Will Tony McNulty be the First Crooked Labour MP Suspended for Stealing from the Taxpayers?
The possibility exists that crooked MP Tony McNulty may become the first Labour MP to be suspended from Parliament after being found guilty of swindling his expenses.
The Parliamentary Standards Commissioner (PSC) has finished his investigation into £60,000 worth of expenses claimed by Harrow MP Mr McNulty. He claimed for a semi-detached home in Kenton Lane, Harrow, as his second home.
However, Mr McNulty’s “first” or “main” home is only a few miles away in Hammersmith. His parents live in the Kenton Lane house — courtesy of the taxpayer.
After this blatant robbery of the taxpayer was exposed, Mr McNulty insisted that he “stuck to both the spirit and the letter of the law.”
However, the PCS’s inquiry has finished and has, according to reports, found the former minister — ironically in charge of policing — guilty of abusing his expenses.
The final report is due to be released on Thursday.
At the very least, he will be forced to make a public apology and pay back the money. The possibility of being suspended from the Commons for this disgrace is strong, and there are indications that he will resign.
* The “second home” swindle is based on the belief that Members of Parliament somehow have the right to a second home paid for by the taxpayer if they have to travel a long way to Westminster.
Mr McNulty’s main home is just three miles from Westminster, and his “second” home is eleven miles — in other words, the house for which he claimed is actually further away from Parliament than his real residence.
Incredibly, Mr McNulty defended himself during the inquiry by arguing that he did not “claim the full allowance, nor did he submit housekeeping and other bills.”
He has till now consistently refused to pay back any of the money, claiming that he “worked in the Kenton Road house on weekends.”
His final bizarre defence was that he was “only obeying orders, just like the Nazi war criminals at the Nuremburg trials.”
The disgraceful arrogance with which Mr McNulty has treated the British public as a milch cow for his excesses is merely one example of the festering nest of corruption and filth which characterises all the Westminster parties.
* The BNP’s policy on “second homes” is that there should be none. A BNP government would build a Travelodge-type hotel near Westminster in which MPs could stay while Parliament was in sitting and that would be that.
