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What 'e said :)

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Now an ex-MINISTER is jailed for expenses fraud: Weeping Elliot Morley sent down after claiming £30,000 in bogus mortgage claims


Former Cabinet minister Elliot Morley wept yesterday as he was jailed for 16 months for committing the biggest fraud in the parliamentary expenses scandal.
The ex-Labour MP swindled more than £31,000 for mortgage payments from the public purse.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1MycDHdaQ

:clap::clap::clap:

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Great news but............
4 months bird and 12 months tag for 30 grand. If that was advertised as a job there would be a queue round the block

Sends the message that Crime Does Pay If You Are An Ex-MP

:( :confused:

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I wonder if they were tears of remorse or indignation...... :rolleyes:

I do have some sympathy for him and his fellow jailbirds, however, since certain lordly snouts in the "Upper House's" much abused trough seem to have got off very lightly indeed.....

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Another one found guilty. :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13558360

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As one expenses cheat is convicted another is released after serving less than 1/3 of his sentence:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13560351

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As he left court, White said he might appeal adding: "I'm devastated but I have no regrets. I did nothing wrong."


no regrets no remorse - this prat should serve a full prison sentence :mad:

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Lord Taylor goes down for a year:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13599624

For someone with quite a legal brain, apparently, he seems to have had some issues differentiating between the basics of right and wrong.

He'll be out in about 4 months no doubt.....

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At least we now know why they made prison life easier and set up numerous early release schemes in the last few years!

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:rofl: :rofl:

Wouldn't put it past these people!

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14364037

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1/4 of his sentence FGS! Why doesn't this surprise me one iota??..... :mad:

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As usual it's not what you know but who you know.

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TBH I'd rather he was confined to quarters. It means we're not picking up his dinner bills (at last).

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did you really expect him to go to a proper prison and serve a proper sentence he's been in a hotel for gods sake

Hobbies kits during lock-up
In-cell power
Own bedding
Own clothes
Playstation
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