David Laws Apologises For Expenses

By jashby1 | Friday, May 28, 2010, 23:28

Breaking

Our Yeovil MP, David Laws.

news - David Laws has been forced to apologise for claiming MP's expenses to

rent rooms owned by his partner, James Lundie.

The latest report from the BBC is available here.

This is our Yeovil MP - a man who has pointed to the fact that he has claimed

lower than the allowed threshold for MP's consistently throughout the recent

election campaign.

We want to know how you feel about this bombshell - has it changed the way you

feel about David?

Do you feel let down, frustrated or downright angry?

Do you want to defend David for all the hard work he's done for our town over

the years?

Vent spleen here on Yeovil's community website.

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There is a high amount of deception in all of this, being gay is not an excuse. Nor is this about the simple claim of previously non receipted rent. If you have no problem in paying even more tax for politicians to rake off and use deceit to rake off more expense. Then go shake David Laws hand.

By pobox112 at 10:38 on 30/05/10
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I thought the new coalition was trying to put the sleaze behind it LMV - so when one of the prominent shiny new front bench MPs breaks the rules he should just be able to carry on then - fair enough.

I hope the crossbow cannibal gets to stay at college and complete his criminology PhD too then; he seemed to be doing quite well in his theory just the practicals were letting him down.

By cardinal_sin at 07:37 on 30/05/10
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nonesense @cardinalsin why should he have resigned? the guy was just trying to keep his private life private. he was doing a great job at the treasury. you wait until danny 'dimwit' alexander is making the choices about which public services to cut and you'll have a different view i promise you

By LMV1234 at 23:38 on 29/05/10
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He broke the rules he should resign - as should all those MPs who broke the rules in the Expenses Scandal.

There are very few honest politicians out there it would seem.

By cardinal_sin at 17:25 on 29/05/10
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I'm fairly sure that he is entitled to claim the £40k to rent a flat in London but the recipient cannot be a family member or partner. In the end it comes to his interpretation of "Partner".
I think he should have known that this is would not look good, although in the grand scheme of things it's no duck house or clean moat. Not a resigning matter in my opinion but I voted for him and I'm not impressed.

By Airhead at 14:33 on 29/05/10
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