0f all the revelations about Labour's free-loading, free frocks, free glasses, free tickets, free holidays, etc, one story jumped out at me.
0f all the revelations about Labour's free-loading, free frocks, free glasses, free tickets, free holidays, etc, one story jumped out at me.
We knew she'd taken £7,500 from a friend to buy clothes and accepted a free family holiday in Cornwall, worth £1,400, which she failed to declare properly. No shame in that. Plenty of people employ accountants, me included. That's because I do words, not numbers, and hate form-filling and any kind of contact with authority which can otherwise be avoided.Chancellor Rachel Reeves claimed £1,225 on her Parliamentary expenses to pay someone to fill in her personal tax return
We've come a long way from 1947, when then Chancellor Hugh Dalton was forced to resign as a matter of honour because he tipped off a London evening paper reporter about the contents of his Budget a couple of hours before he was due to deliver it in the Commons. Martha's just one of 47 MPs who has claimed for an accountant on her expenses. All 'within the rules', naturally. Yet since this story broke, we are now told she has repaid £137.50 she claimed in April for accountancy fees.
Now we discover an even greater danger to those hoping for a relaxing retirement. Councils across the country are hacking back on maintenance of bowling greens to save money.The chances of that happening are remote, given that annual subs only run around £20.
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