JCB/Brexit backhanders are very likely to be a thing.
My MP was the one that contested as a Tory on a presumably non-Leave ticket against the Tory to UKIP defector in a by-election before the referendum.
And then promptly defected to a "we must back Brexit" ticket herself.
I gave up. The site is horrible,
It won't even load for me as I didn't consent to them filling my browser with cookies. Oh well...
Slightly surprised my MP Lisa Nandy is in the top 3% - but then again she is a potential future Labour leader and pretty influential on their policy.
Mostly sums of a few thousand here and there from unions, but with £20k-odd from the Ministry of Sound - which is odd because her brief is "leveling up" not house music 😀
Mine, Ruth Edwards, seems to have learnt to jump on the earning train quite quickly. Having had the misfortune of working at the company that is her biggest benefactor and knowing what a nasty piece of work the owner is doesn’t enhance her reputation
1/4 million for Chris failing in my area.. oh yeah, a nice amount from a port!!
Hiya all,
You can all be happier not living in a Lame Fox constituency. Heck I knew he was a scumbag but this has highlighted how bad he really he is...
BR
Jerry
Mine is Leicestershire's answer to Tim Nice But Dim Edward Argar.
The only thing he has declared is a £300 gift from Lord David Brownlow.
This seems suspiciously honest!
This is why this is such a bad piece of journalism, without knowing what the donations are for and were spent on it is really just gossip and insinuation.
Some might consider that good journalism, or at least good value journalism. Most of what remember about the parliamentary expenses scandal 13 years ago is wrong - but the telegraph crafted their exposé with some fact and a lot of inference and what remember about deckhouses and moats wasnt quite what we think it was.
What a surprise, my MP is some scumbag called Rishi Sunak. £540k. Of all the people who needs not a single extra penny, its that slimeball. Unfortunately I live in old-fogey land, so he'll get re-elected next time round without so much a ripple. Hopefully to the opposition benches.
Its worth noting if you go through the Tortoise's methodology - MPs have to declare income. As part of that declaration they can state that they are passing that money on - as a charitable donation for instance. But they don't have to declare that they've given the money away, only that they've received it.
So although MP's will typically declare that they've donated a payment where that is whats happened - its possible that some, out of modesty, won't have done and would prefer it look like they trousered more money than they really have. So in their figures, in the interest of fairness, Sky / The Tortoise as disregarded all declared charity donations so that it looks like everyone trousered all the money 🙂
My MP Thangam Debbonaire does fairly well - £7k, putting her in the bottom third, most of that being from the Musicians Union (she was previously a professional cellist, was a shadow minister for the arts, and does a lot of campaigning, so that makes sense).
My old hometown MP is Daniel Kawczynski, a man so crooked he claimed £22,000 in expenses for Polish lessons. Despite the fact that he is Polish and it's his native language. His largest benefactor was an American billionaire who coughed up £160k. He's not even a minister. God knows what he's up to now.
Zero for mine much to my surprise as I have a very low opinion of her.
just think for a tiny sum you could be her no 1 donor, her favourite constituent and she’d have to dance to your tune!
Like a puppet on a chain?
My MP (Richard Drax) has a large amount £60k from his own company. Maybe a tax dodge?
Allan Dorans - nothing
my old address Marion Fallows - nothing
Michael Gove.... £325,000 including £100,000 from Zachariasz Gertler - a German/British property magnate.... now there's a surprise (not).
Mine - the Speaker of the House £2800 total - reasonable, but not sure why he's taking money from Qatar
£1800 from Unite
£1000 from Qatar Racing and Equestrian Club (Qatar Ministry of Sports and Culture) and the Embassy of the State of Qatar
Was just about to post about Gove. Surprised he's not sponsored by a Colombian though, or perhaps that's not declared.
Apologies if I'm being spectacularly dim here, but does this money end up in their own pocket as "earnings" or is the money spent on "something"?
It depends.
A lot is contribution to campaigns/office running. So not directly in pocket but does help them get the nice job.
There are also the "fact finding" trips staying in a decent hotel and the various sporting/cultural events which are a direct benefit to the person.
Top 9% here, £149,000 to Bim Afolami of which £70k is from some random landscape artist from Hammersmith (Oliver R M Maughan) which seems a bit arbitrary but there you go. Some more was from the local Portcullis Club, searching for which accidentally let me to the local Conservative Party web page where they promise that 'your priorities are our priorities'. Somehow I don't think that's true.
