Ed Balls Window Cleaner Of 17 Years Says He's Never Asked For A Receipt

[lindapalmara]

Ha ha. I know this would come back to bite him in the bum. Why do they say these things!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2956365/I-ve-cleaned-Ed-Balls-s-windows-17-years-s-never-asked-receipt-Shadow-Chancellor-accused-total-hypocrisy-following-claims.html

[dannyk13]

Was there ever a politician with a more appropriate name?

[lindapalmara]

LOL !

[wired]

Just what I was thinking Danny, the window cleaning firm look set to get a visit from their local tax inspector though

[tonyav]

Looks like Ed isn't the only one !.
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/ed-balls-among-12-shadow-cabinet-members-who-claimed-expenses-without-receipts/ar-BBhEib3

[zebo]

How many ABers get a receipt from their window cleaner or milkman?

[Svejk]

tee-hee

[Svejk]

More importantly, zebo, how many ABers falsely claimed they did to score a nonsensical political point?

[tonyav]

No receipt from our window cleaner, I wouldn't ask for one either.

[Jackdaw33]

Do MPs get their windows cleaned via expenses? If not, why should he ask for a receipt?

[Svejk]

He said he did, jackdaw, to ensure his window cleaner paid tax.

[tonyav]

Looks like they do claim expenses for cleaning / window cleaning.


Ed Balls and 11 other members of the shadow cabinet claimed expenses for cleaning, gardening or odd jobs without submitting receipts, seriously undermining the shadow chancellor's advice that we should all insist on invoices for cash-in-hand jobs.

[Gromit]

During the expenses scandal we learned that Balls and Cooper moved house several times. Are we to believe they packed up their window cleaner and took him with them on each move?

// After being elected to Parliament for the first time in 1997, Miss Cooper, now the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, designated a modest property in her constituency of Castleford, west Yorkshire, as her second home, and began claiming mortgage interest payments on her parliamentary allowances.

In May 2005, after Mr Balls was elected MP for Normanton, Miss Cooper “flipped” her second home to the family house she shared with her husband and their three children in south London. The couple both began claiming a half share of the £1,466 mortgage interest, a sum of £733 each compared with the £530 she had been paying in Yorkshire.
Two years later, in May 2007, the couple moved again, to a larger, £655,000 property in north London which they designated their second home. Their mortgage interest payments increased to just over £1,031 each. //

[wolf63]

Do any of you honestly think that Ed Balls is the one who actually pays the window cleaner or runs his household?

[tonyav]

No I don't, wolf. But it's he and his wife that claim expenses for it !.

[Gromit]

The whole debate was about these tradesmen being paid in cash and not declaring it for tax purposes.
Just looked up Pontefract Window Cleaning Services at Companies House and on DueDil.com and no such company exists.

[Svejk]

There's a difference between moving houses and switching them, gromit. ;-D Remember the wreath.

[anotheoldgit]

/// The whole debate was about these tradesmen being paid in cash and not declaring it for tax purposes. ///

Who says they will declare it if they have scribbled a receipt on the back of a fag packet?

[youngmafbog]

Quite AOG, anyone can get a receipt book from Smiths.

I do feel some sympathy for Balls though. He was put on the spot and whichever way he answered he was going to be battered with the answer.

[chrissa1]

I pay my window cleaner, on-line. What they do with the money is nothing to do with me.

[trt]

## I pay my window cleaner, on-line. What they do with the money is nothing to do with me. ##

WHAT, now thats technology for you, why chris?