This Web Page was created on 22 May 2009, shortly after the MPs' expenses scandal rocked the British political establishment.     I found myself wanting to see a full list of MPs' expenses, so that I would be able to compare my own MPs' expenses to those of the rest of the MPs in parliament.     Imagine my surprise then, when just the other day, one of my correspondents told me of a web address, from which I could download such a list.    

I cannot establish the route via which this list reached the public domain.     Indeed, I was not even sure, at first, what period of time it covered.     However, since receiving the list I have become aware of the website: www.theyworkforyou.com.     I note that the figures on the list, which I have published here, seem to match the figures shown on that website for the period from 2007 to 2008.     Therefore, if you are in any doubt as to the veracity of the figures on my list, I urge you to check them against the figures shown on www.theyworkforyou.com.    

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Anthony Steen is the sort of person one might want to invent if one wanted to satirize the supreme arrogance of our MPs.     It is almost as if a character written by Jonathan Swift had materialized and jumped off of the page to take up his place in reality.     Surely, the mere existence of someone like Anthony Steen, is only moderately less bizarre than the idea that advertising that one should breed human babies for food is A Modest Proposal.     I am beginning to wonder if perhaps Anthony Steen has not be parachuted into this debate in order to give us all a little light relief.     It is as if someone decided: "This MPs' Expenses Scandal is all getting far too serious!     Here is a clown, an improbable troll, a characature, a joke to take your minds of the issue."     But no, Antony Steen is a real live human being it seems.     He really does exist.     People really did vote for him.     "Why would that be?"     I ask myself.     Do people really want to be represented by a Fairground Freak?     What other description can one find for a man who, in the year from 2007 to 2008, spent £94,137 of public money, yet considers his expenditure is none of our business?     Apparently it is OK for us to supply him with this money, but it is quite outrageous for us to even think of asking him what he might have done with it.    

In the spirit of enabling you to find out as much as you wish about Anthony Steen, whether he likes it or not, here are a few links:

On Friday, 22 May 2009, after hearing Nadine Dorries ludicrous statement that the public and the media's treatment of MPs, following the expenses scandal, was inhumane, I simply could not resist firing off a letter to my local newspaper, Bedfordshire on Sunday, many of who's readership live in Ms Dorries' constituency.     The contents of that letter were as follows:

Sir

Please may I suggest that it is time to declare open season on Nadine Dorries MP?     On a recent news report, following the MPs' expenses debacle, Nadine Dorries was heard to say that MPs are now under a pressure which she thinks is inhumane.

How one feels for the poor dears!     These people make the sort of laws which see asylum seekers, including young children, locked up like criminals, merely for daring the think that Britain might provide them with asylum from murderous regimes; from rape, from torture and from murder.

This country has laws which see benefit cheats and TV licence evaders jailed.     We are regularly assailed with TV advertising in which we are told that, if we do not pay our car tax, the government department responsible for vehicle licensing has the power to crush our cars.     This is done regardless of the fact that there must be very many people who cannot afford to pay their car tax because they have been put out of work, and may even have lost their homes, due to the policies of this corrupt and inept government; policies which have left our society in such a parlous state.     However, when MPs, who are already substantially better off that most of us, are caught red handed defrauding the tax payer of tens of thousands of pounds per annum, we are asked not to give them a hard time over it because it is putting them under inhumane pressure.     Really?

Precisely what planet is Nadine Dorries on?

I realise Nadine Dorries is a Tory, and therefore cannot be held responsible for the mess that Labour have got us into over the past twelve years.     However, it could be argued, and indeed, I would argue most strongly, that it was Margaret Thatcher's government, a Tory government, who set the agenda that idiot Tony and idiot Gordon have been so slavishly following for these last twelve years.     I had high hopes of Gordon Brown.     I had thought he was going to try and reverse the decline which Margaret Thatcher's policies had started.     Instead, he and Tony Blair seem to have done everything in their power to entrench and institutionalise the evils of the Thatcher government: Privatisation, PFI initiatives which see public money going into private hands and an ever widening gap between rich and poor.     I am reminded of a song, which was current in the autumn of 1978, the refrain of which was the repeated statement: "Gordon is a moron, Gordon is a moron!"

The country is going to the dogs because of the policies of this government and the past policies of the last Tory government.     People are losing their jobs, their homes, their everything.     Families are being split up while MPs bury their noses in the trough and "flip their second homes" so that they can milk the system for everything they can get.     MPs are committing outright fraud, for which they should be jailed.     Yet, when we, the public and the media, complain about it, we are told, by idiots like Nadine Dorries, that we are putting our MPs under inhumane pressure.     Purleeees!

The other day I saw a column in a local newspaper, in which Mayor Branston was mocking Nadine Dorries.     I felt slightly sorry for her.     Having listened to her bleating about the unfair treatment of MPs, that poor under privileged minority group, which has had such a hard time for so long, I am beginning to think perhaps he did not go far enough?     I am beginning to think we should declare "Open Season" on this stupid, neurotic woman.     I am beginning to think she should be laughed out of Parliament.

Just to kick off that "Open Season", here is a web address where you can find a breakdown of Nadine Dorries expenses for the three years to 2008:

www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/nadine_dorries/mid_bedfordshire#expenses

I am almost sorry to note that, by the standards of the Duck House Buying, Moat Cleaning, Home Flipping, Tax Avoiding majority, she seems almost restrained in her spending.     Who knows, she may even be able to account for the figure of: £22,528  "additional costs" for the year 2007 to 2008, which is listed on the Website located at the above address.

Yours sincerely


Richard Gillard

P.S. Something new: M.P. in fight to restore blog, an article in Bedfordshire on Sunday.

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