£300 for nothing..

[tommy.irene]

• Lord Hanningfield

VIDEO: Tory Lord Hanningfield exposed in 'clocking in' scandal ripping off taxpayers for thousands of pounds17 Dec 2013 07:44

The 73-year-old peer has previous for milking the system. He spent nine months behind bars for fiddling his accounts in the last Westminster expenses scandal

Daily Mirror

 

Picking up £300 a day for doing virtually nothing usually goes like clockwork for money-grabbing baron Lord Hanningfield.

The 73-year-old peer is ripping off taxpayers to the tune of thousands of pounds by simply turning up and clocking in to the Lords.

He often spends barely half an hour there before turning on his heels and leaving again – racking up his £300 daily attendance allowance without taking part in any votes, discussions or meetings.

But now he was facing a Parliamentary probe – after the Mirror exposed his shameless scam.

Check out all the latest News, Sport & Celeb gossip at Mirror.co.uk http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/video-tory-lord-hanningfield-exposed-2934895#ixzz2nitSq4Sz 

[tommy.irene]

 Lord Hanningfield expenses scandal: 'There are 50 other peers doing it that I could name' 17 Dec 2013 07:50 In a heated exchange in the car park of Ingatestone train station, in Essex, at 1pm on Monday, we confronted him with our dossier of evidence Name and shame?: Lord Hanningfield Name and shame?: Lord Hanningfield Lord Hanningfield has defended himself over a “clock in, clock out” row and said: “I could name 50 other peers that do it.” Defiant Hanningfield admitted there was a culture within the House of Lords of peers turning up just to claim their £300 tax-free allowance. But he insisted the money was used by Lords for “entertaining and meeting people”, as well as paying staff. Despite our overwhelming evidence that he was spending just minutes inside Parliament in exchange for the £300 attendance rate, he still insisted he had done nothing wrong. In a heated exchange in the car park of Ingatestone train station, in Essex, at 1pm yesterday, we confronted him. Check out all the latest News, Sport & Celeb gossip at Mirror.co.uk http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lord-hanningfield-expenses-scandal-there-2934870#ixzz2niv2IDcb Follow 

[tommy.irene]

The laugh is he is still in the house of lords ..even after going to jail.. one law for the rich and one for the poor..

[tommy.irene]

Expenses cheat Lord Hanningfield shows that House of Lords must be reformed16 Dec 2013 22:03

Kevin Maguire says the House of Cronies is a disgrace in a modern country – a medieval anachronism ripe forFinally we have the proof that ligger Lords are bunking off after collecting £300 a day, tax free, no quaskedI’ve heard mutterings for years in Westminster that Baron This or Baroness That was freeloading.

It’s the posh version of a factory worker clocking on then climbing over the wall to go home.

Except ordinary workers who pay taxes which fund the House of Lords would be sacked for gross misconduct – while the privileged elite in the Upper Chamber are a law unto themselves, gifted jobs for life.

They may be suspended, as two were today for lobbying offences, but they can’t be fired.

The House of Cronies is a disgrace in a modern country – a medieval anachronism ripe for abolition.

I don’t deny there are some good folk in the place, not least Doreen Lawrence. The very principle, however, of unelected lawmakers deciding how we live our lives is fundamentally wrong.

Especially when lawbreakers, the likes of Tory liar Jeffrey Archer and Labour fire-starter Michael Watson, retain their titles and automatically resume their seats on the plush burgundy benches after serving time at Her Majesty’s Displeasure.

Check out all the latest News, Sport & Celeb gossip at Mirror.co.uk http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lord-hanningfield-clocking-scandal-house-2934912#ixzz2nix7D3JC 

[tommy.irene]

The house of lords cost £100,000,000 a year to run..that kind of money could be put to good use..

[bankhaunter]

To fire life peers would take an Act of Parliament, that's why they retain their titles.

The House of Lords is not a law making body but serves to moderate, to make the House of Commons look again at proposed legislation and so they can be overruled if it comes to the crunch.

The problem with replacing them with elected representatives is it could give them more power and hold out the prospect of a clash between Lords and Commons.

If anyone had been able to come up with a better system they would have gone long ago.

There may be cheats but it matters not that they are in the House of Lords, the Commons or the next door neighbour pulling the same stunt where they work and I've seen that in practice, a cheat is a cheat.

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@tommy.irene wrote:

The laugh is he is still in the house of lords ..even after going to jail.. one law for the rich and one for the poor..

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He's just a greedy old man on the take grr!!

[videal99]

i have to live on £71 a week and that **bleep** shows up scatches his balls takes a dump steals a cup of coffee and all for £1500 a week????

[videal99]

yeah well nobody loves you back tom

[joe_bloggs*]

A lot of these feckless scroungers in the house of lords are already millionaires,yet they sanction and demonise the likes of  carol down the road who cleans out the local boozer for a few quid in the hand so that she can put a bit of extra food on the table and afford to top up her gas card for a bit of extra heat in this cold weather,well that was until a do-goody jealous curtain twitcher phoned the fraud hotline

These pigs and their colleagues in Parliament really are laughing at all of us.Next time cameron tries to lecture China or any other country about democracy,he can hold lord Hanningfield as a shining example.Its Christmas every day for that lot

[5129frederick]

As I have said on more than one occasion, the day will come when being an MP will be treated with disdain and contempt.  Any person with half a brain knows the only reason half of them become MP's is to feather their own nests.  Clement Freud was exposed as a sham when it was disclosed come election time he had sombody go through all the local births, marriages and deaths list, and sent them congratulation/commiseration cards individually signed by him in an attempt to pull in a few extra votes, projecting himself as a deeply caring MP.  He then had people coming up in the street thanking hing him for his "thoughts".  He hit on an excellent  "one size fits all" clause.

"Oh, that's alright - it's the least I could do."  Damn right it was!  If any of my relatives went into politics, I wouldn't say a dicky bird about it to anyone lest I get tarred with the  same brush!

[malacandran]

Wait till the Romanian and Bulgarian gypsies arrive - they'll be getting £300,000,000  from us every week, for doing nothing.