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Well this is NOT a good day for Labour in the Dover Express. Not only do we have a frontpage screaming awful expense claim headlines about Gwyn Prosser MP, but we also have inside dire predictions about how Labour are going to do at the next election from that polictical predictions group. Its a racing certainty, by the looks of things, that Gwyn will lose his seat following a three term victorious incumbancy, so a pity then to go down under a cloud of unfortunate expense claims. Dover will be going Conservative unless we see a cataclysmic change in fortune for Labour.
Gwyn it seems has been caught up in this scandal in a big way. His expense claims has been heavily blacked out as shown on the frontpage of the newspaper. His claims according to the Dover Express range from a panasonic TV at £720 to a staggering £11,000 plus for supermarket food bills from 2004 to 2008. How we all wish someone would pick up our tab at the checkout! There is much more stuff too, way too numerous and painful to mention or to list on here.
Of course some claims are legitimate in that an MP has the right to claim for a second home, but if you claim for anything at all nowadays in these difficult times, its going to read very badly to your constituents, no matter how genuine it may be. Any claim of any kind will also therefore in the current climate, give any sitting MP an incredible hurdle to overcome. Its a certain vote loser, rightly or wrongly, so the odds against a sitting MP returning ratchet and ratchet up.
