(Photo courtesy of Guido Fawkes).

Oddly this issue was about the misuse of constituency office allowances and not about second home allowances, so it’s not covered by all the letters that MPs are getting.  This set of abuse is going to be examined later by Sir Thomas Legg.

So which MP do we know who has diverted public money intended for his constituency office to an otherwise cash-strapped Ipswich Labour Party essentially controlled by him?  Why it’s no other than our own Chris Mole.

I won’t hold my breath, Mole’s not a critic.  Unlike the Norwich North MP Iain Gibson, Chris Mole is a pliant member who won’t raise a peep against his party leadership, even when the most important hospital in his constituency is being systematically run down.

The wages of sin are death.  The wages of ignoring your constituents are promotion.

If we go back to the money we pay to the Ipswich Labour Party:

http://mpsallowances.parliament.uk/mpslordsandoffices/hocallowances/allowances-by-mp/chris-mole/Chris_Mole_0708_IEP.pdf#page=[115]

…we see a line (you may have to go to page 115 manually, depending on your browser) :

Newspapers EADT/Evening Star Online editions       £195

Was the online access to the Evening Star used by any of the Labour staff in the building?  For example, Councillor John Cook the Labour Party agent (who us taxpayers don’t pay for, officially) is very, very fond of commenting on stories some political, some not.

If true it’s a tiny problem, but there really does not seem to be enough care for the seperation of the public and the party political from Mr Mole.