General Election – Will You Vote For Gordon Brown?

George Galloway rented a flat in Glasgow as second home when an MP there. As an inner London MP from 2005 does not claim for additional costs allowance
Mike Gapes claimed £1,600 per month to rent a second home in London. His few other claims include £30.98 for photograph frames and £17.97 for a tea caddy
Edward Garnier QC claims for rent on constituency home, also claimed £211 for lawn mowing and £1,920 for a year’s gardening. Claimed for heating oil on office expenses, as he has home office
David Gauke claimed £10,248.32 in stamp duty and fees involved in the purchase of his second home in London
Andrew George used parliamentary expenses for a London flat used by his student daughter. He also claimed hundreds of pounds for hotel stays with his wife. He has said he will repay £20 for a hotel breakfast
Bruce George claimed £3,136 for central heating and pipework, and £760 on carpets at his second home in London. Also claimed £3,738. 85 for decorating
Neil Gerrard made no claims against the second home allowance
Nick Gibb spent £8,227 on redecoration and repairs at house in constituency, as well as £296 on hedge trimming in one month, before moving to a cottage nearby. Claimed almost £2,000 in fees associated with the purchase and now claims £1,800 a month in mortgage interest payments.
Ian Gibson claimed almost £80,000 in four years for mortgage interest and bills on a London flat which was the main home of his daughter
Sandra Gidley claimed more than £1,500 a month for renting a flat in London as her second home and has made few other claims
Michelle Gildernew and four other Sinn Fein MPs claimed more than £500,000 over five years even though the Sinn Fein MPs refuse to attend Parliament
Cheryl Gillan bought dog food using her allowance but agreed to pay it back after being contacted by the Telegraph
Linda Gilroy said that she was paying back £1,891. Her designated second home is a flat in Dolphin Square, London, where she claims £1,450 a month in rent. Claims £15 most months for cleaning and utilities. In 2005-6 had to repay £468 after being allowed to spend too much.
Roger Godsiff claimed for bath mats, gardening equipment and more than £7,000 of property repairs on his office expenses. He also claimed more than £2,300 per month in mortgage interest payments on his second home in London but does not claim for any other items
Paul Goggins, the Northern Ireland Minister, claimed almost £45,000 for a “second home”, while a friend lived there rent-free
Julia Goldsworthy spent thousands of pounds on expensive furniture just days before the deadline for using up parliamentary allowances. She has promised to pay back £1,005 for a leather rocking chair
Helen Goodman claimed for a week’s stay in a cottage in her constituency over a bank holiday
Paul Goodman claimed modest mortgage interest payments on a second home in High Wycombe. Underclaimed by £1,384 in 2006 and was reimbursed by fees office
Robert Goodwill claimed £9,731.76 stamp duty and legal costs for buying his second home in London. Other claims included £695 on a sofa bed
Michael Gove spent thousands on his London home before “flipping” his Commons allowance to another address. He has agreed to repay £7,000. He also claimed for office expenses including a mug from the Tate Modern
Chris Grayling claimed for a London flat even though his constituency home is only 17 miles from the House of Commons. He has agreed to stop doing so
James Gray successfully claimed £2,000 for the future redecoration of his “second home” on the day that he moved out
Damian Green’s constituency is a 45-minute commute from Westminster but claimed for a designated second home in Acton, west London, from which it takes at least 40 minutes to get to the Commons. Regularly claimed up to the maximum of £400 for food. Also charged for mortgage interest, council tax and phone.

“Dear Gordon, Over the last 12 years in government, and before, you have made an enormous contribution to this country and to the Labour Party, and this is very widely acknowledged.

“However we are writing now because we believe that in the current political situation, you can best serve the Labour Party and the country by stepping down as party leader and prime minister, and so allowing the party to choose a new leader to take us into the next general election. Yours,”

Voters, who were unavailable to vote on polling day in Tameside, were jamming the phone lines at Ashton-Under-Lyne town hall demanding not to be deprived of their vote. Staff told them their only option was to vote “by proxy” in the election. That is, to nominate another person to vote on their behalf.

The inept town hall staff at Tameside then did not rush to post out the proxy forms. The postal delivery service in Hyde is spasmodic at best, and mail tends to arrive typically every few days in mid afternoon rather than daily in the morning.

By the time the forms arrived (without a prepaid envelope), there was only two days before the deadline for proxy forms to be received back at Tameside Council. Your author duly posted a proxy form first class – from the sorting office in Hamnett Street. It only had to travel a few miles across town, so one would hope it might have made that journey in two days.