U.K’s Iain Duncan Smith bullied aide to tears over his expenses claims for – underwear!

U.K. Iain Duncan Smith the man forcing people with cancer to go to work for Tesco’s actually claimed on his expense, for his UNDERPANTS! (It’s not satire – it’s Iain Duncan Smith!) If there were ever any doubts that Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith is a very nasty bully of the highest order, this little anecdote will surely remove them. Around 10 years ago – when IDS was leader of the opposition – you may remember the ‘Betsygate‘ scandal when it was revealed he’d been using taxpayers’ money to pay his wife a wage for doing nothing. In October 2003, a senior aide to IDS –  Dr Vanessa Gearson – gave written evidence to the House of Commons Select Committee on Standards and Privileges about the scandal. In her written statement Dr Gearson revealed that she had written an email to Conservative Central Office expressing her concerns about IDS claiming money from the taxpayer for his own personal expenses—for example his lunches, haircuts, food for his own home, a mirror for his flat, his laundry and – his underwear! See also: Iain Duncan Smith admits to having disability ” His disability is his inability to stop lying through his teeth”… Even more revealing than the fact that IDS thinks the taxpayer should pay for his underwear, Dr Gearson also describes how after she sent the email, she was reduced to tears by an “extremely agitated” and “very angry” Duncan Smith after he called her to a meeting to demand that the offending email be “expunged” from the central server: Mr Duncan Smith did not ask me for an explanation. He did not ask why I was concerned. Indeed, besides my own apology for having formalised the matter in the form of an email I did not utter another word as Mr Duncan Smith spoke without break. I was so distressed by his manner and conduct that I was reduced to tears in the meeting. You can see the whole written statement from Dr Gearson here: Select Committee on Standards and Privileges – Written statement by Dr Vanessa Gearson Yet more irrefutable proof – if any more were needed – of what a very nasty piece of work Duncan Smith really can be. . Big thanks to Anita Bellows and Red Shirking Striver for digging up this gem. Related articles by Tom Pride: Iain Duncan Smith claims he could live on 53 pounds of human flesh a week Amazon defends its comparison of Iain Duncan Smith to a c*nt as ‘light-hearted’ Government Announces Clampdown On Work-Shy Babies UK pulls out of 2016 Paralympics after ATOS declares no disabled in UK Safety concerns over lack of qualified Poundland shelf-stackers at nuclear reactor sites ATOS declare Richard III fit for work Government ministers announce plan to deter immigrants to UK by making it shit ATOS to reduce ‘fit for work’ test to one question: “Are you alive?” Source: Pride’s Purge ~ an irreverent look at UK politics