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June 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Peer says her expenses claims are ‘in accordance with the letter and the spirit of the rules’
- Questions are also asked about trips to the Middle East funded by the Saudi Arabian government
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Chris Richards
06:56 EST, 3 June 2012
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08:12 EST, 3 June 2012
Under-fire Tory party co-chairman Baroness Warsi could have profited from parliamentary expenses by billing the taxpayer up to £165 a night for accommodation despite staying at a Premier Inn for less than half the price.
The cabinet minister claimed £12,247 in overnight subsistence costs related to her House of Lords attendance between October 2007 and March 2008, which equates to her receiving the maximum £165.50 on 74 occasions.
But sources told The Sunday Times that during this period she stayed on a number of occasions at the Premier Inn in Wembley, London, paying about £75 a night.
Warsi, 41, did not break parliamentary rules by using a cheap hotel, but by claiming the maximum allowance – and pocketing the difference – she leaves herself open to accusations of profiting from expenses rather then using them to cover costs.
Expenses: Baroness Warsi claimed £12,247 in House of Lords overnight expenses between October 2007 and March 2008
Fellow peer Lord Hanningfield, jailed for falsely claiming overnight House of Lords expenses, said: ‘I don’t want to say anything against Baroness Warsi but, as I said at my trial, 85 per cent of peers were claiming the full allowances.’
The news comes a week after allegations that Warsi had claimed up to £2,000 in House of Lords expenses while staying rent-free at the Acton home of GP and Tory party member Wafik Moustafa.
Warsi has admitted she spent occasional nights at the property after she entered the Lords in October 2007 and before she moved into a two-bedroom flat she bought in Wembley.
She has said she stayed there on about 12 occasions as a guest of Tory official Naweed Khan, who later became her special adviser.
Controversy: Wafik Moustafa at his home in which Baroness Warsi briefly stayed shortly after she entered the Lords
The peer denies these allegations and has referred herself to Paul Kernaghan, the Lords Commissioner for Standards, who is expected to carry out an investigation.
Warsi has also been criticised
for failing to declare to Parliament that she had been receiving
thousands of pounds in rent since moving out of her Wembley flat.
She additionally faces the prospect of a police probe, after the Met received a complaint from a member of the public.
Warsi said:
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‘I believe the membership of the House of Lords is a
privilege, which is why I have at all times sought to ensure that my conduct,
including claims for overnight accommodation and subsistence, is in accordance
with both the letter of the law and the spirit of the rules.
‘That is why I have
referred the allegations relating to my claims for overnight allowances to the
Commissioner for Standards in the House of Lords, thereby enabling the
Commissioner to carry out an investigation that would otherwise be
time-barred.’
Separately, the Mail On Sunday today revealed that Warsi made two trips to the Middle East that were funded by the Saudi Arabian government.
Both trips were to Saudi Arabia and Warsi was joined on one of them by her husband.
She has declared both trips in the House of Lords register but no costs have been disclosed.
Warsi added that her husband had ‘met his own costs’.
So far, the prime minister has backed Warsi despite calls for her to resign.
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Off with her head!
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oops – typ0 – I meant 90.50 – see previous comment
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95.50 ‘profit’ – I work almost 2 days for that amount – and I’m taxed on it
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Baroness my nether regions, pretty barren in the integrity, honesty and qualified departments if you ask me.
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Warsi is one of those who have criticised the ‘ Something for Nothing Culture ‘ of benefit claimants . Such arrogant hypocrisy . And to Meldrew in Canada I say that both sides of the house were guilty of Expenses Scandals . Indeed our own dear present chancellor is said to have made 740,000 pounds tax free by flipping the house he had smartened up at our expense as a second home . he insists he played by the rules …and I’m sure he did …..like the rest of them
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Whoever set £165 per night for an overnight Hotel stay?.There are much cheaper places to spend an overnight.If we are all in it together(Ha HA) let us all economise,not just Joe Public.M.P.’s are overpaid anyway for the “work”that they allegedly do.We are shown Manifestos to encourage us to vote for them then they are junked as soon as they are elected.For example the promise of a Referendum on E.U.membership.In business this would be classed as MIS-SELLING.
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If the ‘spirit of the law’ had prevailed when she failed at both attempts to be elected to Parliament as an MP. she would not now have a peerage. Having failed to persuade voters that she was suitable for Office as an MP it is certainly not within the spirit of the law to be handed a lucrative peerage where she is effectively answerable to nobody but free to pontificate forever to us mere mortals. Peerages should be for the deserving – NOT for failed Parliamentary candidates.
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for the ‘ordinary’ civil servant expenses are paid on actual expenditure which must be within certain limits because prior to that ruling they were given an allowance so if they stayed in a cheap hotel the remains of the allowance could be pocketed. The ‘actual’ system was brought in to stop civil servants making a profit (seems like that rule hasn’t caught up with Baronnes Tea Leaf yet)
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This type of behaviour is simply not acceptable from our senior politicians. After all the issues recently in relation to MPs expenses you would have thought that there is no way that this could have happened but it appears that some people believe that they are above the laws. The conservative party needs to get its act together and sort this out now.
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As unpopular as this will be, the ‘benefit scroungers’ so often derided on this website, usually only tries to provide enough income to live on, this woman, and others like her, have access to more money than most people will see in a lifetime and still they can’t resist dipping their snouts into the taxpayer trough.
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