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Ann Keen

Did she ever move back full time to Brentford as promised or has she kept the pad up in town we bought for her?

Paul Fisher ● 5306d28 Comments

What do you think? Try emailing her about it.

Keith Iddon ● 5305d

I have no idea where Ann is living - but just tell me why are you so interested?

Vanessa Smith ● 5305d

Well she made many promises that she would do so as soon as the building works were complete and also the simple fact that we as taxpayers paid for her luxury flat as she claimed she would struggle to the House of Commons without itNow she is no longer an MP surely she no longer needs both homes and would keep her promise?

Paul Fisher ● 5305d

She is out of politics and recently widowed. What she does with her properties is now up to her and will have no political consequences either for her or her historic opponents. Give the necrophilia up Paul, I am sure you have better things to do!

John Connelly ● 5305d

You assume there is some honourable intentions behind the words Paul.Mp's already get a very good deal when they are ousted,She is not known as K££N locally for nowt.

Keith Iddon ● 5305d

Don't be so crass John. We are all aware of her sad loss last year but Paul is entitled to ask this question.

Keith Iddon ● 5305d

Sorry Keith but Ann Keen is now a private citizen, and John is right her private life is simply nothing to do with any of us. It really verges on the nasty.

Vanessa Smith ● 5305d

Well we are entitled our money back whether you think it's nasty or not.If she had been a Tory I'm wonder if you would show the same concern.Blue,red ,yellow or green I would take the same position.No one is entitled to  an exclusion zone around them if they have been or are in public life imo.

Keith Iddon ● 5305d

1.  It is none of our business2.  Anything she said previously will have been completely turned upside down by the loss iof her hubby.3.  It is none of our business

Sarah Felstead ● 5305d

Can you explain how when she bought the house using public money it was our business and now it is not ? This applies to all mp's.not just her.

Keith Iddon ● 5305d

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Paul Allen ● 5305d

Agreed, totally irrelevant now, unfortunately Paul seems hellbent today on trying to stir up trouble when it comes to his favourite two topics, Ann Keen or Mogden...

Adam Beamish ● 5305d

Keith Iddon ● 5305d

Keith, it was a matter in the public arena when she and her husband were MP's. The property she acquired as an MP is now hers. There is no public payback.It is a fact that both myself and Vanessa have more reasons personally than anyone else who posts on this site to want to see "payback" from Ann Keen. However, she is no longer active on the political scene, is unlikely to be contactable on any of her previous e-mail addresses, and is no political challenge to anyone local who has political ambitions in the present or the future.If resurrecting the past enables you to get your rocks off, then so be it. I pity you if that is the limitation to your thrills in life.

John Connelly ● 5305d

But has the Labour party learnt anything from the Keen fiasco?Whether she kept her promise to return to her privately owned house in her constituency (which let's face it was never going to happen) or reside in her Central London pad which was paid for by her constituents, is neither here nor there. I couldn't give a crap if she moved to Egham to be with her sister or back to Wales. The issue is whether or not the local Labour party can pull their heads out of their arses long enough to realise that putting her up again cost them their seat in the General Election and continuing on the Cadbury, Curran, Harmer et al route may possibly cost them the next local election.

Claire Peleschka ● 5305d

The swing against her at the election was only 6%. This was minor compared to other swings throughout the country.On this basis the Kean effect didn't seem to cost Labour the seat.

Neil Chippendale ● 5305d

John,Your understanding of what passes for integrity in public life suits perfectly your choice of political party.I am sure you will both be enjoying life in the relative wilderness for years to come.

Keith Iddon ● 5305d

You really must keep up Keith, neither John nor I are members of the Labour Party and haven't been for a number of years. This is nothing to do with integrity, it's about getting over yourself and letting go. And for Claire it's about learning lessons, so we can only hope that the local CLP has done so.

Vanessa Smith ● 5305d

And you really should learn how to read a sentence correctly before spouting off.'Your choice of political party' can no way be interpreted as 'the political party of which you are a member' and nowhere,btw was your name mentioned.How can it not be about intergrity or have your years as a 'politician' skewed your reasoning too?

Keith Iddon ● 5304d

Whatever.

Vanessa Smith ● 5304d

I completely agree with John.Leave Ann alone, same as all the other MP's left alone in light of their expenses.

Satvir Sidhu ● 5303d

Well said Satvir,Let them all make up their own rules so that when they stick to them and say it is ethical behaviour.Funny how if you are on hb you can't anymore use public money to live in an area you can't afford.Unless ,it would appear,you are an mp or ex mp. And the rest of us have to take a massive pensions hit except, of course, mp's who again have made their own rules for themselves.It would appear that in parliament's mind ethics is a large county to the north east of London.

Keith Iddon ● 5303d

"It is a fact that both myself and Vanessa have more reasons personally than anyone else who posts on this site to want to see "payback" from Ann Keen."That's quite presumptuous - if not arrogant. How could you possibly know that for a 'fact' ?

Steve Taylor ● 5300d

n/m:-)

Sarah Felstead ● 5300d

Steve, without rehearsing all the history of years and events past, trust me, John has a fair point. But we've both chalked it all up to experience and moved on.

Vanessa Smith ● 5300d