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	The millionaire Labour whip - all on you.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3314e237-5061-4f49-9bb4-5b567a7a6e91/5567820A-1429-4443-B5CC-8B2554C9349B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1173578/Revealed-The-1m-pub-owning-whip-Browns-expenses-scheme.html?ITO=1490" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1173578/Revealed-The-1m-pub-owning-whip-Browns-expenses-scheme.html?ITO=1490" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailymail.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1173578/Revealed-The-1m-pub-owning-whip-Browns-expenses-scheme.html?ITO=1490"><H1>Revealed: The £1m pub-owning  whip behind Brown's expenses scheme<BR /></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1173578/Revealed-The-1m-pub-owning-whip-Browns-expenses-scheme.html?ITO=1490"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/3274117B-D6B3-46E1-87A0-D68AAFBA2438" alt="tommy mcavoy" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1173578/Revealed-The-1m-pub-owning-whip-Browns-expenses-scheme.html?ITO=1490"><P>Tommy McAvoy is the hard-bitten, pub-owning Labour Whip with a pivotal role in trying to force through Gordon Brown’s controversial ‘no receipts’ expenses blueprint.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1173578/Revealed-The-1m-pub-owning-whip-Browns-expenses-scheme.html?ITO=1490"><P>The burly Scottish MP, who also serves on the newly-created Commons select committee for members’ allowances, will have been one of those warning the Prime Minister about the political dangers of continuing with the now discredited allowances regime.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1173578/Revealed-The-1m-pub-owning-whip-Browns-expenses-scheme.html?ITO=1490"><P>But Mr McAvoy is no stranger to claiming parliamentary expenses.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1173578/Revealed-The-1m-pub-owning-whip-Browns-expenses-scheme.html?ITO=1490"><P>An analysis of published expenses shows that the MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West claimed £925,000 in allowances between 2001 and 2008, or about £132,000 a year – which is on top of his current salary of around £100,000.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1173578/Revealed-The-1m-pub-owning-whip-Browns-expenses-scheme.html?ITO=1490"><P>The biggest single item in his claims is a £502,520 bill for staff, which includes salaries for members of his family.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1173578/Revealed-The-1m-pub-owning-whip-Browns-expenses-scheme.html?ITO=1490">Mr McAvoy, a Whip from day one of the Labour Government in 1997</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1173578/Revealed-The-1m-pub-owning-whip-Browns-expenses-scheme.html?ITO=1490"> also claimed £119,687 travel expenses since 2001.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5567820A-1429-4443-B5CC-8B2554C9349B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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