{"id":5004,"date":"2012-12-12T11:01:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T11:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=5004"},"modified":"2012-12-12T11:06:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T11:06:44","slug":"2012dec12miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/2012dec12miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture Secretary threatened paper"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Culture Secretary the Rt Hon Maria Miller MP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A senior politician threatened journalists investigating her expenses, according to the newspaper concerned.<\/p>\n

An aide to Maria Miller told reporters at the Daily Telegraph to ‘think about’ the implications of exposing Maria Miller’s possible misuse of parliamentary expenses to house her parents.<\/p>\n

The amount of taxpayers’ money involved is said to be an astonishing \u00a390,000.<\/p>\n

The Culture Secretary is currently promoting the abomination of ‘gay marriage’ in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n

The Telegraph\u00a0said today<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

‘When a reporter approached Mrs Miller\u2019s office last Thursday, her special adviser, Joanna Hindley, pointed out that the Editor of The Telegraph was involved in meetings with the Prime Minister and the Culture Secretary over implementing the recommendations made by Lord Justice Leveson.<\/p>\n

‘\u201cMaria has obviously been having quite a lot of editors\u2019 meetings around Leveson at the moment. So I am just going to kind of flag up that connection for you to think about,\u201d said Miss Hindley.<\/p>\n

‘Miss Hindley also said the reporter should discuss the issue with \u201cpeople a little higher up your organisation\u201d.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The paper went ahead with the story after checking the facts again, and Mrs Miller has now been reported to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards by John Mann MP.<\/p>\n

Mr Mann said that the arrangement was \u201cidentical\u201d to that of the former Labour minister Tony McNulty, who in 2009 was required to pay back more than \u00a313,000 in expenses claimed on a second home occupied by his parents.<\/p>\n

Mrs Miller claimed more than \u00a390,000 on a house in Wimbledon, south-west London, between 2005 and 2009, where her parents lived with her family.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for Mrs Miller said the parents lived with the family \u201cas dependants.\u201d The parliamentary commissioner John Lyon stated in his report on Mr McNulty that this was unacceptable.<\/p>\n

Aides for Mrs Miller also insisted that her arrangements were approved by the parliamentary fees office and audited twice. Mr McNulty\u2019s expenses were also approved by the fees office, while Sir Thomas Legg, who carried out an audit of MPs\u2019 expenses, emphasised that his review was limited in scope and pointed out that the fees office was \u201cvulnerable\u201d to MPs\u2019 interests.<\/p>\n

When the Daily Telegraph first exposed duck ponds and moats being claimed on parliamentary expenses politicians claimed at that time they were doing everything ‘within the rules’.<\/p>\n

The story shows how those in favour of overturning God’s righteous commandments in one area can have difficulty applying basic standards of morality in other areas as well.<\/p>\n

It also gives a glimpse into why poiliticians are always so keen to muzzle the press.<\/p>\n