Frank Cook Mp for Stockton

Fetish_Bob · **Posted:** Sun May 31, 2009 6:22 pm

Attempts to claim a £5 donation given at a church service back.

A service he didnt attend though someone from his office did.

He claimed it was an honest mistake and the paper with the amount on got mixed up with other's.

Who actually asks for a receipt for any donation.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... ction.html

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37582

Antisocial wrote:

I did wonder if someone had got the receipt to prove to F Cook they had spent the fiver.

So they could claim it back off him.

I know in my time I have tried to put receipts in for allsorts, then my book keeper when sorting out my receipts, gets on the phone telling me I can't.

I don't look at the receipts, they just go in the filling cabinet and once a month go to the book keepers.

I don't personally think he was that thoughtless.

Only a view though.

Come off it, putting legitimate receipts apart is one thing, but why on earth would such a receipt need to even exist in the first place, that doesn't wash with me. The whole idea of a receipt for such an event is appallingI can only assume you are appallingly naive or .......

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37582

Antisocial wrote:

Don't take the piss mate I'm not a "Numpty".

I was offering a view, you don't have to agree, I don't care either way.

The good thing about views is we can all have one and they don't have to be the same.

If you don't care either way, why so touchy ...? ... a receipt for such a contribution is unjustifiable, if you think I'm taking the 'piss' for highlighting the fact, tough. .... and yes, we can all have a view and you got mine and you'll probably be getting a few more.

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

Granted a few receipts might slip through the net, the odd meal, a few purchases that you might think oops shot them in by mistake, fair do's, i'm sure yours aint claiming off the tax payer either.

But a charitable donation? Come off it!

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Sun May 31, 2009 11:00 pm

I hope the greedy kunt gets knocked over....tomorrow!!!! rage

norgepoolie · **Posted:** Sun May 31, 2009 11:08 pm

I like to see someone defend the indefensible!

As Bob & Snowy pointed out, who asks for a receipt at a church service for a charitable donation?

Unbelievable. Another politician in a safe seat riding the gravy train. Unfortunately a Hartlepudlian as well I think.

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Sun May 31, 2009 11:31 pm

This is one of the most immoral things I have ever heard.

As others have said where the hell does the receipt actually come from in the first place? Did the Vicar write it out for him? Did these fookers actually spend ANY money? It seems their wages (that they get paid for serving the taxpayer) just accrue.

Greedy bastards. some of them should do time for this, it's theft.

parmopooly · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 12:07 am

why do I get the impression that Antisocial is in a position of public prominence, in some capacity or other....

katcha · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 12:11 am

or believes he is a position of prominence.

confised

parmopooly · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 12:19 am

yeah I'm a proper scumbag me

Frodraff · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 12:40 am

Does Antisocial have a contribution to make to the dodgy box debate? :grin:

Spender · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 3:52 am

Two things really, firstly as Antisocial Satellite Man says, why don't these things go through a person who says yes you can, no you can't?? Everyone elses expenses do. I remember mistakenly putting in a hotel bill at work when it should have gone to the beer company for a festival I did and there was a carpeting.

Secondly, who decided that the taxpayer should give the church a fiver?? Were you asked??

I haven't commented on this before as I'm not a UK taxpayer, don't vote etc but I'm curious to know why you aren't all on the streets burning MP's?? They've taken your hospital in the interests of 'economy' and 'efficiency' and then massively ripped you off with a sneer on their faces. :roll:

Pierrepoint · **Joined:** Sat Jan 17, 2009 3:04 am **Posts:** 1723

Antisocial wrote:

Yes mate I have..

Don't buy Eurovox as they have stopped making them, so the only ones about are the clones.

The clones are good but..now that Eurovox have stopped making them there will no longer be any support ..I am told.

Also be careful what box you buy now as when Nagravision 1 is turned off in November your box becomes a doorstop.. I am told..

Unless you buy a new type of box that is alledgedly

Thanks for asking.. :razz:

So if I could buy a box what sort of box would you be reccomending... And if they're turning something off aren't V88g8n going to have to buy an awful lot of boxes for their exsisting mugs..... I mean customers

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 9:10 am

Antisocial wrote:

I have to be careful here legally, but if we are talking hyperthetically and used Republic of Ireland as a for instance, as they have just changed there encryption from Nagravision 1 to Nagravision 3 then a Linux based box such a Crypt View was the only box that stayed on.

Cable companies will only change old boxes, as the newer one are compatible for the new cards that would have to be sent out.

Nagravision was first breached in 1999 so the cable companies have had plenty of time to upgrade there boxes but have only half heartedly tried due to cost.

Also...

I am not into modems at all..

But for all you guys out there using moody modems the games up too.

They have equipment on there system now that can know where you are to the nearest green cabinet to your house.

moody modems??

WestParkPoolie · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 9:15 am

By getting a reciept for a charitable donation means you can claim for the donation on your tax return, and get tax relief on that donation - it's an incentive to donate to charity.

By having formal proof of donations, it also means the church can get gift aid relief on that donation - and raise more cash as a result.

Pierrepoint · **Joined:** Sat Jan 17, 2009 3:04 am **Posts:** 1723

Antisocial wrote:

Modems that are not being paid for..but used illegally.

Would've thought this would be quite hard to do anyway due to the ip address issues etc ..Ie it would show up on their system as another IP address anyway so would be easliy detected or am I talking shite?

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:32 am

WestParkPoolie wrote:

By getting a reciept for a charitable donation means you can claim for the donation on your tax return, and get tax relief on that donation - it's an incentive to donate to charity.

Fair enough if the money was out of his own pocket. But it wasn't. So what he did was immoral and totally his fault. Laxity is no excuse. If someone in a position as reliant on public trust as an MP's can't be arsed to sort his own personal expenses from the legitimate ones, he is unworthy of his seat. Carelessness is no defence against criminal behaviour.

I only wish there was an election tomorrow while all this is fresh in people's minds. The thing is we'll never get a proper debate on this because all the parties are involved, so they're hardly likely to resurrect the matter before an election. What we need is the press to stay on their case and hound them into submission.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 6:22 pm

Frank Cook is a Thief full fecking stop anD so is people ripping of the likes of Sky....you have to remember these people are on the bones of their arses!!!! confised

All thieving Kunts in my opinion and how anyone can 'defend' Frank Cook, Iain Wright and all the rest is either them above or related....IT CANNOT BE DEFENDED!!!! confised

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 11:03 pm

What....

'I forgot....I didn't realise....slipped my mind.....in the drawer with ALL the other recipts'????

Thieves the fecking lot of them!!!! rage

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37582

Antisocial wrote:

Going back to the Snowy..

I am not touchy about anything, I just thought your comment about being Neive or... was pointless and stupid and taking the piss.

I personally think that most MP have taken the right piss over what they have cost us and should be nicked for fraud.

If you asked me.. do I think Frank Cook did it on purpose the answer is NO

And if he did then his a dickhead like most/all the others.

Thats my view you don't have to like it or agree.

Such an emphatic 'NO' ... when you just stated no one knows all the facts? I don't think you're being 'naive' at all, not now ........ you now sound like someone active in politics, trying to disguise the fact ... poorly.
That's just my view of course.

Spender · **Posted:** Mon Jun 08, 2009 4:45 am

But it's simply not true that you aren't getting anything for your council tax. There's a cameras all over the place, the police are all having taz

ers, and if you think it's cheap passing one new piece of legislation every day to contain the public you must be off your rocker. This war on terrorism, the cost of giving you three bins and a box for your rubbish, 16 coppers at Pools to oversee 11 Crewe fans etc etc. Oh your value for money is very visible.

You're just ungrateful you are. :roll:

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37582

Antisocial wrote:

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Such an emphatic 'NO' ... when you just stated no one knows all the facts? I don't think you're being 'naive' at all, not now ........ you now sound like someone active in politics, trying to disguise the fact ... poorly.
That's just my view of course.

[b]Not an emphatic "NO" at all Snowy

More of a 70%/30% type of "NO"

I think maybe it was a genuine mistake, as otherwise why did he not hand in receipts in for all the other donations his made, in his 25 plus years service, and I think I read there was hundreds of them.

Please excuse me for laughing at any notions you have that im in some way am in politics..

I am not, nor would I want to be, nor would I be suitable, nor could I afford to be,

I know nothing about politics..

I know before I moved house I was paying £3,200 a year in council tax and at best I felt I wasn't getting value for money.

I know I was paying £350 a month business rates in Hartlepool, and not feeling like I was getting any value from that either.

So I'm not political motivated, I just don't like the council being able to waste my money with no real signs of any benifit.

Then the cheeky f***'ers flog there 6970 coucil houses amoungst other things and my bills go up each year.

With increases since 2002 of 52% on council tax, are we getting any more value for the increase. I personally don't think so.

To me it feels like someones going shopping with my credit card when I have to pay.

To me thats not political, its common sense, but I except not many agree with me on here.

Possibly, but you should add petrol, gas, electric .... in fact everything, because every organisation that is now screwing you are usually the ones that were privatised or embraced thye methods of private industry, which translates to over staffed offices and poorly paid frontline staff ...it's the bold new future we all face.

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