 2006.

Liverpool crown court heard the images involved 1,639 images in the lowest category and the other 83 were in the next three more serious categories.

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(2007) Conservative Andrew Pelling -Alleged Assault

The political career of a Tory MP who was arrested after allegedly assaulting his pregnant wife is in tatters as he faces a battle to keep his seat.

Andrew Pelling, 48, the MP for Central Croydon, was arrested on Tuesday after a complaint by his wife, Lucy, 26, who is seven weeks pregnant. She left the home that they shared in South London on Sunday.

After the incident, Mr Pelling was released on bail until October 1. Mrs Pelling, who is believed to have taken out an injunction banning her husband from further contact with her, said yesterday that she would “absolutely not” go back to him.

“This is it now,” she said. “The marriage was unhappy from the outset. I’m just very, very upset at the moment. I can’t go into any details because I don’t want to prejudice a possible court case. I just want to get on with my life now – I’ve got a baby to think about.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2500769.ece 

(2009) Conservative Youth Leader Matt Lewis

Matt Lewis, a member of Conservative Future, boasted that his “bad taste party outfit” included a blonde wig, pink pyjamas, a teddy bear and a vial of fake blood.

Other figures from the same organisation joined in the tasteless joke about the missing girl in exchanges on a social networking website.

One asked Mr Lewis: “Is this a cunning Baldrick style plan to obtain the reward money?”

Another friend of Mr Lewis said he planned to dress up as Robert Murat, the man who was wrongly accused of complicity in Madeleine’s disappearance.

And others suggested going as the wife and daughter of Josef Fritzl, who were kept imprisoned in a cellar in Amstetten, Austria.

On New Year’s Day, after the party, Mr Lewis sent a message to another Conservative Future member which said: “There was a brief moment when I thought I might have gone too far with elements of the costume but it was OK – someone else was Baby P.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/4209451/Young-Tory-dressed-up-as-Madeleine-McCann-for-New-Year-bad-taste-bash.html

(2009) Conservative Cllr. Lee Wagner -PAEDOPHILE

Tunstall councillor Lee Wanger was found guilty of encouraging the spread of internet child porn after logging on to a website under investigation.

He was fined £250 and placed on the sex offenders’ register for five years at Derby Crown Court on Thursday.

Brian Ward from the Independent group says he may have to leave his position.

Wanger, from Ladywell Road, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, was charged for logging on to a website which was being investigated by police, although officers failed to find any indecent images on his computer.

He was found guilty of incitement to distribute indecent photographs of children between 1 June and 31 July 1999.

Disgracefully, convicted paedophile and Deputy Leader of the Conservative and Independent Alliance Group in the city, Cllr Lee Wanger is allowed to nominate and vote in the school governor process even though he is on the sex offender’s register.

(2009) Conservative candidate Haroon Rashid

A Conservative candidate, from Buckinghamshire, who was contesting a marginal seat at the last general election conspired with five other men to ‘rig’ the result, a court has heard.

Haroon Rashid hoped to win the West Bradford seat by using bogus postal vote applications, Leeds Crown Court was told.

Prosecuting, Mr Gordon Cole QC, told the jury the plan was ‘very simple, illegal and dishonest.’

He said: ‘Had the conspiracy continued on through to the end, had it been successful, Haroon Rashid may very well have been elected as Member of Parliament and been sitting in the House of Commons.’

Rashid, 38, of Richings Way, Iver, Mohammed Sultan, 51, of Toller Lane, Bradford, Mohammed Rafiq, 68, of Cecil Avenue, Bradford, Reis Khan, 39, of Whetley Hill, Bradford and Jamshed Khan, 64, of Russell Street, Bradford, all deny conspiracy to defraud the electoral registration officer of Bradford City Council.

Another man, Alyas Khan, has admitted the charge, the jury was told.

Mr Cole told the jury the case involved Postal Vote Applications and a conspiracy to submit fraudulent applications.

Mr Cole said the defendants falsely registered individuals to vote on the electoral register, using the names of people who did not live at the addresses to which they were registered.

The plan was to ‘harvest’ the bogus votes, he added.

He said they hoped to ‘rig’ the system ‘so that Haroon Rashid could and would get elected’

The trial continues

The jury was told the conspiracy failed and the sitting MP was re-elected by just over 3,000 votes.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2852994.ece

(2008) Conservative Activist John Hall -ELECTORAL FRAUD

A Tory activist has been convicted of trying to rig a local election. John Hall, 67, chairman of Whiteley Conservative Association, was found guilty of one count of electoral fraud at Guildford Crown Court last week.

Hall, of Coriander Way, Whiteley, near Fareham, was fined £1,015 which he paid immediately by credit card.

Sentencing him, Judge Neil Stewart said that had he been convicted of all the four counts with which he had been charged, he would have considered sending the Tory to prison.

http://tinyurl.com/82lngq

(2007) Conservative Ben Redsell -SEXUAL ASSAULT

A SUFFOLK county councillor’s career has been left in tatters after he pleaded guilty to a sex assault and a string of child pornography offences – despite previously maintaining his innocence.

Ben Redsell, 28, of Melton, near Woodbridge, admitted sexual assaulting a 19-year-old woman, seven counts of making indecent pictures of children and three counts of possessing indecent pictures of children.

The town, district and county councillor for Woodbridge had previously pleaded not guilty to the offences and in November said: “I maintain my innocence and I will be fighting all these charges.”

But standing in the dock at Norwich Crown Court yesterday,Redsell pleaded guilty to each of the 11 counts read out to him.

He admitted sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, at her home on August 24 last year following a night out at The Hippodrome in Colchester.

http://tinyurl.com/9ojxrh

(2008) Conservative A.M. Nick Bourne

A KEY ally of the besieged Welsh Conservative leader Nick Bourne tried to secure a “gentleman’s agreement” aimed at silencing criticism of AMs’ expense claims, it emerged last night.

Mr Bourne is under pressure to resign following revelations that he spent £229 of public money on an iPod music player, saying it was to help him learn Welsh, as well as £5,003.46 on “essential work” on his bathroom and £119.99 on a trouser press.

Last night an AM, who preferred not to be named, told the Western Mail: “William Graham [the Tories’ Chief Whip at the National Assembly] was very keen to bury the expenses issue, knowing it was very damaging to the Conservative group. He wanted a gentleman’s agreement under which AMs of all parties would agree not to criticise others over their expense claims.

“I certainly would not have been prepared to go along with such an agreement.”

http://tinyurl.com/6ffvry

(2008) Conservative Cllr. Maria Gatland

Maria Gatland stepped down from her post at Croydon Council after being exposed as the author of a “kiss and tell” book that detailed her relationships with figures in the provisionals, written under her maiden name Maria McGuire. 

Her secret past emerged following cryptic comments at a public meeting from a local Save Our Schools campaigner, who referred to the cabinet member for children, young people and learners as “Councillor McGuire”. 

The man, Peter Latham, then apologised for his comment, but added that he was a devotee of Irish history and had been reading a book about the IRA which “you, Councillor Gatland, might have heard about as you are Irish”. 

Croydon Council said news of Miss Gatland’s experience with the IRA came as a “complete shock”. She has been suspended from the local authority’s ruling Conservative group pending an investigation. 

http://tinyurl.com/6je8db

(2008) Conservative Cllr. Patrick Chung

A councillor fined £15,000 after three illegal immigrants were arrested working in his Chinese restaurant earlier this year has appealed.

The Canton Restaurant, run by Cllr Patrick Chung and his family, in Hatter Street, Bury St Edmunds, was just one of four takeaways raided by border and immigration officials in August, when a total of 10 workers were arrested.

http://tinyurl.com/5vovyj

(2008) Conservative M.E.P. Den Dover

A senior Tory MEP was last night thrown out of the party as he faced a fraud investigation over an expenses scandal.

Brussels chiefs have already ruled that Den Dover is guilty of a ‘conflict of interest’ and ‘unaccountable expenditure’ by paying his staffing allowance to a family firm run from his £1million home.

David Cameron had previously expressed his determination to root out MPs and MEPs who abuse their expenses and allowances.

So hours after learning that Mr Dover had been censured, the Tory leader took the toughest action open to him.

Mr Dover can only be stripped of his seat by voters, but he has been expelled from the party and will be unable to seek re-election as a Tory.

The case has also been referred to the European anti-fraud unit OLAF.

In June, Mr Dover was forced to resign as Tory chief whip in Brussels after admitting that he paid £750,000 of taxpayers’ money to MP Holdings, a company he set up after joining the European Parliament in 1999.

His wife Kathleen, 68, and daughter Amanda, 20, were handed £272,000 as directors.

EU officials said there was a conflict of interest involved because the former Chorley MP had an ‘economic interest, or any shared interest, with the beneficiary’ of the public money.

Mr Dover, 70, also spent £32,400 on repairs to the MP Holdings’ headquarters, located at his home in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire.

http://tinyurl.com/6ceol2

(2008) Former Conservative Mayor Allan Vizor

A FORMER Newton Abbot mayor has been arrested by police investigating an allegation he sexually assaulted a man.

Town councillor Allan Vizor, 63, of Newcross Park, Kingsteignton, has been questioned by police after a complaint was made to officers.

He was formally arrested under a section of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 after attending Torquay police station on the morning of Wednesday last week.

http://tinyurl.com/6q5onr 

(2008) Conservative Cllr. David Kirton

(2008) A Tory councillor was last night behind bars after being charged with raping and sexually abusing a girl of 13. Married step-dad David Kirton, 55, was remanded in custody by magistrates after being arrested at the weekend following complaints from the alleged victim. Police confirmed: “A 55-year-old man has been remanded in custody prior to appearance at crown court. “He was charged with offences under the Sexual Offences Act, including rape and sexual assault.” 

http://tinyurl.com/44ofw6

(2008) Convervative Cllr. David Bourne

Husband of Carol Bourne (see details outlined below). 

(2008) Conservative Cllr. Carol Bourne

Two married Conservative councillors have been suspended amid allegations they have been hosting group sex sessions at their Wolverhampton home. To their neighbours, David and Carol Bourne are pillars of the community. Both represent Wednesfield North and have been heralded as leading lights in the campaign to triumph in the next general election. Their future is uncertain after being suspended, amid allegations they have been inviting people to their Merry Hill home to take part in sex acts. Reports have claimed that the pair have been charging people up to £150 to take part in lewd activities behind the curtains of their immaculate end-of-terrace house in Telford Gardens. The couple are alleged to have advertised their “services” in an adult magazine using the same contact number as their political websites. One shocked neighbour, who did not want to be named, said the Bournes appeared to be a respectable couple. 

http://tinyurl.com/562eb9

(2008) Conservative Cllr. Liam Smith

A senior councillor who hurled a ‘homophobic’ insult at a political rival’s mother has been cautioned by police. Deputy leader of Barking and Dagenham council Liam Smith is said to have told the 60-year-old ‘shut up you f***ing fat dyke’ and ‘go back to the farmyard’ after a trivial argument in the council chamber. The Labour councillor lost his temper after watching the Conservatives snatch a seat in a by-election last month. 

http://tinyurl.com/6e7dcz 

(2008) Former Conservative Cllr. Paul Peccioli

(2008) A former Tory councillor held his internet lover prisoner when she tried to end their relationship. Paul Peccioli, 55, “reacted badly” when Julia Pickup, whom he met online, told him she thought they should stop seeing each other, a court heard. When Miss Pickup, 51, told him that their six-month relationship was over he banged his head against a wall then held up an airgun, telling Miss Pickup he would “deck her if she was a man”, Leicester Crown Court was told. The court heard that over the next few days Peccioli, a former Conservative member of Daventry District Council, slapped Miss Pickup’s legs and threatened to take an overdose. http://tinyurl.com/6xj796

(2008) Conservative Alan Preest

A Gloucestershire county councillor has resigned his position on the county’s police authority after accepting a caution for theft. Alan Preest, a Conservative councillor, was arrested on Friday in connection with an incident at a supermarket in Lydney and cautioned. A Gloucestershire Police Authority spokesman said the councillor had resigned with immediate effect. Mr Preest was unavailable for comment on Saturday. He represents the Lydney North Ward of the county council. http://tinyurl.com/5ntd72

(2008) Ex-Conservative Cllr. Abdul Razaq

ANOTHER former Peterborough city councillor stood in disgrace yesterday after being found guilty of cheating his way to election victory by forging votes.

Ex-Conservative Abdul Razaq is facing the almost certain prospect of jail after a jury convicted him of setting up a vote-rigging “production line” to guarantee success in the 2004 council elections.

The 52-year-old Peterborough Regional College lecturer becomes the fifth person, and the second former councillor, to be convicted of electoral fraud for interfering with votes in the city’s Central ward.

Earlier this year, Mohammed Choudhary, who became Peterborough’s first Asian mayor in 1997, was jailed for nine months after he was found guilty of forgery.

http://tinyurl.com/5l8te2

(2008) Conservative Cllr. Robert Benson

A Conservative councillor in Harrow has appeared in court charged with engaging in sexual activity in a public lavatory. Robert Benson did not enter a plea at Harrow Magistrates’ Court last week. He has been suspended from the party but remains a councillor. Council leader David Ashton told the Harrow Observer: “Firstly, this is a matter for the courts. Secondly, as Conservative group leader, I have suspended Councillor Benson from the group. “If somebody is charged with a criminal offence, they are suspended as part of our standard procedure.” Mr Benson, 41, is accused of giving oral sex to another man in a public toilet in south Harrow on June 25th. He was arrested and bailed until July 8th, when he was charged. A 56-year-old from Essex man was issued with a caution. Mr Benson’s case will be heard on 30th July at Wimbledon Magistrates Court.

http://tinyurl.com/62aasz 

Conservative Cllr. Max Drury

(2008) A CITY councillor who told police “I’m a councillor not a yobbo” is being investigated by Chester City Council following a complaint to the ethics and standards committee. Deputy Labour group leader Bob Rudd has made an official complaint about Cllr Max Drury to head of legal services Charles Kerry, alleging the former Tory has brought the office of councillor into disrepute. Cllr Drury was found guilty of harassing his former business partner, James Meadows, and Chester magistrates heard that when challenged about his conduct the councillor claimed he was above suspicion because of his position as councillor. http://tinyurl.com/5hahb5

(2008) Conservative Candidate Ian Oakley

The Tory Party’s Parliamentary candidate for Watford, who quit following his arrest by officers probing a three-year hate campaign, has now been told he should stand down as a councillor.

Yesterday, the Watford Observer exclusively revealed Ian Oakley had been arrested and then bailed by police investigating the harassment of several Liberal Democrat councillors in the town.

Mr Oakley was arrested on Friday and a Conservative spokesman last night confirmed he had stood down as the party’s parliamentary candidate for Watford.

Now there have been calls for Mr Oakley to stand down as a councillor in Northwood.

http://tinyurl.com/6f7u9w

Update 14/10/08

The Conservative party was urged yesterday to conduct an inquiry into a hate campaign carried out by one of its former parliamentary candidates against his Liberal Democrat opponents.

Ian Oakley, 31, who was selected in the Labour-held seat of Watford in 2006, was sentenced yesterday to 18 weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months.

   St Albans magistrates said his “vile and persistent” campaign, including harassment and criminal damage aimed at dozens of Lib Dem supporters and councillors, was an attempt “to pervert the democratic process”. Calling for the inquiry, his principal target, Sal Brinton, the Lib Dem candidate for Watford, said the Tories locally and nationally have never apologised nor responded in any way since Oakley pleaded guilty in August.

http://tinyurl.com/5w5lqm

(2008) Conservative Cllr. Stephen Mullins

A former Tory politician has been jailed for six and a half years for five sex offences involving three girls, including one charge of rape.

Stephen Mullins, 52, formerly of Links Avenue, Hellesdon, was sentenced at Norwich Crown Court today .

The former head chef in the kitchen of the Bull pub in Reepham Road, Hellesdon had earlier admitted two offences of indecent assault against one girl under 14, rape involving the same girl, sexual assault on another girl aged 14 and assault on another young girl.

Mullins was a member of Norwich North Conservative Association for about two years and a Hellesdon parish councillor for about the same time.  

http://tinyurl.com/5q6hcy 

WE ESPECIALLY WANT THE PHOTOGRAPH OF THIS MONSTER. Thanks in advance for any forthcoming help. 

(2008) Conservative Cllr. Graham Sinclair

A TORY councillor will become the fourth elected representative in Waltham Forest to appear before a court since September.

Former Conservative group deputy leader Graham Sinclair, who represents the Chingford Green ward, is accused of benefit fraud, along with his wife Deborah de la Nougerede.

The couple have allegedly claimed about £8,000 in income support, housing benefit and council tax benefit despite Cllr Sinclair receiving a member’s allowance.

http://tinyurl.com/6xewsj

Conservative Cllr. Edward Blunt

Edward Blunt, the Conservative councillor for Ibstock. He is at present facing court on a drink drive charge. His attendance record is at just over 40% and each meeting attended cost the local council tax payers £515.43

(2008) Conservative Cllr. Darren Gilbert

A newly elected Tory councillor has resigned after he allegedly made up claims that he had been suffering from cancer.

Darren Gilbert, 22, was elected to represent Hatfield Central on Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council during the local elections last Thursday.

But Mr Gilbert yesterday resigned from the post after it was alleged he made up claims that he was suffering from cancer while employed by Tesco.

Mr Gilbert from Hatfield, Hertfordshire, had been employed at the Welham Green depot from November 2003 until last year.

A supermarket source, who didn’t wish to be named, said Mr Gilbert had resigned ahead of a disciplinary hearing.

He said the former Tory councillor had made up claims that he had been suffering from testicular cancer.

He said that Mr Gilbert had even created a forged letter claiming to be from a Harley Street clinic detailing his illness.

A Tesco spokesman confirmed that Mr Gilbert had worked for the supermarket giant, but said it was not possible to comment on the employment records of former staff.

http://tinyurl.com/6ezokh 

(2008) Conservative – Jon Herbert

When district councillor Jon Herbert’s dog escaped and was taken to a local pound he was desperate to get his beloved pet back.

But when South Norfolk Council staff asked him to stump up the necessary fee to collect the stray, a row ensued which culminated in the 52-year-old former chief executive of Norwich Union International attempting to seize his chocolate Labrador and assaulting two members of staff caring for his pet.

Herbert was yesterday found guilty of two counts of common assault and ordered to pay a total of £1,315 after witnesses described how he became “aggressive and downright rude” when he arrived to pick up his errant pet from Meadowgreen Rescue Centre and Kennels at Hales Green, near Loddon, on February 7. He had denied the charges.

http://tinyurl.com/5r3wjd

Conservative Cllr. Ken Bartram

(2008) A leading Tory councillor has been arrested on suspicion of possessing child pornography.
Divorced father-of-three Ken Bartram, 63, a church organist, had his flat raided by Scotland Yard.
It is believed a stash of more than 50 DVDs and a mobile phone containing various images were seized. http://tinyurl.com/5df8tr

Conservative ex-Cllr. Suresh Kumar

An ex-Tory councillor asked two businessmen in London for £20,000 in bribes to help them with a property development, jurors heard.
Suresh Kumar, 44, even suggested half the money should be paid into his local party, Southwark Crown Court heard.
But his demands were secretly taped by an undercover reporter, it is alleged. http://tinyurl.com/6yc9gl

Conservative Cllr. Max Drury

(2008) Cllr Drury was found guilty of harassing his former business partner, James Meadows, and Chester magistrates heard that when challenged about his conduct the councillor claimed he was above suspicion because of his position as councillor. The court heard that on one occasion Cllr Drury, who has since resigned from the Conservative Party, turned up at the victim’s house and threatened: “My brothers from Wrexham are going to come down and kill you.” He is also being investigated for bringing the council into “disrepute”. http://tinyurl.com/5hahb5

271. Giles Chichester M.E. P.

(2008) Giles Chichester has resigned as leader of David Cameron’s Conservative Euro MPs after breaking European Parliament rules on political expenses. He threw in the towel after facing an ultimatum from Mr Cameron to justify channelling more than £400,000 in staff allowances to a family business of which he is a paid director. http://tinyurl.com/66a5ng

(2008) Conservative Cllr. Stanley Vyce

(2008) Councillor Stanley Vyce (North Somerset Council) was found guilty of drink-driving. At court it was revealed that 28-year-old Mr Vyce, of Newlands Green, Clevedon, had 52 microgrammes of alcohol in 100ml of breath – the limit is 35mg. http://tinyurl.com/6olo7g

269. Cllr. Peter O'Brian

(2008) Councillor Peter O’Brian, 46, formally of Drakes Way, Hatfield, was SPARED JAIL and given a three-year community order at Cheshunt Magistrates’ Court and is attending rehabilitation for his sick addiction. The ex-councillor pleaded guilty to 11 counts of making indecent images of children and two counts of possessing indecent images of children. http://tinyurl.com/5h2gz8

268. Cllr. Roger Kerslake

A councillor who has been charged with drink-driving has quit the Tory group on Torbay Council. But Shiphay councillor Roger Kerslake, who is deputy chairman of Torbay’s licensing committee, has said he will stay on the council. http://tinyurl.com/3g7cg2

267. Cllr. Mark McCarthy

A WORTHING councillor has been charged with indecently assaulting a boy under the age of 14. Mark McCarthy, 36, of Offington Drive, has been charged with two counts of indecent assault on a boy aged under 14 between February 27, 2002, and December 31, 2002. http://tinyurl.com/4ltorf Or you can read about his appalling drunken exploits: http://tinyurl.com/6z8nv2

266. Derek Conway M.P.

Shamed MP Derek Conway bowed to intense pressure to quit and save his party further embarrassment and damage from the row over his payment of hundreds of thousands of pounds of public funds to his wife and two sons. http://tinyurl.com/3znlkr His spoilt homosexual son, Henry, held a party entitled: “F**k Off I’m Rich” http://tinyurl.com/4wh92g

A look at the Liars, Buggers and Thieves blog gives a brilliant and in-depth insight into this particular Enemy: http://liarsbuggersandthieves.blogspot.com/2008/01/conservative-mp-who-paid-15million-to.html 

265. Cllr. Chris Chapman

Conservative councillor Chris Chapman has offered to resign after bragging about taking drugs and stealing on a public forum. http://tinyurl.com/3rdlrl

263. Cllr. Eshaq Khan

(2008) A Tory councillor was found guilty of using bogus postal votes to ensure he was voted into office in Slough. Eshaq Khan and his electoral team were found to have created hundreds of false names in the weeks running up to the 3 May election and entered them on the electoral register for the ward, the court heard. http://tinyurl.com/2gqq8y

262. Cllr. Altaf Adalat

A COVENTRY councillor, whose cousin fiddled votes in his election, has rejected demands for his resignation. Tory city councillor Altaf Adalat scraped home in the election in May 2006 by just six votes. His relative, Iftikhar Hussain, was convicted of placing fraudulent votes by using the identities of two other people. http://tinyurl.com/4px7gc

261. Cllr. Gordon Terry

An Ipswich councillor Gordon Terry was suspended and disqualified for a year. An adjudication panel found the Conservative breached the code of conduct by taking part in a committee meeting on the local plan. http://tinyurl.com/3plnl3

260. Cllr. Douglas Pallet

Tory Party Councillor (Colchester, Essex) Douglas Pallet convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm in 1998 after waging an 18-month campaign of stalking and harassment against his former mistress, Lynda Guglielmi. Following the break-up of their relationship, Pallett began his deranged vendetta by painting graffiti all over Colchester calling Mrs Guglielmi a “whore”. He then sent her a stream of obscene, sexually explicit and racist letters made from cutting out letters from newspapers. Not content with this, the Tory nutcase went on to distribute self-made cards in telephone boxes near to Mrs Guglielmi’s house containing her home contact details, offering the sale of illicit drugs and her services as a prostitute (needless to say, the perfectly respectable Mrs Guglielmi, a postmistress, has no involvement in either vice or narcotics of any kind). The court heard how Pallet’s psychotic hate campaign had turned Mrs Gulielmi from being a ”strong, calm, and composed” person into a “despairing neurotic” needing counselling and anti-depressants. Sentence on Pallet was adjourned for psychiatric reports and he was remanded in custody. http://tinyurl.com/4cph5y

259. Cllr. Ian Strong

Tory Councillor Ian Strong of Weymouth, Dorset, pleaded guilty to causing Darren Dougherty actual bodily harm. Mr Strong resigned his seat on Weymouth and Portland Borough Council in August following his election to the Wey Valley Ward in June. http://tinyurl.com/3jmp6l

258. Cllr. David Hart

Tory Councillor (Bradley Stoke, Bristol) David Hart was convicted on 2 counts of theft in 2007 after forging a fellow councillor’s signature to steal almost £9,000 of taxpayers’ money from the council while he was chairman of the Finance Committee on Bradley Stoke Town Council. He was given 180 hours community service and ordered to repay some of the stolen money. Hart also had a previous conviction for forgery from 1998, which apparently did not deter local Tories from appointing him to such an important position of trust

257. Cllr. Iain Catto

Tory Party Councillor (Lothian, Scotland) Iain Catto was convicted of theft and jailed for 27 months in 2006 after ripping off a disabled man to the tune of £70,000 after he had befriended Catto (a solicitor) and trusted him to handle his finances. http://tinyurl.com/4t7vpw

256. Cllr. David Ball

Tory Party Councillor (Winnersh, Berkshire) David Ball was convicted in 2004 of illegal trading involving computer chips and pirated computer games, and contempt of court. Fined £2,000. http://tinyurl.com/3gfwp5

255. Christian Sweeting

Tory Party 2001 Parliamentary Candidate (Torbay) Christian Sweeting was charged with a firearms offence during the 2001 election campaign, which was later dropped. Properties linked to Mr Sweeting and another Conservative member were later raided by Devon and Cornwall Fraud Squad in relation to alleged corruption involving planning matters in Torbay. http://tinyurl.com/4ojpm2

254. Cllr. Riasat Khan

Tory Party councillor (Woking, Surrey) Riasat Khan –Currently the subject of a police ballot-rigging investigation relating to his 2004 election ‘victory’ in the town’s Labour stronghold ward of Maybury and Sheerwater. http://tinyurl.com/46oohl

253. Cllr. Anthony Bays

Tory Party Councillor and former Mayor (Lambeth, London) Anthony Bays was convicted and jailed for 4 months in 2004 for Electoral fraud committed during a close-run council election in Guilford, Surrey. The court heard how Bays had bullied an 80-year-old woman into handing over her ballot paper and then altered her vote for the Lib-Dem candidate into a Tory vote. The Lib-Dems (not averse to a bit of ballot-rigging themselves on occasion) won the election anyway after a recount. http://tinyurl.com/53c7x5

252. Cllr. John Dainty

Tory Party Councillor (Doncaster) John Dainty OBE was convicted and jailed for 15 months in 2002 for corruption. Dainty, who was the leader of the Tory group on the council, was caught taking a £5,000 bribe from a local landowner to facilitate a planning application for a lucrative housing development in 1994. http://tinyurl.com/4xb6lm

251. Cllr. Suresh Kumar

Tory Party Councillor (Redbridge, Essex) Suresh Kumar was suspended from the council’s Conservative group in 2005 following newspaper allegations he demanded bungs of up to £10,000 to support local planning applications. Councillor Kumar is quoted telling undercover News of the World reporter posing as a property developer: “Only people with power sort out these jobs. Brother, the Council is my own, the people are mine.” http://tinyurl.com/456mgb

250. Jeffery Archer M.P.

Former Tory Party Chairman and London Mayoral Candidate Jeffrey Archer was convicted and jailed for 4 years in 2001 for Perjury and Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice. http://tinyurl.com/2eqyr6

249. Cllr. Dame Shirley Porter

Former Tory Leader of Westminster Council Dame Shirley Porter fled to Israel to evade justice after indulging in fraud, corruption and gerrymandering on a massive scale, during what became known as the “Homes for Votes” scandal. Multi-millionairess Porter was eventually persuaded to pay back £12 MILLION of the estimated £42 MILLION that the Tory’s corruption had cost local taxpayers. Her fellow fraudster, Tory Deputy Leader on the Council, David Weeks, also escaped a jail sentence, but was forced to pay back £44,000. http://tinyurl.com/3j2n7a

Cllr. Dame Shirley Porter

Former Tory Leader of Westminster Council Dame Shirley Porter fled to Israel to evade justice after indulging in fraud, corruption and gerrymandering on a massive scale, during what became known as the “Homes for Votes” scandal. Multi-millionairess Porter was eventually persuaded to pay back £12 MILLION of the estimated £42 MILLION that the Tory’s corruption had cost local taxpayers. Her fellow fraudster, Tory Deputy Leader on the Council, David Weeks, also escaped a jail sentence, but was forced to pay back £44,000. http://tinyurl.com/3j2n7a

248. Cllr. Colin Kiddell

Tory Party Councillor (Margate) Colin Kiddell was forced to resign in 2004 after police investigation into his alleged theft and embezzlement of funds from the local Dreamland Amusement Park. http://tinyurl.com/4o3cyk

247. Cllr. Reis Khan

Tory Party Councillor (Bradford, Yorkshire) Reis Khan was arrested in 2005 following long running police investigation into postal vote fraud at the 2005 General Election. Khan is the second Bradford Tory councillor to be held on suspicion of ballot-rigging in 2005, following the previous arrest of Councillor Jamshed Khan, after it emerged that 13 postal vote applications had been received for his home. This case was later dropped. http://tinyurl.com/3f3d8m

Isaac Leibowitz

Tory Party Councillor (Hackney, London) Isaac Leibowitz was convicted and jailed for 6 months in 2001 for Electoral Fraud. http://tinyurl.com/3uymv9

245. Cllr. Gul Nawaz

Tory Party Councillor (Ravensthorpe, Peterborough) Gul Nawaz was convicted and jailed for 2 months in 2002 along with his son, Akeel Ahmed, for Housing Benefit Fraud. http://tinyurl.com/48wjr6

244. Cllr. Michael Griffiths

Tory Party Councillor (Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire) Michael Griffiths was convicted and jailed for 18 months in 2002 for the attempted theft of almost £200,000 from the bank where he worked. http://tinyurl.com/4gv6of

243. Party Official Miles Parker

Tory Party Official (Enfield, London) Miles Parker was convicted and fined £750 in 1992 for Electoral Fraud after being caught forging proxy votes for the Tory candidate. http://tinyurl.com/4o7ugf

242. Bashir Khanbhai M.E.P.

Tory Party MEP (Eastern Region) Bashir Khanbhai was expelled from the Conservative list of approved candidates after being caught fiddling thousands of pounds in travel expenses on the Brussels gravy train. Mr Khanbhai’s website emphasised his crucial work as an MEP in… “attacking fraud and mismanagement in Brussels” http://tinyurl.com/3hb8z7

241. Cllr. Richard Stirling-Gibb

Tory Party Councillor (Westminster, London) Richard Stirling-Gibb was jailed for 3 months in 2000 after being convicted on £10,000 worth of housing benefit fraud. Ironically, Stirling-Gibb was caught as a direct result of the Tory controlled Westminster council setting up a phone hotline for local residents to inform on benefit cheats!

240. Jonathan Sayeed

Tory Party MP (Mid Bedfordshire) and former Tory environment spokesman, Jonathan Sayeed, was suspended from Parliament in 2005 for lining his pockets by charging American tourists £800 for guided ‘behind the scenes’ tours of the House of Commons, as well as fraudulently claiming housing allowances to which he was not entitled. http://tinyurl.com/3elbpm

239. Jonathan Aitkin M.P.

Former Tory Party Cabinet Minister Jonathan Aitkin was convicted and jailed for 18 months in 1999 for Perjury and Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice. http://tinyurl.com/3vtaup

238. Cllr. Abdul Quadus

Tory Party Councillor (Dudley, West Midlands) Abdul Quadus, who was also chairman of the Dudley Police Committee and a Tory Party spokesman on crime, was convicted and jailed for 6 months in 2003 for passport fraud and assisting illegal immigration from his native country Pakistan. http://tinyurl.com/42xc3b

237. Cllr. Shaun Smith

(2007) A former Tory councillor was this week bound over to keep the peace for his involvement in a racially motivated attack on a cabbie. Businessman Shaun Smith, 38, had arrived at Manchester Airport with partner Amanda Ahlgreen, 39, when she became involved in a fracas at the taxi rank. Smith arrived on the scene and after a brief row, the police were called and the pair were arrested. Smith, of Trigg Lane, Chorley, was bound over to keep the peace for 12 months. http://tinyurl.com/592yhx

236. George Osborne M.P.

Tory Party MP (Tatton, Cheshire) and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, appeared in The News of the World photographed with his arms draped around a prostitute, Natalie Rowe (AKA ‘Mistress Pain’) sitting at a table laden with (according to Ms Rowe) lines of cocaine and paper to facilitate the snorting of it. Osborne was also campaign manager to his close friend David Cameron during the 2005 Conservative leadership contest. Cameron famously refuses to reveal whether or not he has ever taken any Class A drugs. http://tinyurl.com/4m5wq7

235. Cllr. David Harris

Tory Party Councillor (Horley, Surrey) David Harris was convicted for the second time in 2005 of drink driving. http://tinyurl.com/4sox9v

234. Cllr. David Goodyear

Tory Party Councillor (Durrington, West Sussex) David Goodyear was convicted in 1994 of conspiracy to supply cocaine, and jailed for 2 and-a-half years. http://tinyurl.com/48qm7t

233. Julian Brazer M.P.

Tory Party MP (Canterbury, Kent) Julian Brazier appointed in 2005 as the Conservative Party’s transport spokesman by Michael Howard, despite the fact that he is a convicted killer driver! Brazier received a suspended jail sentence in 2001 after ploughing into and killing motorcyclist Carlo Civitelli while on holiday in Italy. Brazier was driving on the wrong side of the road. http://tinyurl.com/4xs2ak

232. Cllr. Inkhab Alam

Tory Party Councillor (Bradford, Yorkshire) Inkhab Alam was convicted and jailed for 28 months in 2006 for the hit-and-run killing of 20-year-old Christopher Benson who was mown down at 70mph (in a 40mph zone) just a few yards away from his grandparents’ home. Witnesses described how Councillor Alam pulled up after the collision, went back to the scene, and then drove away, leaving young Christopher to die in the street. Alam then burnt the car out in another part of Bradford and reported it stolen to try to save his worthless neck. http://tinyurl.com/4ov5q6

231. Cllr. Bill Sharp

Tory Party Councillor (Benfleet, Essex) Bill Sharp was arrested and charged with harassment in 2005. Sharp is alleged to have harassed Tory General Election candidate Dr Bob Spink over a period of time. http://tinyurl.com/4lsynj

230. Earl Jellicoe

Earl Jellicoe, who was the Lord Privy Seal and Tory Leader in the House of Lords, resigned after admitting to using prostitutes. http://tinyurl.com/4m9zbx

229. Lord Lambton

Tory Party minister (RAF) and former MP (Berwick-upon-Teed) Lord Lambton resigned in disgrace in 1973 after being convicted and fined on drugs offences. The Tory Lord had been photographed in bed, smoking cannabis with two prostitutes. http://tinyurl.com/4z2vlk

228. Cllr. Tom Ponton

Tory Party Councillor (Dean, Scotland) Tom Ponton (who later defected to the Lib-Dems) was convicted in 2003 for selling alcohol to children. http://tinyurl.com/4att8g

227. Cllr. Andrew Huxley

Tory Party Councillor (Buckinghamshire) Andrew Huxley was sacked from his position on the council’s transport advisory group and from his position as the Tory’s main transport spokesman in 2004 after being convicted for drink driving twice in one year. http://tinyurl.com/3ws58k

226. Mayor John Chambers

The Mayor of Harpenden has been charged with misconduct in a public office. John Chambers of Ridgewood Drive, Harpenden, Herts, was charged after an incident in November last year. Mr Chambers, 67, who was first elected as a town councillor in 1999, will appear before Central Hertfordshire Magistrates Court on 9 February. The married father-of-two served in the fire and ambulance services and has been presented with the Queen’s Award for Long Service and Good Conduct. http://tinyurl.com/4nzgfk

225. Cllr. Ron Liversedge

A Tory councillor who was disqualified from driving because of a drink-driving conviction is to return to court next week to face a charge that he flouted the ban. Chellaston Councillor Ron Liversedge has confirmed that he now intends to quit as a member of Derby City Council. He was given a £500 fine and a 20-month driving ban last February after a police breath test found him to be twice the legal limit. He was told that his ban would be reduced to 15 months if he successfully completed a drink-drivers’ rehabilitation course.On that occasion, the former pub landlord was stopped while driving his Renault Laguna in Fellowlands Way, Chellaston. It is understood that police arrested him on Saturday. He has been charged with driving while disqualified. http://tinyurl.com/4hc8ad In addition he was issued with a £35 ticket for failing to park his car in a designated bay at the Council House while attending a training session. He reportedly swore at council warden John Orme saying, “Am I not important? I’m a councillor. I am at a meeting and I shall get this cancelled anyway.” http://tinyurl.com/3kaya4

224. Cllr. Stephen Barker

LEADING Ipswich councillor Stephen Barker is to appear in court next month to answer charges relating to the execution of a will. Barker, 58, of The Green, Ashbocking was summonsed to appear at South East Suffolk Magistrates’ Court on January 31. He has been charged with perverting the course of justice in relation to the execution of a will. He appeared before south east Suffolk magistrates on February 15 and the case was sent to Ipswich Crown Court. He is due to appear in the crown court for a plea and case management hearing on April 27. Barker was leader of the Conservative group on the borough council for four years between 2000 and 2004. http://tinyurl.com/3w8399

223. Cllr. Jim Speechley

Tory Party Councillor (Crowland, Lincolnshire) Jim Speechley was convicted and jailed for 18 months for financial corruption in 2004. Incredibly, he is allowed to continue serving as a councillor from his prison cell while being let out to attend the occasional council meeting wearing an electronic tag. http://tinyurl.com/5yrh68

222. Cllr. Paul High

A LEADING Worthing borough councillor has been charged with threatening to kill a woman. He is also accused of assaulting the 25-year-old woman, whom he formerly employed as an au pair for his two children. Cllr Paul High, of Compton Avenue, Goring, who represents Heene ward, is the Tory council’s cabinet member for culture, leisure and sport. He strongly denies assaulting and threatening Susannah Krammarics in October. He also refutes the woman’s claim that the pair was engaged. Mr High, who lives with his two sons from a previous marriage, was charged on Tuesday and will appear before Worthing magistrates on January 24. http://tinyurl.com/44t3l3

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221. Cllr Brian Webber

A Bath councillor has been cautioned by police after a physical assault on a woman civil servant. Cllr Brian Webber, a Conservative member of Bath and North East Somerset Council representing the city centre Abbey Ward, was acting in his role as treasurer to the Sydney Gardens Bowling Club when he pushed the woman against a wall during a discussion over valuation rates. According to her husband, the 45-year-old mother-of-two could not move her arm for several hours after the incident and suffered sleepless nights as a result of the pain. http://tinyurl.com/3h3dvt

220. Cllr. John Lines

Tory Party Councillor (Birmingham) John Lines was convicted of assault in 1983 after battering a neighbour senseless with a plank of wood following a dispute over a greenhouse. Others unfortunate enough to have Lines as a neighbour claimed he was also threatening towards them and abusive to elderly women living in the street. In another separate incident police cautioned Lines after violently assaulting a barman who had refused to serve him booze after hours. http://tinyurl.com/3rus8x

219. Boris Johnson M.P.

Tory Party MP (Henley) Boris Johnson was caught on tape in 2002 plotting to have a man beaten up by a hired thug. The man was a journalist who had written an unsympathetic piece about Johnson’s close friend –convicted fraudster, Darius Guppy. http://tinyurl.com/48l3sw

218. Philip Davies M.P.

Tory Party MP (Shipley, Yorkshire) Philip Davies (pictured left) attacked a Labour MP, Stephen Pound, (Ealing, London) following a particularly vigorous and engaging political debate at Talksport Radio, London in 2005. According to the radio host, Ian Collins: “It was an absolutely ridiculous sight, two grown men in their Savile Row suits brawling as if they were in a playground. They were in a bear hug and really going for it. They were very serious. We broke it up but as they were leaving, one taunted the other and it broke out all over again”. After the fight Mr Pound, who is Labour’s Law and Order spokesman, was taken to hospital and treated for a suspected broken rib. http://tinyurl.com/3m66ha

217. Council leader Peter Burns

Tory Party Council Leader (Prestbury, Manchester) Peter Burns suddenly resigned on the eve of local council elections (leaving the Tories in the lurch with no candidate to field in one of their own seats) just prior to his court appearance on charges of “using threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour” to staff at his local hospital. http://tinyurl.com/54o8l2

216. Peer Lord Glenthorn

Tory Peer Lord Glentoran had a court appearance in Spain in 2005 for allegedly assaulting and injuring three Spanish border guards at the frontier checkpoint at Gibraltar following a row over duty free limits. http://tinyurl.com/3t5t9l

215. Cllr. Louise Burrows

Former Tory Councillor (Doncaster, Yorkshire) Louise Burrows was convicted of assaulting 3 young children (2 boys and a girl) with a whip in 2002. Sentenced to a 6-month community rehabilitation order and ordered to pay compensation to her victims. After the case, Borrows applied to join Doncaster Labour Party. http://tinyurl.com/4yyc4a

214. Cllr. Robert Richdale

Tory Party Councillor (Folkestone) Robert Richdale has a 41-year history of crime, involving 30 convictions and 5 prison sentences. Richdale’s enormous criminal record, which covers 10 pages of A4 paper, includes convictions for assault, theft, causing death by dangerous driving, forgery, drugs offences, possession of an offensive weapon, and sex attacks against underage schoolgirls. The Tory Party election campaign literature described Richdale as: “A family man” who had a “compassionate personality” http://tinyurl.com/43u6g5

213. Tom Spencer M.E.P.

Tory Party MEP (Surrey) Tom Spencer was caught smuggling marijuana, cocaine, and homosexual pornography through customs following a trip to Amsterdam in 2003. http://tinyurl.com/5xhlvm

212. Michael Brown M.P.

Tory Party MP Michael Brown, who lost his seat at the 1997 election, was exposed by the News of the World in 1994 as having a homosexual affair with a 20-year-old man, when the age of consent for homosexual sex was 21. http://tinyurl.com/48eo86

211. Cllr. David Smith

Tory Councillor (Felixstowe, Suffolk) David Smith accepted a police caution for downloading child pornography in 2004. Placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register for 5 years. http://tinyurl.com/3medby

210. Cllr. Michael Robinson

Tory Councillor (Tendring, Essex) Michael Robinson was convicted on 7 counts of indecent assault against 4 different women in 1999. http://tinyurl.com/3zxgut

209. Cllr. Christine Sheppard

Tory Party Councillor (Westbury, Wiltshire) Christine Sheppard was issued with a police warning in 2005 for harassment. Following a trivial dispute about a neighbour’s son bouncing a ball near to her car, Councillor Sheppard forged her neighbour’s signature in order have a deluge of hardcore porn and sex toys delivered to their house for six months. Despite the scandal she was allowed to remain as a councillor. Sheppard’s victim, Theresa Horsley, said: “When the brochures first came through the letter box we were shocked, then absolutely disgusted. I felt violated. This stuff was coming into our house, a place which is supposed to be our sanctuary. I have young children who enjoy opening the post. We just can’t believe that somebody with her responsibility could have such low morals”. http://tinyurl.com/4w3898

208. Cllr. Mike Oram

Tory Party Councillor (Blandford, North Dorset) Mike Oram was convicted on child pornography charges in 2004. Although he eventually resigned, the Conservative Party were (according to Oram himself) apparently reluctant to sack him and be forced to call a losable by-election for North Dorset District Council, where the Tories have a wafer-thin majority. The desperate and dying modern day Tories would seemingly rather have a convicted paedophile represent the people of Dorset than risk loosening their slender grasp upon local power. http://tinyurl.com/53vo3u

207. Cabinet Minister Sir. Ian Horobin M.P.

Tory Party Cabinet Minister Sir Ian Horobin MP was convicted and jailed for 4 years for indecency in 1952 after paying young boys for sex. http://tinyurl.com/3knsou

206. Party Official Stephen Mertens

Tory Party Official (Secretary of Hackney and South Shoreditch Conservative Association) Stephen Mertens was convicted and jailed for 10 years for repeatedly raping a six-year-old girl. http://tinyurl.com/4jpj4p

205. Cllr. Jim Merrick

Former Tory Party councillor (Bradford, Yorkshire) Jim Merrick received a 9-month jail sentence (suspended) and placed on the SexOffenders’ Register for 10 years in 2001 after being convicted of multiple sex attacks on little girls between the ages of 9 and 12. The 69-year-old Tory nonce had lured as many as 13 youngsters (although convicted on only 2 of them) into his home before giving them various treats and plying them with alcohol. The court heard that Merrick would then get the girls to shower in front of him so that he could ‘inspect’ them. http://tinyurl.com/4sox9v

204. Douglas Campbell

Tory Party Liaison Manager on the London Assembly, Douglas Campbell, whose job includes running the Tory GLA website, was arrested in 2004 for allegedly downloading child pornography. He is currently suspended while the police investigation continues. http://tinyurl.com/5gzomb

203. Cllr. Dean Jenkins

Tory Councillor (Newport, Wales) Dean Jenkins was convicted and jailed for 14 months in 2005 for the possession and distribution of thousands of pornographic images of young boys. Jenkins, caught as part of the Operation Ore child porn investigation, was also place on the Sex Offenders’ Register for 10 years and disqualified from working with children. After the case, computer crime investigator Gary Probert said: “In 35 years of working with Gwent Police, these are among the most horrendous images we have come across”. http://tinyurl.com/5mw9za

202. Mayor Chris Morgan

Tory Party Mayor (North Tyneside) Chris Morgan was forced to resign in 2003 after being arrested twice in 2 weeks for indecent assault on a 15-year-old girl and for suspicion of downloading child pornography. http://tinyurl.com/68wkff

201. Council Leader Freddie Emery Wallis

Tory Party Council Leader (Portsmouth, Hampshire) Freddie Emery Wallis (pictured left) was charged with sexual assaults on 2 teenage boys in 2001. He was later jailed. http://tinyurl.com/5pxp72

200. Cllr. Christopher Pilkington

Tory Party Councillor (Stratford-upon-Avon) Christopher Pilkington was convicted of downloading hardcore child pornography on his computer in 2003. Placed on Sex Offenders’ Register and forced to resign. http://tinyurl.com/5d2sb5

199. Cllr. Peter Stidworthy

Tory Party Councillor (Whoberley, Coventry) Peter Stidworthy was convicted and jailed for 15 months in 2003 for the indecent assault of a 15-year-old boy, and possession of FOUR THOUSAND pornographic photos of young boys. http://tinyurl.com/5oqfga

198. Stephen Milligan M.P.

Tory Party MP (Eastleigh) Stephen Milligan was found dead in his flat in February 1994. Milligan was discovered tied to a chair, naked except for stockings and suspenders, with a plastic bag over his head and an orange stuffed into his mouth. He was believed to have accidentally asphyxiated whilst pleasuring himself during some kind of grotesque solo bondage and self-strangulation sex act. http://tinyurl.com/29z9ev

197. Cllr. and Former Mayor Michael Morris

Tory Party Councillor and former Mayor (Wrexham, Wales) Michael Morris was convicted and put on probation for 2 years in 1996 for the indecent assault of another man, which was captured on CCTV. Forced to resign from his job as a school bursar, although the Conservatives were quite happy for him to continue as a councillor. http://tinyurl.com/5lqwpj

196. Ian Harvey M.P.

Tory Party MP (Harrow East) and Foreign Office Minister Ian Harvey resigned in disgrace in 1958 after being caught by police with another man behind some bushes in St James Park, London. On the way to the police station Harvey tried to make a run for it but was recaptured. Charges of gross indecency were later dropped, although both men were fined £5. http://tinyurl.com/6cxuc4

195. Harvey Proctor M.P.

Tory Party MP (Billericay, Essex) Harvey Proctor was convicted and fined a total of £1,450 in 1987 for sex offences of a sadomasochistic nature against teenage boys, and was forced to resign. http://tinyurl.com/68uq9h

194. Cllr. Kenneth Leadbeater

Tory Party Council Leader (Dartford, Kent) Kenneth Leadbeater was convicted on 14 counts of downloading child porn photos of young boys in 2006. Police found 320 indecent images of boys on the computer. Given a 3-year community rehabilitation order, a 3-year sexual prevention order, and placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register for 5 years. http://tinyurl.com/5z6hwz

193. Vice-chairman Andrew Baker

Tory Party Vice-Chairman of Welsh Conservatives, Andrew Baker received a banning order for stalking women. http://tinyurl.com/6zfcb2

192. Cllr. Michael Howden

Tory Party Councillor (Wallasey, Merseyside) Michael Howden was convicted and jailed for 5-and-a-half years in 1997 for the rape of a teenage girl and also for sexually assaulting another teenage girl on about 20 separate occasions. http://tinyurl.com/5kbmx6

191. Cllr. Roger Talboys

Tory Party Councillor (Wickbar, Bristol) Roger Talboys was convicted and jailed for 6 years for multiple sex attacks on children. http://tinyurl.com/6qc52d

190. Cllr. Alan Burkitt

Tory Party Councillor (Sandwell, West Midlands) Alan Burkitt was convicted of pimping in 2007 after he admitted prostituting his girlfriend (who had an IQ of just 52) for £50 a time. Cllr Burkitt, originally elected as a Lib-Dem councillor in 1996 before defecting to the Tories 3 years later, was given a suspended 1-year jail sentence. http://tinyurl.com/54pd89

189. Election Candidate Michael Powell

Tory Party General Election candidate, Michael Powell was jailed for 3 years for downloading hardcore child pornography. http://tinyurl.com/64flhy

(2006) Conservative Cllr. Robert Dockerill -PAEDOPHILE

A TOP Tory has escaped jail for downloading internet child porn. Teacher Robert Dockerill, 31, a former chairman of Erewash Conservative Association in Derbyshire, had 172 indecent images. Some were on a computer at Loughborough Grammar School, Leics, where he worked. He was given a 36-month rehabilitation order. http://tinyurl.com/4ajzmm

36 month rehabilitation order for downloading child porn and this guy has previous.

A former teacher at a Leicestershire school has appeared in court accused of indecently assaulting two girls. Robert Dockerill, who used to be deputy head of the sixth form at Loughborough Grammar School for boys, denied the charges at Derby Crown Court. The former Conservative councillor on Erewash Borough Council, is formerly of Cumber Street, Long Eaton but now lives in the north of England.
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Lib-Lab-Con Parasites want to keep their Expenses Secret

The gang of Labour/LibDem/Tory crooks who make up the Tweedledee Tweeledum parties in parliament are desperately trying to prevent the publication of figures showing how much taxpayers’ money they have spent on themselves by way of furnishings for second houses.

Taxpayers have already been charged one million pounds for the staff working at Westminster to prepare the expense receipts for publication, but the MPs now look certain to change the law so that the details will not be published at all.

According to one source, Westminster is rife with speculation that several MPs would have been so embarrassed by publication of their receipts that they would have been forced to leave parliament.

Commons authorities began to edit MPs’ receipts for publication after MPs lost a battle in the High Court to prevent publication. Speaker Michael Martin spent around £150,000 of public money unsuccessfully fighting the case.

Commons leader Harriet Harman has revealed that the Government intends to change the law to exempt MPs from freedom of information laws.

The proposals are backdated to 2005, so would nullify rulings that the public has a right to know exactly how MPs are spending allowances for second homes.

Instead, individual MPs’ expenses are merely to be split into more categories than before when published.

The announcement that parliament wants to defy the High Court and block publication of receipts for MPs’ expenses was buried on the day news was dominated by Government statements on Heathrow and Equitable Life.

The extraordinary move is in direct response to a High Court judgment upholding an Information Tribunal ruling that receipt-by-receipt breakdowns for how public money is spent by MPs must be published.

MPs’ expenses and allowances last year cost taxpayers £87 million. Their claims are on top of their £63,291 salary.

Information campaigner Heather Brooke, who battled for years to have the receipts released, said the developments showed a “new level of arrogance. Just when you thought MPs had understood the need to regain public trust they do something like this,” she said. “It is what you would expect from a banana republic.”

In a separate development, it emerged that despite promises of an end to the Westminster gravy train, MPs will still be free to use taxpayers’ cash for extravagant items to furnish and upgrade second homes.

Under revised expenses rules MPs will still be entitled to pick items from the so-called “John Lewis list”, the informal guidelines on how much can be spent on home furnishings.

As now, they will be able to charge for white goods, sofas, chairs, tables, beds, cutlery and crockery, security fittings, cleaners and decoration to kit out their second homes.

Mortgage interest payments or rent for the additional residences will also be met by the taxpayer as will utility bills and council tax payments. Receipts will not need to be submitted for any items under £25.

There will also be flat-rate ’subsistence’ payments of £25 per day when a “member spends a night away from his or her main home on Parliamentary business.”