tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22057922.post4427770477402807482..comments2023-10-30T14:03:37.394+00:00Comments on Lindylooz Muze: Will David Laws go while Nadine Dorries stays?Linda Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05155438246679688058noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22057922.post-83916451139995542022010-06-06T20:32:37.586+01:002010-06-06T20:32:37.586+01:00I'm a huge David Laws fan, an anti-homophobia ...I'm a huge David Laws fan, an anti-homophobia hawk, and someone who got bored of the expenses scandal coverage ULTRA-quick, and even I think he was in the wrong. It's nothing to do with his difficulties coming out, it's nothing to do with whether this guy was his partner/relation/friend/lover whatever. David Laws is a millionaire, and the idea of just *not* claiming shitloads of money off the taxpayer never entered his head, apparently, or he would have seen that could have solved his privacy issues while maintaining his preferred circumstances. Impossible for him to wield the crucial axe under those circumstances, and it's a tragedy for the country, as he seemed to be the only one with the wherewithal to clean-up Gordon's economic diarrhoea.Bolivia Newton-Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04625837193078517542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22057922.post-84784714158538208402010-05-31T10:41:34.804+01:002010-05-31T10:41:34.804+01:00Hi Linda,
In my view I think he was right to clai...Hi Linda,<br /><br />In my view I think he was right to claim for rent at the start if that was his reason for moving in and he had his own bedroom and didn't share a bed with the other guy.<br /><br />At the time they began to share a bed he should have stopped claiming. Any contribution to the home should have been from his own income. He's independently wealthy and didn't need to claim in order to do his job. If he didn't want to be outed then this would have kept things hidden.<br /><br />Also having claimed the money against the rules he should have come clean at the time the expenses scandal broke, his repayment then and his relationship would probably have gone unnoticed. Then he could have been given a job in government with no problems. As it is having taken a job in government the press were bound to go digging about the new people. As the third party before many Lib-Dems virtually passed unnoticed.<br /><br />JenJenMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15829266805217985316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22057922.post-41441865550476792502010-05-30T17:20:34.847+01:002010-05-30T17:20:34.847+01:00He was caught
He should go
He said how wonderful...He was caught<br /><br />He should go<br /><br />He said how wonderful he was in his campaign, all the while taking £1000 a month from us, for his boyfriend, the lobbyist. It might be more interesting to find out what strings he pulled to make money for his lobbyist partner and what the second flat is for.<br /><br />Quite why a millionaire (in charge of cutting unnecessary expenditure) needs our money to fund his shagging partner for several years and then thinks he can weasel out of it by redefining 'partner' to us as if we're all fucknuts, and pretending he's the only gay in the world, is beyond me.<br /><br />Goodbye. <br /><br />I said this coalition would be hilarious.thehoatzinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13080787665247014405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22057922.post-5327355638856513982010-05-29T19:32:25.188+01:002010-05-29T19:32:25.188+01:00Catherine.. you are just being ridiculous now.
I...Catherine.. you are just being ridiculous now. <br /><br />It matters not which party he is from, this goverment promised us change. David Laws intentionally mislead and signed documents fraudently. He also made this statement on his website: http://twitpic.com/1s49k1 <br /><br />Now, I have a party to host so Adios, Adieu, Goodbye.Ms Humphrey Cushionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16086232190929798310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22057922.post-79506803369499502862010-05-29T17:56:54.873+01:002010-05-29T17:56:54.873+01:00Mm, yes, excellent post by a completely impartial ...Mm, yes, excellent post by a <i>completely</i> impartial Labour MP, the sum total of whose argument seems to be "yes I know he didn't profit from it, yes I know he wasn't trying to milk the system, and actually he could easily have claimed more money if he'd wanted to, but still he broke the <i>rules</i>".<br /><br />I once picked up a newspaper in WHSmith. There was no one at the counter and I didn't have time to wait so I just put a £2 coin on the ledge behind the counter and left. Guess I should be done for shoplifting.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07440686418047612952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22057922.post-63743312660534476252010-05-29T17:31:33.805+01:002010-05-29T17:31:33.805+01:00Good Blog post from Kerry McCarthy MP, who knows t...Good Blog post from Kerry McCarthy MP, who knows the Parliamentary rules far better than you or I Catherine...<br /><br /><br />http://bit.ly/boEfG4Ms Humphrey Cushionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16086232190929798310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22057922.post-3501427260188295172010-05-29T16:51:43.905+01:002010-05-29T16:51:43.905+01:00These comparisons with benefits claimants seem to ...These comparisons with benefits claimants seem to come from people who have little knowledge of the workings of the system... There are many cases where ambiguous relationships are judged NOT to constitute genuine "partnership" / common law marriage for benefits purposes. One woman recently won an appeal against a ruling that she qualified as the dependent of a man she had a sexual relationship with. Just because two people live together or sleep together doesn't make them partners. I'm not saying the benefits system is perfect (far from it!), but it's not quite so hopeless that it fails to recognise that human relationships are complex.<br /><br />The real issue is did David seek to milk the taxpayer for more money than he was entitled to? The obvious answer is absolutely not. If he'd bought the house next door and claimed £1,700 per month for the mortgage nobody would even be discussing this. But £950 per month in rent to a man he later became involved with is somehow out of order? What do people expect, that once you begin sleeping with someone they'll waive your rent? If that's the normal rule, then I'm obviously doing something wrong - none of my partners has ever offered me rent-free accomodation...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07440686418047612952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22057922.post-40557857098572224742010-05-29T16:43:15.240+01:002010-05-29T16:43:15.240+01:00I agree wholeheartedly with every bit of your arti...I agree wholeheartedly with every bit of your article, except the last paragraph. I would be disgusted if he were forced to resign over this. And I don't think he will - I think this is a bit like the Ecclestone affair in that it's early enough in the new government that it'll blow over and be forgotten. (The only difference, of course, being that in the Ecclestone case Blair actually did something wrong.)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07440686418047612952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22057922.post-70866347855828354182010-05-29T12:45:14.420+01:002010-05-29T12:45:14.420+01:00This link sets out Government rules for reporting ...This link sets out Government rules for reporting changes of circumstances in regard to benefits claims:<br /><br />http://bit.ly/bOPVEPMs Humphrey Cushionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16086232190929798310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22057922.post-10650963091977470322010-05-29T12:06:49.911+01:002010-05-29T12:06:49.911+01:00Sorry Linda but there has to be the same rules for...Sorry Linda but there has to be the same rules for Government as for the people they represent. Should Laws have been claiming housing benefit for example whilst living with a partner, he would be not only have to repay but would have a criminal record to boot.<br /><br />We are not in the 1950s anymore and being gay wouldnt have harmed his career so his arguments dont add up. He intentionally mislead, no matter what money he "may have saved" the country by not declaring his true status. <br /><br />It is sad, as I have no doubt that David Laws is a good politician, however he should do the decent thing and resign from the Cabinet immediately. If he does not, the Coallition government will become even more farcical and hypocritical than it already is. <br /><br />"Oh what a tangled web we weave when we first set out to deceive"Ms Humphrey Cushionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16086232190929798310noreply@blogger.com