Talk:Andy Reed (politician)

message: I do not really understand why we have in the background section about his early life and then in the personal life section mention his adoption at the age of three months.  I believe this should be combined into one paragraph and I propose that the paragraph should be in the background section.  Any objections? --Stefanjcarney (talk) 15:44, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
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message: The introduction appears much too short.   The longest section, expenses seems disproportionately large considering it merited only 4 lines in the Telegraph and didn't involve "flipping".  It doesn't allow me to compare his expenses with other MPs, nor does it tell me how accessible he is to his constituents etc. and what he does in Parliament.   In short, it doesn't allow me to guage value for money.  Anyone disagree? I'll try and expand existing sections -with proper references, and hopefully we'll have a more balanced article  JRPG (talk) 19:27, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Structure? 

message: Having read the Telegraph and other sources carefully, it seems that 
* He overclaimed for £847 -a mistake which any self respecting accounting system should have picked up and corrected but not an indication of fraud.
* He appears to have mis-stated the cost of his second home on his website but this cost is ranked 266 i.e. nothing special.
* He doesn't regard the expenses issue as worth a lot of time. MPs are busy people,responsible for an estimated £671B of HM Treasury expenditure and whilst rules needed to be established, MPs expenses are a tiny fraction of government costs.
I don't think the cost of telephones or discusions on boilers is worth including though the references can be left.    Anyone disagree?  JRPG (talk) 00:06, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expenses Claim. 

message: I note that Stephen Dorrell and Edward Garnier were both asked to repay rather more than Reed i.e. £1530 and £1221 respectively but have no section on expenses. Like Reed, neither was accused of flipping.  This suggests most editors regard the sums involved as a simple mistake by accountants and not worthy of inclusion, a view I share. JRPG (talk) 07:33, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Simplification

message: The expenses claim appears to me to be libellous.
* The paper revealed that Reed had claimed thousands of pounds for home entertainment equipment.  The Loughborough Echo revealed nothing of the sort.  The cost of the equipment was under £1000.
* The Legg Report, published on 4 February 2010, revealed that Reed was asked to repay £891.48 of overclaimed expenses.  No! The Fees office mistakenly paid the expenses twice.
* when the Daily Telegraph obtained copies of MPs' expense claims they found a significant discrepancy in Reed's mortgage interest claims for his second home in Westminster. Reed's website stated that he claimed around £450 a month from taxpayers for mortgage interest on his Westminster home but the Telegraph's investigation discovered that his actual submitted claims were for between £727 and £1,180 a month 
There is no discrepancy.  Reed claimed £490 a month on the mortgage, £105 a month for utilities including gas, electricity and water rates, £62 a month on council tax, there is a service charge of £450 per quarter, according to the Loughborough Echo.  All unfortunately part of the cost of living in the centre of a very expensive city.  JRPG (talk) 22:02, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expenses Claim:Libellous material. NPOV 

message: I'm in the process of providing more info on policies + good links and I'll increase the section on Iraq, Identity cards follows the party line.  I don't think the reader is interested in seeing a typo.  JRPG (talk) 18:07, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Partly Loyalty. 

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