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Labour peer Baroness Uddin under fire over 'vacant' home
Ben Quinn
The Observer, Sunday 3 May 2009
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A Labour member of the House of Lords has become the latest politician to be challenged over expenses amid suggestions that she has not been living in a flat outside London for which she has claimed an estimated £100,000.
Baroness Uddin, 49, claims that the two-bedroom property in Maidstone, Kent, is her "main address". But neighbours believe that the flat has been vacant for years and that the peer has continued to live in London.
She has designated a family house in Tower Hamlets, where her children went to school, as a "second home", according to the Sunday Times, allowing her to claim the cost of overnight accommodation in London.
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Poverty of the MPs is in the grotesque shamelessness... and petty greed
EAST LONDON PRESS says at 0510 Hrs on Tuesday 31 March 2009: It is not just Harry Cohen, the east London MP who used to flaunt a faker beard and spout strings of calculated socialistic confections... Having lost BOTH in order to stay on the bandwagon, Cohen seems to have also lost any sense of rationality. And dignity. How else could he be saying those things, comparing himself to Churchill in that way? There were indeed many flaws in Churchill’s life and character. But Harry Cohen is not remotely convincing as a comparable Member of Parliament...Or as a member of society... What Cohen’s banal boast tells us about him is that he belongs to a parliament of political, mental, moral pigmies with no evident shame...
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