>> No, not our absent forum contributor; our MP's 'holier than thou' quest.
>>
>> They've only got themselves to blame haven't they.
>>
>> While the two main parties have been tearing lumps off each other this week about
>> drunken antics on planes and the use of official offices for non-govt. business, the folks
>> at the right-leaning Guido Fawkes website have published photos that Labour MPs posted to social
>> media holding morale boosting calls to election candidates.
>> This is apparently a bigger no-no than using your office for private business because it
>> means that they are effectively using taxayer funds for party-political purposes. Their use of the
>> facilities was also not declared as election expenses.
Do you have a link?
Guido is, as you say, right leaning and this is probably no more than mischief making. If the calls made were incoming, on a personal mobile, or even at national rates on their officially provided desk phones then surely there's a point at which a 'de minimis' rule applies.
How might the expense be declared?
I cannot get too excited about Cox using his office for a Zoom meeting for the same reason. Use of his office/commons letterhead was the bit Paterson admitted; almost as though a plea bargain.
Albeit verging in 'Whatboutery' I'd be amazed if MPs of all other parties are not guilty of the same thing.
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