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Thread #129803   Message #2916874
Posted By: Don(Wyziwyg)T
29-May-10 - 07:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: TreasuryMinister David Laws resigns UK
Subject: RE: BS: TreasuryMinister David Laws apologisesUK
OK

2004 160 per week.
2005 180 per week.
2006 212 per week.

Still only £40,000 in eight years, an average for the whole period of £100 per week.

So, doing the math, the rents at the start of the period must have been much lower than £100 per week.

Whatever way you work it out that averages out below council house rent for a property thirty miles out of London.

For the central area of greater London it is seriously below market price.

They should be thanking him for his frugality, not hounding him to resign.

It's doubly unfair when you know that New Labour has only "suspended" those of their mob who are being prosecuted, one of them for claiming mortgage payments on a mortgage already paid off, showing how much concern they have for honesty and openness.

Don T.