Tue 12-May-09 09:20 AM by shawn

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Kitty Ussher MP, junior Minister at DWP, recently announced tightening of Crisis Loans in order to reduce "inappropriate applications". See Rightsnet news and hansard

This is the same Kitty Ussher who has featured in recent publicity concerning questionable expenses claims. In her case, a request for various improvements to a property including getting rid of artexed ceilings which she didn't like: "Most of the ceilings have Artex coverings. Three-dimensional swirls. It could be a matter of taste, but this counts as ‘dilapidations’ in my book!" She also claimed for plumbing, stating that "The plumbing is strange" and for a replacement stair carpet which was "grimy".

More details here

She seems well qualified to decide what is inappropriate.

Will it now be possible in living together decisions to just change where you consider your main residence to be in order to get more money?

Only if you have two Jags, as an excuse to travel between your Sisters house and another home, in order to catch your Husband red handed watching pornagraphic entertainment, before he has a bath using an 89 pence bath plug.......

The Daily Muckraker today published a list of MP’s expense claims. Its editor, in giving a press conference, said “we take no pride in publishing this list but the public has a right to know. Ordinary people are sick and tired of self important, pompous, puffed up egotists who never tire of hearing their own voices, pontificating on the lives of others while living off the fat of the land themselves, paying themselves huge inflated salaries for salacious gossiping about the supposed wrong doing of others.

We in the press will take the lead in this and burn all our expense accounts for the next two weeks, will refuse to have two hour lunches at the Cabinet Office’s press secretary’s expense and will make no further comment for said period about the private lives of the Krankies, Little and large, Sooty and Sweep and a whole host of 1970’s stuffed toys that no-one under 30 has ever heard of”.

Lord Beaverbrook is 137

That list in full:

Hon’ Klondike Slackjaw: 1 pack of rawlplugs - £2,500
Hon’ St John Spokeshave: 1 packet of polos (fruit) – 10 pence
Hon’ Celestine Cleavage: 50 gallons of asses milk (pasteurised) – £10,000
Hon’ Effington Sheffington: Van Gogh’s Sunflowers – £75,000,000