Sion Simon Expenses Scandal!

If you are considering voting for Tom Watson's puppet, Sion Simon, tomorrow (for the mayor we voted to say we didn't want) then may I just remind you of the incident when he got caught out over-claiming expenses and was forced to pay a substantial sum of the loot back?

Simon was an MP for Erdington (for the benefit of my more parochial Sandwell readers - or those that have to have this blog read to them - that is an area of Birmingham.)

Like his master, Watson, he used a local address for voters roll purposes but actually lived in London - in Camden according to the Daily Telegraph. Also like his "boss" he buggered off and left his wife and children.Simon moved into a swank flat in posh Regents Park owned by his sister - who lived with her husband in Hampshire. At that time - unbelievably - it was "legal" for MP's to claim expenses for rent paid to a close relative (of course, some may find that morally repugnant even if within the rules) and so we as taxpayers started paying his sister a grand a month (remember we are talking around 2004 to 2008 when rents were considerably lower in London than they are now). The great socialist also got us taxpayers to shell out £150 a month for a cleaner, £100 a month for Council Tax, £50 a month for the telephone, up to £250 a month for other utility bills and the maximum figure then allowed of £400 a month for groceries (one hundred quid a week in food for a single bloke when in 2006 the Jobseekers' Allowance for a single adult was £57.45 a week - not bad eh readers?)

Unfortunately for our man (and his sister) the rules changed in 2006 to stop this racket of paying close relatives. Simon who, laughably and incredibly, was a Government Minister and who you would think had some discipline and intellectual rigour about them later claimed he did not know about the rule changes! In fact he went further in true politician-style and blamed the parliamentary workers for failing to notify him (quite how they were supposed to know that his "Landlord" Ceri Erskine was actually his sister is not explained!)

Incidentally, I was at two public meetings recently where this puffed-up braggart boasted twice that he had been "the most-read person I knew" when he was at Oxford University. Clearly he lost the habit in later life or reading the parliamentary expenses rules was not intellectually challenging enough for our simian savant! (Of course, this is one example where he has one-up on his boss since he did leave Oxford with a degree - something which Lazy Tom couldn't manage after four years at Hull.)

Simon was forced to repay us victims over £21,000! That is the scale of  his rip-off....

He apologised "unreservedly" after being caught out and once the gravy train had hit the buffers he swiftly moved out of his sister's flat and bought a £325k flat in Camden (London) which he now designated as his "second home" so that he was then able to have the taxpayer pay his stamp duty bill of £5,400. The Daily Telegraph pointed out that he then claimed "thousands of pounds" from us ordinary folk to renovate and furnish the property.

Such is the conceit of this strutting buffoon that he also claimed - and this is the price from several years ago remember - £280 for just 250 business cards from super-posh Bond Street stationers Smythsons (of which Samatha Cameron was a director).

In 2009 he also attempted to claim a £25-a-night subsistence allowance 16 times for a 13 night period. Is this really the man you want nominally running the West Midlands (on behalf of Watson).

Of course, Watson himself was deeply embroiled in the MP's expenses scandal. At the present time he is still refusing to tell Skidder readers what profit he made when he left his luxurious taxpayer-funded Westminster flat and whether he declared the profit to the tax authorities for Capital Gains Tax purposes.

Watson was the joint laziest MP 2010 to 2015 and even Unite the Union's local Regional Organiser calls him "Lazy Tom". West Bromwich languishes near the bottom of every deprivation league table going despite being under Labour control for decades and, of course, he is rarely in the area as he lives in trendy Bermondsey/Southwark in London. He was recently shown in Facebook wearing a WBA shirt but, as ever with this vicious man, this is not all as it seems and his footballing interest seem to now really lie "sarf" of the River Thames:

Many readers will wish he was so diligent concerning Sandwell matters....

On the subject of footie Simon also tried to show that he is a "man of the people" by being photographed outside The Hawthorns. Unfortunately the bloody fool has pissed-off most of Wolvo by putting it on the "Wolverhampton Edition" of his campaign leaflet - you couldn't make it up!!!!

"Wot A Moron!"

Another question retarded people in the West Midlands who are thinking about voting Labour should consider is which "Labour Party" they are voting for - the Corbyn cell or the Watson wing. Even our hero seems to have struggled with this irreconcilable dilemna. First he was showing off with the dreary Islington thicko:

But then - presumably on stab-in-the-back specialist Watson's orders - the turncoat er, turned his coat on the Bearded Wonder as recently as 27th April!

So what are potential Labour voters voting for? If they vote for this clown they are not voting for Comrade Corbyn's Communistic Credo but for the the thuggish old Labour machine politics of Treacherous Tom! Do voters really want a vile piece of work like Watson pulling the strings to run our great City region? Don't say you haven't been warned!

You will see from the above that whilst Simon owned a grotty terraced house in Erdington for form's sake he was living with his wife and kids in Camden and then at his lucky sister's house in Regents Park. He then moved back to Camden. Notwithstanding all this he repeatedly claims to be "passionate" about the West Midlands. So "passionate" in fact that when he bought a new property with his latest squeeze he consciously chose not to live in the mayoral region. Not the dog-sh*t smeared streets of our mighty conurbation for this "sensitive" man (as he claims to be) oh no! Why would he want to live amongst the scum he wants to vote for him? As recently as November, 2015 he and his partner bought themselves an agreeable £420,000 "cottage" in the countryside near Nuneaton. Draw your own conclusions from that if you have half a brain!

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