'Labour' leader Ed Miliband has made much of the Conservatives being millionaires. Yet there is a saying when you point a finger at someone there is always three fingers pointing back at yourself.
And this is an apt aphorism when one begins to unearth 'Labours' own millionaires.
For instance, millionaire Ed Miliband (our next Prime Minister!) inherited a share of a multi-million pound property from his Marxist father, some nifty footwork by him and his brother David allowed them to avoid paying six-figure inheritance taxes. Combining marital assets and his inheritance from his father Ralph, Ed himself is comfortably a millionaire.
Millionaress Harriet Harman, privately educated at St Paul’s girls school is, given her eighteen year parliamentary career, set to get at least a half a million pounds from her pension pot. Along with her husband’s salary and pension, things are looking comfortable with one house in Herne Hill and a country pile in Suffolk. Putting the trade unionist and the toff well into the millionaire’s class…
Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper trousered a joint household income of some £300,000 per year for their five years or so in goverment positions. Ed trousered nigh on £100,000 in 2005 for writing a few pamphlets for Gordon Brown’s now struck-off dubious charity known as the Smith Institute. With the couple’s triple-house-flipping, generous expenses claims, on top of their ministerial salaries and taking into account their gold-plated ministerial pension pots, they will comfortably have a net worth that puts the power couple in the millionaire’s bracket by now. Though they are however down to a meagre two homes…
But it’s not just the big names at the forefront, Baroness Scotland spent many years at the top of the Bar and the ennobled QC’s bank balance would reflect that. The millionairess will have had no problem paying her five-thousand pound fine for employing an illegal immigrant as a maid…
Baldemort himself, Liam Byrne, benefitted handsomely from his time as an investment banker at Rothchilds. He certainly won’t have left their employ without having trousered enough to put him in the millionaire bracket before counting his six-figure government salary…
Oh and let’s not forget Shaun Woodward whose property empire includes a castle. He even has his own butler.
Lowly front-bencher Emily Thornberry, owns a £2 million-plus pile in Islington, and with her husband, Christopher Nugee QC, has an extensive property empire.
Labour MP, Hilary James Wedgwood Benn. Heir to the family money and owner of a million pound Chiswick house, the ultimate champagne socialist is high up in the ranks of Shadow Cabinet wealth.
And so it goes on. Moral here - before throwing stones....
Source Guido Fawkes http://order-order.com/2010/10/11/shadow-cabinet-of-millionaires/
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