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Mr Bell told the BBC: "I don't think it's a witch hunt, if you go into public life you expect public scrutiny.
"This has got nothing to do with his personal relations with whoever, it has to do with expenses, and this has been going on for a few years and you have to make sure that whatever you claim is squeaky clean and if you don't you'll be punished."

I could not care if he is gay, but don't go blaming leaving on you now wanting a private life, be big enough to say i did wrong, I'm sorry.
 
Mr Bell told the BBC: "I don't think it's a witch hunt, if you go into public life you expect public scrutiny.
"This has got nothing to do with his personal relations with whoever, it has to do with expenses, and this has been going on for a few years and you have to make sure that whatever you claim is squeaky clean and if you don't you'll be punished."

I could not care if he is gay, but don't go blaming leaving on you now wanting a private life, be big enough to say i did wrong, I'm sorry.

Its just the fact he is abusing his position and that some of my hard earned money goes towards funding it, really grinds my gears :mad:
 
Never quite sure what the going rate is for renting a room close to the Houses of Parliament, but I bet it's not £950 a month.

I'm afraid the system is as much at fault as those who take advantage of it. It would appear that he did rent the accomodation he claimed for even though it was from his partner, and as such he broke the rules.

Those who really got me were the likes of Elliot Morley who was still claiming for a mortgage he'd paid off about two years earlier, but forgot about, and the female MP from Luton who claimed for work to cure dry rot at not her constituency home, nor even her Westminster home, but at a house in Southampton. Without a shadow of a doubt those two should be charged with fraud and tried in a court of law.
 
Never quite sure what the going rate is for renting a room close to the Houses of Parliament, but I bet it's not £950 a month.

I'm afraid the system is as much at fault as those who take advantage of it. It would appear that he did rent the accomodation he claimed for even though it was from his partner, and as such he broke the rules.

Those who really got me were the likes of Elliot Morley who was still claiming for a mortgage he'd paid off about two years earlier, but forgot about, and the female MP from Luton who claimed for work to cure dry rot at not her constituency home, nor even her Westminster home, but at a house in Southampton. Without a shadow of a doubt those two should be charged with fraud and tried in a court of law.

£950 a month isn't bad for a flat in Central London- I've seen worse!

In the end I don't get the problem with this one. He did actually rent accommodation and in the end had he claimed more for a £1500 month flat owned by AN other in London nobody would have blinked twice! The only thing he did wrong was give it to someone he was in a relationship with- had he not been it would have been O.K, and it only changed recently too.

Personally those who claim for mortgages when they have ended and switch homes to make cash themselves are far worse than a guy who was by all accounts a clever guy doing something stupid to cover up he was gay.
 
Personally those who claim for mortgages when they have ended and switch homes to make cash themselves are far worse than a guy who was by all accounts a clever guy doing something stupid to cover up he was gay.

He did not have to claim for it, he could have never claimed for it. I'm sure no one would have said look at him living with another man he must be gay. I'm sorry but using the ' I didn't want anyone to find out I was gay' so i claimed over 40k in living accommodation expenses does not wash.
 
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