Sep 27th, 2009
A lot of people have been contacting me for a personal update. So here it is. We’re now living in Marlcliff, a tiny, beautiful village just over the river from Bidford on Avon in Warwickshire. I’m also now working for my day job for the NHS in Warwickshire. The easiest way to keep up [...]
Jun 19th, 2009
MP Expenses claims – www.parliament.uk.
Here’s the list of what parliament has decided should be omitted from today’s expenses disclosures:
Rejected claims
Any residential address
Regular travel patterns
Names of anyone delivering goods to homes
Money spent on security
Hotels or guest houses used
Letters/emails to Fees Office
Bank/credit card statements
Phone numbers on itemised bills
Personal items not claimed for
Staff names and addresses
Bank/Giro details
Landlord
or mortgage [...]
The Tories may be celebrating in many places. But in Stratford on Avon they must be — for the second year in a row — wringing their hands and wondering how things could continue to go so badly wrong. Although they picked up Alcester in the County Council elections — agonisingly, for us, winning by [...]