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WANSTEAD: MP claims more than £300,000 in expenses

9:17am Monday 30th March 2009 in Redbridge News By Guardian Reporter

Harry Cohen MP Harry Cohen MP

WANSTEAD MP Harry Cohen has claimed more than £300,000 in expenses since 1990.

During an interview in a national newspaper Mr Cohen admitted to taking the full second home allowance over the past two decades - totalling £310,714.

The admission comes at a bad time for the long-serving MP after the Guardian revealed he had made the biggest second home allowance claim of any London MP during the past five years.

Comments(14)

Morris Hickey says...
9:33am Mon 30 Mar 09

Oink, oink.

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jrp says...
9:43am Mon 30 Mar 09

Cohen does NOT give value for money. He comes across as a money grabbing sponger who more often than not is absent from the people he is supposed to represent.

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jrp says...
9:45am Mon 30 Mar 09

P S I thought he was Leyton's MP as well!

Come on Guardian put this is the Waltham Forest section as well and get your facts right.

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Arvin Brockhoist says...
10:49am Mon 30 Mar 09

Champagne Socialist.

Home Secretary's other half enjoying **** at taxpayers expense, I am standing in the next election to join the Bisto Train man!

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Arvin Brockhoist says...
10:57am Mon 30 Mar 09

Arvin Brockhoist wrote:
Champagne Socialist.

Home Secretary's other half enjoying **** at taxpayers expense, I am standing in the next election to join the Bisto Train man!
why have they blanked out ****?

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Arvin Brockhoist says...
10:59am Mon 30 Mar 09

Arvin Brockhoist wrote:
Arvin Brockhoist wrote:
Champagne Socialist.

Home Secretary's other half enjoying **** at taxpayers expense, I am standing in the next election to join the Bisto Train man!
why have they blanked out ****?
It starts with a 'p' and ends in a 'n' and the word is widely used in todays newspaper. After some of the abuse I have read on here, this is quite baffling!

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NO BS HERE says...
12:46pm Mon 30 Mar 09

Arvin Brockhoist wrote:
Arvin Brockhoist wrote:
Arvin Brockhoist wrote:
Champagne Socialist.

Home Secretary's other half enjoying **** at taxpayers expense, I am standing in the next election to join the Bisto Train man!
why have they blanked out ****?
It starts with a 'p' and ends in a 'n' and the word is widely used in todays newspaper. After some of the abuse I have read on here, this is quite baffling!
only because most of the usual vitriol has been aimed at you, under the various guises you have goe under

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Morris Hickey says...
1:30pm Mon 30 Mar 09

NO BS HERE wrote:
Arvin Brockhoist wrote:
Arvin Brockhoist wrote:
Arvin Brockhoist wrote: Champagne Socialist. Home Secretary's other half enjoying **** at taxpayers expense, I am standing in the next election to join the Bisto Train man!
why have they blanked out ****?
It starts with a 'p' and ends in a 'n' and the word is widely used in todays newspaper. After some of the abuse I have read on here, this is quite baffling!
only because most of the usual vitriol has been aimed at you, under the various guises you have goe under
Yes - there's been a whole succession of them. Khalid, Bert Small, Claridger, now this one Arvin. Then there's that k hunt from Loughton.

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Techno2 says...
2:32pm Mon 30 Mar 09

A fine photo of the Great Man you have there .

I wonder who he's pointing his finger at?

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Touchwood says...
2:33pm Mon 30 Mar 09

Just look at that picture! What a nasty smarmy little creature this man is!!

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mdj says...
5:32pm Tue 31 Mar 09

A few months ago you quoted Mr Cohen urging people to make sure they claimed all their benefits: I'm glad to see one politician not afraid to lead from the front.
For many years Mr Cohen was a vigorous, attentive MP, and it's a pity to see this situation. However, after seeing articles where he says he whiles away boring debates by doodling pornographic doggerel, and changing the law to protect the human rights of sado-masochists to nail parts of themselves to the floorboards, the expression 'been on the job too long' comes to mind.

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mdj says...
5:40pm Tue 31 Mar 09

Hang on, the 'two decades' bit has just sunk in! For years he lived just off Hainault Rd, and you bumped into him all the time: he raised his family there.It was good to know you had an MP who lived so locally. This suddenly sounds like rather more than a stretched intepretation of the rules.

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Morris Hickey says...
6:39pm Tue 31 Mar 09

mdj wrote:
Hang on, the 'two decades' bit has just sunk in! For years he lived just off Hainault Rd, and you bumped into him all the time: he raised his family there.It was good to know you had an MP who lived so locally. This suddenly sounds like rather more than a stretched intepretation of the rules.
Yes - then he went "up market" and moved into Malcolm Way, Snaresbrook. At some later stage he acquired a one-bedroom property in Colchester that became his "home" for the dubious but financially handsomely rewarding purposes of the shoddy rules on MPs'allowancs.

Try cleaning your snout, Harry!

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LarryTLemur says...
9:05pm Tue 31 Mar 09

"Morris Hickey wrote:
Yes - there's been a whole succession of them. Khalid, Bert Small, Claridger, now this one Arvin. Then there's that k hunt from Loughton."

Didn't he also pretend to be her other half, Mike Hunt?

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