Sunday, May 17, 2009

Greg Knight's Second Palace Allowance.

There's an astounding story buried on page 4 of the print edition (I can't find it on the web site) of The Sunday Telegraph. Tory MP 'Greg' Knight claimed £20,886 for his second home allowance in 2006-7. Then, the next year, he claimed £183,052,007. Amazing and nobody has followed it up. Well, evidently it's a misprint. Most newspapers are sub-edited in Ulan Bator these days.
Posted by Bryan Appleyard at 9:32 am

6 comments:

  1. maltyMay 17, 2009 4:01 pm

    The cats whiskers are Tam Dalyell's bookcases, I mean, have you been in the House of Binns, the whole joint was done out originally for one pound seventeen and six, by the sixteenth centuries equivalent of DFS.

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  2. DavidMay 17, 2009 10:06 pm

    This is trivial. From my Greek correspondent ...

    As for your MPs; the numbers I've been reading have made me laugh - such amounts would have been considered fit for foolish angels only, in Greece. Jesus, we had the minister of environment found out to having built a mansion without planning permission and the minister of employment employing 3 or 4 illegal immigrants and only the second lost his job and that after a lot of more things coming out....

    The trouble here is that now both parties are now totally descredited - we run out of choices. Vote for the looney party next time round.

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  3. The Welsh JacobiteMay 18, 2009 8:31 am

    The Balkan Herald keeps the British flag frying!

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  4. VinceMay 18, 2009 5:52 pm

    Did you not see the 007. Obviously the name is fake. He is really Lt Cdr 'S' A(Tony),P,Ott-Wolloppe RN.

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  5. AnonymousMay 18, 2009 9:39 pm

    unrelated... but check this article our bryan.

    http://techdirt.com/articles/20090518/0140424918.shtml

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  6. haartransplantationJuly 03, 2009 3:09 pm

    link doesnt work..

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