Friday, January 22, 2010

Labour MP Harry Cohen could see his £65,000 golden goodbye snatched from under him as he is appointed lamb for the slaughter




















Dear All

In order to satisfy the public lust for a lamb to be sacrificed by the Labour Party, what better way than to pick someone who is leaving!

Step forward Labour MP Harry Cohen who faces being stripped of an £65,000 allowance for retiring MPs.

This would make Harry Cohen the first MP to be told he should lose the allowance since the expenses scandal began.

A report found Cohen had breached the rules on second home claims.

He claimed the maximum £104,701 over five years by designating his main home as a property in East Anglia.

This is 70 miles from his Leyton and Wanstead constituency in East London.

They said it amounted to a “large sum of public money".

To add insult to injury, Cohen has also been told that he must apologise to Parliament.

If they are taking his ‘golden goodbye’ off him, I can’t see him wanting to apologise to anyone quite the opposite.

Previously dear old Harry was bullish in his responses to claiming the money.

I await his ‘apology’ with interest; he should use the current Westminister tactic of blaming everyone but himself.

It worked for George Osborne!

Yours sincerely

George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

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