April 27, 2009 - By BNP News

Conservative Party hypocrite leader David Cameron has promised a “Tory war” on public-sector fat cats earning lavish taxpayer-funded salaries – but has studiously ignored his own party’s bloodsuckers who have ripped off the public with a string of “expense allowances” swindles to the value of millions of pounds.

Speaking at the latest dull Tory party conference in Cheltenham, Mr Cameron said he would publicly “name and shame” all civil servants, quango chiefs and town hall officials earning more than £150,000 per year.

Mr Cameron failed to mention Tory MP for Hertsmere, Herts, James Clappison, who claimed almost £100,000 of taxpayers’ cash for a second home while building up a property empire. Mr Clappison owns 22 houses which he rents out yet has pocketed £97,892 in Commons allowances intended to pay for a second home.

Mr Cameron also ignored the fact that all members of his party joined the Labour and Lib-Dems in voting for a five percent limit on price rises in the taxpayer-subsidised bars, restaurants and cafeterias of Westminster. This means that they will avoid the price hikes of up to eighteen percent faced by the public in supermarkets and other stores across the country. Taxpayers will be forced to pay an extra £5 million a year to bankroll the exclusive food and drink for the MPs.

Mr Cameron was also quiet about the £1.4 million spent on “fact-finding” visits to exotic destinations by backbench MPs from all parties. Locations for these “inquiries” by House of Commons select committees included Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Shanghai, New York, Sydney and Barcelona. Accommodation in five-star hotels, first-class flights and a daily cash allowance for “extras” are all provided from Treasury funds. MPs have already booked overseas jaunts costing more than £1 million in total for the year ahead. Trips already pencilled in include the Work and Pensions Committee going to Canada to look at “pensioner poverty” at a cost of up to £55,083.

The Justice Committee will head to South Africa – at a cost of £48,051 – to study “the role of a prison officer.”

Mr Cameron also shut up about the fact that 16 out of 27 Conservative Party Members of the European Parliament employ their wives or relatives at the taxpayers’ expense, with four of the party’s MEPs paying their wives salaries of £30,000 to £40,000. Another twelve employed their partner or family member on salaries ranging from less than £10,000 to £30,000.

Mr Cameron was also quiet on the issue of the former Tory MEP Chief Whip Den Dover, who was caught out last year for claiming £750,000 in staff and office allowances to the family-owned firm HP Holdings, which was run by his wife and daughter.

Mr Cameron was also strangely quiet on the issue of Tory London MEP Charles Tannock who was reimbursed £15,228 in daily allowance payments, designed to cover accommodation and subsistence in Brussels. He spent 60.5 days in the city over the period in question – less than three months of the year.

Mr Cameron was silent about South West MEP Tory Giles Chichester who stood down as leader of the Tory Euro group last year following claims that he broke expenses rules by paying thousands in staff allowances to a firm of which he was a paid director. A report by think tank Open Europe also shows that between September and December, 26 of the Tory MEPs claimed an average of £36,303 on all travel, office expenses and allowances.

Finally, Mr Cameron was as quiet as a grave about his own personal expenses. According to official figures, Mr Cameron claimed £149,026 in direct expenses – over and above his parliamentary salary of £132,317 as MP and leader of the opposition. This means that Mr Cameron’s own personal income for the last year totalled £281,343 – and more than half of that was tax free.

Will Mr Cameron be listing himself on his “name and shame” list?  We don’t think so.

The time has come to radically reform the entire rotten and corrupt political system in Westminster-and only the British National Party is dedicated to doing so.