MORE LABOUR SLEAZE FROM IRENE ADAMS

Irene Adams, known to oinks like you and me as The Noble Baroness Adams of Craigielea, is the most expensive peer in the House of Lords. She also appears to be amongst the least useful. It was disclosed that she had picked up more than £60,000 a year in allowances since 2006, but spoken in just one debate.

I hope what she had to say was worth it. £200,000+ for one speech is more than Blair gets!!

But it looks like when this one gets her hands on some of our dosh she isn’t about to let it go any time soon. It appears that the good Irene is among 6 former Labour MPs who have yet to repay a total of £50,000 which they owe following the audit of Commons allowances.

The Noble Baroness (pictured above; lovely isn’t she?) complained that the inquiry team would not accept the evidence she had to show that her £4,100 claim was a valid one and vowed to fight the demand intimating that they could take her to court for the money if they wanted.

Not too worried what people think of her then.

Sir Thomas Legg (right), who was responsible for the audit of MPs leaving hundreds of them, including some high profile ones like Liam Fox, owing a staggering total of £1.3 million, ruled that Adams should repay the money. She could provide no evidence for her mortgage payments to support her claims for her second home while she was MP for Paisley North.

Another shameful Scottish Labour MP with her fingers in the till, Irene was at one time the secretary of the MP Allen Adams, whom she married. When he died in 1990 she stood and was elected for the constituency. She paid her daughter and former son-in-law, both Labour councillors, to work in her constituency office. Nice little family business. In fact... The Adams Family business.

When in 2005 her constituency was absorbed into the neighboring one she was bought off with a seat in the House of Lords. An “honour” she has clearly taken advantage of to the full. She continues to live in Paisley, in a luxury flat in a converted mill, charging £11,916 last year to travel between Scotland and Westminster.

The trouble with the corrupt system of handing out honours to people to persuade them to do political favours (in her case to go away) is you are lumbered with them for life...

We have this parasitical woman leaching off us to the tune of £60,000 a year for absolutely no return whatsoever until she dies. If she refuses to pay, I hope that they will take her to court so the world will know what a cheesy little scrounger she is.

Please, when are we going to do something about this House of Horrors? Her £60,000 a year would pay a couple of worthwhile people to do some good somewhere.