: Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:08 pm
Personally she along with every other MP should of been investigated for fraud and jailed ...... instead we get an apology......she clearly tried to claim monies for twice the amount she actually spent...in my eyes that is stealing.... if I did it I would be arrested....and you can bet your bottom dollar an apology would not of helped me one bit......
Still why should she worry we only pay over £1000 a month interest relief on her £665K home in London.....
She is nothing more than a freeloader ...... Cas deserve better
From the Telegraph::::The Cabinet couple designated their London house as their “second home” rather than their constituency properties, despite their three young children going to school in the capital.
While the pair’s expenses claims were lower than most of their colleagues, they each claimed around £300 a month for food.
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had their expenses docked, having each submitted two monthly claims for mortgage interest for nearly twice the cost of their actual payments.
The couple denied flipping after switching their second home designation three times, saying that they had not sought to maximise their expenses and that, unlike some colleagues, they had paid capital gains tax on selling their home.
Miss Cooper, who was first elected in 1997, eight years before her husband, initially claimed on a modest house in her constituency of Castleford, West Yorkshire, where the mortgage interest payments were £530 a month.
After Mr Balls was elected to the neighbouring seat of Normanton, she switched her designation to London, and they each submitted half of the £1,466 mortgage interest payments.
[b]Two years later, in May 2007, the pair moved to a larger £655,000 property in north London which they designated their second home. Their mortgage interest payments increased to £1,031 each. In total, the couple claimed £24,400 between them on their second-home allowance last year, slightly more than the £23,000 that could have been paid to an individual MP but less than the £46,000 maximum for two members.[/b]