'This conversation may have cost me £160,000'... Major Eric Joyce, apologist in Chief for Blair on Newsnight, highest claimant on the Allowances list, claims a rented £500 a month flat in Falkirk is his main home, and his London home is his second, despite the fact that his wife works in Kent as a Head teacher and his daughters attend school there...has finally been rumbled.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1186953/This-conversation-cost-160-000-MP-claimed-1m-admits-failed-pay-capital-gains-tax.html
The Sunday Mail of all people have got him by his gineger short and curlies, painting him as a venal money grabbing, sleaze bucket. In doing so, they have managed to do what every Scottish paper knew to be the case, but singularly failed to do anything about.
The Mail on Sunday put it to him that since his wife and daughters lived at the family home in London, his wife worked as teacher in the South-East and his children have always gone to school in London, his London home must have been their main home, not their second home.
'I discussed it at great length with the Fees Office,' he said. 'There was always a possibility that we would move to Scotland.'
This sums up the Labour in Scotland for me.
"When first approached, Mr Joyce said he could not recall whether he or his wife owned the Croydon house. Nor could he recall whether he had paid capital gains tax on it."
He defended his decision not to pay capital gains tax, saying that from the point of view of the Inland Revenue, the Croydon house was genuinely his main home, not his second home.
The people of Falkirk deserve better than this poisonous dwarf, who is politics solely for the advance of his own bank balance.
Alan S, when you read this. Tell us about the good work he's done in Falkirk with his focus groups...
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