howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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courtesy of the telegraph.
Baroness Warsi said did not tell House of Lords authorities that she was receiving rental income from a London property she had bought and rented out.
She made an apology today over the breach of parliamentary guidelines, blaming "an oversight, for which I take full responsibility," but claimed that she had paid tax on the income.
The disclosure is the latest in a series of crises to hit Mr Cameron in the last few weeks. It comes as the political future of Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary, is called into question once again.
Senior sources told The Sunday Telegraph that Mr Hunt, who will be questioned under oath at Lord Leveson's inquiry into media standards this week, could temporarily step down from frontline politics after the Olympics, in the wake of intense pressure over his handling of the attempt by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation to take full control of BSkyB.
Keith Sansum1
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theres so many bets on who next will fall on the sword
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Won't be Dave, he is a survivor out of the same mould as Teflon Tony.
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Brian Dixon
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you never know peter,it could be a double sword thingy.cameron/osbourne together,what a mess that would make.red tape and the clear up afterwards so messy.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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PETER;
I'm afraid i don't agree with you on DAVE in the past tony blair as much as i dislike the geezer, made sure he covered all avenues to keep himself in number ten, and if ever you get the chance to read his book, it showed just how he operated to make sure he could never be removed.
where as dave, has his own internal problems where the p;arty itself has put him on notice till december, then we have a number of other factions within the party biting away, then of course we have the disaster of the co olition, now he and other tories can go on blaming the finished lib dems for all the woes, but people are seeing through all that, and i think dave will get the backlash of that when it comes to an election
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Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Baroness Warsi with her nose in the trough! hypocrite of the first order, her obnoxious style now looks absolutely ridiculous.
Audere est facere.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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it all comes home to roost in the end
but the losers are the electorate
and of course politics itself
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Martin yes I agree Baroness Warsi has an obnoxious style. There is now something revolting in this latest find..her dogmatic lectures about the failings of everyone else now hang horribly in the air. Some were calling for her to be dropped after the recent election shambles for the Tories, but she still hangs on. She has no charisma at all, but probably fulfills the needed quota for women and ethnics, so hard to repalce in these current times.
But back to her obnoxious style..ask her any question and within seconds she will tell you how awful Labour are. Watch her over a period of time and that's her modus operandi. Now some of that always goes on, its politics, but she wearyingly and constantly fills her vacuous answers with the standard anti Labour bash, as it always avoids her answering anything on anything and everything.
Now listen to the current excuses. She didnt pay person A for accomodation while claiming it ,but paid person B, who happens to be her aide...Phew! Why do they need to do this at all, I can never understand it, they are all paid very well and in dream jobs...why..
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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what concerns me more paulb is the affect this has on politics itself, already people are moving away from the ballot box and this just increases this move.
the knock on affect is local politics where many hard working cllrs get hit by whats happening on the national scene.
just take the case in liverpool and sheffield where the lib dems had built a firm base in both councils, at some points even running the councils, at the local elections they were wiped out.
some very bitter lib dems after the event all that hard work to build the foundations all lost in a night
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i don't think she was actually fiddling just rather inefficient, listening to her for a few minutes confirms that she is not the sharpest tool in the box.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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theres a few of them howard
or was she hood winking everyone?
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Oh I dont know Howard..more will emerge, but the "inefficient" angle has been used by many up to now, some even ended in jail.
It is no excuse to.. for example ...to tell the taxman that you were inefficient in your returns...its not an excuse in law. They wont buy it.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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paulb;
silly woman
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Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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The inneficiency excuse just does not wash, that is our money she has been falsely claiming, sheer arrogance to believe after all that has gone on with expenses that she still believed she could get away with it.
Audere est facere.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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thats what people like her are like,
no excuse im afraid
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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how did she get to be a baroness?
as far as i can see she stood once for parliament and lost, nothing much else on her c.v.
300 quid a day allowance for turning up in the lords, nice work if you can get it.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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yep and unelected you forgot that bit howard
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Would it be fair to say: a bit of an eejit? Whichever way you look at it.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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anothing nail in the coffin for engaging people in politics
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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getting worse now that the property owner insists that he has never had any money from the baroness.
just learned that lords are allowed £.166 per night for accommodation in london.
time we got shot of them maybe.