Paul Flynn MP - Newport deserves better - Peter Hain now and then.

Recently on Paul Flynn's webshyte he praised Peter Hain to the high heavens, still this is a man who has been caught telling porkie pies and was sued by Endowment Justice.

Anyway compare and contrast...

Welcome back Peter Hain.

He was the victim of malicious McCarthyite smear. The accusations were front-page headlines. His exoneration was a paragraph on an inside page. Peter has a job to do as a convinced devolutionist in the Wales office. His rehabilitation will be good for Labour and great for Wales.

Not a mention of dubious slush funds, sorry policy forums with either policies or a forum but lots of lovely cash.

Then we have his previous comments with regards Peter Hain, which are completely different to what he says above...

Peter Hain’s condemns ‘control freakery’ and blames New Labour for the Assembly election disasters in Wales. What next ? Will Milosevic nominate himself for a Peace Prize ?

Peter is gambling that Wales has already forgotten who was the architect of the Welsh Leadership stitch-up and masterminded the loss of the Islwyn, Llanelli and the Rhondda.

Peter has tiptoed deftly from left to right in politics, then back again. Without hesitation or blush he took the Welsh Office job that should have gone to Rhodri Morgan. He choreographed the stitch-up and denounced Rhodri Morgan supporters as ‘crypto-nationalist.’ Now Peter Hain’s job at the Welsh Office is coming to an end. In May Peter was on the Right. Blink ! Now he’s on the Left.

The logic of his statement is that Ken Livingstone should be backed as London’s Labour nomination for mayor. He dodged this question on BBC Wales this morning. 'That’s for Londoners to decide' he said.

In Star Trek there is a Shape-shifter, named ODO -right.

He liquefies at the end of each day and sleeps in a bucket to emerge in another chosen shape the following morning. The Shape-shifter in the only one of his kind.

Or is he ?

Maybe Flynn will make his mind up one day?!

Even the perma tanned wanker is hard at it, ripping off the taxpayers....Peter charged the cost of a new tin roof for his “log store” to the taxpayer.

According to Mr Hain’s files, he asked if he could claim the mortgage interest on a £440,000 new home which be bought with his second wife Elizabeth Hayward in 2004 — as well as claiming for his former home six miles away.

Mr Hain claimed the maximum amount under the ACA scheme in the past two years. His claims show he used more than £6,000 worth of heating oil at his home in Neath in just over two years.

However, a bill for £357 in February 2006 was not honoured in full because, Mr Hain was told, he had run out of funds for that year.

An alledged armed robber. I shall leave comment on his dubious policy forum/slush fund and many other sleazy activities for another day.

Oh and Paul likes the expenses bandwagon himself, Paul Flynn who was sued by Endowment Justice paid them damages of 36K, did he use his own funds for this or public funds? Also if he used his own money did he claim that back off of the taxpayer?

Thanks to the Telegraph we know that he stole "within the rules" a cool £7,052 for new kitchen, £1,153 on carpets and £1,200 decoration for his London property in 2005, before selling it and moving to a new £275,000 flat. He also claimed £9,629 in stamp duty and fees.

Also £16,958.00 2nd home allowance, £13,913.00 on office costs, £92,902.00 staffing costs, £202.00 central stationary, £510.00 stationary & postage. £1,209.00 IT provision, £7,171.00 on communications, £8,096.00 travel, £140,961.00 total.

He also claimed back mortgage interest of £215.00, claimed back water utilities of £26.07, Electricity £27,00, Council Tax £89.33, Television service £16.50.

So lets see £64K a year wages for doing - in my view a poor job - and £140K in expenses on top of that.

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