It may no longer be the only blog with a weekly video (click here if you haven’t seen Conor Pope’s vlog) but Guy News is becoming required viewing – even for guilty lefties who quickly alt-tab back to The Staggers when surprised by a comrade. In an act of Labour/Conservative non-partisanship unlikely to be repeated [...]
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EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Teather charged £1,700 of Lib Dem furniture, insurance and telephone bills to expenses
Brent East MP Sarah Teather has been dogged this week by revelations about expense claims for her constituency office and allegations that taxpayer money has been used for political campaigning (all articles here). Scrapbook can today disclose that, in addition to bills for her Parliamentary office, Sarah Teather has claimed for invoices worth £1,700 addressed to her local political party. Despite [...]
As thick as thieves
Sarah Teather seems to be compensating for her persistent and all-too-convenient absence from Parliament this year with an appearance on tonight’s Question Time. Given this week’s revelations on her office expenses, one assumes her exhortations that “thieves should not be attacked” bear an element of self-interest! From the look of Tory Bear’s teaser post, tomorrow’s Guy News [...]
Mirror, Mirror on the wall
What a difference eight months can make… Sarah Teather, The Grauniad, May 2009 Sarah Teather, Daily Mirror, January 2010 The usual channels carry news that Teather’s office had trouble with the local wildlife today. A sudden invasion of bears and hyenas can be most troubling!
Sarah Teather: playing it by the book
Thanks to the source who emailed to draw Scrapbook’s attention to the fact that, in relation to this week’s expenses revelations, Sarah Teather has in fact been “playing it by the book”. Unfortunately for taxpayers, the book concerned isn’t Parliament’s Green Book on the appropriate use of expenses but the Liberal Democrats’ internal manual on [...]
EXCLUSIVE: Massive election period phone bills cast further suspicion on Sarah Teather expenses
UPDATE 10:12 – MAY DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. FOLLOW @PSBOOK FOR UPDATES Links from a number of blogs, including the acerbic Tory Bear, to yesterday’s scoop on Liberal Democrat office expenses made for record readership figures – and it doesn’t seem that Tuesday will offer much respite for Sarah Teather. Scrapbook can reveal that the Brent East MP’s telephone bills [...]
EXCLUSIVE: Lib Dem lies over Sarah Teather office rent
UPDATED TODAY: DID TEATHER CHARGE TAXPAYER FOR PHONE CAMPAIGNING? Scrapbook blogged last week on the continuing sleaze investigation into the office expenses of Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Teather. The former ‘Baby of the House’ shares her taxpayer-funded constituency premises with the political campaign wing of the local party, despite parliamentary rules that outlaw sub-lets and state that ”claims cannot [...]
