The above cottage, situated near Cardigan, west Wales, has cost us £140,000 so far.
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin, the children's minister, was born in London and lived in the capital for the first 42 years of her life before becoming a peer five years ago.
A few months after entering the Lords she and her husband bought the above small cottage for £147,000, then designated it as her 'main residence' even though she continued to live in her London home and the cottage is a five-hour journey from her place of work.
This has allowed her to claim the night subsistence for ministers living outside London. The sum is now £38,280 a year and is paid automatically by her department along with her £73,600 salary because she said she lived outside London.
Baroness Morgan is the person responsible for the proposals to introduce criminal record checks for parents who ferry children to sports or social events.
Lsst week Morgan's sister-in-law was staying at the cottage and neighbours said it was often used by Morgan's family and friends. The next door neighbour said: "It's a holiday home ... I haven't seen Delyth for around, oh, a couple of weeks ... I think she lives up near London somewhere."
Yesterday, Morgan issued a statement saying she had "always adhered to the rules on allowances." She said her work had been predominantly in London but she divided her time between the capital and Wales. She said she considered herself Welsh and had relatives there. She initially stated : "I have had a family home in west Wales since 1986." However, she later clarified she was referring to a home owned by her parents. She added: " I moved back with my parents to Wales in 1986 where I have spent much of the last 23 years. I bought a property in Wales at the first opportunity in 2004."
A wee bit more investigative journalism would surely show when she bought her London property. Then we would know if she had been living in west Wales during the ten years she was the CEO of Breakthrough Breast Cancer before she became involved full-time in politics and paid by the taxpayers.
Baroness Scotland last week, Baroness Morgan this week - who will it be next week I wonder.
Source: Sunday Times
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Nice one SR - excellent 'spot'! Going to be interesting to see what the 'recommendations', shortly due, will say!
These people beggar belief WfW.
Isn't it surprising how many members of the House of Aristocrats are ministers in this government. I know the Lords has to have ministers to answer questions, but this lot seem to be based in the upper house. Well, no, it's not surprising. If the best Labour can find in the Commons is morons like Aintworth, then perhaps it's better all round if we have lords ruling us.
Isn't it surprising, though, how many of them, manage to arrange for a stately home (they are lords after all) well outside the English capital where they work? Most people move to be NEAR their new job, Aristos move to be FARTHER AWAY. But, dear me no, not surprising at all when you consider that there is some £38,000to be made on expenses and that they are, by and large, a bunch of boot filling trash that would sell their grannies for a bit of extra dosh...
And they think we don't see it!
Point is that they don't care. They will never be pennyless in the streets, the law can't touch them, they really are the untouchables.
We, the people who vote, put them there, and now we can do nothing.
French had one solution, but that just changed one shower for a different one!
The trouble is Apogee we DIDN'T vote for so many of them... they are aristocrats, and as you say, untouchables.
La solution francaise.... oui, ca me plait!
You're right they don't care Apogee. We've bought her holiday home (give or take a few thousand) and she'll not be asked to repay the money.
Will the tories be different? I doubt it.
They are all at it still. Have they learned nothing from the fiasco earlier in the year?
I am truly disgusted with all of them.
Gigits, they can not learn or adapt that is the two failings of socialists.
Scum each and every one of them.
Write the name of every Labour peer on a card. Throw the pack of cards into the air. Those that stay in the air are decent honorable peers...........
Pus of course they all get away with it Gigits.
That's what pees me off.
Ruth that's a great idea. I'm now convinced they're all at the greed issue rather than thinking of the country.
Maybe we ought to start an online card throwing campaign.
Fido isn't scum too good a word for them? It's what I get on a cup of tea when I go to England because their water isn't as good as ours.
I'm trying hard to think of a description that is appropriate to my policy of not swearing ...
I'm trying hard to think of a description that is appropriate to my policy of not swearing ...
A virtually impossible task Subrosa!
Given the blatantly outrageous act of daylight robbery that she has committed against, ultimately, the pockets of the very children she pretends to care about in public.
Leave it to me.
I'm sure I can think of something suitably offensive over at my place. All fully deserved of course ;-)
I shall leave it to your most capable and trusting hand G.O.T.
Go for it.
Fido. The other side are no better. Indeed, looking back at the Daily Telegraph revelations a few months ago they came out slightly worse than the socialists
So... Tories are scum too....
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