Comments on: Playing the right-wing Tory game on AMs’ expenses

By: cambriapolitico

cambriapolitico — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:42:10 +0000

I was referring to recent mentions during the expenses saga. Certainly the story has been around for some time. What is the reference for the 2006 WM story ?

One hates searching most journalistic websites for any stories which aren’t recent. Several websites have degraded appallingly recently, eg the Daily Telegraph and the BBC.

By: Tomos Livingstone

Tomos Livingstone — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:32:09 +0000

Clive, you’re entitled to your point of view, but it’s a myth that The Western Mail “ignored” the Huw Lewis-Lynne Neagle story.

The story was in fact broken by the paper in April 2006.

By: Peter Black

Peter Black — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:39:34 +0000

Just to be clear, I DID NOT argue with the Commission that I should have a second home.

I rent a flat as I am allowed to do so under the rules and have tried to justify that decision to those who have questioned it. What I told the press conference you were at Clive is that the Independent Commission did not accept arguments such as those I had made and that I would abide by their judgement.

At no time did I give evidence to the Commission on my own behalf or to justify my own circumstances. I gave them an honest appraisal of what an AM’s work involves and how the expenses system needed to be reformed to make them more acceptable.