A former British MEP has admitted fiddling £36,000 worth of expenses after switching his plea at his trial.
Tom Wise, 61, from Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire, had previously denied charges of false accounting and money laundering.
But during the case at Southwark Crown Court the former Ukip MEP confessed to fiddling expenses from the taxpayer.
Wise took the money between 14 December 2004 and 24 December 2005, and spent it on cars and wine, the court heard.
There really is no valid reason why those MPs who fiddled their expenses should not also face trial.
WHICH BRINGS ME TO make a very valid point about how the government tackle "fraud" in general.
ReplyDeleteHas anybody noticed that when one goes into a jobcentre, the leaflets are packed out with images of Asian, Indian and people of other races but on the national teevee adverts about benefit fraud ALL THE ACTORS PORTRAYED ARE WHITE ANGLO SAXONS? You won't find a single coffee coloured or black person in them, despite the fact that well over 65% of reported benefit fraud pertains to ASIAN persons i.e Indian or Pakistani. (sourced from a trusted contact in the anti-fraud dept of the DWP)
This to me is blatant reverse-race discrimination.
What can I do about it? FECK ALL.