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Title: Taxpayers helping to pay off Uddin's fine
Post by: Grumpmeister on October 25, 2010, 04:06:21 PM

Which bleedin genius came up with this idea, when someone is fined for WHATEVER reason they are supposed to pay it off themselves and not palm it off on someone else, especially without giving them a choice in the matter!!!

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FURY erupted yesterday after it emerged that taxpayers may pay some of the £125,000 fine handed to shamed peer Baroness Uddin’s for false expenses claims.
 
The House of Lords’ privileges committee last week suspended her from Parliament until Easter 2012. But when the 51-year-old Labour peer returns to the upper chamber, she will be entitled to divert her £300 daily attendance allowance towards paying off the remaining debt.

She is selling the flat in Maidstone, Kent, which for five years she insisted was her main residence, enabling her to claim £174-a-night for her London home, where she was actually living.

Emma Boon, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “It’s hardly a fine if she uses someone else’s money to pay it off. She should not be allowed back until she has paid back in full what she wrongfully claimed.”

Title: Re: Taxpayers helping to pay off Uddin's fine
Post by: Uncle Mort on October 25, 2010, 04:08:31 PM

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Title: Re: Taxpayers helping to pay off Uddin's fine
Post by: Barman on October 25, 2010, 04:09:22 PM

She should be thrown in jail for what she did...  cussing:

Title: Re: Taxpayers helping to pay off Uddin's fine
Post by: Snoopy on October 25, 2010, 06:57:37 PM

I read, somewhere, at the weekend that the Met have sought further advice from the CPS who have given an opinion that the new definition issued by the House of Lords authority on what constitutes a "First or main home" can be applied to her case. According to the report the Met are considering re-opening the investigation with a view to prosecution.

Title: Re: Taxpayers helping to pay off Uddin's fine
Post by: Barman on October 26, 2010, 03:20:48 AM

Quote from: Snoopy on October 25, 2010, 06:57:37 PM

I read, somewhere, at the weekend that the Met have sought further advice from the CPS who have given an opinion that the new definition issued by the House of Lords authority on what constitutes a "First or main home" can be applied to her case. According to the report the Met are considering re-opening the investigation with a view to prosecution.

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Title: Re: Taxpayers helping to pay off Uddin's fine
Post by: Snoopy on October 26, 2010, 08:52:08 AM

Here we are .....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/8080794/Expenses-police-urged-to-reopen-prosecution-into-Baroness-Uddin.html

Title: Re: Taxpayers helping to pay off Uddin's fine
Post by: Barman on October 26, 2010, 09:54:08 AM

Quote from: Snoopy on October 26, 2010, 08:52:08 AM

Here we are .....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/8080794/Expenses-police-urged-to-reopen-prosecution-into-Baroness-Uddin.html

Excellent!  eveilgrin: