Pull the other one, John
Parliament has published a list of expenses repayments made by MPs in the period 1st April, 2009 to 18th December, 2009. You can see it for yourself here
There are two entries for Mr Mann and each has a comment added by Mr Mann.
We’ll happily accept the comment on the £10.36 grocery bill, but the other, for £2,395.02, is a bit harder to swallow.
Rather than alter published totals, I have chosen to repay the full amount.
Eh? Rather than alter published totals?? Right. Kiss off £2,300 to avoid inconveniencing a computer.
Is this the same John Mann who, on his website, is asking for donations of a fiver to help fund his election campaign?
Perhaps he is keen to avoid further scrutiny of the actual expenses claimed and is willing to lose the money to cover up something he’d rather the voters did not know.
You would have thought that a proper course of action would have been to reclaim the amounts to prove that they were, in fact, legitimate. He’s entitled to the money. Isn’t he?
If Mr Mann wishes to give us an account of the expenses, we’ll publish it for all to see. He is, after all, the first one to start screaming at any hint of impropriety in expenses claims and should welcome the opportunity to clarify the situation.
We’ll leave you to decide what to believe.
Interesting. He makes a claim for £10.36 for groceries, bit wont claim ‘legitimate’ expenses of £2,300. This stinks to high heaven.
You don’t understand. Impropriety is for others. St John of Man can do no wrong. If only others could share the air up there on the moral high ground. I’d like to be able to turn my back on £2300, but then, unlike dear John, I don’t have my wife’s salary to top up the family pot!!!
OK John, tell us what the claims were for. If they were legit, you got nowt to hide.
“Rather than alter published totals, I have chosen to repay the full amount” – who does he expect to believe that crap? He’s as bad as the rest of the theiving bastards and he’s got the cheek to criticise the rest of them. Vote the bastard out.
He’s got more faces than the town clock
£2,300 is nothing to him. Him and his missus are getting 100 grand a year out the government payroll. But he still asks for donations for his campaign. How many of the traditional Labour voter’s he’s asking for donations have an income of £100K a year?
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