Jared O’Mara has a fair shot of being one of the worst MPs in history (take a look at his Wikipedia page for a whirlwind tour), but what I find especially frustrating is the way he was selected – in a very high profile seat, he was selected by the central office of the Labour party – not by the local party, without even an interview. What a world where you can spend tens of thousands in the process of getting someone elected without interviewing them first.
Those are some rookie numbers of fraud by an MP! See Margaret Moran Luton – 56k.
I just don’t understand how it is still so easy to defraud this.
I have an expenses account, and I’m audited, I have to provide solid receipts and mine get rejected for mistakes or errors.
Dad was in a bar with him whilst he was MP, apparently he kept going in the toilet and coming back with a change of personality
This absolute halfwit was plucked from seedy obscurity to treble the average wage, full pension and the longest holidays of any profession and thoroughly fucked it.
He could have been set for a very comfortable life, yet became infamous.
The funny thing is, if he had turned the dial down like 30% he could still be doing a few grams and smashing a bottle of vodka a day and it be just another day at the office in the House of Commons.
Too many unsavory labour MPs in the last couple of years. Most seem to be chancers and liars. Tories are no better either.
There was more outrage over a Tory advisor driving to his parents house than a sitting Labour MP defrauding taxpayers tens of thousands of pounds to pay for his coke benders. This is the clown world we’re living in.
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For the rest of Westminster, the most outrageous thing about this is that he couldn’t even afford his own coke habit. They had no idea people could be that poor.
So here is the story from a Sheffielder that is slightly adjacent to this whole thing.
The 2017 election was a bit of a mess for Labour, May wasn’t quiet that she was going to call an election to try and sort out the Brexit issue but many local Labour parties hasn’t even start thinking about choosing candidates. This was partly the usual mess that Labour selection is but with the added issue that Labour was going under a massive image change with the need to get the “right” people in the “right” places.
This lead to many of their target seats not having candidates at the time the election was called. The process was rushed, the CLP leadership basically spent hours looking through applications and choosing their favourite; no membership vote, no vetting, no training.
Add on top of this that there was an expectation that Clegg would be safe by a mile. He survived the collapse in 2015, the LDs held all the council seats in 2017, the LDs were polling high and Labour low compared to 2015. Add in the LDs being a very pro-EU party in a remain siding seats and there wasn’t really a path through.
Unfortunately, what they didn’t expect was the student wave that Corbyn caused. Hallam is home to thousands of students which caused the downfall and the installation of possibly the biggest car crash MP in recent years.
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Jared O’Mara has a fair shot of being one of the worst MPs in history (take a look at his Wikipedia page for a whirlwind tour), but what I find especially frustrating is the way he was selected – in a very high profile seat, he was selected by the central office of the Labour party – not by the local party, without even an interview. What a world where you can spend tens of thousands in the process of getting someone elected without interviewing them first.
Those are some rookie numbers of fraud by an MP! See Margaret Moran Luton – 56k.
I just don’t understand how it is still so easy to defraud this.
I have an expenses account, and I’m audited, I have to provide solid receipts and mine get rejected for mistakes or errors.
Dad was in a bar with him whilst he was MP, apparently he kept going in the toilet and coming back with a change of personality
This absolute halfwit was plucked from seedy obscurity to treble the average wage, full pension and the longest holidays of any profession and thoroughly fucked it.
He could have been set for a very comfortable life, yet became infamous.
The funny thing is, if he had turned the dial down like 30% he could still be doing a few grams and smashing a bottle of vodka a day and it be just another day at the office in the House of Commons.
Too many unsavory labour MPs in the last couple of years. Most seem to be chancers and liars. Tories are no better either.
There was more outrage over a Tory advisor driving to his parents house than a sitting Labour MP defrauding taxpayers tens of thousands of pounds to pay for his coke benders. This is the clown world we’re living in.
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For the rest of Westminster, the most outrageous thing about this is that he couldn’t even afford his own coke habit. They had no idea people could be that poor.
So here is the story from a Sheffielder that is slightly adjacent to this whole thing.
The 2017 election was a bit of a mess for Labour, May wasn’t quiet that she was going to call an election to try and sort out the Brexit issue but many local Labour parties hasn’t even start thinking about choosing candidates. This was partly the usual mess that Labour selection is but with the added issue that Labour was going under a massive image change with the need to get the “right” people in the “right” places.
This lead to many of their target seats not having candidates at the time the election was called. The process was rushed, the CLP leadership basically spent hours looking through applications and choosing their favourite; no membership vote, no vetting, no training.
Add on top of this that there was an expectation that Clegg would be safe by a mile. He survived the collapse in 2015, the LDs held all the council seats in 2017, the LDs were polling high and Labour low compared to 2015. Add in the LDs being a very pro-EU party in a remain siding seats and there wasn’t really a path through.
Unfortunately, what they didn’t expect was the student wave that Corbyn caused. Hallam is home to thousands of students which caused the downfall and the installation of possibly the biggest car crash MP in recent years.