Scottish Daily Mail

NOW IT’S DAVE C, DOPEY, BEAKER, NICK & TITCH

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MarIa MILLer has resigned and the Prime Minister says it’s time to move on. Not so fast, chum.

Cameron adds that he looks forward to welcoming her back into Cabinet in due course. Why?

Is t his a resignatio­n or a brief sabbatical? and why should she get a £17,000 redundo payment, even if she is giving it to charity?

Miller still hasn’t explained why she slapped an extra £150,000 on her mortgage after she was elected to Parliament and put the interest on her exes. What did she do with the money?

Looking at some of her expenses, it appears in one year she tried to claim over £700 for crockery. How much? Tesco will sell you a very respectabl­e porcelain dinner set for £25.

Didn’t she have any crockery before she became an MP? Did her family eat out of tins until then?

Miller had to go when Tory MPs reported that voters were furious. Nowhere more so t han her own constituen­cy of Basingstok­e.

She didn’t fleece Parliament, she fleeced taxpayers. So, as I wrote on Tuesday, if she had a shred of decency she would resign not only from Cabinet but as an MP, too.

The people of Basingstok­e should decide her fate. But clearly decency isn’t one of the many qualities Cameron so admires in his greedy ex-minister.

MILLer’S departure is another setback for Call Me Dave’s attempts to make the Cabinet look like the people it is supposed to represent.

He still has a ‘ woman problem’. even after appointing his first British asian male Cabinet member, no one would call the Coalition line-up especially diverse.

Looking at Cameron, Theresa May, Danny alexander, Cleggy and now Sajid Javid sitting on the front bench, they remind me of that seminal Sixties pop group:

Dave C, Dopey, Beaker, Nick & Titch.

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