DSS have learned House of Commons secrets that pampered politicians just didn’t want you to see.
For example lets examine the expense claims made by The Communities Secretary Hazel Blears MP.
She claimed £14,000 in expenses charging taxpayers for everything from a luxury bed to three Kit Kat CHUNKIES. “A Luxury Bed and 3 Kit Kat Chunkies?”
Ms Blears, 52, claimed for three different properties in a single year spending almost £5,000 on furniture in just three months.
Purchases included wine glasses, bed linen, expensive crockery, a TV and a three-piece suite.
The minister, who had a London flat, spent taxpayers’ money kitting out her other home in Salford, Gtr Manchester buying items including a £651.60 M&S mattress plus a Selfridges TV and video recorder costing £850.
She later declared Salford her MAIN home and began claiming expenses on the London flat.
Ms Blears, who is paid a paltry £104,050 basic salary later sold the flat and stayed two months in hotels while she bought a new pad.
She billed taxpayers for £1,132 to cover the cost of rooms at Westminster’s £163-a-night City Inn, the £151 Sherlock Holmes Hotel in Baker Street and Zetter’s in Clerkenwell, where a stay costs £180 pppn.
The minister moved into a new London home in November 2004 and quickly hit taxpayers with a £4,532.95 expenses claim.
She bought a flat-screen TV for £695 and a £129 Pure Bug digital radio. Ms Blears also spent £2,520 on Habitat furniture and £899 on a House of Fraser bed.
Elsewhere a Tory backbencher claimed £1.59 for Farley’s Rusks and a Labour MP wanted 5p back he spent on an Ikea carrier bag.
Ed Comment: My God, I’d struggle to make this stuff up and they all maintain that they have acted both ethically and legitimately.
arctictern
£1.59 for Farley's rusks? She wants to shop at Lidl, far cheaper.
The blog owner changed this comment on 2009-05-12 17:45:13