I have received another letter from John Mann MP, this time on Labour Party headed paper.

It starts off with

In your childish and highly offensive website you make a large number of inaccurate statements…..

It carries on in a similar vein for a paragraph. It makes no effort to correct the inaccuracies, though,

Fair enough, he’s entitled to his say.

Then he goes on to say

You make inferences that there is something improper regarding my Parliamentary expenses. You are inaccurate and wrong in this. There is and has been nothinng improper.

The rest of the letter goes on to detail his Press credits and other testimonials for being sqeaky clean.

Now, here’s my problem with this. The letter makes no effort to answer the question asked on this blog and by a Retford resident by email.

A question that is met with threats of legal action whenever asked. Namely, regarding the repayment of expenses made by Mr. Mann, what was the claim for and if it is legitimate and claimed on the wrong forms as he says, then why hasn’t he reclaimed it. It is not an insignificant sum.

So, here’s a challenge  for Mr. Mann. He likes challenges and has this week offered one of his own in the Worksop Guarding Mann. (Goodbye, George. Can’t say I’ll miss you. Maybe next time we’ll get an editor with the balls to print news instead of fiction.)

Reclaim the money on the correct forms and give it to charity. That seems a neat solution since you don’t seem to care about reclaiming it for yourself. There are a number of charitable institiutions in Bassetlaw who would benefit greatly from £2,395.02

Do this and I’ll get off your case. At least with regard to expenses.

I look forward to your response.

UPDATE: Original post edited after an inaccuracy was pointed out. See, I can be reasonable.