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[Pete Elite]

Millionaire minister in £25k expense claim
Tourism minister Barbara Follett reels as new leak reveals security expense.

  Tourism minister Barbara Follett has become the latest senior figure dragged into the Commons expenses row after it emerged she has claimed more than £25,000 for security patrols outside her home.
The millionaire MP, who is married to best-selling novelist Ken, wanted the protection because she did not feel safe at her London property, according to material leaked to the Daily Telegraph.
The total bill for security patrols between 2004 and 2008 was £25,411.64, the newspaper reported
 
 The couple own a holiday home in Antigua, a house in Cape Town, a former rectory in her constituency in Hertfordshire which is their main residence, and a buy-to-let flat in south London.
But Mrs Follett nominated a property in Soho as her second home.
Although she does not claim mortgage interest payments, she does charge taxpayers for weekly "mobile security" patrols at the property, upkeep of its CCTV monitors and a burglar alarm system operated by BT.
The latest revelations emerged after desperate Commons officials called in Scotland Yard to investigate the leaking of explosive details of expenses claims.
MPs fear the drip-drip disclosure of material from a million receipts - which the House authorities had been preparing for publication in July after losing a long-running freedom of information


  

            Laughing all the way to the bank(ars**oles) .

  I wonder what the Police would say if you rang up and said you don't feel safe in your home so can you send a few patrols by now and again .

  It must be nice to live on the same planet and yet be in world of your own(buying) at theTax Payers expense .

[Mr Skrunts]

Just listening about it on the 1am news as I drove home.

Turning into a right farce, no wonder MP's tried to ban thier exspences being published.

[willyboy]

They have been helping themselves to these annual hand outs from the tax payer for years, now they have got shown up for what they are take take taking from  the working people of this country.
What we need next is some one to get the ball rolling that there approx 3 to 5times more MP's in the trough (Parliment) than whats needed lets cut the tax payers wage bill there always cutting our job, so cut theres  

[Martin_1962]

Hmmphf more from Barbie and Ken

They have plenty of money - make them pay it back!

[Varche]

Mildly irritating for sure but a red herring in the grand scheme of things.

Have any bankers been prosecuted, had their property taken by the state and thrown in jail for ruining the state of the economy for Britain and half of the world? NO

Has Sir Fred Goodwin been stripped of his knighthood for his services to banking? NO

Have we got his pension "back" as promised by a cabinet member on TV? NO

Have the other banking underlings also rewarded  with lesser honours by the queen been stripped of them? NO

Will any of the above happen. NO so why worry about a few bob extras on what are after all legitimate allowed expenses!

El varche
  

[Omega man 2]

Bring back the gillotine