The BNP’s news team reported over the weekend on the Parliamentary Additional Claims Allowance (ACA) and travel expenses claiming record of UKIP MP Bob Spink. Regular visitors to this site will remember that Mr. Spink was elected as a Conservative to represent the constituency of Castle Point, in Essex. However, earlier this year, he defected to Britain’s fastest crumbling party (with the possible exception of the Labour Party) – the UKIP.
Having read our report readers will, we suspect, be as baffled as are we over the comment (emphasised by us in bold) attributed to Mr. Spink in Monday’s edition of the Echo.
We quote:
Bob Spink, Ukip MP for Castle Point, voted in both lobbies - once to retain the cost allowance and the other to remove it.
He said: “This is the only way you can formally record an abstention - to show you were in the House at the time but were not going to vote.
“I have always argued MPs should not set their own salary levels and we should not be paid expenses. I think what I did was entirely consistent with this view.”
So why claim Parliamentary expenses then?
The full article may be found here
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