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		<title>Why is our MP paying the Labour council leader £5000 a year?</title>
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Having a little rumage through my Labour MP, Chris McCafferty's redacted expenses forms and came across something quite interesting.]]></description>
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<p>After having a little rumage through my  local Calder Valley Labour MP, Chris McCafferty&#8217;s redacted expenses forms and I came across something quite interesting.</p>
<p>She seems to be paying the leader of the Calderdale Council Labour group, Tim Swift, £1250 per quarter for consultancy fees from her expenses.</p>
<p>As I do not have the money for paying expensive lawyers, I shall not be making any unsubstantiated accusations or assumptions about these payments but I thought it was worth drawing attention to.</p>
<p>By censoring the expenses the Parliamentary Fee Offices has created more questions than answers.</p>
<p>I do hope Chris and Tim are able to &#8220;fill in the blanks&#8221; so to speak.</p>
<p>Source: <a href="http://mpsallowances.parliament.uk/mpslordsandoffices/hocallowances/allowances-by-mp/chris-mccafferty/chris_mccafferty_0708_IEP.pdf">BBC News</a> Page 74</p>
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