Sorry is the hardest word

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Labour MP may lose pay-off over expenses

A Labour MP faces being stripped of an £65,000 allowance for retiring MPs after a "serious" breach of the rules over his expenses claims.

Harry Cohen, who is standing down at the election, is the first MP to be told he should lose the allowance since the expenses scandal began.

A report found the MP breached the rules on second home claims involving a "large sum of public money".

Mr Cohen has also been told that he must apologise to Parliament.

Apologise to Parliament?

[BlackenedBiker]

Labour MP may lose pay-off over expenses


Apologise to Parliament?

Justice I say. Take the house off him too.

Proceeds of crime act allows that to happen to criminals

[Spartacus]

I reckon "diamond" is the hardest word.

[ratewhore]

Labour MP may lose pay-off over expenses


Apologise to Parliament?

He was probably found guilty by the standards committee. The same bunch of fookwits that made Jacqui Smith apologise to the house but not have to bother paying back any money she stole from us...

[Moscow Mule]

I reckon "diamond" is the hardest word.

Bronson.

[chef]

"Chuck" and "Norris" are the hardest 2 words

[Tarquin Farquhar]

I reckon "diamond" is the hardest word.

Diamonds are not forever

[RichardCranium]

Diamonds are not forever

One of the Open University Physics TV programmes started with no credits, just what's-her-name singing Diamonds Are Forever and a diamond on a laboratory bench.

The diamond was picked up in tweezers, held over a Bunsen burner, then dropped in a flask of water where it fizzed about until it disappeared.

Quite a startling way to open a programme, especially at 4:30 on a Sunday morning.

[Unicorn]

Lose allowance ?

"A Labour MP faces being stripped of an £65,000 allowance for retiring MPs after a "serious" breach of the rules over his expenses claims.

Consequently, the report concludes that Mr Cohen received over £60,000 in public money "to which he was not entitled". "

Sounds like he allocated the allowance to himself a bit early. Save those civil servants the paperwork.