Maria Miller - Culture Secretary : Wed Apr 09, 2014 9:02 am  

Resigns.

Re: Maria Miller - Culture Secretary : Wed Apr 09, 2014 9:39 am  

Dead Woman Walking!

Re: Maria Miller - Culture Secretary : Wed Apr 09, 2014 9:40 am  

Mind you it is all smoke and mirrors. If they get the chance, then after a quiet spell of a few months they'll sneak her back in under the gate.

Re: Maria Miller - Culture Secretary : Wed Apr 09, 2014 10:05 am  

I just can't believe the gall of the woman (you kind of have to admire her in a way).

She is resolute that she has done nothing wrong, adamant that the accusation has proven to be untrue, apologised and paid back the reduced amount but is still sitting on a massive property profit which had been financed by you and me.

Meanwhile she is blaming the whole thing on a media witch hunt as a result of her sitting on the Leverson enquiry or the somwhat misguided belief that some people don't believe in gay marriage.

It's time to start demanding better standards from MP's or put the Queen in charge again!

Re: Maria Miller - Culture Secretary : Wed Apr 09, 2014 10:32 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

Mind you it is all smoke and mirrors. If they get the chance, then after a quiet spell of a few months they'll sneak her back in under the gate.

Call Me Dave Camoron wrote:

In a written reply to Mrs Miller's resignation, the PM said he hoped she would be able to return to cabinet "in due course"

Re: Maria Miller - Culture Secretary : Wed Apr 09, 2014 11:11 am  

Filthy swines, should be in jail.

Re: Maria Miller - Culture Secretary : Wed Apr 09, 2014 2:23 pm  

How does she get away with just resigning as a Cabinet Minister when she should actually be resigning as an MP !!!!!!

[DaveO]

Re: Maria Miller - Culture Secretary : Thu Apr 10, 2014 1:44 pm  

What got me about this was she was first told to pay back £44,000 by the independent body that did the initial investigation only for this to be reduced to £5,800 by the committee of MP's who reviewed the findings because apparently her mortgage increased by £150,000 since the election so she was in fact allowed to claim the additional £38,200.

WTF did her mortgage go up by £150K after the election? She didn't move house or anything and already owned both properties as far as I am aware.

Is it standard practice on winning an election to increase your mortgage to get a cheap tax-payer subsidised loan?

Was it done because she needed the money for a legitimate reason or just because she could and it was going to be subsidised?

Re: Maria Miller - Culture Secretary : Thu Apr 10, 2014 3:27 pm  

Aren't we executing benefit cheats these days? Will she be featured on the latest episode of Saints and Scroungers?

Re: Maria Miller - Culture Secretary : Thu Apr 10, 2014 4:33 pm  

I work for HMG.

If I make a claim that cannot be substantiated I can face administrative action. If there is the slightest whiff of fraud, the police can be brought in (and it has happened to others).

Currently, I have a claim of around £70 flagged for 'further investigation' because I cannot find the receipt. I assure you it is genuine.

Yet when MPs claim thousands they are not entitled to, they can (usually) pay it back, say sorry, and everything is hunky dory.