Cashman Expenses

[misto]

Does the "Editor" of the Daily Mail really need the extra tabloid readers- "Cashman pays Gay Lover �30,000 a year.
Considering the couple have had a civil partnership, does he not respect this, and would he treat other "Married" couples in the same way.

[andy-hughes]

Oh misto, where have you been?

The world is full of pinko fairies who are bleeding the tax pounds of right thinking rugby-playing Guiness-drinking real men like us, and they should jolly well be pilloried for it!

he can think himself lucky that National Service was abandoned ... now there;s an idea ... someone get me the Mail Editor's number ....

[Gromit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-102537 1/EastEnders-MEP-pays-gay-lover-pound-30-000-s ecretary.html

It is good that they have been together for 25 years, yet can still be called lovers. What a shining example they are.

[sp1814]

misto - have you got the link?

[jake-the-peg]

It's clearly a rather weak attempt to distract attention from Cameron's problems with his MEPs.

Smacks of desperation doesn't it?

[jno]

as with all these other cases involving MPs who pay money to their families as if they were staff, it depends what work they performed in return. Derek Conway's family seemed to spend most of their time partying. This man may have done the same. Or he may have genuinely performed the sort of PA services for which Cashman would otherwise have had to pay somebody else.

I don't think the gender of the partner has anything to do with it. And while I am not in the habit of defending the Mail Editor, I suspect he chose Cashman because he was Labour rather than because he was gay.

Oky, both maybe.

[andy-hughes]

jno, if you really think the Mail Editor would miss a chance of headlining the article with the sexuality of the protagonists, rather than their political affiiliations, then you don't know the right-wing fascist press of our dear country vey well!

[jno]

actually, you're quite right, andy - in fact he's headed it on the soap star angle and not mentioned Labour at all. How things are changing.

[andy-hughes]

I stand corrected.

Why not refer to Mr Cashman's role in a soap, which he has not held for however-many years - even better!

[stokemaveric]

they are all on the gravy train and are in it for whatever they can get themselves.why cant he employ a ''secretary'' that he is not involved with sexually or socially?they all ought to be ashamed of themselves/it doesnt matter whether it was the daily mail or not that exposed this does it really?

[jno]

no harm generally in employing family, I don't think. Being an MP puts a strain on your domestic life as you have to have homes in London (or Brussels in this case) as well as in your constituency. Anything that can help keep a family together, such as getting a spouse involved in helping with your job, is not a bad idea. But it has to be real involvement, not Conway-style idleness. There should be strict rules involving filling out time sheets at the end of the day. The paying public is entitled to know they're getting value for money, but it's isn't automatically the case that they'e being ripped off.

[ecoman]

Is this the sausage jockey that used to be in Eastenders?