Uncut’s favourite Tory backbencher, Chris Kelly, is bringing in an extra £2- 4k a month on top of his MP’s salary for doing just 8 hours work for his Dad’s haulage company.
Mr Kelly, 32, who is listed as a “non-executive director” on the company’s website registered the payments in members’ interests as:
Salary payment of £4,166 gross for May 2010. Hours: 8 hrs. (Registered 21 July 2010)
Salary payment of £4,166 gross for June 2010. Hours: 8 hrs. (Registered 21 July 2010)
Salary payment of £2.083.84 gross for July 2010. Hours: 8 hrs. (Registered 25 August 2010)
Salary payment of £2,083.84 gross for August 2010. Hours: 8 hrs. (Registered 25 August 2010)
Earlier this year David Cameron clamped down on Tory front benchers’ second jobs, ordering them to give them up, but it hasn’t stopped the Tory back bencher from pulling in a pro rata salary of over £20,000 a week.
As well as a biography and press release about young Chris, the company website also has pictures of him with Tory grandees including David Cameron, John Major and Maggie Thatcher.
He is as bright as a button. We’ve already heard about his extensive knowledge of chickens, so perhaps that’s why he’s worth over £500 an hour? It makes it even more remarkable that he needed to email other Tory MPs begging them to find a job for his sister.
HT goes to the Mail on Sunday who note: A perfect slogan for Tory MPs: We’re all (rolling) in it together.